The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-27 00:00:00

JOINT STOCK. VANES,

Australasia
London Joint Stock 3....

COURSE • OT
Amsteriain •• •• •. 12. 2
Ditto, three months.: 12 3%
Rotterdam .• .. ••.. • 12 3%
Antwerp •••••••• •• •• • • 25 8,1.
Brussels •• •• • • 25 'SI
ilautuurgb .• .M.B. 13 1334
4.ltona• . ••••••••
Paris, 3 days'iight , • 25 60
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 50
niarSellles ••••••• • • • •• 25 82%
Bourdeaux• ••.• • • • • • •
Frankfort On Mains..., 121%
Vienna, etTeC. .• .... 12 7
Trieiste, ditto n 9
Petershurgh, Sil. Ebbs.. 37%
Madrid ..... 495/
Cadiz .. ;. 49x3
Barcelona 'do •
Seville.••• ••:••• •• •• •a

EXCITANGE.

Gibraltar" •• .• •• ....••

Leghorn •• •• •• •• •• •• • • 30 74
14enols •• •• •••• •• •• ••• /6 10
Siilan ..•••••••• ••••••

YCTIiCe..•• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Naples ............ •• 40%
l'alerrno, peroz ........ 12214
Messina •• •• •• •• •• •• • • 12 tit
634
Oporto. •• •• •• •4 •• •• 535(
%to Janeiro

Btzeno Ayres .. ••.. • •

New Yorli,6odays'alght
1 hiladelphia• ..........

PRICES Of BULLION, PEE OZ.
foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars •• 0 4 10%
Silver in bars 0 4 11%

LLOYD'S: SHIPPING.-(T HIS_D AY

LONDON; APRIL 27.—Wind at n'oon, E.N.E, fresh
gale, and fine clear weather.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 26.—Wind E., fresh gale.--Arrd.
Queen, Squarry, Pernambuco; Nora, Cloid, Rio Grande,
dd. 4th March; Amphitrite, Grern, Havannab, for
Antwerp. Off port, Graf von Arnima, Krueiee, Buenos
Ayres, for Altona. The Charles Buchan, of Kincardine,
from Liverpool, sunk on Rio Grande Bar 10th February,
and became a total wreck; crew and partof cargo saved.
The Mayflower, Havannah to Antwerp, put in here to-
day, with part of cargo thrown overboard, front poop
stove, bulwarks carried away, &a., by a heavy sea 2d
inst., lat. 38, lon. 51 W.
JERSEY, APRIL2S.—Wind S.W.—Canopus, Labrador.
PILL, APRIL 26.—Wind E., fresh.—Sld. Levant,
Monte Video ; Jane, May, Alexandria, United States ;
Samuel, Africa.
HARWICH, APRIL 25.—The Charles Dean, of and
for London, from hence, has sunk on the Naze flats.
DEAL, APRIL 25.—Wind N.E., strong.—Arrd. Katah-
din, Morse, New Orleans. Arrd. from the river and
sld. Independence, New York • Dowthorp, Quebec •,
Ross-shire, St. John's, Newfoundland. The Active, of
Stockton, was beached yesterday, and in heaving off
yesterday parted her bower cable, and will become a
wreck ; crew saved.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 26.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Patriot
Corning, St. Domingo ; Marion, do. ; Farrouse, Rio de
la 'dacha; Esquimaux, Porto Rico; Boadicea, Jamaica;
Carlotta, Matanzas ; Pelle, Laguna ; Infant, Purdy,
Mobile; Ottawa, Thrift, Savannah; Columbus M'Cor-
ran, New York, sld. April 25; Emma Williams, Per-
nambuco, std. March 27; Douglas Herbert, Charles-
ton. Sld. Premule, Realito, Hannab, and Fanny, St.
Thomas ; Naomi, New York • Alice Jane, Jamaica ;
i
Mary Caroline ;St. John's, N.B. ; Washington, Quebec;
Nameless, Labrador; Aurora, Newfoundland. Off port,
Scotland, Charleston ; Charlotte Harrison, do. ; Esther
Ann, Courier, Speed Grampian, Freeman, and British
Americas.
WAINFLEET, APRIL 25.—The Lily, Seville to Hull Or
Grimsby, was driven on shore this morning; crew:rasved.
SWANSEA, APRIL 26.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Sir Isaac
Lionel Goldsmid, Potts, Cuba.
• MILFORD. APRIL 25.—Arrd. Beckford, Sierra Leone,
li(epsake, Quebec.
LIMERICK, APRIL 25.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Polynesia,
Now York.
BELFAST, APRIL 25.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrd. Sarah,
Barbad c. es.
ABERDEEN, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Leon,
Quebec.
PETERHEAD, APRIL 25.—Wind N.—Sld. Reliance,
Davis's Straits.
SHIELDS, Arm 26.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. Posnane,
Cape Braun.
HULL, APRIL 26.—Arrd. Yargaritta, New One ane.
HARTLIOOOL, APRIL 26.—Wind S.E.—Sld. Staley,
Valparaiee.
. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 26.—Wind fresh—Arrd.
Phttntom, Faion, Jamaica, from London, with loss of

