12 AUGUST 1843, Page 11

Lord Campbell's bill to remodel the law of libel has

received a moat uncommon degree of concurrence : the House of Lords adopted it unanimously ; the press are united on it ; of conflicting parties all meet in approving it. It is with no small surprise that people learn, from an alarm sounded by the Morning Chronicle, that a doubt has arisen whe- ther Government do not mean to stifle it in the Commons, on the pre- text of " the late period of the session." The supposition is incredible, because there is no conceivable motive for it ; and nothing could bring greater discredit on Ministers, than gratuitously to stop—or permit their lawyers in the House of Commons to stop—so useful a change. Why does not some one in the House settle the doubt, by asking Ministers what they do intend?