The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-29 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, October 28.
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England sat
as early as eight o'clock in the private room attached
to his Court in Lincoln's Inn, for the purpose of
hearing an application for an injunction in the case of
Elliott v. Frideberg. The plaintiff is a button manu-
facturer, carrying on his business at Birmingham,
and the defendant is in the same business at Hull.
The plaintiff some time since obtained a patent for
making buttons with a contra patern, and the validity
of that patent had been established by a trial in the
Court of Common Pleas. A short time since the
plaintiff discovered that the defendant was having
similar buttons manufactured abroad, and imported
into this country, very much to the detriment of the
plaintiff. The object, therefore, of the present appli-
cation was to restrain the defendant from importing or
selling the articles in question.
His HoNoun, thinking the case a gross infringement
of the plaintiff's patent, granted the injunction on the
terms prayed.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT. •
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
James Andrews, 36, an ex-policeman, was indicted
for stealing, on the Bth of the present month, a purse,
containing geld and silver coin to the value of
2/.:.55., the property of Thomas Noel Harris, from his
person.
Archibald File, assistant to a linen-draper, living
at 269, Orford-street, stated that on the day named in
the indictment, he saw the prosecutor's carriage draw
up to the pavement, the prisoner being near at the
time. Afterwards he saw him lift the skirts of Mr.
Harris's coat with his left hand, and at the same time
put his hand in. As soon as he withdrew it, witness
apprised the prosecutor of what he had seen, and then
pursued the prisoner, who ran away, and was not
overtaken by the witness until he reachEd Dean .street,
a here witness took him into custody and delivered
him over to a policeman.
The prosecutor and several other witnesses corro-
borated the evidence of the last witness.

whir. BALLANTINE addressed the Jury for the pri-
soner, and called several witnesses, who gave him a
good character.
The Jury without any hesitation found the pri-
soner Guilty, and
The COURT sentenced him to 15 years' transporta-
tion, observing that he had attempted to impose upon
the CoUrt by the witnesses he had called.
EXTENDED SENTENCE.—IN THE MATTER OF ROS-
STET LENNON, ALIAS THE COMPTE DE BAS.—On Thurs-
day the above-named individual was convicted of in-
citing Louisa Grange to commit a felony, and of
harbouring and maintaining her after the fact, and
the Court then sentenced him to seven years' trans-
portation, and the female to ten years. Yesterday
the male prisoner was again put to the bar ; he was
attired as on Thursday, and wore a gold ring on the
outside of his white kid gloves.
The COMMON SERGEANT, on the convict being
placed at the bar, stated to him that he had on Thurs-
day passed upon him the sentence of seven years'
transportion, he had, however, found by reference to
the Act of Parliament that as he had been found guilty
of inciting a person to steal goods in a dwelling-house
of more than the value of 101., the Court was bound
to award ten years' transportation,. and the prisoner
must therefore consider that to be his sentence.

The prisoner appeared thunderstruck, as he evi-
dently came to the bar confident that his sentence was
about to be mitigated and not increased.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
Messrs. Barrand and Welch, of Whitefriars Wharf,
coal merchants, appeared upon summonses to answer
the complaints of the Lightermen's Protection So-
ciety, whose officer charged them that, being the
owners of a vessel called the Hockley, No: 1,637,
they carried, or caused to be carried, for hire, or
other than on their own account, certain goods, con-
trary to the statute, they not being freemen, or ap-
prentices to a freeman, or to the widow of a freeman
of the Watermen's Company, whereby they had for-
feited any sum not exceeding 101.
Mr. Wire, who appeared for the Lightermen's
Protection Society, stated that the object of the So-
ciety was not to go in the first instance for a large
penalty, but to enforce the observance of the Act of
Parlament, which had been, in a great number of
violated by some through carelessness, and by
others through, no doubt, intention. The gentlemen
summoned in the present case pleaded guilty, and,
therefore, the Society would be satisfied with nominal
damages and the payment of the expenses incurred.
The same defendants pleaded guilty to another
charge relating to another vessel, of which they are
owners, called the Dawson, No. 163.
In both cases nominal fines were inflicted.
Messrs. Carrington and Smith, of Milhe.nk, also
pleaded guilty to -a charge under similar circum-
stances, by the Lightermen's Protection Society. A
nominal penalty was inflicted, and the expenses or-
dered to be paid.
Charles alias Thomas Lee, the mock wine-merchant,
of No. 14, Cooper's-row, Tower-hill, was brought
before Alderman GIBBS, for another examination.
Child, the constable who apprehended the prisoner,
said that a great number of tradespeople were anxious
to come forward and state the particulars of the man-
ner in which the prisoner and his partner Mr. Gould
had plundered them, but in consequence of a mistake
which had been made as to the day appointed for the
examination, few or none were in attendance.
A Solicitor stated that he appeared on behalf of a
great number of tradesmen to request that the Alder-
man would remand the prisoner till Wednesday next,
when no doubt multitudes would come forward.
Many of the defrauded tradesmen were, he perfectly
well knew, duped into the condition of creditors by the
fellow at the bar, but he had every reason to believe
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solicitor oz the tradespeople said he had no
prisoner, as not one of the cases complained of involved
anythinglilie felony.
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doubt of being able to prove, early in the week, that
the wipe merchants' office in Cooper's-row
was a place
in which wholesale robberies had been committed to a
very great extent.
The Solicitor for the prisoner—These are mere as-
sertions which you have no right to make.
Mr. Hobler—No right to make ! Are we to be
very delicate in our language in speaking of such
thieves ? Here is a fellow who has been plundering
every tradesman he could meet. Even the poor car-
penter who set his office in order has been robbed by
him ; and still we must be most cautious of what we
say about hiin !
The Solicitor for the tradesmen—l mean to prove
all I say. The prisoner and his partner took the
house for the purpose of committing plunder, and they
got rid•of every article the moment it was sent home
to them.
Mr. Charles Stocken, stationer, of the Quadrant,
stated that he had been defrauded by the prisoner of
books to the amount of 61. or 71.
Alderman Glans—You had not sent them to him
on credit. Mr. Stocken—No. My servant took
them to Cooper's-row, and was to receive the
money upon delivery, hut I understand the prisoner
contrived to slip them away, and neither books nor
money hay e been seen since.
Alder:nen Gmas—ls your servant here ? Mr.
Stocken—No. He left me three or four months ago,
and I do not really know where to find him.
Mr. Hobler—lt would be very desirable to have him
here, as such a case may answer.
Mr. J. W. Little, starch-maker, of Holborn, said
the prisoner called upon him and ordered halfa ton of
starch, to No. 14, Cooper's-row. Witness did not
execute the order, which wasrather a remarkable one.
The prisoner called again, and witness subsequently
sent to him a hundred weight of starch.
Alderman Gmns—Did you ask him for any refe-
rence ? Mr. Little—No. I thought it was sufficient
that he had a counting-house in Cooper's-row.
Alderman GIBBS—Had you any further dealing