selves too coarse and too homely for the house of God. They learn experimentally that it is a place for those favoured or industrious people who have always good clothes, can pay for their pew, and serve as churchwarden. This shyness must be overcome. People who live in terror of socialism, communism, and similar loose ideas-so loose, that they may be described as vagrants-should remember the condition of safety from all of them, namely, "To the poor the Gospel is preached." The con- LITERARY REGISTER. The Midnight Cry. By the Rev. Joseph Burchell, B.A., formerly barrister-at-law. THIS book, though written by an educated quondam English lawyer, and certainly not of folio dimensions, has fairly baffied all our efforts to read it. It is utterly destitute of method, precision of thought, and lucidity of expression. Here and there we do stumble on a good semi-original idea, arrayed in semi-transparent drapery; but it seems like "a dull imprisoned ray, A sunbeam that hath lost its way." embraces the struggle for Catholic Emancipation, and brings us down to the era of the Reform Bill. The work appears to us fairly written, although contemporaneous history is difficult to write without prejudice to some party, especially by those who have entered eagerly into the struggles described. The volumes are most valuable, and will be most valued as records of dates and of facts; and in that point of view they were required in the form in which they are now published. Vol. IV. London: Charles Fox. THIS volume contains sixteen of Mr. Fox's lectures, principally on political subjects. The opinions advocated by him, and the eloquence of his advocacy, are so well known that we find it unnecessary to do more than name the work. We have no quarrel with mystery, but we cannot tole- Lectures to the Working Classes. By W. J. Fox, M.P. rate chaos. Our author, however, seems to have a peculiar regard for that rayless region, where we should have no great objection to his remaining as long as he likes, provided he will not trouble us and the public with his 'gorgons, hydras, and chimeras dire" that wanton through its midnight air. There is a class of minds, and we strongly incline to place Mr. Burchell among them, thoroughly honest and sincere, but possessed of an incorrigible tendency to speculate both in philosophy and religion, without that logical discriminative faculty which is essentially necessary to separate antagonistic phenomena, and combine the various detached but analogous elements into one harmonious and synthetic whole. Many of them have isolated thoughts of some beauty, and even of originality, though that originality is often painfully original, but they lack even a single straw to bind them into a compact fasciculus. Such men are singularly unfit to handle the more recondite themes of Scripture, and, of all subjects, that of the pre-millenial advent, about which the great, the gifted, and the good, of all ages, have held different opinions, was least likely to be ably and convincingly treated by an individual of this category. Those who take an interest in this department of theological enquiry, will And a very forcible and perspicuous article in the last number of the 44 British Quarterly," where the various systems are dissected with great skill and discrimination, and the right one, according to our judgment, powerfully supported. The History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace. The volume contains nearly 600 pages, is illustrated The readers of the previous volumes-a numerous body will regret deeply to hear that the fourth is the last, and that the talented lecturer's failing health prevents him from expecting to continue the series. They contain many valuable hints and political suggestions to the working classes, which, if they were acted out, would render them more respected as a body, and give to their several struggles for reform greater weight. The Lady Ella; or, the Story of Cinderella in Verse. SOME person, with a knack for making verses, has turned out the good old nursery tale of " Cinderella the Fairy, the Prince and her Slipper," and has had it published in a little volume. "Cinderella" at twopence, with the old strongly-coloured woodcuts, was more associated with the lady's use in the world than in this form; but then, at twopence, she wanted the moral reflections and the versification, for both which, when wanted, payment must be made. Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature. Nos. 3 and 4. WE noticed this abridgement of Dr. Kitto's work when the first number appeared. Numbers 3 and 4 leave no reason to doubt that it will be a valuable and cheap book when completed, containing the marrow and substance of the expensive work skilfully compressed. Maps and woodcuts, in great abundance, accompany the parts. Mr. Smiles, the secretary of the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company, has published one of the best arranged pamphlets on railway results that we have seen. As our monthly summary of railway business is gloomy, we take one item of comfort from Mr. Smiles, to compensate : "The total number of passengers who travelled by rail in 1847, or 51,352,163, shows about a million of people travelling by rail weekly, or 140,000 souls daily on the move! "The increase of the traffic of 1847 over the original estimates, was still greater than that of 1846, on the lines above named. "The total receipts from merchandise traffic for the year ending June 30th, 1847, were £3,362,883 on 3,036 miles of railway, as compared with £1,424,932 in 1843, on 1,857 miles of railway. 