bolwarks, stanchions, and sails. SW. Cardiff stud
Pan Tims.

COWES, APRIL .26.—Wind N.E., strong.—Ar: cl.
Anne and Emete, Nienaber, Port-au-Prince, from Ant-
werp.
PLYMOUTH, Anil. 26.—Wind E. to N.—Arrd. Vat.-
ley field, Douglas, Sierra Leone. Sid, Bengal, Adelaide,
South Australia ; &This, South Australia; Minerva.
Port Natal ; her Majestfa ship Sharpshooter, Rio
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MARKET NLWS.—(THIS DAY.)
CIIVEXTT-C-ii,WDE-D1 .
•We hut somewhat inertased supplies of Vegetables
on offer to-day. The demand ruled steady at full
prices, In Fruit, very little doing.—Pine Apples,
lOs to 14s; Hot-house Grapes, 185 to 21s per lb;
Pears, 203.-to 30s; Eatinn. tipples, 58 to 6s per Lair-
sieve; Apples for cooking, 4s to 6s per bushel; Fil-
berts, 70s to 75s per 100 lbs; Straw berries, 4d to 9d
per cz. FOreign Fruit—Black Harnburgh Grapes
(forced) 3s 6d to. 58; Portugal ditto, 9d to is per lb;
Spanish Nuts, 4s to ss; Brazil ditto, 3s to 4s ; Bar-
•colons ditto, 5s to. 68; Spanish Cllesnuts, 3s to 61 per
peck; Lemons, 5« to 10.,; Oranges, 34 to lOs per 100 ;
Almonds, 5s to 6s per peek; Spanish Onions, 14e to 20s
per box.- Vegetables—Cape Breech, 3s to 63 per
dozen bundles; Turnips, is 6d to 2s Od; Carrots. 4s to
ss; Greens, 9d to Is 3d per dozen bunches; Onions
(old), 3s to 4s 6d per bushel; llorse-radisl:, 2s to ss;
Celery, 9d to is per bundle; Leeks, Is Gd to 2s; sad
Parsley, Is to is 6d per dozen bunches; early York
Cabbages, 6d to 8d; Red ditto, 2s to 3s per dozen;
Brussels Sprouts, 61 to 9 per half-sieve; Endive, Is 3d
to is 61 per. score; Red Beet, 2s -to 3s 6d; and Par-
snips, 3d to 4d per dozen; Mushrooms, 4d to 8d per
pottle; Spinach, 6rl to Os 91; and Jerusalem Arti-
chokes, is to Is 6d per hall-sieve; Small Salad,. Is
6d to • 2s. per dozen punnet2; Sage, 2s 6d to 3s per
dozen bunches; Corn Salad, is to Is 6d per halt- sieve;
Shallots, 83 to 4d per lb; Potatoes, 80s to 120 s per
ton; ditto, 3s Gd to 4s 6d per bushel; Sea Kail, is ltd
to is 6d per punnet; Asparagus, 4s to 6s per 100;
Rhubarb, 2s to 5s per dozen bundles; Cornwall White
Brocoli, is to 4s 6d per dozen heads; Turnip Green.,
3d to 4d per bushel; French Beans, is 6d to 25 per 100;
Radishes, 2d to 4d per punnet; Cabbage Lettuces, 3d
to 6d per score; r arly framed Potatoes, is 6d to 2s per lb;
Sprouting Brocoli, 6d to 9d per sieve; 3s to 4s
per doz,:..n bunches; Cucumbers, 3s to 4s per brace.
Young Turnips, is 9d to 2s, and Young Carrots, is 6d
per bunch; Mint, 25 to 3s; Spring Onions, is 6d to 2s
per dozen hunches; Cis Lettuces, Is to is 61 per dozen.
WC irrld Alta Zb.
Turkeys, 3s 6d to 95 ; Geese, 6s to 8s 01; Ducks,
Is 8d to 3s Od; Tame Rabbits, Is Od to Is 9d; Wild dit o
10d to is 2d; Po'reoris, 51 to 10d; Roasting Pigs, 4s 041 to
84 (ach; Surrey Fowls, 7s to 10s; ditto Chickens, 5s to
7s; Bam-door Fowls, 3s 61 to 76 per couple; English
Eggs, 5s 61 to 6s 61; French, 4s 91 to 5s 6sl; Mali;
4* 61 to 5e 33 p,,r hundred; Fresh Butter, 811 to Is ld
per lb.; flares, 2s to 3s 01 each.
=ZVI/POUT..
Beef from 2s 81 to 3s 4,1; Ivlotton, 2s 101 to 336 d;
Lamb, 4s B‘.l to 5:8 61; Veal, 3s to 3s 6d; and Pork,
3s 2d to 4s per 81b5.

