wanting in dignity of mind. No one more grave or solemn than he on a capital trial, nor more sensible than he how slight is the claim man has to superiority above his fellows: how often the felon's dock holds one whose guilt is to be imputed to the world in which he lives. The parent deserves the rod as often as the child, planting the very vices which he scourges. He sat almost weighed down by a deep sense of responsibility, and not holding himself of a different nature from the poor criminals whom he tried. His feeling heart worked within him, and he grew nervous over his work. This betrayed itself in a certain occasional querulousness and caustic rebuke. He detested all claptrap and sensational accompaniment. On one occasion he observed, with some sharpness, that he was not accustomed to have murders opened like sensation novels,-a sharpness of rebuke rare with him, and which nothing but a nervous dread of appearing to bear too hard on the fallen would have drawn from him.

"Perhaps something at that moment pressed him close,
Else was he seldom bitter, or morose."

Occasionally the old spirit would break out in a sarcasm, but his general behaviour to the Bar was correct, courteous, and kind.

After twelve years' service upon the Bench, his health began to decline. During the last year of his life, the state of his health caused serious anxiety to his friends. Up to that time he had endured much labour without appearing to be the worse for it. Although he had always suffered from a feeble digestion, yet he had escaped serious illness, and his wiry frame and power of supporting great bodily and mental fatigue, gave hopes that his life would be long in the land which God had given him. It pleased God to order it otherwise. The mandate went forth, he heard, worshipped, and bowed down before it. The approach of death did not terrify. It was not new to his contemplation. He discoursed upon his state of health and the disposition of his affairs with calmness,

and not without a characteristic mixture of pathos and pleasantry. He seemed to wish to light up sad faces even in the chamber of mortal sickness. As he detailed his sufferings, sick dreams, and wandering thoughts, with a humorous mixture of drollery, the doctors could scarcely avoid a smile, and there were gleams upon mournful faces. After some time of suffering, patiently endured, he died at his house in Hyde Park Square, London, on October 30, 1865, aged 68, and was buried at Willesden Church near London. The judges adjourned their courts to attend his funeral, and there was not one amongst those who knew him who did not mourn for "Dear Old Charley Crompton." He left behind a widow and seven children. There were eight children born to him, but one son of the marriage died young. In his domestic life he was eminently blessed. His wife and children deserved the vast love he bore them. Till his last illness his house was the house of pleasantness and peace, and vice and folly knew it was no place for them.

It would be a charming picture for one to paint whose hand were equal to the work, to describe him in his home, sportive, happy, and diffusing happiness: to note his intercourse with his sons, entering as a companion into their pursuits and thoughts—their friend, loved associate, and confidant : So infusing his wise and gentle counsel, that it went on its refreshing way to the heart at once. They drew to their father instinctively as to their true and best friend. Love cast out fear, and they wore no disguise before him. Masks were never worn in that house. The house was always the most cheery when the master was at home; his very step had music in it to his wife, children, and servants. He loved to lead the conversation to some entertaining and improving subject: he was ready at all times for a game at romps with the young ones; he had fun for the frolicsome, mirth for the cheerful, wisdom for the grave, and wit for the mercurial. Natural and at home with all, he was beloved by all who knew him. "Oh madam," said one of his old domestics to her mistress, once

when the master was away, "the house seems so dull without master." Open as day himself, he made all unconsciously sincere. His influence in his home was unbounded. To displease him was punishment enough. When away from home he wrote long letters to his children, even to the very young, full of merry jokes; he became as a little child to them, and taught them wisdom in play. The tenderness and gentleness of his nature developed themselves in his domestic life, and softened much of the old tendency to satire. He said once of himself "I grow lenior et melior I hope as I grow older." It was true, and so be it with all.

His life may be pronounced happy: he won enough of fame for a moderate mind. True to himself, he ran a consistent course and was preserved from pride in the hour of his wealth. He owed nothing to patronage, something to nature, much to labour, and all to God. Original, various, plain, and natural, fine-grained under a rough bark, with a free tongue and a pure life, a sharp tongue and a tender heart, a man of feeling and a man of mirth, he lived loving much and beloved, and died regretful yet resigned, amidst tears which he sought to change into smiles, good without pretence, humble, hopeful, tender, and true.

LAWRENCE PEEL.

