New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

THE QUAKER TRIAL, at Trenton, proceeds to its final issue with a tardy pace. The orthodox party of the Friends are in possession of property bequeathed to the society many years ago. The Hicksite party having become most numerous, now lay claim to it—the two parties not agreeing to hold it in common. The former contend that the grant was made to the society, as a religious body, professing a certain faith, as then understood—and that a new sect, retaining only the outward garb, without the inward doctrine of those for whose benefit the donation was made, cannot take the property which must follow the will of the donor. The latter maintain that they have not so separated from the original faith as to lose their identity, and that, admitting a departure, the title to the property does not depend upon a peculiarity of religious faith.