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LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 21. At4gr;OTTOq AND CO. 2L. HARCOURT ANb OTHERS. This was tan application by Mr. Leach on the part of the defendants, for having an injunction dissolved which had been or iginally granted in he cause of a bill being filed, in which it was stated that the defendants had agreed to give certain leasehold ant freehold premises as security for the sum of 20,000/. which the plaintiffs agreed to ad vance to him and his partner, who were specula tors in purchasing and selling estates. The de fendant stated in his answer, that the plantifis had agreed to call on him for no money till the secu rities which they held in their kands were used, such securities, according to their own statement, being available. The defendant had, however, been informed, and firmly believed, that though they had such securities in their hands th e y h a d not availed themselves of them: It was on this ground that he rvished the injunction should be dissolved ; for besides, he- must say that it was singular in a prudent kind of view, that this in junction should have ever been applied for and no receiver appointed. The injunction wa- grant ed for the purpose of preventing the defendant from collecting the rents of the property; and why, :in the name of wonder, had a receiver not been appointed in this ease, as it was obvious the rents were in danger by• no such appointment taking place. With the wisdom and prudence of this measure the Court had nothing to do, as, the simple 'question Was ; Whether the injunction granted in such a way &nil(' possibly be sanctioned by the approbation of the Conti. There Was only one thing, however, which his Lordship would attend to, viz, the propriety of not allowing these rents to he in the hands of the tenants. Mr. HALL followed. Sir - SAMUEL ROMILLY, on the other side, said, that the reason of the injunction being granted without the appointment of a receiver, was, that Mr. Harcourt had agreed to convey the property for seem ity of the debt due by him and his part. ner. A deed was drawn up which Mr. Harcourt had, from time to time, promised by his solicitor to execute, but these promises having been found to he delusive, the injunction was thought indis. pensibly necessary, and was therefore applied for. lie (Sir Samuel Romilly) had no objection to a receiver being appointed, as he thought this in . the mean time was the best plan which could be adopted. The LORD CHANCELLOR—I approve of your having a receiver. Let the Master therefore ap point a proper person to be a receiver, and let him take care of the property comprised in the agree ment. The Master will, in the•mean time, see that the property be properly applied. I should think, Sir Samuel, the plaintiffs ought to have the charge of paying into Court such rents as are now due. Mr. LEACH wished Mr. Harcourt should be allowed to 610 so, but the Court decided that the plaintiff should do so, without prejudice. ORDERS or COURT RELATIVE TO BANKRUPT CASES. Mr. MoNTAGu having asked his Lordship to Lear a bankrupt case between this day and the :27th of August next, his Lordship replied, Geotlemen—l here beg leave to inform you, that I shall not sit after the 25th of August next. j must further' observe, that as several 4pplications bare been made to me for the purpose of my hear ing petitions in bankrupt cases out of their order, I shall cert,tinly on no account hear any petitions out of order, unless some extraordinary grounds are stated to induce me to do so. I believe all of you wiil do me the justice to say, that n o man can feel more deeply than myself , the painful.pri vations which Parties in this Court must undergo, by their cases being long detained in the Court. At the same time, should I consent to this appli cation,. I do not see why I should not do it in a tholsand other cases, as the same arguments for the one might be brought forward for the other ; and by doing so, I might be the means of ruin ing those individuals, whose cases, by priority of claim, I ought to have-heard first. It is but just 1 should hear parties in, regular order ; and there fore I beg, in future, all such, applications as the present be desisted from. On the 25th of August I shall rise, and till then I shall most assuredly give all my attention to such cases as shall come before nte—an assurance of which I believe you 'require no pledge. The other cases were chiefly bankrupt petitions, wiaich were of no interest but to the parties, and on Saturday he is to give judgment in several cases. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAR LBO R OUGH -STREET. DISORDERLY CONDUCT.