The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

THURSDAY.

SweepctFkes of 10 sots. each, for two yrs old, colts Bst 71b,
and fillies Bst 51b. T.Y.C. The winner to be sold for 150

sovs., if demanded. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Newton's Redwing
Mr. Marson's Bedouin
Lord Caledon's Maid of Loretta

Lord Exeter's f by Hetman Platoff, out of Maereifunn 4
Mr. Fokt's Restless
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Betting-5 to 2 agst Redwing; and =to 1 agst liedouin.
Won b 3 a neck. Maid of Lorette a bad third. Run in
1 minute 16 seconds.
Match, 100, h ft., Bst 71b each. A.F.
Colonel Anson's Tom Tulloch

Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum .
6t04 on Tom Tulloch. Won by two lengths. Hun in
2 minutes 32 seconds.

Handicap Plate of 10117., A. F.
Mr. Parr's Dulcet, 4 yrs, Bst . (Whitehouse) 1
➢lr. Stewart's Cranebrook, 3 yrs, ist 51b 2
The followifig started, but were not placed

Sir J. Hawley's Alamode, 5 yrs, Bst—Mi. Mostyn's Win-
ch est er, 4 yrs, 7st 121b—Lord Stradbroke's Boarding School
Miss, 5 yrs, 7st 10lb— Sir G. Heathcote's Khondooz, 6 yrs,
ist 'Mb—Mr. Onslow's Ruff, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Mr. Cope-
land's Arthur, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Mr. Shelley's Campanile, 4
yrs, 7st Sib—Sir C. Monck's Glossy, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—Mr.
Arber's Caroline, 4 yrs, 7st—'.lr. W. Wyatt's The Mangler,
4 yrs, ist—Mr. Eddison's Little John, 5 yrs, Est 10Ib—Lord
Orford's Footstool, 3 yrs, Est 91b—Mr. J. Drake's Glory, 3
yrs, Est 91b—Lord Strathmore's Satyr, 5 yrs, Est 71b—Mr.
W. Scott's Driffield, 3 yrs, 6st 31b—Sir S. Spry's f, by Sir
Hercules, out of Taglioni, 4 yrs, 6st 21b—Mr. Leigh's Cor-
rect Card, 4 yrs, sst 121b—Duke of Rutland's Sister to Flam-
beau, 5 yrs, sst 121b—Mr. W. Etwall's Longstock, 4 yrs,
sst 71b—Mr. S. Howlett's Libation, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Mr.
Booth's Tit-bit, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Mr. Douglas's Sevens- the-
Main, 5 yrs, sst Mr. Wall's Zela, 5 yrs, sst.
Betting-10 to 1 agst The Mangler. 10 to 1 agst Crane-
brook, 10 to 1 agst Boarding School Miss, 10 to 1 agst Ala-
mode, 10 to 1 agst Footstool, 11 to 1 agst Dulcet, 14 to 1 agst
Glossy, 15 to 1. agst Winchester, 16 to 1 agst Zela, 20 to 1
agst Khondooz, 20 to 1 agst Campanile.
Campanile took the lead, followed by Longstock, Driffield,
Satyr, Cranebrook, Glossy, and Footstool, and, at a good pace
for sticky ground, made the running to the bushes'-hill; it
was then taken up by Cranebrook, Winchester second, and
Dulcet, Alamode, Footstool, and two or three others, laid up.
On entering the cords Dulcetwent up, took the running from
Cranebrook, and won cleverly, by a length ; Winchester a
very good third, and Footstool, Alamode, and Seven's-the-
Main, so near together, that no one could say which was
fourth. Run in two minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
Match-100 sous., h ft. Last half of Ab. M.

Duke of Bedford's Taurina, 3 yrs, 9st
Lord Glasgow's f by Retriever, 2 yrs, 7st
sto 2 on Taurina. Won by two lengths. Run in 54
seconds.

