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      chaplain had been aa attorney , he -would . " ( Laughter . ') In the course of the conversation , Mr . Baron Watson said : — "'To call a man a black sheep is not actionable ; but , if * you call an attorney a black steep , it is . Calling , a man a cheat , imputing that he obtains money by false pretences , is actionable ; but to call a man a cheat generally is not . " It also appears that it is not actionable to apply to a man the complimentary terms " rascal" and " villain . " Finally , Ihe 3 Lord Chief Baron said he was decidedly of opinion that it is not actionable to call a man a blackleg ; but the learned Judges were at issue on this point , and , the Court being equally divided , the rule , according to practice , was discharged .

      Three respectably dressed youths , of about sixteen or seventeen years , of age , were charged on Tuesday at Worship-street with wilfully damaging trees ^ Lii " Victoria Park by tearing off large branches . The trees , it appears , suffer greatly from the selflsh , treatment of frequenters of the park ; and they often die in consequence . Mr . P'Eyncouit fined the youths in various amounts . A case arising out of the famous gold-dust robbery was argued before the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Wednesday . A rule had been obtained for rescinding an order made by two Judges in January , 1857 , relative to the disposal of certain property found in the possession

      of Burgess , Pierce , and Tester , the convicts , and also the disposal of certain Turkish Bonds belonging to Agar , the principal agent in the robbery , wlio gave evidence on tire trial . The order complained « f directed the restitution of one-sixth of the property so found to the Southv-Eastem Railway Company , and the investment of the remaining five-sixths for the benefit of Fanny Kay and her child by the prisoner Agar . The Corporation of London claim the fire-sixths under their charter , and also under the common law , as felon ' s chattels , and forfeited as such . Lord Campbell now said that the order must be quashed as far as the Turkish Bonds were

      concerned . : In the Court of Bankriiptyon Wednesday , ; ' the last examination of Davidson and Gordon was adjourned until the 7 th of July , to enable the assignees to investigate the accounts and balance-sheet . Mr . Linklater having remarked that the assignees had reason to be satisfied with the reoeut conduct of the bankrupts as they had been laborious and diligent in making out their accounts , the court ordered : an allowance to be made them . The House of Lords sat on Tuesday , by special appointment , as a Committee for Privileges , for the purpose of giving judgment on the claim of the Earl Talbot

      to the Earldom of Shrewsbury . The claim has been throughout strenuously opposed by lord Edward Howard , the second son of the Duke of Norfolk , and by the Princess Doria Pamphili , and the Duchess of Sora , claiming as heiressesat-law of the sixteenth Earl . Lord Cranworth , after recapitulating all the principal points of the evidence , moved that their Lordships do report to the House that the claimant , Earl Talbot , had made out his claim . Lord St . Leonards , Lord Wensleydale , and Lord Brougham having fully concurred ^ Lord Wensleydale , the Chairman of the Committee , put the question that the claimant should report that he had established his claim , which was agreed to , and thus Earl Talbot has proved his title to the premier earldom of England .

