The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-08 00:00:00

LAW AND 'POLICE.

ANOTHER QUESTION AS TO CHARITY LEGACIES.—In the
Lord Chancellor's court the case of Brook v. Bagley was
determined. The question raised was whether certain
parts of the property of one C. E. Pargeter were
pure personalty, so as to be applicable to the
trusts of her will, which directed that all her personal
property " applicable for the purposes of mortmain "
3hcrild he applied by her trustees for charitable pur-
poses. The property in question consisted of a legacy
of £3,000 under the will of Dr. Withering, which was
payable at the death of his wife out of his property
generally. Mrs. Withering was still living; consequently
this legacy had not been paid, and had been purchased by
Miss Pargeter from the legatees. The Master of the
jolls bad held that the legacy was charged by Dr. Wither-
g's will upon real estate, and consequently was such an
interest in lands as could not he bequeathed to a charity.
From this decision the charities interested in the matter
laPPealed. In a long and lucid judgment the Lord
!Chancellor held that the decision of the Master of the
Rolls was right, and- therefore dismissed the appeal, but
without costs.

A SALMON FISHERY CASE.—The Court of Queen's
'Bench have been occupied for a considerable period in
aearing the appeal of Mr. Holford, M.P., against the
decision of the Salmon Fisheries Commissioners as to
his right to maintain "putchers " for the taking of salmon
A Arlingbana, on the Severn. Amongst other things its
seemed that .there was a deed as far back as 1610, men-
loping the fisheries of the manor for salmon, and evidence
was given before the commissioners that for forty-five
years putchers had been used. On this Mr. Holford set
up a prescriptive right which the commissioners overruled.
bnother question was as to a stop-net moored to a
at, which it was thought was contrary to the
statute of Henry VI. The Lord Chief Justice gave judg-
ment for the respondents, as at all events they had no
evidence that "putchers" had been used from time imme-

paorial. The case was one for the commissioners to deter-
nine. With regard to the nets, the learned judge also
4.tondemned the use of them, as they interfered with both
fishing and navigation.
4CTIODT FOR Loss Or GOODS.--In the Court of Exche-
quer the case of Hargreaves v. the Lancashire and York-
shire Railway Company was heard. It was an action for
non-delivery of seven bales of cotton on request. The
cotton had been sent by the defendants' line to a customer
4f the plaintiffs, who, being dissatisfied with the quality,
tent it back. The plaintiff's servants inquired at the Hu&
lersfield station as to its anival,.and were told that it had
hotbeen received. This, it appears, was not the case; and in
the evening a fire took place and the cotton was consumed.
The company contended that as the plaintiff had not sent
for the cotton within a reasonably early period their re.
sponsibilities as carriers had ended, and if they were sued
as warehousemen, then they were not liable for loss by fire.
The plaintiff urged that inasmuch as the defendants had
denied that the goods had arrived at Huddersfield, and
thereby had misled him, their responsibility as carriers re-'
mained. The Lord Chief Baron said that though the de-
fendants might not be liable as warehousemen, the reverse
would perhaps be the case if they were looked upon as
bailees. On the other hand, the plaintiff would not be
entitled to the full value of the goods. He therefore sug-
gested an arrangement between the parties, and this
^ourse was agreed to.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A BANKRUPT.-At the Guild-
hall Mr. Benjamin Benjamin, a merchant, trading under
the firm of Benjamin Brothers, at 339, Hackney-road,
and 61, Basinghdll-street, surrendered before Alderman
Owden to the charge that he, being a trader who had been
duly adjudged bankrupt, unlawfully, with intent to de-
fraud his creditors, did, within three months next
3eforo the filing of his petition, pawn certain of
his goods —to wit, forty - two gross of Turkish
towels and other goods, which had been obtained
on credit and remained unpaid for, contrary to the statute,
The proceedings were taken against him under the Bank-
ruptcy Act of 1361, and the charges against him were that
within three months of his bankruptcy he obtained goods
to the amount of £25,000, that within sixty days of his
bankruptcy he concealed and made away with a large
quantity of those goods, and also that he made false
entries in his books. The accused was remanded, and bail
refused.

THE ATTEMPTED WIFE-MURDER IN SUFFOLK.—
David Underwood, a man charged with a murderous
assault upon his wife at Fornliam, near Bury St. Edmunds,
has been declared insane by Dr. Macnab, medical officer
of the Suffolk county gaol. Underwood has accordingly
been removed to a lunatic asylum under an order from a
county magistrate.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM DROWNING. A
young woman named Smith, about 23 years of age, was
walking by the river side at Staines, reading a book, when
she became suddenly giddy and insensible, and in this
state fell into the names. She had no recollection of the
fall. She was first observed floating down with the
stream by a boy named Hancock, and he at once raised
an alarm. She was seen to be struggling in the water,
and had sunk twice, when Mr. Gubbins, of Church-street,
Staines, threw off his coat and boots, plunged into the
water, and succeeded in rescuing her.

Lord Elcho has been entertained by a Glasgow
working class audience, by a body styling itself "The
Executive Committee representing the working classes of
Great Britain and Ireland," who presented an address of
" thanks and gratitude for the great interest and sympathy
exhibited by him on all occasions where the social con-
dition of the industrial millions of his countrymen is in-
volved," and more especially for the "aid and coopera-
tion rendered by his lordship in obtaining the amendment
of the law affecting contracts of service between masters
and servants." The claim of this body to speak on behalf
of the working classes generally is disputed.