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for the acts of the secretary and solicitor are the acts
of the Company.—(Loud applause.)
Mr. Morley—But the Company disclaim the acts
of the solicitor. The principal shareholder in the con-
cern declares that the solicitor has gone further than
he was authorised to go.
Sir P. LAURIE—I should wish to be informed by
the solicitor to the Company whether he had instituted
these proceedings by the desire of the Company.
Mr. Wight—l have proceeded by the desire of the
Company, certainly.
Sir P. LAURIE—Then the Company are amenable
for your acts ?
Mr. Wight—The Company are not aware of the
extent to which the proceedings have been carried on,
for they are not aware of the extent of the infringe-
ment of their patent. It is my duty to protect them,
but it is not by any means true that I have proceeded
in every case of violation. There are 150 parties who
have infringed the patent, but against whom I have
not proceeded.
Mr. Warne stated that the solicitor, in filing the
bills against so many parties, exceeded his instructions.
Several tradesmen here stated that Mr. Warne had
made a similar statement to theme
Mr. 'Wise said the receipts were in some instances
for damages and costs.
Mr. Wight said he had general instructions to
protect the Company's interests, on which he had acted.
Sir PETER LAURIE here intimated that he had
looked at the Patentlaw, and had great doubts whether
the patentees had any remedy against a party who sold
only, and did not manufacture the article ; and it ap-
peared to him that the circumstances might amount
to the offence of obtaining money under false pretences.
—(Great cheering.) Proceedings more discreditable
had never appeared before him on any occasion. He
wished to know whether any of the parties who had
paid the sums specified in the list were present.
Mr. Foster, of the firm of:Foster, Porter, and Co.,
acknowledged that they had paid 701., under the ad-
vice of their solicitor, to avoid litigation with the
Company.
Sir PETER LAURIE—It was not very creditable to
you; Mr. Foster, or any of the other parties, to submit
to such extortion.
Mr. Morley denied that his object in applying to
Sir Peter Laurie was rather to give that publicity to
the proceedings which he had no doubt they would
obtain through the medium of the press, than at pre-
sent to consider the remedy which the injured persons
might calculate upon. The mode of proceeding had
been to select a few who had submitted to the pay-
ment, and when they were settled with, to frighten
others into a like compromise, and it was impossible
to know where it might end.
Mr. Wight denied the imputation, and stated that
the subject could not possibly be argued or determined
in the justice-room.
Mr. Morley said, nobody could say to what extent
the nuisance had sprsad, as he had heard from parties
in the country, who had been served with a similar
process, and who had no means of discriminating be-
tween the genuine and the spuriout articles and that
the articles complained of had actually been bought
of the agents of the Company, and proceedings in some
instances commenced on these very articles.
Mr Warne hoped Mr. Morley was stating what
he was prepared to prove.
Mr. Morley said, he undoubtedly was.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked whether the tradesmen
particularised had sold much of the article which was
said to have been made in violation of the patent ?
Mr. Wise said that some of them had sold no more
than one or two pairs of braces, and down the solicitor
popped upon them, with enormous demands, which,
after some expostulation, was reduced to the amount
specified.
Sir PETER LAURIE—And perhaps those braces were
purchased by the sufferers at the warehouses of the
very parties who accused them of the offence.—(Loud
laughter.) I certainly never heard of anything more
discreditable, and I advise all who may now be under
threats of proceedings in Chancery not to pay one
farthing.
Here there was a cry from several voices, "We
never will.'
Mr. Morley requested to be informed by Mr.
Wight who made the purchases of the articles at the
different shops ? Mr. Wight—. They were made by
various parties.
Sir P. LAURIE—No doubt the solicitor to the Com-
pany sent round his clerks to purchase.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Taylor (one of the tradesmen who compro-
mised) said that Mr. Wight, accompanied by another
person, called at his shop, and routing about some
articles, picked out a pair of braces, paid for them,
and took them away. Intelligence reached him that
a neighbour in the same trade had been proceeded
against by the Company ; and soon afterwards, to his
surprise, he received a subpcena from the Court of
Chancery. Mr. Wight offered to take a compromise
of 301., but at last accepted 201.
Sir P. LAURIE—And you, unconsciously as to the
patent, had purchased the braces ? Mr. Taylor—l
had purchased them in Maiden-lane, without any idea
of breach of patent. I had a doubt whether they
were bought at my shop, and I told Mr. Wight so,
but he said he was ready to make affidavit that they
were. I offered him la., but was at length induced
to give him 201.