Match-500 sous., Bst 71b each. T.Y.C.
Mr. Greville's Alarm (Nat) 1

Duke of Bedford's Oakley 2
2 to 1 on Alarm, who made all the running, and won cle-
verly by a length. Run in 1 minute 16 seconds

Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft. T.Y.C. (3 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's Free Gift, Bst 71b .. (Robinson) 1
Lord Glasgow's f by Sir Hercules, Bst 41b 2
6t04 on Lord Glasgow's filly. Won by half a length.
Run in 1 minute 18 seconds.

Match, 200 h ft. First half of Ab.M. Sir J. Hawley's
Bishop of Romford's cob, 9st, received forfeit from Mr. Myt-
ton's Miles's Boy, Est 71b.
Match, 100, h ft. Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Taurina, ist
71b, received forfeit from Mr. Mytton's Auricula.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each; two yrs old, Est 71b; three,
Bst 31b; four, Bst 11lb ; five, and upwards, 9st. The
winner to be sold for 3001., if demanded. First half of

Ab. M.
Mr. Mostyn's Bethphage, 2 yrs (Kitchner) 1
Duke of Bedford's Taurina, 3 yrs
Lord Exeter's c, by Hetman flatoil; out of Toga, 2 yrs 3
The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. G.
Ongley's Mystery, 4 yrs—Mr. Minon's Carissima, 4 yrs—
Mr. King's Ridiculous Moe, 4 yrs—Mr. W. Wyatt's The
Mangler, 4 yrs—Lord Chesterfield's Arkwright. 3 yrs—Mr.
E. Batson's Malvaisie, 3 yrs—Mr. Jacques's Dipthong, 2
yrs—Mr. Worley's Wintonia, 2 yrs.
Betting-4 to 1 agst Taurina, 4to 1 agst Dipthong, and 6
to 1 agst Arkright. The running was made by the Toga
colt, Taurina and Arkwright following him, and Bethphage
lying forward but wide until within the ropes ; he then went
to the ropes, headed the Toga colt half way up, and won
cleverly by a length, Taurina beating the Toga colt by a
neck. Run in 55 seconds.

The Bretby Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for two years old
fillies, Bst 71b each. Last three quarters of R. M. (11

Subs.) _
Mr. Payne's f, by Venison, out of Cobweb (Nat) 1
Mr. itlostyn's Archness 2
Lord Exeter's f, by Hetman Platoff, out of Galata
Col. Peel's Vert-Vert ..

Betting-5 to 4 agst Archness, and 7to 4 agst Cobweb f.
Archness, Vert-Vert, and the Galata filly ran abreast into
the bottom, where the Venison filly went up, had the race
to herself, winning by three lengths. Run in 1 min. 27 sec.
The Canaletti Stakes of 50 soya. each, h ft, for the produce of
mares covered in 1843 ; colts, Bst 7lb ; fillies, Bst 41b ; 31b
and 51b allowed. T.Y.C. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Phillimore's Saddle, Bst 41b
Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle, Bst 21b
Betting-4 to lon War Eagle. Won by a length. Run
in 1 minute 22 seconds.
Match, 200, h ft. D.l.—Sir J. Hawley's Bravissimo, 7st
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.—AIarm is now quoted at 4 to 1.
5 to 1 would be taken.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
N ENV MAR KET,—Tx u RSDAT NIGHT.
Alarm's race was won so easily that he immediately rose
to 9 to 2, with every prospect of becoming a greater favourite.
This, and an improvement to the sister to Joanna colt, were
the only changes in the betting this evening. The prices at
ten o'clock were as follows:

