"5, CROMWELL HOUSES, S. W., Nov. 20, 1874. "SIR, I am directed by the Lord Chancellor to inform you that his Lordship has had his attention called to the consecutive numbers of a newspaper styled the Englishman, and professing to be edited by you under your style as one of her Majesty's counsel. The Lord Chancellor finds in this publication a series of libellous attacks on her Majesty's judges and private individuals, and also a succession of systematic charges of bias, venality, and corruption against the persons connected, whether as judges, jury, counsel, or otherwise, in a recent prosecution of The Queen v. Castro, all tending and apparently intended to lower the dignity of the bench, and to degrade and discredit the administration of justice. The Lord Chancellor cannot think that any person, while holding the rank and enjoying the distinction of one of her Majesty's counsel, should be permitted to use his position for the purpose of circulating and lending an apparent weight to attacks and charges of this description, and he will feel it to be his duty, if the statement that you are the editor of the paper is correct, to recommend the removal of your name from the list of Queen's Counsel. I am, therefore, to request that you will have the goodness to inform the Lord Chancellor before Monday next whether the statement that you are the editor of the paper is correct; and in the event of your not thinking it right to give the Lord Chancellor this information, he will assume that the published notice of your name as editor is accurate. I am, sir, your obedient servant, HENRY J. L. GRAHAM, Principal Secretary." To this communication Dr. Kenealy had replied that the Lord Chancellor had no right as a judge to assume any thing against a man whom he has put upon his defence. He dissents from the idea that his Lordship possesses any right to ask him whether he prints or publishes any thing. What was his Lordship going upon? A printer puts his name upon a paper; he is too lazy, eccentric, or wayward (or any thing) to contradict it. His Lordship, acting officially as Lord Chancellor, chooses to perform a great judicial act upon that assumption. Such a proceeding was an infringement of Dr. Kenealy's rights, as he was at liberty to publish what he pleased. He did so under legal liability and control. He protested against his Lordship entering into the inquiry at all. It was monstrous that a Lord Chancellor could take a one-sided view of the case. His Lordship had placed himself in a wrong position, and he was sorry for it. He took his defence upon the broad principle that his Lordship was acting without evidence, that every thing in the Englishman must be taken to be true until proved false, and that his Lordship, as a judge and dealing with him officially, was not authorized to pronounce any opinion upon it. That our readers may understand the character of the articles referred to in the Lord Chancellor's letter, we subjoin some extracts taken from the Englishman, which bears on its first page, under the heading, the words in large type," Edited by Dr. Kenealy, Q.C." SCENE. DIALOGUES IN HIGH LIFE. — No. 3. Carlton House Terrace. Time, 1873. Mr. Ge in his dressing-gown and slippers. On his desk a Roman missal, a few French photographs, and a copy of Peter Den's "De Theologia." Mr. G- ―e (sighing). What a fool I was to allow the Coleridges to lead me into this maze of difficulties! What a goose I was to listen to the priests! Had I not enough on my hands without this abominable Tichborne affair? I wish I were well out of it. Fred. Peel tells me it will dish us at the general election. Methinks already I can smell the coming thunder. If we convict him, we are ruined, for no one thinks he is having a fair trial. If he is acquitted, we are undone, for he will stalk, like hundred-handed Briareus, through the length and breadth of the land to denounce us. Yet it seems safer to convict him; so convicted he shall be, that's flat. Heigho! heigho! Thus one crime perpetually leads to another, till in the end Well! I am in for it, I suppose. I would give all my existence that remains if I had been true to my first principles, and never joined the priests. The whole country seems mad upon this Tichborne subject, and Cockey is, without a doubt, overdoing the whole thing. He ought to have maintained, at all events, a semblance of impartiality; a show of justice. He could have potted his man quite as well, and given no chance to people to talk as they do. [Rings a bell.] Mr. Ge. Brand! Enter BRAND. Brand. Yes, your honor! here, your honor! Mr. Ge. Is the A-p come? Brand. Yes, your honor; his Grace is waiting, your honor. Mr. Ge. Scamp! You should have told me; show him in. [Exit BRAND, bowing. Mr. Ge. These Holloway's pills do me no good. Stomach, liver, and bowels - all these they profess to set right; but I am as downcast as a gibbed cat. They have not restored my appetite, or lessened the unpleasant distention of the abdomen. Here they go. [Flings a pill-box out of the window.] I wish, instead of sending Wy to Holloway, the judges had given him a dose of these. They would have equally punished him, and done me less harm with the public. Shall I have a try at Morison or Cockle's antibilious, or the Balm of Columbia? I feel sure I can't get on without something. Perhaps Wolseley may bring me a dose from Coomassie that will set me right, though the war itself is all wrong. All this derangement has been brought about by my weakness in yielding to the entreaties of these women. I wish Lady Froth were at the other side of Styx before I listened to her; and I think I shall never again speak to the Countess of Carnality. [Sings.] Corrumpit viros foemina illos, hos- En oculi fraudant! blandula cûm nos Aspicit, cordi et crumence nocet. Hanc propter omnis fraus et scelus fit; Venus et Themis est venalis heu ! Nunquam ni empta intra brachia it.