Dr. Kenealy has done his speech, perhaps in consequence of
a hint from the Chief Justice that the Bench could grant or refuse one more day to listen to him, and has brought forward his first witness. The delight of the human race at this event, so entirely unexpected, is, however, much diminished by a statement that Dr. Kenealy has the right if he pleases to speak when his evidence is done, and may go on again till even his capacity for talk begins to fail. Still, however, there is some little daylight in the ending of his first harangue. Supposing his witnesses not to occupy the Court beyond October, and Mr. Hawkins to speak for, say, two days, Dr. Kenealy will only have November, December, January, and the first four days of February for his reply. On the 5th day Parliament will be able, by suspending its Standing Orders, to pass an Act depriving him, on grounds of public safety, threatened by the universal refusal to serve on juries, of his right to continue speaking any longer. There is a historic precedent for such a course, an Act having actually been passed solely to sup- press Sir Lawrence Peel, who spoke so well in the Council of India that Sir Charles Wood, then Grand Mogul, found himself with no more influence than a clerk. An Act to suppress Dr. Kenealy would be quite in consonance with the gigantesque character of the whole proceedings.
