The Select Committee on Privilege appointed to inquire into the
circumstances of Mr. Whalley's commitment by order of the Lord Chief Justice for contempt of Court during the trial of Arthur Orton, have reported, that, after considering the circum- stances of'the commitment as shown by the affidavits presented to them, and having heard Mr. Whalley's written comments thereon,—" parts of which appear to your Committee to be irre- levant to the specific object of the present inquiry," but the whole of which, in spite of such irrelevancies, they lay before the Houne,—they "are of opinion that the matters referred to them do not demand the urther attention of the House." Poor Mr.
Whalley ! Has not his public life been one long irrelevancy, which never demanded attention R•om any reasonable human being; though, if it had never had it, it might have been even a. geeater paradox of irrelevancy still. For our parts, we can only see any relevancy in Mr. Whalleyft public life by regarding bins as the great manifestation of universal irrelevancy, written out in big letters, such as those who run may read and take warning by.
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