The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EWENTNG, FEBRUARY 25, 1A47.

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demand such a reformation, and the times are
favourable to its being undertaken.
We have much pleasure in directing the ,
attention to an article, which appears elsewhere in
our columns, taken from the forthcoming number of
the Oxford illogazine, on this interesting subject.
It will be found worthy of a careful perusal,
and we trust that it may receive it from those who
are in a position to carry out the views with which
they may be impressed. We fully concede " that
there is little to be hoped for in the way of improve-
ment from within the walls of the Universities ;"
but we should hope that those statesmen, formerly
educated therein, and who must be fully alive to the
many objectionable parts of the system, and there-
fore competent to legislate thereon in a judicious
and comprehensive manner, will not be induced
to hang back from any feeling of reverence
or regard for even its defects. A reasonable degree
of veneration for ancient institutions, particularly by
those who have themselves tasted the fruits of know_
ledge and imbibed the lessons of wisdom within their
precincts, is not only commendable in itself, but it is
likewise useful in other respects. The hand of rash
innovation is frequently stayed by the expanding in-
fluences of reverential feelings, which cause improve-
ments in the time-honoured establishments of the state
to be entervd upon in a spirit of benevolent caution.
Again, the very apprehension which is entertained by
many of the danger attendant upon any scheme of
reform, affecting any given institution which they
have been directly taught, or indirectly led, to re-
vere, serves to kindle their zeal in its defence, and to
render them the instruments for making manifest
certain positive advantages accruing to the public,
which might otherwise be altogether overlooked in
the eager desire for affecting extensive reformation.
On the other hand, this feeling of reverence must be
kept within rational limits ; for when it is suffered to
exceed them, its tendency.is rather to injure than protect
the object of its regard. History is pregnant with
proofs of this nature. Where alterations are clearly
desirable people should be careful to effect them in
due season. The great question of Reform was ft.r
years impeded by the unjustifiable dread which
thousands of well-disposed subjects harboured of its
consequences becoming injurious to the constitution.
The sentiment of veneration was carried to an
excess; and the result was, that political reformation
was at length wrought under circumstances of danger
to the entire body politic, which need never have
been engendered. We, therefore, recommend the
Universities to be wise in their generation, and
promptly and cheerfully to set about eradicating the
palpable defects by which their present system of
education is unfavourably characterised.

Air. CoBuEN, by the Chamber of Counut‘rce of flume
The Marquis of PONTENSIANI officiated as chairman.

' Madrid papers of the 17th have arrived.
The QUEER has directed that Don JOSE PALAFOX,
the Duke of Saragossa, is to have a magnificent rubliv
funeral. The iew Miniqer of War, General ORAA,
accepted the ri signation of General PEZUELA, a., Cali
fain-General of Madrid. Orders have been given to
arrest Dorn MicuEL, should he be found in Spain.
The garrisons of the Balearic Isles have been re-
inforced. A flotilla, consisting of Ebro, 10 guns, Jason .
20, and the steamer Valenca, of 6 guns, has been sta
tioned there. The Captain-General of Catalonia is still
engaged with the Carlist bands in the mountains.
MADRID BOLIA, FEB. 17.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 31i for paper; the Four per Cents. at 20i for
cash; the Five per Cents. at 204; the Debt without Ir
terest, at 6i; and the Coupons, at 184.
We

e have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Epoque, which was par excellence, the organ of
M. GUIZoT personally, expired on Monfiay, after at,
existence of about fourteen months, with the loss of al:
the capital subscribed, and all the subventions granteii
,by the Government. The Presse, which has arranges;
to supply the subscribers of the Epoque, has one of it,
thual Billingsate attacks on the Marquis of NORNANBY.
The Journal des Debotv has a long article on the Bill
authorising the Bank to issue 250 franc notes, a measure
from which it anticipates the best consequences, and
against which the only complaint to be brought is that
it does not go far enough. The Debella would wish to
see an issue of not,s for 100 francs each. It says—
" The persons who reject the idea of an issue of 100 f.
notes, and who call their adversaries theorists, indulge in a
theory themselves of the worst kind, as it is contrary to rea-
son and experience. The success of 5/. notes in the United
Kingdom of Great Britain is notorious, and the success of
those of 11. in Scotland and Ireland, and of notes of five and
ten florins (12f. 50c. and 25f.} in Austria, authorises an opi-
nion that we might one day go farther than 100 f. notes.
But we will restrict ourselves to them, and repeat that they
are generally desired, and they would supply a public want,
and, therefore, that there is no ground for applying to the
suggestion the only objection that could have any force, viz.,
that thecountry is not prepared for them. The gaurantee
against the exce-sive emission of such notes is to be found in
the nature of things, and in the prudence of the Bank."
In the Chamber of Peers on Monday the Bill autho-
rising foreign vessels freighted with corn to participate
in the coasting trade of France, was passed wit Lout
division.

