The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-31 00:00:00

Irfsttl.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.

BRISTOL, MONDAY AWL 93.
(Balm Mr. Boron ONANNILL IN‘i a Bfroial Arm.)
VISOONDI AND AVUTIIIIN V. LANDON.

Title O&M has mated the Imagist interest.
Mr. limbo, Mr. M. builth, and Mr. H. Buller were
•mnsel for the plalutiffi mad Mi. Piano and Mr, Collier
for the defendant.
This was All action for libel. The deoloration oontalned
four oonnM, Ihe lad of which woe for breach of a mop
Irma nut to repeat any libels agginst the plaintlfh. The
defendant denied pablicietion and the undertaking.
Mr. Slade, In °lignin's the is.., said Mr. Yeeoomhe
WAN a elm/amen who hail melded for tome Muslin Bath,
end had mixed with the first moiety In that oity. The
defendant woo the oelebratal poet and author whose
works had prosured fur hint 4 world-wide reputation,
and anything that dropped from his lien approaahlng to
a **Flout iimintation against any one amid not be
silently pillaall over, lint must have %Timm notice taken
'of it. The aotion was brought for the imrpore of TUIVII.
log Mrs. Yesoombe from moot falai, fool, an I mall.
Mons libel, whioli tail mane from the pen of Mr. Lawlor,
and whioh was ambilniel In shook milled, Orli B.leAs
Piumuttel, by W .11yr Pugs Lander, slid willok haul
been siroulate.l with great rapidity 1111'04,1mM Beth.
• plaintiff soke.l the Joey to stop In between his wife
an I Mr, Lawlor, to protest her, and to deter Mr. Landur
from the liergeoutlon hi. 100 l 4110144(1 against her. It
wee linpumible to ilimover what motive had in tumid
Mr. Littler to pursue Mre. Yeammihe In the manner ho
hid done fur up to May In lest year they had been on
tile inatlnthiinte terum an I almost daily visited. The
uuly possible motive that would he du 4141t1r1 WM certain
ootelnut %het Mrs. Y 11.10.111114111.4.1 formed towards hymns
Icily who was at one time in her Itouse. Mrs. Yew:tombs
load cuttaiderati it right to recomitten I that the young
looly should be removed from Both to Cheltenham, for
immediately after that removal Mr. Linder nail begun
10 pidoloth mum of the moat Ilhellous statements it wao
pUitlibiu too u motive. H.. M 04111104 ionitipluitt headed
" Mr. Lsn.lor &WI the Hon. Mroo. Yeauttothe," end in
that he charged her with oils offAteee ;-1. He charged
sh .1 Mrs. Yeseouthe loul in a trial been guilty of per-
jury. 2. That Ito hod given her £lB to pay for him,
mid that she had eutdoined half the money. 3. Thal
Mrs. Yeeoomlie loaf Atoka* £5 out of a letter which Mr.
Lundor had truated to her to put in the poet-office. 4.
Tiiat • tradesman named Jolly had sent Mrs. Yesooonhe
a receipt for the inonepor some goo Itii; that the money
w not tetotrnel, Mit lb. had avelleftheeself of the re.
oeit.t. it. That beibre the ortim-thop of a man maned
Ronk., there was 140c.0n thutiounte, and To. of it had
found their woy into Met. Yearsanhe's pocket. 8. Tit it
I Mrs. Yeamoulw liwi °Moine' £lO3 from Mr. Liolor
under fake pretetiore These oh urges were oiroulat il
tiaroinghuoit the whole of 1:64h, KIP! It Moo impossible to
animate .ouitvotions of tutors serious import. Mr. Yu-
combo consulted Mr. Sleek, au attorney of Bath, who
wrote a ion; letter to Mr. L 'whir, in which he woke,'
for ma apology which would be eatisfectory to Mr. Yei.
cumhe's frien ho snit the imbllo. To that letter no
answer was went, hut another pamphlet was publithed,
and that attacked Mr. Shook fur thinoly having done his
duty. It was headed "Mr. Lawlor Thre .tened,"
and it commanded with them worla:—" Wood(' it be un-
lawful to order II ehmiroutoto to cudgel the fellow for his
In„olenee?" After Old th ore woo n u other worse to he
adopted wove that of bringing in action. floe oldeot of MI
action. as they were aware, wee to challenge the Ira.
diner to ',rove the troth of hit accusation. If it woe
shown toe jury to be true, then it WU an answer to the
action. Mr. Landor pleaded the truth of the libel. Mr.
Ye‘cootho, was prepared to g o to trial at Wells. when
shortly before the toutises a gentleman named Ponder,
the frien I of Mr. Landor, and who had been the editor
of the gennifeer newspaper, came down from Lon lon
and called on Mr. Slick, and after tome °Goren otion
the following coology was agreed upon :—" Two pub.
lislied statements concerning Mitt. Yesocrohe,
Las,hs• covl Mr. Yucadibe, sal Mr. Lawlor
Threctoesed, haviots come from its, anl haring been
quire(' by in, friends to suffer Mr. Forger to inodititte
