Star. — London, England, 1825-12-17 00:00:00

'4..-, ;n circulation amounted to eighteen Billions, lad if, t • i s probable, by tar the greater part of these notes ham b e es withdrawn, the vacuum could not have heels instantly filled bp by gold, without leaving London straitened. As coinage, however expeditious the tiro. cess, would require a long space of time to supply the d e ficiency, the small note issues are the only means by w hich the coutury can be relieved from'the most serious m barrassmenc. The panic has how.-in a great measure, subsided, but the difficulties of 01 toutury. occasioned by so extensive d e rangement as that under which we now labour, cannot of course Ni speedily overcome. Yesterday ex hibited a heavy demand 'for money at the Rank, it having continued iis - Peirchases of Exchequer Bills, and the &tonne on them experienced a great increase. It it said the Directors of the Bank of England have determined to -discontinue their advances on Stock and other securities. The fact, however, we believe to be, not that the Directors refused to make advances in this way g enerally, - but to cOpfine their advances to such persons , only as could shew special reasons for such indulgences; for it was discoverecrthat-many individuals had availed themselves of the liberality of the Bank to raise present supplies of cash, not with ayiew of meeting any pressing e xigency, but for the purpose of carrying it over to the Stock Exchange, there to take advantage of the fl men acing state. of the market, and-to make large profits from the distresses of the public. In early instance where the necessity of indulgence was made manifest, we believe the Directors were as 1-beral as ever. Some idea may be formed of the immense quantity of gold coin which has been sent off into the count' y, when we state that one house alone, and that of minor import. ance, dispatched no less than ninety thousand sovereigns to a Provincial Banker, of which thirty thousand only have been put in Circulation. The remainder awaits the probability of a future demand. Acc , unts have a:so been received, of coaches and cArriages of all de• seriptions actually breaking down u ith the weight of the specie with *hid] they were loaded. These stale !lnnis may he exaggerated, but still they afford a suffi cient cause for the sca city of cash, whit') must of con sequence be felt in the metropolis. PROM THE MORNING HERALD. • • The re-action from the country, the necessary result ol the failuresin town, in the early part of the" vrtek, has been so severely felt- to ddy, that the demand for money has exceeded the ordinary resources of the Bank of England, and a int asure has beeu'reiorted to, which :at once puts an end to all conjectbie on the line Of policy that is to be pursued. it is now obvious that it is the determination to prop up ctcdit at present, and risk all future consequences; and as the B ink .has not a sufficiency of gold and silier currency to replace the country Bank paper withdrawn frocis circulation, and large notes nut arpsse!ing the, purpose, tbey have had recourse to the last alternative left : them, of issuing One and Two Pound Mutes. They are said to have been imperioutly called frT by a number of the country Bankers, 'otherwise the most serious Cuissecotnces were* to be apprehended from the situation in wirich'the ma-. jlrity of the hofdetx of their, small local notes ale ..pl i rced,, :The daily issued by the Bank almost exceeds btlief. It is confidently affirmed that they 'paid •y ester day, in: claim; of one IC:nd anti another, gold and paper to the amount, of 'five millions *sterling ; the sovereigns issued are all new," but the Mint is cut able to supply the demand. . .