The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-23 00:00:00

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I be scattered as a select group. L.6:1 that that are de-
'rived of such men as Sir GEORGE CLEBK,Iy the
electors of Dover, or as the HOD. GEORGE SMYTHE,
by the electors of Canterbury, or as the Right Hon.
EDWARD CARDWELL, by the electors of Liverpool.
But, in spite of these local misfortunes, perhaps we
should rather say because of- these local mis-
fortunes, petty differences must be laid aside
in common by Whigs, Peelites, and Radicals—and
banding together under the comprehensive name of
Liberals, an united and formidable, and, even "con-
sidering the proportion of numbers in their favour, an
irresistible and overwhelming Opposition may before
another quarter has elapsed confront the minority
pledged to uphold in the new House of Commons the
interests of the Derby Government. Against,
this
proceeding the only serious obstacle appears
to be the superfluous numbers of great
statesmen claiming by right of their undoubted
powers to be the leaders of the ranks of the Op-
Position. Amongst the foremost men in those
ranks, for example, are three: administrators no
!Psi illustrious than Lord joss; RUSSELL, Lord
PALMERSTON, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM—any, one
of whom might reasonably aspire to be the re-
cognised chieftain of a great Liberal Administration.
In reference to Lord JOHN RUSSELL—it must be
remembered that his claims upon the gratitude of the
Reformers are of a magnitude such as- -can
never by any possibility be overlooked. - The
man who introduced the Reform Bill intq
the House of Commons—who carried into it lase the
Test and Corporation Act—and who by his memor-
able. letter, dated in the November of 1845; from
Edinburgh, prepared the national mind for the glo-
rious measures inaugurative of the free-trade system,
soon afterwards submitted to the Legislature hy Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Government cannot be denied by
aaltina.
.the Liberals of' the Unitedgdom the consider
tion due to the patriot whose labours have
resulted in such momentous achievements.
At the same time the oeifidence necessary
to the Prime Minister of England, as the sustaining
force that can alone support a Cabinet for any length
of time, has been so far alienated from Lord JOHN
RUSSELL by the disappointment caused by the short-
comings of his recent Administration, as to renderit
idle to dream of seeing hirer once more elected
as the chieftain of a stable Government. Besides
which, the late retirement from public life of the
venerable and revered Marquis of LANSDOWNE
necessitates the nomination of some leader of
a Liberal Ministry in the House of Lords—
a post for which the gentle rather • than
vigorous intellect of Lord CARLISLE appears to-be in
no way qualified. The conclusion to be drawn from
these reflections we conceive to be sufficiently ob-
vious. An Earldom has been bestowed before
now for services by no means comparable
to those performed by the late PRIME MINISTER
Of England. A leader in the House of Lords on the
Liberal side has become, moreover, of late more than
ever imperatively requisite.
In reference to Lord PALMERSTON—it must not be
forgotten that his genius as a statesman is peculiarly,
if not inextricably, bound up with the guidance of
affairs in the Foreign Department. Of him may be
said what cannot be said, and we think also never
could be said of any other administrator in our
history—that his transference from the office of
one of the Secretaries of State to that of First Lord of
the Treasury would be, so to speak, rather a degrada-
tion (if that were possible) than otherwise. As Sec-
retary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord PALMERSTON
is, in the estimation of the rest of the nations
of the world, the foremost man amongst En-
glishmen. In this respect, Lord PALMERSTON
occupies in regard to the Foreign-office the position
occupied up to the period of his lamented death by
Sir ROBERT PEEL in regard to the House of Com-
mons. In the House f Commons Sir ROHERT
PEEL was about the first man in Europe.
So in the Foreign-office with Lord PALMERSTON.
With the guidance of the affairs of that office
intrusted to him, Lord PALMERSTON was
to the foreigner the very incarnation of the British
empire. Talk to the Greek—daring the Noble
Lord'fi continuance in ofnee—talk to the Rus-
sian, to the Spaniard, to the German, -of
England, and he spoke at once not of Rus-
SELL or of MELBOURNE, but—of PALMERSTON. It
were idle then to deem it likely that Lord Par.-
' hiElfiTON would be more important as the Premier
in a Liberal Government. He could not with his
ripened experience and his resplendent genius be.
otherwise thin great as Prime Minister, but he
I would, if possible, be greater as Foreign Secretary.
I Then there remains Sir JAMES GRAHAM.

