The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-30 00:00:00

THE SUN,

and Clerkenwell. Allusions similar to these might
readily be made to the " forcing" academies kept by
such savans as portly Doctor BLIMBER of Brighton,
and depicted in the narrative of Dombey and Son—
or to the squalid haunts at once of vice and industry
revealed in The Old Curiosity Shop to the gaze of
the Sanitary Commissioners—or to other among " the
ills that (English) flesh is heir to" exposed in the five
Christmas Tales of the same author, or cursorily re-
ferred to even in the books of travels relating to Italy
and America, as well as in the miscellaneous effusions
which have followed the merry " Sketches" and the
immortal " Pickwick." It is enough, however, to
anticipate—from those numerous embryo reforms in
various quarters which have been hastened to their
full development by the genius of CHARLES DICKENS
and carried by his beneficent efforts to their ulterior
and crowning realization—that we may at this
moment recognhe the promise of Chancery Reforms
of the most comprehensive nature through the aid of
Bleak House, as well as of equally comprehensive
and without doubt equally desirable reforms in the
Ecclesiastical Courts through the assistance of David
Copperfield.
As a suit in Chancery, JARNDIrCE and JAENLYCE
must, indeed, by this time be regarded as no less me-
morable and aigrificant than as a trial for Breach of
Promise was the renowned case of BARDELL 111r8US
PlcxwlcK. Through it we look forward to judg-
ment being at lest pronounced upon a host of other
causes—with all deference to the opinion of Miss
FLIGHT—be/4,re the day of judgment." Heaven
grant it may in truth be so—and that even before the
completion of " Bleak House,",. .
this monster evil
among the m
ye
beaanbyolmishonedstraotulsasetv,
etrhaeselad
and wfsorofevEer; nga
loannedOf the most odious blots upon the national escut-
cheon. "ThedHigh Sixth
ciirn Seel"—as that in the keeping of
the iaor lelloi—a
r'hses been terribly and
grandly designated by DICKENS—has assuredly been
open long enough—driving thousands crazy like the
poor lodger of Knot); and hundreds wild like the
unfortunate GRIDLEY, and scores to suicide like NEMO
the Opium Eater.

A beginning has actually been made in the great,
good, Augean, tremendous labour of Winging about
these long-desired reforms in the Court of Chancery.
The responsibility of carrying out this satisfactory
commencement to a still more satisfactory completion
devolves just now mediately upon Lord ST. LEONARDS
end immediately upon the whole of the DERBY Go-
vernment. A little more—and there will be an end
of " appearing, and disappearing, and swearing, and
interrogating, and filing, and cross-filing, ind ar-
guing, and sealing, and motioning, and referring, and
reporting, and revolving about the Lord Chancellor
and all his satellites, and equitably waltzing
ourselves to dusty death, about Cost?' ("Bleak
House," p. 67)—which was the dismay and the heart-
burning of poor, dear Mr. Ja.uNDycE. "Blue-nosed,
bulbous-shoed old benchers" might have less " good
things to talk about in select port-wine committee
after dinner in ball"—but the world would go on a
little more happily and smoothly, and we should
have a riddance of what is, and has been for years and
years too terrible in number to think of, an inex-
haustible source of crime, and lunacy, and squalor,
and destitution. We should hear no more in any
case, of " the little plaintiff or defendant who was
promised a new rocking-horse" when it should at
length be settled, having " grown up, possessed him-
self of a real horse and trotted away into the other
world" (Ditto, p. 3). We should think less gladly
of " the good ships Law and Equity, those teak-
built, copper-bottomed, iron-fastened, brazen-faced,
and not by any means fest sailing Clippers," being
" laid up in ordinary" during long vacation, and less
sorrowfully of "the Flying Dutchman, with a crew
of ghostly clients imploring all whom they may en-
counter to peruse their papers" (Ditto, p. 183), having
drifted, about the same period, " Heaven knows
where." Englishmen would have more cause to re-
joice, each one in the possession of the favourite
palladium of his rights, and the Illoniteur less reason
to hurl the shafts of its sarcasm
.against our venerable
and vauntad Constitution.