1843 1857 23,466,896 1844 1952 27,763,602 4,296,706 1843 2148 33,791,253 6,027,651 "Already, the railways had afforded up to 1847, accommodation for 34,000,000 of travellers yearly, beyond what was provided by the old coach and other accommodation; but as yet, comparatively, a small part of the goods traffe of the country has been got upon the railways. The increase alone in the number of passengers conveyed by rail, since 1844, has been not less than 23,588,561, which is probably more than the total passenger traffic of the country in 1825, or before the railway system was in operation. Of this increase, 14,267,718 were third-class passengers, most of them belonging to the working orders,-the advantages of railways to whom must be very apparent." POLITICAL REGISTER. The in-aid Bill is chiefly opposed by the Ulster and other Irish members. They insist that, as their constituencies support their own poor, they should not be taxed for the support of the poor of other districts. PARLIAMENT has completed no business during || abundantly unsuccessful in their hands. The RateMarch except in votes of money. The latter have been generally taken in part, and they also are, therefore, incomplete. The financial reductions are resolved to mean ten thousand soldiers, and three thousand seamen and marines. work of saving money has commenced, therefore, at the tail. The pay of thirteen thousand men comes to a round sum of money by the year; but not one that will make a good Exchequer light and drooping. The Rate-in-aid Bill proposes to render Ulster and Leinster responsible for the manner in which poor-rates may be collected in Munster and in the western province of Connaught. We know most distinctly that a large part of the poor-rate levied in Connaught has not been paid in any single year since the new law was passed. The deficiency was met in one year by the British Association for the relief of distressed Ireland. It was met last year by a grant from the consolidated fund. In the present year, and in future seasons, the Government propose to raise the deficiency by a general rate over all Ireland. The opposition, like every other dispute in Ireland, is conducted with great warmth and fervour. Viscount Massareene presided at one meeting in the quiet county of Antrim, and, we believe, in the town of that name, near his estate. Viscount Massareene is a poet, and a man, more. over, who has something to lose, but he spoke with We should have preferred economy more decisive in its character and results. In the Navy the greatest expense incurred has been paid away for spoiling ships. Many good ships have been cut into hulks that can scarcely float, at a great expense. Our ready money has gone for the destruction of our property. Financial reform cannot be satisfactorily disposed of, by a few compliances. It has already originated tons of tracts. They have been widely circulated, and while they contain many errors, yet their many sad truths are valuable. We have had the utmost carelessness in office practice; an alarming expenditure in dockyards, where the men have been employed, like the Irish peasantry in 1847 and 1848, in spoil-intense fire and suffering apparent in his sentences. ing valuable public property. The long lists of superior officers on the Exchequer cannot be touched at present; but hereafter more care should be taken to prevent the appointment of too many officers to superior positions. The evil rests in the original appointments far more obviously than in the pay, which is but seldom in a condition to be pared from. RATE-IN-AID, IRELAND. This measure, while we write, remains in some doubt. The Ministry have not many bills for the session, and those promoted by them have been A hearer utterly unacquainted with the circum. stances, while listening to the noble Viscount, would have believed that the rate was to be levied in aid of some English county, out of Ireland, without consent of their representatives, and that it amounted to a large sum. The speaker declaimed against the dominancy of England, to which, unlike his neighbour, Lord O'Neil, he is indebted for his title. All the evils of Ireland, from the potato-rot to this sixpenny rate-in-aid, were charged on England; and a stranger to the question, from the speech the noble viscount, would have supposed that the of rate was to be levied in Ireland for the relief of some English county. The opposition experienced by the Ministry to this bill is unexpected, and yet so intense that we doubt whether they will be able to carry it through || Parliament, or will consider its enactment prudent. NAVIGATION-LAWS. The majority for the second reading of the bill for the repeal of the Navigation-laws was greater than we anticipated, but smaller than in the last session, although a larger number of members voted. The bill has been carried through committee, and the third reading will be probably taken after the Easter holidays. A third member of the Government advocates the proposition which he says is consistent with freetrade. And is it free-trade now to leave the shipowners of this country to compete with foreign