WIEXTZCLUIPEZ..
Beef, from 2i 24 to 3s 2d; Mutton. 28 63 to' 3s 6d;
Lamb, 4a Gd to 5s 6d; Veal, 3s to 3s Gd; and York, 24
10d to 43 Der Bibs.

BILLINGSGATM.
Turbots, 4s to 12s; Brill, 2s to 6s 6d; Cod Fish, is
6d to 8s 3:1; Whitings, 4d "to 6,1; Lobsters, is to 2s 9d
esch; Soles, 6d to 2s 3d per pair; Eels, 41 to 1 ld per lb;
Haddocks, 4d. to 8d each; Oystsrs, lOs to 42s per
bushel ; Flounders, 6d to Is; Smelts, is id to Is 6
and Bloaters, 10d to Is Id per d.zen; Mackerel, 3d
to 4d e:ch ; Salmon, is to Is 4(1 per lb; and Salt Fish,
2d to 4d per lb.

MM.Z.5.1).

The prices of Wlliaten Bread in the Metropolis are
From 6d to bid; of household ditto, 4d to sid per 41i)
loaf.

RIDE DIAR:REII..

Market bides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to 1/,:d; ditto, 641 b to
72:b, lid to lid; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 20; ditto;
801 b to 881 b, 4d to 24d • ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 3-44;
ditto, 961 b to 1041b,.341 to 3id; ditto, 104 lb to 1121 b,
Sid to 4d. Calf Skins, light 2s 6d to 33 6:1; ditto Inn
Os Oki to 6s Od; Horn Hides, 6s 6d. to Os; Pulled Sheep,
5s 6d to 7s Oct ; Kcats and tlalt-breds, 4s 61 to Ss 8d;
Downs, 4s Od to 5s Od; Shearlings, 6d to 8d; Lamb
Slins, Is 6d to 2s 4(1 • w.:11.
AgAlf -44c.A.Taarsmrs.
i.';2IITIIFIELP.—Meadow Ilay, 21 85 to 3/103; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 41 lOs ; end Straw, 11 is to 11 83 v.. 71
load: Both Hay and StrAw moved off slowly at late
rates. -
CVAIBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2110;; to 3/ 12 ;; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 7s ; an.d Straw, 1/ 23 to 1/ 9s per
lore. Supply tolerably good, and tradOdull.
WHITECHAPEL. Meac.low Hay, 21 8s to Si 103;
Clover ditto, 310; to 4110 s; and Straw,ll is to 1/ 8s per
load. . A fuil averale supply, and a sluggish demand.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in BancO, la fare Justices PATTE6ON and
IGHTMAN.)
REGINA U. THE CALEDoNIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
This was a demurrerarisingput of a mandamus to the
Caledonian Railway Company, ordering tfem that an
alteration of a carriage road which they had made under
the Caledonian rind Carlisle Deviation Act' should be
made in accordance with the plan, sections, and cross-
sections deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the
county cf Cumberland, preparatory to an application to
Parliament for the Act authorizing the construction of
the line.
Mr. REW, who was counsel for the company, admitted
that his clients had departed a little from the rules and
sections in making the alteration in question, but con
tended that they were author;zed in doing so, on the
ground that a company was not strictly. bound to fallow
in the minutest way the plans and sections they had de-
posited previously to applying to Parliament, inasmuch
as the Legislature might, in granting the Act, make con-
siderable modifications in the plans so deposited.
The COURT suggested that, as this wai a purely tech-
nical and engineering question, the parties bad better
try to settle it out of court.
Mr. MARTIN, the counsel for the corporation of Car-
lisle, expressed his readiness to do so. The alteration
in question had tended seriously to mar the beauty of a
road in the vicinity of Carlisle, called Irish Oats Brow,
and the corporation were only desirous of mitigating in
some degree the disagreeable result of binding the com-
pany to keep to something, like their original plan at
that point, to which original plan the corporation had
no objectior, hut from that plan the conlpany had ma-
terially departed. lie would suggest that the case he
adjourned to the first Crown paper day in next term, to
furnish the parties an opportunity of coming to an ar-
rangement.
Mr. REw agreed to that suggestion on the part of the
company, and the matter dropped.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

Mr. Sergeant ti HEE was instructed to move for a
rule to show cause why a criminal information should
nut be fled against Mr. John Joseph Lawson, for certain
libels published in the limes newspaper, of which he
