The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-05 00:00:00

HUNTINdISITEELEGENCE.

MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN Tur. PRESENT WEEK.
The Hampshire Hounds, on Tuesday, at Chequers, Rop-
ley ; Thursday, at Abbotsdon Down ; Saturday, at Phoenix
Lodge.
The Rambled= Hounds, on Wednesday, at Hollywell
House ; Friday, at Owslebury Down.
N. F. H.—Mr. Nicoll's Hounds, on Thursday, at Sway ;
Saturday, at Hale.
The Earl of Darlington's Fox Hounds, on Wednesday, at
11fasham Bridge ; Friday, at Exelby ; Saturday, at Scorton.
The Lambton Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Wingate;
Thursday, at Great Stainton ; Friday, at Sedgcfield.
The Northumberland Fox Hounds, on Wednesday, at Kirk-
ley ; Friday, at Park House.

ROYAL HUNT.—On Friday his Majesty's Stag Hounds
turned out a fine Deer at Longford where there was a numer-
ous field of sportsmen assembled to enjoy the day's sport. The
Deer shewed great sport, taking to the left by Arlington and
Cranford, to the left of Hounslow by West End and Southwell,
crossing the Uxbridge Road to the left of Harrow on the Hill,
keeding towards Stanmore and Watford in Hertfordshire ; the
Deer was at last taken in Harefield park near Rickmansworth,
after above two hours and a half hard running ; it is supposed
this Deer ran fifty miles ; they were 25 miles from home at the
close of the chase.

NORTIi Tuesday the Romney,
50, Captain N. LockYEn, C,8., returned from Quebec, with
325 officers and men of the 37th regiment of foot, under Lieut.-
Col. Bruce ; one of the best disciplined (says Lord Dalhousie)
and most efficient regiments within the North American com-
mand. The Romney had a fine passage of 22 days from Que-
bec, 14 only from land to land. The last merchant ships for
the season were preparing to depart on the 20th ult. The
Maria transport will bring any detachments of regiments which
may be intended to send to England. The Romney came into
harbour, and the troops landed. They are to be stationed in
Portsmouth garrison. Ott Wednesday the Arab transport,
Lieutenant liasdon, arrived from Halifax in twenty days,
with 355 invalids, women and children, from the troops sta-
tioned in Nova Scotia, viv. the 52d, 74th, 81st, and 9(ith Re-
giments, The Tweed (25), Capt. Frederick .Nunn, arrived at
Halifax on the Bth ult.; with the Reverend Dr. Inglis, Lord
Bishop of Nova Scotia, and family, on board, after a passage of
twenty-eight days from Falmouth. The North American squa.
dron, under Rear. Admiral Willoughby Lake, C.B. were as-
sembling, preparatory to going to Bermuda to winter, viz. the
Jupiter (flag), Sir Wm. Wiseman Bart.; Niemen, Captain
Provo 'Wallis ; Rifleman, Captain Webb ; and Pelter, Lieut.
Adams. The Alenai, Catalif Houston Stewart, after bringing
the October Mail froM Bermuda, was to winter at Halifax.—
The Orestes, Captain Litchfield, had sailed with supplies for
the unhappy sufferers at Niramichi. A liberal subscription
had been made for their relief. The fires in the woods had
subsided. It was hoped the loss of human life would not ex-
ceed 200 persons. The Tweed was to return to England in a
few days, bringing Captain Canning, and the officers and crew
of the Sappho, that ship havingbeen condemned as rotten and
not sea-worthy.—(Hampshire Telegraph.)
To Persons connected with India, and who
desire to become acquainted with the occur..
renoes in that interesting quarter of- the globe,
during the administration of its late Governor-
General, the Marquis of HASTINGS. The Work
just published by Mr. PRINGEP on that subject is
strongly recommended. This Gentleman, from
the situation he held, could not fail learning
every transaction of importance, and he has now
given to the Public his observations thereon in
so clear an enlightened a manner as to render his
account one of the most interesting Books that
has for some time appeared,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

gatracts from the Morning Papers, Dcc. 5, 18(tti..

