ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 9, 7 December 1844, Page 1

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

The proceedings on the writ of error commenced, in the House of Lords, on Thursday last ; the case for the appellants being opened by Sir Thomas Wilde. The arguments were pursued, on Friday and Saturday, by Mr. Peacock, Mr. Hill, and Mr. Kelly. So numerous are the points advanced, and so clearly are the many inaccuracies, inconsis- . i tencies, and irregularities pervading, not only the indictment, but the whole course of the ■ proceedings, made mani'esr, that, whatever' may be the result of the plea now pending, I these " monster trials " will ultimately be pro-, [ nounced a monstrous batch from beginning tq end. The general impression however^ ~i%*' i that the judgment must be reversed The' Lord Chancellor, on Saturday, in an obser- ' vation to Mr. Kelly, conceded one important point advanced by Sir Thomas Wilde. ' Thes i latter contended, on Thursday, that, whatever , errors were brought forward and allowed, the^ | House had no power to alter them ; they, had . no alternative but to reverse_the_judgmejiti__ The Lord Chancellor, imraediately^before-the' cloael of the proceedings on Saturday, said, in effect, that, if errors were, exhibited,- their only course would be to quash v th,e .verdict* . , Thus it may be presumed the ground is clear, and the counsel for the appellants have" no- , thing to do but maintain the points whieli they have advanced; for it cannot be doubted 1 ' that they have already established a case wbjeh is. irresistible. i, J } - The geaerai. impression *fc home seemed to* bie, that the vbjQle sentence. would be remitted ~> '^illegal, and O'Conoeli Jil*r»ted., Sfco.«i&. -such tusn out to be ihe eot^ the ofy 5 fcr I^alwillbe greater than #ver..'" " " "' '■" f Tie doveranaept k*vp ,i^i|i i te4, a^beji „sj:it'e prosecution ; the proprietor an3%un^r" 'of Reporter, a frepUlpafe tr % tn» (Jefendanl. ' ''' . j ;,',»■