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MR. DISRAELI IN THE WITNESS-BOX

AGAIN.

At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Tuesday,
before the Recorder, David Wemyss Jobson, a well-
dressed man, with a large black beard and moustache,
surrendered to take his trial for misdemeanour, in having
threatened to publish certain libellous matter reflecting
upon the character of Sir James Fergusson, with a view

to extort money.
In other counts of the indictment the defendant was
merely charged with publishing a libel.
The defendant merely pleaded not guilty.

Mr. Giffard and Mr. Poland conducted the prosecu-

ion. The defendant conducted his own case

The learned counsel for the prosecution, iu opening the
case to the jury, said that the defendant was charged
with an offence which, it appeared to him,, was one of
the most serious that could be committed upon society—
that of endeavouring to extort money under a threat
of publishing scandalous and libellous matter, reflecting
most seriously upon the character of the person who
was intended to be the victim of such extortion. The
prosecutor of this indictment was Sir James Fergusson,
a young gentleman of twenty-eight or nine years of age,
and until these proceedings were taken he knew
nothing whatever of the defendant; but it had
since turned out that there was some family con-
nection between them, a niece of the defendant
having intermarried with an uncle of Sir James Fergus-
son. In order that the jury might the better understand
the natur e of the inquiry into which they were about to
enter, he had to inform them that Sir James Fergusson
was a lieutenant in the Guards, and that he was sent
with his regiment to Varna, and subsequently landed in
the Crimea, and was present at the battles of the Alma
and Inkerman, and he remained in the Crimea during the
whole of that winter, the circumstances connected with
which were now matters of history, and he did not return
to England until the May following. He had been
elected member for Ayrshire, of which county he was a
native, during his absence, but he did not leave the
Crimea, until he had consulted his brother officers, and
left with the entire sanction of his commanding officer.
The defendant appeared to have taken advantage of his
knowledge of the general circumstances connected with Sir
James Fergusson's stay in the Crimea with his regiment,
`and he had made against him the most serious charge that
could be made against a British officer, or a gentleman—
namely that of cowardice in the presence of the enemy
and when the jury had heard the facts, he believed they
would entertain no doubt that the object the defendant
had in view was to extort money, and that this was the sole
object and motive for the persecution to which the prose-
cutor had been subjected. The learned counsel then pro-
ceeded to state that the first letter that was the subject of
the present indictment was one received by the prosecutor
on the 21st of December, 1859, in which the defendant
stated that he believed the prosecutor had expended a
considerable portion of his patrimony in seducing the
electors of Ayrshire to return him as their representative
and that unless he gave him a portion of the money he
should publish the matter and make it known to every
club in London. In the month of February following,
no notice having been taken of the first letter, the pro-
secutor received a second one from the defendant, in
which he threatened to flog him from one end to the
other of any street in which he might meet him. Upon
the receipt of this letter Sir James Fergusson applied to.
a magistrate, and a warrant was issued against the
defendant, and he was ordered to find bail to keep the
peace. Being unable to procure the necessary sureties,
he was committed to the Westminster House of Deten-
tion ; and while he was there, he repeated the charges
he had formerly made in some doggrel' verses, and, in
the most offensive and disgusting terms, charged the
prosecutor with being guilty of cowardice while serving
in the Crimea. The defendant had the want of manli-
ness and proper feeling to endeavour to send this letter
to the wife of the prosecutor, but the authorities of the
prison refused to allow him to do so, and the letter was
returned to him. Very shortly after he obtained his
liberty, however, this letter was received by Lady Fergus-
son by the post, and he thought it was right to inform the
jury that when the defendant found that these verses were
likely to get him into trouble he represented that
his pocket had been picked of the letter, and that he
had not been the medium of sending the verses to her
ladyship. The learned counsel then said that the
defendant had not only published the libellotis state-
ments to which he had already alluded, but had also
repeated them in a letter to the right honourable mem-
ber for Buckinghamshire ; and upon the occasion of his
applying for payment for some aeticles he had furnished
to a religious publication called the " Leisure Hour,"
he went out of his way to make the most offensive allu-
sion to the prosecutor and some members of his family.
