Sir John Campbell, Dr. Lushington, and Mr. Hull, have given
au opinion against the legality of the statute passed in the Oxford Con- vocation, last May, to degrade Dr. Hampden, the Regius Professor of Divinity.
The Dean and Chapter of Hereford have protested in strong lan- guage against Dr. Blomfield's attempt to transfer their patronage to the Bishop.
In announcing the death of Mr. Fonblanque, the senior King's counsel, and father of the English bar, the Morning Chronicle pays tame just compliments to his memory- " This gentleman was acknowledged on all hands as a profound, skilful, and Eloquent lawyer, and a perfectly consistent politician. Mr. Fonblanque had always been admired, as well in pleading as in society, for the urbanity and polish of his manners ; and was, we believe, the only legist whose principal work (the treatise on Equity) was cited in the courts as an authority during his lifetime." " His mind remained unimpaired to the last, and he con- templated the close of a long life of labour and care with the truest resignation. The deceased was a Beecher of the Middle Temple, and formerly Menther for Camelford." (Another paper mentions that Mr. Fonblanque was Solicitor. General when the Whigs were in power, in 1806-7.J " He was one of the very few who stout: in the breach when political freedom was in the greatest danger." " lie has left behind him sons worthy of his name, who have in- herited with his spirit his high talents."
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