Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

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toast, expressing in the most feeling manner his acknow-
ledgments to the Bishop for the too kind terms in, which
he had spoken of him.
The Chairman said that in the course of their peregrinaa_
tions, the institute had experienced great kindness from•
the various corporations of the towns they had visited'
and the greater part of them had held out to the members=
the hand of welcome. Amongst the rest, they were very
much indebted to the corporation of the City of Chester,.
not only for the general way in which they had offered
them their assistance and support, but for the valuable
address which they had presented to the institute. He
therefore proposed " The Corporation of Chester." it
was a source of great regret to them that the Moyer was
not able to be present, but other members of the council
were present, who would perhaps favour the company
with a few remarks.
Mr. Alderman Williams responded.
Mr. Councillor Hieklin also acknowledged the toast in
an eloquent and impressive speech, in the course of which
he dwelt upon archaeology as an important agent in edu-
cation.

Major Egerton Legh having proposed the health of
Sir Stephen Glynue, as Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Flint, _ _ .

Sir Stephen Wynne replied, and remarked that, as an
old member of the institute, he had done less than he ought
to have done in the promotion of archaeology. He had
been a member of the institute since the time of formation,
and therefore it was natural that he should have felt the
deepest interest in it. He had had the happiness to attend
all the annual meetings of the society in all parts of the
country, and he might say that all of them had been
a' tended with success, anda great deal of information had
followed from them. In many cases some practical
results had shown themselves in the form of improved
architecture. He thought he might venture to state, that
the meeting at Chester would be quite as good, both in its
character and successful in its results, as any which had
preceded it. (Cheers.)
The Chairman again rose, and said he had always held
that the great object of the institute was, that it should
be regarded as a rallying pointfor all local societies of a
similar kind to be established throughout the country, by
which the study of archaeology might be promoted. There
was no jealousy of any other society on the part
of the institute. On the other hand, the more societies
there were in existence throughout the country, with a
similar object, the better. It therefore gave him great
satisfaction to be able to give the local kindred societies
throughout this district which had done so much to
advance the study of Archmology. He need hardly say
that he alluded, amongst others, to the Chester Archaea-
logical Society, which numbered so many members, and
which had published so many valuable papers. He might
repeat what he said yesterday, how much the
members of the institute felt, and how much all archaeolo-
gists must feel at the death of the aev. Mr. Massey, who
was such an able and distinguished member of the Chester
society. He (the chairman), had often met that lamented
gentleman at their anniversaries and on other occasions,
and he hoped to have the pleasure of meeting him again.
He had always been most active in the promotion of
archaeological pursuits. He was also equally able
and active as an exemplary pastor, and to him the
church to which he belonged was much indebted for the
services he had rendered in the performance of his religious
duties. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) They felt deeply
indebted to the Chester society for the assistance it had
rendered the institute. He desired, also, to call their
attention to the Chester Mechanics' Institution, which as*o
represented there by Mr. Wardell, who had placed at their
disposal the museum of that society- (Cheers.) In
the next place, he begged leave to introduce to them
the Lancashire Historic Society—(cheers)—a society
highly distinguished for its labours in historical research
and archaeology ; a society which had highly distinguished
it e.elf by the value of its publications, and for the great
ability of its members. To that society the members of
the institute were also deeply indebted, for the kind and
generous invitation which had been conveyed to them to
visit Liverpool on Saturday next. (Loud cheers.) He
trusted that it would be a pleasant and successful visit,
and, indeed, he believed it could not be otherwise. In the
midst of unequalled foreign, commercial, and mercantile
pursuits—in that great city of Liverpool, which was now
preparing to launch the wonderful Atlantic cable, which
was to draw together as it were the commerce of the old
and the new world—in the midst of all these gigantic
commercial pursuits, by which the wealth of man was
accumulated and increased. we found at the same time
a most earnest wish displayed to promote science and
art, and he therefore looked forward to their
visit to Liverpool with much interest, and he
believed it would be eminently successful. They would
have an opportunity of inspecting the splendid collection
of a gentleman from Liverpool, now present from the
Historic Society. He alluded to Mr. Mayer, whom many
of them no doubt knew. (Loud cheers.) With a noble
liberality, and a high appreciation of the true objects
of archaeology, Mr. Mayer stepped forward at a
moment when all archaeologists were deploring the
refusal of government to purchase the collection, and
secured a batch of antiquities which was refused
a place in the great museum of the nation, because the
collection was not connected with foreign lands, but
related to this country. Because the collection had
reference to distinguished persons of this country, whose
blood we had circulating in our veins, it was refused
admission within the walls of our own national museum.
