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George Bellingham, Chief Magistrate, delivered the text of a proclamation, royal or provincial, or declared the poll when the people of Port Nassau chose their Selectmen. This morning Mr. Bellingham held session within, in the long, airy Court-room, and dispensed justice with the help of three fellow-magistrates Mr. Trask, Mr. Somershall, and our friend Mr. Wapshott.
Somershall not only made it a practice to sit long at dinner and sleep after it; he invariably lost his temper if the dinner-hour were delayed; and, being deaf as well as honest, he was capable of blurting out his mind in a fashion to confound either of these disingenuous courses. As for Mr. Wapshott, the wording of the Commission had frightened him, and he wished himself at home. It was Mr.
Somershall took his hand from his ear and nodded, satisfied with having made his point. "Wounding?" echoed the Collector, addressing the Chairman. "To be frank with you, sir, I had not heard of this though it scarcely affects my plea." Mr. Bellingham smiled indulgently. "Say no more, Captain Vyell pray say no more!
To be sure the Court might by dilatory process linger out the hearing of the Weights and Measures cases one of which was being scandalously interrupted at this moment or it might adjourn for dinner and reassemble in the afternoon, by which time the sands of Ruth Josselin's five hours' ignominy would be running out. But here Mr. Somershall had to be reckoned with. Mr.
"Ruth Josselin," he continued, "has suffered the scourge for having resisted Beadle Shadbolt in the discharge of his duty, and for unlawful wounding." "Excuse me," put in Mr. Somershall, speaking across from the Chairman's left. Mr. Somershall was afflicted with deafness, but liked to assert himself whenever a word by chance reached him and gave him a cue.
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