CHARLESTON.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 562, 2 October 1869, Page 2

CHARLESTON.

THE LATE SCENE IN COURT. (/FROM OUU OffS COERESPOXBEXT.) Sept. 30. Pursuant to notice, Mi* Dwan met t!io electors in the Oddfellows' Hall, last evening. Mr Home, having been elected to tlie chair, introduced Mr Dwan to the meeting. Mr Dwan, as had been mooted abonfc during the day, informed the meeting that it was his intention to retire from the candidature for the Superintendency, as he saw that it would be utterly impossible for him to have the least chance of succeeding, and that he would, with the consent of the meeting, resign all pretension to the honorable position in which Lis requisitionists wished to see him placed. He then entered into a short statement of his intentions, if he had obtained the Superintendency, and pointed out by a few statistics how much we had hitherto been neglected in all matters pertaining to the interests of the Swiith-AVest Goldfields. Some small joking was thcu indulged in, after which the meeting quietly dispersed. October 1.

Before the business of the Kesident Magistrate and Warden's Court was proceeded with yesterday morning, Mr Home, barrister,&c., addressed the Court, and ex pressed regret for a vehemence of expression which, ia the heat of the moment, had been allowed to escape him whilst addressing the Court on Monday last. From what had been explained to him by friends outside the Court, he was led to believe that he had been laboring under a misapprehension as to what the Bench had actually said, and he thought it was duo to the Court that he should make the present reference. Mr Home then quoted from a paragraph in the Charleston Herald, purporting to be a report of what transpired on the occasion. That paragraph the learned gentleman severely attacked, characterising it as a gross perversion of the fact. He emphatically denied having used any such language to the Bench as that imputed to him, and further denied that the Bench had ever charged him with ' suggesting lies to a witness," as was alleged by that journal. He thought when individuals atteuded the Court to report its proceedings, they were bound to do so truthfully, and not to convey the idea to the world of the Court being a " bear-garden." The Bench : Without re-opening the facts which transpired on Monday, Mr Home, the Court accepts your apology—an apology not only due to the Court, but to yourself, as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. With regard to the newspaper paragraph quoted, the Court agrees with you as to its untruthfulness. The Bench never used the alleged expressions, nor did you, Mr Home, use the language you are charged with, as the Court would not have permitted it. The Court was then engaged hearing a case of assault, brought by Mr John Pascoeagainst Captain Beveridge, Harbor-master. Prom the evidenctTof Pascoe it appeared that Captain Beveridge committed the assault complained of whilst he was in the act of bringing a rope on shore from a vessel whieh'the Surf Boat Company to which he belonged had just brought in. Mr Pascoe called several witnesses, who all agreed that tho" first blow was struck by Captain Beveridge. The case for the plaintiff" having been completed, his Worship dismissed the case, I the plaintiff having stated that the affair took place on Monday, and having laid the information as to its occurring on Saturday last.