(Hear, hear.) At the time, there was great fear that the
collection would be torn to pieces. and got hold of by
every keeper of a curiosity shop, and it was at this
critical period that Mr. Mayer nobly stepped forward
and purchased it. (Loud cheers.) The other gentleman
who was present from the Lancashire Historic Society
was his friend Dr. Hume—(cheers)—a gentleman with
whom they were all acquainted. He should pass over all
his merits, but there was one circumstance he could not
pass over from his (the Chairman's) connection with
Ireland. What in his mind consisted of one of the chief
merits of Dr. Hume was, that he had given a great
deal of his attention to the Anglo-Irish race,
and he was wishing that Dr. Hume had been
present that morning when Professor Earle was reading
a paper on the dialects of Ireland and Wexford, because
they knew that Dr. Hume had devoted a great deal of his
time to that subject. He concluded by proposing " The
Local Institutions," coupling them with the names of Mr.
Wardell, of Chester, and Dr. Hume, and Mr. Mayer, of
Liverpool. (Cheers.)
Mr. Wardell having briefly acknowledged the com-
pliment,
Mr. Mayer rose, amidst loud cheers, 'and said he felt
much flattered for the honour they had done him
in associating his name with the Historic Society of
Liverpool, indeed he might say with all historic and
archaeological societies ; for although he was locally
attached to Liverpool, he felt as though he belonged to
every such society, whether it be in our own country or
abroad, for he conceived that the question of archaeology
was not confined to a climate, nor to a race, but every
true archaeologist ought to look about him, and collect
those things that were illustrative of the race and charactr
of men in all countries. His own occupation had been
more practically that of a collector than of an illustrator.
With reference to his purchasing the Saxon collection, to
which reference had been made by the chairman, he might
observe, that he purchased it with the idea that others
would make use of it more than himself. It was a valuable
collection as showing the state of our ancestors. (Cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. Hume also acknowledged the toast, and
after referring to the great number of scientific institutions
in Liverpool, he said that the Historic Society had been
in existence fo* a period of nine years, and during that
time they had published nine volumes of its transactions'
so that its age might be known by the number of its pub-
lications. The rev. Dr.spoke at some length, but in so low a
tone that in the position in which our reporter was placed,
his remarks were inaudible.
Major Egerton Legh :proposed " The leads of the
Universities," coupling the toast with, the Lames of Dr,
Guest and Mr. Hill.

two persons from• the university had stood up in answer
to the toast. His friend (Professor Whewell), would have
been present among them, but circumstances had pre-
vented him coming. •Ho had it, however; from his own
lips, that his heart was with them, and that there was no
society in which he took a deaper interest than the
Archae )logical Soc'e`y.
Mr. Hill also responded. _ _ _

The Bishop of Chester, in a highly eulogistic and com.
Alimentary speech, proposed "The Chairman." (Loud
ebeers.)
The Chairman, in reply, said he felt deeply sensible of
the kindness shown to him by the bishop in proposing
his health, and the company in drinking it so• warmly, but
ho also felt sensible that he was not deserving of it.
Whatever exertions he had made on behalf of the
Archaeological Society, although they had been
to the utmost of his ability, they fell far short
of what he could have wished to do. He would wished
that some other gentleman could ihave undertaken the
duty of presiding over the meeting, because he was of
opinion that it would have been more suitable for some
other gentleman connected with the district to preside.
At the same time he felt that if his services were required,
it was his duty to preside over them; and he scarcely
need say that, on no occasion, had the meetings of the
society afforded him greater pleasure than the present•
He felt highly gratified at seeing so numerous an
assemblage of ladies and gentlemen present, not that
he could for one moment consider it was a compli-
ment to himself, but he felt rather that it was, on their
parts, an adhesion to the science of aremology.
