The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-28 00:00:00

BRIGHTON.-SUNDAY.

Their Majesties, the Princess Augusta, and the Duchess
of Gloucester, attended Divine Service this morning.
Prayers ware read by the Rev. Dr. Everard, and the Rev
J. S. M. Anderson preached from the 3d chapter of Mala-
chi, Ist and part of 2d verses. The choir chanted King's
service in F, and sang an anthem composed by Clark, from
the 147th Psalm.

Lord Hill, the Commander-in-Chief, arrived yesterday at
the Norfolk Hotel, and in the evening dined with their
Majesties.

Yesterday was one of those dark foggy days peculiar to
this country at this season of the pear. Neither their Ma-
jesties nor any of the Court were seen in public. The wea-
ther to-day has been very unfavourable for out-of-door ex-
ercise. His Majesty, however, accompanied by Mdlle.
D'Este, has taken a carriage drive this afternoon. The
Queen has not bean out.

Prince. Edward of Saxe-Weimar will not go to the Mili-
tary College at Sandhurst at present, but will be placed
with a clergyman near Reading, for whose residence he
quits Brighton to-morrow.

The Royal dinner party on Friday evening, by invitation,
comprised General Crosbio, Sir James Reynett, Major-
General Sir John Elley, Sir G. and Lady Shiffner, Earl of
Chichester, Lord Gage, and Sir Robert Gordon.
Yesterday their Majesties entertained to dinneethe Mar-
quis of Bristol, Mr. Lawrence Peel, Mr. and Mrs. G. Daw-
son, Earl and Countess Jermyn, Vice-Admiral Sir R. Ot-
way, Captain Eden, R.N., Vice-Admiral Donnelly, Mr.
Frederick Seymour, Lord Hill, Earl and Countess of Errol,
and Sir Robert Gordon.

Yesterday the King granted audiences to the Earl of
Westmoreland, Vice- Admiral Donnelly, Captain Becher,
R.N., and Major Longley.

The calls at the Palace yesterday comprised the Earl
and Countess of Wicklow, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Mar-
joribanks, Major-General Sir John Elley (on leaving), Sir
Martin Arthur Shee, P.R.A., Dowager Countess of Guild-
ford, Lieut.-Colonel J. S. and Lady Susan Doyle.
Prince Esterhazy and his son quitted the Norfolk Hotel
oil Friday, for London.
The Earl of Errol returned yesterday from Aylesbury.

DUBLIN.--SATURDAY.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

" Omnia mala exempla ex bonis orta sunt : sed übi impe-
rium ad ignaros ant minus bonos pervenit ; novum illud (ex-
emplum) a dignis et idoneis ad indignos et non idoneos trans.
fertur."—SALLUST.
This being the day appointed by the Court of Exchequer
for arguing the question raised by Mr. Dickson, as to the
irregularity attending the issue of the rebellion writs now
convulsing the country, the Court was crowded to excess
at an early hour, by those who were curious to witness
O'Connell's forensic efforts on this occasion. The public
curiosity was the more intense, in consequence of a colli-
sion which took place in that Court yesterday, between the
Chief-Baron Joy and the Attorney-General Mr. Richards,
and which has excited deep interest among all parties. The
discussion on the rebellion writs is postponed ; and I shall,
therefore, proceed to give you an account of yesterday's
rencountre between the bench and the bar—a thing almost
unprecedented in this country, at least since the classic days
of Curran and Lord Clare.
It may be 'in the recollection of your readers, that a
trial was had at Bar in this country not long since, between
the Crown and the Primate, in ‘Thich a verdict was given
by a Special Jury, brought from the county of Cavan (I
think), iu favour of the latter. The Jury had been detained
in town some days ; and when the trial was over the Court
ordered the solicitor for the Crown in that cause to pay
them 20 guineas each for their expenses. It appeared then
and now, that the Court has no power by statute or com-
mon law to order the expenses of a Special Jury to be paid
under such circumstances. And it was because the soli-
citor refused to comply with the order, that a motion was
yesterday made for the purpose of having that order con-
firmed or abrogated. The writer of this was present during
a great portion of the time occupied with the trial ; and
admired the acumen and dexterity evinced by the Chief-
Baron during its progress, in guarding the Jury from the
influence which the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals of that
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time, Mr. Blackburne and tale present Judge Crompton,
were, in the discharge of their duty, exercising over them.
Mr. Crompton, in particular, seemed to suffer, in some of
his best positions, from the well directed sallies of the
Learned Chief; and though he showed much courage and
ability in sustaining the rights of his client, he did not re-
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tort any of the missiles directed towards him from the
bench. I have said I admired the Chief's conduct during'
the trial, because it manifested much shrewdness, and ap-
parently judicial independence. During his charge to the
Jury, however, my admiration was changed into something
more than surprise, when I found him not merely marshall-
ing the evidence and interpreting the law with precision and
discernment, but bestowing the most undisguised satire and
invective on the officers of the Crown, which they bore in
patience and in silence. Nor did any person then censure
either the severity of the bench or the servility of the bar, not-
withstanding the " spirit of the age," and Reform had consi-
derably advanced in this country. How different was the
scene yesterday. After it had clearly appeared from the
arguments of the Solicitor-General, and those opposed to
him, that the only grounds the Court could have for making
the order were, the justice of some compensation from some
quarter or other to the Jury for their loss of time and money,
the Attorney-General stood up to contend that such a feel-
ing would not justify the Court in establishing a precedent,
which might at another time be greatly abused. The
Attorney-General having urged this view of the case with
great eloquence and ability, the Chief Baron dryly ob-
served, if he had nothing more to say, whfit he had said
was " idle," The Learned Functionary immediately stood
up, and in a burst of manly and indignant eloquence, never

perhaps equalled, repeated his former arguments in so
felicitous a manner, as, while observing decorum and de-
ference, to impress on the Court a lesson which will not soon
be forgotten. To the Bench he administered a castigation
richly deserved, and which cannot be complained of even by
those who provoked it. And to the Bar and bystanders
ha exhibited a principle of piire unsophisticated indepen-
dence, which is calculated to excite an excellent spirit of
patriotism at this particular juncture. Mr. Richards is

unquestionably the first man who has dared to grapple with
the political prejudices and partizanship which the ermine
itself cannot mitigate or conceal. He showed a similar
spirit, not long ago, in the same Court, in an argument on
the rebellion tithe process. On that occasion Shiel, who

is no mean authority in such a matter, was heard to say that
Richards had opened a new vista through which the light
of justice and reason would shine benignantly in Ireland.
The best way to reform bad laws is to denounce them to

the very oracles who are charged with their interpretation.
It is impossible to convey any adequate idea of the sensation
caused in the profession by yesterday's occurrence. Even
the Tory partizans of the Bar feel and admit that they have
received a blow by the publication of this affair in the coun-
try. The question is—admitting the Jury ought to be
compensated, should the Bench, without any authority,
establish a principle evidently open to great abuses ?
The Chief Baron, in attempting to sneer down discussion
on the subject, has betrayed a partiality which speaks vo-
lumes on the state of Ireland.