The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-29 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

On the 26th of June lust an-Order was issued
suspending the issuing of Half-pay to Officers in
the Army who had taken Holy Orders. It was
immediately afterwards perceived that if this
order were to have a retrospective effect it would
operate with great hardship, and indeed with
injustice, on individuals who had acted 'on the
faith of existing regulations, which regarded the
half-pay as a compensation for past services, and
had (some of them with the express approbation
of superior authority) entered upon a profession
for which they were fully qualified. The Lords
of the Treasury therefore have taken the order
into further consideration, and have de-
cided, as the justice of the case required, that
no half-pay should be issued subsequently to the
25th of December next to Officers who may here-
after enter into Holy Orders; but that the Melt*
sure shall not be retrospective. We understand
that in point of fact there are not more, than 24
Officers who will be benefitted by this construc-
tion of the Order ; but the Government were
not to look to the extent of the application ; they,
were to regard the equity of the-principle, which
they have done, in the present instance, with a
fair and liberal regard to the circumstances of
the case.

[IMITISIt PRESS.]
Last night we received the Paris Papers of
Tuesday ; those of Monday reached us in the
course of the day. They are in mourning, on
account of the interment of the late. King. with
the details of whiCh they are filled. The Minis-
ters have enjoyed a respite of several days, owing
to this solemnity. When the intestine war is re-
newea, we may expect it to be proportionably
fierce and violent, after this compulsory truce.—
The only subject vt hid) has in any degree prawn
off the attention of the journalists from the splen-
did and imposing ceremony of the Royal inhu-
mation, is the private correspondence from Paris
which has lately appeared* in the British Press.
It is quoted in nearly ull the papers. The Con-
stitutionnel has an article which we give in our
extracts in another column. The Courier Fran-
cais, in reference to the letter we published con
cerning the present employment of M. De.
liege, the lute Secretary of the Commission
of Censorship, observes, that though the
fact of • the malicious selections inserted every
evening in the Etoile, was known in Paris to
be the work of some Ministerial Agent, the
public Were ignorant of his name until our cor-
respondent revealed it. The news from Greece
in these Papers is conflicting. it 1,4 pretended
that on the 19th ult. the Capita!' Paella obtained
a victory over the Greeks, and captured thirty
vesseli from 'them ; but there is great reason to
luipe and believe, that these successes of the
Mussulmans are- groundless in fact. Probably
the Turkish bulletin was fabricated according to
some approved precedents, to grace the arrival of
the new Vizier. The Constitationnel, publishes a
letter, dated from Tinos, the 10th of September,
confirming the former accounts of the entire
defeat of the combined fleets of Turkey and
Egypt.

[vs e ris Es.]
The papers and letters brought by the Jamaica
packet, and which are dated up to the 13th ult.,
were' delivered yesterday. They contain little
intelligence from Colombia and Peru. The head.
quarters of Bolivar had been removed from
Truxillo to Pativilca, a place about 70 miles to
the north of Lima, and his advanced guard had,
penetruted as far us Pasco, within a few miles of
that'city. Cantarac, the Spanish General, who
by the last accounts was moving on Lima with a
considerable force froni the southward, had, re-
treated' on hearing of Bolivar's advance, not
feeling himself sufficiently strong to place the
fate 'of Peru on the issue of a battle This
circumstance had left Lima open to Bolivar, 118
so few troops remained in the city that he
could take possessinn,of it whenever he pleased,
though, it is not a military position. it might.he
inexpe'dient for alto to do so, until also able to
regain passegsion of the. fort revs of Ca! lao„w
as will be recollected, was lost early io the year
through the treachery of the black troops. 'nos
port, by the latest accounts, was closely block-

ailed by the Peruvian squadron. Cantarac, it
is stated, was exposed to considerable difficulties
in his retreat, owing to the activity and talent of
General Miller, a British officer in the Colom-
bian service, commanding a small corps of ca-
valry and guerillas, who harassed the rear of the
Spanish General, and cut off the straggling parties
of his troops. If these accounts can be de-
pended on, affairs are obviously in a favourable
train for the success of Bolivar and the inde-
pendence of Peru.

['rut: PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Yesterday letters were received from Constan-
tinople, dated the 26th, and from Smyrna the
20th of the same month. The former are rather
barren of. news, not so much, perhaps, from want
of matter, as from the reluctance of the writers
to expose the reverses of the Turks. They take
no notice of the conspiracy we mentioned on
Wednesday ; but it would be extremely ha.
zardous to infer, from this omission, that the
rumour is unfounded. The account came from
a house of the very first respectability at
Odessa, and was merely a transcript of a
letter from the Turkish capital, written two
days later than the advices brought by yester-
day's Mail. The latter, however, mention the
dismissal' of the Grand Vivier, and several high
Officers of the l'orte; and state, besides, that
the only son of the Sultan was delivered up to the
Janissaries, who had the insolence to demand
from their Sovereign this concession ; and the
power, it seems, to enforce it. One of the
letters states, that his Majesty's ship the Me..
diva had been run ashore to prevent 'her
from sinking, having received much damage
in her bottom from a hidden rock. When
she struck, she wns on her way to the
Dardanelles, to take Lord Strangford on board,
in order to convey his Lordship to Venice. ' The
letters from Smyrna confirm the news of the de-
feat of the combined Turkish and Egyptian
squadrons. The engagement took place. near
Broadroun, which is in the neighbourhood of
Rhodes, and appears to have been decisive.
ieveral ships, belonging to the combined fleet,
fell a prey to the fire of the Greeks ; and; from
its subsequent movements being involved in
mystery, it is probable that it is doomed to• sus-
tain farther reverses, as it seems that it was pur-
sued in its flight by the victorious Greeks. One
effect of this defeat has been the total dispersion
of the troops, who had been assembled at Scala
Nuova, for the purpose of attacking Samos.

