The endeavour, on the part of the Parisians, to establish, at this time, a summary law of libel, by which the editor who ventured to animadvert on a particular class of public officers, was subjected to a most awful species of censorship, gave rise to many animadversions in the English journals; and amongst them, to the following:—“Truth is said to lie at the bottom of a well; at Paris they seek it at the bottom of a bullet wound. The ordeal, in the late case of the ‘Temps,’ however, ended in favour of the editor: the commissary of police,—one of the first of a numerous body of challengers for the same offence,—bit the dust, and is since dead. If editors are to have their errata thus corrected, they must either be very careful of what they print, or they must cast their old types into balls. Hitting a mark will be quite as necessary as pointing a period: reporters and paragraph-mongers must be as often seen at the shooting-gallery, as in the gallery of the House of Commons. It will be dangerous to enter a newspaper establishment on the leisure days; for, in the absence of rumours, the printers will amuse themselves with reports. The editors and sub-editors will stick up their unsold numbers for targets; and he who shall hole the stamp-mark will be considered to have hit the bull’s-eye, and be held to have so far broken up the taxes upon knowledge. Thus, editors will be as dangerous on days of ball-practice, as on days of publication; and a man whose character is shot through and through, if he goes to the office to complain, may chance to have his thorax perforated as well. Hostilities have, however, on this side the water, scarcely commenced; and where they have, it must be said, little resentment has been exhibited on the part of the beaten journalists. This affair of M. Coste and M. Bénoit demonstrates the greater freedom of the press in England than in Paris. Had the liberty of finding fault with the manner in which orders had been distributed among the commissaries of police been indulged in by an English paper on English magistrates, the remark would have been thought perfectly legitimate; and, so far from being fought about, would not have been even answered, unless by some paper in the opposite interest. This is, surely, far more rational than Mr. Roe, and Mr. Rawlinson, and Mr. Chambers, rushing into the offices of ‘The Morning Chronicle’ or ‘The Examiner,’ cursing the publisher, abusing the clerks, and challenging the editors to mortal combat. Where would be the use of Mr. Roe evading his own officers, and skulking to Chalk Farm, some dewy morning, in order to slaughter Mr. Black, because of the acrimony of his remarks on a police case? In this matter, at least, we order these things better than in France.” BETWEEN SIR JOHN JEFFCOTT AND DR. HENNIS. May 10, 1833.