Transcribed from the 1912 Gresham Publishing Company edition(Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 19) by DavidPrice,
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
BY
CHARLES DICKENS
CONTENTS
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The Agricultural Interest (Morning Chronicle, March9, 1844) | |
Threatening Letter to Thomas Hood from an AncientGentleman (Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany,May, 1844) | |
Crime and Education (Daily News, February 4,1846) | |
Capital Punishment (I–III; Daily News, March9, 13, and 16, 1846) | |
The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall (DouglasJerrold’s Shilling Magazine, August, 1845) | |
In Memoriam: W. M. Thackeray (Cornhill Magazine,February, 1864) | |
Adelaide Anne Procter: Introduction to her Legends andLyrics (1866) | |
Chauncey Hare Townshend: Explanatory Introduction toReligious Opinions by the Late Reverend Chauncey HareTownshend (1869) | |
On Mr. Fechter’s Acting (Atlantic Monthly,August, 1869) |
p. 529THEAGRICULTURAL INTEREST
The present Government, havingshown itself to be particularly clever in its management ofIndictments for Conspiracy, cannot do better, we think (keepingin its administrative eye the pacification of some of its mostinfluential and most unruly supporters), than indict the wholemanufacturing interest of the country for a conspiracy againstthe agricultural interest. As the jury ought to be beyondimpeachment, the panel might be chosen among the Duke ofBuckingham’s tenants, with the Duke of Buckingham himselfas foreman; and, to the end that the country might be quitesatisfied with the judge, and have ample security beforehand forhis moderation and impartiality, it would be desirable, perhaps,to make such a slight change in the working of the law (a merenothing to a Conservative Government, bent upon its end), aswould enable the question to be tried before an EcclesiasticalCou