The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-03 00:00:00

THE CONCLUDING LOTTERY.

WIFT and CO. respectfully state, that the GLAS-
GOW LOTTERY, to be DRAWN on the 22d of THIS
MONTH (JULY), is the LAST that will or can be drawn under
the existing Act of Parliament. The fortunate Purchasers have
the option of receiving the value of the Prizes (which consist of
Freehold Lands and Houses) in Money, as soon as drawn, deduct-
ing only 5 per cent. on those above 1001., to cover the risk and
expense of selling the property.
SWIFT and Co.'s Offices are at No. 19, CORNHILL, facing
the Royal Exchange ; No. 255, REGENT CIRCUS, Oxford-
street ; No. 38, HAYMARKET, Corner of Coventry-street ;
where Prizes of 10,0001., 5,000/., 2,000/., &c. &c., were recently
sold, and the money paid with the punctuality that has distin-
guished the firm of Swift and Co. for nearly forty years.
The Scheme contains--

1 of £16,000 of £16,000
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
Besides others of 8001., 5001., 4001 , &c. &c.
PRESENT PRICES.
Ticket £l3 13 0
Half £7 6 0I Eighth £1 18 6
Quarter 3 15 0 1 Sixteenth 0 19 6

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GLASGOW LOTTERY OFFICES, 103, STRAND,
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gOp site Exeter Hall, and 115, FLEET-STREET, LONDONt
OTICE is hereby given, that the Act of Parliasnen.
directs the drawing of this LAST LOTTERY to take
place on TUESDAY, the 22d next month. The public are re-
quested to apply immediately to R. WEBB, 103, Strand, and
115, Fleet-street, London, or to the following Country Agents,
where Schemes can be had gratis :
Aylesbury—May, jeweller, Market-place.
Banbury—Cheney, bookseller, High-street.
Bath—Meyler's Library, Abbey Churchyard.
Berwick—Richardson, Advertiser Office, High-street.
• Birmingham—Drake, bookseller, 52, New-street.
Bridgewater—A wbray, bookseller.
Brighton--Chaffey, 20, Dean-street.
Bristol—Brown and Reid, booksellers, Clare-street.
Cambridge—Bridges, bookseller, Market-place.
Carlisle—Cockburn, bookseller, &c.
Canterbury—Nisbett, 21, Palace-street.
Chelmsford—Chalk and Meggy, Chronicle Office.
Cheltenham—Hadley, Journal Office.
• Chesterfield—J. and J. Woodhead, stationers.
Chichester—Smither, bookseller, North-street.
Colchester—Haddon, Gazette Office, 19 High-street.
Derby—Randall, 12 Rotten-row.
Devonport—Colman, Printer, tkc.
Dorchester—Weston and Co., Cornhill.
Douglas--Isle-of-Man, Jafferson, bookseller.
Edinburgh—Wilson, bookseller, George-street.
Exeter—Fitz (late Trewman's), High-street.
Glasgow—Macleod, bookseller, 20 Argyle-street.
Greenock—Moore, West-bridge, Hamilton-street.
Guildford—Russell's Library.
Halifax—Whiteley and Booth, booksellers.
Huddersfield—Moore, bookseller, Market-place.
Hull, Wilson, Advertizer Office, 26, Lowgate.
Kendal—Lough, bookseller.
Leeds—Somerscale, bookseller, 75, Briggate.
Leicester—Thompson, Chronicle Office, Market-place.
Lewes—Lee and Co., Advertiser Office.
Leith—Burnet, bookseller, 19, St. Bernard-street.
Lincoln—Drury, bookseller, near the Stonebow.
Liverpool—Franceys, Standard Office, 7, High-street.
Manchester—Times Office, Market-street.
Newark,—S. and C. Ridge, bookseller, Market-place.
Newcastle—Gisburn, bookseller, 68, Quay-side.
Newbury—Varely, bookseller, &c.
North Shields—Taylor, tea warehouse, Howard-street.
Norwich—Matchett and Co., Chronicle Office.
Nottingham—Robinson, Long-row, Market-place.
Oxford— Slatter, bookseller; High-street.
Plymouth—Mitchell, tea-dealer, 33, Treville-street.
Portsmouth—Harrison, Telegraph Office, Parade.
Preston—Clarke, Pilot-office.
Reading—Blackwell, 31, London-street.
Salisbury—Clapperton, bookseller, &c.
Sheffield—Whittaker, bookseller, 13, Foregate.
Sherborne—E. and W. Penny, booksellers.
Sidmouth—Harvey, bookseller, Fore-street.
Stafford—Rogers, bookseller.
Stamford—Mortlock, bookseller, &c.
Stonehouse—Gray, bookseller.
Stourbridge—Heming, bookseller.
Worcester—Stratford, bookseller, Cross.
York—Marsh, bookseller, Minster Gazette.

