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Edinburgh, 58, screw, Captain Hewlett, -at Plymouth,
is to be paid wages to-day.
Leander, 50, Captain King, arrived in Leith Roads
on Saturday last, to raise seamen for the fleet. She is
ordered to return to• Plymouth Sound.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.
The first entertainment to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas
Cochrane, K.C.8., since his accession to the Command-
in-Chief at this port, was given last evening by the officers
of the Royal Marine Artillery, at their mess-room, in
the Gun-wharf Brrracks. Lieutenant-Colonel ,Philips,
Commandant of the corps, presided ; and Capt. Dwyer,
Senior Captain, was vice-president. The guests com-
prised the Commander-in-Chief; Rear-Admiral Fans
shawe, C. 8., Superintendent of the Dockyard ; Major-
General Simpson,'-Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmontk
and Staff; Captain Chads, C.B. of the Excellent ; Capt.
Henderson, C.B. of the Blenheim ; Captain Superin-
tendent J. H. Johnstone, of Haslar Hospital ; Captain
Shepherd, .6f the Victory ; Captain Crispin, of the Vic-
toria and Albert ; Mr. Thomas Triphook, secretary to
the Port Admiral, and Flag-Lieutenants Alpin and
Yonge.

The Agamemnon, 91, screw two-decker, Captain Sir
Thos. Maitland,.C.B., continues infected with sickness,
which we regret to state is on the increase. It seems a
most remarkable fact that a vessel infected with contagious
fever should have been brought into a thickly populated
harbour, and no other means adopted to abate the visitation
than merely turning the crew into a hulk and lashing that
hulk to the infected ship, or vice versa, and fumigating
her. This, we believe, is all that has been done. If other
steps have been taken, we have not heard of them, and the
matter of the peculiar treatment of this sickly ship has
now become the talk of the port. Why has not a board of
medical -officers been appointed to inquire into the
cause of the fever, with the view to its abatement ? We
believe upwards of 300 of the Agamemnon's crew are
still "down with' the fever," even at this distant date
since her breeding the infection. Dr. Sir William Bur-
nett, K.C.8., K.C.H., F.R.S., Director-General of the
Medical Department of the Navy, has arrived at the port
to-day to institute inquiry personally into this case, and
is extending the accommodation within the Naval Hos-,
pital at Ha-slar for patients afflicted with the class of
fever which is going through the Agamemnon's crew. -
The extraordinary case this ship represents ought to be
made the subject of a Parliamentary inquiry.
Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., -
commanding her Majesty's yacht squadron, arrived at
this port last night, and this morning hoisted her first-.
class broad pendant on board the Royal George yacht
-luallt.witesodaiitd4l-11.0.1f-pa49 to-44e-
heim, .60, in order to enable his Lordship to salute the
new.-Commander-inChief; which compliment having been -
paid, the pehdarit we4'retransferred to the Royal George.
Later in the inornkig his Lordship hoisted his pendant
on board her Majfistfs yacht Fairy, Master-Corninasider
Welch, and, with CaPtain Crispin on board, went out to:
Stokes-bay to witness a trial of Griffith's screw propeller ;4
after which she came into harbour, and was hauled onto.
the graving slip to unship,it.
The Commander:in-Chief boarded the Rifhinia,n 8,
screw schooner, Lieutenant Commander Dalton, which
arrived at Spithead atirmon, after a most tedious-Voyage..
from Rio Janeiro. At the chops of the Channel they
experienced the most bitter weather, with strong head
winds, and being light' she was blown back again for
days. For, the last six days she hai-distilled 120 gallons
of water by her own' engines daily. She has only four
days' provisions and three tons of,coals left in her. The
Commander-in-Chief put the crew through the great gun,
and small arm exercise, with .practice at a flag staff,'
single and double shotted ; also, praetice with fire
buckets. The whole performance was highly satisfac-
tory; particularly as the Admiral was so quick upon them.
We-have pleasure in saying that they are a most happy
ship's company, in good condition, and all well. She
will bepaid off here, and in all probability will come
into harbour to-morrow. The Rifleman has been four
years and five months and a half in commission, She,
sailed from Rio Janeiro on.the Ist February, and brings
home invalids 'from the squadron, and a prisoner, sent
home for the disposal of the Admiralty, for attempting,
to stab a marine on board the Crescent. Yellow fever
was very bad at the date of the Rifleman's leaving. She,
was visited with it in December last, and lost some men.
The Admiral was at Monte Video ; the ,J3Onetta, at
Buenos Ayres ; Vixen, steam-sloop, at Sal* Ye, with
Captain Gore, consul-general at Buenos qn ?oard,
he having received .his passports from the provisional
government at that port ; the Express,. at Bahia ; Tri-
dent,. ,
steam-vessel, was cruising ; Sharpshooter, screw-
schooner, was to sail for a cruise, and it was reported
she had fever on board. The. Rifleman spoke, on the
27th, the Chevalier, from Liverpool to New Orleans, 27
days out, ki lat. 16 deg. 44 min.; -Susin; of )Glasgow,
March 8, lat. 35 deg. 16 min.; her Majesty's ship Tyne,
off Eddystone, March-28; Leopard, off the Start, March
28, at sit p.m. "
The Banshee steam dispatch packet, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Hosken, Was paid wages to-,day and the Excel-
lent will be paid td morrow.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 30.
The orders from -the'Adxniralty received at noon to
dispatch the Avon steamer-in search of the leaking emi-
grant ship Duncan Ritchie, it her departure,' were coun-
termanded here, in consequence of the safe arrival of the
bark at St. Mary's, Scilly, on Sunday morning.
The steamship Cyclops arrived yesterday from Wool-
wich with machinery. for the St. Jean d'Aore.
The officers and crew of the Sanspareil will be paid
wages to-day. _

