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The Extraordinary Libel Case.

DUBLIN, Wednesday Morning,
The hearing of the remarkable trial which is now attract-
ing so large an amount of public attention was continued
yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas. As already stated,
the action is one of libel, brought by Miss Travers against
Sir William and Lady Wilde, the female defendant having
written to Dr Travers, the father of the plaintiff, alleging
that the latter had been guilty of disreputable conduct, that
she was•cndeavouring to make it appear that she had had
an intrigue with Sir William Wilde, and was trying on that
account to extort money from Lady Wilde and her husband.
The female defendant pleaded that she had written the
letter in good faith, without malice, believing its statements
to be true, and the pleadings also set out certain annoy-
ances in the way of offensive pamphlets and handbills to
which Sir William and Lady Wilde had been exposed by
the plaintiff, Miss Travers being anxious, it was raid, to
revenge herself for some supposed slights put upon her by
the lady. According to the plaintiff, however, the reason
of her antipathy was much more grave, as she asserted that
Sir William Wilde had on one occasion forcibly possessed
himself of her person, having first rendered her unconscious.
This was stated to have occurred in the study of Sir William,
who is a medical man. The date of the occurrence was
Oct. 14, 1862.

The case was opened by Sergeant Armstrong, who had
not concluded at the rising of the Court on Monday. An
abstract of his speech up to that point has already been
forwarded. Yesterday morning, resuming the history of
thd affair, the learned gentleman proceeded to show that,
after the occurrence in the study, Sir William Wilde had
been in a state of constant dread and anxiety lest the
plaintiff should ruin him by making the matter public. He
used to oblige her with small loans. She asked £B, and
she called and got £2 10s. On that occasion he requested
her to call next day, but she refused. She alto told him
that she had altered her mind about leaving the country,
a step which she had meditated for the second time after
the violation, and he said " Of course you have changed
your mind—you have no mind but to be revenged on
me." It would appear that she refused to take the money,
and wanted, as an excuse for going away, a book instead.
Violent language passed between them, and, "driven to
frenzy, she left the house, went to a doctor's house in the
neighbourhood, procured two ounces of laudanum, returned
to Sir W. Wilde's, poured it into a glass, and drank itin his
presence. ' What is that ?' said he. Laudanum,' said she.
'My God I' said he. you have revenge now ;' and he threw
himself on the ground in a frantic state. He hurried her
to Dr Walsh's, in Westland-row, where they got an anti•
dote. People labouring under extraordinary excitement will
not suffer the same effects from a narcotic as people of calm
temperament ; and so, with great difficulty, the antidote
prevailed, and she was saved. Dr Wilde protested against
her going home that night, and said, Go to your friends
in Cavendish-row.' She went, and give them some account
of the affair, but said nothing of the violation. At Sir Wm.
Wilde's request, she subsequently agreed to say that the
taking of the laudanum had occurred accidentally, and she
also promised to apply to him for whatever she wanted in
the way, as it would appear, of loans of money and the like.
These loans she was pinching herself to repay, and he
blamed her for doing so. There was a great deal more in
counsel's speech about Sir W. Wilde continuing to be ap•
prehensive of the girl's revenge, and begging her to keep
everything quiet ; but enough had been hinted on that
head. Coming to the month of June, 1863, counsel stated
that Miss Travers had rather severely reviewed a book,
called " The First Temptation; or, Eritis Sicut Deus.'
tronslated by Lady Wilde from the German. The volume
was assailed in consequence of the mode in which it dealt
with some of the doctrines of Christianity; and the unfa-
vourable review appeared in two of the Dublin newspapers,
Sir W. Wilde thought that this was a portion of Miss Tra-
vers's revenge, and said, "You will ultimately expose the
whole affair and go mad." About this time Miss Travers
wrote a letter to Lady Wilde, but it never reached her. How-
ever, " in consequence of what Sir William had stated to her
about the reviews and' otherwise," the plaintiff became
anxious to see Lady Wilde, and went to the house. Lady
Wilde passed out, without appearing to recognise her. S,r
William Wilde then became excited, and shouted out, " I
am done with you I Yon may try the law now; and tell
your father that I care for nothing else." This was said
"in the most distracted way," and in such a tone that it
could be heard by a Mr Hogan, who happened to stand
in the hall. Counsel then applied himself to the pamphlet
which had annoyed the defendants. It was "written by
Miss Travers, and entitled Florence Boyle Price; or, the
Warning. By Speranza." Speranza,'" counsel explained,
" was the signature under which Lady Wilde wrote: To a
certain extent the work was in the character of a fiotion,
and the plaintiff's object was to allude to her own story, to
the transactions between herself and Sir William Wilde,
tinder a feigned name, and to give at least a sketch of soma
of the passages between them." The learned sergeant here
read the pamphlet at length. The names in the pamphlet
are fictitious, Miss Travers being "Florence Boyle Price,"
and Sir William Wilde "Dr Quilp." The father of Miss
Travers figures as "Dr Robert Boyle Price," and Lady
Wilde, who is described as "an odd sort of undomeetic
woman," is, of course, called "Mrs Quill)." This pam-
phlet is very long, and goes into the history of the ac-
quaintance between Miss Price and the Qailps. With re-
feience to the language made use of, counsel stated that
while "substantially similar, it differed in some respects
from those facts to which Miss Travers would depose.
" Chloroform," he proceeded to explain, " was not actually
used, but the knuckles were applied, and wrought their
purpose. She had:introduced the chloroform in the pam•
phlet by way of episode." "What," the learned gentle-
man asked, " does it amount to ? That she was outraged
by Quilp treacherously in his own study." The pamphlet
also purported to give the text of the intercepted letter
referred to as having been sent by the plaintiff to
Lady Wilde : 4. Mies Price's compliments to Mrs Quilp,
and requests she will make it her conven'ence to be
at her town residence as soon as possible. Idles Price
considers it necessary to inform Mrs Quilp, in her hus-
band's presence, of the immorality and brutality to which
she had been subjected by Dr Quilp, in his own house."
The closing portion of Sergeant Armstrong's speech had
relation to the defences pleaded by Lady Wilde, and which,
he contended, were insufficient to shield her and her hus-
band from the consequences of the libellous letter. He did
not defend the pamphlets and handbills which the,plaintiff
had circulated out of revenge; but she had been driven to
extremities, and the jury should give her such damages as
would "set her name right before the public, and in some
degree compensate for her lacerated feelings and broken
heart."

