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BARON LIEBIG'S OPINION of " PALE
ALES."
The prominence given to the name of Baron Liebig in pla•ards and
advertisements will have created the impression that he coveted a
celebrity inconsistent with the dignity of his station in the scientific
world. Having learned that he had attained such undesirable no-
toriety, Baron Liebig has requested the publication of the following
letter, with the view of in'orming the public of the motives which
dictated his communication to %Ir. Allstrppt--
" The question of adulteration by strychnine, which has been
taken up seriously in England, seemed to me of great importance,
and I thought to do some good by a ding to demonstrate the error.
If I wished t s associate with any individual brewery my remarks on
the alleged adulteration 01- bitter beer with strychnine, it would have
b9en only natural to h .ye mentioned ano her brewery, in which
alone, and riot in Mr. Allsopp's, I was engaged in investigating the
Burton mode of brewing : and it was also in that brewery, and not
in Mr. Allsopp's, that the Bavarir.n brewers acquired all the instruc
tion they obtained at Burton. The admiration I expresSA of this
beverage in my letter to Mr. Allsopp is advertised in such a manner
as to lead to the inference that my praise was exclusively confined
to Mr. Allsopp's beer ; this was riot the case, my remarks referred
to that class of beer.

" JUSTUS LIEBIG.

Giessen, July 24, 1852."

TO YOUNG MEN OUr of a SITUATION.
The Person who on Saturday, the 7th instant, presented a
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August 9, 1852.

AUSTRALIAN CORDILLERA GOLD and
COPPER MINING COMPANY.
Offices, 124, Bishopsgate-street Within, London ; 4, Frankfort-street,

Plymouth.

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In consequence of the announcement in the City article of the
Times of the 25th July, an answer to which was given by the Soli-
citor of Captain John Potter Macqueen, and another letter having
been addressed by the Secretary of the Company to the Editor of the
same journal, on the sth August, in reply to Mr. W. A. Young, the
Committee of Management will not close the List of Applications for
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may be allowed the pub is to ensure the authenticity of the docu-
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fide character, and which may be done by applying to the Solicitors ,
Messrs. Scott and Edwards, 23, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-
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By order,
W. A. HUNT, Secretary and Purser.
August 9, 1852.

