Sir Jolisi CAMPBELL has been, in Parliament, the most useful,
liberal- minded, and enlightened lawyer, who has filled the office of Attorney or Solicitor-General since the days of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY; and therefore we regret that he should have been the man to represent the 1Vhig Alinistry at the Dudley election, and hope that he will soon find his way again into the House of Commons. But the result of that election cannot, taking all the circumstances into consideration, be re- gretted. It appears from an article in the Chronicle this morning, evi- dently written by a person well acquainted with parties in Dudley, that Sir Jolts CAMPBELL'S defeat is owing to the refusal of the Dissenters to exert themselves for the return of a person connected with a Ministry whose measures have given them so little satisfaction. The Chronicle, moreover, strongly asserts, that public opinion is against the Ministry-; that the Liberal party are dissatisfied with their half-and-half measures —with their disposal of official patronage—their refusal to improve the mechanical parts of the Reform Act, to reduce the duration of Parlia- ments, and generally with their reluctance to act on the Liberal prin- ciples they profess. The Twice of this morning has an article very much in the same strain.
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