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by an old law ? New and extraordinary Courts to carry an
old law into execution, would be justly condemned. To
have recourse to the old Jury Courts would be a mockery
of justice. Either they would be composed of the English
party, and be sure to convict and sentence every one of the
French party to death, causing every execution to be regarded
by the French party as an act of brutal, cold-blooded murder;
or they would be composed of the French population, and,
pronouncing men innocent in spite of evidence, would make
the law a mere mockery, and add the general habit of per-
jury to the practice of rebellion.

We do not say Lord DURHAM'S proclamation may not
be despotic, but it must be tried by its adaptation
to circumstances ; and rigid despotism may be the
most suitable temporary means of ensuring justice
among quarrelling factions. We pronounce no posi-
tive opinion on the wisdom of Lord DURHAM'S con-
duct, because we have not sufficient facts before us to
form a judgment of it ; but it is a strong recommendation
of it that it has pleased and satisfied the English party in
Canada, and has not affronted and outraged the French
party. As far as we have heard, Mr. WOLFRED NELSON
and his friends do not complain of their exile, and as far as
we see that may be the sure means of saving their lives,
and of restoring them at no distant day to their country.
The proclamation is not to be eternal. Though to set
them now at liberty and allow them to reside in Canada
would provoke another war ; it does not follow that they
are never to be allowed to return. To bring them to trial
might be to carry them to execution, or ensure them a
triumph ; to banish them, then, spares their lives, allows
them an opportunity to reflect, and enables the Govern-
ment at no distant day to restore them, if they prove
themselves worthy of forgivenesss, to their homes
and their friends. In a few years, when the present
heats are allayed, and when the present contests are for-
gotten, those who now thirst for their blood will be among
the foremost to rejoice that Lord DURHAM abstracted
them from vengeance, placed them in safety, and gave
them the means of recovering, by repentance, their lost
place in society. There is no class of offences on which,
when a revulsion of feeling takes place, men look with
so much leniency as political offences ; and no
punishments are so much condemned by posterity as the
cruel punishments for what is called treason. The traitors
of one age, very often become the time-honoured martyrs
of another. Believing that the banishment of these men
from Canada, is not done wholly in defiance of their
wishes, hoping that it may be only temporary, and in-
tended to allow time for the animosities on both sides
to die away, trusting that it will have that effect and here-
after be the theme of universal praise, we cannot
disapprove of it because it is said to be despotic, illegal,
and carried into execution wanting some ordinary forma-
lities. Substantially, it appears to us to be just and wise—
appropriate to the circumstances—and likely, we hope, to
be beneficial to the Colony. While it provides for the
present peace of the Colony, it does not, by a sanguinary
execution shut the door to repentance and reconciliation
against either the Government or the people.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER made an elabo-
rate and ingenious speech last night on the subject of the
Pension List, the chief aim of which was, we presume, to

perplex and mystify ; and, if so, never was there a set Par-
liamentary oration that more happily accomplished its ob-
ject. Where argument was felt to bo deficient, pathos was
had recourse to ; and when this had been wrought out to
the utmost, then came a small infusion of drollery, agree-
ably mixed up with honied compliments to the Committee,
and certain clap-trap appeals to the sense, justice, delicacy,

and so forth, of the House. The Right Hon. Gentleman

dwelt with peculiar emphasis on some of the minor pen-
sions, and the services for which they had been granted ;
but made not the slightest allusion to some of
the larger and more notorious ones. Like a clever
special pleader, he slurred over, or kept wholly,
out of sight, all that militated—or even appeared to mili-
tate—against his own view of the case. The House heard
nothing but that which was most likely to influence its de-
cision in favour of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S
sentiments. According to him, never had an innocent
public been so duped, as upon the subject of the Pension
List. Saving and excepting a few instances touched on
with the most exquisite Ministerial delicacy, in such dis-
creet terms as, T it was true that some pensions
could not be strictly said to have been granted in re-

