The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDONI FRIDAY EVENING, ARRIL, 9,
.1858.

NEWMARKET RACES—(This Day.)

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
£lOO HANDICAP PLATE.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.-(THIS DAY.)

Courier
The Poacher
Seven ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOVS.

the Special Commission for the trial of Simon Bernard,
charged with felony, under 9th Geo. 4, cap. 31, sec. 7,
as an accessory before the fact of the murders committed
on the 14th January last, when the unsuccessful attack
was made on the Emperor and Empress of the French,
near the Paris Opera House, was opened this
morning at the Old Bailey, for the purpose of
swearing in the grand jury, before whom the bill
bad to be sent. The bill found against him by the
grand jury eworn on Monday last at the ordinary session
is for a misdemeanour, viz., that of conspiracy, and will
not, it is anticipated, be tried until after the result of
the charge of felony to be tried before the Commission.
The grand jury was charged in the Second Court in
consequence of the Old Court being occupied by Mr.
Justice Crompton in concluding the Haymarket murder
trial.

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At a quarter past ten o'clock Lord Campbell, and
Lord Chief" Baron Pollock, accompanied by the Lord
Mayor (Sir R. W. Carden, M.P.) ; Russell Gurney,
Esq., Q.C., Recorder ; Mr. T. Chambers, Common
Serjeant ; Alderman Sir F. G. Moon, Bart. ; Sir C.
Marshall, Alderman Hales, Alderman and Sheriff
Lawrence, Alderman and Sheriff Allen, Mr. Under.
Sheriff Millard, and Mr. Under-Sheriff Parker. The
proceedings created intense interest, and the arrange-
ments made by the under-sheriffs for the representatives
of the press and the accommodation of the public gener-
ally were excellent and gave universal satisfaction.
Their lordships having taken their meats on the bench,
Mr. Clarke, the Clerk of the Court, read the
commission issued under the great seal. It was addressed
to Lord Campbell, the Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Mr.
Justice Erle, Mr. Justice Crowder, the Recorder, R.
Gurney, E-2q., Mr. T. Chambers, the Common Sergeant,
Mr. Prendergast, the Judge of the Sheriff's Court, and
the whole of the Aldermen and the Sheriffs. It recited
the clause of the Act mentioned by Lord Campbell,
in charging the grand jury, ae the authority for issuing
the commission, and also stated the charge against
Simon Bernard which it would be their duty to inquire
into, and adjudicate on in due form of law.
Several members of the bar were present during the
swearing and charging of the grand jury. In ordinary
cases, that of assizas and quarter sessions, the members
of the bar are not permitted to be present during that
time, but they are specially exempted on the meeting of
a special commission, and their presence was recognised
by the learned judges.

Five ran.

LATEST BETTING.
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
Bto 1 apt Turret (taken)
10 to 1 apt Bashi Bazouk (taken)
12 to 1 agat The Dupe (taken)
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
7to 1 aget Telegram (taken)
10 to 1 aget The Borderer (taken)

. .
CHIMER CU?,
25 to 1 agst Melissa (taken)
30 to 1 agat Wilton (taken)
66 to 1 agst Sweet William (taken)
THE DERBY.
100 to 8 agst Sedbury (taken)
14 to 1 agat Longrange (taken)
20 to 1 aget Cock-a-doodle-doo (oaken)
1000 to 45 aget Ke pie (aaken)
40 to 1 agst Ancient Briton (taken)
1000 even on Ditto agst Cook a-doodle•doo (taken)

A PROPERTY TAX.-A HINT TO THE
NEW CHANCELLOR.

(Prom the Belfast Mercantile Journal.)