The steam-vessel Brisk went out of harbour yesterday
to try_ her engines.
At half-past 11 o'clock last night (Tuesday), 15 miles
south-east of Start-point, -wind fresh from north east,
the mackrel boat Albion, of Shoreham, James Burten-
shaw, master, was drifting, head to wind, with her nets
over the side, when she saw a schooner running down
on the starboard tack, under studdingsails, no lights
showing. The hands belonging to the bolt hoisted the
second light, ran forward in the bows, and shouted to
the schooner. She, however, struck the boat on the
larboard bow, fouled the lines, and carried away the
nets, then hove to, shook out her sails and went off
again before the wind, to the westward, the whole occu-
pying only a few minutes. One of the boat's crew,
John Norris, caught hold of the schooner's jibboom and
bobstay, and has not been seen or heard of since. Chas.
Parsons was struck on the chest by the schooner's mar-
tingale, and is seriously injured. James Burtenshaw,
die skipper, was slightly wounded in the face by the
bowsprit shrouds ; the others escaped unhurt. The
schooner was laden, and had a white streak, either
checkered or plain. One of her crew was heard, at the
time of the concussion, to order the helmsman to luff as
hard as possible.

SHEERNESS, *ARCH 30.

•

The Sprightly, steam-tender to the Victory, at Ports-
mouth, Mr. George Allen, Acting-Master, arrived here
yesterday from Devonport and Portsmouth with super-
numeraries and volunteers fOr the ships in port here
and on. transferring them to the Waterloo flag-ship, she
proceeded on for Woolwich, with supernumeraries and
volunteers for ships fitting there.
The Amphion, 34 guns, screw steam-frigate, Captain
Charles G. E. Patey, was put out of the fitting basin
yesterday, and remains moored at the compass swinging
buoy.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 30,

The following circular has just been promulgated for
the information of officers of the Royal Navy intending
to study steam, so requisite to those appointed to serve
in steam-vessels :

