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proceedings of the Society, yet in all that tended to its more permanent development or 
consolidation he most cordially sympathized, and in its varied proceedings, he exhibited 
a lively interest, through his partner Joseph Sidney Lescber, who for many years 
occupied a seat at the Council, and his sons Edward and Henry Sugden Evans, who 
have successively represented Liverpool on the Board for many years. 
He was deeply impressed with the great advantages to be derived from the educational 
course of this Society, and evinced his appreciation by sending one of his sons to the 
laboratory and lecture course for a season, prior to his taking charge of the laboratory 
department of the two houses of which he was the head. 
Nearly two years ago, Mr. Evans retired from the turmoil of the active business life in 
which he had been energetically engaged for sixty years and upwards, to his favourite 
watering-place, Leamington ; up to this time he enjoyed most excellent health and the 
full exercise of all his ever-active mental and physical powers. 
Mr. Evans was married thrice, has had quite a patriarchal family, and has lived to 
see his descendants to the third generation. He is the representative of a family long 
settled in Montgomeryshire, and remarkable for its longevity, the genealogy of which 
has been recently privately printed. He was the eldest surviving son of the late Thomas 
Evans, formerly of Welshpool and afterwards of Oswestry, by his wife Grace Sugden, 
whose earnest piety and bright example left the impress upon the characters of their 
children which they were calculated to produce, and to which their prosperity has to be 
mainly attributed. Four of them still survive, one an octogenarian, and all above the 
age of threescore and ten years. 
The physique of the countenance of the deceased was peculiarly striking, and his 
presence commanding, whilst his geniality of disposition and cheerfulness and kindness 
of manner endeared him to every one with whom he was brought into contact. 
On the 18th October, after his return from a visit to his sons in London, he was 
seized with his fatal illness, and expired, after much painful suffering, at his residence, 
Leamington, on the 17th instant, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. 
“ PHARAOH’S SERPENTS’’—ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT OF PATENT. 
Vice-Chancellor’s Courts, November 15. 
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart.) 
Barnett and JRoussille v. Leuchars. 
In this case an ex parte application was made on Monday last for an injunction to 
restrain the defendant from selling in boxes bearing the plaintiffs’ labels the new fire¬ 
works called “ Pharaoh’s Serpent,” of which the plaintiffs claimed to be the inventors, 
and such application was directed to stand over until to-day, in order that the defendant 
might be served with notice of it. 
Mr. Malins (with whom was Mr. Owen), for the plaintiffs, now said that he believed 
the defendant wished to have the motion postponed, in order to give him time to answer 
the plaintiffs’ evidence. 
Mr. W. Morris, for the defendant, said that the defendant had a complete answer to 
the plaintiffs’ case, and only desired time to meet their evidence. 
The Vice-Chancellor accordingly directed the motion to stand over until the last day 
of the present term.— Times. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Accidental Poisoning by Arsenic.—On Thursday, November 9th, Mr. W. Codd, 
Coroner for Essex, held an inquest at Peldon, Essex, on the body of Clara Mason, niece 
of Mr. J.Digley, a miller in the parish. It appeared that Mr. Digley had prepared 
some arsenic to be boiled for destroying vermin. The arsenic had been placed in a 
saucepan, which the deceased, although she had seen the preparation, used for the pur¬ 
pose of boiling some greens. Mr. Digley, on Tuesday, was not at home to dinner, but 
the rest of the family (excepting a daughter) partook of the greens, and instantly showed 
