The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

not merely momentous but frightful, if it shall ap-
pear that in many of the boroughs remodified
under this Bill, the spirit of factious polities has
been tainting the motives of the borough councils, and
the entire process of election .to the magistraq ; that
justices of the peace have been named 'by them, and
submitted for approbation to the Crown, not with any
calm or public-spirited view to their fitness for main;
tainin, the public peace, or protecting the lives, pro-
perties, and rights of individuals, but exclusively be-
cause of the zeal and violence of their political parti-
sanship ; and of their presumed tendency to administer
the law, not for the ends of justice, but for the interests
of a faction, for the crushing of all who are adverse to,
or wish to be independent of it ; and for the conse-
quent sacrifice of the most ancient and sacred of
our national institutions to purposes the most op-
pressive and the vilest. In order, moreover, to
carry through this scheme of packing the bench of
justice for inquitous objects, it has been deemed ne-
cessary by the upright ultra-Radicals to expel from of-
fice gentlemen of unimpeached and exemplary charac-
ter, who had for a long series of years been employed
in a conscientioas discharge of their duties, who by the
independence of their fortunes, the integrity of their
conduct, their long experience, and sound knowledge of
the law, and their temperate and beneficial application
of the authority vested in them, had gained a well-
earned influence over the minds of all respectable men,
and had made their exercise of the magistracy a pro-
tection to the honest, and a terror and obstruction in
the way of evil-doers. It is not at random that we
hazard these observations. Lord John Russell is by
this time well acquainted with facts, Which explain and
corroborate them, and were it not for the confidence
which, notwithstanding the strong political bias of the
Noble Lord, may; we should hope, be firmly placed in
his honour and his anxiety for the public peace, we
should almost despair of the future preservation of
-anything like magisterial purity, or of the possibility
of securing the rights of our fellow-citizens through-
out the newly-constituted jurisdictions from the inces-
sant inroads of injustice and eventual anarchy. Pro-
tests, we have reason to know, are pouring in upon the
Home Secretary's-office, from boroughs which have
been affected by the Municipal Reform Bill, against
the choice of magistrates made by the ultra-Radical
town councils, which protests are numerously and re-
spectably signed and transmitted to Government through
deputations composed of the persons most distinguished
in their several communities for fortune, intelligence,
character, and social estimation. The sum of these

