15 APRIL 1911, Page 3

The decision aroused a good deal of excitement, the judges.

Mr. Justice Ridley and Mr. Justice Channell, meeting with a very mixed reception as they left the court, while Mr. St. Maur, the unseated member, appealed to the citizens of Exeter, in the presence of Mr. Justice Ridley, to Clear the country of unjust judges—a most disgraceful and

untrue suggestion, and one which Mr. St. Maur should be heartily ashamed of himself for making. That the judges did not show any very great amount of tact in their conduct of the case may be true, but the accusation that they proved unjust judges is without a shadow of justification. We can only regret that Mr. St. Maur's words were not uttered where he would have been liable to punishment for contempt of Court.