was the printer and publisher. The Learned Sergeant
made this motion upon the affidavit of Mr. Charles
Nash, which stated that he was a Parliamentary
agent, and his name had for many years been duly
entered upon the roll of Parliamentary agents
of the Home of Commons, duly authorised to act as
such by the Speaker of the House of Commons. It
.would be necessary, the Learned Sergeant said, to go into
considerable details to warrant the making of the noeion.
The libel in question appeared in a report of certain
proceedings which took place in the House of Lords,
which report Mr. Nash submitted was unfair and unjust,
and highly calculated to injure hint in the estimation of
his friends and of those who had been in the habit of
retaining him as a Parliamentary agent. Mr. Nash, in
his affidavit, stated that for some time past he had been
engaged in the capacity of honorary secretary to a body
of shareholders in the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow,
and Dublin Railway, and it had fallen to his lot to have
the duty imposed upon him of investigating the
conduct of Lord. Courtown, the chairman of the
company, and of the directors, which, for a
considerable time past had caused much uneasiness in
the minds of the body of the shareholders, of whom he
was the honorary secretary. In the spring of the year
1849 unusual anxiety arose respecting the financial po-
sition of the affairs of railway companies generally, and
on the motion of Lord Brougham the House of Lords
directed a return to be made of the state of the share
capital and financial position of every railway in the
kingdom. The directors of the Waterford, Wexford,
and Wicklow, and Dublin Railway neglected, and still
continued neglecting, to comply with this order; and
Mr. Nash, some short while ago, wrote to the
Railway Commissioners, through Captain Harness,
their secretary, intimating that be could fur-
nish the information required by the House of
Lords, so far as the Wateriord, Wexford, Wicklow, and
Dublin Railway was concerted. Subsequently, on the
motion of the same Noble Lord mentioned before. it was
resolved by the House of Lords that returns which had
not been made in pursuance of the order agreed to on
the 3d of May, 1849, should be made forthwith, and, in
accordance with his previous communication, Mr. Nash
sent into the Commissioners, at their own request, a
statement, with three appendices. the last of which was
a copy of a return made to the House of Commons in
1846, pursuant to an order of the House, agreed to on
the motion of Mr. Thomas Duncombe, which Mr.
Nash bad copied from the original document as
signed by Lord Courtown, the chairman of the
mitripaoy, and deposited in the Journal-office
of the Bans of Commons by the secretary of the corn-
parry. Mr. Nash stated that there could be no mistake
as to this being the copy of an original document, as
it was partly in his oW! handwriting and partly in his
clerk's, with both of which Captain Harness and the
Commissioners must have been familiar. The affidavit
went on to state, that on the 15th of •March last Mr.
Nash was accidentally present at the bar of the House
of Lords, which was open.to all Parliamentary agents,
vase he saw Lord Courtown and the Earl of Granville,
chairman of the Railway Commiesion; in close conver-
sation together. Shortly afterwards Lord Granville
staled to the House that he heel a question of privilege to
submit with reference to the railway in question. The
Noble Lord added that he had received a return,
which purpoited to emanate from the company,
but on inquiry he had found that not to be
the case, and that it had net been signed by the chair-
man and secretary of the company, as it professed to be.
At the suggeeitien of Lord Brougham, toe Noble Lord
moved that Lord Courtowu should be called to the bar
of the House, mind examined upon the matter. Lord
Courtown accordingly appeared at the bar, and stated
that the signature to the copy of the documenr, sent into
the Commissioners was nut in his handwriting, and
thereupon Mr. Nash was ordered to attend and explain
the affair. On the Menclay fellowieg Mr. Nash, how..

