We stated last week, on the authority of a "fashionable
contemporary," that Lord Campbell had effected a safe arrival in this country out of the hands of his Holiness the Pope, of whom he had sought a personal shrieving for words spoken at the Mansionhouse as the Protestant and convivial Lord Chief Justice of England. But one is mystified to read in the same contemporary of today's date, that his Lordship "arrived at Stratheden House yesterday evening, from a tour in Italy." The Chief Justice loves a joke, and not impossibly may have been emulating his old opponent and friend the Ex-Chancellor at Cannes : as Lord Brougham once managed to be dead and alive at the same time, Lord Campbell may now have contrived, like Sir Boyle Roche's bird, to be "in two places at once." But the simple and important facts are, we believe, that Lord Campbell started from Rome for England, but looked in at Cannes on the way, and so has now returned both from Cannes and from his "tour in Italy," by the same arrival of yesterday. The former announcement being likely to vitiate the accuracy of the future historian, we have deemed it a duty to record these fruits of our research.
The obituary announces the death of Mr. William Wyon, B.A., the chief engraver at the Royal Mint. He died at Brighton, on the 29th October, after a long illness. Mr. Wyon's eminence in his department UM tte-. knowledged on the Continent; the leading European Monarchs have on many occasions availed themselves of his abilities.
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