The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-06
An English Libel Suit.

An action for libel, brought by Captain
Crooke, cavalry officer, and riding master at
the Sandhurst Military College, against Colo
mel Peel, formerly in the 11th Hussars, was
tried in the English Court of Common Pleas
recently. In 1916 the plaintiff became surety
for Captain Peel, the defendants brother;
and in 1858 the defendant gave the plaintiff a
charge upon ZIG, ,934, in which Colonel Peel
had a reversionary interest upon the death of
his mother. This lady died in November,
1867. Upon this event correspondence took
place between the plaintiff and defendant,
and the matter having been brought before
the Horse Guards the defendant was ordered
to withdraw some expressions which he had
used. Accordingly he wrote to Lord William
Paulet, the Acknowledgement, withdrawing
the expressions, but in the letter he made
statement to the effect that Captain Brooke
had taken charge from him for $1,000 in re-
spect of two bonds, knowing that the bonds
were not in his possession, but had been
mortgaged by him. This statement was the
libel complained of. Evidence was given to
show that the bonds had not been mortgaged,
but the decision turned upon the question
whether the communication was privileged
The counsel for the defense contended that it
was, and Chief Justice Bovill taking the same
view, ordered q nonsuit His lordship thought
the statement in reference to the mortgage of
the bonds had arisen out of misapprehen-
move the full Court upon the question of law.
Sir Samuel Baker Pasha's Egyptian force,
according to the Army and Macy Gazette,
is to consist of about 5000 men of all arms
its object, ''the conquest of the Soodan"--
for the yiceroy, of course. ''Soodan," like
the Nigritia of the ancients, of which it is the
Arabic rendering is very elastic term, and
may be stretched to comprise territories
where such aggression should be a manifest
injustice and entail greater evils than those
which it is proposed to remedy. For this
reason it is desirable that something more
definite should be made known respecting the
projected expedition. Judging from Sir
Samuel Bakers own account, published in his
mile Tributaries of Abyssinia" about two
years ago. the inroads of the Turks and Egyp-
tians on the border tribes in that region have
not been productive of any beneficial result
Their principal biect in annexation, he says,
lis to increase their power of taxation
by gaining an additional number of
subjects" and again, ''as a green field is
an attraction to fight of locusts in their
desolating voyage, SO is luxuriant
farm in the Soudan point for the tax-collec-
tors of Upper Egypt Il have frequently, =
he adds, ridden several days journey through
succession of empty villages, deserted by
the inhabitants upon the report of the sol
diers approach; the women and children,
goats and cattle, camels and asses, have all
been removed into the wilderness for refuge,
while their crops of corn have been left stand
ing for the plunderers, who would be too idle
to reap and thrash the grain" If, under the
new English Pasha's auspices a different sys-
tenn of ''conquest" is set on foot, and better
government established in those remote and
fertile districts, he will have accomplished a
noble mission We can only hope that, when
he finds himself fifteen hundred miles from
Cairo, with an army apt to become unruly at
such distance from central authority the
official difficulties of his position viii not
prove a serious drawback 60 the furth eran sc
of his philanthrOpic designs
The revolt of the Kir {hizes of Central
Asia appears to be extending more and more.
Troops have been sent in great numbers from
Orenburg as well as from the Volga to the
Steppes. Russian commerce in Asia is com
pletely stopped, and the correspondent of 4
kazan newspaper writes that vast quantitia,
OF goods are lying without any possibility o
being forwarded. The export trade from ASH
IL also checked A few bugs of Boukhar.
cotton had been sold at Kazan at the price Of
Sd. per pound cash, but no further arrival
are expected. Raw silk is not TO be seen a
all. The stoppage of the traffic is produced
not only by the danger which the agents
would incur in travelling with their good
throagh the revolted districts, but by the i'm
possibility of travelling at all without th
oalnelh, Ion winch the hussians have .l.shsr.
had 10 depend on the Kirghizes