liflE NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL
COMPANY.
The Shareholders are informed that the Scrip Certificates, payable
to bearer, will be ready to be exchanged for the Banker's receipts on
and atter TUESDAY next, the 17th instant.
The Directors further announce, that the signatures of the share-
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Contracts for the supply of the Patent Steam Fuel are now exe-
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The Admiralty and other certificates testifying to the superiority
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By order,
OSMUND LEWIS, Secretary.
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Assoc. Inst. C.E., for his paper " On the Economy of
R iilways."
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the Application of Machinery to Manufacture of Ro-
tating Chambered -breech Fire-arms, and the peculiari-
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Window, Assoc. Inst. C.E., for his paper " On the
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its construction."
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for his paper entitled " The History, Theory, and Prae-
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6. A Telford medal, in silver, to Eugaae Bourdon
(Paris), for his " Description of a new Metallic Mano-
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and Temperatures."
7. A Telford medal, in silver, to Pierre Hippolyte
Boutigny (d'Evreux), for his " Description of a new
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The Council invite communications on the following
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1. On the principles upon which the works for the
improvement of river navigation should be conducted,
and the effects of the works upon the drainage and irri-
gation of the district.
2. The construction, improvement, and maintenance
of natural or artificial harbours and docks, with the
forms and action of large sluices for clearing away de-
posits by the use of backwater, or by directing the natu-
ral currents.
3. The selection of sites for the construction of docks
on the course of tidal streams, with reference to com-
munication with railways, and with inland navigation.
.4. The selection of sites for, and the principles of, the
constructioß of breakwaters and of harbours of refuge;
;llustrated by examples of existing works.
5. The forms and construction of piers, moles, or
breakwaters (whether solid, or on arches), seawalls,
and shore defences; illustrated by examples of known
constructions, such as the Cobb-wall at Lyme Regis, &a.
6. Tee best system of forming artificial foundations,
showing the ration of pressure to surface, and the soil
beat calculated to sustain heavy structures: illustrated
by the best examples in modern practice, and by accounts
of the failures of large works.
7. The relative value of various kinds of natural
stone available in Great Britain for the purposes of con-
struction; with experiments on the law of increase of
the crushing force, of short blocks of stone, with their
diameters.
8. On brick and tile making, and;the capability of
introducing now forms for engineering and architectural
purposes, with the processes most useful to emigrants
and settlers.
9 The laws of the strength of cast and wrought iron,
under the various conditions of tensile, compressive,
in simple or
transverse,. P
impulsive, and other strains; with
examples illustrative of the co-efficients employed by
eminent practical authorities in the construction of works.
10. The construction of girder bridges, whether of
trussed timber or wooden lattice; of cast iron, trussed
itohf wrought iron,
or plain, wrought-iron lattice work;
or of plate iron rivetted sides, with cellular top and
bottom.
11. The construction of suspension
compoundo r
triangulation;cuabi ne dw
bridges with
rigid platforms, and the modes of unchoring the stay-
chains.
12. The comparative advantages of iron and wood,
or of both materials combined, for the construction of
steam-vessels, with drawings and descriptions, the me-
thods for preventing corrosion, and details of the ar-
rangements for the compasses in iron ships.
13. On the changes that have been intridueed within
the last fifteen years in the lines of ships and „team.
vessels; and an examination of the effects produced by
the new law of measurement for tonnage
14. An ex.krnination of the circumstances which appear
to limit the maine nonce of higher speeds than are now
attained by steam-ships in deep sea navigation; and an
inquiry into the causes which have hitherto prevented
the asserted high speeds of steam navigation on the
American rivers, from hying arrived at in England,
15. The best method of • xternal condensation, so a,
to permit the employment of sett or hard water, and
furnishing pure water ter the boiler; with a description
of vari,,us systems of evaporating, refrigerating, &a.
16. The results of the use of tubular boilers and of
steam at en increased pressure. for marine and other
engines, noticing particularly the difference in weight
and speed in proportion to the horse power ant the
tonnage, with details of the successful most
means for
avoiding smoke in furnaces of all descriptions.
17. The best methods of reducing
the temperature of
the engine and boiler room of steam-vessels and of pre-
venting the danger arising from the over-heating
of the
base of the funnel.
18. Toe relative efficiency of the screw propeller and
paddle wheels, when applied to vessels of identical form
tonnage. and steam power, independent of the use ° ,
19. The results of the application of steam pow
screw propellers to the conveyance of coal, as power and
compared
with the system of sailing vessels. ompared
20. The arrangement and distribution of the Work-
shops at the principal repairing station of a railway, for
s
the repairs and maintenance of the locomotive , pas-
senger, and other carriages, Ste.
21. The construction of locomotive engines specially
adapted for steep inclines, with accounts of eaperi_
demonstrating the comparative value of large and small
small
engines, under various circumstances.
22. Improvements in the construction of railway Ca,
riages and waggons, with a view to the reduction of th-
e
gross weight of passenger trains; also of
railway wheels,
axles, bearings, and breaks, treating particularly of their
ascertained duration and their relative friction.
23. The results of a series of observations on the floe
of water from the ground in any large districts, with
accurately recorded rain gauge registries in the same
locality, fora period of not less than twelve months.
24. The conveyance and distribution of water for the
supply of towns, the sources from whence it may be de-
rived, noticing the relative permeability of different rocks
and soils and their actual capacity for retaining and
de-
livering water. A description of the different modes of
collecting and filtering; and an account of the ad,,en.
tagee or disadvantages of the high service constant sup-
ply system, with notices of the best forms of large valves
and of the best method of jointing pipes of large dia.
meter, to resist considerable pressure, and the precau-
tions to be observed in laying the mains through mining
districts, where the ground is liable to sink.
25. The comparative duty performed by the various
descriptions of steam-en ,fines for raising water, for the
supply of towns, or for the drainage of mines; noticing
the depth and length of the underground workings, the
height of the surface above the sea, the geological for-
mation, the contiguity of streams, &c•
26. The draina
of the systems
e end sewerage of large towns, exam.
accounts • plitied byat present pursued,
with regard to the level and position of the =dal!, the
form and dimensions of the sewers, the prevention of
emanations from them, the disposal of the sewage,
whether in a liquid or solid form, and of the arrange,
meats for Connecting the house drains with the public
.
sewers.
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28. The precautions adopted for guarding again"
ac-
cidents by fire•damps in mines,
29. The results of contrivances for facilitating the
driving of tuci;el3, or drifts in rock.
30. Deticrip!ions of the various kinds of machinery in
use in the principal shipping ports,
for the s,_‘ipment of
coal; noticing particularly thosn in which the greatestexpedition is combined with the least amount of breakage
of the coal; and also accounts of the mesas of unship-
ping and measuring or weighing the coal on its arrival in
porn.

31. Desc.srip'ions of the ovens, and of the best pro-
ce4ses used in Great Britain and on the Continent, in the
manufacture
foarcaltpuparrreiawtoei of coke
valuenccoktes
the
tei j we
system
tttenind
products.oo ft 13
lightinge other p u purposes, s
be sy ps
, with
the ;
the results of the use of clay retorts—of large ovens (fur
producing a better quality of coke)—of exhausters, con-
densers, and the modes of purifying, and the precautions
for the economical distribution of gas.
33. A mathematical or geometrical demonstration
of
the advantages of flat hails for ships, over these of diffe-
rent degrees of curvator, when exposed to direct or
slanting winds; with practical examples.
34 On the application of machinery, combined with
mechanical power, and the means of transporting manure
end produce, on large farms and agricultural establish-
ments; and on improvements in the plan of the works
and buildings, and the " plant" employed.
35. The most effective arrangement and form of cen-
trifugal and reciprocating blowing apparatus.
36. The chemical analysis,nomic purposes, of the gases generated in iron blast fur-
naces.

