The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-18 00:00:00

their offices in Regent-street, for considering the
subject of juvenile offenders. Mr. M. D. HILL made

an interesting speech, and showed that in various dis-
tricts the reformation of youth had been successful
in many ways, and at a far less cost than that
entailed upon the country by the prosecutions which
must ensue, if the youthful criminals were not early
reclaimed. What occurred only last week before Mr.
Sergeant ADAMS, at the Middlesex Sessions ? A
little boy, only seven years old, not three feet ten
inches in height, was convicted by a jury of picking
a lady's pocket of half-a-crown. The child had evi-
dently been instigated to the act by two older boys,
who were watching his attempt. What was the
Learned Judge's opinion of his own position, com-
bined with our lack of proper provision for
juvenile delinquents ? Addressing the jury, Mr.
Sergeant ADAMS thus gave vent to his feelings :
" What could be done with this little child? It would
be ruination t ) send him to a common prison. These scenes
were positively heartrending. Was he to pass over the
cases of these children as though the fact of their being
brought to that bar was to be regarded quite as a matter
of course? Was he to change his nature and so to steel
his feelings against the claims and helpless condition of so
small a creature as that now before the Court? What
could be done with this child ?"

The Judge ultimately decided upon allowing the
child, after an hour's imprisonment, to be handed
over to the parents, who, both in the utmost distress,
implored to have their little son restored to them.
Cain any one doubt that Mr. Sergeant ADAMS
adopted the most humane as well as, under the
circumstances, the wisest course ? On the
other hand, can any one doubt that such
a course of leniency is apt to be taken advantage of
by older thieves, and used by them as a stimulating
argument to induce inexperienced children to follow
their wicked counsels ? Yet, until our prison dis.•
cipline be materially improved, in instances like the
one we have alluded to, we repeat the question put
by Mr. Sergeant ADA MS, " What can be done ?"

A Bologna journal says—" The political prisoners
who remained confined at Civita Vecchia, but have
had the amnesty extended to them, have just arrived
at Bologna. The people hailed with joy this new
proof of the clemency of their SOVEREIGN."

The Augsburg Gazette has the following from Con-
stantinople, dated the 26th ult. :—" The Ottoman
Porte has declared to the mediating Powers in the
dispute with Persia, that it is very anxious for a
termination of the affair, and that if it be not settled
within three weeks it will break off the negotiations,
as none of the obstacles to a termination of the dis-
pute have been on the side of the Turkish Govern-
ment."

The Nuremburg Correspondent of the 11th, an-
nounces, but without quoting its authority, that the
partisans of the Count DE MONTEMOLIN are
about to publish, in addition to the mani-
festo, addressed by the Pretender to the Spanish
nation, an address to the Courts of Europe, re.
vealing to them the way in which the abdication
of Don CARLOS was obtained by the intrigues of the
French Government. They intend, it is said, to
show that Don CARLos was induced to abdicate by
an assurance that the Cabinet of the Tuileries would
bring about a marriage between Queen ISABELLA
and the Count DE MONTEMOLIN.

The Official Gazette of Vienna publishes a con-
vention between the Emperors of AUSTRIA and
RUSSIA, the object of which is to promote the com-
merce between the two countries, and fix their reci-
procal relations as regards navigation. By this
treaty, which is for eight years, and the ratifications
for which were exchanged on the 28th ult., the
commerce and vessels of the two states in the respec-
tive ports will be placed on an equal footing.
The President of the States of the Duchies of
Schleswig-Holstein held, on the sth, a sitting with
the Deputies who had not withdrawn from the
Chamber, and who form the minority of the whole
body, for the purpose of adopting the minutes of the
sitting of the 4th. On this occasion the royal com•
mission announced that the sittings of the Chamber
would be suspended for ten days in order to give
time for him to receive further instructions. It was
supposed that his instructions would be accompanied
by a decree for the dissolution of the Chamber.