, -- -
" Admiralth_March 16.
" With reference to their Lordships' circular No. 57,
dated Dec. 8, 1849, respecting the examination of officers
on subjects connected with the steam-engine, their Lord-
ships are pleased to order that such examinations shall not
be confined, as therein prescribed, to the Royal Naval Col-
lege at Portsmouth, but be extended to Woolwich also.
And officers studying at either port must undergo the said
examination ; but there is no occasion for remaining longer
at such port than may be considered necessary to qualify
for the examination ; and any officer, whether he has stu-
died or not at either of the above places, may be allowed
to come forward for examination on the second Wednesday
in the month of January, March, June, or September.
" The printed examination papers, which are to embrace
subjects of a practical nature, are to be prepared, as at pre-
sent, at the college at Portsmouth, and be sent to Woolwich,
in order that the examinations may be similar.
" The examinations at Woolwich are to take place in
the presence of the Superintendent of the Dockyard,and to
be conducted by the Chief Engineer and Inspector of ma-
chinery of the yard, who are to sign the certificates of
passing (as at Portsmouth), and forward the same to the
Secretary of the Admiralty, in order that the same may be
registered.
" The form of the certificate is annexed.
" By command of their Lordships,
MOUTH OR "To all Commanders-in-Chief, Ca t:lt.
WOOLwicu. •
OSBONE:
Commanders, and Commanding (3ffillaces,
of her Majesty's ships and vessels." rs
"CERTIFICATE OF EXAMINATION IN STEAM AT PORTS-
shown
" This is% certify that, i
Order, No. 57, dated
examination of Decemberofficers 8 1849, relating to the
steam-engine,
has been examined at,
and having on subjects conected with the
subjects : a competent knowledge in the following

"-1. The name and use of every part of the engine,
boilers, &c., with diagrams ;
"2• Construction and principle of engine, boilers, &c.;
" 3. Practical working
of the engines and boilers ;
" t• Expansion of steam and economy of fuel ;
‘ D. Nature and use of indicator ;
(May be also examined in following additional subjects):
" 6. The elements of mechanics and hydrostatics ;

"7. Laws of ; •
" 8. The application of these branches of science to the
is entitled to a certificate (Ist, 2d, or
steam-engine;
"Captain
3d) for practical knowledge in the working of the steam-
engine. at

185
Captain Superintendent.
Professor."

APPOINTMENTS.

Commander Edward K. Barnard (1852), recently ser-
ving in charge of the mails in a contract steam-vessel,
and who brought home the large nugget of gold, in the
Australian contract steam-vessel, as a present for her
Majesty, is appointed to command the Virago paddle-
wheel steam-sloop of 300-horse power, serving on the
Pacific station, in the room of Commander William
Houston Stewart, resigned, owing to ill health.
Commander F. P. Warren (1852), recently serving in
charge of the mails in a contract steam-vessel, is ap-
pointed to command the Star, 8, sloop, commissioned,
this day at Chatham.
The Fury, 6, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
Edward Tatham, employed on particular service, was at
Trieste on the 24th instant, in readiness to embark Lord
Stratford, the British Ambassador, for a passage to Con-
stantinople.

341,0

LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1853.

The intelligence just received fromlndia and the
Cape not only announces the virtual termination of
the Kafir war, and the cessation of that heavy and
very unpopular drain on the national exchequer,
but it also affords grounds for a reasonable expec-
tation that the Burmese war has been brought to
a conclusion, and ample atonement made for the
injuries which induced the Anglo-Indian Govern-
ment to demand redress, and, on the contuma-
cious refusal of the KING of Ava, to institute hos-
tilities. It is not, however, to the energy or
activity of the octogenarian General of the British
troops that this happy result can in any degree be
attributed. No ; General GODWIN has main-
tained his character to the last. All the stimu-
lants that have been so freely applied proved ina-
dequate to excite the modern FAsius into acti-
vity ; and, if we have succeeded in the contest,
it has been in spite of rather than in consequence
of the proceedings of the veteran commander.
Domestic disturbances, however, have achieved
the result which the British arms, under the
great Ceruetator, could not accomplish within any
reasonable time. A formidable revolution, insti-
gated and commanded by a junior member of the
Royal Family of Ava—a brother to the reigning
MorrAncu—has taken place. The army support
the claims of the Pretender, and it is more than
probable that the SOVEREIGN who, by his con-
temptuous disregard of the remonstrances ad-
dressed to him respecting the misconduct of cer-
tain officials, has expiated his offences by the for-
feiture of his throne, if not of his life. -Under
such circumstances, it is by no means surprising
that unequivocal submission should be made, and
abundant reparation promised. The severe les-
sons already taught, the universal dissatisfaction
expressed by the Burmese people, proved to the
new aspirant to the throne, the imperative
necessity of conciliating the powerful opponent
that might ere long be thundering at the gates of
his capital. The Burmese troops were accordingly
withdrawn from Bassein and Pegu, so that our
troops were left in exclusive possession of these
important provinces ; and ambassadors were at the
same time dispatched to the English camp with
plenary powers to conclude peace with the invad-
ers. Such an opportunity will, of course, not be
neglected, even by General Gonwrif. As it is
neither our interest nor our wish to annex the
Burmese Empire, or to substitute a British Com-
missioner, or a British Collector for the " golden-
footed monarch," all that we can desire is to obtain
full satisfaction for the past,
and the best possible
to These
concede matters
aswe
security for future tranquillity.
the new King will be as willing
are determined to enforce. Re will rejoice at the
golden opportunity which enables him to inaugu-
rate the commencement
of his reign by a
peace
with the Conquerors of nindostan—those who
now wield the power and authority once exercised
by the MOGUL.
The intelligence would be altogether of a satis-
factory character but for a melancholy transaction,
in which the lives of several meritorious officers
and many gallant men have been sacrificed. Cap-
tain GLANVILLE Locx, one of the most
distin-
guished and energetic officers of the Royal Navy—
and it requires no ordinary merit to acquire dis-
tinction among such eminent competitors has
fallen in a petty, we will not call it an inglorious,
skirmish, for nothing can be inglorious in which a
man is ably and efficiently discharging his duty to
his QUEEN and country. In an attack against a
body of robbers who had taken up a strong posi-
tion near Donabau, Captain LOOK met his death.
His premature and lamented decease was not
cheered by victory. The British attack was most
unequivocally repulsed, with a loss of 88 men
killed and wounded, and two guns (!) which re-
mained as spolia apiinia in the hands of their
ignoble adversaries. Lieutenant KENNEDY, R.N.,

