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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 28, 1864,

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE,

THIS DAY.

BELFAST IMPROVEMENT (No. 2) BILL.

A scene of the utmost excitement, one altogether without
precedent, occurred this morning in the committee-room
No. 8, of the House of Parliament, in which the Belfast
Improvement Bill was being considered. For the last fort-
night the subject has been in progress, Mr. Johns being
the solicitor for the promoters and Mr. Ray for the ratepayers.
Some questions arose yesterday relative to a list of witnesses
being furnished, and this having been complied with, Mr.
Ray was asked to h tnd in a list of the witnesses he pro-
posed to examine.
Mr. RAY said his list would contain more than 109 wit-
nesses, ;tut :he did not bind himself to call the whole;
if he could not defeat the bill without going through the
entire lot, he should do so.
The CHAIRMAN ordered the committee room to be
cleared, as they would not hear Mr. Ray further, his
manner being highly discourteoui.
Mr. RAY was about to procevl with his examination,
when

The CHAIRMAN of the committee informed him they
had come to their decision, and that was that he should
leave the room.

Mr, RAY then said it was his decision to remain in
spite of the committee; and, further, that nothing should
make him submit to it.

Upon this Mr. Gaskill, the chairman, ordered the officers
of the house to be sent for, in order that Mr. Ray might be
taken from the room, and in a few minutes four or five
policemen made their appearance, when, with the
loudest protestations against the illegality of his arrest,
Mr. Ray threw himself on the ground and resisted
his expulsion in the most determined manner.
The efforts of the police were for some time quite useless,
as Mr. Ray had succeeded in grasping the barriers of the
room, and all attempts to make him loose his hold wore use-
less. The constables continued pulling, while Mr. Ray, in
the most excited manner, violently exclaimed against all
capture except by the sergeant -at•arms. Eventually a
most determined effort was made by the constables, and,
with the utmost difficulty, and despite the most determined
struggling, the offender was dragged from the room.

The committee immediately adjourned until to-morrow.

The greatest confusion was created in the lobby of the
house by such an uproarious proceeding, and it was some
time before the usual quiet of the place was restored in
consequence of the obstruction occasioned by the groups of
idlers who kept assembling in small parties to relate the
occurrence to every enquirer.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUELTY TO HORSES.—Joseph Hudson, general dealer,
of 14, Bromwell-road, Clapham, was charged at the instance
of Mr William Love, chief officer of the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelly ill-treat-
ing and torturing a horse by working it in an unfit state.
George Smith, one of the officers of the society, said that
while in Charles-street, Berkeley square, in company with
another officer of the society, ho saw the defendant driving
a horse attached to a cart laden with grease tubs. The
horse was lama in one of its forelegs, which was so bent
over that every step it took it dragged on the ground, and
the poor animal seemed in great agony, and several of the
passers by cried ehoms" on seeing its condition. On
spakirg to the defendant about the horse he said that
ha had brought it from Clapham, and that he would
not have brou,sht it out, but that they were pressed for
horsr,s.

The defendant said that he had worked the horse in the
a ime condition for sewn years.

Smith said that could not bo trus, as some of the society's
cfncers must, have rccn it.

The magistrate said it wal a shameful and disgusting
thing to work a horse in such a state, and fined the defend-
ant 405,, or a month'Q impri:-,onn:ent in de':ault.

Francis Hatten, a farmer at Hendon, attended to answer
the complaint of Mr. William Love, chief officer of the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
of causing or procuring to be cruelly ill-treated or tortured,
one cf his horses.

Mr. Leve said a boy was charged at this court a few days
ago with cruelty to the horse iu working it while in an unfit
condition, and the case WAS then adjourned that the owner
might be proceeded against for sending the horse out while
unfit for work.

Smith, ono of the society's officers, proved seeing the
defendant's b.)), driving two horses attached to a wash cart
—a heavy vehicle. He stopped the horses, and under the
saddle of one of them he found a large wound, There was
a sack under the saddle, which was pressed into the wound
and saturated with the discharge. He asked the boy who
the horse belonged to, and he said to Mr Hatton, fanner,
at Hendon, and that ho was going to a distillery at Pimlico
for 150 gallons of wash. The boy also stated that his
brother put the saddle i n the horse. He then took the boy
into custody, and had since seen Mr Hatton, who admitted
the horse was his, but it Iptel fallen down and hurt its back.
It was a poor old horse, and very small.
Young, another officer of the society, corroborated, and
said the wound was throe inches long.
The defendant was fined 108 and costs, and the boy was
discharged.
A RETURNED CONVICT AT WORK AGAIN.—Eliza
M'llonald and Joseph Grives, said to be husband and wife,
were charged before Mr. Knoa with stealing a watch
valued at £5 and some money from the person of Mr. Adam
Mainlay, civil engineer, 34, Charles-street, St. John's.
wood, •

Robert Morrell, 135 E, said—This morning, about half-
past one, I was at the corner of John-street and Goodge-
street when I saw the female by the side of a man who was
lying on the ground. As soon as I went up the female tried
to get away, but chinking there was something wrong I
detained her, and then aeked the man whether he had lost
anything, and the man, who was very drunk, said " Watch,
watch." SOM3 men then got round me, and I told them
to stand back, but the male prisoner persisted in getting
close up, and I caw the female pass a watch to the male
prisoner, but the latter, no doubt finding he was observed,
dropped the watch immediately.
Mr Knox—ls the man who was drunk here.

