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GENERAL ELECTION-(IRELAND.)

City„rf Dublin Election is fixed for the 30th
instant, the Sessions- I-louse, Green-street. It
spileaYs !hat no Gentleman has seriously ihonght
of standing fur the City in opposition to Illesrs.
IGraitan and Shaw.
Trinity College Election is fixed for next Thurs-
day, the '24th inst. Both Candidates, Messrs.
P!ntiket ,nd Croker, are confident of mtccess.
County of C. Domville has declined
. the curtest, which will therefore he between
Ne.,srs. Elitinikon, Talhot, and White.
• •Cotinty of Cartotr.--TLie High Sheriff has

fixed the Election for Montlay se'nnight, the 29th

slant.

Borough of Droghecla.—A private letter from
Drogheda, dated June 14, says :—" Oar Election
ill be warmly contested. Each party seems con-
fident of success."

County of Wexford.---The bustle- of Election has
already commenced in tlae town of 'vVexford last
week. Lords Stopford and Valentia were there,
and the conducting Agent of Messrs. Colclongli
and Carew (J. C. Martin, Esq.) is now there
nakintf. airangements for the Committee Rooms,
&c. Messrs. Carew and Colelough are also ac-
tively engaged in canvassing, and are expected in

Wexford (1,61 y.
Queen's County.—On Tuesday, Sir H. Parnell
and ibe Right Hoff. W. W. Pole waited on the
different inhabitants of Carlow, who are Free-

holders of the Queen's County. " ‘Ve under-
stand," says the Carlow Morning Post, " that the
success of both Gentlemen has been nearly equal
in their canvass." The Election takes place' on

the 29th instant, at the Court-house, in Mary-
borough.
County of Kilkenny.—There will be no comes;
for this County. The. High Sheriff has tired the
Election for Friday the 3d July, to be held at
Grace's Old Castle.

_ .
City of Waterford —Sir John Newport will he
returtird. The Eleci ion is fixed for the 3Oth

natant.

County of Limerick.—The Candidates are the
}lon. Mr. Q •in and -Colonel Odell., the Tate Mem-
bers, the lion. Mr. Fitzgibbon, anti Mr. S.

''Grady. The Eleoion is fixed for the hr of

July -
City of Limerick.--It seems there wig be nu
contest tor the City. The Election is fixed for

le 30th inst.

County of Tipperary.--The Writ for holding an
Election of two Knights of. the Shire for this
County has arrived to the High Sheriff, and, we
believe, will be proceeded upon on Monday, the
29 It instant.

County of Clare.—Sir Edward O'Brien, Bart.
arrived at his scat, Diontolauti, on Sunday last
from London, where he had been attending. his
duty as one of the Representatives of this County
in the late Parliament.
City of cork.—Colonel Longfieid, Sir N. Col-
thnrst, the late members, and Mr. Hely Hutchin-

son, have addressed the Electors. 'Cite canvass
is continued personally and actively by Mr Hut-
chinson mid Sir N. Colthurst, and on the part ot
Colonel Longfield, by his friends, that Gentle-
man not having yet arrived in Cork. The Southern
Reporter says, "the canvass on both sides is cur-
ried on in the best humour, and there seems no
prospect that this amicable spirit will be broken
or dispelled."
County of Cork.—No address has yet appeared
front either of the County Candidates, o►ving to
the non-artival of the Writ, upon the date ot
which so much 'will depend in deciding the
contest.

County of berry,—Th Kerry Election will
bring all the force of the County into the field
The Knight ot Kerry is sure ot his return—the
contest will be between Mr. Crosbit•, one of the
laic M. tubers, find Mr. Denny. A Limerick Pa..

. .
per says, it is reported that the Honourable Mr.
Mullins is a Candidate, in addition to the other
three.

County of Galway.—The Candidates nre the
Right Hon. D. B. Daly, Mr. James Daly,
,and
Mr. Ricl►ard Martin. It is the general opinion
that Mr. Martin will he returned.
Town of Galway.—Mr. V. Blake, the late Mem-
ber, is opposed by Mr M G. Prendergast.

