The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-20 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

We presume the Public are now convinced by
experience of the justice of the opposition which,
from the first, we have given for the application
of Mr. WAtiamys system of road-making to the
streets of London. On Saturday we inserted
two or three letters from Correspondents point-
ing out some of the evils apparent wherever it
has been attempted to carry the plan into effect
throughout the Metropolis. Indeed, the corn•
plaints which reach us from all quarters, and all
ranks, upon the subject, excite our astonish-
ment that ere this a meeting or meetings of the
inhabitants of the aggrieved districts have not
been summoned to prevent the further exten-
sion of the nuisance, and to repair the in-
jury it has already done. On the score of mere
convenience the project of Macadamising the
streets of London merits the severest reprehen.
shut. is there, for example, between the liorge
Guards and Charing-cross any pari of the street
where a man dare attempt to cross, unless he
made up his mind to plough through an ocean of
mud, and have his clothes besmeared with the
same stun` by the splashing of the horses and
vehicles he may encounter ? So is it likewise
in other parts of the town—in' Regent-street
—in Bridge-street, Blackeriars,
paved crossings have all been taken up, and the
convenience which they afforded entirely de-
stroyed. In another respect, the system of Mac- I
adamizing London is perhaps of more serious I
import. Such is the state of the streets at pre.
sent from this cause, and the late heavy, Incessant
ra'ins, that to walk them for hall' au hour without
having one's hoots perfectly soaked with wet, is
impossible. Formerly in the moistest weather a
person might pass over well swept pavements,
comparatively dry. f3ut now there are scarcely
such things to be met with,. anti where the
road has been a little cleaned to' answer their
purpose, the soft substance, is so saturated with
water, that on pressure it yields to a consider.
able depth, while the wet thus elicited swells up
about the passenger's foot. Hence, we believe,
there never was a period when catarhal com-
plaints, affections of the pleura, &c. .were more
prevalent in the. Capital than at present.—
Now, when it is recollected that the eetteo.,
(teepees of those attacks are sometimes consump.
anal, asthma, and a varitty of other chronic
.14ibenses, ,referable to:neglected, or very severe
golds, we need not urge time propriety of guard- ,

ing against so great calamities. In short, look
at the Macadamization of the Metropolis, in
w hat light we may, it appears a positive nui-
sance. Let the public then do their duty, and
by coining forward to express their decisive opi.
nion, put an end to a piece of palpable quackery.
Otherwise, London, instead of being, as hereto-
fore, the cleanest and wholesomest Capital in
Europe, will become the dirtiest and the most
unhealthy.

' [NEW TIMES.I
Public curiosity will be somewhat disappointed
by thereault of the hearing on Saturday last,in the case of the late
Mr. Fauntleroy's partners. Messrs. Marsh, hitracey, and Graham
attended before the Commissioners, and evinced a laudable rea-
diness to answer any questions that might be put to them ; but
it was not thought by the assignees that the accounts were in
such a state as to render the examination of the bankrupts ail-
viseable. A eneral statement, however, was presented of the
demands and assets, but it was avowedly offered as imperfect,
though containing all the particulars at present ascertainable.
According to this document it would seem that the de-
mands on the house hitherto known are about 4554,0001. and the
available assets about 399,0001. leaving a debtor balance of
155,000/. ; against which are set various bad and doubtful
debts, amounting to nearly 23.1,0001.; so that if these latter
were to be found ultimately productive, the firm would not
only pay 20s. in the pound, but would have a surplus of
79,0001. This, however, is not to be expected ; and there-
fore we are compelled unwillingly to anticipate an ultimate
deficiency of assets. In this statement no claims on the past of
the Bank of England are included; and it seems probable
that no such claims have as yet been made. It was thrown out at
the meeting that the Bank of England might possibly claim
two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, as money erroneously
paid by them to Mr. Fauntleroy, and by him carried imme-
diately to the credit of the house; but Mr. Montague, the
Counsel for the assignees, justly observed, that though the
Bank of England was a strong and powerful body, the laws
of England were much stronger—a remark in which we are
proud and happy to acquiesce. Still it remains doubtful what
the law applicable to this case may be ; for the facts of the case
are at present in obscurity. Did Mr. Fauntleroy really pay in
the produce of his various forgeries to support the credit of the
house; or did lie not? If lie did not, his solemn aver.
mental his trial was a daring and wicked falsehood; if he did,
then the equity of the case manifestly Is, that the Bank
of England should come in as a principal creditor of
the firm. We cannot understand why it was suffered
to remain for a moment in doubt whether Mr. Faunt.
leroy's assertion was true or false. The public at large
have taken it to be true: they have believed that immense
sums procured by forgery and fraud were paid in by him to
support the credit of the House; and they have thought that
thus statement implied in Mr. Pauntleroy's partners, to say the
least, a very strange and culpable ignorance of their own con-
cerns. We are bound to say that nothing appeared on Satur-
day to confirm this imputation ; but nothing appeared to con.
tradict it : and on the other hand, two items in the balance
sheet afford impressions by no means favourable to two of the
partners. We allude to the following particulars in the state-
ment of assets:— _ _ _

