24 JUNE 1837, Page 7

The Vice-Chancellor, on Wednesday, dissolved the injunction ob- tained by

Mr. Pidding against Mr. How, for selling Howqua teas. Sir Lancelot Shadwell said— He could not but himself suppose that the plaintiff had got some method of compounding teas which he might have learned from Illinvqua or not, but which had been very generally agreeable to the public, who had been induced to purchase the mixture. He having began to use the name of Howqua's mixture first, the defendant used the same designation for a thing which was not the same as that to which the plaintiff applied it, and prima facie the defendant was not at liberty so to do. But it did :wear that such a degree of representation which he topic to be untrue had been held out to the public about the mode of making the mixture, that a court of equity ought not to interfere until the plaintiff had established his title at law. lie proposed, therefore, to dissolve the Injunction, with liberty for the plaintiff to bring an action ; and to determine the costs when the result of the action should be made known to him.

This was agreed to by the plaintiff's counsel. It was stated by Mr. Reeves, who had been inspector of teas to the East India Company for twenty years, that the statements of the plaintiff were not correct. Mr. Reeves said, that

He was well acquainted with Ilowqua, the respectable Hong merchant, whose name the plaintiff had used ; and his belief was, that the plaintiff's statements in his advertisements as to thit personage and his intimacy with the plaintiff were not true. The plaiutiff in one advertisement. published some time ago, gave the following lingo as a specimen of the Chinese English, in which How qua, his old friend, the supposed inventor of the compound, suggested to hint the pursuit 1,1 his present trade as a promising speculation, with an offer of his own valuable assistance- - I!, ! lend ! s:p po s.sc pet ti k•,' my ma hee toixen ear you that No. 1 chip Ie.t. uhe,••■■■ matt c,m s 115., mix 1.1.1411. \ 011103 311 ; see you

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His Honour said this reminded him of some West Indian conversations that 3Ir. Cole' :age had made the public familiar with. Ile was not b. fore aware that the Newt) latigimge had h.111111 its way to the Alandai ins of Canton.

At the Hatton Garden Office, on Wednesday, a boy about eleven years old was charged, before that most respectable person Mr. Laing, with boring holes in the gas pipes in the house of his late master, Mr. 1Varrington, law-stationer of Chancery Lane, who turned him off. Laing asked the lad what lie had to say for Defendant (slapping his cap against his knees)—" I've nothing to Bay." Mr. Laing—', You are as hardened and wicked a fellow as ever was brought before me. Why, it is a miracle that half the Street was not destroyed. What do you mean by such conduct?" Defendant (carelessly)—" 1 don't know." The prisoner's father here stepped forward, and implored the Magistrate to punish his son very severely. Mr. Laing—" Weed he shall not escape; and I recommend you to be very careful with lam, or something dreadful will Wel him." Mr. Warrington observed, that the prisoner, when taxed with the offence, admitted that he was guilty, and coolly remarked that he did it because his master would nut keep hint any longer." Mr. Laing—" I will see what effect the discipline of the House of Correc- tion will have upon him ; but I an fearful it will not benefit a mind so de- praved. Ile is committed for fifteen days."

Defendant (surlily)—" Very well."

He then walked away with the gaoler in the most hardened manner.