37. An investigation of the causes of " red" and of
"cold-shortness" in malleable iron, and other chemical
characteristics which affect the physical properties of
cast or of wrought iron.

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38. Description of cast or wrought iron zranes, scaf-
folding, and machinery, employed in large works; in
stone quarries, hoists, or lifts on quays; in ware-
houses,&c., especially where either steam or water is
used as a motive power.

39. The various systems of preserving timber from
decay, and from the attacks of marine insects and the
white ant.

40. On the improvements which may be effected in
the buildings, machinery, and apparatus for producing
sugar from the cane, in the plantations and sugar works
of the British colonies, and the comparison with beet-
root, with regard to quantity, quality, and economy of
manufacture.

41. Description of the machinery adapted for the pre.
partition of Indian cotton.

- 42. Improvements in flax machinery, and in the pro-
cesses for preparing the flax for manipulation.
43. Notice of the principal self-acting tools employed
in the manufacture of engines and machines; also of
moulding machines and wood-working machines; and
the off ct of their introduction.
44. On the best system of remedying the inconveni-
ence resulting from the present want of uniformity be-
tween the weights, measures, and coins of the different
countries of Europe.
45. The construction of lighthouses, their machinery
and lighting apparatus, with notices of the methods in
use for distinguishing the different lights.
46. Memoirs and accounts of the works and inventions
of any of the following engineers:—Sir Hugh Mid-
dleton, Arthur Woolf, Jonathan Hornblower, Richard
Trevithick, William Murdoch (of Soho), and Alexander
Nimmo. _ _

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RAILWAY
A special general meet-al: -- -
LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND .'"--
rELLIGENCE. „.„
TENSION.
g of the proprietors of shares
Lem
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Mr. J. N. Daniell, thei chairman of gthe Elackwallilwa Rail-
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to sanction an
expressed in the advertisement. It was
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joint board,
and which be thought could NOt but be very
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the sum of 425 0001. to be paid to the con-
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construct the line.
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Dar. ANDERSON seconded, and the motiongr passed
aniraously.
A SHAREHOLDER. asked in what time the works were
to be completed?
no-
The CHAIRMAN said in eighteen months, and the
counts would commence from the Ist of January, 1853,
as the money was paid in.
SHAREHOLDER—Who is to find the carriages?
The CHAIRMAN—They will belong to the Blackwall
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They will b© paid for working it, but that will not affect
the guarantee.
The meeting then separated.
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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Aug. 9.
Lord Chief Justice Campbell and Mr. Justice
Wightman arrived hero on Saturday, and opened the
commission.

Yesterday their Lordships attended Divine Service
at the parish church.

The calendlr contains the names of 16 prisoners, 2
of whom are charged with murder, 2 with man-
slaughter, 3 with rape, 1 with stabbing, the rest with
minor offences.

The cause list contains an entry of nine causes.
Their Lordships proceeded to court this morning at
ten o'clock, Lord Chief Justice Campbell sitting in the
Crown Court.

LORDSIIIP fined a manufacturer, summoned to
attend the petit jury, and who refused to attend be-
cause he was not summoned to attend the grand jury,
101. for his contempt.

The cases tried during the earlier part of the day
were wholly uninteresting.

NISI PIiIUS COUll,T.—(Before Mr. Justice
WIGHTMAN.)
ROBINSON V..HEATON AND ANOTHER.

This was an action for lihel, to which the de-
fendant pleaded Not Guilty, and, as to part, a justi-
lWainattisffo,ni,nQl.BCso,,
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Segar appeared for
Mr. Cowling,
was appointed
and Mr. Monk for the defendants. •
thelt
surveyor for the town of Clitheroe under the Health
of Towns Act, and also acted as inspector
flea tion.
nui-
sances for the borough, and collector of appeared plaintiff;
atnhda t tMher.p
rateof
at a
salary of 150/. To pay his salary a rate of 4d. in
pound was imposed, to pay which there was a
. the
great
repugnance on the part of man
the the ratepaTowns
being contended by them that Health ofrs ft
Act was impracticable as regarded Clitheroe.
The
rate was also appealed against, and in consequence
the plaintiff could not obtain his salary. These pro-
ceedings led to parish meetings, at which there were
hot debates, those on one side being called " Minis-
terialists," those on the other " the Opposition." At
one of these meetings it was proposed, as a means of
getting rid of the rate altogether, that the plaintiff
"be dismissed from his office forthwith." The de-
fendant, Mr. Heaton, a pawnbroker, professed to
give an account oreortlacards of thisand meeti
hung ng, w
about
hich
as printed in large
this p
w
the town, and in placard the plaintiff's
efficiency as a surveyor was called in question,
ch as " Water Pipes" and " Water
and terms Sti
Ousel " were applied to him, calculated to bring him
into public
was and contempt. The libel com-
plained of was also published in a publication called
The Ratepayers' Advocate and Protector. This was
published by the other defendant, Whewell, and pro-
fessed to contain a report of the parish meeting alluded
to, furnished by the defendant Heaton. In that report
among other things, the defendant Heaton said of the
plaintiff, 66 AS to his engineering qualities, he does not
know the difference between a verge and a lever
watch; and then went on to say that he had failed in
a lane, called Waddington-lane, from
preventing
There was then a great deal of local
being flooded.
matter throwing discredit upon the plaintiff.
Fns the defendans it was contended by the Learned
Counse that the speech published did not amount to
a libel.l Clitheroe was described to be divided into
two parties, three-fourths of the town being opposed
to putting in force the Health of Towns Act, and
in the heat of party strife occasioned thereby,
that,
the defendants had a right to comment on the con-
duct of the Public officer of the Board of Health.
His LORDSIIIP having summed up,
The jury fou.nd a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages, 40s.

