the evidence is the more to be regretted, because, in one or two important respects, that obtained from the defendant's own witnesses, greatly corroborated the evidence given for the Crown. A perusal of Dr Legge's evidence, particularly that part of it (the concluding part) which, under a highly proper appreciation of the duty confessed by him to speak the truth, he volunteered to the Court and Jury, will satisfy His Excellency of the truth of the last observation. Not only was the credit of Lee Asow established most fully, and the unworthy aspersion on the capacity and honour of the young man Mr Dick, which Mr Day had so sedulously laboured to imprint, effectually removed, and the apparent contradiction between the Turnkey's statements to you and me, and his evidence in chief, satisfactorily explained and adjusted, - but a new and important confirmation of the evidence as to the principal matter of investigation, the question namely whether the liability of Mr Mitchell to the bookshop man had been present