Sir Thomas Nelson is keeping the pot boiling.

He employs Sir Hardinge Giffard and a tail of juniors in Court, and half the detectives of London outside.

These surreptitious gentleman, who ought to be engaged in detecting crime, are busily occupied in purchasing the _Freethinker_, waylaying newsvendors' messengers, intimidating shopkeepers, and serving notices on the defendants.

What money, unscrupulously obtained and unscrupulously expended, can do is being done.

But there is one thing it cannot do.