shipping, while enacting that every British vessel shall be commanded by a British captain, and managed by a crew of whom three-fourths must be British sailors? This must be West Indian free-trade, and that is the worst quality of this article administered hitherto to any interest. The members in the House of Commons who had courage to oppose these anomalies number a little more than fifty. Where will they be on the third reading? The question is one of those that try men's consistency. THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. From the Punjaub, we have heard nothing further than that Lord Gough and Shere Singh were looking out at each other from their entrenched camps. The Danes are actively engaged in naval preparations; and unless a pacific measure be adopted in course of a week the renewal of war is ap Many speculations have been formed respecting the state of the vote on the third reading, and although a small majority is generally expected, yet the Times has endeavoured to concuss country gentlemen, and the House of Peers, by a semi-official threat of the dissolution of Parliament, or the resignation of the Ministry, if the bill be defeated in the upper house. The threat would be childish, if|| dictated by any higher functionary than the man The renewal of hostilities between Denmark and who sweeps the crossings opposite the Treasury Germany is imminently threatened. Large armies Offices. from Prussia and other German states are hastenThe Cabinet will neither resign nor dissolve Par-ing towards the probable scene of conflict. liament on a bill that has been made an open question in the Government. But if they adopted the last alternative, we do not believe that they would come well out of the struggle. The mem-parently inevitable. bers for all the large seaport towns would be An uneasy feeling exists regarding the threatenreturned against them. At present a majority are ing attitude of Russia, which, armed to the teeth, in their favour. The quantity of indifferent speak- hangs on the outskirts of Europe, biding the ing on the bill is melancholy; and the reasons af- time," that may not be far distant, when her leforded for supporting it are specimens of bad logic.gions will again traverse Germany and Italy. One member of the Government supports it because he calls reciprocity by a bad name, which would be libellous if the principle had a right of admission to any court of justice. Yet reciprocity, in Italics, stands on the margin of the bill, and the Queen in council is empowered to enforce that concession. Another member of the Government argues in favour of the bill, because he says it is just; and we confess that a just measure being a rarity, one would not like to lose sight of the phoenix when it appears. But is it just, then, to admit manufactured ships free of duty, while the tax on the raw material is continued? 66 The stupid King of Sardinia, Charles Albert, who has scarcely done a wise act in his life until the 27th ult., when he is said to have abdicated, pushed matters to an extremity by invading Lom|| bardy. The war has fortunately been decided in four days, during which Radetzsky, the Austrian General, has fought four battles, scattered the Sardinian army, and probably entered Turin-an extraordinary example of activity in a general who is now more than eighty years of age. The Austrians do not seek an increase of territory, and, therefore, these victories will not render European politics more complicated. RAILWAY AND JOINT STOCK BUSINESS OF THE MONTH. strength in all railway undertakings, and when a strong competition existed among companies as to who should be favoured with the prestige of the " 'railway king," the shareholders of the Eastern Counties Company, not being in very flourishing circumstances, and imagining his majesty was a kind of railway alchemist, who could easily transmute their iron into gold, induced him to accept the office of chairman, and take an active part in the management of the affairs. For a time all was coleur de rose, and the lucky shareholders imagined they had made a decided hit in securing so famed a ruler. But the DURING the month of March we have had upwards of fifty]] railway meetings, principally the statutory half-yearly gatherings of the proprietors of the incorporated companies-the majority, however, have been minor schemes, or railways in the course of construction, whose meetings were confined to reporting progress and submitting a balance sheet of accounts. We have had, nevertheless, a few tritons among the minnows, though not to the same extent as during February. The one which has occasioned the most commotion in the railway world, and has excited greater scandal and controversy than anything which has happened in this department of enterprise for many years, is the Eastern Counties meeting, which was held in London, on February the 28th. It will be recollected that, a few years ago, when Mr. Hudson's name was looked upon as a tower of" And so did the affairs of the Eastern Counties Railway. It is Best laid schemes of mice and men shareholders. The directors, however, managed to carry the day. The present low price of the shares, compared with the original amount, will indicate what the public think of the speculation. Like the Eastern Counties, this company is likely to be swamped by the many guarantees into