The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-08 00:00:00

THE MARKETS -(THIS DAY).

HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
ST. JAMES'S.
Lowland Meadow Hay.£3 10 to 4 10 Clover Hay £4 10 to 6 6
Upland Ditto
Rye-grass Hay
New Meadow Hay 4 5 5 5
A limited supply, and a briakis trade; prices as on Tuesday.

Lowland Meadow HayX3 sto 4SMITHFIEL 5 Clover Hay generally £4 4to 5 10
Upland Ditto
Rye-grass Hay
New Meadow Hay .... 315 415 Wheat Ditto
Meadow Hay, in most instances, 55., Clover Hay from 45. to 55. per
load lower than last quoted ; prices of Straw stationary. Supply good,
and trade dull.

• LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY).

COURT OF CHANCERY.
LYCEUM FOREIGN WINE COMPANY.
HAMMOND V. ROSS-EXPARTE INJUNCTION.

Mr. HORNE said he had to move for an exparte injunction
against the defendant, under peculiarly strong circumstances.
The defendant, George Ross, had represented himself under the
great and important character of the Lyceum Foreign Wine
Company, Strand, previous to his connection with the plain-
tiff, though he had now dwindled into an individual. In
March 1826, he represented to the world, that this Company
was carrying on an extensive, prosperous, and flourishing trade,
and that the Company wished' to have a partner; that advertise-
ment caught the plaintiff, who was a gentleman residing at Wal-
thamstow. On the plaintiff's applying to the Company, he
was informed by the defendant, that he was the person who
carried it on ; that he was the lessee of the premises; that
the business was an extremely beneficial one; that the property in
his hands, amounted to about 4,000/. ; that he did not owe more
than 8001. or 9001. ; and, that lie would take the plaintiff into
partnership with him, to have a moiety of the profits, upon his
paying into the concern 1,500/. The plaintiff was " bit,"
and paid the money. Articles of partnership were' drawn up.
soon afterwards, the defendant naturally anxious to make himself
appear a very respectable man in the eyes of the plaintiff, pre-
sented to his view certain bills of exchange, apparently drawn by
persons at Demarara,having a great many foreign names upon them,
and accepted by some persons here, payable at the counting-house
of Hoare and Co. These bills glittered in the eyes of the plaintiff,
particularly, as they were not, as is usual, written in manu-
script, but every part of them printed, except such parts as stated
the terms. However, by certain arts having been practised on
the plaintiff by the defendant, the plaintiff began to feel his eyes
opening, and after he had heard it reported, that a very re-
spectable wine house in the city had not entertained so high
an opinion of those bills as the plaintiff had at first done, but had
refused to take them on the ground of their having been altogether
fictitious, he applied to the defendant for an explanation on the
subject, and after a good deal of conversation and cross-examination
thedefendant was bound to cenfess,th at the bills werew holly fictitious,
and that an important firm of Browne and Co., Lombard-street,
who had accepted some of these bills, was constituted of an indi-
vidual of the name of Browne, in the servile of Ross, at ten
shillings a week. After this discovery had been made, the
plaintiff, of course, was anxious to get out of the trap as
quickly as possible,—and, after considerable difficulty, the
defendant consented to the dissolution of the partnership,
which agreement was reduced into writing in October last. The
plaintiff was to have bills of the defendant's payable at certain
dates, none of which were yet payable, to the amount of 1,0001.,
for his share of the property left in the concern. The defendant had
the art (as the Learned Counsel stated) to induce the plaintiff unhap-
pily to leave the defendant in possession of the partnership property,
but he was to apply that property to the discharge of the partner-
ship demands, and was therefore bound, in equity, to satisfy them,
as long as any existed. In violation of this agreement, how-
ever, a great part of the partnership property had since
been converted into money, and put into the pockets of the
defendant. Upon having been remonstrated with, and the
books having been examined, it was found also that false
entries of the partnership property had been made in them ; as,
for instance, when a sale was entered, there was a cotemporaneeus
entry of the amount as paid into the banking-house of Coutts and
Co., but on inquiry at that house, it was ascertained that no such
sum had been received. It likewise appeared, though no bills of
exchange were to be drawn in the partnership name, by the de-
fendant after the dissolution, that the defendant had drawn and
negotiated, and was now drawing and negotiating, bills of this de-
scription. Under these circumstances, the whole having been
verified by affidavit, the bill prayed that an- injunction might issue
to restrain the defendant from further meddling or dealing with the
partnership property ; and also from drawing, or negotiating any
bills of exchange in the partnership name.
His LORDSHIP said, the half of such a statement as this upon
affidavit, would have been sufficient to have authorised the pre-
sent application, and therefore be ordered the injunction to issue
forthwith.