The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-15 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.]

There is a report that Mr. Justice Best- is to
be made the LOrd'Clfief Justice of the Court of
COMmon Pleas. We cap neither affirm nor deny
the rumour ; but recollecting. Mr. Sergeant. Best,
as we do, a net very well-advised or discreet
member of Opposition, we should be somewhat
surprised at this appointment, should it prove
true. And yet people are required to, respect
Judges,--.to treat their opinions with
W deference,
and.to pay homage to-their persons. e would
wish to Jo so ; but to What opinions can we de-
fer, -when the man who claims our deference has
himself been• of many. opinions upon the same
subject, and upon Use sarne'system? Perhaps it
is the recollection of hiS former respectful'de-
meanour to the Chiefs of the Court over which he
is•now to. preside, whiCh has_ pointed, him out as
the fittest per Son to enSure that decorous obedience
which he was so accustomed to pay. There is
another circumstance in this appointment, should.
it prove true, most fatal to, the dignity of, the
person appointed. A Judge shod be chosen,
he should be' selected, as the most fit—not had
recourse to, after the reflisal of others: but to
how many lawyers *ill the Chief Justiceship of
the Plea's have been' Offered, and by how many
will it have been rejected', before It was tendered,
if' 'it has been tendered,• to Mr. Justice Best ?
Whether Judge's were appointed in this. way "
die olden tirrie,7' which may have been poSsible,
we know not ; but in the present day, when the

middling ranks of society are really more culti-
vated:, awl more kpowing thzut the great, a re-
spect should be paid to public opinion. Our
raters now cannot be respected, if 'they do not
respect us.

.
R
DiORNZNG HEALD.]
it gave us plealitire to read in the debate of
Tu'eaday, that 'Ali. c4l Bill for the City
of Dublin was lost, and.l4. so' decided Et main,.
rity. As Mr. George Phillips observed, Mr.
lis would have done better..had he come. fokward
with a proposition to do away with.the-Act made.
by the- father of •Mr. Grattan. We dare ta:siy
that the real father of this. :Bill .was, some poOr
retative of one of the civic body of Dtiblin syho
wished to become coal meter with a salary of
5001. a-year. We were glad to see that the.
Diablin.coffitnercial Chamber protested against.
this Ottid'they would confer a further bene'lit.
08 their Dublin brethren, if, next Session, they'

originated a Bill for doing away the Bill already
in existence, entitled Mr. Grattan's Bill.—
Luckily, we perceive that that Bill is inopera-
tive; for the worthy Member now no more
committed a blunder in some of its provisions.
In Bills made to regulate dealings between
buyers and sellers, we love to hear of blunders
having been committed. Unfortunately, in our
London Coal Bill, there are not a sufficiency of
blunders to make it inoperative. It is, however,
almost so ; for we will appeal to any one in Lon-
don, rich or poor, whether, when he receives
coals, he knows any thing either as to the quality
or the measure till some time after they have
been in his cellar. The poor cannot afford time
for the ascertaining of either, and the rich are
too indolent ; besides, it is not an object worth
the latter's attention. Not only so, but in the
case of the rich, the coals are always lodged in
the cellar before the rich man gets up ; besides,
the rich consumer leaves the matter to his ser-
vant : but even here the coal-merchant is an
over-match, for before the delivery of the coals
takes place, the rich man's servant is told to call
at Christmas for his gift.

