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

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Sitting in Banco before the Lord Chief Baron Pollock,
Mr. Baron Martin, Air. Baron Watson, and Mr.
Baron Chanrell.)

H4AIANIN V. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY

COM2AN2.-3 II D GM ENT.

In this case the plaintiff had brought an action against
the defendants for compensation for injuries received by
the plaintiff's horses, whilst being
,conveyed over the
defendant's line, by the breaking of the truck. When
the horses were conveyed, the plaintiff signed a notice
paper that he forwarded thsm at mileage rate at his own
risk, and the company contended that one of the risks
was the breakage of trucks. They also contended that
no negligence had been shown on their part.

The Court gave judgment fcr the defendants.

The second nisi prius sittings iu Loudon commenced
this morning at Guildhall, but no case of interest had
occurred up to the time of our going to press.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood.)

READE Y. 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 following
works of which the plaintiff was the author, via., " Peg
Woffingtoa" and " ileaste 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 delivering 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 anti
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
" Heaste 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 be 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 bearing 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. ➢'INLAYSON.
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
qusstion of costs of this suit.
His Honour was of opinion that the plaintiff was not
entitled to recover from the defendant the costs in tht.

case.

This was a euit 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 AND 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 hospital 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 prodaced. The wound on the arm was a severe
one.
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 10th instant, at half-past 1 o'clock.
He was beating some pr'stitutes in a den of infamy,
called Palmer's-folly, Ratcliff-highway. The prisoners
interfered, and Mahoney struck Coghlan, knocked bim
down, and kicked him. The Greek Pinner stabbed
the complainant three times with his knife, and left him
vrettenng in hie Wood on tt3e 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 inflicted was found on a mantel-shelf in imme-
diate proximity to the Pp 1 where the Greek was site ng.
Mr. Selfe said the conduct of all parties was alike
disgraceful, and Coghlan had been the defendant in
another case, where he had brutally attacked a man.
He should not send this case to the sessions, but die
pose of it summarily. He fined Pinner 51., and, in
default of payment, two months'
imprisonment; and
fined Mahoney 10e. Coghlan, who was in a weakly con-
dition, was sent back to the hospital. His wounded arm
was in a very bad state.