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THE SUN,

be scattered as a select group, now that they are de-
prived of such men as Sir GEORGE CLERK, by the
electors of Dover, or as the Hon. GEORGS 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
i the Op-
position. Amongst the foremost men n those
ranks, for example, are three administrators no
less illustrious than Lord Joule 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 into
the House of Commons—who carried into a law the
Test and Corporation Act—and who by his memor-
able letter, dated in the November of 184.5, from
Edinburgh, prepared the national mind for the glo-
rious measures inaugurative of the free-trade system,
soon afterwards submitted to the Legislature by Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Government cannot be denied by
the Liberals of the United Kingdom the considera-
tion due
.. to the patriot whose labours have
resulted in such momentous achievements.
At the same time the confidence necessary
to the Prime Minister of
force
mteh, aht
has
abne
eanl o nieu England, as the sustaining
sufaprporatliaenCaatebdineftroFur
euy length
Lord JOHN
RUSSELL by the disappointment caused by the short-
comings of his recent Administration, as to render it
idle to dream of seeing him 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.
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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 cur
history—that his transference from the office of
one of tha 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 T.
--t ...Oru. PALMERCTON
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-

mono. In the House of Commons Sir ROBERT
PEEL was about the first man i❑ 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—during the Noble
Lord's continuance in office—talk to the Rus-

sian, to the Spaniard, to the German, of
England, and he spoke at once not of Res-
SELL Or of MELBOURNE, but—of PALMERSTON. It

were idle then to deem it likely that Lord PAL.

MERSTON would be more important as the Premier
in a Liberal Government. He could not with his
ripened experience and his resplendent genius be
otherwise than great as Prime Minister, but he
would, if possible, be greater as Foreign Secretary.

Then there remains Sir JAMES GRAHAM.

! We have repeatedly insisted on the vast import-
ance of 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 genera], than the joinder
of the functions which have heretofore been exer-
cised 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
earnestly 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
privileges properly belonging to the other.
The case above referred to was an appeal by her
b.l.Annszy'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 E 3 barrister, advocate,
solicitor, and attorney, within the jurisdictions to
show cause why he should not be removed from those
stetions. It appeared that Mr. CORNWrLL 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
fined 1001., while his companions were only mulcted
in 51. each, the Court very properly considering the
committed by a
Offence much more serious when
Person invested with such powers and privileges as
Mr. coazswELL. The Attorney. General of the
colony, actuated by a laudable anxiety to preserve
toe honour of the profession, of which he was himself
a Illembe
aove
r , intact, subsequently obtained the rule
coburse referred to,
, and thence the appeal now under notice.
The facts were which was discharged in due
not
very complicated. It appeared
that a vessel belon
implicated, named bait! to one of the parties
robbed so far back as
3.
the ""' had been piratically
however, b‘en taken to briynear No steps had,
tice until the month 183
of g the plunderers to jtl3-
Pril, 18.;0, when a
aperson named
fiwaorarraarnGtuElNz'aB,whapopfor against
waslied A
charged
with
being concerned
in the transaction. The extraordinary /aches
which
permitted the matter to rest for seventeen
years was
explained, 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 3,00 c,
or
4,000 dollars, which he bad obtained. On these al-
legations the warrant was granted, and RODRIGUEZ
taken into custody. When brought before the cap.
tain of the port the prisoner was immediately recog.
nised by that functionary, as a man whom he had
often seen before, and it turned out that he had been a
a matriculated s eaman in the port for the last twenty
years.. One portion of the assertion was thus clearly
disproved ; it was, however, more than probable that
he had obtained the
prize in the lottery, and that his
good fortune in that respect was the cause of the
prosecution. When mr, appeared the
accusation was formally CORNWELL
abandoned, the Learned
Gentleman having stated
that in consequence of the
absence of a material witness he could make no fur-
ther progress.

The suspicions of Captain GREY were excited, and on
inquiry he found that there was a more cogent reason
for this forbearance, viz., the payment of 1,000 dollars
hard cash to Mr. CORN WELL, who had twice visited
RODRIGUEZ in the gaol, and after representing that
he was liable to fourteen years transportation, ob-
tained the above-mentioned sum, which was most re-
luctantly paid.
It is but justice to Mr. CORNWELL to state that
it was admitted that he had not been influenced by
any sordid or dishonourable motive, and that he had
not received any portion of the money for his own
personal benefit. He bad alto previously maintained

LONDON,

a respectable character during nearly twenty five
years' practice, facts for which every just allowance
should be made in deciding the question, and on
which the judgments of the Court of Gibraltar, in
discharging the rule, and of the Privy Council, in
dismissing the appal, were chiefly founded.

