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° . . { } . ; r is ne ( hal no desire that his old friend should suppose him so igno-| ly as when he was called Leovardus, which was his nue. | cust Mrs. Tray was not so anxious that we should buy her fruit, |) my dear aun

rant in so simple a matter as wen or no weh. “ [ have no doubt,” said uncle Andover, when we left the (as to hear my unele say a few pleasant words to her, aud to house, ” that the doctor was wouderme sud wondering ab sut | chat over the news of ihe day. this wen, just for talk’s sake, before we went in ; and so his | steps, smoking his pipe. He Was a poor, wie, fechug anxious, and for want of svmething better to | fellow, blind of one eye, and did scarcely anyt say, blundered on the wen. Are ydu satisfied bow, Leo 2” | supporting the household.

a ked the good old bachelor. ; Good morning, Mrs. Tr Everything that wealth and taste could combsine was con-) you like the railroad. tered in and around ¢he house ef Mr. Frazer, s manufacturer ! through your garden, dida’t they He was still in “Why, yes, thanks to you, bachelor Andover, I remember the prime of life, although he had « daughter married, | that, full forty years ago, you told we, then a young girl, whose first baby was now on a Visit % fis house. Nothing, | and you but a few years older, that— But may be you are was too good Tor the child anil ty mother, and | one of those who do not like to speak ot their age ; not that

Mrs. Renshaw revelled if*unalioyed haypMess. Weudmired} you are so very old, bachelor Andover.” and wondered at the child’s precovity und beauty, till even | “- aur turned of sixty, Mrs. Tray; 50 do not fear that the mother was satisfied, and we were wondering what we! you will hurt my feelings by classing me among the old. should say next, when Mr. Frazer came in from the office. | low curious it is, Leo, that people have an aversion to be After liearing all our praises over age, and getting our thought old, as if it were disgraceful. Your good husband opinion of his daughter's looks, he cast a cross glance at his| ts looking well, too, Mrs. Tray. Ile smokes still I see. wife, and said, “ My dear, I came near breaking my weck! “ Yes, Peter is quite well at present ; but 1 was telling over the child’s wagon in the entry; how could you let it} him as you came along this way, that he had better come in stand there «Oh, father,” said the daughter, “ it @as| doors and smoke, as sitting in the san, with bis head leaning my fault; it was I that left it theve.” His face cleared up| against the cold brick wall, would bring on his old head- in an instant ; for,as my unele afterwards observed, it makes [ ache,” a Vast difference whether the injury oppositich® or yexation,{ A fierce look from the old brute stopped her at once. Ile comes from a wife or daughter. But with this branch bf bscourged her with the only eye he had, ; the question I hate nothing to do at "present. {um now} We both laughed heartily, when out of hearing. only speaking of a married man’s eye. | ‘You see,” said my uneie, “that it rans through all The pext visit was to Mr. Graylove, Ne clergyman. J ranks and degrees; and if every one would keep a look-out, thought Ars wife could not be afraid of dogs, for there were} as you and I have done to-day, the married man’s eye would no less than four lying about, Over one of fem my uncle! be seen in every house. It is a common thing that it is stambled, as he entered the parlor ; but instead of apologising never noticed. It is looked upow as part of the Inarriage tv him, Mr. Graylove east a reproachful look at his poor wife, | ceremony, or rather as having been engrafted upon a manu in “T told Mrs. Graylove,” suid he, witi another glance, ; consequence ot the ceremony, ; “that if she persisted in driving old Carlo from the hearth. | “ Yes, L shall now be forever watching the married man’s | rug, he would take to the door-rug ; and now she sees 1 was} eye; but just for fun's sake, if you are not too tired, let us)

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aoe ee ee, ee ——— Well, the short of the story is, that after a little coaxing, | indeed, against anybody ,—it deals in generalities, Suspicions,

and unele consented to our marriage and it} and the recital of hearsay stories—which, according to the \so happened that a few months after, as [ was walking ome? Judvo’s opinion, were, for the most part, entirely irteleyan, th my lovely companiou ou my arm, and my eal unworthy of sation.

