The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-01 00:00:00

THE WESTMINSTER COUNTY

COURTS.

Yesterday the Westminster County Court of Middle-
sex, was opened before D. C. Moylan, Esq., tbe judge,
and Francis Smedley, Esq., the high bailiff of West-
minster, for the trial of causes under the New Small
Debts Act, at the Court-house, Castle-street, St. Mar-
tin's-lane. There were S 3 cases set down for trial, and
being the first sitting, in any court, the proceedings ex-
cited an unusual degree of interest. The Learned Judge
took his seat at eleven o'clock.
EJECTMENT.—LANGLEY v. Penn.—This WAS a sum-
mons taken out under the 122 d section of the Act, which
gives power to the judges to order possession of pre-
mises to be given up where the rent does not exceed 501.
per annum, to order the defendant to give up possession
oarihfeaweancrelneeeerondkttrali,yefi
onehr:epremises which he occupied of the plaintiff at
found
that,
defendant,bthi ra. t
having
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ems
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section
solicitor,attiitontngh ihe A.aesc strewurohivf:odcilaabpory.-
the 126th section, which set forth that "if the person
by whom any such warrant was sued out, had not at the
time any lawful right to the premises in question, then the
suing out of any such warrant shall be deemed a trespass."
Now, what he wished to do was to proceed with an action
of trespass against the plaintiff in a superior court, the de-
fendant questioning the lawful right of the plaintiff. He
did not wish to enter into detail, but to give in bail. The
Learned Judge said, before he could make an order that
the warrant was bad, and that the execution of it would be
a trespass, it was the duty of the defendant
ctoougidivpereolvio-
dence that the plaintiff no legal right to the premises.
Mr. Griffith, the plaintiff's agent, s
that he held a lease of the premises from the Duke of
Bedford, and that the defendant paid a weekly rent at
the rate of 261. per annum to him for his portion. Evi-
dence was then given, showing that the defendant had
occupied the premises since February, 1840, and that he
had been several times summoned under the Westmin-
ster Court of Requests for arrears of rent. The notice
to quit the premises on the 15th of March was served
on the Bth. After a lengthened discussion the Learned
Judge made an order for the defendant to give up pos-
session within ten days. The defendant said if that was
the decision of the court, it would be a loss to him of
5001. The Learned Judge was sorry to hear that, and
trusted that some amicable arrangement might be come
to between the plaintiff and defendant before the law
was put in force.

LAW OF LITERARY PROPERTY,
AND AGAINST LITERARY PIRACY IN
AUSTRIA.
The Austrian Government has just promulgated a
law on literary property and against literary piracy in
the Austrian dominions. It bears the date of 19th Oc-
tober, 1846, and consists of thirty-nine articles. The
following are the most important terms of the law The author of a literary composition or work of art,
may dispose of his property as best suits him, and allow
its reproduction to whomsoever he likes. Similar rights
of an author are enjoyed by the editor of a literary
composition or work of art, by the editor of an anony-
mous work, or written under a fictitious name, and also
abcy pcoredrisnognstowthhoeirunodwenrtapkleanthe andpuabtltichaetiiroon of a
wnexpwenosrk
expense.
The translation of a work from another language is re-
garded as the property of the translator, and a transla-
tion of the same work, which should not offer any
marked distinctiou, is regarded as counterfeit. The
translation of an original work is not regarded as coun-
terfeit, unless the author has inserted on the title-page,
or in the preface, that he himself intends having
a translation of his work made ; in this latter
case; any translation appearing in the same year
that the original work was published, without
the consent of the author, is regarded as
counterfeit. The re-production of works of art, no
matter by what mechanical process, is regarded as coun-
terfeit. The same protection is accorded, not only to an
original production, but to any copy, made by the author
or with his consent. The reproduction, without the
author's consent, of public lectures for instruction, edi-
fication, or amusement, is regarded as counterfeit, even
should the editor have become the legitimate purchaser
of the manuscript. Geographical and topographical
maps, architectural designs and others, come under the
category of literary productions and works of art, as
also musical compositions. The quotations of passages
from an author, in an original work, is not regarded as
piracy ; extracts from works of the day, however, in
books for instruction, may net exceed one sheet, and
their source must always be given. Exceptions to this
rule are variations, fantasies, or studios on musical com-
positions. The representation of a dramatic work, or
the production in public of a musical composition, is the
exclusive right of the author ; and neither the one nor
the other can be produced without the consent of tha
author, or before they have been published. The law
awards the privilege of enjoyment, not only for the
author's lifetime, but for thirty years after the death.
This privilege is extended to fifty years after the
author's death, as regards works published by academies,
and scientific and artistical societies under the auspices
of the Government. Works published by other societies
ceme under the category of thirty years. Works pub-
lished by the State come under the same category,
unless the State thinks fit to allow their reproduction.
The representation of a dramatic work, or the produc-
tion of a musical composition, does not become public
property till ten years after the death of Use author.
Counterfeit is punished by the confiscation of all the
counterfeit copies, and all the apparatus employed in
printing them, accompanied by a fine varying from 21.
10s. to 1001., and imprisonment in default of payment
the fine from 2/. 10s. to 10/, being equivalent to from
eight days' to one month's imprisonment, that of 40/. to
100/. to from three to six months'. In case of a repeti-
tion of counterfeit, the right of publishing will be taken
iron the offender. Prosecutions for counterfeit can
broughtotv,i.ilrlil:e,subicoliforeverySp,
cie,, b
rights.
t h author,
haeu
a xotrenbdys persons
its
pro t e
c tienjoyingon t o
without regard to the nation of
the author; it is :applicable to all the states of the Ger-
man Confederation. As regards works published in
states not forming part of the German Confederation,
this protection will only be extended to them in the
Austrian states, on the ground of reciprocity.

