xpressed by himself. How rapidly he throws to the wind the frivolous
excuses of some juror wishing to escape the foreseen long night's
confinement. How great is he on all points of panels--admissible and
inadmissible evidence--replying and not replying. How thoroughly he
knows the minute practice of the place; how he withers any attorney
who may dare to speak a word on his own behalf, whilst asking
questions of a witness on behalf of an otherwise undefended prisoner.
How unceremoniously he takes the word out of the mouth of the, in
his opinion, hardly competent junior barrister who is with him. How
Demosthenic is his language when addressing the jury on the enormity
of all agrarian offences; with what frightful, fearful eloquence does
he depict the miseries of anarchy, which are to follow nonpayment of
tithes, rents, and taxes; and with what energy does he point out to
a jury that their own hearths, homes, and very existence depend on
their vindicating justice in the instance before them.

Mr. Allewinde was never greater than in the case now before the
court. A young farmer of the better class had been served with some
disagreeably legal document on account of his non-payment of an
arrear of rent; he had at the time about twenty acres of unripe oats
on the ground for which the arrear was due; and he also held other
ground for which he owed no arrear. On ascertaining that a distraint
was to be put on the ground which owed the rent, he attended there
with a crowd of countrymen, and would not allow the bailiff to put
his foot upon the lands; the next day the bailiff came again with
police in numbers at his heels, and found the twenty acres which had
yesterday been waving with green crops, utterly denuded. Every blade
had been cut and carried in the night, and was then stacked on the
ground on which no distraint could be levied. In twelve hours, and
those mostly hours of darkness, twenty acres had been reaped, bound,
carted, carried, uncarted, and stacked, and the bailiff and the
policemen had nothing to seize but the long, green, uneven stubble.

The whole country must have been there--the field must have been like
a fair-green the whole night--each acre must have taken at least
six men to reap--there must have been thirty head of cattle, of one
sort or other, dragging it home; and there must have been upwards of
a hundred women and children binding and loading. There could at
any rate be no want of evidence to prove the