llALL"crie°fltenTidtany't pLltevaEdseEdy
non.
assumpsit.
This was an actiot2 for a breach of promise of mar-
riage, to which the _
Mr. Sergeant WilkitwandMr. Jones appeared for
the plaintiff, and Mr. ()Wend for the defendant.
The plaintiff, who was 22 years of age, resides
with her mother at Blackburn, and about four years
ago, on a trip to Blackpool, became acquainted with
the defendant, who • eventually proposed marriage to
her, telling ber mother he was going to set up a
shop in the grocery line, and, if it succeeded, he
would marry her daughter. The plaintiff received
him afterwards as an accepted suitor, repairing his
shirts and acting as his intended wife. Suddenly,
ir. January last, the defendant ceased his attentions to
the plaintiff, and in March last he married the daughter
of a licensed victualler of some property. The pre-
sent action was in consequence brought.
Mr. OVEEEND, for the defendant, contended that
the plaintiff had not suffered any damage in her po-
sition by the change which had taken place in the
defendant's intentions towards her, as the defendant
was only a mechanic, earning 245. a week.
His LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages, 501.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice

Mr. Thompson
CAMPBELL.)
son
RoAfPSE u sa a
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sa
tNe
arr.
t—aSt üBO
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ra .nt
late sa y B RIITALIT
John Pollard, aged 40, John Crooke, aged 21, and
James Booth, aged 23, were charged with having, on
the 22d ofh Maym
p s
n a last,n d.P
a committedge a rape
prosecuted; upon thea n d
Mr.
forLeger,vteh
lived
last a
tßt
No
soee wvis
anda
dd
hadoAwi
James, Q.C., defended Crooke; Mr. Monk, Pollard ;
.Susannah Stewart stated that she had been a
w
c na
s tyl
ee
been a soldier. She was the mother of nine children,
.aorns,-ThyernehutsiblaindabohuatvinlgB
months ago. On Friday, the 21st May, she went to
Burnley in a state of destitution, and on applying for
relief she was refused. On the following day she went
in search of lodgings, but could find none. She went
, afterwards to a beerhouse to look after a Scotch woman.
The Scotchwoman was not there, but there was a
man seated there drinking who heard what she
had to say, and gave her a glass of beer. He
heard her tell the landlady she wanted to see the
Scotch woman, to see if she could procure lodgings
for her, and he observed at the time that he could
find her lodgings. Thinking that he was laughing at
her, she left the house, followed by the man, who re-
peated that if she went with him he would find her
lodgings. She said she was afraid, and he said she
need not be. He took her up a dark and lonesome
lane, and she said to him, " I hope you are not taking
me astray, I would much sooner turn back." He re-
plied, "No ; don't be afraid, come on ; you'll soon
see the house I'm taking you to." She then went a
little further with him, when he suddenly took her
by the arms and threw her on the ground. As soon
as she was on the ground she was surrounded by a
number of other men ; but she could identify none of
them. It was quite dark at the time. She screamed
" Murder," and found that her legs and shoulders
were held by some of the other men. Her clothes
were torn off her. (Witness here described the par-
ticulars of a rape committed upon her by five persons
in succession.)
The witness was cross-examined at considerable
length, but nothing transpired to shake her testimony.
Richard Mercer, joiner, of Burnley, deposed to
having been going home on the morning of the 23d
May, at about a quarter past twelve o'clock. He saw
a man and woman go through the lime kiln gate, and
four or five men following. After reaching home he
was alarmed by'loud screams of " Murder," and went
to the stone yard, from whence they
seemed to issue,
where he saw six or seven men on the ground. He
did not see a woman, but he heard a woman's voice
say, " Don't take advantage of a poor Scotchwoman,
the mother of nine children." He procured assist-
ance, and going to the spot afterwards found Pollard
in custody, and the prosecutnx lying on the bank of
the canal, much exhausted and stripped nearly naked.
James Crooke and Thomas Smith deposed to hav-
ing heard the prosecutrix's screams of murder, and on
going to the spot they found a number of men sur-
rounding her. Pollard was laid upon the ground be-
side her, with his arm around her neck, and Crooke
and Booth were present.
Mr. George Smithwaite, surgeon, spoke to having
examined the prosecutrix shortly after the commis-
sion of the felonious assault upon her, and to the in-
juries she had sustained. She was much bruised and
was in a state of great debility.
Moulding Walmaley, a police-constable at Burn-
ley, said he went to the spot on the morning of the
23d of May, in consequence of information received.
He heard the cries of a woman, apparently much ex-
hausted, and looking over a wall he saw six or se,:ce
men, two of them kneeling down ne.ar for
where he afterwards found the prosecutrix.thelle
figure
e
over the wall, and shortly afterwards sawround•
of a man, apparently rising from tb;'tg'b, the
pri-
took the man in custody, and it provema,..'".lly assault-
soner Pollard. Charged him with el''..,thena at the
ing the woman, who was lying thew omen, What
time, and he (Pollard) said to u old ? As'
the did you vrant here, 31! ~„. ,She was very
sisted in helping the proseciuttr "r
stand alone. Every
much exhausted and 13
unbeee, svith the exception of a
particle of clothing u 0_
P ;been torn off. her back,
portion of her stays brat, the prosecution.
This was the case poke's character was called, and
Evidence as. to Cros
were examined to prove that
a number of witness
edrunk, and that she had miscon•
the prosecutrix was
par
ious parts of the towia.
ducted hers@lf

