The first Cabinet meeting of the season was held on
Thursday, .and the result appeared, we suppose, in the official announce- rment made on Friday morning that the Fugitive-Slave Circular is not only suspended, but withdrawn. Probably, therefore, Lord Cairns agrees in opinion with the unanimous verdict of the Liberal lawyers, that, on all the legal points involved, this notable -Circular took precisely the wrong view. Mr. Herschell, Q.C., speaking last week to his constituents at Durham, bore -out entirely the lucid explanation of Sir Henry James ; -and " Historicus," in two long letters to the Times, the second of which appeared contemporaneously with the con- fession of the Ministerial mistake, has shown how strongly -foreign authorities, and English decisions made against ourselves,
