The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-27 00:00:00

FOR. TIIE SUN.

MR. EDITOR—There was a law once made (but
since repealed) that a Judge should not try a
cause at " Nisi Prius" in the county where he
had property ;—I am sorry it is repealed ; I
think it ought to be passed again into a law, with
the addition by way of rider, that no Judge
should go the same Circuit in which he had prac-
tised as a Barrister, until he had been on the
Bench ten years, as I, think by that time all pre-
dilection in favour of those Attornies who had
been in the habit of giving him briefs, would
have ceased : for a Judge ought to be like Cxsar's
wife, not even suspected.

I am, your's, &c.
X. v. Z.

(From the British Momitor of Sunday.)

" Up to this hour nothing is known of the future arrange-
ments in the Cabinet. The general expectation, however, is,
that if Mr. Canning does not come into office, Earl Bathurst is
to be the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and is, to be Succeeded
in the Colonial Department by Mr. Robinson, who will be
succeeded in the Board of Trade by Mr. Huskisson, who will
have a seat in the Cabinet. Under this arrangement; if it takes
place, Mr. Peel will be the leader in the House of Commons.
It is affirmed that the Duke of Wellington, is to go, to the
Congress. In our opinion it matters little who goes ; for we
defy all the State Doctors to cure the disease which has unfor-
nately taken root in most of the countries of Europe. An, the pro-
tocols, and all the State Papers, of the Alexanders, the Fran_
cises, the Frederick Williams, and of the Metternichs, the
Nesselrodes, and the llardenbergs, cannot will, rot, reconcile
the Greeks to the Tutks,—the. Italians to the Austrians,—the
Genoese to Sardinia,—the Poles, to the Russians,—the Nor-
wegians to the Swedes,—the Saxons to the Prussians,—the Ser
viles of Spain to the Descanzisados,—the Buonapartean half,
pay officers to the .Bourbons,—nor the Radicals of England to
the House of Brunswick. Then Cni Bono. Why do these ,
Sovereigns parade themselves abont The first Congress al
this century, which was the Congress 'of Vienna, un-
fortunately led to much mischief; lantr.-rto .future Con-
gress will ever be able to heal the rankling wounds which
were there inflicted. The first and most important con-
sideration. should have been the means of establishing a
sys:em that should harmonize the nations of Europe with each
other. For if the sun shines at Munich, it cannot remain long
dark at Vienna !—lndeed the Cabinets of the Continent soon
became so sensible of their errors, and want of foresight, that
at the Congress held at Carlsbad about three years since, it was
actually in the contemplation of three leading Continental
Powers, to put down the free constitutions of Wirtemberg
and Bavaria, on the ground that their existence was incom.
patible with that of the despotic states which surround.
ed them. Even at the Congress of Layhach and Troppau,
the three leading Sovereigns cut a very sorry figure.—
Austria might very well have marched to Naples without the
hat of a Congress !—But then the Sovereigns say, they met to
put down the revolutionary spirit which prevails in the South
of Europe. But they did no such thing; for while they quelled
the revolutions in Naples and Piedniont. they contented them-
selves with merely barking at Spain and Portugal, too distant
for them to bite ! We should think that what was wrong in Italy
could not be right in Spain ! 'Therefore the very assembling of the
Congress,_ and its omissions as well as commissions, proved its
own inefficiency. The same inconsistencies were acted upon at
the Congress of Vienna, where they determined to put down
Murat and recognize Bernadotte ! ! Surely the one had as
much right to the Crown of Naples, as the other had to that
of Sweden ! In short, we can only compare these Congresses
to the mountain in labour ! We predicted the failure of the
Agricultural Committee of the English House of Commons;
and so do we now predict the failure of the approaching Con.
gress !—There are but two points which ought to come under
deliberation ; and if England and France held now the same
weight and influence in the Councils of Europe which they for-
merly possessed, they would insist upon unreserved and full
explanations and derlarations respecting them.—One is, Who
set the Creeks in motion ?—Was it or was it not, the Russians
themselves who instigated them to revolt against the Porte ?
It is important that this question should be satisfactorily solved ;
for had the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh declared war against
the Turks, all Europe would have been in a blaze. The se-
cond is, an explicit and solemn declaration on the part of
Austria, that she does not intend, and never will consent, to
any attempt, direct or indirect, openly or privately, to place
Napoleon's boy on the throne of France ; and an unequivocal
assurance that she will consider all who shall attempt to disturb
the sovereignty of the Bourbons in France, as enemies to the
House of Austria and to the repose of Europe.—Unless this be
done we shall consider all the great Personages who are about
to be assembled in Congress, as little better than asses or
knaves !"

FILTAT, PIETY.—The following observations on
Filial Piety were translated from the Emperor
Yong-tching's Book of Sacred instruction, by Sir
G. T. Staunton, Bart.:— -
" This Filial Piety is a doctrine from heaven, the consum-
mation of earthly justice, the grand principle of action
among mankind. The man who knows not piety to pa-
rents, can surely not have considered the affectionate hearts
of parents towards their children. When still infants in
arms, hungry, they could not feed themselves; cold, and
could not clothe themselves; but they had their parents,
who watched the sounds of their voice, and studied the
traits of their countenance; who were joyful when they
smiled ; afflicted when they wept ; who followed them step
by step, when they moved ; who, when they were sick or
in pain, refused food and sleep on their account. Thus were
they nursed and educated until they grew up to manhood.—
The sons of men who would repay but one ten-thousandth part
of this parental kindness, ought to devote to it internally all
their heart, and externally to apply to it all their strength.
They ought to be frugal and temperate in theft. persons, and di-
ligent in performing their labours, that they may always possess
the means of evincing their pious regard to their parents, when
ever their assistance is required."

THUNDER STORM.—At Hope, in Flintshire, on
Sunday the 11th inst. during a thunder storm, a
'boy attending a sand cart was struck down by
the electric fluid, and soon afterwards expired.—
On' the same day, the tower of Bangor Church
was struck by the lightning during the time of
Divine Service, by which some of the coping-
stones of the tower were forced upon the body of
the building, to the great terror of the persons
present. A woman was killed in the village by
the lightning while in the act of milking.
On Sunday morning the body of a respectable
young woman was found drowned in the Regent's
Canal, City-road, and carried to the Fortune of
War for the Coroner's Inquest ; she was middle
sized, fair complexion, dark hair, marked a little
with the small•pox, and wore a plaid silk gown,
black silk bonnet, light coloured boots, and her
linen was marked with the letters A. R.