In the Circuit Court of the United States, Southern District of New York, in equity, Marshall O. Roberts, the United States Mail Steamship Company, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Edwin Croswell, Prosper M. Wetmore, James Van Nostrand, William H. Aspinwall, John L. Aspinwall, William E. Howland, and Samuel W. Comstock, (impleaded with George Law,) defendants, ads. Albert G. Sloo and Ellwood Fisher, complainants