turn for the services mentioned," never was there a more de-
serving orimmaculate fraternity than that of the Pensioners!
In justification of this statement the Right Honourable
Gentleman read several letters in which the writers—for
the most part widows—explained why, and when, they re-
ceived their quarterly payments from the Treasury.
Among these communications was one from the daughter
of the late General CAREY, which is a model of generous
and elevated feeling, and made—as it deserved to
do—a profound impression on the House. Mr.
SPRING RICE read this document with an air of con-
siderable triumph—just as if that were a grant
that could, by any possibility, be objected to—as if,
in fact, it were a complete answer to the charge, that
the Pension-list was not what it should be. Now, he must
know, quite as well as we can tell him, that this is a mere
begging of the question—a dexterous sophism, meant only
to bewilder and lead astray. The Reformers do not com-
plain that meritorious public servants have been rewarded
with small pensions, but that the unworthy have been
rewarded with large ones. This is the gravamen of the
charge, and to this we have as yet seen no ade-
quate reply. Why is it that we are so tenacious
on this point, and refuse to be convinced by the logic of
the Ministerial charmer, " charm he never so wisely ?"
Because the question is one of paramount importance, and
is not to be disposed of by a few adroit sophistries and do-
quent generalities. Purge the Pension List of all those
who have no business there—and many, notwithstanding
Mr. RlcE's vague disclaimer, are still snugly hived in
that honeycomb—and the opportunities of befriend..
ing worth and talent will be increased, and an ad-
ditional stimulus be thereby held out to honest exer-
tions. That much good has been done by the Pen-
sion List Inquiry, we presume not for an instant to
doubt, but at least twice as much yet ramains to be ac-
complished. The inquiry has been strict enough in some
cases, but over-lax, we suspect, in others ; but if not, if
every individual case has been thoroughly sifted—then how
cruelly, how wickedly have those injured innocents, the
PITT, PERCIVAL, and LIVERPOOL Administrations been
wronged in public opinion!

Among the subjects which occupied the attention of the

House of Lords last night, were the Juvenile Offenders
Bill and the Custody of Infants' Bill. Both these mea-
sures, though divested of political interest, are of the highest
importance in a moral point of view. To the eontamina-

tion which is the necessary consequence of the present
practice of indiscriminately huddling together in one prison
offenders of all ages and descriptions, is to be traced much
of the crime which unfortunately prevails. A proper clas-
sification of the violators of the law, is, therefore, the first
thing to be provided for. But the juvenile de!inquent,
new, perhaps to vicious courses, must not merely
be separated from the society of the old and incorrigible
criminal ; he must be subjected also to such moral and
religious discipline as may win him back to the paths of
virtue, and render him a useful member of society. This
is the obj'ct of the first of the Bills to which we have al-
luded. It appears, however, that there are defects in it
which must be amended before it can be allowed to pass
into a law. As it now stands, the Governor of a prison
may inflict corporal punishment ad libitum on a juvenile
offender. This is much too important a matter to be
left to any one man's discretion. Such a power is ex-
ceedingly liable to abuse, and must, therefore, be
restricted. It is also a sine qua 7101 i that such prisons
should he open at all reasonable times to the inspection of
the Magistracy. We have a horror of secrecy in the
management of prisons whether for the young or the old,
but when secrecy is combined with the delegation of ar-
bitrary power to the manager, the prison becomes a
Bastile.

The third reading of the Bill, it will be seen, was post-
poned until the necessary amendments should be considered.
The Custody of Infants' Bill was thrown out on the
motion of Lord BROUGHAM ; and it is impossible to per-
use the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord without
icing satisflei that this was the fate whir.th it deserved.

