A Selection of Cases Illustrative of the English Law of Tort (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...wares in the name of Heaven, and the mob will hasten to deck him out in purple and fine linen When Dr Campbell" (meaning the plaintiff) " has finished his Chinese letters, he will be a greater simpleton than we take him for if he does not force ofi' another 100,000 copies of his paper by launching a fresh series of thunderbolts against the powers of darkness. In the meanwhile, -there can be no doubt that he is making a very good thing indeed of the spiritual wants of the Chinese." And the plaintiff, by reason of the premises, has been greatly injured, scandalized and aggrieved. And the plaintiff claims 1000. Plea: Not guilty. On the trial, before Cockburn, C.J., at the Sittings at Guildhall after Hilary Term, it appeared that the defendant was the Printer of a weekly newspaper or periodical called The Satu/rday Review 'if Politics, Literature, Science and Art, and that the libels complained of were published in an article headed "The Heathens' Best Friend," contained in the number for June 14th, 1862. The plaintiff was a minister of a dissenting congregation, and the editor and part proprietor of The British Ensign and The Bfitish Standard, which were dissenting newspapers or periodicals. Extracts from the former were put in evidence, containing a, proposal to publish in it a series of letters to the Queen and persons of note on the subject and duty of evangelizing the Chinese, and to promote as widely as possible the circulation of the numbers of the paper in which those letters should appear, in order to call the attention of missionaries and others to the importance of this work of evangelization. A series of letters accordingly appeared in The British Ensign, the three first of which, ...