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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 110, 5 June 1875, Page 9

The full Court of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, sitting in Banco, delivered judgment on the appeal in the case of F. O'Keeffe y. Cardinal Cullen. It will be recollected that the action was for libel, the alleged libel consisting in the publication of a suspension, and that Chief Justice Whiteside directed the jury to find for the plaintiff on the ground that the defendant was acting as Apostolic Delegate, and therefore by virtue of a commission received from Some, which he (the Chief Justice) considered to be made illegal by the statute of Elizabeth. The jury did so, and gave a farthing damages. A motion was made to set aside this verdict as against law and evidence, and it has been reversed. The Chief Justice upheld his former decision, but Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, Mr. Justice O'Brien, and M. Justice Barry gave their judgments favour of the reversal, leaving each party to pay bis own costs. Th* Vendome column is now completely restored, with the ex* ception of the statue which is to surmount it.