—Yesterday, the Hon. Col. 11--, the lion. Captain B--, and a Mr. C--, were brought up, charged with being disorderly, in St. James's -street, the preceding night. Abraham Murray, a watchman, stated, that as he was going his roun ! !s, he observed five gentle men standing with a female at the door of the Queen's Larder; he called out, "Who's there ?" and received for answer, " We are the guardians of the night." He observed, if they were they ought to be ct•ying the hour, and attending to their duty, and. not encouraging such wickedness. Upota which one.of them answered, " Oh, d —me, we'll roar like bulls." They then took their dif ferehtbtats, as they said, and began crying, one half:past twelve, anodic!' half-past one, 84c.— Witness said, it they. were such disorderly . gnat . - dians_as that, he should take them to the watch house;, and for that purpose began springing his rattle, when his comrades, the• real guardians, came up, and were about to attack the sham ones, hut deemed it prudent to wait for a reinforcement, which soon arrived. They then took the three Prisoners into custody, without the least opposi tiou'on their part, and the others escaped... Captain B-- now stepped forward and gave a very different accomn of the transaction, He said he was coming along St..james's-street, with four Gentlemen (who were present) ; Colonel D. met a Lady, to whom he was speaking ; some of the Gentlemen stood' near i but lie went upwards of thirty Ortis . olf, and 3AW that during the Whole ' transaction no act of the least impropriety took place ; but whet' the watchman spoke they were certainly guilty of a great noise, which he did not mean to inStify; only he thought the watchman extremely petulant. The Magistrate ordered them to pay a shilling each for their discharge, and advised the watch man to be very circumspect in interfering with any one quietly talking in the streets, but those whom he knew to be improper objects.—The pri soners were discharged. VtlAubut.F.Nt SUBSTITUTION OF A Cu ILD.-Elea i:dr :Smith, a miserable looking woman, was brought up by Craig, the officer, charged with defrauding the patisli of St. Giles of 28/. under the following grotS circumstances :—lt appeal•ed that the pri soner 'vas an acknowledged parishioner, and a wi dow woniall With one child. About two years ago she made application to the Overseers, stating that she could earn her own livelihood, but wish ed to get some relief for the child ; 'considering she was an industrious woman, the parish al lowed her 12s. a month, which was more than they allowed some families. She regularly at tended each board day with her child, and ceived her money, without the slightest suspicion on the part - of the parish but it was well applied, and even in the past season of distress anti star , vation they never reduced ber.allowance. Thus things went on until a few days ago, when it - was discovered that the child which the prisoner used to produce belonged to another woman. conse quently they caused her to be apprehended.- 7 -The prisoner was committed to prison, together with tile substituted child. IMPORTANT DECISION.—Mr. J. Brookes, an opulent cow-keeper and proprietor of a tarn' at Harrow, appeared to plead to a summons, at the snit of the parish officers, charged with unlawfully refusing to lend a wain, or waggon, hi:. property, for the removal of military stores and baggage, contrary to the provisions of the Acr, Ste. 1, this case the constables pressed the vehicle it' to,‘ but the horses were at Harrow, the defend an t re fused to fetch them and offered the waggon ; they did hot think it their duty to fetch the horses, and now sued for the penalty. The Magistrate said, he could find nothing like a penalty attaching to the case expressed in the Act, and dismissed the case. WORSHIP-STREET. SPITAL-FIELDS WEAVERS.—Yesterday an • in formation was laid against Mr. Isaac Cooper, a master silk-weaver in Spi talfields, by W. Mitcham, a journeyman in his employ, Under the I:3th of Geo. 111. cap. 68, for not paying his journeyman the wages allowed by law. Mr. 'Gifford and Mr. Mainwaring were upon the Bench, and Mr. Alley attended to support the information. Wm. Mitcham, the complainant, deposed, that in last October the defendant employed him to work a piece of silk serge. Having finished the work, he took it house about five weeks ago, and defendant only paid him one shilling' per yard.— Soon afterwards be made application for the dif ference, but instead of paying, defendant abused him. Complainant called with two friends after wards, and defendant said, if he paid biut Is. 6d. per yard, every man he had employed for seven years would claim the same. Complainant met him in the street on Tuesday, and be then said he would give him 151. if he made a flaw in the iiifor- 'nation. Mr. ALLEY here observed, that the rejection of this offer saved -- him (defendant) , froth the pillory ; and ordered his client to produce a sample of the work, in order to skew that it was such work as the Sessions allowed Is. 6d. per yard for. This being done, several journeymen weavers proved it to be the kind of work specified in the informa tion. Thomas Cooper deposed, he