The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-24 00:00:00

equity. One of the greatest improvements, how-
ever, contemplated by this Bill is the introduction
of a plain, short, simple mode of pleading---just
what is necessary to make the matters in dispute
intelligible, and bring the points to be tried fairly in
issue, and nothing more;. thus making law and
common sense mutually assist each otherl without
any disgraceful fictions, sham pleas, or expensive
technicality, to convert justice into nn engine of
rapacity and oppression. It should also be men-
tioned that, by consent of parties, a Jury may be
dispensed with. But not only arc sham pleas and
unncessary length of pleading prohibited, but the
Judge has the discretionary power, in cases of pro-
lixity and mis-statement of facts in the pleadings, of
ordering attorneys to pay the costs out of their
own pockets. It is likely that, under such a
system, fiction and surplusage will be altogether ex-
tirpatedy as they can no longer be a source of profit
to the practitioners in the law. In most cases the
superior Courts will have a power of revising the
decisions of the District Courts; and any matter
tried before the Judge in Ordinary, whether of law
or fact, may be revised by the Judges of Assize;
and the sentence of the Judge in Ordinary, or ver-
dict of the Jury, may be set aside, and a ne.v trial
ordered by the same Judges. Powers are also
given, under certain restrictions, to both the Judge
in Ordinary and Judges of Assize, to reserve points,
and order cases for the opinion of the Courts in
Westminster Hall. Such are the principal features
tf the till, which will shortly, we expect, come be-
fore Parliament more in detail. It is our opinion,
taking it altogether, that it is the best plan that has
been proposed in modern times for making justice
accessible to the humbler classes of society, and cut-
ting down the ruinous expence and delay, which,
where small sums were disputed, or minor griev-
ances were to be redressed, made justice always dif-
ficult, and frequently unattainable. We therefore
wish that the state of public affairs may not deprive
the country of the opportunity of seeing it put to the
proof of experience at the close of the present Ses-
sion.—Morning Herald.
The project of the Hon. Member for Clare to
compel Government to abandon the intention of
increasing the stamp duties and the tax upon
spirits in Ireland, by producing a run upon the
Banks, was not, we now perceive, a mere idle
threat. The extracts which will be found in ano-
ther pait of our paper, from a journal published in
the city of Waterford, will show that this desperate
and wicked system of opposition to the measures of
Government has been to a certain extent actually
carried into effect. We hear occasionally of men,
both in Ireland and elsewhere, who cannot obtain
the wages they consider necessary to their comfort,
or to whom in other respects the actual state of
affairs in their parish or neighbourhood is disa-
greeable, sttfng fire to farm-houses and corn-stacks.
Such men, wheneVer they arc detected, are hanged,
and their fate excites no commiseration. It is not
going too far, however, to say that these cri-
minals, upon whom the punishment of death
is justly inflicted for their atrocious offences,
are surpassed in maral guilt by men who,
like Mr. O'Connell, strive to get up a con-
spiracy against public and private 'credit,
merely on account of the Legislature having
adopted a financial resolution in which they do not
concur. We do not here enter into the merits of
the paiticular measures which Mr. O'Connell has
taken this method to oppose. Let them be as un-
just and oppressive as he pretends to think them,
he has not the less reduced himself, by the atrocious
con-piracy of which he is the author, to the degrad-
ing level of an incendiary. That he is not a felo-
nious incendiary is henceforth to be considered as
an accidental circumstance. So long as the run
which has commenced with the Waterford Bank re-
mains partial, no great harm probably will be done;
although in this case even the evil will be unques-
tionably greater than all the good that Mr. O'Con-
nell has accomplished, or will accomplish through-
out the whole course of his turbulent existence.
The aid of the other banks of Ireland, which a sense
of common interest will induce them promptly and
liberally to afford, may preserve the threatened esta-
blishments. But if the evil should become general,
there is too much reason to apprehend that Ireland
will have to endure a crisis not very dissimilar to
that by which the commercial interests of England
were convulsed four years ago. Such crisis, if un.
fortunately it should occur, will we suppose be
known to history by the name of the O'Connell
Crisis ; and the demagogue, who must otherwise
have sunk into oblivion, will have secured to his
name an infamous immortality. Nothing we think
can be more clear than that the formation of a cot

;piracy of this nature imposes upon Parliament the
duty of adhering steadily and tenaciously to its de-
clared purpose, even though that purpose may not
in itself be considered the wisest dtat could have

been conceived. Any deviation from the proposed
measure would be the triumph of conspiracy; it
►would amount in substat.ce to the weak and mis-

chievous confession that the existence of a paper
currency in Ireland transfers the powers of Govern-
ment, in the ultimate resort, from the Legislature
to the hands of any designing demagogue who may
happen to posse's the arts and the assurance which

are conducive to popularity. If this conspiracy
should be so far successful as to produce any con-
siderable effect to the injury of the Banks of Ire-
land, or to the temporary discouragement of her
currency, it will be evidently necessary also to extend
to that country, as was once intended, the security
of a metallic currenc). One and two pound notes may
give facilities and encouragement to trade, but if they
place in the hands of a political agitator like O'Connell
the power to disturb the commercial relations of a
country, and enable him to arrogate to himself an
authority superior to that of the Legislature, they
ought unquestionably, whatever may be their direct

advantages, to be tit once abolished. 'We do not
believe that this O'Connell and Association con-

spiracy against the trade and prosperity of Ireland
will be successful to any great extent. That it has
already produced some local and individual injury
is, however, a fact which cannot, we fear, be doubted.
And it is sufficiently mortifying to reflect, that any
number, however small, of indut.trious and enter-

prising Irishmen, should be condemned to embar-
rasment and ruin, for no other reason than that Mr.
O'Connell has not been able to command the atten-
tion of the I-louse of Commons, or to acquire any
ascendancy over the minds of the people of England.
The threat of the Roman Catholic leader to pro-
duce a run upon the banks in Ireland, if his opinions
upon a question of finance were not adopted by the
Legislature, and the run having aiqually taken place
in some districts in conformity with the threat, are

circumstances which too plainly intimate the con-
tinued existence ofan organized confederacy inimical
to the authority of the Legislature, And inconsistent
with the permanent tranquillity and welfare of the
country. This confederacy tnay not be the less
dangerous that its ramifications and movements
are no longer visible except in th sir effects.—
Morning Post.

With feelings of the deepest regret we feel
ourselves called upon this flay to declare that any thing
to equal the pressnre of want and disteoss felt at present
by the poor of this town has not been experienced during
the last fifteen years. Provisions have advanced consi-
derably in price, and are scarce; the poor cannot get em-
ployment ; business of every kind is dull, consequently.
money is not in circulation.—Fermanagh li'eporter.
CURIOUS CASE OF SINCOPE.—KIRICALDY.

—An honest man's cow was taken ill one Saturday night
lately, and, after several licurs of severs; suffering, was
given up by the faculty, usually employed on such occa-
sions, for dead. The carcase was forthwith drawn out
of the byre, and laid on a dunghill, wbe re it continued un-
molested till Monday morning. Tlvey then commenced
the operation of taking off the hide,, and had proceeded a
good length, when cromie began to chow symptoms of un-
willingness to part with her skits. We need not add,
that the operation was discontintaed, hut it is a fact too
wonderful to be suppressed, that s).te is now in good health,
though still bearing woeful marks of the knife.—Ftfe
Herald.