The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-12 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Cheneellor TURNER.)
EAST V. TV/ YFORD.
This part•heard case was resumed this morning.
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AIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(fittings in Banco before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
CRIMINAL INFORMATION AGAINST "PUNGEI."-QUEEN
BRADBURY AND ANOTHER.
Mr. BADDELEY applied to the Court for a rule callirg
upon Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, the printers and pub-
lishers of Punch, to show cause why a criminal informs:
tion should not issue against them for a libel contained
in their newspaper of the 19th of Apia last upon the
Rev. Mr. Peter Daly, Roman Catholic priest of Galway
in Ireland, on whose behalf he made the application.
Mr. Daly was a gentleman, the Learned Counsel said,
of the highest character and respectability, who had been
a resident in Galway for upwards of 30 years. He was
priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and was also known
as the vicar of the diocese of :Galway, to which
office he was elected by the Roman Catholic laity
of that diocese upwards of twenty years ago, since
which he had had under his spiritual care sn
superintendence a population of upwards of ten thou*
sand souls. He had also the honour of filling several
offices in Galway, he being one of the commissioners of
the town appointed under the local Act of Parliament for the regulation of the town, an cffice to which he was
elected about three years ago by the other commissioners
under the Act. He also held the situation of harbour
commissioner of the town under the provisions of an-
other local Act of Parliament, to which he was elected
by the other commissioners, and he was lastly a director
of the Galway Gas-light and Coke Company. In feet
the situation which he held in society was such as made.
it important, not 'only for himself but for the benefit 01
those under his care, that his character should not be
wantonly assailed, or if it was assailed, that he should
adopt the earliest and most effectual measure for
vindicating his reputation. It appeared from
the affidavits which bad been filed in sup-
port of this motion that his attention was called to it
about the end of April, some ten days after the libel in
question had been published; he procured a copy of the
paper and found to hie dismay that it contained a para-
graph reflecting seriously and wantonly on his character,
the writer taking advantage of the attack:to assail through
him the sacred nature of the religicn of which the Rev.
Gentleman was a professor. The libel professed to be
a commentary upon the report of a speech sup-
posed to have been delivered by Mr. Deli
at a public dinner held in Galway. It pro-
fessed to set out part of that speech in which Mr.
Daly was supposed to have stated that he had proposed
on some formcor occasion to urge upon the country that
a certain number of persons should be sent to England,
namely, 40 to Liverpool, 30 to Bristol, and 30 to Ports-
mouth for the purpose of setting fire to the ships in
those harbours, and thereby, if possible, destroying her
Majesty's Government. The paper assumed that Mr.
Daly had made this speech, and then it proceeded
to comment upon not only Mr. Daly's character,
but upon the religion of which he was n priest
and professor. Now the affidavits would show the
Court that Mr. Daly never directly or indirectly made
any such speech, or made any such recommendation,
but he held all such proceedings in the utmost abhor-
rence and indignation. The libel was set out in the
affidavits and the paragraph in question, which occurred
in page 156 of the paper published on the 19th of April
last, which was as follows :

" A CHRISTIAN HERO.-HIS CROSS AND LUCIFER-BOX.
" The world knows nothing of its greatest. man, says
Poet Taylor; Poet Wordsworth—see .A xcurszon—having
said the same thing before him. Here is the Rey. Peter
Daly, Catholic priest of the town of Galway, burning
like a lamp in a sepulchre, when he ought to shine like
a in
rethale.pfiotremen oamernatti Daly made a truly heroic
pe on—last week at a dinner in
ssetacrh
Galway; in which speech he crumbled Lord John Rus-
sell to dust, crumbled him as a giant's fingers would
crumble pound-cake. And then Daly said that in '4IS he had given advice that would have overturned Eng-
land—

• He proposed that there should be taken a hundred
picked men—each man like himself f 1 !•—and that forty of
these should be sent to Liverpool, thirty to Bristol, and
thirty to Portsmouth, and on a certain day and hour to
set fire to and burn down the English fleet! and at one
blow destroy the Government '
The proposal was heroic; but where get a hundred
men of such sublime, ennobling powers as priest Daly I
We doubt whether even Ireland—prolific mother of
Christian heroes—could supply them. Nevertheless, the
mind is uplifted and enlarged by a contemplation of the
picture painted in flames by the hero that might have
been. Bec.utiful, too, to imagine the advent of Daly to
our shores; to see him—the teacher of peace and good-
will to all naen—with his cross and his lucifer-box, land
on the quay of all-unconscious Liverpool; to watch him
with his midnight, panther tread, stealing down to the
docks, and then—and then to see the heavens red with
conflagration !
" Ought we not to love Ireland, that gives us such
priestly goodness—ought we not to hug to our bosoms a
faith of which such men are the depositaries, and ought
we not as Englishmen to be especially proud of the con-
tempt—the offspring of our strength—that takes no
more heed of the gabble of such wretches than the lion
heeds the vermin that shelter in his mane?"
Now, of course (the Learned Counsel continued), it
could not be necessary for him to comment upon that
passage in the paper as being a most gross attack upon
Mr. Duly, while there could be
at, becauseenodoubtat atlhletphaa.t
Mr. Daly was the person pointed
ragiaph distinctly called him the Rev. Mr. Daly, of
Galway. The affidavit stated that there was no other
person of that name residing in Galway, nor was there
any other Roman Catholic priclt, named Daly,
living within the county of Galway, and there
could, therefore, he no doubt that Mr. Daly
was the person intended. There could be no
doubt, also, of the libel being calculated not only seriously
to affect his character, but to destroy his means of use-
fulness, and, if possible, to ruin him altogether. Indeed,
several
a partiesra
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cut
and tlihpesmfraonmc
ntyhe.
malicious
paper o
nttoanvargiotuhsi p
doubt ersor?. cf rank and station in
, to expose the reverend
gentleman anshtioLkoibnlgC no
obloquy and scandal. Nothing could be
more complete than the way in which the reverend
gentleman denied ever having uttered such a sentiment,
or ever having in the remotest degree entertained
it for a single moment; and, therefore, it was
perfectly clear that the paragraph was a most atrocious
and wanton attack upon his character. It was also
without the slightest foundation, because the affidavits
would show his Lordship that a little while before the
libel was published a public dinner was given at GalWitY,
at which certain speeches were made which were all re-

