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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 328, 1 July 1875, Page 3

A paper engaged a reporter to travel and send by wire all important news. The reporter was a novice, and sent the following important news to his paper : —“A judge is down shooting here.” The editor telegraphed back to his hireling —“Let yourself to him for a target.” A case of premature burial has happened at Mourmelon, in the Marne. A young woman disappointed in love swallowed some poison. She was thought to be dead, and, as is the custom in France, the funeral was fixed for the morrow. As the coffin was being lowered into the grave a noise was heard inside, and on opening it she was found to have shifted her position. This time she was dead indeed, and it is supposed that the noise heard was her last convulsion. The event caused great dismay and indignation among the mourners. Lord Charles Russell filled the chair of the Serjeant-at-Arms in the House of Commons for the last time on March 23rd, the Daily News states. At a few minutes to four his lordship preceded the Speaker, as usual on his entry to the House, and having deposited the mace on the table, took his wonted position at the bar. At the expiration of an hour he finally quitted the chair, in which he was succeeded by Mr Gossett, the new Serjeant. Turning, then, towards the Speaker, the noble lord bowed and withdrew. Only a few persons seemed to notice the incident. Lord Charles had held the office from 1848. Mr Disraeli, who is pacifying, we cannot exactly say leading, the House of Commons by doing nothing in a most humorous way, disposed of Mr Whallcy by a most felicitous retort. Two Judges, Mr Justice Lawson in Ireland, and Sir A. Cockburn in England, have recently censured juries in very strong language for failure of duty, and Dr Kenealy, true to his mission of assailing Judges, proposed some days since to ask rhe Prime Minister if he intended to introduce any measure for the protection of juries. He was not, however, present when his question came on, and Mr Whalley would not read it. The Doctor, on April Bth, again kept away, but Mr Whalley read his question, and Mr Disraeli answered it. He had no control over the Judges, which belonged exclusively to Parliament, but greatly as he respected trial by jury, he could not believe that juries were infallible, and “ from wbat I have observed of the sayings and doings of the member for Stoke and the hon member for Peterborough, I believe that is an opinion which they in some degree share with me.” As Mr Whalley had a petition praying for a Royal Commission to upset the verdict in the Ticbbocne case, the House roared,