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ham , the lace-market lias been veryiacUve , the previous animation having been , . further stimulated by a demand from India ; whUe for hosiery the home purchases have been on a good scale . But for tile prospect of trade being . affiected by the general election , there would , it is said , be ho doubt that , as regards the manufactures of that town , the present would prove one of the most prosperons years ever known . In the woollen districts and the irish . linen-markets , there lias bean no alteration . — Times .
In the general business of the port of London during the same week there has been little change . Tlie number of ships reported inward was 122 , being 22 less than in the previous week . These included 31 with cargoes of grain , Sac , 7 with cargoes of sugar , 5 with cargoes of dried fruit , and 2 with cargoes of tea ; the latter including 31 , L 70 packages , 21 , 399 of wliich were brought by the Earl of Egliaton , 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-xeceipt of remittances expected from America , the firm of Messrs . Dodge , Bacon , and Co ., merchants sad 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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THE 11 OYAL BRITISH BANK . A MKKTiwo "ivna hold before Mr . Commissioner Ifolroyd on Wednesday , for the purpose of crxmnining Mr . Edward ISsdaile , the late Governor , who was submitted to a searching cross-ecxarrnriation by " Mr . Liriklater , and mado some extraordinary admissions . Tlio result has boon thua sumniarized into a readable narrative in tlio lending columns of the Times : —
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grain , seeing their opportunity , demanded and obtained the nsual way that , in pursuance of a petition his I or a an enormous price ; . and it is supposed that they will re- ship had , &c . On the reading of the document sev i purchase the grain of -the Government , and again sell . it of the commissioners expressed their surprise and t ^ at a still higher figure . nishment both in connexion with its object and con wT Mrs . Harriet Beecher Stowe is at present in Rome . No petition for any such license had been ores m She has had . a rather disastrous journey . The steamer either by the commissioners or the town nor collide which conveyed her from Genoa to Civita Vecchia came understand the necessity for any such docume nt '« into collision with a coasting vessel , lost one of her that the cemetery had heen already consecrated a d + h S paddle-wheels , and arrived at the latter place in a very the legal incumbent of Christ Church virtuteofi ! •? fc crippled condition . Wiule on the road to Rome , a wheel necessarily , under the act of Parliament t ^ c "' came off the carriage in which the authoress and her chaplain . The chairman quite concurred in the P ^ ° ? party were riding . Being-roughly fastened on again , which had been ex-presaed -upon the subject ° ^^ T ' it came off a second time in the streets of Borne , and the license Appeared to lini to be a clumsy device o rt travellers were upset , and had to sit on their luggage part of Mr . Davison . ( the plaintiff ) , alone to " \ J& "M in the road till the arrival of a more trusty vehicle . Mirs .- Burgea a legal status in the cemeterv for it ?„„ , TkT i ¦ ii >! t ¦ ¦
ot . ~« ... m .. n :. i ^ i _ . j ... __ : ii .. i .. T _ - ! . ., ¦ , ,. « ' " "Ppeareci Stowe will ultimately go to Naples . that the Bishop had openly disavowed any such liceTiw Count Cavour ' s note in answer to Count Bud ' s stric- and had authorized such disavowal to be comrnuni t 1 tures on the freedom of the Italian press has not met to the board that day . The Rev . II . It . Ridley staTcJ with much . favour among the liberals of Sardinia . It is that on Saturday last he received a communication fr thought to be too long , too diplomatically diffuse , and to Mr . Burges to the effect that he ( Mr . Bums Vhad admit too much with respect to the alleged licence of the ceived a proper license from tlie Bishop to thechaolai * Republican journals . The note , however , is understood of the cemetery , and that all doubt as to his right t ^ to have been very much approved by the Cabinets of officiate there was now removed . Being quite at a los London and Paris , by whom the remonstrances of the to understand what -was meant by such an intimation Austrian Minister are said to be looked on as uncalled he at once , as vicar of the parish , put himself in com * for and needlessly susceptible . munication with the Bishop , and he had that morning The Italia e Popolo ( Mazzini ' s oi'gan ) will reappear in received a reply'from Auckland Castle to the following a fe-iv days . In the meanwhile , a paper called the Italia effect ,- — ' The Bishop desires it to be made known tha ' fc
delJPopolo is published for the advocacy of similar principles . . PORTUGAL . The English mails by the packet Madrid , which was wrecked at . Tigo on the 20 th ult , only reached Lisbon on the morning of the 27 th , in charge of Lieutenant Thomas Tickell , who brought them , on horseback and on foot to Coimbra , and tlience by rail . The 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 was a week in accomplishing his ioumejv
CONTIHEUTAL NOTES . FttANCE . The Ncufchatel 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 Russian railroads . It appears that the managers of papers are now informed that the prohibition is removed . — -Times Paris Correspondent . The Prince and Princess Danilo , of Montenegro , have arrived at Paris . The former presents a very pictureBque , semi-Oriental appearance ; and so do his suite . The Princess ia 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 . Arthur Uerryer , son of the distinguished advocate— - the general upshot of which wa 3 stated in our leading columns last week . The young man was connected with the 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 , ¦ whe n that gentleman was Minister of Commerce ) , as well aa M . Magne and M . llouher , knew that the company had only from 85 , 000 to 8 G , 000 shares subscribed for , though ostensibly starting -with subscriptions for 200 , 000 shares . 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' imprison men t , and a fine of 6000 f . ; fcL Legcndre to one year ' s imprisonment , and 2000 f . fine ; M . Duchesne de Tore to six months , and 200 O £ ; M . Berryer to two year ? , and 3000 f . LI . Orsi has been acquitted . MM . Cusiu and Legendre were declared guilty of swindling and breach of trust ; MM . Duchesne d « "Vere and Berryer guilty of complicity in the malversations which had been committed . After Btating its conclusions at considerable length , the tribunal adjudged M . Borryer to restore the sum of 130 yQ 0 O £ , and MM . Cushy Logcndre , and DucheBne to give . op tho shares , &c , the amount of which is very considerable . It is announced that the accused mean to
appeal against their sentence . T ) aer » are symptoms , according to a writer from Paris , of a strong opposition in the Senate to tho Malalchoff pension , the objection being , not to tho grant itself , but to its 4 t * nwni 8 sian to the mole descendants , which i « looked « m as the establishment of a mivjorat , and conseqvwnt » y as an infraction of tho Constitution , which recognises the equality of * ho citizens before tho law-A -wealthy Greek shipowner has been found guilty by the Marseilles pdioe-arart of swindling the insurers of a ahip -which ho owned of tho sum of 230 , 00 Of ., tho sum for-which * he -vessel vraa insured . It was proved that tho owner had received intimation of the wreck of tho vwwol previously to the inBwance . The accused was sentenced to three yours' imprisonment , a fino of OOOOf ., and interdiction from civil Ttghta for ten years .
