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LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 4.

THEY manage these things oddly in the sister
country. The monster case of " Eiraxvirris o. CAN-
" noN," after having been suffered to drag along for
thirteen mortal days in the Irish Court of Exche-
quer, has ended at last in a verdict for sixpence da-
mages and sixpence costs. No doubt the investiga-
tion was a peculiar ear. Nominally an action for
slander, it was in reality an attempt on the part of
the plaintiff to shift from himself to the defendant
the burden of a terrible suspicion. In the prosecu-
tion of this attempt, a certain latitude of inquiry was
unavoidable ; but there can be no question that it
was allowed to go infinitely too far. The pursuit of
irrelevant topics, the license of counsel, the wanton
and scandalous abuse of the public time
and patience, were never more offensively
exhibited than in this unparalleled case.
The presiding Judge, though lamentably incapable
of enforcing order and checking irrelevancy, has, at
all events, the merit of never having forgotten his
own self-respect ; a point in which his demeanour
contrasts favourably with that of almost every other
prominent actor in this turbulent scene.

The actionof "STIEVEN:4Y.CAMPION" was brought
to recover damages for slanderous words uttered by
the defendant, imputing to the plaintiff—Mr.
GEORt.T. STREVENS—a guilty complicity in the mar-
der of his aunt, Mrs. KELLY. Our readers will
not have forgotten the circumstances connected
with that terrible event. In broad daylight,
on her own estate:of Ballinderry, in the presence other
nephew, Mr. GROROE STREVENI—the sole and pas-
sive witness of the scene—this unhappy person was
deliberately shot 'down by a couple of assassins dis-
guised as women. This was on the Bth of April
1836. It is necessary to go back a little in order
to see the precise relative position at that time of
the plaintiff and defendant in the action just decided.
On Mr. KELLY'-‘ death in 1845 his widow succeeded
to very large estates and very extensive lawsuits.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER CAMPION, the defendant in the
action, was employed at first as her legal adviser,
afterwards in a more confidential capacity as her
trusted man of business and intimate personal friend.
Mr. CAMPION entirely gave up whatever private
practice he possessed, and devoted himself with ex-
treme ardour and ultimate success to superintending
the complicated litigation in which Mrs. KELLY was
involved. Mrs. KELLY bad several relatives and
many estates : we need only concern ourselves with
Mr. tif.Oß(in Brava-Y.4 and Ballinderry. Ballinderry
wee a good property, worth a thousand a year or meta.
In 1948 Mrs. KELLY devised this estate to Gaoling
Svarvaxs, and in 1830 appointed him to manage it,
at a small salary of 1001. a year. This salary was
wholly inadequate to his wants. He lived freely,
not to say dissolutely. His accounts became as
irregular as his conduct. Mr. CAMPION, the confi-
dential adviser, was compelled to point out these un-
pleasant tarts to his benefactress and employer. It
is possible that he had no great reluctance to do so,
for it is abundantly clear that anything but a
pleasant feeling had already sprung up between the
favoured feeteerin and the disorderly nephew. The
consequence was that in 1434 Mrs. KELLY made a new
will in which she devised Ballinderry to CIMPIOS
for life. GEORGE STRETENS became acquainted
with the contents of this will soon after it was com-
pleted. This little circumstance naturally did not
tend to increase the good will which he already en-
tertained towards his aunt's man of business. It
appears to have been shortly alter this that Mrs.
XELI T determined on raising the rents of the Bal-
linderry tenants. The step was taken; and notices to
quit served on those who were unable or un-
willing to pay the increased demand. Mean-
while neither the looks nor the morals of Mr.
pe"stnn ST amts appear to have improved
in regularity. Mrs. KELLY resolved on paying
him down a lump sum of money and dismissing him
from Ballinderry. She determined on going down
there with CAMPION for this purpose, and carried
that fatal resolution into effect about the middle of
last \larch. A state of armed neutrality thereupon
appears to have ensued between Cosmos and
STREVENS. The nephew woa:d not came to book
with the confidential manager; but avoided all dis-
play of open hostility, although his aunt's purpose
of removing him from Ballinderry was intimated
to him at an early period of her visit.
Her stay wee drawing to a close ; when, on the
morning of the Bth of April, Mr. STRINENS appeared
very desirous that his aunt and her man of business
should go with him to look at some improvements
that were being carried on in a certain field on the
estate. The visit was postponed till after an early
dinner. Then all three walked down to the field
together. CAurto:s did not stay long, and
STILRYINS was left alone there wits his aunt. He
was at a little distance from her, according to his
own evidence in the action, when he observed two
women, as be thought, with veils over their Awes and
the hoods of their cloaks drawn over their heads
getting over the stile which led into the field.'
As they approached he saw gun barrels under their
cloaks ; he few them make a rush towards hie aunt ;
he saw them raise their guns; he saw one of the
disguised amain fire at her where she stood; Demur
the other fire into the back other head after she was
down. Terrified at the rght (this is his own ac-
count of the matter; he made off, hastily telling a
labourer who was working bard by to raise the

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