The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-29 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SMITING.

DEAL, AUG. 28.—Wind Easterly, light and variable.—
Passed through from the River yesterday the Whim, Heard,
for Earbadoes ; Sihson, Milne, and Hannah, Phillips, for
Quebec; and the Sisters, Duke, fir Dover, to be repaired.—
Arrived and remain, the Petrel, Smith, from Bristol, for
Petersburgh.
Poirr sMOUTH, AuG. 28.—Wind variable.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Glasgow from a cruize. Sailed the Edward
transport, with troops for Sierra Leone, accompanied by his
Majesty's ship Brazen.
FA1.310 U Tit, AuG. 27.—Wind E.—Arrived the Sovereign
Post Office Steam-packet, from London for Milford. Sailed
the Duke of Kent packet for Lisbon.
LivEttrooL, A tue. 27.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Marquess
of Qucensbury, Mikity, from St. John's, N. B. ; Earl Moira,
Allison ; and Sisters, Reed, from Alexandria.
DOVEIt, A tiu. 28.—His Grace the Duke of Wellington
arrived here to-day in the Medusa packet from Boulogne.

Arrived off Dover the Galatea, late Golath wile, from 'Mile.
stop.

The Thetis, Reed, from London to Hamburgh, ran on shore,
near Terschelling the 22d inst., but was got off very leaky after
throwing part of her cargo overboard, and carried into Bar-
lurgen to discharge.
The Britannia, of London, Davison, bound to St. Peters.
burgh, was Stranded on the Swingbottoms the 17th instant,
bilged, and tilled with water ; crew saved.

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, Aun. 29.

The arrivals of nearly all sorts of Grain last week were mo-
derate. 'Phis morning there is a tolerably fair supply of Wheat
fresh in from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, chiefly of the present
year's growth, which for the most part is damp in quality. The
fresh supplies of Barley, Beans, Pease, and Oats, are small.
New Wheat is from '2s. to 4s. per quarter cheaper than on this
day se'nnight, but Old Wheat fully supports last quotations.
New Barley sells freely from 465. to 525. per quarter. Beans
and Pease are unaltered. Good sweet Oats fully maintain last
week's prices, other sorts are declined full Is. per quarter from
the terms of last Monday. In the trade for Flour there is no
alteration in price.
ARRIVALS LAST WEEK.—English Wheat, 4,933 ; Bar-'
ley, 769 ; .Halt, 1,703 ; Oats, 12,365 ; Beans, 1,705 ;
Pease, 1,026; Irish Wheat, --; Oats, 5,360; Foreign Oats,
5.350 quarters • Flour, 0.264 sacks.
Wheat, Red (old) 568 68s Beans, Small (new) ....—s —a
White (old) ...50s 75s —______ (old) ....478 53s
Red (1825) 54s 60s Tick (new) —s —s
Fine 62s 65s (old) 42s 44s
Superfine ....68s 70s --- Ilarrow(new)...—s —s
White (1825)...58s 64s I (old) ...45s 47s
Fine 66s 70s Brank 34s 40s
Superfine ....72s 76s Oats, Feed 23s 25s
Rye 32s 36s Fine 968 285
Barley 34s 42s Poland 25s 27s
--Fine (new) 40s 45s' —Fine 27s 295.
Superfine 48s 52s Potatoe 07s 28s
Malt s6s 64s ---Fine ‘)914 303
—Fine 66s 72s Scotch 32s 33s
Peas Grey (new) 42s 44s Flour (per sack).. 6os 65s
—Maple (new)....40s 47s -- Seconds s2s 53s
—White (new)....44s 48s North Country...s2s 54s
Boilers 50s 55s Bran 12s 13s

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN,FRODI TILE RETURNS
RECEIVED IN THE WEEK ENDING AUG. 20.
Wheat, lijs. Ild. ; Baaey, 395. 2d. ; Oats, 255. Ild.; Rye,
435. Bd.; Beans, 455. Od. • Peas, 445. 9d.
The Average Price of irown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
Aug. 24, 1825, is 41s. 10d. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, Auo.
The following is an accurate Report of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:—

CATTLE. AT MARKET.
Beasts 9,624 I Sheep 22,630
Calves
To sink the Offal, per stone of 81t.
Beef 4s fit: to 5s 2d I Veal 'is Ott to Gs Od
Motto' 4s [ld to 58 4d I Pork ss Gd to Gs 4d
Lamb 58 2tl to 5s 10d.
HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay £4 U to £5 0 0 I Clover
Straw £1 16s to 1:2 ss.

