The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-15 00:00:00

In EN 1

G EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS•

FROM TTIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Standard.)
This evening Sir Charles \Vethcrall and Mr. Professor
Butt, of the Irish bar, a gentleman whose high talents are
alreaaly known to the people of the United Kingdom, arc to
be heard at the bar as Counsel for the Corporation of the
C ty of Dublin against the Irish'MuniciPalibill. The cause
of justice and sound policy is safe in such hands, as far as
advocates can ensure safety, and we may hope that it must
be successful. Whatever learning and genius, zeal
and sincerity, can accomplish, will be accomplished by '
Sir Charles and his learned colleague, and it would be an
insult to the House of Lords to doubt that learning,
genius, zeal, and sincerity, will not be in vain employed
before them to assert the truth. An opinion has been in-
dustriously propagated that a majority of their Lordships
are pledged to the passing of the Irish Bill, with perhaps
Zome modifications. To say this is to libel the House
af Lords, to describe that august assembly as wholly
unfit for the functions assigned to it by the Coestitu-
Lion. pledged by some private compact (for there is
no public record of my such agreement)—pledged by
some private compact not to act as a deliberative body—
not to follow truth—not to listen to the voice of convic-
tion If we were to say of the Judges of the Court of
Queen's Bench, that they were pledged, by a private
compact made by them, or one of them, to give a
particular decisiou upon a case to come judicially
before them—if we were to say this of a Clerkenwell
juri, would not the Attorney-General issue an ex-officio
infUraiation aga;nrt us, and with great propriety ?
( From the Globe )
Tte General Assembly of the Church of Scotland will
very soon meet for the purpose of realising their expressed
intentions of last year, and addressing the Legislature for a
settlement of their present difficulties. It will then be the
ety of the clergy and elders, by petitions, to instruct the
Parliament and the Government regarding their wishes—
to ask, either for the clergy or the communicants
of their Church, the Pi esbyteries or the people
of Scotland, the powers needful in their deliberate
and collective judgments for ending the collisions and
clashings of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities, which
are now so fearfully shaking the very foundations of
their venerable establishment. Lord Aberdeen, however,
has been beforehand with them. He promises unasked.
Prematurely offering them a gift of his own, he seeks to
bias their requests by announcing what it will suit his in-
ter-ests to bestow on them, prior to any public expression
of their wishes ; fearful, doubtless, that the expression cf
their real wants may include demands with which he can-
not comply, and manifest necessitLs for which there are no
supplies in the stores of his statesmanship. Oddly enough,
his friends make his haste and temerity a ground of lauda-
tion ; and blame the Government for not being equally
foolhardy.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
DISCHARGE OF THE GRAND JURY.

The Grand Jury came into Court just before the
Judges left the bench, and made the following state-
ment :
" The Grand Jury have visited the whole of the wards
of the prison, and carefully examined the state of the
prisoners confined in New; ate, and are fully convinced
that the Sheriffs and Chaplain have done everything in
their power for the personal comfort as well as the moral
improvement of the unfortunate persons committed to their
care. The Grand Jury were particularly struck with the
extreme cleanliness of the gaol.
" The Grand Jury wish to bear evidence to the very
efficient and correct manner in which the members of the
police force have performed that part of their duties
which has been brought under the cognizance of the
Grand Jury, and the very clear manlier in which their tes-
timony has been given.
" SAM. CHAS. WHITBREAD, Foreman."
" Grand Jury Room, May 14, 1840."
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.