The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-04 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

It appears from a letter in the Northern Star of last
Saturday, that Mr. O'Connor has served a writ in a civil
action for libels published against him in the Times news-
paper, in connection with the two last Nottingham elec-
tions.

THE YORKSHIRE ASSIZES.—We understand that there
are upwards of one hundred prisoners in York Castle for
trial at the ensuing assizes, which commence on Wednes-
day, the 12th instant, although only three months have
elapsed since the last assizes terminated. Surely this is
pretty strong evidence of the necessity for a winter assize.
_. At a meeting of debtors in the Queen's Prison on the
the 20th instant, Mr. R. Oastler in the chair, it was re
On Wednesday, an additional distance of 15 miles of solved, •' that a Provisional committee be formed' in the
the London and Dover Railway was opened to the Public. Queen's Prison for the purpose of raising funds for the
The railway now extends to Folkestone and is therefore defence of Mr. Ludford, indicted for breaking the Queen's
only seven miles from completion. Prison, in order to raise the question of the illeglity of
On Sunday afternoon, about three o'clock, an accident imprisonment for debt before her Majesty's Judges of the
occurred on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, which Queen's Bench.
proved instantaneously fatal to Anthony Gray, the engi-
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Mr.
neer in charge of a luggage train.
Colburn the publisher and bookseller, obtained a verdict,
Mr. Edward Powell, a civil engineer, is taking mea- • '
between Worces.
with 40s.damages, against the proprietors of the Atlas
sures for the establishment of a railway
ter and Cardiff, to connect the great populations of the newspaper for a libel upon him. For the defendants it
midland counties and the north of England with the po- Was urged that they had only attacked the system of puff-
pulous districts of South W ing publications, and the south of Ireland. i ' and had meant no personal imputation;
AN OMINOUS PRECAUTION.—BERLIN, JUNE 19. 'b • in ,
,but the verdict of the jury implied that their opinion
The directors of the new railway of Frankfort-on-the- the article did involve a charge of personal misconduct.
Oder have resolved to keep at every station a quantity APPOINTMENT OF CHAPLAINS TO GnoLs.—The law
of bandages and medicines, in order that in case of acci- officers have given their opinion to the Home Secretary,
dent some relief may be given in the first instance. It that the appointment of chaplains to gaols is by law vested
were to be wished that the directors of other railways in the magistrates, and not in the town-council. The
would follow this example. I question, however, is not free from doubt, and Sir James
The London Grand Junction Railway Company has Graham proposes, therefore, to prepare a clause, to be
wound up its affairs in a somewhat satisfactory manner introduced into the prison's bill, vesting the appointment
to the shareholders, inasmuch as instead of being called of the chaplains of borough gaols in the borough hiagis-
upon to raise money to pay off liabilities, they are to re- trates, and not in the town-councils.
ceive a dividend of Ss. 6d. per share on the advances they ELECTION of CHURCHWARDENS—IRREGULAR CLO -
have made. The loss of X 4 or £5 in the first instance is, . SING OF PoLL.—The Birmingham Advertiser of 1 hurs -
as Mr. Cash, the chairman, stated, better than proceed- day last contains a long report of a case argued in th e
ing obstinately with the undertaking, which might even- Court of Queen's Bench,—The Queen v. the Vicar and
tually entail a loss of some £5O per share. This was said Churchwerdens of Aston (Birmingham). It seems that
in reference to the result exhibited by the working of at the election of a churchwarden for the parish, on the
short lines connected with the metropolis. 18th of April last, upon two candidates named Oliver and 1

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