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I tion, or anything else, he was willing to make every

reparation in his power.
Mr. Arnold observed—Then he retracted, and
said that the handbill contained a garbled state-
ment.

Mr. Orridge replied that he did, and hoped that
his lorcirsl,4o would be satisfied with the apology
now made.

Mr. Poland said he had very little to say on the
part of his lordship, after the very ample apology
offered by Mr. Orridge for his client. Lord
Ranelagb, in the first instance, was disposed to
treat the matter with supreme indifference and
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been sent down to Brighton on the occasion of
the late volunteer review, and that some of the bills
had written on them by some ill-disposed person,
" Pot the thief; shoot him at the review," ho felt it
was a duty he owed both to himself and to the
volunteer force, to put a stop to this unwarrantable
attack upon himself. There could be no doubt
that the circulation of the bill might have led to
great mischief. It had already created two sreaches
of the peace, it had a tendency to set class against
, class, which Lord Ranelagh ?you'd have been the
first to decry, and was calculated to seriously injure
the volunteer movement. Had the bill been con-
fined to circulation in Lord Ranelagh's own corps,
it would have done him no harm, because a brotherly
feeling and good friendship existed among all. His
lordship's men respected their commander, and he
in his turn respected them. There was nothing
but good feeling and fellowship among them, with-
out the slightest regard to difference of position or
political opinion, and there never was the slightest
ill-feeling on either side, except in the case of Mr.
Merrick. He, as Mr. Orridge had told them, had
been dismissed by Lord Ranelagh. Chafing under
what he considered harsh treatment, he had twice
applied to the War-office, and the authorities there
had on both occasions agreed with the decision of
the commanding officer, markedly expressing, in
answer to Mr. Meyrick's second application, their
appreciation of Lord Ranelagh's conduct. Lord
Ranelagh had no desire whatever to press the mat-
ter against the defendant, who was very young;
his desire was simply to prevent injury to the
volunteer movement, and after the full and ample
apology which would now be read, he must repeat
his lordship's perfect satisfaction and entire wil-
lingness to withdraw the charge.
The written apology was as follows, and in the
words of Mr. Orridge :
"On the part of Mr. Meyrick, I am authorised to state
that he greatly regrets that, feeling deeply grieved by his
dismissal from the corps, he has been led to adopt a course
which he now feels he can in no way justify, in having
caused the handbills complained of to be circulated, and
that he is now satisfied that such bills contain a garbled
statement of Lord Ranelagh's evidence, and grossly misre-
present the opinions expressed by Lord Ranelagh before
the commission."

The second defendant, Chas. Pignett, now stood
forward.
Mr, Orridge observed that this case wore a very
different complexion to the former, as in that the
defendant had been a volunteer, and made an attack
upon his lordship from some feeling arising out of
that position, but in this there could be no such ex-
cuse urged, Mr. Pignett not being in any way con-
nected with the volunteer force, although he (Mr.
Orridge) believed he had a very proper and good
feeling towards it. Defendant had had an intervieW
that morning with his lordship ; his (defendant's)
was not a personal matter with his lordship, but
merely had reference to political feeling, the defen-
dant being a Liberal. Defendant had assured his
lordship that in circulating this handbill he had no
ill feeling against him, but did not like his political
opinions, and in opposing them considered himself
justified, it seemed, in holding his lordship, as a
warm Conservative, up to ridicule.
Mr. Arnold thought that was not very much in
accordance with Liberal notions. (Laughter.)
Mr. Orridge continued—The defendant admitted
he had placed himself in a serious position, and saw
the mischief into which his folly bad brought him,
and therefore fully apologised to his lordeh:p. He
had first seen the bill stuck up on a wall, and per-
haps it was but just to him to say, that for aught he
knew, it might have contained a fair transcript of
his lordship's evidence, but it might be urged he
had taken no trouble to ascertain that fact. He had
resided 35 years in use neighbourhood, and felt him-
self in a position which he could in no way justify,
and therefore sincerely and frankly apologised.

The apology in this case was then read as follows
" Having been induced, under the influence of party and
political opposition to your lordship, to circulate handbills
calculated to give a false impression, and to have a most
prejudicial effect upon your lordship personally and the
volunteer service, I beg to express my regret, and I hope that
your lordship will accept my apology and terminate th©
recent proceedings taken against me before the magistrate."
Mr. Poland remarked this was the first time poli-
tics had been introduced into the volunteer move-
ment, and he hoped it would be the last ; men of
different grades had united together in one common
bond of amity in this great national enterprise, ir-
respective of party or political feeling, which
everybody must know would have a very prejudicial
effect. When Lord Ranelagh had called upon the
defendant he had expressed great warmth of poli-
tical opinion, observing that he thought ho was fair
game to shoot at.
Mr. Orridge said that meant with a political aim.
Mr. Poland retorted—Political or not political,
his lordship had no objection, provided " poisoned
arrows" were not used. He considered it immaterial
what might be falsely thought or said of him in
different quarters, as the truth, as in the present
instance, must prevail after all. If the person were
found NN ho absolutely distorted the evidence given
by his lordship, and took the pains to sit down and
write so despicable and garbled a version of what
his lordship had uttered, he might not be treated.
with so much forbearance as his lordship had shown
in the present cases. Throughout the whole of his
evidence before the commission his lordship had
never spoken of the working men at all ; he met
them every way in perfect friendship and on a per-
fect footing of social equality, being precisely the
same to men of all classes. Mr. Poland then for-
mally withdrew the summons against the two de-
fendants. •
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denied.
r. Arnold remarked that under those circum-
stances he had the less excuse for his conduct.

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