We regret to see a very unexpected, and, as it
seems to us, a very ill-advised letter from Sir Charles Gavan Duffy to Mr. Gray (the High Sheriff), in which, after remarking somewhat peremptorily on the Crown's challenges, without taking into account the Attorney-General's explanations in the House of Commons, he goes on to say, "Did the jury in the Hynes case misconduct themselves ? I do not in the least know, but if it were my duty to arrive at a conclusion on that question, I should not first refuse to hear the evidence, and then pronounce a decisive and dogmatic opinion on facts which I had not in. vestigated." Sir Charles Duffy, then, apparently thinks it right that a High Sheriff' responsible for the custody of the jury should publish to all the world, in his own paper, a violent attack upon them which he had not investigated, instead of himself duly investigating it, or asking the Court to do so for him. If any English High Sheriff had acted thus, England would be ringing with the indignation which his official conduct would have excited. Archbishop Croke is, of course, full of sympathy for Mr. Gray's conduct. We looked for better things from Sir Charles Duffy.
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