Baron Bramwell has been making rather an exhibition of him-
self at Liverpool. A Quaker named Carson was summoned on a jury, and entered the court of course with his hat on his head. He was angrily ordered to take it off, fined 10/., told that he was unfit to be a juryman, and that consequently he should be summoned again. Two days after, Baron Bramwell having re- covered his temper, Mr. Carson was summoned, and informed by the same judge that he had a right to his hat, and that the fine was remitted. It is difficult to decide which showed the smallest mind, the man who thought retaining his hat matter of moral obligation, or the judge who on one day thought it matter de- serving judicial cognizance, and on another a matter of indifference. It is ebullitions like these which destroy the old sacro-sanctity of the judicial bench.
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