The plaintiff, Mary Josephine Travers, was then exa-
mined by Mr Butt, Q.C. She is rather a plain-looking
young lady, but the expression of her features is decidedly
intellectual. In answer to the questions of counsel, she gave
the history of her acquaintance with Sir Wm. Wilda, be.
ginning in 1854, when she had gone to his house to consult
him about deafness, on the recommendation of Dr Stokes.
Her mother saompanied her. Sir William asked her to get
her father, who is a distinguished scholar, to correct some
manuscripts of his, and a correspondence ensued. It is more
than seven years since the correspondence began. Being
straitened in means occasionally, Sir William suggested
lending her money, and she borrowed small sums from him

" Do you remember him placing his arms round your
waist ?—I do. Tell what passed F—lie had been examin-
ing my arm. Ic had been bruised the Christmas Day pre-
viously, and it was not quite well. He had hold of one
of my arms, and put his hand on the other arm and said,
' You must call me William.' I said I would not. He
said he would keep me there till I did. I said I would
not, and to let me get up. I was at this time kneeling
near the table by his direction. I knelt to show him my
arm. He said, Did you say William?' I got up. He
stopped me at the door and said he could not let me away,
for I was excited. I went away. The next day I got a
letter froia him, which I returned to him unopened. I got
another, which I opened. There was in it, 'Forgive. lam
miserable. Do see me.' I returned him the letter the next
day at his own house, requesting him not to send me such
letters again, and that I considered him an ineligible ac-
quaintance. I said I thought his conduct on the previous
occasion was unmanly, mean, and dishonourable. He asked
ILO did I think him mean, and did I believe he harboured
any dishonourable intention. I said I did. He said if he
thought I did he would never open his lips to me again. I
told him he acted in an unmanly way when I was alone
with him. He raid he would have acted in the same way it
others were present, and that he wished me to regard him
as a brother."

