The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-18 00:00:00

THE E \ PRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1848.

• levee of land under the bill wee hosed was the semi esthetes
which formed tee grounds tor passing railway bills, arid if it
was acknowledged in those cases, the house would readily
admit that such of rinciple was 'enmity. if not more, admis
sible in the cues a mite foe a place of worship. The public
good w Uwe," considered predomivant over the private
rights of individuals, and it was only for the house to declare
that the case of the Free ehureb congregationsbtain de-
matided the exercise of compulsory powers to o
sites for their places of worship in order to remedy
the evils completned of by the numerous peti-
tioners in favour of the hill. Dr. Chalmers had declared
that the moral well being of the people of tiootland—and an
emineut eurgeon had stated that their physical well-being—
depended open gratetime the /Metter of churches to the con-
'menthe). w o w ere now compelled to brave the bielemency
of the weather on hill sides and under Lehi, at all semens of
the year. The powers which the bill would confer were
admitted by fore hot jurists to be thew which could be fairly
claimed by the perties—the civilians of foreign nations
having declared that bites for churches and monasteries could
be compulsorily obtained. Under these circumstances, he
begged to mere teat th bill be read • second time.
Mr. EWART accondeed the;mution.
The SPEAK ER put the question, whin several members
cried " ho," w hen mein
The house divided—For the second reading RO
Against it
On the question that the bill be committed.
Mr. J. S. WURTLIiY had aided the decision to which
the house had ne, though he was strougly of opinion that
the objeets sought to he attained he the promoters of the bill
might be better achieve din enothee mode. Indeed, in his
opinion, if the committee had never been appoiate el the
ev,te complained of by thaw who gave evidence before it
would have been reme.lied before the present time. It was
out, in hie opieion, nee• wary to establish principles under
the bill in favour of all congregations which were only
sought to ho vineliceeel in (*sour of the perticuear ilea of
seeeden whom it te• e sought to relieve. Cengregations, not
even professing Chustianity, might, if they could only mus-
ter lW eh num...4e compulsorily obtain a site for their place
of meeting on the property of pawns who were conscien-
tiously impelled to their doctrines. Having consented or the
seised reading of the bill, he would only further suegest that
in the committee it should ue so modihed as to confine its
objects to the partieuler class of congregations whose actual
nee satins had rendereel introducion necessary.
Mr ELLIOTT said that no one wee more anxious, that
sites should he granted to the free church congregation than
hitueelt, hut certainly not in the manner proposed by the
bill, which lie had voted against. The bid had one object,
that of enabling et ceders from the Scotch church to obtain
sites or their places of wurship. But the bill as it stood
would giv. the same power to the members of any other sect,
who, provided they could only muster leo in number, could
compel any Wedowee r to grant. a she for a place of meet-
iug, whatever might be the tenets of :etch peewees. lie
muse deny that there existed any parallel between the pre-
sent bill and a railway bill, fur each comp Awry aseuniption
of la. el in the latter ease was authorised ley a specific act of
perlieni. nt, whereas the measure before the house conferred
a sweeping power to seize any proprietor's land, it once the
clauses as they stood were agreed to. The number of
Fe-
lei,ds to grunt sites was very smell considerieg the number
or congregations who had ,assecedednd the ir cow did not
justify sucti a ceuree of proceeding
was contemplated by
the promoters of the bill.
Mr. C HMS a/Paten wished to know what the inten-
tions of the germane:it were with respect to the bill; as, if
they intended to give it their sanction, they could not after-
wards refuse to bring in a similar measure to enable die-
..enters, and even the Homan catbulica of In land—(oh and
hear)—to claim sites, awl to obtain them CaMI U:s rely, fur
their places of wer..hip. Ile objected to the entire me attire;
but rather than see it meddled as theand learned
member for Bute wished, he would consent to its being
peened into a law.
Sir G. GREY sari that the present diecussinn was 'liege-
thee iiregular, and must he renewed when the bil. went into
committee. He thee ef re declined to state the course the
g .vernment would be prepared to pursue in respect to it
untie that stage eat the hell. At the same time he saw all the
'north ulties col the position, and he had said so when the corn.
mittee on the free church was moved for. lie had hoped
that ledge new the evils compleined of would have been SO-
uaediell. There were still from :Sato 40 cases, but he yet had
hopes that the grievancre would be removed. lie was nut,
however, prepared t• say that there might not be some inter-
ference of the ure called for to remove them. If the
landholders we re willing to come to some arrangement in the
remota of • privets bill the necessity for passing the present
measure might be oleviete el. 'f he details of the bill were
matter. for the consideration of the committee, and though
he SaW some difficulties in the way, he did not regret that
' the house had affirmed the principl e by so large a majority
that some legisl•tive enactment was requisite to give the
parties complaining a remedy for their grievances.