Sir P. LAURIE—And I dare say you suppose that
you are exonerated from further demand. Don't be
too sure of that. Mr. Wight, the attorney, may say
" I have my 201. ;" and afterwards Mr. Brown, the
attorney, may come down upon you for 201. more.
Mr. Wight assured Sir Peter Laurie that he might
have insisted upon the whole amount.
Mr. Warne complained that the name of Mr. Leaf
had been used invidiously in the course of the state-
ments, in order to annoy that gentleman, when it was
well known that there were a great many proprietors.
Several of the complainants loudly asserted that
what Mr. Morley had said as to the interest Mr. Leaf
had in the Company was perfectly correct, and denied
that they had other reasons than those stated for using
Mr. Leaf's name.
Mr. Morley said the great ground of complaint was
that those odious and oppressive proceedings had been
resorted to without any previous warning to the public.
Mr. Warne produced a newspaper, which he alleged
contained clue notice.
Mr. Morley was aware that an advertisement had
been published, but it was headed " The New Tariff,"
and as the new tariff did not affect the price of those
articles, it could not afford proper notice to parties,
who would be, niore likely to look under such a head-
ing, for the price of beef and pork. He referred to
the honourable course recently pursued by another pa-
tentee in a similar case, that gentleman having caused
circulars to be sent round to the trade, containing a
copy of the injunctions obtained by them against the
manufacturer, and warning them against any future
dealing in the spurious articles.
Sir P. LAURIE, after a great deal of cross firing
between the complainants and the secretary and
solicitor to the Company, again expressed his astonish-
ment and disgust at the proceedings described, and
said he would adjourn the further hearing of the
matter till next Friday, when he trusted Mr. Bevan,
the solicitor to the great mass of the complainants,
would be prepared with all necessary information.
• Mr. Morley hoped that Mr. Leaf and others of the
shareholders would attend, and not leave the whole
business in the hands of the secretary and solicitor.
Ile trusted also that Sir Peter Laurie would attend
to decide upon the case.
Sir P. LAURIE said he should most willingly attend,
but he really thought the complainants, if they ex-
pected to see any other faces on the other side than
those of the secretary and solicitor, would be very
much disappointed.
The crowd of complainants cheered the conduct of
Sir Peter Laurie, and thus ended this most remark-
able case.

GUILDHALL.
Jane Lockhart, who was about to be married by
license last week to the captain of the Arab ship
Sultana, but who changed her mind, again carne be-
fore the Magistrate on Thursday, having finally deter-
mined to marry the Mahometan. The application
now was, as before, to allow the steersman to swear,
or declare, that he would truly interpret the marriage
service out of the. English into Ilindostanee.
Mr. Alderman J. JoimsoN referred the applicants
to Sir Peter Laurie, who had previously attended to
the matter.

Sir PETER asked the steersmanhow
to receive for entrapping this young
woman, and what
she would be sold for in the slave market at 'Zanzibar '
The steersman declared he was not to receive any-
thing, nor was she to be a slave. The captain was a
man of good property.
Sir PETER asked the girl how she'would like to find
she was one of half a dozen wives, and that she would
be regarded as a creature without a soul, to be thrown
aside like a cat or a sheep ? The girl replied that the
steersman assured her she would be well used, and
her uncle and aunt were going with her to see her
properly settled.
Sir PETER said they would probably all be sold for
slaves. The steersman was the servant of the captain.
lie asked the steersman of what place he was a native,
and how long he had sailed with the captain ?
This steersman said he was a native of New York,
and he had served the Imauns two years and a half.
Sir PETER LAURIE then read a letter from a corre-
spondent, describing the dreadful state of seclusion in
which Jane Lockhart would p s the rest of her life if
she became the bride of the Arab captain, and giving
some account of the slave dealing at Zanzibar.
Sir PETER added that he was aOf t' fied such a mar-
riage would be illegal, and no acts his should give
it a seeming sanction.
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The party all retired in a sorrowful mood.
BO W-STREET.
It will be recollected that some time back we gave
an account of a robbery having been committed by a
man named Dash, who was at the time cohabiting
with the prosecutor's wife. Dash was also given into.
custody for violently assaulting the prosecutor, Mr.
