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I EXTRAORDINARY ACTION FOB t SLANDER. The ("III Brown and wife v. Heltage eluded in the Exchequer Division on Saturday. It wm an action for libel aud slander ia puning misconduct by the plaintiff towords his wife befme marriage. The de fendant, who is tbe father of th« «ife, ssc up a justifica- tion, and paid le into court. The. pluntiff is the son of a tenant farmer in Cornwall, and cl.-rk to an accountant in Birmingham but formerly he minister of the United Methodist Free Church o ru ligation at Leam. iagton. His wife is tli« daughter ot tt-o defendant, who is hosier and draper at Lenujii gt. n, and was a member of the plaintiff s congregation. rile plaintiff wa* ed8. eated for the miniatry, and in 18/o weiit aa a missionary to Africa, but returned in walidett Is an attack of fever. In July, 1878, he settled down s* a minister st Lean* ington, and, becomilJg acq,uioted w:tu the dfghi-nt, be, after time, pxid his addre>-e.» t" his dsughter, for whom b. formed an attachmeut. In October of the etute year, whi'e the courtship wet* L oing un, the defend- Rnt, it was slid, spoke and publia? *i < t tbe plaintilftbe DIne p.m he bad criminol CJUOtctlOU ith my daughter against htr will, which, in tny judgment, arjjo.inted to rape." Subsequently the defendant repeated the same accusation in a letter to the plaintiff's father. Several meetings of officers and members of the plaintiff's chum, took place to investigate the matter, and at oue of them the plaintiff admitted that, while sitting by tie daugh- ter' .ide, he was guilty of an impropriety wbich .Ud at one: resented, and for which be expressed bis great con- trition tithe meeting bat be deniei that it WI3 of the nature imputed-to him by the defendant. At this or another meeting, which was begun And tlde,1 with prayer, it wao agreed that the affair should be amicably settled, and that the plaintiff nhould reunin ,t his church, and in December, 1876, the plaintiff and Mise Hei'age were married. Afterwards, however, te de. fendant repeated bis charge, and it was suggested that he was influenced in so duiog by the fet that both tJae plaintiff and his wife had refused to let bisu liaveecrtaia control over between 1500 au-i C600 which h;i t been left to tho latter by her graudfather, and fcr tbe reo covery of which an action was ultimately bruugbt against thi rlefeudant Oil the part of the plaintiff offers were nude to accept A retractation aud ap-.lo«-y upon certain conditions, but they were not resp.nide i to, and the pres.'nt action proceeded. The plaintiff s.id that ill consequence of the defendant's conduct he ha I U'st his position in the ministry, with it. euooUiuinat* and prospects.—Mr William James Brown, tho plaintiff, de. nied emphatically the charge conveyed by the defend- ant's words, and explained of what hia own Uliseonduot consisted.—Mr William H,iag, the d,!f,,e,t, in bie evidenee, Did, when alone, his daughter told him tbat criminal connection had taken place. Upon one < evasion, when he weø with the plaintiff alone, he a-ked hiui wfay be so persistently denied the charge. The pluiut ff to- plied, Ob, Mr Heitage, as soon as 1 heard of it 1 went home and considered for half 811 hour whether I should make a clean breast of it and bring disgrace the church, or tell a lie and stick to it. I determined to tell a lie and IItick to it. Tlse trial lasted several diys. -On Saturday, after an absence from court of ten uiiuutes, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff upon the claims both for libel and slander, with £ 500 damages —J udgment was given accordingly.

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