ART. II.-CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

[AT the conclusion of the article upon Criminal Procedure in our last number, the forms of an indictment and of a criminal information in England, were set out in order that they might be compared with the forms of an indictment and of criminal letters in Scotland, and we much regret that pressure of other matter should have prevented the forms in both countries from appearing in the same number; we trust, however, that our readers will refer to our last number and compare

the English and Scotch forms, as we think that an ocular inspection of the two will go very far to convince them, that much simplification is expedient, and may well be made in the forms in use in Scotland. Two of the simplest and shortest forms out of a large number of forms with which we have been furnished have been selected. The form of criminal letters has been selected, because it contains the notice of the two courts, at which the defendant is summoned to appear under the provisions of the 16 & 17 Vict., c. 80, s. 35, which does not apply to the Superior Courts.-ED. L. M. & R.]

HE following is the form of an indictment in Scotland:

THE

25th day of March 1853,

"Henry Rose, now or lately prisoner in the prison of Dundee, you are Indicted and Accused, at the instance of George Patton Esquire, Her Majesty's Advocate for Her Majesty's interest: That Albeit, by the laws of this and of every other well-governed realm, Bigamy is a crime of an heinous nature, and severely punishable : yet true it is and of verity, that you the said Henry Rose are guilty of the said crime, actor, or art and part in so far as, you the said Henry Rose having, under the name of Hugh Henry Rose, on the [Friday or on one or other of the days of that month, or of February immediately preceding, or of April immediately following, within Saint James' Church, in the parish of Norland, in the county of Middlesex, in England, been lawfully married, according to the rites and ceremonies of the Established Church of England, to Sarah Ann Harvey, now or lately residing with Mrs Sophia Gover or Harvey, a widow, her mother, in or near Pile Street, in the parish of Saint Mary Redcliffe, in the city of Bristol, in England, the marriage ceremony having been performed by the Reverend William Haywood Ibotson, then incumbent of the said church, and now or lately residing at Edwinstone Vicarage, near Ollerton, in the county of Notts, or Nottingham, in England, and you having thereafter lived and cohabited with the said Sarah Ann Harvey as your wife, and the said Sarah Ann Harvey being still alive, and the said marriage still subsisting, you the said Henry Rose did, on the

16th day of April 1866,

[Monday

or on one or other of the days of that month, or of March immediately preceding, or of May immediately following, within Heathfield House, in or near Hawkhill, Dundee, then and now or lately occupied by the Reverend William Wilson, minister of Free Saint Paul's Church, Dundee, then and now or lately residing there, wickedly and feloniously enter into a matrimonial connection with Amelia or Emily Stiven or Stephens, a factory-worker, then and now or lately residing in or near Gray's Close, High Street, Dundee, the ceremony having been performed by the said Reverend William Wilson, and you did thereafter cohabit with the said Amelia or Emily Stiven or Stephens as your wife; and this, you did, well knowing that the said Sarah Ann Harvey your wife was still alive, and that your marriage with her still subsisted; And you the said Henry Rose having been apprehended and taken before John William Thompson, Esquire, sheriff-substitute of Forfarshire, did, in his presence at Dundee, on the 8th day of June, 1866,

emit and subscribe a declaration : Which declaration; as also a paper or document, bearing to be entituled on the back 'Extract from the Marriage Register of St. James' Church, parish of Norland,' or to be similarly entituled; As also a paper, bearing to be entituled on the back Certificate of Proclamation of Banns and Marriage of Henry Rose and Emily Stephens,' or to be similarly entituled; As also the register of marriages for the parish of Saint James, Norland, in the county of Middlesex, commencing on or about 3rd May 1846, and ending on or about 21st December 1862, being to be used in evidence against you the said Henry Rose at your trial, will, for that purpose, be in due time lodged in the hands of the Clerk of the Circuit-Court of Justiciary before which you are to be tried, that you may have an opportunity of seeing the same: -All which, or part thereof, being found proven by the verdict of an assize, or admitted by the judicial confession of you the said Henry Rose, before the Lord Justice-General, Lord-Justice Clerk, and Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, in a Circuit-Court of Justiciary to be holden by them, or by any one or more of their number, within the burgh of Dundee, in the month of September, in this present year 1866, you the said Henry Rose ought to be punished with the pains of law, to deter others from committing the like crimes in all time coming.

"JOHN MILLAR, A.D.