The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-10 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES.-AUQ. 30.

R. Longhurst, box and packing.case maker, Bridge row,
Watling-street—F. Wiley, mercer, Sheffield, Yorkshire—M. J.
Wellard, sugar-refiner, Union-street, Shadwell—J. Ashton,
jun., cheesefactor, Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire—J. Shore, re.
finer, Beer Ferris, Devonshire—J. Loftus, wholesale druggist,
Bristol—J. Scott, merchant, Birmingham—J. Morland, corn.
dealer, Broad-street, Ratelifllcross.

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VICE-CHANCERY COURT, AUG, 9.

BELSHAZZA R'S YEAST.-MARTIN V. WRIGIIT.

Mr. KNIGHT (with whom was Mr CHARDLESS), applied to
the Court, upon notice, on behalf of the plaintiff; the author of
the celebrated engraving of " Belshazzar's Feast," for an in.
junction against the defendant, David Wright, the proprietor
of a Dioramic painting (being, as was shown, a very inferior
copy of that engraving), which has been lately opened for exhi-
bition to the public at the Queen's Bazaar, Oxford-street, and
which the defendant had represented to the world as the paint-
ing of the plaintiff. The object of the injunction was to
restrain the defendant from exhibiting the Diorama, or circu.
lating handbills, or any other bills, representing to the world
that the Diorama was the painting of the plaintiff, that being
a fraud both on him and the public.
Mr. CnsaDLESS read the affidavits of Mr. Martin, the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Atherstone and Mr. Graeff, the plaintiff's solici-
tors, who swore that the defendant had stated to them
that the Diorama had been painted from the plain-
tiff's engraving, which, the Learned Counsel contended,
was an infringement of the copyright of the plaintiff in the
engraving, and was about to read the affidavits filed on behalf
of the defendant, and to comment on the defence set up that
the diorama had not been painted from the plaintiff's engraving,
but from a sketch taken from the original painting, which
the plaintiff sold some years since, which defence the Learned
Counsel assured the Court could not be established, when he
was interrupted by
His HONOUR, who said, that allowing that the Diorama had
been taken from the plaintiff's engraving, he was doubtful
whether it was such an infringement of copyright as the Acts
of Parliament would protect, and therefore directed the plain.
tiff to bring an action to try the point.
Mr. KNIGHT requested that the injunction should be granted
as to the hand-hills; but
His HONOUR considering them merely a libel on the plaintiff
and on the Court of Chancery, could not interfere to prevent
the publication of a libel—the plaintiff must seek his remedy
at law.
Mr. PEPYS, on behalf of the defendant, applied for costs,
which the Court refused.

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y,
FOSSIL TREES IN EDINBURGH.-- In the
sandstone quarry now working at the west end of Rutland-
several fossil trees of considerable magnitude have
found in the course of the operations. These have
,nosily
boen broken down by the workmen, as the sub-
stance of the trees seems formed of materials not very
different from the sandstone in which they are embedded ;
bus specimens in plenty are still lying about, of large s ze.
Several stray geologists, with hammer in Land, " like
road makers gone daft," have visited the quarry.—Edin.
burgh Advertiser.