ETON COLLEGE, MONDAY.—We believe we may
now state that there is not the least chance of the Provost
of Eton and the head master giving way on the subject of the
Montem. There is now (from what has transpired since
Saturday) not the least doubt entertained that the Rev. Mr.
Hodgson and the Rev. Mr. Hawtrey are determined to
abide by the determination they came to in January last, and
that the festival has been finally abolished. A new Byes-
court, for the amusement of the Etonians, to be free to the
whole school, is immediately to be erected in the close vi-
cinity of the college, by subscriptions entered into by old
Etonians, under the superintendence of a committee composed
of the following gentlemen :—Rev. G. W. Cookesley, Rev. E.
11. Pickering, Rev. J. G. Mountain, and W. Johnson and C.
W. Johnson, Esc's. The head master, who had been con-
sulted on the subject, immediately expressed his approval of
the plan. .

X man has been arrested at Vienna on a charge
of throwing stones at the windows of the Imperial Palace.
He was found to be insane, and has been sent to a lunatic
asylum.

DEATH FROM DRINKING.—On Monday afternoon,
as a cart was passing through the West India Dock-gate,
Blackwall, the tail of the cart not having been properly
secured, a puncheon of ruin was tilted out, and the cask
having started, it was iimnediately surrounded by a number
of individuals, who greedily swallowed the spirit, which was
39 degrees over proof. One man, named William I'attison,
drank such a quantity that he was found yesterday morning,
at one o'clock, by a constable, lying in a state of insensibility
outside the Railway Tavern, Poplar. lie was immediately
removed to the Arbour-square station, when medical aid was
sent for. 1)r. Baillie was in prompt attendance, and, on
using the stomach-pamp, extracted no less than a pint and
a half of pure spirit, and not a particle of food. Every effort
that medical skill could suggest was used, but the unfortunate
man gradually sunk till two o'clock, when he expired.
Exc err SUGGESTION.—Mr. Taylor, of Roby,
has suggested,aud we believe communicated to our parochial
authorities, an excellent expedient in connexion with the
regulation of Irish immigration into this town. If the au-
thorities have the power of putting Mr. Taylor's plan into
operation, it would nut only have important sanatory results,
but would gradually tend to check the lavish importation of
Irish paupers. The suggestion is, that all steamers or other
vessels bringing over this class of passengers should be com-
pelled to proceed up the river, direct to the lazarette, where
the whole of the passengers should be examined, and none
permitted to laid but those who were in good health. Such
a regulation would check the influx of fever patients into au
already too insalubrious town, and would at the same time
render proprietors and masters of vessels cautious how they
took on board a class of individuals who would subject them
to E 0 much trouble and detention.—Liverpool
MURDERS BY POISON IN NORFOLK.—We regret
very much to find that the dreadful and insidious means of
destroying human life by poison has again been resorted to,
and the object has been accomplished to a frightful extent in
the county of Norfolk. The news is of so recent a date, and
the place where they have occurred (Tibbenham) being four-
teen miles from Norwich, a full detail of the particulars
cannot be given by this (Monday's) post. Suffice it to say
that on Sunday evening, March 28, Mrs. Pearson, the wife
of a farmer of that name, at Tibbenham, invited a Mrs. Eve-
rett, the wife of another farmer, in the same village, to take
tea with her. She accepted the invitation, and these women
and other persons of the family sat down and took tea to-
gether. Soon after each of the women, and several ethers of
the party were taken ill, and_
and Mrs. Everett are dead, and
others (whose names we are
not able to give, nor can wo say how many in number), are
lying in a very precarious state, and some of those also may
be dead by this time. At present we have no knowledge
whatever of the means by which the poison (which, we un-
dwill hold erstand, is arsenic)tttiyeer,esadministered.
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Tibben-
ham is a large agricultural parish, with a straggling popula-
tion of only 709 inhabitants, with 3,254 acres of land. It is
about three and a half miles east of New Buckenham, and is
in the hundred of Depwade.
IRON SAUCEPANS WITH WHITE ENAMEL LININGS.
—Some time ago a paragraph, copied from some one of
the London papers, appeared in our columns, warning
parties against the " use of iron saucepans lined with
a white enamel." The patentees of these utensils, we
find, have proved by long experience, that the caution
was quite unnecessary, inasmuch as the utensils are as
safe for use as any other metal. They have been
analysed at various times by Dr. Ure, Mr. Cooper, and
other eminent chemists, and pronounced by them to be
perfectly harmless. The paragraph, in all probability,
had its unfair origin with some rival in the saucepan
trade. We have tilt it to be no more than our duty to
say thus much on the subject.—Hampshire Advertiser.
MEAT STEALING.—At the petty sessions, held at
St Anstell, on Tuesday last, a woman named Elizabeth
Stocker, belonging to that place, was brought up charged
with stealing some meat from the shop of Mr. 11. Wil-
liams, butcher. It appeared that Mr. Williams, having
lost several pieces of meat, on Saturday last marked his
meat ; and this woman having entered his sbop net
walked out again without purchasing any, he followed
her, and found some meat, which ho had previously
marked, concealed under her arm. She was given into
custody, and is now out ou bail to appear atthQ 116814".
Briton,