Mr. John Ramsay M‘Culloch, the author, and - Messrs. Longman and
Company, the publishers, of the Dictionary if Conunerce and Navigation, obtained an injunction in the Vice-Chancellor's Court on Thursday, to restrain a Mr. Macardy, of Manchester, from publishing a work entitled, The Commercill Cyclopcedia ; or, Dictionary qt Practical Commerce. The ground of application was that the latter work was pirated from the former; CS in several articles errors had been transcribed, and spe..ial communications from private individual, which could not have been obtained elsewhere, were copied.from Mr.
Culloch's Dictionary into the Manchester publication.
. Various diffieultieaare said to exist as to the mode of making out the
• Special ComMiasionlor the retrial of the wrongly-convicted prAsoners at the late Old Bailer Sessions. The first is to whom to dire,:t it, the the Judges being all on the Circuit; secondly, whether it shall include the prisoners who stand committed to the September Sessions, so as to
• be as usual a gaol delivery; and thirdly, how to obtain the attendance • of witnesses, none of whose recognizances are applicable or available, except voluntarily, for the new period of trial about to be fixed.
• On Saturday, Mr. Fell, the chief clerk at Marylebone Office, gave orders to all the officers belonging to the establishment, by Messrs. Hoskins and Rawlinson's directions, to keep the office continually cleared out, as two cases of cholera had broken out on Friday, one in the House of Correction, and the other at Paddington.
The various rumours respecting the reappearance of Asiatic Cholera in the Metropolis are, we regret to state, but too true. Within the last few days two severe cases have been admitted into the Free Hos- pital, Grevillc Street, Hutton Garden : the first died after a few hours, the other is recovering. —Morning Chronicle.
It has been remarked that fewer charges for criminal offences have been made at Bow Street, and at the other Police Offices of the Metro- polis within the last month, than have been known during the same pe- riod for many years before.
The parish officers of St. Margaret's have determined to conduct the prosecution against Mr. Bankes at the expense of the parish—the . witnesses being unable to do so on account of their poverty.
The solicitor to the Police Commissioners has demanded 4,000/. ar- rears from the united parishes of St: Margaret and St. John, Nest- minster, to be paid in seven days. The parish Officers say it is impos- sible to collect the sum.
Burlington House, in the parish of St. James, which Was formerly rated at 7501. per annum, is now assessed at 3,270/. Time Earl of Bur- ' lington has objected to this increase, and the Magistrates have agreed to appoint a surveyor to examine the premises and to bear his report, before deciding the question.
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