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COURT OF CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)

A RUNAWAY WA RD•ORDE V. ORDE.7
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Mr. RUSSELL appeared on behalf of a Mr. Murray.
upon a petition presented by him in this matter, to pray
that his Lordship would be pleased to refer it to the
Master, to inquire into Miss Orde's (now Mrs. Murray)
fortune, and to approve of a proper proposal of settlement.
The facts were these :—Miss Orde had finished her edu•
ration. was eighteen years of age, and went to reside with
Captain and Mrs. Calton, at Ramsgate, Mrs. Calton being
her sister. Mr. Murray met her there ; an acquaintance
took place, which ripened into an attachment. He
courted her in the house of her sister, and in the
face of the world. He wrote to Mr. Orde, in
Scotland, the testamentary guardian, and also the
guardian appointed by the Court, requesting his sanc-
tion to their marriage. Mr. Orde refused to consent
to the marriage. The hero, however, nothing daunted,
prevailed on the young lady to consent to marriage. They
were married by banns, and off they started immediately
for France. This was in the and of May last. Mr. M.
had no property of his own ; his mother had the absolute
controul of a considerable fortune, out of which she allowed
him three hundred pounds a year. On hearing of the
marriage, and of the honey-moon excursion, the guardian
presented a petition to his Lordship, stating the circum-
stances, upon which the Court issued an order calling on
the parties to appear. They had not appeared ; they were
now in Brussels ; they had not been served with the order.
By the order, all payment out of the lady's fortune was
stopped. Mr. M. now came voluntarily forward with
the present petition, undertaking, by his Counsel at the
bar, to consent to any settlement which might he deemed
proper by the Court. It did not appear that he was
ignorant that the lady was a ward at the time he ran off
with her, but the inference from the letter he wrote to
Mr. Orde was, that he did not think it was necessary to
apply to the Court on the subject.
Mr. ELLISON was Counsel for Mr. Orde, and did not
oppose the reference. His client had his own reasons for
objecting to the marriage in the first instance, but he was
now desirous rather than otherwise that the reference to
the Master should take place, and he thought that the
sooner the settlement was made the better.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, under the circumstances, and
after hearing what the Learned Counsel for the guardian
had stated, consented to refer it to the Master to enquire
into the nature of the fortune of the lady, the circutn-
stances of Mr. Murray, and what would be a proper
settlement. He could not however discharge the order
that bad been made in June, calling for the personal
appearance of the parties, and therefore it was neces•
sary for Mr. M. to appear in Court to purge his contempt.