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
to 2 agst Alarm—t 20 to 1 agst Lady Wildair
to 1 agst Joanna colt 22 to 1 agst Best Bower
to 1 agst Conspiracy 33 to 1 agst Laundrymaid
to 1 agst lago 35 to 1 agst Garry Owen
to 1 agst Sting--t 40 to 1 agst Vanish
to 1 agst Red Robin 50 to 1 agst Tom Tullockl
DERBY.
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18 to 1 agst Glentilt
33 to 1 agst Mathematician
28 to 1 agst Planet 50 to 1 agst Projectile
ENTRIES 11)R FRIDAY.
PRENDERGAsT.—The following are expected to run :—ln-
goldsby, Archness, Cobweb filly, Agnes, and Isis.
Handicap, for three yrs old, &c. T.Y.C.
Giantess, 4 yrs, Bst 71b I African, aged, 9st (paid)
Coal Black Rose, 5 yrs, 7st 121b1 Skeleton, 5 yrs, Bst 81b ( paid)
Prussic Acid, 3 yrs, 7st 71b illue au Durras, 7st 101 b (paid)
Handicap for two and three yrs old. T.Y.C.
Hemet', 3 yrs, Bst 101 b Lancer, 2 yrs, Est 51b (paid)
Arkwright, 3
yrs, Bst 51b Camelia, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b
Miss Slick, 3 yrs, Bst 51b Needle, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b
Cantley, 3 yrs, Bst Diptbong, 2 yrs, 7st
Mirmille, 2 yrs, Gat 91b (pd) nyderabad, 2 yrs, Est 121 b
Sweepstakes, winner to be sold for 401. First half of Ab. M.
Lancer, His Serene Highness, Wadrastra filly, Jollity,
Mistress Jean, The Abbess filly, by The Saddler.