[THE TIMES.]
It appears by the West of England Papers, that
the failure of Sir W. Elford'e Bank has produc-
ed a degree of distress and consternation more
extensive and hopeless than had been at first sup-
posed. 'The issues of that establishment had con-
sisted in a great measure of 11, notes, a species
of paper which naturally forces its way into the
poorest families, and 's hich,. in case of a bank-
ruptcy, spreads proportionate suffering among
those who are least able to bear with the slight-
est reverse. The mischief arising from the, stop-,
page of this bank has been further angmented by
the recent failure of other hous.es the same
neighbourhood ; an increase of confidence,aud ,
a consequent enlargeinent of operation, having
necessarily accrued to those firms which survived.
their brethern, and having,, therefore, only aerve4 •
to give a wider range to the calamity which has
now overtaken them. Since the'eharter.of the-
Bank of England circumscribes. ithin such narrow
limits the remedies which. Parliament can imme-
diately have recourse to, fOr improving the system.,
of country banking, there seems, at least, to be...-.
no obintion to that expedient, against which.Ms ,
chartered privileges rested monopolies can be.
pleaded—namely, a repeal of the Act of Parlia-
ment for over-running the nation with one pound
notes, put forth for the benefit of country bankers,
hut to the sensible risk and too frequent ruin of
those-Who -enjoyed .no, more solid medium of cit...
culation. If private banks at a distance from the
capital were precluded from this arbitrary issue
of small notes, and forced by a summary process
to exchange their own larger notes for those of the
Bank of England or for gold, nope . but men of
considerable property could venture upon the bu-
siness of a country banker ; the poorer classes
would be paid in a currency proof against disaster
from commercial vicissitudes, and the evil of in-..
solvency among the dealers in money would re-
ceive an active check, if it could not be obtained
altogether. Our city correspondents describe
the agitation arising an-long the manufacturers iu
the central and eastern counties as little ipferior

o that which exists in the west. The misfortune

there; too, has been no other than that of trading
on an artificial capital, the fruit of ileccunmotia-
tion afforded with little caution. The remedy,
therefore, must be by measures directly opposite

to those which gave birth to the disease—lst, 4
restraint on the facility of discount ; 2d; a ret
peal of the tax on bread.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Sessions commence at Clerkenwell this
day, and at the Old Bailey on Thursday. It
has often struck es as extraordinary, that crimi-
nal justice should be administered in the metro- '"
polis of the empire in a manner so materially
different (and that in some respects for the worse) •
to that which prevails upon the Circuits in all
other parts of the kingdom. At this very time:
when two of the Judges are proceeding on an
extra circuit through the Home. Counties, the
greater part of the criminal offenders in Middle.
sex are about to he tried by Judges appointed by
the Corporation of London. There are three
striking differences in the mode of adminis-
tering justice in Middlesex to what exist*
in any other county ;—first, as to the Grand ..
Jury, who are generally composed of persons
of inferior rank and intelligence to those
who form the same tribunal in other counties ;-
2dly, that instead of being brought indiscrimi- •
nately from different parts Qf the county, they:. •
are generally taken front one neighbourhood or
parish, and therefore also subject to the same lo- •
cal prejudice, if there be any ;—and 3dly they,
are not charged by, or in any way of intercourse
with the Judges, who instead of assisting and
informing them of their duties, as they do else-
where, do not themselves assemble till great part _
of the business of the .Grand Jury has been di--
charged, and then in a Court far distant from them, '
The second difference exists in the practice we
have already alluded to, of the greater part of the
cases being tried by Officers of the City of London,
and those sometimes liable to he appointed with
no great reference to their ability.—And lastly,
the reconsideration which the cases of capital
convicts undergo before the King in Council un-
der the Recorder's Report, which exists no where
else. Most, if not all of these variations, seem to
originate in the privileges which the Citizens of
London claim and exercise of nominating the
Sheriff of the county, in return for which they
are at an enormous expence in maintaining the
county prisoners in Newgate, and have their Law
Officers named in the King's Commission for
holding the Gaol Delivery. It is true, that
three out of the twelve Judges aro also named in
rotation in such Commissions, and attend at
every Sessions; but whether it be that only the
long and difficult cases are submitted to them, or
that their Lordships void, es becomes them,
the unseemly haste with which such trials are
sometimes conducted, the proportion of the pri-
soners which they actually try is very small in-
deed, as appears from the abstract which we pub-
lish at the close of every Sessions. if the labours
of these Sessions are greater than the Judges can,
in addition to their many other duties, well per-
form, we see no objection to some new arrange-
ment
by, which the Crown may be authorized to
appoint an addition to their number for the pur-
pose, or competent persons to assist them ;
but there does seem to be an anomaly which
we cannot reconcile to our notions either of ..
judicial dignity, of constitutional jealousy, or
of public responsibility, that the Court of
Common Council should appoint the sludges
who are to try altar-tenths of the cases which
occur in the most important, if not the
highest, Criminal Court in the kingdom, and
those, for the most part, offences arising just as
much out of the City of London as if they oc-
curred in Yorkshire or in North Wales ! Thtk
practice too implies and increases an evil whiell
has long called for alteration—we mean that (sot
peculiar only to this Court) of persops being
one day advocates, and the next day Judges.
There is something so incompatible, n-qt 0

