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INTERESTING SLAVE CAsE.-The Boston Cou- rier the 26th ut. contains the account of a dec- sion in the Supreme Judicial Court in the case of the slave of Mrs. Ticknor, of this city, the Abot- onists. The girls name is Rose, and was brought before the court writ of ha5eas corpus, sued out by the aboitionists Counsel for the defendant Messrs. Louis and SewelI.

 They represented to the conrt (says the Courer) that Rose came on rom Mobile the hired servant of Mrs. Eliza M. Tckner-that at Mobile she was slave-hat being under II, she was not adequate to make her selection between slavery and freedom and that, therefore, the court ought not to regard any choice she might make, but let her free willy nLy the ground that who preferred slavery must be incompetent to settle the question for her self.

 The Judges, however, thought fit to examine the girl as to the inclination of her mind, nd stated it to be her desire to remain with Mrs. Ticknor and return to Mobile, where she could her brothers and sisters.

 Judge Wilde, expressing the opinion of the court, said, that the girl having made her election, the only question was, whether she was competent 10 do It did not seem clear that she was under fourteen. Her appearance indicated that she be fifteen or sixteen--Hnd her answers during the examination showed her to be sufficiently intelligent to know what she preferred But If she under fourteen, there analogy between the age fixed by law az that at which minor can choose guardian for him self and the age at which sufficient intelligence may be exercised upon the point now al issue. IL was not question of time much as of capacity And the girl appearing capable of sound choice and hay ing exercised it, the for inter fering with her decision She was thereupon orr dered to be discharged, and went her way with Mrs Ticknor, much to the disappointment of those who thought themselves better friends to her than she to herself, and presenting spectacle of triumph of natural affection the deep, instructive npul- ses of freedom