Hurra for the Great Unpaid! Hurra for the ma-
gistrates of Workington ! They are unquestionably
men of courage and determination. No judge of the
land, no practising barrister would venture to pro-
nounce such a sentence as that referred to in another
part of this day's impression.
But what is the use of a game-law, if not enforced
with stringent severity ; whatever indulgence may be
shown in other cases, none can be extended to those
who trespass age'ist " the right divine " of
the squirearchy—the privilege of destroying the
birds, beasts, or Bushes, which are supposed to afford
sport to their captors. Allowance may be made for
youth end previous good character, in charges of
peculation cr assault, in anything, indeed, when the
offence is not against the game code. But that is the
unpardonable crime, for which youth offers no ex-
cuse, and in which the future consequences to the
party, however ruinous, must be wholly disregarded;
were it otherwise, no man or body of men would
for a moment have thought of sentencing three lads,
the eldest but thirteen, and the youngest only
eleven years of age, to one month's imprisonment
each in the County Gaol, for a trifling infraction of
the game-laws.
The circumstances of the case, as detailed in the
article which we have extracted from the columns of
a weekly contemporary, are as follows :••••JosEpii
Munn, aged eleven, RICHARD SANDERSON, aged
twelve, and RICHARD HETHPRINGTON, aged thirteen
years, wera a short time since, late in the
afternoon, but before sunset, found in
a mill race, wading through the water,
turning up the atones, endeavouring to catch fish, end
amusing themselves with sundry boyish frolics.
They were, however, detected in their illegal occupa-
tion. They had offended against the 7 and 8 George
IV., c. 29. It is true that they had never heard cf
the provisions of that statute—that they knew not
that they bad offended in any degree. They, how-
ever, speedily received a salutary lesson.
guilty, They
were summoned to appear before the justices of
Workington. The act was not denied ; they pleaded
the mercy of the
Court ; and
throwing
themselves on
atrocious ofilletnind
imprisonment that
mercy wrs exhibited in a month's
the county gaol to each of these
Such occurrencese as this
once of strictly (where, under the
cawingappear-
t--o-sut the law, a great deal of
harshness, if not Jujus
perpetrated) go far to
growing
ice, is
opinionfaa that
possible, from the per-
confirm the
should be relieved,
uoltPaopular 1: the Great Unpaid
"labms ltiovesE7—faarndfrthomeir us
slactoe
per-
formance of such
magistrates, speak
Such
herd in
taken of them as
by district stipendiary ma •
suf-
ficient knowledge of the law, andwithwith '
out the terri-
torialpredilection for sending children t
prisons with the worst offenders.
the
in the principal and most populous . ma-
gistrates, cities ,
done much during the last "'""
have .
towns,
fifteen
_ d
have substantially done ' •
years to vindicate the humanity as well es th.
ma-
jesty of the law, an justice
to her MAZESTT'S SUbjeCt9. We should be Very
much pleased to see the admir:stration of the penal
law taken out of the hands of the present provincial
magistrates. Their duty should be limited to the
financial business of their respective counties. The
power of summary punishment, par ticulerly where
their own class-interests, as landowners end game-
preservers, are involved, should be taken from them
and confided to more competent, efficient, end respon-
sible parties.
County magistrates, at Petty Sessions, often commit
themselves as well as the accused. Of law they know
next to nothing, depen&ng for that upon attorneys,
their clerks. In numerous cases persons summarily
Convicted have the power of appeal, sometimes by
'certiorari to the Quen's Bench, but more generally
to the Court of
to Quarterpriso
prison
Sessions.for
iinability
ilißtyutto
phaoywficnaens
Persons committed
afford the
could expenseafford
t of such appeal; end what, if they
expense, would be their chance of suc-
cess when appeal,ng
from two or three magistrates at
Petty Sessions, to
It is not like the dtbolewhole body at Quarter Sessions ?
drunk to Plump classical appeal, " from PRllap
sober "—or there f
justice
was the
result,—but from a small batch of the Great Unpaid
to the whole collective body' Viewing poaching and
trespassing Es sins of deep dye, the magistrates at
Quarter Sessions would be more or less than mortal if
they do not affirm convictions at Petty ySessions.