nik ' good reason to believe that the defendant, or some one on his

where we had encountered them befgre. Instead ‘of Aer | behalf, bas had gome act or part in the selection of the jurors bonnet it was Ais hat that was kuocked off by the branch, | named. The Judge dignifies this assumption or presumption { dare say the same branch of the wild plaua.—But his toue by the name of ‘a charge”? against the defendant, which it ig was alttred fow, said ought to have been answered. Now, we must differ with

“Tz ‘ome this way,” said be, looking fiercely at)” his a oa bow obra at ore head; * you ae al- | his Honor, and apiece the belief # the plaintiff to be ways doing something or other to make me look ridiculous. no charge at on. i credible and enperonend poapenety had Your own foolish hat was dragged from your own foolish | offered their testimony in support of the belief, it would, per. head in this very spot.” “Do you hear?” said my uncle. “ T do,” said I. “ Did yOu see the look he gave her ?” “To be sure L did; and how meekly she bore it.” T : oe “Flora, my love, how you swing about ” said J, net} falsehood is an offspring of the former’s deceased or prurient ‘thinking that it was my attention to Davison’s manoeuvres fancy ? This would be ridiculous and childish trifling. ‘The ‘that prevented her as heeping ~ path. nao gaze on | Judg these people so,” suid I, casting the married eye on poor; (.. . ” all wg Le ove! who was only following my example. My uncle was saa Roeed of carina tt wee Politiead lenkcet al a little in advance of us, and turned his head in time to | defendant’s side, was a matter which the defendant could have catch the look, ; j no difficulty in rebutting, if their political character wag not «Leo, write this all down,” said bachelor Andover, “ for | correctly described.”’

It is true that Maclean sa jancle at her side—for he became very fond of her—we Y8 he hag

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_baps, haye assumed sufficient importance to warrant an answer. But because Mr. Maclean chooses to believe any ab. _surdity or falsehood respecting Mr. Whelan, is it ne

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the good of the female sex.” Suppose the defendant knew nothing about the “ San « [ will,” said I, looking abashed ; « Flora, dearest ! for- S politica!

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—_—~ eee | rural districts, and, refmoved from the influence of the town, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E.1., JULY 28, 1856. | would be most likely to give an impartial yerdict. But if a

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reason of his political principles, where are we going to find q

right.” “Ob, never mind,” said my uncle, mildly ; “no harnt is done ; only that Carlo has chosen a very ineonvenicnt place

of rest; for he must be continually disturbed by the opening |

and shutting of the door.”

« Yes, but the door opens outward, as you see,” said Mrs, Graylove ; * and people generally see him, and so step over him, if he is too lazy to get up, as he was to-day. If 1 had my way, dogs should never come in the parlor; they area perfect nuisance, and | tell Mr. Graylove—”

The eye quelled her. ‘ What!” said I, “is ft always thus? Js the married eye always ready to reproach ?

Our last visit was to a very aged couple, Timothy Wiater, and his wife. six, affluent aud respectable. On this od thirty-six children, grand-children, great granc -children, and | iwo little twin boys, his great-great grand-children. It was | their aged relative’s birth day. ‘‘ Surely,” said J, * this man | has seourged his eye oat by this time.” “ Look out fos his | eye ?” said uncle Andover.

All seemed to hover about the old man, ond I kept! wondering why the same fuss was not kept up with the old} lady too. Very little notice was taken of her. There she/ sat, in a corner by herself, smiling and nodding, and looking | so happy—poor thing !—but to my eyes she did not seem to} belong to the people around her. She wa$ a delicate, lady- like looking woman, with a mild expression, and of quiet manners; while the whole brood were needy, care-worn, sinister-looking people ; rough aud uneducated. Even the) father, although of coarse exterior, had a cast of superiority. | We often see this in families, and there is no accounting for it.

The only one that at all resembled the old lady, was the | mother of the little twin boys, who died of a broken heart from ill-usage. Her husband was a brate, and broke his} neck in a horse-race just one month after his wife’s death. | ‘The children were taken home to their paternal grandmother, aud this as I have said was their first visit. With that placid smile on her face, old Mrs. Winter was the only one in the group who felt a pang at the loss of the children's mother ; aud yet, lived at a great distance from her, she had never been seen by the aged people.

