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Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held at its
house, John Street, Adelphi ; John Chapman, F.R.S.,
J.P., in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting
having been read, rewards were granted to the crews of
different lifeboats for going off, during gales of wind, and
saving life from wrecks on our coasts. The Banff lifeboat,
it was stated, went out to the brig Regina, of S wine-
munde, which had patted one cable while at anchor in a
perilous position, and brought ashore the crew of nine men.
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from the vessel. The tubular lifeboat Willie and Arthur, on
the New Brighton station, also did good service in rescuing
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pool. The Odd Fellows' Lifeboat, Manchester Unity,
was likewise launched in reply to signals of distress,
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wrecked vessels. £5 were also granted to the crew of
the fishing smack Laurel, of Ramsgate, for rescuing the
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of other shore boats for putting off from our
coasts on the occasion of shipwrecks and saving
life. Payments to the amount of £2,500 had been made
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several occasions, had bequeathed the sum of
£5OO to the institution to defray the cost of
a lifeboat. New lifeboats had been sent by the
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occasion of the first launch of the boats, and, in addition,
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contributed to the society through the indefatigable
exertions of the Misses Carter, of the last-named town.
It was decided to form a new Lifeboat Station at the
mouth of the Boyne, in Ireland. Reports were read from
the inspector and the assistant-inspector of lifeboats to
the institution on their recent visits to the coast, and the
proceedings terminated.

GIIARGE OF LIBEL AGAINST A
BARRISTER.

Mr. Cornelius Walford, barrister-at-law and insurance
manager, of 76 and 77, Cheapside, attended yesterday at
the Mansion House, before Alderman Hale, to answer a
summons which charged him with unlawfully writing and
publishing a certain false, malicious, defamatory, and
scurrilous libel of and concerning one Arthur Bower Far-
wood, contrary to the statute.
Serjeant Parry in opening the case said that the defend-
ant was a gentleman of position and education, and he
had been connected with several public companies,
and was also the proprietor and editor and manager
of a publication called the " Insurance Times."
and the libel complained of was inserted in that publica-
tion on the 10th of August. The prosecutor was a mer-
chant at Liverpool, and also a director of the West
India and Pacific Steam Navigation Company, and the
libel appeared to be connected with one of their vessels,
called the Venezuelan, which sailed on the sth of March
from Liverpool on a voyage to Barbadoes. The ves-
sel, it appeared, got into difficulties, and on the 16th of
March it appeared the passengers and mails were taken
out of her on board a French ship, called the Camilla,
which was bound for New York. At that place the
purser of the vessel sent intelligence to her owner
stating what had occurred, but representing that the
ship was not in a dangerous state. After this it appeared
that a sensational account of the accident to the Vene-
zuelan appeared in one of the Liverpool papers, an d the prose-
cutor and a gentleman named Ismay effected an insurance
upon the Venezuelan for £2,000 at fifty guineas per cent.
premium. The defendant was alleged upon this to have
inserted an article in the Insurance Times, charging, in
point of fact, that the prosecutor had been guilty
almost of an act of gross swindling in under-
writing the Venezuelan at such an enormous
premium, when as it was alleged, he was aware that the
vessel was really not in any danger, and there was nothing
in the circumstances connected with her condition
that would have justified asking such an excessive
premium.. The case on the part of the prosecution was
that the prosecutor had done all in his power to make the
actual condition of the vessel known to Lloyds, and to the
public generally, and that in point of fact no fraud what-
ever had been contemplated or committed.