Several French journals, chiefly of the Republican
and Royalist shades, have recently found out that the
operations of Russia in the East, as well as her un-
doubted designs in that quarter, have been much over-
rated ; that even if she were mistress of the Ottoman
empire, no injury would thereby result to France, and
that the only Power whose attitude and resources
ought to inspire the latter country, with real feat, is
nEnerla (1.. It is well understood that these two poli-
tical parties have never ceased to foster the worst pre-
judices of their countrymen against us ; having failed •
in their attempts to carry their own notions of Govern-
Inentlnto practice, and having by thb extravagance of
their principles shut themselves out from all the high
. paths of public life, they are discontented with all the
world ; for us they reserve their most envenomed shafts.
They see that their Monarchy has received from our
alliance with it material strength, sufficient to 'enable it
to face the dangers with which it was menaced
from abroad, as well as to quell the factious which
conspired against it at home. Break that al-
liance by any means—rake up old feelings of in-
ternational animosity—kindle anew the jealousies,
the contentions, the hatreds which so long im-
pelled the two countries into perpetual and sa-
vage warfare—let the throne of July stand isolated
amidst its domestic and external enemies, and then the
question will arise, how long can it endure ? This is
the point at which the National and the Memorial
Bordelais arc exerting themselves to arrive. The ido-
lators of Henry V. and of Robespierre have combined
in the same line of argument and in the same course
of policy to attain the same purpose, but with the re-
solution to convert it to the accomplishment of politi-
cal consequences as opposite to each other as the two
poles. The recent laws passed for the regulation of
the Press-,--laws which we sincerely opposed in so far
as they interfered with the Jury system, and with the
facility of establishing new journals, and even of
maintaining those already in existence, were, however,
in one respect, measures considered essential to the
safety of the State. It was held to be impossible,
especially amongst so susceptible a people as the
French, to suffer with impunity the publication of
articles directly advocating a third restoration on one
hand, and an American democracy on the other.
These topics having been interdicted, the only course
now left open for the irreconcilable enemies of
the new dynasty, is to detach it if they can. from
England, to fill the minds of. their countrymen with
hostility to the English name and connection, and so
prepare for the subversion of the present system.
But in these efforts they will assuredly fail; for of all
the irrational and mischievous schemes with which
they have yet endeavoured to soothe their unquiet
imaginations, that upon which they are now working
for the severance of these two enlightened nations is
the most hopeless. The middle classes of France awl
those of England are the real arbiters of opinion, the
true controllers of the policy by which the two king-
doms are henceforth to be governed. They know that
their best interests are secured by the continuance of
those friendly sentiments by which they are at present
bound together ; that peace between themselves, ce-
mented by cordiality, will enable them to pursue their
occupations with the greatest advantage, and to defend
their interests from danger in every quarter of the
world. Our very' neighbourhood, our civilization,
our literature, and arts, and commerce, tell us
at every step we tread . together, that we
are constituted for mutual inviolable friendship,
founded on our common freedom and power.
From us, Europe, France in particular, has
nothing to apprehend. We have no desire to
make conquests save those of peace and universal good
will. Conciliation on every side is our motto, because
it is our interest. We are a trading people—a nation
of shop-keepers. High-flown notions of ambition,
and romantic views of aggrandisement, have no attrac-
tion for us. We are a plain practical race, whose
hearts may be read by everybody that chooses to in-
spect them. We-are the worst diplomatists in Eu-
rope. England has never yet produced a Pozzo di
Borgo,_and we venture to predict it never will. France
and England united will command the tranquillity of
Europe. Let them be separated—England will move
in her own orbit still, but France must necessarily
become subject to a thousand influences which will
disturb her course, and eventually paralyse her autho-
rity. What is the question between us and Russia ?
Is it merely a British, or a British and French ques-
tion ? Is it not rather an European one ? The
freedom of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus is put
in peril by a clandestine treaty. As a corol-
lary to this, we have another danger—the power
claimed by Russia under the treaty of Adria-
nople, to levy•tolls at the mouths of the Danube, to
shut it up in fact from the Black Sea. These,
surely, are matters quite as pregnant with com-
mercial and political importance to Austria, France,
Naples, Spain, Portugal, to all the old States of the
Mediterranean, to the rising States of Moldavia, Wal-
lachia, and Servia, to Turkey herself, and even to Per-
sia, as they are to us. Nothing but the maligaity of
defeated factions could impute selfishness to England,
in preparing the means for resisting and subduing the
obstacles thus generating to the free commerce of all
nations. Our advanced position, as well as that of
France, seem to impose upon the two Governments
the duty of taking the iniative in this question. If
the French Ministry, accepting counsel from their
most inveterate foreign and internal enemies, leave us
to,perform that duty alone, they will lose all the moral
advantages which they would gain from acting in uni-
son with us upon the great arena, where the rank of
Powers is decided in the estimation of the world.
France will fall into the rear of England, whereas
we should greatly prefer that she would so far respect
herself as to maintain that co-ordinate station with us,
to which she is so well entitled from her informed in-
telligence, and the gallantry that has ever distinguished
her people.—Morning Chronicle.
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grave applications to the executive power is, that men
have been elected justices of the peace, by the town
councils, in virtue of no claim, and on no ground what-
ever but the notoriety and vehemence of their party
zeal, nor from any conceivable motive but the expecta-
tion of their prostituting the functions of the bench to
factious purposes : while other persons have been ex-
cluded from the choice of those virtuous electors, against
whom no charge of partiality or unfairness had ever, in
any instance, been brought forward, of whose know-
ledge and capacity there could be entertained no doubt,
and whose removal under such extraordinary circum-
stances must tend' to excite for the future a general and
well-founded distrust in the local administration of jus-
tice.—Times.