Morrell—Ho is. The male prisoner then got away, but
the watch was picked up and given to me. I then took
the female and the drunken man to the station, and gave
information, and afterwards the male prisoner was taken
into custody. On the female being searched at the station
a sovereign was found in her hand, and some silver in her
pocket. On the way to the station she said that it I let her
go she would put two or three good cases into my hand.
Wm. Tooley, 169 E—From information I received from
Morrell, I went into George•street, near the station, and
saw the male prisoner coming towards me. As soon as he
saw me he turned round and set to running. After a sharp
chase, I stopped him, when ho said, " I am innocent this
time—l was not with the woman." I then took him to the
station.

Adam 111'h:inlay, of 34, Charles-streot, St, John's-wood
—The watch is my property. I had it safe last night, but
don't recollect anything more about it, or whether 1 fell
down. I also had a sovereign and some silver in my pee.

session.

Sergeant Shore, 11 F—l believe the female is the male
prisoner's wife, Ho is a returned transport, haying been
sentenced to seven years' punishment, A female with
whom the prisoner has also lived is now undergoing fifteen
months' imprisonment. B ith prisoners have also been in
prison for unlawful possession of a watch.
Mr. Knox committed bath the prisoners for trial,

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

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LONDON. April 28.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
CLYDE, April 27.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—City of Foo-
chow, for Bombay.
NEWPORT, April 27.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Margaret
Falconer, for St. Thomas,

Orr FALMOUTH, April N.—Wind E.—Arrived—Talbot,
from Calcutta.

SWANSEA, April 27.—Wind B.— Sailed—Northumber-
land, for Singapore.

CARDIFF, April 27,—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Conrad, for
Rio Janeiro.

OFF KINSAL, April 26.—Arrived— Belmont, from Cal-
cutta for Liverpool.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
Arrived—Argyll, steamer, from Carentan; Havre,
steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Henry, ter Archangel.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, April 27—Surprise, from Guernsey—Clarendon,
from Harlingen,
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Arrived, April 28—Roman, from Dantaic—Emily, from
Landscona—John Gray, from Faro—Secret, from Oskar-
ham—Three Sisters, from Horsens—Anna Helena, from
Porto Ric),

Sailed, April 28—Temora, steamer, for Memel—Seine e
Tamise, steamer, for Paris—Seine,steamer, for Boulogne,

DEAL, Thnrsday 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 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 hes occupied an
apartment in the Maison Frascati, at the corner
of the Rue Richelieu and the Boulevard Mont-
martre, belonging to the Socie a Immobiliere,
the director of which in the lease to M. Rent-
linger engaged that no part of the house should
be let to any other photograVier. 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 Lopes, who allowed a photo-
grapher named Carjat to exhibit his- productions in
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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. Itentlinger considered this an in.
fringement of the• rights conferred by his
lease, and commenced proceedings against M.
Milland, 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, end condemned Millaud to pay him
600 fr damages and 20fr per day so long as the pho-
tographs should be exhibited on the entreaol.
Ville-
messant and 'Lespes were 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. Honor 6, and contracted with a man
named Vidal for laying the boarded floor. 'While
executing this work, a man named Bolinger,
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-
heuf were tried by the Tribunal of Correctional
Police for the accident thus caused, and Bel-
langer 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 Vidai'a, On that occasion, M. Les-
seray did not advance
claims, but he now
sued Thabeuf before the Tribunal for
30,000 fr. damages. It was proven by medical
certificates that the plaintiff will be cripl?led 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 mall 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 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 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, 3i, and 4th May next at the Austrian Embassy
in the Rue Grenelle, under the patronage of the
Princess do Metterniob, Baroness de Seebach,
Countess de Bohague, Countess de Benkendoff,
Countesf Cowley, Countess de Hatzfold, and other
dieting sished 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 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 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 wore 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 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 made over
to the Metropolitan Board free of cost. In addition to a
promised contribution from Government, it was also pro-
posed that a flue 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.
The 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 wasexpected the annual cost would
be £50,000, to meet which, after all deductions on account
of Government contributions, fines, dca., a rate of a half-
penny in the pound would be necessary to be levied upon
the parishes included in the area. Atter a general diecus-
e'en 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 am-
ponies was struck out of the proposed Government Bill, as
30 per cent. on £50,000, the conteulated cost of maintain-
ing the new establishment, amour..ed to £15,000. By the
amended plan it is therefore pre' osed that the fire insurance
companies shall contribute 30 per cent. on whatever the
, annual cost of maintaining the establishment shall be. The
foregoing is a modification of the plan adopted at Manchester.