[NEW TIMES.]
We have received the Etoile dated on Tues-
day ; but its contents are unimportant. A con-
tinuation of nearly one per cent. still remained
on the Rentes for money and the account. The
last price for the account being 103. 25. Our
Funds continued steady yesterday, and any busi-
ness of magnitude is not expected to he transacted
until after the holidays. Consols for the account
were during the day 96N. In the Foreign Se-
curities Colombian Bonds and Scrip were the
chief attraction -; the former closed at 934, the
latter 44- premiuna.—A number of new schemes
for the " employment of capital" were again in
circulation, to notice some of which would only
be to countenance reprehensible delusions. The
men of capital and respectability who have had
the management of many extensive money trans-
actions for the European Powers, begin to blush
-at the credit which is likely to be brought upon
Foreign Loans by the proceedings of a few
needy adventurers. A hint seems to have been
taken from the Letter of " Projector," which
appeared in our Paper of yesterday ; for we
have seen plans of an extensive" Beer Brewery,"
"an Annuity Society," &c. &c. The absurdity
of these schemes begins to be perceived, and has
given rise to many jeux &esprit, one- of which is
a parody, in the form of a prospectus, for estab-
lishing a Company for the conveyance of goods
to all parts of the world by balloons.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We received last night an express from Paris,
bringing the French Papers of Monday with the
Etuile dated Tuesday. The accounts from Spain
in the journals give a melancholy picture of the
state of party feeling in that unhappy country.
At Seville and Cordova, a number of persons,
known for their attachment to the Constitutional
cause, have been barbarously massacred by the
fanatical party. At the latter place, a project
was formed for a general massacre of the Consti-
tutionalists ; and the 19th of March, being the day
of the Feast of St. Joseph, was appointed for the per-
' petration of this horrible deed. The plot, however,
was happily, in a great degree, unsuccessful, as
the papers inform us that ten persons only fell
victims to the steel of the murderers. At Seville,
twenty persons imprisoned for political offences
have been murdered. By the accounts from
Valencia, it does not appear that any assassina-
tions had been perpetrated there; but the Exal-
: tados (the Church and Royalist party) had
thrown into dungeons a great number of indi-
viduals, distinguished for their wealth and station
in society. These horrid accounts are given in the
,Madrid Papers, which are reluctantly compelled
to take notice of the alarming state of the three
above-mentioned cities. The decree of amnesty
is again spoken of—as being delayed. On the
31st of last month, the French troopsgarrisoning
Madrid were relieved by a corps of Spaniards ;
but the former resumed their duty on the next
day, it being not considered safe to trust the
garrison to the care of the national troops. It is
expected that Ferdinand will reside at Aranjuez
for several months.

• [MORNING POST.]
The great financial operation of reducing the
interest on the whole Dent of France one per
cent. has (to use a. common phrase) created a
" vast sensation" in Paris, and, as a matter of
course, excited considerable opposition. Our
readers -are aware that the saving effected by
this measure is not intended -for the benefit of
the French people generally. It is to " close
the last wounds of the Revolution," by enabling
the Ministry, without apparently entering into
new or additional engagements, to give the emi-
grants a certain property in the public funds, as
an equiialent for the claims which they still as,
sert to the 'estates wrested from- them during the
French Revolution—and which, for a generation
at least, have been in the possession of other per-
sons. The real gist of the measure, therefore, is
to increase the capital of the Debt of France,
and to leave the annual burdens or contributions
of the' people the same as heretofore. Hence the
only interest which the public can feel in the
project, - rests on the indirect security which it
will confor upon national property, and the
guarantee thus, afforded. for the future pre-
servation of internal tranquillity. Neither in
the remission of taxes nor in the liquida'-
lion of acknowledged encumbrances will they
receive the slightest' relief, inasmuch ds the
entire saving: of pue per cent. on the aggregate
Debt of the Kingdom is to be transferred to a
distinct order of new public creditors created for.
.the 'occasien: In this respect our readers will,
not: fail to observe a striking discrepancy he-
“veen the' financial operation now contemplated
by M. de Ville'e and those of a somewhat
similar description performed by our own Go-
vertiment,- both in 182?, and in the present
year—the reduction of 5 to and of- 4 to 31
per Cent. Stock. Here a diminutiOn of the an-
.aual charge, on the nation has in 6.01 instance
ten the object, in view, and-a- correSponding.
amount of colitrilAtion- has-been remitted 'to the

public; but in France the annual charge is to
remain the same, and one per cent. to be de-
ducted from the incomes of the old public credi-
tors, for the purpose of granting annuities to the
amount of this sum to a new set of creditors, who
neither give nor promise any further equiva-
lent than their contingent assurance to remain
peaceable subjects to their legitimate Sove-
reign. There is also another difference be-
tween these measures of the two Ministers well
worth remarking. M. de Villele proposes a
reduction of the one per cent. interest, but to
obtain the assent of the Fundholders to this sa-
crifice, instead of giving securities of four per
cent. at par in lieu of those of five per cent. he
offers as much as three per cent. stock at 75 as
per Cent. Stock at 100.
will be equal to a Four
That a saving of one per cent. will be thus easily
effected seems certain ; but though the interest may
be reduced, the capital of the debt is augmented
one-third by this operation alone. What then ap-
pears to be the result of the French project ?
Simply, that without relieving the people from any
portion of their immediate burdens, it saddles the
nation with an addition to the capital of its ex-
isting debt of one third of the whole, in order to
paying the interest of a
further debt, to be inscribed in the
acquire the
additional means
of
names of the emigrants.