The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-08 00:00:00

THE ' SUN LONDON, TUESD -"A V EVENING JULY -8, 1E62.

CHARGE OF LIBEL! AGAINE7 A
REPORTER.---(THIS DAY.)

Mr. Andrew Gray, a reporter, appeared at Bow-street
this morning, before Mr. Corrie, on a summons charging
him with having, on the Bth of June, unlawfully, wickedly,
and maliciously published a certain false, scandalous libel,
containing divers false, scandalous, and malicious matters
and things of and concerning Henry Richard Phillips.
Mr. Metcalfe, the barrister, appeared for Mr. Phillips,
and, in opening the case, said the libel complained of ap-
peared in the Weekly Times newspaper on the Bth of June,
and the learned gentleman then proceeded to narrate the
facts connected with the recent inquiry which took place
a short time ago at a coroner's inquest, held at Kensal-
green, in consequence of certain scandalous rumours in
circulation against Mr. Phillips, the result of which was
a decision that there was not the slightest foundation for
the charges made against his client. An application had
been made to the proprietors of the Weekly Times respect-
ing the libel, which appeared in their newspaper, headed
" Alleged Murder by a Gentleman," and they furnished
the name of the defendant as the person who had provided
the manuscript of the article.

Mr. Metcalfe then read the article, which he said had been
written in the regular penny-a-line style, and calculated to
inflame the public mind.
Mr. Corrie—A "sensation" paragraph?
Mr. Metcalfe said that was so, and having concluJed read-
ing the article in question, said a more false and scandal-
ous charge, viz., that his client, Mr. Richard Phillips, had
poisoned his wife and hastily buried her body to prevent
discovery," could not be invented. He believed it would
be said that there was no malice, and that the defendant
was sorry, but as in consequence of the article Mr.
Phillips's life had been jeopardized, the defendant must
take the whole responsibility of his own act. He should,
therefore, ask that the defendant might be fully committed
to take his trial. _ _

Mr. Robert Palmer, sub-editor of the Weekly Times,
said—l have seen the paragraph referred to in that news-
paper of that day, headed " Alleged Murder by a Gentle-
man." I produce the manuscript. It was furnished by
Mr. Gray. It is in his handwriting, and signed by him.
I altered the heading of the article from " Allegation' of
Murder, &c., to " Alleged" Murder, &c. I also
made some other alterations, but they were merely
verbal. He brought the copy to me on a Friday
night he said it was a very extraordinary case, and he was
well aware of all the details. He said it had created a
great sensation. He did not say where he had got the
facts. He impressed upon me that it was a correct report,
and that he knew the details.

Cross-examined—l have known the defendant for six or
seven years. I have always taken his copy when it came
in time. I did not look through the copy. He said I
might rely on it. We have been threatened with an action
for libel. I gave up the name of the defendant because it
was applied for. It is usual to give up the names of
persons under such circumstances. I have been
sub .editor for eight years, and the present is
.the only
instance in which the name of the writer cf an article has
been applied for. lam certain it is the usual practice in
newspaper offices to give up the names of persons furnish-
ing certain articles.
By Mr. Metcalfe—lf any other person than an accre-
dited reporter had furnished the copy of the article in.
question, I should not have inserted it.
Mr. Beard addressed the bench for defendant, and urged
that the object of Mr. Phillips would be accomplished
without prosecuting the defendant, who had for 15 years
been engaged as a reporter on the. London Press.
Mr. Metcalfe persisted in asking for a committal.

Mr. Corrie then committed the defendant, but admitted
him to bail, in his own recognisance of £lOO, to appear at
the next session of the Central Criminal Court.

LAW---THIS DAY.

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IMPERIAL PAIILIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his,seat on the woolsack
at the usual hour. _ _

THIRD READINGS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Tuffnell's Estate, North Devon and Oakhampton Railway
—London, Chatham, and Dover Railway and Mid Kent
Railway (Bromley to St. Mary's Gray)—Nene Valley
Drainage and Navigation Improvement—Llanidloes and
Newtown, Mid Wales, and Manchester, and Milford Rail-
ways—Bristol Port Railway and Pier—London, Chatham,
and Dover (Battersea Junction)—Llanelly Railway and
Dock—Swansea Harbour Trust—and Sevenoaks Railway.
NAVAL AND VICTUALLING STORES BILL.
This bill passed through committee, and was reported
with amendments.
MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT AMENDMENT