It is confidently asserted, in circles professing to be
informed upon such subjects, that Ministers have,
after all, contrived to make their peace with Lord
Brougham, and that notwithstanding the events of the
last fortnight, which form what some persons would
consider a series of successive slights upen the Learned
Lord, he will, nevertheless, be found in the ensuing
Session, their very faithful humble servant. That such
is really the case is more than we are able to affirm.
We merely give the rumour as it reached us. A very
few days will now serve either to confirm or contradict
it. Of Lord Brougham's prodigious powers of mind
it would be the height of folly to affect a doubt. Of
the kind of compass and discretion by which he guides
it, two opinions, however, may be safely entertained.
That Lord Brougham was of great service to Minis-
ters last Session, while out of office, there can be no
doubt ; nor is there less, that on more than one occa-
sion he has damaged them most materially. To oppose

them would now—be the most indiscreet- act of Lord

. _
We this day give the conclusion of the account o
the first Dinner, on Friday, and an account of the
second, or Burgess Dinner, on Saturday, at Cam-
bridge. Mr. Spring Rice's speeches, on both occa-
sions, were able and judicious. The Right Hon.
Gentleman pointed out very happily the. mischiefs
which result from delaying concessions till they can no
:onger be withheld, instead of meeting at once .the
wishes of the people, when their demands are founded
on justice. In the one case a feeling of satisfaction is
the result ; in the other the worst passions are gene-
rated, and the people who have been roused by pro-
tracted injustice to efforts which intimidate their rulers,
cannot at once lay aside their angry feelings ; and
measures which, if granted in time, or from a proper
spirit, would be healing and beneficial, fail to give
satisfaction. The lesson is of great importance to men in
power. Whenever an abuse is proved, it. should be
promptly remedied. The system of the Tories, which
would oppose all reform to the very last, destroys the
kind feelings which ought to subsist between the people
and their rulers, and leads the latter to consider the
former as in a state of constant hostility to them. We
have seen a striking instance of the beneficial results
of Municipal Reform. The former Corporators were
little better than so many servants of the Duke of Rut-
land. The present Magistrates are men of wealth and
high character, and every way entitled to the respect
of their townsmen. Gentlemen like Dr. Lamb, the
Rev. G. A. Browne, and other ornaments of the Uni-
versity, could feel honoured by their society,
while they could not have met the tools. of the
Duke of Ruland without degrading themselves.—
Ai °ruing Chronicle.
There is a point of view in which the Municipal
Reform Bill had hardly, while under consideration in
either House of Parliament, provoked so much earnest
or continued discussion as perhaps it would well have
home ; nor, if we recollect right, have the anticipations
of the practical working of that measure been hitherto.
turned with any great anxiety or diligence to the branch
of the subject which we now would point out,—
namely, the provisions made by the Bill for the creation
of a local magistracy. Yet is the importance of such
provisions, and of their consequences, above all calcula-
tion to the peace of society, and to the secure enjoy-
anent of life and property, since the whole administra-
tien of justice, oftentimes of summary justice, and not
rarely without appeal, depends on the magistracy thus
appointed. However, the change effected in the
selection of local magistrates will be regarded as