No oue, as [ observed, paid much attention to old Mrs. Winter; yet what had she not endured for them allt In some shape or other, her assistance, her feelings were in constaut requisition. ‘To every oue of the rough, angainly- looking people, she had more than acted a mother’s part ; aod yet they showed more respect to old Timothy, who had never voluntarily, my anele said, done them one kind act. Young as L was, I had seen this before in ceveral fumilics. ‘The descendants make a greater ado with the old grandfather.

«Stand aside, Sally dear,” said the aged woman, * and let me have anether look at the dear little boys. Alas for their poor dear mother ! What are their names did, you

»y? Henry and George? Well, they are vagy pretty names, bat I wonder that one of them was not called Timothy.”

Old Timothy had some such feeling to his own mind, for most old people have this passion of wishing theiv name to descend to their grand-children, ®t the name be ever so

ugly. But if it was a mark of respect fo give the child bis name, so it was 4 mark of disrespect or indifference to

neglect doing it. To make this neglect apparent to others, was offensive to old Timothy ; se he cast his eye wrathfally toward his wife: ‘ Nonsense !” said this old man of cighty- ‘ix. He meant that this look fram his ¢ye should have reached her, but it failed, for it f_Jl on my uncle. Timothy was almost blind, yet he did his best.

« And yet,” said uncle Andover, afier we left the house, “the old man was always thought to be a kind husband.”

« But why,” said I, sorely puzzled, “ why is it that all hover around the old man? I have observed it to be the case everywhere.”

“Why?” said he; “why because men, to the last, hold the purse-strings, my son; and because all their children, grand, great-grand and great-great-grand-children, down to such little ones as the twins we haye just left, have seen the man’s eye quell their mother—the- mother of all; he, that suffered for them, that nursed them throv®h many a des- perate illness; she that has toiled for them dp to the cightieth year and has for ever interceded for thenf, when the old mao was churlish. The workings of that old man’s eye —-of every man’s eye—has made her and old women what they are, poor de=pised ereatures; so that to be called ‘an old woman,’ is the most degrading epithet that_can be applied. But their time is coming; their day is opening, Lev; and those little twin brothers will vot say ‘ Nonsense ! aod cvst a fierce ylance at their wives, when they, tender- hearted to the last, are anxious that their husband’s name

should be kept green and fresh ia the minds of their de-_

seendants. Yes, my son, the moment a wan marries, his eye begins to scourge his wife; but many are new beginning ie ask why this must be.”

“Jo be sure, my dear uncle,” said I, “a man must often say aud do foolish things, and aften act contrary to his wile’s judgment. He must, therefore, be as liable to the fierce glanee of the eye, as she is. The only wonderful thing about it is, that any man who tenderly loves his wife, ean lee his eye fall on her as if she were his enemy.” “ No Flora,” said I, “ never shall this eye reprove thine 7”) Uncle Andover looked up and smiled,

At the head of the broad street we stopped to buy au orange of old Mrs. Tray. She was Waiting for us, and seeping herself ia sight, that she might say a few words to rood bachelor Andover, a name by which be always weut,

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| go down into this oyster-cellar, and sce what kind of an eye jold Cato hase 1 hear the pan going; his wife his frying | oysters.” “His eye will work, too, depend upon it!” said my uncle, | with a smile; “he will quell her—he will quell ber ?” But no such thing. ‘To our amazement his eye never hot an angry glance atthe poor, heated, tired woman, doing her best, as nine wives out of ten always do. My dear | uncle was quite “put out” about it, for he was loth to admit (that the rule did not hold good with all men. We stayed | ‘half an hour seated, on a clean bench near the door-way, chatting with the old man and woman, who in the time dis- pensed two panfuls of oysters, nicely fried, to their customers. My uncle, as I thought, made several efforts to provoke a

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Tue decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Maclean us. Whelan has at length appeared in the columns of the plain- tiffs journal, and from the delay in its publication we have every reason to conclude that this remarkable legal decision was duly transmitted to New London to receive the worthy

the public,’’ by Maclean, in a tone of the most injured inno- cence, appears in the same paper with the decision, alluding pointedly to parts of it, although it is well known Maclean was not in town when the decision was pronounced.