DEATH OF THE REY. DR. PENFOLD.—We regret
to announce the death of the Rev. George Saxby Pen-
fold, D.D. Rector of Trinity Church, Marylebone, which
event took place at the late residence of the Rev. Gen-
tleman, in Dorset-square, on the morning of Wednesday
last. Dr. Penfold was educated at Cambridge, and ob-
tained high honours in that University. The Rev. Gen-
tleman for many years officiated as minister of Christ
Church, but on the division of the parish of St. Mary-
lebone into ecclesiastical districts, he was presented to the
incumbency of the Trinity district. By the death of the
Rev. Gentleman, the rectory of Trinity Church, and that
of Kingswinford, Staffordshire, have become vacant.
The rectory of Trinity is in the gift of the Crown, the
annual value being 9431. To the rectory of Kingswin-
ford the Rev. Doctor was instituted in 1832. Its annual
value is 9001., and the patronage is vested in Lord Ward.
Dr. Penfold, since his introduction to the metropolitan
benefice, has taken an active part in parochial affairs. He
was considered a sound and eloquent preacher.
Mr. Rowland Hill, the promoter of our postal re-
form, is at present in Paris, and was at a dinner given
him by the Society of Economists on the 11th instant.
PROPOSED COLLEGE AT BRIGHTON.—We are in-
formed that a college of a superior kind is to be
opened at Brighton shortly after Christmas, com-
prising a lower school for younger boys, a higher
department of a mote collegiate character for the
elder pupils, and classes for -occasional students
in the highest branches of classical, scientific, and theo-
logical reading. The students will be fully prepared for
the universities, and for the naval and military profes-
sions. The times require that places of sound educa-
tion should be multiplied in our land; that the advan-
tages of the old public schools should be retained and
ren iered more accessible, while their defects are avoided;
and that the principles of an intelligent piety, and en-
lightened attaehnnent to the ,Church of England, should
be more intimately and cordially blendecniith the gene-
ral plan of education. It seems scarcely possible to
name a locality better adapted for such a design than
Brighton, from its increasing population, residents as
well as occasional, and from its acknowledged healthi-
ness. The names which stand at the head of the insti-
tution, and the high character and classical and Enathe-
matical attainments of its Principal and Vice-Principal
are a guarantee to the public that it will fulfil what it
professes.
DEPTFORD DOCKYARD.—Her Majesty's frigate
Phaeton, 50 guns, and Termagant steam-frigate, are
ordered to be completed with all possible expedition, and
for that purpose all the hands employed upon the Eu-
phrates, Archer, and Partheon, have been drawn off
la rimed upon the two Aretillialed 'mob.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PIPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—The sententious proclamations of the tele-
graphs have at length struggled through the heavy and
ominous clouds which interposed themselves between
Madrid and Neuilly, and Louis Philippe has been au-
thentically informed that the Duke de Montpensier has
been married to the Infanta of Spain. Such is the bare
and frigid announcement. Perhaps, his Majesty now
conceives that the victory is won, and that his family
will gather in the glittering spoils, and revel in the cap-
tured city long after the passing jealousy of an ally and
the envious cavils of a neighbour have sunk into silence
and oblivion. Suet tanti. It is worth a little discredit
and some disturbance to have another chance of level-
ling the Pyrenees and doubling the dynasty of Orleans.
The ides of March are come. Before they are past we
shall see a little more clearly what is to be the cost of
the prize. Already is inisfortuee augured from the boding
incidents of a solemnity which should have made the year
a jubilee. The Spanish Queen and her sister should have
been dowered with the hearts of their people; not a voice
should have been heard but that of favour, and note coun-
tenance seen but that 44 joy ; liberated captives should
have marked the national holiday ; and the true and
tried allies of Spain should have sent their representa-
tives to the altar to carry the combined congratulations
of Europe. What has been the reality? A secret and
suspicious negotiation, with rum, urs of violence and
symptoms of fraud, has been terminated by an abrupt
and unblessed alliance. The marriage of an Infanta has
been compassed and concluded under circumstances
which no Castilian noble would tolerate in his own
family. Amidst the sullen silence of an offended people,
environed by cavalry and guarded by cannon, the intru-
sive bridegroom has traversed the streets of his newly-
found capital, through a crowd whose most friendly
feeling was indifference, and whose most innocent senti-
ment was inquisitiveness. No sound of welcome saluted
his ears or cheered him into momentary confidence.
The energy of an unscrupulous Government contrived to