Mr. B. COCHRANE sued that if no one else would oppose
th • bill he should do an, for a more tyrannical one was never
presented to ither house of parliament. A more presump-
tuous or prepod• rous demand than that made by the se-
ceders firm the church of Scotland had never yet been ad-
vanced. Ile should eppuse the bill in every stage.
Col. THOMPSON said that as he had voted against the
bil he was desirous of stating his reasons. He had been
brought up amidst a class of dissenters who were at one
tim greatl l'ix,uraged and opprewel, he meant the me•
the eeists, and be had never heard such a remedy proposed
for overcoming the opposition to them and granting teem
the means of pursuing their religious worship as that mu-
mbled in the hi 1 hetore the house. He wanted to know
what excuse there was for the proceedings in favour of the
climber" ot the free tch church. They had all heard
of the store of the man co
whose horse died notwithstandieg
the rem( dies that were applied to keep him alive, an/ the
remark that was nude to his owner, " Did you try oats f"
fled any of the seceeing congregations ever tried ter result
of holding their religious c aercises in their own cottages ?
Was there no one member of thme congregation' who pus-
ssred an acre of ground to forma site f .ra church ? (Ni, no.)
lie was not before uwere that that was the case, or that there
was no land to be lead in those parts of the country where
the congregations were without churches, e crept that which
he'. need to th .-e largo proprietors who refusal to grant it
fur the purpose. Still he thought that the subject was one
requiring further inquiry. lie did not wish to uder(ere with
refigious liberty; but he thought it wee for the interest of
✓eligious liberty that some eee i a tame, or at least some delay,
• uld br intei pole el to the granting a demand of this un-
usual character. They had heard of pewereel establish-
ments, but this free church was a new etdebliahment—
(hear. hear); and, looking at its present demand, he be-
lieved it to he, me it had been described to be, a religious
ty rawly, which, if led resisted, he hoped would Le sifted to
the very utmost. f Hear, hear.)
Mr. A. OSWALD observed that the number of congreee-
times in Scotland where the people were worshipping with-
out helloes, it appear. el, was eight. It might be right t • give
relief to these congrreatien.; hut the bill weed much further,
and enact' d tha' any congregation of more than 100 peewees
might detected a site. Ile was not prepared to say it might
not be roc. ..airy to pass such a law, bet they ought not to
puma a measure so extensive and so materially altering the
xiding law without full inquiry. Olen ) Ile admitted
that the no was, in the case of the Ire e church, a practical
grievance which parliament should remove. He felt great
re-poet for the free church of Scotland, and he believed
many of its members hed made very great sacrifices fir what
eh. y believed to be the (boort of Christ- (beer) ; and if the
hill were confined to the removal of the grievance under
which that bode laboured he should not eleject to it ; but if
it were pressed in its percent shape he should noose, in corn-,
mittee, that its operation be extended to dissenters in all
pares of Great Britain and Ireland.
elr. COWAN defended the character of Dr. Chalmers
ele..a. the contemptueus expressions applied to it by the hon.
member tor Bridport. No one would be lessdisposed tot up-
;inn a hill of this nature than he (Mr. Cowan) would the
&eject could be accomplished by uhy other mean. ; but se •
ing that the free church had now waited five years—for it
weed' he five years to-morrow Piece they had been driven
out from the establishment—in the vain hope that the
pruprietors would grant t' em rites fur crectieg pl ere in
which to worship God, it woe time parliament interfered.
He supported the sill as a measure of relief from a pr ectic
tl
grievance, and as the mean., of maintaining peace in Scotland.
Col. MUIR though willing to support a specific and prac-
tical measure for mettle: who' he ad tnitted to leo a specific
and taneible grievance, oleected to providing for a special
cams by a ',wee ping ciactment which interfered generally
with the fights of prot tiny.
