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temper, but also, as we have shown, a temporary
abeyance of the reasoning faculties.
Had we to seek through the world for instances
to show Mr. Horsman utterly mistaken, we *could
find none more apposite than his own. In order to
prove, that the press is powerful because irrespon-
sible, and irresponsible because anonymous, he cites
two instances, which itlls evident, on his own
showing, that the press has riot one atom of power
except what it may have by the mere force of
truth. It has calumniated him and the House of
Commons, he says, by asserting that the house, and
he in particular, can be biassed int-their decision
upon the Reform Bill by the personal consideration
that, in the case of an immediate dissolution, it may
cost many members their seats, Mr. Horsrnan's
among the rest. Phis is simply a reflection upon
matters before all the wo• ld. If it be an unfair or
uncharitable rt fiection, it recoils on our beads. Till
Mr. Horsman brought it up we certainly were not
aware of any such indignant recoil. We will acquit
him alike of prudence for himself and providence of
the State. But what becomes of our power, so dan-
.eroul to diameter, when the bare suggestion that
Mr. Horsman might talk more boldly about
Stroud if he had not to go there for two years is
the theme for so much virtuous defence and furious
recrimination ? Whether we have villifiei the
House of Commons generally is a point on which
the house appears to be so utterly unconcerned and
so profoundly unconscious, that we must conclude
either that the house swallows the indignity and
deserves it, or that it does not care for our calumny,
which therefore is utterly powerless, or that there
has been no such calumny uttered at all. The plain
and simple fact is that the great majority of the
house would rather not have a general election next
August, and woisld feel themselves in a much better
mood for discussing the Reform Bill, and much
more open to the adoption of some vigorous im-
provements, if not oppressed by the prospect of an
immediate dissolution.
But, according to Mr. Horsman, the crowning
feat and damning crime of this anonymous and
therefore irresponsible, irresponsible and therefore
all-powerful press, is, hat for a long time past it
has successively attacked and destroyed the repu-
tation and influence of all our great men. Were
not the facts of the case patent to all mankind, it
might be supposed that Westminster Abbey was
full of our victims, most of whom had passed
thither after an arraignment in the neighbouring
Hall, and a walk through one of the windows of
Whitehall Chapel. But how stand the facts of the
case ? At the very time Mr. Horsman was read-
ing this astounding demonstration of our despotic
and irresistible power, and our murderous propen-
sities, he was surrounded by men who have not
only survived the very attacks he describes for half
a century, more or less, but are the principal men
of the country ; not only that, but on very good
terms with ourselves ; not only that, but supply-
ing by their friendly relations a new and separate
ground of accusation against us,who are denounced
in the same speech as the murderers of their politi-
cal influence and the objects of their confidential
regards, as at once incompatible and inseparable.
If it has unfortunately happened to us to make se-
vere comments on all our public men, and if Mr.
Horsman thinks that an incontrovertible proof of a
temper and power inimical to the constitution, we
should like to know what sort of career he would
have preferred to witness in us during the period of
our alleged delinquencies. It is justly said that if
there is one thing no Englishman knows it is the
history of his country for the last 10 years. So we
venture to take Mr. Horsman with us through that
period, and invite him to consider whether it is we
who are answerable for this variety of comment.
We will take the supposition most favourable to
his view of the case. As Lord Palmerston is now
Premier, it must be inferred to be the present
judgment of Mr. Horsman that he ought to have
been Premier all along. We ought, then, to have
gone along with Lord Palmerston is 1851, when
he was turned out by Lord John Russell ;
in 1852, when he was brought in by Lord
Aberdeen, and became the colleague of his ancient
antagonist; in 1855, when, on the overthrow of
Lord Aberdeen, he became Premier ; in 1858, when

