The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-26 00:00:00

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From the following Report it will be seen that
the Marylebone Magistrates have become alarmed
at the severity with which they have enforced the
New Police Act, and have resolved to put certain
clauses in abeyance until the opinion of the law
officers of the Crown can be obtained. While con-
sulting Sir JOHN CAMPBELL and Mr. Sergeant
WILDS on the clauses in question, we would
recommend them also to ask advice on the
42d clause, about which hardly any couple
of them agree, in order to put an end to a system
of espionage and domiciliary visits abhorrent to the
feelings of Englishmen. If the Government were
at all aware of the indignation excited by the severe
construction put upon the clause relating to shut.
ting up public-houses on Saturday nights, they
would, as a matter of policy as well as of justice, at
once put down such a nuisance.

The subjoined is the Marylebone Police repo ri
referred to :

On Tuesday another large batch of tradesmen ap-
pear,-d before Mr. Rawlinson to answer information s
laid against them by Stowell, the common informer, lo
pNcing goods for sale outside their shops, contrary to
a clause in the New Police Act.

IThe conplaints and remonstrances which have ben
I from time to time made against the operations of this
clause seems at length to have made a deep impres-
sion on the minds of the Magistrates of this Court, who
have name to the determination of no longer encourag-
ing the numerous and vexatious informations which the
informer has thought proper to lay under this Act, and
which, if persevered in, would tend materially to injure
trade and increase pauperism in the p Irish to an
alarming extent. Mr. .Rawlinson, therefore, taking
this view of the case, convicted all the defendants
(except for Sunday trading) in the nominal fine of one
shilling each, and as the informer gets only half of
this fine, Stowell's occupation in this line may be
-nsidered as gone. One strong objection to this
arbh:T=rs clause, which prohibits tradesmen from
puffin...4,a goods on their own area, is, that the words
of the Act al,. notsuffictently.clear, and. even some
•Ma-
gistrates are of o 111°n that they refer only to pro-
p. • -
jecting over the footway, 80 tu. to cause an obstruc-
tion, which is also an offence under
the in-
After the cases were over it was ntiotatca
former that his moiety of the penalties (which by the
Police Act the Magistrate has the power of withholding
or not, as he pleases) must rest in abeyance until a meet-
ing of the Magistrates should be convened, and the
opinion of the Crown officers taken upon the clause
referred to.

The speech of King Louis PHILIPPE on open-
ing the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday,
is remarkable only for its vagueness. Nothing
definite is said in the Royal speech about the line
of policy which France proposes to pursue in the
East.— nothing about the detenticn of Don
CARLos--nothing about the recognition of Texas
—nothing about the Mauritius and Portendic
affairs—hardly a word about the newly discovered
plots—and nothing whatever about the reduction of
the Five per Cents. Its vagueness produced a de-
cline in the prices of stocks on the Bourse, although
it contains a paragraph distinctly stating that the
increase of the revenue is such as to allow of the
increased expenses consequent upon the breaking
out of the war in Africa. If, however, as we are
assured on good auuthority, there is, instead of
an increase, a deficit in the French finances of
the current year to the amount of an hundred
millions of francs, the Finance Minister
will find it a troublesome affair to prevail upon the
Chambers to re-echo this paragraph in their respec-
tive addresses. But though the speech is vague,
it is not therefore unimportant as an indication of the
will rather than of the power of the French Cabinet.
In the little that is said about the Eastern question,
care is taken to represent the policy of France and
England as perfectly identical. Though Austria has
a squadron in the Mediterranean, ostensibly for the
purpose of co-operating with the fleets of Great
Britain and France, and Russia has a large
naval force in the Black Sea, a bare allusion is
all that is made to the disposition of these powers.
Kir Louis PI-lILLIPPE not only claims for
France and England the exclusive merit of the

protection hitherto afforded to the Porte, but like-
wise states pretty distinctly, that they alone are
competent to bring the question to a favourable
adjustment. In avoiding all reference to the un-
fortunate collisions which have. taken place between
French and English Naval officers, his MAJESTY
has afforded us another proof of his earnest desire
to maintain a good understanding with this country
—now become so essential to the internal tranquil-
lity of France.

We have great pleasure in announcing that the
KING'S progress to and from the Chambers on
Monday was not interrupted by an attempt at the
slightest outrage. Still no popular cheers saluted Ladijy
ear. His appearance Awakened no slumber- lin town on Tue..