The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-18 00:00:00

F cheapness in the administration of justice, nor ace.
mmy in the appointment of Judges, been con-
sulted; and this is all the " reformation" which the
!people have obtained ! The dearness of justice- is
!one of the greatest grievances under which the
`Two* of this country at present labour, and every
lattempt to reform the abuse has hitherto proved
~abortive. It is true there are some Courts of local
ijurisdiction, in which - justice may be had compara-
tively cheap; but another grievance—that of nto-
a:poly—prevents their being in much favour with
:the public. One of these is the Lord Mayor's ,
Court Which hus a jurisdiction over certain causes
of action arising in the city. In that Court, the
'other day, the 'Recorder, who presides as. assessor to
!the chief civic magistrate, expatiated on the ad-
!vantages which the cheapness and expedition of the
process afforded to suitors. He said that the Re-
tion which had been then tried, and in which
fare plaintiff, a dealer in spirits, had obtained a ver-
diet for 61. 10s. against the defendant, as the
'price of a certain quantity of spirits delivered, if
brought in any of the superior Courts at Westmin-
'stet., would have produced a bill of coats to the
amount of 401. or .501.; whereas in this Cowl they
would not amount to more than one-tenth of either
sum---that is, to 41. or IV. Again: the plaintiff in
,the -higher Courts would not obtain his money
sooner than nine months lifter the verdict, while
here he could get his decree in two or three days.
.This is not quite accurate, inasmuch as the success-
plaintiff in the superior Courts can sue out eie-
eution en his judgment after four days of the ensu-
ing. Term have elapsed, unless in these four days the
defendant should have moved for a new triad, or
taken some other step to set the proceedings aside.
Still it •must be admitted that the.superior Courts
,afford great opportunities for dilatory and vexatious
proceedings by • writs of error, sham pleas, &c.,
which are ti disgrace to justice; but the cheapness
and despatch of such civil tribunals as the Lord
Mayor's Court and the Palace Court are not much
estimated by the public, in consequence of the mo-
nopoly of Attorneys and- Barristers in these Courts,
which prevent suitors from employing as their legal
advisers men in whose talents and judgment they
can have confidence. What the public want is
cheap and expeditious law, without the drawback
and positive nuisance of legal monopoly.—Morn-
in a Herald.
The repeal of the Union has, at the present mo-
ment, it seems, many advocates in Ireland. The
circumstance which has more immediately brought
the repeal into favour is the success of the Belgians.
But why should the resistance of the Belgians have
produced this effect on the Irish mind ? The truth
is, that Ireland is in a most diseased state, and the
people, like drowning mew, catch at every straw
within their reach. We bear of removals by whole-
sale of the peasantry under the Sub-letting Act,
and of their squatting down by five hundreds on.
commons, thence to be again ejected by force. The
proceedings of the CorpUration of Kelly, who de-
molished and burned the Cabins of live hundred
trespassers, who were left without a shed to cover
diem, or a morsel to eat, speak volumes as to the
stilt a of the. country where such scenes are enacted.
Ireland, before the Union, was a Protestant con-
quest, all power being -in the bands of the Protest-
alai, backed by England. A repeal of the Union
would leave Ireland in a very different state from
that in which she was when that event took place.
It would give tuitional independence to the Irish
people. We have no doubt that the improvement
of the country would be effected much more rapidly
under a separate Legislature than under an united
Legislature. The property mid intelligence of the •
island would hear directly on the Parliament.; mei
having to bear the responsibility of their own mea-
sures, without the support of British gold or 'British
bayonets, the landholders hod other influential per-
sons
would be taught prudence by circumstances.
But there is no disguising the fact, that a separated
Legislature would put un end to the Established
Church. Indeed we have no doubt that the desire
to be rid of this incumbrance is not one of the least
powerfill motives for a repeal. The Catholics,l
almost to a man, must feel indignant at seeing the
Ministers of the religion of one-seventh of the
people, if so much, made an Established Church.