The Scheme contains Prizes of 16,000/., 10,000/., 3,000/.,
2,000/., 1,600/., besides many 1,5001. 1,400/., &c. &c. Present
Price of Tickets 131. 135., Half 71. 65., Quarter 3/. 15s. 6d.,
Eighth 1/. 18s. 6d., Sixteenth 19s 6cl.
Country orders attended to. Scotch and Irish Bank Notes
exchanged.

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The failure of Mr. Babbage at Finsbury is now
ascertained. His friends have learned with surionse that he
forgot to bring his calculating machine to the poll.

Mr. COOPER appeared for Mr. Weilbeloved, one of the
trustees of the hospital or almshouse founded by the deed
of 1707, and'also the preacher of St. Saviour's Gate Chapel,
whose allowance of W. per annum, which he had enjoyed
for thirty years, he had been deprived of by the decree of
his Honour the Vice-Chancellor.- It was plain that the
same line of defence which had been urged by his learned
friends-in behalf of the other trustees, would apply to his
(Mr. Cooper's) client ; but still there were some observa-
tions peculiar to the case of Mr. Wellbeloved with which
he should have thought it• necessary to have troubled his
Lordship ; but they had, however, become unnecessary, for
• his venerable client did not wish the Court to be occupied
with matters which exclusively belonged to himself. The
learned gentleman then entered into a most elaborate de-
tail of the state of the Presbyterians *during the time of the
Commonwealth, and contrasted their conduct with that
.of ,the Presbyterians of Lady Hewley's day, for the
purpose of showing that the. great leading .principle
of the Presbyterians had always been to promote unfettered
religious inquiry, without distinction of sects. The learned
gentleman-also proceeded to contend that Mr. E. Bowles's
Cut-I/ism contained no doctrine which might not as well
be subscribed by Trinitarians as by Unitarians, and that
Lady Hewley was not, as was alleged in the present infor-
mation, a Calvinist, and that consequently the entertaining
of the Calvinistical belief was not necessary to entitle any
sect to participate in her bounty. In proof of this position
the learned counsel entered into a detail of the history of
the Unitarians, from their commencement down to Lady
Hewley's time, and also, in support of his statement, referred
to numerous authorities. •
The Loan CHANCELLOR said that it would almost be im-
possible to finish the argument in this case before the vaca-
tion. The learned judges were obliged to have town upon
their important duties, of a different description. They
perfectly coincided with him in thinking that they had ne-
ver heard a case more ably argued than the present. He
regretted that as the argument could not at present be
finished, he should be obliged to postpone its further hear-
ing to next Michaelmas Term.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 2.

(Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Common Jury.)

REXFORD V. PORTER.