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      ASCOT RACES . Tuesdat vrns the opening day at Ascot , and was marked with even more than an opening day's quietness . Thoivices were—the Trial Stakes , . of live sovs . each , with fifty added , won by Mr . Lepi > ingwell ' s Rosabel ; theAscoT Derby Stakes , of fifty sovs . each , won by Lord Derby ' s Toxophilite ; the Goi ; n Vase , given by her Majesty , added to a sweepstakes of twenty sovs . each , won by Mr . Howard ' s Sedbury ; the Finsr Year of tiik Eiciith Ascot Trucnsiat , Stakks , of ten sovs . unch , with one hundred added , won by Baron . Xvothschild ' s Bastion ; the Ascot Stakks , of twentyfive sovs . each , won hy Mr . Mills ' s Pensioner ; Handicap Platk , of fifty sovs . for all age . " , won by Mr . Stnmford ' a Fractious ; and Swebp . stajces of fifty sovs . eacli , walked over by Mr . Gulliver's Apollo . The racing on Wednesday was decided thus : —The Coronation Stakks , of one hundred sovs . each ; won by Mr . J . Merry ' s Sunbeam . The Royal Hunt Cui > , won by Mr . R . Eastwood ' s Hesporitluisii . The Srconij 1 KAK OP THE FlRST ASCOT BlKSNIAL StaKICS , of tCll sovs . each , with one hundred added ; won by Mr , Howard ' Eclipse , The Windhou Castlk Stakks , of ton sovs . each , with one hundred added ; won bv Sir C . Monck a Hepaticn . Tlio Fkrnih-lt . Stakes , of iifto « n sovs . each , won by Mr . S . La Mart ' s Zitella . Swiucpsu'AKics of fifteen soys , each ; talked over by Lord Chesterfield ' s La Fille du lttfgimcnt Thursday was the Cm > Day , and a day of radiant summer weather In the Royal Stand were the Prince of Oudo and the Duke of MalakhotV ; the Duke of ( Jambrulgo and other distinguished iicirsons wcio also present and the new Master of the Buck Hounds . Lord Saiulxvich , entered with great zest into the business of the " ![;„ -ll > e « port took the following order : —Swkkp-TW i ? y 80 VSl cach ' wnlked over bv Mr . Payne * one-T ; , f ° ? T ' STjAJIlw ' fl ^ ' -Aci Stakks , o . SXi U T , n - enwU ; won hy Sir . r . Ilawley ' HKt * . sovs n ,. . Gou > « « " ' , »' . y subHoription of twenty * ovs . each , w . th two hundred ,. dded from the fund ;

      won by Mr . J . B . Starkey ' s Fisherman . The New Stakes , of ten sovs . each , with one hundred added ; won by Baron Rothschild ' s North Lincoln . The Visitors ' Plate , of one hundred sovs ., and twentyr-five second horse , by subscription of five sovs . each ; won by Mr . Payne ' s Somerset and Mr . Howard ' s Queenstoyvn . The Royal Stjcsd Plate , of two hundred sovs ., added to a sweepstakes of twenty sovs . each ; won by Mr . W . S . S . Crawfurd ' s Zuyder Zee . The races yesterday were—The First Class Wokixgham Stakes ; v ? on by Greenwich Fair . The South Western Pxatk ; won by King of Scotland . The Quebst ^ Guineas ( Fisherman beiat Arcanum in a canter . ) The Members' Plate ; won by Little Cob . The Second Class Wokisgham Stakes ; won by Admiralty . The GnANi > -Stasto Plate ; won by Shirab .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Doke . of Camuridge inspected the garrison and fortifications of Sheerness last Saturday . While on parade , his Pvoyal Highness requested one of the corporals to take off his cap , technically called " a Busby . " He called the attention of his Staif and the colonel-commandant to the weight and the hard material of which " the present " Busby" is made , an d informed the colonel and Staff that he was glad to say a far more flexible material had been discovered , and that the new "Busby " which he intended to introduce would only be about onethird the weight of . tli « hats in use . Launch at Deitfoud . —The ceremony of launching the Forte , 51 guns , steam-frigate , took place at Deptford dockyard last Saturday afternoon , in the presence of the largest concourse of persons assembled at that dockyard for many years past . Among the company present were Sir- ' John Pakington , First Lord of the Admiralty , Lady Pakington , and daughters . The " christening" was performed by Lady Pakington . ; .. ¦ ' - . Banqukt to Amiuucan Officers . —Captain Hudson , of the United States steam-frigate Niagara , and his offi . - cers , were entertained on Friday week by Captain W . H . Stewart , C . B ., and the officers .-of . the Impregnable , 104 , flag of Port-Admiral - Sir B . Reynolds , on board that ship in Ilamoaze . Her quarter-deck and other parts were profusely and effectively decorated , and .-in the evening she was brilliantly ' illuminated . At dinner the healths of her Majesty and the President of the United States , proposed by Captain Stewart , wlio presided , were drunk with the accompaniment of the national anthem ; after which , the prosperity of the United States , its navy and army , the officers of the Niagara , the successful laying of the Atlantic Telegraph , and several other appropriate toasts were given and responded to most energetically . The Atlantic Telegraph . —Her Majesty ' s steamer Agamemnon , in company with the steam frigates Niagara , Valorous , iind Gorgon , returned to Plymouth Sound on Thursday evening after their experimental cruise oft ' the Bay of Biscay with the Atlantic telegraph cable . The experiments were quite satisfactory . The Agamemnon and Gorgon arrived in latitude 47 . 12 N ., longitude 9 . 32 ^ Y ., about two hundred miles from Ushaut , on Monday afternoon , and left on "Wednesday , having made several successful experiments . The weather was line ; depth of the sea , 2530 fathoms , or about 2 s miles . Tlie cable was spliced four times , ami the Agamemnon and Niagara separated on one occasion nearly four miles . The expedition is appointed to start from Plymouth flnnlly on the 16 th . -