In a late number we repeated an opinion fre-
quen enunciated by us previously, that, although
the present income tax could not be defended,
owing to the unjust principles upon which it is
based, we were strongly in favour of the extension
the system of direct taxation, fairly levied upon
property and income.
It is quite evident that, with a large deficiency
in the revenue staring the Chancellor in the face,
he cannot abolish or materially reduce this tax,
unless he creates one in its place, equally pro-
duetive ; and we are, therefore, the more anxious
that, in making any alteration, he may begin at
the foundation, and construct an entirely new and
more efficient machinery.
The present tax is so inquisitorial add trouble-
some, that it would be a singular circumstance,
and out of the nature of things, were i; in any re-
spect popular ; and the minister who has the
courage to blot it from the statute-book altogether
will secure a firm place in the estimation of the
public. We now propose to consider some of the
errors in that system, and make a few remarks
upon the general principle of direct taxation.
The tax presses most severely upen the middle
classes of society, who a' e, in fact, the bone and
sinew of the kingdom, as no economy can save
the pocket of the man whose income is not under
100/, per annum ; and it is on this that the dis-
advantage of direct taxation is chiefly apparent,
as compared with indirect. It may be said, in-
deed, that the limitation by which small incomes
are free is most just ; but still it exhibits very
glaring defects. For example, a salary of 1001.
per annum is now liable to contribute 21. 18s. 4d ,
but a salary of 99/. is free ; so that it is the inte-
rest of employed persons to request, in many
cases, to have their salaries lowered in amount,
unless, indeed, as takes place in banks, railways,
a od y
e all other
on opeomrtsaenlvtes
offices, the em-
pthereby
increasing their own contribution to the public
revenue. Again, in the case of an income of
herimputbhleic payment,
1001. this single sum of 20s. over 991. brings the
entire amount under taxation, which is a great
hardship, as is even the tax paid on 2001. or larger
sum, for in this case the same principle applies.
A very simple remedy for overcoming this diffi-
culty has already been suggested by us on a former
occasion, which might be worthy of consideration.
It is this :—Not to comelicate the business by an
exception, which renders eves on almost inevitable,
and almost, in some cases, requires the party, in
his own defence, to take some means of reducing
his income ; but to deduct from every income,
largo or small, the amount of 100/.
It is evident that this would remedy the difficulty,
and in the case of a very large number of persons,
avoid the excessive annoyance of seeking repay-
ments in those cases where the annual sum
is derived from stock of any kind. It is only
necess try to inqu re at any railway office, Town
Hall, or at the Harbour Office, to understand how
much rime is lost, an t what an amount of incon-
venience is caused, often to a class of persons—
ladies, for exaurple—to whom it is most irksome.
Certificates are sometimes lost, the postman de-
livers the letter to a wrong party ; or if two or
more ladies of the same name
happen to have
claims, it, is most difficult to ascertain which has
been paid and which not. Indeed, we know of a
case where a mother and daughter of the same
Christian names, and living in the same house, who
bad each the same sum to receive back, which
caused an amount of confusion (not owing to any
fault on the part of the officials, but to the system)
that required the intervention of a legal adviser,
' and a correspondent: extending to not less than a
quire of paper !
It may be said, why free a rich man from the tax
on a single hundred pounds ? Simply because it
imps eves the entire system • and, if these small
deductions are felt iu reduced revenues, it is easy
to add some. hing to the rate which must fall on
those best able to pay—which, indeed, is, atter all,
the moat equitable principle. There is neither jus-
tice nor equity in taxing the poor man with only
10:1/. a-year as heavily as the Marquis of West-
minster wi.h his 400,000/. a-year. Th© lauded
property of every country ought to be regarded as
the basis of its wealth and strength as a nation ;
and the yearly market value of the produce of that
property should always form the groundwork for
taxation.

The following gentlemen were sworn on the grand
jury :

Mr. Edward Greenaway, 38, Biabopegate-street
Witbin, foreman.

Mr. Jas. Henry Jackson, 12, Friday-street.
Mr. Thos. Devas, 63, Cannon-street, W.
Mr. Wm. Webb, 98, Bishopsgate Within.
Mr. James Bartram, 75, Holborn.
Mr. Wm. White, jun., 73, Watling-street.
Mr. Sam. Hallam, 30, Bishopsgate Within.
Mr. Win. Blackman, 101,_ Bishopsgate Within.
Mr. J. A. Pinkies, Little Distaff-lane.
Mr. Thos. Fox, 93, Bishopegate Within
Mr. Robert T. Pocklington, Old Fish-street.
Mr. Arch. Hunter, 59, Cannon-street, W.
Mr. Henry Law Hancock, 61, Bishopsgate Within.
Mr. Stephen Dean, 65, Bishopsgate Within.
Mr. Francis F. Tyae, Watling-street.
Mr. Gen. Peachey, 73, Bishopsgate Within
Mr. Skelton, 84, Bishopsgate Within
Mr. G. W. Acton, Farringdon-street.
Mr. Jobn Scott, 58, Cannon-street.
Mr. Robert Lloyd, 69, Holborn.
Mr. Henry Harmer, Farringdon-street.
Mr. Fred. W. Floyd, 55, Bishopsgate Within.
Mr. Thomas Sherland, 69, Bishopsgate Within.
The jury having been sworn, Lord Campbell was
about to charge them, when

