The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-10 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY NOON.

This morning at eight o'clock the United States
mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, was tele-
graphed off Holyhead. She will arrive in our port
about half•past two, with letters and papers from
New York and the principal cities of the United
States, to the 30th inst., on which day at noon, the
Baltic left New York with the usual semi-weekly
mails and four days later dates than we previously
received by the royal mail steamer America. Her
mails will be landed in time for transmission by this
evening's mail to London, Dublin, Glasgow, and the
Continent.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS DAY.)
Their Lordships met shortly after 2 o'clock, when
:he swearing in of Peers was resumed, which con-
tinued up to the period of the adjournment.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The Speaker took the chair nt 12 o'clock; but the
proceedings of the sitting were exclusively confined
to the swearing in of Members.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY

BAIL COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton.)

CRIMINAL INFORMATION-EX PARTE ()EDDIE.
Mr. Collier applied for a rule calling on Thos. Reber.
Mulcock, a churchwarden of St. Mary's, Newington, to
show cause why a criminal information should not be
filed against him for having published and circulated ex-
tensively a hand-bill, reflecting seriously upon the cha-
racter of Mr. Geddie, who had up to a recent period acted
as solicitor to the governors of the poor for that parish.
He was appointed to that office in 1844, and continued
to hold it until June, 1851, when, in consequence of a
change in popular opinion in the parish, a new set of
guardians were elected, and he ceased to act as solicitor.
Soon afterwards he was employed by two of the princi-
pal rate payers of the parish, named Ireland and Booker,
who were also the electors of the Drapers' Charity, to
take measures for placing that charity on a better footing,
there being a considerable accumulation of funds,
and the managers being anxious to know
in what way they could be equitably and legally dealt
with. The opinion of counsel having been taken, he
advised an application to Sir Alexander Cockburn, the
Attorney-General at that period, for his sanction to an
information in Chancery, intimating that the electors of
the charity, and not the governors of the poor, were the
proper parties to act as relators to the suit. Sir Alex.
Cockburn, however, disallowed the information, on the
ground that the guardians ought to be the relators;
but there could be no doubt, in arriving at that con-
clusion, he had been influenced by some ex parte state-
ments injurious to the reputation of Mr. Geddie, who,
however, stood as high as any gentleman in the pro-
fession, and against whom not a breath of suspicion had
ever been raised. Messrs. Ireland and Booker had, in
their affidavits, entirely exonerated him from any blame
whatever, stating that they had merely applied to him,
for the purpose of knowing what could be done for the
best interests of the charity. Mr. Geddie subsequently
took the opinion of the present Sir John Stuart, who
thought that he had acted rightly in making these two
parties relators. Strengthened by that opinion, in May
last he renewed his application to Sir Frederick The-
siger, who was then Attorney-General, and, after hear-
ing both sides, Sir Frederick allowed the information,
and it was now proceeding in the Court of Chancery.
Soon after this decision a hand-bill was extensively cir-
culated in the parish, in large letters, addressed to the
parishioners of St. Mary, Newington, and calling on
them to attend a certain vestry meeting, and endeavoured
to prevent the funds of the Drapers' Charity being
swallowed up by the cormorant lawyers. The publication
went on to say thatevery means would be used to exhaust
the funds, and that the rate-payers ought to come for-
ward as one man, and resist so diabolical an attempt to
rob the poor of their just rights; adding that they must
already be quite satiated with the enormous bills of costs
which had been paid by the parish.
Mr. Justice Crompton observed that the hand-bill did
not allude personally to Mr. Geddie.

Mr. Collier said ho had affidavits from several parties,
to show that the expression " cormorant lawyers," as
well as the other allusions, were meant to apply to Mr.
Ged die. Besides, Mr. Mulcock had acknowledged at a
vestry meeting that he had circulated the bill, and it
was Is" h•"‘-••- -‘- Imr alb of dis-
approbation in speaking of Mr. Geddie.
Rule granted.