The High Church party in this country, who rail loudest
against Popery, and who protest the most against any grant
of money for the education of Catholics, have, after all,

' more of the real spirit of the Catholic Church than any
other sect ; and if we are again to be afflicted with the
evils supposed to belong peculiarly to the Roman Catholic
faith, these will come, not from the increase of Catholic
Chapels, supported by the voluntary system, but from the
high pretensions of the Church herself. These pretensions
put forth by some of the heads of the Church, and many
of the Clergy lately, ought to give rise to serious alarm in
all who wish to see the law obeyed—the State, more
powerful than the Church, or the principles of liberty
uncontaminated by priestly domination.. We regard
the Bishop of EXETER as a perfect model for a
Prelate of the Catholic Church as it once existed in Eng-
land. In his famous charge to the Clergy of his Diocese,
some years ago, he seemed more Catholic than Protestant,
and dwelt with as much satisfaction on the duty of con-
fession, and the power of the Clergy to grant absolution, as
ever did any true son of Mother Church. Since then he
has repeatedly announced his determination to resist the
law, for the good Popish reason, that the divine right of
Bishops is superior to any authority founded on Acts
passed by frail erring men. The Clergy of a Diocese in the
North last year put forth similar pretensions, and this year we
find the clergy of Scarborough and the neighbourhood
laying down rules, with regard to baptism and burial, at
utter variance with the spirit and meaning of an Act
passed last Session. To crown all this we find the works
of a Protestant clergyman have been published under the
direction of a Principal of a College in Oxford, in which
the Rev. Gentleman avows that he is every day becoming
a less and less loyal son of the Reformation—that in mat-
ters indifferent, or even doubtful, we ought to conform our
practices to those of the Church which has preserved
its traditionary practices unknown, and stigmatises as in-
judicious those foolish people who talk against Roman
Catholics for worshipping Saints and honouring the
Virgin and images. These certainly are signs of the times
—signs of the Church setting itself up against the State,
and thereby leading to those illegal practices which dis-
tinguished the reign of the two last STUARTS, and which
finally drove that family from the throne. It is time for the
Dissenters to look to this—and not the Dissenters only, but
every friend of freedom and every friend of the true Re-
formed Church—lest there should be established a domi-
nion as galling and as destructive to real liberty as that so
long possessed by the Church of Rome. We confidently
look forward to the time when the frequenters of Exeter-
ball will find other employment than railing against old
PETER DENS and DANIEL O'CONNELL. The Catholics
now are comparatively harmless. Another party has sprung
up, with vast wealth and vast power, who possess many
of the bad qualities of the ancient Catholic churchmen,
and who seem, both in precept and practice, to follow
their baneful example.

Our Morning Contemporary, the Post, has published, in
a second edition, advices from Lisbon of the 24th instant.
The election of Senators and Deputies to the Cortes is
appointed for the 12th of August, and as the ordinary Ses-
sion is fixed by law for the 2d of January, it Is presumed
that the Government proposes to summon an extraordinary
Session to take measures for supplying the demands made
upon an exhausted Treasury. It appears that one-fourth
of the taxes voted by the last Cortes cannot be collected ;
whilst the high rate of the Tariff has all but led to the
adoption of a regular system of smuggling, to the great
injury of the commercial relations of the country. In the
South, the MIGUELITE chieftains, REMECHIO and BAIVA,
continue to keep alive the flames of civil discord. The
following paragraph, prefixed to the Lisbon correspondence
of the Post is of considerable mercantile importance :

We learn from our correspondent at Falmouth that an order has been
sgnt down from the Admiralty to Captain Plumridge, the Naral Super.
intendent at that port, instructing him to direct that the packets are
for the future not to take on board any specie at Vera Cruz or Tampico
on merchants' account during the continuance of the French blockade.
This will be a serious affair for the mining and mercantile interest in
this country, should the differences between the twu Powers remain
unsettled for any lengthened period.