The portion of Miss Travars's evidence which bears upon
the occurrence in the study on the 14th October, 1862, is
reported tiff under I received this letter now produced
from him (Sir William) in o,,ltobor : To-morrow—not to-
day,' I called on him on the day he appointed in that
letter. On the day I called he said I called late, or that he
had something to do. I cannot recollect at this moment
what excuse he made, but he said, ' I wish to have a chat
with you—will you come to-morrow ?' I did call. He asked
me 'How is this burn getting on ?' alluding to the burn o❑
my neck. I had not referred to it. He said, I would like
to see it.' He came over and took off my bonnet, and then
he put his hand to pass it over the burn, as he had often
done before, and in doing so he fastened his hand rather
roughly between the ribbon that was on my neck and my
throat, and in some way, I suppose, I res'sted. I believe I
said, ` Oh you are suffocating me,' and he said, 'Yes, I will,
I cennot help it,' and then I do not recollect anything more
until he was dashing water in my face.

Chief Justice—When you said 'you are suffocating me,'
what did he say 2-1 believe he said, I will suffocate you,
I caunot help it.'
To Mr Butt—l had lost consciousness before the water
was flung in my face. I did not see him throwing the
water, lut I felt it on my face. ' lie told me to ' look up,'
because that if I did not rouse myself I would be his ruin
and my own." Rouse yourself,' ho said, ' for both our
sakes; for your preservation and mine, have self-command.'

I don't think that is the word he used. He said something
about Australia—to have senst—to have faith and confi-
dence in him, and that he would direct me out of the dilem-
ma in which I had got myself by my foolish determination ;
he said to me to promise to follow`his advice and his guid..
adce, and keep myself quiet, or the first person I would
meet I would talk to. He brought wine and wanted me to
take it; he had it in the study. I would not drink it. He
said my lips were closed with determination. He said he
would fling it over me if I did not take it. He said a great
deal to me; he said to call him any name I liked, for that
he deserved it all, but to spare him, I had not spoken all
this,time. He called himself a ruffian. I am not sure whether
he used other exprestions ; he said something or other about
fate. He said I was struggling against my fate. He said he
wished the devil or the angel' Gabriel would make me leas
perverse, or ' make me' something or other. He swore he
would never touch my head again. Before I spoke he said a
great deal more. He said, Look up, you see lam throwing
it into the fire' as if it was a hindkerchief. He was throw-
ing it inta the fire, but I did not see it. I don't know whether
he did it or not—l did not look. He got hold of my eye.
lashes to open them, and said he did so with his children,
and that if I did not follow his advice I would ruin myself.
" When he said he was throwing it into the fire were
your • ayes open ?—No; wheh I first opened my eyes I
think he was standing with his back to the door; his
hand was on my aam. I was sitting en a chair near
the door. I think I was not`more than 10 minutes in the
room, but I cannot say. After I opened my eyes he said,
' You cannot go out of this 'now ; I want you to go up
stairs and sit quietly for some time. You cannot go out
now. When I speak to you going up stairs don't turn
round.' He led me out, turf said to look at a present
that some one had sent to baby' some days before. lam
not sure whether he came up with me or not. I did not
meet any one on the stairs; there was some one in the hell.
I was about ten minutes in the room below stairs. When he
came up he brought a sponge, with which he sponged my
face; and I think he said come to come to the glass and
look at my face, and not tdat tempt to think of going out
When I left the house finally I think he came up for me.
I know he said i was to Come down again—that he had
something important to sal to me, and not to go out with.
out his knowledge.

" In what state were yod when you were in the room up-
stairs le—l was too s'impid to know what I was doing; I
had no energy : I did nounauch mind what was done with
me. An hour elapsed before I left the house; it was be-
tween one and four. I think I went home straight. After
leaving the house I received the following letter :—' Could
you not come or answer ? Don't you want something—
boots•and under-things br winter ?' I cannot say whether
that is the fist letter I eceiyed after the occurrence I have
stated, but 1 don't think' have one that came before that
I saw him within 14 daps of receiving that letter.
"Did you after that et ene in the study observe anything
connected with your doss?-1 did.