ITALY , Tito Austrian military authorities have mad « several arrests Bimultenoouely at Bologna , Rimini , and Cesona . Tho prisoners will bo tried by court martini . All of thorn were In tho employmont of Govornment . Tho corn monopoly in tho Koman States has led to a . deplorable dearnesa of provisions . Tho Pope therefore bought lwrgo Btoxea or grata , - with tho intention of selling them again to tho pcoplo at a loss . But tho holders of
RUSSIA . Ilussia 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 draftee ! 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 , which , however , has never been once summoned since the seizure of the country by Ilussia . Added to these grievous evils are the horrors of famine .
THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . News has been received from Jassy to the effect that ]\ I . Vogoridcs , hitherto Minister of Finance , has been nominated Kaimakan of Moldavia , instead of M . Balsche , whose death took place on the 1 st inst . The 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 ia Upper Yalpuck is terminated . 'The town and territory of Komrat were , it is said , officially handed over to the Russian authorities on March 2 nd .
" lbe obstinacy with which Austria persists in her opposition to the union of the Principalities , " says a 1-cttcr from St . Petersburg , " has drawn forth a very energetic reply from the Russian Government . Prince GortschalcoiF declared to Count Buol , through Baron Dudberg , that Ilussia would respond to the formation of an Austrian corps on tho WaUachian frontier by tho formation of a Russian corps on the Moldavian frontier , so as to crcato a counterpoise to the pressure exercised l ) v Austria . "
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a document represented by Mr . Joseph Davison to be a mere license for the West Hartlepool Cemetery was laid before him . for his signature . jSTo name was , however mentioned in the license , and certainly not Mr . Burges ' s ! If Sir . Burges ' s name had appeared irithe document ^ the Bishop would at once have declined to execute it . ' The Bishop desired that liis 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 Ilidley : ' It would appear so . ' Commissioner t
A :.. t think such a proceeding is a great scandal upon the Church . ' Mr . Ridley : 'I don ' t sea 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 unanimously agreed to , and 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 , the Commissioners decline to recognize its validity . '"
JLlie plaintiff laid his damages at 10 . 00 ? . . The defendants pleaded , firstly , -Hot 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 maliee . The second of these pleas they afterwards withdrew , the plaintiff having denied oa his oath that the charges against him were true . Evidence in liie favour having been adduced , Mr . Hill , far the defence , contended that Mr . Davison ought to have fiTst sent an explanation to tlui newspaper ; instead of which , 2 js issued the writ six days alter the publication of the report . There could be no question that the publication was entirely devoid of malice ; and Mr . Hill therefore 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 is no obligation on the press to publish matters of this kind , so as to protect them in the way that a man is protected in gi-ving what he believes to be a true character of a servant . Proceedings in courts of justice may also lawfully be published . The clmrge 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 in not
explaining the matter to the defendants before bringing tho action . Generally it is beat not to answer a newspaper attack , for you often get tho worst of it . A letter of explanation may be followed by another attack moro hurtful than the first . Still , when the libel is published evidently under a mistake of facts—a mi . slakc into which newspaper editors , lilco other people , may fall—it is for you to say whether it would not have boon bolter for the plaintiff to have given the defendants an opportunity of rectifying that mistake . "
THE LAW OP LIBEIi AND THE NEWSPAPER PltESS . Tins case of Davison v . Duncan and another , on tho legal bearings of which , as touching the law of libel in connexion with newspapers , Lord Campbell has already given nn opinion , camo on far trial before Mr . Justice Crompton at the Durham Aesiaee last Friduy weok . The cnee being one of considerable importance and interest , we give ¦ tlio whole of tlic report complained of : —
" West IlAitTLJcrooL Improvement Commission . — At a meeting of tho commissioners hold on tho 7 th of October , present Kalph Ward Jackson , chairman , James Davison , and several other persons named , it was resolved that the Report of the Market Committee bo received and adopted . A document in connexion with tho Wefft Hartlopool ^ Cemetery , which lind been received by tho clerk from Mr . Joseph l ) aviaon , of Durham ( the plaintiff ) , was then put in and read . It professed to bo a "IiconBO -from the Uisliop ( Maltby ) to tho Rev . John Hart Barges , > as chaplain to tho cemetery , and . recited ia
The jury , after nn hour ' s deliberation , gave a verdict for the plaintiff on the first two issuesdamages , one farthing ; ivnd for tho defendants on the last issue , "being of opinion that thu report was correct , and published without malice . Mr . Justice Crompton refused to certify that the llbul was wLt ' ul and malicious .
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24 , 6 _ THE LBAD 1 E . [ No . 364 , " Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), March 14, 1857, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2184/page/6/
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