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London, England, 1842-08-27 00:00:00

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character was described- in what the learned
counsel most properly called 4 a voice, from the
grave of ' hi; master' (Lord Hertford's will), as
being that of ' a most excellent man.' There could
be no doubt of the excellence of his character."
We wish ws could disbelieve our eyes When we
see such a panegyric on such services proceeding from
the Englisa• Bench, which we have been ,accustomed
to look up to as the stern defender of morality. Such
has never hitherto been the language of .English
Judges—such, it may be, would not have been the
language of Lord Abinger had he been dealing with
the private history of a less distinguished profligate
—such, . certainly, is not the spirit of the 'English
law. If Lord Hertford had given to Suisse or Bore],
previous to these services, ' which Lord Abinger
eulogises, a bond specified to be in consideration 'of
their expected performance, the law would '•haVe
denounced that bond, as founded on a corrupt con-
L'Aideration, immoral and void; yet the grave ex-
ponent of that law pronounces it the master's
duty to remunerate has " invaluable servant" fbr
his " valuable services," without a word calculated
to discredit their propriety, or to show that they
are not the usual and understood 'offices of an
English. nobleman's steward. ".Valuable" they
are—if everything be valuable that can be valued in
money—that has its price :—so we might speak of
the characters of those -concerned as "'estimable,"
because they could he estimated, and that right
easily. But valuable they are not, and valuable no
English Judge should dare to call them, while that
word- means, as it does meant() the ear of any plain
littan, worthy of thanks and gratitude front the mise-
rable man who demands and receives them. It r.ety
be told us, in answer -to this, that it:, was
.not the
business of the Judge to pronounce on the character
of the whole disgraceful exposure, butonly to direct
the Jury in their investigation of an alleged robbery.
This is but half true; it is -often a duty of judges—
and one which they often perform—to prOnounce, -or
at least to. indicate, their opinion on the transactions
which pass before them, over and above their. judicial
sentence. But were it entirely true, Lord Abinger
has not kept silence—he passed an eulogy: "• Excel-
lent" and " invaluable' are terms of no ordinary
praise ; and these are the expressions which Lord
'Abinger has applied, quite unmodified, to Lord Hert-
ford's agent. • ,
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And then the piece of pathos— -" The yoke from
the grave -of his master," which proclaimed • him "a
most excellent man." As if it were from Paradise
that this old man, to whom it is neither pleasing nor
necessary to apply any epithet, breathed . forth his
panegyric on the minister of what are called his plea-
sures. For this expression it seems Mr. Thesiger is re-
sponsible. And certainly, how a respectable and
high-spirited man, as we believe Mr. Thesiger
to be, could allow his imagination, or his supposed
'duty to his client, to brmq such a figure as this
out of his mouth, we confess ourselves unable to
understand. Something, of course, is to be allowed to
the advocate. He is paid to get off his client, and Is
hound to labour heartily for that object. Still there
are different ways of doing this. There are limits to
what an honourable man will say or do- even in this
cause. Professional etiquette itself is not absolutely
unscrupulous. Professional etiquette itself, we shoUld
have hoped, would have shrunk from dethanding such
a prostitution of good words. Mere good taste might
have preserved him from an appeal so miserably'rhete-
rical to a class of thoughts demanding,•at least in the
present instance, to be regarded with no ordinary awe
and seriousness. There it stands, however, and the
Indge, who has none of the excuses of the advocate,
has thought fit to select it for approval as 'a "most
proper" expression of tisk state of the case. With the
words of a counsel, ichscreet—nay, inexcusable as
we might, have thought. them, we shoUld not have
thought it necessary to meddle). but when authority
itself assumes such a tone as the newspaper reports
impute to Lord Abinger, it becomes the,duty-uf those
interested in public morality to protest firmly and
warmly against such a perversion of judicial bower;
and, whether it proceed from easiness of disposition,
from laxity of principle, from deference to rank and
connexion, or from mere carelessness, to 'arraign that
Judge for treason to his own high office who. 'shrinks
front maintaining—nay, who actively betrays—the
noble prerogatives which the custom of tagland.
commits to him as guardian, not only of life and pro-
perty, but of public honour, decency, and.morality.—
Times.

CHARTIST MEETING. .
A meeting was called, by public notice, for yester-
day evening, at six o'clock, in Sloane-Sqqaz,. Chel-
sea, for the purpose of discussing the pi spies of
the Charter. Some time before the hour appointed
for the meeting, a number of policemen were placed
in and near the square, in order to prevent the assenr:
Ming of any persons. By six o'clock a number of
persons had assembled in the middle of the square,
and the police proceeded to disperse them, which they
easily did. The crowd again assembled, accompanied
by an immense number of children. The orators
did not now even appear, and the police did not
again attempt to clear the square. The crowd con-
tinued to increase, but still there was no appearance
of anything like business. At nine o'clock; the time
at which our reporter left, the square was quite full
of people, and a number of policemen were about the
avenues leading to the square. There was -no indica-
tiOn of any breach of the peace whatever.

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY.
(From the Literary Gazette.)
The American journals are always full of .Weries
like the following. The editors, in remote andlmost
uninhabited regions, have often little of general neiws
and none of local interest, and are therefore, obliged
to fill up with such wit as they can remember from
old Joe, or invent such specimens as these :--
PRECOCIUd GENIUS.—" Bible-dictionary class, come
up," said our schoolmaster. " Who was -Let's wife ?"
"The pillow of salt what Moses laid • his head on
when he went up to Mount Sinai to offer his son
Isaac up, coz he had on sheep but himself to do Other-
wise." " What is said about Jonah ?" " Jonah swal-
lowed a big fish, and was found the third day asleep
with a passe) of James river leaf in his mouth, which
he gave to the Queen of Sheba for mending trou-
sers, which he bursted in strainin' to get out of the
lion's den, where Daniel had been eatin' mincepie and
13randredi's pills."
." Go up to head."
A LONG CAN'T.--A traveller, among narrations of
wonders of foreign parts, declared he knew a cane a
mile long. The company looked incredulous, and
it Was quite evident they were not prepared to swallow
it, even if it should have been a sugar-cane. " Pray,
what kind of a cane was it ? " asked a gentleman
sneeringly. " it.was a hurri-cane," replied the traveller.
BRINGING UP.—" I say," said a wag to a tall
youth, whose appearance will be readily understood
—"I say, didn't there an almight great tree stand
in front of your father's house ? ' " Why ? " in-
quired the Jonathan. "Because," said the other,
"you looked so thundering green, I reckoned you
must have been brought up in the shade." - •