* Enter ARCHBISHOP. Mr. Ge. Ah! my dear lord; how do you do? Archbishop. Well; very well, my honored friend, whom I do esteem so much beyond all others of his kind. But you do not look quite well to-day. * Does Mr. G―e claim the authorship of this song? We think we have read the original of it before, in a certain work called The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay, Esq. In that work it is sung by Mr. Filch: "Tis woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts; Mr. Ge. No-no, Edward. I am ill at ease. I fear we shall lose this case; the fellow seems likely to get off. Archbishop. Impossible. Have we not and and on the jury? Their wives are all right; their sweethearts are all right; and as the wives and mistresses are, so will the husbands be. Besides, we have other and greater powers, you know who I mean. Mr. G—e. I think I can guess. We must do something for their sons and relatives. How many sons has ? Archbishop. Nineteen sons, and ten of them are at the bar. Mr. Ge. So many county court judgeships gone. Well, it can't be helped. Archbishop. Certainly. But why disturb yourself so much about trifles? Where is your philosophy? Where is your-your-your brandy and water? Bear in mind the motto of one of my physicians (I forget whether it is Holt or Haden), who, having recently set up a carriage and a coat of arms, stuck under it the words, "Patients is a virtue." Mr. Ge. Ha! ha! I am glad to see you in such spirits. This continues ad nauseam. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Last evening the Countess of Carnality and the Right Hon. Mr. Swindle-thePublic entertained a select party at dinner. Among the company present were Lord Forgery, Sir A. Cockburn, Mr. Justice Mellor, Mr. Justice Lush, Mr. Justice Brett, Mr. Justice Blackburn, Baron Nicholson, Professor Holloway, Mr. Justice Quain, Hon. Capt. Kisbreech, M.P., Mr. Scuttle-the-Ships, M.P., Mr. Toady, Q.C., Mr. Tufthunt, Q.C., Mr. Levey, of the Telegraph, Mr. Johnstone, of the Standard, Mr. Moy Thomas, of the Daily News, Inspector Denning, the Governor of Millbank, Mr. F. Cockburn, Mrs. Mina Jury, Sir John Lickspittle, Bart., M.P., Mr. Brogden, M.P., The Queen's Jester, Mr. Whicher, Captain Oates, the Right Hon. Mr. Yellowplush, Mr. Tom Taylor, and Mr. Orr, of the False Britain, Dr. Brooks, of Chicago, so well known in the fashionable female world, and the renowned Madame Stoffer. Her Ladyship received a large party at a later period in the evening, among whom were numbers of M.P.'s: Sir John Rascality, M.P., Mr. Brass, M.P., Mr. Devils'dust, M.P., Mr. Bribery, M.P., Mr. Double-face, M.P., Mr. Turncoat, M.P., Mr. Earwig, M.P., Mr. Base, M.P., Mr. Liar, M.P., Mr. Atheist, M.P., Mr. O'Hoolahan, M.P., Mr. Mac-Sycophant, M.P., &c., &c. The band of "The Devil's Own" played several appropriate airs. Mr. Swindle-the-Public will soon be raised to the peerage. These are specimens of what the paper is filled with, and has been filled with for months. It is as incomprehensible as it is indecent that such a publication should have been tolerated so long. It is singular that a man who, even when insane, can write, or assume the responsibility for, such ribaldry, should ever have attained the distinction which Dr. Kenealy appears to have enjoyed before he undertook the defence of the claimant. CONVICTION OF A COUNTY Court Judge. The following incident, the report of which we take from the Oswestry Advertiser, has excited very general attention in England. We will not follow the example of our English friends and give it as illustrating the character of the English bench, but are content to regard Mr. Williams as an exceptional case. On Tuesday, Mr. R. V. Williams, county court judge, and a magistrate, was summoned before the magistrates of Rhyl, by Edward Powell, a car-driver, for an assault. The defendant was in court before any of the other magistrates arrived, and, on seeing the complainant enter, said to the police, "Is that the man?" On being informed that he was, the defendant went on to say, I sentence you to seven days' imprisonment in the gaol at Mold. You interrupted me when I was coming to this court, and by act of Parliament I have the power to send you to gaol without any evidence or any inquiry whatever. But I will tell you the story: I came here with a very spirited horse, and I was close to the curbstone, on the right side of the road, and you were coming on the wrong side. I called upon you to go on, and you told me to go on instead.” Powell. No; nothing of the sort. Mr. Vaughan Williams. You utter the grossest falsehood. After calling to you, I merely touched you lightly on the shoulder with the whip, which I had a perfect right to do, or to use any force necessary to remove you; but I merely touched you lightly with my whip to make you go on, and you have had the audacity to issue a summons against me. The clerk (Mr. George) remarked that the proceedings were entirely