DREADFUL HURRICANE IN THE Mautttms.---
nil island was visited no the loot March by one
of the most terrible hurricanes ever experienced
there: A letter from Port Louis, of. the 16th of
that month, describes Ihe damage incurred to be
tremendous; the whole island was one scene of
waste and destruction ; trees torn up by the
roots, and many houses both in town and country
laid flat v.alitable storehouses unroofed, &c. anti
the. goods. within then completely spoiled. Up-
wards of 4 sail of large vessels, besides small
craft, were driven on shore, or otherwise injured.
The hurricane commenced at south-east; and
gradually veered to the north-east till six in the
/morning, when it shitted suddenly to north-
notth-west, anti broOght with it the additional
calamity of a heavy and overwhelming. sea;

OLD BA:LEY.—Yesterday Joseph Anias, a re-
spertable master tnilor, in Mount-street, Gros-
venor-square, surrendered to take his trial on an
indictment, charging him with having feloniously
stolen, on the 10th January, 16 gilt buttons, the
property of Messrs. Allen and Wilson, eminent
tailors, in Bond-street, with Micro] he had lived
seven years as foreman. It will be recollected
that the prisoner was discharged by his em-
ployers, and afterwards commenced business,
when they received information they had been
robbed by the prisoner to a large amount ; they
could not, however, identify any part of their
property but the 16 buttons.--Mr. ADOLPHUS
tended for the prosecutor, and Mr. ALLEY for the
prisoner.--The Jury, after a perspicuous charge
trom the Judge, immediately returned a verdict
of " Not Guilty."
COURT-MAHTIAL.-•••The soldier who circulated
the falsehood relative to the steam•boat, which
caused so terrible a sensation in this city, under-
went a trial by a Court-Martial, at eleven o'clock
yesterday. Ile was arraigned and tried on two
different charges, on both of which he was very
properly and justly convicted. The first was for
having deserted his post, while his duty required
his attendance on guard ; and the second, for
having maliciously propagated a report so inju-
rious to private peace, and so detrimental to the
public order of time city. We understand that the
unfortunate man was condemned to be flogged,
and notwithstanding very considerable excrtiou on
the part of Mr.O'Brien was humanely made to res-
cue him from the merited chastisement of his offence,
the sentence was put in execution at two o'clock.
This example will, we hope, be long remembered,
and must powerfully operate in deterring, any
other individual from gratifying so malicious a
disposition, at the expellee of domestic happiness
and public peace.—(CorkAdrertiser, June 20.)

LAW JNTELLIGENCZ.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 24,
Sittings fur Middlesex, before Mr. Justice HOLROY D
and a Special Jury.

LIBEL.
MitiUs D. .LIVEIRA.

An action f;;laintiges for A libel : the tleclara-
ion also contained counts for verbal slander. _

The pleadings having been opened by Mr.
CHITTY, _ _ .