• ; PROM Tim iiiritsu-talos: It is by no means . iii*o.kiihfillrat - tt:i r tYinsactions of yesterday on t4e.Stisck . Eichange, will. be represented by the alai mists and mischief-nrakers, as R return r.r the panic 'which appeared to sweep all before it on Monday, Tiiesday,:ion*WeJriesday, because the thiosh Fonds werr depressed' in comparison with the price. the previous day, or, 'more properly speaking, because they were' under the influence of extensive fluctuations, which at times !nought them to a low quo tation. The tact is, that it is quite impossible that all the effects of such a storm as that which has just passed by can instantly cease. The principal cause for the decline in English Securities yesterday was the heavy sales that were effected, principally, we understand, for tr.r purpose of-forwarding money to the country. PROVINCIAL BANKS. WINDSOR BANE We are happy to state, that the Windsor bank of .lessrv. Kam bottom and Legh continue their pay ments, amiJst the universal confidence of the town and neighbourhood. The following declaration was circu lated on Thursday 0 We, the undersigned, having an unabated confidence in the stability of the Windsor bank, notwithstanding the temporary sue. pension of payment of one of the London agents, are ready to re. eeive their notes in payment as usual" The above document was signed, in a few hours, by more than 200 of the principal Gentlemen and Trades nun of Windsor and Eton. - SHEFFIELD BANK NOTES.. Sheffield, Dee. 14. At a Very numerous and highly respect Able Meeting. held• this day at the Town Hall, in Sheffield, Peter Spurr, Esq. in the Chair : , hums ummissinsly neeleed—Tisat we, the undersigned, are desirous of supeessing nor entire confidence in the stahiliry of the three SbeSeld banks and the Kotherkane bank, and pledge our . **l'M, indite any circumstances, to take theirtiotes to any amount; our object its this resolution being not to satisfy our own town, where the respectability of its banks are too well known and appre ciated to render stub a step at all necessary, bat rather to prevent alarm to the &Gwent purrs of the country where the same know. lets: possessed. Hem fells* the . names of nearly 540 inhabitants, Etc.) of exactly a similar nature have been issued at the Ches terfield. and Lingbborosili banks. NORTHAMPTON.. The Neirtiamptou Mercury says, 't Among the num ber of suspensions of country banks, we are sorry to advert to the suspension of Messrs. Watkins, of Davos try, =Wednesday, but we have good reason to believe that it will resume its payments in a day or two." . - YORK. Thursday a tnost numerous and respectable Meeting was held at York, by the Merchants, Traders, and others ih that City, who expressed their determinatioi to re ceive in payment the wafts(' liwanri, Clough, and Co. and Wilson, Tweedy, and Co. to any amount, being perfectly satisfied of their stability. CAMBRIDGE. The panic which prevails in.the commercial world, owing to the distress and confusion in the money market, has extended to this town, and consequently a' run upon the different banks took place yesterday. A Meeting was held.at the Vice- Charcellor's in the after noen, when a Resolutioa declaring the mile confi dente of all the Gentlemen. present in the.stability of. their respective bankiawbousecie Cambridgewas agi eed to, and signed. 41,thet Vice-Chancellor-and many other ut the principal pet sonny in the University. A very tiatnero‘us Meeting of Merchants and Tradestneb, at ishich the Mayor pretided, was held in the evening at the Town 11,11, when Resol ut io ns o f a s i m il ar future r were entered into.i.,*nnikridge Chronicle. HEMEL HEMPSTEAD. PROM Tat COUNTY IItRALD. A Meeting has been held of the principal persons of the town and neighbourhood of Hemel Wmpstead, is consequence of the agitai .n and alarm occasioned by the suspension of several London banking.houses, wises a statement of the affairs of the bank of Messrs. Grown . and Pollard was submitted, and, very much to the, honour and credit of the firm, proved highly satisfac tory ; in fact so much so, that several personal offers of assistance, if necessary, were immediately made ; and one Gentleman alone volunteered an offer of 10,0001. at a few hours notice ; but we are happy to state that it is not at all likely that the firm will require any of the assistance so kindly offered, up to the present time nothing like a run having been experienced, but .for the event of which the bank .appears to be prepared. PETERBOROUGH AND ST. NEOTS. The Bishop of PeterboroughanYssgte;trTumber of the most respectable persons in that city hive signed a declaration expressive of their perfect