8 JULY 1837, Page 8

a In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Mr.

C. W. Day, n artist, and author of a little book called Hints on Etiquette, obtained a verdict against Messrs. Whittaker and Co. for pirating his work by publishing another book substantially the same, entitled Science of Etiquette. It appeared that Mr. Day, in the course of a professional tour, bad been very much disgusted by the want of delicacy and refine- ment in the manners of the people of Hull, who picked their teeth with their forks at dinner, and committed other abominations of a similar kind. He resolved to effect a reform in Hull,—or, as he ex- pressed it, to "make a silk purse out of a sow's ear,"—and published Iris Hints on Etiquette in Bull. Finding that the work took, he made a bargain with Messrs. Longman for publishing it in London ; but those gentlemen, thinking that Mr. Day was not quite au fuii of the manners of high life, got the Honourable Lady Murray to correct and polish Mr. Day's production. The result of the united labours of Day and Murray was the work which, it was pretty clearly made out, the defendants had pirated ; and the Jury found their verdict accord- ingly: so an injunction will probably be granted by the Chancellor to restrain the publication of the Science of Etiquette. No fewer than twelve editions and 12,000 copies of the Hints on Etiquette had been sold, at a considerable profit.

Mr. Wyatt, who had been in the East India Company's service, obtained a verdict, with 2301. damages, ogainst Colonel Rochfort, for adultery with Mrs. Wyatt. According to the statement on the trial, " The plaintiff had been many years in India. In 1817 he was studying at the East India College ; and the young lady, now his wife, ass a Miss Coxwell, whose father was a respectable chemist stud druggist. She was a lady of very great peisonal attractions, and highly accomplished. The parties formed an attachment ; they were both very a ouog, under nineteen years of age. Their friends were averse to the match ; but in the year 1817 they married, and shortly after went to India, where the plaintiff had an appointment. In 1822, MN. Wyatt gave birth to a son ; after which, her health became so bad that she was ordered to England. She was accompanied by her husband's sister ; and they arrived in this country in 1826, the husband remaining in India. On coming to England, Mrs. Wyatt went to the house of her father and mother, with whom she chiefly lived until their deaths in 1832. At first the plaintiff al- lowed her 600/. a year, but that was afterwards increased to 9001. a year. The most affectionate letters passed between the husband awl his wife, in some of which she spoke of his great generosity to her, and of his great consideratiom fur her comforts. After the death of the father and mother, it would appear that Mrs. Wyatt went to France, where she became acquainted with the defen. dant ; and it was not for a considerable time that it was discovered she MIA living with him."

It would seem that Colonel Rochfort was not aware for a long time that he was living with another man's wife, and that there was not much seduction on his part. These circumstances account for the smallness of the damages.

At the Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, a person calling himself Count de Rutter was tried on a charge of keeping a gambling-house. No material evidence was given against him ; but Mr. Adolphus, for the prosecution, said be could carry the case much further, if he put a Mr. Newton, then a barrister in court, into the ;witness-box. Mr. Clark. son said, that would be a most cruel proceeding. Mr. Adolphus did not wish to hurt a young man just entering the plofession—" We all had had our follies;" but he bad a public duty to perform. Mr. Adolphus, however, did not perform it ; neither did the Chairman per- form his duty ; for he said, "I do not call Mr. Newton ;" and Mr. Adolphus, after some palaver, did not insist on his giving evidence. The Chairman approved of the course taken by Mr. Adolphus; and the prisoner, a very notorious fellow, was discharged.

On Saturday, the Kent Magistrates, on the faith of Mrs. Boys's affi- davit, committed Mr. Parker, the Lewisham attorney, to take his trial for administering medicine to Mrs. Boys with a felonious intent ; but on Wednesday, the Grand Jury of the Central Criminal Court ignored the bill.