The judgment of the Court may be divided into two paris L told him that I suspected that he was playing false; but | —the explanatory and the declaratory. The first sets out by he denied it, though he said if the glance could be obtained, it would not signify whether it was provoked or whether it came naturally. Lt was the proneness to make use of the eye—the authority of the married mau’s eye—that he re- belled against,

But no uulucky word or deed from old Dinah had an effect upov her husband’s dim, bieared eyes. My uncle now “set in to talk,” first to Cato and then to Dinah, who was now preparing a third pan of oysters.

| will show you Cato’s eye yet,” said my uncle.

“ [ doubt it,” I replied.

“ Tlow many children have you, Cato? I uscd to see three or four playing about you, a year or two ago, and now I only see the little girl who carried out the oysters.”

« We have vine, massa Andover, and all doing pretty, well

rebutting at great length the opinion of the Defendant’s counsel, as to the absence of any power in the Court to chal- lenge the array in special jury panels. The Court contends that it possesses this power, and several quotations are made from various law authorities to show that it has been exercised. We are not prepared to question the authorities quoted—they may be all right enough, so far as they go, and we have no doubt that a person of a good legal education could put his hands upon just as many authorities to sustain an opposite opinion — for such is the ductile nature of Bench law that it

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may be easily made to yield to any side of a question.

unschooled in the sublime mysteries and cobweb wisdom of the

ceptin Clarissay, who lost her husband, poor ting! So I C | ws : ‘ ; urts— thatthe Legislature should incur the trouble and the told my Divah to let her and de children come home. Dat inc Te ae Pe h

country the expense of passing a positive enactment to regu-

little girl is her oldest girl.” : a: : , late the empanelling of juries, and to nominate a particular

«This come very hard upon you, Cato. sister to look into it.”

Tanky. massa, tanky ; but it is not for me to complain ; oaly Dinah, my poor woman, L tell her she will fry her eyes out. I have nothing todo but to, still half de time and open oysters; but tank God we have a great run, massa ; and Dinah, nobody can please de customer so well as she, massa. Den, when Lhave taken out de shells, L does nothing {but go about and ’muse myself in de garden, or lean over \de wagons, and get tings cheap. But it comes very bard ‘upon my poor woman dere ;” and Cato cast a tender, humane glance at his wife, who, having just finished her oysters, wag turning them into a plate.

My uncle looked at me from the corner of his eye, to see if I had observed the old man’s. « T saw it,” said I, “ it was a glance worth a guinea.”

| Ina moment Dinah stood before us with a tray, ov which were two plates, each containing six of the largest and finest oysters L ever saw. A little table was placed between us, }on which were a snow-while cloth, bread, pickles, mustard, pepper aud salt. She turned aside to look at Cato; but ob, what a delighted eye the affectionate husband cast on her! He fairly rubbed his hands with joy at this mark of attention to us.

“ Dat’s it, Dinah, dat’s it; now why didn’t L tink of dis,

1 must tell my, officer for that purpose, if the law can be rendered perfectly useless by an order of the Court. But this, we presume, is a part of the power and influence of the Bench, to which the

judges will no doubt most tenaciously cling.

The second or declaratory part of the decision is to the effect, that as neither the Defendant nor Under Sheriff put in an affidavit in answer to the allegations contained in Maclean’s deposition, those allegations must be regarded as unanswerable ~~ that the Under Sheriff showed partiality in selecting the jury panel, and that in the absence of any such counter afli- dayit the array must be quashed. The learned Judge quoted, as in the first case, several authorities in support of this de- cision, which were to the effect, that an affidavit on one side being unanswered on the other, entitled it to implicit belief —no matter what motives and objects influenced the party in making the affidavit. This may be law—Bench law—or one particular aspect of Bench law—but we doubt very much of ils being even-handed justice. will suppose a cuse :

Admitting this principle, we A reckiess and euprincipled man brings a grievous charge against an unoffending person, and swears

too? But she is always beforehand wid me, massa bachelor | to that charge. ‘The person assailed may consider the calumny Andover. I tink women are always cuter dan men in such | so gross and unfounded, and the accuser a man ef such

tings ; but, when it comes to open oysters dea we beat ‘em! Yah! yah!”

