In the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, Mr. Powell
obtained 1471. damages against the registered proprietor of the Morning In the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, Mr. Powell obtained 1471. damages against the registered proprietor of the Morning Chronicle. The plaintiff in this action had been sub-editor of the Morning and editor of the Evening Chronicle, but was dismissed at a month's notice, on the ground of inattention to his duties. The main question for the consideration of the Jury (the neglect of duty not having been established) was whether Mr. Powell's engage- ment was monthly or annual. Several gentlemen, principally reporters, stated, that as Mr. Powell had been a reporter, on an en- gagement certainly annual, and been removed from that office to another without any new agreement as to the period of its continuance, Ile was entitled to consider his fresh engagement also an annual one. The plaintiff alleged, that in addition to the claim of salary, he had also a right to compensation for the extra expense he had incurred in taking a higher-rented house upon his promotion ; but be produced no evidence of damage on this bead. The Jury therefore only gave him the amount of his salary of ten guineas a week for fourteen weeks— that is, 1471. In ;he course of his examination on this trial, Mr. Gardiner, the printer of the Chronicle, was asked if Mr. Powell's talents had not greatly contributed to the increased circulation of the Chronicle? To which question the shrewd printer replied, that the change in the poli- tics of the Times bad done the Chronicle more good in one day than all the talent in London could have done for it in seven years!
In theCourt of the Sheriff of Middlesex, on Thursday, the following persons were proclaimed as outlaws— John Scott, Edward Richard Buller, J. C. H. Tracy, George Hawkins Thomas Sowerby, Charles Vincent, Lord W. Paget, Ccelestine Gaveron, Ilarriet Griffith Lloyd, William Long Welk:dell, John Nugent Fraser, An■ gnstus Barrington, Price P. Hamilton, Felix Pryor, Emilia Sophia Hale, George Harley Drummond.
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