Mr. GURNEY, in introducing the Witnesses for
the plaintiff, observed, that his client was a school-
master of high respectability and attainments at
Catsbalton, and the defendant a Madeira merchant,
of great opulence. The libel and slander of which
the former complained were of the grossest kind,
anti directed against the plaintiff not merely with
a view of detracting from his reputation, but
avowedly with the design of ruining his school.—.
't he Jury would be aware that to no man could
character be more precious than to a person in the
situation of the plaintiff, and if they fouNd (as
they would find In this case) that it was wanton
and unprovoked, they would award exemplary
damages. The tlefend:tnt received a recommen-
dation of the plaintiff's" school from some book-
sellet s, the publishers of a Catholic periodical
work called lite " Laity's Directory," and he ac-
cordingly sent his three sons there, paying, as
was the itavaiiable rule of the establishment, for
six months in advance. The boys had not teen
there long, when the fither, the defendant,
showed symptoms of dissatisfaction without 'any
cause, and proceeded to inlet fere even in the ma-
naeeinent 'Of the school. He did not approve of
the dancing master, and he thought that his sons
• were Class, d too low, with many other tittionnd.:
ed and frivolous complabits. He, finally,wit bout
notice, took his sorts away, and insisted upon the
repayment of the greater part of the money he
had paid with them ; of course the plaintiff re-
fused,
and the defendant instantly commeoced the
attack, of a part of which the present actian was
matte the subject. lie first wrote the libel in-
serted in the declaration, being a letter to Mess's.
Keating and Brown, the booksellers, who had
spoken in favour of Mr. Milius, the plaintiff. It
was in these gross terms :
" Gentlemen—As you recommend Milius, it is a duty
owe the pnblie, to tell you that he is as low, mean, and vul-
gar a wretch as ever I saw in any situation. I shall be ne-
cessitated, to go to law to gels back my money. I cannot com-
prehend on what ground you could mention suclLa wretch,
brought up in *he meridian of St. Giles's ; who was after-
wards an usher in Mi. King's, school, in Chapel-street, and
since kept a school in Little Wild-street, Lircoln's Inn-Gelds,
and two more in the neighbourhood of Red Lion-square,
when you ought to have. known that not half-a-dozen respect-
able English tamilies have intrusted him with their sons. Per-
haps not att, or if they did, it was hV mistake.
l'he Laity's Directory, which I bave'been in the habit of
taking in of you, and %1 here I saw this blactiguard,and whom,
till then, I did not know,l shall never see again while such a
cursed school exists. " Your's respectfully, &c."

Besides this unwarrantable and disgracefnl letter,
the declaration contained counts for slander ;
tor Mr. Oliveira, in the height of his malice, in-
dustriously went about among the friends of many
of the boys at Mr. Alilius's school, abusing him,
Charging him with swindling, incompetency, and
giving the children few provisions, and tho,,e in a
state not fit to be eaten. To several Gentlemen
he bad avowed it to be his intention, if' possible,
to ruin the plaintiff, by repeated and unfounded
calumnies. tinder these circumstances, Mr. Mi-
litia had tin cliciice but to serk protection from
these attacks at the bands of a Jury, who would
award him such amide damages as his injuries de.
manded.

Mr. R. Brown, a bookseller in Doke-street,
Gtosvenor•'quare, carrying on business with
others, und-er the firm of Keating, Brown, and
Kerving, knew the plaintiff well ; he was a
schoolmaster at Carshalton. The witness pub•
fished •` The Laity's Directory," in which the
plaintiff's school was advertised; the libel was de-
livered to Mr. Keating, and the witness believed
it to be the writing of: the defendant, who was a
native of. Madeira, and a foreigner obviously by
his dialect.

Mr. Keating proved the delivery of the libel to him by a
clerk of the defendant. The witness had recommended the
plaintiff's school to the defendant, who sent some yottis
gentlemen to it ; whether his suns or not be could not state.
tic received the letter, about March last : the defendant had
previously 5111,11,C11 Mare:pectfully of the plaintiff.
The libel was then read iu the form stated by Mr.
Gurney.
Mr. Brown proved a second letter to hethe band-writing of
the defendant, in which a demand was made front the plain-
tiff of the sum paid on the admission of the boys 1,, his school,
(deducting a small sum fur their hoard, &c. since (hrist-
mas) within twenty-four hours. The defendant in the sante
letter offered to leave the matter to arbitration. It was dated
9th March, 18i8.
Mr. Charles Hutchinson, one of the ushers in the plain-
tiff's school, deposed that the plaintiff placed his three sons
there: they were sent at the commencement of the last
Christmas holidays.
Cross-examined.—The plaintiff had kept a school at Car.
shalton for six years. The wittiest had been with him since
August last. These were 23 scholars—only two Lad left
since March, exclusive of the defendant's 1,0118.
Mr. W. Byrne, a merchant, was guardian of two boys of
.the name of De Silea, whom about twelve months ago he
placed at the plaintiff's school, where they still remained.
A short time agi the defendant called upon the witness, but
he could not at. all fix the date.
A lung chain of witnesses were called to show, if possible,
that this took place before Apt d, when the action was com-
menced; but the endeavour failed, and Mr. Gurney aban-
doned the evidence of Mr. Byrne.
Mr. 'Fully Higgins bad a nephew at the plaintiff's school.
The defendant came to the witness in March, as he believed,
but it might be in April, or perhaps February, probably
snore than three months ago. The witness had never seen
hint before, but Mr. Oliveira asked what had induced him to
send his boy to such a school? The witness replied, that he
had understood that it was respectable: on which he observ-
ed, that Mr. Militia was a man not capable, and treated the
buys eery ill; it was a place to which no gentleman should
send his sons : the meat given to them was nut well dressed,
but sent up taw. The defendant worked himself into a vio-
lent passion, and seemed endeavouring to prevail upon the
witness to take his nephew away : he added, that he was
determinedt to injure Mr. Milius if he could; and talking a
peat deal of his own wealth, he said that he did nut care
what it cost him.
Cross-examined—The defendant threatened to bring an

