The Press. — London, England, 1854-08-05 00:00:00

"AuciusT 5, 1854. Art INittricTroN was applied for on publishers at the Rolls' Court by Messrs. Lloyd, the p, to restrain Messrs. Whitty and others from publishing au alleged pirated print representing the fortilica Lions of Cronstadt. Plaintiff's' affidavits set forth that they are the printers and publishers of a lito graphed bird's-eye view of the island, town, harbour, and fortifications of Cronstadt, with a perspective view of the mouth of the River Neva and of St. Petersburg, which they published at the price of 3s. lid. a copy. They then complain that the defendants are, one the printer, and the other the proprietor, of a view, de cidedly pirated from their lithographic print, which the defendants sell at so low a price as one penny per copy at their warehouse in Liverpool; also that this pirated view has been transferred to a page in a Liverpool journal, to the great loss and injury of the plaintiffs. The original view, they further stated, was an engraving of a superior kind, whilst the pi rated copies were trashy, poorly-executed imitations, though servilely copied:— Defendants' counsel resisted the application for an injunction. Hie instructions were that the defendants on oath denied there had been a piracy of the plaintiffs' work. A Mr. !declare, a de fendant, actually deposed that he had copied from a Gove rn ment chart the very print complained of as a piracy. The Master of the Rolls declined to decide, under such conflicting evidence, the question of original pr tperty in the lithographic view. He could, how ever, meet the justice of the case by making an order that the defendants should keep a strict account of all profits made by the sale of the print in question, in case the plaintiffs chose to bring an action at law to decide the question of copyright. THE SEVEN MEN charged with the murder of Mr. Bagshawe, in a poaching affray at Wormhill, on the river Wye, were tried for the capital offence on Satur day last at the Derby Assizes. The deceased gen tleman was residing at Worrnhill-hall, and, having been much annoyed by poachers, set a watch for a gang who had frequently stolen fish by night from the Wye, where it traversed his property. On the night of the 19th ult. fourteen men were observed setting lights on the water to attract the fish. A posse of servants and tenants were mustered, and Mr. Bag shawe proceeded to the spot at their head, and then plung'd into the stream to capture the poachers, whom he assailed with much spirit. Shots were fired by some of the poachers, as it is supposed, at some dogs who accompanied the party, and Mr. Bagshawe was afterwards struck down into the water by a blow from the butt-end of a gun. He was rescued, and several of the poachers captured ; but, in spite of prompt measures for his recovery, he died in the course of a few hours : Mr. Justice MAULE, in summing up, told the jury that, although there was no imputation against the prisoners of a de liberate intent to destroy life, still, it a blow were inflicted unlaw fully and with intent to do a serious mischief to the person struck, and death ensued, the crime would amount to murder. In the present ease the jury must, before they could convict the prisoners, be satisfied that the blow was inflicted by them (or by one of them whilst they acted in pursuance of a common pur pose) with the view of resisting their lawful apprehension. It was not absolutely necessary that the persons who sought to ap prehend the prisoners should give them express notice that they sought to arrest them for violating the 34th section of the act ; but, if the prisoners had reasonable grounds for believing that Mr. liagshawe's party was about to apprehend them for an of- fence punishable under the act, the jury would be justified in tiding them guilty. The jury, however, returned a verdict of acquittal on behalf of all the prisoners. A second indictment, charging them with having attempted to murder Samuel Slack, who accompanied the deceased gen tleman when endeavouring to arrest the poachers, was then abandoned by the Crown prosecutor. AN INSOLVENT, named Alphonso Florencio Notley, applied for discharge from prison, at Portugal-street, on Tuesday. His debts exceeded 2,0001., incurred during a very short career of speculation and extra vagance. His ostensible means were only some 1001. a year as clerk to the Provident Clerks' Assurance Company, and about 401. a year as a commission coal-merchant It appeared that in June, last year, the insolvent took &house at 100 guineas a year at Row.green, near Kingsbury, in Middle sex. which he quitted before Christmas without paying the rent, and Mr. smith, the landlord, eould not get possession until April under a magistrate's order. Messrs. V, eightman cow• pretely furnished the house at an outlay of upwards of 3001., and repaired the premises, making the debt 4501. Not one farthing bad they received, and shortly after the last goods were delivered the insolvent sold the furniture to a broker for 1001., and got rid of the money. Mr. Smith saw the furniture being removed and could not stop it, as his rent was not due. While the insolvent was at ilow-green for the few months be had his ponies and chaise, as well as a hose and gig, to "come to town . ' He also had a cow, and sold the hay off of twelve acres of meadow land belonging to the house. The insolvent, on his examination, was asked ally he bad not returned the furniture to Messrs. Weight man when he (mind he was insolvent, and he replied that he did not wish to give a " preference." Ile admitted that he had sold the furniture to defeat Messrs. Weightuiu. Ile sold it to pay 351. which he owed to the English Widows' Fund, and the rest soon went. