The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

SATURDAY

LIBEL ON MISS ELIZA. COOK.
Sir F. Thesiger applied to the court to have the rule
nisi obtained in this case made absAttreaagioaningstartghuement
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deiiveredtne judgment of the court. It was
their opinion, upon the discussion which they had heard,
that it was not proved that it was intended to libel Miss
Eliza Cook. On a reasonable reading of the paragraph,
it was plain that there were two persons of the name of
Eliza Cook; one a supposed murderess, and the other a
poetess, and there was a distinction drawn that the poetess
was not enjoying the fame she ought to enjoy, while the
other had obtained some celebrity. The court considered
that the case should never have been heard of. Mr. Justice
Wightman was too much led by the opinion of Mr. Mar-
tin, that if the rule were granted, it would never be heard
of more. Mr. Justice Patteson concurred in the decision
of the court; it was quite plain that there were two per-
sons, and any reasonable person could not fail to discover
that a distinction had been drawn between them. An
application was then made that the rule be discharged
with costs. Chief Justice Denman : Oh, no ; you must
write with more care in future.

BAIL COURT.-FRIDAY

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.-THE " RAILWAY RECORD

Sir Frederick Thesiger applied to the court for a crimi-
nal information against the Railway Record, for having
charged Mr. Kirtley with incompetence and recklessness
in the management of the Brighton line, in relation to the
late lamentable accident which occurred upon that line on
the 31st of May last. The article complained of was in
the paper of the sth inst. Rule to chew cause granted.
THE " MORNING CHRONICLE."—A similar application
was granted against the Morning Chronicle, for having
published the same article, but with a different heading,
thereby making the article its own.

NORTH WALES AND CHESTER CIRCUIT.—The fol-
lowing are the days fixed by Mr. Justice Maule :—Mont-
gomeryshire, Tuesday July 13, at Newton ; Merioneth-
shire, Friday, July 16, at Dolgelly ; Carnarvonshire,
Monday, July 19, at Carnarvon ; Anglesey, Thursday,
July 22, at Beaumaris ; Denbighshire, Saturday, July 24,
at Ruthen; Flintshire, Wednesday, July, 28, at Mold;
Cheshire, Saturday, July 31, at the Castle of Chester;
City of Chester, the same day, at the Guildhall of Chester.

NORTHERNCIRCUIT.—On Wednesday the Lord Chief
Baron of the Court of Exchequer, Sir Frederick Pollock,
and Mr. Justice Wightman, the judges appointed to pro-
ceed on this circuit, finally fixed the days for holding the
assizes within the circuit, namely, for Yorkshire, Satur-
day, July 10th ; Durham, Saturday, July 24th; Northum-
berland, Thursday, July 29th; Cumberland, Monday,
August 2nd; Westmoreland, Thursday, August sth.
Lancashire—Northern Division, Saturday, August 7th,
at Lancaster; Southern Division, Wednesday, August
11, at Liverpool.
The Rev. J. W. Inman, head master of the Grantham
Grammar School, has entered into recognizances to an-
swer, at.the next quarter sessions for Grantham, a charge
of having unduly and unwarrantably flogged one of his
pupils, Master A. F. Payne, the son of W. Payne, Esq.,
of Newarke, Leicester. Mr. Inman has made an-affidavit
that it is not likely he can have an impartial trial at the
sessions, owing to .the strong feeling which pervades the
minds of the inhabitants of Grantham in respect to the
management of the grammar school, a committee hav,n;
been formed to procure some alteration in the school regur
lations, and he has obtained a rule in the Bail Court to
show cause for the,removal-of the ease iute.thaticourt.