Mr. Sergeant WILDE stated that this action was brought
to recover the sum of 431. Gs. 6d., and the only question
that remained for the decision of the jury was, whether or
not the demand was really due to the plaintiff for necessa-
ries furnished to Hannah, the wife of Richard Porter, both
of whom were defendants. The plaintiff, Mrs. Rexford,
who sued as the executrix of her husband, kept a lady's
school on Blackheath, and had brought this action for in-
struction furnished to the female defendant. Mrs. Porter
was the daughter of a gentleman named Hunter, who died
in India, having amassed some fortune, which was equally
divided bet Ween his widow and his children, the share that
fell to Mrs. Porter being between 1,500/. and 2,0001.
She was one of three sisters, each of whom proposed to
return to India, where their father had been settled,
and they themselves born. The elder sister had been
placed at the school of the plaintiff to receive the or-
dinary education, but before leaving it (knowing how de-
sirable it would be in India for many reasons), wished to
learn dancing and music, which accomplishments the allow-
ance for her education did not include. The mother, who
had again married, and was living upon the income derived
under the will of her late husband, on her daughter's wish
being communicated to her, as she did not pay for her
schooling, requested of Mrs. Rexford to give the instruc-
tion, and that the young lady would pay her when she came
of age out of her own property. She was accordingly in-
structed upon that plan. The second daughter, Mrs.
Porter, afterwards became the pupil of Mrs. Rexford,
and having expressed the same wish as her sister as to
dancing and music, the mistress, with the sanction of
the mother, furnished the instruction. The young lady
while at school became acquainted with Mr. Porter,
a tailor at Deptford, and eloped with him from
her home, where she was staying for her holidays.
husband, of course, was entitled to her-fortune; but
on payment being requested by Mrs. Rexford he refused,
saying his wife was an infant when she received the instruc-
tion. It was a little extraordinary, however, in order to
show how far the husband thought those accomplishments
necessary, that the lady bad actually been receiving instruc-
tion in them since her marriage.
Mrs. Lawrence, the mother, was then called by the
Learned Sergeant, but deposed that the contract was that
her daughter (now about eighteen) should pay on coming
of age, and not when she became entitled to her fortune.

The plaintiff was therefore nonsuited, the Learned Judge
expressing a hope that the humble tailor would take a little
advice and not appear there again.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER,--JULY 2.

STALEY V. HUNT.

In this case, which was not concluded yesterday, when
our Paper went to press, the Jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JULY 2.

Geo. Levi, otherwise Geo7Daniel, the bill-broker, late
of Thanet-place, Temple-bar, whose case was before the
Court on a former occasion, again came up. He was op-
posed by Mr. Chadwicke Jones, on the part of the assig-
ness of a bankrupt named Green, and in person by two
claimants named James Tarris and Barnard Ross. The
insolvent was supported by Mr. Cooke.
The learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER, in giving judgment,
said the Court had given their opinion on the case when it
was before them on a former occasion, and the remand he
was about to pronounce would be commuted from April
last. The learned Commissioner sentenced the insolvent
to ten calendar months' imprisonment for fraudulently mak-
ing away with part. of his property, to the injury of his
creditors.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday Joseph Denny and Norah Denny. were
charged with having robbed Mr. Dicas, the attorney,_ of
Fleet-street, of a considerable sum of money, and some
articles of dress, which were deposited in the trunk of the
prosecutor's wife.
The prisoners were committed for trial.
MARYLEBONE.

THE CAB NUlSANCE.—Yesterday William Webb,
driver of the cab No. 1,299, appeared to answer to a sum-
mons charging him with furiously driving against the gig of
Mr. Samuel Morrison, residing at No. 12, New South-
street, King's-road, Chelsea.
Mr. RAWLINSON ordered the defendant to pay 51., or
be committed for two months to the House of Correction.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWAIIIIS AT THE CUSTOH-HOUSE,Ju LI- 2.

The Emilie, from Ostend ; the Lustre, from Riga ; the
Humber, from Hull; the Trois Scours, from Gavelines ; the
Sceptre, from Riga; the Johanna, from Memel; the Earl of
Liverpool, from Ostend; the Filey, from Riga; the Vrouw
Dreancke. from Worcum ; the Vrouw Maria, from Carolinen-
ziel ; the Mary, from Riga ; the Dandy, from Drammen ; the
Goede Hoop, from Bornholm ; the Margarctha Wilhelmina,
from Odense ; the Jacobina Maria, from Brcslaw ; the Minerva,
from Gravelines ; the Sunniside, from Narva ; the Venus,
from Riga; the Jane, from Hull; the Lord Strangford, from
Hamburg • the Ann Gales, from Petersburgh ; the Frederick
Frankly, from Rostock.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, JULY 2.