The Foreman said that ope of the jurymen had been
sworn in the wrong name. He had been sworn as
" Tynan instead of "Tyars."

Lord CAinpbell directed the alteration, and Mr. Tyara
rtes re II worn.

THE CHARGE.

Lord Campbell then read the following charge to the
grand jury :
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,—ln now addressing
yoe, it will only be necessary for me briefly to explain
to you the occasion of your being summoned here to-
day, and the daty you will have to perform. The ordi-
nary tribunals of the country cannot take cognizance of
the off !.P.CC m►nti med in her Majesty's special commis.
sion, which you have just heard r.:a 1. An Act of Par-
liament creates this offeno-, and pre.mribes the opecitio
mode in which the offence is to be prosecuted. By
statute 9 George IV. et. 31, section 7, it is enacted
"That, if any of his Majesty's subjects shall be
charged in England with any murder or manslaugh-
ter, or with being an accessory More the fact .to any
murder, or after the fact to any murder or manslaughter,
the same being respectively committed on land out of the
United Kingdom, whether within the King's dominions
or without, it shall be lawful for any Justice of the
Peace of the county or place where the person so charged
shall be, to take cognizance of the offence so coarged,
and to proceed therein as if the same had been committed
within the limits of his ordinary jurisdiction ; and if any
person so charged shall be committed for trial or admitted
to bail to ens Ner such a charge, a Commission of Oyer
and Terminer, under the Great Seal, shall be directed
to such persons, and into such county or place, as shall
be appointed by the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper,
or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, for the speedy
of any such offender ; and such persons shall have
full power to enquire of, hear and determine, all such
offences within the county or place limited in their com-
mission, by such good and lawful men of the said county
or place as shall be returned before them for that pur-
pose, in the s ►me manner as if the offenoes had
been actually committed in the said county or place."
It is alleged, oa the part of the prosecution, that Simon
Bernard, an alien by birth, while voluntarily residing
ie this country, and enjoying the protection of our
lawa,—owing, tkeref.sre, a temporary allegiance to the
crown of England, and for certain purposes being one
of the Queen's subjects, has been guilty of an offence
against this Act of Parliament, by being " an accessory
before the fact to a murder commit tad on land out of
the United Kingdom." Gentlemen, it appears from the
depositions which lie before me (and it is now matter o:
history) that in the evening of the 14th of January
last a most atrocious attempt was made to assassinate
the Emperor of the French Was he as going to
the Opera at Pans, accompanied by his august consort ;
—that the explosion of hand grenades was resorted to
for this purpose ; that providentiatly the Emperor and
Empress escaped unhurt ; but that (as might have been
expected) some bye.standers were kited on the spot and
others received severe wounds of which they died in a
few days. The question of fact, gentlemen, which you
will have to consider will be, whether the evidence which
will be laid before you is sufficient to show prima facie

What a world of misconception and of malignant
passion,. says a cotemporary, would be saved were
taxes laid ostensibly, as well as virtually, upon the
owners of realise,i property. What a practical
reconciliation it would effect between the wealthier
and the poorer classes, were taxes universally re-
moved from the necessaries of life and universally
laid co as t) affect only questionable luxuries. As
the late Dr. ehalmers said, "What a death-blow
would thus be inflicted ou the vocation of dema-
gogues ! What a sweetening influence it would
dissipated, through which the high and the low
have on British society, alter the false medium was
We understand that the value of property of all
kinds, in the United Kingdian, has been estimated
by the most experienced statiAts at no lessthan five
thousand millions sterling (5,000,000,0001.) An
average tax of only one per cent. on this amount
millions sterling, or more than
would every article imported,
Ifroooumullddduld pbtre required
yo,duce wi
thfiofut t
tyhaoving recourse to the objection-
able system of taxing the productions of a man's
brains and sinews, as is done at present.