Mr. F. MAULI'i fetid ne one regretted more than he did
that a compulsory measure should have been found nieces-
Viry in this case; hut after the esp. Timm of the last five
years, and when all hope was gone, that the hotly of landed
prom+ tors in (initiated would volunterily comply with the
wishes of that large body of their fellow-countrymen who
belonged to tho free t-huicli, he raw no other means
of remedying tee grievanc if the operatioe. It bad ben
en
of the urged
hill
by
some hon. gentlemen that
were confined to the free church, and to those parti-
cular cases in which a practical grievance was suffered, thee
would adopt it ; while others had contended that if this
principle were to apply to the free church in t:and it
eeuld be extended to dissenters in all parts of th kingdom.
ln
Toe advocates of the measure sag no reason why it ehould
not, for they held it tee b • right that every ctign•gation !
ehould have the :Acmes of worshipping God in the meaner
pre scribed by their eon consciences. If teal case of prac-
tical grievers, e wee he he considered individually it mast he
brought benere perlianonet in the shape of • private bill ;
and how wee any pour congregation in the Iliehlands of
Scotland to carry a private bill against a rich proprietor ?
If the committee should think lit to confine the operation of
the bill to the free church, undoubte ally the be troditct re of the
me lour. would not oppose that el. cieion ; at the some time the
free cburclt did think it no tuore than just th et the principle
they alai:m:11 in their own cepa should Le t;ileneictl to all
their dissenting brethren. (Hear.) He could 'pleura his
hon. and gallant friend (Colonel Thompson) that he WAS
etherize thee in error in supproing that land 'night be obtained
for Biwa without iiderfe ring with the prop. rty of the large
landed proprietore. In uo case in which the refusal of a site
was complained of sou It possible for the congregating to
obtain a spot of ground whereon to build • church or to
obtain the commenced, sheder during the performance of
divine worship unless legalities. tt/ came to their relief. (Hear,
hoer ) Tbia be it remembee eel was a practical grievance
toffee, ing a body which csinpric,ed almost a million
of our fellow eubjeets, and though it epplie per... Aridly
only to a portion of them it reu;ele el in the minds
of 11. A vete slight sacrifice .en the part of the lauded pro-
prietwa. ould remove the difficulty ; but se wee urged that
bad omecientious object:one. Why, it could be no
pro te• r violatiou of conscience on the part of his eeol.ll-• friend
the Der::e of Bueelmech, for Maumee, to grant a reets fee •
tenan
free chureh, than it was to grant a site for a prerbe
church in cennexion with the establishment. But, tithe:it-
ting the existence of such comecietitious ohjictione, why
should not earliassent take the responsibility Oil itself and
rege,,y, toe grievance a, he hoped they would do during the
esseson, rn.f n ? akar. hear.l

ohjerst, a to a.Meltie and particular S.
sees being met by a fp nerd measure. ,
Mr. HCOTT bcd hoptol that the proprietors would hays
seen the propriety of litataisig sites places oonveniritt to
seeseeding ouagicitai lone and not ieconvenient to them•
selve or to the eritablished church, and had the matter been
allowed to rest he hiel no dilute Cory would have dons so.
(Hear.) lie believed their olj, ction in tl e first instance was
that sites were de, ended in places a it the matt cobvenient
to the congregations themselves, but which were shown
being in justapeeition with the chutches of the establish•
ment. His übje•etien to the bill wax it. geurial application,
and he hoped in committee that its op. re inn ...told be
limited to those perticuler cases in which tho grievance
existed.
' The question that the bill he committed on Wednesday,
June 7, was then par• awl nem rl to.
SLAVE TRADE.
Mr. HUT C m wed that Mr. Cubden he erecharged from
attendance on the slave-tends commit'. e, and that Mr.
Cardwell, Sir E. N. BUNION, and Viacouut Brackley be added
to the commith e.
Capt. PECIIELL compleined that no naval officer hail
been appointed to eerie on the committee, and propowel
that the sohlect should he poleponed till hemorrow, In order
that the name of some bon. member coneected stitch tho
naval profession might be suleeituted fur one ut those now
suggested.
2dr. HUTT had not proposed the name of an naval officer
y
on this committee becenee of th. esprit the corps 11411e11 tie
knew to oust in the nasal profession in favour of the main-
tenance of the African squadron.