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hart
ever, seeing the rnistake that Earl 'Granville
fellen into, got Lord Beaumont to explain
no return had been. made to the House of Lords,
but 1.1,t the document suppofied be a return vas
nothing Inctedhare n copy- -of a, retrirn which hied been:
made by the corepaey.to the House of Commoto,.
could not postibiy be mistaken for anything else. 504"
were the facts es disclosed by the affidavit. 'The Leitri.'"
Sergeant now proceeded to call the attention nft4e,;„
Court to the reports that appeared in the Times, and o'
which, with the exception of a very fe:v lines, there was
no ground for complaint. There were, ,Inwever,
merits and expresaious in the report which r: ere net itl3"
tifitd by the actual facts that took place. lit ,the Tilncl
of Saturday, March the 16th, the followings tatique„f
appeared its the ordinary 'report of the preceeeliegs
the House of Lords, which Was also, in. substano
peated in the summary which preceded the lenders:. 7; t
" HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MA.ncet 15.—The • -
.i
,I*s
business. transacted was the issuing of an order that 1,
,r*
Naili attend at the bar on Monday next, to explain r''_
turu made to the Basset), Board, and subscquentlY Pre''
seated by that Beard to the House of Lords, and note al-
leged tocontain a forgery of the name of the chairman steel '•
secretary of a certain railway company. Owing to the,
low tone in which Earl Granville spoke, we could not
beer any particulars et the alleged forgery, and merely
mention the-result t.f a conversation in which that Noble
Earl, the Ea-1 of Courtown, and Lord Brotiehata
toOk
pert. The whole transaction was denotilced by Lor4.
Brougham as a gross breach of privilege."
It would be seen from this that Mr. Nash was charged
with a forgery, while nothing had transpired ict the pro-
ceediugs of the House of Lords which cculd lead t.)
such an impi'ession. On Monday, the 19th of March'
Mr. Nash appeared at the bar of the House and wider-
vi ent a lengthened examinati©n touching the signatire
to the copy of the return, which Mr. Nash st%ted vithi
written by himself in his ordinary handwriting, Ina'
was not intended as an imitation of Lord Courtowns
signature, nor was the return intended by him to appear
as a return made in pursuance of their Lordships' Pre-
vious order. The Times, in reporting this examination,
gave it thus, still insinuating that Mr. Nash Wes
charged with forgery.