irregular, as the chairman had not arrived. Mr. Vaughan Williams. Who are you? I will not submit to this. If you open your mouth in this matter again, I will send you, in company with this man, to Mold to gaol. Who is the chairman of this bench? The Clerk. Sir Piers Mostyn, Bart. Mr. Vaughan Williams. Well, I wish he was here to snub you. Some of the magistrates having by this time arrived, the clerk said he would leave his case in the hands of the magistrates. Mr. Vaughan Williams, pointing to Powell, then said: Take this man to gaol; and I must now ask that this summons, which has been most improperly issued by one magistrate against another without due inquiry, I must ask that it be struck out, and every sign of it obliterated from the books of this court. -- The magistrates then agreed to go on with the business of the court; and, in the absence of the chairman, Mr. T. G. Dixon took the chair. Edward Powell said that on Friday, 21st August, he was driving along the street, by the Mostyn Arms, on his own side, and Mr. Williams shouted at him to get out of the way, and then gave him a severe blow over the face with bis whip, and made a wound upon his nose, which bled very much at the time. A police-officer gave corroborative evidence. Mr. Vaughan Williams's defence was substantially the same as the statement he had previously made. After a short consultation with the other magistrates, the chairman said the case was a very painful one; but they considered that the assault had been committed, and, looking at the position of the gentleman who committed it, they felt bound to inflict the highest penalty, £5 and costs. Mr. Williams. I shall appeal to a higher power. The Chairman. We shall have great pleasure in granting you a case. The Clerk. Unfortunately you have not the power; there is no appeal. Mr. V. Williams. Then I shall not pay. The Chairman. In default there will be fourteen days' imprisonment. Mr. Williams then walked out of the court by a private door, followed by a policeofficer, by the instruction of the inspector. The decision of the bench was received with cheers, which were soon suppressed. To complete the history of the case, we may add that Mr. Williams paid his fine, and was not imprisoned; but the unfortunate Powell actually served the sentence of seven days' imprisonment imposed on him by his assailant, notwithstanding the proceeding was entirely irregular. An indignation meeting of citizens not unnaturally followed, where it was resolved that an address asking for the removal of Mr. Williams be presented to the Lord Chancellor ; and subsequently Mr. Williams resigned. We are willing to believe with his friends that his conduct is excused by a disordered intellect, caused by ill health. We do not find, however, any external evidence of mental disorder on the part of the magistrates who figure in the following paragraph, clipped from the Pall Mall Gazette: A child of seven years of age, who was brought before the mayor and ex-mayor of Chipping Norton, charged with damaging a lock, value sixpence, was sent to prison for two days, failing to pay a fine of 10s. 6d. damages and costs. Indeed, we may be pardoned for doubting whether such occurrences as the above are so uncommon as we would fain believe, when we find in our carefully edited contemporary, the Solicitor's Journal, such words as the following, which could not have been written unless the county court judges now on the bench were not all that our contemporary would desire :— No fewer than three county court judgeships are vacant. We trust we shall not be considered presumptuous if we venture to express a hope that in the new appointments careful regard will be paid to the moral as well as intellectual qualities which go to make up the judicial character. The Sheffield Telegraph reports SINGULAR MAGISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS. that at the Derby Brewster Sessions, the granting of a license was adjourned for a very singular reason. Mr. Isaac Dibben, of the Royal Standard, had been convicted of an infringement of the law, and his offence was discovered by the police climbing over a wall at the back of his premises. Resolved that the police should not catch him napping in a similar way, he has since then got the wall well spiked on the top. The bench, considering this a defiance of legal authority, adjourned the granting of the license to the 30th instant, and intimated that it would not be renewed unless by that time the spikes were removed from the wall. NUISANCE. STEAM WHISTLE. A grave difficulty has arisen in the construction of one of the provisions which our paternal legislature has recently devised for the comfort of the subjects of this realm. By 35 & 36 Vict. c. 61, it is enacted that no person shall use or employ a steam-whistle or steamtrumpet, for the purpose of summoning or dismissing workmen, without the sanction of the sanitary anthority, and power is given to the Local Government Board, on the representation of any person prejudicially affected by such sanction, to revoke the same. It appears from the annual report of the board, just issued, that they have successfully interfered in one case where sanction had been given by a local authority to the use of a steam-whistle. But in another case, "where many whistles were complained of," the question arose whether the complainant could be considered as prejudicially affected by any |