The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-13 00:00:00

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HIE SUN, LONICON, WEDNESDAY EVEiNING, DECEMBER 13, lEEE.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day•
•

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special
Jury.)
WEBB V. RENNIE AND ANOTHER.

This was an action by the plaintiff, Chas. Webb,
a labourer, to recover compensation for injuries
sustained while in the employment of the defen-
dants, the Messrs. Rennie, the celebrated iron ship
builders at Greenwich.

Mr. Bingham Daly and Mr. Thomas appeared
for the plaintiff, Mr. Chambers and another gentle-
man for the defendants.

From the opening statement of counsel it appeared
that the defendants had been engaged in building a
large iron steamer for the TurkisCGovernment, for
which purpose it was necessary to construct a de-
scription of scaffolding composed of very tall and
heavy poles. The vessel having been launched,
the scaffolding was being removed, when, owing to
the rotten state of one of the poles, it broke, killing
one man and severely injuring the plaintiff. There
was an apparatus employed in the Government
docks, and in most private dockyards, by which
accidents like the present were provided against,
but they were not adopted by the defendants. The
plaintiff received an injury to the spine, which con-
fined him for 11 days in the hospital, and he was
an out-patient for 11 weeks, and was not yet en-
tirely recovered. Last March the plaintiff appealed
to the defendants for compensation, which they re-
fused, but offered him employment.
The case is not expected to conclude before to-
morrow.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,
GUILDHALL.

(Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and a Special Jury.)

GRAVES V. ASHFORD AND ANOTHER.

This was an action by Mr. Graves, the eminent
copperplate publisher, Pall Mall, for an infringe-
ment of the copyright of three engravings, entitled
" My Ain Fireside," " Daddy is Coming," and
" The Highland Nurses." The defendants are
photographers in Newgate-street, and the alleged
infringement consisted of photographing the above
well-known engravings the property of the plaintiff.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Prentice, and Mr.
Montague Williams were counsel for the plaintiff ;
and Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Row for the
defendants.

Mr. Henry Graves (plaintiff) -said that he had
purchased the right to engrave the pictures in ques-
tion, and paid for " Daddy's Coming" 50 guineas
to the artist, and 250 guineas to Mr. Simpson for
engraving it. For Sir Edwin Landseer's " High-
land Nurses" he paid a large sum for the right to
engrave, and 400 guineas to Mr. T. Landseer for
engraving it. The publication line was always
employed on the engravings when they were first
published. He never gave the defendants per-
mission to photograph his engravings, nor was he
asked to do so. The effect of photographing en-
gravings would be to diminish their sale. He had
seriously suffered from the infringement of his
copyright, and 70 plates which he had three or four
years ago were now reduced to 35, and he believed
they would have still further to be reduced.

In the course of the witness's direct examination
there was a discussion between counsel as to whether
the defendants were liable for the injury which the
plaintiff sustained, in consequence of the extent to
which the photography of the engravings had been
carried on generally, but the learned judge decided
that the defendant was liable only for the detriment
caused by his own photograph.
The witness, in cross-examination, said that he
had a partner who was interested in his business.
He was the " Co." as Dickens expressed it, and
invested his property without appearing in the
business. He purchased the right of engrav-
ing the prints for eight years. Unfortunately
some of the photographs were half as large as the
engravings. He did not care much about the use
of the publication lines, until photographing became
so extensive.

Mr. H. Graves, son of the plaintiff, and assistant
in his business, and Mr. Fraser, also an assistant,
proved to having purchased at the defendant's shop
and elsewhere photographs of the engravings for 6d.
each.

Mrs. Jackson was next called, but refused to give
her evidence until she received her expenses, and
stoutly adhered to her determination, amid much
laughter, until the amount to which she was legally
entitled was handed to her. She said she was a
stationer at Leamington, and she believed that one
of the photographs produced was sold at her esta-
blishment. She would not swear that she had more
than two of the photographs in her possession. She
had dealings with the defendants.
M. Joubert, 30, Porchester-terrace, Bayswater,
said that he was an engraver and photographic
artist, and proved that the " Highland Nurses" was
photographed from the engraving. He gave tech-
nical reasons to show that he could depose to the
fact he had stated with certainty.
After some further evidence the learned judge
summed up, and the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff, and assessed the damages at 40s. for the
infringements in each case.

