The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-11 00:00:00

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T 1179 IMMO, VKILFECTION. Mr. Kendal and Miss Burke.
—A WILD GOORK,. Mama sothern, Backstone, 110. e, Rogan,
Gordon, We.; Afindames Harks, Chippendale, Dalton, Vinght,
*c.—And DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Compton, £c.

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kinnb.rtnas, Mr. C. Verner. Charintan, Wm Paige: and
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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 11.

THE Rev. RICHARD PAYNE, Vicar of Downton,
directs our attention to a case in which he has in-
terested himself for the purpose of obtaining jus-
tice for two of his parishioners, wrongfully
convicted, as he believes, by the Salisbury
bench of magistrates of an offence against the
Game Laws. HENRY FULPORD and MARC WEL-
sTrAn were accused of night posehing, and
the only evidence against them was that of
a gamekeeper named PILGRIM. The men
protested that they had been in bed the whole
of the night on which the offence was com-
mitted. FULFORD'S father appeared, and swore
that his son was in bed with him all night ; and
WELSTEA D's father and mother swore that their son
was with them in the same room. Mr. PAYNE
writes that the father and mother of WELBTEAD are
" both of them thoroughly trustworthy witnesses."
The magistrates nevertheless relied on the single
oath of the gamekeeper, disregarding the up-
posing evidence, and sentenced FuLroan to six
months' and WaLirrEAD to three months' imprison-
ment. " The prevalent idea," writes Mr. PAYNE,
" seemed to be that it was morally impossible for
" a gamekeeper to be mistaken." Mr. PAYNE,
being convinced that injustice had been done, pur-
sued his inquiries, and ascertained that the two
men whom PILGRIM, the gamekeeper, had mistook
for H. FULPORD and M. WELETEAD were CHARLES
MOODY and STEPHEN DEAR, the former of whom
he took before Mr. HINXMAN, one of the com-
mitting magistrates, when Moony confessed his
fault, and showed his acquaintance with the whole
case. But to recognise the confession of these men
would have been to admit that PILGRIM, the
gamekeeper, had been mistaken, and then what
security would there be in future for the convic-
tion of poachers ; what protection for the game ?
When Mr. PAYNE began to move in this matter,
the Magistrates' Clerk warned him to be very care-
ful not to say anything against Priem', who has
once before been the cause of an erroneous con-
viction. The result shows, we think, that the
magistrates had made up their minds to sustain PIL-
GRIM, as a valuable permanent witness, against any
amount of opposing testimony. Mr. PAYNE has laid
the facts before the Home-office,but Mr. HARDY has
intimated that he "does not propose to interfere
" with the prisoners' sentence." Mr. PAYNE
states that a considerable portion of the popu-
lation have been convinced by this case that
innocent persons may be put in prison, and
that confidence in the administration of justice
has been rudely shaken. We thoroughly believe
it. Such cases are of continual occurrence, and
they will be repeated as long as the powers of
criminal justice are entrusted to magistrates ad-
ministering a law made and maintained by their
own class and for their own chugs. In most of our
agricultural districts, when game preserving is in
question, the QUEEN'S justice is no more to be had
than in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, but only a spurious
substitute which the public has learned to know as
country magistrates' justice. If there is any virtue
in the Reform Bill for which we have all been so
many years clamouring, this abuse will soon be
remedied.

Ma. Csatimit has published another letter—the
third—in correction or amendment of Mr. Rue-
x Ilea extraordinary misstatement as to his
experience of life in this great Babylon
which he is good enough to inhabit. The
last of the series is the most hopeful. Life
amongst us is not so intolerable as had been
thought. Mr. CARLYLE thinks that the whole
vast multitude of the harmless residents in Lon-
don—those who behave by second nature in an
obliging, peaceable, and perfectly human manner to
each other—number quite as many as 2,000,000,
including himself. This leaves a rather large re-
siduum, as Mr. BRIGHT would say. Mr. CARLYLE
shrinks from stating the natural inference. The
populace or canaille of London—the class whose be-
haviour is non-human or half human—he holdato be
considerably more extensive and much more dismal
and disgusting than some of us think. In fact,
since Mr. CARLYLE does not suggest any tedium
quid, it would seem that to it we must assign the
remaining 1,000,000 otherwise undistributed.
This number may be too large, but we suspect
that if we halve it we shall be keeping within the
bounds of reality. It may seem harsh to set
down any of those who live aide by aide with us
as only half human ; but we must look the facts
in the face. It is only too possible so to rear
and treat generation after generation as to oblite-
rate the features which best distinguish man
from the brute ; and whoever has seen the
crowd at a London execution or a Lord
Mayor's show, must admit that the process
may he going on in the very heart of a voluptuous
civilization. It must be said to our shame that
we can show in London a population which in
mind and character is scarcely superior to the re-

maining aborigines of Australia, and as cunning,
cruel, and sensual as any savages. This, however, is
the worst type of Mr.CABLYLE'S co lot ille,and except
on special occasions is not seen except by those
who look for it. Not to linger, however, on this
unpleasant topic, it will be admitted, we think,
that there is great room for improvement in the
out-door demeanour of classes very far indeed
removed from these. There is notable want of
urbanity in our streets. Persons of different cha-
racters and pursuits fail in this respect in different
ways. If you come to four or five people stand-
ing immovable in the middle of the public
thoroughfare, where they must know that they
are inconveniencing every porter by, it is
ten to one that the obstructors are of the
lower order of working men, whose dogged look
and passive obstinate rudeness is, in their own
minds, associated with a vague sense of inde-
pendence. If, however, you get spun round by a
concussion on one side, or are clean run down by
somebody too eager in pursuit of his own affairs to
think of you, the aggressor is almost sure to be a
young man in broadcloth with a short cane and a
profusion of mock jewellery. Even the simple
rule of keeping the right hand side of the path,
which contributes so much to comfort in walking
in a great city, is transgressed in all our thorough-
fares at all hours of the day. These, it may be
said, are little matters, but nothing is unim-
portant which betokens and nourishes the habit
and spirit of consideration for others.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)