For Booth witnesses were called to show that he
had only gone to the spot on hearing the cries of
" Murder" to render assistance.
The jury, after a short consultation, found Pollard
Guilty, and Acquitted the other two prisoners.
His LoJanson>, in sentencing Pollard to 15 years'
transportation, slid that in the annals of crime a more
atrocious case of rape than this had never been proved.
It had been attended by circuinstances of brutality
that were quite appalling, and it was marvellous tlae.t
any person wearing the human form could concur in
such an abominable outrage.
The case occupied the attention of the Court for
eight hours.

SOUTH 'VALES ClRCUlT.—Chester, Aug. 10.
CROW N CO LJR.T.—(Before Mr.JusticeeztomrroN.)
The Learned Judge took his seat upon the bench
shortly before nine o'clock, and was occupied nearly
the whole of the day in trying cases which were unfit
for publication.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice
TALFOURD.)
F3RD, CLERK, V. WILBRAHAM.
The plaintiff in this case was the Rev. Frederick
Ford, a minister of the Established Church, and rec-
tor of St. Peter's Church, Chester, and the defendant
was Mr. Randle Wilbraham, jun., the registered pro-
prietor of the Chester Courant, a Conservative news-
paper published in this city. The action was brought
to recover compensation in damages for an alleged
libel on the plaintiff, which appeared in the defendant's
paper during the late election for the city. The
damages were laid at 5001. The libel consisted of a
letter which appeared in the Courant, and certain
editorial observations on such letter in the same
paper, which the plaintiff alleged , were defamatory
and libellous. The letter and articles were comments
upon the piibli?'&lllduct and speeches at election
meetings of Liberals in Chester during the late
election.

Mr. Welsby and Mr. M'lntyre appeared for the
plaintiff ; and Mr. Evans and Mr. Grove for the
defendant.

