The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

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I heard from Mei. Dates that semethioi had been said aboui
me by Mrs. Fray. The next morning her ladyship rang
the bell, and I west. Der ladyship immediately nag again
ha Mrs. Fray, who came. My lady desired sis Is ask MR.
in, say questions. I asked Mrs. Fray Mist smassolis kid
• salig me, whoa she spoke of me, "ins bad unimsel."
ilhe said she sever had wed the WM& lig kat Mos
smog the balk tar Mrs. Darse. Whoa die tlsmer Mry
mead if she had ever heard Mrs. Fray sail ma a bed
sat ohs replied" Oh, yes air lady." Mrs. Fray mai=
having dons so, and - Mrs. Bates asked permiedss Is
NB e, who also stated she had heard her me tar
Mn. Mrs Fray again denied having dons so. I bad
Yid Lady Zetland moat the summons letter, and the
moms. I had boon Galled. Mrs. Haley, Mrs. Berkshire
maid, also said she had beard Mrs. Fray Gall me a bad
mama. Hes Indyskip said to Mrs. Frey, "You are tallest
nmeruthe. I sea et believe a word you say." I said," Now,
Max Fray, I mum Wrens rat that I have resolved an many-
mma losteri 2 don't say that yea have written it; but it
bum a stream resembisme to your handwriting, dicta-
Iles, sad bad smiling than to any mks person's that I
haw." Mrs. Fray said ate knew nothing Meat it. Emily
Mad Mrs. Heel ), . laid they knew weft it about
and Mrs. Hesip silL they knew .etg about ft.
Lady Z.tlaad Myer WON' them of siding his is writing
est messnesse leltim. Fray asked to see the Mem Lady
Salmi did am say.° Us/ssisisitsig. NOW liss Impales it
▪ Lasiss." I - told her ladyship tho nigki before
I bad hest it. Nothing was said about getting the
hater by tommerow's pest Lady Zetland did not say to
lay, "1 _
lost apes yes se a respectable woman, and you
mast Mil astelair OR my house." I have told
pm every ward of took place, as well as I van ream-
Mr. Mrs. Fray wads as allusion before her ladyship silos
basis, come to make as ingairy for Gann in my ram, and
my having denied him. I sever said I had denied his. I
said " Mrs. Frit your conduct was so extraordinary the tact
two or throe days you wire Is London that I could 'sly
somant for It by your being mad or under the influence of
einag drink." I said, " You mast remember haviag stated
at the stewarre-room table having been inseasiWe for
marl hours from some strong whisky punch whisk you '
ISM when Is Ireland." I never said to Lady &Mend,
a Mrs. Fray is often drunk, according to her own admission
Bob M the Mos ard'a room table." I never said that Fray
hipsoper overtone to Gann in every hole and
mimes seas home. I said she bad been very improperly
Iseward with Mr. Gaza is wishing him to sit by her aide,
and sating lila to give her flowers. I sever mM ha was a
mond Joseph in her bands. (Laughter.)
Crosuszamined by flerjeant Wilkins—Gass same ts my
roam almost every evening. I do not know that any holes
were bored in the door of my room. No one has ever omen
the mammon' letter bat myself. When Mrs. Fray asked
▪ to prevail sa Mr. Guns to sit by her I thought she said
smissely. It is sot true that Gann has at op in my
IMO two is the morning. He may have eat up waiting
kr Ihs boil is my room till 12 o'clack.
Swesswassil—Thers was se improper (Minim between
Yam sod myself. He was at that time courting my niece,
witinclemissem. It is not broken off.
Misr essmised—l am a skim of Lady Zetland,
who is ler Ins Is Mama here, or, indeed, to be examined
at ell. Is sassmpisme of statements affecting the character
of Mrs. Polar, Mill I beard at Malvern, I wrote to ber.
