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The Alexandra case is again under trial, and the Chief

Baron also. That eminent judge directed the jury, in a speech which all the world and the jury understood to be a direction for acquittal, on the ground that unless equipment could be proved in Liverpool the law had not been violated. The Attorney-General tendered a bill of exceptions, but the Chief Baron now says he said something, or intended to say something, of quite a different tenor. If, therefore, the new trial for which a rule has been granted should ultimately be refused, but an appeal on the law conceded, the basis of the appeal must be the Chief Baron's second thoughts. It will not be a little difficult, under those circumstances, either to reverse the decision or to lay down the law with anything like adequate fullness.

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