The Protestants eon have no wish to see the Catho-
lic religion established; but they might have no
objection to a compromise—each religion paying its
own clergy, The Protestant landholders of Ireland
have very little Church property ; and in the aboli-
tion of tithes, they would be great gainers. 't here
are few persons in Ireland who would not rejoice at
seeing a different appropriation of the enormous re-
venue of a sinecure Church. Thus a number of
causes are tit work to inspire the Irish witlea desire
of eleinge.-111orning Chronicle.
The following paragraph appeared in the Court
,lournal of Sattirdey lust :
" It is stated in a Morning Paper that Ministers were
.mided by their official agent, Mr. Cartwright, as M the
real state of the Netherlands, and that they were con-
sequently without information upon which they could
rely.. This is not the fact. An English Member of Par-
liament, of good judgment, who was at Brussels, took the
pains of inquiring into the rear state of atTairs there, and
in the country generally ; and transmitted accounts to the
Foreign office. The statenients of this gentleman differed,
see believe, materially from these of Mr. Cartwright ; and
their correctness Iris been shown by the event. We un-
derstand that the tents communioatrd by him hail some
material influence in bringing -about the important deei,
dun against intervention, which we last week announced
excluaively."

We are not aware that any 'Mortal Paper af-'
firmed that Miniaters were misled reapectmg Belgium
by Mr. Cat twright. They were (as we lately hinted)
too well acquainted with the merits of that gentle.
man, to be misled by him ; but; though Molesters
might prefer the accounts of an English Member of
Parliament, of,good judgment, at Brussels to those
of their Secretary of Legation; poor Prince Frede-
rick night not he aware that in this country we go-
nerally mined to diplomatic situations abroad per•
spas who are fit for norhingat home. Thus, though
Ministers could pot rely on the uccounta of Mr. Cart-
wright,they scttd,bim, notwithstanding, to Frankfort
to represent this country at the. Diet. The infor-
mation, however, on which r Ministers do not choose
to act, is deemed sufficient for the British public,
and accordingly these diplomatic gentry may be ea-
.sily recognised In certain journals by their tone of
antiiciency and imp or t eOO7-410/11ing Chronicle..
lrr another part of this day!s paper will be found
an account of one of those brutal exhibitions known
by the name of military floggingi, which, to the
disgrace of the Legislature and the country, still
authorized by the inw of the land. We had thought
that the commiseration expressed in ' behalf of the
poor maw who- was • lately tortured after the same
fashion, for being found Mdeep at his post, and the
universal indignation' vented against an Act, which
if committed art 4 brute animal, would have formed
a proper builject fur prosecution by the " Society
for the Prevention of CrAelty to Animals," would
have deterred tiny Court Martial from having re-
course a second time to the same horrible and !mi-
liaria!) punishment ; but it seems that we not only
thought too highly of the influence of public opinion
on military: resolves—a _similar scene having since
been exlubited--4ut that we were also mistaken in
calculating that no public journalist would be found
utterly dead to all feelings of humanity as to de-
fend suck merciless anti savage conduct. Such is
the fact, and the following is part of the defenee:—
" We have received," says our cotemporary, " an im-
mense number of letters on the subject of the late military
flogging, the majorityof which are omitted in strong terms
of reprobation. We are as anxious as any of our cor.
respondents to spare our fellow-creatures all tiiiiiecc4iiry
suffering, and should rejoice sincerely were it possible that
military flogging could be entirely dispensed with. : Con.
stitutetf, however, as our army is at present, we think that
the llabitity to such a purrishment is absolutely necessary
to the maintivince of that discipline, without which we
fear our soldiers would Ipeome, like the degenerate legions
of Rowe, tyrants v hag their unarmed fellow.eitixens, and
rewards in the pre .tee of a foreign enemy."
Nome time ago the same wiseacre would no doubt
have told us that a Striereign chosen front among
tt►hpeople, tike Lotus Philip of Prance or who