They wars geswal slatainente is the home, which I heard
hem Mrs. Batas. Min Berkeley farther gave an amount
of the interview between the plaintiff and the defendant, in
the nee of Lady ZeUsad, in reference to the charges
shade by the lime, against the latter, which fully corrobo-
rated Mrs. Potter's testimony. Witness farther stated that
heibre Mrs. Potter arrived Lady Zstland had been inquiring
the a servant to replace the plaintiff.
The Earl of Zealand examined—Mrs. Potter has an.
pia the position of boasekeeper in my establishment for
loamy yam Lady Zeeland is too ill to attend or to he
aipinterrogations.
wu not crolethamined.
w Jury—l have not the slightest recollection of
ha Ohm a trey from the plaintiff because it was too
heavy Asa ker.
Livingehei Gunn examined—l was groom of the cham-
bers at Lard Seduces. I never annoyed or insulted the
gtiff. Oa two or three osessions she has asked me to sit ist at dinner, whisk I destined. She has asked me to
give her flowers. Mrs. Potter never to my knowledge did
anything to annoy Mrs. Fray. I n and improper
language in her bearing. flame attentions have been paid
by me to Mrs. Pulse's sises. I never paid attentions to
the old lady. These ram was any impropriety Wean
me and Ma. Poem. Before we went to Maivurs, Fray
appeared te be la a wry excited state.
Dr. Melaka, Lord Zetland's secretary, proved that Lady
Zulu& was too ill to attend, and stated, in reference to the
plaintiff. that while she was at Malvern she was in a state of
great 114111•1111111 exeitunent, and from her meaner he consi-
dered she was kbouring under a disordered imagination.
She had UM him that a good deal was going on between
Mrs. Pealmrsmi essa, and that the shoo was only a blind.
Re 001111111111 Nd that Frey was not in a fit state to be in
service at all, and gave it es his opinion to Lady Zetland
that giving her bathe to quit would have a bad effect on the
plaintiff's Wad.
Sarah Data was next called, and oorroborated the dihe-
dral's account of the interview at Malvern before Lady Zst-
lead, when the charger made by the plaintiff against the
defendant were investigated, and also that she had heard
the plaintiff say that hrs. Potter was a very bad woman.
Emily Logan proved having heard the plaintiff call the
defendant a-bad woman.
This slued she cue for the defendant.

for their respective
clients,
Lord Capita, in s • up, said it would be for the
jury to say, en enekteeella the entire evidence, whether
lila whole, or may giee, et the slanderous words alleged in
the deelecedes bed bees span by the defendant, and it
se, whether, is a making, she was indsenced by malice ;
for if they ansidered they true sot spoken maliciously,
but is good faith, that the oimminiisation was a privileged
eammusioatioe, tor whit& the defendant, believlsg in its
truth, mead net be liable. Lady, they would have to say,
if ali Mal tho woods had been spoken and spoken malt-
ase* by the lailmilast, whither they had led to the loss
of He ybilatiro slanaka la bays said to Lady Zetland.
These NS am mem des ansplained of which he
amid held creel, It spins simiklataly, be sufficient to
uslatals Ibo antis walnut roof of special damage—
=2:he atiwkag yishatillf of haviag mat the
t as ssompaoso osonsalestiss, lot Uwe, words
istpatsi to the plebaleas WNW, Oman. If, therefore,
they wen ef *plasm that those weeds bad bees spokes,
and spekea may, he weed siva* then to dad NM
damages, eves if they did age lad that the loss
of the plaiatirs situation was the immeagenee ef these
words ; but they should not dad wad damages ogees
they believed that the less of the plaiatiff's situation wee
mused by the words spoke, by the defendant. His lord-
ship this read eta the attire of the evideatee.
The jury retired, sad es rslmsisf hued that, with limo
exemption of imputing to the dff the anonymous
letter, the defendant was " not gelfre" of the slanderous
weeds; but for the imputetioe whisk they found that the
dandaat had throws upon the plaintiff as to the anony-
mous letter they gave 1001. damages.