The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-25 00:00:00

Now, with respect to the plaintiffs and their discussions
with the Directors, those discussions were brought to a
close in 1828, and from that period till the time the
present claim was made, they (the plaintiffs) never resided
out of the Queen's dominions, living occasionally in the
island of Jersey and occasionally in England. They
might, therefore, have made themselves acquainted with
what was going forward. In the interval the mine being
in difficulties, and the plaintiffs refusing to contribute the
necessary money beyond the nominal amount of the original
shares, some of the parties interested in the speculation
were found willing to struggle with the difficulties, and
make a hazard in working the mine, which they ac•
cordingly did during the years intervening between
1830 and 1836, when the speculation became some-
what profitable, and the Company became entirely
remodelled, and then, and not till then, the
plaintiffs, who had apparently retired from the
concern when they had found it necessary to ad-
vance money which they were not willing to give, put
forward their claim. In that state of things, his Honour
found it impossible to say that the plaintiffs should be
assisted. It was impossible according to established
principles, as he viewed them, to give relief to the plain-
tiffs. With regard to the question of costs, he would
hear defendant's Counsel on it.

Mr. SWANSTON, on the part of defendant, stated that
his clients did not seek to have the costs allowed them.
No other cause of interest came before the Court
during the day. Bis Honour rose at three o'clock.
During the few days that shall elapse,
before the Sittings after Term commence, the
great mass of business to be disposed of in Chancery be-
fore the beginning of 'Mary Term, shall be so distri-
buted as to guard against the confusion in the general
list of causes which was unavoidably consequent on the
late arrangements in the Equity Courts of the establish-
ments of the new Vice-Chancery Courts.

