The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-08 00:00:00

BETTS T. Dt VITRI AND OTHIBB.

This was also an appeal from the decision of Viee-Chan•
cellor Wood, who bad granted an injunction to restrain
the defendants, the Winishurst Patent Metal Foil and
Sheet Metal Company (Limited), from manufacturiag any
material similar to or only ooloarably differing from the
material discovered by the plaintiff, and from doing any
act whereby the exclusive privileges granted to the
plaintiff by letters patent might be in any manner pre-
judiced.
Tbo Lord-Chancellor, in delivering judgment to-day,
said that in this case the questions were precisely
the same as in the case of Bette v. Neilson, and
although the evidence was not exactly similar, it was so
mach of the same character in both that he might refer to
the decree he had just pronounced for his decision in the
present suit. The decree of the Vice-Chancellor must be
affirmed, and the appeal dismimed with mats.

EQUITY COURT.
(Before Vier Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.)
' EX PARTE HERALD'S COLLEGE.
Mr. Amphletty Q.C., red in support of a petition
by the Corporation of the nivante and Heralds of the
College of Heralds, Doctor's-commons, preying that out
of a sum of 7,:l00/., which had been paid into oourt by
the Metmpolitan Board of Works for a part of the
petitioners estate, a sum of 2,1501. should be paid out at
once to the petitioners, and the rest carried over to their
account, with liberty to apply. It was stated that the
sum was required to inset an instalment of payments on a
contract which the college had entered into with Mr. Wni.
Cubitt, of the Gray's Inn-road, for the rebuilding of their
premises on their own ground, for the sum of 5,1181. ; and
the petition wee supported by the affidavit of Mr. G. S.
Bell, of the firm of Gardiner and Bell, surveyors, certify-
ing that the plan and specifications were such as the court
might approve.
The Vice-Chancellor made the order as prayed, and
ordered the board to pay the costa according to the act.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
After Term Nisi Prius Sittings at Westminster.—(Before
Mr. Justice Leah and Special and Common Juries.)
The list contained five causes for disposal to-day. The
first, which was an action by a young lady nit the
Metropolitan Railway Company, for perm injuries
received at the Gower-street station, was settled by the
payment of .7V. Two cases had been put into the list byrnia•
take, having been appointed for Monday. A fourth case was
undefended ; and the fifth, which was tried, was an action,
" Heald v. The Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company
(Limitedl," now under liquidation, being a claim by a
ahipbroker at Newcaatle-on-Tyne for commission on the
sale of a steamship for 13,2501. to a firm at Constantinople.
The details were of no public interest. The court rose
about middle day.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
ClllO ,KO T.
Mr. Howard and Mr. Hayford for the petitioner, who
prayed fora dissolution of marriage on the ground of her
bushand's desertion and adultery. The marriage took
place in January. 1852, at St. Parteras Church, and there
had been four children hone of the marriage. The respon-
dent was a professor of gymnastics at the London
l'niversity College, and made about 12101. a year.
A short time after the marriage his habits became
very irregular. and he stayed away from home very often.
In 1844, while they were living in lower-street, he left her
altogether, and had not since returned. Ile had formed
the acquaintance of another female, with whom he had
since been living, the two passing tinder the *mimed
names of Captain and Mrs. Seymour, and residing at Sack-
liamdilly.
His lordship granted a decree nisi.

