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a great many
lies upon the matter, and as his evidence was not corro-
borated in any manner, the jury acquitted him. The
other man, Barnett, however, was convicted, and be was
sentenced to be transported for fourteen years. It
appeared that before the trial some comment had been
made upon the conduct of the plaintiff in Punch, and it

was for these comments that the present action was
brought. The defendants, it appeared, subsequently pub.
lished an apology, and in the same number there was a

humourous caricature representinea Jew old clothesman
dealing with a little boy outside a pawnbroker's shop, and
it was contended that the defendants had made an ironical
apology, and published a malicious caricature. The jury
found for the plaintiff damages £lO, in addition to £5
paid into court.

CAUTION TO ATTORNEYS.—In a case reported in a late
amber of the Law Times, we find the following severe

Bruce, to an attorney :--4 If an attorney in the country
of standing and experience will set such an example to
the younger members of his profession, and exhibit such
a spectacle to the world, as buying property which he is
employed to sell, and so dealing in the case of a client
who is a youth in the position of a small farmer, to say
nothing of putting up an infant's landed estate for sale
by auction, and that without apprising'the public of the
fact of his minority ; such an attorney must not be over-
powered by surprise, or expect to meet with an exuber-
ance of sympathy, if he shall find his motive harshly con-
strued and roughly described. His proceedings, how-
ever, I agree, cannot justify oppressive litigation, and,
above all, cannot excuse untrue assertion. Bui. in cases
of this nature there is a public as well as a private interest
to be considered. Mr.
an important profession, placing him not merely in the
position of a private individual. Society has conferred
privileges upon him. To that society he owes an example ;
he owes duties ; he must acknowledge obligations which
a merely private person has not. And although disap-
proving of much that I see before me, on the part of the
plaintiff, and doubting very much whether the suit has
not originated less in the plaintiff's spontaneous views
than in the suggestion of another person, who might, with
equal credit to himself, have been less communicative,
and recollected more carefully what is thought of him
who betrays confidence, even by those of whom it is be-
trayed, I consider it to be due to this great profession
and the public interests, as well as to the private rights
of the two present litigants, to say that a member of a
legal body, who has acted as Mr. - admits himself to
have done, shall not be indemnified by his client from the
expense even of such a litigation as this."

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

The sudden death of Sir A. Hood, and the retirement
of Mr. Moedy, have left vacant both seats for West So-

mersetshire

A meeting of the country party took place at Lord
Stanley's house on Friday. Upwards of one hundred
members of the legislature were present.
Under the signature of " Anti-Humbug," a writer in
the Times says, " Will you oblige the public by askinc,
Mr. Cobden to arbitrate between the Caffres and Sir H.
Smith."

The citizens of London appear determined that the
window-tax shall come off, without any compromise. Se-
veral meetings have been held this week, at which this
determination has been expressed.
REPRESENTATION OF THIRSK.-011 Thursday morn-
ing, an address was issued from Sir William Payne Gall-
wey, Bart., son-in-law of Lady Frankland Russell, of
Thirkleby, on Protectionist, Protestant, and Conservative
principles.
CHEAPNESS AND DISTRESS.—The following is ex-
tracted from a free trade morning paper:—" Letters
from Alogador (Morocco) of the 7th instant, via' Gibraltar,
state that the bay was crammed with ships laden with
grain ; the stores on shore were likewise full of provisions.
Notwithstanding the abundance, and although fresh beef
and fish were very cheap, the distress of the poorer
classes continued so great that they could not afford to
purchase them ; and cases of starvation were as frequent
as ever."

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.—The Times, which has
exhausted its powers of ridicule and scurrility upon the
" dead body of Protectionism," is coming to its senses
upon that subject at last. It said on Wednesday last,
" It is believed that the Ir'sh brigade, as it is called,
will be doubled the next general election by the operation
of the late electoral reform for that island ; and it is Pos-
sible that even the Protectionists should find themselves
somewhat stronyer." Very possible and very likely into
the bargain.
LORD DUNCAN'S MOTION.—WOODS AND FORESTS.—
Among the majority against the government were T. NV.
Booker, J. Bright, W. Brown, R. Cobden, B. D'lsraeli,
H. Drummond, W. Ewart, T. M. Gibson, Sir J. Graham,
G. Greenall, L. Hey worth, J. Hornby, W. Jackson, J.
Locke, Lord J. Manners, H. T. Prinsep, R. Spooner,
E. Stanley, Hon. E. H. Stanley, R. A. Thicknesse, Sir
J. Walmsley, &c.. &c. In the minority, there voted
with government, E. Cardwell, Sir T. Birch, J. Brother-
ton, Sir E. Buxton, W. Evans, H. Goulburn, T. Greene,
J. Heywood, C. Hindley, J. W. Patten, A. Stafford, T.
Thorneley, R. G. Townley, &c.
Maurice O;Connell has replied to his constituents, who
lately expressed their disapproval of his conduct in par-
liament, and evidently feels some disappointment at the
feeling of enmity, his vote against D'lsraeli's motion has
caused. He thus endeavours to explain his course :—" I
voted against D'lsraeli's motion purely on its own merits
or demerits. I looked upon it as an insidious attempt to
return to the old system of monopoly, and destructive:to
those principles of free trade which I have had your ap-
probation and concurrence in supporting. The constitu-
ency of that day approved of my voting against the corn
laws, shortly after I first became your representative. In
1841 I was returned as a Free-trader; again, in 1847, un-
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and resolutions,
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I looked
have been wrong in the hater opinion. My opposition to
the episcopal titles bill, as the new penal law has been
termed, is as steadfast, and shall be as determined as that
amcceorerdlying to
of any member of parliament can be."
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of one, the division being 120 against 119. As it appears
to be a settled thing thrt Lord John Russell must be our
Minister, and as appearances indicate that he must b 3
continually beaten, the destined hero of a hundred defeats
will probably take this little unpleasantness as a matter of
course. It is only by one, and it is only by the merest
accident that it wasn't one the other way. Besides, the
House was a small one. We must wait to see, however,