Col. THOM PSON, 114 a member of the committee,
thought it would be desirable to nave a 'meal officer upon
it. They were at this moment iu the thick. us to the ad.
vantage of steam cruiser* in the supprewoitit of the slave
trade, and wanted the Illt•i•GUICO of none OOP whit hail wee-
Heel knowledge on tho whited, to assist them in their iu-
quiry. (Hear, hear )
Lora I'ALMEBS CON concurred lit the suirostion of the
two hon. and Obeid m, inhere With rewire to the newt s
proposed by his hon. friend (Mr. Hutt), it was understood
that Sir H. N Buxton should be pieced on the committee,
and he (Lord Palm. rat ,n) should interpose no olij.ction ;
but as to the first name—that of the hon. ro. nth r for
Liverpool (Mr. Carilwo that lion. geotli in would ex-
cute hon for saying th it ht had a strong ohjictien to his
being appointed a n'euther of this enuturtee. (Hear,
hear.) Now he did not mean t' say that soy British
subjects were directly engaged in the else trade.;
but, indirectly, he Wier.d no illeoll/liiletab!e hefty
of them looked with more &voter on that trade thou
he did ; and if there war any pt.r,ion of the out jt eta of this
country who were indine.ly connected welt that trade more
then another, it undoubt..dly was the shipping interest 'I
Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) He w,s trete uware that
the merchants mid shipewners of Liverpool were red,
as individu I', either directly or ind reetly mixed
up with the slave trade ; but practie .Ily, owit.ir
its various ramifications. there MO an Mama 0011111'11011,
which perhaps it was imposethle to avoid, as in
the einsignmi nt of goods to pities entraired in, /11111
which were paid for out of the profits of,
that
trade. For these reopens, 113111 1111111 various limiters
connected with Liverpool, he thought it pi...toile
that the reprearntatter art that pltin would not, Ull.lll an il..
quiry of this kite!, le left as free to exercise his eau jade.
meet as others would b... Then Liverpool was already suffi-
ciently re; resented in the committee by two boa gentle-
men, one cotevet• el with that town, and the other with
Birkenhead, both art whom w. re fully c, miwtent to bring
any matters ia which they or the trade of love retell telt an
interest under consideration. He would, under the enema
stnorest to his hon. friend (Mr Hutt), that with a
view to tn. et kis (Lord Paltnerthasi ohjsettuti, and that of
hie honourable anti liallaut friend, the name of some
naval officer should he subetituted for that of Mr. Card-
well, anal he would prnp.ce too 851,10 of a 'talent
officer who had be, n a mem)). r of the 11.11110 government us
the hoe. member for Liverpool (Admiral Bowles), whose
pr ictiral intorotatioil and esperierieo would, he was sure, he
highly useful to the committee. With marl to the bon.
another tor Liverpeol, Mesquite mire that it appointed he
would give his mint. re cool I et judge', nt en all matters
brought le fire him, but what he welted to inf., wsa, that
gentlemen acting 'luau local lutist lucre, could not, with the
same pleasure, peseta= a duty with which theme nide, nets
were in any way connected, as those who were altogether
free from them. (Hear.)
Mr. CARDWELL was quite prepared to take what the
noble lard hail said in good part, so tar as it related to him-
sell ; but are most protest in the stoma. st lan-
guage he was justified in using, against the sweeping bill
of tedictment the noble lord had thought prop r tu pre er
against his (Mr. Cardwell's) constituents. Ober, he a.)
The oljection against his name bring paced on ttic c 'in-
mate° rested, the noble lord said, on no personal coon& ra-
tion, her the noble lord hail admitted that he (Mr. Cardwell)
might be trusted to give a fair judgment Alto the hest means
of suppressing the slave trade—(hear, hearl—but the
ground of the objection was not that Liverpool had any
direct connexien with the slave trade, but that such tern
the ramifications of vett trail" that the merchants of Engle, el
in genteel and of Liverpool in partieular, er those who re-
presented them, were not free to give a fair opinion as to the
best means of pirting it down. Nowa& hill of indictment had
which he was a member, rhargieg thtd m withne giving :
en-
coura .thient to the slave trade by a mining the wiper of
Cuba and other c ,untrire, where the cultivation wits carried
on by slave labour—it being manbest that the increased de-
mand for the produce of slew* !Abner would give an Stn v teis
to the slave trade, and I, ad to increased expert* of slaves
from the coast t f Africa—if 1111111 a charge—
The hon. member was here interrupted by the SVILASLEII,
who declared , evidently to the amuirinent of the few Ann.
membeur preaent, that, it being now o'clock, the house
stood adjourned.

ELECTION COMM LITHE.
LANCASTER.—This committee met y( sterday for
the first time, Lord (•..urtenav in thi chair, in urdar to try
the merits of the petition presented againm cant Watt
of Mr.
