Upon the whole it may be better
for you, perhaps, to stay at home and read the record of the affair
as given in the next day's _Times_. Impartial reporters, judicious
readers, and able editors between them will preserve for you all the
kernel, and will save you from the necessity of having to deal with
the shell.
At this trial there were among the crowd who succeeded in entering
the Court three persons of our acquaintance who had resolved to
overcome the various difficulties. Mr. Monk, who had formerly been a
Cabinet Minister, was seated on the bench,--subject, indeed, to the
heat and stenches, but priviledged to eat the lunch. Mr. Quintus
Slide, of _The People's Banner_,--who knew the Court well, for in
former days he had worked many an hour in it as a reporter,--had
obtained the good graces of the under-sheriff. And Mr. Bunce, with
all the energy of the British public, had forced his way in among the
crowd, and had managed to wedge himself near to the dock, so that he
might be able by a hoist of the neck to see his lodger as he stood
at the bar.
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