Lord Abinger, the leading Judge of the Cheshire Special Commission,
delivered his charge to the Grand Jury on Thursday. It was distinguished by a strong infusion of political controversial matter ; as the following speciniens of his phrases will show : not professing at all to indicate his line of argunient ; which, however, was such as may readily be guessed from the terms
" He need hardly remind the Jury, that it was one of the evils incidental to a high state of prosperity and manufacturing commerce, that there should be 'occasional distress." Those distresses arose from various causes ; among them " an uncertainty of those laws which elect the relations of commerce," and " sometimes the agitation of those very laws which have especial regard to commerce and manufactures." "A kind of men called Chartists" endeavoured to use the movement " for what they called the establishment of their Charter, which they say will be the panacea to remove all their evils—that is to say, that Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot, would remedy all the evils of which the working-classes complain." ' • • " Strange would it be if there was such a thing as Universal Suffrage; if every person bee a right to vote who had no property at all, for the purpose of making a repre 'station of that part of the people possessed of property. If those wholly. . no property should have power to make laws, it would necessarily lead to ta destructinn of those who had property." Thence Lord Abinger wandered Democracy in America, and its probable working if introduced into this COI ry The first case before this Commission was a trial of six men fir seditious conspiracy, at a riotous Chartist meeting in Hyde. The c..e was still proceeding.
Yesterday, the Staffordshire Conamission began the trial of eighteen men, for demolishing the house of the Reverend Robert Ellis Aitkeos, on the evening after the mob attempted to destroy Dr. Vale's house.
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