acii-on—a-g.a..Q-the plaintiff, and would do him as much in-
jury as he could : the witness was distinct in his recollection
of the words. He had nut taken, and would nut take away
his nephew.
Mr. E. P. Fordham had called upon the defendant on the
9th of April last, in consequence of some reports he had
heard. The defendant called the plaintiff a scoundrel, a vil-
lain,
and a swindler; said that his school was ill-conducted,
that the meat was raw, and not enough of it. The witness
had sent his son to the school three days before.
Cross-examined.--He had never known Mr.Oliveira before,.
but called to learn the cause of the dispute between hint and
the defendant.
Air. GURNEY then offered evidence of parents
and children, to show that there was no pretence
for the' slander of the defendant. He also pro-
. posed to recd Alr. Byrne, even On the uncertainty

of the date, in order to shove quo animo the dl'
tendant uttered the slanders. ttl
Mr. Justice HOLROYD consented to receive
evidence on the authority of a case i 0 Strang
°
which his Lordship generally referred 10.
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with w... 0
3,1
Mr. Byrne then stated, that the defendant,
had had no previous acquaintance, had called upon ht!uss
said that he had thought it right to do so,
totally unfit to have the care of the two boys, to wburn •
witne.ss was guardian. He (Mains) was wholly unfit ford
station, and a notorious swindler, so much so that be hots
obliged to withdraw his sons. The' meat given tat he th'o
as Mr. Maui os
was very bad ;.and.tbe defendant added in his Pi" sid
they fed like swine, and that proper attention was not F.er,
to their instruction. lie then read ter.; very allusive
he had written to the plaintiff; he was determined to. c°,4
usenet a prosecution against him, and from what be bad :It,
it was the duty of the witness to remove his boys. The of
iarss answered, that he was well satisfied as tope'e instrti_re,
of his wards, as he had examined them only t week btluos
and the boys seemed well contented with the 'num-Ishii)
they received; however,.after,this strong representation, ja
would make inquiries, upon which the defendant began 31508
with greater warmth, and left the witness Cerra
made an investigation, and was completely tisfied Uo_,f,
points. Mr. Oliveira swore violently, haft like a foreign;
and not so glibly as an Englishman ; but he InUst have
derstood the force of the word swindler. h firfl
for t..e
Cross-examined.—The defendant talked calmly
three minutes : he went away without even the continuo 4
lilies; he seemed very much inflamed. abruptlY•
lief
(1 ]r. SCARLETT begged to be understood t
objected to this evidence, as subsequent to IP
defendant, complained
suing out of the writ in the cause.
:Mnl a i nhise a d tal
the Mr. SCARLETT,.
a little hardly dealt with, as the evidence in
respect corresponded with the declaration" Ptirott
cularly regarding the slanderous words truPt.itifi
The count that referred to what had beet' sae
the last witness and Mr. Higgins, was tramedli
itidtre hisss client to tlse
h Jattsiryb
efoil
a special action upon the ease; and the Lealt,
Counsel submitted, that its order to maintain,he
some special damage ought to be proved:
too the defendant bad had no opportssuitY °1
tifying. •
Mr. Justice HoLnoYn observed, that the fief
was in fact for words, though the
of them was only stated, and to them the.del"
ant might have pat in a justification.
aerl
Mr. SCARLETT argued, lii4t 111 fairness, re
words ouglst to have been inserted in the adds
10
