The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.,-(bus DAT.)
STEWART'II. LORD BUTE. • '
HiS LORDSHIP intimated, that upon reading the
settlement made in this case last night, he: found that
he had mis-read net of it before. it now appeared to
him, that, by. looking at the'will with respect to the
annuity, it was impoSsible to diSpose of the question
Without also looking at a covenant on the part of Lord
Bute, in the deed of settlement, which would certainly
be a difficult way of dealing with it. If the will would
not satisfy the annuity, there would be a demand un-
der the covenant the Court had referred to ; but his
Lordship will give judgment on Friday morning.

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE CHARITY.
By way of officially disp.osing of this matter,
His LORDSHIP said, it appeared to him to be
extremely reasonable, that as the charity had been
founded by an ecclesiastical body, the provision for
the National School should stand as part of the
scheme for the administration of the property. This
was the only remaining question undisposed of, and
the Court now made the order to this effect.

CONS? 4J. HARRIS..--COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
MS LORDSHIP had been amusing himself through
the scenes of this case, and hoped he would be able
to drop the curtain by disposing of it to-morrow.

EXPARTE GRIMSTEAD IN THE MATTER Or HOW-
ARD V. GIBBS, BANKRUPTS.
_

This motion stood to be spoken to vs to costs.
Mr. HORNE appeared for the assignees. The Court
had given judgment against the petitioner, Mr. Grimstead,
and in favour of the bankrupts' estate, therefore the
learned counsel conceived he had nothing to do, but
merely to ask for the costs. If the Court did not give,
costs to the assignees, it would have been much better
for them never to have litigated the question, nor to have
objected to the proof Mr. Grimstead had unsuccessfully
claimed to make.

Mr. Tur.stovE was on the same side. He thought his
clients ought to ask for more than common costs. Mr.
Grin►atead had failed on every occasion; he had brought
before the Court evidence that the Court would not be-
lieve ; and if he had brought polluted evidence before the
Court, he ought to be called upon to pay more than com-
mon costs.

Messrs. HART and MONTAGUE appeared on the other
side, and they could only resist the application on the
ground of hardship. By the unfortunate confidence Mr.
Grimstead had reposed in the bankrupts, 40,0001. of his
money would he distributed among the creditors, and by
which they would probably get twenty shillings in the
pound. He was reduced to poverty by it at the age
of seventy-three—his children taken from college—his
aged wife brought to misery—and under these circum-
stances it could hardly have been expected that the credi-
tors would have asked for costs, probably amounting to
80,0004

His Lordship understood the present application to be
for all the costs since the presenting of the first petition ;
he should turn over in his mind U7l Thursday morning all
the proceedings that had, since that stop, taken place, and
then dispose of the application.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.--(Tuts DAy-)
THE ATTOANEY•CENEIAL V. CLIZVZ.

This was a bill filed by the Attorney-General against
the Corporation of St. Mary's, Ottoway, accusing them
of collusion with the tithe-payers, in not exacting 'from
them the due value of the tithes.

The Solicitor General appeared ou behalf of the com-
plainant. The Corporation, he said, consisted of four
Governors, who were to apply the produce of tile tithes
towards. the support of a Charity-school, but being land-
proprietors themselves, they were interested in not
exacting the full value of the tithes, consequently the
Attorney-General felt bound to institute, these proceed-
ings to bring them to an account.
On behalf of the defendants a ltodu.t Was set up, in sup-
port of which they producect3the evidence advanced
at a trial whioh took place in the Court of Exchequer,-
.in
the year 1657, at the suit of the Corporation; against a
tythe-payer, wherein the former were defeated, (it having
appeared that the defendant had paid according to the
scale of payments from time immemorial,) which scale has
prevailed down to the present time.
The
,several items chaired were "here discussed by Mr.
Shadwell on behalf of the defendants, and the Solicitor-
General for the Crown, who did 'not conclude theitargil-
ments before we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET—(Tun Dii.)

Lieutenant Kenny was charged with the murder of Mr.
Charlton, the Surgeon of a ship on the high seas. The
case is one of a most extraordinary nature—a duel, with-
out seconds : but owing to the absence of the principal
witness, the case was put off.