The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—(Tura DAY.)
/MINE V. PARKINS.

As soon as the four Judges had taken their seats on the
Bench, the defendant in this case, the Ex-Sh2riff Parkins, pre-
sented himself on the floor of the Court, and addressed their
Lordships in substance as follows :
I stand before you, my Lords, in the case of Byrne, to move
for a rule to shew cause why there should not be a nonsuit
entered, or your Lordships will let me have a. new trial, and
that you will be pleased to let the argument come on to-mor-
row.—(A laugh.)

The Loup CHTEr Jo ST ICE. —Till to-morrow, Mr. Parkin;,
seems too long a journey ; if you are in earnest perhaps
we may travel to it to-clay.

Parlanta.—My Lord, I am in earnest, if you find it conve-
nient to hear me. The Ex-Sheriff' then bowed and retired.
FOX HUNTING.
THE EARL OF ESSEX V. COOMBE AND OTHERS.

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.The Lord Bishop of Losnox held a confirm!.
tion yesterday morning at St. Paul's Cathedral, which was very'
numerously attended.
• Mr. BLAKE, the Catholic Barrister and Chief
Remembrance of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, has been
elected a Bencher of the Hon. Society of King's Inns.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
lixtraets from the Morning Papers, May 11.

[NEW TIMES.]
The business transacted in the Funds yester-
day was of little public interest ; and although
reports were as abundant as they have been for
the last few days, they failed to produce any al-
teration in the prices. The chief subject of these
reports continues to be the policy likely to he
pursued by France in conjunction with Portugal
for the recovery of the Brazils ; and notwithstand-
ing the public contradictions from authority of
the circumstance which first created an alarm,
there are still some persons who pretend to be-
lieve in the probability of such an event. The
"state of his Majesty's health being of course a
matter of general interest, the idle rumours cir-
culated in consequence of the Drawing Room
being again put off were listened to with greater
attention than they deserved, or than they would
under other circumstances have received. Con-
sols closed at 96-k for the Account. The addi-
tional amount of Exchequer Bills about to be
created has not produced any considerable varia-
tion in the premium the present bear, the price
-yesterday varying from 33 to 40.

