The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-02 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY

OLD COURT.
The proceedings of the above Court were resumed this
day before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder,
Mr. Sergeant Arabin, Alderman White, the Under She-
riffs, &c., with the usual formalities.
After the Grand Jury were sworn, the RECORDER pro-
ceeded to deliver his charge to them, in which he stated
hat the number of prisoners was less than the average ; but
regretted that some of them were of a serious description.
He alluded particularly to the charges for stabbing and
cutting with knives, and of throwing corrosive fluid with
inten. to maim and injure He adverted t., other cases
which stood for trial, but they possessed no feature of in-
terest.

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE
MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Post of this day alludes in the fallowing
n%perbolical strain to the Conservative Association dinner
a:hich was swallowed at Merchant Tailors' Hat! .on Sa-
turday An earnest and intense desire for the glory,
zippiness, and security of the reigning Sovereign, free
''rout the adulteration of courtly or interested sycophancy ;
generous and patriotic regard to the solid and enduring
•nterests of the country, in their iris, parable union with her
iiicient and well-tried institutions ; a manly anxiety that
he character, the honour, and the commercial interests of
the nation should be supported and upheld in our intercourse
with Foreign States; and an irrepressible sentiment of
nality and scorn towards an Administration which affords
lAily proof that such feelings and principles are unknown
o its members, or have no influence upon its conduct--
i!o'se were the sentiments which pervaded the great
Conservative assemblage of Saturday "—.The Times
ibs,rves, with reference to the Chinese question :
" But was Captain Elliott authorized by Ministers to
'dockade the Chinese ports, or had lie no sanction
for such a proceeding but his own high will and
,Leasure ? In either case he ought to have persisted in
this coercive measure once instituted:__lss, as an official
luty ; 2d, as a right which 'he had assumed conscien-
iously, and in the exercise of a sound discretion. But it
ippears that the blockade was no sooner announced than
it was abandoned."—The Morning Chronicle, referring
again to the Corn-law question, remarks as follows :
" The nature and operation of the Corn-laws are well
understood throughout the country; and we have that con-
fidence in the force of truth, that we do not believe the
landowners, with all their preponderance in the Legisla-
ture, will be able much longer to maintain a monopoly
which, for the sake of enabling them to rob all the other
classes of the community, is striking at the very founda-
tion of the national prosperity." The Morning Herald
thus returns to the Privilege question : .‘ When
the House of Commons made an experiment,
in the reign of Queen Anne, similar to that
which it is making in the reign of Queen Victoria, to set
itself above the law of the land, and to subject the liberties
of the people to its arbitrary control, it was, after a great
rruggle, signally defeated. Such, we trust, will be the
final result of the present contest to set up ARBITUARY
PONNER in the land, in derogation and contempt of the
tithority of tbeCourts of Law and the constitutional rights
of Englishmen."

The Morning Advertiser expresses itself in the follow-
ing terms on the subject of Tory tactics :—" Those Re-
formers wbo are sometimes caught in Tory traps, act no
doubt upon the principle, that honesty is the best policy ;
and they persuade themselves, possibly, that their integrity
ind their wisdom are on a par. But the Tories who catch
hem, read the old maxim with a difference; they do not
adopt honesty as the best policy ; with them honesty is the
last policy. When honest, we know they must be at their
wit's end. They never yet hit upon such an expedient,
until they were desperate."