Mr. Lewis Duval, the conveyancer, has given an opinion, sedulously
promulgated by the Tories, that Mr. 1Vilberforce's qualification, de- cided by the Hull Committee to be bad, is perfectly good. Mr. Duval says, that a power given to trustees to sell the landed property out of which Mr. Wilberforce claims to be qualified, does not affect the question. This may be excellent law, but unlearned persons must be Permitted to think that land over which the nominal owner has no con- trol, but which may be converted into personalty at the instance of Others at any time, can scarcely confer what the Legislature intended by a landed qualification. We have been told that Sir Robert Peel's object in getting rid of Mr. Peter Borthwick was not to seat Lord Marcus Hill, but to pro. eve a vacancy, which Sir George Clerk, a most efficient member of the Tory party, might fill. Sir George, it is said, was ready to start eta minute's notice for Evesham. Peter, however, would not allow the "proximate Prime Minister" to play his game out ; but revenged himself by allowing Lord Marcus Hill to gain a majority of one vote, and then abandoned the scrutiny, thus leaving the Committee no .option, and obliging them to seat Lord Marcus Hill. Desirous of currying favour with his new associates, old Burdett las taken to toady Sir Edward Sugden. A few nights ago, Sir Ed. Ward prevented the passing of a new enclosure act : the effort cost him a few sentences—not very difficult of utterance, it may be presumed, to In old lawyer; but for this service, Burdett, in a letter to the Times, leads Sir Edward for "unpretending humanity, disinterested exertion, and nester-failing regard for justice to his poorer fellow subjects ;" and, a$ &reward for such exalted merit, proposes that a public dinner shall be given to him by the Conservatives, especially those who are Mem- bers of Parliament. It does not appear that anybody has seconded the proposal ; which even to Sir Edward himself must appear super- latively absurd.
It is a fact, that the Tory Member who was to have resumed the debate on Lord Eliot's motion, according to agreement with Sir Ro- bert Peel, was in the House before the division. He left it at a mo- ment when the Opposition side of the House was comparatively well attended, while there were but few Members on the Ministerial benches ! This, of course, was accidental.—Courier.
It would have been worth while to have gone to Kingston on Wed- nesday to hear a speech from a defendant at the Assizes then and there held. Mr. Harvey appeared to defend an action brought against him by some reporters engaged on the True Sun. Seldom has there been so amusing and brilliant an exhibition at the bar. Chief Justice Tin. did must have regretted the decision of the Benebers, excluding the able and witty speaker from the profession for which he is so eminently fitted, while Mr. Platt and his learned brothers must have hugged themselves in escaping the competition of such a rival.
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