The aristocratic battle at Marlborough Street Police Court.
[London] : H. Disley, printer, 57, High Street, St. Giles, London,
[1869]
Dated from internal evidence.
First line reads: Oh, listen all classes, and just give attention.
After insulting Robert John, second Lord Carrington, in a newspaper article Murray was publicly horsewhipped by Carrington's son, Lord Carrington, outside the Conservative Club in St James's Street, London, on 22 June 1869. He sued Carrington (who was found guilty at the Middlesex sessions on the same day) for the assault, but was generally felt to have been in the wrong. His reputation was not enhanced by the charge of perjury that had been made against him only a few days earlier (17 July) for having denied authorship of the article which had purportedly slandered Carrington. Although remanded by the Bow Street magistrates until 29 July, he jumped bail and went to Paris, effectively exiling himself from England - information from the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' online.
In two columns with an illustration above the first.
Murray, Eustace Clare Grenville, 1824-1881
Carrington, Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington 1st earl, 1843-1928
Ballads, English
Trials (Assault and battery)