The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-17 00:00:00

ACTION FOR LIBEL.

At the Court of Exchequer, on Saturday, the case of Cur-
ling v. Sully was called on. This was an action ft:l'r libel, to
which the defendant pleaded fist " Not Guilq," and secondly
that the libel published was true in substance. Mr. Sergeant
Parry, in stating the case to the jury, said that the plaintiff,
who was a baker carrying on business in Snow's fields, Ber—
mondsey, complained of a libel in Bell's News, a penny
newspaper, which reflected seriously on his character, and had
been the cause of doing him serious injury in his business.
The plaintiff's father was well known in the neighbourhood,
having carried on business as a baker in the shop now occupied
by the son. He was also the landlord of the house in
No. 133, Snow's felds; about eleven doors from the plain-
tiff's residence, witch was occupied by a widow woman
with two children. who obtained her living by taking in
mangling. The plaintiff's father, the learned Sergeant said,
had not only assisted the poor woman in money, and in her
rent, but
_it appeared in August last the poor woman was
very ill, and that' in consequence of a nurse, named
Smith, calling upon him, and informing him of that fact, as
she detailed in evidence, he thought it was much better to
distrain on her goods to prevent them being carried away
by strangers. This was done, and she was removed to the
Bermondsey workhouse, where she shortly after died. The
libel in question was published on the 27th September last,
in the shape of a letter, or communication to the editor, with
the signature of " Robin Hood." The article reflected very
strongly on the character of the plaintiff, and after commenting
in the severest terms upon the circumstances of the case,
proceeded in this mariner :—" Here is a case of murder as
complete as if the landlord and his bloodhounds bad plunged a
knife into her heart, a death wantonly accelerated, and ruin
mercilessly determined on." The article further charged the
plaintiff as being a ruffian, and that he and his wife, after
agreeing to give the deceased woman's sen 10s. to give up the'
key, seized both, and turned him out of their shop. After
some further comments the article stated that there was but
ono mode by which justice in these cases could 'be done
between man and man, and that was by Lynch law, which
would most certainly and deservedly have consigned the
merciless baker of Snow's fields to a permanent residence in
his own oven. Several wiinesses were then examined on
behalf of 'he plaintiff, and ultimately the juty returned a
verdict in his favour. Damages £lOO. •

THE NUMBER OF FACTORIES, AND PERSONS EMPLOYED.
—An interesting return obtained by the late Mr. Brother-
ton, has been printed, of the number of factories and
uersous employed therein. The total number of factories
in the United Kingdom is 5,117, of which 4,432 are in
England and Wales, 530 in Scptland, and 165 in Ireland.
The number of persons employed in the factories on the
date of the return last month was 628,497.
Fic at:mum—SUICIDE OF CLEnx —lt was leely stated
that an articled clerk in the office of Mr. Joseph Morris,
the late clerk to the North Bierley Poor Law Union, named
Thomas Joseph Robinson, a • nephew of Mr. Morris, had
been committed for trial by the magistrates at Bradford,
for embezzlement and fraud upon. the Union to a small
amount. Extensive irregularities and defalcations have
since been discovered. He has since then committed suicide
by taking opium.
RATS.—There are two objections to the common mode of
killing rats by laying poiscn for them ; first, the danger to
which it exposes other animals, and even human beings,
second, the possibility that the rats, having partaken of it,
may retire to their holes, and dying there, cause an intolyr-
able stench, and produce numerous crawling insects. Greer's
Patent Anti-Vermin Mixture for the immediate destruction
of rats and mice, is free from these objections and has
effectually cleared dwelling houses, ships, and other places,
that were much ' infeked with these destructive and
disagreeable inmates. The smell of the bait will attract
the vermin from their holes; and• it being, such a special
delicacy to them, they will devour it with greediness,
and die on the spot. To be had at the Anti Vermin
Office, 49, ‘Brownlow hill, Liverpool, at 6d, Is, and 4s each.
Can be sent free by post to any part of the Unitcd Kingdom,
America, Australia, &c.—Advt.

SCURRILOUS PUBLICA = lONS.—Oo Saturday, at the Judges'
Chambers, London, the proprietor and publisher of a
penny publication was brought before Mr. Justice Coleridge,
on a warrant granted upon a kill of indictment preferred
against him by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, for
selling end uttering- an obscene; indecent, and scurrilous
pnbrcation. It, was stated that this publication contained
many gross libels on p,ivate individuals, and every person
who fold it was liable to be prosecuted. The prisoner's
committal was therefore asked for unoer heavy bail. Mr.
Justice Coleridge said that, considering the nature of the
publication, he should require sureties in £lOO for the
appearance of the prisoner to answer the indictment.
Strange was then removed to prison in default of hail. It
was intimated that the society intended to proceed against
the vendors of all publications similar in character' to" the
one in qeestion:
RECEPTION OF KOSIUTH IN RIUDFORD.—As soon s it.
was known that the date hcd been fixed by Kessuth for
giving his promised lecture to the working classes, in St.
George's Hall, all due preparation was made by the com-
mittfe for promoting the object, and the question of receiv-
ing the illastrious.Magyer with a •species of ovation was
fully discussed, but finally abandoned. On Saturday
morning, however, large placards appeared. on the walls
announcing that be would arrive a little after three o'clock
at the'Lincashire and Yorkshire atation, and calling on the
people to assemble in thousands and greet him with a shout
of welcome which he would not soon forget. They did
assemble in thousands, bands of music were engaged, and
the spacious yard in front of the station was literally
crammed. A large posse of police, headed by the chief
constable, Mr. Leveratt, were also in attendance, and the
committee and a number of the corporation, headed by
Alderman Mitchell (of the firm of A. and S. Henry and Co.),
whose guest he is while here, waited upon the platform. At
twenty-five minutes past three the train reached the
platform.. Kossuth leaped out, and was received with a
tremendous round of cheering; the committee and council-
lors, as he entered Alderman Mitchell's carriage, formed in
procession, the binds at the same time struck up enlivening
sounds, and the platform.and yard were soon cleared of the
seven thousand people assembled. In the evening a large
and brilliant company was invited to meet the exile at
Parkfield House the seat of A!derman Mitchell,