The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-03 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Sittings in Banco before the Lord Chief Baron, and
Barons Martin, Bramwell, and Piggot.
SLADE V. SLADE.

The arguments in this case wero again resumed this
morning, Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., directing the attention of
the Court to a mass of rebutting documentary evidence,
showing what the matrimonial restrictions imposed upon
Austrian military officers really were, and contending that
they wore such as would invalidate the marriage of Baron
von Koeber and Lady Slade. His argument is likely to
last the whole day.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins before Mr. Thron Channel' and
Common Jury.)

PINEROE V. CIIIPMAN-ALLEGED LIBEL BY TILE " STAN

DARD."

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a solicitor,
carrying on business at 29, St. James's-street, Bedford-
row, against the publisher of the Standard newspaper for
a libel in that journal.

Mr. Sergeant Atkinson and Mr. Bromley were counsel
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Gifford, Q.C., and another learned
gentleman for the defendant.

Mr. Sergeant Atkinson, in opining the case, said that
he, in common with the public, must feel a deep interest
in the protection of the public from unnecessary restric-
tions, but at the same time private character should also
be protected from the unjust attacks or reports of so
powerful an organ. The plaintiff in this case
was a respectable solicitor, had carried on business
for several years, and the effect of the libel was to seriously
damage that business, and to threaten him with ruin at an
advanced period of life. It appeared that a gemtleman
named Fletcher,
who was advanced in years, had been in
the habit of receiving money through the hands of the
plaintiff from the East India Company for his services as
an ensign in the Madras army, and being under the im-
pression that the plaintiff had done him an injustice in
regard to some mousy that he bad deposited in the
Bloomsbury Savings Bank,
he adopted the course of
summoning him last November to the Clerkenwell Police-
court on the charge of fraud. A report of the proceedings
on that occasion, under the head of " Serious Charge of
Fraud against a Solicitor," appeared the following day
in the Standard. Here the report was put in and read. It
stated that the plaintiff was brought before Mr. D'Eyncourt
charged with having induced the prosecutor, who is 76 years
of age, and almost imbecile;to sign an order to receive for
him a sum of £l7, which was lying to his credit in the
Bloomsbury Savings-Bank, for which he had not after-
wards accounted. Mr. Straight, who attendCd as counsel
for the prosecution, said that it was intended to take pro-
ceedings against the plaintiff in the Court of Queen's
Bench, and the magistrate advised the latter as
a man of honour to settle the claim, and adjourned
the case for a week, with a view to some arrangement
being made between the parties. The libel complained of
was contained in the report of the proceedings on the
'second occasion. This report was also read, and was
headed "The Ferocious Charge against a Solicitor." It
repeated the summons, which was not then read, and said
that the plaintiff had paid the money, and the case
was discharged. Now, only a part of the money claimed was
paid, which was all that was done, and it had been previ-
ously offered to the prosecutor, but the former fact
was not stated, which the learned counsel contended was
most that the report conveyed
m
Several witnesses having been examined on behalf of
a fasltseunimjupsrtestsoiotnh.e plaintiff,
the plaintiff,
The jury found a verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
A PAINFUL CASS.-IN MS W. F. KERRY.

This bankrupt was at one time a dealer in, and re-
storer of, pictures, carrying on business in Sloane-street,
and he applied to-day to bo released from custody. The
bankruptcy is ascribed to the poor fellow's unfortunate
loss of sight, which incapacitated him from carrying on
his profession and business. He had been arrested upon
a judgment for £3O, but no ono appeared on the present
occasion to oppose his release, and the order was granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A "JACK-IN-THE-GREEN" CLOWN IN TROUBLE.-Wm.
Smith or Dickenson (he gave both names), described as a
labourer, but who was attired in the costume of a clown,
and was stated to have formed one of a "Jack-in-the-
Green" party, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing
a bottle of claret, the property of Mr. Malpas, wine mer-
chant, Jermyn-street, and also with assaulting Police-
constable Watson, 299 A.

There being no one present on the part of Mr. Malps
when the case was called on, the charge of assault was
gone into.

Police-constable Watson, 299 A, said—Yesterday after-
noon I saw the prisoner in company with another man
running along Pall-mall and turn into Crown-court.
Prom what I was informed I went after the
prisoner and stopped him, and asked him why
ho was running, when he replied, " I did not do
it ; it was the others." Directly I took hold of the pri-
soner the other man made a bloic at me, and ran away. I
told the prisoner he had stolen a bottle of wine out of a
man's basket as he was passing along, and ho said, "I'm
if 1 did," and commenced kicking me, and tried to bite
me. We both fell, and in doing so my hand got under-
neath him and was a good deal hurt. After struggling
with the prisoner for a few minutes, I agreed to leave go
of him if ho would go quietly. Ho went quietly a short
distance, and then started off, but I pursued and caught
him, and he then became again very violent, and seeing a
Jack in the Green party—his companions—ho called on
them to rescue him. With assistance I got him to the
station, and while in the dock he tried to bite my hand.
On the charge being read tho prisonor said ho would own
he took the bottle of wine, but that the others were as bad
as him ; that he took the bottle and throw it to them, and
that then they threw it back.
Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner.