The Press.
London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

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THE LIBEL CASE OF Bom v. WISEMAN, which was
tried at Guildford last year, with the result of a
verdict for the defendant, came on for re-trial at
Kingston on the Home Circuit, on Tuesday last
The application for a new trial had been founded and
granted on the plea that the Chief Baron, who tried
the cause, had improperly refused to admit secondary
evidence of the contents of a letter written by the
defendant, in which he admitted the authorship of
the alleged libel, and that he had also ruled that the
cardinal could not be called as a witness for the
plaintiff, as his evidence would tend to criminate
himself, and upon both grounds a new trial was
directed. The plaintiff, it will be remembered, was
a Catholic priest at Islington, who had been removed
by Cardinal Wiseman, and afterwards spoken of in
letters signed by that gentleman in certain French
journals, as having been ignominiously dismissed
from the Society of Jesuits and incurred other marks
of disgrace. Evidence in support of the action was
given at great length, Cardinal Wiseman sitting on
the bench during the whole proceedings. The verdict
at the close was for the plaintiff, with 1,0001.
damages. _ _ _

AN ACTION FOR CAM. CON. brought by Mr. Evans,
a gentleman of fortune residing at Leamington,
against Mrs. Evans, was tried at Liverpool during the
week. The proceedings lasted two days. This was
also a second trial, in which the evidence of Mr.
Field, the ex-detectivo police officer, together with
that of other spies whom he had engaged to watch
the defendant, was taken to a voluminous extent.
The verdict was returned in an opposite sense to that
at the former trial, judgment being given for the
plaintiff, damages 5001.

Mrs. RAMSBOTHAM, wife of a physician residing at
Portman-square, who was charged last week at the
Marylebone Police-court with having stolen four
cambric handkerchiefs from the shop of Mr. Moule,
a linendraper in Baker-street, was brought up for
re-examination on Tuesday last. The evidence
against her was completed, and she was committed
for trial, but Mr.Broughton, the magistrate, consented
to her release on bail, the amount of recognisances
being fixed at two of 1,0001. each.

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OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 2.

Corps of Royal Engineers.—Second Captains D. Galton
and W. H. Barlow, to be Captains ; First Lieutenant E. M.
Grain to be Second Captain ; Second Lieutenant W. S.
Boileau to be First Lieutenant.

Ordnance Medical Department— Acting-Assistant-Sur-
geon S. Roch to be Assistant• Surgeon.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Sergeant W Stewart to be
Quartermaster ; W. Hue, Gent, to be Veterinary Surgeon.

ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

Major-General to be Colonel Ci
vates.

-E. C. Whin-

Brevet Colonele to be Colonels.—E. N. Wilford, W. H.
Pickering.
Captains to be Lieutenant-Colonele.—C. L. Fitzgerald, P.
R. Cocks, W. T. Crawford, P. H. Mundy, W. Henderson,
W. J. Smythe.
Second Captains to be Captains.—C. R. 0. Evans, G.
Rotton, F. W. Hastings, H. A. Smyth, P. W. Phillipps, E.
Monbray, F. H. Chancellor, C. Waller, R. K. Fteeth, C. W.
, Grey F. M. M. Ommanney, E. Palmer, F.Vansittart, L. G.

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Paget
First Lieutenants to be Second Captains.—F. Close, J.
Sinclair, H. S. Talbot, W. J. Wilson, W. H. R. Simpson,
L. W. Penn, H. R. Saunders, E. U, Snow, W. Morris, H.
Ronny, C. P. Rotton, J. M. Savage, D. Jones, T. E. Byrne,
E. Teddy, H. J. T. Tomkinson, J. B. Parkin, C. Johnston,
T. S. P. Field, L. A. Bradshaw, J. M'C. Campbell, W
French, E. A. Seymour.
_ _ _

SeconciLieutenants to be First Lieutenants.—H. Y. Wort.:
ham, H. B. Maule, C. W. Walrand, W. J. S. Neill, H. Le
Guay Geary, W. B. Rice, G. U. Knox, W. N. Persse, O. H.
Goodenongh, J. H. P. Anderson, J. N. P. Mason, H. C.
Farrell, E. M`Laughlin, C. F. Roberts, A. S. Hunter, G.
R. T. Stevenson, G. A. Crawford.

Invalid Arlille'ry. —Second Lieutenant and Adjutant J.
Campbell to be Lieutenant and Adjutant.

CORPS OF ROYAL ENOTNFERS.

To be General Commandant. Lieutenant• General G.
Cardew.

To be Colonel.—Brevet Colonel J. E. Portlock.

Captains to be lieutenant•Colonels.—F. A. Yorke, G. F.
Skyring, R. G. Hamilton.
Second Captains to be Captain•.—H. Y. D. Scott, G. Ross,
J. R. Mann, Brevet Majors J. W. Lovell, M. H. Synge, E.
W. Ward, W. H.Jesse.

First Lieutenants to be Seeond Coptains.—A. P. Smith, A.
M. Lochner, P. Ravenhill, H. T. Siborne, C. S. Akers, B.
A. Wilkinson, L. Nicholson, G. E. L. Walker, F. E. Cox,
S. B. Farrell, C. W. Barry.
Socond Lieutenants to be First Lieutenants.—A. Dirom, W.
M. T. Campbell, D. G. W. Moncrieff, M. C. Molesworth,
R. B. Rimmington, P. G. L. Smith, W. Daniel.

WAR-OFFICE, APRIL fl.
Rth Regiment of Foot...Lieutenant-Cie
Macneil to be Colonel.