At the same time it afforded him pleasure to renew his
acquaintance with those faces which he had been i : the
habit of meeting for many years, and this was one of the
great attractions of those meetings, independently of the
study or pursuits of archeology. That one had the
opportunity of meeting in a social manner, and of form.
ing agreeable acquaintances in different parts of the
country. He had the greatest satisfaction in speaking of
the manner—the successful manner—in which their meet-
ing was progressing, and he could not have a greater
proof of it than in the way in which the tables before him
were filled. (Cheers.)
Several other toasts having been proposed and acknow-
13dged, the proceedings terminated about half-past ten
o'clock. This morning, at half-past nine, the members of
the institute and their friends will leave Chester for Man_
chester by a special train, on a visit to the Art Treasures
of the United Kingdom, which will occupy the entire day.

abusing and disinfecting the public mind, was, to submit
it to the touchstone of observation and experiment.—l
determined on its practical investigation..
Therefore, honestly divesting narmind, as far as I was
able to do, of all feeling and preindiee against it, I first
diligently rearehed and studied all the best works on the
subj et. I thus obtained a thorough insight into, and
knowledge of the- science ;—of the pseuliar mode of pre-
paration and stated powers of its medicines--of their
nature and properties,—and of their effects and applica-
tion as remedies, in disease: points, be.it observed, abso-
lutely imperative to' a fair and enkohtened test awd exa-
mination. This being at length accomplished, I most
stringently, zealously, and, I may add,- jealously, con-
ducted my lengthened and pratical enquiry.
My first discovery was, my own ignorance, as to what
Homoeopathy really was ; and the equal ignorance- of the
rest of my prcfessional brethren, with whom I had eon-
versed on the subject. It was, I confess, with a feeling
of shame, that I recalled to mind how we had misjudged
and misrepreiented Homoeopathy. Strange, truly, that
the Medical Profession should persist in denying, 3 ea, in
heaping obloquy and ridicule upon a science, of which,
they know themselves—confess themselves, to be wholly,
or essentially ignorant! Nay, I have ofton heard the
most !witty, as wall as the most serious and earnest de-
claimer, give a sc ,rnful negative reply to the enquiry, if
they had ever thoroughly studied and fairly tried it ?
So wild and indefinate are the notions, not only of the
public, but of medical men also, that it is thought that
Homoeopathy mainly consists in giving small, or infinites-
simal doses of medicine ! Now, the magnitude of the dose,

has nothing whatever to do witch the principle of this
science. The principle, the very essence of Homoeopathy,
lies in the law of simile ; as usually expressed in the
axiom, similia cura ntur—like cures like. And
Hahnnenan himself, at first tried the accustomed, or usual
dose; but he was speedily compelled to reduce it; so
powerful and harmful were medicines in their common
doses when given upon the Homeopathic principle.
He diligently sets about a reform, and says :
In proceeding to enumerate a few of those facts and
circumstances, 'which enforced the conviction on my own
mind, that Homoeopathy was, indeed, a great truth, I
would observe, that no amount of mere reading, or study
ef Homceopathic literature, could have brought such con.
viction—real and indisputable —to my own mind. Had I
stopped short here, though forcibly impressed with the
sentiment, that what I had read might be true, yet,
nothing but experimental testimony would have enabled
me, in my own heart, to realise that truth. I trust that
this remark will not be lost upon such as think they have
done enough, in having read a book or two on the subject,
and could find nothing satisfactory in it. I, unhappily,
committed this very error nearly ten years ago. At that
time I had read two or three books on the subject
(certainly they were not the best), but the whole matter
appeared too extraordinary to be real, and I cast it off as
a delusion. How much do I regret that I did not then go
heartily to work, and qualify myself for duly testing and
proving it.
In my practical enquiry into the powers of Homceo-
pathic remedies, I resorted to every species of proof which
I could devise, and of which the subject appeared capable.
I habe now treated—successfully treated—a vast variety
and number of diseases, both acute and chronic, occurring
in both sexes and at all ages. In every more important
and interesting case, careful notes were kept. All the
symptoms of the disease were primarily registered, and
the effict of every medicine that was administered, and
every charge of symptom, noted.
I felt that the investigation in which I was now engaged
was, perhaps, the most serious act of my life. Not only
my reputation as a physician, my honour as a man, and
the relief of the afflicted, but yet more—the interest of
truth itself, were equally involved.
He adduces the result of the experintentuin crucis.
