SUPREME COURT.

Evening Star, Issue 3903, 27 August 1875, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

| IN BANCO.

Friday, August 27. (Before hia Honor Judge Williams.)

Robinson t. MGregor.—Argument was concluded herein, and his Honor reserved judgment.

GELLiniuxn v. Edwards.— This, was a motion for decree. Mr Smith appeared for plaintiff, and Messrs Macassey and Haggitt for defendant. The declaration alleged that on December 8, 1868, defendant and one William l.angnmir iagreeed to enter into a copartner■hipaa market gardeners at Forbwry, and for that purpose obbained from Messrs S. and(! Gordon a fouiteon years' lease of seYcnty.;.ix acres of land in the Ocean Beach District, the proceed* from which were to he equally divided The co-partnership existed till August, 1870, when it was dissolved, Edwards remaining tenant and taking the lease of the laud, tho crops, hordes, implements, • and accounts, for which LSO wna to be paid in cash, and the remainder in bills at tiiree and six months. Plaintiff was afterwards appointed Lau milk's executor, and as such on May 30 last he wrote to defendant asking that the laud bu sold for their mutual benefit, and defendant having refused to concur in the proposal plaintiff now prayed that the Court would decreo an order for the sale of the property by tho Registrar, who sho-aldgreceive the purchase money, and, after deducting all necessary expenses, should divide the surplus equally between plaintiff and defendant. Plaintiff further asked that defendant be decreed to pay to plaintiff the costs of the suit. It was alleged that neither plaintiff nor Langmuir ever received from the defendant any payment or consideration for the undivided moiety, although defendant had been allowed to remain in possession since 1870. Defendant in his pleas stated that when the partnership terminated it was with the knowlt dge and consent and approbation of Langmuir'that he remained in possession; that he had expended large sums of money on the property; and that until plaintiff came into possession of the landß he was never requested to sell them, or to render to Langngjir any account of the receipts or oxpenditoVe. Plaintiff now asked the intervention of the Court to compel defendant to do what he was requested by plaintiff iu May last—on plaintiff becoming the purchaser of Langmuir's interest—to have the pro ceeds of the land equally divided. The case 1 had not concluded when our reporter left.

LATEST FROM EUROPE. (Per Albion o.t the Bluff.) London. August 17. Tho London wool sales opened this oveniju. The arrivals amount to 298,000 bales, and inwards of 8,000 ba'es were. oti't.red. Th<: attmdanco of home and foreign buyers was large, and the bidding commenced with s;.it-it Prices as compared with the last series shows a .-light decline. Sydney wool is a penny lower. Auuust IS. The Colccnda has arrived at Cleiu.l.;, ;:jid reports that the Ceylon arrived at tho Sound on the 22nd duly. After'repaiiiug her ma chinery she left again on the 24th. The insurrection on the Norther frontier of Bosthnia is of a serious character. 20,000 Turks are operating against the insurgents at Herzegovina, and there are apprehensions of a religious war between the Modems and the Christians. Obituary.—Viscount Moles worth ; Captain Kennedy, the famous chess player ; I'.'xI- mperor Ferdinand, of Austria ; Mr Michael Henry, editor of the 'Jewish Chronicle"; Mr Morgan O'Connell, nephew of the Libera tor; Mr J. B. Baines, of the Leeds 'Mercury'; Mr John Robertson, journalist. Sir W. Lawson's Permissive Bill was lost in the House of Commons by 371 votes to 85. Travelling under the title of Countess A r an Buren, the Queen of the Netherlands has been visiting Ens land. Queen_ Victoria and the Empress Eugenie have again exchanged visits. The Prince and Princess of Wales have been visiting Stratfkld, the seat of the Duke of Wellington. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have proceeded to Copenhagen, en route for Kui-sia. The Court is in mourning for the d-ath of the ex-Emperor B'erdiuand of Russia, The present Lord Mayor nobly maintains the hospitalities of the Mansion house. The Sultan of Zanzibar has been tho lion of the month. He is an indefatigable si-ht-seer and has been entertained by all leading peismr ages from the Queen downwards. lie speaks in terms of supreme delight of thcfplacea he has visited. Sir Douglass Forsyth's mission to Burmah has failed. The King refuses the passage of British troops through his territory. Sir Douglass has return 3d to Simla. A Shanghai telegram announces that Chjnkiang is now quiet. The Chinese authorities have partially satisfied the demands for reparation mado by tho British and American Consuls in consequence of the late outrage, Thi'.ty thousand pounds bus been received at the Mansion House on account of the Mcumpolitan Hospital Sunday Fund. The Sixth Company; of Koyal embarked in the s.s, Whiimpoa for Fiji. An animated controversy iu proiiuedit)'.: respecting the credibility of Lawson's discoveries in New Guinea. They are generally regarded as a pur* invention. Tho Australian United Gold Mining Company is to be voluntarily wound up. Three Bedford gentlemen, one. of iiie.iu a clergyman, have been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the suspicious death of a young naval while travelling by night in a Pulman v.m: The ' Echo' has been puiohascd by Mr AlbertGrant, who will convert it into a Conservative organ. Mr Arthur Arnold retires from the editorship, and it is rumored that Mr Sampson succeeds him.

Mr Merry's Doncaster, winner of the (.".old Cup at Ascot, after having been sold <•» his trainer for LIO,OOO, was resold for LI.'J.OUO.