suppress disgust, but it could not supply acclamations.
Arrests instead of amnesties characterised this sinister
festival of a cation ; the marriage of a Princess has
be en seen to crowd the prisons with her sister's sub-
jects. From the ill-starred ceremony the friends of
Spain stood coldly aloof, and the representative of
her truest ally and surest supporter withdrew from
the scene, after having vainly tendered the amicable
remonstrances of his country against the contemplated
contract. What will come of a bargain thus ominously
struck—thus stripped of the joys and gratulations of
such solemnities, and completed amidst such dark prog-
nostics of impending evil? The political and natural
horizons were black and overcast as at one of those mar-
riages which, in heathen fable, used to entail miseries
and bloodshed on innumerable generations ; and not
even the fatal %sodding of Marie Antoinette was more
gloomily characterised than these precipitate nuptials of
a helpless Princess. Superstition was perhaps required
to infer massacres and ruin from the fall of a scaffold
and the deadly struggles of a crowd ; but the most sober
prudence can only augur conflicts and convulsions from
an outraged people, an estranged ally, an enslaved court,
and a detested intruder. Already is the unknown issue
of a marriage, which should have supplied reversionary
heirs to the Crown, ignored by that Power to whose
friendly aid both Crown and Constitution owe so much;
yet there is joy and gladness at Versailles, as if
forty years had not taught them to dread the tempera-
ment of Spain. It might be imagined that the re-
cords of 1808 were forgotten or inaccessible, so little
is learned from the lesson which they so loudly teach.
Indolent apathy might then, perhaps, have been
mistaken for popular acquiescence ; but such a blunder
is strangely simple now. It was amidst the apparent in-
difference of carelessness or content that the French co-
lumns were pushed across the Pyrenees, and established
in the frontier fortresses, while the partition of Portugal
was put forth as a transparent pretext for the occupation
of Spain. It was without question or interruption that
Charles and Ferdinand continued their unbecoming
quarrels, and tossed their neglected kingdom for arbi-
tration or acceptance into the hands of the wily ruler of
France. Not a murmur reached the guard-rooms of the
arrogant Joseph, when the ninety-one notables had con-
veyed to him, as he fondly conceived, the peaceable and
entire possession of the monarchy of Spain. Napoleon
had stronger grounds of confidence than Louis Philippe;
for Charles was an idiot, and Godoy was a fool ; and if
the ambitious Corsican thought that Spaniards would
willingly acquiesce in a Monarch and Constitution
of his gift, he might have been more readily par.
cloned for forgetting 1706, than can King Louis
Philippe be for forgetting 1808. A week trans-
formed apathy into insurrection. A flame, the most
fierce and violent, burst forth instantaneously from ashes
under which scarce a spark was thought to smoulder.
Arragon, Navarre, the Asturias, Biscay, and the Cas-
tiles, successively or simultaneously proclaimed their
spirit and their strength, and not a link was wanting
in a chain which encompassed the French intruders
with the vindictive hostility of an insulted nation. Spain
seems to fascinate the house of Orleans by an hereditary
law. Scarcely had the first uxorious Bourbon been se-
cured in his palace by the ill-merited loyalty of Castile, ,
than the Regent tampered with Stanhope for its transfer ,
to his own branch, or at least for its partition ; and King
Louis Philippe may, perhaps, recal the hour when he
sailed with a Sicilian kinsman to Gibraltar in pursuit of
this favourite prize, with somewhat different ideas of
English interference from those professed at present.
A few months will now probably show us how far he
has succeeded in a feat which foiled the undying arnbi-
Lion of Louis le Grand and the unexampled might of
Napoleon ; and what is the real value of the spoil for
which he has not hesitated to imperil a thirty years'
peace and convulse the relations of Europe.
POST.—It seems to be generally admitted among the
physicians of the mind, that there are intellectual as well
as physical epidemics, and that the human understand-
ing has its influenaas as well as the human body. Fully
appears to be as catching as the measles—any one gen-
tleman who may be insane upon some point of " social
improvement," has only to inoculate the brains of
his neighbours, to cause the major part of the commu-
nity to take the mania kindly, and to go as stark staring
mad upon the subject as himself. A little time ago the
enlightened British public caught the railway fever, and
everybody was delirious about " junctions," " exten-
sions," and " directs ;" but being udder skilful hands,
the fever, as usual, was allayed by copious phlebotomy,
or a considerable letting of the vital specie from the
breeches pocket, and it was found that, as in the well-
known case of Nicolai, the Italian bookseller, the
bleedirbee had the effect of dissipating the illusion.
