The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

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- LON lx)N AMUSEMENTS.
(TIIIB EVENING.)

OPERA.
“.`lb•—" num'. "—8 o'clock.

THEATRY'II.
I.A. SA I ASS.-" A Model Uncle." " King 013eots." " Beda."—

„*.g.rr.-” Fag Sluniag." "Leah." "Hir first Chas-
rho"-7 o'clock.
A. ~ •. • Vp for the Cattle Show." "Monte Cristo."—T

r,.., The Day After the Wedding." " After Dark."
.. M►4er loam's Birthday."—T o'clock.
, ;ern —" Left to Huneelf." "The Rightful Hdr."-7 o'doek.
iq rune —" filaider and Camber." "The Yellow Passport."
—7 tVehvic.
J. asee.—" The laneashire Law" " The Stranger, Stream
than Ercr."—f o'clock. For particulars aee advt.
2--sasp —" The Widow Hunt" "The Field of the Cloth of
Oold " "Marriage at Any Price."-7.53 o'clock.
notion or Wsiss's.—" Atehi !" "flociety."-7.30 o'clock.
HOLDMII." Blow for Blow." "Lucretia Borgia. M.D., La
Orsade Doetresee."-7 o'clock.
Tosevre.—" All that Glitters is not Odd." "The Was and
lac ci Richard ILL" " The Clookmekcr's Hat.' —TA
o'clock.
Flwar.—"lEDees Boy." "Lead Rats and Water Rae.

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Beautiful for EVff."-7 o'clook,
SAN AS./ Wsua.—" Begootar."—f.4ll.

Anrarramnut, Hoimoan. Amin. Seem ha the
A. a».-7.30 o'clock.
r...rat. As.rano.—" Pindes Singh." " Diemen/ MI Diamond."
ka.rmante.—" &mai, the Alebedat." " The Old, Old Story."
fit 111148 a.--" Danger." " A Story.! Baided."-1 0.41001 L

A •sIMLITZAL HALL.-01111M COClefit..4l deleek.
6rosoa's Eau, LAN OZA/I-TLACII Mark UM= aa

Tslstaff. 3 o'clock.—Por particulars ace advt.
,I*TT MISSTRZLS, ST. 'TANKS'S HALL.-8 o'clock.
T..Trin HALL, FICTADILLT.-11r. Fleming NOTiOII'S EMUS.

I.matest.-8 o'clock.
Iso as Eemsceric.—The Electric Owe., &e.—For particulars

ft* advt.

TIS•ArD..

AIR. J. 8. NHL ON THE INCOME T.S.

The following letter on the income tax on
moo t*low 150/. per annum has been received by an
:or of z4t. James e, We4minster :

„...
” Bliwkheath-prark, Kent. Nov. 5,1868.
•• nefli Air.—As a good opportunity did not present
lit the meeting yesterday evening for answering
que.tions, I uow an,wer them by letter. The first
you ask raises a difficulty which will exist
• • a l iverer sum we tlx the limit to the income

: tor. whether the tax begins at 100/., at 2001.
At .10/., that snm will represent a larger real
• : of support in some places than in others.
I am eery much disposed to think that the
t of 1001. is too low. and that it would be an im-
. • %ement to make the income tax begin at 1104 (as it
at first), if not higher. If all taxation were direct, it

At to come down to the limit of income just sufficient
r the necessaries of life, and everyone ought to pay in
ioportion to the surplus of income he posesses beyond
ee mere necessaries. But so long as the larger part
our revenue is raised by indirect taxation, on articles
almost universal consumption, and of which the
• r consume more, in proportion to their small
ins, than the rich, so long I think that the
mes between 501. and 1501. or 200!. pay more than
.r fair share of indirect taxation; and this requires
Trade up to them by levying a tax on the higher
from which they should be exempt. In answer
second question, my opinion is that, in justice,
ame amount of income should pay the same amount
.: whether it be a fixed annual income or a variable

paid weekly. But it would be extremely difficult to
k fraudulent concealment of income in the latter

, —Yours sea,. faithfully,
•. 4.1.11. UM Edwards, Eaq.'

.. J. S. MILL.

I A TILIOZDINART QUICID3 OF d CITY
AIIRCEANT.

An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, the
•••••••uutr-coroner, last ev • , at the St. George's Work-
u., St. George's-in-the-East, respecting the death of
Er Joeeph Braham, aged 32 years, a partner in the firm
• Blahs= Brothers, of Cannon-street, City, who de-
:•-.yed his life under circumstances of a very distressing

aiacter.
Mr. Henry Bradiam, 22, Chadwell-street, said that the
eased was his brother. He resided at 45, Leamington-
sd-villas, Westbourne-part. He was witness's brother,
1 they were rag and jute merchants. carrying on
:'sines at 110, Cannon-street. On Thursday last he COM-
of a pain in his side, which he said had been
.aed by worry. He did not complain that
• money which he had invested in the firm
LA teen misapplied. He said that he should
t. the warehouse in St. George's-in-the-East
-d about sending of goods. In two hours after wit-
ard that he had died suddenly. There was a
i..l tendency in the family. His father hanged him-
• ..1 years ago and his grandmother drowned herself.
- t:er produced was in his handwriting.
7! «lamer said that he should read the letter to the
• as it was material evidence in the case. It was
ervien in a clear legible hand. It commenced :—" lam
trouble. Ruin stares use in the face. I cannot
•:.,,zetkr it. I have striven hard to stem the current

