New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

TRIAL FOR LIBEL. The case of the Commonwealth vs. Theodore Lyman, jun. for a libel on Mr. Webster, was committed to the jury yesterday at one o'clock. In the afternoon the jury came into court, not agreed, and informed the Judge that there was no probability of their being able to agree. After some consultation between counsel, the jury were discharged. The consequence, we understand, is, that there must be another trial.

It is understood that ten of the jury were for convicting, and two for acquitting; or, as others say, one for acquitting the defendant, and one hesitating. We intend to publish the substance of the trial to-morrow or on Saturday. In the mean time it may be stated that the question simply was, whether, upon a fair construction, the publication contained any thing derogatory to the character of Mr. Webster. The defendant's counsel insisted that it was not the defendant's object to speak of Mr. Webster, in the piece complained of, with the least disrespect, but that the design was solely to attack Mr. Adams.—Boston Courier of Thursday.