and Captain PRICE, of the 67th Bengal Native
Infantry, also perished in the deplorable transac-
tion, while Lieutenant BUSHNELL and Messrs
HINDE and WILSON, mates of the Winchester,
were severely wounded.

Despite, however, this powerful drawback, there
is every reason to congratulate the country on
the auspicious prospect of permanent tranquillity
in India and Kafirland, and the probability
of no such onerous demands on the Bri-
tish Treasury being henceforward required for
the vindication of the British honour and
the protection of British subjects in those remote
quarters. The intelligence, too, is peculiarly
well-timed, inasmuch as it will prevent the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER from relying on
the existence of hostilities as a ground for refusing
to part with or modify any existing source of in-
come. No valid reason can now be assigned
against venturing on fiscal experiments which
promise propitious results, and which nothing but
very urgent exigencies could justify the neglect of
for even a single Session.

If evidence were wanting to prove how well a
really sound and practical lawyer may yet be the
very man who has acquired distinction for him-
self among the most eminent and gifted cultivators
of polite literature—that evidence might be found
in the remarkable volume * recently issued from
the press by the learned Recorder of Hull.
Happily, however, the fact referred to has not
remained until now in order to be clearly demon-
strated. Notwithstanding the ignorant prejudices
hitherto in vogue to the contrary, it has so hap-
pened that we have seen in England some of the
most celebrated authors upon general subjects rise,
in, spite of their literary merits, to the highest
posts in the legal profession—showing, unmis-
takeably enough, that Fancy may be occasionally
allied to Justice, that the daughters of Mnemosyne
may sometimes be attendant on the Goddess of
the Sword and Scales, that the gentler graces of
Art may be combined (without detriment to
either) with the severe charms of the science of
Jurisprudence. Illustrations of this have fortu-
nately received a twofold commemoration. They
are inscribed upon the annals, at once, of Law and
of Literature. Howbeit, these testimonies are
not alone of the Past—they are not restricted to
History they are discoverable elsewhere—
they are discernable even nowadays among
some of the most notable of our contempo-
raries. Seldom, perhaps, has there been any
period in this country during which the circum-
stance here indicated, was, everything considered,
more capable of immediate demonstration. For
precisely at this time we may recognise in the
Lord Chief Justice of England one of the most
luminous of our biographers, and in one of the
twelve Judges of the land one of the most classic
and poetic of living dramatists. Added to these
honoured names--added to the name of TALFOURD
and the name of CAMPBELL —it were scarcely pos-
sible to refrain from, at least, some cursory
allusion to one other intellect, rendered illustrious
by its researches into so many of the manifold and
multiform departments of human knowledge. It
is scarcely necessary, we conceive, to do more than
simply mention its comprehensive character, its
indefatigable energy, and its indomitable perseve-
rance—for, notwithstanding all the jealousies, and
piques, and animosities engendered by political
contention, it cannot easily be forgotten that, in
BROUGHAM, an orator in an age of orators, the
translator of DRMOSTHENRS, the celebrant of a
whole generation of Statesmen, a lover of science,
a promoter of art, a cultivator of letters, a student
and a debater, a legislator and an administrator,
rose, in defiance of all these " obstacles" to legal
advancement, so that he ultimately contrived to
ascend even the woolsack of the Lord High Chan-
cellor.