: eiiverse fortune. A fate has always been over me
soma unalterable. When the business commenced
lar^e amount of capital was absorbed for debts and
eipeuma ei which I knew nothing—from which it
L•ziET recovered, neither have L What I have suffered
ic..t.7 to thi= no one can tell, and I am quite beside myself
41 I know not what to do. God forgive me if Ido any-
Ever be merciful to my beloved darling wife
:a.(l cLildren. Ever be kind to them. Would that it were
~dJ'ettl not an tll wind should blow on them.

better

Or More

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: .ving wife could have ever lived or more loving children.
:• U.-, them and protect them all. How unworthy am I
<t these benefits. If ever Ido anything rash, judge not
:ell, of me. The Heavenly Judge judges between us
Mv adored wife, I have said nothing to you; forgive
Lave kept it to myself. As I was made,
must I act. My innocent, darling children,
.ay heaven protect you together with your
r loved mother. May God bless and protect you all.
The Lord awaking will shine his coming appearance
vx.o you. May the Lord bless you, and send you peace.
lay any disgrace from your husbands fate never rest on
lay of your children. Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord our God
Lord of one. Blamed be the glory of his kingdom
: r ever and ever. The Lord he is God. My poor dear
as his mind was so must be mine."
Mr. Braham said that the deceased had a delusion about
Le way in which his money had been invested that was
pirfect mistake. The deceased imagined that he was in
.-:unary difficulties. The business was slack owing to
%witness of trade. . .

Mary Driscoll said that she was employed at the ware-
, Hope-alle , St George's-in-the-East. On Thurs.
she taw the deseaaed writing in the office. He looked
..3. An hour atter she saw him banging by a cord to a
!'• in the warehouse. She gave the alarm and assistance

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Mr. Wm. Morrie, 16, Green-bank, said that onThursday
i...ard a cry of " A man is hanging," and he went into
• warehouse and he cut the deceased down with a pen-
t. 4, He then placed the body with the rope round the
• At on a bag of jute.
Mr. A. Russell, surgeon, raid that the cause of the de-
" med's death was strangulation.
Ibe Coroner advised the jury not to return a verdict of
• (j4O ee, for if they did b 0 they would deprive the
-Jet:seed of the rights of burial.
The jury retuned a Nerdiii. of "Suicide while in a
state 01 temporary iustusity."

BItIGIIT TN BIIIIITICOIIAM.—Mr. Bright WM
t•esent last night at a banquet given by the Mayor of
Birmingham. lie did not touch upon politics further than
;•• say he Loped that at the expiration of the contest both
itt,tiee would peaceably trust to the wisdom of the coun-
t:v. with its wale constituencies represented in parliament,
bei.elicial measures and policy. Mr. Davenirt-Bmm-
!. c. member for North Warwickshire, and Mr. Dixon.
• tuber for Birmingham, ahm responded to the toad of
:ic• county and borough members.
RATI.II IN Sr. BANCHA.S.—In cOnse-
e-Ance of the complaints made in the parish of St. Pancras
the great incrcese of parochial taxation, the vestry have
rinted a with e on the application papers for the current
141f-yeal'a rate., that they have no control whatever
Leer the expenditure of the following rates :—Required
by the xuardiana, 44,0001. ; police rate, 9,25 W.; county
late, ; hletropolitun }lre Brigade, 1,147; Burial
}card, ; public baths and waslahousee, 6841.; col-
lectors' poundage, and other expenses chargeable on the
ii,er-rate, SM. • towards providing for 9,4151. deficiency
on list rate ; total poor-rate, 73,926/., equal to a rate of
la. lid. in the pound ,• main drainage rats of Metropolitan
hoard of Works, 11,57:11. The rate, over which the
!mar/ have control :—Oeneral rate, for paving, &c., 6d.
111 the pound, and lightinx rate, Id. in the pound,
WITCIIICRAIT AT TONIMILGE WELLS.--On Satur-
day last an elderly woman, named Head, a native of the
fluillionable town of Tunbridge Wells, att., convicted and
sent to gaol for two mouth., by the Hon. F. 0. Molyneux,
cu the charge of profe,ing and pretending to tell for-
'once. A woman named White was jealous of her him-
-1 and being too intimate with another woman, and
£x
It
to this old woman Head, wh3 was pretty
it".ernity known as a fortune-teller, she inquired if
at, lei re tnie. The old woman said they were, hut
lorvr Jaya the would bewitch the other woman by
g en.intt a chemical compound, which she could, at
nhu shop only, obtain for a shilling; she would
• '664 excruciating pains. The woman White
we
lod tt. ig •
hot, Icing taken with severe pains, she
le au hon•us OA Col
iff/Tllllll'll house, and told her she had
IN! the wronx woman. The old woman, how-
4-,Nund had not. White went home, but
i."l/114dtLrious and vintiuute in that state.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before Vire-Clairosilor air G. IL Ward.)

