DR KENEALY AND MAGNA CHARTA.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 213, 13 February 1875, Page 3

DR KENEALY AND MAGNA CHARTA.

(Evening Mail.) Dr Kenealy haa issued an address to the people of England, Wales, and Scotland, calling upon them to form a Magna Charta Association of Great Britain, the object of which is to restore Magna Charta, every clause of which he declares has been gradually repealed. He proposes to have committees formed throughout the kingdom for the purpose. Every person who subscribes Id a week shall be entitled to be a member of the association. Every twenty-four persons who subscribe to receive two copies of the Englishman weekly free. "Let me have," says he, "a million subscribers, and within two years I shall have a fund in hand which will enable me to return 100 members of the middle and the operative class to Parliament, and with these men acting with me, [ will destroy the despotism that now exists. But why should I not have two, three, five millions of subscribers to the association ? AHiy should I not in two years have a sum deposited in the names of the trustees foi this grand league which will enable its mem bers to return 250 members of the operative and middle classes to the House of Commons, and with these what wonders may there not be achieved. Give them to me. and I will lead them on to 6uch a victory over class legislation as was never known ii England before, and I will so crusb the eerpent head of despotism that it nevei shall revive." Alluding to his disbarment, he announces that it was what he anticipated, and as his paper was the last resource, he should on the British public to sup

port it; that paper from which his only snrans of subsistence is derived, Alluding lo i be benchers, he says that the body is now reduced to serfdom, which it well deserves. That it is composed of a clique of slaves and cowards, and is remarkable for its seivility, its meanness, and abject fear. Referring to the bar, he says, any man of honor may well blush to belong now to the English bar. That it is better to sweep a crossing than belong to that tongue-tied profession. Alluding to his intended appeal to the bench to be restored, he says, judging the bench by the conduct of three of its members, he ia satisfied there is not honesty, manliness, or independence enough there to do what would amount to a reproof of the Lord Chancellor for writing to Dr Kenealy the letter he did, and subsequently for taking away bis silk. He urges that the latter event ought to have been postponed for another year, so that it would not prejudice the deliberations of the bench on his appeal being heard. Any appeal, therefore, to them would only now be a mockery. He doubts, after the Chancellor's conduct, whether he should go,through the solemn mockery of an appeal, the act of his Lordship having deprived him of whatever chance of justice he may have had from the Final Court of Appeal. He mentions that when an eminent Queen's Counsel was disbarred by the Middle Temple some years ago, the Lord Chancellor waited for a whole year before he cancelled his patent, in order that it might be seen whether he appealed. In the course of his address, he says that he never was unprepared for the tyranny that has been practised upon him by the Benchers, for pending the trial he was assured that they intended to disbar him when the trial was over. Even Mrs Kenealy was similarly informed by one of the Tichborne family. His ruin was resolved upon, foreshadowed, predicted, almost published six months before the trial ended. He ironically refers to his paper as " that treasonable and b.asphemous publication," and that " frightful periodical." He hopes soon to be in Parliament; but doubts it, as Gladstone and Disraeli will join in railing at him, like the two thieves upon the Cross, and unite to keep him out. He will make the House ring with his denunciations of the system of electing Judges. He declares the Englishman has never libelled any body, and all those Benchers who call it a libellous paper are, " in plain, outspoken language, infamous liars, and the worse libellers themselves." He declares that " if Disraeli sends him to Newgate, Newgate will send him to Parliament; but he hopes to get there without, when he will test whether England is really extinct or not. The donkeys will not bray him down, he will force Brand to let him catch the Speaker's eye, when they will hear truths that have not been heard for years ; and that, as in the Queen's Bench, he muzzled and chained Cerberus for nearly a year, bo will he treat that other three-headed dog, Gladstone, Cross, and Disraeli, if they dare to treat him unfairly. The Judges never forgave him for showing to the world that he was their lord and master. He knew his power. He kept them in hand as easily as he might keep three puppies in the leash. They kicked and chafed, and barked and howled every day ; but they were powerless. He did it without difficulty, and he assures the people that if he can get in, he will manage the House of Commons with equal ease, and he hopes without once losing equanimity. He has only to point out that we are drifting into civil war, and the House will listsn. He concludes by assuring the people that the Magna Charta Association is national and universal, having nothing to do with Arthur Orton or with the Kenealy wrong. Its objects are to bring back Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights ; to establish a free and honest Press ; to return 250 people's representatives ; to make bribery at an election an act of felony ; to abolish the Income-Tax Act; to secure a free breakfast table ; to have a triennial Parliament; to restore her Crown to the Queen ; to support the House of Lords, and to exclude lawyers from Parliament. He then calls upon them to hold public meetings to aid his cause. He commences his address with, "Dear fellow-country people, and women," and c( nulude 3 , "I am, men and women, with the greatest respect and love to all of you." Here follows his signature. He aunounces that he will not discontinue the use of his former title of " Q.C." which will appear as usual, and he leaves the Lord Chancellor to take what steps he pleases in the matter.