reliance on the sufficiency of Messrs. Yorke, Bankers there, to meet all the demands upon them, and of their readiness to take their notes in payments and dealings as usual. A similar declaration has been made at a me:ting of the inhabita'nts of St. Neots, with respect to the Beakers of that town, of whose stability they express the utmost confidence. OUNDLL The agitation of the public mind, on the stoppage cf so ma•ty Country Banks has, we Ate tejoiced to say, been but pat tially felt here. The respectability of tip , Bank* both of Oundle and T tapston have long been acknowleiged, and the commercial public of the neigh• bourhood have come forward in this trying time in the most unequivoc .1 manner, to testify th it un bounded confidence in them.—iluatingdon Journal. NOTTING 11A M. •, 1 V A Public Meeting of the Manufacturers and inhabit ants of the tuwn of Nottingham, was held on Tuesday, it which the Mayor presided, when a resolution was passed an* numerously signed, declaratory cif their confidence in the several Banks of that town, " and their perfect reliance and cm:fidence in the solidity and safety of each and every of the Nottingham Banks." *4 , - :7242:2.4r , 7 • ~- : "4•4,1 4- •-: •.z N - • • . •• • • • • • • • AVAL •INTELLWENCE. • .•, • • Arrived of Llever„thiGrenada, Aimianow, from Benpi. The Star, Dime; from dantiic to Plymouth, was on sham I__ Musk on the Sth instant. and Cult of stater.: • The Dandy, Gnus, from London to Amweidatn, was oWshore' near Harlingen, Hach instant, but ezpected to be g o t off- The Aurora, Sotonss, from Pinata to Condon, put hack on the Ist inst. leaky. Cargo shifted, and would be obliged to .ii‘charge: The Paragon, Past, from Si. Petersburgh, was lost on Anieland, on the ath inst. nu/owns, Dec. l S.—Wind W.—Arrived the' Jane Su.vraw, from Sunderland for Lisboa. Sailed the Magdalene, Le Roe, fot Jersey; and Active, Bases, for London. Ptmount, Dec. 15.—Wind W.—Arrived the Betsey, Gaits, from Cadiz; and the Pandora, Flocs. from Hamburgh for New Orleans. Pootaatourn, Dtc.l6.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived his Majesty's, ship &emus, from the Cape of Good Hope; hi, Majesty's ship Purim, from Halifax ; and Ottawa, Douocas, front :Quebec, in 27 days—the Woodbridge and Maria transports were to leave in five or six days, for Portsmouth. DEAL, Dac. 16.—Wind W.—Arrived the Scotia, Dalt.. from Alicant ; Caledonia, CAWS'', from Smyrna; Lebanon, &au a, from Tarragona; Fortuna, BACCTON, from Leghorn; Richm.md, Alto ntatost, from Denia; itlevagissey, ANDRIW, from Messina ; Alert, Cuausitursois. from St. Petersburgh; Stephen, DODD, from St. Anne's; V.gginton transport, from Malta; and Henry Cox, —, from Jamaica. Arrived from the River, and remain, the Arundel, Foists, for Jamaica; Britannia, Evaxs, for St. Kitt's; Amazon, I'onn, for Alicant ; Charles, Abuts, for Tobago ; Bruce. Stu, for St. Lucia ; and Branstone, Gtvxa, for Benicarlu. The outward bound remain all well. Ltvrarooc. Dnc. 15.—Wind N.W.--Arrived the Alexis, Canis. from St. Vallery ; Rosalie, HAAK. from Amsterdam; Peter and Jane, VISO= from Cape Breton ; Eleanor, from Sicily ; Shamrock. Hay, from Lisbon; Cambria, COOK. from Campeachy, last from Cork; Ontario, WCLLS, from Quebec; and Liverpool packet, An.sals, from Virginia. THE SCOTTISH BANKS. FROM THE EDINBURGH TVENINO COURANT, The alarm and agitation of the money market in London has scarcely been at all felt in this city ; and we assert, without fear of contradiction, that money is nearly as plentiful, and discounts, with a very few tri fling exceptions, are as freely obtained as ever; nor do we think that there is any reasonable prospect of the flucthati-ns of the funds, and in the value of money in London, affecting, in 'any material degree, the Bank transactions of Scotland. The immense capital of the taisks, and the overpowering riches and unques tioned and unqnestionable stability of the private Bankers in Edinburgh, render anything like a run upon them not in the least likely, and certainly not in the slightest degree to be-either feared or shunned.