110.1/1 IP. AMMO.
His Honour this morning jeo in Oh ease,
which was argued en W end sil last.
The bill was dledb/MbiJohn Owl& Morris, of
4, Moorgate-street- eleaelyr to both* composer,
ilosettryand potholer be year UM of "The Business
of London for 1.13-1913," against fear per-
sons named dales., flosesse, Duaa, and Lamb. It
states that the fear ds•ondrate were employed br the
plaintiff as canvassees in the of the edition of
the " Business Directory "
mthim in 1867, and
that Marti after that that &mom
was to kin est aam
in opposition to
his, phontiff Mormon was the fset,liet he mo
varicated, and was dboimegedl. Phasitil Asa ealled
izn the other defendsale te alga an endeateking
they would not join Menonsces in thie sadolokins
unless the plaintiff discharged them fron.his servies.
they destined le de, whereupon the plaintiff
them alma. The MI then preemie& to allegtml"asil!
January, 1868, the foot rishodants, who had ommasseed
bunnies as palblers, at No. 190, Gray*ninoroad,
and
knoOt cot sad gabbed a workedied " ThoMorchant's
Mannkoor's Pocket Diredery of London, ISNI,"
which was a damned tends. dirsolory, on the
.eriat
as the olsolled trades divides of the plaintiff's
bat of .wise tins. • pedlealor astme of **Piers...tido
work condelat in the miblisallia of soma eases of
chat merchants and *Meese in aapftsh, sad of
observations on their burnoose and trades, which were
called "antra lines," in either case on payment of an ad-
ditional fee. Both of them features had been re-
peated by the defendant,. It was alleged that
in pursuance of their lamas the defendants
bad caused a copy of the plaintiff's olsolled trades
directory to be out up into shp_s, and bad furnished
their canvassees with a number of these Apo with instruc-
tion to all upon the parasol who had paid the plaintiff
for the insertion of their names in manner above men-
tioned, and solicit them to subscribe to their book, at the
fame time making colourable alterations in Chris-
tian names, initials, abbreviations, de. In proof
of the imitations which the defendants had
made it was shown that several errors which
had crept into the plaintiff's book bad been repeated
in the defendants' ; for instance, a Mr. Downs was
described in both as of 530, Bethnal-green-mad, instead
of as of 30 ; and several other mistakes in names and
figures were the same in both. The bill prayed for an
injunction to restrain the sale, and for an account of
the copies sold.
For the defence it was urged that although there might
be copyright in such a book as a directory, the defendants
were perfectly justified in going round to the various
tradesmen and asking them whether they would like the
Fame announcement as appeared in the plaintiff's book
repeated, or repeated with variations, and then in re-
publishing it. It was, moreover, contended that the
deiendente and plaintiff had both derived their informa-
tion from a common source—namely, " Kelly's Directory"
of an earlier date, but the court thought this defence not
sufficiently alleged in the pleadings.
Mr. W. M. James, Q.C., and Mr. Speed, were for the
White
; Mr. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. Frederick Thomas
White for the defendants.

The Vice-Chancellor said that that the defendants had
satisfied him that they had not pirated the plan of the
plaudit(' s work ; but there were other defeucei which re-
quired consideration. Simonson's evidence went to show
that the plaintiff had been fully informed of his inten-
tion to prepare the work in the way mentioned, and that
the plaintiff never made any complaint to him, but seemed
to acquiesce in the design, expressing a hope that he would
not lose his money. The defendant Ashbee, after describing
the process whereby the plaintiff' s work was prepared, which
to a great extent consisted in making cuttings from news-
papers, deposed to a conversation with the plaintiff, in
which the plaintiff stated that advertisements, after they
had been paid for by the public, were public property, and
assured him that anybody might used them as he pleased.
There ware affidavits of the plaintiff in reply to these
statements ; and the result of this part of the evidence in
his Honour's view was that neither of the pro-
positions relied on by the defendants had been made out,
either as to the acquiescence of the plaintiff or as to the
statement made by him about the advertisements. Copy-
right was not to be lost by a mere expression of opinion ;
nor would the statement respecting advertisements apply
to the copying of the lines and capitals. Nor was the
third proposition made out, namely, that the plaintiff had
pirated another work. There must therefore be an injunc-
tion. As to the lines and capitals, the plaintiff had been
put to the trouble and expense of preparing the matter,
although no doubt it was paid for, and no one had a right
to make use of this labour and expense to his own advan-
tage. Otherwise there would be no such thing as copy-
right. The upshot of the whole case was that the
defendants had made extensive use of the plaintiff's work ;
and there must be an injunction to restrain publication,
though not extending to the advertisements which ap-
peased at the and of the work, or on separate pages, as
distinct from the body of it. The riefendants must pay
the costs.