The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-11 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

SF lIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS•

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
(From the Globe.)
That Irishmen should be temperate in their language,
as well as their cups, and disappoint the broad-sheet
under Mr. O'Connell, as well as starve the revenue
under Father Matthew, is surely asking from mortal
;Den too much at once. Nothing less, however,
will
satisfy the Times of this morning. In its virtuous
horror of violent language, or in revenge of poaching
an its own manor, the Times pounces upon some ex•
pressions of Mr. O'Brien Dillon, in Tipperary, which
cont,:in something about muskets and ba3onets, and
Repeal of the Union. We are quite of the opinion of
the. Ghost in Hamlet, that speaking daggers is much
less indiscreet than using them. Our readers may re-
member that we rather discountenanced the cries of
" treason" by some of our contemporaries against the
3.3radshaws and Robys. NS hen people talk sedition
On the scene of its actual occurrence, or when there is
any direct connection between task and action on such
occasions, it may necessary to punish words as deeds.
Or when a public functionary toasts the triumphs of
civil war, it may be due to the public feeling to remove
bin:. But these are nowise parallel cases to this of Mr.
O'Brien Dillon, which the Times labours so hard to
invest with prodigious importance. We look upon
such sallies as of about equal practical moment to Mr.
Bradshaw's. d,-.‘claration that he (Bradshaw) would re-
sist tiit, Queen's Government. It is quite understood
-that these are figures of speech at Canterbury and in
Tipperary. Besides, even on the Times showing. Mr.
Dillon's recurrence to the old arguments of the Irish
Volunteers was only proposed hypothetically, and as
the hypothesis is not likely to be realised, the more
harmless is the menace.

(From the Standard.)
We are informed that a majority of the gentlemen
conneeted with the provincial press have made ar-
rangements for the purpose of addressing to Parliament
a petition for a revision of the unjust and mischievous
law of libel. We rejoice that the subject has been
taken up by the provincial press, because, for masons
which we shall presently explain, the provincial
press is entitled generally to more consideration upon
such a question than the aggregate press of the
44'etrepolis. However, it is the duty of all of us
who are sensible of the danger and degradation to
which we are all exposed in the present state of the law,
and who feel that it is unmerited in our own several
cases, to join heartily in the pursuit of justice opened
by our provincial brethren. Of one thing we may be
well assured, that if we do not urge our own cause, it
will not, whatever they may pronise, be urged by others.
Peers and Members of Parliament, judges and lawyers,
will not protect us if they can help it ; they all impartially
hate us, and ad wish to retain us in that state of sub-
jection and debasement to which we are condemned
by the present state of the law. This is a point upon
wilich all ranks of public men, and all parties, are
agreed : they feel that the press has some power in
spite of them, and they prefer to check the increase of
that power, by degrading laws, to giving it a right
direction, by placing us in our proper position. The
public may not know this, but we who are behind the
scenes sco it every day. The very men who almost
crawl to us in private would not deign to recognise one
of us in public, still less to render a kindness which
could he detected ; while a gentleman who even offers
an ordinary civility to one of our proscribed order is
denounced by his equals as a person who descends to
' toady the press." . . .

(From the Courier.)
A numerous meeting of the solicitors and attornies of
the metropolis, which was held yesterday at the Law
Society's-rooms in Chancery-lane, was with reference to
an object of peculiar interest, not in respect of legal
practitioners only as a class apart, hut of the public at
large ; that is, for the expression of an opinion very ge-
nerally entertained privately in favour of the removal of
the Courts of Lew and Equity from Westminster Hall,
where at present located, to some central situation in the
vicinity of Lincoln's Inn. For those conversant with
Courts a 3 now held at Westminster, we mean
suitors, jurors, auditors, as well as the legal profession,
there needs no description to recall or impress upon
their senses the exceedingly inconvenient, ill-arranged
small, and therefore crowded state of the offices on
business days. Their narrow and huddled accommoda-
lions, if accommodations they can be called, are really
derogatory to the dignity of the administration of
justice. Some notion may be formed indeed of the way
in which Judges are disposed of into all sorts of holes
and corners, when wanted, by one specimen cited
by Mr. Vizard in the course of his very effective
ooech at the meeting—" It was found necessary," said
be, " that the Master of the Rolls should sit in the
morning, at Westminster, instead of the evening in
Chancery-lane. He was first put into a Committee-
room in the House of Commons, and afterwards up-
stirs in a room the ceiling of which any saan
;alight almost reach with his hand, and the approach to
.erhicia was a disgrace to a Court of Justice." The in-
convenience or disagreeableness to the Judge is not,
however, the worst feature in the case, for the cause of
the suitor may be damaged from the hindrances thrown
in the way of free communications with his counsel and
solicitors.