Judgment had not been given in the Home case when
the Court rose last night, and it is to be deferred to next term. The chief feature of the week has been Mr. Home's cross- examination by Mr. W. M. James, which was, however, scarcely as effective as it would have been if a regular common lawyer had done the work. There was humour, however, in the learned counsel's grave interrogations of Mr. Home as to the scientific phenomena attending his being raised into the air, and the double raps which are said to attend the poor man so pertinaciously wherever he goes—without door or knocker. Mr. Home wisely declined to give a demonstration in Court. As to the judgment, it seems a pity that the Court has no power of deciding that the money should be rescued from both parties alike, and devoted to some sane and honest purpose.
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