For me now to doubt the power and the efficacy of
Homoeopathic medicides, would be to doubt the evidence
of my own senses, and the exercise of common under-
standing. I rest my conviction on the solid basis of ex-
perimental testimony—on proof. Ido not come forth as
a partisan, but simply speak that which I do know, and
testify that which I have seen.
My testimony is, that Homoeopathy is indeed a great
fact,—a mighty truth. Being so, it must, in a mere
scientific-point of view, be looked upon as the greatest
discovery of the age, and important as it is great. As
health is justly acknowledged to be the choicest blessing,
in what glad and grateful language should not Homoeo-
pathy be spoken of? not only as in itself a positive good,
but also as an escape from the old practice, which is en.
vironel with so much that is positive evil.
He finally sums up his reasons for " being off
with his old love, and taking on with his new '—
Such then are the reasons for my le wing the old, the
more unsatisfactory, and the more uncertain paths of the
old school of physic; and snch the kind of evidence that
has compelled me to see and to acknowledge the truth,
and the inestimable value of the new, the more satisfac-
tory, and the more certain system of Homcelpathy. And
yet, truly, some find it not so light a matter to pay sacri-
fice to truth ; and how oft does every paltry passion in
our nature take alarm at being offered up to her. Pride,
professional pride, refuses to bend her head to the con-
fession, that she has a life-long while,—with all her as-
sumption of superior knowledge,—been really tho.dupe
of school and college taught systems.—Self-interest
takes the alarm, and clings to her present securities of
professional profit.—Fear puts her trembling fingers to
her lips, and shrinks from encountering the jeer and
the scorn of those who can not, or who dare not
think for themselves, and would affright others from
doing so.—Prejudice, with darkened brow, frowns on
the light of truth, and will not come to the light.—
While falsehood says " 'tis a lie, and all its followers
are impostors."
And concludes with the significant warning:
But, assuredly, in those venerable colleges of Physic,
Homoeopathy is appearing, like the handwriting on the
wall;—while the terrible pen of Truth inscribes
thereon—lchabod ! Ichabod !
The Lilliputian begins tc dandle the Brobdigna-
gian ; and the latter, like our army in Flanders,
" swears horribly " at the presumption, impostors,
liars, quacks, humbugs, and other delicate invectives
These are cowardly weapons. " Sticks and stones
(says the schoolboy's rhyme) may break men's bones,
but bad names will not hurt me."• A Britisher
loves " a fair stage and no favour." Let the
redoubtable Goliath try his strength with the
stripling—we have a sympathy for the weak—the
little stone from, the brook, if flung from the sling
of truth, will briaig the giant low.

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LIBEL AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.

At the York Assizes, en Monday, an action for libel
was brought by the Rev. James Cheadle, Vicar of
Bingley, against William Besfield Perrands,. Esq , for a
series of I:b.ils Imputing to the plaintiff dishonourable and
fraudulent conduct, and neg'est of his duties as a clergym, n
The defendant pleaded " Not guilty," 'and a justification.
Mr. Bliss,. Q.C., Mr. Atherton, Q.C., Mr. Addison and
Mr. Campbell Potter appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr.
Hill, Q.C., Mr. arerend, Q.C., and Mr. MAlish for the
defendant. It appeared from the, opening of the learned
counsel for the plaintiff, and from the evidence of the
plaintiff and his witnesses, that ;the plaintiff is vicar
of Bingley; and the defendant a gentleman possessed of
large estates' in that parish, a magistrate of the West
Riding, and also er officio one of the guardians of the
Keighley Uuon, in which Bingley is placed. The action
was brought to recover damages for a series of libels
defamatory of the plaintiff's character, that no person
who wished to'hold himself up in society could avoid coming
before a jury for redress. The libels complained of
were four. The earliest in date was in the form of a
letter addressed to the inhabitants of Bingley. The next
one was a letter addressed in October last to the late
bishop of the diocese. Tile third was a letter addressed
to the present Bishop of Ripon, and the fourth was a
letter addressed to the inhabitants of Bingley, dated the
14th of May this year. Two of these libels had been
printed and circulated, and the plaintiff complained that
they contained statements refl3cing on him,. sometimes
stating what was partly true and partly spurious, and
sometimes imputing to him acts as the result of fraud
which were merely acts of inadvertence and oversight;
and they also imputed scandalous, illegal, and fraudulent
conduct to him. In 1837 the plaintiff was nominated to
the parish of Bingley. The defendant at that time took
a strong part in politics, and an uncle of the defendant
was a candidate for the vicarage, which was in the gift of
the Lord Chancellor. The appointment of the plaintiff
was imputed to political causes, and that probably had
raised a feeling of animosity against him in the defen-
dant's mind. The plaintiff succeeded a Dr. Hartley
to the living, and in his time a chancery suit
had :been a begun :in reference to the charity lands,
and that portion of them allotted to the poor amounted
its value to £l2 a-year. The trustees were ordered
to pay this sum to four infirmaries, and the vacan-
cies among the trustees were to be filled up. The
plaintiff and defendant in 1838 were both elected trustees,
ani the plaintiff was charged with embezzling one of the
annual payments to one of these infirmaries—the Buxton
Bath Infirmary. When the plaintiff was appointed vicar
of Bingley there was no parsonage house, and, it being
desirable that there should be one, he was advised to sell
a part of the glebe lands, with the sanction of the officers
of Queen Anne's Bounty, and to appropriate the money to
building a house; and, by consent of the patron and the
bishop, he sold a part of what he believed to be the glebe.
