The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1838.

ralism. We have said that it may be conjectured from it,
however, that the new system qjustice which is to trans-
fer the power of Judge and Jury to the breast of a single
Police Justice, who, perhaps, may have been brought up
to some handicraft trade, or may have been an Under-
Clerk in a Government office, or the unliveried attendant
of some great man about Court, is to come under the con-
troul and supervision of the Home-office. The Police
Justice, whether well or ill qualified for the duties of a ma-
gistrate, be it recollected, is but the creature of the Home-
office, whose tenure is at the will of the Secretary of State for
that department. Is it to such a functionary, under such
a surveillance, that our " Liberals" of the nineteenth cen-
tury would transfer the power of our constitutional tribu-
nals ? Is it to a court of such a dependent—of such a
senile construction—they would give the power of a court
of oiler and terminer, to decide charges of felony against sub-
jects of the British crown? Let such a system be once
established in regard to larcenies of 40 shillings, and the
encroachment on the admirably-constructed and carefully-
guarded system of British justice will not end there.
Indeed, if it did, it might be well said that the legisla-
ture had, at length, distinctly recognised the monstrous
principle, that there should be one law for Me rich,
and another for the poor." " Offenders on a grand
scale must have the protection of a trial by jury," it
would be said—" while the poorer and smaller delin-
quents, though equally accused of felony, have no such
security against a prejudiced, oppressive, or precipitate
judgment." This sort of view of the matter would serve as
an argument for encroaching still further on the trial by
jury, until reformed Justice, perched on her central throne
in the Home-office, would exercise her vast jurisdiction by
means of police agents and Boards of Directors, untram-
melled by the independence of juries, and the learning and
integrity of the fifteen judges of England. The French
had their revolutionary directory, with something like ab-
solute power, and we are to have our judicial directory to
assist the Home office in mixing up judicial with executive
functions. In what way the Board of Directors are to de
this we confess we are as unable to comprehend as Sergeant
Adams acknowledgeshimself to be. We know, however, that,
if the proposed Board serves no other intelligible end, it will
serve to swell, as the establishment of the Board at Somerset
House, with all its expensive ramifications, did, the already
rank and overgrown mass of Whig patronage. It will
serve to provide for some of the rampant patriots of the
Whig-Radical school of liberalism, who, notwithstanding

the multiplicity of Whig-created dices and commissions,
yet want places. Perhaps some worthy members of the
Metropolitan Police Committee that was, may have no
objection to become directors of the proposed " Board."
If not, we dare say there will be 110 difficulty in finding a
sufficient number of disinterested Liberals (some are com-
ing back now from Canada) ready to prove their devotion
to the country by exchanging the barren occupation of
officeless patriotism for salaried directorships under the "
no-
patronage" Administration.—Morning Herald.

SOCIALISNI.—A charter has been granted•to form
a branch o! the " Association of All Classes of All Nations"
in Sunderland, which is the forty-seventh auxiliary now esta-
blished in the United Kingdom. Two addresses, explanatory
of the new views, as promulgated by R. Owen, Esq., were de-
livered in the Phoenix Lodge upon the occasion, en the even-
ings of Sunday and Monday, by a friend of that gentleman.—
Gateshead Observer.

THE CHARTER.—A grand demonstration of the
strength of the Charterists is to take place next Monday at
Leicester.

THE DEVILS LAWS.—Thoughts upon the Corn-
laws suggest themselves at the dark approach of a winter that
will prove the bitterest the poor have experienced for many a
year, and that will leave but few unconvinced of the necessity
of a repeal of the accursed laws. Already the gaunt form of
famine may be distinguished in the gloom ; suddenly, perhaps,
to assume a yet more threatening and formidable aspect. With
the increase in the price of bread, wages do not increase.
Daily, hourly, the commercial spirit which our Corn-laws have
raised up, by way of retaliation, in foreign countries, is depress-
ing the condition of the English labourer and artisan.
Throughout the Continent manufacturers are competing hard
with the products of British skill and industry.—Devonport
Independent. _ _

The weather has been unfavourable for agricultural
operations durinr, the past week ; and there is still a good deal
of corn exposed in late glens, which, we are sorry to
learn, will be of little value. The potatoes have also sus-
tained some damage by frost, where near the surface ; but the
loss in this respect has not hitherto been serious.—Montrose
Review.

