The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

THE ROYAL ETCHINGS..

Yesterday, before Vice-Chancellor Knight Brace,
the Seliciter•Geseral, Mr. Berjeent Todd:nod, and Mr. W.
M. JIM'S, inured ex pare on behidf of the Attorney-Gene-
ral (representing her Majesty), and on behalf of Prince
Albert, fora special injunction under the following airman-
stances, as appeared from the aMdavits filed is support of
the motion. The defendant, William Strange, a printer
and publisher, in Paternoster-row, had published a pam-
phlet, entitled " A Descriptive Catalogue of the Royal
Victoria and Albert Gallery of Etchings." The introdua
don to the catalogue contains the following panacts:

The peat interest which every inyni and
sname
Y.l, sty cannot fail to feel in oil that relate. to narks of art gjki,
by bee Majesty and his Royal Hickman Prince Albert, 11.4amilm
the Iproore of thin perfectly unique and roost Ins
wake,atT embinge, to submit them to public athibitine,
enable the whole nation to form an opinion of bee lisjesty'solgr,
Priam Ososort's merit in a branch of the fine arts in which is,.
been Walked it is so dl cult to excel or even to arrive at a "yr
pod mediocrity. This collection of etchings (
first two apechnenn one both of her Pajerty andelraV "11141
Priam Albert) contain portraits of the Prince Causal the
Wale', the Printer Royal, and of the other members of the
family and personal tetrads of the saverrign, many of whishig,
drawn by her MAP sty from life, and afterwards' traneknel to ial
and most aimlessly etched by the Queen and his royal biebllect
eollection also embalm portraits oche ferennite damsel the pasa,
pit... Albert taken by the royal artists from Ills: mats nebram.
old ame
nd rare engraving. in the porresion of her MojevlT, c:
the original &fibrin of the tauten and hiaropl highoesa,m am/m2Ti.74
warriors, the heads of animals sod birds, and blooded
subject', and a variety of interesting weeks (ease fram—.=
drawings by Landseer am: other esteemed artists), the whole boil'
a chancier which cannot fad to interest all clams.
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&Wee the intention to make the etchings public set,.' •
mated by the above catalogue, the application was sappamsj-
by an affidavit of Mr. Jerdan (the editor of the L
Gazette), to the effect that be had ken informed bydsds
dm
Pendant Strange that the etchings were from 60 to 80,..
number, and that gentlemen belonging to the press ms.'t:
be invited to see them exhibited as soon as they wart
ready, and that the editor of the Literary I.a.:etle woul4i
among the party so favour d with a private view, The em
came on upon an infurreatios as regarded the emblem of m
Majesty, and upon a bill filed by l'rinee Albert as rem,*
those of his royal highness. The relief eou'ht was thette,
defendant Strange might be ordered to deliver up i
mptm
sions and copies of the etching., and might be restrained',
injunt,tion from exhilsiting them or from making soy
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of the same, or from in any manner publishing them,
from publishing the descriptive catalogue. Veriouspes..
from the catalogue were set out in the pleadings, and ;bet
were comments and critic isms on the various etcbing.
number) described in it. Thesecomments ware fit need hest,
he aided) in accordance with the taste which led toga
attempt to bring be!ore the public i rivre produce,*
against the wish of their authors. The ("vaginal Timms,.
an iejunction was made during the vacation, upon afgdo4;
one of which was made by Prince Albert, who
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t• That he had looked at the descriptive catalogur!
' Royal Victoria and Albert Gallery of Etchings; ,„a thq
there were such etchings made by her Majesty and !timely
respectively es therein mentioned. That the same imam
made for the private use of her Majesty and him...fee:4kt
for publication, and that they had a private press from whim
they printed the impressions of the etchings, and that em
plates were and are kept locked up by her Majesty, in emu
to prevent the same becoming public; but that copies of to
impressions wire placed and left in several of tee prim
apartments of her Majesty at Windsor, and in ruck pilot
apartments only. That amongst such etchings were poem.,
of hiwelf, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, am
other members of the Royal Family and perusal
friends of her Majesty ; and that many of them Irma
drawn by her Majesty from life, and afterwards tram.
(erred to copper, and etched by her Majesty and Mama
That the imrressions of the said etchings were intended tote
for the private use of her Majesty and himself only,am
thie although copies of some few of suet etchings mm
been given (occasionally, and very rarely) to some of the
personal friends of her Majesty, one to one friend, 'Mom
to another, yet, that no such collection as that to advertiser'
for exhibition as aforesaid was ever given by them ot WWI
of them, or by their or either of their permission ; and Mg
he believed, and had no doubt, that no such collection etsif
have been formed except by impressions surreptitiously Me
improperly obtained. That his first knowledge of Ma cog.
coca of such catalogue was on the 11th day of Octet:orison,
when the same was produced to him by George Bawd
Anson Esq., as a parcel which had been left at the Palace,
directed to her Majesty, and upend by him as her print'
secrete rj ; and that he thereby, for the first time, _Wind
that such a collection of the etchings had been formed. tad
first learned that it was intended to submit them to ptblit
exhibition." _ _ .