It was offered by auction, and only £9OO was bid for it.
A gentleman in the parish, named Greenwood, offered
£1,500 for it and bought it, and this sum was paid into
the Queen Anne's Bounty Office, who allowed £l,lOO for
a house, and placed the residue in the funds. Mr.
Greenwood afterwards sold this land to the railway
company for £2,200, and, after deducting £350 for his
expenses and loss of interest, as the land had been lying
unsold for some time, he, in a very handsome manner,
handed over the balance beyond his purchase price—
£3so—to the vicar. The defendant, who was aware of .
the sale in 1853, in 1856 said he knew nothing of
it, and that it was a fraudulent compact between the
plaintiff and Mr. Greenwood to get the land for less than
it:was worth, and divide the profit on its sale to the rail-
way company. Not long after this transaction coal was
found under the glebe, and after some bargaining with a
Mr. Seebohm, who at last declined to purchase the coal,
saying he was advised the plaintiff had no title to it, and
could not sell it, the plaintiff, acting under the advice of
his attorney, who told him he could sell it, sold the coal
to a Mr. Bentley for about £75. The p'aintiff had been,
put to a cost of about £4O in finding it and with other
attendant expenses, and he had put the residue into his
pocket, supposing himself to be entitled to it. This was
imputed to him as an act of fraud. In 1849 the trustees of
the school lands telt that it would be extremely desirable to
get power to sell some of the lands for building sites, as
they would produce a much greater return. It was neces-
sary for this purpose to get an act of Parliament, which it
was estimated would cost £3OO. In preparing for this
act it was necessary to trace out the Sunderland Charity
lands, and it was then found that a part of these lands
had been sold to Mr.. Greenwood, and not glebe lands. The
Court of Chancery was applied to, and ordered that the
sale to Mr. Greenwood should stand undisturbed, and
that in the Act to be obtained that sale should be legal-
ised ; and this was done with the knowledge of the
defendant. The defendant afterwards met the plaintiff
on the platform of a railway station, and in loud terms
charged him with illegal conduct in the sale of those
lands, and afterwards applied to the Charity Commis-
sioners for an inquiry. The Charity Commissioners sent
down Mr. Martin, one of the inspectors to hold the
inquiry, and the defendant then stated that the Court of
Chancery and Parliament had been imposed upon, but
after a full hearing the inspector was satisfied. One of
the libels described this adjudication of the inspector as
putting his " thumb" on the evidence, and went on to terns
" the Buxton Charity defalcations a piece of carelessness,
of which had the secretary been guilty he would have
pronounced them embezzlement." This referred to an
omission to pay £2 12s 6d to the Buxton Bath Infir-
mary, as ordered by the Court of Chancery in the year
1853. That this was an act of forget fulness and careless-
ness was proved by the fact of the plaintiff having in 1855
paid the amount twice over to this charity, being under
the impression that he had omitted to pay it the year
before. While this was going on, the defendant made
himself busy in looking after the vicar's burial fees. The
pauper burial fees charged were a fee of 60. to the clerk,
Is. 6d. to the sexton up to 2s. 6d., varying with the size
and depth of the grave, and Is. to the vicar, the clerk
collecting the fees. The old clerk died, and subsequently
a man named Asquith was appointed, whom it was desir-
able to appoint, as he could lead the choir. He lived at
some distance, and an arrangement was made that at
funerals the sexton should act as his deputy. For-
merly the clerk sang or led the singing of a hymn
before a funeral from the church to the grave. This was
given up as not required by the rubric. The defendant
attended the board of guardians, and charged the.