an 'n pnry, and he having Motel to itie tltltt I lied not
tonSuient antitority for the publloation. I hereby folly
and unreservedly withdraw all snail charges. ountaineol
in the statements above referred to.—W. S. L." To
this, by the desire of Mr. Slack, was added • promise
that the libela aliould not he repeated. This was doim
upon an interview with Menem. Taylor and Williams,
solicitors, of Rath. Mr. Slack then wrote to Mr.
Forster, stating that, considering the advanced age of
the defendant, Ills clients had con•ocatted to swept the
apology. The reoult of all tide was that Med. Yeaeombe
became a hone of mutant's% in tile city. Both was
divided.. Her health we. broken through the unjustifi-
able °viaduct of Mr. Lawlor. The ink was hardly dry
with which the apology was written, and in which, upon
the honour of a gentleinsu, he bad promised not to
repeat the charge, and Mr. Yeaouitibe haul must gene-
rowdy consented to withdraw the action, when the most
beastly, most ollogioding, an I dillirr444,lll 4441111,41..110
letter was written to Mr. Yeatouthe and sent by the
poet:—" To Mr. Church." (There were mayoral lines,
the laat of thew being these
"Then, my goo I fellow. pound away.
" And salivate without delay."
One of the other letterawas also In mime, and moons-
mended that " mercotry" Aland.' he taken. There gym
another, which WIWI on offonslve In every sense that lie
should not ask Mr. Yeacoothe to pollute his lips with It.
Bstl m these inonvionia letters were, they amid not he
taken notice of, heoanse there was no pultileation. to
Smotoniher, however. Mr. L motor MAI In omitinunioatlon
, with Mr. Nichol, the pniolither, if Riinburgh, relative
No 'm6ll4llll' • book wiled Dre Mirka, and in ghlos
MN 111°11;4;1 a loom galled "The Unnettind Titither."
How mush it wee to he muff Med Coot a man so highly
witted by Girl with such great an.l mighty Islent shonla
have so 111.10144 d and degraded 1'11116.4N There WM
note appended* tbie poem to this sweet i—" This woo
written on the f ii.. and repremintation of a
Hash lady, afterwards mensal of Weft, and imported of
perjury," and it remeted every moimallon the defend.
ant made &spinet Mra. Yemumbe In the pamphlet. Tido
pimm, however, wail not Ineladeul In the hook, bemuse
401114 friends had told Mr. Louder that this poem waa
Ilheliona. The hook htuuhlislu.h be Mr. Lootilor had re-
Norm to the moat tranglisront artifiee. Itiateati of cal •
Ulu this lady as he haul libelled her he now called her
Mr.. Peseonthe.
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F;.riwt 'twin interline's!, ovine that sotuatlane
otuclut to he .lons In ',roving thy @tee going on.
Me. Plaint said Is w 4 aware that wank'
were now boom' end should not ad.
After were' witneaeoa hid been 'amine& and Ilie
incited ledge lied stoning,' nit,
The Ore Vein Io verilint fne tho nitintiff. with
intpt 4/n0 file the three libele, and 1,100 for the breath
of nintsiiiirtit.
Ti. Lustoe Onglanninn Art Ma, Room, —rig
Inquiry In title WINO WOO POSIIAANI at tO °hawk Fri he
"mThing. The (nenniledotter tto, the
Orr hrfstly steininal Mr, lark, who 001111. Rod ',WIT
rainilielsel the &illations. The htury ton
re▪
tired, Alter an Alumnae of o ~OIA4Or of ill hnuir thiw
Prlnwittil Into won. At ithnnl 1) uninss lo 4 nhilitck.
the Portman iteld—We here seine in the iletenninedion
list Mr. Reek it of annod nand, Awl quilt. .14'41'10 of
Ingnarnt iii. own affitirk The mull woe Milted with
a toe bele, of *hears, it was e4itied that twelve Jan-
Olin eonolirred In the weed's*, tbe remaining sla dleseitt.
lug from It.
'Au rierhit.tleci KnwireacieiThe woe of "Purr v.
lgoikalli," Wad it the Liverpool sitting rif the narthern
01,1111 on 111401014,, woe AO*Arihret by Mr. Moak,
Q.C., who elllatered fortis la elatlff. to' on. of thus m e eal
'melons sees Over oahmll{ed to o lily. olouuuuihuug not
only In peolirey ant Itsertiebne, hitt adding therein a
!Teats. flaps al brush of friondebip, brush of hoetib
af 11'11°040Y, then smell COMO 01AollY ors.
oin.."'" Tim 1.611011 WOO tit* father of ons Ills Ellen
PIA,, who it the law Messner of lotion cow. WOO 10
_aeon of eft, awl hail Inn Andrea home ?non *tool.
Tn. dthlllittot we. a married mon, more then chi gunnel
to he lbs young father and his family mail that of
plaintiff wire ten leans of 'ultimate 'hue dic
fierlout provall•A noon the poor obild to enter or", a
aillahaaol'al mid alandoSine aosearmailsos with him,
eaullonely ettj.4nlDe her to he oartlabler In destroying
hla Wart, aad at kook be tweeds' In destroy* her