Some time since, the Earl of LONSDALE had a
complaint !n his eyes, which led to the formation of a cataract,
and which totally deprived him of sight. His Lordship under-
went an operation, and his eyes were of course bandaged over,
and he was kept the usual length of time blindfolded. When
the proper time arrived for taking the bandages off, to his inex-
pressible delight, he found his eyesight was restored ; and al-
though at an advanced age, he continues now in the enjoy-
ment of good sight, but wears spectacles as preservatives.—
The very first act of the Noble Earl, after recovering his sight,
was to write a draft for 1,000/. on his banker, and present it to
the oculist,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts
,jrom the Mornzng Papers,Aug. 29, 1825.

[Tilt Times.]
The Court of Chancery, during the period of
its late sittings, has attracted more than its usual
share of attention. The existing commission of
inquiry into this branch of our civil jurisprudence
cannot fail to excite some interest in the public
mind, however moderate may be our hopes of
benefit from the limited scope of its investiga-
tions. No person doubts that this Court is the
source of great and manifold evils ; it cannot be
denied that the Court of Chancery, originally
established to remedy the delay and oppression
sometimes inseparable from the forms of the Com-
mon Law Courts, and armed, for that object,
with some of the arbitrary and odious powers of
the old imperial code, is itself the cause of greater
delay and more cruel oppression than it was design-
ed to cure: but these evils are considered to be
chargeable upon the system alone ; and doubtless
a conviction that such is the fact has restricted
the inquiries of the Commissioners to that point.
'Close observation and repugnance to self-decep-
tion are absolutely requisite in order to ascertain
whether these evils are merely systematic, or
whether they be not in some measure imputable
to the personage who presides over the Court.
When talent, learning, experience, integrity, and
urbanity coincide in the character of a Judge, it
is difficult to persuade ourselves that he is never-
theless disqualified for his office, and that he has
defects, the absence of which would be cheaply
purchased by the sacrifice of many of his good
qualities. A person who often enters the Court
of Chancery must remark a daily attendance of
suitors there, whose faces become as familiar to
the frequenters of that Court as the pictures
suspended in the hall. These individuals at-
tend not to present petitions, but to obtain
an answer to petitions, heard, argued, perhaps
uominlly decide•l, months or years back. NVitl►-
out the least glimpse of light as to the period
when their fate is to be decided, they must at-
tend, or pay an agent to attend ; or perhaps
their business or pursuits are dependent upon
the Lord Chancellor's judgment. Is this serious
evil to be attributed to the system or to the
Judge ? Must we believe that a Chancellor of
ordinary powers, with the experience of nearly
half a century, cannot apply to a cause, after it
has been thoroughly argued, the principles of
equity, without re-arguing it in his own closet ? Es
a decision more likely to be just which is defer-
red until all the peculiar circumstances of
the case have faded from memory ? The
procrastination of decision of memory is one
of the evils most injurious to suitors anti; to
the community. The delays of the Court are
infinitely less vexatious in the progress than at
the close of a suit. The habit of postponing
judgments from day to day, week to week, and
term to term—of dallying with them when de-
livered—of pronouncing an order and recalling
it, discovers a weakness in the highest degree
pernicious to the public in the Judge of a court
where promptitude of decision is most essential
to justice. Delay in that stage of a cause when
neither diligence nor money can accelerate its
progress, offers a direct encouragement to dis-
honest suitors. Questions as nice and intricate as
any which occur in Chancery, are common in the
inferior courts, in criminal as well as in civil cases;
and what intolerable injury would result from the
same species of procrastination there ! Should a
Judge require a twelve-month's reflection be-
fore he charged the jury ; or should a jury
desire to have copies of the pleadings, deposi-
tions, &c. for perusal at home, previous to con-
sidering their verdict, the grievance would be past '
endurance. The sufferers might probably be
more numerous, but the examples of individual
suffering would be less severe, than under the
present practice in the Court of Chancery; the
suitors of which pine in imprisonment and pau-
perism, not because of the tedious forms of
the Court, but because the Chancellor cannot
apply those forms to their respective cases.—
It is not unworthy of remark, that much time is
wasted in this Court by irrelevant observations and
frivolous discussions. Not long since, it must be
remembered, an entire morning was consumed in
an insipid dialogue oraltercation between the Judge
and a certain King's Counsel. The waste of
public time in the Court of Chancery from this
cause alone is frequent, nay, of daily occurrence,'
and calls loudly for a remedy, which the Judge
could and ought to provide. These and other
minor evils are not inherent in the present consti-
tution of the Court ; let its forms be ever so
simplified, they would continue to prevail under
existing circumstances. It is a public duty,
therefore, to endeavour to rectify opinion upon
this point ; and, if possible, to convince the indi-
vidual himself, that defects of character which he
cannot discover, and which would be impercep-
tible were he in a private station, may produce,
in one exercising his extensive jurisdiction, greater
mischiefs to the community than positive vice.

