22 NOVEMBER 1856, Page 7

Mr. Field on behalf of the proprietor of the Daily

News, against whom the Earl of Lucan is prosecuting a charge of libel, applied to the Court of Exchequer yesterday, for leave to put in a special plea setting out all the facts relating to the appointment of the Chelsea Commissioners, and in substance alleging that the article in question was a fair comment on the inquiry in question. Baron Alderson said, " You might as well put Chevy Chase on the record." The Court ultimately gave leave to the defendant -to plead the general issue, and so much of the second plea only as set forth the fact that the alleged libel was only a fair comment, in a public journal, on the public acts of a public man.