'lion, that the defendant might have been 1J" MP
meet the precise charge. He contended thatgoor
Milius had been rather too forward in entle44eti
general
ing to put his hand into the Aetendant's 1)°;),
whets he had already received mote mane); thehe was entitled to ; he had contrived to g:doi
whip•hand of the defendant, who had 06tfre
been extremely anxious respecting the vrel",:tirdi
his children, and who felt somewhat 10 gao
in consequence of ill-treatment be had re%o tht
think they had received. With respeetit;,sti°g
angry letter written by the defendant ta I'4ool
and Co., he submitted that it was lineoll*.coloi
not malicious ; and with regard to the Nilte°
expressions, the 'Learned Counsel et,',,t, gr;
time Jury to recollect, that foreigners Ilk
Oliveira, though they miglrt be ge fiet Ai
well acquainted with the language, dirt ':,°%eli„t;
derstand the precise force of words , espeCia";
used idiomatically. He illustrated this 14-aoli
by two anecdotes that had come within l'i,slPe:
ledge. One referred to a very Learned OF,
who had filled a high magisterial situation i"
A Pundit (so the native lawyers were ,c„stii;
designing to flatter his benevolence, ed"r,-'lll'l
petition to him in English. opening wit') II(
words, " lino% ing your worship t6:OO'lA4
most pitiful fellow," &c. The pundit
from intending any abuse, but he lead
l'
grossly calumniated the individual he WaSalefigil
voering to conciliate. The second storY '•eive„
to a foreigner of high rank, eh() 409 ri-ned
into the first circles here, and wio at "he eve.
great a proficiency in our language, I"I -ore);
ventured to use proverbial expressions; 00c s, yotl
fortunately, for he had seen at Nesetnarke:''oritto
lady of great wit and beauty, win naturallY sd,
the approbation and love of all who belieldi,le",bfer,
thiS foreigner had found in his dietionetY "ete I°li
" to make one's mouth water ;" and vil'e9d:oostictl
asked how he liked site young lady, ; veflo
lie could use it to advantage ; but he sa,V-rnali'd
the phrase, and so misplaced the- ollt°'',,ell";,
represented the young Lady as having, bee-0;9114
of an act of the greatest indelicacy and tnill.,bemilleel
In the same way the Learned Cownsel 4,05
that his client, in Isis hasty wrath, 1,,n
iot
the word wretch, which was thechief sti"f'
libel: be lead not meant to attribute to ►tlic,eol
'tiff that he was a wretch, in a sense of %oil ,
merely English, but probably only to Ird lei
much as the French conveyed by their "q;tio0:11
heureux, which indeed was a literal trans'sreo.
wretch: Upon the whole Mr. Scarlet 0 I'.
that this was a case for nominal damages, d etr.
character of Mr. Milius and his Sch 001"
15.1
sufficiently vindicated. d ur:
Mr. Justice HOLROYD having Somme IP°
Jury, after a short consnltat .gave Lb
a verdict, with 150/. damages. •
THE KING U. SAMUEL BROW". .0 0-0 1
This was' an indictment for perjury In
to a bill in Chancery, filed by 11511. P„tt. Y
rise names of Graham, Norcott, end p
parties had been engaged in partnershiPP I
obtained a patent tor some- improvem,e;qoo
mode of making casks. Norcott ive o°o'
tired on condition that they should root afar,'
be not p
but sum from the defendant •
...neer; ote
ing his engagement, a suit in L;'''
• h the ta"
commenced, in the course of whi d
Was ' put of
on which the perjury was assigns
The case was not gone into, as a Pre - was oj
rp
jection to the mode in which Ole Inftvbe;
out in the indictment prevailed, an die a
judge in consequence directed that a eer
quittal should be entered.

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