There is a sequel to the O'DaiscoLL story, a fourth
incident to grace the history of the Irish Bench ; and in this the Lord Chan- cellor is implicated. The tale, which will be found elsewhere, exhibits Mr. O'DaiscoLL as filling in his own person the offices of landlord, prosecutor, policeman, advocate, and judge. The ac- count indeed is ex parte, and the opposite version might tend some- what to excuse the Magistrate. Not so with the Lord Chancellor ; who rejects the charge, not as one disproved or incapable of proof, but as one that does not call for his interference ! Sir EDWARD SUGDEN has not scrupled to dismiss Magistrates before now : he dismissed several for avowing political views which he thought to impair their utility as ministers of the law ; he dismissed a Mr. O'MALLEY for insulting Lord Lucas., Lord Luc .&w for expressing his anger when insulted—because, of course, he thought such conduct derogated from their utility as Magistrates, and from the dignity of the Bench. Now, he is told that a certain Magistrate habitually acts in such a way as to make the Bench hated, ridicu- lous, and contemptible : he does not demand proof, but dismisses the charge, on an assumption which appears on the face of the correspondence erroneous. Lord Chancellor SUGDEN must have made sad mistakes as to the law of the matter, or the law itself must be in a most deplorable state in Ireland.