The last new mental malady is an eruption of clubs.
One or two " noble institutions" have already broken
out, and the streets seem likely in a short time to be
covered over with a severe rash of cockney Parthe-
nons, Palladiums, Athenaeums, and other Bow-bell
temples of wisdom and boiled beef. The clerks and
shop/men of the metropolis are to be fed and philoso-
phised at cost price. They are to have three courses of
fish, flesh, and fowl, and a course of scientific lectures
into the bargain, on the most reasonable terms ; and, so
that no time may be lust, the mind is to be feasted with
the body. A professor of hydrostatics is to come in with
the soup—a lecture on ichthyology to be served up with
the fish—and a popular discourse upon comparative
anatomy to lend all the relish of currant jelly to the
mutton. Consequently we may entertain hopes of
shortly seeing the day when Euclids shall measure oat
yards of flannel on geometrical principles, when New-
tons shall calculate the gravity of our accounts at our
bankers, and Bacons oblige us by handing us the copies
of our writs. The richest, the raciest, the summa
stultitia of all, however, is a project for the construction
of a series of social Chatehux en Espagne, given in a
paragraph now going the circuit of the papers, and the
first stone of which appears to have been laid in the
brain of some sapient correspondent of the Builder,
who seems to possess a fine lath-and-plaster facility for
running up castles in the air. The atmospheric archi-
tect puts forth a plan for what he calls " Family Club
Chambers," by which he proposes that the future resi-
dences of the middle classes should consist, like George
Coleman's fat gentleman, of several single houses rolled
into one. He is anxious to consolidate the domiciles, as
well as the funds, of the London gentry, and to locate a
different establishment on each different floor ; or, in
other words, to run up what he calls "a palace" several
families high, and so to found throughout the metropolis
a number of little communities of " flats." But the
-gentleman cackles so eloquently on the subject, that, in
order to allow him the opportunity of saving the British
Capitol from the hands of the barbarians, we will give
his own version of the scheme :
" FAMILY CLUB CHAMBERS. That the union" of
several private residences under one roof would improve
the architecture of London, is unquestionable. If it
were properly carried into effect, w e might live to see
accmroowdastoiofnmeoafnthdewemlliidndglse,
pwahl classes,iacchesl eienprrseetcestaseddt the interminablespirits p thei r i accommodation
ts o f all who behold them. The
system would also be most advantageous in preventing
the inconvenient extension of the metropolis.'
So that " those interminable rows of mean dwellings"
which constitute the localities of Russell, Eaton or Bry-
anstone-squares, which we believe were erected for the
accommodation of the middle classes," but from the con
templation of which we must confess we never expe-
rienced that " depression of spirits" which the aerial
builder mentions, are, we suppose, to be horizontally
condensed, and perpendicularly elongated, until they
arrive at the altitude of the brace of stucco Mont Blanes
which flank the Albert entrance to Hyde-park, and
which are of course, to the aerial builder, so much more
inspiriting to behold, and must be so healthy to ascend.
This arrangement certainly might have the effect of
" stopping the inconvenient extension of the metropolis"
spoken of ; but though it might prevent London from
growing a Daniel Lambert in bulk, we fear that it
would be the cause of the buildings becoming O'Briens
in height.
HERALD.—We are free to confess that we have
much greater expectations of Lord Cottenham as a law
reformer than we ever en' ertained of Lord Lyndhurst.
The last-mentioned Noble Lord occupied the great seal
for the third time from 1841 till the middle of the pre-
sent year; and though no man was better aware of the
evil of the monopoly of the sergeants than the Noble
and Learned Lord, or knew better the ill (fleets of
choking up the approach to one of her Majesty's superior
courts,--or more sardonically laughed at the folly of
maintaining, in the nineteenth century, the usages and
customs of the twelfth and thirteenth,— cr more stoutly
maintained the propriety and necessity of Lord Broug-
ham's efforts to open the Common Pleas, than Lord
143 ndhurst,—yet such was the uncontrollable laziness of
his nature—such his insoucient and careless character—
that he never made for five long years the slightest
effort to repair a state of things which was operating
alike to the injury of the Bar and Bench, and—what
was of far more consequence than either— to the great
injury and oppression of the suitors frequenting her
Majesty's courts of common law. Somewhere about
the middle of the month of July, we believe, the great
seals were delivered to Lord Cottenham, and on the 18th
of August he had drawn up and passed through Parlia-
ment the 9th and 10th Vict. c. 54, entitled "An Act to

