MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 648, 18 October 1851, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Papers for Bankers’ Notes.—A novel kind of paper is stated to have been produced at the mills of Mr. Thomas 11. Saunders, of Darenlh, in Kent. It contains a water mark portrait of the Queen, contrived, not as the ordinary watermark in mere outline hitherto used in bank note and other paper, but so as to give the gradation of light and shade of an Indian ink drawing, such as is seen in the porcelain pictures introduced from Germany. It is the invention of Mr. Oldham, the engineer of the Bank of England, and as its production involves many difficulties, an opinion is entertained that it may form a valuable addition to bank note paper for the prevention of forgery. The portait is surrounded by an appropriate wreath in water mark of the ordinary character, but executed in a superior style, which is also the result of a novel mode of producing transparent patterns in paper of greater diversity and delicacy of design than has yet been attained. The manufacturer is preparing several specimens for the Exposition.—Atlas. The Law.—As a happy illustration of the certainty, cheapness, and expedition of the English law, in upholding those who are in the right, we have received the following strange narrative from an esteemed correspondent, who is himself a lawyer:—“The most litigious fellow I ever knew was a Welshman, named Bones. He had got possession, by some means, of a bit of waste ground behind a public house in Hogwash-street. Adjoining this land was a yard belonging to the parish of St. Jeremiah, which the parish trustees were fencing in with a wall. Bones alleged that one corner of their wall was advanced about ten inches on his ground, and as they declined to remove it back, he kicked t .e brickwork down before the mortar was dry. The trustees having satisfied themselves that they were not only within their own boundary, but that they had left Bones some ieet of the parish land to boot, built n n fno inn 11 «t-* • . • , r --- again. nones kicked H down again. , The trustees put it up a third time, unuer ttie protection of a policeman. The inexoraole Bones, in spite of the awful presence of this functionary, not only kicked the wall down again, but kicked the bricklayers into the bargain. This was too much, and Bones was marched off to Guildhall for as-

saulting the bricklayers rather pooh-poohed the “S IT 8 % kee P peace ‘’ T a . nd < ? 11 ’ the was re-edified a A but when the trustees re-visited th , 111 morning, it was again in ruins l were in consultation upon this l asti „ e S were politely waited on by an atto » who served them all with “ writ. 8 cI «l tion of trespass, at the suit o f i£ lOaa «c' croaching on his land. Thug eS,fo Gii. dared about a piece of dirty ft? not so big as a door step, and th “ 'jMj simple of which would not sell (' Wb< ? e f "- The trustees, however, thought t! not to give up the rights of th e JS[ °”gbt obstinacy ol a perverse fellow mT? and resolved to indict Bones for ft. , N workmen. Accordingly, the action'"" 1 ' 811 ' iudictment went on together, tl Bßd I was tried first, and as the evident acli ” showed the trustees had kept within J, boundary, they got the verdict. R lieir °>Ri for a new trial; that failed.* D ® SQj °’'ed now thought they would let the m.J Wees as it had cost the parish about they supposed Bones had had enoi'S But they had mistaken their mJ brought a writ of error in the action w? carried the cause into the ExchequeJ p and tied it up nearly two years, and ft meantime he forced them nolens volent i, the indictment. When the trial came 08 1 judge said that as the whole been decided in the action, there was no t casion for any further proceedings, and lU fore the defendant had better be acquiw and so make an end of it. Accordhek' Bones was acquitted ; and the very 2 thing Bones did, was to sue the trustees io il new action, for maliciously instituting thein. dictment against him without reasonabli cause. The new arlinn rrant .... ~v U; vu iriSl* and it beincr nrnvpd ««« „c .I—.. . ' , , , ° ”* mimwj nau oeen overneard to say that they would punish him, this was taken as evidence of malice, and Bones got a verdict for 40s.domages, besides all the costs. Elated ft this victory, Bones pushed on his old action in the Exchequer Chamber to i hearing, hi the Court affirmed the judgment against him without hearing the trustees’ counsel. Th trustees were now sick of the very named Bones, which had become a sort of bugbear, so that if a trustee met a friend in the street' he would be greeted with an enquiry after the health of his friend Mr. Bones. TbeywoaU have gladly let the whole matter drop inloohlivion, but Jupiter and Bones bad determined otherwise; for the indomitable Brilon brought a writ of error into the House of Lords, as the judgment of the Exchequer Chamber, The unhappy trustees bad caught a Tartar, and follow him into the House of Lords they must. Accordingly, after another year or two’s delay, the case came on in the Loros. Their lordships pronounced it the most trumpery writ of error they had ever seen, sol again affirmed the judgment, with costs, agaiwt Bones. The trustees now taxed their cos 1 .!, and found that they had spent not less than £5OO in defending their claim to a bit of ground that was not of the value of an oli shoe. But then Bones was condemned W pay the costs. True ; so they issued an ex| ecution against Bones, caught him aftersome trouble, and locked him up in gaol. Tin next week, Bones petitioned the Insolvent Court, got out of prison ; and on examinaWH of his schedule, his effects appeared t»h £0 Os. Od I Boneshad in fact beenfightisf the trustees on credit during the last lbr« years; for his own attorney was put as a creditor to a large amount, which the only satisfaction the trustees obtain from perusing his schedule. They werets* obliged to have recourse to the parish fundal pay their own law expenses, and were soling themselves with the reflection tb»tU did not come out of their own they received the usual notification tbit* 1 in Chancery had been filed against tbt®i Mr. Boncs's suit,, to overhaul their acc^ D with the parish, and prevent the mistyr , tion of'the parish money to the P B ?® their law costs ! This was a climax- , ing myself a disciple of Coke, I haw e a) nothing further of it; being unwill |n S well, perhaps, as unqualified, to f° case into the labyrinthic vaults ofthe, v of Chancery. The catastrophe —if , * ,IS {[B! a tale, could hardly be mended— -so t j story may end here. — Dickens s H° u Words.