The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

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of specific ects. On the 25th of August Mr. Kam
made a speech, in which vindictive feelings showed tl
FPIVPS : he showed. on the 25th of September, at a dir

that they had not subsided. The extraordinary scenes of
the 27th showed that his mind was in a state Of morbid
sensibility on the subject of his own importance, and the
dignity of his court, and' the dignity of his office ; and,
connected with that, even a placard (surely a very inno-
cent one, containing only a few words with reference to

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himself) excited him to such an extent that an unfortu-
nate hillstieker was first brought in, and had his papers
tumbled about. How far this was consistent with the

_nsive having been found upon the billsticker,
a message was sent for Mr. Whitty. All those proceed-
ings exhibiting temper, and all those statements mani-
festing an undue assumption of authority, showed that, in
the language of the memorial, his temper was not under
sufficient control for the purpose of his situation. On

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that Saturday six persons were fined for contempt of
court. They then came to the proceedings of the Mon-
day. In the course of the day Sir George Stephen made
some remarks which attracted the attention of the judge,
and received the commendations of the persons who were
in the court ; and on the authority of the bailiffs they had
it there was not a single person who did not give utterance
to those expressions ; for they said they all cheered, and
they all did it. All this showed the state of feeling which

his unfortunate conduct had provoKea. 1t lrlr. ltainsutty
believed the two persons (Mr. Caldwell and Mr. Brown)
had committed an offence, surely the man who was in the
more respectable situation of life ought to have been

punished equally with the other. His respectability aug-
mented the character of the offence. Mr. Ramshay did
not so treat it. Mr. Caldwell, the respectable man, was
the person to whom leniency was shown. Mr. Brown,
the tailor, was sent to prison. There was another circum-
stance on that day, which it was exceedingly painful to
contemplate, and strongly marked the morbid state of
Mr. Ramshay's opinion. An unfortunate man placed his
hat on his head in an ante-room. It was not considered that
persons in that room were in the presence of Mr. Ram-
shay, ordinarily so considered. Yet for this grave offence,
the debtor, with only a shilling in his pocket, and who
had just been cast in an action, was kept in custody for
some time, sent to a distant prison, and with only the fe-
mainina portion of the shilling in his pocket, had to

walk all the way back to Liverpool. Such a punish-
ment was inflicted, although nothing could have been

syllable of diSrespect was used. The speech delivered at
the termination of the case of Mr. John Whitty contained
such strong manifestations of those infirmities charged in
the memorial, that if that alone were stated before his
lordship., unless attributable to some temporary cause, they
would be sufficient to make out a case. The inquiry was
an important one, not only as respected the interests of
Mr. RamshEiv. but as resnected the interests of society—