The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-02-13 00:00:00

. . LAW .11SPORT.
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COURT OF CHANCERY, liinxnat, Psi.
14.
ILLISTON V. 10211111 AVID OTMESS.
Mr. Ana* said, that th Mot en Someday lased .
an injtmetioe,- forbidding the defendants to perform a
drama called Therms's, or tke Maid of Gement, which
the Court was led to believe was a copy of a dratnatic
piece belonging to the plaintiff. The plaintiff served
the injnnction whirls he had obtained on the &few
dants on Saturday, end the defendants were in conse-
quence prevented from performing the „pieee which
they had advertised. It appeared, however, that the
plaintiff had made no affidavit of the facts upon whlCh
he claimed his injnnetion, and on this ground the
Learned C,onnsel now moved that the order of the
Court prohibiting the defendants from performing the
drama in question be discharged.
Mr. HART, for the plaintiff, admitted, that if there
was no affidavit in Court, the injunction must be dis-
charged. He said, that when a gentleman, whom he
believed to be Mr. Elliston, applied to him on Satur-
day, to move for the injuction, he, Mr. Hart, told him
that it would be very unfair, if the injunction should
be granted, to serve it on the defendants, in order to
stop the performance of the piece that evening.
The CovaT then ordered the injunction to be dis-
charged, because the plaintiff had put in nu affidavit
of the facts.

HALL V. TOWLV.
Mr. Haut moved fur an injunction to restrain tl►e
defendant from pirating at invention of the plaintiff
fur manufacturing thread into lace. The plaintiff had
obtained a patent in November, 1916, fur manufac-
turing a peculiar sort of lace, called Crling't lace ;
to bring wh►ch to perfection he had tipended upwards
of 5,000/.
The COURT granted the injunction.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WES2IISSTEN, Frs. W.

THE NINO V. 'MEN.
Mr. firexer prayed the judgment of the Court upon
this defendant, con% icted upon an information filed by
the Attorney-Oeneral, of assaulting an Excise officer
in the execution of his duty.
It appeared that Sheen, who, upon Ms trial, suffered
judgment to pas% by default, was employed at Maid-
stone in the clandestine compo,ition of soap ; and that,
by being in peril of detection, he, first by menaces,
and then by hard blows, pteveuted the °dicers from
entering the boiling house. lie was sentenced to pay
a fine of el., to be imprisoned nine months in the
House an:orrection at !Maidstone, and to tiud sureties
for his good behaviour duriw, three years.

LONDON S SIONS.

• Yesterday these Sessions commenced before the
Loan MAYOR, the Acconucs, sod a full bench ut
Alderman.
The Rscoonctt, in addressing the Grand Jury, said,
he rejoiced to he ahle to state, that in the calendar
there appeared no more than the names of twelve per-
sons who had been committed from the City of Lon-
don, and those persons were charged with none but
ordinary crimes. This circumstance arose from the
seal and activity of the City Police, who had upon all
*cessions used the utmost energy to pnt a stop to
depredations of all kinds. The City of London was
under great obligations to the Police, every day giv-
ing fresh proof of the efforts of the officers to drive
away the proji.exional gestlemeM of the streets from
so inviting a part of the metropolis.
The trials were then proceeded in.
-- Bevan, who was • few days ago committed
for having on his person picklock keys, &c. was con-
victed as a rogue and vagabond, and sentenced to be
imprisoned six months.

A verdict having been obtained in the Exchequer
against Jlr. P. Nainby, of this town, Collector of the
King's taxes, in pnaltics to the amount of 3,0001.
for collecting taxes of persons not and re-
taining monies in his hands without accounting fur
them, he has this week been committed to the gaol,
in defanlt of payment and an execution issued against
his property.--Ofell Ruckioghaes.)
FIRE AT WoneRsTER.--We have the painful duty
of announcing the particelars of a fire which broke
ont in the heart of this city, about two o'clock this
day, which will be deplored not only on acconnt of the
loss of property, hnt for the agitat:Jtt and alert's
it excited in the inhabitants residing within its range.
This conflagration broke ont in the National Girl's
School-room, situate in a confined p:trt of the city, call-
ed " The Trinity," and whilst the children, to the
number of fourteen, were prevent. The children rushed
to the window, a height of nearly twenty feet from the
ground, on which they alternately suspenaed themselves
until they were caught in the anus of individuals, or in
blankets which were obtained for the pnrpose. One of
them was lacerated in the arm by an iron hook; the
others providentially escaped without the slightest wilt.
Engines were promptly dispatched to the spot, but for
a ?Ilion time the scarcity of water prevented their hying
etheientlF brought into •play with as much speed as tbr
fears of many desired. The flames soon communicated
to a tiarrluinte underneath, brlonging to Mr. Lea,
chemist and druggist, in Bread-erect, wherein, and in
buildings contiguous, were at lelitt thirty barrels of
gunpowder, forty hogsheads of oil. and a large qnantity
of turpentine and other eolihnstibie propertv, a great
proportien of which, to the credit of those who so
(lough/ aid fearlessly eiterted themselves; were removed
from the premises in time to avert the danger with which
th- eity was momentarily threatened. A vast quantity
of oil, however, still remains in the vanits ; and to pre-
serve this trout taking fire, the efforts of the bi-
Itabitan.s were unceasingly directed. This wart*
bruise anal the School-room were entirely destroys&
'lite beck part of elle hank of Messrs. Parl;v and Ms- i
pen, which adjoined, was in imminent -clanger` Mil
were the upholstery rooms of Mr. Fireanie, and the
warehouse of Messrs. Archer and Williams, and
Mr. Tuberville t but we are happy to learn, that these
premises were uninjured, saved by the mischief which
pm:it/denary melees ever occasion, and which has of
coarse extentled to the furniture, in a mortar lesarieemee
of all who.resided in the neighbourhood. Th. forsks
and valuable effects of the bank, on the first alarm were
removed to a place of safety, and much property of vari-
ous descriptions were lodged in the churches Si St.
Nichols, anti St. Sivithitt. At four o'clock the tare was
happily subdued, without having occasioned any further
damage than we bairn mated. The exact cause of this
disaster has not.yet been ascertained, but it is sail) to
have originated in the school-room. Up td the present
/10stir, 6%4664 water is being thrown as the mac
agaitiot tit; possibility df the tikes 'split
ott. --('llerrester Niece, Pd. Ut,)