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CONTINENTAL JSOTES. FKASCE. Thb Neufchat...
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THE LAW OF LIBEL AND THE NEWSPAPER PRESS...
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THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. A mtceting was h...
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State Of Trade. Tiik Trade Reports From ...
bam , the lace-market has been very active , the previous animation having been farther stimulated by a demand from India ; while for hosiery the home purchases have been on a good scale . But for the prospect of trade being affected by the general election , there would , it is said , be no doubt that , as regards the manufactures of that town , the present would prove one of the most prosperous years ever known . In the woollen districts and the Irish linen-markets , there has been no alteration . —Times .. .
In the general business of the port of London daring the same week there has been little change- The number of ships reported inward was 122 , being 22 less than in the previous week . These included 31 with cargoes of grain , & c , 7 with cargoes of sugar , 5 with cargoes of dried fruit , and 2 with cargoes of tea ^ the latter including 31 , 170 packages , 21 , 399 of which were brought by the Earl of Eglinton , 12 , 545 of her cargo being chests . The number of ships cleared outward was 117 , including ; 12 in ballast , showing a decrease of 14 . — Idem .
In consequence of the non-receipt of remittances expected from America , the firm of Messrs . Dodge , Bacon , and Co ., merchants and patentees of India-rubber cloth , has been forced to suspend , with liabilities said to be upwards of 100 , 000 / . It is hoped that the assets -will yield a considerable dividend .
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Continental Jsotes. Fkasce. Thb Neufchat...
CONTINENTAL JSOTES . FKASCE . Thb Neufchatel conferences proceed . " In the preliminary Conference held on Thursday week , " according to the Times Paris correspondent , " at which neither the Prussian nor the Swiss Plenipotentiary was present , the renunciation of the Royal authority in the canton was proposed as the basis of future negotiations . " Some time since , the Paris papers were "invited " ( that is , ordered ) not to publish notices or advertisements about the Hussian railroads . It appears that the managers of papers are now informed that the prohibition is removed . —Times Paris Correspondent . The Prince and Princess Daniio , of Montenegro , have arrived at Paris , The former presents a very picturesque , semi-Oriental appearance ; and bo do his suite . The Princess is dressed in the Parisian fashion .
The trial of the directors of the Napoleon Docks Company for extensive frauds was concluded last Saturday , the 7 th instant . The most remarkable feature of the trial was the assertion of Ministerial complicity made by M- Author Berryer , son of the distinguished advocatethe general upshot of which was stated in our leading columns last week . The young man was connected with th « company , and it was his duty to watch over their proceedings . He stated in the course of the trial that M . Persigny ( by whom he was appointed to the post , when that gentleman was Minister of Commerce ) , as well as 3 VI . Magne and M . Rouher , knew that the company had only from 85 , 000 , / to 80 , 000 shares subscribed for , tho-ugh . ostensibly starting with subscriptions for 2 Ou , ' 00 O Bhares . M . Heurtier , formerly Director-General in the Department of Agriculture and Commerce , denied
the truth , of this allegation ; but M . Berryer would not admit that he had not spoken veraciously , but added that he possessed secrets , which , if hard pressed , he would disclose . The judgment , delivered last Saturday , condemns—M . Cusin to three years' imprisonment , and n fine of 5000 f . ; M . X . egendre to one year ' s imprisonment , and 20 O 0 f . fine ; M . Ducbesnc do . Vere to six months , and 2000 f . ; M . Berryer to two years , and 3000 f . M . Orsi has been acquitted . MM . Cusin and J ^ egendre wore declared guilty of swindling and breach of trust ; MM . Duchesne do Vfcre and Berryer guilty of complicity in the malversations which hod been committed . After stating its conclu 6 iou 3 at considerable length , the tribunal adjudged M . Berryer to restore the sum of 130 , 000 f ., and MM . Cusin , Legendre , and Duchesne to giro np the shores , & c , the amount of which is very considerable . It is announced that the accused mean to
appeal against their sentence . Tfa » re otd'Symptoms , according to a writer from Paris , of * strong opposition in the Senate to the Malakhofl " pension , tho objection toeing , not to the grant itself , but to its transmission to the male descendants , which is looted on as the establishment of a mujorut , and consequently us an infraction of the Constitution , which rocogmeefl the © quality of the citizens before the law . ¦ A woalthy Greek shipowner has been found guilty by tho Marseilles police-court of swindling the insurers of a ship which ho owned of the sum of 23 O , 0 O 0 f ., the sum fovwitich tins vessel was insured . It was proved that the owner hud received intimation of the wreck of the v « ssel previously to the insurance . The accused was sentenced to throe years' imprisonment , a line- of 3000 k ., and interdiction from civil rights for ten yours .