Plaintiff with taking illegal burial fees. A deputation of
guardians waited upon the plaintiff and searched the
parish terriers, and found that the fees charged were the
legal and accustomed fees according to the last parish
terrier in 1820, the fees being 6d the clerk, Is 6d the,
sexton,-and is the:clergyman. The earlier terriers allowed.
9d and 10d to the sexton. The defendant moved that a.
complaint should be sent to the Poor Law Board, because
in some instances there had been a larger charge made.
for the sexton. The first libel to the bishop chz.rged him,
with taking more than the customary burial fees, and.
with fraudulently charging above 60 per cent more thane
the legal burial fees. This libel went on to say—" Wore
there a parish clerk decently and reverently performing
his duty at funerals, he would advise the payment of the
fee of 6d; but there was no parish clerk, and appointing a
clerk who lived a mile from the church and the sexton as
his deputy, was a fraud upon the public, an insult to the
parish, a scandal to the church, and a mockery of religion."
The plaintiff was then charged with haying from revenge,
seized an ancient pew in the Bingley parish church belong-
ing to the Ferrand family, and of which they had a faculty
since 1691. It appeared that this pew had been occupied
by the late Mrs. Ferrand, the mother of the defendant, and
that the defendant occupied another pew. After the late
Mrs. Ferrand's death the defendant handed the keys of the
pew to the plaintiff, and told him he might appropriate the
pew to such as required it, on condition that this was not
done till six months after Mrs. Ferrand's death, as she had
refused its appropriation. The pew remained unoccupied
two years, and as the defendant was then pulling down
St. Ives. the family seat where his mother had lived, to
which the pew was appropriated, the churchwardens and
the plaintiff applied to thathen. Bishop of Ripon, now the
Bishop of Durham, for permission to divide and appro-
priate the pew. He said. nothing about the Ferrand family
having a faculty for it, as he did not think it accessary.
The bishop granted permission, and the front half was
appropriated to Mr. Ferrand's brother, and the back half
to one of the defendant's tenants. The neat libel charged
was contained in a letter addressed to the present Bishop
of Ripon, Dr. Bickersteth. In this letter the defendant
reiterated all the statements he had previously made, and
stated that he could prove them The plaintiff defiled
being infiuep.ced by any feeling of animosity whatever
towards the defendant in the matter of the pew. In the
autumn of 1856 he was advised to go to Harrowgate for
change of air, and was absent six weeks, having made
arraagements with a clergyman at Bradford to visit the
sirjk for him, and also with the clergyman at the grammar
school at Bingley to do so after school hours. He had
also made arrangements with two other clergymen in the
neighbourhood to perform the service on the sundays,
and visit for him in case of necessity during his absence.
He had never refused to visit the sick, though he was
unable. from the extent of his parish, to do more in out-
lying villages than attend the sick when sent for. He ha
offered to visit the sick at the union workhouse, and to
perform Divine service once a week if the guardians would
set a night apart for him, but they had refused to do so.
Mr. Hill said, after the explanations given by Mr.
Cheadle, the defendant, acting under his advice, withdrew
all personal aspersions whatever against Mr. Chea.cile.
He felt that, as a man and a gentleman, he could not
persist in them after the full explanation given
the part of his client, he had
givenby the
such a sum as would cover
ap lsas iennttieffd.
to ra. Bl is
s verdictsaid,for
merely the great expenses to which he had been put, on a
full retraction of the aspersions e•,st upon him being
given. His lordship said both partlas had acted very
wisely, the defendant in withdrawing the imputations
cast on the plaintiff, and taction, and being satisfie '' a, , plaintiff in bringing this
with such a result ; for it was
impossible that, as e. clergyman, he could have rested
under such impu
respect of his parishioners. A verdict was then taken
for the 1114i74tiff, `ations with any hope of having then.
Damages, £3OO.