which it has entered, and at high rates of interest. The dividend declared, however, as will be seen, was better than that of the other scheme to which we have alluded, being three per cent per annum. The Shrewsbury and Chester Company met on the 23d of February. The results of the report will be found in our tabular statement which follows. This is a new line, in progress of formation; and the only additional item of information important, is the intimation that the whole line will be open in the course of the year. found out that the Hudson management, instead of extricating || the company from its difficulties, has only plunged the shareholders deeper in the mire, till, what with guarantees and other responsibilities, incurred in the progress of "annexation," the meeting of the 28th displayed almost an empty treasury. The chairman was non est inventus. As may be well supposed, the song of jubilee which ushered in the Hudson era, was changed to notes of mourning and shouts of execration when the vice-chairman announced the dividend of 5s. 6d. per £20 share, as a little beyond one per cent. per annum on the whole capital invested. The meeting, which was exceedingly stormy throughout, ended in the appointment of a committee to investigate the whole affairs of the company. A peculiar interest and importance has been given to this affair, by Mr. Hudson being charged not only with mismanaging the concerns of this company, but The Orford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, as stated at also with having sold 2800 shares of the Great North of Eng-the general meeting, is rapidly approaching its completion. The land Company, to the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Company, meeting which took place at Worcester on March 2d was entirely of which he was chairman, charging them £15 a share above of a routine character. market value, and pocketing the difference. The circulation of this statement has had a very damaging effect on Mr. Hudson's character; and until the matter is fully and satisfactorily cleared up, the public will not place much confidence in him. A committee is at present busily engaged sifting the whole matter, and it is expected to report in a few days. According to a recent paragraph in the Morning Herald it is likely to prove favourable to Mr. Hudson, and to give a much more modified colouring to the transaction than it at present assumes. Whatever may be the result of this particular inquiry, the public faith in the capability of the "railway king" to keep up dividends and cut down expenses better than any other railway potentate of the day, is for ever shaken. He may abdicate his iron throne as soon as he pleases, for his subjects no longer owe allegiance. The Caledonian meeting at Edinburgh on February 26th was, like the Eastern Counties, rather a noisy one, on account of the large expenditure of the company, and the small prospect for the The South Wales meeting, held on February 28, was of a similar character. This line is progressing rapidly. A meeting of the North Wales Company took place on February 28, in London, at which a report to dissolve the company was agreed to. This was the only business transacted. A meeting of the Norfolk Company was held in London on February 28, the results of which will be found in the table. No business requiring special notice was transacted. The results of the meetings of the East Anglian, the Bristol and Exeter, the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, the Lancaster and Carlisle, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the South-Eastern, the North British, the Scottish Central, and several other of the more important companies, will be found in the tabular statement showing the original and present price per share, the capital invested, the half-yearly income and expenditure, ending December 31, and the dividend, if any, declared at the last half-yearly meeting : Dec. £ £ £ £ Bristol, Edinburgh, Feb. 26 130,968 Mar. 1 52,370 29,535 2,722,845 3 per cent. 99,061 4,865,134 3 per cent. 3,418,596 730,000 8/3 each on pref. sh. 25 London, London. Feb. 28 397.592 293,904 9,351,528 None. 2,366,496 Liverpool, 1,506,175 Manchester, Mar. 7 9,459,801 3,333,943 5/6 per share. 2 per cent. 5 per cent. Mar. 8 238,130 118,130 25 50 33 2 4 London, This comprises nearly all the general railway business of importance. In addition to these, we have had meetings, since our last monthly summary, of the following companies:-Taw Vale, Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire, at which a dividend of five || per cent per annum was declared; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester; Swansea Valley; Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford; Wear Valley; West London; Thames Haven; East and West Yorkshire; Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness; Wold, Cockermouth, and Workington; West Cornwall; Whitehaven and Furness; Whitehaven Junction; Monklands; Llynvi Valley; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire; Newmarket; Liverpool, Manchester, and|| Newcastle Junction, and East Indian railways. The most of these are schemes in progress, and the business was of the usual character, to receive reports of the progress made, and to pass the accounts. At the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Junction meeting no dividend