left in the state in which it was at present; for, while it thus remained, no man in the country was safe,—no man was exempt from being placed in fearful jeopardy. He should conclude by asking whether it was the intention of her Majesty’s government to propose any measure to parliament for the more effectual prevention of duelling? Lord MELBOURNE said, he was fully sensible of the great importance of the subject; but, in answer to the noble Lord’s question, he had only to state, that her Majesty’s government did not mean to bring forward any measure of such a nature as the noble Earl had referred to. He apprehended that the noble Earl, on a more mature consideration of the subject, would find that the actual state of the law was not deficient in force, and that it was hardly capable of being made more stringent that it was at present. * * * * * The following is the paragraph in the morning paper, referred to by the Earl of Mountcashell:— “Yesterday a hostile meeting took place between Colonel Paterson, of the East India service, and Robert Mark Marsden, Esq. of Park Lodge, Regent’s Park. The parties met in a field at the back of the Eyre Arms tavern, at daybreak, and exchanged shots without effect. The seconds then interfered, and endeavoured to reconcile the gentlemen; but, not succeeding, the parties were again placed on the ground. At the second fire the ball from Mr. Marsden’s pistol took effect on the right side of the gallant Colonel, which was severely shattered. The affair then terminated.” This fresh violation of the act of the 1st of Victoria, and the notice taken of it in the House of Lords, drew, from the Editor of the Times journal, the following powerful remarks:— “The ‘practical establishment’ of the doctrine, that to fight a duel is not to commit a felony, which certain of our contemporaries have discovered in the acquittal of the Earl of Cardigan, upon a point of form, by the House of Lords, seems to be bearing early fruits. It is in vain to expect that magistrates will do their duty in these cases, if they get nothing but ridicule for their pains, and meet with no co-operation from the law-officers of the Crown. We call upon the noble Secretary of State for the Home Department, therefore, as the chief of the police magistracy, to take care that an inquiry be instituted without delay into the truth or falsehood of this shameless advertisement of felony; and if these persons, named Paterson and Marsden, really have committed the crime imputed to them, to put the machinery of justice in motion for their conviction and punishment.