text: " But behold! a last desperate throw of the dice from the prison-house--a speculative and desponding appeal to the proverbial uncertainty of the law; and to the unspeakable amazement and disgust of the country an alleged technical slip in the conduct of the proceedings not touching or even approaching the established MERITS of the case either in fact or law has been held by the highest tribunal in the land sufficient to nullify the whole which had been done and to restore to liberty the dangerous delinquents reveling in misrepresentation and falsehood concerning the grounds of their escape on punishment--in their delirium of delight and triumph even threatening an IMPEACHMENT against the officers of the crown against even the judges of the land for the part they have borne in these reversed proceedings! Making all due allowance for these extravagant fooleries it is obvious that the event which has given rise to them is one calculated to excite profound concern and very great _curiosity_