The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-28 00:00:00

HOARE V. COUPLAND.

Mr. Carter andilr. Griffiths apps ;.red for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Sergeant Shee for the defendant.
This was an action of libel, brought by a lady whosa
name has been much before the public, to recover da-
mages for a libel o❑ her, inserted in the Hampshire Ad-
vertiser, of which the defendant is the proprietor. The
libel in question gave the report of a trial at Croydon
in an action brought by the plaintiff against a Captain
Dickson, the secretary of a benevolent institution, in
which the plainviff did not succeed; awl then it com-
mented on the trial and on the plaintiff's conduct. In
the course of its comments it employed some vitupera-
tive and slanderous epithets to the plaintiff. This was
the libel in question. Evidence was given to show that
the plaintiff had formerly contributed articles for the
defendant's party in politics, but that lately differences
had arisen between them, and this evidence was given
for the purpose of showing the probable existence of a
malicious spirit.
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Mr. Sergeant SHEE, in his address to the jury, denied
the existence of the spirit; and arguLd that the cum
ments were fair and temperate.
Lord DENMAN summed up the case, and the jury re-
turned a verdict f.,r the plaintiff, damages 50L

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

George Roe, the conductor of an omnibus which runs
from Bayswater to the City, was summoned before Mr.
Alderman Carden, for having deceived Mr. Ernest
Sharpe, of Mark-lane, as to the destination of the vehicle.
Mr. Sharpe, it appeared, got into the omnibus at Bays-
water, having observed the words " Blackwell Railway"
upon the flag, and intended to be set down there. W hen
the omnibus reached the Bank some of the passengers
got out, but Mr. Sharpe said he wished to be tut down
at the Blackwell station. The omnibus then went along
Cornhill and into Leadenhall-street, and stopped to set
him down at the corner of Billiter•street instead of taking
him to Fenchurch-arrest, close to which is the terminus
of tho Blackwell Railway. Upon being expostula'ed
with the conductor merely said, " You may as well wa!k
a dozen yards to save me trouble," and refused to convey
Mr. Sharpe any further.
The complainant stated that great public inconvenience
arose from the mode of deception he described, and a near
relative of his, who was lame, was more than once a
sufferer, by being obliged to walk a considerable dis-
tance, although inform ed by the usual mode of indication
that the omnibus was bound to a certain point.
The defendant said the dirtution upon his flag was,
"Near to the Blackwell Railway," and produced the
authority by the dime Lion of the Alderman.
Alderman CARDEN observed that the words " Black-
well Railway" were in largo letters, but the words "near
to" were in letters not, visible at even a very short dis-
tance, and quite invisik: le to near-sighted per-one. It was
palpably a trick, and hi j happened to be aware of the ex-
isting practices amungs t conductors and drivers, and wus
determined upon every occasion in which an offence of
the kind should be proa ed before him to inflict the bight at
penalty.
The owner of the on snibus submitted that his licence '
would nut permit him tc ► go to the Blackwall station, and
stated a great many c ether things which were just as
strong arguments agaiaist the infliction of the penalty,
One of the grounds tit ion which he mast relied, was the
fact that Alderman Ci trden frequently travelled in the
same omnibus himsel t, and could say whether the con•
duct of those who had it under their care was not unex-
ceptionable.
The Alderman admit ted that he had travelled in the
omnibus to the City, but never to the Blackwall Rail-
way.—(Laughter.) He knew that deceptions of the
kind were c9nstintly PTlMified, And bad frequently wit.