A novel and striking proof that legal and lite-
rary abilities are by no means incompatible has
recently, we repeat, been furnished by the earned
Hull Recorder. Doubtless, the present is = by
any means the first occasion upon Mr.
WARREN has indicated—in the teeth of that igno-
rant prejudice which we have already mentioned—
that he has capacity for profound research, for
vigilant and unwinking astuteness, for apposite
knowledge, and ripened experience as a Lawyer,
although, in revealing these rare qualities, he has
had to contend against the influence of his success
as a novelist, and as such actually to labour under
the burden of a rare and brilliant reputation. The
anomaly of the thing is absolutely ridiculous. But
it is, unluckily, as true as it is ridiculous. Never-
theless, contended he has done against the diffi-
culties of his position as a Man of Letters—and
so far triumphantly. We should be fain to exult
in this, if it were only for the credit, and
.the honour, and the glory of Literature. It
is pleasant to reflect, in his instance, that
there is real cause for this exultation. If
it is something for the author of " Ion" to
have won the garland of bay leaves, and yet
after that to wear the robe of ermine in his judi-
cial character—it is something too for the author
of " Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician"
to have conquered still more formidable obstruc-
tions than those which strewed the pathway
of the poet, and, by so doing, to have com-
manded the respect of his • contemporaries
through the eminence of the position assumed
by him in that most difficult and honourable
profession. It is something, we say, to have
accomplished this under the pressure of those
absurd but discouraging circumstances. What-
ever their weight, they have not, in his regard,
crushed one nerve of energy, one thew of courage,
or one sinew of resolution. Hence : the writer of
Fiction is—nevertheless—one of her MAJESTY'S
Counsel. The Novelist is—notwithstanding—the
Hull Recorder. Already, as we have before in-
timated, Mr. WARREN has displayed his power as
a legal writer of singular lucidity and intelligence.
Until the appearance, however, of the remarkable
work just issued from the establishment of Mr.
BUTTERWORTHS, he had never revealed that scope
and vigour as a jurisconsult which are here ren-
dered so conspicuously apparent. His well-known
"Introduction to Law Studies"—the vade mecum
of every law student—was, without question, as
its very title-page implied, at once " popular and
practical," conducting the novice by an agreeable
and alluring gradation through all the various de-
partments of the profession, whether civil, crimi-
nal, or ecclesiastical. It has, consequently, long
since become the acknowledged guide and accepted
text book, in such matters, both in England and
Ainerica. His definition, again, of the." Duties
of Attorneys and Solicitors," has been ac.
very generally to be a volume replete -with
chastened and elevating sentiments, inculcating
truths of no little importance, and opinions born
only of serious and tranquil meditation. It was
surprising to observe the sedate and almost severe
simplicity of productions like these coming from
the same hand which had traced in a very different
vein the powerful and enthralling incidents pur-
porting to be taken from the note book of a
deceased physician. It was surprising—though
less so because the effusions, however dissi-
milar in the manner of their execution, in
conception, at least, came somewhat more within
the same category—to witness the successive pub-
lication of these legal tomes stamped with the
1 paramount merit of utility, coming to us from the
1 same pen whose magic had conjured into existence
the varied concourse of imaginary beings crowdeli
together in the story of " Ten Thousand a Year"
—that prose epic of every-day life in our own
generation. The creator of the gentle and loveable
RATE AUBREY, of the villanous and astute OILY
GAIIMON, of the vulgar TITMOUSE, and the narrow-
minded
ek.Asacii, and the paltry SNAP, and
the odious Qujax,
beautiful Yatton_and the gifted lord of dear, old,
proved himself thus capable
0: grappling, upon
occasion, with the dry details of