.45000 0 0 Cash returned by Miss Marsh
9141 10 0 Do. by Mr. Edward Stracey.
It is to be lamented that no explanation accompanies those
items ; for on the face of them they seem to give a colour to
the reports mentioned in our paper of the 20th ult. " that large
sums were drawn out by near relations of the partners the day
after Pau ntleroy was apprehended, hut before the 11ouse stopped
payment."—At a future Meeting the Creditori will have it in
their power to elucidate all the matters now in doubt by a strict
exqmination of the partners. By that time, too, it may pro.
bably be ascertained what course the Bank of England means
to adopt in regard to the sums paid in consequence of Faun-
thiroy's forgeries.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It sometimes happens that a coward, who has
quietly pocketed a hundred insults, resents what would give no
offence to the most resolute fire-eater. A transformation of
character, little less striking, was witnessed in the Lord Chan-
cellor some time ago, when to the surprise of all who have ob-
served the reluctance with which his Lordship seems to part
with his decisions, that are often not forthcoming, long after
the hearing has prepared the parties and the public for them
—he for once as good as decided the case before hearing
it. If one of the Comets which arc to brush the earth with '
their tails had suddenly made its appearance, the astonishment
could net have exceeded what was every where displayed by
the Profession—The Lord Chancellor not only not doubting,
but even prejudging ! But mark the result. On Saturday
last his Lordship observed " When he maid on a former day
he thought he should make short work of it, ho was not ac.
quainted with the whole facts, and reflection had greatly
altered his opinion upon the case." We suppose, after this
instance of the unfortunate result of premature decision, his
Lordship will return to the good old practice with double
relish, and that we must allow that because a Judge who
happens to deliver an opinion before hearing all the par-
ticulars of a Catie, may not be alto,,,,ether correct in
his suppositions with respect to them, he might not in any case
to come to a decision till long after the termination of the hear.
ing.. It would seem that the decision in this case of The Lan.
cet is about to turn on the point, whether the Lectures were
altogether oral; or read or delivered by memory from a written
copy. The Lord Chancellor observed, "he had no con-
ception in the world but that the Lectures of Sir W. Black.
stone and those of Professor White were entitled to the pro.
tection of the Court," and that " the whole difficulty would
be removed, if Gentlemen would write first, and lecture after-
wards." I-Ic concluded with observing, that " before the Court
could give a remedy, the original composition must be pro-
p duced," and that 'he would give Mr. Abernethy time
till Alonday morning, to produce the original manuscript
from which the lectures have been delivered."—The argu-
ment of Mr. Borne, the Counsel for the defendant, was,
" that there being no author, there was no work; and there
being no work, there was no publication. With respect
to the question of piracy, where was the test of piracy ?
How could the Court. judge of the piracy, unless the original
composition were produced ?" It was once observed by the
Lord Chancellor, as an apology for the difficulty he has in pro-
flouncing an ()pinion (for we have heard from attentive observers
of his Lordship, that though he is slow in delivering an opi-
nion he is seldom slow in forming one), that if all causes were
black and white, there would be little difficulty in deciding,
but that unfortunately there were a number of grey ones.—
Now we suspe'et he will find the case of lecturing not such
a mere black and white one as he seems to suppose—but
tolerably grey. Be seems to think that all Lectures are either
delivered from a copy or oral. Now we believe it often hap-
pens that a Professor writes part of his Lecture and' delivers
part of it extemporarily, that even in the part which is written
he makes additions, and 'Oyes farther illustrations,—regulating
himself according to the impression which appears to have been
produced on the Students. It may happen, therefore, that the
Lectures delivered differ materially from the Lectures written.

THE bum l'aqvlNctAL BANK.--The Direc-
tore of this Establishment have already been named ; and such
wail the confidence of the Loudon capitalists in the security of
thecoMpany, and the competency of the Directors, that the
sliarespahough nut yet actually allocated, are at five per cent.
prentilM• We do not allude to this
circumstance with the con-
fined view of the, advantage accruing to individual speculators.
.Our advocacy of the establishment of a Joint Stock Banking
Company-in Ireland, was induced from a thorough conviction
of the amazing advantages which it would canter upon the
counii3L.adiantages not to be derived from capital introduced
under any other circumstance*. The readers of the Mail arc
alreitilY in passession of the reasons upon which our opinions
Upon this subject have been founded—of the manner in which
banks Were fornierly got 4p_in the provincial towns in Ireland—
thii made in which their business was conducted, and the eon.
serpent bankitiptcy of the proprietors and ruin of their credi.
tors. All these are ahviiited by the system under which the
New Lstablisinuent, is conducted ; and we haie the best audio.
city far atatingt that the people of Ireland' look. forward with
an anions hope to the day, when certain relief may be afforded
to tbeic expiring manufactures, their decreased commerce, and
their decaying agricultural exertions. The aid Which this
Company is capable of affording, and which we understand it
is their intention liberally to extend, will confer a lasting good
twon,thecountry, noel attended with the most beneficraleon.
sequences to its init4bitunta of every class.--( Dublin &gni
) . "dr

CAUTION TO DEALERS IN ROASTED CORN,—.
A short time since a person residing a few miles
from Northampton, was convicted at the Record
limn at that town in a mitigated penalty and
costs for selling 'toasted Corn without having
,first taken out an Excise licence for that purpose.
The Act lately passed authorizing the sale of
Itoastesi corn, imposes a penalty,of 501. on, per-
song selling it, unless; they first take out a Li.
cence, which must be renewed annually.