kIORNING HERALD.)
The Lord ayor and some of the Aldermen,
it appears, have taken great offence that the
County MagistrateS, by whom Mr: Fauntleroy
was apprehended and examined, should at last
have committed him as a City prisoner, which
proves, they say, that he ought to have been re-
ferred to them in the first instance. This
they are. stated -to look upon as a grievous
breach of the City privileges : and if it had
not been for the fear of prejudicing the pri-
soner's case before trial (with the merits of
which it does not seem to us that it could have
much to do), we are not quite sure that Mr. Con-
mint might not himself have been brought before
Go g and Magog, anti consigned to the Place of
Little Ease, a woeful dungeon under the steps
of Guildhall, kept in terroreni, from the days of
Whittington, for the reception of unruly appren-
tices. To be serious, it may be highly proper,
for aught we know, that the separate jurisdic-
tions of the City and County, as long as they
exist, should be religiously observed ; and we
believe it is the practice of the Magistrates, both
of the one and the other, when the venue of an
II offence is distinctly ascertained, to hand the
offender over to the proper local authority.—
That is, if a pickpocket brought to Batton-
Garden has been caught on the south side of
Holborn, he is transferred tq
rand a shoplifter to the east of Petticoat-lane
is consigned to Worship-street or Whitechapel.
But the case in question was by no m',aus of this
obvious nature. The person accused was found
in Berners,,WeLet. It was there that the alleged
offences were supposed to have been committed.
It was from that spot that fresh charges, if any,
were likely to arise. It was there that the books
and other documents were kept ;' and if at last
the completion of the offence appeared to have
taken place in Threadneedle-street, that was a
inure technical nicety, which probably would not
present itself till the formal winding-up of
the case, and could not have justified the
prisoner's transmission to the City Authorities.—
Besides, if it was right to have done so, why
did not the Bank solicitor (who must live with
the fear and reverence of the mace always
before his eyes) require it to be done ? On the
contrary, the Bank, who are the prosecutors,
apply, in the first instance, as it was natural they
should, to the county Magistrates, and call upon
him to carry on all the subsequent proceedings.
To suppose that there can be any thing like an
esprit de corps among 'Magistrates, which can in-
duce any one to covet the investigation of a
painful and important case like this—to imagine
that any one would wish to incur the risk, the
odium, and responsibility of such a matter, would
lie only to confirm the old adage, that there is no
accounting for tastes. We apprehend, therefore,
that upon reconsidering the matter, no privilege
will appear to have been violated, and that the
Corporation appetite on the approaching Lord
Mayor's Day will not have been ut all deranged
by this imaginary indignity.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
1.0 our examination of the doctrines advanced
by the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, in
the important case which they are about to
decide, we have, we flatter ourselves, demon-
strated to every unprejudiced mind, that all
the reasons which exist for the publicity of
the_ proceedings of Courts of Law apply with
much greater force to the. '.Police Courts.---
%r 0 shnwt d. the functions of the inferior
Magistrate, in examining evidence 14nd deter-
milling whether a person suspected of crime
should be, dismissed or committed for trial,
iwere of a judicial, and riot ministerial nature,j
that no judicial acts ought to be perfprmett iu

secret, because the only effective security we can
have for-good conduct in Judges, is the controul
of public opinion, and that this controul is far
more necessary in Police Courts than in the
higher tribunals—first, because the Judges are
less respectable ; and, secondly, because they
are not, like the Judges, controuled by a Jury.
We demonstrated, in' like manner, that the
opinion of the Judges that the • partial pub-
lication of evidence created such a prejudice
against a prisoner as •prevented a fair trial,
and . thereby defeated the ends of justice, was
unsupported even by a shadow of argument. We
called for the production of a single case, the
verdict in which could be attributed to on im-
proper impression created, by• the previous publi-
cation of evidence. We observed, that if Juries
could not fail to be influenced by previous
statements of evidence, the statement of a
skilful advocate, in opening a case to a Jury,
in -which the evidence is Often mixed up in a
perplexingly ingenious manner, with the infe-
rences of the advocate, to answer which state-
ment, except in the case-of high treason, the
aid of professional skill is not allowed, is a thou-
sand times more' likely to create nn improper
prejudice. So much importance is attached to
the efforts of Counsel in trials.—so firm is the
persuasion that Juries may,-be carried off their
feet -by them,—that it was stated by the Attorney
General in Parliament, that in civil cases defend-
ants very generally call no evidence, through fear
of the effect of a reply. Now, though we every
day see first-rate Counsel employed to give highly
wrought views of the evidence to be adduced
against a poor prisoner, who has no one to say a
word in his favour, and though a certain Counsel
has the satisfaction of knowing thot his eloquence
succeeded in bringing innocence to the gallows
(for as it is difficulty overcome that constitutes
the value of the triumph, we suppose a Barrister
would feel as proud in effecting the conviction of
innocence as the acquittal or guilt, and more
proud in effecting either the conviction of
innocence or the acquittal of guilt, than
the ' acquittal- of innocence and , the con-
viction of guilt),---though we every day see
Counsel so employed, we never heard that a
single Judge raised his voice against this, but
have always understood on the contrary, that the
Judges opposed themselves to the innovation of
allowing Counsel to prisoners, who might be able
to destroy the unfavourable impression created
against them.