The Paris Journals of Sunday are principally occupied
with accounts of the commencement of the celebration of
the " three glorious days." From the following extract
from the Moniteur Parisien, a Ministerial Paper, it would
appear that some of the more ardent Republicans are likely
to be provided, at the charge of the Government, with
time and accommodation for reflecting upon the part which
they have already taken in the celebration of the Revo-
lutionary fete :
" While the souvenirs of the revolution were thus honoured by the
population, a strange scene was passing at the Louvre. At about a
quarter to twelve a band, consisting chiefly of journeyman tailors, had
repaired to the tombs of the victims of July. There one of them be.
gan delivering a speech, the incendiary terms of which were so insult.
ing to the King's person that a Police Commissioner deemed it his duty
to arrest the orator. His companions having attempted to rescue him,
the town.sergeants and some soldiers were engaged in a melee, the result
of which was the apprehension of half -a-dozen persons.
" The Police-Commissioner was wounded in the head with a stick.
" The rioters have been given over to the Procureur du Roi.
" P.S.—The gathering which had already caused a disturbance near
the Louvre tombs, having arrived near the tombs of the Grenelle bridge,
the interference of the police was again required. Incendiary language
having been held, the Mayor of Grenelle, with a detachment of the
National Guard, was obliged to summon the band to disperse, which was
done."

On Thursday evening last the police succeeded in dis-
covering a Republican plot, said to have for its object the
assassination of the KING of the FRENCH. Seven unfor-
tunate wretches were seized and cast into prison, on a
charge of making bullets, including an engraver named
RABAN and his wife. For ourselves we are persuaded that
two-thirds of the plots discovered are the work of the po-
lice themselves, by whom they are hatched and brought
to full maturity. Their object is evident—to show them.
selves in some way useful to the Government.
The latest advices from Madrid are of the 22d, but the
intelligence they bring is unimportant. No recent dis-
patches had been received from ESPARTERO, and the ru-
mours about a change of Ministry were neither wholly nor
-Iti part confirmed. It was currently reported, and believed
in several quarters, that ESPARTERO had sent in his resig.
nation, but we cannot see any probability of its truth.
The Messager's correspondence from Estella, of the 21st, says—" To.
day the Governors of Manera, and of Fort Santa Barbara de Manera,
have been shot. Fifteen other persons implicated in a plot, detected
by General Maroto, have also been executed." The liberal Sentinelle
des Pyrenees mention the occurrence in the following terms:—" A
conspiracy has just been discovered at Estella. The blood of 17 victims
has again been shed to the glory of the Absolutist cause. Not content
with striking the individuals suspected of having participated in the
plot, Maroto has not shrank from sacrificing a young woman, the
daughter of the Commandant of Guemble. Officers, peasants, a
father and his daughter have been included in this atrocious butchery."