that Bernard while residing in England WAS an accom-
plice in this plot to assassinate the Emperor of the
French I If he was such accomplice, and if, supposing
that the detestable object of the conspirators bad been
fatally accomplished, he would have been accessory to
thatmurder, he is equallyaccessory to the murders which
were committed, as they wore a probable consequenc e
of the murderous deed which he had expressly sanctioned.
Now, gentlemen, the depositions clearly show that,
whether Bernard was privy to it or not, a wicked plot
had been formed in the end of the year 1857 by certain

ftr his resuming duty
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RETURN OF LIEUT.-COL. ALISON FRoli INDIA.—It is
g
with deep regret we hear that Lieutenant-Colonel Alison,
Military Secretary to Sir Colin Catnotei
" His name," says the
amiable private rwe
woundsit
tuhr nthteo Commandert
havinghi sc oburnotkrey
inoo.ntoi stbi leEir leave,
again
a
writer of the letter containing this information, which
one who, both from
reached town on Monday, " will long be cherished by
and
athat
no:
qua-
lities, has endeared himself to all."— Glemgow Bulletin.
his
his
umnadnayufur
tie. friends
gallantry,i o lndia
Mrs. Seymour, of the Haymarket and St. James's
Theatre opened the Theatre Royal, Yarmouth, on
Monday last, with the comedy of " Masks and Faces"
with every prospect of success. We are glad to see
that the aristocracy of the neighbourhood have acknow-
ledged the talents of the respected performers by their
support, and also by expressing a wish that she should
prolong her stay another week. Buckstone's farce of
the " Kiss in the Dark," introduced a very clever
comedian, Mr. llurls'oo®, who was ably supported by
Miss Bulwer, a most fa cinating actress.—Mr. Shaldus,
of the Olympic, has also established himself a great
favourite.
The new Boulevard has cut through the following
streets and places of old Paris, many of which have an
historical celebrity :-..-The rues Pierre Is Poisson, Saiat-
Germain-l'Auxerrols, Perrin-Gasselin, de la Vannerie,
Saint-. Jerome, de la Tuerie, de la Vieille-Pannerie, de la
Vieille-Monnaie, des Lombards, des Trois Meares, de la
Reynie, Aubry-le-Boucher,; Is cone Batave, impasse de
Venise ; rue Saint-Magioire; passage Beaufort ; rues
Salle au Comte, aux Ours, Blurg-l'Abte, Neuve-Boure
l'Abt 6, du Petit-Hurleur, du Grand-Hurleur ; passages
Sauchde, Bourg. lAbb6, de l'Ancre ; rue Greretat, im-
passe GrereStat, tour des Bleu., enclos de la Priuit4,
passage Basfour, du Ponceau, de la Longue-All 6, ; rues
Guerin-Boisseau, da Ponceau, de Tracy, Neuve-Saint-
Denis et Sainte-Apolliae. Along a great part of the
Bouleuard de Sebastopol handsome regular houses have
been erected, but there is yet a great deal of building to
be done,

foreigners, who had fennd an asylum in England, to
assassinate the Emperor of the French by the explosion
of gunpowder. The two chief conspirators were Felix
Orsini and Joseph Pierri. They procured the grenades
to be manufactured in England, and to be carried first
to Bru,sels and afterwards to Paris. At Paris, ac•
companied by Antonio Gomez, a servant of Pierri,
and by another foreigner, named De Rudio, who
was hired in London, to assist them in their enterprise.
Orsini and Pierri, armed with the grenades and with re-
volvers sent to them from England, actually did make
the attempt by throwing the grenades, and causing them
to explode, as the Emperor was about to alight from
his carriage. Bernard was not present ; he was still in
England, and there is not in the depositions any direct,
positive evidence to prove that he was aware of the
purpose to which the grenades were to be applied. But
the depositions do disclose serious facts which, till con-
tradicted or explained, may lead to the presumption
that he was an accomplice. A. few of the most
prominent of these I will mention to you. Re-
siding in London, and being very intimate with

