26 NOVEMBER 1853, Page 8

The Attorney-General, on the part of the Honourable Francis Scott

and other gentlemen connected with the South-Western Railway Company, ap- plied to the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday, for a rule calling upon the publisher of the Times to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for a libel published in the Times on Tuesday last. The particulars of the libel were not stated; for the Court, interrupting the At- Iorney-Geneng, reminded him that it is contrary to ancient custom to grant rules for criminal information on the last day of term. On this ground the rule was refused. Mr. Hayward, the Queen's counsel, was commissioner to Berlin to exa- mine Miss Wagner and her father in the cause of Lumley versus Gye. Yes- terday, Sir Frederick Thesiger stated the result to the Court of Queen's Batch. It appears that Miss Wagner had refused to be examined except in the presence of a Prussian Judge; who insisted on Prussian forms, and other- wise interfered. The counsel on both sides objected to this, and so Miss Wagner's evidence has not been taken at all. Sir Frederick now moved for a rule to show cause why a commission should not issue to the Royal Court of Berlin for the examination of the Wagners. Rule granted.