20 DECEMBER 1851, Page 11

Tttiu in 4t Mar.

Dublin, 17th December 1851. Stn—Allow me to correct an error which appears in the last number of the Spectator. You say—" but Lord Clarendon had already paid 3700/., and the Jury would only allow him sixpence costs " ; putting the word sixpence in Italics.

The practice here is, that "sixpence" carries the whole costs, (I believe the practice in England is the same) ; therefore, Lord Clarendon was awarded his whole costs, instead of the nominal sum of sixpence. I mention this, lest you or your numerous readers might imagine that the Jury for a mo- ment considered that Mr. Birch had any cause of complaint ; a conclusion, I need hardly say, they never arrived at.