The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-20 00:00:00

THE NEW COURTS.

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Some. doubts are nOw entertained whether 66-
New Court of King's Bench will be fit ,to receive the Lamy'.
Cri;ar JUSTIca and the Judges by the first day of neii,
,Ter. It is in a state of forwardness, which enables theyork.:
men to expect It will be ready; but the paint, it is suPposect,
will be too, fresh, and the effluvia tad' strong to admit of the
discharge of Public btisiness within the Court on the 6th of Nov
vernber. The health of the Lord , Chief., Justice, which , is,
known at this time to be very delicate, miAlit be rendered worse
by sitting in a new building, which at the
,present iedson,' must
be Unavoidably clamp. It is, therefore, reasbnable• to suppose,
that the Court, not only on account of the Judges, bnt all whose
attendance is required, will be well aired by stoves, and
put in a proper state before it ,is occupied. The steps
which led to the Thlchequer in the north east angle. of the
Hall were taken down on Monday, and a passage opened to
the King's Bench Court. The Lord Chanceller's Court, the
ViCe-Chancellor's, 'and the Common Pleas' Court, will unques.
tionably be opened to receive the Judget on the first day of
Term. Those Courts are now finished,
.with the exception of
painting and varnishing the oak wainscot, which in a few days
will be completed. From a slight inspection of all the new
Courts, we think the Exchequer is the best. The ground
allotted for these important seats of Jiiitice, left tle architect;
no power to make them sufficiently spacious. The 'King'sßench is consequently too small, and will be foiind less conve-
nient, if possible, for the administration of justice than the West-
minster SessionS house. Part of the space has .been appro.'
priated to a Bail Court and.the avenues, a 'circumstance which
necessarily makes the King's Bench Court smaller than it
otherwise -would have been. Before the new buildings.
Were commenced there were only three Courts on the same
side of the Hall, namely, the ExChequer, the' Common
Pleas, and Chancery. Now there are five, as Courts baye
been added for the Vice-Chancellor and King's Bench Bail.—
The High Court of Chancery, the most ancient and dignified
institution of the country, •is Worthy a handsome, commodious
public building. The King's Bench and Common Pleas are
tribunals which have stood for ages: They are of the highest:
importance to the subjects of this realm„ and the etr.fice
where the law is administered ' under the jurisdiction •of ei
Court should not only be convenient, but a public ornament.—
Amidst the many improvements in the City of Westminster,
which will hereafter mark the protection granted to the Arts under
the mild reign of George the Fourth, we expect to see ustfal
-public buildings created, and more especially those for the ad.
ministration -of the ' Civil and Criminal Laws-. of the Land..--"
(Morning Posi.)
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THE VINTAGE IN FIiANCE.—IG most phtee; in
the south of France the vintage has terminated •
under the most fav9urahle circumstances. Owing
to the high degree of heat of the summer, the
grape has attained to a very superior degree,of
ripeness; and, generifflj, speaking, the produce
is considerable. In some places. (Wisrmicl
141edoC•are mentit,fied) the:productiveresi spina
!former years is Said to be .far surpassed. The
wine is beautifully high coloured.. Great stir.bas ,
already talker) place among the wine :merchants
of:Paris, which has tended :considerably, to
,en-
hance the currency of rich:superiOr wines. Fine:
la flies have been sold as high as 4,400 franci
per tonneau, which is equal to about , four Eng-
lish hosheads,. or at the rate of about 441. stem
ling per hogshead. It is owing to the high repu-
tation of the present vintage that there is sa much
speculation afloat. .

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.0n Thursday se'nnight, DAVID GORDON, Esq.
(of London), the chief owner-of the extensive irou
works at Bedlingtoti, 'Northumberland,- .-arrived
there, after an absence of several years:. lie was
:fsi•ortv4l:to.the hospitable mansion of
LON6R}DGE, Esq., by the worktrien; accompanied
by a band of music. The day follovviag; tell em-
-pio'yed iii thf;se -extensive works, to the number
.of between 500 and 600', were. plentifully re-
caled,:in- thr good old English foshion, with roast
beef, pltimb pudding,, and strong ale. The dill-
. dren of the school bore tint forgotten, for they
were entertained with fruit, cake, &c: to the
'number of 200. , .

GERMAN PAPEktS.

[Received last night.]

VIENNA, OCT. o.—The last mail from Con-
stantinople, of Sept.lo, brings the accounts which
we received before from Trieste, of the attempt
of the Greek fire-ships in the port of Alexandria,
but has nothing new from the theatre of war, es-
pecially in the Morea. The Hydra Journals,
No. 127-139, which we have received by the
same channel, come down only to the 12th of
August, N. S., and contain no accounts of any en-
gagements either by land or sea, except a short
notice of two inconsiderable affairs on the 4th of
August, with a small corps of Egyptians and Al-
banians that went to forage on the plain of Curi-
tene. It is remarkable that in these three num-
bers of the Hydra Gazette, not a syllable is said
of the 'famous Act of the Provisional Government
of Napoli di Romania, but, oddly enough, No.
137, of the sth August; gives the Protest of the
French and American Deputies from the Phil-
hellenic Societies (Roche and Washington), with
the following introduction :