— .Nor is thesecutity . "afforded by thrse.great public esta blishments confined to- Edinburgh alone. There is now scarcely a provincial . town in Scotland in which these Banks have not 7 'branches, -and where equal security and accommodation is not afforded. The .Cobntry Banking. Establishments too, composed like other Scetch B ink-, of an unlimited number ci re. sponsible partner., are entitled to, and justly possess the entire confidence of the public. Nay, we tlsii.k we are tight in stating, that in n instance has the pub lic suffered by the failure of a Scotch Country Bank. Within these few days it has been determined by one partnership cliiCern—the Fife Banking Company—to discontinue operations and wind up its affairs ; but this, we have the very best authority for stating, is not oc casinned by any alteration in the Money Market, but by circumstances quite unconnected with it. Even this however, has been attended with no public inconvenience whatever. The Fife . Company possessing property and securities far beyond their obligations at once found two Companies in Edinburgh—the British Linen Company and National Bank, we believe—to advance money to meet the demands upon it, and it has proceeded, with out an hour's delay, to pay off its debts and recall its issues. .This, indeed, is the very worst that can happen in any case in this country. To the liberal and wise conduct of the Scottish Banks the great and totally un exampled prosperity of Scotland may NIT be attri buted. They have fostered trade, encouraged ma nufactures, promoted enterprise, and supported the public credit of Scotland with a steady and unsparing hand. Their liberal and generous conduct to the agri cultural juiciest during the recent times of unparalleled distress, must be fresh in the grateful recollection of all. But for them, Bankruptcy must have stalked through the land, and hundreds of families now in the enjoy. ment of a comfortable independence, would otherwise 'havebeen doomed to poverty and ruin. That their course has been good for the country, and advantageous to themselves, is test proved by the fact, -that the value of their capital or stock has in all instances doubled, in some nearly -trebled its original amount. With these facts before us—with the knowledge that the security of the Scottish system of Banking cannot. be shaken, nor public credit even sensibly affected by events which convulse the commercial world elsewhere to its centre—it would be like continuing in an obstinate course of infatuation to resist any proposal for giving to our sister country the benefits we so happily enjoy. But under our present enlightened rulers, the English system cannot be much longer pursued. Ministry, we are well informed, have for some time bed the subject under consideration, and we know that one illustrious and in. fliiential member of the Cabinet has said " that will begs blessed day for Engloidlohich first sees the introductiou of Banks upon the &r. ash system." That day, we are confident, is neat at hand, and recent events will asz suely strengthen and confirm the opinions of those ' Who are favourableto - the plan, and convert the for who yet doubt of,its expediency. This action was brought by the plaintiff and his wife against John Kinsey, a police-officer belonging to the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, for slanderous words alleged to have been spoken by the defendant, of and concerning the plaintiff's wife. The words were— You are a w—; you keep a b— h—; you have five husbands. Mr. SCARLETT, in stating this case said, the plaintiff was foreman of the works going on at •London.bridge. In order to be near his business, he took a house at the corner of Joiner -sweet, in Tooley-street. His wife kept a green-grozer's shop, and the upper part of the house was let occasionally to honest and industrious feisnns. Mr. Mason had the misfortune, however, to live within I n few doors of a disorderly house. It had often been the subject of complaint among the neighbours, and the wife of the plaintiff, among others, opposed it. A .woman named Swenny, who was supposed to be in the interest of Fenton, some time in August last, brought her stall and placed it before the door of Mrs. Mason, for the purpose of selling the goods which Mrs. Mason sold. This