We are not disposed to find fault with either judg-
ment, although it cannot be denied that Mr. CORN-
WELL was very leniently dealt with, and that he
would have been very differently treated if the tran-
saction had occurred in any part of the United
Kingdom. The evil chiefly arose from his joining
so many different and almost conflicting functions in
his own person. As a barrister, he could not pro-
perly attend at the gaol for the purpose of seeing—
not his own client—but the opposite party ;as an
attorney, however, such interviews were not only al-
lowable, but might have been essential to the in-
terests of his clients. Let it not for a moment be
supposed that we mean to assert that an attorney
would have been justified in acting like
Mr. CORNWELL, or that he would be likely
to have done so. Far from it. But
persons acting in the double capacity would be more
likely to fall into the mistake than those who
restricted themselves to their own peculiar duties.
And this is the extent to which we desire to push the
argument.

Now there can be no doubt that there is at present
a tendency in that direction in this country, and that
if barristers and attorneys do not evince
considerable forbearance, the evil may increase to a
most formidable extent. We have no doubt that it

originated in the impolitic clause in the original
County Courts Act, forbidding a barrister to
practise unless duly instructed by an attorney. This in-
duced in many instances a desire to obtain a monopoly
which led to the practical exclusion of the bar from
those tribunals until, at length, it was found neces-
sary to repeal the restriction. Had there never been
such a provision we have no doubt that the bar would
have maintained the etiquette of the profession.
But, under present circumstances, there is
great danger of mischief arising, if taot end
forbearance be not exhibited on both sides. We
would then earnestly suggest to the members of both
professions the expediency of, as speedily as possible,
entering into negotiations for the purpose of arrang-
ing all differences, and placing the rights and privi-
leges of either branch on such foundations that they
cannot be infringed with impunity
by any member of
the other, thus maintaining the amicable relations
which are so honourable to themselves and beneficial
to the community.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
Oa Wednesday evening
was thrown from his horse, on the road from Sevres,
and was killed.
A telegraphic dispatch, dated Strasburg, Wed-
nesday,Field-Marshal EXCEL,MANS
7 rem., says, " The PRINCE leaves Baden to-
morrow, the 22d, 'at 9A m. He breakfasts at Stras-
burg at eleven o'clock, and leaves for Luneville at
one. His health is excellent."
tinder the head of "Des Finances," .M.VEnoN
publishes an article in the Conslitutionnell which fills
nearly the whole of the first
page of that primal. A
large portion of it consists of a review of some of the
existing modes of taxation, and the recent attempts
made to introduce new taxes on luxury,
followed by
an announcement that N. ArErtom will, in a future
article, propose a more equitable and more produc-
tive system of taxation. other part of the article
is on the means of restoring the equilibrium of the
budget, by reductions in the expenditure. tit. VERON
recommends a reduction of the army as the most
efficient means, and thinks that this might be effected
without damage to the State. The writer carefully
abstains from any observation which would raise a
question as to whether the opinions that he expresses
have or have not the concurrence of the Chief of the
State. On the contrary, he causes the reader dis-
tinctly to understand that he writes with perfect
freedom, and makes no other allusion to the Govern-
ment than the expression of a belief that, on a
question of such importance, whatever its ?wn opi-
nion may be, it is willing to allow discussion. N.
VERON concludes in the following terms
" All Europe is for peace. Did not the Prince Presi-
dent himself admit this truth, when, on the 29th March,
he said before the great bodies of the State—' The
foreign powers respect our independence, and we have
every interest in keeping up the most friendly relations
with them. So long as the honour of Franca shall not
be called in question, the duty of the Government will
be to avoid carefully any cause of perturbation in
Europe, sod to turn all our efforts towards domestic
ameliorations which can alone procure comfort to the
working classes, and secure the prosperity of the coun-
try.' A reduction of our army, accomplished by the
will of the President of the Republic, would, therefore,
overcome the most obstinate mistrust; would prove to
his most persevering enemies that Louis Napoleon,
whose heart was, and always will remain open to the
susceptibilities of national honour, in his acts as in his
language, dreams neither of the manners nor the glory
of another epoch. Not being able to find anything but
subjects of affliction and of mourning in the disasters of
the end of the Empire, he has at least drawn from them
the useful disenchantments of experience. Such a re-
duction therefore of the army would assist the budget in
diminishing the land-tax; it would be a new means of
wared
upon,
isolating socialism, and of Risking it suspected by all,
and of rendering it no longer necessary to keep several
of
TouhredcepivalltmTernibtsunuanl a
wruaisnocuasll
tooting."on Wednes-
day last, to decide whether French tribunals have
power to entertain questions relative to the property,
of foreigners who die in France after a long resi-
dence, and after having obtained what the French
law calls a "real domicile," without, however, having
been naturalised, or having obtained from the Go-
vernment the right to establish the domicile. A
Hanoverian, named BRUEL, came to Paris thirty
years ago and commenced business as a dealer in
porcelain and bronzes. He always considered him-
self a Hanoverian, when he travelled he took Hano-
verian passports, and applied to the Hanoverian
Embassy when his interests had need of protection.
In 1847 he married a Frenchwoman, and in 1851
died. His widow demanded the division of his
property according to his will and under the French
laws; his natural heirs demanded that he should be
considered a Hanoverian, and that his property should
be dealt with according to the laws of their country.
The Tribunal decided that BRUEL had obtained a real
domicile in France, and that it has jurisdiction in
disputes about his property. In the judgment, it
declared it a general rule of French law, " that the
foreigner who fixes his real residence in France,
or has had the intention to do so, obtains a
domicile even without an authorisation from the
Government."