Orsini, Bernard was instrumental in causing the
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grenades to be manufactured, and in November, 1857,
he on 'two occasions purchaied materials from which the

fulminating powder, for the explosion of grenades, ii
compOunded. When the grenades were completed, in
Deoember, be induced the keeper of the Ca& Suisse, in
London, to carry them secretly to Brussels, on the re
presentation that they were connected with a new inven-
tion for the making of Igas. In the end of December,
when the grenades had been carried over to &woelle,
Bernard went thither himself, and there he met Piaui,
and likewise Orsini, who was passing unde shed name of
Allsopp, and whom be appears to hue a in ob.

taining a false passport which enabled him to do so. At
Brussels Bernard remained seine days, till, with his
privity, the grenades were delivered to a waiter of an
hotel, to be carried to Paris, and Orsini left
Brussels for Paris in the same train as the
waiter. Bernard then returned to London, and,
according to the depositions, was very active in induc-
ing de Rudio, who was then in a state of great destitu-
tion and misery, to go over to Paris that be might there
put himself under the orders of Orsini. Bernard I re-
cured a passport for de Radio in the name of de Silva,
and when de Rudio bad gone over to Paris he supplied
small sums of money to de Rudio's wife, and sent her
into the country, making use of mysterious language as
how she was to conduct herself if the should read any-
thing in the newspapers about her husband. It further
appears that, to facilitate Orsini's personation of Allsop
at Paris, Bernard, in December, wrote several letters to
one Outrequin, a commission agent at Paris, and ad-
vised Outreqein of the cansignment of a package contain-
ing revolvers, which, in fact, hail been purchased by Pierri
in England, and were to be delivered to Orsini in Paris.
The last fact stated in the depositions with which I will
trouble you is, that, on the 2d of Jan., 1858, Bernard
himself brought the package containing the revolvers to
the office of the South Eastern Railway, in Regent Circus,
directed to "Monsieur Outrequin, 277, Rue St. Denis,
Paris," making use of language which, although it may
indicate the knowledge of some plot against the existing
government in France, yet if spoken seriously and sin-
cerely repels the notion that Bernard was then aware
thit this plot contemplated the assassination of the
Emperor. Gentlemen, having beard and considered
all the evidence which will be laid before you on the
part of the prosecution, you must form your own
opinion as to its sufficiency to justify the prima
facie inference of complicity, or guilty knowledge
of the plot, en the part of the accused. That he should
really have believed (as he allege)) that the grenades
were connected with a new discovery in the making of
gas, I must say seems to me exceedingly improbable.
But he might by possibility suppose that they were
only to be used in some military onterprise ; although,
looking to the small nurnbe- of the grenades (not ex-
ceeding five), and the whole history of them, with
which Bernard was well acquainted, you may think
that he had more reason to believe that they were
instruments of assansination than munitions of war.
But unless the evidence, unanswered, does in your
judgment make out against Bernard a prima facie
case of complicity in the plot against the life of the
Emper )r, I think that you ought to return the indict-
ment which will be laid before you "not a trus bill ;"
and this will put an end to all further proceedings under
the c immiesion. But if the evidence does in your
jedgment make out a prima facie case of complicity,
I would advise you to find "a true bill," so that the
trial may proceed. Such complicity may be sufficient
to make the accused an acce,s ry before the feet to
the murders which, in the event, were comm:tted ;
although the deaths of the individuals who were kihe I
were not in the contemplation of the a.eused when be
became a party to the plot. It is laid down in our
books, that " an accessory before the fact is he who,
being absent at the time of the offence committed dotli
yet procure, counsel, command, or abet another to
commit a felony ; and it seems that those whe by hire,
command, counsel, or conspiracy, and those who by
-bowing an express liking, approbation, or assent to an-
other's felonious design of committing a felony, abet and
encourage him to commit it, but are so far absent when
be actually commits it, that he could not be encouraged
by the hopes i.f any immediate help or assistance from
them, are accesseries before the face" As to the objec-
tion that Bernard could have had no intention, that
those who were kil'ed by the torelosiou of the grenades
should be put to death, it may be observed that such a
question can only erise when the principal does not act in
strict conformity with the plans and instructions of the
accessory. But here, if Bernard was privy to the plot,
Or. itii, Pierri, Gomez, and de Rudi n in throwing the
