The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-31 00:00:00

LORDS' SUMMARY.

Their Lordships met at Fire o'clock.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from
Kerry, in favour of railways in Ireland. The Noble Mar-
quis suggested that it would be desirable that the Admiralty
should fix upon stale station on the Irish coast for a packet
station.

The Earl of EULENBOROUGH said that the matter lay with
the Treasury and not with the Admiralty.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE then moved, pursuant to
notice, the address to her Majesty on the sub.,Ect of the
report with respect to the New Houses of Parliament.

Viscount CANNING opposed the motion.
The Eat'. of REDEsDALE supported the motion of the Mar-
quis of CLANRICARDE fin. the address.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought the subject ought
to be adjourned till the report had been printed.
The Duke of WELLINGTON agreed with the Noble Mar-
quis that the subject ought to be adjourned fsr the present.
After some further discussisn the subject was adjourned
till after Easter.
The House then adjourned

ASSIZE IN'i ELLIGENCE.
HO VIE C (HT —King,ton. .1, lurch 30.
CIVIL SlDE—(Befure Lord Chief Justice DENMAN and a Special

Jury.)
PEMBERTON V. COLLS

This was an action for slander, brought by the Rev. Mr. Pember-
ton, the vicar of Wandsworth, against the Rev. Mr. Coils, curate of
St. Anne's, Waibilsworth, for slander. The declaration alleged special
damage by means of the plaintiff having had his name erased from a
certain ecclesiastical communication. In consequence of the slander-
ous language imputed to the .defe,dant, and a!so that George Cock-
rell, curate to t:te plaintiff, had been unable to act cordially with this
plaintiff in the spiritual affairs 01 the parish, for the same reaso
The defendan.t pleaded, generally, not guilty, and also that no spe-
cial damage ha d been sustained by the plaintiff, as he alleged.
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Mr. CHAMULAS said the plaintiff was formerly minister •f the
Chapel Royal, at Brighton, and in the year 1844 be was installed
in the vicarage of Wandsworth. The defendant was also a doctor
of divinity, and in the course of the same year he was appointed
by the plaintiff to the curacy of St. Anne's Chapel, which was
one of ease to the parish church of Wandsworth. The de-
fendant canto to the parish in the month of November, 1144.
The plaintiff discovered that his parishioners began to treat him very
coolly. In the course of the month of October, 1845, he was enabled
to discover what he (Mr. Chambers) must call the gross misconduct
of the defendant. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to state that
a gentleman named Cockrell officiated as citrate to the plaintiff, at
his own church, and it appeared that to this gentleman the slander in
question had, been spoken by the defendant. It ajpearod that the
defendant had to this gentleman charged the plaintiff with having
upon his first arrival at Wandsworth to undertake the curacy, sent
for him to his house. to dinner, and that be gave him two glasies of
wine which must have been drugged, for immediately after he had
taken them he felt completely stupifled, and while in that state the
plaintiff induced him to sign a promissory note fur the sum of 2,500/.
This was the slander of which the plaintiff c,mplained. The plaintiff
How, therefore, was compelled, for the purpose of vindicqting his cha-
racter in the eyes of his neighbours and parishioners, to appeal to a
iury, and to ask th..ir onlnion„whether there Waft any foundation for
the charges made against him; and if he satisfied them that there
was not, ho looked for such an amount of damages as would make it
manifest to the world that the defend:int was, in point of tact, guilty
of the slander which was imputed to Limn. The Leanmed Counsel then
called several witnesses.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, and
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—Damages, 2001.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Warwick, March 30.
(Ilefere Mr. JUStiCii COLTMAN.)
BURGLARY WITH VIOLENCE.—George Hart, Edward Watsgrove,
James Carr, aid William Over/on, were charged with breaking into
the house of 11. E. Lander, Esq., on the 28th of February, at Tatch-
brook, near Warwick, and Etealing therefrom two gold watches, some
money, and a considerable quantity of plate.
For the defence an alibi was attempted, but failed, the alibi being
that they were out poaching,
They were all found Guilty.—Sentence deferred.

STATUE OF SorHoct,ES The Con,titutionnel an-
nounces that a statue of Sophocles is on its way to Paris, from
Athens, whtnce it has been sent by the French Ambassador, M.
Piseatory. It is said to be one of the most remarkable antique works
of art which have yet been deposited in the Sculpture Gallery of the
Louvre, for which it is destined,