KIRRIEMUIR.—The Political Union held a soiree
in the Old Relief Chapel, on Friday last. It was attended
by about 300; amongst whom were a large number of females.
The entertainment was conducted in the most agreeable man-
ner, and the meeting instructed by several excellent speeches,
and enlivened by many songs. We understand that a " Ladies
Radical Association" has been formed, and not a few of our
fair neighbours have become members. Whether they intend
to adopt the leadership of Miss Martineau, and demand votes
and seats in the Legislature for their own sex, we are not in-
formed.—Montrose Review.
Sunday last three young women, returning from
chapel, were swept away by a mountain torrent in the Shorna,
near Donoughmore, county Cork, and perished. Two were
daughters of a rich farmer, named Callaghan, and had each
8001. fortune. The third was their servant. —lrish Paper.
RIDICULOUS MISTAKE.—At the Circus at 13i-
shopswearmouth, on Monday night, it was arranged that one of
the equestrians should personate an Irishman, and, coming
from among the audience, in a very humorous speech challenge
the horse-riders to an exhibition of his prowess on horseback,
and, resisting all entreaties and threats from the master of the
ring, was to mount a horse and gallop round the circle, disen-
cumbering himself of his ordinary attire, and appearing in the
usual fantastic dress of the riders. Whilst this mock contest
was going on, Police Sergeant Barren took it for earnest,
and, jumping into the ring, seized the actor, and, despite the
entreaties of his brother performers and the proprietor of the
house, was about to drag the man to gaol, when he
fter discovered
the spangled jacket beneath the great coat, and, a making
him show himself in his theatrical gear, the policeman retired,
completely disconcerted by the jeers of the audience.—Sun-
derland Beacon.
FLORENCE, Nov. I.—This delightful city appears
most by general assent to have become the head rendezvous of
the English nobility and gentry travelling this autumn in
Italy. There was never known so many British families of
rank and fortune at one time resident here, as at the present
moment, of which the enclosed list will aff ird you some idea.
Schneider's llotel, the Hotel d'York, Featherstone's, Il Pelli.
cano, Madame Hombert's on the Lung'arno, &c., are all full,
yet private lodgings are not much dearer than ordinary. A
single gentleman may obtain two very genteel rooms in a
good part of the town for ten scudi (or about 2/. 55.) a
month. The weather has been fine and genial, and ex-
tremely favourable for invalids. The following list includes
those now staying here, or who have been visitors within a
very short time—viz., Earl and Countess of Burlington,
Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, Earl and Countess of
I3everley, Earl and Countess of Stanhope, and Lady Wilhel-
mina Stanhope, Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Marquis of
Hertford, Lord Yarmouth, Lord Rokeby, Lord Trimleston,
Lady Bentinck, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lord Gal-
way, Lady Butler, Lady S. Doyle, Lady Rendlesham, Lord
Exmouth, Lady Nlacartney, Lord Lyttelton, Lady Talbot,
Lord Louvaine, Lady Craven, Sir Herbert and Lady Taylor,
Sir Joseph Laffan, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir Keir Grant, Right
Hon. Henry Goulburn, Lord Alford, Sir Frederick Lamb,
Gen. SirJ. Kemp, Ladie Cadogan, Gen. Mathews, Col. Fane,
lion. Captain Pellew, &c., besides innumerable private fami-
lies and individuals.
CHURCH-RATES AT HALSTEAD.—The Essex
Herald reports the proceedings of a numerously attended
meeting held last Wednesday at Halstead, to determine
whether any and what measure should be taken to prevent
the re-establishment of Church-rate in the parish. It appears
that great excitement has been occasioned during the past
twpfahooneresde
ek4s
aitonihfbne
imei
itnlhats
sehtki.
nparish,nte ghe daatcontestb a
ycbvhlyeoui
snrrtnotice.rcyit
eimeeting
havingauetsreetut:njaa subject
cir
Courthauld,
toebhuserniteedaoentt
nheggai
or
heldvvei
tf
nhongueorf
been
years
eeStanhruesn calleddap
expediencygau yor
no-
toEifeaeptilryo
tie:
sit;
.nh
geGNarvegeeaeniknwsot circularsotdhew iams pcwoaerlr
eeldevtdeortytol extensivelyetceh
meetingai
chair,
a n d uunder
opened
de r circulated
the
meeting by reading the notice by which it had been
convened, and after stating the position of the Church-
rate question, called on Mr. Courthauld to explain,
more particularly his object in having called the meeting.
Mr. Courthauld responded to the call, and concluded
moving a series of resolutiens condemnatory of Church-rates,
and pledging the meeting to support to the utmost of its
power, both in vestry and at a poll, a motion for refusing a
Church-rate. These resolutions were received with continual
cheering, and Mr. C. said, before they were put from the
chair, he earnestly invited the freest expressions of the feelinCsluihusrcehq,newnhtleyre considerable dis-
cussionadjourned tfeelingsof the meeting upon them. The resolutions were ultimately
put by the Chairman, and were unanimously carried with
o the
took place. There were three several divisions, and
accl
Schoolrooma ma t ions
on each and all of them, after a protracted engagement, the
at tTachheedmtoeetthineg
objectors to the rate had a large
favourers majority, thereby defeating,
in the most signal manner, the of clerical rapacity
and meanness.
s —A •
TILE Two DROMIO singular mistake as to
the identity of a person recently occurred at Brighton. A
linen-draper's shopman, named Daw, was deemed by more
than one person to be a Frenchman and swindler, whereas in
reality the aforesaid Mr. Daw is an honest English draper.
Count Metasco has not been discovered behind Mr. Collin's
counter. Tho'Briphion Herald says that " Mr. John Daw still
continues an object of great curiosity, particularly with the la-
dies, who vow all manner of' pretty little oaths that there never
was such a likeness, and that if lie is not the Count himself he
really must stand in some _ very near relationship to that most
notorious imposter. Further, for the sake of description, it
may be added that Mr. John Paw is a very singular-looking
young man, to whom, probably, no person bears so strong a
roserublance as the real impostor, Count Metasco, alias Nadir
Beg.'? ••
On Tuesday last persons were kielwerniu•
3,, cart-loads
of ice at the shop of Mr. Grove, the eminent fishmonger in
Bond-street, an occurrence rarely seen at so early a period of
the- pc asph;