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London, England, 1829-06-11 00:00:00

and, worse than all, their incalculable caprices,
that, we had almost said, •constitute, but assu-
redly they terribly aggravate, the misery and
uncertainty inseparable from an English law-
suit. The speech of Mr. Sergeant Wilde yes-
terday was in every respect able. That it did
not penetrate to the understanding of the jurors
would surprise any one who was not aware
by experience of the compactness and solidity
of their covering. The summing
.up of the 1
Learned Judge was most impartial. Sir
Nicholas is no longer a politician nor pleader,
and we shall be most happy if, as we augur
from this beginning, he leave, now that he
is so highly elevated, all the feelings of
the Parliament awl of the bar to those who still
mingle in the strife of either. It will be to us
an infinitely more pleasurable task to accord our
i_meed of praise to the Judge than it ever was to
inflict our censure on the Solicitor-General. I'he
letter for whose insertion we have been con-
demned is in the report broken by the inter-
spersed remarks of the two Learned Counsel.
We subjoin it here entire, that our readers may
judge of it for themselves. We subjoin also, as
a kind of psychological curiosity, the names of
the twelve good men and true who, notwithstand-
ing the conclusive arguments of Mr. Sergeant.
Wilde—notwithstanding the admirable charge of
the Learned Judge—and notwithstanding the
plain dictates of common sense and the plain
meaning of common English, have deter-
mined that it is and must be esteemed a wicked
and malicious libel. The following is the
letter :

"CASE OF FERSTANDEG.
" To THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING JOURNAL.

" Sir,—For some time past, as you no doubt are
aware, there has been some little interest excited in
the magisterial world, ar►d amongst readers of news-
papers, in consequence of the committal of a Ger-
man for the stealing of a manuscript under peculiar
circumstances, his subsequent acquittal, and demand
for an apology from the committing Magistrate.—
With your customary impartiality and disinterested•
tre,s I rejoice to see that you have not (like one of
your contemporaries) taken up with furious zeal the
case of the foreigner, and vituperated a Magistrate
of this country, without paying any regard to the
circumstances of the affair, but have fully and equally
detailed both the beginning and the end, and then
left the public to judge for themselves._ On the
other hand, however, one of your contemporaries
has risen up, with the most laughable heat and wis-
dom as agreeable, for the purpose of showing that
there was undue power exercised by the Police Ma-
gistrate in committing the German. But on a little
reflection it will be found that this gentleman did
nothing but his duty; that he had no business to
be acquainted with the character of the prosecutor,
if he really is so unprincipled as he is represented ;
that two witnesses swore to the theft ; and, as the
justice in question truly remarked, in condescending
to explain his conduct to the person, he would have
been liable to a mandamus from the Court of King's
Bench if he had refused to entertain the charge.—
All these facts are nor, however, discovered by your
contemporary, which, to suit its own, and, perhaps,
others' piques, inserts 'letters frot-e the Germria to
scandalize the Magistrate, after a true bill for lai.cetry
has again been thrown out against the fellow. This
conduct, both of the German and his paper sup-
porter, is very fine; but I hope, Sir, that its true
Merit will be properly appreciated in your inde-
pendent columns. • •
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
REPREHENSOR."
like following are the names of the Jury :
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Thomas Hickman I
John Hare James°. I..;impscm
I Isaac Bird James llork GeorgaJderwood
William Doyle Joseph Rayner Henry Weymouth.
I James S. Giles Robert Stapleton I
TA ESM A 14—Frederick Cloak.—Morning Journal.

Vol- some days past the public have been in-
undated with repOrts re;;pecting a change in the
Ministry—the retirement of Mr. Peel, and the
involuntary resignation of the Lord Chancellor.
The whole of these reports have their origin in
disappointed feeling, and interested Malignity.
There is no ground whatever for believing that
any change is 4b.put to take place in the charge
of the great seal, and nearly as little that Mr.
Peel is about to resign. Both the Lord Chan-
cellor and the Home Secretary are, we believe,
but too well pleased with their present situations
to thin.: of resigning their offices into other
hands ;sand the only reason for expecting that
Mr. Peel would vacate his office,
is the circum-
stance of a Peerage having been offered to him.
Should the Right Hon. Gentleman choose to
accept this reward for his services, it is then by
no means impossible that the Secretaryship for
the Home Department Would pass into other
hands ; for in that case no efficient representative
of the Government would be left in the House
of Commons. But we have every reason to be-
lieve that no other change either will, or would,
take pine. Mr. Peel would still be a Cabinet
Minister, though holding the seals of another
office.—Mornznab Advertiser.

The interest excited by the Cambridge Uni-
versity Election appears to have taken place of
that which prevailed lately respecting Catholic
emancipation. We have no interest in the mat-
ter, and quite as little feeling beyond the honest
wish of ,rjeeing the University adequately repre-
sented. One of the car dilates is known to
every one ; with the other the public ha,T, 41y
been made acquainted by the praises of his
friends. In another part of our paper, however,
will be found a letter from a quarter to which no
suspicion can attach ; and after such honourable
testimony, we would fain hope that " the man
wot was in the Cabinet" before the Catholic
Emancipation Bill was passed, and who is still
in it, notwithstanding his opposition, would
stand but little chance, when pitted against the
academic honours and unsullied fame of Mr.
Cavendish

Next Saturday the discussion will ope 4 in the
Chamber of Deputies on our situation relative to the Ic!ap
to the King of SPAIN, which are considered as a snare laid
fur the credulity of our small capitalists, and as a deception
dexterously managed by a Spanish banker, residing in
pads, who, within a f*-;vr years, has realized an immense
fortune.—Paris Paper.

7_STothing transpires on the subject of our' ex-
ternal policy there is still a talk of an expedition against
Algiers. Our quarrel with that regency is embarrassing.
It is an insect in the mane of a li4n, which roars, shakes
its mane, and cannot rid itself of the ananyaneil,-. You
know that the Da struck our Consul with his fly..flaP at
a solemn audience, and that the latter received orders Mt-
r e,diately to retire. The rage of the DEY had been pro-
respecting two autograph letters
yoked by the silence of Baron de DANIAS, then our Mini-
"nbaA iir.
rianti'%d addri,s.z,.:.d to him. France had
gproved to have been 4i; r-
swtehricfhorthFeorbeaig:
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suppliesan d
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grain 7 00m,000r0e
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nbfied, but the DaY had creditors in France who insisted
upon their rights. Thence arose law-suits, the decision
of which was long P6,:-'l3,n-wil• The DEY wished that the
fp4oPwd:Soirdipiliabgegiyen up to reserving to himself the
justice the claimants. His two letters,
which remained tr.Answered,contained this propositign,
along with complaints on the nivizion rehie4 had been made
of a part of the 7,000,000 of francs, among persons who
now hold, or who have held, a certain rank in our admiv
oistration. The Day, ascribing to the Consul the want
of an ehswer to his letters, yielded to his vivacity, and
his fly-flap gave the signal of an annoying war, because
it is injurious to the comnierze Gf star southern provinces,
and because it is difficult to say bow we can end it ho-
nourably.—Paris Letter.