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The Publishers of the "Art Journal" respectfully announce which have appeared in that Journal and in other illustrated works issued by them; and that they are now prepared to supply Electrotypes of the best quality from any of these Blocks, at the rate of Ninepence per square inch with a few exceptions,. The Electrotypes will be delivered ready for printing, and guaranteed to work equally as well as the original Wood Engravings. They comprise several complete Series, in addition to a large miscellaneous collection, amounting in all to ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND. To Proprietors of Illustrated City Road, London; or further information will be furnished by Post to The Newspaper Press: THE PRESS ORGAN. him throw forth broad sheets of blasphemy among the uneducated masses-too ready to accept an excuse for not fulfilling duties or acknowledging responsibilities irksome and unpalatable to their tastes? In the pride which we have ever felt in the Press, we shudder to think it should ever be made a medium for poisoning PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EACH MONTH. knowledge at its spring, and sending the fatal draught into thou SUBSCRIPTION-FOUR SHILLINGS PER ANNUM, POST FREE, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. sands of channels throughout the land. To us it seems a horrible perversion of all that the Press is intended for-a curse springing out of the greatest blessing that ever fell to the lot of nations, and to us it seems the duty of a Government to stamp upon the Whole Page Half Page £210s. Ordinary Advertisements perline, 9d. fungus whenever it rears its unwholesome head, and crush it by (Special Arrangements for Front and Back Pages.) Newspaper Announcements, Press Writers, Reporters, &c., per line, 6d. No Advertisement inserted under 5s. £4 Quarter Page £1 15s. An entirely false issue has been attempted to be raised in the case of the Attorney-General v. Bradlaugh. The prosecution was simply for the enforcement of legal requirements that every newspaper proprietor in the kingdom is subject to-the registration of his paper, accompanied with security against damages and costs for the publication of libels. The prosecution was commenced by a Tory and carried out by a Whig Government, so that there | was no political animus in the case. It was simply a legal process to insist upon certain legal regulations. Be those regulations good or bad is beside the question-we have always maintained that they were bad, unjust, and unnecessary, and as their days are numbered we need say no more about them. But we see no reason why the proprietor of the National Reformer should feel a personal grievance in being called upon to comply with conditions which the proprietors of the Times and every other paper in the kingdom are subject to. But it has been pretended that Mr. Bradlaugh was singled out to fulfil these conditions because the National Reformer advocated infidel principles. The allegation is as absurd as it would be to say that the seditious speeches of the Mayor of Cork have brought him under Government censure because he is a Roman Catholic. But it suggests a query, whether it may not be the duty of the Government of a Christian country to take some notice of an avowed organ of atheism. We are not speaking of the National Reformer now; we never saw the paper, and are not in a position to say whether its articles are of an infidel tendency or not; we speak only on general principles and with a confidence that we can speak on the subject without any fear of our sentiments being misconstrued, inasmuch as our advocacy of the liberty of the Press is a quarter of a century old. Let there be the fullest freedom to Tory, Conservative, Whig, Liberal, and Radical journals to lay their respective ideas before the public, because in the main, public opinion will decide rightfully between them. We are, and always have been for the fullest ventilation of political subjects; and even in religious controversy, by all means let the Jews, the Roman Catholics, and every sect of Dissenters be allowed through the Press as pure and free an expression of opinion as the Established Church; but we hesitate when we come to atheism. Is not the infidel as dangerous an enemy to law, order, domestic happiness, and public safety-nay, more so, than to the everlast ing truths of religion? And, being such, is it a safe policy to let every constitutional means. Perhaps we speak more from a horror lest the noble institution of the Press should ever be made an instrument of evil when its morals. We hope not; but when the question has been so unlegitimate mission is so grand, than in the interest of public justifiably raised, we cannot suppress our own conviction that it is the duty of a Government to check the publication of atheistical journals in the direct way which the law provides. We are happy in the belief that its work would be light in this country, for there are none within our own knowledge; as we have already said, we never saw the National Reformer, and it may be a most orthodox paper for all we know to the contrary; but the motives which have been unfairly attributed to the Government in the prosecution of its proprietor have brought up serious considerations whether a Government might not be failing in its duty if it did not deal with atheistical journals, should they unhappily appear, in a very much more direct and effective way, without in the slightest degree endangering the true liberty of the Press, which is even more jeopardised by the indulgence of an unbridled licence than by a reasonable obedience to the laws and rules which govern the society of free states. THE LAW OF LIBEL. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE LAW OF LIBEL AS AFFECTING THE NEWSPAPER PRESS." IX. PRIVILEGED PUBLICATIONS.-ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE OF MALICE. THE case of the Queen v. Veley, in the Court of Queen's Bench, letter written by the defendant, and published in the Chelmsford raised the question whether certain statements contained in a Chronicle, impugning the conduct of the prosecutor, were pub lished on an occasion, and under circumstances which exempted the defendant from legal liability. before the Lord Chief Justice of England and a special jury, when The case was tried at the Guildhall, London, in February, 1867, the following facts appeared in evidence:-The defendant, a solicitor at Chelmsford, of the firm of Gepp and Veley, had written the letter in the question, in the name of the firm, to defend the character and conduct of a client, a clergyman of the name of Hamilton, from certain charges made against him by report of the proceedings on that occasion had been published in the prosecutor, a Mr. Hey, at the Bow-street Police Court. A the Times and other newspapers; and the reported statements of the prosecutor's counsel, which the alleged libel was written to deny, were to the effect that the prosecutor had married the daughter of Mr. Hamilton, and had lived with her for several years that his wife had left home, and that a few days afterwards he rewithout the slightest interruption to their domestic happiness; ceived a letter from his father-in-law stating that he had been telegraphed to from a lodging-house in Bloomsbury, where he found his daughter, whom he brought home; that a medical man had seen her, and had declared her to be a dangerous lunatic; and that the surgeon attending her had signed a certificate to that effect. In the defendant's letter, published in the Chelmsford paper, it was charged against the prosecutor that the statements made at the police-court by the prosecutor's counse!" as derived from the instructions in his brief," and reported in the Times, |