RELIGION OF SCOTCH JUDGES.
AT a trial of some Irish labourers for murder, which took place in Glasgow last week, the most important witnesses were countrymen of the accused. In the report of the trial which appears in the Glasgow papers, the evidence of each of these witnesses is pre- faced by " being a Catholic, he was sworn according to the forms of his religion." It is evident that these witnesses are Christians. It therefore astonished us not a little to find Lord MONCRIEFF, when charging the Jury, saying of the prisoners, "They are of a different religion from us"; and again, when pronouncing sentence, addressing the convicts, "You are probably of a different religion from us." Qf what religion are Scotch Judges ? We were aware that in the days of Devu) HUME most of them were regarded as little,better than him, but. we thought the Bench had been con- verted to Christianity since that time.
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