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS, in giving judgment, said there could be no justification for such a case. It was absurd to suppose that the insolvent could have had any reasonable expectation of paying his debts. He ordered the insolvent to he remanded for nine calendar months from the date of the vesting order. A LT CM:It-MATCH MANUFACTURER named R. Bell, carrying on business in Cannon-street West, ap- THE PRESS. peared at the Mansion-house on Wednesday on a summons charging him with having unlawfully and injuriously kept on his premises large quantities of explosive and ignitible matches and other materials, whereby the surrounding inhabitants were annoyed, disturbed, and rendered uncomfortable in the occu pation of their dwelling-houses, and were in great hazard of losing their lives. The City Solicitor pro secuted, having been moved thereto by complaints of the neighbours, who had been much alarmed by the outbreak of a terrible fire among the explosive mate rials some time last year, and who now found that the dangerous manufacture was proceeding again in full activity. The offence, he urged before the Lord Mayor, was one which did not require the occurrence of disastrous results to render it punishable, the mere keeping of such articles upon premises situated as were those of the defendant constituting a nuisance under the act. The fact that large quantities of lucifer-matches were made or stored on the premises was sufficiently proved, and then Dr. Le theby, chemical professor at the London Hospital, was called to give his opinion of their composition and properties. He said : I procured samples of the different kinds of lucifer-matches sold at the defendant's warehouse. I proouce the remains of some of the boxes. I cannot produce the whole, some of theta having spontaneously ignited as they lay on my laboratory-table. I have analysed the chemical materials of which they are com posed, land find them to be chiefly phosphorus and Chloride of potash, glue, and red oxide of iron. 1 have made experiments for the purpose of ascertaining the conditions under which they will probably ignite, and rind that the phosphorus itself, one of the chief constituents, takes tire spontaneously when in a tine pow der and exposed to the air. I exposed the lucifers to • tempe rature of 140 degrees, and found that they then fired. Such a temperature is very likely to exist in a window in summer time. Slight friction will also set lucifers on fire ; for example, the shaking of a parcel containing them. This happened in the case I menuoned, where the Inciters took fire on my laboratory-table. Thu LORD Idavint: Are you of opinion that 'millers in boxes knocked down by rats would ignite? Dr. Letheby : Yes, if let fall from any cause combustion would take place. The Loan lisvort: Do you consider a stock of goods, stored as these were in Cannon-street, dangerous as regards other houses ? Dr. Lstlieby: I do consider them very dangerous. As the Lord Mayor wished to refer the case to a higher tribunal, Mr. Bell was dismissed, after giving recognisance for his appearance hereafter at the Central Criminal Court. THE safe custody of the late Ms. Turner"s pictures was again before the tribunals this week. Under the title of "Trimmer v. Danby," the case was argued on Wednesday, before Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, and proof being given that the present place of custody in Queen Anne-street was most unfit., the Solicitor- General was eked to devise some place for the pre servation of the pictures, pending other decisions. On Thursday Sir R. Bethell reported his plan, and begged for an order of the court to carry it out: — The proposal was, that the pictures, drawings, and engravings should, with the consent of the trustees of the National Gallery, be removed from Queen Anne-street to the National Gallery, to bethere deposited for safe custody, subject to the control and direction of the court, with the proviso that they shall not be shown or inspeoted, or in any manner dealt with, without the order of the executors. Mr. GIASSE, who appeared for the executors and next of kin, begged and obtained a little delay before the order issued, that he might consult his clients. ,3tribtuts anb• Ofinuts. A YOUNG GIRL, about seventeen years of age, named Agnes Deane, who lived at Bootle, near Liverpool, was discovered suspended in an out building, formerly used as a schoolroom, belonging to her uncle, a Mr. Veckness. The suicide appears to have been of a most determined character. The means of destruction was a child's swinging-rope which hung in the schoolroom. To reach and cut this she had got upon a table, on which she placed a chair, and, having fastened a rope, had then kicked the chair from beneath her feet. tio possible motive could be assigned for the rash deed. The inquest was held on Monday last. Verdict, " Tempo rary insanity." ON Saturday night a fire, attended with a con siderable destruction of property, broke out upon an extensive range of manufacturing promises belong ing to Mr. Jones, paekingcase maker, which extend from Wood-street, London-wall, as far as Curriers' Hall-court. The building was several floors high, and at the time of the disaster was filled with a vast amount of stock. Owing to the combustible nature of the contents, the fire spread with amazing rapidity, and several adjacent Manchester and silk warehouses containing two or three millions' worth of property were placed in imminent peril. By great exertions on the part of the firemen, however, the destruction was limited almost entirely to the building in welch the fire commenced, and where the loss sustained amounts to several thousand pounds in value. Sons straw caught fire in an ice-vault belonging to Mr. Littlejohn, an Edinburgh confectioner, on Thursday in last week. The firemen attended when summoned, and threw water on the flames, which filled the vault with vapour to such extent that two of them, brothers, named John and Daniel Ander son, were suffocated before they could escape. 