The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-26 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood )

READE V. BENTLEY.

This case came before the court upon motion for
decree, and for an injunction to restrain the defendant
from publishing, without his consent, the folio% ing
works of which the plaintiff was the author, via , " Peg
Woffingtok" and " Heaste Johnston."

The point turned upon a written agreement entered
into between the plaintiff and defendant regulating the
publication of these works and a question of copyright.
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor, in delis% ring judg-
ment, said that it was a matter of indifference whether
the works were stereotyp dor set up in type; in either
case the right to publish a second, third, or fourth
edition of the work could be equally well protected by
an injunction from this Court, or a court of law.
His Honour was of opinion that the plaintiff was
entitled to a decree that he was at liberty to
determine the arrangement for the publication in
terms of the agreement entered into between him and
the defendant on 3d Nov., 1852, with respect to publish.
ing "Peg Woffington ;" that he was also entitled to
determine the arrangement from the date of agreement
on the day of June, 1853, with respect to the said
" Heade Johnson ;" that from Oct., 1857, the date of
notice to the defendant, he is not entitled to any order for
an injunction ; that this declaration is with liberty to
apply ; that the defendant is not entitled to publish a
third edition of either of these works ; that he is not
entitled, under the said agreements respectively, to pub-
lish any other edition of the said works ; that an account
be taken of the daily transactions between the plaintiff
and defendant in respect of the publication of the above-
named works under the said agreements respectively.
The plaintiff is not in 'any way to interfere with the sale
of the said several copies of the said work respectively
published since the sth of October, 1857. His Honour
gave no costs up to the hearing of the cause, because
each party was equally at fault in entering into an
agreement of so very difficult a construction.

(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)

GOODWIN V. FINLAYSON.
This cause stands over for further consideration.
LOWE V. NORTH.

The only point on which his Honour, the Master of
the Rolls, delivered judgment this morning was the
question of costs of thi4

His Honour was of opinion that the plaintiff was not
entitled to recover from the defendant the costs in the

case.

This was a suit between attorney and client, who had
been on very friendly and intimate terms, and his
Honour saw no reason for giving costs in the cause.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.)

THAMES --CUTTING ;ND WOUNDING. Antonio
Pinner, a Greek seaman, and Edward Mahoney, an
Irish labourer, were brought before Mr. Selfe, on
remand, charged with assaulting and wounding
Jeremiah Coghlan.

Mr, Routledge, of the London Hospital, was called
for the first time, and said Coghlan was brought into
the ho,pital early on Sunday morning, the 10th instant,
covered with mud, dirt, and blood, and in a very
filthy state. There were wounds on his back and
another on his right arm, an inch and a half in depth.
The wounds were likely to have been caused by the
knife produced. The wound on the arm was a severe

Evidence was given that the prosecutor ,Coghlan, a
rough blackguard, who was brought from the hospital
to give evidence, was engaged in a disgraceful row on
Sunday morning, the loth instant, 11E-half-petit 1 o'clock.
He was beating some pr-stitu tes in a den of infamy,
called Palmer's•folly, Rateliff-highway. The prisoners
interfered, and Mahoney struck Coghlan, knocked him
down, and kicked him. The Greek Pinner stabbed
the complainant three times with his knife, and left him
weltering in bis blood on the ground. The prisoners
were afterwards apprehended by Thomas Harris, 383 K, •
in a house in Perseverance-place, a continuation of
Palmer's-folly, and the knife with which the wounds
had been indicted was found on a mantel-shelf in imme-
diate proximity to the ep)t where the Greek was sitt ng.
Mr. Salle said the conduct of all parties was alike
disgraceful, and Coghlan bad been the defendant in
anotherof it
cassee,mwmleierriley.heHheadfiboreudtally Pinnerat 61., and,
a man.
He should not send this case to the sessions, but die
pose
and, in
default of payment, two months' imprisonment; and
fined Mahoney 108. Coghlan, who was in a weakly con-
dition, was sent back to the hospital. His wounded arm
was in a very bad state.