The proprietor of the Durham Chronicle has been convicted at
the Durham Assizes, before Chief Justice Tindal and a Special Jury, of a libel on the Honourable Mr. Trevor, M.P. for that city. That gentle- man having attacked Mr. Lambton, and afterwards explained, the Chronicle called him an "unblushing liar and unprincipled coward." /qr. Cresswell appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Blackburne for the defendant. The Jury found the defendant guilty, hut " recom- mended him in the strongest manner to the mercy of Court, because they were of opinion that the libel was published under considerable provocation." To the surprise of all, Lord Abinger sentenced Mr. Veitch to pay a fine of 1001. and to be imprisoned till it was paid. A strong sympathy was excited in Mr. Veitch's behalf ; the money was raised by subscription, and he was liberated.—Ifolifuas Express.
A Court-martial was held last week on Mr. Charles Cardew, Mate, and Mr. Michael Heath, acting Master, both late of the Algerine, for mutinous conduct ; the first for connivance, the latter for depriving Lieutenant Stovin of the command of that vessel, and putting him in arrest. They were both found guilty ; but in consequence of mitigat- ing circumstances, and the very excellent characters both officers re- ceived, they were only sentenced to dismissal from the service, and three months' imprisonment each in the Illarshalsea.
There were incendiary fires on Friday last week, at Hounslow, on the premises of Messrs. Sherborne ; on Saturday, at Bromley, in Kent, on the premises of Mr. Wells ; and on Monday, on the farm of Mr. lleacock, at Castlebar Hill, on the Uxbridge Road. Four men and one woman have been committed, on a charge of being concerned in the first-named fire.
On Tuesday afternoon, a more serious fire than any of the above mentioned occurred at Warboys, in Huntingdonshire. It commenced in a clover-stack, on the premises of a Mr. Gifford ; and was soon com- municated to a hay-stack, and thence to the farm-buildings, and neigh- bout ing cottages. In the whole, no fewer than thirty-one dwelling. houses and cottages, besides farm-buildings and farm property, were destroyed.
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