The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-03 00:00:00

couRT OF CHANCERY.

• IN RE ALLEN.
Mr. KNIGHT had a similar application to the present to
make to Lord Brougham, when in office, on behalf of a
person named Allen, an officer of this Court, whose linty it
was to attend the Court in Term as well as out of Term,
and to attend to all commitments, and various eel- duties
to perform. And he was paid on a scale of fees agreed to
in 1743, and they are so low that even he has to perform
some of the duties at an.aetual loss. He went before the
Commissioners appointed to examine into the fees of the
officers in 1616, and they had allowed him a remunerating
fee, Which was acted on until about two years since, when
the Masters reduced the fees to the old scale, which they
still continued to pay. Lord Brougham had promised to
speak to the Master of the Rolls and the Vice Chancellor
on the-sUbject, but had not communicated what had been
the result.

The LORD CHANCLLLOR inquired whether Mr. Allen
had not got another situation as a kind of remuneration.
Mr. KNIGIIT said Lord Brougham had given him an-
other situation, but not as a compensation for the f.xs.
The I.ORD CIIANCELLOR wished Mr. Knight to ascer-
tain exactly whether it was not as a remuneration, anti if it
should not be so, he (the Lord Chancellor) would irnme-
diatelyspeak to the other Judges of the Court respecting it.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.

WAEREN-V. DURTON.—TAY LOR V. FILDES.
The bearing of this important motion was resumed
this morning. The Court was- still snore crowded than
on Saturday. •
Sir WM. HORNE, who led the case of the defetul:ants'
commenced by observing there was no ground in this case
for the strong metaphorical language used by Sir. Charles
Wetherell in his 'address to the Court, when be viiid that
those persons whom he called•usurping judges had thought
proper to put Dr. Warren on broad and water. • The de-
fendants had done no such thing, they had done nothing to
prevent that gentleman front enjoying as much of the con-
veniences of life or as comfortable a dinner as he had done
before, for they had not deprived Lim or attempted to de-
prive him of one shilling of the temporal emoluments arising
out of the situation be held in the Methodist connection.
His. Honour would not lose sight of one extremely im-
portant point in this case, the truly religious and spiri-
tual object of the patriarchial founder of Methodism.
With him and in his institution all temporal matters were
strictly subordinate to the great, special, and ecclesiastical
polity which it was his object to found in order to superadd
the Christian graces he considered wanting in his times to
the worldly-minded religious teachers of the Church of
England... The Learned Counsel must call -the attention
of the Court to what had been the conduct of the plaintiff
himself in this case, verified as that conduct was by his
own deliberate publications.- Dr. Warren holds the .office
of superintendent of a circuit in this connection. He is
a highly respectable man, nor had the Learned Counsel
any wish to detract from his high character. But he could
not but lament that a gentleman of his Christian virtues
should be the first that had ever thus come into a Court of
Equity and had brought into litigation the affairs of this
society ; his Honour would judge with what .discretion.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to read extracts from
a pamphlet entitled " Remarks on the Wesleyan Theolo-
gical Institution for the Education of the Junior preachers;
together with the substance of a speech delivered of the
subject in the London Conference of 1834, by ter. War-
ren," being the pamphlet which gave rise to ills suspension.
The publication of this speech reminded the -Learned
Counsel of an anecdote of Wilkes. When on one occa-
sion that gentleman found the House of Commons was
disposed to clamour him down, he cried out " I must and
will speak ! my speech is already in the St. James's
Chronicle.''—(Laughter.) There were also read several
extracts from another pamphlet, being an account of the
proceedings of the special district meeting at Manchester,
published by Dr. Warren, in consequence of his suspension.
These.ex/racts extended to many pages, upon which Sir
William Horne commented as he read, contending that
they tvere.deserving of the character given to them by the
preachers of Dr. Warren's circuit, in the charges preferred
against him. The next- document produced was a pastoral
letter on Finance, dated. the 6th'of November, 1834, which
proposed to stop the supplies.--(A laugh.) ThiS letter is
appended to certain resolutions and propositions touching
the Theological Institution, which were passed et a
quarterly meeting of the Manchester first circuit, during
the months of September, October, and November last, -
Dr. Warren in the Chair. This address of the stewards,
leaders, local preachers, and other officers of the Manchester
first circuit to the Wesleyan Methodist connection con-
tains the following passage :--
So dee, lv are we impressed with the awful risk of inde-
cision in the present struggle that, after long and anxious de-
liberation, we are constrained to come to the conclusion, as a
circuit, to withhold from this time all supplies whatever of
money, except those of the weekly contributions of class money
and the quarterly contributions at the renewal of tickets until
the preient important question between the people and the
conference be adjusted."
The Learned Counsel produced this document for a
double purpose. One was to show that Dr. Warren was
not here on his own funds, nor. on his own case. It was
the Doctor and the people against the-conference, and till
that question was decided there should be, it appears, no
supplies. This •savoured of liberty, whether of Gospel
liberty was another thing. Now what was the. consequence?
That the widows and orphans of those who had laboured
in the Christian cause of this institution, and were dead,
or as Dr. Warren would have it, " 'gone to their place"
(alluding to this expression applied to Jefferies in one of the
extracts) that their pensions, their means of subsistence,
should be withheld. This document, though subsequent in
point of date to the proceedings stated in the bill, showed
the motive of Dr. Warren, and that was the other reason
the Learned Counsel prodUced it.
Sir W. Horne's argument occupied four hours and a half.
Mr. ROLFE followed on'the same side.
It being past five o'clock, the case was adjourned to to.
morrow.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Lord Stanley wrote to the Lord Mayor a few days ago,
requesting, that his Lordship would do him the f►vour of
reading a letter which he had received from a female friend
in Lancashire, on the subject of a pauper, whose represen-
tations of distress were likely to excite a treat deal of com-
miseration. The Lord Mayor's noble cor►eEpondent also
enclosed a letter from the petitioner, whose name is Edith
Joynot, stating the peCuliar hardship of her condition, and
reflecting upon the parochial Officers of Bishopsgate, upon
which parish she said she had a claim.
The Loan MAYOR yesterday considered it to be his
duty to mention publicly the nature of the ease of the
pauper, who Was endeavouring to impose upon the huma-
nity of individuals by a, tissue of lies, and he had accordingly
directed that the parish officers of Bishop!gate. should be
in attendance to give evidence as to the misrepresentations
which had been made.

