The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . of jurors should be some-what raised, and that there should be but onepanel. In tendering the oath, the conscientiousscruples of witnesses wei-e to exempt them equallywith Moravians, Quakers, and Separatists fromtaking it. The judge was also to be empoweredto oider refreshments for juries; and if at theend of twelve hours a jury was not unanimous,it might be liberated, and a new trial take were the j^rincipal features of t
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . of jurors should be some-what raised, and that there should be but onepanel. In tendering the oath, the conscientiousscruples of witnesses wei-e to exempt them equallywith Moravians, Quakers, and Separatists fromtaking it. The judge was also to be empoweredto oider refreshments for juries; and if at theend of twelve hours a jury was not unanimous,it might be liberated, and a new trial take were the j^rincipal features of the lord-chancellors bill, which was cordially received byboth houses, and afterwards passed into important measure in the way of legis-lative reform, was in the amendment of thenavigation laws, by which the hard measure ofexcluding foreign vessels from our coasting tradewas abolished—and by this conclusive decision,the last remaining fetters were struck off fromthe free navigation of the sea. These move-ments in the right direction were closed by thepassing of a bill, introduced by the attorney-general, for the suppression of But although 101 out of 121 bills were passedduring this parliamentary session, they excitedlittle interest, the chief attention being nowengrossed with the events of the war in theCrimea. Some of the most important of thesebills were among the rejected, and three of themwere ministerial. Indeed, the state of the publicmind at the commencement of 1855 was little infavour of government, and ministers had lostthe national confidence at a time when it wasmost necessary for their support. For ninemonths the war hadcontinued, during whichour army was over-worked, underfed, andwasted away by diseasesoccasioned through wantof proper management;and with every fieshreport from the Crimeathat told of nothing butsuffering and disaster,the charges againstministerial ineptitudebecame louder and moreconfirmed. These brokeforth into full off
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