, 1869-10-05

men only. There rere four Judges On the bench,
three luryefs IN The defenee, and tfseeu jor1men
Ia the rox-a majority to make a verdict. Mem.
bsty Of Sir Robert Peels family testified to Hum
phreyA' high character, and then the ae*en dn3s'
t1tsl beFan; to tie intense intereAt and excite
rept Of Ill Scotland md the sr1Btocfaitc world Of
Kpglisnne1.
Tou have not tho space, and the subject u not
now entitled, IN = pewrpAper, to the consideration
which wppld permit ma to follow out tho 1stJ-
rtn,ns Of this er1dencet wherein BY e1pezts,
Frepch and Engllsb, the signatures Of ps4ests Hen
Fenelqn and kirgs like Charles L, The dA1ea OF
extinct Colonial msps. the leaves Of alleged old
Bibles. Inscriptions on alleged c1un,hled tomb
s,opes. 1ettesa half consumed BY tine, pafthmenA
Ass.nseiy nj deatroyed o1 ,oonostoa, save sotoo
except, bearing solelJ upon the pE!soncrh right
all tpese thtugs you may nnd related, u yoa think
this alt,c,e Of donpuul credit, In Townsend a Mod
erp Ssata Trial, In abe second volume Of Samuel
Wstrenn Judicial Mtlcellsuiee, and In Archibald
S7.uton report Of this ttlA1, ltsued At EdlnhuHn
the geaT OF ia occurrence The Earl Of Stirling ssw
the fAbrc Of u,s canse woroed through and through
by pfacucul punlIc1sts and Exceptional men OF
minnie hchotarsbip up1n datea, douotA, &nd p1u-
cles Of Gecunst1ocep, I'll tho whole edlnce faLl
around him; srd JET, uore wonderful aiili, while
fraud upon fraud aud tcrgery upon forgery lsy
revealed In the ruin, he hsmsef siood slont AID
Untouched, nos mite Of evidence connecting han,
with any episode OF the crime, however sllgnt.
The plccess Ike that OF packing, tint BY tint
and Inch By inch, some perfect dream from the
awakening eiunberef, the deluson not al DESTROY.
81 TIL the last gostamer veil Ia Withdrawn; aud
then III terrible lhape the Esra OF lestcrdal saw
IN himself the possible convict Of to-mo1EoT.
II WAS not 60 With the Jury. They con
s1Iue,ed tue suppesitton which haze Already
etated--that The Seapolitan wife Of Alexander
{s, nth NAfRNnA II
Morn and--sle D. D. Home, the Cagltosteo, the
wtzard.demon Of that perod-hAd given the 1st
ter the family circumstances out of which L.
Sormsnd, 1,y neanA Of her large literary aequalnt
snce and her tulentt, had put together the 11tst
cate block Of 1his 1arRtIous puzzle.
The jurY returned, nltcr nse housA' coustdela
ton, ard upan.u DUSTY found that tNo sets ol pa
p.rs we're IorIe1!es: that the tHo ether se:s 0
rartrs we're Lot proven 70 be fofgeries: and tha
in neither case was The priaoner at the bar provel
TO have utlersd acJ Of them knowing it to b.
toEged.
The p1isoueE sxooned, Oh hearing the verdict
and vas garfield out OF the court iuArnsihie
TIE rAR1s or sT1NLISa IN WASHINGTON.
THIS verdict mnst hare Eeitled the fate o
Madame lie Sormand, II she had anything to d
with the fortunes Of this case-Ana the clatnan
swose to hasipg borrowed %oo,U0e francs Of her
Tor at the time Of the u.al she was aged 10.
In 1919 Lord Ashbutt0n came to Atoer1ca Il
| conclude the treaty ~ TO our Canadian bouuda
| nes. aud then, for the first time, the people o
| Warrington heard OF the Eari Of Stirling, He hat
come To say, 1lrmlI bu1 coorteously, TO the Aneri
cal Government thai they ought 10 buy his rtgh
In buying his land; ior The personal trial he hs.
passed established nothing against the legal valid
ity Of his title. lie was still the hereditary Lieu
tenant Of New Brunswick, Canads, and Nova SEQ
| Tia, and he de,neanet, himself As worthy Of hi
rank. II he obtained no money hero he ootaiue
rr4pect. His children passed into the civil eesvsc
| Of the Cnlted States, md a1e Ten known as ates
l and lmplacable AdVoca-e e Of theiF cause. Hes
they hare Hted; here Is still their home, unit
Britain u kinder; and no British sovereign hold
more cr1nly to his shield with the motto Of I" Die
It mon Drott, than the chtlden Of Alexander Alex
ander, sixth Esri Of Surfing. Working In thes gov
eruneut clerkships at Two thousand dollars JeAI
| GATH.