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HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, March 30.

CIVIL SIDE— (Before 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, citrate of
St. Anne's, Wandsworth, 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 defendant, and also that George Cock-
rell, curate to the plaintiff, had been unable to act cordially with the
plaintiff in the spiritual affairs of the parish, for the same reason.
The defendant pleaded, generally, not guilty, and also that no spe-
cial damage had been sustained by the plaintiff, as he alleged.
Mr. CHAMBERS said the plaintiff was formerly minister ef the
Chapel Royal, at Brighton, and in the year 1844 he 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 came to the parish in the month ef November, 1844,
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 curate 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 appeared 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 he gave him two glasses 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 for the sum of 2,5001.
This was the slander of which the plaintiff complained. The plaintiff
now, therefore, was compelled, for the purpose of vindicating his cha-
racter in the eyes of his neighbours and parishioners, to appeal to a
Jury, and to ask their opinion, whether there was any foundation for
the charges made against him ; and if he satisfied them that there
was not, he looked for such an amount of damages as would make it
manifest to the world that the defendant was, in point of fact, guilty
of the slander which was imputed to him. The Learned 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.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

William Allan, 45, was indicted for feloniously uttering a forged
cheque with Intent to defraud.
Mr. Dosicz prosecuted, and Mr. CLARKSON appeared for the
prisoner.
From the evidence adduced, it appeared that in the month of
January, 1642, the prisoner went to the counting house of a Mr. Wil-
son, a builder in the City-road, and produced a bill for 301., purporting
to be accepted by a Mr. Odell, and requested him to discount it, which
he eventually,did, but, upon its being ultimately presente i for pay-
ment, it was discovered to be a forgery. The prisoner was not seen
after this transaction until last January, when he was given into
custody.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
There was another indictment against him, charging him with
uttering a forged bill for 651. ss. 6d., well knowing the same to be
forged. . .

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The jury again returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner ,was
sentenced to be sent to hard labour for two years.

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