was a jonrneyman wearer, arid accompanied complainant to defen dant's house; that defendant refused to pay him the regular prices, awl he produced two . newspa pers wherein the regulated prices of the trade or dered by the Sessions had been printed. Joseph Unwin produced a book of the trade, regulated according to the different kinds of work, by the Sessions of April, in the 46th year of the King's reign, according to which complainant was entitled to Is. 6d. per yard for the weaving of such work as the sample produced. This closed the case on the part of the information. The defendant, in his defence, said, he' was no scholar, and consequently never read the news papers, but left all his affairs to the management of his wife, who paid the men and kept the hooks. But, on cross-examination, he admitted he knew the prices given to journeymen in all descriptions of work,' according to the regulation of the trade, and called a woman, who gave her name Mary Bazar, a cotton-winder, to prove that his wife paid complainant 13..6d. per yard for the work. This witness said she was present frequently when complainant was paid ; but, on cross-exa mination, she could not state the sum he received : did not know any thing about the trade ; but that she heard Mrs. Cooper say she paid com plainant 15..6d. per yard' for work done. This evidence was totally contradicted. Mr. GIrFORD addressed the defendant at consi derable length; observing, that according to his own declaration, every journeyman who had the misfortune to have been employed by him within the last seven years were' sufferers as well as the complainant, which certainly ag gravated the present case. There were no body of men who had conducted themselves more peaceably and orderly, notwithstand ing the pressure of the times, and the well-known distress under which they laboured, than the Spitalfields weavers. He regretted not having the power of awarding the difference of wages due to the complainant, which amounted to 141. but he could recover it in another Court. The BENCEL'however, adjudged him (defendant) to pay a fire of 501. but he might appeal against it if he chose. Defendant not having appealed, he was informed, unless the fine was paid before evening, that a distress would be put hitt) his house.—The case excited considerable interest, and the office was very ranch crowded. BOW-STREET. Yesterdity Richard Keene ' was brought to the Office by Joseph `lane, one of the POlice Officers . . of the city of Gloucester j charged with Iliaviog committed a felony ; and upon an invCstgatiOn it appeared, that a few days since the prisoner was in the city of Gloucester, itra state of intoxication, and became very turbulent and unmanageable at an eating-house, at which time he confessed to having committed A robbery in London, about 12 months ago ! on examining the Hue and Crc, an advertisement was found, descriiting the robbery he had mentioned, and contair,ing a description of Itis person. Ile was, therefore, brought to London, and yesterday an investigation took place, from which it appeared that he had been a ser vant to Mr. William Jones, an apothecary in Lit tle Argyll -street, and on the 26th of July last, pri soner, during the time his toaster was gone to the Opera with a friend, took the opportunity of breaking open a desk, and absconding with Bank notes to the amount of 601. ; and also with three watches and a gold ring, the property of Mr. Green, the occupier of another part of the saute house.—The prisoner was committed for trial. Joseph Lumfties, the driver of the Isleworth Coach, was .convicted in the penalty and costs, for Standing with his coach in Piccadilly on the sth Doney Was convicted of a similar offence on the Ilth instant, for the Wimbledon coach. UNION HALL. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.--An ancient damsel, who stated herself to be upwards of eighty-three, applied on Tuesday to the e.itting Magistrate, charging her master, a young man about thirty, with violating her person. To obtain the war rant, site made oath that she was at work in id bean-field, when her master came suddenly upon her, and not withstanding her resistance, aceom plishei her ruin. Upnn thisintormation a war taut w►►s granted, and put into the hands of May, the officer, who apprehended the defendant and he was yesterday brought up for a bearing. In the interval, however, the spirit of mercy and for giveness bad supplanted all feelings of vengeance it+ the old lady's breast, and she nnw applied to the Magisttates to have the warrant discharged, and her master liberated. On being reminded that public justice demanded she should proceed if her charge was well founded, she observed, she was well aware what public justice demanded and what it did not demand. It did not demand that she should sacrifice public decency or private.nro- . desty, and her modesty ►would not allow her to state in a public Court what had passed