We have repeatedly insisted on the vast import-
ancesf maintaining the distinctions between the two
branches of the legal profession. Nothing could in
our opinion be more injurious to the interests not
only of the parties more immediately concerned, but
also of the community in general, than the joinder
of the functions which have heretofore been exer-
Icised by barristers and attorneys respectively. A
case heard before the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council, on Tuesday, affords a powerful illustration
Of - the evils arising from the confusion, and we
-arnestly commend it to the consideration of both
classes of practitioners, in the hope that it may tend
to prevent the invasion, by either, of the rights and
privliegei properly belonging to the other.
The case above referred to was an appeal by her
Iliay.,,iv's Attorney• General for Gibraltar from a
decision of the Supreme Court there, discharging a
rule which had been obtained calling on Mr. WIL-
LIAM CORNWELL, a gentleman who had for nearly
a quarter of a century acted as barrister, advocate,
solicitor, and attorney, within the jurisdictions, to
show cause why he should not be removed from those
stations. It appeared that Mr. CORNWELL had, with
two others, his clients in the transaction, pleaded
guilty to three.counts of an. indictment, charging the
destruction and subversion of the course of justice, and
the compounding of a felony. He was thereupon
i.Ugd 1091, while his companions were only mulcted
in 41. each, the Court very properly considering the
'fleece much more serious when committed by a
Person • •
Invested with such powers and privileges as
Ur
• v. ....ohriwELL. The Attorney, General of the
colon—I,
actuated by• a laudable anxiety to preserve
the honour of the profession, of which he was himself
4, member, .
intact, subsequently obtained the rule
above referred to, which was discharged in due
coarse, 'and then
The facts Weineathe appeal now under notice.
that a vessel.. bel not very complicated. It appeared
implicated, named >a
h"""'
to one of the parties
th"""' had been piratically
robbed so far back as the year 1833. No steps had,
however, htaep taken to b
.ice until the month romfg
.the plunderers to jus-
-41411, 1850, when a
warrant was applied• for against
a .)Darausz, who was charged with seiner
named
11
, the transaction. The extraordinar;t concerned
e;uu i seventeen ermtted the matter to rest for h"
which
years was
xplained, or rather
attempted to be
explained,
by the
assertion that, although constantly watched for, the
accused had never since been in the garrison until
he came in to receive payment of a prize of 3,000 or
4,QqO dollars, which he. bad obtained. On these al.
_'
legations the warrant was granted, and Roo ItIGUEZ
taken into custody. When brought before the cap-
tain of the port the prisoner was immediately recog-
ulaad by that functionary, as a man whom he bad
often seep before, and it turned out that he had been
a matriculated seaman in the port for the last twenty
years. One PPrtioa of the assertion was thus clearly
disproved; it—wai, however, more than probable that
he bad obtained the prize in the lottery, and that his
good fortune in tttat.res e t was the cause of the
prose cation. When—MrP cCostti
WELL appeared the
acettsation was formally b
a andoned the Learned
Gentleman having stated that I•n consequence of the
,
&Ilse ace of a material witness ha nese ha twuld make no fur-
Cher progress.

'Rix suspiciops of Captain GREY wlre excited, and on
inquiry he found that there was a
nacre cogent reason
for this forbearance, viz., the payment.of,l,9oo dollars
hard cash to Mr. CORNWELL, who had twice visited
RODRIGUEZ in the gaol, and after representing that
he. Nvas liable to fourteen years' transportation, ob.
tained the
above-mentioned sum, which was most re-
lu,:tantly paid. . .
It i 3 but . justice to'Mr. CORNWELL to state that
it was admitted that he bud not been ibfluenced by
any sordid or dishonourable motive, and that he had
not received any portion
of the money for his own
perst )nal benefit. He had also previously maintained