The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-07 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Kolner Zeitung states, from Posen of the 2d
inst., that his Majesty the Czar is expected to arrive
in Warsaw on the 7th, and that a Congress of the
Princes of the north is to take place in that city on
the 14th inst. According to other accounts the said
Congress is to assemble at Kuliseh.

IRELAND.

SAVAGE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE
TWO ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMEN

AT THE ALTAR, IN DUBLIN.

I}'im.lN, MONDAY MORNING. ^ A correspon-
dent informs us that at nine o'clock yesterday
morning, at mass, a maniac, young and well
dre..s2d, from Cabintelly, named M'Mahon, rushed
into the sanctuary, White Friars-street, Dublin,
as the Reverend Mr. Corrigan was celebrating
mass, and prostrated him by a violent blow on the
back of his head, with a piece of an ash branch, three
feet long, about four inches thick, and three pounds
weight, prepared for the purpose. The assassin then
made another attack at the side altar on the Rev. Mr.
O'Rooke, who was officiating there, inflicting
severe wounds over his temples, and felling him
to the ground. The man was instantly secured, and
was with difficulty saved from the vengeance of the
congregation. The lives of both clergymen, who are
ar advanced in years, are despaired of; and, as might
be expected, the greatest excitement prevailed.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 6.
(Sittings in Banco.)
(Continued from our Afternoon alition of yesterday.)
IN RE THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted that this rule
should be made absolute. This application was made on
behalf of the directors of the Electric Telegraph Com-
pany, whoa Messrs. Wilirc3r and Smith had libelled in
the letter written in the Morning Herald, and unless
persons were at liberty to libel individuals, because
members of a company, the Court would protect those
individuals from the gross libel which had been pub-
fished concerning them. This was a matter of character,
and tha company were anxious not only to meet the
charges brought against them, but to explain others
fully and amply.

Mr. MARTIN and Mr. gars followed on the same
side.

Lord CAMPBELL was of opinion that this rule ought
to be discharged, and that those who applied for it
should be left to their remedy by an action for indict-
ment; and as there was an action already pending in
which the questions which had been agitated to-day
would be decided by a jury, in order that there might
be no prejudice from anything that fell from him (Lord
Campbell), ho would abstain from saying anything more.
The rule we discharged, without costs.
IN RE THE QUARTERLY RE-TIER.
Mr. COCXBURN applied fcr a rule nisi calling on Mr.
Murray, the publisher of the Quarterly Review, to show
causo why a criminal infirmation should not be filed
against him for a libel which appeared in that
work, in an article relating to the disturbances at
Vienna end the murder of Count Latour by
the populace, and which was worded in such
a manner that it could apply to no one but Count
Puisky, on whose behalf he made the present application.
It charged a Hungarian gentleman in this country with
distributing money and intoxicating drinks, and exciting
the populace of Vienna to revolution and to the murder
cf Count Latour.
The COURT refused the rule, on the ground that the
arfcle in question did not point at Count Pulsky with
sufficient explicitness to induce any one to come to the
conclusion that he was the person referred to.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 6.
. (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and Barons ALDERSON,
ROLFE, and PLATT.)
SWASEY V. WOODS.
This nation was tried before Mr. Baron Alderson a
few days since, when a verdict was found for the de-
fendant.
Mr. Minns now moved for a rule to show cause why
the Yerdict should not be set aside and a new trial had,
- on the ground of misdirection. The action was brought
by Dr. S.'vabey to recover a year's salary for services
rendered to the Indu,trial and General Life Assurance
and Deposit Company, of which the defendant was a
director. It appeared that the company was originally
projected by a person named Cleland, and through him
the plaintiff was introduced to the defendant and other
provisional directors, and a resolution was unanimously
passed at , a meeting of the directors on the 2nd of
August, 1849, that be should be engaged as the secre-
tary of the company. At that meeting the defendant
was not precent. Tho appointment of the plaintiff was,
however. subject to the reservation that he was only to
expect remuneration in the event of the company being
completely formed. The plaintiff accordingly entered
the service of the company upon those terms, and con-
tinued in the capacity of secretary for five months, but
on the 19th December he was dismissed without any
justification, although something was said about his
being a nervous person, who was not likely to discharge
properly the, duties of his office. This agegation, how-
ever, he was instructed to say was a mere pretence, in
order to prevent the plaintiff having any claim against
tth,le,, directors. The Learned Judge was of opinion at
the trial that there was no evidence of a bargain between
plaintiff and the directors, and accordingly directed
a vereitt f . it the defendant. The Learned Counsel now
contended that there clearly. was a bargain made with
the plaintiff, because the understanding was, that if the
concern want on
in shouldi be paid his salary as seem-
Wye and that by he
implication he was not to be dis-
charged from that serviceP unless on the ground of mis-
mere
conductspeculative One. In the presen ease
t the hiring was not a
. the r
contEgent on the suceass of etm:neration for which was
directors was actually formed,hanpdrodiect, for a board of
his services for several consecutive moenpluintiff had given
Case of extreme hardship if a person, thB.
It would be a
urr-herstanding that he Was not to be pziagfoor
his
upon the
services
until the company was actually formed, ahoull
give
services for many months and then be dischargedhis
without cause a few days before the
company
was legally incorporated, without receiving
remuneration. He apprehended that if an actanc3:f
this arbitrary charact r were to be done the
plaint
ff' who would thereby be deprived of the induce-
ment held out to him fep giving his services, should be
paid for his labour and time out of the funds either of
the company or o •
f the directors personally, and that in
this cesee the verdict ought to have been ter the plaintiff,
because the directors had undertaken the responsibility
of d sclierginee him.
Thl Cour.T was of opinion that no rule ought to be
graniel, fur the jury had found that under the arrange-
ment by which the bargain was
madeno member of
liable, but the board of directors was to be personally
that the remuneration was to be found oat of the funds
of
the
company. Under these circumstances,
hiVi
the plaintiff could
ag found this state of facts,
not recover on any of the counts of the declaration.
The eriu
was no contract
rt was satisfied that there to make the directors personally liable,because
it, hod been mo rectors personally .
the directors
and all the eerie at at the trial, that
personally liable, bee" agreed not to hold each other
look to the success of the un-
dertakinz for rernunerites
*Rule refused accordingly..
POLICE INTEL
BOW-STREET
LIQENCE.
- _Daniel Donovan was re -examin .
en the charge of throwing his eed before Mr. Hall
W
and otherwise ill-treating her. 1 e out of window,
It was proved at the former exam' • prisoner and his wife, two cbildrennati°ll that the
woman named Mary Burt, occupied one a young
r and
second floor of 19, S'ort's-gardens. The on the D nov
reached home between twelve o'clock on S°a
night and one in the morning, both being drunk dos
aY quarrelsOme. Burt and the prisoner's daughter tried
to prevent their fighting, but were compelled them-
selves to run out of the room, to escape his violence.
lie bolted the door upon them, and renewed his
attack upon his wife, their son, a hild of eight years,
being the only other person present. The woman's
continued cries of "Murder" induced Bert to look for