[Tux viltus.]
This is the day which I►as been fixed by Lord
Althorp for his motion upon the general state of
Ireland. The subject is a fearful one. It relates
to a country'of which, under the most favourable
circumstances, no more apposite description has
ever been given than in the answer to the follow-
ing question—" Was Ireland quiet when you left
it ?" " Oh, yes, as quiet as gunpowder." if one
were to be asked off hand to account for the ne-
ver-ending disorders of.that fine country, at once
the most unsettled in Europe, and, except China
Perhaps, the most unchanged on earth, it might
be alleged with some appearance of reason, that
the evil was perpetuated by a stubborn repug-
nance iu the ruling power to look deep enough
into the bosom of society for the roots of what
appeared on its surface, and by the conse-
quent habit of legislating under a mistake
of effects for causes. There is no denying
the truth which has been brought home to
us every day more forcibly than the day pre-
ceding, that Ireland, so far from keeping pace
with the progress of her sister island, has for
many years been receding as England has ad-
vanced. In all those points which the people of
this country might be supposed to consider the
tests of national prosperity, Ireland has under-
gone a retrogression the most palpable aud griev-
ous. The relative number of Protestants to
Roman Catholics has rapidly diminished—the
number of gentlemen, as compared with the poor
—the amount of revenue, as compared with the
expenditure—the number of the loyal, as com-
pared with those who are not. On the other
hand, the modes, the principles, and agents of
coercion, have multiplied beyond all precedent.
Penal laws and _military force have attained in
Ireland to a melancholy vigour. Now, violent
means, such as insurrection acts and armies, are
in the nature of them applicable to no other end
than merely to the repression of a disease which
struggles for utterance. To seek the mischief in
its source, or to provide for its extinction, has,
excepting the two attempts of the Tithe Bill, and
the Burial Bill just now coming into activity,
never formed a perceptible ingredient of the
system of Irish Legislation.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The last Bayonne letters state, that the report
was prevalent at Madrid of an approaching
change in the Spanish Ministry ; and that the
Duke of San Carlos, some time since Ambassa-
dor from Spain at this Court, and now in
the same rank at Paris, would be named Mini-
ster for • Foreign -A ffairs ; the Monk Saez be
again called to the Cabinet as Minister of Jus-
tice ; D'Eroles or Compana to fill the place of
War Minister ; and Vincente that of Finance.—
This would be completely a Royalist Ministry.
The last is certainly at present the most ardu-
ous office in the Spanish Cabinet. To find
funds for endless applicants from an empty
Treasury is a difficult undertaking. The sum
of•five millions of francs, part of the produce
of Guebhard's loan,
,had, however, it is said,
arrived from Paris at Madrid, and were de-
posited in the bank of St. Carlos. This sum
will go but a short way to supply the numerous
and craving demands on the ipanish Treasury.
The amount, it is stated, was to be applied to
defray
_the expences of an armament, consisting
of three frigates and 2500 men, now preparing at
Cadiz for South America. For ourselves, we
do not believe that any such expedition is really
contemplated, -however confidently announced, or
that: Ferdinand and his followers can spare the
sumin question from• their own pressing wants.
11..cidpc., our enhirot has declared, that any ex-
pedition. proceeding against South America, from
a Spanish port, while a foreign force controuls
that country, would be considered as French,
and. followed by an instant recognition of the un-
qualified independence of the Spanish Colonies ;
and will Spain. tempt such a result? The latest
accounts from Madrid state, that Ferdinand had
returned to Aranjuez on the 28th of April, and
that the French troops who accompanied him
resumed their cantonrnonts'on both banks of the
Tagus. The despot was to return with his fa-
mily to Madrid by the 15th of June, after visit_
ing the Escurial and the Baths of the Sacedoii.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We are. not sorry to see that a Petition has
been presented to Parliament on the subject•of:
the Turnpike Tolls. There is not a greater
system of jobbing and exaction carried on than
he these-roads:throughout 'the kingdom. Near
London .the evil is more felt, on account of its
and it is here that the axe should be
laid to the root. Where there is mystery, there
Is. generally fraud. In this respect almost the
whole systern.was and is a secret. Generally
speaking, the Attorney of some country town
through which a turnpike-road passes, used to

get himself appointed Clerk and Treasurer, and
from time to time a sufficient number of his
clients and dependants made Commissioners.—
The money was useful in his business, and,
of course was seldom applied to its proper
purpose. The creditors of the roads never
get their principal, and rarely their interest ; at
length he breaks, or dies insolvent. It is true,
the Act of Parliament requires that security
should be taken from the treasurer ; but then the
sort of Commissioners we have mentioned would
not be over-nice upon the subject ; and if a bond
were taken, it was to be deposited with the
Clerk, who, of course, would be too wise to fur-
nish means against himself in his other capacity.
To remedy this a law was passed (or a clause in-
troduced into the different local Turnpike Acts)
to prevent the two offices of Clerk and Treasurer
being held by the same person. This, however,
was all delusion, the Clerk found some partner, or
friend, to be the nominal Treasurer, or vice versa.
In Middlesex, it would seem that these offices
are sometimes held by more worshipful, if not
more worthy persons. At length came Mr.
Macadam ; he undertook to make good roads,
and has succeeded ; but to do this he must have
the money; and Messrs. the Clerks and Trea-
surers of the Roads had much rather the mail-
coaches had travelled three miles an hour slower
for ever than that this " Colossus of Roads" had
appeared. Next came the New Turnpike Act,
of 100 folio pages, or thereabouts, and, the year
after, another of as many more, to explain and
amend and explain it ; the whole being more ob-
scure, as far as legislation goes, than ever. Good
roads, however, we have got, thanks to Mr.
Macadam; but the taxation and the accounts still
remain to be remedied.