The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

what she had seen of the Bloomer costume to her
master when he came home, and so the pugilist got
Licks instead of halfpence, and beat a rapid retreat
without any of E. L.'s one-and-sixpenny Champagne.
The Wranglers say that our Tommy beats Billy (not
Daniel) by chalks." The declaration ex-
plained this composition as imputing to the plaintiff
that he had wooed Mrs. Swaine, a lady who lived
with her husband at a place called the Wrangle Old
Haws, with a view to an illicit intercourse between
them ; and the Learned Counsel for the plaintiff cha-
racterised the libel as a disgraceful and abominable
abuse of the liberty of the press.
Two or three witnesses were called to prove that
they understood the libel in the sense imputed to it
by the declaration ; but the plaintiff himself was not
called ; and it was elicited on cross-examination that
the plaintiff had frequently denounced the defendant's
paper, and expressed his determination to put it down
on account of the scurrilous personal attacks which
it made upon himself and others. It also appeared
that on one occasion the plaintiff, being a member of
the Boston town council, bad threatened to pull the
nose of another member, and that upon proceeding to
enforce the threat, some blows had passed between
him and his antagonist.
i‘lr. Sergeant MILLER, in addressing the jury for
the defendant, said that the indignant and vitupera-
tive language in which the plaintiff's case had been
opened must have been borrowed from the memorable
account of the fierce contest between the rival editors
of the Eatanswilll Gazette and Eatanswill Inde•
pendent in " Pickwick ;" and he quoted the racy
abuse of those far-famed worthies as illustrative of
the apparent character of editorial squabbles in Lin-
colnshire. The Learned Counsel characterised the
libel as a trumpery squib, which could not possibly
its
meaning the character of any one, and urged that
meaning was very ambiguous, but that at all events
it was absurd to suppose that it intended to convey
any serious imputation of any kind. Whether the
plaintiff had sustained any damage the jury could
pretty well infer from the fact that he bad not dared
to get into the witness-box.
The Learned JUDGE briefly summed up, and
The jury having retired for short time, found a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 51.
On the Civil side two special jury causes and one
road indictment remain to be tried.

Mr. Justice Maule has been engaged in trying
prisoners.

WESTERN CIRCUIT, Winchester. March 1.
The commission was opened here on Saturday by
Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Justice Talfourd.

Their Lordships attended Divine service yesterday
at the Cathedral, and at eleven o'clock this morning
they commenced the business of the assizes, Mr.
Justice Talfourd presiding in the Crown Court, and
Mr. Justice Erie sitting at Nisi Prins.
There are upwards of 100 prisoners in the calendar;
some of the offences are of a very serious character;
at the same time it is right to state that there are a
vast number of persons charged with most trifling
offences.

In his charge to the grand jury, the Learned
JUDGE congratulated them upon the state of the calen•
dar, and spoke in high terms of the great efficiency of
the constabulary force of the county, under the able
superintendence of Captain Harris.
The cause list has only seven cases in it, one of
which is to be tried by a special jury.
Nothing has occurred in the Crown Court to call
for notice.