_"A Mockery," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 244).--Thomas Lord Denman is the author
of the phrase in question. That noble lord, in giving his judgment in the
case of O'Connell and others against the Queen, in the House of Lords,
September 4, 1844, thus alluded to the judgment of the Court of Queen's
Bench in Ireland, overruling the challenge by the traversers to the array,
on account of the fraudulent omission of fifty-nine names from the list of
jurors of the county of the city of Dublin:
"If it is possible that such a practice as that which has taken place
in the present instance should be allowed to pass without a remedy (and
no other remedy has been suggested), trial by jury itself, instead of
being a security to persons who are accused, will be _a delusion, a
mockery, and a snare_."
See Clark and Finnelly's _Reports of Cases in the House of Lords_, vol. xi.
p. 351.