The pauper is, it appears, deprived of an arm, and carries
about a child, so that the mere exhibition itself is matter of
so affecting a description, that it may be looked upon as a
sure means of support. This powerful argument is, how-
ever, aided by such a knack of quoting from the Scripture,
such an apparent resignation to the will of the Supreme
Being, and so pious a description of the forgiveness of « those
who despitefully use us," that to let such an object pass
without feeling one's pocket would be quite impossible.
Her letter to the lady who corresponded with Lord Stanley
abounded- with the most exquisite lines from the sacred
Book, and, at the same time, that it accused the ofil:Trs of
Bishopsgate of cruelty, and the Lord Mayor of neglect of
her appeal against tl.em at the Mansion-house, breathed
such a spirit of pardon of injuries as was calculated to
operate strongly upon the minds of those who are not
versed in the history of the metropolitan bonus.
Mr: BoOker, one of the parochial officers, stated that
the woman. who had appealed to the sympathies of the lady
who corresponded with Lord Stanley was certainly a person
of very remarkable cleverness as an impostor. She had
turned the loss of her arm to great account. She had
contrived to get into the workhouse in Bishopsgate by pre-
tending to be in the very last stage of pregnancy, and ac-
tually counterfeiting the agonies of labour, at the same
time that she had -upwards of a month to go. And she
afterwards prevailed upon the authorities to fit her out.
and give her money to repair to Scotland, where she
stated she had provision ready for her. Two days after
she was thus disposed of, however, she was found blind
drunk in the street, and carried by two policemen to a place
of refuge.

The Loan MAYou stated, that although he had come
in for a share of the condernnation of the petitioner she
never had appeared before him.
Mr. Booker said that she was too knowing to appear at
the Justice-room, because she was aware that her tricks
would be fully exposed.
The LORD MAYOR—I have written to Lord Stanley