The County Court Judges are emi •
nently qualified
to preside over the criminal
business transacted at

Quarter Sessions—the magistrates being relieved
from any further share in the trial and sentencing of
prisoners. It is a well known fact that the Great
Unpaid pass much heavier sentences at their Quarter
Sessions than the Judges of the land do at the Assize
delivery. It is equally notorious, and can he vouched
forpractitioners at Quarter Sessions, that
the bysentenceslegal ere more severe when clerical magis-
trates attend than otherwise ! Indeed we hope the
day is at hand when Lord-Lieutenants of counties
will not put clergymen upon the roll
of magistrates. As ministers of the Gospel,
they have to preach " peace upon earth," as
magistrates how often do they wield the sword of
legal oppression. As yet, only one Lord-Lieutenant
has excluded clergymen from the magistrates' roll.
In the county of Derby, there is only one clerical
magistrate—and be was a barrister when originally
appointed by the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, who did not
think that his subsequently taking Holy Orders was
sufficient ground for a supers?deas. We might almost
venture to predict that among the unnamed Work-
ington magistrates, who have sent three children to
the County Gaol, for the make-believe of fishing in a
mill-race, one was a clergyman!
The attention of the Home Secretary—a humane,
vigilant, and excellent man, and lawyer—will be
drawn, we trust, to this flagrant case. It is mon-
strous that three cFldeen, who would have been
amply punished (if they had done wrong) for trying
to fish in a mill-race by being kept without their
dinner for a day, should be committed to the conta-
minaiion of a county prison, by country gentlemen,
who must take the law from their own clerk. There
ought to be, for the pu-poses of justice, a si inend7sry-
nesgistrate who knows what law is, and will soften
it with that equity which most avails by being
much tempered with mercy. But while " The
Great Unpaid" Est es judges (end (non in their own
cases), geme-laNe prosecutions and peeeee&ltions may
be exr zeted to flourish.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
end yesterday.
The Moniteur gives four more resolutions of
General Councils. The Councils of the Eure,
.ne, and Soane, desire stability in the form of
governmen:. That of the Var says, " France, tired
of revolutions, i I happy to see you preside over her
destinies."
The ad interim Administration of the War Depart-
ment, held by M. Ducos, the Minister of Marine, in
the absence of General DE ST. ARNAUD, ceased since
Saturday.
The Meniteur contradicts very positively the asser-
tions of a deficient hariest, countenanced by the Jour-
nal des Debats. It says—
" Some journals have published on the harvest of 1852
estimations which would tend to the conclusion of its
being insufficien• These journals have been misin-
formed, It results from the information received by the
Government that the harvest of 1852 will be, on the
average, equal to au ordinary year, and superior even by
a fourth iu certain dc.partmeLts which furnish a great
part of the corn coLsumed in Fee uce. Upon many points
a marked fall in prices -Las been the result of an exact
knowledge of the fa-its."
The same jcui nal gives the particulars of the
PRINCE PEEs/DEDIT'S intended journey to the south rs
follows :
" Sept. 15, Patis to Nevers; 16, Nevers to Moulins;
17, Moulins to Roanne; 18, Roanne to St. Etienne; 19,
S, Etienne to Lyons; 20, Lyons; 21, to Grenoble; 22,
Grenoble; 23, to Valence; 2A., to Avignon; 25, to Mar-
seilles; 26, Marseilles; 27, ') Toulon; 28, Toulon; 29,
to Aix; 30, to Nismes; Oct. 1, to Montpelier; 2, to
Narbonne; 3, to Carcassone; 4, to Toulouse; 5, Tou-
louse; 6, to Agen; 7, to Bordeaux • 8 and 9 Bordeaux;
10, to Angouleme; 11, to Rochefort; 12, to La Ro-
chelle; 13, to Niort; 14, to Poictiers; 15, to Tours; 16,
Paris."

We read in the Patrie—
" The journals of the English colonies, for an object
which it is easy to comprehend, spread the most malevo•
lent reports on the mortality of our penitentiary colony
at Cayenne. These reports are completely false. The
sanitary state of the colony is excellent. Since the de-
parture of the different vessels, out of an ensemble of
1,900 convicts, only nine have died. Out of this number
four on leaving Fiance were affected with serious com-
plaints, end the other five had chronic diseases which
were considered incurable. Independently of their sane•
tary state, the moral situation of the transported priso-
ners is every day itepros :leg; and there is every reason
to bogy that the colony, which was before in a very tow
state, will receive from these contingents elements of ac-
tivity and renewed prospai:ty."
