To the delighted amazement of mankind, Dr. Kenealy announced to
the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday that he should ter- minate his speech on Monday, and begin calling his witnesses. He will then have spoken for eighteen days, and his speech must, in time lost, have cost the taxpayers, say £17,000. Still all men have great cause to be grateful to him, for hie a tedious curate in a country church, with the authenticity of Genesis for text, there is no assignable reason why he should ever stop. The jury, however, had begun to get savage, and though the Lord Chief Justice still looked like an old eagle ready to pounce whenever he saw a chance, Mr. Justice Lush was weary to despair, and Mr. Justice Mellor annoyed till he was ready to bite. Indeed he did bite on Wednesday, giving Dr. Kenealy his only fair chance during the whole trial of fighting the Bench. The Court, however, sees land, and that unlucky juryman who loses 120 a week by the trial and is so nearly killed by it has some faint hope of saving either his property or his life.
English law is clearly quite perfect, and self-dependent. Witnesses try to help her and may be insulted for days, and jurymen try to help her and are penned months at a time in a fetid sheep- pen, to listen anxiously to talk against which the only defence is sleep.
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