between her and.her master. As she persevered in keeping. , silent, here being no charge against the defend ant, he was discharged. - MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday several coachmen who drive short stages from Bishopsgatc-srreet and Leadenhall street, were summoned before the LORD MAYOR, charged with being in the streets on Sundays, ply ing for fares during Divine Service. A constable, who was appointed for that purpose to look after them, gave evidence against several of them being in the streets from 20 minutes to half an bow, and that some of them resisted going till they had got their company. The Long MAYon told them that he allowed them 15 minutes to set down and take up, without crowding the streets on a Sunday, but now be would allow them but ten minutes, and if they did not conform to that, lie would drive those short stages out of the City altoge ther. Some he convicted in the penalty of 10s. And others lie forgave, upon promising not to be guilty of the like offence. DARING ROBBERY.—A most outrageous attack was made on two young men, named Progers and Connant, late on Wednesday evening. They were returning home to IVater-lane, when- they were hustled by five fellows, who, without speak ing ft word, knocked them down, and rifled their pockets of watches and eighteen shillings in silver. Not content with this, the robbers kick ed the young men about in the most inhuman manner. IhcHwAY RosEEßY.—William Hill, servant to a Gentleman in the Ilorseferry-road, passing along the King's-road Chelsea, on Wednesday night was met by a fellow dressed in the morning dress of a horse soldier, who walked with him some listance, and enquired his way to Chelsea, affect- ing to be a total stranger. Observing no persOn near, he asked the young man very deliberately. to deliver his money, the tone in which he spoke led the other to believe lie was only in jest, and he laughed ; this irritated the robber, ‘vho instant ly struck him violently across the head with a bludgeon, then leaped upon him with his utmost strength, declaring it he made any noise he would take his lite. The robber rifled his pockets, and also took his watch, with which he escaped. Tuesday night the house of 63, Somerset -street, Portman-square, was feloniously entered, the lar der broke open, and a great quantity of provisions stolen. Some time afterwards, as John Mor gan, the watchman of the beat, was going his rounds, he discovered a fellow lurking about the spot ; he began to interrogate him, and not re ceiving a satisfactory account, he took him to the watch-house, where, on searching him, a strong iron book, wound round with thick hempen rope, was found in his possession, which thieves use for . _ t h e p ur p o se of hooking the property out of the area. He afterwards confessed being accessary to the fact, and was committed, under the Police Act, as a reputed thief. About ten o'clock, on Wednesday night, as Mrs. Mary Thurkle, of Drury-lane, was coming through Southampton-row, Bedford-square, she received a sudden blow on the head, which neatly stunned her, and at the same time felt her, veil snatc h e d off by some one near her ; she immedi ately cried " stop thief,- and although the thief was before her for some time, no watchman came to her assistance, until be had escaped through Duke-street and Woburn Passage, where site lost all trace of him: On Tuesday night a terrible conflict for supe riority o f the whip took place .between several Noblemen's coachmen, at the Opera -house door, when they kept flogging their horses with great violence, till at last the pole of a carriage touch ed a valuttble mare which was in General GAS KIN'S carriage, which occasioned the. mare, to kick with sad) force against the splinter bar, that her leg was broken, and in such a manner, it deemed proper to kill her upon the spot., 57F,‘\1 iiOAINJ. • Air. WiLLTLM CIIMMAN C , .12/ed in, and esarniftcd: What is your 'profession, and pl.ice of abode ? My phifessiop is dell enLineer ; general pLice of abode is Newcasile-upon-Tyne. Have you, as engineer, turned your sttentiou to the construction of steam C11611C3 for steam lithos ?—As to the steam bo:;ts, I. have not parti cularly; but I !rave b.Len concerned in steam en gines of every description, from bei:l4 connected with the collieries, where we have many engines. Have you any steam boats upon the Tyne We have. [lave you seen those sham !.mats ?--Yes ;I have. How many have you ?--I think it is three ; bot I have only been in one of them. Do you know the con , truerion of the iteani boats employed upon the Tyne ?