The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-24 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £✓ Os , clover, £3
lOs to £6 Os; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s 2d per load.
A steady trade.
CUMBERLAND..—Metviow hay, £2 bs to £6 Os; clove:
no., £3 lOs to £6 Os; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load.
Trade firm.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 2s to £5 08; clovet
£3 lOs to £6 Os ; and straw, to 18s £2 2c per load.
Supply tolerably good.

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, April 24.—Wind this day at noon—South;
moderate breeze, and very fine weather.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
Arrived—Eurocly don, from Sunderland ; Alliance,
steamer, from Havre.

(BT SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, April 23—Lady Havelock, from Adelaide;
Prince of Wales, from Cape of Good Hope; Celecia, from
Shanghae.

Arrived, April 24—George Canning, from Alexandria;
Conrad, from New York.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Sardinia, scrow steamer, from the West, for
Nantes.

BREACH OP CONTRACT.

The Imperial Court of Colmar (Haut Rhin) last
week heard an appeal from a judgment of the
Strasburg Tribunal of Commerce in an action for
breach of contract, brought by M. Gillemot, a singer,
ag-atos, ninge, tne .L.-
Theatre, under the following circumstances :—ln
December, 1861, one of the principal performers of
the Strasburg theatre fell ill, and the director applied
to a theatrical agency in Paris for a peribrmer to re-
place him. M. Guillemot was recommended, and an
agreement was signed that he should receive a salary
of 400 fr. a month for playing the first parts in every
description of comedy, and certain parts in opera
if found competent after the usual three debuts.
Guillemot accordingly joined the company in
January last, and as the season was then at its
height, the director excused him from making the
customary debuts, but, according to his own state-
ment, reserved to himself the right of annulling the
agreement at the end of the first month. Guillemot
was well received by the public as an actor, but
failed as a singer. The director then proposed that
Guillemot should relinquish the singing parts, and
continue to perform as a comedian 250 f. a month.
This was refused, and the director declared that
the engagement was at an end. Guillemot then
brought an action against the director to compel
him to fulfil the conditions of .their contract, and
also demanded I,ooof. as damages for the injury
done to his reputation by the director's con-
duct. The Tribunal, after hearing counsel for
both pnrties, rejected the demand for damages,
but decided that the contract was valid, and that
the director was bound to assign to Guillemot parts
to appear in. Against that decision the director
appealed, and his counsel argued that according to
the usages of the Strasburg theatre, the director
had the right of exercising his own judgment on
the merits of a performer, and of applying a sus-
pensive veto, even when the ordeal of the debuts
had been satisfactorily passed. Guillemot's counsel,
on the other hand, argued that such a theory would
leave the performers absolutely at the mercy of the
director, and concluded with demanding 2,000 fr.
damages, instead of I,ooofr. as before. The Tri-
bunal, in conformity with the opinion expressed by
the advocate-general, declared that the judgment
must be confirmed, but that there was no ground
for awarding damages. The director was con-
demned to pay all costs.

The Court of Assizes of the Cotes-du-Nord, three
days since, tried to o men, named Ribaut and Delavigne,
for a criminal assault and violence, resulting in death,
committed on the person of a woman named Lorrei fifty
years of age, in a publichouse at Dinan, where all three
were lodgers for the night. It was proved by the evidence
that the men went into the woman's bedroom, that stifled
cries were heard, and that in the morning the woman was
found dead on the floor with marks of violence on her per-
son. The jury found the prisoners guilty of a criminal
assault on the deceased, but with extenuating circumstances
in favour of Delavigne ; the Court condemned Ribaut to
hard labour for life, and Delavigne to 15 years' imprison-
ment with hard labour.

A case of suicide by the vapours of charcoal
occurred at Neuilly yesterday. The inhabitants of the
house, hearing a continued knocking inside an apartment
occuped by a young woman and her little girl, about six
years old, inquired what was the matter, when the child
replied, " Mamma is gone to sleep, and I cannot waken her.'
The door was then forced open, and the young woman was
found quite dead on the bed near three small stoves con-
taining the remnants of charcoal fires. How it happened
that the poor child escaped the effect of the deleterious gas
could not be ascertained. It appears that the unhappy
woman destroyed herself because she had been deserted
by the man who had cohabited with her for six years, after
seducing her under promise of marriage.
FIRE IN BRIDGE-STREET, WESTMINSTER.—Yes-
tarday morning, between four and five o'clock, as a police-
constable, 35 L, was passing along his beat, he discovered
that the premises belonging to Mr. Tivertham, hat maker,
97, Bridge-street, Westminster, were on fire. The officer
immediately raised an alarm, and sent off fur proper assis-
tance. In the course of a few minutes the conductor of the
Royal Society from the Lambeth station arrived, and Fell
entered every room, but found that the inmates had all
effected a safe retreat. The fire was then raging furiously
in the ground-floor warehouse. The engine of the brigade
from the Waterloo-road station was soon in attendance,
quickly followed by Hodges's brigade, and another of the
London establishment from Southwark• bridge-road, under
the direction of Mr. Henderson, the chief officer of the D
district. A plentiful supply of water having been procured,
the firemen went to work in their usual intrepid manner,
but they were unable to get the flames extinguished until
the whole of the stock was nearly destroyed, and the build-
ing severely damaged. The origin of the fire was unknown.
The sufferer was fortunately insured in the Phoenix Fire-
°face.