The Palestine, for Boston; the Lord Exmouth, for Sierra
Leone • the London Merchant, for Rotterdam ; the William
Hovel, for Sydney, New South Wales, and South Sea
fishery ; the Royal William, for Elsinore and St. Petersburgh ;
the Brunswick, for Hamburg ; the Active, for Hamburg ;
the Ruby, for Naples ; the Louisa Baillie, for Demera.ta ;
the Parl, for Constantinople; the Topaz, for Barbadoes; the
Susannah, for Rio Janeiro.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGOES, JULY 2.

The Attwood, for Antwerp; the Swallow, for Trieste ; the
Helena, for Genoa and Leghorn ; the Perseverance, for Ham-
burg ; the Dash, for Syra' and Constantinople; the Mar-
garet, for Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land, Sydney, New
South Wales; the Vigilant, for Ostend; the President, for
New York; the Governor Harcourt, for Sydney, New South
Wales.

CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, JULY 2.
The Caroline, for Batten ; the Reward, for Archangel;
the Ann, for Quebec ; the Eagle, for Copenhagen.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JULY 1 .—Our
Cotton-market continues to present a dull appearance. The
salog to-day are confined to between 1,200 and 1,500 bags,
without change in prices.

The Coercion Bill is to be renewed for Ireland. We are
not of those who deny that a bill which restrains the crimi-
nal may be a boon and benefit to those Irishmen who are
peaceably disposed ; but is certain that as a general propo-
sition, the existence of such statutes is a disgrace to the
jurisprudence of any country pretending to be at all fit for
civil government. The courtmartial clauses, we see, are
omitted in the bill now pending ; but the direct and earnest
manner in which a Coercion Bill has been brought forward,
contrasts not very honourably for a " liberal" Administra-
tion with the tardiness and feebleness of their measures of
Church reform and of national relief. Had the latter been
passed, the former would have been unnecessary.—Times.
Mr. O'Connell inquired on Monday whether any steps
would be taken, to prevent the dreadful brutality and waste
of life occasioned by prize fights, one of which had recently
terminated in murder ? But to this question no answer
was given. The learned member for Dublin, however, who
is not a man to be very easily turned from his purpose,
renewed his question in the same terms on Tuesday, when
Lord Howick, the Under Secretary for the Home Depart-
ment, found it necessary to break silence, by declaring that
no enactment on the subject was at present contemplated,
upon which Mr. O'Connell rejoined that he would submit
a motion upon the subject on an early day. We rejoice to
-find that the subject has been taken up by one so able and
so likely to qo through with it ; and only regret that Mr.
O'Connell did not follow up his one question by a few others
such as these : Have the Government instituted any inquiry
into the conduct of the magistrates in permitting the late
fight to take place near Andover? Have they adopted any '
measure, by offering rewards or otherwise, to give effect to the
coroner's warrant ? Have they any knowledge of who
were the getters-up and abettors in this murderous trans-
action ? And is it true that any member of the House of
Commons was present at and encouraging the same ? We
agree with Mr. O'Connell, that prevention of such out-
rages for the future is most desirable ; but when we call
for prevention, punishment, as one means of bringing it
about, ought not to be overlooked ; and that, when a re-
medial measure is to be founded upon the occurrence of a
recent event, it is most desirable that the particulars of
that event should be fully known by being thoroughly sifted
and scrutinized. We do not wish that any man's supposed
share in this transaction should be prejudged ; on the con-
trary, all that we call for, all that the country calls for, is
inquiry. It is pretty generally understood that there has
been great negligence, not to say criminality, somewhere,
and we trust that Mr. O'Connell will so shape his motion
as to find it out ; and we are not without hopes, too, that
the authorities at the Home-office, spurred into activity by
the expectation of that motion, will be prepared, when it
comes on, to show what they know, and what they have
done. Above all, we trust that Mr. O'Connell will
not be entrapped into the snare of any " new enactment"
being necessary. This is a part of the cant and humbug
of the day. When anything at all out of the common way
occurs, we are constantly told it calls for some new law ;
while this perpetual itch for legislation renders our statute-
book an enormous load of surplusage and self-contradiction.