Helme, when he went to demand his wife.
Mr:Robertson appeared before Mr. Jardine this
morning to prefer a charge against Mary Robinson,
for harbouring the wife of the prosecutor, and the
prisoner Dash, who is in custody, knowing at the
' same time that a felony had been committed. In
stating the case, he said that the prisoner resided at
151, Drury-lane. The prosecutor's wife was living
with her. He went to her yesterday and inquired if
she had any property in the house belonging to Mr.
Helme, and she said she'had not. An officer was then
called in, and she immediately said " Stop, I will give
up the property." She then fetched about sixty pawn-
broker's duplicates for various articles belonging to
Mr. Helme, and gave them to the officer. A few days
ago the prisoner calledat agentleman's house in Long-
acre, where a card-case, valued at six guineas, had been
deposited by, Mr. Helme. She asked for the case, stat-
ing that she came from Mrs. llelme. The case was
given up to her, and she wrote a receipt for it. The
case was afterwards pawned for 255.
Mr. JARDINE said there was no case of felony against
the prisoner, yet, as the case was so mixed up with
the wife of the prosecutor, he should, however, hold
her to bail, to appear again when the other prisoner

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MARYLEBONE.

William Wales cad John Howe, two young lads,
were placed at the bar on a charge of stealing a
number of books, the property of Mr. Lambert, sur-
geon, 28 A, Devonshire-street, Lisson-grove.
The complainant stated that while walking down
Paddington-street yesterday afternoon he saw a
copy of " Don Quixote" in 4 vols. in an old bookshop
window, and looking at and identifying them
as his property, he went home and found that
they had been stolen from his study. He
sent for a policeman, and called his errand-
boy Wales and his mother into a room, when he ques-
tioned the former about the property. The boy was
cautioned by the police-constable not to say anything
to criminate himself, but his mother requesting him to
speak the truth, he said that he had admitted Howe
into the study, who took the books away and sold them,
and gave him 4d. as his share of the proceeds ; acting
upon this information, the other lad, Howe, was also
taken into custody.
Ann Marchant living at 44, Paddington-street,
identified Howe as the party who had sold her the
copy of Don Quixote for 2s. (the published price
was 2 guineas). She did not know the value of the
work, which the prisoner said was his own.
Police-constable Clinton, 116 D, was informed by
Mr. Lambert of the robbery, and acting upon the in-
formation received from Wale 3, he went to 33, Devon-
shire-place, and took Howe into custody. The pri-
soner produced a volume of the Gardener's Magazine,
which was also Mr. Lambert's property.—The pri-
soners were committed.
The preceding prisoners, with another lad named
James Haman, were also charged with stealing a
double-barrelled gun (a real Manton), the property
of same complainant.
The prisoner Wales had confessed in presence of
the policeman and complainant that they had taken
the gun out one day for the purpose of shooting, that
they had broken it, and that Howe and Haman had
afterwards stolen it.
The prisoners had nothing to say, and were fully
committed for trial.
CLERKEIVWELL.
Yesterday Denis William Clifford, a fashionably-
attired young man about 19 years of age, was charged
by Mr. Henry Storer, the proprietor of a surgical
establishment in Grenville-street, Brunswick-square,
with assaulting and threatening the life of his master.
Mr. COMBE, who presided, seeing the respecta-
bility of the parties, advised them to settle it. Messrs.
Lewis and Alderson, the professional gentlemen en-
gaged on either side, retired and endeavoured to do so,
but ineffectually.
Mr. COMBE refused to hear anything further than
merely the actual threat and assault, but it
transpired, that in consequence of a fire
which took place in Mr. Storer's house, and
which consumed his library and all his private papers,
a very bitter quarrel ensued between him and his
apprentice. Mr. Storer deposed that the latter called
him " liar, felon, and thief," and held his fist to
his face, threatening his life. He likewise shook
a night protector at him, and used very menacing
language. It was evident there was some deadly
cause of enmity between them, but Mr. Combe re-
stricted them from going into it, although the parties
seemed anxious for the fullest investigation. The
matter ended in the defendant being bound
in his own recognisances to keep the peace, until the
1 Sessions, at which he seemed most indignant.
Soon after his going home he took a quantity of
poison, and this morning it was communicated to the
inspector en duty at the station-house that he was a
corpse. The friends of the unfortunate young man
are highly respectable. His body lies at Grenville-
street, awaiting an inquest.
