text:  We shall endeavour to do so; for while it is on this side of the Channel perfectly notorious that the traversers have been proved guilty of the enormous misdemeanours with which they were charged--guilty in law and guilty in fact--on the other side of the Channel we find since commencing this article that the chief delinquent Daniel O'Connell has the amazing audacity repeatedly and deliberately to declare in public that he has been "ACQUITTED ON THE MERITS!" Without pausing to find words which would fitly characterize such conduct we shall content ourselves with the following judicial declaration made by Lord Brougham in giving judgment in the House of Lords a declaration heard and necessarily acquiesced in by every member of the court:-- "The whole of the learned judges with one voice declare that on the merits at any rate they have no doubt at all--that on the great merits and substance of the case they are unanimously agreed