The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-24 00:00:00

conduct, and dictated our silence, we wish to state
distinctly that the same discretion, and not the
Judge's injunctions, will herelfter guide our con-
duct, and dictate our silence or our words. We
know, we hope, what is due to the Judges, and we
humbly but fervently trust that we shall never forget
what is due to any man charged with an offence
which involves his character and his life ; but as the
Judges exert and hold their solemn inquests for the
public benefit only, as an individual is never put
on his trial for life but for that, as Judges
Courts, laws, and all the whole contrivances of the
State, are subordinate to the public benefit, we
wish it to be distinctly understood that the coin-
. mands of the Judges shall not induce us to with-
hold any information which we consider of public
utility, or any comment which may be necessary to
place the conduct of any parties connected with
the transaction in a proper light. When the
Judges are called on, they are allowed to punish
public writers. We deny their claim to ihfluence
or dictate our conduct.

The business of the Judges is, carefully to ex-
amine the facts which are brought judicially before
them, and to administer the law with justice and
mercy ; it is no part of their business to bring facts
to light, or mould and influence public sentiment.
High as they may think themselves—and some-
times their arrogance is supremely ridiculou.,—we
beg to inform them that, to mould and influence
the public mind is the business of the press,which can
neither wait for the Judges' decision, nor, when
given, admit its infallibility. To save society from
their despotism, an appeal always lies through the
press to the public. The Judges decide by the
law ; the press decides by reason and justice, which
are above the law. The press, therefore, without
any of the arrogance which the poet ascribes to man,
re-judges the justice of the Judges, and hold; itself
their master. It is in fact the incarnation of the
public reason, which reforms Courts, displaces
Judges, dethrones Kings, and, in the end, reigns
the supreme lord and master. We hog, leave, there-
fore, most respectfully, to inform the Judges, though
we have not at present the smallest inclination to say
one word of the boy OXFORD, that our silence
is not dictated by any respect for their commands,
and that we protest against the press being
muzzled by aught save its own discretion.

The number of persons who last night voted
against any future grant to Maynooth, and
are, therefore, complete bigots or friends to
the voluntary principle, is forty-two. An-
other gentleman, who is generally classed
with the former, and takes an active part in all
Orange proceedings, Colonel PERCEVAL, disco-
vered, it is said, before the division a statute which
exonerated him from supporting his friend Mr.
PLUMPTIIE, and he therefore walked out of the
House, and declined to vote. What will his Orange
friends say to such untimely desertion ? When
the very staunch, the faithful among the faithless,
are also found falling, what will become of the
Orange party ?
The Times of this morning boasts of the
victory of the Tories, and the defeat of
the Ministers on the Bill for importing flour
into Ireland. To boast of such a victory is
proper in the Tories. It is a victory of monopoly
over the starving people ; and in this case ob
tained by something like treachery. Sir R. PEEL
and Sir J. GRAHAM supported the second read-
ing of the Bil! ; they thought it a useful and good
measure ; but, as its rejection might embarrass the
Ministers, they walked out of the House, and
allowed their followers to reject it. To get a
party triumph they inflicted a stain on themselves
and the House of Commons.

