The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-25 00:00:00

ACTION FOB LIBEL.

In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, before the Lord
Chief Baron and a special jury, an action for libel was
heard. It was brought by Dr. Henry E. Eastlake against
Dr. James Edmunds, a gentleman whose name is well
known in connection with the Ladies' Medical College, and
arose out of a matter which has led to considerable discus-
sion in the medical world. When the case was called on,

Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., who appeared for the defendant, said
ho had done his best to bring about an amicable arrangement,
but without success, nod he was afraid the case must be
tried. This was the last day of sittings of the court
at IV,stminster, and however late his lordship sat the
trial could nut bo finished in ono day, mid it would
bo extremely disadvantageous to the defendant to have the
case stated against him, and then to have the trial postponed
over the Long Vacation.
The Lord Chief Baron suggested that the best course
would be to make the case a remand.

Sir Georg() Honeyrnan, Q.C., on behalf of the plaintiff,
said his_client was very anxious to have the case, which. %yas
one of great interest, tried, in- order to vindicate his cha-
racter, but it would be utterly itnpracLicable to finish the
trial to-day, as it would last two or three days at least.
There was another action in the Common Pleas, brought by
Miss Firth, a lady whose name would constantly arise in
this case, but the Lord Chief Justice of that Court had
ordered that it should not be tried until this case had been
disposed of.
Mr. Keane, Q C., the counsel f r Miss Firth, said it was
very much against her will that her action was postponed.
He himself saw no reason for postponing it, and he should
apply to the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to
allow it to be tried at the first convenient opportunity.

The case in this Court was then made a remauet.

PRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO
EX:GOVERNOR EIRE.

Ou WeJuesday, au address from a body of iufluontial

gentlemen having property iu or connected with the
coLor :ere° of the West India Islands was presented to
ex-Governor Eyre, at Walbrook House, Walbrook-street,
Oily. The address, which was drawn up in 1866, and
offered to Mr. Eyre, but declined by him at that time, on
the ground that the prosecutions against him were still
pending, was signed by 240 gentlemen largely interested
in the West Indian trade, or holding property in our West
Indian colonies. In replying to the address, Mr. Eyre
reviewed the circumstances which had brought him so
prominently before tho public during the last three years,
and went on to say : I thankfully accept the gratifying
testimony in my favour, believing it to be an indication that
my fellow countrymen at largo concur in and indorse the
decision which has been arrived at by three different
tribunals; but especially do I value it as coming from a
large and iefluential body of gentlemen, who from their
knowledge of, and connection with, the West Indian
colonies aro best able to appreciate the difficulties of the
position I was placed in and the necessity which existed
for the most prompt and decisive action to avert from a
British colony the frightful scenes which were once enacted
in tho closely adjoining island of St. Domingo. That
. there are isolated individuals amongst my late assailants,-
who, disappointed at tho authoritative termination of
the proceedings which have so repeatedly but unsuccess-
fully been instituted against me, have since sought to
weaken the effect of those judicial decisions, and have
renewed their attem?ts to mislead and prejudice the public
mind, by reiterating iu the newspapers unsupported asser-
tions and misrepresentations, only shows how groat have
been the rancour and unscrupulousness which stimulated
the prosecutions. I can well leave such persons to their
own unenviable reflections and to the just appreciation of a
British public. On my own behalf 1 would only say that I
endeavoured to do my duty conscientiously in the single
desire to preserve the lives and properties of those intrusted
to My care, and to uphold the honour of my Queen and
country.

A statue of Mr. Gladstone, by Adams, is abotit
to be placed in St. George's Hall at Liverpool.
WANDERING DOGS.—Colonel Fraser, the City
Police Commissioner, has promulgated an order similar to
the one issued by Sir Richard Mayne, as to wandering
dogs in the City of London. It will take effect firm
Wednesday next, July 1, when all wanderers are to be
" apprehended" by the police.
WITHDRAWAL OF THE SOUTHERN RAILWAYS
AMALGAMATION BILL.—The promoters of the above bill
being dissatisfied with the determination of the Lords'
committee to strike out the terminal charges and the maxi-
mum uniform rates to be charged upon the whole of the
amalgamated system, have come to the conclusion to with-
draw this portion of the measure altogether. They endea-
voured, but vainly, to get the committee to allow a two
years' experiment of the working of the union.
THE MURDER IN DORSETSHIRE.—On Wednesday
at the Town Hall, Poole, George Ivamy, the young man
who was remanded from Monday last, and who was on
Tneaday committed for trial by a coroner's jury for the
wilful murder of his sweetheart, Anne Hancock, aged 16,
was again brought up for examination. Numerous
'witnesses were called, most of whose evidence had been
taken by the coroner on the previous day, and the prisoner
coani!ittel for trial'at the Dorchester Assize's onThe
charge of wilful murder.

MEMORIAL TO THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON.—
A public meeting has been held at Spa-fields Chapel, to
receive the report as to the above memorial. The memo-
rial bad been inaugurated by the itev. Robert Maguire,
the incumbent, on Afidsununer.day, 1867, and consisted
of a granite obelisk, inscribed to Selina, Countess of
Huntingdon, who was born August 24, 1707, and died at
her Louse adjoining gpa-fiekle Chapel, June 10, 1791. The

rz•port stated the amount expend,2(l upon its erection was
2300, and the balance-sheet shewed receipts to about 2430,
and the remainder was promised during the evening.
THE SllO EBITRYNESS EXPERIMENTS. —l%lllU-
clay's trials at Shoeburyness were resumed on an experi-
mental casement designed by Colonel Jervoise, the deputy
director of works. At the close of the firing thirty-two
misziles had been directed at the lower half of the target.
The shot commenced with the seven-inch gun, and finished
with some from a twelve-inch. The target, which was
acknowledged by all to be made of the finest iron ever
tested at Shoeburyness, answered remarkably well, and
only succumbed to the heaviest ordnance. Even then the
damage was.much slighter than in the case of .the Ply-
mouth Breakwater Fort, which received ten fewer shots.
The experiments are to be resumed at at hit= dOY•