Correspondence.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 355, 19 March 1861, Page 2

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Colonist.

Sir—lf you can find room in your paper for the following letter, extracted from an Auckjand; one, I think some of your readers would be,pleased. In passing, may I be allowed to ask them or you, if a copy of *he Special or Grand Jurors in Mr. Tinlines shrievalty can be procured, as the present Nilson list seems to be Very circumscribed, and not altogether competed of the right sort of stuff? Yours, &c, A COMMON JUROR.

'the art of UN-packing juries.* ' JPo the Editor of the Southern Cross.

vSik—Having been desirous of seeing what Jeremy Bent-ham had to say on tlie subject of mlh'l. 1 fouad the observations of the great juris--OMih to he comprised in a chapter in his fifth •/•■iliisx-. on the Art of Packing Special-Juries, and :heir Effect upon Libel Law. \,;.~\-'". 'i ilu not '.intend to trouble your-readers with ■y of iluj observations I met with there. In this •rid of the word we are more familiar.with un-

u'kiiisi fhau with packing; and the following specimen' of the art of uupadung as applied to Speciai Juries may probably prove as edifying to nis community as anything that' could be exI 1 noted from tjie pages of Benthain; "V 'The Special Jury list for 1860 contained 110 .'•aiiics: tiie Special Jury list for 1861 contains 83 •umes. The Special Jury list is made up by the Sheriff annually, from the Common Jury list; and Me is instructed to place in the list, of - Special^ Jurors all persons of the rank of esquire or mv^r-v. chant, and others of higher rank ; the ineinl»e*i.o£; the. Legislative Council and functionaries of, the Government, as well ?s ministers of religi,w) v :phy-: •icians, and others haying peculiar diyiea^being

exempt. 'The Special Jury list for 186 ft contains 47 names which do not appear on tlje Special Jury • list of the. present year. Of these 4 have been, pointed out as.representing" one: person who iß^ ' dead and 3 persons who are exempt; probably, there may be other names left out for a sufficient reason. Of the remaining 44 names, 19 are altor. got her omitted on the Jury list/ The designation* of the remainder are altered so as to make it ou,t off the power oi the Sheriff to put them on tW Special Jury list. 'The following is a list of names altogether initted:— ... Bel), Augustus, Dedwood, gentleman Buchanan John, Parnell. gentleman ' ■ Buekland William, Buckland road, esquiro *Bimisiile, John Henry, Upper Queen».street, merchant f Davis Charles, Queen-street, merchant , Fishwick, Edward, Lucas' Creek, gentleman Graham, Walter Knott, Wellington Place, merchant Graham George Samuel, Cobuig-street, merchant. Hargreaves Joseph, East Tamaki, enquire ' Ireland Barton, llobson-street, merchant Macky Thomas, Victoria-street, mershant Urtson William, East Tamaki, esquire Macfarkne, John Sangster, Parnell, gentleman Peacock S.P., East Tamaki. retired field officer » i'dwell Charles l|||tyv Onehunga, merchant tleiit Joseph, Cli»pel--streat, genticuun ■, i Stiioklanil, 0. li, Parnell, merchant - - -» Welister Gtj<>i'»e, Grcy-stieft, murehant '; - ;;■■" Wilson Francis llawk^r, I'arnelij.jyentremah" v » *!']iitercil i'j ihis year's list as TUo-s. Buniside f filtered in tliis year's list as Thos. Davis ' The, following is a list of names which ap--peared in the Special Jury list of 1860, hut which, are not in the Special Jury list of 1861 in coiise-.^ quence of the designations appended to their names., beiug altered ;— "

Name. Designation in 18HO"; do. in ISOL. Carleton, Hugh, Official Bay, esquiro settler Cooluhan Hugh, Queen-street, esquire baker Cruickshank l fas.,Shorfciand-st. ni'-'cliant ironmonger. DUworth James, Remuera, esqui o farmer Edmonds S.J., Victoria-street merchant st.nreke-.jpor Farral George, Onehunga esquire settler Fuley Edmund, Otahulm esquire fanner Foisaith Samuel, Holwon-st. merchant draper Gondfellow, Wm. (JfcaraCieek -.•squire farmer Graham. John, Remuera merchant draper Graham, Robert, Remuera esquire farmer Griffin William, Mobson st.- esq-n're painter Henderson Jas., Hobson-st merchant commission a.nent Jupp Henry, Victoria-st, .merchant brewer and maltster Lynch Dai.iel, Auckland, esquire timl-ermer-May Joseph. Mount Rt,.Jnhn p-quifo firmer Owen Ge«i. 8., Wellington-st. nwohant storekeeper O'Niell Allan. vorth Shore esq.iire- farmer Phillips P. A., Waterloo Quad., merchant storekeeper Rout. Samii-'l, High-street, ■ me-vlnnr clerk S aart .lames, Shonhnd-st. merchant ironmonger Varty John. Painell gentleman shopkeeper Williams William, Cook-street gentleman settler * I am, iS-c, 'James Busby. * Auckland, February 20.'