---- ---
Mr. Isaac L. Goldsmid had the honour to entertain
at dinner on Friday last, at his villa at a Regent's.park, his Highness
Prince Schwartzenberg, his Highness Prince Furstenberg, the Ministers
of America, Spain, and Belgium, the Duke of Leinster, Lord Brougham,
Sir Robert Adair, the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of
England, and several learned Professors and other gentlemen, who were
highly delighted with the extraordinary powers of memory and calculation
which were evinced respectively by the two youths Mode. and MangeamelC,
the former answering with readiness and accuracy almost every question
relating to every branch of study, the latter solving by a mental process the
most difficult algebraical problems, and in not a quarter of the time
usually taken for questions of that description. Some of the party
remained till long after midnight, deeply interested bi_lhe evening's
amusement. The Professor of the University College was- one of the
compossy, and successfully exhibited the new discovery of freezing quick.
silver by the means of carbonic acid.
The Marquis of Anglesey, who is at present cruis-
ing off the southern coast in his yacht, the Pearl, is again on the eve
of proceeding to the continent, where he will pass the antumn and
winter, accompanied by the Marchioness and his unmarried daughters,
the Ladies Mary and Adelaide Paget.
The late residence of Marshal Soult, in Portland-
p!acewill be given up to the proprietor, Lord de Manley, this day or to-
morrow. The Marshal and suite were expected to arrive at Calais in
the Meteore Government steam-packet yesterday evening, and, as his
Excellency intended to travel all night, he would arrive at his hote
in the French capital at a late hour last evening.
A paragraph is going " the round," stating that
5,000 Wesleyan Ministers are assembled in Bristol at the Conference I
Tey do not amount to quite 500.—Bristol Journal.
There are, it is said, about one hundred and forty
Barristers attending the Northern Circuit.--Newcastle Journal.
RAPID COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GUERNSEY
Ann ENGLAND.—On Saturday morning last, Mr. Roberts, Commander
of her Majesty's packet Dasher, lest this at half-past eigh. In the morning
e milesn Sunday into the
morningcountry, and returned again to
by her Majesty's packet
thefor NtsViaeny,irnoaut thha,
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Fearless, thus twice crossing the channel in twenty
—ours.—Guernsey
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REMOVAL OF NEWGATE VEGETABLE MA R-
xEr.—A notice having last week issued from Guildhall, to the effect
that on and after Monday, the 30th instant, the fruit and vegetable
trade, hitherto carried on in Newgate-market, would be removed to
Farringdon-market, at an early hour yesterday morning the market as-
sumed an aspect of cheerfulness which it has never been permitted to
do since the first day of its being opened to the public. The joy of the
shopkeepers and proprietors of the public-houses within the Immediate
vicinity of the market was " prodigious," their services being called into
the most active requisition. There was a large supply of fruit and vege-
tables, all of which looked exceedingly fine.
TIIE WOMAN OF TIIE WORLpr""BY THE Au-
T,IORESS OF " THE DIARY OF A DESENNUyEE."--Ttle former work,
e nanating from the same pen, was so highly appreciated, that it would
have been satisfactory to the literary„wOrld if the secret of its source
ha I been promulgated when a snond production was
Osrumb,mbiutttedasfsoor
a; probation ; but as the authoressi,he
qhuaessttl:o7,.glhstafitksitiioltlttyo adhere to the
point
incognita, we can only join in' the guesses
.which our contemporaries
have made upon the subjeet
many conjectures have been hazarded. we will only say upon this
that we think we recognise (be " fine round Roman band" of *Mrs.
Gore,—Courier.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1838

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

John Bailey, described as a harp maker, residing at Lambeth, and
Itichard!ways, a baker, were charged on suspicion by Wm. Hamlyn,
a butcher, of Lombard-court, Seven Dials, with stealing 401 b. of beef.

The prosecutor stated that about three o'clock on Sunday morning
he was aroused from his bed in consequence of hearing a number of
ducks which he had in his yard disturbed. He immediately gave an
alarm on seeing the prisoner Bailey and two others make their escape
over the wall, and on going to ascertain what had been taken away
he found all the ducks stowed into a basket ready to be conveyed
over the wall. Having then no means of going in pursuit of
the thieves, he made a further search, and discovered that the beef in
question had been removed previous to his being alarmed. He shortly
after gave a description of Bailey to the policeman, and he was appre-
hended about two hours after, standing in company with the other pri-
soner, at the corner of the street.

The prisoners declared their innocence, and that they could give
satisfactory proof where they had been at the time in question. They
were ordered to be brought up again on Friday next.

Margaret Egerton, a miserable looking object was brought up by
Kitimat), of the F division, charged with being drunk, and throwing
her maleinfant out of a second floor window in Charles-street,Drury-lane.
The Constable stated that while on duty last night at nine o'clock,
opposite -12, Charles-street, he saw something crash on the carriage way
pavement, and directly there was a cry from several persons, that the
child was killed. He hurried up stairs and finding no person in the
room, he returned into the street, were he was informed by a man, who
would be forthcoming, of the circumstance, and who said he saw the
wretch throw the infant into the street.

An intelligent little girl, the daughter of a police-constable, was pro-
duced, and in answer to questions by Sir F. Roe, she said she had been
at a Teetotal meeting in the window of the opposite house, and she dis.
tinctly saw the prisoner, who appeared in a passion and talking to
another person in the room, dash the infant out of the window.
Kirkman said that the child seemed lifeless when it was lifted from
the pavement, and he had it conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital.
Sir F. Rog ordered the prisoner to be remanded for a week, and she
was removed from the Bar demanding that the child should be re-
stored to her.