We call public attention to a police case, which
appears under the head of Worship-street, this
day. In the course of the last six months we have
been compelled to make animadversions on the ille-
gal, tyrannical, and intolerable conduct of the New
Police force, and every fresh occurrence only con-
firms us in the belief to which that conduct has
given rise, that the Metropolitan Police is the
greatest curse that every afflicted a free people.
According to evidence given on oath, a policeman
is ordered by his Inspector to dress himself like a
butcher, in a blue frock, and apply at public-
houses, during church hours on Sunday, for brandy.
The policeman, evidently a willing agent, equips
himself grut t..
where he is refused admission, though he pretended
sudden and severe illness ; he proceeds to another,
and is there also refused ; but, on pressing his hands
to his stomach, stooping as if from great pain, and
assuring the landlady's daughter that he was'' bad
in his inside," she mercifully yielded, and handed
ont a glass of brandy, to cure this butcher-po-
liceman. What was the return ? He went and
informed against the house to which this kind
creature belonged, and swore before the Magis-
trate that she had not only served him with
brandy, but also a woman with beer during the
prescribed hours. The woman was sent for, and
her evidence left not the slightest doubt that
the charge was utterly destitute of foundation.
The case was dismissed. And is this all ? A
fabricated charge, and a wicked scheme of an
inspector, to entrap innocent and kind-hearted
people, are passed over as common day occur-
rences. We are utterly at a loss to divine what
Lord NoRmANBY means by suffering the Go-
vernment to which he belongs to be damaged,
almost beyond recovery, by a system of police
which would disgrace the most unprincipled Go-
vernment in Europe. We trust the enormous
grievances to which the inhabitants of the me-
tropolis have been subjected by the New Police
force, and the New Police Act, will be taken up
without delay by
some Member of Parliament.
The Government, and the House of Commons de-
ceive themselves much, if they suppose that the
public are not determined to wreak vengeance on
them the first opportunity, for a systematic attempt
on the liberty of the people, unkilown in the worst
Tory times.

We have received a file of the South Australian
Register, to the 29th of December inclusive. Oa that
day the Governor and party was expected to arrive at
Adelaide after a successful exploring expedition up
the river Murray. During the week, ending on the
221 a December, six English vessels had arrived at
Adelaide, carrying out eleven hundred settlers, This
accession to the population of South Australia ap-
pears to have delighted the colonists.
Great complaints are made in the Colony of the de-
fectiveness of the survey system. On the 19th of Do•
comber a public meeting was held, at which the Sheriff
presided, when resolutions, reprobating the system,
and a memorial to her MAJESTY'S Government, praying
for redress, were adopted. It anpears that, in many
instances, purchases cf land made by persons in the Co-
lony four years ago arc not yet allotted! No stronger
proof is required that the system calls for instant amend-
ment.

We were enabled yesterday to anticipate all the im-
portant news in the French Journals of Monday. The
Presse of that date staffs that M. GGizoT, to the great
surprise of his colleagues, has vetoed the appointment
of M. ODILLON BARROT to a seat in the Cabinet.
The words of the Presse are—" We learn from an
authentic source that M. GulzoT has replied to seve-
ral communications which have been made to him,
that he would resign his functions as Ambassador at
London on the day when M. ODILLON BARROT should
take office. This letter has been the more fatal to the
projected Ministerial combination, which we spoke of
yesterday, that it was quite unexpected." M. GUIZOT'S
objection to have M. ODILLON BARROT for a col-
league must surely be personal. On political grounds
M. ODILLON BARROT can no longer he offensive to
the most starched courtier at the Tuileries. Ever
since the appointment of his brother to office, the Hon.
Deputy's republican zeal has been obviously cooling ;
and we doubt not that a word from the KING would
produce an attestation that the temperature of his
politics would harmonize admirably with the political
views of his Excellency the French Ambassador at the
Court of Londen.

Nor is great blame to be attributed to M. ODILLON
BARROT for hearkening so readily to
the overtures
made to him on the part of the Ccurt. Ho may not
be, required to throw the Electoral Reform question
overboard, as notwithstanding the general and culpable
apathy of the French people, so shrewd an ob-
server as LOUIS PHILIPPB must perceive that, sooner
or later, the Cabinet must take measures for
the extension of the franchise. The Hon. Deputy has
moreover, reason to be dissatisfied with the leaders of
his pnrty, who failed to second his most strenuous ef-
forts for electoral reform in 1834 and 1836 ; and even
the subordinate members of that party have acted
throughout as if they were half indifferent to the reali-
zation of their own views. Of the strong allurements
of office to a lawyer not over-abounding
in the gifts of
fortune. it is needless here to say anything. The
merest allusion to the subject will suggest to every
reader a volume of comment.
The ordinary news from French Africa is not so late
as the intelligence brought by the despatches published
in 7'he Sun of nisterday. It is not, however, without