The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The sensation produced by the
abrupt termination of the Michaelmas Term, and
the adjournment of the Court of Queen's Bench,
on Thursday last, has by no means diminished.
The act itself was extraordinary, and wanted that
to which lawyers attach commanding import-
ance—precedent. The manner in which it
was done is also commented upon as partaking
more of temper than of dignity, and as
therefore calculated rather to diminish respect
for the Court than to reprove with effect the
absence of Counsel, or to promote the public inte-
rests, by securing a more regular attendance of the
Bar. There can be no question that the absence
of Counsel from the Court, when the case is
called on for argument or for trial, is as disre-
spectful to the Court as it is unjust to the party
who has retained and actuully paid for the an-
ticipated advocacy. Lord Denman, by suddenly
closing the term, in consequence of the absence
of Counsel, in cases which stood in the paper, in-
flicted severe injury on the parties, whose inte-
rests were thus necessarily postponed. Thus pu-
nishment was inflicted upon them of no ordinary
weight, although they were altogether innocent,
both f,in intention and in act, of the "disrespect
to its dignity," which the course adopted by the
Court was designed to punish. Lord Den-
man's conduct in his high office is generally
marked by consideration combined with dig-
nity. The suaviter in modo has seldom been
found blended with the fortiter in re more
happily than in the conduct of this exalted
judicial functionary when presiding in the. Court
of which he is no less the ornament than
the oracle. Conceding to Lord Denman this un-
constrained testimony of well-earned coinmenda-
tion, we the more deeply regret the absence of
his usual consideration, and the momentary sus-
pension of his proverbial equanimity, in the pro-
ceeding to which we have alluded. The reason as-
signed by his Lordship for this proceeding was, we
think, insufficient to justify the extraordinary step.
If " the time of the Courts of Justice be the pro-
perty of the public," as his Lordship observed when
animadverting on the absence- of Counsel from
their posts, then the public functionaries, who
preside as Judges in those Courts, and are paid
by the public for their presence and services,
should not be too prone to consult their personal
convenience when the public interests call for its
occasional sacrifice. A very short retiremen t
by the Judges from the Bench to the adjoining
chamber would have enabled the attorneys to
have gone or sent for the Counsel they had re-
tained, and thus have obtained their presence.
STANDARD.—Lord John Russell has writ-
ten to certain persons at Plymouth, in reply to
an address of condolence. There is not much in
the letter, but the following 'sententious apology
for the abortive budget, justifies a remark :--
"They attempted, above all, to subject the ad-
mission of foreign corn to a known and moderate
duty, in place of a scale so curiously adjusted,
that it baulks the farmer at one moment and
starves the people at another, while it defrauds
the revenue at all times."
Allowing for monstrous exaggeration, Lord
John's view of the Corn-laws has some founda-
tion. These laws, though they do not " baulk
the farmer" as is proved by the rapid advance
of agriculture, or starve the people, as we see by
wheat at 61s. the quarter, after four successive
bad harvests, certainly do temper prices, so as
to prevent desperate speculations in agriculture,
and to control, though they cannot prevent,
desperate speculations in commerce. Thus
they certainly do support prices at one
time, and reduce them at another, so as to keep
a steady supply ; but what does Lord John mean
by "defrauding the revenue at all times ?" the
phrase with which he completes his triad.
Does his Lordship maintain that food is natu-
rally a proper object of taxation, or that corn
can be justifiably taxed at any time, except
with the view of rendering justice to all classes
of the people--a constant supply? Lord John
must. either mean this, or he writes non-
sense. Where there is no right there can
be no wrong, and a furpaound
the
nthe revenue can
be committed only
hypothesisdf that a
revenue is due. But is arevetheenue
Morningue ronthe
food of the people Perhaps Chro-
nicle,. or some Corn-law lecturer, will answer us.
Lord John says that the Ministers whs have suc-
ceeded to him and his colleagues have an easy
task ; and an easy task no doubt they would have,
if, like the Whig Cabinet, they had no care ex-
w order
to proposebrintepo
cept to keep their placesah;
itnbertt:ewin
otildl
dismiss Sir R. Peel's c
back • their predecessors. But with a
war
ini
America and on the Continent, a
in
China, a war in
Central Asia, jealousies
repeal sedition
re in
e
in Ireland, and an anti-Corn-law se d irtei
revenue
o
England, a deficient harvest, And a
minus the necessary expenditure, Sir Robert
Peel has certainly inherited no ." bed of roses ;
but still there is no cause for desponding when
Sir Robert Peel is Prime Minister.

MONEY-ORDER OFFICE.—The public are now
beginninc, to appreoiate the advantages of the
money-order office system, from the safety and
facility of transmitting property,, and settling
small transactions or debts without the inconve-
nience, expense, and delay hitherto experienced.
The system is daily ramifying into new channels,
and diffusinc, its benefits throughout the land.
The office in St. Martin's-le-Grand commenced
with three clerks : it now employs seventy, and
the average sum paid is abuut three thousand
pounds daily.
HER MAJESTY AND THE INFANT PRINCE.—
We have reason to believe that her Majesty has
expressed a disinclination to perform any act in
consequence of which the new-horn heir to the
Throne would be addressed by a title similar to
that by which his Illustrious father is designated
and addressed. It is also said that both-to the
Premier and the Lord Chancellor this &ding on
the part of her Majesty has been made the sub-
ject of a formal communication, for the purpose
of ascertaining how far, with due regard to es-
tablished precedent, it can be acted upon in set-
tling the style of the interesting subject of the in-
quiry. " The Infant Prince" is the appellation
which is used throughout the Household, when
speaking of the Royal Infant; and this title is
understood to be that for which her Majesty has
expressed a decided preference.
DEATH OF GENERAL SIR THOMAS MOLY'.
NEMTX.—DiecI, this morning, after a short illness, Gene-
ral Sir Thomas Molyneaux. He is succeeded in his title
and estates by his son George, now Sir George Moly-
neaux, Baronet. The Supplement to the London Gazette
of Tuesday, containing the Brevet, which reached town
this morning, announced the promotion of the late Baro-
net to the rank of General in the Army.—Dublin Mail
of Friday.