“Qh, never mind it, Dinah, woman,” said he, when the poor soul in her haste to hand my uncle a glass of water, kffocked over the mustard-cup, the contents of which ran on his boots ; “* never mind it, old woman; massa don’t eare, for L can soon polish him up again, and L'il buy yoo “fuothes mustard-cup.”

“ Here is a dollar toward it,” said my uncle.

“ And here are two,” said I, “ for not casting an angry look at your wife, when she knocked the cup over.”

Me look mad at me!” said honest Dinah.—* Lacky !— why, young massa, Cato never looked mad at me once in his life, as L ean recomember.”

notoriously bad character—that he would not consider it at pall necessary to offer a counter affidavit.

jagainst the party accused. The learned Judge has, himself, deseanted on the impropriety of accepting such one-sided and : F : suspicious testimony, notwithstanding the decision subse-

“We'll, who would have thought it ?” said my uncle as we left the cellar. ‘1 must own that [ tried hard, at the first going off, to provoke his eye todo its accustomed duty. Lut look—look there !”

Little Davison came smirking along, with Miss Parsells hanging on his arm; when just as he approached us, her bonnet caught in the straggling branch of a wild-plum tree, which stood in a little group of trees near the edge of the ‘commons. The ribbon gave way, and the bounet was jerked ‘from her head. Oh, how assiduous the fellow was, in ex- tricating it from the branch! How devotedly he pinned the ribbon fast, and how tenderly he tied the bonnet on again ! Then he laughed so good humordly at the joke, and at her embarrassment, and he drew ber arm in his so gently, as they moved away!

“He is engaged to her—he has her!” said my uncle; “but rewember the scene, Leo, and mark his behaviour a twelvemonth hence. —Lere comes our little beauty.”

it was iadeed my dear Flora, blooming with goodness,

oe t CSS, mua 5 ‘ 5 _ ri . ee oe nie gaa i forgot the sey we are told, that ” the cefontent had * put in an

“ She is beautiful and happy,” said uncle Andover, as 1 | Seto even gencrally denying the material charges alluded told him of my engagement, which L did as soon as we left’ to”’ in the plaintiffs affidavit, the Court “ would haye ax- ithe dear girl at Oak Valley; “ but put off your marriage | pericnced little difficulty’’ in making up their minds to refuse jas long as you can, Ah! if you had told we of your love | the application for quashing the special panel. Now the de- for her, [ should bave iried to persuade you to let her aloue. | fendant’s counsel did not apnear te cons; is She is too good, too innocent, for the married eye.’, : ae a a " mena _ cag ache

“ What ! do you thiuk that my eye will ever try to quell necessary, and the defendant himself was certainly of opinion ‘that bright, beaming glauce of hers ?” that he was not bound to put himself to any trouble or incon- | “ Yes, Leo, that it will. Old Cato ha venience in the matter.

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** And here we must observe that where a party making such a complaint as this plaintiff does, is, by hisown shewing, an active political leader, or warmly engaged in political con- troversy, we should have expected his statements with regard to the political feelings and opinions of the individuals named in the panel, and of whose return he complains, to be sapport- ed by something more than his own aflidayit. We should have expected that (in the language of the affidavit) those credible and expericnced persons acquainted with the Jurors named, who have examined the lists, would haye made an Affidavit adding the weight of their opinions and knowledge of those individuals to that of the plaintiff, because it is quite possible that political controversy may lead him to attribute more violent feelings to his opponents than they deserve, and under these cireumstances, had the defendant putin an affidavit even generally deaying the material charges alluded to, we should have experienced little difficulty in making up our minds to refuse this application.’ e

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Jury in this country indifferent to political considerations? Mr. Justice Peters himself admits that “ina small community, where we know party feeling runs high, it may tot be easy for any one to select a panel with which one party or another And yet the defendant is told that he ought to have shown, if he could, that the jury were not

may not be dissatisfied.’’ political partizans on his side. But sappose they were politi- @#f partizans on the odier side, would they be one whit better qualified for the discharge of their duties? Yes, there is no doubt thatif we had a ‘Tory Under Sheriff, and a special jury had been moved for, we should have had sach another panel as the Grand Jury was in the late Term, ‘here being out of the whole batch only one man on the Liberal side of politics, and the Foreman being, not only the plaintiff! in a political action in Court, but, according to his own sworn adiission, warmly en-’ gaged in political controversy. Lf political predilections in Juries are, then, to be ignored or discountenanced, did the No, but the very reverse; and the animus of the Grand Jury was

Grand Inquest present a fair and impartial panel ?

fully exhibited in their silly and disgraceful presentment of Mr. Clark, which the Cuurt, in very shame, had to set aside at frivolous and contemptible.

