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Show tho verdict will be largely a class division, divis-ion, tho aristocratio circle siding with the decisiou, while the msssof the public pub-lic sympathize with t'umuuug, uud accu.se the judge ot gross partiality. The his.s!tij; with which the gaiiery of th. court saluted the verdict win' repeated re-peated outside by au exciting crowd thronging the corridors. Instating allusion al-lusion were addressed to tho defendants. defend-ants. 2iir. Lewie, the soli-itor, had to tly lor gaiety to n adjacent chancery c.iuri, where ho escaped by clinibiug over the bench. Sir K ivvard Clarke's friends fear that the iucreased diliuctlou he Ins acquired acquir-ed in the trial will not commend aim to court. The line he took iu hi allus-I allus-I ion to the l'rince of Wa ci U attended with considerable toclai risk. A Jobby report credits certain ministers witu ti lling Sir Kdward that he went too far iu Ins comments ou the l'rince of Wales. l'olitical issues of the affair promise a speedy development, ilie group ot radical iu the house of common have decided to r:i.st) a discussion w ith special spe-cial reloreuce to tnu priuue by motions upon the army estimate. An indication of how th. religious public view the scandal is given iu the speech made ul a meeting ol Metiiodiet leader lust night ou tile suppression of gambling. Alouiion, president of the Wesieyan coutereuce, declared that gambliug permeated per-meated ail classes, aud that il wan lima the evil was confronted, else it would ruin society. 1'rice Uugties was cheered in tayoig lie took tho tint opportunity to thank Sir Kdard Clarke lor his tearless tear-less and manly speech. It was ground for bitter regret that the heir to ihe throne thoulu be given to one of the worst forms of gambling. WHAT THE U1NDOV rtliS SATS. Lonkdn, June 10. The Chronicle has a scatuiug article, two columns iu length, in which it condemns the lind fug of the jury aud Lord Coleridge's partiality. It declares that no evidence was adduced inconsistent with the by-pothesis by-pothesis that ('untitling merely played a well-known coop de trcis. It bays the verdict means that though twenty years a card player, without, provoking the slightest suspiciou, Camming bad suddenly sud-denly plunged into a wild orgy, cheating cheat-ing the only man in the world ou whose patroung. his social and professional life depended. There was nothing Incredible In-credible iu hi signing the document ou the strength of a statement from Wale' "cringing minion" dooming him to a late worse than death in order to save what Wale wa pleased to call bis honor. The article flatly accuses tho Trine, of Wale of violating his pledge of secrecy, se-crecy, and calls upon the authorities to indict Sir William Gordon Ctimining for tho criminal offense of cheating, it declares that, if tbey do not, the public will know what to think, and. if the Duke of Cumtiriilga surinks from bis duty in tbit, regarU, lo his subject, th. hope of uionarony is gone when it can no longer ri jr.'ovr& .jv.-hat my fairly be cantru:-u:aj(,virtivuJi . grotesque to have a prince caryit.g about baccaral counters wherever he goes as u .Mohammedan carries his praying carpet," concludes the Chronicle. Chron-icle. Tho Telegraph urges that pity be mingled with condemnation over the miserable end of a brilliant career. Il warmly defends the prince of Wales against everything bin iudiscretion. The Times advises the Wilson family, which it accuses of being indirectly responsible re-sponsible for the tragic ruin of a fine career, to remain iu social retirement. The Times probably regrets the l'rince of Wales' connection with the affair. Making every allowance for the men in the l'rince of H ales' situation anil admitting tho t tct w i'.h which he pur-forms pur-forms his duties, if he is known to pursue questionable pleasures, the serious seri-ous punlic who are the backbone of England will ri-.eut it. "Wo almost wi.-h, for the sake of English society, that the IVinceof Wales had also signed a declaration that lib would never touch c ird as iiu." The Standaril says tha defendants and their friends ha o tarnished reputation?, reputa-tion?, even if the plaintiff did come out the worst. It is not to be Ibrhtly forgotten for-gotten that the l'riuco of Wales instigated insti-gated the gaiuu and carried the apparatus ap-paratus about with bun. THK BACCARAT DKCISIOX. Tha Aritoerey Nuateln. tha Verdict, tha Alanaea Condemn ft. London. Juno 10. One of the jurymen jury-men who was interviewed after the j court in the baccarat case bad ' adjourned said there w as no I doubt from the first moment the jury j retired as to how the verdict would go. Each of the jurymen was asked, as soon as they were alone, whether he was for plaintiff or for defendants, and each reply was given without hesitation hesita-tion and immediately, "For the defendants." de-fendants." 'The juryman frankly admitted ad-mitted that be sympathized with the I plaintiff, but, although he would have liked to have found for the plaintiff, he could not conscientiously do so iu the face of the evidence. It appeared to him the jury made up their minds before be-fore the lord chief justice summed up the case. Th. division of public feeling upon |