—Low pressura condensing engines. Are you aware of any reason which would ren der it expedient to forbid the use of high pressure engines ou board steam boats look upon engines, whether high pressure or low pressure, as dangerous to the passengers, unless due pre caution be taken to emit the steam when exceed ing a given pressure ; for in low pressure eugiueg the boilers are always liable to burst or to alter their forte, when,the pressure becomes superior to the resistance ; all boilers but those that are cylindrical in the section, and ki ith ends or portions of spheres or cones Or COO ,, IdS, ft.r liable to alter the form by The natural expati.,ive force of the steam, and therefore all boilers but of those forms owe their safety to their ‘veakness d , because if weak they will alter their form without danger, and if strong, they have been know(' to bend the iron so abruptly as to break asta'ler. Are you speaking of wrought or cast iron speak of wrought iron ; and *consequently they explode, and in many instances have destroyed se veral of the passengers ; they are so far more dan gerous to the passengers, that they frequently staid them, and do not actually kill them ; there are a description of engines in use io,the'counties of Durha In, Northumberland, Cumberland. and York, that are termed loco-motive engines ;' - the form of• their boilers is cylindrical, with curved ends. Are those applicable to boats ?—Certainly ; they are pressure engines, working _with a force of from fifty to siity4ive pounds per inch, and no accident has happened to any of them but to one, the safety, valve of which was stopped hy a man sitting upon it or holding it down purposely; he said, " we will have a good start and s:lrnrize them, we will go off so wdl ;"—the consequence was, that the boiler blew up, and killed and wounded a. very considerable number of people ; believe to the extent of forty-five, but 1< am not certain. Was that a cast or a wrought iron boiler ?—it was wrought iron. Can you suggest t! , e means hy which a higit pressure engine can be rendered sate on . vessel )—lt can Only be rendered safe by hating the form of the boiler, such MT I lirtre deacrityrti, and the cylindric part of alimiTeddialneter, with a competent thickness of wroug!it e iti o; r iron or copper, and the plates secured to each other by a double line of rivets ; it is also rcqui- site that there should be two safety valves, evtert laden with any determinate weiglit per sonerfcial -.- inch of the narrowest part of the seat tit the valve; one of those vales should be at perfect liherty •40 he raised at the pleasure of the manager, becaus e . some' idles it is expedient to raise it ; the otber, should be under a cover of such de6Cript ion as. not to he opened at all, at the discretion of the engi neer, hut with sotlicient apertures for the emissioa of the steam, and for any of the passengers to sec that the valve is not made fast. 11 is also rtzpai= . . site that there should be a mercurial gunge of aaa less than an inch in diameter, and whose longest limb shall not he greater than tivo inches and trne eighth for every pound per inch •• upon the sa f e r valve ; it is necessary by occasional inspeeton tts take care that the mercury does not stiffen' by oxydation, occasioned by the heat and motion tt, 'which it is in a slight degree liable. Do you conceive that a high presure engine thus guarded might he used OM board a steam boat with safety to the passengers ?—Yes, so long as the boiler is kept in order but the boiler's bot tom is liable to erode or consume by the action of the fire, cud therefore requires boi'lveurixe,l:ir would d —A boiler m a y l ast twe l ve last un derlit°hlev aloctnigondoofyfior'et thick a months safely, provided its bottom be made of charcoal iron, beat not rolled, because there is & great deal of difference in the grain. Wonld von not always recommend a boiler te+ be made of wrought metal on board stea.ru botsts.t On board steam boats I would recommend_ them all, to to be made either of copper or charcoal irott plates beat under the hammer and flat th's resistance of cylindric boilers will be in the in verse ratio of their diameters. cr. be contint.d..l BIRTHS. Yestorday morning, the Lady o f w i1ii:11) Andv.3,43. of Great Portland - street, of a son. Yesterday, at his house, No. 1, Meekletiburffit. ,, ,ov-e , the. • Lady of "dr. G. S. Fun!, of a son. IkIARRIED. On Tuesday, at Lewisham, by the /ter. I - 1u Jones, Mr, Robert Ritherdon, of Pentunrille, to Sot!arti , or. Nlarioreti _eldest daughter of Mrs. Moss, of Perry's-h!il, at Great M ar l ow , the lies.'_'. S. Geary; of o ll i r ' e ‘ t S lt ' . ( f; j r n tl7t l4" ) Ylst' Etiza, a fourth. daughter of Me. Thos. Itolesi of the former place. IN ED. On the 22d inst. at Samuel Reßeston's, jun. Esq. Core•; • • the Rev. Mathew RoHeston, M.A. Fellow of University c, tege, -Oxford, aged 30. On Saturday, the t.)th inst. ritiVinelmore-Itill, Mes.-Arr Hall, widow of the late Abraham Ilan, Esq. of Aldertuaubd .• ageel 70. .LONDONt Printed by J. B. of tiff. 29, C;re.2t. , 4,... ()r6wlld-Streut, g,itiare aud Ernhli4l,eJ by W. A., SCRIPPS; of N. 7, Stitith INioltott-Vr,et, Taz St•!Nt Otti6e, No. 119, Strand; whore 4-11veltit:toueras, Lyttrr4 7 rj;oit-pa:d) nr.rit athisclitd!