MARKETS—This Day.

MIRK-LANE.

The supply of English wheat on sale at Mark Lane to-.
day was very moderate, and the condition of the samples
exhibited a slight improvement. The trade, on the whole,
was steady, and prices ruled firm.
With foreign wheat the market was fairly supplied.
The demand ruled far from active, nevertheless a moderate
quantity of produce changed hands at full quotations.
Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request at full
prices.

The supply of barley on sale was tolerably large. The
trade for nearly all qualities was in a sluggish state at late
rates.

Malt sold slowly at previous quotations.

The supply of oats on sale was somewhat extensive.
For most qualities there was a steady demand and prices
ruled firm.

Beans and peas moved off steadily at fully late rates.
In flour about an average business was transacted at

late prices.

SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch. 620 1830 350 10 240
Irish
Foreign 8530 4970 49,110

340 sks.
1420 brls.
COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending Dec. For the corresponding week
9, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 72,986-46s 5d Wheat 79,671-38s 5d
Barley 81,030-33 s 2d Barley 93,924-29 s 2d
Oats

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A SCENE AT DUBOURG'S IN THE HAYMARKET.—
Wm. Saunders, of 5, East India-avenue, Leaden-
hall-market, clerk, was charged with assaulting Rose
Herbert, by cutting her hand with a knife.
The prosecutrix, a stylishly -dressed female, said
she was at Dubourg's, in the Haymarket, taking
supper with a gentleman, a friend of hers, and
the prisoner was there taking coffee, having a
large dog with him. She made a laughing re-
mark about the dog, stating that she was fond of
dogs, and the prisoner then made an offensive re-
mark towards her, and pushed her, on which she
fell. The prisoner then took a knife off the table
and jobbed at her with it while she was on the
floor, but she put up her hand and protected
her face, but her hand was cut. She was after-
wards taken from the prisoner.
Police-constable Williams, 129 C, said the prose-
cutrix told him she had been stabbed with a knife
at Mr. Dubourg's, in the Haymarket. He knocked
at the door and the keeper of the place refused to
admit her, but subsequently, on the inspector com-
itt', up, did so. The prisoner, however, was not to
be found, but was subsequently let out by another
door. The prosecutrix's hand was then bleeding,
and she gave the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner said that the prosecutrix insulted
him, and he pushed her, but never used a knife.
Mr. Bacon, of Winchester-street, Pimlico, tra-
veller, said the prisoner spoke to the young lady
(the prosecutrix) and then knocked her down, only
a few words having occurred. He went to the
prosecutrix's rescue, when he was collared by a lot of
Germans, calling themselves gentlemen. He heard
no quarrel between the prisoner and the prosecutrix.
She was engaged paying his bill. There was a
scene of great confusion, and a knife was passing
about. He did not see the prisoner cut the prose-
cutrix, but she complained directly after being cut.
The prisoner acted like a ruffian. The waiter col-
lared him (witness) and he was obliged to claim
the constable's protection. He refused to let the
police in for a long time, and prisoner could not
be.seen, but while talking to the inspector, telling
him how he had been treated, the prisoner came
out of the house. The waiter was offended with
him because he said he was overcharged.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would remand the prisoner
till Wednesday next, but would take bail in £2O
each for his re-appearance.
Mr. Bacon applied for a summons against a
person at Dubourg's for assaulting him, and it was
granted.

