Mr. Disraeli, who is pacifying, we cannot exactly say leading,
the House of Commons by doing nothing in a most humorous way, disposed of Mr. Whalley on Thursday by a most feli- citous retort. Two Judges, Mr. Justice Lawson in Ireland, and Sir A. Cockburn in England, have recently censured juries in very strong language for failure of duty, and Dr. Kenealy, true to his mission of assailing Judges, proposed some days since to ask the Prime Minister if he intended to introduce any measure for the protection of juries. He was not, however, present when his question came on, and Mr. Whalley would not read it. The Doctor on Thursday again kept away, but Mr. Whalley read his question, and Mr. Disraeli answered it. He had no control over the Judges, which belonged ex- clusively to Parliament, but greatly as he respected trial by jury, he could not believe that juries were infallible, and " from what I have observed of the sayings and doings of the Member for Stoke and the Hon. Member for Peterborough, I believe that is an opinion which they in some degree share with me." As Mr. Whalley had just presented a petition praying for a Royal Commission to upset the verdict in the Tichborne case, the House roared.
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