virtue. ThN WM not enough. Ile raided Int to
leave her Imine, and the infstuoted gir 1110111PHed. He
directed her, before so doing, to writes leadeovotir-
ing to throw the guilt other elopement qpito en micunt
man; and this device, although unsueossefel, was tarried
,tit so far as her compliance was required. But beyond
this, the seducer actually had the assurance to continue
upon terms of friendaiiii, with her parent., to pretend to
.4614 them in marching after their lost daughter, and,
meanwhile, to endeavour to represent to them her con-
duct under the must reproachful Raped, in ooler to
4feet a permanent breach between them. To her, at
lie same time lie enjdned close doily oonlinemento and
vemmentol that her father and mother monied her de-
norture with indifferenee. At loot her retreat wee die-
covered, and she Man brought home, hart still maintained
inviolate the secret of her betrayer. Be was at length
Hoovered in the sot of throwing letter to her, while
on hie way to dispel. Without this culmination of
hypocrisy, the rancidity of this fellow would scarcely
have been complete. But, even after the discovery, he
Fish the inconceivable impudence to renew his solidi-
Maims to the girl. The judge before whom this dhanal
wee was to be tried sought to be spared the tack of re-
cording suoh infamy and atrocity; and, by the joint ex-
ertions of counsel on both Rides, • compromise was
effected, by which the delen lent in to pay as damages
£4OO. The British law provides no treadmill for molt
offenders as Mr. Heaketh, fanner, near Wondey, in the
county of Lancester.

The verdict at Liverpool, declaring Mr. Joshua
one of the directors of the Liverpool Borough Buk, re-
sponsible for the loiu sustained by two shareholders who
ha I been induced to purahaw *hares a short time before
its 'topper in relianoe upon the report' of the Board,
nil have a most important effect, not merely as regards
the interests of numerous other pensora who became
Tornirrieton4 in that hank tinder similar aireumatanose,
hot also hi al.aneation with the analogond cues of the
Northomberiend and Durham Diatriot Bank and the
West4,rn Bent of Pentland. The pitirimp capital of the
Liverpool Borough B.nk was £1,000.000 ; that of the
N irthuoiherland and Durham wu P 660,000 ; and Shah
Jf the Western of Bootland £IA/0.000. The tillopOrtien
of these anionnts hil I he in livldmils wllo windowed
their shares after the pracitlea of basing deeeptiee re-
porta lied been ooinnienoed is donbtlee. lialtnerk and al
mayoral of the directors of nob establishmegecre still to.
rited rich, a series of actions will now gigot probably hit
commenced, unless some sive with ',slew tea general
oomproutin are speedily taken. A KIS against the
chairman of the Liverpool Borough Bank by a large
ahareholder i Axed to mane on Is, London In November.
It Is also a quution whether the directors in each one
inay not he held liable, even to original shareholders,
for ell loons sustained atter a fourth !dirt of the eavitel
hot tun 'Bathe*, and for their haying bent 'invented
hv the inisnprnentatirms as to their true position from
taking the nondairy steps to wind op. In many in.
the litigation that will ensue may he expected to
lend to most painful einamotandes I but. on the other
bawl, a peat number of Innocent eniferne wiU obtain
retirees. 404 • warning will be insulated, soil is meth
elealnally put an end tin the nein, of wealthy psieons
sonneating themselves with snail lastltutivs, a. 4 reek.
Indy enriff•lng the interests of hundreds of families
who have relief ttpon their vignettes and bonier.