The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1852.

racter of that house and our system of government,
which had been so highly eulogised in Europe, might be
endangered. He understood that the Earl of Aberdeen
had been sent for by her Majesty. He had a great
opinion of the prudence, and caution, and discretion of
the Earl of Aberdeen ; but he begged to say that, in the
present state of this country, in the present state of Europe,
and after the experiment which for the last ten months
had been tried, the attempt to carry on the government
against the majority of the people of thecountryas shown
bytheir representatives in Parliament —he thought the fu
ture required consideration. (Hear, hear.) Any Go-
vernmeist that was formed should be formed on a broad
basis, so as to obtain the support of the community, and
to effect a progressive improvement in every depart-
ment of the State. (Hear, hear.) It was on that
ground that he ventured humbly to state his opinion—
which was his sole opinion, for he had communicated
with no one—that unless her Majesty's Government—
whoever might assume it—should look to extend the in-
stitutions of the country, and to make more efficient and
more useful the representative system, the consequences
might be disastrous. The Government must be pre-
pared to carry out the law reforms which had been initi-
ated; to continue and complete the free trade system,
which was now admitted; and to effect a reform in the
formation of the house. (Hear.) If there was any-
thing necessary to show the urgency of the last subject,
they need only look to the table of that house, where
there were 130, or he did not know how many election
petitions—(hear, hear)—enough to throw discredit on
the whole representative system of the country. Unless
those who succeeded to office well weighed and consi-
dered how they could best carry out the wishes of the
country, time would be wasted, and they might have
to regret the result. (Hear, hear.) Unless they
were prepared to carry out a reformation in the cha-
racter of that house by giving the mass of the people
the rights to which they were entitled, he could not
look upon any Government as a permanent or steady
Government. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord at the
head of the Government at the present moment was
alleged to have stated that he would stop the progress
of democracy. He could not believe that the noble
lord intended the words he had used to bear the mean-
ing which had been asagned to them. (Hear, hear.)
The constitution of that house was a democratic consti-
tution. The noble lord ;he member for the city of Lon-
don had declared that the mass of the people had their
rights as well as the Crown, and the peers had their
privileges and rights. All he (Mr. Hume) asked was,
that those who succeeded to the Government should
take care that the democracy had their rights, as the
best means of preventing those evils which were alleged
to arise from democracy, whereas in general they arose
from a denial to democracy of those rights, (Hear,
hear.) On that ground he had ventured individually to
express his opinion. He only wished the affairs of the
country might be resumed with as short a delay as pos-
sible. Now was the time for that house, now was the
time for a wise Government to make those changes
which were required, and to sow seeds of satisfaction
and good will, in order to give an example to the whole
world, and to carry on harmoniously the Government of
the British Crown. (Hear, hear.) That opinion he
hoped to see realised, and he could only any attempt
to the contrary could not but fail. (Hear.)
Mr. CAYLEY, agreeing witi much that was said by
the member for Montrose, pronounced an earnest pane-
gyric upon the Derby Ministry but especially upon the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. He said that the right
hon. gentleman entered office yith a very brilliant repu-
tation, and that he left it with that reputation not only
untarnished, but very considerably increased. (Loud
cheers.)
The motion was then agreeC to.

ORDNANCE STORES.
Sir G. PECHELL moved for a continuation of the
returns of 1848 of the Ordnance Stores in hand.
Col. DUNNE hoped that tie gallant member would
defer his motion till the appointment of his successor.
After some conversation, the gallery was cleared for a
division, but their being only thirty members, the motion
fell through, and the house immediately adjourned.

RE-APPEARANCE OP LORD PALMERSTON. -Lord
Palmerston entered the house just before the
discussion on the Ministerial crisis terminated, and took
his seat in his usual position on the first row beyond the
gangway on the Opposition side.
There was a considerable change for the worse in his
appearance since he was last seen in the house ; his face
looked pale and haggard, and he seemed to walk with
difficulty.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS-DEC. 21

- - (Nisi Prins Sittings for London, before Lord Chief
Justice Jervis.)
JACOBS V. MOUFLET.

This was an action to recover damages for a malicious
arrest and prosecution. The defendant pleaded not
guilty. _ _

Tlie plaintiff, who described himself as a wholesale
china dealer and process-server, in Lambeth-walk, stated
that last year he had a writ to serve against one Thomas
Hennings, who was tenant to the defendant of the
" Crystal Palace Hotel," Knightsbridge, and whilst
waiting about for an opportunity to serve it, he saw a
person named Cruise, whom he knew was not a broker,
making a levy for the defendant on the goods of a person
named Getting, who lived in a cottage connected with
the hotel. Shortly afterwards the defendant came, and
Cruise introduced them to each other, saying to the de-
fendant, " This is Moses Jacobs' brother," upon which
plaintiff told defendant he was glad to see him, as he was
instructed to serve a writ upon him, and asked if he
should leave it with defendant's attorney. The defendant
replied he knew nothing about it, and the plaintiff was a
scoundrel, and told him to be off about his business. He
had nothing to do with the Crystal Palace Hotel, and had
never been there ; but shortly afterwards he saw in the
newspapers that a bill had been preferred against himself,
Hennings, and two other persons, for keeping it open as
a casino, and allowing music and dancing there without a
license ; upon which he came up to town and entered
into recognisances to appear and be tried upon the in-
dictment. A few days afterwards the defendant and his
wife, accompanied by a policeman with a warrant, came
to his house at Lambeth, to apprehend him upon this
bill, and he produced to them a notice of his having en-
tered into recognisances to appear to it ; but the defen-
dant, who is a French cook, said he was " one rogue,
and one scoundrel, and that the notice was one forgery ;"
and thereupon; at defendant's instigation, the plaintiff
was taken to the station-house, whereupon, producing
the notice of recognisances, he was discharged by the
inspector. His own brother, Moses Jacobs, though not
an attorney,, acted for the defendant as attorney in the
indictment against him ; and he attrihuted all the pro-
ceedings to his brother's instigation. Hennings used to
keep the Flora Gardens, Camberwell, but became bank-
rupt ; and plaintiff was appointed to hold the prpperty
in trust for the creditors.

The Lord Chief Justice left the whole matter to the
jury, who retired for half an hour, and then returned a
verdict for the defendant as to the prosecution, on the
ground that it was not Cone maliciously ; and for the
plaintiff for the arrest, with is. damages.—Verdict
accordingly.