The learned counsel concluded by stating that he could
not trace any other object the defendant could have had
in view than to extort money from the prosecutor, and
if this fact was established to the satisfaction of the jury
he felt assured they would perform their duty by return-
ing a verdict of guilty against him upon the present
indictment.
Mr. John Allen Quinton, a gentleman connected with
the publication called the " Leisure Hour," was then
examined, and he deposed that the defendant had been
in the habit of contributing to it, and he called for some
money, and wrote a letter to the secretary, the work
being published by the Religious Tract Society, which
was produced and read. It contained a statement to
the effect that the defendant was compelled to ask for
money in consequence of his having been robbed by Sir
James Fergusson, and he alluded to that gentleman in
a most offensive manner.
This witness was cross-examined at considerable
length by the defendant, but he did not elicit anything
that at all bore upon the case.
Mr. Disraeli was then sworn, he said—l am member
for Buckinghamshire, and on the 2nd of June last I
received the letter now produced.
[The letter, which was referred to in the opening of
the learned counsel, was then read.]
Cross-examined by the defendant. I never heard of
such a person as the Rev. Ebenezer Grubb, of New
York. (A laugh.)
D efendant—Are you a Jew now or not ?
Mr. Disraeli—l am what I always was—a Christian.
The defendant proposed to ask several other offensive
and irrelevant questions of Mr. Disraeli, but the re-
corder would not allow them to be put, and said he
would not allow a court of justice to be made the
medim of insulting any one.
The defendant (to Mr. Disraell)—Have you ever
received any other letters from me ?
Mr. Disraeli—l have received a great many from you
since the year 1852. They were at length of such a
character that, coupled with your conduct, it was' con-
sidered advisable that you should be put under the sur-
veillance of the police.
Defendant—What did I do that induced you to take
this step ?
Mr. Disraeli—You were constantly in the habit of
haunting the public offices and the House of Commons,
and you behaved in such a manner that it was charitable
to advise the police to have theiNeye upon you.
Defendant—How many letters do you say you have
received from me ?
Mr. Disraeli—l have received, personally, about
twenty from you, but at last they were of such a charac-
ter that I would not receive any more. I believe that
you have sent altogether 120 letters to me.
Defendant—Were you not aware that I had some
conversation with Lord Malmesbury about making a
draught of a reform bill that would be satisfactory to
the working classes ? (Laughter.)
Mr. Disraeli—l never saw you in my life until I saw
you at the police ofdCe.
The defendant then asked the right hon. gentleman
whether the sole cause of his appearing against him was
not on' account of his having represented him in an
illustrated newspaper as a conjuror in a bottle, and
several other absurd and irrelevant questions, and
Mr. Giffard interposed, and said that, in the interest
of justice, he felt called upon to protest against such a
course being proceeded with.
The Recorder told the defendant that he could not be
permitted to pursue such a line of cross-examination.
Tie questions he had asked were totally irrelevant and
had nothing to do with the inquiry, and were only cal-
culated to insult the witness, and he would not permit
this to be done.
The defendant then asked Mr. Disraeli whether he
had not written a letter to him, thanking him for
" cutting up" Lord Palmerston. (A laugh.)
Mr. Disraeli—Certainly not.
Lady Edith Fergusson said—On the 9th of June I
received the letter containing the verses now produced.
I afterwards sent it to my husband.
Cross-examined by the defendant—l never heard that
you had expressed your regret that the letter had ever
reached me.
Le Brument, one of the warders in the Westminster
House of Detention, proved that the defendant gave him
a letter addressed to Lady Fergusson, which Contained.
some verses. He read a portion of them and showed
them to Captain Hill, the governor of the prison, and he
refused to send the letter.
By the defendant—Witness always considered that he
was perfectly sane while he was in the prison.
Captain gill, governor of the Westminster House of
Detention, deposed that when the verses were shown to
him he considered they were very improper to be sent
to a. young married lady, and he refused to allow the
letter to be sent, and it was returned to the defendant.
In answer to questions put by the defendant, Captain
Hill said he believed that upon some points he was
labouring under a delusion. •
Defendant—Did I not acquiesce in the verses being
returned to me ?
Captain ill—You had no alternative, because I re-
fused to send them. (A laugh.)
The defendant asked the witness whether he did not
receive instructions from the prosecutor to starve him,
so that he should not be able to bear up and conduct his
defence.
Captain Hill said the question was too absurd to re-
quire an answer.