"Did you see him in October ?—I did ; I went to tell him
that I did not go to meet him, and that I wondered at his
expecting me to go andmeet him.

" The Chief Justice--Where did you see him when you
told him that 2-1 calltd at his house in about 14 days.
"The Lord Chief Juitice—Can you state the day of the
week on which this tnnsaction is alleged to have taken
place P—l think it was'on a Friday.
"Examination resuuted—The first time after this occur•
.
rence that I met him yeas to tell him thst I had not gone to
meet him as he desired, He said, 'I knew very well you
were not there,' and he eaid, the reason I returned so soon
was that Lady Wilde Insisted on coming to town early in
the day.' I said, I dbn.'t want to know anything about
your movements; I mtrely wish you to understand that I
did not go.' I received the following letter of 30th October
Glad you enjoyed the dancing, &o.' The dancing re-
fers to a ball at Dr Mlle's. I got the letter now produced
in October, 1862; its dated on her Majesty's service,'
from end in it there are only the words,
'Don'tht the
eCrosluiss Office
ePtencloeed money; I did not esk for it
but he said I should allow him to he cr service to me."
Mr Butt—Are you taw able to state, from anything you
have observed or know, whether in that interval of uncon-
sciousnees which you 14tve described the offence you charge
Dr. Wilde with was actually committed P—Yes,
Was it 2—Yes.
The examination of he witness has not yet terminated.

Duiani, Wednesday Morning.
To-day Miss Travers's examination was concluded, and
Sergeant Sullivan cross-examined her. She admitted that
she had asked Sir William for money, and had accepted con-
cert tickets from him since the date of the all:: ed outrage.
He had on two or three subsequent occasions been guilty of
acts which had led her to believe that he intended to repeat
the offence. She was not sure whether she had ever said
that on the 14th of October, 1802, when the alleged outrage
was committed, he had not been successful in the attempt.
She had used the word chloroform in her pamphlet to illus-
trate Sir William Wilde's treachery.
The plaintiff's cross-examination was concluded.

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mend of the troops in the camp at Colchester during the
past week, Col the Hon Henry Percy, V.C., being on tem-
porary leave of absence. The Field Marshal Command-
ing in Chief has directed Capt the Hon H. Hobart, of the
108 Regiment, to proceed fiom the depot to the service
companies on promotion. Ensign Hare, of the same regi-
ment, is to proceed to India with the draughts of the en-
suing season. Lieut Mardon, of the 60th Regiment, is to
rejoin and remain with the depot until further orders. Staff
Assist Surg Dr Palatiano is to proceed to Colchester for
duty with the 9th depot battalion. Leave of absence until
the end of the year has been granted to Col Dickson, 16th
Lancers—Lieut Caldecott, 38th—Lieut Foster, 64th—and
Quartermaster Vousdon,. of the 4th depot battalion. A party
of invalids', from the general corps in garrison in Colchester,
has left the camp for the Royal Hospital, Netley.
Dr Dane, principal medical officer at Colchester, has
been authorised to proceed to Norwich, Ipswich, Languard
Fort, and Harwich, for the-purpose of making his half-yearly
sanitary inspection of the barracks and hospitals at those
stations.

Col Knox, R.A., has received instruction from the Horse
Guards to proceed t 9 Great Yarmoutb, for the purpose of
conferring with the local authorities as to the police super-
vision of tho magazines of those places.
The screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400 horse power, will be
commissioned at Chatham tc-day by Capt A. C. Gordon
(Feb. 5, 1858). She is to have a complement of 275 officers
and men, including Royal Marines, and she will be attached
to the North America and West India station.

It was yesterday announced at Chatham that the Lords of
the Admiralty have taken into favourable consideration the
claims of the warrant officers employed at the Royal dock-
yi.rds. By an Order iu Council, they will each rbceive en
increeso of salaries, besides being placed in a superior foot=
ing es regards pension, &c., when retiring from the service.
Under this arrangement, the boatswain at Chatham dock-
yard receives an increase of salary of £2O, and the foreman
of riggers (also a warrant officer) an increase of £4O per
annum, a similar augmentation of salary being made to the
warrant officers at each of the other naval establishments.