BAIL COURT..—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
BUSINESS OF THE COURT.
On the SOLICITOR-GENERAL rising to support a rule
which he had obtained the other day in this Court, in
the case of Duke v. Watchorn, to set aside an execution
under a warrant of attorney,
Mr. Justice PATTESON said that, before proceed-
ing any further, they had better come to some
understanding as to the business of the Court.
He thought that everything moved in this Court ought
to have the preference, at all events. It would not be
fair that they should be flooded with the business of the
other Court. He should, therefore, dispose of the
causes moved in this Court first, and after that, if there
should be any time left, he should be happy to hear the
causes from the other Court, so long as the Term lasted
(i. e. until midnight.)
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then proceeded with his
argument. The case was one interesting only to the
parties concerned.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.--That Toryism, the inveterate op-
ponent of popular rights, the very essence of
which is tyranny, and the means by which it has
ever sought to strengthen its position and per-
petuate tts rule, exclusion, restriction—mono-
poly, in all the forms in which it can be made
to operate in the arrangements of the social
system—that Toryism should fraternize withChar-
tism, the avowed object of which is to change the
very form of our national institutions, break down
the barriers which the Constitution has erected
for their protection, and thus let in the mass of
the population, irrespective of property, to direct
and control ue legislative and administrative
functions of Government—that such extremes
could be induced to act together in a political
struggle, was no less disgraceful to the contract-
ing parties, than it was dangerous to the peace and
safety of the nation in which it took place. It
would either be quietly dissolved by the con-
trariety of its component parts, or be destroyed
by an explosion, in which the country would be
convulsed by the concussion.
The alliance is, it seems, at an end. The Chartists
are no longer to be cajoled. The repeal of the Corn-
lasts—that monster-evil,which at once diminishes
wages by depriving the working classes of employ-
ment,and raises the price of food by excluding that
of foreign growthfrom our markets—is discovered
to be of more essential worth to the working
classes than the • Charter's " Five Points."
Though still disposed to obtrude their dogmas,
and still fond of manifesting their importance by
upsetting the proceedings of meetings called for
purposesaltogether wide of theirpeculiarobjects—
they have diseovered, to the sore annoyance of the
Times, that the Tories are neither theoretically
nor practically the friends of the working classes;
and that in proportion as Toryism strengthens
its hold upon the institutions of the country,
there will be an invasion of popular rights, and
an, increase of national suffering. Hence the
recent interruption and dispersion of public
meetings called in different places for objects in
which the Tories, as a party, are known to be
particularly interested. Instead of interrupting,
at the instigation of Tory landlords, lecturers
on the injurious operation of the Corn-laws on
the springs of national industry, the Chartists
now attend public meetings to insist that the
distress of the working classes, produced by
the operation of those laws, shall be re-
cognized as an integral part of the pro-
ceedings of the meeting. Abstaining from
the tumuituous noises by which they inter-
rupted the meetings of the Liberals, and to
which they were chiefly incited by the Tories,
who instigated them to conduct so disgraceful,
the Chartists pertinaciously insist upon being
heard; and, in proportion as they conduct
themselves with deeorum, and urge their claims
with respect to the rules which must govern
public meetings, they in general succeed in ob-
taining a hearing. But just in proportion as the
'Chartists become rational, they are obnoxious to
the Tories, and the objects of denunciation by the
Times. "To muster their forces ;" and " nunattar
how alien soever the declared object of such meet-
ing might be from any political aim," to " persist by
dint of a preconcerted rendezvous, in obtruding
Chartistamendrnents where partydiffencescannot
be legitimately intruced,i and thus rudely thwart
ing the proper business of the occasion," is, evi-
dently, very censurable when perpetrated against
Tory assemblies; but equally commendable
when arrayed under Tory marshals and directed
by Tory fugiemen, to enable them to act the
more effectually against the Whigs.
STANDARD.—We shall not assist Mr.
O'Connell in tracing the reason ofthe system un-
happily necessary to be pursued towards Ireland,
because we remember that " male tractatur pax
repetitis causis dissidii ;" but we challenge any
imputation upon the conduct of England towards
any of her other dependencies; and it is by her
general conduct a nation is to be judged, as it is
by his general conduct we judge of the characer
of an inividual. Must we add, that it is by such
general conduct we are, in the absence of other
proof, to judge of the individual who is found an
exception. If we find a man of sound judg-
merit, upright in his dealings, pure in his
morals, generous in his sentiments, and kind
to all his children but one, mte are apt to
conclude that there must be something in the
character of the excepted one to justify a
distinction. This conclusion would not be
much shaken if the excepted one should place
himself under the guidance of a domestic O'Con-
nell, teaching the pupil to wish for the ruin of his
father and his family to supply an occasion of a
scramble profitable to himself: The spirit of li-
berty, as we have said, is libelled and misrepre-
sented in company with England. " History af-
fords no confirmation of the fact that in the degree
in which freedom is possessed by a nation is its
injustice towards dependent inations." History
attests the very opposite. While Greece was free
the Greek colonies enjoyed the same freedom
with the parent states, and protection into the bar-
gain. The Morning,Chronicle is mistaken in speak-
ing of Sparta as a free state, and of the Helots
as a dependent State. Sparta was governed by a
grinding oligarchy with monarchical forms; and
the Helots, who were prkedial slaves, had no
State. Rome, during the period of her freedom,
gave the same freedom to all her depen-
dencies—they were either incorporated into her
own State, or protected in the enjoyment of
all their own institutions, like that of Tuscan
Caere. Of England we have already spoken. The
reason of the opinion propounded by the Morning
Chronicle ever having received a moment's coun-
tenance from rational men will occur upon a very
little reflection. Under an absolute Govern-
ment all are equally slaves, and the dependent
State feels nothing to mark a condition of
inferiority. Under a free Government the de-
pendent state must be always one degree less.
free than the metropolitan state, or it would
not be dependent. Wise men submit cheer-
fully to this slight inferiority as the price of
a cheap protection, but the perverse and silly see
in it a constant occasion of discontent—a never
failing topic of seditious excitement. Hence the
dependencies of a free State are, like all other
tree States, more prone to rebellion than the de-
pendencies of a despotism; but rebellion must be
guarded against by rigorous laws and punished
with seventy—and such rigourous laws and such
severity pass for injustice with the unthinking.
It may be observed, however, of all free States,
and of oar own country in particular, that the
State always punishes its own rebels more se-
verely than this rebels of its dependent States.
If the Bristol and Nottingham incendiaries
had been Irishmen they would not have been
hanged. Mr. O'COnnell went at large while
Messrs. Feargus O'Connor and Bronterre O'Brien
occupied felons' dungeons; for though Ireland
is not a dependent state, but an inseparable
part of the great metropolitan state, Ireland is
allowed to enjoy all the advantages free from the
disadvantages of dependence.