MORNING

Another exemplification of the precious man- I
ner in which Magisterial business is conducted
in this country took place at the Mansion-house
on Saturday. An individual possessed of one of
the notes for 1,0001. of which a Gentleman was
robbed at the Auction Mart, when asked by his
Lordship if he could account for his possessing
this note, answered, " My Lord, I feel so em-
barrassed under the disgraceful charge made
against me, that I feel myself under the necessity
of submitting the whole of my case to my Coun-
sel."—The Lord Mayor, naturally enough stag-
gered at this mode of answering by deputy,
observed, " lie is asked whether he can ac-
count satisfactory for the possession of this
note, and he immediately refers me to his
Counsel or Solicitor. When an innocent
man is charged with having stolen a 1,0001.
note, it is natural to expect that he will be as
anxious as possible to give all the information in
his power on the subject, to acquit himself." To
be sure he is, and that is what we have again and
again observed. But how came his Lordship to
forget the old approved practice, of cautioning

the prisoner not to say any thing to criminate
himself ? It appears, that so far from following-
this practice, the prisoner had been subjinted to
the inquisitorial system in private ; for Mr.
AD.:menus having driven his Lordship Into a
corner, maintained that his client was not obliged
to account for the possession, and that the other
party must prove that he stole it.—Mr. nobler,
jun., came to the relief of the Chief Magistrate,
and stated, " that he had already answered the
question in private." This statement, which is
entirely contradictory, is taken down, and the
Lord Mayor can have it, if he chooses, upon the
oath of the Chief Clerk. Accordingly the statement
made by the prisoner privately was read by the
Chief Clerk. Now we do not say that the ob-
servations of the Lord Mayor were not characte-
rized by good sense. But how is it that all this
pains shall be taken to get one man to confess, to
get him to entangle himself in contradictory
statements, while another man is warned n•ot
to commit himself by any answer tending to
' criminate himself, and reminded that he is
not obliged to answer the questions put to
him? Is not this perpetual shifting of ground
disgraceful to the administration of criminal jt,-
lice ? The plain English of the matter is,—that
when a Magistrate wishes to favour a criminal,
he holds one course, and when he is hostile to
him, he holds another. We can see cleatly
enough that the prisoner in this case was not an ob-
ject of favour. If he had merely been a murderer
or so, the old maxim might have stood him in good
stead ; but interest makes men sharp sighted ; and
any one may see with half a glance, how deeply
interested all commercial-men are in putting down
such practices as those which gave rise to the pro-
ceedings in this case. In such a case a London
Alderman can display all the firmness and per-
severance of a Paris Functionary. What we wish
to see 19 something like uniformity in our judicial
proceedings. If common sense is to be aban-
doned, let us be consistent in our folly. What
we dislike is to see English Magistrates acting
with all the caprice of Turkish Cadis. Some-
times we have commitments without even the
examination of the party—other times we have
learned pleadings of Counsel—and all the inge-
nuity of legal argument before a preliminary
investigation.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Two instances of a fraud very extraordinary
in its way, have recently been denounced at the
Police-offices. It is that of selling for sugar, a
mixture of sugar with a large proportion of salt.
Here surely is proof no less of knavery and ef-
frontery, than of gross folly—supposing the
charge true. If there be any one substance more
likely than another to discover itself in its ad-
mixture with sugar, it is salt. Supposing it to
escape detection by the palate—a violent suppo-
sition, if mixed in any considerable proportion
—it could hardly fail to excite disagreeable ef-
fects when received into the stomach. It is strange,
therefore, that this substance should be chosen,
when there are so many others which might be
employed with less probability of exposure.
Why not mix substances having some affinity
with sugar, or so insipid to the taste, and inope-
rative in the stomach, as not to provoke suspi-
cion ? Those who are intent upon fraud gene-
rally act with more skill and circumspection.—
Another question arises—supposing this to be a
fraud, is it committed by the retail or whole-
sale dealer? This question well deserves in-
quiry. At all events the matter should not rest
as it is at present. It is most important
to ascertain with whom the guilt lies, if guilt
there be. One thing seems pretty certain,
that the article is either damaged or adulterated.
If damaged by the salt water on its way to Eng-
land, or in any other manner, the criminality
would hardly be mitigated, at the same time that
the offence would be much more credible. To
suppose people adulterating sugar by mixing salt
with it, is scarcely within the range of belief. It
is true that salt weighs, in smaller particles, more
than any or most other substances of a saccharine
or insipid quality that might be employed. But
this is obviated by its taste being so familiar and
decisive, and its effects, when taken into the
stomach, is obviously to be anticipated.