pont ste'_.mor, Cape, &c.; Ranger, Pernambuco. Sid. Earl
Grey, Sidney; Gypsey, Calcutta; Ann, Wise, Demerara;
Susan, G. Owens, New York; Britannia, Quebec;
Uca, Limerick.
BELFAST, JUNE 10.—Wind N.—Sid. Mary Hannah,
New York.

BELFAST Louca, JUNE 10.—Arrd. Friendship, Glas-
go,v for Boston, with stern frame damaged, and will re-
pair at Belfast.

COWES, JUNE 11,—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Balder, Rio
Janeiro; Catharine AugustP, Alatatzls.
PLYmouTu.—Arrd. Champion steamer, Sierra Leone,
Sid. Reliance, Sydney, New South Wales.
NEWPORT, JUNE IL—Wind Sivea, Jamaica.
WHITEIIAVEN, JUNE 11.--Wind W..—Arrd.
Sierra Leone.

BELFAST, JUNE 10.—The Fisher brig, of Harrington,
Workington to Dublin, is on shore near Portafary, but
expeted ofF next spring tide, with little damage.
GRAVESEND, JUNE 11.—Wind W.—Arrd. 10th,
Jessie, Miller, Valparaiso; American C-ngress, New
York; Alkmaar, Rotterdam; Eliza and Jane, Thritzte,
Peggy, Guernsey; Earl of Balcarras, Bombay; Olinda,
Ceylon; Ambiorix, Callao; Robert Clivo, Buenos Ayres;
Eclipse, Madeira; Bouvere, Patras; Augusta, Naples;
Rival, Lisbon; Fanny, ditto; Albion steamer, 130111°g";
City of Rotterdam steamer,Dut.kirk; Sir Edward Banks,
Ostend; British Queen, Ghent; Batavia steamer, Rot-
terdam; Ann steamer, Amsterdam; Magnet steamer,
Harlingen; Burgomaster Hendekoper steamer, Aarbaus.
Std. Pt anician, Sydney, New South Wales; Statesman,
Port Philip; Paragon, Mauritius; Hellespont, Cap!!
Lady Hylda, Demerara; Falcon "
, Barbadoes; Traveller,
Cadiz; Geschwester, Hamburgh; Frithrof, Gothenburg;
Johanna Christina, Christiana.

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MARKET N.EWS.--(THIS DAY.)
zrzwaairm .arrn x.EADENsAzu
The markets were very steady to-day, at full prices.
Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3$ lOd
Limb, 4s 6d to 5s 4d; Veal, 35 to 35 10d; Pork' 2
6d to 3s 6d per Sibs by the carcase.
HILT 2VLILMEETS.
Sannirinvo.—aeadow Hay, 3/ Os to 41 is; Clover,
31 5s to 41 10s; and Straw, 11 is to 1/ Es per load•
A slow trade, at abou.t stationary prices.
CUMBERLAND. 'Meadow Hay, 31 35 to 41 81,;
Clover, 310 s tool 8s; and Straw,ll2s to 1/ Ils per los'•
Trade steady, at our quotations.
WHITECHAPEI.-- Meadow Hay, 31 Oil to 41 7:3_,!
Clover, 315 s to 4/ 103; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 119 s per load'
Supply good, and trade dull.

MEAT MARXETS. rulercl,
SOUTHALL, JUNE 12.—The general demand
steady to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef'
from 2s id to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s ; Lamb' r'l2lo to 5s 4d; Veal, 3s to 3s Sd; and Pork, 3s to 35 per
81bs, to sink the offal.
„ ,11 HOHFORD, JUNE 12.—Prime Beasts and Sheer mooed
off steadily, at very full prices. In other kinds of st°e„
only a limited business was transacted. Beef, from r
8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s ; Lamb, 4s 6d to D;
6d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8,1; Pork, 2s 10d to 33 6d per
81bs. Seckling• Calves, ISs to 21s ; and Milch Cow"'
with their small Calf, 14/ to 151 each. LEWES, JUNE 12.—Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutt"' 2s
2d to 45 ; Lamb, 4s Gd to 55; Veal, 33 2d to 35 6d Per
Bibs. A moderate supply and a steady trade.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
ef the
For the Week ended June 5, 1851, made up from the ReiurnlivaleS
Inspectors in the different Citiesand Towns in England ail.
per Imperial Quarter.
I WILEAT. IBARLEY. I OATS. I RTE. I BEANS. ?OS' , iod
PRICE •• I 39s 6d 24s 4d 120 s 8d I 23s 5d I 303 lid 26
DUTIES ON FOREIGN COIIN.
o•
wrmax. I 13ARLEY. OATS. RTE. I BEANS. IrE
Ait Is Od Is Od Is Od lls Od
Is Od Is s'
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST NirE„s:Ans
Wheat, 68,203; Barley, 4,961; Oats, 13,187 ; Rye, 43; Beall!
5,327 ; Peas, 316 quarters.
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CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
liii Lords hi
(Befo
thisre the LORD CHANCELLOR.)
p morning took appeal motions, but
none were of sufficient interest
to call for a report.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.),
His Honour this morning heard and disposed 0' °
number of motions.