The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-21 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.

:Before Lord Chief Justice Jervis, and Special Jury

HOLLOWAY V. JACOBS.-LIBEL.

This was an action to recover compensation for a libel
written by the defendant, and which had appeared in
one of the Hampshire papers, reflecting upon the cha-
racter of the plaintiff.

The Attorney-General, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Skinner
were for the plaintiff, and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr.
Barstow for the defendant.
It appeared that the plaintiff is a clergyman of the
Church of-England, and a gentleman whose name has
been recently before the public in connection with the
Hospital of Saint Cross. A letter, casting some
im-
putation upon Mr. Jacobs, had appeared in the journal
in question, and defendant, erroneously supposing it to
have originated with the rev, plaintiff, had made an
attack,upon him in the same journal.
The Attorney-General, after briefly consulting with
Sir F. Thesiger, said he should not have to trouble the
jury, as he learnt through his learned friend that the
defendant now expressed his regret for what bad taken
place, and withdrew the charges contained in the libel
in question, and that the whole had originated in a joke.
He (the learned Attorney-General) thought that the
most fair and manly course that could have been
pursued.

A verdict was then taken by consent for 405., which
carries costs.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-(THIS DAY

ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—Frederick Bennion, Thomas
Watson (two notorious thieves), and James Gilday, a
marine store dealer,. in Peter-street, were brought before
Mr. Bingham on the following charge :
Sarah Ann Terry, dressmaker, 38, Norton-street,
deposed that this morning, about two o'clock, she was
in the Blue Posts Tavern, Haymarket, where she
saw the three prisoners, who commenced insulting
her in consequence of her having prosecuted one
of their companions. Gilday spit in her face. She told
him if he repeated that again she would throw the ale,
which she was drinking, in his face. The prisoner
Gilday then struck her in the face, and Bennion
struck her on the nose, which bled profusely. The
pain was so great that she nearly fainted, and the
prisoner Watson came to hold her up, and, while
he was doing so, she saw him take her purse,
which contained 2s. 6d., from her pocket. She ac-
cused him of the robbery, when the other prisoners
said, if she dared to do so they would knock her
brains out. They then rushed out of the
house. She followed him, and spoke to a policeman,
who sprang his rattle, and other constables having ar-
rived, the prisoners were secured and conveyed to the
station, where they were searched by Roger, 191 C, who
found 2s. 6d. on Watson. The purse was not found.
The prisoners, Gilday and Bennion, in defence said
they were so drunk that they recollected nothing at all
about it. Watson denied the robbery.
Mr. Bingham said Gilday and Bennion had been
guilty of a very brutal assault upon a defenceless woman,
and for that assault he should send them to prison for
three months. Watson was committed for trial.

.OPAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college
at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on- the 16th
inst.:--Messrs. Frederick Broad White, Barnet, Herta ;
Gilbert Prout Girdwood, Hawley-place, Maida-hill ;
Arthur Austin Davis, Fowey, Cornwall ; Edward Burd,
Shrewsbury ; Thomas Richard Jones, Aberystwith ;
Frederick William Jowers, Brighton : Richard Tho
mason, Holmer, Herefordshire; James Gerrard, New.
Deer, Aberdeenshire; and Frederick John Mullinger,
Stort!ord. The following gentlemen were ad-
milted fellows of the college at the meeting of the council
on the 15th instant :—Messrs. Stephen Edward Viper,
Darlington ; James Whatinan, Maidstone ; Robert
Wood, Ashton-under-Lyne • Elkanah Holroyd, Man-
chester ; John Evans Beale, Plaistow ; William Ford
Bally, Bath ; Thomas Macaulay, Leicester ; John M.lr-
shall Robinson, Bolton-le-Moors ; Anthony William
Close, Manchester William Dawson, Lambeth ; Thomas
Goodier Richmond, Manchester; William Garlick,
Great James-street, Bedford-row; William Bedford
Kesteven, Upper Holloway ; John Robert Ede, Isling-
ton ; John Hatton, Manchester ; George Edmundson
Bearpark, Leeds ; Clem-ant James Hawkins, Chelten-
ham; John Vinali, Hackney; David Bolton, Birming-
ham; and David Stolwortb, Sydney. Mr. Adam Linton
Bogle, of ,West Baldon, was admitted an ad cundem
member of the college.