Brougham's life, especially when we consider that the
Conservatives are too strong in the House of Lords
to hold out any temptation to Lord Brougham to act
a part, of the dishonourable result of which he has be-
fore him so many striking examples. Notwithstand-
ing, then, the apparent affronts which have been put
upon hiM, he has but one course to pursue—viz., but
to continue his support to the party with whom his
whole public character has hitherto been identified, un-
less he were, indeed, to adopt the neutral course of ab-
senting himself from Parliament till he has seen how
the land lies—an alternative which the se ell-known
restlessness of his temperament is not very likely to
allow him to adopt.—Morning Herald.
A few clays more must elapse before the money
dealers and speculative politicians in the City can he
relieved from their anxiety respecting their Cortes'
Bonds and the future destinies of Spain. In less than
a week they will, however, know the result of the in-
ventive genius of Queen Christina's Minister, as well
as the way in which he proposes to save the Throne
of Isabella 11., without recurring to a new loan or in-
vading private property. On or about the 21st inst.
the momentous plan, the valuable specific for the cure
of Carlisin, and the sovereign panacea that is to heal
the wounds of the State, was to be communicated to
the expectant Proceres and Procuradores. Then it
was that the cork was to be drawn, and the long-
bottled secret let out—that secret upon which so many
calculations have been formed, and so many castles
built up, the solidity of which can only be tested by
time. In justice to M. Mendizabal (better known
in the street of Juan de Andas, or the Monmouth-
street, of Cadiz, as Don Juan Alvarez Mendez, his
real name), we must acknowledge that in a most
eminent degree he possesses temper and discretion,
at all times important qualities in a Minister, but
more especially in one who, like Toreno, has an
itching for Stock Exchange transactions. By the re-
presentatives of the Spanish people, assembled accord-
ing to the Estatuto Real, and excluding Navarre and
the Biscayan provinces, he has been questioned, jibed,
and jeered, without the secret having escaped his lips.
He has resisted awful trials without being thrown off
his guard. Although large sums. have been offered for
the revelation of the powerful nostrums and numerous
engines set to work, in the hope of discovering how it
would operate, all efforts have been baffled. Much
credit is also due to ~the petticoat Government of
Madrich and it will no longer be questionable whether
a-woman can keep a secret. This time, atleast, neither
a Senor Munoz nor a Madame Theresita has been
found disposed to let the cat ,out of the bag. Interest
and curiosity have alike been unsuccessful, and it re-
mains to be seen whether it is by appropriating Ferdi-
nand the Seventh's hoarded wealth to the exigencies of
the State, by selling the island of Cuba to the United
States, or pawning it to sonic one else for two millions
sterling, by transferring the prospective claims of
Spain on the new South American Governments, or
by raising the Passive into an Active Debt, that the
Cerlists are to be put down. There is; however., a
mode of accounting for this mystery pointed out in a
letter of some political importance, written in the
Spanish capital, and received by the last post. This
letter states that the Mendizabal secret is known only to
two foreigners, one of them the son of an eminent
loan-contractor deeply interested in Christina's suc-
cess, and now in Madrid, and the other Lord Palmer-
ston. The writer adds, that the principal correspon-
dence on this momentous business comes under the
cover of the British Minister at the Spanish Court,
whereby a double advantage is coined. These letters
are thus saved from falling into the hands of the Car-
lists, and all indiscretions which might be committed by
members of the Queen's embassy in London, besides,
guarded against. The writer goes so far as to assert
that the• British Minister for foreign affairs must be
deep in the secret, and also greatly interested in the
success of the Mendizabal scheme, as he has sent
over a notification to the effect that, if the secret is let
out before the proper time appointed for its disclosure
to the Chambers, lie will withdraw his patronage and
support from its author. If this threat has really been
made by our Foreign Secretary, we can 'no longer be
astonished at the precautions adopted by the man who,
under the guidance of his London friends, is destined

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THE S 17N, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1836.

to become the regenerator of Spain --the man who is to
save the Throne of the innocent Isabella, and shield it
fronythe further inroads of the rude Navarrese and Bis-
,
cayans. As, however, British Government expresses
travel fast, and we understand that relays of choice
horses are already prepared on the roads from 'Madrid
to Calais, the'anxious state of suspense in which many
persons are kept cannot be prolonged beyond Friday or
Saturday next, days big with the fate of hundreds,
every appearance indicating that large sums will be
then won and lost.--Morning Post.

CHANCERY COURT.-SATURDAY.

STIFFE V. EVERETT.

This was a petition heard before his Lordship at the
Rolls. The petition prayed that a sum of money—the life
interest i❑ which was bequeathed to the wife of the peti-
tioner before her marriage, and assigned to him since the
marriage—be now paid over to him absolutely, as a decla-
ration in the will against anticipation was imperative with
respect to him. The matter stood over for some time in
order that authorities might be searched for in support. of
the principle ma,intained by the petitioner ; no authorities
had, however, been produced, and his Lordship, in the ab-
sence of all authority, felt himself bound to refuse the appli-
cation for the payment of the money to the husband.