was considered a great annoyat ce, and Mrs. Mason, in anger, kicked it down. The next day she received a visit from the defendant, who thought proper to use the words which became the founda:ion of the action. He had an order for her appearance before e sitting ffi Alderman. She accordingly went to -tt l the Poli •oce, and as it appeared to be nothing more than ach Tge of knocking down an apple stall, the Magistrate was disposed to dismiss the complaint. The defendant then said he could prop an assault, and he added,—" She is a bad woman ; she keeps a bad house. That she keeps a bad house is notorious. The Magis btrate said, if that is so, she shall find bail. She was loc ord ngly locked up with common prostitutes. A person who was present would have been bail for her, but the defendant advised him no: to be bail. He s rid As a proof of the etterfsive conelpendence care ied on she nas under a charge for exposing herself indecently by some of the Making firhit in the City, the house of in a barber's shop, and that the Alderman would not LLOTD, &mai, and Co. yesittday received, by post, no like to see him (the man was a watchman) bail Itr such less than four hundred tetteri: a person. In consequence of th-it. representation, ill,. - . man declined bec.rming bail. She was taken to the Purchases Of'ExchOquet-bills were made by the Bank man in the'ibUtae of Thbesdat, we tit de .rand , to the amount Clink Pr ism, where the . e:end4nt tQI4 the 14 / 4/er she of 500,0001. '' ' • ' ' ' , was a- notorious bad woman, and kept aad bow , - J. . Shepassed the 'shlt- • t.ons ST . The - qoatifity nirbell'on 'returned by the differs it •-- - • in ‘ P a - with 14""1/ of th e. , 1 , .- • Bettildrs, in e*ehinga'for notes, yesterday was itruisense. *Worst description. sturres stxtemax.oa .: We' unierstand• three . -hundred thousand sovereigns Severs! witnesees premed life Mr. Gt:a?icv addressed the Jury for the de - minus. .hate arrtestliqd Mr. Rerroteciants front.Parle, and a ntL.cli gloater ,apply is daily expected. •:ind uo . jetwok to :hew th at the plaintiff's wile had es. . .• 9-.. , .- tiutiisd aeveiai acmes, and .vt its net, to . `Taiwan itotataidais teartlid Fiend had de.efilied Seveivd artnifiaktliete kal!ed or the: sthenririppeir that-they •e , stild.eharge Ora. iiron irti modesty. There at as no pioof whiiiever •II die had eier kept a &sordid,' hoti.e. Indee.l there wai no jostificatiod'on the record. The .tury, uoller all the elretinittancii, &and a veraiet for thi plaintiff—Damages toot. COURT OF Coll NION Pt.RAS, Dec. t . 6. STOLBN BANK NOTC6.—SNOW ANC/ CO. u. VIACOM( and on. Mr. Salaam VA UGH AN stated, t'rat this was in action of trover, to recover the sum of 5001. being the amount of g bank nate, whi-h had; With other property, been - stolen .from the servant •of the plaintiffi, .who are Bankers in London, and changed by the defendaties, who are Bankers in Linco'nshire. The question at isitie involved a principle of paramount interest to the corn. mercial world. It was; whether the defendants were ' liable to the plaintiffs for changing a note of sue' amount as 5001. to a stranger, withodt having taken the due and ordinary precauthic.te have the person's name inserted on the note, in order, if it should afterwards prove to have been forged or stolen, thst a clue mig:tt be had to trace out the party . offending? The Learned Serjeant then stared the circumstances of the c.t'e, which were briefly., that a dividend wattant had been paid into the Bank of the plaintiffs .for 13001. which they sent wi;h 'their porter to the Bank of .England, where he got the money, and was robbed on his return. One of the nines for 5001. was changed by a stranger at one of t' e b .nking-houses of the .defendants, in the country, without having asked any of the ordinary pre tion6. The plaintiffs had used everything in their passer to c'rculate the account of t .e jobbery, and were clearly entitled to a verdict. - Mr. Llgktfuut-.