say unseemly, in the two situations, that we
wonder the practice has ever been allowed
to exist at all, or at all events -to grow
up to the height it has now attained.—
Nothing can be more essential to the due weight
and importance of the judicial office, as well as
to its purity and independence in the eyes of all
mankind, than that those who exercise should be
set apart from the rest of the world, and stand
aloof from the petty broils and interests which the
Advocates are forced to be engaged in. To say
nothing more of the general objection, what, we
would ask, can be more inconsistent, than that
the same person should be alternately the pro-
secutor, the defender, and the Judge of the
same individual culprit, and that he. should be
able to transfer to any one of these characters
the knowledge he has obtained in either of the
others! Without enlarging farther upon the sub-
ject at present, we apprehend we have stated
enough already to show that it is one which at
least calls for inquiry and investigation, and we
strongly recommend it to the consideration of
Mr. Peel, who has shown so commendable a dis-
position to reform whatever may be amiss in our
Judicial System.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Last night we received The Allgemeine Zei-
Sung to the 27th ult.; but it contains no political
news, and, what is unusual, no intelligence from
Greece. An article under the head Vienna,
mentions the death of Duke Charles Eugene of
Lorraine, the last male branch of the Illustrious
House of Lorraine, once so distinguished amongst
the Sovereign Families of Europe, not for extent
of possessions,or military power, or courtly mag-
nificence, but for the virtues, talents, and muni-
ficence of many of its Princes. This article also
notices the arrival of the Archduke Palatine,
charged with a new Declaration, it is re-
ported, from the Hungarian Diet. Though
the proceedings of this Assembly have hitherto
occupied very little space in the Public Journals,
this omission must not be put down to the score
of their insignificance, but to the extreme jea-
lousy of the Austrian Government, which has the
same aversion for publicity as the mole has for,
light. Enough has transpired, in spite of the
efforts of de Austrian Authorities to suppress
it, to shew that the proceedings have-assumed a
character of considerable importance, and that
the Diet, so far from being a passive instru-
ment in the hands of the Austrian Ministry,
has ventured to speak of grievances, and to call
for their redress, at first in very respectful
terms, but subsequently in a tone that is said
to have excessively alarmed the Austrian Cabi-
net. Thus some new event arises continually to
confound the calculations, and embarrass the pro-
jects, of the Holy Alliance ; and the Emperor of
Austria, who has all along taken the lead of the
other Members, in his efforts to put down Con-
stitutional Principles universally, has the morti-
fication,of seeing them shoot up in the centre of,
his own dominions. We can now account for the
indisposition which had seized him at Presburgh,
and which induced him to quit that place so pre-
cipitately for Vienna, where he is stated to have
been received in a manner more congenial to his
notions of the duties of subjects ; but in absolute
Monarchies, the countenance does not always
disclose the workings of the heart. -

[MORN! NG POST.]
We received last night by Express French
Papers to the 3d inst. and the Etoile of Satur-
day. Notwithstanding a failure to the amount
of four millions of francs, which it was feared
would have increased the decline in the funds,
they had remained nearly stationary, and bad
ergo shown some tendency to rise. It mast be
owned, however, that efforts of every kind seemed
to be made by the parties interested in the over-
throw of the present Ministry, to augment in.
stead of diminishing the difficulties of the present
crisis. A report was industriously spread at
Paris, that serious troubles bad broken out at
Port au Prince between the Negroes and the
Mulattoes, and that the Haytian President hav-
ing. been forced to evacuate the capital, bad sent
tbr assistance to the Governor of Martinique.
The Aristarque, one of the Ultra Journals, after
mentioning the rumour, adds : " if this news
should be confirmed, what becomes of the Hay-
tian Loan ?" This, it is evident, was the oh-1
jest which the authors of the report had in
view: they found that in the wreck of the
public securities, the Loan for Hayti maintained
its ground, and they determined to pull it down:
The Ministerial Papers on the other hand endea-
vour to counteract this attempt, and declare that a
vessel (le Afessaker) had arrived at llavre with
letters from Port au Prince to the 10th of Octo-
ber, the latest period at which it was possible to
receive intelligence from Hayti,'and that they not
only made no mention whatever of any disturb-
ances in that island,' but stated in direct terms
that the most perfect tranquillity prevailed
through every part of the Republic, and that
confidence in the Government of President Boyer
had acquired fresh strength since the recognition
of Barran Independence.