Kelly's Post-office London Directory for 1866

The Mammoth Directory is again true to its own
gigantic programme, and is in every essential
respect worthy of being still relied upon as at once
the key to the mystery and the clue through the
labyrinth of our stupendous metropolis. A city
having hundreds of miles of streets, and peopled
with over three millions of inhabitants, must needs
require for the mere enumeration of the names of
the heads of houses'among those inhabitants, and of
the nos. of houses in those miles upon miles of
streets, squares, crescents, lanes, terraces, places,
rows, and what not—a catalogue of enormous
dimensions. Such a catalogue it has, in point
of fact, long possessed, thanks to the
indefatigable exertions and the untiring
assiduity of the Messrs. Kelly, the projec-
tors, proprietors, revisers, editors (and all the rest
of it rolled into one firm) of The Post-office London
Directory. That Directory, in truth, is to a nicety
exactly of the same age as the century. The present
issue of it—for 1866—is marked upon its title-page
as " The Sixty-seventh annual publication." Look-
ing back to what it was at the outset, and regarding
it as it has now for some years past come to be,
we have all of us long become accustomed to note
in its regard how literally it has grown with the
growth of the vast city it more than anything
else that we could name, has helped the most vividly
to realise in its full immensity to the popular ima-
gination. Mapping out the contents of this enor-
mous accumulation of towns, villages, parishes, &c.,
called as a huge whole LONDON—the compilers of
Kelly's Directory have enabled the world at large to
form some adequate idea of the Brobdingnagian
dimensions of this the largest and most populous
capital upon the surface of the globe, by means of
its various important and comprehensive subdivi-
sions. Here, for example, is the monstrous sub-
division, or section, or department of the Directory
dedicated exclusively to the alphabetical, house by
house enumeration, of the STREETS—beginning with
Abbey Gardens, St. John's Wood, and ending with
Young Street, Kensington ! Here, again, is the
CO3DIERCIAL portion of the work, alphabetically
arranged, like all the other portions, and—so
arranged--leading off with Aaris and Company,
stock and sharebrokers, and closing the long round
of names with one Zweifel, a silk mercer. Fol-
lowing immediately upon this we have the
TRADES, under their several heads, comprehensively
enumerated marshalled by Academies and
tailing off with Zinc-merchants. " Law" and
" Court"—" City" and " Conveyance"—" Postal"
and " Parliamentary"—" Banking" and " As-
surance"—Here, too, are other departments of the
Directory, each of immense importance, and all of
them preceded, as by right in the order of precedence,
by the division of divisions in regard to London as
the metropolis of the British Empire, the su-
preme division, so to speak, coming under the
significant title of--OFFICIAL ! In other words, the
list of the whole mass of our administrators. together
with a duly subdivided record of the various de-
partments of the whole Governmental organization.
Here it is that in this alphabetical list of persons
holding situations of every kind under the Crown
in public offices, of any and every denomination,
our administrative workers are led off in this
purely arbitrary alphabetical arrangement, by
Abbiss, an Alderman, to be closed up by Zwinger, a
Bank of England clerk unattached. Chaoti-
cally confused together in a world of dingy
streets, jumbled together anyhow, though
London itself appears to be to every wayfarer pass-
ing through it—a guidebook as thoroughly well-
organised and systematised and parcelled out, name
by name, house by house, like this same wonderful
Post-office Directory, annually issuing from Bos-
well-court, St. Clement Danes, draws to light order
out of this otherwise bewildering confusion and con-
ducts us, clear-eyed and sure-footed, to any person or
to any locality we may be in search of among all these
stony-hearted worlds of London streets, and among
all these three millions and more making up this a wful
aggregate of the London population. As the
responsibilities devolving upon the compilers of the
work unceasingly increase and multiply from year
to year, in proportion with the steadily progressive
increase of London itself, and the equally steadily
progressive multiplication of its inhabitants—so do
their Cyclopian labours increase quite manifestly in
their ever-advancing and accumulating toil of revi-
sion. The corrections, besides being minute and in
almost microscopic detail, are brought down
to the latest possible period before publica-
tiod. Accuracy above all things being aimed at
evidently as the one paramount and most eagerly-
desired excellence, constantly held in view for attain-
ment by the compilers, at any cost or at any labour.
The result is as close an approximation to perfect
accuracy as is in any way practicable in the midst of
such an amazing mass of materials and materials,
moreover, that are more or less perpetually in fluctua-
tion. Altogether, this huge tome is a triumph of inge-
nuity, and one that is achieved only year after year
by the most diligent research, guided at every step
by a system of the most elaborate organization. It is
the hand-book of a giant city, and, naturally
enough, therefore, appears to be a book solely suited,
in its dimensions, for the hand of a giant.