but when he had heard the Attorney-general to-night arraigning the judges of the land—not in respect of the authority they had usurped, but in respect of the judgment he himself had invited them to pronounce—for not having decided with him after an argument of three days, unexampled in the profession for legal knowledge, for fertility of illustration, and for richness of research—when he had heard the noble Lord whom he saw opposite yesterday arraigning those judges, almost in similar terms; and when—which he confessed pained him most of all—when he heard the great leader of the great Conservative party of this country, whose life had been devoted to the earnest maintenance of their ancient institutions—when he heard that right hon. Gentleman most delicately, most kindly, and most respectfully, he granted, taking judgment after judgment of those venerable judges, and commenting upon them in the kindest spirit, so far as the right hon. Baronet's intentions were concerned; but the very subjecting of them to that commentary must, as it seemed to him, at least, show the tremendous nature of the contest in which they were engaged—when such powers, such feelings, such genius, and such associations, were directly arrayed against the majesty of the law, and the judges of the Queen's Bench, he felt justified in saying that they were arrived at the point of a Great and Stupendous Crisis.