Now, if there be any part of the old law of England more
clear and intelligible than another, it is that which deals
with tumultuous and unlawful assemblies, especially such as
where death ensues. We are at a loss to know what new
power, either of punishment or prevention, such cases can
call for. Apart from the judicial investigation which the
offenders charged upon the Coroner's inquest must undergo,
the Home Department, we think, is bound to institute an
immediate and searching inquiry into the cause of such a
disgraceful and fatal exhibition taking place. If gross or
avoidable negligence should be proved, the delinquents
should be dealt with according to their deserts ; and if it
should be proved to the satisfaction of the House of Com-
mons that any member of that house was the ring-leader
upon the occasion, we trust there would be virtue and
energy enough in that house to expel such a member from
its walls, were it only upon the old and salutary maxim
pour encourager les autres.—Morning Herald.
The proceedings in the House of Lords upon the breach
of privilege committed by our contemporary the Morning
Post, ended last night by the discharge of Mr. Bittleston,
after receiving a reprimand, which was delivered by the
Lord Chancellor with great dignity and elegance, and was
not the less striking from the generous indifference it exhi-
bited for the gross and unprovoked insult of which he had
been the object. It has been usual on such occasions for
some noble lord-to move tile insertion of no
the journals, as was done in • Mr. Lawson's case, by Lord
Mansfield ; but in this instance Lord Ellenborough, for
reasons best known to himself, and which, if public report
can be credited, are open to a very awkward construction,
interfered, by urging that it was a matter of course, and
therefore unnecessary (which was not the case); and his
suggestion being at the moment adopted, the conversation
dropped, and no entry of the transaction would
have been made on the journals, bad not some
suspicion afterwards arisen of the noble baron's accu-
racy ; - and he was placed under the necessity of
stating that he had been in error, and actually reduced to
make the motion himself, which he did with such bad grace,
that the writer of the libellous paragraph himself could not
have surpassed his lordship in the difficulty of the operation.
We are glad the business is concluded. All contests of
this description are agreeable to the enemies of the liberty
of the press, and painful to its friends. The character of
the conductors of the press only suffers so far as they
appear to have been made the instruments of the profligate
malignity of others. In nine cases out of ten the editor of
the newspaper has been guilty of nothing but indiscretion.
He has always allowed himself to screen the real culprits,
who may at last come to be his mean and cowardly judges.
Who supposes the individual brought up to the bar of the
House of Lords yesterday to have been the author of the
calumny for which he was obliged to confess his contri-
tion? It was morally impossible that it could have origi-
nated with any other editor ; its source was a much higher
quarter. Who but a person having authority could
have had access to the written minutes of the house ?
Are they not always in the possession of the clerks,
and who but peers are allowed to examine them ? Besides,
who overheard the whisper of Lord Denman to the Lord
Chancellor ? Have editors of newspapers seats in the
body of the house ? It is very true that the entry in the
books and the import of the whisper were grossly
.misrepre-
sented, but persons who engage in such plots have seldom
a very nice sense of honour. They are men without prin-
ciple—who have practised deceit so often that, they cease to
be ashamed of it, and have worn the mask so long as not
to distinguish it from their own face. Besides the arch
conspirators to whom we have adverted, thore are two or
three subordinate agents in the scene. We are sorry to
find Mr. Frederick Pollock among them ; for, politically
opposed as we are to that gentleman, we have always been
disposed to regard him as a man of good sense and inte-
grity ; and there are particular reasons which make his part
of the affair not very creditable to him. What can be said
also for Sir James Scarlett ?—but we will say nothing
against him. His present position is as severe a punish-
ment as his worst enemy could desire. Verily, verily, he
has received his reward. On the whole the matter will not
!be without its utility. The system of personal detraction
has been recently pushed to its extreme, and this signal
exposure of liars and libellers will have a salutary
effect.—Morning Chronicle.

