this moment before me, or I should have been glad to have stated it to your lordship; but their lordships have unanimously said ‘Not guilty.’” The Earl of Cardigan having retired, proclamation was made for dissolving the commission; and the white staff being delivered to the Lord High Steward by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, his Grace stood up uncovered, and, holding the staff in both hands, broke it in two, and declared the commission to be dissolved. HOUSE OF LORDS, February 19, 1841. In the House of Lords, on the motion that the trial of the Earl of Cardigan be printed, The Earl of ELDON said, there were some matters connected with the subject, that ought not to pass without notice. It would be recollected that the right reverend prelates, towards the latter part of the trial, requested permission to withdraw, and did so. In a portion of the address of the Attorney-General to their Lordships, the learned gentleman made use of a certain expression,—no doubt out of his kind regard towards the noble Earl at the bar,—in which his feelings seemed to have carried him a little beyond what he originally intended. The expression to which he alluded was this:—“That he was glad that nothing of moral turpitude had occurred in this case.” Now, he was perfectly prepared to say, that, in the present state of society in this country, it was difficult to suppose that it could go on as it now did, unless certain allowances were made for the feelings of respectable individuals placed in situations of great difficulty, where, perhaps, their sentiments differed materially from the line of conduct they were pursuing. No man was more ready to make that allowance than he himself was; but, even admitting that, it appeared to him that the Attorney-General, in making the observation to which he had alluded, had gone a little beyond what he ought to have done. Now, as the trial had gone off on matter totally irrelevant to that point,—as no opinion had been given by their Lordships on the subject,—he thought it right to notice it, lest it might be supposed that their Lordships concurred in the sentiment to which he had referred. He believed their Lordships would agree with him in saying, that, in whatever situation a gentleman might be placed when driven to have recourse to duelling, it was not a custom that was sanctioned either by the law or by the moral principle of the country. Each specific case must stand between the individual, his conscience, and his God; but he could not conceive it possible how any man could pursue such a course without some delinquency being attached to the act, however the circumstances, in each particular case, might diminish the amount of it.