The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-28 00:00:00

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, April 27—Surpriae, from Guernsey—Clarendon,
from Harlingen.
Arrived, April 28—Roman, from Danteic—Emily. from
Landscona—John Gray, from Faro—Secret, from Osker-
ham—Three Slaters, from Horsens—Anna Helena, from
Porto Rico,

Sailed, April 28—Temora, steamer, for Memel—Seine et
Tamise, steamer, for Paria—Seine,steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Frederick, from Sutherland, for Barcelona—
Sabina, from Dundee, for Shanghai—Ocean Land, screw
steamer, from the west, for the north.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.
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Very firm. Sales, about 10,000 bales. Imports,
5,293 bales ; Previously, 12,669.

The Imperial Court of France has just heard an
appeal frau* a judgment of the Civil Tribunal in an
action brought by M. Reutlinger, a photographer,
against M. Millaud, Director of the Societe Ina-
mobiliere, under the following circumstances.
For some years past, Rutlinger hes occupied an
apartment in the Maison Frascati, at the corner
of the Rue Richelieu and the Boulevard Mont-
martre, belonging to the Socie c IMmobiliere,
the director of which in the lease to M. Reut-
linger engaged that no part of the house should
be let to any other photographer. Part of the
entresol of the house was then occupied by M.
de Villemessant as (Bees for his journal, the
Figaro, but was subsequently sublet by him to
a hairdresser named Lespes, who allowed a photo-
grapher named Carjat to exhibit his productions in
the Vestibule of the apartment, the door of which
was always left open so that the photographs
could be seen by every person who went
upstairs. Reutlinger considered this an in.
fringement of the rights conferred by his
lease, and commenced proceedings against M.
Millaud, to compel him to put an end to the
competition on the part of his other tenants.
When the case was heard, Villemessant and
Lespes maintained that they had a right to or.
nament the interior of their apartment in any way
they pleased, and that the plaintiff's lease only
forbade the exhibition of photographs on the outer
walls. The Tribunal, however, considered that
the conduct of the defendants interfered with Rent•
linger's rights, and condemned Millaud to pay him
600 fr damages and 20fr per day so long as the pho-
tographs should be exhibited on the entresol. Ville-
messant and Lespes wero also condemned to in-
demnify Milieu& Against that judgment, the
defendants now appealed, but the Court, after
hearing council, confirmed the former decision, and
ordered the appellants to pay all costs,
The Civil Tribunal has just tried a case brought by
a M. Lesseray, a hairdresser, against M. Thabeuf, a
master carpenter, to recover damages laid at 30,000 f.
for personal injury received through the negligence
of workmen employed by the latter, In August last
M. Thabeuf was engaged in fitting up a shop in the
Rue Grenelle St. Honore, and contracted with a man
named Vidal for laying the boarded floor. While
executing this work, a man named Bellanger,
employed by the latter, imprudently placed a
great quantity of boards against the planks •tem-
p-orarily closing the shop front towards the street.
The planks gave way under the weight, and the
boards fell into the street on M. Lesseray, the
plaintiff, passing at the moment, and injured
him severely, by breaking two ribs and
causing a rupture of the abdominal muscles.
In December last, Ballenger, Vidal, and Tha-
heuf wero tried by the Tribunal of Correctional
Police for the accident thus caused, and Bel-
linger was sentenced to a fortnight's imprison-
ment, and his employer, Vidal, declared respon-
sible for the law costs and civil damages. The
Tribunal dismissed the charge against Thabeuf,
on the ground that Bellanger was not his ser-
vant, but Vidat's, On that occasion, M. Les-
seray did not advance his claims, but he now
sued Thabeuf before the Civil Tribunal for
30,000 fr. damages. It was proved by medical
certificates that the plaintiff will be crippled for
life by the effects of the accident, and will
always be obliged to wear an abdominal truss.
The counsel for the defendant argued that his
c:ient was not liable, since he had no controul
over Bellanger, who was Vidal's workman, On
the other hand, it was maintained that Vidal was
not a responsible person—that he was only a
workman himself, but occasionally contracted
for small jobs, in which he employed others to
assist him, and that Thabeuf, who supplied :he
materials, waa the only really responsible person.
The Tribunal took this view of the case, and
condemned Thabeuf to pay Lesseray 20,000 f.
damages with all costs of suits.
A police-agent, named Moricard, yesterday killed
with his sword, in the Rue Ste.-Marguerite, a
mad dog of the spaniel breed, which had already
bitten several other dogs. The commissary of
police of the quarter, immediately instituted an
inquiry to ascertain the owners of the animals
bitten, in order to take measures for preventing
dangerous consequences.
Several of the principal German residents in
Paris have coneeived the idea of founding an
hospital in the French capital for their poor fel-
low countrymen residing there. In bid of the
subscription for carrying this benevolent plan
into execution a fancy fair is to be held on the
2d, 31, and 4th May next at the Austrian Embassy
in the Rue Orenelle, under the patronage of tt
Princess do Metternich, Baroness de Secbsch,
Countess do Bohague, Countess de Benkenectf,
Countesf Cowley, Countess de Hatzfeld, and other
distinguished ladies.
INCREASE OF CAPITAL EMBARKED IN BANKS.—
The paid-up capital of the banks which aro quoted in the
daily share lists amounts, in roundmumbers, to £26,000,000,
and their present market value to £57,000,000, showing the
almost incredible increase of £31,000,000 in the value of the
capital embarked.

THE LONDON FIRE BRIGADES.—A committee
meeting of the whole of the members of the Metro-.
politan Board of Works was held yesterday morning at
Spring-gardens, to take into consideration the correepon-
deuce between Sir G. Grey, the fire-insurance companies,
and the Metropolitan Board, relative to the support of fire
brigades. The letters of Sir George Grey were to the effect
that it was the wish of the Government to place the fire
brigades under the control of the Metropolitan Board, and
that the fire insurance companies were willing to contribute
30 per cent. towards the cost of maintaining the establish-
ment, provided the total maximum to be paid by them did
not exceed £lO,OOO per annum, and that 'the engines and
appliances of the London fire brigades should be wade over
to the Metropolitan Board free of cost. In addition to a
promised contribution from Government, it was also pro-
posed that a fine should be levied on all cases where chimneys,
houses, and other property took fire. In cases where the
parties wore insured the flues would be returned to them.
The existing cost of maintaining the London Fire Brigade
is a state of efficiency was £24,000 per annum; but in con-
sequence of extending the area or circuit to more distant
metropelitan parishes, it was expected the annual cost would
be £50,000, to meet which, after all deductions on account
of Government contributions, fines, &0., a rate of a half-
penny in the pound would be necessary to be levied upon
the parishes included in the area. After a general discus-
sion upon the merits of the plan, it was resolved that a letter
should be written to Sir George Grey, informing him that
the Board approved the scheme, provided the maximum
sum of £lO,OOO to be contributed by the firs insurance corn-
ponies was struck out of the proposed Government Bill, as
30 per cent. on £50,000, the contew )lated cost of maintain-
ing the new establishment, amour.zed to £15,000. By the
amended plan it is therefore prey' osed that the fire insurance
dompanies shall contribute 30 per cent. ou whatever the
annual cost of maintaining the establishment shall be. The
foregoing is a modification of the plan adopted at Manchester.

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