A report prevailed during the greater part of yesterday
that Mr. Littleton had tendered his resignation as Secretary
for Ireland, and that that office was now at the disposal of
Earl Grey. Whether this report be correct or not we are
unable to tell ; but this much we can say (and in this we
perfectly agree with Mr. O'Connell), that Mr. Littleton
should tender his resignation, and, moveover, that his resig-
nation should be accepted, when tendered. The circum-
stances of the case are, we understand, as follow :—We
give them as they have reached us, without vouching for
their accuracy, though we ourselves believe them to be
accurate. Mr. Littleton, it is stated, some time back sent
for Mr. O'Connell, from a committee on which the hon.
gentleman was engaged, to inform him (and the information
was quite gratuitous) that, although the Coercion Bill was
to be renewed, he had determined that the most obnoxious
parts should be all omitted in the new measure, and that
neither the Habeas Corpus nor the seditious meeting clause
should be again enacted. The information was as
welcome, as it was unexpected.. The honour-
able gentleman and the Right Honourable Secre-.
tary parted mutually satisfied with each other, and
for some weeks after the opposition upon the part of Mr.
O'Connell to the measures of Ministers, if not altogether
withdrawn, was at least considerably mitigated. Within a
day or two, however, the member for Dublin was informed
that Mr. Littleton could not keep the pledge thus volun-
tarily given by him, and that it was the determination of
Lord Grey to introduce the measure unimpaired, and in
all its pristine efficiency. Lord Grey has since done so—
and Mr. O'Connell now calls on Mr. Littleton (not with-
out reason, in our view) to resign his office, since he, the
official head of the Irish government, is unable to fnlfill
the engagement which he had voluntarily entered into upon
the part of the gov,,ernment. Mr. Littleton is, as we have

said, rem, save answered to the call of the learned
gentlemn by indering his resignation, and the only-doubt
yesterday, seemed to be as to whether it had or had
not been accepted. Our own opinion is, that Mr. Lit-
tleton is bound to resign, and that Lord Grey is bound
to receive his resignation. Of this we are perfectly
certain, that tendering his resignation will not extri-
cate the right hon. gentleman from the dilemma in
which he is placed, nor refusing his resignation, if ten-
dered, relieve Lord Grey from the imputation of insin-
cerity as to his wish for the efficient execution of the
measure which he has just introduced. Efficient it cannot
be if Mr. Littleton is to superintend, under present circum-
stances, the administration of it. Mr. Littleton is unfit for
the office of Irish Secretary. Since the first day he en-
tered upon the duties of his department, on which day be
entertained Mr. O'Connell at his table, his whole policy
has been either to conciliate or evade that hon. gentleman :
never openly to oppose him. He truckled on 'Monday—
he soothed on Tuesday—he postponed on Wednesday—he
attempted on Thursday—he qualified on Friday—he nulli-
fied on Saturday. He has been the mouse in the hands of
the cat ; he has been alternately patted and pawed—
played with and pounced upon. In this last matter, how-
ever, the gigantic paw of his tormentor has fallen upon him
unmuffied ; and this pink of country gentlemen—this mouse
who would come up to town—will find, like his predecessor
in the fable, that the quiet of the country was, after all,
better than the quicksands of the town, and that it is better
to be looked up to as a respectable magistrate in Shropshire
than set aside as an incapable minister in St. Stephen's.—
Morning Post.
The breach of privilege which led the Lord Chancellor
to complain in the House of Lords was brought to a con-
clusion yesterday. The noble and learned lord censured
in mild terms the offence committed by Mr. Bittlestone,
and ordered that gentleman to be discharged on payment
of costs attending his short commitment to the custody of
the Usher of the Black Rod. The proceeding was con-
ducted with great moderation throughout, and Lord
Brougham has gained golden opinions by his forbearance.
We cannot, however, pass over the proceeding, without
entering our protest against the authority exercised by the
two houses of Parliament, of summoning before them, when
any -member thinks that he has just cause of offence
against a newspaper, the editor, printer, or publisher
thereof—to question him at their bar—to retain him in
custody for examination and re-examination--and, finally,
if they think fit, to commit him to prison during their plea-
sure, or, which is the same thing, until they have made
such humble apology as it may suit their high mightinesses
to receive. We say that we protest against this practice,
and we do so because we deem it to be at once unconstitu-
tional, degrading, and tyrannical—unconstitutional, because
it is not in accordance with the legal usages of the country ;
degrading, because it exacts that from the press which is,
in no other case, demanded from it by the laws of the coun-
try—and tyrannical, because the parties act at once in the
triple capacity of prosecutors, jurors, and judges. Is it
not high time that such an anomaly should have an end ?
Morning Advertiser.