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MR, NASH.
oOn the motion of Earl Granville, Mr. Nash was
then ordered to appear at the bar.
"Mr, Nash was placed at the bar, and underwent an
examir,atiou at some length by Earl Granville, Lord
Brougham, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Beaumont,
and Lord Monteagle. He stated that he was not the
secretary of, ' the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow.
and Dublin, Railvray CoMpany, but that ho
was the tecretary of an association of share-
holders in that company, and that he had PO
in to the Railway Commissioners, of his own re'
cord, a c,)py of a return from the chairman and seere•
try of thet company, because an order had been nisdei,
by their Lordships in 'sit March for the production el
that return, and great delay had occurred in obtaining
from tho company. The original return was made under
an order cf their Lordship issued in March, 1846, sod'
his copy of it—which was a literal and exact copy'.
without any addition on his part—was made by himseit.
from the original in the Private Bill-office. He had
written on his copy 'Courtown, chairman,' in his ordi-
nary handwriting, and not with any intention of haviog
it supposed that it was the genuine autograph of that
nobleman. He had no power to put in the original re-
turn, nor could anybody put in that return without the
authority of Parliament. If the original had been Isis"
L4iug ever since he made his copy, he knew nothing abut
it, and certainly had not abstracted i,t hinuelf. His ott
ject in sending in his copy to the Railway Commiisiocers
"was to matte the case of the shareholders in that COrn'
pany known to that body. A similar copy had been ex'
Whited to the solicitors of Lord Courtown:, and they bad
admitted that the signature appended to it was that °
Lord Courtown. Be had never heard till that moment
that the original return was now lost."
On the 22d of the same month Mr. Nash was examined
again, and ultimately, ou the lath of April, he again'
appeared at the bar, and the proceedings were thus re-
ported in the Times of the following day:—

" MR. NASH.
Earl Granville moved thae Mr. Nash be hailed i°,
reprimanded, and discharged.
" Mr. Nash was accordingly brought to the bar, and,
having brit fly addressed their Lordships in his defence,
retire 1.
" Earl Granville persisted in his motion, that Charles
De Lacy Nash be then called to the bar and repri-
manded. He did not suppose that Mr. Nash had been
influenced by any intention to perpetrate a fraud, but it
certainly was a case upon which the displeasure of the
House ought to be expressed.
"Motion agreed to.
"Mr. Nash then appeared at the bar.
" Lord Campbell, being seated cn the Woolsack and
covered, said--Charles Do Lacy Nash, the misconduct
by which you have incurred the displeasure of the House
is that of having made a return Yr hiuh you were not re--
quired to make, and of having made it without the au-
thority of the railway company to which you professei
to be secretary. The House has hopes that you were
not actuated in this master by any fraudulent or ma'•
licious motives; but at the same time the House bps
had reason to be greatly dissatisfied with your con"
duet. it being calculated to mislead the House, and to
do injury to the company of which you are considered to
have been an cfficer. Tne House has resolved that yoa
be reprimanded, and you are reprimanded accordingly
and eliscilarged."
Mr. Nash, in his affidavit, stated his belief that the
words " brought to the bar," coupled with the insinuation '
of forgery, was calculated to induce people to believe
that he was formally arraigned on a charge of forgery.
which was calculated to do him a serious injury, and
which he swore was wholly without truth alio entirely
unfounded. He did not dispute the right of the Times
or any other paper to publish for the information of
the public the proceedings or the House of Lords; but
he submitted That the Times might have delayed pub;
lishiug the proceedings relating to him till they a" •
been finally concluded, or have given them in a form that"
was not calculated to indtice his friends and the public'
to fincy that he was undergoing a trial as it were
on a charge of forgery. He swore positireif
that there was no truth or foundation for o°ll
a statement as that which had already bcerl.
read to the Court, and the Learned Sergeant therefor
°
submitted that a sufficient case was made out to ;Pe
thy a rule.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE did not think a rule ought V ;
go in this case. lie would not say whether or not di' $
defendant bad laid himself open to an indictment for '
libel, but before an individual could seek th
interference of the Court in the manner now Pr°,
josed be must show some intention to do ;
uries on the part of the person publishing *",,
libel. It did not appear in this case that there woes
such intention, or that there had been any bad dis:°9l;
tion displayed on the part of the editor of the paPo.:1;;
which the libel was alleged to have been publishe
for, however erroneous.the statement might be that gr;
Nash was charged with forgery, it was (111tvi
evident, from the tenor of Mr. Nash's exansluat`,,e.
on the subject of Lord Courtown's signature, that 1"; i
impression intended to be conveyed was, that it b° ,
been forged. The statement that the name of the s $
eretary had b: ea signal to the return wss clearlY
mistake ; but he did not attach much importarce EL, $
that circumstance, or to the statement that ,111' •
Nash was " brought up" to the bar. ,
sting of the affair was conveyed in the state ,
meat that Mr. Nash was charged with forger) ,ff
but as that did not arise from any malice on the part
the reporter, or the editor of tho paper, but from t' p
tenor or nature a the preedings which too plie°,
the House of Lorde, thereoc was no ground to jcititl or,
criminal information, however injured or age,rielel is
Nash might feel, by the insinuations of the Nobbolla.
who had undertaken the duty of examining him.•
rule mutt, therefore, be refused.
Rule refus,.d.