" Hydra, Aug. s.—For some days past manuscript copies
have been circulated here, of a represents.ti9n of the French
General Roche, and the American, Mr. Washington, to the
Supreme Directory.
" Difficult as we find it to believe that according to the cus-
toms of civilized nations such an act could with propriety be
presented to Government by men who, though distinguished,
and in all respects worthy of general esteem, are, however,
destitute of all political and diplomatic character ; and though
.we are not even now officially informed of the authenticity of
this document, we think it our duty to insert it in our Paper,
that our readers may not complain that we keep them in total
ignorance of passing events in Greece."
Here follows the l'rotest of Messrs. Roche and
Washington, of 28th July ; and the llydra Ga-
zette concludes with the following sentence:—
" If such a writing has really been presented to the Direc-
tory, and the Government thinks fit to answer, we promise, as
soon as we receive this answer, to communicate it for the sa-
tisfaction of our readers."

Since then General Roche and Mr. T. Wa-
shington have addressed themselves to- Ibrahim
Pacha, to propose an armistice to him—we know
not whether in the name of the Greek nation, or
part of it. The Podia has rejected the proposal.
Latter accounts from Constantinople of the
lath (by Express), state, that news bad been re-
ceived there from Napoli di Romania, of the be--
ginning of this month, that Ibrahim Pacha, will'
2,000 men, had marched towards the south of
the Peninsula, it was said to Modon, there to
wait for the reinforcements expected from Alex-
andria,- which are. reported to amount to 8,000
men. Tripolizza was occupied by 5,000 men,
and the communications between that town and
the southern fortresses was entirely free.
The Insurgent Government at Napoli is said
to have at length resolved to exchange the two
Pachas, Ali and Selim, detained by the Greeks,
contrary .to the capitulation,. for'the son of the Bey
of Mains, and Capt. Jo trako, Who were taken
by'the Egyptians at Navarino.
At ttif. depart re of_ these last accounts they
were fully convinced at ConstantinOple of the
falsehood of the preceding reports respecting the
state of things at Missolonghi.

The Porte had also received the news of the
arrival of the Captain Pacha with his fleet IA t
A lexa nd ria .—(Austrian Observer, Oct. 7.)
DRESDEN, OCT. 4.—The persons of the Court,
who are to receive at the frontiers the bride of
his Royal Highness Prince :Maximilian, are al-
ready appointed : their number it very consider-
able.

We hear nothing more of the formation of a
Catholic Consistory which was proposed in the
.last Diet. It is affirmed that some conditions
added by the States prevented it. Yet unpreju-
'diced persons wish that the precarious state of
Saxon Catholics should be more consolidated by
• means of such a Board as in other German States.

On account of the low prices of provi,ions, the
police of the capital has reduced the wages of all
classes of workmen. The other cities, and still
more the inhabitants of the country, are very
desirous that this measure may be rendered gene-
ral, and the extraordinary high rate of wages be
reduced, in conformity with the present cheap;
ness of all the necessaries of life.

BAND OF ROBBERS.

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LUCERNE, OCT. s.—The following are parti-
culars respecting the band of the celebrated
Cent. Wcrinat.:-
1" It is well known that for some years past a band of robbers,
• under the command of Clara \Venda', has multiplied its de.
.) predations to an alarming degree in Vaud, and the Eastern
Cantons of the Helvetic Confederialon. The Authorities suc-
. cezded in apprehending Clara and some of her accomplices;
but the proceedings commenced against ~:hem before a tribunal
,at Lucerne were delayed by a number of incidents; and parti-
,cularly by the frequent confessions of Clara herself, who enu-
- rneratetl'upwaeds of a thousand different crimes committed at
no remote period by the tinlefactors whose operations and pro-
.: !ceedinga she directed.
" In the mean time tharparty which wished to propagate re-
' 4olutionary doctrines in 'Switzerland, suddenly conceived the
intention of profiting by the unavoidable delays which the pro.
secution of these criminals met with, by spreading the absurd
report that the confessions of Clara were calculated to involve
the Clergy, and almost the whole Catholic population of Swit-
zerland. Such assertions, which ought to inspire only disgust
and contempt, were nevertheless echoed by several journals,
whose mysterious articles, even alarmed some respectable per-
' sons of Berne and Geneva. To appreciate the nature of such
allegations, one fact will be sufficient. A person named Keller,
passing on a very ark night, some years ago, along the banks
of the Reuss, on his way from the gate of Casino to a house
outside the city, fell into the river and was drowned. _Miss
Keller, his daughter, who accompanied him on that inelan-
cooly occasion, gave a detailed account of his death, which we
published at the time. Information had been given to the
proper persons, an inquest was held, and every thing done in
the most regular and orderly manner. But, who can credit it?
Same persons have now put into the mouth of Clara Wendal a
' story and declaration—that her band had murdered Keller,
being.instigated thereto by the Clergy of Lucerne! To what
extremities will not the demagogical and anti-religious faction
_proceed, when they recur to such means as these !

Letters from the capital of Bavaria (Munich)
state, that the great agricultural fete was cele-
brated with all due solemnity on the 2d instant,
on the beautiful plain of Theresia, in the pre-
sence of the whole Court, and of an immense
crowd of citizens and strangers from all parts.—
The festivities, which lasted several days, termi-
nated Kith some very good horse racing on the
9th inst.