The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-25 00:00:00

BLACKBURN.

The Committee adjourned at the early hour of one
o'clock on Saturday ; their proceedings are as yet far
from a result.

LICHFIELD.

The Committee have put on the poll one vote, tended
for the petitioners, and refused the application of two
more freemen, who had tendered votes.

SOUTHAMPTON.
The Committee have been much perplexed by the con-
tumacy of a witness who would not answer some ques-
tions which he feared might criminate himself. The
witness was Mr. J. Rena, The Committee cleared the
room, and decided that Mr. Renn was bound to answer.
And now Mr. Renn, said the Chairman, tell us what
passed between you and certain gentlemen respecting
the conduct of the election.
I won't answer, said Mr. Renn.
You must answer, said the Chairman.
I'm in the hands of the Committee, said Mr. Renn.
Then we command you to answer, said the Chairman.
Mr. Rena scratched his- head, and looked at his
Counsel, who nodded at him.
CHAlRMAN—Shorthand-writer, read the question.
The shorthand-writer did so.
'Well, said the Chairman, that is the question.
So it is, Sir, says Mr. Rena.. •
CHAIRMAN—Now, give us the answer.
Mr. Renn—l cannot.
CHAIRMAN—ArC you afraid it will criminate yourself ?
Mr. Rean—l am, Sir.

CIIAIRMAN—CIear the rOOLII.
This proceeding did not seem likely to clear up the
case : when our reporter left all the strangers were still
waiting outside.

THE ARMY.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 22.—Lieutenants Greon, Williams,
Patton, and Morris, are to do duty with the field batte-
ries until further orders.
The detachment at Purfleet was relieved on Monday
last by detachments of Majors Anderson and Vaughan's
companies. Captain Innes and Lieutenant Crofton pro-
ceeded with the detachments.

Major Sweeting 's company, 6th battalion, was in-
spected on the guard-mounting parade on Monday, in
heavy marching order, bx Lieutenant-General Lord
Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G.U.H. ; and on Tuesday after-
noon Major Sweeting, Lieutenant Chatham, a proportion
of non-commissioned officers, with thirty gunners and
drivers, proceeded to London, and from thence by rail-
way to Weedon, to relieve an equal number of officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men of Major Rawnsley's
company, 4th battalion, who returned to Woolwich by
the same conveyance on the following day.
Major Vaughan has taken the command of the 6th
battalion, and Captain Bent of the 2d battalion.
General Order, April 18, 1842.
The Master-General has been pleased to approve of
Second Captain A. J. Taylor being posted to the 4th
battalion, and Second Captain C. J. Dalton to the Ist
battalion.

(Signed) IT. D. Ross, Deputy Adjutant-General.
General Order, April 21, 1842.
The Master General has been pleased to appoint the
following officers to the Royal Regiment of Horse Artil-
lery, viz. :

Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Higgins, vice Bell, pro-
moted ; Second Captain A. H. Fraser, vice Holcombe,
promoted ; Lieutenant W. Henderson, vice Sandham,
promoted ; Lieutenant A. T. Phillpotts, ♦ice Cockburn,
promoted ; Lieutenant the Hon. E. C. H. Spencer, vice
Gambia.

For the promotions in the regiment see Gazette.
The following officers are posted to battalions, as
follows, viz :

Lieut.-Colonel Hon. W. Arbuthnot to the 6th batta-
lion, on Lieutenant-Colonel's pay, vice Grey ; and Lieut.-
Colonel Chesney to the 9th battalion, upon Major's pay,
vice Arbuthnot ; Captain Holcombe to the 9th battalion,
vice Higgins ,• First Lieutenant Cox to the Bth batta-
lion, vice Henderson ; First Lieutenant O'Connell to the
Bth battalion, vice Phillpotts ; First Lieutenant Bretting-
ham to the 7th battalion, vice Spencer.
(Signed) H. D. Ross, Deptity• Adjutant-General.
•

(From our Dublin Ooriespoldert.)
Thirty-nine men of the 9Gth depot have joined the 91s
at Naas, as volunteers for India ; also forty of the 85th.
During the lust three weeks 220 recruits hate been raised
in the Limerick district.

