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Mr. G. W. Hastings, the Secretary of the Social Science

Association, of which Lord Brougham is President, has announced that a categorical denial of the charge brought against the latter in relation to the Patent-Office scandal will immediately be laid before the Committee, and that tjoe whole accusation will be completely refuted. Mr. Hastings has, we believe, been in personal communication with Mr. William Brougham, and by telegraph with Lord Brongharn. If this be so it will only turn out as we had anticipated. Lord Brougham is not a great man, but lie is not the kind of man to engage in a job of this sort. His temptations have never lain in that direction, nor would it in this case, even in the lowest possible sense, have been worth his while.

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