Mr. M'INTYRE having opened the pleadings,
h
Mr. WELSBT stated case. He said that the
plaintiff in this case had beene compelled to come into
that court to seek reparation for a series of open
libellous publications against his public conduct,
which appeared in the columns of the Chester Courant
of the 30th of June last, and
of whichth newspaper the
the proprietor. But,
defendant, Mr. Wilbraham, was
while he said that the plaintiff had
adeen compelled to
it, character
they from the
come into court to vindicate h
attacks which had been made uponvindication
of of his character was his sole object, and he had
desire whatever to put money into his pocket in thene
shape of damages. On the contrary, he had from the
first been willing to be satisfied with the payment of
the expenses already incurred, provided the defendant
would have apologised in the newspaper for the libels
complained of ; but this the defendant refused to ac-
cede to. The Learned Counsel having referred to the
plaintiff as a clergyman resident in Chester, and who
was the rector of St. Peter's church, said they were
aware that recently a contested election took place in
Chester, in which two gentlemen of opposite political
opinions, the Honourable Mr. Owen Stanley, on the
Liberal or anti-Ministerial principles, and Mr.
Holme, a highly respectable merchant of Liverpool,
as the representative of the opposite interest. The
Reverend Mr. Ford, the plaintiff, as he had a per-
fect right to do, thought proper to support the Ho-
nourable Mr. Stanley, and in consequence of this the
defendent had thought proper to malign his client
and libel him in the Chester Courant, in the manner
complained of. Now, he admitted that great
latitude ought to be allowed during the excitement
of a general election, but he (Mr. Welsby) insisted
that, even during the saturnalia attendant upon a
contested election, the attacks which had been made
upon the plaintiff were altogether unjustifiable and
disgraceful to the newspaper in which they appeared,
as against a clergyman who was pursuing his sacred
calling in the very city in which the newspaper was
published. The Learned Counsel proceeded to quote
from the articles complained of, commenting upon
them as he went along. The first attack he noticed
was from a leading article in this newspaper, in which
the plaintiff was spoken of as " a time-serving back-
' slider " in the following choice terms :
" The mention of the Rev. F. Ford naturally suggests
a word of sympathy over the full of that time-serving
backslider. . . . This nine F:ederick Ford, rector
of St. Peter's, Chester, casts in his lot with the abet
tors of those whom he knows to be the enemies ,ot
Bible education, and the adversaries of all our religious
institutions; condescends to play second buffoon to
Kr. Temple, for the amusement of his Unitarian al-
lies, by reviling an honest man and a sincere Chris-
tian; and in his unseemly desire to enjoy the plauditsof
a crowd, whose love, forsooth, he strove to win by pro
[Discs of plenty of ale, forgot the injunction of the Cate-
chism 'ti keep the tongue from evil-speaking, lying,
Ind slandering,' while preaching from a weggon his no-
table discourse on two Pic; s under one hat We have
no affection for blusteric `political parsons' of any
class; but, when they ' thus demean themselves, there is
no one word in the English language sufficiently strong
,0 mark our opinion of such surplic:d agitators."
The Learned Counsel having quoted from the news-
paper other strictures of a severe character, main-
tained that the articles he had read were intemperate
comments, and such as no man ought to submit to.
Mr. EVA.NS, Q C., addressed the jury on behalf of
the defendant, contending that the articles complained
of were nothing more than electioneering squibs. No
injury or damage had been sustained by the plaintiff,
either as regarded his congregation or any other class
of the community. referred minutely
LORDSHIP, in suinming up,
to the different portions of the alleged libels, remark-
ing that some of the observations were,Judge) certainly very
strong, especially such re
Learned marks as a time-s
shouldervin
backslider," which he (the g
pleasant for either Mr.
think would not be very
Ford or any member of his family to read. He
considered that many of the remarks were not justi-
fieble, even taking into consideration the excitement
of a contested election. It was not proved that the
plaintiff had made use of any remarks that justified
the articles in the newspaper. It was for the jury to
say whether the articles complained of were calculated
to bring the plaintiff into odium and contempt. If
so, they would find a verdict in his favour, and the
amount of damages would rest with themselves. He
thought it would be difficult for them to say that such
terms as "time-serving backslider," a
contem nd " buffoon,"
were not calculated to bring him into pt.
The jury, after a few moments deliberation, re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one
farthing.
The award of nominal damages seemed
whicht ocause
considerable astonishment in the court,was
densely crowded during the whole of the trial.
The Learned Judge then proceeded to take crimi-
nal cases.
It is believed that the trials of the Stockport rioters
will come on to-morrow or Thursday.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 9.
Mr. Sergeant Allen assisted to-day in trying priso
nersinthegrand-jury room.

CROWN COURT—(Before Mr. Justice WlLwAsfa
Mary Ann Jordan was indicted for stealing from
Mrs. Elizabeth Gurney, West at
Dean, on
the 16th
July, 1201. in gold, silver, and copper.
Mr. Pigott Pigott and Mr. Scotland conducted the Fill,
cution ; and Mr. Huddleston and Mr. ?owe
defence. a business
Mrs. Gurney was a widow, carrying L.° non and
as a grocer, at Lidbrooke, in the Forestme_lo,..,„ea't up
the prisoner had been a servant in her
ten fro into ser-
to the 26th March last, when she leis the lOth July,
vice at Gloucester. On Saturd on that night
the prisoner came back to see her'
ri.i a coal pro-
the miners in the service of itir• at her house. She
, ...ages
prietor, were paid thetro -the cash -box and on that
'The prisoner
used to keep her monernl
tbe at times in the
evening it was left and was alone
left in were
in the cash.
misted in the shop,
there kitoheis.
akitchen. That evens sovereigns and half-sovereigns,
box nearly 10a
fill
ver, a 51. bank-note of the Ross
or 121. in si k some cheques on the Ross
and 101. ,id Ban • . .
and Arcbenne vvith 12s. in silver, and two penny-
, Bank, a pursoengst the gold was a coin of a very
unusual „aaaarance, such as Mrs. Gurney
'never before took the like of,
said aid not say whether it was a half-
all ea or a halt-sovereign. Amongst the silver was
gu'r •with the letters " 5.13." marked on it. The
0 shilling
ent,
y-pieces were one old and the other new. The
prisoner's father lived about half-a-mile from Mrs.
Gurney, and Mrs. Gurney and her niece walked with
her half-way home that night at eleven o'clock, and
passed a large and deep horsepand, by the side of
which the cash-box was found, empty and open, on
the following Monday. The prisoner that nigh'. had
only a light handkerchief upon her neck. Before
.going home on the Saturday night, the prisoner gave
Mrs. Gurney a half-sovereign in order to get change
for it, but said she would call for the change in the
morning, as it might be an excuse for her asking
her father's leave to come back. She came back in
the morning, and breakfasted with Mrs. Gurney, got
the change, and went to church with her. That
night, about ten o'clock, the prisoner went to the
house of a man named Sier,
that silo at West Dean, with
whose son she was keeping
company, and complaining
was tired, she lifted up her pocket, and said