-BILL.
LordoSTANLEY of ALDERLEY moved the second
reading of this bill, the object of which was to extend the
examination, which had been found so useful in the cases
of captains and mates, to first and second engineers engaged
in steam ships. The bill also contained some new enact-
ments relating to pilotage and collisions.
The Earl of DONOUGHMORE expressed his general
approval of the provisions of the bill.
After a short discussion the bill was read a second time.
CHANCERY REGULATION BILL,
The Commons' reasons for disagreeing to the Lords'
amendments in this bill were considered, and their lord-
ships determined not to persist in those amendments.
LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES
AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord CHELMSFORD, in moving the second reading of
this biil. He explained that its objects-was to relieve Sir
Thomas Wilson, the owner of Hampstead Heath, from the
restrictions under which he lay as a tenant for life only,
and which in any case would have been granted as
a matter of course. He denied that Sir Thomas
Wilson had any intention of enclosing or building in the
heath, he only wished to convert the adjacent ground into
building property, which he considered he had been most
unfairly debarred from doing.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tins DAY.
The SPEAX.ER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the Birkenhead Railway—
Bristol and South Wales Union Railway—Cheadle Roads
—Horsham, Dorking, and Leatherhead Railway—Metro-
politan and Thames Valley Railway—Mid Kent and AA-
diseombe Railway—and North-Eastern Railway (Team
Valley Extension) Bills, were consider d and agreed to,
and the bills were ordered to be read a third time.

PETITIONS.
Several petitions were presented from different parts of
the United Kingdom against the Burials Bill, which stands
on the order of the day for committee at the evening
sitting, and the Roman Catholic Prisoners Bill.
PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENTS BILL.
The house went into committee on this bill, resuming at
clause 7, which, after some conversation, was agreed to.

On clause 8,
Some discussion took place as to whether a quorum of
three members on a committee of board of guardians would
be sufficient to discharge efficiently the duties delegated to
them as the administrators of the poor-law.
Mr. VILLIERS said he would consent to the introduc-
tion of words to the effect that the number of members con-
stituting a committee should not be less than one-third of
the members of such committee.
The clause with this amendment was agreed to.

On clause 9,
Mr. A. TURNER said that he considered this clause
most objectionable, as it gave the board of guardians unli-
mited power in the appointment of any number of surveyors,
and opened the door to great extravagance. He concluded
by moving the omission of the clause.
Sir L. PALK opposed the clause. If it was intended to
secure an uniform and accurate valuation of parishes it
should be effected by some well considered measure. He
would support the amendment.
Mr. BRUCE considered this objection applied to
clause 14, instead of the present clause.
Mr. BARROW said he felt bound to support the clause,
because the guardians being ratepayers would necessarily
attend to their own interests.
Lord HENLEY opposed the clause on the same ground
as the hon. member the mover of the amendment, as tend-
ing towards the increase of the parochial expenditure.
After some conversation, in the course of which Mr.
VILLIE ttS said he would consent to such a modification
in the clause as would meet the views of the hon. members
who objected to it, and on that condition the amendment
was withdrawn. . .

The clause, with the modification proposed, was then
agreed to.
On clause 10, which related to the keeping of the
minutes of the committees of the boards of guardians,
Mr. HENLEY considered that there should be words
introduced in the bill so as to make the chairman of the
committee responsible for the signing of these minutes, in-
stead of the quorum, which tended to divide the respon-
sibility.
Mr. VILLIERS said that there were no such words in
the present Poor-law Act, but he consented to an alteration
in the words of the clause, observing that all that the
framers of the bill required was to secure a correct record
of the proceedings.
Some discussion took place as to whether the penalty of
L 5, which was imposed on the clerk of the board of guar-
dians for not giving a copy of the minutes when required,
but the clause was agreed to.
On clause 11,
Sir L. PALK said he objected to the clause, because it
made a valuation of parishes compulsory instead of being
voluntary.
Mr. VILLIERS said that the object of the clause was
merely to obtain a correct account of the proceedings of the
different assessment committees.
The clause, with some alterations, was agreed to.
On clause 12, which gave the assessment committee the
power to impose penalties on Poor•law Guardians, which
would have the effect of substituting paid officials for the
discharge of duties now discharged by officials who were

unpaid:
Mr. VILLIERS consented to some amendments, and
the clause was agreed te.
A long discussion tock place on clause 13, which had
reference to the present mode of valuation, and some verbal
amendments were agreed to; after which the chairman was
ordered to report progress.
The house suspended at five minutes to four o'clock,
and resumed at six o'clock.
LEFT SITTING.

LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening.