-1' in employed in the Office for Auditing Public Accounts. • I 'hid a dividend warrant for one thousand pounds made out as the'Ogie and payable to Mr. Luke. This is the warrant. J .mes Allen=l am employed in the house of Messrs. Snow and Co. The dividend warrant was paid into our house on the 7th of September, 1824. John James was the porter to our house at that time. He is now dead. This tote was delivered to him on the Bth of September for the purpose of taking it to the Bank of Engl and to receive the amount of it. Ha did not bring back the produce. He came back and said he had been robtsed oust. .It is the invariable practice to examine notes before they are exchanged. A Clerk from the Bank of England here proved the payment of a dividend warrant. He paid the dividend in two 5001. notes, dated Slid of July. . Cross examined—lf a person comes with a 5001. note to have it changed, all that the Bank does is to require the name aad address of the person Who peasants ft. Henry Bousfield*-I am a clerk at the Bank atßourne. The same partners have a Bank at Sleaford. I have been a clerk there abOut eleven years. On the 13th of April, about eleven o'clock, a person came there to change a note. 'fhe mail arrives . about nine o'clock. The person who came and asked me to change a note was about sixty years of age, and of a middle stature, He did not appear to have the use ut one of his hands. He produced the note and asked for pact of the change in Bank of England notes. 1 told him it was not the practice to do that. He then said he would take it in 4.5 ten pound notes, and 10 five pound S:e +ford notes, which 1 gave him, and he folded them up and went away. I sent the note to London, at six o'c!ock the same evening. Messrs. Hoare, Barnett, .and. Co. are our corresponJents in London. They gave our account _ credit for the note. • Dues-examined by Mr. Setjeant Shasta-4 had no previous intimation about the note, either directly tar indirectly. There were a numberof fairs about that time. I gave the notes in the ordinary course of lousiness. There was nothing about his band or person to excite the least suspicion. A .5001. luau Is a row/einem remittance. The man told me his tunic was Edwards. lle was a. resinetable looking person. By a Juror—l do riot reColieet taw !Save, in the course of the time I have lived there, etteltang,e4 3 . 3914.,11 4001. ur'a 3t104 or a 2001. note. I may have exchatigeJA 5001 note. • - Warnford stuck-40.61mm( 7Su heiteafferitig a reward for the kat noses. . • A Lad proved the distribution of hanribills, ( on the 'IA and 9th of September, in the City, at all the . I;ottery Officvs, Bankers, atc. James Mallison, the R.gistrar of the Newspapers at Somerset house, produced the Morning Advertiser and the Hue tied Cry of the 9th Sept. containing an adv.rti.enient off ring a retrard rat 5001. The Banker'stietk recalled by the Loan Cusar.Jubvre.—We do not take iu the line and Cry. I don't know that it circulate in Lincohishire. Mrs. Downes—My husband prints the Hue and Cry. • We send atom; fifty of them into Lincolnshire. Cross.esamined—We send them to Magistrates and gaolers.— They are not sold. We get theAavitip Jai the persons to whom they are to be sent from Government thruu h The Banker's Clerk again ealAi-Merriftity is a Magistrate of part of Lincolnshire. Lincokaltigeilis divided into parts. A Clerk from the Bank . of Er.gland produced a book containing a list of 1 ist notes, which had been stopped. No. 248, dated 22.1 July, 1824, for 5001. was stopped. The note produced is the nJte ; it has been cancelled. This was the plaintiffs case. • • Mr. Setjeant t;PANYte then addressed the Jury for the defendants. lie contenued at some length, that there was no evidence of the plaintiffs having any pre - perty in the note at the time of its presentation to the defendants, and that no action could be maintained. - The Loan Cam Juane', iu summing up, observed, that there were two questions for the consi.erAtion of the Jury ; the first wa., whether the plaintiffs had done all they ought for the recovery of the notes alter they had been stolea, for if they had not done that they cou'd not obtain a verdict? Tne nest question was, whtae: the defendants had used due caution in changing a note for such amount? It appeared t';at . the plaintiffs had sent about fitty c p'es of the line and Cry into Lincoln shire; they had also stuck up bills in town, and adver