25 OCTOBER 1834, Page 8

There is a great clamour at Court and the Inns

of Court on the singular circumstance of Lord BROUGHABI'S running away with the Seal in his pocket, in his speechmaking expedition to recover his character in Scotland. The common report is, that the instruments are void which his Lordship has set the Seal to beyond the Border. The lawyers say, that if he could exercise this official function out of the kingdom of England—the jurisdiction of his office—there is no reason. why he should not do it in Japan or New South Wales. We are no jddges of the legal effect of these antics ; but we believe it is the first Instance in which any Keeper of the King's Conscience transported the seals further from the Metropolis than Dorsetshire. The late Chan- cellor Eboost, it was said, used to take them thither to partridge- shooting ; but even Dorsetshire was within the realm of England. To be serious, the subject has created a great sensation in the legal pro-