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      MERCANTILE MARINE . Ax Arrival from Eupatoria . —The bark Ivy Green , Captain Lancaster , has arrived at Hull from Eupatoria , ' a port well known as the allies' landing place in the Crimea . She took out a cargo of coals from Newcastle for the Turkish Government at Constantinople , having been chartered to go to Etipatoria for a cargo of bones . While at Eupatoria the weather became more sovere than had ever been remembered by anyone in the place , and the ship was completely frozen up for three months . At the commencement of this severe weather Captain Lancaster's thermometer stood at 11 degrees in the inside of the cabin , lie states Hint even the blankets in his bed were frozen to the ship ' s side and his breath congealed thereon . Xuither Captain Lancaster nor his mate shaved during the time of the frost , and when they happened to go on to the deck from the cubiu ( which was on deck ) , their beards were sometimes so frozen and covered with icicles that both of them lvero unahlo to speak . . So severe was the frost that , on one occasion ' cuptnin vrna « bio to walk several miles on the Black Sea . Tliero M'cro also . J ' rozen up nt Eupatoria seven sail of English transports , one French man-of-war , a Tnrldsh and several other vessels , including some which had remained since the heavy gales which occurred there some timo Ixuk , Captain Lancaster reports that the town itself is pretty much haltered down , and it has not Leon repaired since the war . —Eastern Counties Jlcrahl . Attkmptkd Muiumu ; at Sra . —The Russian ship Anlotar , of Christ incstiidt , Iroin Cnlluo , - with a oarp ; o of £ uiino , wrivod at Cowos last Saturday , with her captain hold in lionnneuient hy the crew , on iicoount of an attempt whiuli he had mado to shout the male , a native of Let < -

      wick , Shetland Isles . The mate was wounded , but not Beripusly . The captain is a Russian . Piracy and Murixer at Sea . — -The . Gallant ^ 'Oaptain More , from Shanghai to Bangkok , was brought back to VVoosnng on the 30 th of March , the master , chief offieer , and one seaman having been murdered by part of the crew , supposed to be Canton men , who made off with the treasure she had on board , valued at 12 , 000 tls . The affair took place in the night of the 29 th of March , whilst the vessel was at anchor off Blockhouse Island , is the Yang-Tszc-Kiang .