The defendant put a great many other irrelevant ques-
tions to the witness, and the Recorder was frequently

obliged to interfere, and request the defendant to confine
his attention to the question before the court.
Mr. H. Fergusson deposed that he was uncle to Sir
James Fergusson, and a writer to the signet in Scotland.

Witness married a daughter of the defendant's sister ; at

[east he believed she was

By the defendant—l had never seen you until I saw
you yesterday. I have no reason to believe that my
wife is not your sister's child.
Sir James Fergusson was then czlled. He said—l am
the member for Ayrshire. I was formerly lieutenant in
the 3rd battalion of Grenadier Guards, and afterwards
captain of that regiment. I served in the war at the
Crimea, and was present at the battle of the Alma, and
I was slightly wounded at Inkermanu. I was elected
for Ayrshire while I was in the Crimea. I received the
letter now produced at my house in Scotland on the 21st
of December, 1859. On the 13th of February I received
another letter from the defendant, and on the 23rd of
March I received a third. I afterwards received the
copy of verses addressed to my wife.
Cross-examined—l have never described you as a
lunatic or an assassin, but in conversation I have cer-
tainly said that you were an impostor. I never influenced
the editor of the Tithes to write an article against you,
and describe you as a madman.

I answer to further Questions put by the defendant,
Sir James Fergusson said he had received many other
letters from the defendant, but he had destroyed them
all except the one of the 21st of December, in which the
demand was made for money.

The defendant then put some questions, involving
charges of gross immorality against some members of
the family, and other persons.
The Recorder interposed, and said that lie really would
not permit such matters to be gone into. It wps
most infamous abuse of the privilege of cross-examina-
tion, to attack absent parties, and they really had
nothing whatever to do with the inquiry before the
court.

In answer to further questions put by the defendant,
Sir James Fergusson denied that he had in any way
interfered to prevent him from obtaining any property
to which he was entitled, and he was not even aware
that he was entitled to any.
Sir William Dunbar, whose name bad been men-
tioned in the course of the trial, was then called, but
Mr. Giffard said he had no questions to put to him.
The defendant also declined to put any question.
Mr. Brayer, inspector of police at the House of Com-
mons, proved
.that he had frequently seen the prisoner
at the House of Commons, and in the month of July he
called upon him at his house, and wished him to go to
Marlborough-street police court to get a summons to
compel Sir James Fergussou to restore some letters that
belonged to him. He refused to do so. The defendant
then wished him to go to Sir James and ask him to give
him £5OO to settle the dispute between them upon
any terms. Witness told him he could do nothing of
the sort, and the defendant then went away.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The defendant then proceeded to address the jury in
answer to the charge. He made a long rambling speech,
in which he referred to his literary productions, and
other matters that had nothing whatever to do with the
case. He denied that he had any intention to extort
money from Sir James Fergusson, and declared that what
he had stated with regard to his conduct in the Crimea
he had heard from two soldiers who were confined with
him in prison, and he said he thought that as Sir James
had had ample opportunity of contradicting what he had
said upon his oath, he ought to be satisfied. He then
referred to the alleged libels, and said that they ought
not to be regarded in a serious light, as they were merely
intended to meet the eye of Sir James himself, and as to
the verses, he declared that they were stolen out of his
pocket, and that he did not send them to Lady Fergusson.
He then reminded the jury that he had already suffered
ten weeks' imprisonment for writing these letters, and
urged them not to give a verdict against him that would
have the effect of increasing the punishment he had
already undergone.
The Recorder, in summing up, said that as the defend-
ant had not pleaded a justification, it must be taken
that the defendant had admitted there was no founda-
tion for the charges he had brought againt the prose -
cuter, and the only questions the jury had to consider
were, whether the letters and the verses were libellous
and defamatory, and whether they were published with
the intention to extort money.
The jury almost immediately returned a verdict of
guilty, but recommended the defendant to mercy on
account of the state of his health.
He was then ordered into custody, and the Recorder
said he would consider what sentence should be pro-
nounced.

THE LADIES' GARIBALDI FUND.—We regret to hear
that the appeal to the ladies of Manchester, on behalf of
the sick and wounded of Garibaldi's army, has not met
with such a response as we are accustomed to hear of in
similar cases. One hundred pounds, we are told, is the
paltry total which the Ladies' Committee, after six weeks'.
hard Work, have been able to collect.
OSWESTRY AND NEWTOWN RAILWAY.—The
Oswee-
try and Newtown Railway was on Tuesday opened from
Pool Quay to Welchpool, and the event was celebrated
enthusiastically at Oswestry and Welchpool, a general
holiday being kept. The opening of this short piece of
line is of more than local interest, as it makes an addition
to the means of communication, which will be so impor-
tant when completed, between. Manchester and the
manufacturing districts generally and Milford Haven.
The conduct of George Cass, the Embleton murderer,
has within the last few days undergone a complete
change. For some days. sfter the trial, he was excess-
ively abusive in his language to those around; and
especially so when speaking of those by whom his fate
had been sealed ; but latterly he has been very quiet,
and .listens attentively to the exhortations of the gaol
chaplain, who is unremitting in his attention. The
convict reads a good deal in the Bible.—Cumberlaa
Pacquet.
On Monday night the audience at the Canterbury
Hall were somewhat startled by the presence amongst
them of John Youngman and his brother, the former
being the father and the latter the uncle of William
Godfrey Youngman, who stands charged with the
frightful murders in Walworth. When spoken to by a
waiter, the excuse made by John Youngman was, that
they did not like stopping indoors, and not knowing
what to do with themselves, and his brother from the
country having heard a great deal of Canterbury Hall,
they made up their minds to go there. By this time,
however, they found that strong feeling very like disgust
was beginning to exhibit itself, and they, in consequence,
at once retired.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT STANNINGLEY.— About
'six o'clock on Tuesday night, a travelling beggar and
cripple, named 'William Livesey, entered the Foundry
Inn beerbouse, Stanuingley, and a quarrel took place
between him and Simeon Webster, a shoemaker, of
Pudsey, when the latter seized the lame man's crutch,
knocked him down, and then dealt him some tremendous
blows on the back of his head and on the temple and
elsewhere. One of those on the back of the head and
that on the temple was each an inch and a half long,
the bones being laid bare, and the effusion of blood
being great from all the wounds. The poor man was
taken up quite unconscious, and Mr. Wade, surgeon,
was sent for, and administered aid ; but up till yesterday
morning there was no symptom of his recovery or re-
turn to consciousness, the surgeon stating that des%
vtas more likely than life; and under those circumstances
Webster was taken into custody. On Weci,aesday he
was brought before the Bradford West Pading magis-
trates on the charge, but remanded 'until it be seen
whether Livesey recovers or dies, Itis supposed that
the skull is fractured and the brain injured. •

