The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-12-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.  -*COURT OF CHANCERY.-TUESDAY. THE SCOTCH CHURCH, MANCHESTER.  THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. MUNRO.—This was an appeal from a judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce. The question raised was simply whether the defendant, (Mr. Munro,) who is the preacher in a chapel at Manchester, connected with the ERtablished Church of Scotland, should be prevented from preaching in the chapel, because he had seceded from the Church and joined the Free Kirk. His lordship, in delivering judgment, said that the chapel had been erected on the special condition that the religious services to be performed should be in conformity with the rules and ordinances of the Church of Scotland, and that the clergyman should be a member of, and in communion with, that Church. Mr. Munro having ceased to belong to the Church of Scotland, could not, therefore, any longer claim the right to preach in the chapel in question. He did not, like the large and respectable body that had, from conscientious motives, seceded in Scotland from the Church, give up the living which he possessed, but wished to retain the living while he seceded from the Church. Under these circumstances, his lordship affirmed the decree of the court below, with costs.  IN RE NICHOLLS AND litwan.—An adjourned examination of these bankrupts, who were formerly joint proprietors of the Eastham Hotel and Ferry, took place on Wednesday last, before Mr. Commissioner Perry. Mr. Yates, who appeared for certain creditors, examined the first-named bankrupt at some length, and elicited from him that, when he entered upon the Eastham-ferry Hotel, in July, 1845, after leaving the Star and Garter, in Liverpool, he purchased 'furniture to the amount of £1,091, which was paid for with money obtained from his brotherin-law. He had no capital when he entered upon the Eastham-ferry Hotel, the rent of which was £3OO, and the ferry £2OO per annum. Two steam-boats (the Royal Tar and the Clarence) were purchased for the use of the ferry, the one costing £1,600 and the other £1,200. He was joined by the two Messrs. Hilliar and others in the purchase, and for the first three or four months, in 1844, the business of the ferry was profitable, but had not been so since. The bankrupt further admitted that he was trading with the money of his credtiors, whose demands amounted to £3,057, but explained that if the weather had continued fine for any length of time, and the ferry profitable, he would have been enabled to pay his creditors, had time been allowed The joint liabilities of the bankrupts were £2,400, and there was no property to (I,3vide amongst the uninsured ,creditors, except the shier Royal Tar could be sold forxaore then the leoura.  brances on her, which were £1,400. The-Commissioner was of opinion that an amendment of the balance-sheet was necessary, and the case was furtheradjourned forthat purpose. It is said that government intends to remove all the equity business of Ireland to the Westminster Courts. The action brought by Mr. F. O'Connor, M.P., against the publishers of the Manchester Examiner, for libel, has terminated in a verdict being taken, by consent, for the plaintiff—damages, £5 ss. The Recordership of Norwich, an office which was recently vacated in so sudden and horrible a manner by the murder of Mr. Jenny, has been given to Mr. Prendergast, of the Norfolk Circuit. We believe that the Recordership of Bedford, lately held by Mr. Prendergast, will be given to Mr. Burcham, of the Norfolk Circuit.