Mr. J. C. Kane, formerly sub-editor and proprietor of
the Insurance Times, proved that he became acquainted
with the defendant in March last, and he transferred the
paper to him under an agreement. The witness then
proved that the article complained of was written by the
defendant, who had the entire management of the paper.
He also stated that the defendant had invited him to
" get up " some correspondence in relation to these trans-
actions and to marine insurance generally, and he refused
to do so.
Mr. Lane, the publisher of the Insurance Times, was
here called upon to produce a certain letter signed " Mer-
chant," but he declined to do so or to answer any ques-
tions, on the ground that it might implicate him in a
criminal charge.--The objection was allowed.—Mr. Kane
went on to say that he had a dispute with the defendant
at the end of July, and his connection with the paper
ceased shortly afterwards. He then stated that portions
of letters, under the signatures of " Merchant,"
" Liverpool Merchant, "An Indignant Merchant and
Actuary," were in the handwriting of the defendant.
(These letters were put in and read. They contained
strong comments uponthe supposed swindle referred to by
the defendant in the alleged libeL)
Cross-examined : After he left the defendant he went
back to the office and obtained possession of
the documents that had been produced. He
considered that they were his property. He had
not had any conversation with Mr. Farwood or Mr. Ross
(the gentlemen who had effected the insurance upon the
Venezuelan) before he obtained possession of the docu-
ments. He acted under the advice of his solicitor in the
course he adopted, and it was his own solicitor who
introduced him to Mr. Webb, the solicitor of Mr. Far
wood, in the present prosecution.
Mr. Farwood, the prosecutor, was then called. He
deposed that he was a member of the firm of Leech,
Farwood, and Co., of Manchester, Liverpool, and
London, and was the managing director of the West
India and Pacific Mail Steam Packet Com-
pany. Witness had also been an underwriter
at Lloyd's for sixteen years, and Mr.
Ross acted as his agent in London. The defendant was
formerly director of the Accidental Marine Insurance
Corporation, which was wound up in 1866, and witness
was a creditor of that Corporation. At the time the
Accidental was wound up he had some communications
with the defendant. The Venezulan, the vessel that was
referred to in the Insurance Times, sailed on the sth of
March, and he heard nothing of her until the 31st of
March, when he received a telegram to the effect that
the vessel had been transferred to the Camilla, and was
to be taken to New York. The telegram also stated
that although the rudder had been torn away the pro-
peller was intact. He communicated this telegram im-
mediately to the Liverpool Underwriters' Association,
and he expected it would have been sent to Lloyd's, in
London, and it was with that object that he gave them
the information. On the 13th of April he received a
telegram announcing that forty guineas premium had been
paid on the Venezuelan, and that fifty could pro-
bably be obtained during the day, and inquiring
whether " a line " should be written at fiLy
guineas premium. On the morning of the 14th
of April he accidentally met Mr. Ismay, a
ship owner at Liverpool and London, and they agreed to
underwrite the Venezuelan to the amount of £2,000, at
fifty guineas premium. At this time he had read a sen-
sational article in the Liverpool Courier, copied from the
New York Times, in reference to what had happened to
the Venezuela. After making this engagement with Mr.
Ismay, he went to his office and found a letter from the
captain of the Venezuelan. (This was put in. It was
to the effect that the injuries sustained by the Venezuelan
had been very much exaggerated, and that he had no
fear of losing the vessel.) This letter did not at all inter-
fere with the engagement he had made with Mr. Ismay,
and he sent a telegram to Mr. Ross, his agent at Lloyd's,
directing him to insure to the extent of a,OOO upon the
Venezuelan, at "£5O premium," or " better." The
telegram also called his attention to the article
in the Liverpool Courier relating to the Vene-
zuelan. Witness sketched out a letter to
the Liverpool Underwriters' Association directly he
received the captain's letter, informing them that the
statement in the Liverpool' Courier relating to the
Venezulan was very much exaggerated, and that the
captain had no fear for the safety of the vessel. He
gave the secretary of the Liverpool Associa-
tion liberty to publish this letter, and it appeared
in one of the London papers on the following
day, and it was also posted up at the rooms at Liverpool.
The insurances were effected as he had advised, and he
became aware that the vessel had arrived safe at New
York on the 30th of April. The prosecutor then stated
that he distinctly understood the articles complained of
in the Insurance Times to apply to himself and
Mr. Ross. The amount he received upon the transaction
was £225, and he had refused to refund the money.
There was no truth in the statement that he had ever had
v anything to do with insurance frauds of any description,
and he considered that the charges made against him were
false from beginning to end. At this stage of the case the
inquiry was adjourned.

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