The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-08 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

No Foreign Mail was announced as having ar-
rived at the Post-office yesterday ; and three
Gotlenburgh, one liamburgh, and one French
still remain due. No advices were, consequently,
received from 'Madrid ; but the last letters from
that place, Speculating on the expected nomina-
tion of Ministers, mention, that the current rumour
was, that M. Baugueri would be appointed
Finance Minister, in which department he has
long been employed. He is distinguished for
generally having been in the Opposition when
the Cortes have discussed and determined on
financial plans, and he himself presented one.
Report also gives out, that M. Cleme,ncin was to
be chosen Minister of the Interior.—This Gen-
tleman, we believe, has usually been employed
in this department, has acted as Speaker of the
Tate Cortes, and, if we remember well, was chosen
President of the Committee, entrusted with the
new territorial division. M. Cuesta is spoken of
as Minister of Grace and Justice. This Gen-
tlermln is an Arch-Dean, or Dignitary of the
Spanish Church, extremely liberal and en-
4ightened) and at one time obliged to fly from
the persecutions of the Inquisition. All three
were Deputies in the late Cortes.

It will be seen from our Parliamentary Re-
port that the disturbances in the Counties of
Norfolk and. Suffolk were last night alluded to
in the House of Commons. Mr. Gooch stated,
that' it had been found necessary to call out the
Yeomanry Cavalry. The same Hon. Member
stated a circumstance which must give foreigners
a precious idea of the mildness of the rule of our
Country Gentlemen. Mr. Lockhart had, on a
former evening, said he understood there were
200 prisoners in Thetford gaol, of whom 80 were
poachers. " 0 no," says Mr. Gooch, " there are
only 150 prisoners, and of these only 40 are
poachers !"—Good God ! only 40 poachers in
one prison at one time ! Truly the Gentlemen
of England exact a precious price for the
blessing which their residence in the country
confers on .us! For the paltry distinction of
having the monopoly of a few wretched ani-
mals, they crowd our prisons with our wretched
peasantry, and thus spread crime and demora-
lization throughout the land. And yet we
wonder at our long lists of commitments, while
those under the Game Laws alone exceed in
number the whole of what we find in the Cri-
minal Calendars of large kingdoms !—The sub-
ject which particularly occupied the House was
the Suffolk Petition, which Mr. Gooch recom-
mended to its notice in rather an odd way. The
speech of that lion. Gentleman at the meeting
where the Petition was agreed to, taught us to
expect at least a somewhat more earnest call for
economy. This inconsistency-was admirably ox-
posed, first by Mr. Coke, and afterwards by Mr.

Macdonald, the latter of whom observed, " There
was something so like a spell either in the at-
mosphere, or within the walls of that House, it
had such an effect in changing the note of Hon.
Members, in making them unsay what they had
said, not only in private, but on public hustings,
that if one had not some particular knowledge of
the individuals, he would be inclined to question
their personal identity".—(lbid.)

[New TIMES.]
Nothing can more decisively prove the judi-
cious character of the measure proposed by Go-
vernment for the conversion of Five per Cent.
stock than that, out of a body of above 100,000
proprietors, it has not been found possible to
collect together twenty to join in an expression
of dissent. Our readers are aware of the abortive
attempt made to get together a meeting for that
purpose on Tuesday. It was next proposed to
have a meeting yesterday ; but that also evapo-
rated in smoke. Here, then, is another demon-
stration of the utter absurdity of the complaint in
The Times that the time allotted for expressing
dissent was inadequate—that thousands of holders
would crowd to put down their names, and would
necessarily be turned back, because they had
not sufficient time allowed them to subscribe!!
The Five per Cent. stock appears to have
nearly reached its true value, according to
the plan of transfer. It left off yesterday
at 1024, and it may propably maintain that
price, or something near it, so long as the Stock
continues unreduced. We congratulate the nu-
merous body of dissentients. Government must
raise a Loan of at least Twenty Thousand
Pounds to pay them off, which cannot fail to
produce a striking effect on the Money Market !
The Dissentients, when they have received their
100/. as a payment, may invest it in the Old
Fours, at probably 100 per cent. ; but they will
not be able to get into the New Fours, without
an addition to the price ; because the irredeem-
able stock must of course be of more value than
that which is redeemable.

[THE TIM ES.]

In Ireland the Special Commissions under the
Insurrection Act have begun to operate upon the
minor class of offences against the public peace.
The constitution of these Courts is such as to ex-
clude the trial by Jury ; the Magistrates, who
are Jurors, as well as Judges, being empowered
to declare the guilt and to award the punish-
ment—which latter may amount to transporta-
tion. A curious, and we trust a salutary, ex-
ample has been afforded by certain parties in the
county of Tipperary, of the manifold dangers
which ought to be anticipated from the enact-
ment of strong penal statutes. Formidable as is
the operation of so harsh a remedy as the Insur-
rection Act, even where the necessity for it
seems most apparent, and its administration most
cautious, conscientious, and correct, the country
which authorises it ought to be prepared, not
only for the legal exercise of its powers,
but for a disposition in some quarters un-
fairly and intemperately to abuse them.
By the active and strenuous interference of
Donoughmore, it appears that the county
of Tipperary has been rescued from an attempt
by some frightened or arbitrary Magistrates, to
get up by unlawful means a sudden meeting of a
small number of Justices ; and through them a
surreptitious application to the Government to
vouchsafe the Insurrection Act as a boon to the
baronies in which they resided. A writing
clerk, in the office of the Clerk of the Peace,
was called upon by a Mr. Jacob, one of a party of
twelve Justices, to post up, in the name of
his principal, (which he had no right to do), a
notice on the Court-house door, so late as the
20th of February, for a meeting of Magistrates
at Cashell, on the 22d, which would have been
an insufficient notice had the Clerk of the Peace
himself prepared it. On being remonstrated with
upon this breach of the law, the clerk confessed
his fault, but pleaded the strong and urgent en-
treaties of the Magistrate, and tore down the no-
tice, which indeed was of itself invalid. These
facts came out at a subsequent meeting of Jus-
tices, where Lords Donoughmore, Listnore, &c.,
and a number of others were present, and where,
after a good deal of discussion, it was resolved
to adjourn for a week, that there might be time
to bring forward informations upon oath :—ano-
ther preliminary which the Insurrection Act en-
joins and requires, but which some of those very
functionaries, who would have been intrusted
with the administration of it, were pleased to
say might be dispensed with ! Such are the ex-
traordinary hands, which in the present state of
Ireland and of her Magistrature, are thought
competent to wield extraordinary and almost
despotic powers.