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he was turned out by Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr.
Gladstone, and Lord John Russell ; and in 1859,
when he became again Premier with all these three
for his colleagues. Thus the most superhuman in-
tegrity, patriotism, consistency,, discernment, and

prescience would only have led us through a suces-
sion of phases, in which we should have had to con-

demo in turns, with the utmost severity, not only
Lord Aberdeen and his colleagues, but the three
most distinguished members of Lord Palmerston's

present Cabinet. with no other alternative but to
wind up with a similar condemnation of the man

who could commit himself by partnership with such
unworthy characters. The truth is it is not this or

that journal, but the House of Commons, and the
House of Commons as reflecting and embodying the
public opinion of England, that Mr. Horsman must

bring into court. Ife beg to assure him it is not we
who are anonymous offenders, but he must frame

his indictment against England altogether, her
public opinion and her political habits. We are
not the Kingmakers and Kingkillers. Such as he
have much more to do with it. If we criticize men

and measures, we do not destroy ; we do not even
weaken ;we do not so much as alienate. There stand

the killed men, not only healthy and strong, but
our very good friends. They neither need nor de-
sire Mr. Horsman's protecting aegis against us.
With stouter frames, and finer mettle, they can sur-
vive, and even improve by our criticisms ; and, in-
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and. dlI the amounts which it cent/
sented to have been paid by hi:*
auditing was this. The seeretar_
the desk, when he called in Mr. R:
book, who handed it to me in his pr_
his desire, as his (prisoner's) petty cash book.
Prisoner—No, no.
Mr. Humphreys—The book was handed to you
either by him personally or at his desire ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—The book was handed to
me either by him manually or by his desire. On
the 3d of October I find entered an item, Paid ad-
vertisement in Times, subscription £1 195.,". which
was there when I audited the books. Ife presented
a book containing vouchers at the • same time,
and -among the vouchers I have—no- doubt was
the one produced for that amount as paid to
the limes. I also found an item of 14s. for
two advertisement§ for adjutants, paid to the
limes in the same way, on Oct. 5; but it is entered
on the 10th. I believe h.e gave me a voucher for the
amount. On Oct. 10 I find an item,for advertise-
ments in the limes (six insertions), "£.2 Bs., for
which also I believe he gave me the voucher pro-
duced. On the same day there is an item for ad-
vertisin,* "subscriptions" in the 'limes, os. 6d.,
for which also he gave me a voucher. On Oct. 18
I find an entry for payment 'to -the 'l imes for three
insertions of another advertisement, £1 lls. 6d. ;
and on the 19th I find an entry, " Pail for adver-
tisement of donations in the Times. £2 25.," and for-
which I produce the voucher. Accordin to the
petty cash book I find the prisoner expended over
and above his cash, £l9 14s. 2d., which I reported
to the council on Oct. 25, I believe in the presence
of the prisoner, and on the same day a cheque was
drawn for £2O, payable to the prisoner, and was
signed by me and the late Lord Mayor, Mr. Alder-
man Wire, to cover that sum of £l9 14s. 2d. It has
been returned from the bank, and is endorsed by the
prisoner. That cheque was handed to the prisoner,
on the faith of the entries in his book, and upon his
statement that the sums had been paid as repre-
sented. The accounts produced are those which
were handed by Messrs. Street Brothers to the
council of the brigade, at least 4-. o the best of my
belief, and the cheque produced, for £167 Bs. 3d.,
was paid to Messrs. Street, our advertising agents,
on April 10, in settlement of those accounts. I was
not aware that the six items which make up the
present charge against the prisoner were entered in
those accounts.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bartley—The prisoner
was to have 5 per cent. upon his collection, and it
was for the council to determine whether he was
further to receive any particular sum.
Mr. Bartley—Allow me to ask you whether there
was not a resolution passed at every council meet-
lug requesting him to act as secretary pro tem. ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—Certainly not.
Mr. Bartley—Was not such a minute entered ?

Mr. Alderman Rose—No.
Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—Where do you wish
to lead to ? This has nothing at all to do with the
question of a servant. If he had been a complete
stranger, and had said he made these payments,
and so obtained the money by a false representa-
tion, it would have been all the same.
Mr. Bartley—But he has not said so.
Sir R. Carden—Alderman Rose has said he handed
in the book as kis own.
Mr. Humphreys—And at all events he received
the cheque.
Mr. Bartley—But the evidence is not that the
entries were made by him, but by Jeffery, and un-
less he had been Jeffery's master he was not respon-
sible for his entries.

