In the Sheriffs' Court, on Tuesday, a Jury was summoned
to assess damages in the case of Magian' versus Cox, for a libel ; the defendant having suffered judgment to go by default. It appeared from the speech of Sergeant Talfourd, who was counsel for the plaintiff, that the de- fendant, Cox, publisher of a weekly newspaper, The Metropolitan Conservative Journal, had printed a virulent attack on Dr. Maginn, on the supposition that the Doctor was the author of a review of a play called " The Student of Padua," in Fraser's Magazine. The review in Fraser had galled the writer in the newspaper aforesaid exceedingly ; and Dr. Maginn was declared to be "a convicted coward, a slanderer, a backbiter, and dastardly calumniator by profession." Imputations were cast on the Doctor's sobriety; and he was represented to be a fit companion of the "swell mob "and the courtesans of the Haymarket or Drury Lane. Sergeant Talfourd, on the other hand, described Dr. Magian as a highly respectable gentleman, educated at Dublin Uni- versity, of considerable literary talent, moving in very good society, and certainly under no imputation of cowardice. Against this repre- sentation Mr. Thesiger, for the defendant, had nothing to offer ; and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 1501. damages. The defendant, it was stated, had admitted that he expected an action for the libellous article, and had said that he should be borne harmless through the affair.
In the Bail Court, on Saturday, Mr. Justice Williams granted a rule to show cause why a Mr. Greenhill should not be struck off the roll of attornies. Greenhill, it was stated, carried on the business of a publi- can at Chiswick.
In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on :Howley, Williaia Fletcher, Lord Byron's old servant, applied for aad obtai.cd his diteliaig,e His expenses were paid by the noble poet's sister ; wk.), up to a reetnt period, had supported Fletcher.
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