The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-26 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

LANGTON V. WAITE.—Vice-Chancellor Malins had before
him, on Tuesday, the case of Langton v. Waite. The
plaintiff in the case borrowed £6,000, and deposited as a
security for the repayment £22,000 Grand Trunk Railway
of Canada stock. The transaction was concluded through
Messrs. Price and Pott, stockbrokers, the defendant, a
member of the firm of Messrs. Foster, Braithwaite, and
Co., being transferee of the stock, and having new certifi-
cates. The loan was for three months, at £7 10s. per cent.,
and the stock having been sold, or, at all events, dealt with
by the lenders during the loan, and the price having
varied, as the plaintiff alleged, from £42 per cent., when
it was deposited, to £3O, when it was returned, the main
question was whether they were entitled so to deal, and if
they did, whether they were not liable to account in con-
sequence. The plaintiff alleged that he had durante sold
the stock, and in consequence of the lender's refusal to
allow him to redeem incurred a loss of £BBO in the pur-
chase, according to an alleged custom of the Stock
Exchange. The plaintiff subsequently brought an action
for damages against the defendant, which was stayed, and
the defendant denied the custom •ged, whereby the
defendant had incurred the stated loss, and also averred
that by the custom of the Stock Exchange a lender of
money on the security of stock for a fixed period could
deal with such stock in any manner he thought fit This
the plaintiff entirely denied, and now sought an account
on that footing. Mr. Price `was examined viva voce in
court on the question of the alleged custom, and what had
taken place.
CREDITORS AND SHAREHOLDERS.—In the matter of the
Trowbridge Water Supply Company, on an application to
the same Vice-Chancellor by ,certain creditors for com-
pulsory winding up, it appeared that the majority of the
shareholders were in favour of voluntary winding up under
supervision. Hi 3 Honour allowed the rights of the share-
holders to triumph.
YEATMAN V. YEATMAN AND DEMPSEY.—The Right Hon.
Sir J. P. Wilde, after hearing the arguments, has refused
to grant a new trial in the case of Yeatman v. Yeattnan,
Dempsey, and Blackburne. It was a petition by the
husband for divorce on account of adultery. This appli-
cation was made on the ground that the verdict wis
against the weight of evidence. There is a cross suit by
the wife for judicial separation, in which the Judge
Ordinary will give judgment shortly.
INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT.—HEAVY PENALTY.—At
the Guildhall, Samuel Benoni Beal, a stationer and dealer
in photographs, carrying on business at St. Paul's-church-
yard, appeared before Sir Robert W. Carden to answer
thirty-four summonses taken out against him by Mr.
Henry Graves, of Pall Mall, the well-known publisher
and engraver, for unlawfully selling, on the 31st of July
last, seven pirated photographs of a painting called
" Ordered on Foreign Service," four of " My First Ser-
mon," and two of "My Second Sermon," knowing the
same to have been unlawfully obtained ; and for unlaw-
fully and fraudulently selling one photograph of " His
Only Pair," having thereon the name of the complainant,
who did not execute or make such photograph. Also for
unlawfully selling, on the 12th of August last, seven copies
of " Ordered on Foreign Service," four of " My First Ser-
mon," and two of " My Second Sermon," knowing the
same to be unlawfully mule ; and likewise for unlawfully
and fraudulently selling three photographs of " His Only
Pair," two of " The Plough," one of " Saved," and one of
"Taming the Shrew," having thereon the name of the
complainant, who did not execute or make such pho-
tographs. The offence having been proved, Sir Robert W.
Carden said : I think it a very hard case that one gentle.
man should be so robbed by another. I call tl 3C houses
which receive these photographs no better than the
receivers of stolen goods, and this they must kn)w per-
fectly well, and Mr. Beal must have known it perfectly
well. Under these circumstances I shall take off eight
cases, about which there is doubt, reducing the number to
twenty-six, in each of which cases I inflict a fine of £5, or
seven days' imprisonment, which will amount to £l3O, or
six months' imprisonment. I hope this will be a warning
to all those who endeavour by the advantages belonging to
art and science 0 encroach on the property of other
,ueople.

The first salmon of the season caught in the
River Avon, in Hampshire, was caught last week. It
weighed 321 b.

The Countess de Stollberg, Lady-Superior of
the Hospice of Belhanie, at Berlin, has just died ol
typhus fever caught while visiting the provinces suffering
from famine and epidemic disease.

The Hebrew passover will soon commence. It
lasts for eight days. During that period the Jews eat un-
leavened bread. This is made in London, and is sent to all
parts of the country, and until recently even to America
and Australia. It is only within the last two years that
the unleavened bread consumed by Jews during passover
has been made in Australia. Each healthy person, it is
estimated, consumes 71b. of unleavened bread during the
eight days. In London this bread is made very thin and
crisp; in the South of France it is made very thick, and so
hard that it is broken with a mallet.

Mr. A. Cleasby, the unsuccessful candidate for
the representation of Cambridge University, says in his
address to the members of the Senate, that he came for-
ward on the understanding that he was to be supported
by " the really Protestant and Conservative feelings of
the university." He found that those feelings were
arrayed against him in the person of men of high character
and great influence. He does not, however, attribute his
defeattoth
tactics
the decay of those feelings in the university, but
and matured preparation of his opponent's
friends.

SUICIDES IN LONDON.—The number of suicides
the metropolis in the last seven years has ranged only
between 251 in a year and 267 ; the returns for all Eng-
land, completed only for the first five of the seven years,
show a range from 1,317 to 1,392. In the year 1867 the
number of suicides in London was 260, or one in 11,855 of
population ; 47 occurred in the first quarter of the year,
77 in the second, 66 in the third, 70 in the fourth. The
last return for all England, in 1865, spews 1,392 suicides,
an unusually large number, amounting to one in 15,080
of population ; and in that year the number in London
was unusually high, being 267, or one in 11,212 of point.