ITALY . The Austrian military authorities havo made several arrests simultaneously ut Bologna , Rimini , and Cesena . The prisoners will bo tried by court martial . All of them were in the employment of Government . The corn monopoly in the lloniau States has led to a deplorable dearnoss of provisions . The Pope therefore bought largo stores of grain , with the intention of selling them again to tho people at a loss . But the holders o
grain , seeing their opportunity , demanded and obtained an enormous price ; and it is supposed that they will repurchase the grain of the Government , and again sell it at a still higher figure . Mrs . Harriet Beecher Stowe is at present in Rome . She has bad a rather disastrous journey . The steamer which conveyed her from Genoa to Civita Yecchia came into collision with a coasting vessel , lost one of her paddle-wheels , and arrived at the latter place in a very crippled condition . While on the road to Rome , a wheel came off the carriage in which the authoress and her party were riding . Being roughly fastened on again , it came off a second time in the streets of Rome , and . the travellers were upset , and had to sit on their luggage in the road till the arrival of a more trusty vehicle . Mrs . Stowe will ultimately go to Naples .
Count Cavour's note in answer to Count BuoPs strictures on the freedom of the Italian press has not met with much favour among the liberals of Sardinia . It is thought to be too long , too diplomatically diffuse , and to admit too much with respect to the alleged licence of the Republican journals . The note , however , is understood to have been very much approved by the Cabinets of London and Paris , by whom the remonstrances of the Austrian Minister are said to be looked on as uncalled for and needlessly susceptible . The Italia e Pqpolo ( Mazzini ' s organ ) will reappear in a few days . In the meanwhile , a paper called the Italia del Popolo is published for the advocacy of similar principles .
TOnTVGAX .. The English mails by the packet Madrid , which was wrecked at Vigo on the 20 th ult -, only reached Lisbon on the morning of the 27 th , in charge of Lieutenant Thomas Tickoll , who brought them on horseback and on foot to Coimbra , and thence by rail . Tae Lieutenant appears to have acted with amazing energy and determination , having to undergo very great fatigue with insufficient nourishment ; yet , owing to the almost savage state of the Portuguese roads , he waa a week in accomplishing Iiis joui"ne 3 .
KUSSIA . Russia has just entered for the first time into official relations with a South American republic , having exchanged a treaty between herself and the republic of Venezuela . . Great complaints are made in Finland of the tyrannical oppression of the national spirit by the Russian Government ; and this in spite of the fact that each successive emperor has sworn to uphold the constitution . The Finnish youth are continually drafted off for the Czar ' s armies , though the said constitution enacts that no Finnish soldier or sailor shall be sent out of the country without the express consent of the parliament , whichj however , has never been once summoned since the seizure of the country by Russia . Added to these grievous evils are the horrors of famine .
THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . News has been received from Jassy to the effect that M . " Vogorides , hitherto Minister of Finance , has been nominated Kahnakan of Moldavia , instead of M . Balsche , whose deatli took place on the 1 st hist . Tho evacuation of the country by the Austrians , which had been interrupted , has now been resumed . Their staff has left Jassy . The tracing of the Moldavian frontier in Upper Yalpuck is terminated . Tho town and territory of Komrat were , it is sakl , ofliciully handed over to the Russian authorities on March 2 nd .
" The obstinacy with which Austria persists in her opposition to the union of the Principalities , " says a letter from St . Petersburg , " lias drawn forth a very energetic reply from the Russian Government . Prince GorlschakoiF declared to Count Buol , through Baron Budberg , that Russia would respond to tlio formation of an Austrian corps on tho Wallachian frontier by the formation of a Russian corps on the Moldavian frontier , so as to create a counterpoise to tho pressure exercised bv Austria . "
The Law Of Libel And The Newspaper Press...
