The Vice-Chancellor. on Thursday, refused to dissolve an injunction obtained
by 3Ir. Colhurn, to preye»t Captain Marryat from publishing a novel to be celled The Phantom Ship.- the copyright of which Mr. Culburn claimed under an agreement wi:11 the Captain. When the injunction was granted last week, sir Lancelet Shadwel I said that. Cap- tain Marryat's attempt to evade his bargain with Mr. Colburn by pub- lishing "The Phantom Ship" in Anmeriva. bore the appearance of a dishonest transaction. Captain Marryat published in the newspapers a letter to the Vice-Chancellor, lecturing him on the utterance of so in- jurious un opinion upon ex park evidence. It wasin allusion to this letter that the Vice-Chancellor, on Thursday, when giving judgment, sate should be sorry to say any thing to loin the feelings of Copal, Marryat, who had afforded much amusement to his countrymen. He bad himself read. one of his works with great pleasure, which he had been recommended to read by a friend, who stated that he had himself read the work five times over. No greater commendation than this cumuli easily be bestowed upon a book. But he could not help thinking that persons accitstonlial to writing works of imagina- tion felt more or lens the force of that habit which prevented them from stating things in that plain jog-trot manner in which lawyers were in the habit of stating matters. lie expressed his opinion of the ease us it stood upon the agreement ; but it might be that a court of law should regard this agreement in a different light to that in which he looked at it.
The question of costs was reserved.
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