WHITEHALL, JULY 5.
I•ectory of Saint
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Charles
Dallas Marston, M.A., to the District
Mary, in the parish of Saint Marylebone, in the county of
Middlesex, and diocese of London, the same being void by
the death of the Rev. John Hampden Gurney.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 7.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Mrs.
Robert Bruce to be Extra Bedchamber Woman to her
Majesty.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JULY 8.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations give notice that
the Moniteur of the sth instant contains a French Impe-
rial decree fixing as follows the. duties on raw and refined
sugar and molasses, imported into France from Great Bri-
tain and Belgium :

Per 100 kill,

f. c.
.. 44 0
.. 55 0
58 0
.. 14 30

Beetroot sugar, raw
Refined sugars • • • •
Candied sugar, of Belgian origin ..
Molasses .. • • • • ••• •
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JULY 8.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
Edward Heneage to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice
Mervyn W., Viscount Powerscourt, who retires • Alfred
Chinks Duncombe, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieu-
tenant, vice Heneage.
4th Dragoon Guards—Cornet James A. Tait to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice John Bosworth Smith Mar-
jasper Joseph White, Gent., to be
riott, who retires;
Cornet, by purchase, vice Tait ; Cornet Jas. Colquhoun
to be Instructor of Musketry.
2d Dragoons—Wm. Robert Wills Sandford, Gent, to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Wm. Seaman Thomson, who
retires.
4th Hussars—David Longfield Beatty, Gent., to be Cor.

net, by purchase, vice Win. Langton Coke, who retires.
11th Hussars—James Scott Black, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Michael Edensor Heathcote, who retires.
12th Lancers—John Sprot Tait, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Stevenson, promoted.
14th Hussars—Cornet Charles Alexander Price Talbot to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice James Giles, who re-
tires; Algernon Edward Sheppard Preston, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Talbot.
18th Hussars—Lieut. Thomas Fuller to be instructor of
Musketry.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
Henry Drury Harness C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Colonel
William Biddlecomb Marlow, retired upon full pay ;
Captain and Brevet-Major Albert O'Donnal Grattan to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet .Colonel Harness;
Second Captain Alexander Stephen Creyke to be Cap-
tain, vice Brevet-Major Grattan; Lieutenant Edward
Saumarez Tyler to be Second Captain, vice Creyke;
Surgeon-Major Francis Charles Annesley, from the 45th
Foot, to be Surgeon ; Staff Surgeon-Major John Sum-
mers, M.D., to be Surgeon; Staff Assistant-Surgeon
John Low Erskine, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon;
Staff Assistant-Surgeon William Ferguson to be Assife
taut-Surgeon ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Smith
Hollingsworth to be Assistant• Surgeon ; Staff Assistant-
Surgeon Henry Lloyd Randell to be Assistant-Z.suro•Pon ;
Assistant-Surgeon John Henry Gouldsbury Meares,
from the 20th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Reginald John
Buller to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant and
Captain Clayton, who has resigned that appointment.
,2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William Fermor God-
frey, from the 26th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Alexan-
der Plunket Van Homrigh, who exchanges; Gentleman
Cadet Henry Melvin athews, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Iticard,
appointed to the 20th Foot.
6th Foot—William Sanders Darley, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Thomas Slagg Shaw, who retires.
10th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Digby Templeton Brett,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Powell, deceased.
12th Foot—George Henry Wilson, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Charles Isham Strong, who retires.
15th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Edward Adams, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Jekyll, appointed to the 64th Foot ; Henry
Evans Pateshall Thomas, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Ambrose William Going, who retires.
16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Jenkins Croft, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Platt, promoted.
17th Foot—Ensign Francis Napoleon Bingley Groves
Benson, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John James
Perceval, who retires; Gentleman Cadet John Henry
Gamble, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Elmes, appointed to the Commis-
sariat Department ; Frederick Travers Blackley, Gent ,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Benson.
18th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Ponsonby William Watts,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Fergussen, appointed to the 20th Foot.
20th Foot—Lieut. John Moon, from Quartermaster, 30th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Armstrong, promoted
without purchase to an Unattached Company ; Ensign
Baldwin K. Whiteford to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Moon, who retires ; George William Haly Hutton,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Whiteford ; Staff
Assistant-Surgeon Richard Armstrong Hyde to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Meares, appointed to the Royal
Engineers.
22d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Frederic Auguste Samuel
D'Acosta, from the Royal Military College, to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice de Cetto, removed to the
72d Foot.
24th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Henry
William Bunbury, C. 8., from half•pay, 23d Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet- Colonel Charles Henry
Ellice, C. 8., who retires upon half pay ; Major the Hon.
Daniel Greville Finch, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet. Colonel Bunbury, C. 8., who retires ;
Ensign Henry Francis Brouncker, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice George Scott, who retires ; Ellis Lee,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brouncker.
25th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Alfred James, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign without purchase, vice
Webster, promoted ; Gentleman Cadet Charles Thomas
Wren Penton, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Saportas, appointed to
the 95th Foot; Staff Surgeon Digby William Lawlor, to
be Surgeon, vice Boyd, appointed to the Staff.
26th Foot—Lieutenant Joseph Lowndes, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Estcourt Day, who retires; Ensign
Archibald Duffield Eden, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Lowndes ; William Anthony Glyn, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Eden.
27th Foot—Ensign William Herring, to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Albert Dixon, who retires; William
Erskine, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Herring ;
Paymaster Patterson should have been described as from
Paymaster Royal Artillery, and not late Paymaster,
Royal Artillery, as stated in the Gazette of 22d .April last.
28th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Richard Treeve, from 60th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Ellis Houlton Ward, who
exchanges.
30th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant Michael Teener, to be
Quartermaster, vice John Moon, appointed Lieutenant,