was declared. The line is, as yet, only partially opened, and the receipts were stated to be little more than sufficient to meet the guaranteed liabilities. In the course of March we have had also meetings of the following Irish companies :-Cork and Waterford; Londonderry and Enniskillen ; Waterford and Limerick; Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin. The only feature presented by these gatherings has been the difficulties alleged to lie in the way of completing the undertakings, on account of the impossibility of obtaining money, in the present state of Ireland, to carry on the works. The share market has undergone a considerable fall in the course of the month. The depreciation in all kinds of stock is from two to three per cent. This may be attributed to the more unsettled state of foreign affairs, and the recent news from India. Consols have undergone a fall since the last month to about the same extent. A rally towards the close of the month, however, appeared to have taken place. There is nothing new of much importance to note in the other departments of joint-stock business, unless it be the British Bank, under the management of Mr. M'Gregor, M.P. It is said that the shares are being rapidly subscribed, and that there is every prospect of this movement to transplant the Scottish system of banking south of the Tweed being successful. A few Californian gold schemes still hang out to catch flats; but few seem disposed to bite. John Bull, much as he worships the golden calf, is not to be "taken in and done for" this time, `The great Californian companies are evidently “no go.” OBITUARY NOTICES FOR MARCH. DAVID SCOTT, R.S.A. Ar his residence, Easter Dairy House, Edinburgh, on Monday, the 5th of March last, Mr. DAVID SCOTT, R.S.A. Mr. Scott was in the 46th year of his age. He was a native of Edinburgh, and received the rudiments of a classical education at the High School there. In his younger years he was intended for an engraver, which branch of art had been successfully carried on by his father, Mr. Robert Scott, for many years, in the same city; himself an artist of high attainments, under whose able tuition the justlycelebrated John Burnet, the engraver of Wilkie's "Chelsea Pensioners," and author of valuable treatises on "Light and Shade," on "Colouring," and on "Composition," was reared; as were also Stewart, the elegant engraver of Allan's "Circassian Captives," the late William Douglas, the generally-admired miniaturepainter, and the scarcely, if at all, less fully accomplished John Horsburgh, the eminent portrait-engraver. Of this distinguished school young Scott was a promising and an ardent pupil. At an early age, he was enrolled as a pupil with the late Mr. John Graham, in the Academy of Art in Edinburgh, conducted by that gentleman, under the auspices of the Hon. the Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures in Scotland, where he was cotemporary with many of the most distinguished and rising Scottish artists of the present day. The active and creative genius of Scott, however, was ill-adapted to the painstaking task of translating, and reproducing in a severer form, the ideas of other artists; and after a brief but creditable and highly promising career as an engraver, he abandoned that profession, and dedicated his energies to the study and practice of art in the higher and more congenial walk of painting. Fully to qualify himself, he studied anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, and betook himself with diligence and ardour to the study of the French and Italian languages, with the best authors; in both of which tongues, as well as with the classics, he made himself thoroughly acquainted. After visiting the principal collections of artistic works to be met with in Britain, he bent his footsteps Amidst the artistic treasures of the Vatican the philosophic mind of Scott found ample material for study and gratification; and in a careful examination of the best works, by the great masters, to be met with in the collections of Rome and the other Italian states and cities, he acquired that profound knowledge of the principles of art which throughout his after life guided his practice and distinguished his works. towards Rome. Returning to his native city, he was enrolled as an early member of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. He speedily commenced to lay before his countrymen, in a succession of works, a practical application of those principles of art which he had derived from a minute and searching study of the works of Raphael, of Da Vinci, and of Michael Angelo. Scott was no imitator, he was an artist of truly original conceptions. He had peculiar theories, however, which in a great measure militated against his success. He aimed at too much, and his execution generally fell short of his design. With him, as with the great masters, each of his pictures had a high moral aim, to the elimination of which everything introduced into the work had immediate and ultimate reference, and with which conventionalities of treatment were never for a moment suffered to interfere. To illustrate human passion, or excite human sympathy-to evoke philanthropy, or awaken heroism, were his objects; and to effect these he vigorously bent the whole powers of his commanding intellect. His pictures were, wherever he considered