The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR.

SlR—From a desire to set the public mind right in reference
to the verdict of the Jury in the case of " Harris v. Wheldon,"
for libel, in the Common Pleas, on Thursday last, I beg to offer a
short explanation, which will refute many of the remarks made,
upon the inadequate protection afforded by Juries to the press, in
the discharge of its functions, as reporters of the transactions at
o►n Police Offices.

It will be obierved, that the original report of what passed at
Bow-street appeared in the British Traveller of the 4th of Au-
gust list, and on the 11th, when the cue is again alluded to, it
is introduced by a good deal of editorial comment ; the Jury, by
their verdict, endeavoured distinctly to mark their sense of the
difference between these comments and a report of what passed
before the Magistrate; the verdict being returned specially, "Da-
mages 1001. upon the second libel, that of the 11th of August."
As in several reports the important fact is wholly omitted, I trust
this explanation will remove the impression that the verdict was
directed against the publication of police reports, and the unusual
course adopted by the New Times, of publishing the names of
the Jury, and the threat held out by the Chronicle, of its inten.
tion to continue that practice in all important cases, will not, I
feel assured, deter Juries from acting, consistently witiLthe oath
administered to them.

The insertion of this in your first publication will oblige, Sir,
,our most obedient servant,
London, Dec. 23. ONE OF THE JURY.

Last Friday, one of the waggon horses of Messrs.
Deacon and Co., general carriers, in this town, having died under
peculiar circumstances, was purchased by Mr. Caddiek, stutter
and collar maker. The animal was dissected by Mr. Taylor,
veterinary surgeon, who extracted from its second stomach a cal-
culus or atone of most extraordinary shape and dimensions ; it is
of a complete globular form, and larger than a bowling green
bowl, coated with a covering appearing like velvet, weighing
four pounds four ounces, and is nineteen inches in circumference.
It is supposed to be the largest stone that woe ever extracted
from any animal. The horn was eleven years of age, and had
suffered intense agony for some lime previously to its disiolution.
It could not lie down, but was suePded in slings, in which situa-
tion it expired.—Nottingham Review.

CLOATHING FOR THE Pooß.—A delivery of nu-
merous articles of bedding and cloathing to the members of the
female club, in the parish of St. James, Shaftesbury, took place
on Thursday, the 19th instant, being the second annual distri-
bution of that society. The great increase in the number of
weekly subscribers, is an evidence of the approbation with which the
measure is received by that class of people,who partake in its bene-
panfit;of blankets, together with sheets) materials
for
cloathing different kinds, Sm., preparatory to the winter
d the
f
season, afforded a pleasing view of the convenience attached to
this mode: of supply, by the practice of a weekly economy, in a
though only introduced of late years' into this part of the
t;ttaitit
degree 'merely to be felt by the several depositors. These insti-
it
, ,are much on the increase, and bid fair to be of great
:
industrious
and frugal part of the population..—
Western Reporter.
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