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they are known in some degree to the. wisest and best of man-
kind, as well as the weakest. 'Whenever the. liver, stomach,
and kidneys are roused; the morbid feelings and ideas vanish.
rp effect this happy result.nothingmore is needed than fric-
tion over those organs with Holloway's Ointment, whilst his
Pills are likewise taken. The change of thought is immediate,
happy, and lasting. Those whom these medicines have cured
cOnfees that their influence over the mind is magical.
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annoyance than a bad steel pen can hardly be met with....the
difficulty is to get a good one. Amongst the recent improve-
ments the new "fountain pen," just introduced by Rudhall
and Co. is the best we have ever seen. By a simple but effec-
tive contrivance the ink is retained in a fountain, by means of .
a second inverted barrel, above the writing nib, and this barrel
can be taken out at any time, so the pen can be kept perfectly
clean without any chance of being corroded. Another feature
in this pen is, that one dip in the ink will last:for rive minutes'
quick writing. The pen itself is of the finest description, and
in merchants' offices, banks, and indeed in every place, it will
be found to fill a want felt by every one up to this time. We
have tried this splendid pen, handed to us by Mr. E. T. Hall,
South John-street, and can pronounce, it perfect, and we are
sure all who use it will give a full verdict in its favour

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It is with pleasure we notice the increase of 'cures without
medicine by Du Barry's delicious_ Revalenta Arabica., We
quote the following :---Cure No. 52,087, Field Marshal Duke
of Pluskow, of a gastric inflammation of the stomach. Cure
No. 51,614, Baron de,Polenta, prefect of Langenau, of many
years horrible sufferings of the nerves and an obstinate con-,
stipa; ion. Cure No. 48,721, General Baron de Zaluskowaki, of
many'years fearful disorders' of the digestive function.) Cure
No. 71, of dyspepsia, the Right Honourable the Lord Stuart
de Decies. Cure No. 42,116, Major Edie of enlargement
of the liver and total prostration of strength. [I4J
Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers_ of spurious and injurious
imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill'o
imitations are prohibited by the High Court of Chancery under
a 'penalty of 1;5.000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his.
agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabic&
Food, and that Du Barrys are connected with such patent are
utterly false. No canister is genuine without the name Barry
Du Barry & Co., 77, Regent-street,, in lull, on the seal and
wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article
mast expect to b • distrusted in all others. Packed in tins at
ls. 2d. ; 1 lb. 25.. 9d. ; 21b. 4s. 6(1. ; 51b. 118 ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b.
40s. The 12 lb. and 24 lb. canisters are sent carriage
free on receipt of Post-office Order by Barry Du Barry
and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum Mason
and Co., and through all grocers and chemists. Agents
in this district :-- -Nixon & Thew, 1, Castle-street ; T. Low ; J.
Kirkus ; Forsyth ; F. G. Jones, 5, Paradise-street ; R. Sumner
& Co ; H. S. Alpass ; E. Pearson Sr Son ; J. Oliver ; W. Cross ;
Sharp, Higgins, & Co; Clay & Abraham, 37, Bold-street ; Evans,
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Rainies & Co. wholesale druggists ; F. Staveley, druggist,
Price-street; T. D. Walker, Raaelagh-street ; J. H. Howell,
72, Dale-street; Hingston, druggist, Bold-street; Henri
Middleton; Gilbert Brothers ; J. Crnice ; Grace & Kelk ;
G. Barber, 21, Great George-street, Birkenhead; T. Fore,
druggist; E. J. Candler; J. Dutton; J. E. Hargraves;
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