extend to all Barristers practising in the Superior Courts
at Westminster the Privileges of Sergeants-at-law in the
Court of Common Pleas." As this Act is a model of
brevity and clearness, and a full measure of justice to
both branches of the profession, and to all suitors, we
transcribe it in extenso, in order that its provisioni may
be thoroughly known :
"Whereas it would tend to the more equal distribu-
tion and to the consequent dispatch of business in the
superior courts of common law at Westminster, and
would at the tame time be greatly for the benefit of the
public, if the right of barristers-at-law to practise, plead,
and to be heard extended equally to all the said courts;
but, by reason of the exclusive privilege of sergeants-at-
law to practise, plead, and have audience in the Court of
Common Pleas at Westminster during term time, such
object cannot be effected without the authority of Par-
liament: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most
excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, that from and after the passing of this Act all
barristers-at-law, according to their respective rank and
seniority, shall and may have and exercise equal rights
and privilege of practising, pleading, and audience in the
said Court of Common Pleas at Westminstor with the
said sergeants-at-law; and it shall be lawful for the jus-
tices of the said court, or any three of them, of whom
the Lord Chief Justice of the said court shall be one, to
make rules and orders, and to do all other things neces-
sary for giving effect to this enactment."
That this measure will not only, in the language of
its preamble, tend to the more equal distribution but to
the consequent dispatch of business in the courts at
Westminster, there can be no manner of doubt. For
the last five years the Court of Queen's Bench has been
overwhelmed with a mass and multitude of business
which no five—or probably no ten judges,--in her
Majesty's dominions could effectually get through, so
as to leave no arrears at the end of the terms, or, if you
will, at the end of the judicial year. Some idea, and
that a faint one, of the increasing bulk and importance
of the business, may be formed from the fact that one
of the volumes of the Term Reports, which in the days
of East—i. e., from 1800 to 1812—used to amount to
about 550 pages, now, in the days of Adolphus and
Ellis, amounts to the astoundin4 number of 1,080 and
1,105 pages. The cases of parish law, and involving
decisions on the new Poor-law Act, have increased
tenfold since the days of East—while cases of corpora-
tion law have, since 1832 or 1833, increased in a nearly
equal ratio. Railroads, too, have brought in their
train (we mean no pun) a new, distinct, and very
fruitful class of cases, altogether unknown to
the old law; and unless each one of the three courts
of common law performs a nearly equal share of
labour, the engine of justice, to make use of a railroad
illustration, will be altogether at a stand-still. The idea
of " exclusive privilege" to practise and plead in a par-
ticular court can, in the present day, only be defended
by the possession of superior learning, astuteness, and
aptitude—and we have yet to learn that any One of the
twenty-seven sergeants, or sergeants' couuters, as they
are called in " Horne's Mirrour," possesses a greater
aptitude than any competent " apprentice" or " utter
barrister" in Westminster Hall. Whether the black
patch on the top of the wig or the purple gown of the
sergeant, described thus by Jekyll,
" Their purple garments come from Tyre,
Their arguments go to it,"
confers on him any extraordinary capability, we leave to
be determined by the learned brother who published the
case of the sergeants-at-law, and who aspirated at a Lord
Mayor's dinner a fervent wish that sergeants might eat
calipee and calipash at the Mansion-house feasts,so long
as British law and the British constitution lasted. Joking,
however apart, there are not above seven or eight of
these sergeant counters who enjoy any considerable
practice, and to say that the whole legal business of the
country should suffer, to secure the monopoly of these
gentlemen, is a proposition so monstrous, that it need
merely be enunciated to be at once placed in the limbo
of preposterous follies. It is, indeed, of the mainest
importance—as every practicable man knows—to the
attorney, to have his cause handled, ab ovo usque ad mala
—from the beginning to the ending—by the same
counsel. A cause is generally best managed in which
the counsel who has first advised as to the preliminary
steps and pleadings, advises and argues to the end.
Practically this was not so in the Common Please under
the arrangement maintained by Lord Lyndhurst—
himself an old and eminent sergeant. For from
every circuit in England causes were argued in
Banco by sergeants who bad not led at the trial, either
at Liverpool—or Exeter—or Stafford—or Bury—or
Lincoln—or Chester—or Swansea—as the case might be.
And the preposterous and unjust part of the arrrangement
was, that sergeants who excluded all other barristers
from their close court—free as "chartered libertines"
themselves—took the wide range of Westminster Hall,
and plied, such of them as had large business, like Sir
Thomas Wilde—their gainful trade and tuneful tongues
—in every court, from that of the Lord Chancellor down
to the latest created Vice-Chancellor's Court or Court of
Bankruptcy. This was a manifest injustice, 'anti could
only, be defended by those who resorted for anti-
quarian arguments to Fortescue and Dyer, or by those
sergeant counters who told us, as an extinguisher of
all discussion, in the words of Sir Edward Coke,
in his preface to the Eighth Report, and in his
First Institute, that the Common Pleas existed
as a _distinct court before the Conquest, and was
not created by Magna Charts. To such pre-admite
pleaders for exclusive privileges as these—to such
preposterous pedants and prigs—it was vain to
urge the spirit of the Uniformity of Process Act,
altering the mode of proceeding in the Common Pleas—
es well as in all the other courts—vainer still to urge the
spirit and exigencies and requirements of the age and
time in which we live—for they were blind as well as
deaf to what was passing around them. But now their
illusions are dissipated,—not by the Queen's writ—but
by the Act of Parliament, which we have given in
its entirety. No longer, therefore, can the ancient
counters—