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      OBITUAUY . -Majob . O . N . Ha ' kdixge . —This gallant officer died at sea on the lt > th of March , after thirteen years' service in the East , during which he greatly distinguished himself in several important actions . " Early in 1856 , " says Allen ' s Indiaii Mall , " hia soldierly qualities were honourably recognized by Lord Dalhousie , who , on the recommendation of Sir Henry Lawrence , bestowed upon him the command of a regiment of Oude irregular cavalry . Having successfully organized this corps , and brought it into an apparently eliicient state of discipline , its distinguished commander applied for leave to return to his native land to restorerliis health , shuttered and impaired by such long and arduous service in an ungenial climate . His preparations lor departure , however , were barely completed when the mutiny broke out , and a whole army turned upon its officers . It is almost needless to observe that at such , a-crisis all thoughts of home and self were at once laid aside , and the call of duty obeyed without a murmur . Throughout the siege of Lucknow Major Hardinge earned fresh distinction as Deputy Quartermaster-General * His staff engagements , however , sufficed not to keep him from the post of honour and of danger . On more than one occasion he is mentioned as heading a daslnng sortie , and twice was he wounded . It is nothing strange that the toils and privations he endured in . ' Luck-now should have completed the ruin of an already enfeebled constitution . In November , he was overtaken by a fatal illness , against which he vainly struggled for upwards of four months , but finally succumbed on the third day after embarking for Europe . He died at the early age of twenty-nine . " The Eight Hon . Wilmam-Yates Pef . i ., elder brother of the late Sir Robert Peel , died on Tuesday at Baginton Hall , Warwickshire . He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1816 ; sat for many years in Parliament for various places ; and wa . 3 a Commissioner of the Board of Control in 182 G , Under Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1828 , a . Lord " of the Treasury in 1830 , and the same again ; in . 183-1-5 . His principles were the same as those of his brother . SieWiluam Pt : r : i ,. —The death of this gallant officer we have noticed under our Indian intelligence . Dr . Queval , another French Republican refugee , died on Sunday , much regretted by his friends , especially by those -who were his fellow exiles .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Prince Albert arrived at Ostend on the 26 th tilt ., and left immediately by the express train for Cologne . He travels in the strictest incognito . On the 28 th , he was at Coblentz , in company with his daughter , whom he accompanied as far as Stolzcnfels . —The Royal visit to Birmingham will take place on Tuesday week , the 15 th inst . —The Queen will visit Leeds about the end of August , on her way to Scotland , and will inaugurate the new Town Hall . Agricut ^ turat . Prospects . — -Farming prospects in the north midland counties are generally of the most satisfactory character . NewZkai-asd . —There lias been a very disastrous flood in Now Zealand . Fourteen lives have been lost , and a large amount of . i » roporty was carried away . Oharteisuousk Sei-ioor ,. —The Rev . Itiehard Ehvyn , M . A ., late fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , hati been elected to the Head Mastership of the Charterhouse School . Me'had previously boon second master . Tub Amook . — " Much interest has been felt here of late , " says the San Francisco correspondent of the Times , " respecting the lUissian possessions on the River Amoor . Several successful mercantile ventures hnvc been made to the Amoor from . San . Francisco during the last year . These have hitherto been kept soorcl , but we arc likely soon to have moro information of tlic countries watered by this great river , which i . s said to bo navigable foi 200 O miles from its iiieuth . A war in csxpocted botweon China and Russia , hm you know , for the recovery of portions of the territory of the former appropriated by the latter Power . " Royai , BoTAKioAt . ScHiKTY of Losiv > N . —Tlu > second exhibition , for this seanon , oi' | . lums , tlowers , and fruit , took place on Wednesday in the fjunlen . s of the society Regeiit ' s-paik , and gavo givut snl . isi ' . ii !! ion . Mil F . P . Smith . —A dinner w » s given on WodnetwUi } evening , at St . . lame . s ' s Hall , in Mr . I ' . 1 * . Smith , whose name is known to the . public in connexion with the adaptation . jSIi- _ \ i . Stuplionaon , M . l ' ., jiresidcd , aud pro < sceted Mr . Smith , iu tli « mime of the ooinpany present , and of uliHcut HubwribetH , with n liiiiifl . somo salver » ntl claret jug .

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      No > 428 , yfvm ' 5 j 1856 , ] T » H E Ii IB A . 3 > jB B > 639

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page 539, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2245/page/11/