Armstrong for thui borough.—Mr. Serjeant Wranghain and
Mr. Merewether appeared fur the peti,ieto r, ant Mr.
Serjeant Kinalake and Mr. James for the sitti: g member.—
Mr. Set-Praia Wrangham opened the tam on tichalf of the
lien E. H. Stanley, the uti,ueett,llll candidate, lir a case of
scrutiny only.—Mr &want Kim/lake took an objection to
the list of disqualified voter., whicti had heen delivered Fy the
petitioner, but the committee overruled the obj,eti.m.—
Evidence having been tendered to ~how that one of the voters
who had polled for Mr. Armstrong was a pauper receiving
i parochial relief, the committee adjourned till this day.

that occasion he should move that the operation of
the bill be extended to the United K ngdon. The
mood of the Joint Stock Companies Hell having
been further considered and agreed to, Mr.
MITT moved that Mr. ConDEN be discharged
from attendance on the slave trade committee, and
that Mr. CARDWELL, Sir E. N. Bourtri, and Viscount
BRACKLEY, be added. Copt. l'Eette:t.t. having sug-
gested the propriety of the nomination of a naval
officer, Lord PALTAKIINTON admitted its desirability,
stating that he should certainly object to thu nomina-
tion of Mr. Csitiiwt:l.L. in consequence of that hon.
gentleman's intimate connexion with the siripownens
of Liverpool, who were presumed to be interested in
the trade. Mr. CARIAVVIL was proceeding to reply
in defence of the putties referred to by the noble
lord when the hour of six arrived, and the tirEAKER
quitted the chair.

Toe utter inespeeity of tho fag end of the Paeiniun
communists and rioters to get up even a respectable
['nettle, the complete ieolution in which they found
themeelven at that head quarters of popular itimurree•
tion, the Hotel de Ville, and the facility with which
they were not so much put down as literally bagged
and sent to prison, must have the t &et of restoring
confidence in the attempts of the French to reconcile
the utmost freedom of government with order and a
respect for property and law. Were it not fur the
treason of one individual, COURTAIS, the only serious
part of the riot,:the invasion of the National Assembly,
could not have taken place. The very ecandul, how-
ever, revealed the en. Nies of a fit commander of the
National Guard, M. CLEMY,ST THOM" who resisted
Ketones at the tribune, and mainly contributed in
afterwards suppreseing the ['wide. Ile has been in
fact appointed commander-in chief of the citizen
lore* of Pan is by acclamation. This post, so long
held by LAFAYETTE, is certainly one of the most im-
portant of the date. To !Ave found a man of energy
and popularity, a staunch republican, trusted by
middle, and respected by lower, claws, to fill it, is
almost as great a guarantee for the future, as to have
found a LAMAKTINE to wield political power.
Not, indeed, that we attribute the triumph of order
chiefly to individual a ffort, talent, or character. The
prevalence of the middle class and of mode rate ideas
in Paris and throughout France is chiefly owing to
the, numbers of that class, to the mere paucity
and insignificance of which the horrors of the
first French revolution were chiefly owing.
A numerous and overwhelming population, well-
clad, fairly provided, and displaying by their very
looks thut their trust and prosiwet is in the industry
of their own hands and heads, not in sedition or
preenunciamenfees—teis is the great guarantee of
order, and produces its effect, whether musquets or
constable's staffs arm the number of hands. The im-
m nee numbers of these, poseeesed of property in
France, Mile in town and country, prove the beat
aasuranee that subversive acts or princeples have no
chance of triumph.
We attribute, 'weedily', as, a great share of the
present success, and of the facilities of this success,
to the policy and patience of LAMARTINE. Ile it is
who has separated the fiercely demeeeratic party into
two sections, who has separated the bead frum the
tail, tho brains from the trine, and who by pacify-
ing and winning all the eminent rexublican chiefs,
has left the mere " brute part of the far
tion to agitate red make maniac efforts, devoid
of concert or intelligence, against the government and
the national assembly. Had the NIAIittASTS, the
I.etate-Itoeus4, the It ECUItT4, and the FreocoNS been
repudiated sod flung to herd with the BARBE 4 anti
tat Beasoutee, the struggle of Mind.ty might
have been a more serious one. As it owe, the insur-
rectionists had not a cry. In all the dome stie policy
of the government they could net make out a good
grievance, not a word to serve as a rallying point for
the people, and they were aceotdingly obliged to
hoist as a pretext the liberties of the Pules.
