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" Commissioner's " present action. But what 

 then? The upshot of all this is that Mr. Booth- 

 Clibborn has made as great a blunder as simple 

 Mr. Trotter did. The pair of Balaams greatly 

 desired to curse, but have been compelled to bless. 

 They have, between them, completely justified 

 my reliance on Mr. Sumner as a perfectly trust- 

 worthy witness; and neither of them has dared 

 to challenge the accuracy of one solitary state- 

 ment made by that worthy gentleman, whose full 

 story I hope some day or other to see set before 

 the public. Then the true causes of his action 

 will be made known. 



Paragraph 2 of the " Commissioner's " letter 

 says many things, but not much about Mr. Hodges. 

 The columns of the " Times " recently showed 

 that Mr. Hodges was able to compel an apology 

 from Mr. Trotter. I leave it to him to deal with 

 the " Commissioner." 



As to the " Eagle " case, treated of in para- 

 graph No. 3, a gentleman well versed in the law, 

 who was in court during the hearing of the ap- 

 peal, has assured me that the argument was purely 

 technical; that the facts were very slightly gone 

 into; and that, so far as he knows, no dissenting 

 comment was made on the strictures of the Judge 

 before whom the case first came. Moreover, in 

 the judgment of the Master of the .Rolls, fully 

 recorded in the " Times " of February 14th, 1834 ? 

 the following passages occur: 



