The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-02-14 00:00:00

RUSSELL 8c ANOTHER v. WEBSTER."

This WAS an action brought by the proprietors of the Army
and Nary flazerfe against the defend ait, the proprietor or
the Broad Arrow, ti. recover damines for an alleged libel.
The oeteadant p ceded " not giddy."
lbe A.,torns)•Genersl and Mr. Petheram appeared as
couniel for the pleino ; and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and
Mr. Hu Alain for the defence.
The proprietors of the Army and Nary Gazette, it
appeared, felt that they had reaeon to complain of the
references made to their periodicals in various articles
which had from time to time been published in the
Broad Arrow. In one of these articles were thew ditl
" What con you expect from the Army and Nary
Gazette? Our attention has been more than once called
to its id-bred and insolent utterances." But the actual
alleged libel which had been made the subject of this
action was an article which asserted that the pro-
prietors of the Army and Navy Ga:ette bad held out
an inducement to respectable advertisers by offering to
Insert their advertisemente in that part of their sheet
devoted to usury and quack doctor advertisements for
one-third less than the usual charge.
Dr. William Russel being examined, stated that he
had founded and was editor of the Army and laary
Gazette in 1860, and in a foss years afterwards became
Its proprietor in conjunction with Sir R. J. Wood. He
had been The Times' correspondent in various parts of
world, arid had gained considerahle military experi-
ence. When in England he had frequently the exclu-
sive management of the literary department. The
commercial put of the paper was snown to him
generally. lie held in his nand what he believed to be
the scale of charges made for advertisements. As to
ordinary money advertisements, though be stated his
objection to them, he consented to them being inserted
in the columns generally of his paper, because his
manager had prove i to him that such advertisements
appeared in all the respectable journals. These &dyer.
tisements, however, were scattered—so far as he knew
—over the whole paper. He instructed his solicitors
to write to the defendant, calling ha attention to the
language, and demanding an apology. No reply
having been received or satisfaction rendered, the pre-
sent actin was commenced.
In his crots examination by Mr. M. Chamber., the
witness said he should be sorry to define what a quack
advertisen3ent was, but bethought he could define what
a quack doctor Was. In his opinion a quack doctor
was a person without any med.cal education or judg-
ment prescribing medicines which did not have the
effect whlch such persons assigned to them. He believed
that the advertisement of Holloway's Pills appeared
in his paper. He did hot call Mr. Rollaway a qeack
doctor. He shoultdnot ref use insertion to the silver-
ill, as they referred to the

Kerry.

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Qlerm's Connty.„.:. -.W. S. T. Digby ..... - indecent a,lvertisaments. composed a brief address, and thoroughly committed
Yr. Deese
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Mr. Deals O'Conor - whole ot the literary portion of the paper myself. if that supreme OCC}kai a should never present
Tralee „..„..„....Ths .'I Donoghue ......••..... 1 - Baron Bra•mwell ; 1)0 you mean unfortunately for it•e'f, it des not follow that he mint necessarily
Waterford city ...............Vi Pomrs ••• ...... •• •• • ..... 1 - yonrsell or for your reathrs ? auk into the ranks of the persistentiy aileut. He
Mo por O'Gorman I - Witness: For myself, my lord. When lam abroad I can always show Lis c nstituents that he is attending
v7P'"d (8040551) ••"• ••*". "r- • .... •"" 'I- have an editor to look after the literary department, to their affairs and to the Minks of the nation by
Wicklow (c0nnty)........ t .d.
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1 To Mr. M. Chambers: lam not in any trade. I &eking questions of this or the other Minister. He
' Youths.' ........ ........ Sir Joseph Neale Mirentioe ee 1 am a barristet-at.law, will invite the Right Honourable Gentleman who

happens at the moment to be her Majesty's Secretory
of State for War to say whether there is any truth in
the rum air that the cat off uoiforms of the 173rd
Regiment have been sold to the King of Sisx ; and he
will call the attention of the Right Honourable Gentle-
man who presides at the Home OtlicA to the case of
the poor woman, aged eighty five, who wam on the
23rd of November preceding sentenced to a fortnights
1111,r.9011111041% by a provincial beech of magistrate for
having pulled and eaten two carrots dut of some rector's
garden. There is not much oratmy needed for this
I sort of work; yet °mid name gets printed, and goes
down to one's constituente.