The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1875-12-31 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PIM OM. tniuuiuting the alleged libel. Mr. Frederick Clay said he had seen the article comp'ained of, and in his judgment the person referred to was Mr. Irving. Mr. Joseph K. Aston, secretary to Queen Anne's Bounty, gave similar evideitee. Mr. John Henry Brodribb Trying said he was an actor, and had been so since PVC For some years past he had been professionak engaged at. 'he Lyceum Theatre, wheie he had played in "The Bells," "Charles 1.," "Eugene Aram. "Richelieu," " Hamlet fur 201 nights, • Maebeth " for SO nights, and he had been publicity advertised to play in "0. hello." Ile ' had read the letter headed "To a Fashionable Tragedian,' published in Fee, and he had no doubt it referred to him. In the pieces named he had acted as a burgomaster, a schoolmaster, a King, a brother, a prince, and a chieftain. It was nor true that the performance of " Macbeth " had been a failure—nt toast front a commercial point of view. It was an infamous falsehood that for years past he had been the "prime mover in a series of dramas which, carried by him to the utmost point of realistic ghastliness, had undermined the constitution of society, and familiarised the masses with the most loathsome details of crime and bloodshed." It Una certainly false that he had "the hireling por ion of the pr-es at his cotninand," and it was alvoltitely untrue that he had "not hesitated nightly to del.auch the intellieentss of the mob, or to steep it in an atmosphere of diabolical lust and crude carnage." his object never had been to "pander to the lowest passions of nature by clothing in an attractive garb the vilest actions of n high persons were capable." He did not know what was meant by the aseert ion that he had "canonised the cut-thmat, and had anointed the assassin." Do you know what is meant by the last paragraph in the let ter —" If your performance of 'Othello' bs trumpeted to the four winds of heaven by the gang of time-serving repor:ers in your employ, you will increase the epidemic of wife minder one-hundredfold, and degrade the mith,nal drama a fiteher degree towards Ihe to el of the penny dreadful !"--1 le did not, as he had never paid coy repot, er a farthing in his life; and he err slimly had no wish to degrade the dratita. lie c.aisidered the gentle nen connected with the press It mom-able men, and far beyond any influence he emtld brine to bear on them. He did not bum wit, was the writer of the article. Cross-e- :v' ined: Pr.vintts to his ettgazement at the I.veettni he kid twen pla)ing in comedies and dramas. has-mirage not kw of him had appeared from time to time in Fon. Since his engagement at the Lyceum he had struck out a new line ttttt re imaginative characters. As a burgomaster in "The Bells" he was stipposed to have committed a murder. In "Eugene Aram" he had, in point of fact, committed ti murder; btu in "Richelieu "he was not supposed to have committed any murder. (Laughter.) Ile had also played itt " Hamlet" nod " Macbeth." He was subject to adverse as well as favourable criticism., and had been unfavourably criticised in other papers. Ile knew Mr. Dutton Cook, a theatricai critic, who was a per, sorotl l'rend of his, and who always cut him itp. (Laughter.) Mr. Cook was formerly theatrical critic nf !he roll 3lnit G,7.:11r, and was now on the Worn!. Mr. Beard Do you mean literally so, or on the nexs pal Mr. trtieg: Oh! I mean on the newspaper. Re-exami tt ed: Mr. Coos was a gentleman of high literary attainments, asd a most honourable man. At this stage Mr. Lewis risked for an adjournment, and stated that in the event or the manuscript of the wtiele ,aeing gieen up and evidence brought forward thowine who was .he :Whew of the libel, further proro'thinug u,u,uld not be t.,ken against Mr. Judd. 11r. B--rd said Mr. Judd was not responsible for the  Sir P. Girders: As printer he is legally responsible r il•at ninienililftAnt. war ndjourieil. the defendant entering ii:10 tiP. ot, lire..vgnizatietoh j:200.  Bra(t.tav Wlcto.nt: !!