4 MAY 1867, Page 3

Mr. Walpole has remitted the remainder of the sentence passed

on Toomer, the man unjustly convicted of rape and sentenced by Justice Shee to fifteen years' penal servitude. In his letter to Toomer's father announcing the fact, Mr. Walpole, throtigh Lord Bellmore, says he has acted after " an attentive review of all the 'circumstances of this doubtful case," and "had regard to the long -deliberation of the jury, their recommendation to mercy, and the punishment the prisoner had undergone." In other words, Mr. Walpole thinks nine months of penal servitude sufficient penalty for not committing a rape. The truth is, Mr. Walpole hates a profligate of Toomer's class, till he can hardly bring himself to care whether he was legally punished or not, and but for the public outcry would never have interfered.