The assassination of the ablest Judge on the English Bench,
the Master of the Rolls, was attempted yesterday, but fortu- nately unsuccessfully, by a clergyman (believed to be in- sane) who had lost his case in this Court. The Rev. Henry -John Dodwell was brought up before Mr. Flowers, charged with firing at the Master of the Rolls, and also accused by the Court Beeper, who was the chief witness, of justifying himself, on the ground that the Master of the Rolls " had did him out of two rights." This charge the accused evidently felt much severer than the other, which he acknowledged to be true, and rather gloried in. But that he,—an educated man,—should have been guilty of the vulgarity of saying " had did him " was a sore grievance. Perhaps, indeed, this will be the only real punishment,—the only poetical justice,—which will find him. Of course, he will not be allowed to go at large, but he will not mind that. To have been accused of bad grammar will be a much severer punishment.
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