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charged the jury in terms Whi
damnation of the prisoner. In sue.. :ses
lluenco of the presiding judge cannot. well` ov. -
rated, and Lord Campbell performed his part with
a temper which disarmed offence, with a discretion
which was seldom at fault, and with a zeal which
never flagged. He tilled this high office with in-
creasing reputation, and even more general accept-
ance, until Lord Palmerston succeeded to power an
1859, when the Biographer of the Lora-Cha33cellors
was himself appointed to the.Weolsack; .111 any may
-have expected that a Judge so long practised in the
administration of the Queen's Bench would have
felt at a loss in the House of Lords or the Court of
Chancery ; but we believe we speak the opinion not
only of the Bar, but of all his colleagues of the
Bench, when we state our belief that his judgments
maintain their authority, and that Lord Camp-
,. '.77+ none of the fame as Lord Chancellor which
..e lo,d most justly acquired as Lord Chief Justice.
—limes.

(From the Morning Herald)
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lavishly betowed upon him. After having risen
throughout the various grades of the Bar to the
dignity of Lord Chief Just ice of England, and finally
t:, the office of Lord Chancellor, the author of the
" Lives of the Chancellors" is numbered with the
illustrious dead whOSe memory he has perpetuated.
The close of such a life leaves, indeed, little cause
for regret beyond the immediate circle of his lord-
ship's friends and acquaintances. All that could
be hoped for he had achieved. He has died rich in
the respect of h:s countrymen, of all classts and
politics, and he has added another to the long list
of British worthies who, by their integrity and in-
dustry, have risen to the highest honours of the
State and inscribed their names in the nation's
temple of fame. There are those living who can
recollect Lord Chancellor Campbell a reporter for
the Morning Chronicle; they have seen him selected
by the Premier, within the last two years, for the
highest post which the Sovereign can bestow. He
has died, in fact, in harness, preserving to the last
his great intellectual powers undimmed, and main-
taining to the last the old unflinching firmness and
decision of character which illustrated his earlier
career. There have been many occasions on which
we have been compelled to take opposite views, and
animadvert upon the strong political tendencies of
the late Lord Campbell. But we have never failed
to render justice to his great talents .and his own
unswerving integrity. We willingly pay this last
tribute of respect to the departed nobleman.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGO W BANK
WISE.

About two months ago a jury trial, lasting seven
days, took place at Edinburgh before the Lord
Justice Clerk, in which the Rev. David Debbie, Free
Church minister of Makerstown, Roxburghshire,
prosecuted Sir William Johnston and Mr. G. E.
Russell, directors of the late Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Bank, for repayment of £3,211, paid by him
for certain shares of the bank which he purchased
in February and March, 1858; the ground of action
being alleged false and fraudulent representations
on the part of the defenders in making, along with
the other directors, a report to the shareholders on
the 4th of February, 1858. The trial ended in the
jury finding that the representations were false, but
not fraudulent, and proposing that the verdict
should be returned for the pursuer. The presiding
j idge stated that the verdict must be given for the
defenders unless fraud as well as falsehood were
affirmed, but some of the jury declined to give a
verdict for the defenders. The judge then offered to
take down the terms of their findings, and leave it to
the Court legally to construe them, to which the jury
assented. While the judge was receiving the ver-
dict the court-room was quite empty, for, after
three hours' enclosure, the jury had come in and
stated that they were disagreed. By Scotch statute,
after three hours, a verdict of three-fburths (nine)
of the jury may in a civil case be taken, but the
jury were more equally divided, and the judge re-
, manded them to sit for three hours more, by which
time the statute would allow them to be discharged,
if they were still unable to give a verdict. The
judge having appointed the jury to meet him at his
residence at the expiry of that period, the large
assemblage in the court-room immediately dismissed,
and his lordship was on the point of leaving the
robing-room, when he received a message from the
jury that they were likely immediately to give a
verdict. His lordship waited a short time longer,
and the proceedings above stated took place in the
absence of parties, the pursuer's counsel only coming
in at the last moment. In the circumstance the
pursuer resolved to apply to the Court for a new
trial, and his case was strengthened by an affidavit
signed by the foreman and nine others of die jury,
to the effect that they meant the verdict to he a
verdict for the pursuer, and but for their expec-
tation that the Court would so apply it they
would have gone back and altered their verdict,
or allowed discharge to take place. The judges
of the Second Division gave judgment on the mo-
tion for a new trial on Wednesday last. Lord Wood,
in a lengthened and elaborate opinion, pointed out
that the jury had practically exhausted the issue
in finding falsehood, but not fraud; that their at-
tempt to have the verdict entered for the pursuer
was going beyond their province, which was simply
to pronounce on the facts, and that, fraud having
been negatived, the verdict must be entered for the
defenders. As to the absence of pursuer's counsel
at the delivery of the verdict, the pursuer, he thought,
had suffered no detriment, for the jury had shown
no hesitation in negativing fraud ; and, with regard
to the affidavit, he was unable to understand how
the jury could conscientiously have given a simple
verdict for the pursuer with their opinion that fraud
was not proved, or could honestly have allowed a
discharge to take place when their minds were made
up upon the facts. Lords Cowan and Benholme
and the Lord Justice Clerk concurred, expressing
their belief that the jury had acted under the
erroneous impression that it was their duty to decide
mulowtniuuthfeuru law as the case. The.
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A letter from Vienna in the .Nord says :—" The
magnates and the young men at Pesth had proposed to give
a banquet and a serenade by torchlight to Mr. Dunlop, the
Secretary to the British Legation, but the latter requested
the originators of the fete not to carry their intentions into
effect, as it might be attended with unpleasant consequences
to him."

THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES.—An estimate
was published yesterday, showing the several civil services
for which further votes on account are required for the year
ending March, 1862. For the Treasury £lO,OOO is required
in this way. For the Foreign Department, £16,000. For the
Board of Trade, £15,000. For the Printing and Stationery
Offices, the whole estimate for which is £416,218, of which
£lOO,OOO has been already voted on account, an additional
£50,000 is inw required. For criminal prosecutions in
England £20,000 is wanted out of a whole vote of
£167,000. For county courts, £BO,OOO, in addition to
£lO,OOO already given, out of £200,320. For metropolitan
police, £35,000, out of £136,204. For the Irish constabu-
lary, £25,000 is required, in addition to £160,000 already
given, out of £696,974. For education in Great Britain
£60,000, in addition to £lOO,OOO out of £803,794. For edu-
cation in Ireland, £70,000. We have only mentioned a few
of the items in a long list. Most of those that remain, how
ever, are of comparative small amount. The total amount
of the money now required on account is £811,300.
THE RAPIDS OF THE SHANNON.—The opening
of the Limerick and Castle Connell Railway affords the
readiest means of reaching
the rapids of the
versa, besides the opportunity of viewing
oe to which place the
Galway from Limerick, or vice
Shannon, and the ruins of
the new lino is
railway is to be extended.
country fertile and pleasingly
fourteen miles, through a .
length of
undulating. but without
any claims to picturesqueness.
Castle•
Castle Connell is a little village,deriving its name from
Tlihiell
royal OBriens, erected at
an old castle of the r ' a very early
period. The ruins stand on a conical rock overhanging
the river,
and areapproached by a broad gravel path,
leading TIP from the village. They consist of the lower'
part of a tower, and some broken walls, overgrown with
are all the
These ivy.remains of the castle in which the
descendants of the renowned Brian Boru once lived, and
in which his grandson was murdered by the Prince of
Thomond. Nothing remains of the halls in which the
Earl of Ulster once held his court, nothing of the keep in
which the Irish partisans of James 11. held out against
the Prince of Hesse, by whose orders it was det3troyed
with gunpowder, large masses of masonry.scatterod about
at testing the force of the explosion. The Shannon is hero
for more than a quarter of a mile almost a cataract,. -present-
ing a scene unparalleled in the United Kingdom. Inglis,
than whom there can be no more coinvtent jt of
scenery, thus states in what its uniqueness consis is :—lt
is only in the streams and rivulets of England thaw t rapids
are found; the larger.ivers generally glide smoothly on
without impediment from rocks—the Thames,. Trent,
Mersey, and Severn, whenthey lose the character of; streams
and become rivers, hold a noiseless course, but ti pe Shan-
non, larger than all the four, here pours that imm else body
of water, which above the rapids is 40 feet the' r and 300
yards wide, through and over stones and rocks, •I which ex-
tend nearly half a mile, and offers not only at a unusual
scene, but a spectacle approaching much neat or to the
sublime than any moderate-sized stream can c ifD 3r in its
highest cascade. None of the Welsh waterfalls , * nor even
the Geisbach in Switzerland, can compare for a, m .oraent in
grandeur and effect with the rapids of the Shar ,nor L. Willis
compares the scene to the rapids of the St. I ,ayei 'mice, and
the most recentliterary touristin Ireland, Dr.. I aodenburgh,
was much impressed by its wild grandeuri. —Stir Cusack
.ROney'S Xonth in Ireland."