" The sergeants-at-law both ware and wise,
Who often do come to the parvise,"
claim exclusive privilege "pur enginer la court," to use
the words of the statute of Westminster—(and which
has been erroneously translated in the statute-book " to
beguile the court," for the words mean to dupe and de-
ceive, and the phrase is so used by La Fontaine), for
Lord Cottenham has levelled the barriers they erected,
and opened the common bench to the common bar,—
to men with stuff in their heads, and with stuff on their
backs.

ADVIIRTISER.—The meeting held at Manchester
on Tuesday last, for the purpose of memorialising Go-
vernment on the subject of abolishing entirely the re-
maining duties on foreign corn, will, we have no doubt,
be followed by similar assemblages in all parts of the
country. Indeed one has already taken place in Sun-
derland. It is only surprising that meetings, having for
their object the opening of the ports, have not before
now taken place in every populous town in the country.
There is only one thing, in connexion with this subject,
which has caused us greater surprise. Can our readers
guess what that one thing is ? If they bestow a mo-
ment's reflection on the matter, they cannot fail to arrive
at a right conclusion. That which excites
is, our amaze-
ment
to the highest pitch, in connexion with the pre-
vailing alarm and the impending famine, that Govern-
ment should not, weeks ago, have thrown open the ports
to the untaxed admission of foreign corn. The
astonishment which we feel is not confined to our-
selves. It is shared by the country. It is universally
felt. If ever a Minister's course was clear, if ever
his duty was plain, Lord John Russell's was so
in reference to the unbarring of oar ports to the
admission of foreign corn, duty free, whenever it was
seen that the potato crop in Ireland was a total failure,
and that the corn harvest generally throughout the
kingdom was below an average. How Lord John Rus-
sell can reconcile his refusal to open the ports at such a
crisis as that which has overtaken us, with the duties
which, as the first Minister of the Crown, he owes alike
to the Sovereign and the people, is more than we are
able to coinpreher.d. It is for himself to explain it. If
the Noble Lord can make out a case for himself, he must
be a much abler logician than the public has hitherto
given him credit for. One thing is certain—there isnot
a man beyond the pale of the Cabinet who does not feel
and say that a graver dereliction of duty was never com-
mitted by any Minister. Time was when the Noble
Lord would have been impeached for such neglect.
Many a Minister before him has stood at the bar of Par-
liament for dereliction of duty of a much less
nature. Morally, the Noble Lord is responsible
for every death from starvation which takes
place in Ireland ; constitutionally, he ought to
be also, so considered, -and be dealt with ac-
cordingly. Nay, more, we maintain that Lord John
Russell is responsible for every breach of the peace
which may take place in Ireland, and every outrage on
property which may occur in that country, which has its
origin in the present scarcity and high prices of food.
D we absolve from blame those who may be the prin-
cipal actors in any popular outbreaks on the other side
of the Channel ? Nothing can be farther from our
minds. The law must deal with all such persons as
guilty. They must be punished. On the contrary hypo-
thesis, there would be an end of all order. Society would
be disorganised. Anarchy would everywhere prevail.
So long as laws exist, they must be enforced, even
when their violators have been worked up by cir-
cumstances over which they had no control, to a
state of desperation. But if the wretched peasantry
of Ireland are not to be held guiltless, even with
all the palliating considerations which, in their
present condition, can be urged in their fa-
vour, what shall be said of the criminality,
both moral and constitutional, of the Noble Lord at
the head of the Government, when he has refused to
adopt a course which would have had the effect of miti-
gating the evils which have driven the Irish to this state
of desperation ? The Whig Premier has the reputation
of being a cool and courageous man. The epithets of
coolness and courage are not those which are to be
applied to his present conduct. Callousness to human
suffering, insensibility to human wretchedness ; in a
word, downright inhumanity, are the only terms which
can properly characterise the conduct of Lord John
Russell. It was the prevailing impression, some time
ago, that Sir Robert Peel had no heart. The question
whether the Right Hon. Baronet possesses that article or
not, is one which we have no inclination to discuss just
now. But one thing we know, and that is, that had he
been still Premier, he would, at least a month ago, have
thrown open the ports. Whether humanity or policy
had prompted him to the act, we care not to inquire ; it
is enough for us to know that he would have done It.
And that he would no one can doubt, with the recorded
declaration before him of the Right lion. Gentleman,
that the reason of his resignation, in November last, was
because he could not induce his colleagues to concur in
the propriety of then opening the ports.

CUSTOMS.— Charles Sholl, t sq., late Comptroller at
the port of Lancaster, is appointed Comptroller of toe
port 9f Willni9utli, in the place of Mr. Ilearle, resigned,