The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-04-26 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

NOBEL'S EXPLOSIVES CO. (LIMITED) V. KNEES AND Co.—Dynamite versus Lithofractenr —Final judgment by the House of Lcada, 7th April, 1879. —This was an appeal from an order of the Lords Justices of Appeal, dated A?ril 5, 1878, reversing an order made by Mr. Justice Fry on the hearing of the action on June 5. 1877, granting an injunction to restrain the defendants from importing. using, or selling lithofracteur, which is a kind of dynamite, during the conanuance of the patent granted to Mr. Newton, the agent of Mr. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Their Lordships having taken time to consider heir judgment, now delivered their unartimou4 opinion that the evidence of the utility and vetue of the invention, and of the sufficiency of tne doscription of the mode of manufacture as set out in the specification. was conclusively proved to be sufficient for all practical purposes, it hav'mg been shown that dynamite had in fact been manufactured from the instructions contained in the specification, and which evidence the Lords Justices had in a great measure disregarded, relyln; on their own opinions that they, not being prac wally acquainted with the subject, would not iemselves be able to manufacture the finished article without some farther instructions than the specification contained. Their Lordships now held that the Court below ought to have been guided by the evidence adduced in the action, and f icy allowed the appeal, and reversed the order of the Lords Justices and affirmed the judgment of Mr. Justice Fry, and continued the injunction granted by him; and they ordered the defendants to pay the plaintiff's costs of the appeal and all the costs of the previous litigation, including the costs of the original hearing and of the appeal before the Lords Justices.  For threatening a " knobstiek," one of the engineees on strike in Liverpool was on Friday lined £5, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment. t is stated that Mr. Henry Broadhurst, general seceetary of the Trades Union Parliamentary Committee, has been selected as the Liberal candidate for Stoke-on-Trent, in opposition to Dr. Keaealey. . .  Seyeril additional witnesses were examined on Wednesday at the resumed inquiry 89 to the death of Michael Delaney, who was murdered at the Phoenix Chemical Works, Widnes, on the 30th ultimo, rnd the inquest was again adjourned to the 30th instant.  Mr. Allred Illingworth, of Bradford, has been asked to contest Ashton-under-Ly ne in the Liberal interest at the general election. In reply he asks that the matter should be allowed to stn l over till his return from Algiers, where he has been wr some time.  Sir Henry and Lady Layari. left Loudon on Saturday morning for Constawinople. They too!. their departure at 7.21, and noel his excellency and Lady Layard looked remarkably well ann in excellent spirits, notwithstaniang the deoressing influences of truly wretcb..d we..dter. Th-_, annual meeting of the Cheshire Clngregational Union was commenced on Tuesday evening at Lymm. Mr. G. S. Wood. who presided, &livered an .ugural ,;ddrec, in which he dealt with the relationship of Congregationalists to the Established Church, and the inadequate stipends given to many Congregztionalist ministers. Notices were issued oa Tuesday that the Chatterley ironstone mires in North Staff, irishire will be closedin a fortnight o ring to the depressed state of trade. It is said tha there is sufficient stock in hand to meet all probable requirements for the next four or six months. Several hundred workmen will be thrown oat of employment. At Liverr:ol Police Court, on Tuvs&y, a publican, named John Duggan, was sunamoned for having committed a breach of the "Tippling Act," by receiving a pledge as security for the payment of drink. A sailor had ordered drinks all round; but, being unable to pay, he left his coat in pledge. The defendant was fined 40s. and costs.  A. meeting of working men was held in London on Saturday night, to consider the subject introduced at the Hyde Park meeting. Resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to afford the engineers engaged in the strug,le t,ubstantial support, and that the question of federation was of such an important nature that it be adjourned. The fourth Synod of the Presbyterian Church of England cJmmenced its annual sittings on Monday evening in itegent square Presbyterian Church, London. After a sermon by the Rev. Professor William Chalmers D. D., the retiring moderator, the Rev. Dr. William Graham, of Liverpool, the moderator-elect, took the chair, and delivered a long and able address.