The speech was immediately followed by a variety of exposures
of the rumours against the good faith of Lord Coleridge and Sir A. Cockburn, and by explanations from the Attorney-General on the absolute want of evidence to justify an inquiry, and from Sir H. James on the real facts concerning the Rittendreigh letters on which so grave an imputation on Lord Coleridge's honour had been founded. Mr. Disraeli then made some very amusing remarks, of which we have said something elsewhere, on the extraordinary contrast between Dr. Kenealy's indictment and the ease he had actually presented, twitted the Member for Stoke,—not quite without the vestige of an appreciative tone in relation to the magnitude of the impression he had contrived to produce,—with having prepared himself by frequent provincial rehearsals for his, linal4ppearance on the metropolitan stage,
and declared that Dr. Kenealy had shown that "all this agitation, all this tumult, which have disturbed this country for months, had no solid foundation, that there had been no miscarriage of justice, and that England and Englishmen might still be proud of their legal institutions and confident in the administration of-iwatice."
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