The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-23 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, PLYMOUTH.

Mr. Travers tock his benefit on Monday last. The
pieces selected were Balfe's opera, "The Bohemian Girl,"
and a farce, "The Happiest day of my Life." In the
opera Mr. Weiss appeared as Count Arnheim, Mr. Tra-
vers sustained T
--eideus Madame Weiss took the part
of the Count's daughter 'Arline, and the Queen of the
b
Gipsies was persoNted by Miss Mary Huddart. The
opera was followed by some beautiful fairy-like dancing
from Miss Louise Leclercq, and an excellent buffo dance
from the brothers, Mr. C. and Master A. Leclercq.
During the performance of the farce, the house was con-
vulsed with laughter. On Tuesday evening " Lucia di
sLammermoor"
was repeated, and " Uncle Tom's Cabin"
w
tie fifth time. On Wednesday even-
apresented
for
even-
ing, the entertainments being for the benefit of Mr. and
Mrs. Weiss, "La t9onnambula" and "La Vivandiere"
were produced, ant gratified a large and respectable
audience. On Thursday .4 The Bohemian Girl" and M.
Leclercq's nautical ballet . A Sailor's Home, were re-
presented. Mr. and Mrs. T. Mead and Miss Fanny
Hastings are engaged for the present week.

COLLIEIY ExPLOsioN.—An inquest has been held on
a collier named James Farnworth, of Singing Clough,
near Bolton, who bad lost his.life by an explosion of gas
in a coal mine. The deceased worked in one of the coal
mines of Messrs. Kiowles and Stott, at Singing Clough,
and on Wednesday last, after leaving the face of coal at
which he was working, he returned with a naked candle.
A quantity of foul gas accumulated inlthe place instantly
exploded, and he vas much burnt. He was carried
home, where he died on Friday. Fortunately none of
the other workmen were injured. The jury were of
opinion that Farnworth's death was entirely owing to
his own want of care, and found a verdict of " Accidental
death."
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miles ;,they are invaluable for Shooting, Deer Stalking,
Yachting, to Sportsmen, Gentlemen, Game-keepers, and
Tourists—To be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Picca-
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A new and most important invention in Telescopes,
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inches, with an extra eye piece, will show distinctly
Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's Ring, and the double Stars;
with the same Telescope, weighing only 3 ounces, can
be seen a person's countenance, 3i miles distant, and an
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kind for the Waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all
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posite the York Hotel.

Sir A. Cockburn then proceeded to comment on all
the charges brought against Dr. Achilli, on all of which,
except the 19th, the jury had pronounced him innocent.
The learned counsel relied most particularly on the case
of the woman Principe, who deposed that Dr. Achilli had
had criminal intercourse with her in the sacristy of a
church at Naples. All these charges, he contended,
were proved most satisfactorily, and none but the twelve
gentlemen in the box could have refused to credit them.
It was evident that there existed a strong religious bias
in the minds of the jury—(applause in the gallery)—
and he firmly believed that in consequence of that
justice had not been done. With regard to the misdi-
rection, he rested that upon the fact that the Lord
Chief-Justice, who had tried the case, had directed
the jury to receive the judgment of the Inquisition
put in by the defence, simply as evidence of the fact that
such a judgment had been pronounced, but not as any
evidence of the facts on which the judgment was alleged
to have been pronounced. The allegation of exclusion
of evidence he grounded upon the exclusion by the Lord
Chief-Justice of the article in the Dublin Review, con-
taining the same libel as that which was the subject of
the present prosecution, and published a year and a half
before it.

The Court having consulted together,
Lord Campbell said the learned counsel might take a
rule nisi, on the ground of the verdict being against evi-
dence only.

Rule nisi accordingly.
This announcement was received with applause from
the galleries. Dr. Newman, during the whole of the
proceedings, sat under his counsel, "and appeared to be
engaged in reading the " Office."

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—Nov. 22.
HARRIS V. THOMPSON-SLANDER.
_

This was an action of slander, and was tried before
the Chief Justice at the sittings in Middlesex after last
term, when the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for
1501. Early in the present term, however, a rule was
obtained to enter a verdict for the defendant, or for a
new trial, and to-day this rule came on for argument.
The facts out of which the action arose were these :
The plaintiff was formerly secretary to the Brewers and
Distillers' Insurance Company, and also auditor of the
London Necropolis Company, and the defendant was a
director of each of these companies. The plaintiff had
some charges preferred against him as secretary to the
insurance company, and was dismissed, and subsequently
the defendant brought this circumstanee before the
Necropolis directors in the plaintiff's absence, and stated
that he had been dismissed from the secretaryship for
obtaining money under felse pretences from the solici-
tors to take up a bill of his own, and for giving an
I 0 U of his own for a petty cash debt due from the
company. The defendant on this occasion proposed that
the plaintiff should be dismissed from the office of audi-
tor, but upon the suggestion of the chairman it was re-
solved that the matter should be investigated, and that
the plaintiff should have notice of the meeting for that
purpose. The consequence was that the plaintiff at-
tended with his solicitor, but the defendant declined to
make any statement in the presence of the solicitor,
and upon that gentleman offering to withdraw he also
declined to make his charges in the presence of the plain-
tiff himself. At the trial his lordship was of opinion
that the communication made by the defendant to the
Necropolis directors was privileged ; and he left it to
the jury to say whether the defendant had acted malici-
ously, and they were of opinion that he had so acted.
The principal point now for the consideration of the
Court was, whether there was any evidence of malice,
which was left to the jury.
The Chief Justice said he was of opinion that he was
wrong in leaving this case to the jury ; and that he ought
to have withdrawn it from their consideration, upon the
ground that there was no evidence of express malice for
their consideration.
Rule absolute accordingly.