The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
Before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burehell and a Jury.

ivEmErtrIELD V. scum—LIBEL.
This was an action in the Common Pleas for a
libel published in a weekly newspaper called The
Reporter. Judgment was allowed to go by default,
and the only question was the amount of damages
to be awarded.
Mr. M'lntyre was counsel for the plaintiff, Mr.
George M. Wetherfield, a solicitor, in partnership
with Mr. Norton, in Gresham-street. The defen-
dant, Mr. James 1. Scott, appeared in person.
The learned counsel stated the case, and read
the libel, and called witnesses. The defendant
conducted his own case, and called no evidence.
There had been some legal matters, and the de-
fendant referred to them, and made remarks on
him in his publications.

Mr. M'lutyre asked the jury to provide damages
as the justice of the case required.

The defendant said the smallest coin vas suffi-
cient, and that the remarks were partially in
" banter."

The Under-Sheriff summed up, and the jury
retired. They gave a verdict for 403. damages,
and the Under-Sheriff gave a certificate for costs.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day,

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Piggott.)

THE ALLEGED FORGERIES ON THE LEEDS BANK.

Thomas Edgeley surrendered to an indictment
charging him with conspiring with others to de-
fraud the Leeds Bank to an amount exceeding
£lOO,OOO.

An application was again made for a postpone-
ment of the trial, on the ground of the illness of the
defendant and the absence .of his leading counsel,
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine.
Mr. Baron Piggott refused to accede to the re-
quest, and the trial was ordered to proceed.
Mr. Giffard, Q C., then stated the case at con-
siderable length, from which it appeared that the
Leeds Bank stopped payment on the 19th of Sept.,
and on the inquiry consequent on its liquidation it
was discovered amongst the assets that a large
number of bills, which were alleged to be those of
the Mordenpeck Forest Company, and which
were signed by M. De Villars, who was sup-
posed to manage the affairs of the Forest
Company. The bills that had accumulated up to
the time the bank stopped amounted to over
£lOO,OOO. On inquiry, it was found that neither
the company nor the property were available, and
that the alleged securities were actually worth no-
thing, and that the only person who composed the
company of the Forest of Mordenpeck was the pri-
soner. Mr. Greenland, who, it will be recollected,
was examined before thE) Lord Mayor, was now at
Geneva, suffering from ill health, so he was not in
attendance.
The case is a very complicated one, and will last
some days.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Thomas Lemaitre was indicted for feloniously
cutting and wounding a woman named Blakeley.
It appeared that a drunken row occurred outside
a public-house in Ratcliff-highway, and that the
prisoner was ono of the principal parties in the dis-
turbance. The woman, it was alleged, received the
injuries, which were of a serious description, from
the prisoner, and he was accordingly taken into
custody.
The jury found him guilty, and the learned judge
sentenced him to six months' imprisonment.

MARKETS-7 HIS DAY.

----+--

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
The trade to-day was dull with general depression. Of
beasts there were 970, including 201 foreign, and lower
rates have to be taken to effect sales, but the pressure to
sell was not so general as to lower quotations.
Of sheep and lambs 18,630 came to hand, inclusive of
2,470 from abroad. For both the trade was dull, and for
lambs rates eel i,ainly lower.
The number of calves on sale was 508, of which 320
were foreign. The trade was dull, with prices tending in
buyers favour.

HAY AND STRAW.
The accounts of the hay crop are unfavourable, and the
quantity arriving at market much reduced. Prices are
consequently advancing. At Smithfield and Whitechapel,
the small plat:city up was cleared off briskly, at a fur-
ther advance of 2s to 3i per load. Straw was also in
shorter supply and dearer.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.
Sugar.—The market is still depressed, and prices aro
now 2s per cwt. from the late highest point for brown
descriptions, and ls. for grocery. Refined sugars are also
easier. Conunon English lumps quoted 455.
Coffee—Native Ceylon is cheaper, good ordinary having
been sold at 48s to 485 6d. Plantation kinds sell uneasily
the lower qualities at easier rates.
Tea—The sales of Indian tea progress heavily, at irre-
gular and lower prices.
Rice, on the spot, is very dull, but business is doing in
soft grain for distant arrival. Ba.sbica lOs on ship and
lOs 6d. On the spot Dacca wain has been sold at 105 3d.