The 82d depot at Boyle are volunteering very fast.
Fifteen men marched for Cork, via Dublin, on Sunday,
under Ensign White, to join the 20 t h depot ; and ninety-
fire me►► marched on Friday to join the 91st, at Naas.
The Proprietors of the Limerick Chronicle say they
ha►e seen a letter from China, from an officer with the
fleet, dated December Bth, from fling Ta llae. The
writer says they are all well, with the exception of one
man. '"lhe weather has been latterly cold and frosty,
and has renovated us all. We only wait for a change of
monsoon, and for reinforcements, to advance upon Pekin.
Early in the spring we shall certainly go, and I expect
to write to you from the palace of the Emperor, which,
as it covers six miles of ground, will afford us all accom-
modation."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, April 23.
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to day.
IN THE MATTER OF BLAKE, A BANKRUPT.—JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning
in this case, which came before the Court some time
since, upon an appeal froln the judgment of the Court
of Review. The petitioner was a creditor of Edward
Blake and William Blake to a large amount, and lie was
also a creditor of Edward Make's to the extent of be.
tween 3004 and 4001. A separate fiat was sued out a,?;ainst
the separate estate of Edward Blake, and the question in
the casa was whether, under that separate fiat, the pe-
titioner was entitled to prone his pint debt and re-
ceive dividends in competition with the separate credi-
tors. The Court of Review decided that he was not, and
from that judgment the party appealed. His Lordship
said the general rule was where a joint creditor sued out
a separate fiat, he was entitled, in respect of his joint
debt to prove against the separate estate in competition
with the separate creditors ; but in the present ease it
had been argued that there was an exception to that rule,
inasmuch as the separate debt was sufficient to support
the commission. His Lordship did not find in any of
the text writers, or in any reported case a single hint of
such an exception, and he must, therefore, take it to be
the opinion of the profession that such an exception was
not tenable. Upon the whole, therefore, his Lordship
thought that the general rule prevailed, that the supposed
exception RRS not warranted by any principle or any
decided case, and that therefore the judgment of the
Court of Review must be reversed.

Mr. SWANSTON, on the part of the appellant, applied
for the costs, and
His LORDSHIP was of opinion that he was entitled to
the coats of all the proceedings out of the estate.

HOLLIS V. BRYANT.
The COURT then proceeded with the further argu-
ments on this appeal motion.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, April 22.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
CHUBB V. COOPER AND ANOTHER.
This was an injunction bill filed by the plaintiffs,
Messrs. Chubb and Son, of St. Paul's Churchyard, the
well-known manufacturers of patent locks and patent
iron safes, against the defendants, one of whom was a
lock-maker, and the other a factor at Wolverhampton,
and it sought to restrain the defendants from manufac-
turing or selling ani locks or keys made in imitation of
Messrs. Chubb's locks, and stamped with their name or
trade marks.

It appeared that the plaintiffs were patentees under
three successive patents, for various improvements in
the construction of locks, called by them, and now gene-
rally known as their patent detector locks. The first
two of these patents having expired, the defendants bad
made locks upon those principles, which it was not
denied they had a perfect right to do ; but Messrs.
Chubb's complaint was that the defendants had like-
wise stamped upon their locks the name of Chubb, sur-
mounted with a crown, and accompanied with other
words very similar to those stamped by Messrs. Chubb
on the locks of their own manufacture. It appeared that,
purchasers had been deceived by the name and marks on
the defendant's locks and keys into the belief that they
were genuine locks of the plaintiffs' make. The way in
which this practice came to the knowledge of Messrs.
Chubb was as follows :—A gentleman of the name of
Jessell, a customer of their house, had ordered his car-
penter to procure and put on several of the plaintiffs' patent
detector locks. This carpenter applied to an ironmon-
monger near by, and ho was supplied with three other
locks made by the defendants, and stamped and marked
as above described. The difference was not dis-
covered by Mr. Jessell until some time after ; Mr.
Jessell happening accidentally to apply to one of the
locks the key of a similar lock, to his surprise found that
these locks were next to useless. This circumstance
caused him to complain to the plaintiffs, who obtained
his permission to examine the three locks, and the dis-
covery was made that their customer had been imposed
upon by a spurious article of interior workmanship.
Upon inquiry, the locks in question were traced to the
defendants, against whom the present bill was filed, and
Mr. Bacon now applied for an injunction, in order to put
a stop to such a practice for the future.
The defendants, for whom Mr. Hinton appeared, ac-
knowledged that they had been acting under a mistaken
view of the law, and consented to an order for the in-
junction being made ; and upon the defendants under-
taking to obliterate the plaintiffs' name from all locks
remaining unsold, and to deliver up all punches having
the name of Chubb upon them, the plaintiffs consented
to stay all further proceedings in the suit, for which
the defendants, by their Counsel, expressed themselves
grateful. _

- An order was accordingly made conformably with this
arrangement.