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
EXTENSIVE AND sTsTERATIC CoNsIGNMENT OP NTOLVI
WATcHrs rioN LIVERroOL.
Chrries Pirdi and Nophia, his wife, Richard Herrin,
and Afire( Jetsam, were brought up on remand charged
with having in their possession a number of gold watches,
which had been stolen from various persons in Liverpool.
In consequence of information, the source of which was
not stated in evidence, Inspector Harnett, Sergeant
Cliapple, and Dowdell, all of the F division, went on
Saturday morning, the let inst., to Martha-street, Hack-
ney, and watched the house, No. 6, in that street,
where the Byatta live. They saw the three male prisoners
passing repeatedly to and fro between the house and the
Cambridge-heath-rosd, and anxiously looking up &nil down
the road as if expecting some arrival. After this
C.REAT EASTERN STRAMsIIIr COMPANY.— had been going on for some time one of the carts
i• p.. o ..1 the directors of this company bas just been of the Parcels Delivery Company drove up, and
• i T 1..• report briery recapitulates the term of the stopped at Byatt'e door. The three male prisoners
• •
lir made with M. deli. Despecher, of Paris, for
Y. • • , Grea nt of the t &intern during 1e15627 the came out of the house together, and received a parcel from
the conductor of the tart. It was a small box. In order
" between France end the I:eit" States, to ascertain which of the men would sign the parcel book
•• • eent of the enterprise after the first voyage (erhoordwiging receipt of the box), Dowdell followed the
tti to the cost of the refitting of the ehlit curt, and when it stopped, and the box WU
1.. exceeded the calculations made by • handed to the prisoners, Le walked up to them,
• r, and of the insufficiency of capital. The and asked Johnson if be knew a man named
r. to having failed in their engagements to Bennet, a shoemaker, Leine in that street. Johnson re-
: t wages, insurance, and other disbursements plied that be did not, and Dowdell Was by no means sure
the voyage, the directors bad no alternative but prised et the answer, having no reason to believe
•e .e imeh charges as the ship was liable for and that any such penes existed. Byatt, who had
wit:, 10,0001. of freight still due, and harbour taken the box into the house, then rune out
inmost to 21,46 W. 1 Is. lid., for hich the corn- main, and Dowdell put to him the same inquiry about
viii claim on the estate of the charterers. The the imaginary Mr. Bennet, receiving, of course, the same
• et••re also report that suits have been instituted in reply. Repeating the same inquiry of the others, one by
• I "art of Admiralty, and that the ship has been ooe, Dowdell managed to delay without exciting their sus-
.•• •ted by ionic of the crew (who refused to accept the Melon until he saw llyatt sign the hook. The three officers
meet offered by this company), by blessrs.O. Forrester then took Johnson and Hyatt in custody and Dowdell ran
:1 0., and by others employed by the charterers in fitting after Herrin (who had slipped away at the first rigged-
: ship fur their service. With regard to the wages claim tom of suspicion) and brought him back. The box was
• .Brenton have paid 1,500/ into court, believing that found to contain 21 watches and two gold chains. Byatt
.ai sufficient to cover the liability of the ship ; but with then said, " Yea have got me to rights, but
•• Ism, to the other claims, they have declined to entertain the others bad nothing to do with it." He also
•in at all, and, acting under legal advice, will resist said be should like to know who gave the infer-
:'.em to the utmost. With respect to the future employ- matios. They told Hyatt they most search him, and
• eat of the ship, the director, are not able to report any
• be said. "This is what you want," and handed In-
oterfactory arrangements. specter Harnett a letter 'naming a list of the watches
DARINO ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.--A singular .and chains contained in the box, with the price of the
1.-nt has happened on the premises of Mr. C. Botany, gross lot, 2W. les. The letter contained a request that the
~f Merton Lodge, Wandsworth. Merton Lodge is situated transaction might be carriedonwithout any such equabbling
es extensive grounds, and from the fact of • large portion es occurred on the last occasion. It was dated from Liver-
surrounding ',alines having been blown down by the pool, and was in the same handwriting as the direction of
• • lit gale the hottee became more readily open to depre- the box, which also had come from that town. A precisely
•n. As Mrs. Hominy was crossing the ball she similar box, with a precisely similar direction in the same
through the partly-open dining-room a pair of hand, was found empty in one et the rooms. Upon,
•tialiee hands on the sideimerd, on which was some the house being searched • large quantity of pawnbrokers
plate. she at once opened the door and saw a man duplicates was found. The prisoners were conveyed to
:1 the act of stealing the plate. The fellow, although the station in cabs. Both amine and nine of the watches
• cantle dressed. put on the beggar'e whine, pretending bad been identified by persons from whom they bed been
woo very hungry end wanted bread. Mrs. Honifray stolen in in Liverpool, and all the others answered the
dl,l for assistance, end the man, afraid that his retreat description of property stolen in that town.
.alit be nut off, rushed at the closed window, and like [The case was proceeding when our report left.]
II ii lemin in the pantomime, made a desperate vault, and THAMES.
meet head foremost straight through one of the panes of EXTRAORDINARY CARE-
; into the grnnnds below, having " • drop" of some 10 Robert Redwood, a tell and powerful working man. era.
• I*.! feet fill outside. Mrs. Hominy, although in deli-
p _loeed in the machine department of the Great Eastern
it, health, most
glass,courgeously tried to atop the man while
Railway, was charged with violently assaulting Mr. sad
I v-ing through the a and seised him by his legs ; but
Mrs. Waterier, of Campbell-read, Bow.
tio, impetus wan too greatk and she was not strong enough The complainants were returning home from a clergy-
I.! hold him. On reaching the ground the man imam- man's party shortly before 1 o'clock this morning, when
6,1.1 y tonic to his heels and scrambled over several the risoner, who had a large Bible under his arm,
:.oleo walls into the open country, thereby effecting his „g
.e ems. sr Menem by the throat and exclaimed
• s-Mir.
" I have got you." She &teemed, and her busload
MELANCHOLY Ck..I7I:RRENCE. —Om Thursday after- immediately collared the prisoner and a violent
I,nee, at Higharn, a village about three miles from Barns- struggle took plate. Mr. Watereon was struck several
•:r• two young men, John and Henry Dawson, were prim- times, and so desperate was the prisoner, who acted like
nee..; a well-known Yorkshire game known as •• suer and a madman, that both oomplainsate would: have been
71-II," in which an ordinary stick some two feet in length murdered if timely assistance had not arrived. He
te, a solid piece of wood :lin. long and 2in. in depth was very wild and disorderly on reaching the statism-
wed on for the purpose of striking a marble. While bow. He now appeared more subdued in the dock, but
'4^ Dawson wee striking at a marble with all his force, there was a reetlemniess about him somewhat alarmiele
bottom, or pommel, flew off, and striking his brother There was Do speculation in his eyes ;he gamed on neene'l
u the temple, killed him on the spot. Medical aid was and biz mind was off the Wanes. In the few words he
'died in, but of no avail. muttered be said that Mrs Watenon looked like an angel,
CANINE SAGACITY. Mr. James Parker, of that she was dressed in white and looked to heelltAfel he
11••lree Wrainle, is the owner of a dog which, besides fill- was determined to hove hen
:Ming the duties devolving upon its species, performs the Mr. Paget asked how the prisoner's farm nave to be
"p.ll tale of " driver "t. the horses in the working of bruised.
the thrashing machine- Anyone 'torturing to usurp the Mr. Waterloo said be was obliged to act on the &Au-
Ofiee the intruder is immediately driven off by the bark • rive and best the visoper off Ith wife, and that if he had
threatened limeys( trusty Bronsty.—Cartiele Journal, not dime so she eae have helm kEled