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EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Baron MARTIN.)
LIBEL—O'REILLY V. CHURCHILL.

This was an action brought by Mr. O'Reilly, of John-
street, Adelphi, against Mr. John Churchill, publisher
of the Medical Times, for an alleged libel in that journal.
Mr. Humphreys, Q.C., and Mr. Mathews appeared for
the plaintiff, Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., and Mr.
Phips,,n for the defendant.
Mr. HUMPHREYS said the plaintiff was formerly an
assistant secretary to a society called the Medical Pro-
tection Office, under the management of a Mr. Breary.
This society having been broken up in consequence of
pecuniary difficulties, plaintiff was about to establish
another society of a similar kind, called the Medical
General Agency Office, tor the purpose of protecting
medical men from the frauds practised upon them, and
enabling them readily to recover debts due from their
patients. The following remarks were made respecting
the plaintiff and the new society in a letter published in
the Medical Times, from a correspondent signing him-
self "

• " I understand, Sir, notwithstanding all you have
written `respecting the Medical Protection Society],
one Mr. O'Reilly. the managing man of Mr. Breary'a
office, anlwho is, I am told, the getter up and factotum of
the celebrated MAil Delivery Office, had the audacity to
attempt the establishment of another Medicil Protection
Office, somewhere in the locality of Foley-place, and
that he actually sent round circulars to the profession,
and found men silly eneugh to confide their accounts to
him for collection. This hornet's nest ILLI6: be dispersed,
and every member of it driven beyond the limits of the
profession. It the profesion honestly wish to dissociate
themselves from disreputable connexion and to protect
their own interests, they will rftectually put duwn all
such attempts as those I have referred to. . . .

I say, thin, to all my brother members, rally round the
Memcal and Surgical Practitioners' Society, and defeat
all the efforts made by cunning adventurers to impose
upon your confidence. As :an evidence of what this new
society is doing, it has collected for me since its forma-
tion 121,, from among a mass of debts which, while in
the hands of the defunct Medical Protection Office,
brought me exactly 12 pence."
The publisher of the paper had declined to give the name
of the writer of the ieter, and the action was accord-
ingly brought against him by the plaintiff. The sting
of the libel was the allusion to plaintiff's supposed con-
nexion with the Mail Delivery Office, which was pure
invention of the writer's; the other statements in the
letter were hardly less calculated to injure the prospects
of the plaintiff, who was endeavouring to earn his live-
lihood in an honest and upright manner.
Mr. T. Simmouds wai then called. He knew the plain-
tiff when he wai a clerk in Mr. Breary's office, and he
had no doubt he was the person to whom he had re-
ferred.

Cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS —Was clerk in the
Medical Protection Society's-office, 43, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, which had been established since tae former society
broke up, en aAjgnuaent having been made from one to
the other. Witness and plaintiff were both clerks in
the former office, of which Mr. Breary was the head.
Bad just seen plaintiff and Mr. Breary together iu the
hall. Mr. Breary had now an office in John-street,
Adelphi, fur the discovery of lost addresses.—(A laugh.)
Knew that a great many debts had been collected by
the Medical Protection Society which had never been
paid over to the parties to whom it was due. The
society's books had been lost, and were afterwards found
by a waterman in the Thames. The books were in the
care of a youth about nineteen years old. Was aware
that many subscribers called fur their debts, which had
been collected, and were not paid. Their complaints
were numerous. Did not know that cheques were re-
turned dishonoured from Messrs. Dixon, their bankers.
Payments were sometimes made by the clerks down
stairs drawing cheques upon Mr. Breary, who was up
stairs. These cheques were sometimes crossed by the
clerks. Was aware that the Medical Times had pub-
lished an admission of their error with regard to plain-
tiff's connexion with the Mail Delivery-Office. Plaintiff
bad told witness that be was not satisfied with it.

By Mr. HUMPHREYS—PIaintiff was only a clerk in
the Medical Protection-Office. He had nothing to do
with their pecuniary deficiencies. Certain charges had
been brought against plaiatiff, but he denied them all.
Mr. CHAMBERS commented upen several portions of
the witness's evidence which identified the plaintiff with
the Medical Protection Society, and contended that the
_Medical Times was only discharging a public duty in
warning the profession against being induced to trust
their accounts to him for collection, as there could be
no doubt that he was a party to the serious defalcations
of the former society, Ile urged that nothing had been
brought forward to show that the Mail Delivery So-
ciety was ole of such a nature as to render it libellous
to co
nriect the plaintiff with it; and that the other re.
marls in the letter were only such as a public journalist
was fairly entitled to make respecting the establishment
of a society under very suspicious circumstances.
having briefly summed up,
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His LORDSHIPPd
a verdict for the plaintiff—one
The jury tow)
farthing damages.
TATTERSALL'S.—THIS

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