But that is a middle-class cry. What care the
populace for Polish regeneration ? To deprive the
rio:ers of all rational leaders, all presentable
grievances, and cuesequently of all force, more than
cou d be put down by a bloodless suppression, has been
the aim and the euccesslul achievement of LAMAILTINE.
In one respect, however, terve were some uuplen-
sant symptoms previous to the riot. Hitherto, both
the Provisional Government, the Assembly, and even
the people have been moderate on questions of foreign
policy, and averse to war. 'fbe people declared on
aeveral occasions that they had no ides of
being made the instruments of military con quest.
Lemetterse, him-ell has bravely withstood any war-
cry. But of late this tone has changed. M. BAsTIDE,
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in the debate which
preceded the e'titertle, seemed to speak as it war had
been decided on. A few words that dropped from
Lem AMINE himself were, for the first time, decidedly
warlike. The clamour for Polish and Italian war
se ented popular in the ass ably ; whilst tt:c people
themselves, or the clubbiste who represented them,
came to compel a vote of war un behalf ur Poland
from the aderioly.
Perhaps the quelling of the Juieute may remove
many of the metres which prompted the leading men
to adopt war its a necessity, us a salutary vent for the
effervescence ect men and ideas in the present state.
We admit, inde eel, that the French cannot miller north
Italy to he re conquered by Austria. Should NEGENT
and Itemereet succeed in repulsing CHARLES
ALBERT, and threatening Milan, we think the
French not only warranted but called upon
to march over the Alps. And far from enter-
taining jealousy on that account, we could but ap-
plaud the resolution, however deeply regretting both
the necessity and many of the consequences. But the
French, we trust, will await legitimate provocation.
War for Poland is an then and a much:more serious
undertaking. The idea of entering upon it without
the aid and consent of the Getinune would be sheer
madness. A dee laration of war on the part of France
for both Poland and Lombardy would, in all proba-
bility, throw Prussia as eve ll as Austria completely
into the arms of Russia, and singulai ly complicate
the progress of German aeauri'y and freedom. The
French may propose to support their cause with the
sword—nay, may hope to find allies in the smaller
German states, with a new German rehire or empire
in Frankfort. Bu, if French intervention be im-
posed, in lieu of being demanded, it will find resist-
ance even from the central Germans. And if an, the
result of French interference would be, not to loosen,
but to re-knit those bonds of despotism which have
so long held mid benumbed this great region of
central and eastern Europe.

THE disagreement of the jury by whom Mr. SMITH
O'BRIEN has ressoitly been tried in the Court of
Queen's Beuch in Ireland, was a result fur which
many were prepared, and which nobody possessed
of common SCUP.' can consider as either extmo:dinary
or important. Every popular judicature such as the
jury, is nece sarily subject not only to individual
caprice for the moment, nut to the all•pervading in-
fluence of popular fgeling. To rail against such
incidental traits argt characteristics is as silly as it is
vain. It denotes, indeed, au utter unb,•lief in
freedom, and betrays a trembling treachery of head,
and heart to all that's best and worthiest in modern
civilisation. Like representation ar d the press, and
every other means of aehievin; and securing rational
liberty and order, the empannelling of twelve men
taken indifferently from the community to try .a man
for any off, tree ii;:ainst Item state, is liable to bring to-
gether persons whose inds are so dithrently
constitub d as to forbid all reasonable expectations
of their taking precisely the same view of the
question submitted to them. And to get
into a towering • passion because they do not
happen, in sonic hpeciul instance, to agree, or to
ascribe their disagreement to any deep-laid plot or
wide spread conspiracy to defeat the law, is really so
absurd and so demented, that until we read the ob-
servations of a panic-stricken contemporary we could
not have supposed it possible that such doctrines
would find a voice in these latter days.
The Morning Chronich of yesterday bewails the
disagreement of the jury by whom .Mr.
was tried, in term% the most touching. It would
rate the law officers of the crown severely, if tke
occaslon were leas awful and the event less con•
rounding. For that matter we are free to say that
we think the le.eh Attorney-General was quite as
t igen ours and unyielding in all technical preliminaries
of the proceeding as he could well have barn, and in
one or two particulars perhaps a little more than well.
To for,'ive him, therefore, of laxity or lenity above
that which was meet, is uncommonly like making
ono a present of nothing. The plain tact is, that the
counsel for the crown did all that they were buena to
do. or would have been justified in doing; and the
learned judge who pre/1id...el laid the law and evi-
dence before t.b. jury with elaborate fairness and