The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-26 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

TIIE BANK OF HINDUSTAN, CHINA, AND JAPAN.—AII
appeal from Vice-Chancellor Stuart in re the Bank of Hin;
dustan and China has been.heard in the Court of Chancery.
The appellant, Mr. Kintrea, transferred 145 shares
in the company to Mr. M`Lachlan, the transfer
being approved by the directors and registered. Six
months later, a winding-up order was made, and the liqui-
dators discovered that M`Lachlan had paid nothing for the
shares, and that he was only the steward of a steam vessel
with only a per week. They accordingly moved for the
substitution of Mr. Kintrea's name as shareholder, and the
Vice-Chancellor made an order accordingly, believing
that Mr. Kintrea intended to keep an interest in the
shares if they proved valuable, but meant to
avoid liability in case of a winding up. Mr. Kintrea
appealed from this decisien, but Lord Justice Giffard
affirmed the order, and dismissed the appeal, with costs.
A PATENT CASE.—A case to determine the validity of a
patent granted to a Yd. Pocheron for improvements in the
manufacture of glass has been tried in the Rolls' Court
The chief point was the substitution of tanks or basins for
the fire clay pots usually employed in holding the
molten material, and the plaintiffs, Messrs. Caninngton, of
Liverpool, alleged that the defendants, Messrs. Nuttall, of
St. Helen's, had erected a tank or furnace, which was
an infringement of the patent. Certain issues have been
tried before a jury in the Rolls Court, and they found the
verdict for the plaintiff.
THE MERTIIYR TYDVIL BOARD OF HEALTII.—Tho case
of the Merthyr Board of Health came again before the
Rolls Court. It will be remembered that the Master
of the Rolls made an order restraining the Board
from allowing the sewage of Merthyr Tydvil to flow into
the Taff. It now appeared that temporary deodorising and
filtering works could be erected within three months, but
that twelve months must elapse before tho permanent irri-
gation scheme is in operation. The deodorising was a tem-
porary expedient to abate the nuisance. After some
discussion sequestration was suspended for three months.
THE NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—
It was stated in Vice-Chancellor Malins's court that a
,harcholder of the National and Provincial Assurance
Company had at length been found, on whom it was now
proposed to serve the winding-up petition. The Vice-
Chancellor made the order.
TUE EXPORTERS' DIRECTORY.—A motion was made be-
fore Vice-Chancellor James to dissolve an injunction
restraining the publication of a work in course of prepara
tiers by the defendants, Messrs. Wright, entitled, " The
Handbook, or Manufacturers' and Exporters' Directory of
Great Britain," and in restraint of any piracy from the
plaintiffs " Business Directory," which has before been the
subject of Chancery suits. The plaintiff's name is Morris
and he has previously been defendant in an action brought
ly Messrs. Kelly. The Vice-Chancellor, after hearing the
rguments, said that when the work was published, and the
;ause brought to a healing, the court could more accurately
letermine the question of piracy. If he were to restrain
he defendants from publishing there would be no means
A compensating them if the plaintiff were wrong in his
:•ontention, while if, when the work was published, it
should turn outn piracy, the court make the defendants
and their' printers responsible. The injunction must be
lismissed, costs to be costs in the cause.
A SUMMARY CONVICTION.—An application was made in
the Court of Queen's Bench on behalf of a young man,
lamed Huntley, who had been sentenced to six days' im-
prisonment, as he believed illegally, and who desired
.o obtain a copy of his conviction. He was walking
!tome through a weed and picked up some cheinuts,
ying on the ground. For this he was charged with steal-
ing fruit, and sentenced to six days' imprisonment with
hard labour. His attorney made affidavit that he had
been unable to obtain a copy of the conviction, and a
Iva/dames to the justices was asked for, but refused on the
ground that the refusal of the justices to produce the
document was not clearly shewn.
THE CASE OF AN ATTORNEY.—In the Court of Exche -
quer an application was made on behalf of Mr. Alfred
Leigh, formerly an attorney, practising at Warrington, to
be reinstated on the rolls of the court. He was struck
off in 1864, for misconduct in obtaining £l3O from an
old and illiterate farmer on false pretences.
He had suffered six months' imprisonment in Flint gaol,
ant had returned £7O to the old man, and the counsel
submitted that under these circumstances he had purged
his offence, and should be allowed to resume practice. The
Lord Chief Baron said they should not be doing their
duty if they placed such a man in a position to obtain the
rust and confidence of clients, and the rule was discharged.

FOG ON TEE MEnsEY.—On Thursday morning a
dense fog hung over the Mersey, and during the morning
the Woodside ferry-boat Lancashire ran foul of the City of
Path, lying in the river, and lost her smoke-stack. The
Lancashire had only just been repaired from the damage
caused by a previous collision,

Mr, Grant Duff declines to be nominated a seconc
time for the Rectorship of Aberdeen University, since the
name of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell has been mentioned.
Except in a political contest, Mr. Grant Duff says he would
not provoke a comparision between himself and Sir William
S tirling-Maxwell.

UNITY.—A. correspondent of the Guardian tells
an anecdote in illustration of the tendency of that move-
ment of our times which ostensibly aims at the establish-
ment of the unity of the Christian Church. He says that
an English clergyman actually connect ed with the move-
ment in question has lately been paying a visit to
one of the English colonies in France. " While
there," says the narrator, "he talked much and
plausibly and peacefully about his prayer and
desire for unity, but he illustrates his meaning
by never going to the English services, but regu-
larly to Mass, taking with him a young niece,who hitherto
had been a regular attendant at the English Church. Per
contra, he professed the liveliest Times-writing indignation
when he heard that the church was lent during two or
three summer months to the French Reformed congrega-
tion. 'Why,' said ho, they are Protestants !"
FOUND HIS MATCH.—In a court of quarter ses-
sions, a petty case was being tried. A well-known crimi-
nal lawyer, who prides himself upon his skill in cross-
examining a witness, had an odd-looking genius upon
whom to operate. The witness was a master shoemaker.
"You say, sir, that the prisoner is a thief " "Yes,
sir ; 'cause why, she confessed it."—" And you also swear
that she bound shoes for you subsequent to the confes-
sion? " " I do, sir."—Then (giving a sagacious look to the
curt) " we are to understand that you employ dishonest
people to work for you, even after their rascalities are
known?" "Of course, how else could I get assistance
from a lawyer? "—There were roars of laughter, as the
witness stepped off the stand with all the gravity of a
fashionable undertaker.
A NOVEL COLLECTOIL—We have read or heari
of collectors of all possible and impossible objects. Phleg-
matic Dutchmen have been known to pay fabulous sums
' fur dubious tulips ; china collectors will give unheard-of
prices for plates and &ulcers, which become a source of con-
stant anxiety to them ; others, again, with a patience
worthy of a nobler preoccupation, have been knowiNo ob-
tain an almost complete collection of postage-stamps. eßui
M. Nestor-Roqueplan, the author of " Parisine," &-c.,
upon a line of collecting in which he has certainly had no
predecessors, and in which, for a time at least,he need foal
but few rivals. And thus he may, we hope, obtain
cheaply the objects of his search. M. Roqueplan
—not the manuscrips of old plays, or the wigs of great
actors, or the rouge-pots of dead actresses, but simply—
warming-pans. In his apartment in the Boulevard
Haussmann he has devoted a gallery to the exhibition of
these Utensils "de la vie intime." There you may see
more or less authentic warming pans of Diane de Poitiers,
Mary -Queen oft Scots, Catherine 'de Medicis,, Gabrielle
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