731 CAPTAIN HowE, of the Reporter, arrived in the Mersey from New Orleans, reports having been struck by lightning in the G ulf Stream, which split skysail and royal masts, raised fore hatch and budding of foremast, split several planks on the deck, knocked down three men forward, and para lysed, for a short time, several men aft.. ACCORDING to accounts received in Antwerp front Batavia, of the 7th of June, the Hefter, Victor, front Sydney to that place, had been lost on the Kerm Rocks. ACCOUNTS from New York state that the cashier of Mr. Belmont, Rothschild's agent in that city, had ah. stracted about 3,0001. in bank-notes from an iron safe in the banking-house. AN INQUEST has been held upon the death of the two men killed on the London and North-Western Railway last week. The jury have returned a verdict of manslaughter against Walker, the pointsman oa duty, whose neglect in shifting the " points " caused the collision. Tim TRIAL OF MRS. BROUGH, for the murder of her five children at Esher, is to take place on Mon day next. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Robinson will conduct the prosecution, Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., being ape. cially retained for the prisoner. The defence to be set up is that of insanity. A MAN named Burke has attempted, in conjunction with a woman with whom he travelled and cohabited, to murder a child by burying it alive in a field near St. Albans. They dug a hole, and had commenced. throwing in the earth, when the screams of the child alarmed some labourers in the vicinity, and the couple took to flight, leaving the child, who was at once extricated. An active pursuit was then cum, menced of the parties implicated. Burke is described as a haymaker, a native of Mayo. The child whom they attempted to murder, it is believed, is the ille gitimate offspring of the female. RIOTS of rather a serious nature took place in Kelso at the end of last week, in consequence, it is alleged, of the toll levied on the bridge having been kept up longer than was thought necessary. On Thursday a mob tore down the gates of the bridge, and dragged them to the Town-hall, and on Friday the distur bances were renewed and special constables sworn in. On Saturday night the gates and posts were again destroyed and thrown into the river. The Riot Act was read. One policeman was carried off the ground considerably injured. THEFORONEHS[INQUIRY into the cause of the steam boiler explosion on the Ribble has terminated in a verdict of" Manslaughter" against Robert Jackson, the maker of the boiler. The surveyor to the Board of Trade was examined during the inquiry, and gave it as his opinion that the iron of which the flues were made was not capable of standing the strain of bending to so sharp a corner as the flues bad. The jury accom panied their verdict with a recommendation that Go vernment should be communicated with, and re quested severely to censure Mr. Clayton, the Govern ment surveyor of steam-vessels and marine-engines for she port of Preston, for neglect of duty. Yesterday's Moniteur states, tinder date Bucharest, July 29 :—" The complete evacuation of Bucharest will take place the day after to-morrow. Officers and soldiers that remain behind will be treated as de serters. Baron Budberg leaves to morrow for Fokschan. Russian troops are concentrating on the Sereth. The evacuation of Moldavia is not spoken of." According to the Cologne Gazette, the Austrian Cabinet sent to its Ambassador at St- Petersburg instructions to express to the Russian Cabinet its regret that the propositions of Russia were of a nature which it could not accept without engaging in a war with the Western powers, which it was resolved to avoid. Telegraphic despatches of the 27th nit. from Con stantinople say that the cholera was increasing in violence. General Tarbuccoit and Captain Pessedonse had died of the disease. A division of the fleets with Generals Canrobert and Brown bad left Varna to reconnoitre the Crimean coast. The third French division left Varna on the 27th for Kustasube and Silistria. The project for a railway to Cintra, along the banks of the Tagus, has been submitted to the Cortes by the Minister of Public Works., It is esti mated that it will cost SOO,OOO/., and the projectors calculate chiefly upon the dock and other buildings on the water side from the Quay do Sodre to Belepi to obtain the interest of the capital. A collision took place on Thursday on the new railroad to Orsey, which is a prolongation of the Paris and &eau' Railroad. A locomotive, dragging some waggons for the works, ran into a passenger train. Ten of the passengers were more or less in • jured, but it was hoped that none would die. The Billingsgate oyster season opened yesterday with the usual observances, partly ceremonial, but principally business-like in character•