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the merely actual and simply matter-of-fact--
abandoning at will the luxurious charms of fancy
and the seductive faeryland of imagination.
Whenever, moreover, Mr. WARREN has thrown
aside his pen as a romancist, to take it up anew
as a lawyer, his professional writings have always
assumed to themselves even in their manner, in
the style of their composition, a peculiarly solid
and practical character. They have been the pro-
ductions not of a dreamer, but of a master of
jurisprudence. They have displayed this in their
oneness of design, their concinnity of expression,
and their plenary appreciation of what ought in-
variably to be regarded as the three most desir-
able merits to be found in works of this descrip-
tion—clearness, completeness, and condensation.
Admirably as these qualities have been, united in
the previous effusions of Mr. WARREN, "as a
lawyer," they have never been so homogeneously
combined as in the one just published, a work
scarcely less attractive to the mass of electors
throughout the country, than to Solicitors, and
Counsel, and Agents, and Members, and Candi-
dates, constituting as it does an authoritative
manual of the whole Parliamentary Election Law
of the 'United Kingdom.

Several reasous have induced us to direct at-
tention in this manner through our leading co-
lumns, to a volume which we conceive to be one of
very great-political importance. Among other rea-
sons we do so, because in this matter we speak less
as critics than as publicists, less as reviewers than
as journalists. Then, also, we are disposed to
comment in this manner upon the circumstance
of its appearance, as, according to our previous
argument, a brilliant evidence that sound legal
knowledge may be allied with eminent literary
capacities, that one and the same man may be a
practical lawyer, and yet, at the same time, enjoy
deservedly a high reputation in polite literature.
Besides, we take it to be but just and reasonable
that there should be some express recognition of
the enormous l;bour manifestly devoted to a pro-
duction of such great public utility as that relat-
ing to the law and practice of Election Com-
mittees—an amount of labour absolutely astonish-
ing if viewed in reference to the mere toil of
compilation. Without any work whatever of this
character, the authorities, more particularly of
late, have suffered really grievous inconvenience.
Everything considered, therefore, it comes before
the public most opportunely. What consider-
ably enhances its value, and cannot fail to render
it doubly acceptable, is that, while the style of
the work is delightfully graphic and picturesque,
the details accumulated in the different chapters
appear, from all we have yet been enabled to see
in the way of analytic examination, to be remark-
able for their general accuracy. It is lamentable
to reflect that the author closes his elaborate en-
terprise with the acknowledgment that " the im-
pression left on the mind (after the most painful
scrutiny of the subject) is that of sorrow and
mortification :" an impression, says Mr. WARREN,
" forcing one to exclaim—how much corruption
exists which no legislation can prevent, detect, or
punish I" It is the old sad story—the old
melancholy lamentation. Perhaps the Learned
Recorder of Hull will pardon us, in consideration
of our political tenets, when we venture to ques-
tion the absolute necessity of that most sorrowful
and even despairing conclusion. Certainly we
shall be forgiven for so doing, by our good
friend the Hon. Member for the City of Bristol
—that VILLIERS of the Ballot. Until it (the
Ballot) shall have been " tried and found want-
ing," we cannot by any means regard the preven-
tion, detection, and punishment of the corruption
still (!) existing as beyond the reach of ALL legis-
lation. However this may be—whether good or
evil would result from that "17n-English" sys-
tem which is nevertheless not so " Un-English,"
but that it can be habitually resorted to at the
Club-houses by English Gentlemen—the cause of
Parliamentary Reform, no matter how unwit-
tingly, cannot fail to be advanced by the appear-
ance of the elaborate and comprehensive volume
which Mr. WARREN has here presented to the
country and to the Legislature. Considered in
detail, the various sections of the work will be
found, as in the instance of the chapters relating
to " Evidence" and "Agency," worked up with
admirable skill into very treatises or disquisitions.
Viewed as a whole, the work will be admitted on
all hands, we doubt not, to be a sufficient attesta-
tion of Mr. WARREN'S legal ability, and to con-
stitute the latest and not the least interesting tes-
timony that a practical lawyer may—just within
the limits of possibility—be one of the "bright par-
ticular stars" of literature. Henceforth, or we
are marvellously mistaken, WARREN'S " Law of
Elections" will be referred to as the standard au-
thority even within the walls of Parliament.