The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JULY 14.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Denman
and Special Juries.)
HOWELL AND OTTIELS V. DARVEY.-I.LIBEL.

The defendant in this case is the publisher of the Morn.
iiuj Herald newspaper. The plaintiff; are the proprietors
of the establishment in Waterloo-place which is known as
the celebrated warehouse of Howell and James ; and the
action was brought to recover compensation in damages
for the injury which the plaintiffs had sustained in conse-
quence of a paragraph which had appeared in the Herald,
and which imputed to the plaintiff; a want of commercial
stability and credit and a deficiency of personal integrity.
Mr. BUTT having opened the pleadings,
Mr. TIIRSIGER was proceeding to state the case upon
the part of the plaintiffs, when
Sir F. Pou.ocK (with whom wail Mr. SYDNEY TAYLOR)
interposed upon the part of the defendants, and offered to
make any. reparation In their power for the injury which
they bad involuntarily done to the plaintiffs, upon whose
commercial respectability the Learned Council pro-
nouuCed a warm panegyric. The apology was received by
Mr. Thee ger as perfectly satisfactory, and by the consent
of all parties a verdict was returned for the plaintiffs for
403., Clat being the smallest sum which would entitle the
plaintiff to damages under the late act of Lord Denman
which has just come into operation.

ERRATUM.---In the notice on the weather,
which appeared in The Sun sest6rday, towards the end for
" thermometer" read " barometer."

NOVEL MODE OF SECURING A THIEF.-58,-
turday Morning, between five and six o'clock., a son of Sir.
M'Keehnic, Great Hamilton-street, Glasgow, on ring and
going into the lobby of his father's house, was surprised to find
a young lad there, whom he felt convinced had sued the
house for the purpose of robbing it. He immediately tried to
secure the intruder, but the latter made an attempt to escape
by the kitchen windoW, which was up at the time, but he was
caught by 'the kg by his pursuer. Two accomplices outside
tried to pull the lad out, and would have eventually succeeded.
but his captor planned to get the window down, and thus kept
him last tilLthe arrival Q f the police.
Prince Jerome 13nonaparte, son of Count de
Montfort], arrived at the Burlington Hotel, on Monday, from
Brussels, via Ostend. He is come over, we believe, en busi-
ness connected With the affairs of his uncle, the late Mow of
Canino, Lucien Buonaparte.
approaches;
BLACKFRIA RS BRIDGE:—On., Tuesday the
workmen were engaged in raising the footway tipproaskee to
Blackfriars-bridge, both ou,the , Surrey ,and Middlesex side,
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preparatory
friars-road and 13ridge-street, and this, together with the
lowering of the road from the centre of the bridge, will
"exrrteialleedr°'id
have the effect of rendering the acclivity considerably less, and
even easy for the most heavily. laden vehicles. The carriage
way of • the b-idge will be closed next Tuesday Ibr the pur.
pose of lowering the roadway and repaving it, and it is ex-
pected that this work will take upwards of a month, Alt
the repairs to the arches and piers have been completed
nd the last coffer-dam Oriel) wa • made is broken up mad nearl
u removed. The first-stone of this bridge was laid on the 310 of
October, 1760,
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public
meeting,uses
the rioters in 1750, at a cost of 1,105/ were sold when taken.
down for 9::/. 13s.