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEA-I°'

(THIS DAY.) if 141
(In the Exchequer Chamber, before Lord Chief Jos&
CAMPBELL, Mr. Baron PABIE, Mr. Baron ALDZIOO;
Mr. JllStiCe CRESSIVELL, and Mr. Justice Elms.)

THE QUEEN V. BENJAMIN HOPKINS BOND.
Mr. Baran ALDERSON delivered judgment in this 08 0;
which was argued curing the sittings of the Court ,
term, and in which two points were raised. On the firs:,
which had reference to the admissibility of a part Coont
prisoner's examination before the magistrate, the l
never entertained any doubt or difference of °pa:lino; fa
appeared that the prisoner was examined twice hela°o..
the magistrate. On the first occasion he made a vall'ita
tary statement, which the magistrate proposed to re y
on the second examination, but the prisoner's Otero: e
objected, on the ground that he had made another etas r
ment on being brought up the second time. The (1132
thin, therefore, was, whether the first statement -
capable of being read. The Court was clearly
es
that it was, inasmuch es the usual (32
Lion required by the statute bad been given., ed
the prisoner on the first examination, and what transPitge
on the second occasion did not affect the validity 01.,,a
former statement. On the other point, which li'oa•
very material one, the Court had entertained se
siderable doubt, and he believed that they were net,n
;
altogether unanimous in opinion. The indict-Ts,'
charged the pii6oner with stealing :seventy soya° 14)0
140 half-sovereigns, 500 crowns, 500 half-crowrto et
florins, 100 shillings, au 100 sixpences. The pri- too
was a clerk in a banking-house, and every denotairna so
of coin which was in use at the time of the robberYthoet
committed had been inserted in the indictment, h fool)
though- it was clear that some of those coins holt alo
taken, the evidence did not go to show which.
tree 9
trial Mr. .Instice Cresewell told the jury that if
taco e
Were satisfied the prisoner bad stolen some of ntiolt
moneys from his employers, though unable to ma baa
any particular species of coin, they were to tin 3(
guilty. The majority of the Court were oleo'
r Oa&
opinion that the direction was an improPeria
The true criterion was that no one eeti jolt
found guilty of an offence unless thrtaeolor
definitely faund that he bad stolen some le 1., thae,
coins mentioned in the indictment, and therem
ner. J'"
verdict in the present case must be for the prisein the
might, perhaps, be a considerable improvement
coati°
law to make it sufficient to state, that part of 3 ~; VO‘
amount of property had Ix en embezzled or steill'ibet 0'
until that improvement was made, they must ho'D'a&aing
person eculd not be found guLtyaof stealing %ciao''f
else than that which he was proved to hale
taken. di
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Mr. Justice ERLE said be felt it his duty to kJ' t id%
his Learned Brethren. He was not aware tut:eifortee
ment would be given this morning, and he was, at sto
not prepared with a written judgment, but ho 'rho
that it appeared to him the eonviction was rig aide:ies
indictment was good on the fees) of it, sincl the it,T
clearly proved that the prisoner was: gill Thef°
a
the crime with which it charged hlre*oooei:tia
con! be no doubt about his having t's as
._
a larceny, and the only uncertainty WPA 6ao
1 which particular coin or cotes he