Charles Vinnia, professor of languages, and Mary
Taylor, were charged with causing the death of John
Taylor by poison.
It appeared from the evidence, that for some time back
the male prisoner has been lodging with the female
one on Saffron-hill. He has been labouring under
an affection of the heart, for which he used to drink
prussic acid in a diluted state. This morning the
deceased, Mary Taylor's son, a child, was playing
with the bottle containing the mixture, and drank
some of it, which caused almost immediate death.
But what seems very extraordinary is, that his sister,
a child almost seven years, drank some of it too, and
it did not injure her up to the time the emetic was
given, three hours after the poison was taken. She
seemed in perfect health when giving her evidence.
She said the poison was very bitter. That her brother
got sick at once, but that she did not feel it at all
although she took more than he did.
The male prisoner produced a letter from the Earl
of Surrey, speaking highly of his character, and en-
closing him 101. They were both discharged.

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MELANCHOLY ';,CATASTROPHE
AT RUFFORD.
It is our painful duty this week to record an even
which has caused no little consternation in the neigh
bourhood in which it has happened. George Brooks,
waggoner to the Right Hon. the Earl of Scarborough,
aged 38, and Ann Brooks, his wife, aged 30, resided
in a cottage near the mansion of the Noble Earl, at
Rufford ; and it appears that on Monday, the 24th
inst., Ann Brooks had been whitewashing one of the
bed-rooms up stairs, in which she and her husband
usually slept, and in order to dry it the sooner,
she placed an iron pan in the room, into
which she put some sticks, and set fire
to them. This was during the course of the day. At
night when they went to bed, they took the warming
pan up stairs to warm the bed ; and it is supposed,
either the woman or her husband incautiously re-
cruited the embers, and shutting the door close, went
to bed. About four o'clock the next morning, brooks
not coming to look after his horses as usual, one of his
fellow-servants went and rapped at the door The
boy, on opening the chamber-door, and entering the
room, was almost suffocated with the smell of
sulphur. On looking towards the bed he was horror-
struck to find Brooks partly on the bed, but with his
face on the floor, surrounded by a pool of blood. He
was quite dead and cold, and his wife also was laid
in bed beside him a cold and lifeless corpse. On the
Wednesday following an inquest was held before
P. R. Faulkner, Esq., Coroner, when the before-
mentioned facts having been deposed to, the Jury
at once returned their verdict that the parties
had died from suffocation. Ann Brooks ap-
pears to have died without a struggle, as she
was laid straight in bed, and her features the
same as though she was asleep. They have
left no family behind them. It is supposed that poor
Brooks himself had been partly conscious of the state in
which the room was ; and, attempting to get out of bed
to open the room door (there being no fire-place), was
overpowered by the sulphureous effluvia of the sticks,
which had been burnt to charcoal, and falling on his
face, caused the blood to flow freely from his nose and
mouth. Brooks' father and mother live at Wellow,
where the two unfortunate victims to their own injudi-
cious conduct were interred on Thursday last, amidst an
immense concourse of spectators from the circum-
jacent neighbourhood. They were carried to their
last resting place (for they are both interred in one
grave) by the labourers and labourers' wives, in the
employ of Lord Scarborough, his Lordship defraying
every expense. We may add that George Brooks
was nephew to Mrs. Ann Hancock, who was so in-
humanly murdered at Caunton by John Driver, on
the 16th March, 1839.—Doncaster Gazette.

The Prussian navy, royal, and commercial, amounted
last summer, to 790 vessels, of 10,600 tons burden, and
employing 6,800 sailors. Towards the year 1790
Prussia had 2,000 vessels, and 10,000 men.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT BAKEWELL CHURCH.—
Another accident has occurred here, which has proved
more serious than the one that happened about a
month ago. Soon after the men had resumed their
work at this edifice on Monday morning week, Thomas
Strafon, the foreman of the setters, was knocked down
from the north arch of the tower, by a block falling on
him, which was occasioned by the collar beam break-
ing whilst some men were drawing a large stone, at-
tached to a crane, about two tons weight. He has
left a widow and four small children, the youngest
being only a few days old. A Coroner's inquest was
held the same evening, before 1.1.1 r. Mander and a re-
spectable Jury, at the Anchor Inn, and a verdict of
" Accidentally killed" was returned.—Derby Reporter.