In
the previous trial in the Court of Queen's Bench, how grandly Serjeant
Rowland stood up for the rights of British husbands! with what pathos he
depicted the conjugal paradise, the innocent children prattling round
their happy parents, the serpent, the destroyer, entering into that
Belgravian Eden; the wretched and deserted husband alone by his
desecrated hearth, and calling for redress on his country! Rowland wept
freely during his noble harangue. At not a shilling under twenty thousand
pounds would he estimate the cost of his client's injuries. The jury was
very much affected: the evening papers gave Rowland's address in extenso,
with some pretty sharp raps at the aristocracy in general. The Day, the
principal morning journal of that period, came out with a leading article
the next morning, in which every party concerned and every institution
was knocked about. The disgrace of the peerage, the ruin of the monarchy
(with a retrospective view of the well-known case of Gyges and
Candaules), the monstrosity of the crime, and the absurdity of the
tribunal and the punishment, were all set forth in the terrible leading
article of the Day.
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