Tue case of the Orr-El seems likely t8° bring on a between the English and the Scottish Law Courts, The action of the High Court of Appeal ordering the truisteés to submit the whole estate aid their management of it to the Court of Chancery, lias excited the wrath of several of our Caledonian contemporaries, And, although the decree since obtained froth Lord Fraser in the Court of Session has given them some measure of consolation, they are yet by no merino iticlined to sit dow ly and submit to the attempted usdipation of the Southern Judges. Lending articles with angry and somewhat inflammatory titles, about English aggression and encroachment on Scottish rights, are to be met with in most of the Edinburgh and Glasgow newspapers, No doubt all Parliament House is in a state of righteous indignation, ated, it may be, by the reflection that the conflict of opinion will bring grist to the legal mills. The action of the English Court is made the ocensi for renewed demands for a Minister for Scottish Affairs, It is now found to be more intolerable than it ever was before that the political and general interests of Scotland should be in the hands of a mere Englishman, It is argued that it is impossible for southerner to understand Scottish affairs, and that the Homo Secretary has no time to devote to them, even if, by some singular accident, or special interposition, one could be found sufficiently gifted for their conduct, Ihe Scottish members of Parliament complain that they do not receive that attention from the House of Commons which thole respectability entitles them to. The Government turns a dent car to their mor mats, for the majority of them are too good Radicals to do more than lift ap their voices in the most gentle tones of complaint against yet over which Mr, Gladstone pre= One of these members recently explained to his constituents that it was the modesty of the Scottish representatives which kept them silent, Tt may be so, but that quality has not hitherto been attributed to his countrymen whether in or out of Parliament, It is however probable that this Orre Owing case will give a new force to the demands for n Secretary for Scotland, whose functions will be somewhat similar to those barged by the Ohiof Secretary to the Lord Lieatenant of Treland, history of the Orr-Owing case Mr. Orr-Owing died a few yenrs ago leaving an estate of nearly half a million sterling to 'I's ustees for the benefit of his family, and other who were legatees under his settlement. Of this estate all bat twenty-five than. sand pounds was in Scotland; Mr, Orr. Owing was a domiciled Scotsman and his children reside there. Three of the trustees of his settlement reside in Scotland and three in Englund, Some time ago a gentleman acting as nearest friend to an infant, in the phraseology of the Court of Chancery, petitioned that Court, and in answer thereto the Court of Appeal ordered that the whole estate should be brought within its jurisdiction and administered by its officials. This had been done before in the case of the estate of Sir W. Stirling Maxwell without provoking much comment from the Scottish press. If this order should be maintained the Trastees of the estate will be compelled to bring their whole trust management to London, and will be unable to do anything in the trust without the consent of the officials of the Court of Chancery. While the Trustees remain in Scotland this order will have no power over them or their. actions, as it does not ran beyond the border, But
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