n the
7th, 14th, 21st and 28th days of May, 1882, and on the 11th and
18th days of June, 1882, against the peace, etc.:

"These are therefore to command you, in Her Majesty's name, to
be and appear before me, on Monday, the 17th day of July, 1882,
at eleven of the clock in the forenoon, at the Mansion House
Justice-Room, in the said City, or before such other justice
or justices of the peace for the same City as may then be there,
to answer to the said charge, and to be further dealt with
according to law. Herein fail not.

"Given under my hand and seal, this 12th day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1882, at the Mansion House Justice-Room,
aforesaid.
"WHITTAKER ELLIS, Lord Mayor, London."

On the following Monday, July 17, the junior Member for Northampton
stood beside us in the Mansion House dock. The court was of course
crowded, and a great number of people stood outside waiting for a chance
of admission. The Lord Mayor considerately allowed us seats on hearing
that the case would occupy a long time, a piece of attention which he
might also have displayed on the previous Tuesday. It seems extremely
unjust that men who are defending themselves, who need all their
strength for the task, and who may after all be innocent, should be
obliged to stand for hours in a crowded court in the dog-days, and waste
half their energies in the perfectly gratuitous exertion of maintaining
their physical equilibrium.

I shall not describe the proceedings before the Lord Mayor on this
occasion. Properly speaking, it was Mr. Bradlaugh's day, and some time
or other its incidents will be recorded in his biography. Suffice it to
say that he showed his usual legal dexterity, sat on poor Mr. Maloney,
and sadly puzzled the Lord Mayor. I must, however, refer to one point,
as it illustrates the high Christian morality of our prosecutors. Mr.
Maloney had obtained an illegal order from the Lord Mayor to inspect Mr.
Bradlaugh's bank account, and armed with this order, which, even if it
were legal, would not have extended beyond the limits of the City, this
enterprising barrister had overhauled the books of the St. John's
Wood Branch of the London and South-Western Bank. Lord Coleridge's
astonishment at this unheard-of proceeding was only equalled by his
trenchant sarcasm on the Lord Mayor as a legal functionary, and his
bitter cold sneer at Mr. Maloney, who