None of the Madrid papers have arrived, but ac-
counts from Bayonne of the 11 th give the result of
several of the Spanish elections. Out of ten elections
in the northern provinces, seven have been in favour
of the moderate party, and three in favour of Pro-
gressists. On the Sth the results of six elections in
the capital were announced. Two Moderados, M.
MoN and the Marquis DE POVAR, and three Pro-
gressists, MM. MENmzanAL, SALAMANCA, and SAN
MIGUEL, were returned. On the 9th there was to be
a second ballot between M. PIDAL and M. DEL
SOCORRO.

IVe have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The National has a characteristic article on the
subject of the recal of the French Consul at the Mau-
ritius. The National admits that it is possible M.
BARBET may have misconducted himself, but claims
for him, in his quality of Frenchman, the right of
insulting a foreigner with impunity, without giving to
the foreigner any, satisfaction, and declares that, because
the disavowal of the impertinence of M. BAR-
BET is asked for, that is sufficient to jus-
tify his Government in upholding' him. "To
consent to the recal of M. BARBET," says the
National, "on the order of England, would be to
commit an act of meanness, and something worse.
At bottom, the person of our Consul interests us but
little. But the question is not about him at present;
he is the diplomatic agent of France; he represents
her on a foreign land, and it is in that quality that he
has a right to the protection of his Government. The
Minister who named him will blame him if he has
been in the wrong ; but it is enough that it is wished
to impose en us his disavowal, to Cause us to maintain
firmly his situation against every one."
This article in the National is certainly a most
laughable and exaggerated exhibition of the national
failing—varsity.
The Journal des Dads, in the course of a long
article on the subject of the incorporation of Cracow,
thus replies to the allegation of the Northern Powers,
that such incorporation had become necessary as a
measure of police :
" While representing the destruction of Cracow as an
affair of police, the German press raises a question sthich
somewhat alarms it. Since Cracow, it says, is punished
for having conspired, why was it not punished at the
moment when the conspiracy wrs discovered? Since
there wes a conspiracy, and a judicial inquiry to dis-
cover the conspirators, why did not the northern
Courts wait till the end of the investigation, and the
pubic...auu of saio proofs, to punish at one and tin'
same time the delinquents and the city which encouraged
them? The incorporation came either too late or too
soon. Too late if a war measure, too soon if a judicial
sentence, because the trial was not finished. This ques-
tion, put by the German press, is so silly, that it ruins
its own argument, founded on the law of police. The
incorporation of Cracow can never be considered as an
exercise of a police law ; it is a political matter, testi-
fied by the division of Europe into two camps, watching
each other's movements—the three Northern Powers on
one side, and France and England on the other side.
There has been a misunderstanding in the camp, of which
the other party took an immediate advantage. This it
is that has made the affair of Cracow significant in the
policy of Europe."
The Constitutionnel has a long article sneering at,
rather than controverting, the arguments of the free
traders. The writer,
" Willing to wound, but yet afraid to strike,
Just hints a fault, and hesitates dislike."
Marshal BtroEAUD has been carrying matters with
somewhat too high a hand in Algiers. lie has been
interfering with the freedom of religious worship in
the colony, and has, in consequence, drawn upon
himself the censure of the Government. The Presse
says—

We have recently spoken of a serious d7spute be-
tween Marshal Bugeaud and the Protestant Consistory
of Algiers. It may be remembered that the Governor-
General, joining the spiritual pontificate to his numerous
military and administrative attributions, believed he
could, of his private authority, suspend the Consistory,
and maintain over the Protestant churches the domina-
tion which was looked on Uith suspicion by the Con-
sistory. The Government has thought fit to take notice
of this abuse of power, and has just sent to Algiers the
pastor Cuvier, to examine the facts which we have just
stated. Whatever may be the result of this mission, it
is evident it implies a blame on Marshal Bugeaud s
conduct."

he King and Queen of the BELGIANS arrived at
the Tuileries on Tuesday.
Pants 13ou RS; WEDNESDAY.—The market continues firm.
The Threes opened at 81f. 30c., and after some variations,
during which they for a moment touched 81f. 10c., they
closed at the opening price. After the Bourse they were done
at 81f. 35c. Nothing was done in Spanish. For Account
Fives have risen 20c. ; Three,,, sc. ; Belgian Fives have
risen li. The other Foreign Funds are unvaried. For