The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-11 00:00:00

LAW INTE GLIGENCE.—Feb. 10.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
TrOODGATE V. HIDEOUT (DP THE MORNING POST).
This is an action for liable, in which the damages are
laid at £20,000, against the proprietor of the Morning Post,
for certain observations which appeared in that journal on
a suit in Chancery (re the Egmont Estates).
The particulars of the alleged libel were detailed, and Mr.
Bovill, for the plaintiff, set out the history of Mr. Wood_
gate's connection with the Egmont family, and then called
the Right Hon. Spencer, H. Walpole, M.P., the Earl of
Egmont, and the plaintiff to prove the good faith of the
plaintiff in all that was done by him professionally, and to
negative the imputations of fraud contained in the alleged
libel.

Mr. Lush, Q.C., for the defendant, urged that the article
in question was a fair comment upon a trial, and a reason-
able conclusion to be drawn from the facts then elicited in
the Court of Chancery.
The Chief Justice having summed up, the jury found
verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £l,OOO.

LONDON GAZE r TE—Last Evening.

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Christ°,
pher Davidson, Esq., to be Treasurer and Accountant.
General for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
INDIA OFFICE, FEB. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lewis Charles
Innes, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, to be a Judge of
the High Court of Judicature at Madras.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 7.
Lieutenant William Coles to be Retired Commands;
under her Majesty's Orders in Council of Aug. 1, 1860, and
July 9, 1864.

BREVET.
Major-General John Edward Dupuis, C. 8., from the
Supernumerary List, to be Major-General on the fixed
establishment, vice Major-General Richard Say Arm-
strong, deceased.

rOI7BSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 14 11 5
Ditto 3 Months. 11 171 11 1 181
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 42/ 25 50
Masao 3 Months. 25 42i 25 50
seilles
Frankfort on the Maine 2
1191 120
Vienna — 11 55 1160
Trieste — 55
Petersburgh
304 11
30160
Berlin
Madrid — .1'
47
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 25 57/ 25 62
Naples — 25 574 25 62
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon — 511 51f
Oporto — 511 511
Foreign Gold in bars (standard) per 0z.....£3 17s. 9d,

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN p
FORTUNE.—Yesterday one of those unfortunate
1 cases of self-destruction, which of late have been of such
frequent occurrence, took place at the Bedford Hotel,
Covent-garden. It appears that the night previous a
gentleman of middle age arrived at the hotel, and, having
taken some refreshment, retired to his apartment, which
was situated on the third floor, he being at the time per-
fectly sober. About half-past 12 o'clock, from something
which one of the porters of the hotel perceived, his suspi-
cions became aroused, and he communicated with another
porter on the establishment, with whom he proceeded to
the apartment which the gentleman occupied. They
knocked at the door, but, receiving no answer, pushed it
open, and to his horror and astonishment discovered the
deceased suspended from a bell rope from of the bed rails.
The deceased had cut down the bell rope, and must have
proceeded in a very deliberate and determined manner, as
the rope was very carefully secured to the rail, and in
'such a way as to effect his purpose Withoutm anytl
chance of failure. Medical assistance
suuunoned, arrived he
garden, the professional gentleman
whose name
procured, but when Dr. Vine, of 3, Henrietta-street, Covent-
garden,
that life was extinct. The gentleman, whose
where h
was Lewis, resided at Merthyr Tidvil,
manner of
and up to the pre,
sent property and was Well known,
cause which in.
• the rash act; but there have been.
diced him to commit
sent time there has been
some rumours current to the effect that transactions in,
innothsoimnge
idnegrtheee,
no clueto theP.
toce thein melancholy event ; but these rumours rest upon no
e t
Thereuri h have, in
ed calculated to excite suspicion as to his •
sanity,
or indeed to cause any observation whatever at the hotel-
thed connection
ce with
foundation.
On searching his clothes and portmanteau, there were found
a purse containing £3 10s. in gold, £5 in silver, a cheque
for £250, a pocket-book, a silver watch and gold chain, and
some articles of apparel and of the toilet. The friends of the
deceased have been communicated with by telegraphic: message, but no answer has as yet been received.
BRIBERY AT A MUNICIPAL ELECTlON.—Yesterday
the first cases which have ever been tried under the
22d Vic., cap. 35, sec. 11, arising out of malpractices at an
election under the Municipal Act, came before the Leeds
County Court. The agent of the Liberal Registration
Society sought to enforce a penalty of 40s. in each of seve-
ral cases in which it was alleged that bribery had been
committed by a town-councillor named Wray, an auctioneer
named Joy, and two other persons. It was proved to the
satisfaction of the judge that Wray and Joy had paid to
certain men 4s. each to induce them to vote at a special
election of a councillor on Nov. 28 last, and he imposed the
40s. penalty in each case, with an intimation that the de-
fendants, as a necessary consequence, would for six years
be struck off the roll and disqualified to exercise any of the
rights of burgesses either with respect to municipal or Par-
liamentary elections 1

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE'S LAWSUIT.—The Empress
Eugenie has just lost, before the Supreme Tribunal of Ma-
drid, the trial which has lasted some years. Her Majesty
claimed the inheritance of the countship of Miranda, and
the immense estates attached to the title ; but the Malpica,
family also alleged its rights, and a decision in favour of
the latter has been given.