The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-27 00:00:00

TAT TERSALLS'—This Evening

CROYDON STEEPLECHASE.
2to 1 agst L'African (taken)
7to 1 agst Benazet (offered-8 to 1 taken)
Bto 1 agst Laura (taken)

DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Student (taken)
22 to 1 agst Medan (taken)
25 to 1 agst Janitor (taken)
30 to 1 agst Bribery colt (taken)
30 to 1 agst Blue Riband (taken)
40 to 1 .agst Stabber (taken freely)
50 to 1 agst Maravedis (taken)
50 to 1 agst Midsummer colt (taken)
66 to 1 agst Raven (taken)
66 to 1 agst Tom King (taken)
66 to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen (taken)
66 to 1 agst Westwick (taken)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY,

CROYDON CUP.
2to 1 agst Laura (taken)
3to 1 agst L'Africaine (taken and offered)
CROYDON METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE.
sto 2 agst L'Africaine (taken)
Bto 1 agst Laura (taken)
10 to ). agst Benazet (taken)
100 to 8 agst Goldfinder (taken)
100 to 8 agst Farnborough (taken)
15 to 1 agst Church Militant (taken)
20 to 1 agst Cartolven (taken)

LAW INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 24,

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lords Justices.)
LOW Y. ROUTLEDGE- COPYRIGHT-JUDGMENT.

This was an appeal from Vice-Chancellor Kindersley.
The plaintiffs are members of the well-known firth of
Sampson Low and Co., English and American publishers,
of Ludgate-hill. About April, 1864, they agreed with
Maria S. Cummins, a native of the United States, but then
resident at Montreal, to purchase from her the copyright
of a manuscript of which she was the author, called
" Haunted Hearts." In the month of May they published
the book in London, in two volumes, at 165., and in duo
time registered the publication at Stationers' Hall. The
plaintiffs by their bill alleged that they learned in the
month of June that the defendant, Mr. George Routledge
—a member of the firm of Routledge, Warne, and Rout-
ledge—had offered for sale, at 2s. each, a portion of the
work, and thereupon they wrote to the defendants, inform-
ing them that the copyright was their property. The
plaintiffs by their bill charged that though the author was
a native of the United States of America, yet inasmuch as
she had resided within the British dominions prior to and
at the time of the assignment of the manuscript to thorn,
and thenceforth to the time of publication and registration
of the work at Stationers' Hall, they were entitled to the
exclusive copyright. The plaintiffs filed their bill to re-
strain Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, their agents or
workmen, from printing or publishing the " Haunted
Hearts." The defendants demurred to the bill, and the de-
murrer was granted by the Vice-Chancellor. The plaintiffs
applied to the Lords Justices to grant the injunction, and
the cause came on in the form of a motion for a decree. The
main question raised was whether an alien resident in a
colony or possession of the British Crown, and who while
so resident first published in England a work composed by
him, had, according to the law of this country, a copyright
in the work.

Mr. Baily and Mr. Hardy, for the motion, contended that
the effect of the judgment in "Jeffreys v. Boosey," relating
to the copyright in Bellini's "Sonnambula," was to bestow
upon a foreigner temporarily resident within the territories
of the British Crown, and therefore for the time owing alle-
giance to the Crown, all the rights and privileges of a Bri-
tish subject.
Mr. Shapter and Mr. Schomberg, on behalf of the de-
fendants, contended that this case fell within the Interna-
tional Copyright Acts, by which no alien could acquire a
copyright.

The Lords Justices having taken time to consider the
case, gave judgment this morning.

Lord Justice Turner said—ln this case the question is
not what were or are the rights of the plaintiffs within the
colony of Canada, but what were or are their rights in this
country, and the law of this country leaves no doubt on
this question. By the 25th section of the sth and 6th Vic.,
chap. 45, it is enacted that all copyright shall be deemed
to be personal property, and in Calvin's case it was
decided that an alien friend may by the common law
have, acquire, or get within this realm, by gift, trade, or
other lawful means, any treasure or goods personal, what-
soever, as an Englishman, and may maintain any action,
for the same. That case, I think, is in all respects appli-
cable to the case before us, and I agree, therefore, with the
opinion of the Vice-Chancellor, and think the motion to
dissolve this injunction must be refused with costs, and
that there must be a decree according to the prayer of the
bill, with costs to be paid by the defendants.
Lord Justice Knight Bruce—l am of the same opinion.,