text: [27] May we venture to suggest that the elaborate and long and deeply-considered opinions of the judges of the land who had been summoned by the Lords to advise them were worthy of more than the single day or day and a half's examination which they received before they were so peremptorily pronounced to be "_clearly_ erroneous?" And may we with no little pain suggest to Lord Campbell that the array of _Gamaliels_ at whose feet he had _sate_ during his whole life--whose feet he had indeed so very recently quitted--whose integrity whose profound learning whose sagacity none has had larger experience of than he--are entitled to look at his cavalier-like treatment of their best services with a feeling stronger than that of mere surprise? In concluding this long article--in expressing our conviction of the error of the Lords--we feel one consolation at all events--that if we err we err in good company; and that we are not conscious of having transgressed the limits of legitimate discussion in exercising as undoubted a right of its kind as these three peers exercised in branding so overwhelming a majority of the judges of the land with the imputation of ignorance of those laws which all their lives had been spent in administering