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be deemed a trust not for their own . benAt,
but for the good of the people, and therefore the '
trust necessarily involves a subjection to the
means the best! calculated to ensure that end.
Among these are, unquestionably, the proper
developement of the moral and intellectual cha•
ratter of the youths, on whose principles and •
intellect arc to depend the welfare of the nation.
This is an intelligible view of the matter. We
have no objection to see Peers marked out as
chosen vessels, on which any crack or flaw shall
be held to bar them from the exercise of their
parental rights. An inquisitorial power into
their conduct might have the effect. of purging
them from most of the vices which so often stain
the character of ordinary men ; and !when we
have once compelled them to be virtuous, their
example would operate on their children in se-
cola secutoi-unz. At present it unfortunately
happens, that the Peers consider their elevation
!in a very improper point of view—that they deem
it rather as a title to exemption from the rules
of virtue and propriety, than as a bar to the in-
dulgence in vice ; and accordingly the decision
in the last resort is entrusted to the most profli-
b-
fiate men, taken as a body, in the whole corn-
Munity. As the case will soon be before them,
we trust some virtuous Member will avail him-
self of the hints we have - thrown out. With
respect to the other House of Parliament, the
nation, has in some cases, and ought to have in
all, the power of. sitting in judgment on their
characters before their return, so that the nation
is freed from all anxiety as to the means for in-
suring their perfection by cultivation. We have
no doubt, therefore, that the House of Peers
will at once 'see the necessity for placing them
under a more strict surveillance than the Mem-
bers of the other House.—Morning Chronicle.
An account will be found in another part of
our Paper of the trial of Slade, at Huntingdon,
for the murder ofthe Rev. Mr.Waterbouse. A con-
viction on more slender evidence has seldom been
recorded. We do not think it necessary to make
any protestations of respect for Jury Trial, for
we are, perhaps, like all our countrymen, rather
apt to sin on the side of admiration of its bene-
fits. But Jurors are men of like passions with
others; they have often decided in ignorance—
often in error ; and, notwithstanding the London
;University and the Bible Society, we rather think
that they will continue to do so, occasionally, for
some time to come. In the case of Slade, it
does not strike us that it is possible to form two
judgments of their conduct. We do not so much
allude to the verdict being at variance with the di-
rection of the Judge (for Judges and Juries may
differ without blame), but. it was utterly at variance
;with the whole evidence, as vt e find it reported. The
only circumstances which made in any respect
against Slade, were the blood spot on the trowsers,
the bill-hook, and the foot-marks. The.spot on
.the trousers was instantly and satisfactorily ac-
.counted for ; the hair, as it was called, on the
bill, was thought to be the hair of a sheep's
head, and the foot-marks were indifferently
proved, and would have areued nothing had
they been clearly proved. There was, in' fact,
nothing but the evidence, of Heddings to con-
nect Slade with the foul deed ; and how did

that evidence connect him ? Why, by his own
pretended confession, which he, on his trial, so-
lemnly denied, and which, so far as circumstan-0
tial evidence could do, was distinctly negatived
by others. Indeed, what credit was due, eve►
to the uneontradicted testimony of such a man,
confined on a capital charge, of which he was
to be freed on condition of giving evidence. We
suspect the escape of Sheen has occasioned the
conviction of Slade. The Jury, no doubt,
thought that society would be overturned if -an-
other murder were permitted to pass without a
victim. We rdcollect heating a story of a Jury,
some years ago, which this trial brought very
forcibly to our mind. There had been a great
number of petty robberies in 'a county in the
North of Scotland, and the parties charged with
them had, one after another, got clear. At
length, one fellow was caught, against
whom it was thought a tolerable case had
been made out. The Jury retired, and having
chosen a respectable country gentleman, a
Baronet, to be their Chancellor, as the Scotch
term the Foreman, they proceeded to deliberate.
The charge fortunately was not a hanging one.
The Baronet, who had been bred a lawyer, as

was usual with almost all the Scotch gentry
about 60 or 70 years ago, stated his opinion of
the evidence, and showed very clearly its utter
insufficiency to convict the prisoner. He al-
lowed he might be guilty, and, perhaps was ; but
there was nothing in the proof that brought
home the facts to him. When the Baronet had
finished, another Juror rose and addressed his
brethren—" It is true," said he, " there is no,
perhaps, just evidence of the man's being fairly
guilty, but there has been a hantle of thieving
for this some time past, and we must make an
example, Sir John." In Scotland, as in France,
from which the practice was, we believe, bor-
rowed, criminal Juries decide by a majority, and
it is almost unnecessary to say which way, after
such a cogent argument, the majority went. The
man was convicted with one dissentient voice,
and banished from Scotland—no great hardship
perhaps. So in Slade's case, the Jury seem to
have thought, that there having been a gttat
many crimes of violence of late, though the evi-
dence was not exactly'strong enough, yet it was
necessary to make an example.—Nero Times.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DI A RY.--FRIDAT,

Commissioners,
Clark, J., Holles-street, Ca-

—venaish-square
Cotsworth, T. jun., Cam

AUGUST 3.—....(At the Court of
lasinghall-street.)
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berwell
Dickenson, R., Little Gros-
venor-street ' 11
Fear nley, C., Crutched
Friars l2
Godden, M., Cleveland-st.,
Fitzroy-square ,ll

Johnson and Davis, Vaux-
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COUNTRY DIARY.—FRIDAY, Auo. 2.
Probert, J.,Crickhowell—Ram, Gloucester
Schofield, ~ Wardlesworth—White's, Manchester
Stocker, T. jun., Devonport—Elliott's, Devonport
Wardell, G., Liverpool—George, Liverpool 1
Wilcock, R., Lancaster—King's Arms, Lancaster
Williams, W., Norwich _Rampant Horse, Norwich 4
Woodcock, W., Preston—Messrs. Pilkington, Preston ll
AUGUST 4.
Barnes, J., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury ll
Bridge, 0., Marple—White Lion, Stockport
Eveleigb, J., Manchester—Star, Manchester 2
Hague, J., Ashton—White Bear, Manchester '

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Rothenburg, F., Soho
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Stapleton, T., Stepney
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