The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-07 00:00:00

the other for a simple riot. The first was ignored.
The bills were found against two for a riot. But
two persons cannot constitute a riotous assembly,
so the effect was a &Missal of the bill. On the
bills coming down from the Grand Jury, the At-
torney-General addressed the Court, and gave
notice that he should file ex-officio informations
against all the parties charged in tose indict-
ments. At the conclusion of the dayh's proceed-
ings, the Counsel for Mr. James Forbes, and for
Graham and Handwich, moved, that they should
be discharged from custody ; but Mr. Justice
Moore stated that the Court would make no or-
der, as the Attorney-General might have fresh
Bills of Indictment prepared against those per-
sons before the close of the Commission. The
proper mode would be to serve notice of the ap-
plication on the Attorney-General ; and notice
to that effect was then accordingly served.
Only one trial took place during the day ;
it was that of Thomas 'Hughes, for administer-
ing unlawful oaths. The Attorney-General
stated the case on the part of the Crown.—
The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to
be transported for life. The next day the
Counsel for the prisoners charged with the out-
rage at the Theatre again addressed the Court
that they' might be discharged, when the Attor-
ney-General required that they might enter into
sufficient bail to answer the criminal informations
he should file against them. Mr. Justice Moore
lamented that the consciences of the Grand Jury
could not reconcile it to themselves to find the
bills on the evidence laid before them, which was
of so decisive a nature, but said that the persons
accused must, of course, be admitted to bail.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Irish Papers inform us, that the indict-
ment preferred against Mr. Forbes and the other
perons for a conspiracy to commit a riot at the thea-
tre, on the night when the Lord Lieutenant was so
daringly assaulted, Was thrown out by the Dublin
Grand Jury ; and that a bill for actual riot being
found against only two persons, whereas the law
requires three to constitute a riot, the result was,
that the whole number accused were released
from that form of prosecution. The Attorney
General, however, has taken upon himself a very
proper responsibility in filing against these same
individuals an ex-officio information. It is clear
that the spirit of party is running to great heights
on both sides in Dublin : and there is unfortu-
nately too much reason to believe that it is to this
cause that the throwing out of the Bills is to be at
least in part attributed. The first Law Officer
of the Crown has, under such circumstances, a
solemn duty to discharge. Without suggesting
that any individual Juryman has not acted con-
scientiously, or that any one witness has not
spoken the whole and unvarnished truth, it is the
Attorney-General's province to see that the course
of justice shall not be impeded ; and that so grave
an offence, as conspiring to riot in the presence
of the Sovereign's Representative, to the immi-
nent danger of his person, if not with a design
against his life, shall not escape without the
'ullest investigation.

Natoli No nEitiAt,D.l
.There is a country where extraordinay things
may happen, without causing surprise to their
neighbours--it is Ireland. We believe, however,
the extraordinary Dublin news of yesterday will
prove an exception. It will probably not only
surprise, but astonish Englishmen—for it has, we
find, astonished the Irish themselves—courtiers,
lawyers, Judges, journalists, and all ; it is the
ignoring, in effect the indictments for riotous con-
spiracy and simple riot in the late scene of out-
rage at the Theatre, by the Dublin City Grand
Jury. Indictments were sent before this Grand
Jury against five persons. The charge of con-
spiracy was ignored upon the bills against all the
persons accused,- and the bills found against
two only of the five were null, because two
persons cannot, in law, commit a riot. The
Grand Jury may be presumed to know the nul-
lity of the bills they had found—unless, indeed,
' their knowledge of law be on a par with that
of a watchman in the Strand, who warns off
any " customer " after twelve, whose pre-
sence displeases him, in the authoritative
words " disperse yourself." It is not our inten-
tion to make any obseriation upon the conduct ol
this Grand Jury. We shall merely call atter

,on to the impression it appears to have made
upon the Law Officers and the Judges. The At-
torney-General instantly declared that he should
proceed officially by information. The Judges
refused to admit the parties to their discharge,
or even to bail, without the consent of the Law
Officers, and both the Bench and the Crown Bar
expressed " astonishment" at the finding of the
Jury.

OxFoun, JAN. 4.—Monday the passengers by
the Aurora day coach, froM Worcester, met with
a providential escape ; the coach had changed
horses about 12 o'clock, as usual, and proceeded
at a moderate pace up Headington.hill, at the
top of which a fellow was belabouring a poor
donkey which had taken his station in the middle
of the road with a cart attached ; at this the
leaders took fright, and darted suddenly over a
heap of rubbish by the road side, which jerked
the coachman off the box, and thus freed the
animals from all restraint ; immediately they
darted off at full speed, and continued at
the rate of sixteen miles an hour, for about
four miles ; during which three outside pas•
sengers contrived to escape behind, and two
gentlemen who were inside climbed on the
roof and dropped off in the same way, leaving a
lady and hild inside ; when opposite forest hill,
the coachman of the orcester down coach, see.
ing the other coining at so furious a rate Without
a driver, pulled up, and the passengers instantly
jumped off. One gentleman made a desperate
snatch at the leaders, and was dragged a con.
siderable distance, but fortunately succeeded in
turning them'; and by the timely aid of the other
passengers the whole were rescued from most
imminent danger, Without the slightest injury
i)eing sustained by the passengers or coach. The
Foachman'is not materially injured: