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London, England, 1860-04-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18.

THE Vioar•General of the Province of Canter.
bury, as Judge of the Consistory Court of Lon-
don, has found Mr. Rostra, a parishioner of St.
George's-in-the-East, guilty of the ecclesiastical
offence of brawling in the parish church, con-
demned him to pay 101. as costs, and intimated to
him that if he does not fulfil the judgment he
will be guilty of contempt, and liable to other
penalties. The specific misdeed charged against the
defendant is, that on the 6th of November, at the
close of the afternoon service, meeting Captain
SA V• 011 HALL and Mr. BLATCHIPORD, partisans of
Mr. Bayatt Ktwo, in the centre aisle of the
church, he said to the one, "This thing calla himself
"a captain ; he is a disgrace to the army ; a
"greasy swell :" and to the other, "This man is
"going to swear that I spat upon him in Well-
"close-square." Both these gentlemen swore
positively that these words were uttered.
Mr. Roe= produced a witness to refute their
statement, but the Judge thought his evi-
dence had reference to another occurrence,
and therefore found the defendant guilty. Mr.
ROAM strenuously denies that he used the words,
and declares his conviction that if he had been
brought before a jury of his countrymen the accu-
sation would have been instantly dismissed. It is
not inconsistent with the confidence we feel
in the impartiality of the learned Judge
to profess our astonishment at his judg-
ment. However, we only now wish to
call attention to the unconstitutional character
of these tribunals, wrongly called " Christian
" Courts," because they deprive a man of ordinary
guarantees of justice. No Englishman ought to
stand as Mr. Rome stood yesterday in a special
court with two counsel against him, but no advo-
cate, and no jury to protect his interests. The sen-
tence pronounced upon the defendant opens for him
a vista of annoyances and penalties, whereas a jury
would probably have absolved him altogether.
No judge should have so much power, no de-
fendant should be liable to such a misfortune.
Now that this case has attracted attention to the
abusive working of these long-overlooked courts
we may hops that they will speedily be reformed,
if not altogether abolished.