In consequence of Christmas-day failing this year on Sun-
day, the whole of the naval establishments and dockyard at
Chatham will be cloSed on Monday, the 26th irst., and the
workmen granted a day's holyday. It is not yet dctided
whether the workmen at the Royal Dockyards will obtain
a holyday oa the Saturday before Christmas-day, but a
movement has been set on foot among the workmen at some
of the yards to petition the Board of AdmiraLy to close the
public dockyards from Friday evening until Tuesday morn-
ing.

In referring to the ironclad screw frigate Valiant yester-
day, we should have stated that she was built by the Thames
Ironworks Shipbuilding, So., Company (Limited).
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty:—Commander W. Menzies, to the Osprey, vice
Innea, invalided—S. S. Sagden, master, to the Cadmus—C.
Prickett, master, to the Highflyer—W. H. Cameron, sur-
geon, to the Highflyer—W. H. Baxter, surgeon, to the
Cadmue—H. H. Burniston, paymaster, to the Cadmus—C.
D. Lindsay, paymaster, to the Highflyer—A. G. H. Robert-
son, acting assist surg, to the Higbflyer—Philip Cowen,
acting assist aurg, to the Cadmus—H, C. Jenkins, assist
paymaster, to the Highflyer—F. R. G. Wright and A. P.
Freeman. assist paymaster, to the Cadmus—W. G. Star-

ling, of the Enterprise, promoted to Ist class assist engi-
neer—R. J. Willis, clerk, to the Hightlyer—W. J. Oliver,
clerk, to the Cadmus—C. Cock, assist clerk, to the High-
flyer—and E. Lander, assist clerk, to the Cadmus.
The undermentioned gentlemen were yesterday nominated
to naval cadetships :—Henry Elwyn, Henry Ponsonby,
Hugh H. G. W. Carruthers, Dudley Gordon Alan King,
W. H, Caliwell, Henry D. Archdall, Andrew F. Balfour,
George S. Bosanquet, Francis L, Butt, A. J. S. Carter, W.
H. Castle, W. Coombs, B. R. Coward, H. E. H. Hayes, M.
H. Litchfield, Andrew L. Murray, C. B. Sawle, E. J. San-
derson, J. Anstruther, E. Mills, Mitford W. Pye, W. E.
Ryan, J. H. Kerr. and Hugh H. Adamson.

Three Manufacturers Committed for Trial

at Preston.