the subject to admit of it, admirable specimens of harmonious colouring, although in numerous instances they exhibited an unpleasing hue; but they were invariably suggestive, deeply laden with thought, and at all times distinguished by an intimate familiarity with the costume, manners, and sentiment appropriate to the scene and the subject. Yet, with all these attributes of artistic excellence in his works, the fact is undeniable that Scott was never what may be termed A popular artist, and his pictures were consequently more spoken of, criticised, and wondered at than those of his cotemporaries. With this species of negative homage, the public appreciation of their merits may be said to have begun and ended. After forming fertile topics of conversation, alike among the learned and the illiterate, while the annual exhibitions were open, his pictures were returned a still yearly accumulating burden upon the unrequited hands of their gifted author, whose industry and diligent enthusiasm no disappointment could repress, whose noble elevation of thought no cold indifference could subdue and no allurement could entice to a divergence from its own prescribed course. Ardent in pursuit of the highest excellence in his beloved art, his whole soul seemed to expand when the first whisper was bruited abroad as to the probable adoption of pictorial decorations for the halls of Parliament, a national recognition of the claims of art to national consideration and support; and when the royal commissioners of the fine arts issued their invitation for competing designs on national subjects, or from the works of national poets, to adorn the walls of the British senate house, Scott entered upon the task of preparing designs with unusual alacrity and enthusiasm. In compliance with the terms of the invitation, he prepared two cartoons of large dimensions, the one representing the "Scottish people, under conduct of the heroic Wallace, stemming the tide of English aggression, at the Battle of Falkirk," the other "Sir Francis Drake, on his quarter-deck, viewing the destruction of the Spanish Armada." Both of these inspiring themes were elaborated with unusually erudite skill in composition-both were characterised by bold and accurate drawing, and each was distinguished by appropriate individual and general character, and remarkable for truthfulness of costume and incident. These two great and elaborate works were sent in and exhibited along with numerous others. They were not deemed worthy of a prize. Nothing daunted by his failure, however, when the second invitation was issued by the same commissioners, for a competition of frescoes, Mr. Scott contributed a second couple of works. In this instance, however, he had just ground for complaint. His principal production was accidentally put aside and never shown at all, while a subordinate one was so displayed as to indicate that it met with no favourable judgment at the hands of its exhibitors. The anguish caused by this inThis last, justice sank deeply into the heart of poor Scott. coupled with other and scarcely less bitter disappointments in various quarters, contributed to undermine a constitution never of the strongest or most enduring texture, and gradually his health gave way to the attacks of disease, aggravated at least, if not occasioned, by blighted hopes; and, after a severe illness of several weeks' duration, he sank into a premature grave, lamented by all who had the happiness of knowing his worth and appreciating his talent. Of his numerous works we do not intend to speak, as even a mere enumeration of them would occupy more space than we can afford. Of the greatest of his finished oil pictures that of "The Discoverer of the Passage to India passing the Cape of Good Hope," which constituted a leading feature in the annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy, open at Edinburgh at the time of his death, an opinion has already been expressed in Taif's Magazine for last month. Like every work of genius, this great effort has given rise to very varied, and, in some cases, conflicting estimates of its claims to admiration; but still the feeling of its being the best of his productions is universal. A committee has been appointed by some of the admirers and friends of Mr. Scott to purchase this picture, for the purpose of being preserved in the Trinity House, Leith. SIR ALEXANDER JOHNSTON. At London, on the 6th March, the Right Hon. Sir ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, of Cornsalloch, Dumfries-shire. He was the representative of an ancient family in his native county, and was the eldest son of the late Mr. Alexander Johnston, of Cornsalloch, by his wife the Hon. Hester Maria Napier, the daughter of Francis, fifth Lord Napier, and aunt of Lient.-General Sir Charles James Napier, the new commander-in-chief in India, and Lieut.-General Sir George Napier. He was born in 1775, and married Louisa, only surviving daughter of the late Lord William Campbell, youngest son of John, fifth Duke of Argyle. Sir Alexander Johnston had held some of the highest and most distinguished offices under the state in the east, and was a member of the Privy Council. During his official career he had, in the words of the late Marquis of Londonderry, "the great glory of having given freedom of conscience, of establishing trial by jury, and of abo |