GREAT BRITAIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3073, 3 May 1881, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN.

*'■'■•>' Lojjdos, April 10. Mr Powell, the Conservative member for WSgan, haß been unseated for bribery. Miss Senari, tbe fiancee of Herbert Reeves, tbe tenor, perished by the fire at the Nice Opera House. Herr Most, editor of the Freiheit (Freedom), London, .has been arrested and the paper 'suppressed it justified the killing of the Czar in a strong leading article, the page being surrounded by %'bl6od-red border. Sir Vernon Harcourt said the proceeding was not a State but a police prosecution. Mr Gladstone was loudly cheered when he rose to make the Budget statement. He showed the gross revenue to be £84;041,000 being an increase of £1,341,000 over the:: estimates. The total from the increase of taxation was only £378,000.

Violent squalls occurred in London on the 3rd, and many small boats, filled with Irieasure seekers, were capsized. Sixteen iyes were lost. In' the Lawson-Labouchere case Mr Justice Coleridge commented severely on Lawson's conduct relative to'the personal fracas. The questjon -was not whether Lawson was a coward in refusing to fight a duel which he had a perfect right to decline, but whether, having acted as he had, he was the person to complain of the subsequent publication of libel. Mr Justice Coleridge could not help thinking that if Lawson refused to fight, ~~_TS-obotfldrhW<&^V&,tds&lS'&^?f6m~lhe~aub~'' sequent gross and outrageous insult con-tained'in-the-message to Labouchere that "he had thrashed him like a dog, and would under certain conditions do so again." The Court pointed out that the account of the fracas that appeared in Truth in the form of a letter from Lawson, was, quite sufficient ground of indictment "for the libel, even if it had not been ; published in y the ; newspapers.. It was, however, published after the account emanating fronv the office of the 1 Telegraph, which appeared in the Manchester Guardian, and after the account bad been written by Lawson to the editor of Vanity r Lord Coleridge implied that the latter was written in braggadocio, and he showed Labouchere, by nature of the '■' proceedings, to give his account in Court. He strongly stigmatised some of the Telegraph's personal attacks, particularly on the Earl of Beaconsfield, which Labouchere had adduced to justify Jiia insertion. Lawson, he said, was a disgrace to journalism.