tised the loss of the property. It was obvious that the defendants should have taken due caution in having the name of a person presenting a 5001. note. Their cau tion should increase w ith the sum. But it appeared that they had not been in the habit of changing notes of 5001. or even of 2001. and their caution should have been pr portionate. The only evidence was, that the de teudants were most respectable persons. He felt exceed ingly happy that the Jury were better judges of the case than himself ; but it had been decided by the Court of King's Bench, that unless a person had used due caution, he could aro recover, and it was fur them to say whether the plaintiffs had used due diligence, or the defendants due caution? and to find their verdict accordingly. The case was must important to the com mercial interests of the public. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs-4)=oles 1100 L adding, that they had not the least Issue of anything fraudulent or improper io the cooduetof the detendeitt.• Tbs. Loan Caw Justicesaid, that alieervation meat be . very acceptable to the defehdams, than he node coma a. mete reirettable. . . N X•huirday, a Board of the L irds.of Ase Treasury was .held auks I.lvanityChambers. . 4 MRS*, 4 Mee-tine took -phut last night in the 4./L:mak Wheal in tbe City, of the pretest Gammon Council,. to . 6: im,cert measure' for their re-election en next St.Tluttlisslr Day. ,~. • I • N, s 4 . 4 LMV REPORT. • COURT OF CHANCERY, Di:cella:a IG. FAURE V. DR TASTE?. The T.rIRD CUANCELLOW owed t‘lxt he had read the hill of exceptions which M. Lowe hal drawn up awl tende ed in this case; and, upon perusing them, he found' some most material circumstances omitted. Since then he did not consider Oil, bill of exceptions satisfactory, the cause must t ,ke the course he previously directed. P.MELL V. M UCH 'ITT. Dr. LUSRINGTON concluded his argument this morn ing. lie was followed by Mr. l'aPyrs on the same side, and by Mr. HART and Mr. WAKEFIELD, for the other parties, who all opposed the commission of review. 3PRADLEY V. GUNN. Mr. Ronne applied for an injunction to restrain the defendant from setting tip a General Mail-coach Com pany under the following circumstances, which were disclosed by the affidavits :—The plaintiff having effected certain improvements in axle -trees, the effect of which was to increase the safety and celerity of the vehicles to which they might be appl:ed, agreed with the defendant, to whom he communicated his invention, to establish a Patent Maifloach Company, in the profits of which they were to be jointly interested. As a pre liminary step, the improvement was submitted to the Directors of the Post-office, is the hopes that they would approve of it, and adapt it in his Majesty's mail coaches ;• but the Directors not being of opinion that the advantages were such as the inventor had repro seated, had declined availing themselves of it. The defendant had subsequently broken through the corn. pact inatle with the plaintiff, and was now, about to establish the General Mail-coach Company, in which the new axle-trees were to be used. The plaintiff swore to the invention being his own, and that the defendant had no right to earl cise it without his co:is-mt. The Loan CHANCZIMIS • upon this statement, granted the in. junction as prayed for. COURT OF KING'I BITCH, DiCrilitt IG. BUCKIN4IIANI V. BANKS, M.P. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is the proprietor of the Oriental Herald, and the author of 'I ravels in Pale:titre, against the defendant, who is Memb:r of Parliament for Corfe Castle, for having pOblislie.l a libel upon the pl sintiffs character, in a le•ter written by the defendant to M array, of Alhemrale-street, the proprietor of the Quarterld Review. The defendant pleaded a justification. As soon as the Jury had been sworn, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for the defendant, said, that his client had withdrawn the justification pleaded by him, upon the understanding that tl e would taken verdict for nominal damages. The Jury, under his Lordship's direction, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages is. • SLANDSIII.--.4IIASCIN V. KIN*EY.