We said last week we " did not believe" that Baron
Martin, who, on the trial of Christiana Elmands, charged directly against the plea of insanity, had interfered to save her from execution on that very plea. It appears, however, strange as it may seem, that he did, and that the paragraph-writer of the Home Office made no mistake whatever. We need scarcely say we never intended to imply that his mistake was wilful, but the devotees of the Ministry are so sore with incessant criticism that the explanation may be needed. Perhaps if they will read the remarkable letter we publish else- where on the subject, a letter which, if it were signed, would be accepted as a great fact in the controversy, rather than a mere contribution to its literature, they will recognize the weight of an argument which we tried to embody in a jest. We cannot conceive an answer to the theory of that letter, or how anyone can suspect the journal which publishes it of animosity to Mr. Bruce.
