PIRATED PRINTS.— In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Monday, an injunction
was moved for by Mr. Knight, on behalf of Mr. Lane the engraver, and Mr. Dickinson, the printseller of Bond Street, to restrain the, defendant, Fry, from selling certain pleated copies of the print of Miss Fanny Kemble. Mr. Knight stated, that shortly before Sir Thomas Law- rence's death, he had permitted Mr. Lane to make a copy Oil Ftlile of his drawing, and that Sir Thomas personally superintended the work, and sug- gested some deviations from his own design. The plaintiffs had sold large numbers of this print ; but recently the sale had fallen off, and it was dis- covered that the defendant had been for some time engaged in the manufac- ture of copies, in pencil and water-colours, which lied been extensively sold in the country. Mr. Knight handed up to the Vice-Chancellor specimens' of the original prints, and of the pirated copies ; and on inspection, the Court was so satisfied of the piracy, that the injunction was instantly granted.
PROTECTION OF TRUST PC/MS.—Martha Burgess, an insolvent, was on Tuesday remanded by the Court of Insolvent Debtors, for a period of nine calendar months, for embezzling the funds of a female benefit society, of which she was one of the trustees. This woman, in conjunction with her co-trustee, had sold out stock, belonging to the society, and applied the produce to the purposes of her busineks, and subsequently continued to pay the interest, as if it were still standing in the trustees' names in the books of the Bank. [Should not this new example suggest the utility of an occasional refe- rence to the Bank books, by persons interested in investments ? If a party will state the precise amount of stock, respecting which information is required, an answer will be readily given and no questions asked. The trustees need not therefore be apprized of the scrutiny ; though their conduct may be usefully controlled by the feeling that such a scrutiny may possibly be used.]
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