1~~ C~

to the son, " Heft (heave up) this." He did so, and
found it weighty, and said she must have some cop-
pers in it, and she said, " yes." She that night gave
him 21., which she got beck the next day. She
remained there on Monday and part of
Tuesday, till she was arrested. The cash-
box was not missed till between twelve and one
o'clock on the Monday, when it was found near the
Fond, and brought to Mrs. Gurney. Suspicion was
at once directed towards many persons, and at length
was fixed on the prisoner. A constable, who went in
seach of her, found her at Sier's house. On seeing
him coming towards the door she ran to Mrs. Sier's
bed-room, and quietly dropped the purse behind Mrs.
Sier, who was lying in bed. The constable, however,
was too sharp for her, and saw what she had done,
and on telling Mrs. Sier of it and desiring her to get
up, the purse was found behind the bed. On being
searched upwards
d shillings,weanrds of 40
/.insovereigns, half-sovereigns,
were found in her picket,
and on being asked where or how she came by them,
she said they had been given to her by her father.
it was proved that her father was a small collier, in
corafortable condition, who had recently bought a
small allotment of land, and was about to buy some
more, but the father himself was not called by the
Crown or the prisoner to prove or disprove the truth
of her statement. Amongst the money found upon
her were the peculiar half-sovereign or half-guinea,
the shilling marked with the letters " S. B." and two
penny-pieces, which Mrs. Gurney believed to be the
two she had lost. When the constable was taking
the prisoner to the station, across the fields, she asked
him to say no more than he could help respecting
her attempt to conceal the money.
Before the case for the prosecution had closed, two
of the jurors expressed a wish that his Lordship would
prevent more evidence being given, as they were
quite prepared to find her guilty. The trial, how -
ever, proceeded. Being convicted, but recommended
to mercy on account of her youth, she was sentenced
to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour.
On hearing the sentence she was greatly affected, and
was overheard to say that she would be better pleased
to be transported for life.
It is proper to add that at the late quarter-sessions
for this county a pretty, interesting young girl, named
Wilks, was convicted of a theft similar to the above,
on the evidence of the prisoner. On leaving the ser-
vice of Mrs. Gurney, Jordan went into that of a Mrs.
Sleed, the widow of a clergyman residing at Glouces-
ter, who soon after began to miss money; and one
evening coming home unexpectedly, found the young
man Sier in the house, and ordered both servants at
once to leave, but before they left, finding her escre-
. toire forced open, and twenty sovereigns taken
out, sent for the police and instituted a search.
As the search proceeded, Jordan suggested
that they should search Wilks's box and
room, and on the search being made, the twenty sove-
reigns were found between the box and the wall.
Wilks was thereupon taken into custody, and was
committed for trial by the magistrates. Jordan was
the chief witness against her, and stated so many and
such important facts against her that when she came
to be tried at the quarter-sessions, her friends thought
her guilt so clear and her case so hopeless, that they
advised her to plead guilty, but this sbe obstinately
refused to do, making the most solemn protestations of
her innocence. The case was called on. Jordan ap-
peared as a witness against her, and repeated her
former statement with such skill and cleverness, that
notwithstanding there were many circumstances of
suspicion connected with the case for the prosecution,
thejury found her guilty, and she was sentenced to a
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Mr. Gray conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Cooke
defended the prisoner.
The perjury was alleged to in
have been committed
an affidavit made by the prisoner in a case of page
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v. Caustins," an action for adultery, on a motion for -a
new trial. In order to show that after the fact of the
adultery had come to the knowledge of the plaintiff he
condoned or forgave it, the prisoner swore that on the
subsequent day—viz., the 9th of October, 1850, he
saw the plaintiff and his wife together at the Saluta-
tion Inn, Cheltenham. The plaintiff himself, and two
other witnesses swore, that on that day the plaintiff
went at an early hour from his house, at Cheltenham,
by the train, through Jessop's nursery grounds, to
London, and that from the time be left his house till
he reached the station she was not with him, and bad
not been in his house for some weeks. It was elicited
in cross-examination that the plaintiff and his wife
were seen together at the Paddington station on
the 11th.
For the defence it was contended that it was pos-
sible that the prisoner might have seen them near the
Salutation, and that that was what he meant by say-
ing he saw them at it.
The jury, after considering for twenty minutes,
asked what was the shortest distance from the Salu-
tation Inn to the nearest part of the way which led
from tt.e plaintiff's Louse through Jessop's garden to
the rail way station, and on being told it was 100 yards
they expressed a wish to withdraw.
After an absence of half an hour they returned
with a verdict of Guilty.
Sentence, one year's imprisonment, with hard
labour.

