The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

CHARGE AT BALAKLAVA.

OLD COURT.

(Before the Recorder.)

46 4

101 2

NE W COURT.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(Sittings in Banco at Westminster, before Lord Chief
Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Crompton, Mr. Justice
Blackburn, and Mr. Justice Mellor.)

THE EARL OP CARDIGAN V. LIEUT.- COLONEL THE HON.
SOMERSET TALBOT CALTHORPE-THE LIGHT CAVALRY

It will be recollected that a short time ago Mr. Bovill,
Q.C., on the part of the Earl of Cardigan, obtained a rule
calling upon the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset.
Talbot Caithorpe, who served in the Crimean war, and
who had written a book entitled " Letters from
Head-quarters, the Realities of the War in the
Crimea," by an officer on the Staff, to show cause why
a criminal action should not be filed against him for a
libel reflecting upon the military reputation of the noble and
gallant general. The libel complained of was contained in
the description of the attack by the light cavalry brigade,
under the command of the Earl of Cardigan, upon the
Russian batteries at Balaklava, in which the noble ears
contended that his military character and honour had been
impeached, by its being said he did not take his brigade
through the battery, but that, " on coming up to the battery
(as he afterwards himself described it), a gun was fired
close to him, and for a moment he thought his leg was gone.
Such was not the case, as he remained unhurt, However,
his horse took fright—swerved round—and galloped off with
him to the rear, passing, on the way, by the 4th Light Dra-
goons and Bth Hussars, before these regiments got up to
the battery." Earl Cardigan, after the first edition of
the work, called the author's attention to the above errone-
ous statement, and in the second edition, without altering
the original text, he published a notice, in which he
simply stated that no doubt the statement that his horse
ran away with him was erroneous. In a third edition he
still retained the objectionable passage, with a similar note.
Mr. Kinglake's recent work on the Crimea had again called
attention to the events there, and the noble earl found that
the calumnies in reference to the charge at Balaklava we. e
being freely spoken atout in public society. In February
he called upon the author to stop the publication of the
work, or expunge the objectionable passage, but he declined
to do so, and therefore the iule was applied for and granted.
Mr. Sergeant Shee this morning showed cause against
the rule, and was followed by Mr. Coleridge on the same
side. At tne conclusion of the learned gentleman's argu-
ment, Mr. Bovill, on the part of his lordship, was heard
in reply, and was addressing the court when we went to
press.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

Benjamin Everett was indicted for feloniously receiving
a quantity of lesiher and other articles used in the manu-
facture of boots and shoes, the property of George William
Shelton.

The case did not possess any general interest, and had
not concluded when Ni e weut to tress.

A person named Dowden surrendered to an indictment
for libel on Mr. Allnutt. He was discharged on hia own
recognisateces.

The remainder of the morning was occupied in the dis-
posal of five cases of uttering counterfeit coin, in which the
persons charged were sentenced to short terms of imprison-
ment, with hard labour.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)
Robert Jones, alias Joyce, pleaded guilty to a charge of
robbery, with violence, on several females, and stealing
monies from them.

Joseph G.rdner also ple,ded guilty to a charge of steal-
ing a watch from Josiah White.
Sentence in both cases was deferred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.