An injunction was granted on:this application, but it lied
been since discovered that; a person named Jasper Tonle%
Judge, and his son, Jasper A. T. Judge, of Wieder,
were connected with the intended publication, and they
having been made defendants to the suits, by amender:o,
the present motion was made to extend the inonetite to
them.
In support of. the application, Mr. John Burgin Brows,
of Windsor, printer. deposed that be was entrusted by ka
Majesty and the Prince with the printing of it:uremia'.
from the etchings in question, and always faithfully retuned
to the palace all the p.rfect impressions which were made;
that he employed in the work a pressman. whom he bad el•
ways trusted as a confidential servant, but was, nevertheless,
careful as to the quantity of print piper which he gave sett,
and in seeing that it was all returned.—A printer, and
Whittington, who worked for Mr. Brown, deposed that the
pressman alluded to by the latter, habitually took off in.
pressions of the etchings for himself on card or comma
paper, and that the deponent had himself about 13 of those
Impressions which the pressman had given him, but that ths
deponent had not allowed any one to see them except bigwig.
Re had met the defendant Jasper Tomsett Judge in the
street, who &existed him in such a manner as evidently
showed he knew that the deponent had some of the prints,
and the defendant Judge said he could make it worth the
deponeat's while, if the deponent wished to dispose of them;
but the deponent declined the offer, and did not even let the
defendant Judge see what he had got. •
A gentleman named John Farrow Lawrence, of Albert
ternee. Windsor, also deposed that he knew the defendant
Jasper Tomsett Judge ; that he recollected hearing a rumour
four or five months ago that the said Jasper Tomsett Judge
had a collection of prints and etchings made by her Majesty
and Prince Albert ; and he afterwards net the said Jasper
Tomsett Judge, and he said to him he understood he had
some drawings of the Queen's and the Prince's, to which the
said Jasper T. msett Judge replied, " Oh, you are quite we!.
come to see them ;" and that about a month after such eon.
version he called at the house of the defendant Judge,
and who then produced to him a port:olio with about 80
prints in it, and told him that they had been engraved by
the Prince and Queen, and that he observed the names of
the Queen and Prince Albert on them, and he noticed that
on some of them the signatures or names appeared re.
versed.
The Vice Chancellor asked if there was evidence of u
intention to publish?
The Solicitor General read the affidavits, and also said the
same undertaking would be entered into as was entered's*
before.
The Vice-Chancellor: Then let the injunction be extended
to these defendants.

