in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, Sir John
Campbell, Atltorney-General, applied for a rule for a criminal infOrmation against the pre, rietor of the ;ta: G«:etie for an alleged libel onAdmiral Sir J. Onkel:limy. This applieation proceeded on a statement that when the Queen Dowager to etched at Lisbon on her voyage to the Mediterranean, she mtit,; received with every demonstration of respect by Admiral Ommaney, then commanding the British squadron in the Tagus; but that the Hampshire Advertiser, in an article headed "Sir J. oz. maney," charged that officer with neglect to fire a salute to Queen Ade, laid, and with the indecorum of appearing before her Majesty in plain clothes. This article was copied into the United Service Gazette with a note signed "Ed. U. S. G. ;" speaking of' Sir J. Ommanney as an ancient driveller, and charging him with insulting the Queen Danger and declaring that tile insult to her Majesty was offered because li knew that his insolence to that distinguished lady would gratify the Minto gang at home. But the Queen Dowager had directed lord Howe, in a letter which Sir John Campbell read, to express her hid satisfaction with Admiral Ommaney's conduct, and annoyance at tle attacks to which that gallant officer had been subjected.—Rule grate On the mine day, the Court granted a rule for a criminal information against the same party, for an alleged libel upon Captain Reeve, of the Royal Navy. Captain Reeve complained, that he had been accused is the United Service Gazette of bringing charges against brother officers and others, without foundation, and to gratify his own jealousy and ill. temper. It was also imputed to Captain Reeve that he had prevaricated in his testimony against one of the parties whom he had accused.— Rule granted.
On Tuesday, Mr. Thesiger applied for a rule against the printer, pd. fisher, and proprietors of the .,11anc1tester Chronicle, for a libel on Sir Charles Shaw, recently appointed Police Commissioner for Manchester and Salford—.
The libel complained of was contained in two articles published in that paler —the first on the 14th of September, and the second on the 21st of the same month. The first article was published only eleven days after Sir Chariot Shaw's appointment ; and set out by stating, that he was a Knight of the Poo tmonsese order of the Tower and Sword, and a Colonel in the army of Do Pedro, but that he never obtained any higher rank in the British Army thau that of Ensign; that he had had a wine-shop in Edinburgh, which beau obliged to quit in consequence of an unlucky game of cards in which he hail been accused of foul play ; that he owed his present appointment to his senile devotion to the Government ; and that his appointment woos a wanton and gra. tuitous insult to the town, anal a defiance of public opinion, which Mr. Shell vaunted as the characteristic of Lord Melbourue'sGovernment. In one of the articles he was accused of being the author of certain articles in the Man. chester Guardian.
Sir Charles, in Isis affidavit, admitted that he retired from the British Army on half-pay, when very young, as a Lieutenant ; that he after. wards went into business in Edinburgh; that he lost 300/. at cards, but through foul play, and having recovered the money, presented it to the Edinburgh Infirmary, for which he was publicly thanked; that he never wrote any articles in the Manchester Guardian ; and that when he de. manded the name of the author of the articles in the Allandester Chro. nick, Mr. Dyer, the .editor, offered to "give him satisfaction."—Rule granted.
On Wednesday, the Court refused to grant a rule, applied for by Mr, Platt, to set aside a verdict obtained by Mr. Polack against the Tilw newspaper. It was alleged that the verdict was occasioned by the Judge's misdirection, but the Court thought there was no ground complaint.
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