Now, we contend that the late Grand Jury were, with one solitary exception, violent partizans on the Tory side of polities ; and if it were wrong in Mr. Under Sheriff Williams to selecta Jury equally remarkable for their political prejudices on the other side, it must have been wrong in Mr. Under Sheriff Bagnall to select the Jury of which MeLean was foreman ; and we confess that we cannot understand the justice of calling one officer to account, and letting the other go geot- free. We agree with his lordship the Chief Justice that © it is most important to the public that the duties of officers con- nected with the administration of justice, and particularly with the return of the Jury panels, should be discharged with integrity,’’ but we must tell his lordship that this principle if Mr.

Under Sheriff Williams was supposed tv have acted erroneously

should be strictly enjoined upon a// + officers ”’ abike.

in the selection of the Jury panel under consideration, he should have been instructed by the Court to offer, by way ef afiidayit, such answer or explanation as he might deem necessary to the allegations made againsi him by D. Maclean, as soon as those allegations were read in Const, and net after the spetial Jury panel was quashed. Vhe course, however,. pursued by the Court looks very much like condemning a man first and trying him afterwards. Mr. Wiliams, we have no doubt, did not fora moment suppose that it was his duty to makea counter affidavit ; but the Court thinking diflercnily, it appears to us that they should have given him the neeessary advice in the matter before they quashed the array.

We have already occupied too much space with this matter, and will bring our observations to a close for the present. We must, however, briefly state the order of the Assistant Judge,

Yet, the learned | V4 :—thet the panel selected by Mr. Under Sheriff Williams Judge has told us that we are bound to believe the deposition | P° set aside, and a new one returned by the Coroner, D. Hodg- of the accuser, wuless it be refuted upon oath. This opinion | *°™ Esqr., to be selected from three other special panels, which dves not appear to us to accord with that generally received | Were given at the end of McLean’: aflidayit, marked B, C and notion of British justice—thata man cannot be accounted guilty |, and which we now insert below. It will be remembered of any specific crime on the slender and unsupported testimony | that McLean swears that he would be satisfied with either one ofa person who has the greatest interest that his words should of these Juries to try his case; but the Court goes further

t#.n tke plaintiff desired to go in the gratification of his wish, and gives him the whole éhree Juries to make a panel. Does this book like justice and fair play? One party to an action swears, long before the action goes to trial, that he has a preference for a particular Jury, and the Court gives him not only that Jury, but two others of a precisely similar character! The Assistant Judge affects to think that the Juries indicated are not swayed by political prejudices. If this opinion be sincerely entertained by him, he was never more mistaken in his life. Out of the 144 names handed to the Coroner for McLean's special benefit, there are about 30 or 36 known and acknowledged liberals—the remaining 108 or 114 age, with the exception of a few doubtful persons, whose politics we cannot particularize, influenced by the strongest prejudices against the defendant particularly and the Liberal part y generally. Now, where is the chance of an impartial verdict and “pure ad- ministration of justice’’ in a case like this? McLean might well say that he would be satisfied with either one of the special juries referred to, when we find that in the first 48 names they are his political friends, with the exception of 12 or 14,—im the second 48 names, they are all his friends, with the excep- tion of 6 or 7,—and out of the third 48 there are only about 15 who entertain political opinions opposite to his own. We may be told, as doubtless we will, that those Juries wet selected by an Under Sheriff holding the same political prit- ciples as the defendant, and that therefore he has no right ® complain. But to this we can answer, that the causes which

they were summoned to try had no political complexion—that ne The plaintiff ’s aflidayit contains no , intricate and complicated matiers of accounts were the things t distinct or substantive allegations against the defendant ; nor, , be submitted to them,

with which ordinary country juries wer?