The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

APPLICATION AGAINST A PUBLISHER. -At Vice-
Chancellor Giffari's Court an application was made on
behalf of Messrs. Hachette, of Paris and London, for an
injunction to restrain Messrs. Moxon and Co., of Dover-
stteet, Piccadilly, from defacing the steel plates for the
illiistration of " Guinevere " and " Vivien," from Gustave
Dore's designs, and from rendering such plates unfit for the
purposes of an agreement of August 1866, by which the
defendants ceded to the plaintiffs the exclusive right of
publishing for the French prose translation the steel
engravings for the illustration of " Idylls of the King,"
which were then being prepared by Messrs. Moxon and
Son. His Honour granted the injunction.

APARTMENTS IN TOWN.—In the Court of Exchequer the
case of Rayner v. Koehler was heard. It seemed that the
action was brought to recover the sum of £7B for goods
supplied and money paid for the use of the defendant. £6O
was paid into court in satifaction of the claim. The
plaintiff kept a lodging-house in Princes-street, Hanover-
square, and the defendant,a Polish doctor, with his family,
occcupied apartments at a rental of £5 ss. per week, with 7s.
per head per day for board, exclusive of wines. On the 31st
of December defendant's daughter was married to an
officer, and the wedding breakfast was given at the
plaintiff's house. Mrs. Koehler instructed Mrs. Rayner
to provide the breakfast " regardless of expense," and
accordingly the guests sat down to a most recherché repast.
:n the evening another party was held, and in the morning
tome more guests arrived to " eat up the scraps," and
,fter that the remainder was sent off to some of the defen-
lant's family. The defendants were supplied by Gunter,
,nd the bon-bons and other sweets and wines by the plain-
Iff, and she alleged that she had charged amoderate profit,
and also obtained a little commission from the tradesmen
she employed on the occasion. The plaintiff in her evidence
said " the breakfast consisted of a turkey stuffed with truffles,
s tongue, soups, &c., and, in fact, the greatest nobleman
:n the land could not have had a better breakfast." There
was dinner for twelve persons next day, and nine the
same night to supper. In cross-examination, the witness
said she had charged £1 2s. 6d. per week for coals.
For the wedding breakfast she had charged a guinea
per head ; £G 12s. for ices, pine-apples, grapes ;
£8 Bs. 6d. for hire. £4 4s. for bride cake, £2 2s. for waitera
10s. board for ditto, five guineas for five carriages and
pairs, £l5 15s. for three dozen of champagne, and £lO for
wear and tear, trouble, &c. She had never undertaken to
supply the breakfast at £1 a head.---The case is not com-
pleted.

FORGERY.-At Bow-street, James Morris, a young man,
was charged with forgery. It seemed that a youth, named
Blakey, residing with the prisoner's parents, had occasion
to go into the country, and on his return found that his
,ost-office savings-bank book had been stolen. An inquiry
Ring instituted, it was ascertained that £lO had been
withdrawn from the bank in the prisoner's name, and the
nisoner having absconded, suspicion was at once attached
,o the circumstances, and he was apprehended and identi-
led as the person to whom the money had been paid.
The accused was committed for trial.

TURQUAND V. MARSHALL.—In this case Lord Romilly
'ave judgment in the Rolls Court. His lordship made
declaration to the effect that the directors for the time
Jeing and the estates of such directors as were dead were
liable to make good such losses as had been sustained by
the shareholders by reason of the directors not having
summoned a special meeting of the company when, subse-
quently to 1846, the losses of the company had exhausted
the whole of the surplus fund, and also one-fourth of the
laid-up capital of the shareholders ; and also by reason of
the advance by the directors of over £S,OOO to Mr. Higgin,
who died insolvent. If is lordship ordered that an inquiry
should take place in chambers, to ascertain the amount
of the losses which the shareholders had thus sustained.
EX-GOVERNOR EYRE.—A case is pending in the Court
of Queen's Bench, at the instance of Alexander Phillips, a
native of Jamaica, against Ex-Governor Eyre, for assault,
false imprisonment, beating, and torturing, in October
and November, 1805. The declaration was filed on the
23rd of December last, and was met by a plea of, inter alia,
" Not guilty." A replication by plaintiff and rejoinder by
defendant, and sur-rejoinder by plaintiff, joining issue,
were subsequently filed, and an order obtained from Mr.
Justice Willes for the examination of a witness who is
shortly obliged to leave this country. The examination
took place in Nicholl's Rooms, Westminster, before Mr.
C. Hance, barrister. Mr. Quain, Q.C., and Mr. Horne
Payne appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Pethram appeared
for the defendant. Mr. George Phillipo, barrister, the
witness referred to, formerly practising in Jamaica, but
recently appointed Queen's Advocate-General for Sierra
Leone, and at present on his way to that colony from
Jamaica, gave evidence at great length regarding the
system of law in force in Jamaica. On the conclusion of
his examination the proceedings terminated. The plaintiff,
who lays his damages at £lO,OOO, was present.
RAILWAY COMPANIES AND THE SMALL PARCELS QUES-
TION.—A case—Sutton v. the Great Western Railway
Company—was heard in the City of London Court on
Saturday. It was an action to recover £lO damages
sustained through the loss of two parcels from a
hamper delivered to the defendants in January last for
carriage to London. Plaintiff's agent said that on the
27th January last a hamper, containing nine parcels,
was consigned from Gloucester to London by the
defendants' line. When the hamper was opened, it was
found that two of the parcels, containing goods (partly
silk) to the value of £lO, had been abstracted. His
Honour said that Mr. Clark was entitled to put the plain-
tiff to a strict proof as to the contents of the parcel in the
hamper. Mr. Clark said he should require a full proof of
the contents of the parcels. Plaintiff's agent then claimed
an adjournment, which was granted, upon payment of the
usual costs.

Professor Huxley. has definitively resigned his
post as thinterian Professor at the Royal College of

Surgeons,

That the training of the solicitor's office is bene-
ficial to the pursuits of life there is abundant evidence in
the career of many individuals who have attained emi-
nence. Judges and great politicians have established the
axiom ; and the early career of the present Premier was
passed in (not an obscure attorney's office as was once said)
but the old and famous firm of Swain, Stevens, and Co.,
which, it is to be remarked, also gave training to other
Inca of talent, including Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., and
other barristers ; Mr. Nash, the author of several works
and the successful prosecutor of the famous railway depre-
dators ; the late Dlr. Justice rattaion ; and others.—Law
Times.