r At the Preston Police-court, on Monday, Mr John New-
ton, cotton manufacturer, of Preston ; John Newton, his
son, bookkeeper; Messrs James and Wm. Helliweil, cotton
manufacturers, Blackburn; Mr James Singleton, commis-
sion agent, and Michael Cairns, carter, of Blackburn, were
charged with being concerned in the extensive robbery of
weavers' beams, cotton yarn and pieces, oil, tallow, &c., the
property of the assignees of the first named prisoner. Mr
Catterall, who appeared for the prosecution, said since the
last remand of the case information had been obtained
which led the prosecutors to believe that the prisoners Sine
gleton and Cairns, although they had had a hand in the
removal of the property from Newton's ',remises in Pres-
ton, v ere not aware that it was being dishonestly taken,
and therefore he should ask for their discharge. In regard
to the younger Newton, he might say that he had always
worked under his father's control ; and the three prisoner
named were then discharged. Afterwards Mr Wm, Seed,
cotton spinner, one of the assignees, gave evidence as to see-
ing several of the articles stolen safe on the defendant's
premises on the 19 h ult, John Yates, Emmanuel Hon field,
and Jas, Smith, each connected with the cotton -trade, de-
posed as to the similarity between the beams, &c., produced
and those belonging to the elder Newton, and in operation
prior to his assignment. A bailiff, named Cotterell, who
was in charge of Newton's premises when the robbery
took place, was called upon to give evidence ; but he could
not be found, and it was stated that he was secreting him-
self. John Newton, jun., was next examined. He said
that on Thursday, the 17th ult., whilst he was having a sale
of his household goods, the prisoner James Halliwell came
up to him and asked him whose the goods wore which were
being sold. He replied that they were his own. Afterwards
Halliwell said "Have you signed over too ?" He replied
that he had not. Halliwell then asked him where his father
was, and was toll to inquire next door. He then walked
away. At midnight Halliwell came again, and on seeing
him (witness) said "Tell your father we have been, and
that he must come to us at the Shooters' Arms in Parke
road." Next morning his father told him that he had sold
some weft and heads to James Halliwell end I man named
Taylor. At his father's oequest he afterwards wrote to Jas.
Halliwell, requesting him to come to Preston by the last
train that evening. Next day his father said that Ha'liwell
had been, and that he must make out a bill for him for some
beams, yarn, healds, &o. At first he refused to make out
the bill, but on beino• assured that it was all right he did so.
His father told him that the prisoner, William Halliwell,
was with James the previous night. The bill amounted to
£l9 odd. The same morning he went into his father's
factory yard, and there saw his father, James Halliwell,
and two men he did not know. They had a cart loaded, and
were putting ropes and sacks upon it, Jas. llalliwell said
"Is the bailiff about ?" He (witness) replied that he was
not, and then said, "This is queer work." Helliwell after-
wards paid £2O to his father, and remarked to him (witness)
" Say nothing about it, and the assignees wal not find us
out." His father put a question to Halliwell, who in reply
said that, "If he pieced up with his assignees he could
have the goods back on paying the carriage." On the fol-
lowing day he went with his father to Blackburn, aud saw
both James and Wm. Halliwell. and it was arranged they
should buy from his father a quantity of tallow at 3d per lb
and some oil at 3s per gallon ; also some cotton cloth at los
per piece. On the following morning he (witness) was
knocked up by his father at half-past 5 o'clock and told to
make out a bill, amounting to £32 17s 5d for oil, tallow,
cotton cloth, yarns, beams, healds, reed, Ite., to be supplied
to the Halliwells. When he had made out the bill he went
into his father's millyard, and there saw his father, James
Halliwell, and two other persons. They bad a cart and were
loading it with the goods named in the bill. Afterwards
Halliwell paid £3O to his father, and said he would remit
the remainder. Next day he (witness) went to Blackburn by
direction of his father and saw Wm. Halliwell, who said,
"Have the assignees found it out," He replied that they
had, and that the police had been making inquiries about
the affair. He told Halliwell to put all the beams he and his
brother had got into the looms, to rub all the numbers on
them out, to take the papers off, to remove all the oil, tallow,
cloth, &c., and that he replied he would do so. On the fol-
lowing day he and his father went over to Blackburn and
saw James Halliwell, who was told to get the goods out of
the way as soon as possible. Last Monday, whilst in a room
at the Preston House of Correction, be overheard James
Halliwell say," It's killing me this work;" and afterwards
heard William Halliwell say, " We can do them yet, if the
assignment has not been published in the papers." On
being cross-examined by Mr Radcliffe, of Blackburn, who
appeared for the Messrs, Halliwell, witness said that nobody
except Mr Edolston, the solicitor who appeared for himself
and his father, had told him to make a statement of what
had taken place to the court; that he could not identify the
yet n on the beams ; that he did not know until the day when
the last load of goods was recovered that anything wrong had
been done; that he neither told the Messrs Halliwell nor
any other person about his father's assignment; and that he
did not assist to load the cart which took the goods away.
James Singleton, commission agent, of Blackburn said that
on the night of the 18th ult, he went with James and Wm.
Halliwell to Preston ; that on arriving they went 'out for
two hours, and then came back to him, stating that they
had bought some beams and pieces of cotton ; that next
morning, at six o'clock, he was knocked up, and James
Halliwell took him and Cairns, a carter, to Newton's weav-
ing shed, where they saw Newton, his son, and another man;
that some beams, cotton pieces, and reeds were put into
Cairn's cart, and taken to Messrs, Halliwell's shed, whore
they were unloaded in the presence of Win. Halliwell ; that
in a week after he again went with the Messrs. Halliwell to
Preston; that another cart of goods was taken from New-
ton'e shed to Blackburn; and that at night he saw James