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

11Y MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND Thursday 11forning.
Arrived, April 27—Surprise, from Guernsey—Clarendon,
from Harlingen.
Arrived, April 28—Roman, from Dantsic—Emily. from
Landscona—John Gray, from Faro—SEcret, from Oeker-
ham—Three Sisters, from Horsens—Anna Helena, from
Portu Rico,

Sailed, April 28—Tomora, steamer, for Memel—Seine e
Tamise, ateamer, 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.

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Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Very firm. Sales, about 10,000 bales. Imports,
5,293 bales; Previously, 12,669,

The Imperial Court of France has just heard an
appeal fram a judgment of the Civil Tribunal in an
action brought by M. Reutlinger, a photographer,
against M. Millaud, Director of the Societe Im-
mobiliere, under the following circumstances.
For some years past, Rutlinger has occupied an
apartment in the Maison Frascati, at the corner
of the Rue Richelieu and the Boulevard Mont-
martre, belonging to the Societe 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 offices for his journal, the
Figaro, but was subsequently sublet by him to
a hairdresser named Lcspes, who allowed a photo-
grapher named Carjat to exhibit his productions in

,he vestibule or the apartment, the door of which

was always left open ho that the photographs
could be seen oy every person who went
upstairs. Rentlinger 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
Lespl3 maintained that they had a right to or.
narnent 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 Rout-

linger's righte, and condemned Milian(' to pay him
600 fr damages and 20fr per day so long as the pho-

tographa should be exhibited on the entresol. Ville-
messant and Lespes were also condemned to in-
demnify Millaud, 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 30,0001.
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 GronelleSt. Ilonote, 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-
porarily 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, Bellanger, Vidal, and Tha-
houf were tried by the Tribunal of Correctional
Police for the accident thus caused, and Bel-
langor 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 Vidal's, On that occasion, M. Les-
seray did not advance his claims, but ho 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
client 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 email jobs, in which he employed others to
assist him, and that Thabeuf, who supplied the
materials, was 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 Ruo 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 conceived the idea of founding an
hospital in the French capital for their poor fel-
low countrymen residing there. In aid of the
subscription for carrying this benevolent plan
into execution a fancy fair is to be held on the
2d, 3d, and 4th May next at the Austrian Embassy
in the Rne Grenelle, under the patronage of the
Princess de Metternicb, Baroness de Seebacb,
Countess de Bohague, Countess de Benkendoff,
Countesf Cowley, Countess de Hatzfeld, and other
distinguished ladies.

INCREASE OF CAPITAL EMBARKED IN BANKS.-
The paid-up capital of the banks which are quoted in the
daily share lists amounts, in round numbers, 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 BRIOADES.—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 correspon-
dence 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 io place the fire
brigades under the control of the Metropolitan Board, and
that the fire insurance companies wore 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 made over
to the Metropolitan Board free of cost. In addition to a
promised contribution from Government, it was also pro-
posod that a fine should be levied on all cases where chimneys,
houses, and other property took fire. In cases where the
parties were insured the fines would be returned to them.
Tho existing cost of maintaining the London Fire Brigade
in a state of efficiency was £24,000 per annum; but in con.
sequence of extending the area or circuit to more distant
metropolitan parishes, it was expected the annual cost would
be £50,000, to meet which, after all deductions on account
of Government contributions, fines, &a., 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 fire insurance corn-
. ponies was struck out of the proposed Government Bill, u
30 per cent. on £50,000, the contewrlated cost of maintain-
ing the new establishment, amour..ed to £15,000. By the
amended plan it is therefore prer osed that the fire insurance
companies shall ooutribute 30 tier cent. on whatever the
annual cost of maintaining the establishment shall be. The
foregoing is a modification of the plan adopted at Manchester.

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS---This Evening.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

The following bills received the Royal assent by Com-
mission, viz.:--Consolidated Fund (X15,000,000)—Bitle of
Exchange and Promissory Notes (Ireland)—Convey-
Knees (Ireland) Malt for Animals— Union Relief
Aid Acts Continuance Warehousing of British
Spirits—Hull Docks—Llanolly Railway and Docks--
Newry and Greenmore Railway—Southwark Park—
Folkstone Water—Matlock and Bath Water—Marplo New
Mills and Hayfield Junction Railway—Chertaey Gas—
Kingston-upon-Thames Gas—Southwark and Wrexhall
Water—Tunbridge Wells Water—Dublin and Belfast
Junction Railway—Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway—
Dover Gas—Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market—
Caine Gas—lpswich Gas—and Swansea Vale Railway.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord lhancellor,
Earl St. Germans, acid the Duke of Argyll.
Their Lordships adjourned during pleasure.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

REGISTRATION OF TITLES TO LAND.
The Earl of LEIN STEIL preatnted a petition from the
corporation of Dublin in favour of a bill to amend the law
relating to the registration of titles to land.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Wrexham Water, Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way (additional powers), London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway (Kemp Town Station), North Eastern,
Lancashire and Yorkahire, and West Yorkshire Railway
Companies, and North E astern Railway (Micklefield
branch) were read a second time.

The 'Herne Bay, Hampton, end Reallver Fishery, and
Great Northern and Western (of Ireland) Railway Bills
wero read a third time and passed.

INDIA.

In reply to a question from the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH,
Lord WO DEHOUSE said that no official information
had been received from India in reference to the orders
given as respects the disposal of the dead.
Sir Charles Wood had received a private note from
which it appeared that an order had been given, with the
sanction of the Governor-General, to discontinue throwing
dead bodies into. the Ganges. Arrangements had been
made to burn the bodies of those whose friends were
too poor to do so themselves. It would be a great sani-
tary improvement. He further said that no resolution had
been come to to change the seat of Government from Cal-
cutta to the upper provinces.