The corvette La Fortune will leave Toulon on the
sth September, with 300 convicts, for Cayenne.
The follov, ing defence of the Government concern-
ing a charge lately brought against it, is given in the
official journal :
" Some foreign jcurnpla, faithful' to the system of as-
persion towards 'he French Government, by means of
which they furnish their quote of scandal to Europe,
effirm that the tomb Weed in the chapel of Vincennes to
the Dvke d'Enghein hex bran pulled down. That fene-
re I monument, formed of massive stone:, and surmounted
by eeeerel ststut 3, stood in the chap el of Vireerres,
right in front of the high ritar. Its gigantic construc-
tion ceeupied a Ilege space, and broke the symmetry
of the beautiful architcciaral lines of the temple
built by S`. Lou're In order to remedy the defect of uni-
formity thus produced, it was found necessary to erect in
front of it an alter to the Holy Virgin; but these two
constructions, placed in the middle of the choirs, im-
peded the religious services, end diminished the place ap-
propriated to the congregation. The plans of a complete
restoration of the monument, which are now being exe-
cute 1, were long since decided on by the military engi-
neering department, end were never submitted to the ap-
probation of the head of the Government. Without his
being informed of the matter, it was decided to remove
from the choir the tomb and the altar of the Virgin,
and transport them into two adjacent chapels opening
on the sides of the building. The tomb of the Duke
d'Enghien has already been displaced, and carried into
the chapel on the left; and the altar of the Virgin will
be re-erected in that on the right. The translation of
the cenotaph of the Duke d'Enghien took place in pre-
sence of the General commanding at Vincennes, and of
all the authorities of the place. The ceremony was ac-
complished with all the rest ect due to the dead, and a
minute of the proceedings was regularly drawn up. The
monument is of ^dello and black meeble, and covered with
the ornaments tud atttibutes which previously consti-
tuted its decoration. In a few days the workmen will
have completely terminated tteir works of restoration
in tl•te chapel s[ecielly appropriated to it."
The PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic has just
decided that a commemorative monument shall be
raised at Courbevoi, on the spot where the mortal
remains of the EMPEROR first touched the French soil.
The PRINCE has charged M. CHESINGER, the sculp-
tor, with the execution of this monument, and already
several sketches have been drawn by that artist, and
submitted to the PRESIDENT for his choice.
M. THIERS receives every day a number of visits at
his residence in the Place St. George. Several Le-
gitimists have call on him, but he refuses positively
to enter into any political disquisitions. His friends,
however, declare that he does not believe in the du-
ration of the present power ; that be looks on the re-
turn of HENRY V. as perfectly possible ; that he has
declared that he would serve that Sovereign, if a
liberal constitution were given to the country ; that
he looks lightly on the Republican party, and that
he has asserted that the Republican leaders themselves
have lost all hoe es of success.
The police have taken precautions to protect
General HAYNAU. The Cologne Gazette states that
the departure of General HAYNAU from Brussels for
Paris eves not quite voluntary. His residence in that
capitel was, it is said, shortened by a notification
from the police.
The Messager du Midi relates that AS a huissier
was about to arrest a debtor, near Peynau, the latter
perceived him coming, and determined to play him a
trick. He accordingly approached some field la-
bourers, and, in a mysterious 'winner, asked one of
them if he r arceived the man who was coming up.
" I see him," eeid the other, " what of him ?"
ieri Why," said the debtor, "heis M. TUCKER." "M.
Sasaptlefsetnusof
alaffecla.
'‘ucitla ? who is he ?" "He is the inventor of the
oidium k •• •
ae era or the disease in the vines. He is en
English brewer, who, in order to sell his beer at a
pursued
better rate, has eisoned the vineyards." The pea-
at
sants
property, en°Perth
Pthe huissier, who, not liking the
by airs, teak to big heels as ..est as he could,
by a garde-cneen at the end of a field was arrested
In h;e flight he entered pri-
vateproshe lest the next morning only to
whiche a. 'who took him without hesita-
tion to plisen,
fell ill, wish the
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