CHOLERA.—The Board of Health yesterday re.
calved information of the following new cases :—Lambeth 6,
8 fatal; Camberwell 6 fatal; Southwark 2 fatal; Greer
with 2 ; Kensington 1 fatal ; Wandsworth 1 ; Stepney 1;
Westminster 1. 'The Provinces, ite , vin.: Feltham Hoes-
slow 3 fatal ; Sunderland 1 ; Edinburgh 12, 6 fatal ; Low
head parish of Luawade 23, 9 fatal. Total new cases 59,
30 fatal.
THE BASINGSTOKE CANAL COMPANY held, yester-
day, their half-yearly general meeting at the Gray's-inn
Coffee-house. Ihe minutes of the last general meeting were
read and confirmed, as also was the statement of the receipts
and expenditure of the company for the past year. On the
motion cf Mr. Lamb, a proprietor, it was resolved that the
sum of 1,5001., now invested in Exchequer billy, should be
sold out, and that amount invested in debentures of oos d
the great railway companies. A committee of three was at
the same time nominated for the purpose of selecting the
railway company in whose debentures the investment ehould
be made. After some other formal business had been trans-
acted the meeting separated.
WESLEYAN MISSIONS. Last night the annual
meeting of the Southwark branch of the Wesleyan Mir
shindy Society was held at the Southwark chapel, in Loot
lane. W. Atherton, Esq. in the chair.—The report stated
11 that the total income of the parent society for the pact year
was 108,6131. Ile. Id., while the expenditure during the
same period amounted to 114,6061. 17s. 6d., leaving a ba-
lance of 5,9931. th sd. due to the treasurer'. The meow
of this branch during the past year had amounted to
4351.115. 5d., showing a falling off of nearly 401, as coal-
pared with the previous year. The report concluded with
an sunset appeal to the meeting not to allow the missionary
eaves to decline through apathy or want of funds.
Faze BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—Yesterday the
committee made a special report, accompanied by an appall
foc meistasee, in support of the institution in Glasshouse-
yard, East Smithfield, for promoting cleanliness amongst the
poor, by baths, wash-houses, and cleansing and purifying
their dwellings, without a farthing of expense to those who
resort to its advantages. During the last twelve mouths,
33,655 had bathed, 34,843 washed and dried, and 12,610 had
ironed. The receipts of the Baths and Wash-houses for the
put year were 2941.6 s , whilst the expenditure amounted to
3671. Cis ltd.
THE LONDON COFFEE AND BATING-HOUSEKEEPERS
ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday a meeting. of the committee of
management, and others interested the welfare of the
society, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the transac-
tion of general business. Mr. Wm. French, president, in
the chair. The report stated that the institution was esta-
blished in 1837. having for its objects the relief of aged aid
decayed members of the trade, their widows, and orphans ,•
that for the past year the funded property had been augmented
to 1,989/ fle. 10d • and that there was a balance in hand el
691. lie 11d. fliers are now five pensioners on the funds,
who receive 651 per annum, being within 91. 2s 41. of the
yearly interest on the capital invested. The report con-
cluded with an appeal to their brother tradesmen, to enable
the committee to extend the benefits of the institution.
Emtonanort.—Last night, the Britannia, of 600
tons, left the London docks, with a large number of mi.
greats, English, French, German, and Irish, for Australis
There is almost a fleet of vessels lying off the jetty, and in the
basin, preparing to start for that colony.
WALWORTII COMMON. Sir, I beg you will
oblige a constant subscriber by inserting the following, m
it
affects the lives and health of hundreds of persons; sod, it
your powerful interest should be the means of applying a
remedy, I am sure you will receive the heartfelt thanks el a
large and injured bed, of masons. In this neighbourhood a
large quantity of open ditches end pestilential sewers ars
allowed to remain open, dealing their putrid influenCee Ma_
the atmosphere, and affecting seriously the health of the
ishabitants. One of these uncovered reservoirs of dash
runs from the top of pest street to the corner of Sutherland.
square, and the persons who live in the aeighbourhood ire
alone aware of the amount of ill-health it occasions ; ego,
it runs from the end of the gardens in Lorrimore-road,wlieli
it has been partially stopped up, rendering it stapled
This *gas of the rish runs through • gad
tiny of gardens to then Wyndhun-road ; and, in MS
I could go on tracing it through all the pariah.
sir, all I wish to know is, how long the lives of the inn's,'
tints are to be threatened ? The parish authorities knew
it; the Board of Health arc aware of its existence;