20th Foot,
34th Foot—Lieutenant John Francis Wyse, to be Adju-
tant, vice Lieutenant Richard J. P. Leeson, who resigns
that appointment.
36th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Plunket Van Homrig:►,
from 2d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice William Fenner

Godfrey, who exchanges.
37th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Anderson, from 95th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Albert Jones, who exchanges ;
Gentleman Cadet Francis Cochran, from the Royal Mili-
tary College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bel-
cher, promoted in the 4th West India Regiment ; Gentle-
man Cadet Henry Edward Gaulter, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Hodgkinson, promoted.
45th Foot—Staff Surgeon Robert Speedy to be Surgeon,
vice Annesley, appointed to the Royal Engineers.
49th Foot—Captain Charles Edward Gore Browne, from
half-pay, late 25th FoJ, to be Captain, vice Richard 1).
Astley, Seconded, on appointment as Captain Instructor
to the Schools of Musketry.
54th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon John Henry N.
Bracken to bo Assistant-Surgeon, vice Reid, appointed

to the Staff.
58th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Bowling, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
in succession to Lieutenant Murray, deceased.
59th Foot - Gentleman Cadet Euston Henry Sartorius,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Furlong, promoted.
60th Foot— Lieutenant Ellis Houlton Ward, from the 28th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Henry Richard Treeve, who
exchanges.
61st Foot—Gentleman Cadet Wm. Merrick Fowler, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Nugent, promoted.
62d Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Boughey, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Waring, promoted.
65th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Alfred Chayter, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
Vice Wm, Alexander, deceased.
66th Foot--Lieutenant Charles James Thornton Duesbury
to be Captain, by purchase, vice John Walker, who
retires ; Ensign Francis Edward Browne to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Duesbury ; James Anderson
Baxter, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Browne.
72d Foot—Urban Vigors Richards, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Pardue, promoted.
73d Foot—Ensign James French Turner to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Hugh Fraser, deceased ; Gentle-
man Cadet Rowel Gunter, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice John Parnell
Clarke, deceased; Gentleman Cadet Charles Edward
Stanley Parker, from the Royal Military Training Col-
lege, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Turner.
83d Foot—Captain Francis Pemberton Campbell, from the
Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, vice James Ver-
ling Ellis, who exchanges.
86th Foot—Gent eman Cadet Manfred Leslie Palmer Jar-
dine, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Gream, appointed to the 62d

Foot,
90th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Patrick Quinlan to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice Poppelwell, appointed to the

Staff.
95th Foot—Lieutenant Albert Jones, from the 37th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Robert Anderson, who exchanges.
96th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edward Wright to be Cap-
tain, by purchase,. vice Edward Dennis Justin Mac
Carthy, who retires ; Ensign the Hon. Augustus Frede-
rick Arthur Sandys to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Wright; Dennis du Moulin Gunton, Gent., to be En-
sign. by urchaseorice the Hon. A. F. A. Sandys.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Captain James Verling Ellis, from
the 83d Foot, to be Captain, vice Francis Pemberton
Campbell, who exchanges. Paymaster Archd. Cochrane
Forster, from the 3d Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Pay-
master (with the bonerary rank of Captain) Henry Dud-
ley, deceased.
DEPOT BATTALION.— Major Gustavus Nigle Kingscoto
Anker Yonge to be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice
Brevet-Colonel Charles Edward Fairtlough. deceased.
Captain and Adjutant Samuel Dunning to be Major, with-
out purchase, vice Yonge.
UNATTACLIED.—The promotion to a majority, without
urehase, of Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robt.
Harris, half-pay 60th Foot, Staff Officer of Pensioners,
dated Ist May, 1862, which appeared in the Gazette of the
16th May, has been cancelled.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon William Boyd, from
the 25th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon, vice Speedy, appointed
to the 45th Foot.