grenadts as they did, must be considered as having
acted strictly in conformity with his plans and instruc-
tions, and he is answerable as accessory for the conse-
quences. It is even laid down that " where the
principal goes beyond the terms of the s, licitati in, yet
if, in the event, the felony committed was a probable
caceequence of what e-as ordered or advised, the
person giving such orders or ad,ice will be an accessory
to that felony. As if A. advise Bto rob C, and in
robbing him B kills hiss, either upon resistance made
' or to conceal the fact ; or if A solicit B to turn the house
of C, and B does it accordingly, and the flames taking
holt of the house of D, that likewise is burnt: in
these cases A ie acc,s,ory to B both in the murder
of C and in the burning of the house of D—
the events though possibly falling out beyond his
original intention, were, in the ordinary course of
things, the probable consequences of what B did under
the influence and at the instigation of A." The ap-
proved test is, " Was the event alleged to be the crime
to which the accused is charged to be accessory a
prob tble consequence of the act which he counselled ?"
You can have no difficulty, gentlemen, in applying these
authorities to the circumstances of the present case.
Gentlemen, it may be proper that I should mention to
you that an Act of Parliament passed since 9 Gee. IY.,
viz., 11 and 12 Vic., c. 45, after reciting that it is
expedient to make further provision for the more
ellecietel pro:secutien of aceessories before the fact to
felony, and that it is exsed.est that any accessory
before the fact to felony should I e liable to be
indicted, tried, convicted, and punished in all
resp,..c•,s like the ptincipal, as is now the case in trea-
son and in all unideineenours, enacts, that "if any
person shall bee one an • accessory before the fact
to any felony, such person may be indicted, tried,
e cnvicted, and punished in all respects as if he were
a principal felon." Tnerefore, perhaps the indict-
ment submitted to you may contain counts charging
Bernard as a principal ; but still the question of fact
for your consideration will be whether the evidence
shows prima facie that he was an accornpl:ce
in the assassination plot ? If you find the in•
dictneent a true bill the accused will have au ample
opportunity of making his defence both on the facts and
on the law uf the case. lie may be able to contradict
or discredit the witnesses fur the prosecution, and to
show that he was entirely innocent of any evil inten-
tion, or, at all events, that be had not the guilty •
knowledge of a plot to assas-inate the Emperor of the
French. Even it this fact were found aeain,t him, it
will be open to his counsel to argue that he cannot in
point of law bo properly convicted according to the Acts
of Perliament upon which this prosecution rests. I ab-
stain for the press t from giving auy opinion on any
question of law which can be deemed doubtful. What-
ever questions of law may be raised during the trial
will be most deliberately considered, and I trust satis-
factorily d eposed of. There are four Judges of her
Majesty's superior Courts appointed to preside, and
they will all be present, although two of them
i are 'till engaged on their circuits. Further, lam
happy to say that we have a power, either before or
after sentence, of taking the opinion of all the 15 judges
upon any doubtful question of law which may arise during
the trial. The accused not being a native•born subject,
there must be an extraordinary anxiety in all quarters
than, be may have a fair and impartial trial. But if
it should turn out that, enjoying an asylum in this
kingdom, he has violated those laws which are
equally binding on foreigners residing in this
country as upon native-born subjects, and that
becoming an accomplice in a plot against the life of the
sovereign of a neighbouring country, the ally of our
Queen, he has committed an offence for which a native-
born subject would be liable to punishment, we are
required not only by what is due to foreign nations, but
by what is due to the equal administration of justice in
our own land, to take care that he may not escape with
impunity.
Toe jury then withdrew.
Lord Campbell said that if the grand jury returned a
true bill, it was proposed to commence the trial on
Monday morning, when all the learned judges named in
the Commission would be present. As the trial would
in all probability last several days, he took that oppor-
tunity of expressing a hope that pending the proceed-
ings the public press would abstain faun dis-
cussing the evidence. It was advisable a full and
faithful account of the proceedings should be laid
before the public, because, as he bad observed on a
former occasion, it was extending indefinitely the area
of the court, and giving all the advantage of being, as
it were, present at the trial. Discussing the evidence
as the trial proceeded was likely to prove disadvanta-
geous to the accused, and cause justice to be obstructed.
Tneir lordships then withdrew, and the ordinary busi-
ness of the sessions was proceeded with.