The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-17 00:00:00

fact Is that his Excellency, whose arrival
we announced on Thursday, did not come to
this country from Paris, but from Johannisberg,
via Brussels.

Our Readers are aware that we have long been
of opinion, that in consequence of the extensive
use of machinery, and the other means of prodi-
giously increasing the productive power of the
country, which have been called into action by
the progress of science and the spirit of enter-
prize, it has become necessary to resort to a new
principle for the regulation of the value of labour,
and for rescuing a large portion of the working
classes from the state of misery and degradation
into which they have sunk, and which, unless
effectual preventives be promptly resorted to,must
eventually engulf the whole of the lower
classes. The Report of the Select Committee
of the House of Commons appointed to examine
into the practice of paying wages, or portions of
wages, out of the poor's rates, has brought to
light a mass of evidence, incontrovertibly proving
that the agricultural labouring population is now,
generally speaking, immersed in the deepest
misery by the errors of the present system,—a
misery which we are well assured can never be
alleviated by any of the expedients hitherto sug-
gested, and which on the contrary has an inevit-
able tendency, unless met by direct and straight-
forward counteractions, (such, for instance, as

the eliaictment of a minimum price for labour),
.o rett4e Great Britain to the wretched

and almost hopeless condition of Ireland.—
With such proofs before us of the evils re-
sulting from the system of unlimited competi-
tion, particularly as respects the injurious effects

produced upon the value of labour, and conse-
quently upon the comforts and happiness of the
greater part of society, it is truly astonishing that
Parliament, so far from legislating remedially
against so destructive a principle, has even sub-
jected to its pernicious operation the only portion
of the working classes who were by a salutary re-
gulation preserved from it, viz. the Spitaltields
Weavers.

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COURT OF KING'S ,IMNPII—(Tuts.DA Y.)

At half-past ten o'clock Mr.
DALE took his seat on the Bench.

Justice LITTLE•

TILE MENDICITY SOCIETY.' AND TIIE TIMES

JOURNAIJ.

llis Li:minute bding informed that the Jury in
this cause, who had been in deliberation on the
verdict from three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
and had not decided when he entered this morn-
ing, but being informed they wished to see him,
he ordered them to come into Court.

The first question his Lordship said, was
Gentlemen, have you all agreed, ?

The Foreman said, that some of the Jury-were
unwell, one of whom stated he was extremely
ill, and could not possibly undergo the•fatigue.;
they would never agree in the verdict, and it
was useless to stay.

Four other Jurymen also complained of severe
indisposition, and that the whole discussion rest-
ed on the damages to he awarded.
Here the ATTOaNEY-GENERAL said, he would
admit of nominal damages.
A Juror wished to be informed if that carried
costs with it ?

The ATTORNEY•GENCHAL—Yes.

The Jury having consulted together, returned
a verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages, Thirty Shil-
lings—Costs, Forty Shillings.
It was intimated from his Lordship, that gen.

tlemen above the age of 70 years, of whom there
appeared on this Jury to be two between 70 and
80 years, would in future be exempt from at-

tending.

Mr. COBDETT has giVen a . history of the
BARING family, in a Letter addressed to Mr.
BROUGHAM, censuring that Gentleman for the
high character which he gave of that family a
recent law case. But in reality he only. proves
that Mr. BROUGHAM did his duty as,an• advocate,
and exerted himself with the , full force of hi's
great abilities in supporting the cause.of his client.;
A passenger in the Asia, arrived in the Downs],
from Bengal, reports, that previous
,to leaving,
St. Helena,- an American .vessel.t from, Bencoelen'
touched there, and stated that theLklante, YluNi,
of London, with Sir S. RAFFLES Aft boardlcaught
Are shortly after leaving .Beetoolen,. and was -de-
itroyed and that the.Captaini 'crew, ,and pas-
sengers had returned to -Bancooleu. This %% as
the vessel, we believe, on board .of which Mr.
AamoT, the Editor of the' Calcutta Journal had
embarked.

The Duchess of GLOUCESTEIt and the Princess
AUGUSTA left town together yesterday to pay a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, at
their residence, at Bushy.
On Thursday. night Prince LEOPOLD honoured
the Italian Opera House with his presenee.
The Duchess of Kater and the Princess So.
PIIIA MATILDA visited Prince. LUOPOLD yester-
day.
Lieutenant-General Lord WILLIAM Burruirox
lately passed through Hanover, where he-ctopped
fewtt days. Ha was waited upon by several Of-
ficers of the Hanoverian Army, who served in
the German Legion in Sicily, under his Lord-
ship's command,