Nantwich, Sandbach & Crewe Star — 1890-05-10 ()

BRIEN'S ACTION AGAINST LORD SALISBURY.  The Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Fry and Lopes, sitting in the Court of Appeal, heard on Wednesday the appeal of Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P. in his action against Lord Salisbury for slander. On the 19th March, 1889, Lord Salisbury, speaking at Watford, referred to a speech delivered by Mr. William O'Brien near Clonmel on the 30th September, 1888, and the noble Marquis then attributed to Mr. O'Brien that he had incited his hearers to murder and rob the men who took unlet farms, to mutilate their cattle and devastate their farms. Mr. O'Brien's case was that this was a slander. -He admitted that he advocated boycotting, but denied that he had any intention of advocating murder and robbery, and he further said that his language was not understood by the persons who heard him in the sense put on his words by Lord Salisbury. The action was tried before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury at Manchester on the 19th and 20th July last year, when the defences relied on were, first, justification, and, second, fair comment. Both these issues were left to the jury, who returned a verdict for the defendant. Mr. O'Brien then moved the Divisional Court for a new trial on the ground of misdirection of the judge. The motion was refused, and icon that order the plaintiff appealed, Mr, Gulley, (-Z.(), (nr. k.; with him). put in Rucl I,ead cZienso Mr. O'Brieu's speech of the 30th September, 188 S, and the Marquis of Salisbury's speech at Watford, and submitted that a fair reading of the speech was that the hon. member, though denouncing land grabbing and advocating boycotting, discouraged violence and crime. The learned counsel argued that Lord Salisbury was not justified in drawing conclusions and putting them in a crude form before his audience without giving them an opportunity of making their own inferences from the speech which he was commenting upon. Moreover, it was not fair on the Prime Minister's part to say point blank that Mr. O'Brien?incited people to shoot others in the legs and to murder and rob them if they took unlet farms. unless Mr.O'Brien did Use suoh language. The Master of the Rolls: It was left to the jury to say whether Mr. O'Brien used language which inoited to crime, and whether Lord Salisbury's language was not justified, and fair comment, and the jury found for the defendant. •  Mr. Gulley submitted that there had been misdirection of the jury, and that the learned judge at the trial had improperly admitted evidence tendered by the defendant with the view of showing that boycottingtended to murder and violence in Ireland. The learned counsel was commenting on the summing up of Mr. Justice Stephen, when the Court_adiourned.  Fifteen gins arrivea in INOW York from England on Saturday en route to Salt Lake City, where they will join the Mormon community. . The sealing season in Newfoundland is proving highly successful. Two thousand and five seals have been caught, and they are of splendid quality. During the last month three cotton mills have been Rtarted in India, two at Bombay, and one at Calcutta. These mills have a total between them of 70,000 spindles. A hurricane has struck the town of Willespoint (Texas), and every building in the place was more or less damaged. Three persons were killed, and several injured. Six suicides were announced on Saturday in Berlin. Two corpses of children were found by the police, one in a box fished out of the river, and the other tied up in a bundle and found under a manure heat..  To DARN GREY HAlR.—Lnyel73 Sulpher Hair Restorer, is the quickest, best, sarest and cheapest. Large bottles is. 6d. Everywhere. WEAR 'MN NEN MADE Sra-,G.—All who suffer from Nervons Debility, LAB Of Vigour, Eghausted Vitality, Kidt.Fy Diseaseg, et:c A. treat:se e:goltining the nowned :viarstm treattnent, by "loc.tt absorption," th.: wily possible cure without Stomach Medicines, wtl to scut in plain envolop?, seal:3Y or three stamp —The la,rston Rsnyyly Co3apany, 2191, High kialbirn gr.