Mr. Humphreys—lt was all done at his desire,
and that is a false pretence in law.
Mr. Bartley—From whom did you receive the
book at the audit, Mr. Alderman Rose ?

Mr. Alderman Rose—Jeffery, I believe, brought
the book in, but I am perfectly ready to swear that
on the day on which I made that audit the books
and vouchers were produced by the desire of the
prisoner.
Mr. Bartley—You will swear that ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—Yes.
Mr. Bartley—ls Mr. Jeffery here ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—l do not see him.
Mr. Bartley—Do you know whether he is ex-
pected to be here ?
Mr. Humphreys—l can answer that Ido not
intend to produce him.
Mr. Bartley—Well, whose handwriting is that
book in ?

Mr. Alderman Rose—Jeffery's, but the books
were in the prisoner's own charge, and Jeffery- was
only brought in at his own request to assist him
manually.

Mr. Bartley—Do you know whether he had any
authority from Richardson to enter those advertise-
ments in that book ?

.Mr. Alderman Rose—l can't say that; I can only
swear that account was presented to me by the
prisoner as a true statement of his petty.cash ut
the audit.

Mr. Bartley—Will you swear that he looked at
that book at all on that day ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—l will swear that he pro-
duced it.
Mr. BaTtley—Or Mr. Jrffiry?
Mr. Alnerman Rose—That book is in Jeffery's
handwriting, but the money for payment of the
various items which it contains was entrusted to
Richardson alone.

Mr. Bartley—Do you know whether he autho-
rised Jtffery to make those entries?
Mr. Alderman Rose—l can't say, but the council
did not.

Arthur Street, clerk to Messrs. Street Brothers,
of Serle-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, advertising
agents, deposed that he knew the prisoner as sec-
retary to the London Rifle Brigade; took his
orders for advertisements to be inserted in the
Times—paid for those specially referred to by Mr.
Ald. Rose at the Times office, and subsequently
handed the vouchers to the prisoner, at his request,
for the prisoner to get the money from the council.
Witness several times asked him for the money
without receiving it, the last time being a day or
two after the 20th October, when the prisoner told
him to include those items in Messrs. Street's ac-
count to the brigade, and witness did so.
Cross-examine—l handed the vouchers to the
prisoner at his request, that he might get the money
for us. He told me he brought the advertisements
to us because he had not time to go to the Times
office direct.
Mr. Humphreys said his case was complete, and
The prisoner being asked. what he had to say to
the charge, replied—l can only state that I deny it
most distinctly. I shall leave my defence of course
to my counsel, on my trial. But I think that, to
show the animus with which these proceedings have
been conducted, I may be allowed to state one thing.
I am charged with obtaining £lO by false pretences
in the month of October, when I had founded the
London Rifle Brigade six months before, working
night and day in its service, and have never received
one guinea in the shape of salary for the perform-
ance of those duties ; and yet I am held up to public
scorn for having obtained £lO by fraud—and I
deny it.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
Henry O'Meara was charged with stealing 120
yards of cloth, value £BO, the property of his
employers, Messrs. Earle, Fryer, and Co., No. 1,
Ironmonger-lane, Manchester warehousemen.
Jarvis, detective, said—l went to Messrs. Earle's
warehouse, saw the prisoner there and said to Mm,
"I understand you have confessed to stealing the
cloth." He said, " Yes ; I stole it, and have pawned
it." I said, " What have you done with the tickets ?"
He said, " I destroyed them as soon as I got out of
the shop." He then gave me a list of 23 pawn-
brokers, with whom he had pawned the cloth. 11r.
Earle then gave him into custody.
Two pawnbrokers who wei' present produced
pieces of cloth about two yards and a half in length,
and identified the prisoner as the party who pawned
them.

Jonathan Carter, manager to Messrs. Earle and
Co., said—The prisoner has been with us about
three months. It was his duty to open and close
the warehouse, and he would have access to the
cloth. We have missed cloth from time to time
during the last few weeks. The cloth produced I
believe to be our property. The quality is the same
as the roll from which pieces have been cut.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was re-
mantled for the attendance of other pawnbrokers.

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Followed by the Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND
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