THE LAW OF LIBEL AND THE NEWSPAPER PRESS . Tins case of Davison v . Duncan anil another , on the legal bearings of which , as touching the law of libel in connexion with newspapers , Lord Campbell has already given nn opinion , came on for trial before Mr . Justice Orompton at the Durham Assizes last Friday week . The case being one of considerable importance and interest , w « givo the whole of the report complained of : — " West Haiitmcpooi , Impbovkment 1 Commission . — At a meeting of the commissioners held on tlio 7 th of October , present Ralph Ward Jackson , chairman , James Duvison , and several other persons named , it was resolved that tho Report of the Market Committed be received and adopted . A document in connexion with the West llartlepool Cemetery , which had been received by the clerk from Mr . Joseph Davison , of Durham ( the plaintiff ) , was then put in and read . It professed to bo a license from tho BiRhop ( Maltby ) to tho ltev . John Hart Burgos , aa chaplain to tho cemetery , and recited in
the usual way that , in pursuance of a petition , his Loiri ship had , & c . On the reading of the document several of the commissioners expressed their surprise and as * nishment both in connexion with its object and contend " STo - . petition for any such license had been preseni i either by the commissioners or the town , nor could tl understand the necessity for any such d ocum ent , see that the cemetery had been already consecra ted and tw the legal incumbent of Christ Church , virtuteofficii xT necessarily , under the act of Parliament , the nil !! chaplain . The chairman quite concurred in the opinion which had been expressed upon the subject . Th license appeared to him to be a clumsy device on tlh £ »* ^ 5 : _ P *™ * - < r plai * tiff >' alOQe *> g ^ e & legal status in the
Surges a cemetery ; for it appeared ' that the Bishop had openly disavowed any such licensand had authorized such disavowal to be communicatp , i to the board that day . The Rev . H . E . Ridley stated that on Saturday last he received a communication from Mr . Burgesto " the effect that he ( Mr . Burges ) had re ceived a proper license from the Bishop to the chaplain ™ of the cemetery , and that all doubt as to his right to officiate there was now removed . Being quite at a loss to understand what was meant by such an intimation , he at once , as vicar of the parish , put himself in communication with the Bishop , and be had that morning received a reply from Auckland Castle to the following effect : — ' The Bishop desires it to be made known that a document represented by Mr . Joseph Davison to be a mere license for the West Hartlepool Cemetery was laid before him for his signature . No name was , however mentioned in the license , and certainly not Mr . Burges ' s ' If Mr- Burges ' s name had appeared in tlie document tW
Bishop would at once have declined to execute it . ' The Bishop desired that his reply might be communicated to the Commissioners at their first meeting . A Commissioner : ' It would appear , then , that the whole proceeding had been a fraud upon the Bishop , as well as upon the public . ' Mr Ridley : ' It would appear so . ' A Commissioner : 'I think such a proceeding is a great scandal upon the Church . ' Mr . Ridley : ' I don ' t tee that . It is in my opinion merely a scandal upon a Mr . Joseph Davison , the late Bishop's secretary . The Church , has nothing to do with it . ' After some further discussion , the following resolution was unaunnously agr 9 E (\ to , aui a copy ordered to be sent to the Bishop at Auckland Castle : " — ' Resolved , that the Commissioners do not admit the necessity of any such document , and , being now informed that the Bishop himself repudiates it , tae Commissioners decline to recognize its validity . '"
The plamtiff laid his damages at 1000 Z . The defendants pleaded , firstly , Not Guilty ; secondly , that the words and matters 'contained in the libel were true ; : and thirdly , that the-report was just , faithful , and accurate , and published without malice . The second of these plenp they afterwards withdrew , the plaintiff having denied on his oatli that the charges against him were true . Evidence in hi-s favour having Leen adduced , Mr . Hill , for the defence , contended that Mr , Davison ought to have first sent an explanation to the newspaper ; instead of which , he issued the writ six days after the publication of the report . There could be no question that the publication was entirely devoid of malice ; and Air . Hill therefoi-e hoped that the jury , if they found for the plaintiff , would only give the smallest , coin of the realm for damages . The Judge , in summing' up , said that there could be no doubt as to the fact of the
publication being a libel : — " There ia no obligation on the press to publish matters of tliis kind , so as to protect them in the way that a man is protected in giving what he believes to be a true character of a servant . Proceedings in courts of justice may also lawfully bo published . The charge that the plaintiff had attempted a fraud upon the Bishop and the public is , in my opinion , libellous . It is said that you should consider the conduct of the plaintiff 5 a not
explaining tlio matter to the defendants before bringing the action . Generally it id best not to answer a newspaper attack , for you often get the worst of it . A letter of explanation may bo followed by another attack more hurtful than the * first . Still , when tlie libel is published evidently under a mistake of facts—a mistake into which newspaper editors , like other people , may fall—it is for you to say whether it would not have been better for the plaintiff to havo given the defendants an opportunity of rectifying that mistake . "
The jury , after an hour ' s deliberation , gave a verdict for the plaintiff on the first two issuesdamages , one farthing ; and for the defendants on the last issue , being of opinion that the report \ vas correct , and published without malice . Mr . Justice Crompton refused to certify that tho libel was -wilful and malicious .
The Royal British Bank. A Mtceting Was H...
THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK . A mtceting was held beforo Mr . Commissioner Holrnyd on Wednesday , for the purpose of examining Mr . Edward ICsdailc , tho late Governor , wlio was submitted to a searching cross-examination by Mr . Liuklatcr , and mado some extraordinary admissions . The result has been thus summarized into a rcudablo narrative ia tho lending columns of tho ' limes : —
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Leader (1850-1860), March 14, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14031857/page/6/
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