[BRITISH PRESS.?
The courier Francais contradicts a report,
published by the Aristarque, that " serious
troubles had. broken out at Port au Prince between
the negroes and mulattoes, and that President
Boyer, after having evacuated the capital, had
been compelled to solicit assistance from the Go-
vernor of Martinique." The object of the pub-
lication was manifestly to depreciate the llaytian
Loan. Ad vices had been received at Havre from
Port au Prince to the 10th of October, in which
no allusion is made to any of these troubles.—
The Egyptian expedition, which sailed lately
from Alexandria, has, it appears, been placed
under the command of the Capitan Pacha.
The Divan are reasonably enough suspi-
cious of Mehemet Ali's designs, And he
seems to have had no alternative but to submit
to this arrangenient, or at once openly declare his
revolt. .Tlte Capital' Pacha, it is stated, invited
him to accompany the expedition to some dis-
tance from the shores of Egypt, but Mehemet
understands ton well the stratagems of Turkish
policy to condfide himself to the hands of an old

personatenemy. There is evidently such a mis-
understanding between the Porte and its power-
ful subject at Alexandria, that if any serious
misfortune should befal the Captain Pacha's
armament, the Viceroy of Egypt would gladly
seize the occasion to deliver himself from
the perilous state of uncertainty in which
he lives. In that case he would necessarily
become the ally of the Greeks. The Genoa
Gazette mentions a report of the arrival of the
Turco-Egyptian expedition at Navarino ; but we
suspect this was a mere rumour, as we also con-
sider the statements respecting the negociations
between Ibrahim Pacha and Colocotroni. The
Greek Chief must know that no faith would be
kept with him, whatever might be the pledges
he could obtain. lie can be safe only while he
can protect himself by arms.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It is curious to observe how one absurdity in
the law generates, and then serves as a justifica-
tion for another. It has been argued, that the
law must mit take cognizance of disputes arising
out of a transaction of alleged immorality or
illegality, because it would be a monstrous
thing to permit one highwayman to file a
bill in Equity against a confederate, for an
account of plunder. It certainly would be
a monstrus thing to see a highwayman filing
a Bill for an account of plunder, but such a
proceeding could never be contemplated, were
it not for the preposterous maxim, that a man
shall not he convicted on the best of all evidence,
his own confession. If a highwayman were to
go into the Court of Chancery and to declare
himself a highwayman, the law of the coun-
try could not take cognizance of this confession
of guilt, and therefore it is argued necessary
to keep the disputes of highwaymen out of
Courts of Justice, not by saying, if we catch
you bringing your crimes under the view of our
Courts we will convict you of them at the Old
Bailey, but by laying down a general rule of ex-
tremely wide and, as it seems to us, impolitic
extent, that the law will not intermeddle at all
between parties accessary in any way to an im-
moral action. If the law punished offences
whenever they came to light, either directly or in-
cidentally, in the course of any proceeding, the
best check would he presented to prevent parties
from engaging in illegal undertakings, namely, the
certainty of punishment in the event of their rogue-
ries being in any manner brought under the eye of
justice. But the law will not do this ; its rule
is sportsman's etiquette, it must have a chace, it
never seizes its prey when it is sure of it, when
it stumbles on it sitting. A man in a court of jus-
tice may clearly appear guilty of offences which do
not form a part of the specific charge, or enter into
the main question before the Court, but of these
offences incidentally betrayed, the law will take
no cognizance,and perhaps a confessed delinquent
is suffered to go at large, and unpunished, unless
some individual thinks it worth the time, trouble,
and expence to prosecute him. The great ob-
ject of law is to punish crime, and the best laws
would be those which should, with most certainty,
reach, and most wisely correct, offenders ; but
the justice of this country, like the common
emblem of it, is wilfully hood-winked, it ban-
dages its eyes to play a game of blind-
man's-buff, and goes groping about in the dark
exercising all its acuteness to put its finger
on an object which could not escape it if it were
to use its sight, and suffering every species of
trick and delusion to be practised on it, and every
obstruction to be offered, according to the law o
the game, i❑ the prosecution of the sport.