The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-24 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS.

It will be seen by the following extract from the Stamp
Office Returns, that THE SUN is now the Leading
Evening Paper, in point of circulation, as the Lists
for the Months of March and April last will
show :
Sun
Globe and Traveller
Courier 70,500
True Sun, and Weekly True Sun 58,500
Shipping Gazette

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 30 minutes past Three o' Cock.

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LONDON,

FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 24,1836.

It will be seen by the answer of the Right Honour-
able the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, to a
question from Dr. BOWRING, that the proposed re-
duction of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers will come
into operation on the sth of July, as originally stated
by the Right Honourable Gentlemfan.

Lord LYNDHURST moved the second reading of
the Prisoners' Counsel Bill last night in the House of
Lords. What put this into the mind of the Learned
Lord, we know not. Some think he meant it as a
makeweight or set-off against his rejection of the
Chancery Reform Bill, and other things of an unpo-
pular nature. But be that as it may, it is our maxim
to give a worse personage than even Lord LYNDHURST
his due, and therefore we cannot conscientiously with-
hold from him the praise of having done one meri-
torious action in the course of his life.

This measure, so necessary to rescue the jurispru-
dence of England from an opprobrium to which it
alone (with the exception of
.Ireland) is liable, has
been brought under the consideration of Parliament
during the two last. Sessions. In 1834 a Bill
similar to the present passed the Commons, and
after being read a first time in the Lords, was
no more heard of. Last year it was again
introduced into the Lower House, which it passed,
and proceeded as far as a Select Committee in the
House of Lords ; but this took place at too late a
period of the Session to get it through, and nothing
farther was done than to print the evidence. The
Bill has a third time reached the Lords, and we
are truly ;iad to see that their Lordships have had
the good sense to sanction its principle, by consent-
ing to its being read a second time.. We do not
mean by this to say that there is any great deitth
of discernment displayed in discovering the absurdity
—to say nothing of the shocking injustice—of refusing
a man on trial for his life, the right to address a jury
of his countrymen by counsel, when that privilege
is granted to the utterer of a counterfeit six-
pence ; but we rejoice that from whatever cause, whether
from a surrender of long cherished prejudice, or out
of deference to the opinion of their learned Leader,
an obstacle has been removed which has hitherto pre-
vented the full and fair administration of justice ; and
that in this respect English law will in future be more
in accordance with that of other civilized countries,
and, which is of still greater consequence, with the dic-
tates of common sense, and the principles of justice.

The question of the Vote by Ballot was brought
before the House of Commons last night by Mr.
GROTE, whose speech on the occasion was admirably
reasoned, in the closest and most convincing manner.
There is not in the whole House a subtler or more
forcible logician than the Hon. Member for London.
He is ever cool and collected, and ready with.pertinent
argument and illustration to set off his subject, which
he never lets go, until he has fairly exhausted it. All
that could possibly be urged on the question of the
Ballot was urged by Mr. Grote last night, and his
speech in consequence made a marked impression on