WESTERN CIRCUIT— Wells, Aug. 9,
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.)
Thomas Boarne, surgeon of Radbtock, was indicted
for the manslaughter of Ann Noakes.
Ann Noakes, the woman whose death the prisoner
was accused of causing, was the wife of a man in
humble circumstances, a miner living at Strascombe.
She was about 43 years of age. She had been mar-
ried several years, and had no fewer than eleven
children. On the 20th of June last her confinement
was approaching, and about half-past three or four in
the afternoon she was taken in labour. Some fe-
male neighbours were called in, and on examination
it was found that a "false presentation" had oc-
curred. The prisoner, who had attended her be-
fore, was sent tor. He endeavoured to alter the pre-
sentation, but in vain. About four a messenger
arrived with the information that Mrs. Puller, the
wife of a respectable and wealthy farmer living two
miles from his house, was taken in labour, and that
be must proceed to her assistance. No sooner did he
hear this than the prisoner said he must go, saying
that he had been bespoken by Mrs. Parker. In this
state the prisoner left her against the wishes of the
women about her, who protested against it, and in
spite of the entreaties of the poor creature herself,
hour.r
that he would stay for only a quarter of an for m
lie, however, desired the parties to senddas
Marsh, the parish surgeon. A messenger was
Mr. Marsh, who lived at a distance.
off, and he came with all possible
eel
poor creature did not survive abov
Several witnesses were then called
the confinements of Mrs•
dan-
gerous, and several. medical
the defendant a high
kindness to the poor, endof some
an
a justified his treatment of
the case. risoner Not Guilty.
Th re jury .oun
d the GREGORY AND OTHERS.
THE QUEEN
were convicted on Saturday of
These prisoneir.si,g
at
Glutton, at the late election
riotously asseindbiviisian of this county, but the sen-
for the essterf„oned.
Pris","t
fence vvas. P°o;, were now placed at the bar to re-
Theceimvertgrae FL Arr said, that he had taken some time
---s'd3errtnhe judgment he should pass with. a view
to con- ding as much mercy as was consistent with
It seemed
hich bad *ust taken pl • h-
'tifeezdtue:adm-inis.tration of public justice.
ace in t is
county certain pawns had been proposed as candi-
that a the ele.ction w . . . j
dates, and that the prisoners had combined together
with many others, who had not been taken, for the
purpose of intimidating the voters, and the result had
been that they had nearly demolished the house of the
Blue party. It was very painful to see industrious
fellows, as he had learned they were, brought up hero
as parties concerned in such an outrage. Several of
them had received good characters. He also took
into consideration the topic which had been urged on
their behalf, the cry of cheap food, and it would be
well if those who excited such men would look before-
hand before they tried to excite the passions of an un-
governable mob. They had unfortunately been the
victims of those mob orators who ought to have come
forward with their money to have defended them ;
for he was ashamed of his country when he saw that
some of them were undefended by counsel ; it showed
that those persons had their own
private
gratify, and had then left the prisoners to their fate.e
His Lordship then passed on the prisoners sentences
nt.
varying from six month& to one month's imprisonment.
ends to
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---- _—_--7—r- on Monday
THE ISLINGTON CATTLE NABgtaTrislington, was
this property, situate in the Lo e!
'Narrowly's, by essrs.
offered for sale by public auction
Mr. John Perkins, with a
under-
}'arebrother, by direction of the
taking was origcated by the latetoe
market from Smithfield,
amtortgagees. Theview to the removal of the cattle
f Parliament in 1835, but on
and was established.by the
sufficiently patronised for
being opened for blanaeste`i and it has of late been used only
its continuance as a '"
at the business of the market can
recommenced under its Present Act. The
0„,, the market, which stands on about 16
faotr
atnhye ltaiLinraegbeeofcoptlar,
property c"'nPrL land, public-houses, private dwelling-
-' freehold
acres ot 1 leasehold property, &e., and the whole
houses. shells,
arty was 45,000/., and it was bought in at
for the whole prualP
was offered to pauTlic competition in one let. The first offer
offered not being sufficient to satisfy the
52,000/, theotthseomortgagees. Several of the City committee
demalos lalists and
were Present, as interested- gret thennmber of capi .
emen in removal
other gentl
market. of Smithfield-
Lord Justice Knight Bruce and
Mr Preston and
family, Viscount
Gormansten, accompanied by the
family, Baron Von Bale, Mrs. On:1°3711:
the continent, on
family, &c., embarked on Sunday last for . . _
Captain Jaalaeon.
Dr..Lathom, and
board the Antwerp steamer, Baron 0/11