24 JUNE 1865, Page 3

The Lords of Session have decided that any newspaper whiolr

maychance to be sold in Scotland, is liable to an action for libel in Scotland, if brought by any Scotchman. Miss Longwortb thought herself libelled by the Saturday Review, but instead of bringing her action in London she betook herself-to Edinburgh, and brought it there, an arrangement which, if she wins her case, will inflict upon the proprietors a heavy additional fine. It seems hard that a man who is attacked should not have redress easily within reach, but it is harder still that a journal, the conductors of which are often unconscious of the injury done, should be liable to a sum- mons to defend itself four hundred miles away, before a tribunal unknown in England, administering laws based upon radically different ideas.