M. GOUDET, keeper of the archives of Toulouse,
has written to the Assemblie Nationale to state that
the root of the plant known in France as the Iris
Germanique is an infallible cure for hydrophobia.
About 60 grammes (not quite two ounces) of the
root must be taken; they must be well washed and
peeled, cut into pieces of the size of a die, and fried
in hog's lard or fresh butter ; they must then be
mixed with two or three eggs, and made into an
omelette without salt. The person or animal bitten
must be made to eat one of these omelettes on three
successive days. M. GOUDET says that be has known
dogs bitten by mad dogs recover after eating of the
omelette ; whilst other dogs bitten at the same time
have died. He says also that a physician of Toulouse
gave the omelette to his child, who had been bitten
by a mad dog three months ago, and that the child
has since experienced no ill effects. The remedy,
M. GOUDET adds, was communicated to him by an
old monk of the Abbey of Grand Selve, one of the
religious houses destroyed in the revolution. This
convent was at one time famous for its cures of hydro-
phobia. The Cure of Turretot, near Rouen, has
written to the same journal to say that the family of
a letter-carrier of Crequetot l'Esneval has been known
for between 50 and 60 years as in possession of a
secret for curing hydrophobia, and that they have
very frequently applied it with great success.
The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 1031. 30c.,
and closed at 103 f. 20c. for the end of the month ;
Basle, 293 f. 75c.; 17arrni,s6andt.
the Three per Cents, closed at 72f. 40c.; Orleans Rail-
way 3 Shares, 1,3921. 50c • Rouen, 9221. 50c.; Havre
SE; Great North .38' 7re - Avignon, 4661. 25c.:
ws Austrian
i)6LNon
5t9.5F8,30,
Lyons, 697 f, 50e.• 5951 • Lyons and
Strasburg, 6151.;_ Paris and
, Great Western, •,
Avignon, 5751.; 'Gray and St. Dizier, 5171. 50c.; the
N'eLONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 22.
Dijon and Basanqon, 2%—Ea
Great Indian Peninsula, 6
--REIN—RAILWAYS AT THE
2%—East Indian, 273 ex div.—
Railway, 4,s—Northern of France u 25i4 —Ditto, 201. 3 per
L x borg, 6%—Ditto
Cent. Bonds, 13% ex di
._T'ar's 'ancl/B—trasbourg 245/8—
Rouen and Havre, 13%—Sambre and Aleu,se;
Western of France, 10.

GERMANY,
The last Liccounts from Hungary represent that
the reception of the Emperor of AtisTaia continued
to be most enthusiastic. His MAJESTY was to arrive
aotnl/tpieenla9athbienfoTreranls3ytlivlanAiau,
gaundst.warra expected back
he
A,MPEROR'S
intention is to return to Hungary
in September, to
attend the great cavalry manceuvrea.
The Cologne Gazette states from Pesth that the
Princes of the House of Orleans have purchased a
very large estate in Hungary, for which they have
eugtged to pay by yearly instalments.
theLOn- Austrian Lloyds of Vienna states that Prince
L 8 NAPOLEON has sent a diplomati: agent to