In the Chamber of Deputies the Bill authorising an in-
crease of the army of the interior by 10,000 men, war,
passed by a considerable majority.
There is some hitch in the appointment of M. HEBERT
to the Ministry of Jcstice end Public Worship, in th.
room of :M. MARTIN (du Nord), in consequence of th,,
opposition of the high clergy, who at this moment are
all-powerful at the Tuileries.

The Minister of Finance introduced into the Chamber
of Deputies on Tuesday a Bill for the establishment of
a regular line of steam-packets between the ports of
Havre and New York. Fur ihia put pose the Miiihter of
Finance stated that he had c, ',eluded an arrange-
ment with the house of HEROUT and HUNDEL,
by
which he had made over to that company for ten
years four of the steam-ships, of 450 tons each, built tvei.
years ago for the Government. The company, on it,
part, undertook to transport gratuitously for the Go-
vernment all diipatches, corresporidene,,, newspapers,
journals, arid printed. papers, sent to or coming froo
America. The cornpaey is to be obliged to insure Op
vessels at its own expense, and to give security to the
amount of 600,000!.

The KING and QUEEN of the BELGIANS arrived i❑
'Paris on Monday.

The price of wheat continues to advance in most parts
of France.

The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tues-
day at 781. 45c. ; the Five per Cents., 118 f. 75c. ; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,270 f. ; Rouen, 867 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 680 f.; Great Northern. 6271. 50c.; Avignon, 835 f.,
Vierzen, 583 f. 75c. ; Isordeattx, 541 f. 25c. ; Boulogne,
4121: 50c. ; Troyes and Alonterequ, 310 f.; Basle, 208 f. 75c. ;
Dieppe, 3251. ; Paris and Strasburg, 468 f. 7.5 c.; Tours and
Nantes, 407 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 4921. 50c.; Lyons and
Avignon, 4801.; Bordeaux and Cette, 455 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIH
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 24.
Central of France (Orleans and Yierzon), 1314—Dutch Rhenish,
—ltalian and :Austrian, 2!,4. —Louvain A la Sambre, I%
Luxembourg, 214—Namur and Liege, 3(—Northern of France,
—Paris and Lyons, 7% —Rouen and Havre, 2714.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)
CLARK V. CHAPLIN.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover the
stun of 1(X)/. paid as a deposit for twenty shares i❑ the London
and Westminster Water Company.
Air. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Wills appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Gurney and Mr. Ogle f r the defendants.
In 1840 a company was projected under this title, for the
supply of the western portions of the metropolis with water
of a better quality and in greater quantity than that which
is now received, of which, in the following year, ,dr. Chaplin,
the defendant, and late proprietor of the Swan-with-Two-
Lan ►ace, became a provisional committeeman.
The capital to be raised was 600,000., of which only be.
tween 1,3001. and 1,4001. were paid in deposits, and the
scheme was consequently abandoned.
This action was brought by the plaintiff for the recovery
of his deposits.
Mr. G. Manch, a surgeon, residing in Fleet-street, who
had acted as honorary secretary of the company, proved that
Mr. Chaplin had been repeatedly present at the meetings 01
the provisional committee, none of whom, or the solicitors or
himself, ever received anything out of the funds of the corn.
patty, the whole of which had been spent in the incidental
expenses of the office, chiefly is advertisements and ex-
periments.

Clerks from Jones Loyd, and Co., the bankers of the com-
pany, and from the London Union Bank, who kept cash for
the plaintiff, proved the regular payment and transmission of
the cheque for 1001. given by the plaintiff.
The jury, by direction of the judge, gave a verdict for the
full amount.

COMMON PLEAS.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Loan CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.)
I'. ROSS.
The Court was again occupied the whole of the morning
with this patent case.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Two boys, named Murphy and Perry, were charged with
stealing, and a marine- store dealer, named Abraham Beau-
mont, was charged with reciving, 47 railing burs and one
lamp-iron from the Atitlphi- terrace. lt appeared that tier the last fortnight a quantity of
railing bars, which were brought to the Terrace for the pur-
pose of being fixed there. were missed every morning. At
length, on Friday night last, a mark WAS set on the bars,
and they were counted. Eight were stolen that night,
and ten between Saturday evening and Monday morning.
Last night the prisoners Murphy and Perry were caught
IT policeman F 124 in the very act of carrying off a
lamp iron. Murphy said it was "all right," his tether was
(timid the workmen, but thepolicemati taking him into custody,
he said he was going to take it to a rag shop in Earl-street,
Seven-dials. az.d being further questioned, mentioned the shop
of the prisoner Beaumont. The prisoner Perry said that he
was employed by Murphy to help him to carry the lamp iron,
and had nothing more to do with it. The policeman took
both the boys to the station, and went to Beaumont's shop.
The latter admitted that he had bought a quantity of rails,
which were lying in the shop, from the prisoners. Ile said
that at first be suspected they were stolen, but on making
inquiries he found that Murphy's father was at work at the
Adelphi-terrace, and he thought it was all right. There
were 47 bars in the shop, which he said he had paid d.
per lb. for. The value is 11/d. or 13hd, per lb.
Mr. lIALL remanded the prisoners.