The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-26 00:00:00

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JANUARY 26.
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time been applied to the infected spot—at another the
lawgivers have attempted to purge away the impurity
by modifying some previous enactment—and yet, in
spite of all these judicious and wholesome endeavours,
the evil still continues unallayed. Not the most
unimportant among these—because the most associated
with one of our greatest privileges, and with what, as
Englishmen, we may actually denominate one of our
greatest birthrights, namely, the " Trial by Jury"—is
that baneful and somewhat despotic severity which is
maintained towards jurymen—even under circumstances
which would decidedly justify a departure from the
established regulations. Our attention has been recently
directed to this particular grievance, from facts which
transpired on Wednesday last at Mullingar, in West-
meath, upon the special commission appointed to examine
a man called BRYAN SEERY on a charge of attempting
the assassination of Sir F. HOPKINS. The occurrences
to which we allude are merely a repetition of what has
taken place a thousand and yet a thousand times before:
they must be familiar to persons who can parade only a
three years' experience. Every one is acquainted with some
narration of a jury confined for several hours together,
without the slightest nourishment, in consequence of not
arriving at any unanimous decision. Many aggravating
circumstances, however, connected with a similar occur-
rence at the examination in Mullingar already men-
tioned, render the case in question more intolerable and
glaringly unjust than anything of the same nature within
our memory. In a trial of the most vital importance—in-
volving at the same moment the safety of one individual
from assassination, and the guilt or innocence of another
individual for a crime of the most heinous description—
twelve gentlemen, two of them in a very serious state of
indisposition, are shut up in a " room, more like a
dungeon than anything else," for six•and-thirty hours.
Besides which hardship, be it remembered, the unfortu-
nate jurymen are entirely deprived, during that interval,
of all food, or fire, or rest—deprivations which materially
heightened the indisposition of the two gentlemen
already in extremely ill-health, insomuch so that a phy-
sician, who was at length called in at the instance of the
Chief Justice, uttered his decided opinion that "further
confinement might endanger their lives." Nut till
this announcement were these twelve gentlemen
liberated from their strange thraldom, or allowed to
partake of any sustenance: the imprisonment having
originated of course from a difference of opinion, ten
taking one view of the matter, and two the reverse.
Assuredly this system is morally unhealthy; it originates
in a most mistaken policy, and tends rather to inter-
fere with the accurate developement of justice than in
any manner to expedite its arrangement. No more
sagacious means could be devised whereby the judgment of
a jurymen might be tampered with, and biassed beyond
the limits of truth. It is absolutely holding out are •
compense to all who will defer their conceptions to those
of the majority; it is the most fallacious species of inge-
nuity ever attempted. Under its peculiar influences, none
but a thcroughly conscientious man can persist in follow-
ing the dictates of his right reason, whenever his conclu-
sions are at variance with those of his fellow-jurymen.
A greater act of magnanimity can scarcely be conceived
than that of an individual, enervated by disease, and
greeted with the remonstrances of eleven irritated com-
panions, still maintaining the validity of his arguments
aid the accuracy of his deductions notwithstanding
the encroachments of severe cold and violent hunger.
Yet, according to present enactments a juryman is pre-
cisely in this position : a flavourous dinner is at his disposal
if he will permit his mind to be warped by the coincid-
ing voices of his neighbours ; while, for contrary beha-
viour, for a persistence in his original inferences, he is re-
warded with an empty apartment, a pitcher of water,
and a coal-less hearth. The vision which our ances-
tors must have cast over the vistas of futurity,
in instituting these regulations, must have been singu -
larly oblique. It savours overmuch of melting down
the gold of truth into the alloy of lying and injustice.
The plan is both futile and pernicious to the uttermost
degree; it requires to be rooted out and destroyed.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 17th. The
discussion in the Chamber of Deputies was still going nn,
but excited no interest. The papers announce the death
Of CALATRAVA, who became President of the Counci
after the mysterious affair of La Granja.
On the Bourse the Three per Cents. closed at 33 13-
16 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents., at 24 at 60 days.

In the French Chamber of Deputies the first division on
the Address took place on an amendment made by M.
ODILON BARROT which certainly was very harmless of
itself, but implied a censure on Ministers. It was drawn
up:in these words:—" It is necessary that good faith and
impartiality should preside over all the acts of the Ad-
ministration, in order to restore to the public power that
moral authority which should accompany it." The
amendment was intended as an attack on the Cabiaet
for some irregular election proceedings countenanced by
one of the Prefects, and the Government accepted it as
such, denying, of course, all participation in the anew d
corruption. A division took place, when there were for the
amendment 166, and against it 208, giving the Ministers a
majority of 42. The only interesting feature of the dis-
cussion was a brief speech from that amusing
orator M. LEDRu ROLLIN, in which he denounced, and
perhaps he is not far wrong, M. TRIERS for corruption
at home and abasement abroad. He is, perhaps, equally
correct in his views of M. BARROT.9 reform principles.
The speech is given as follows :—" M. TRIERS," said
he, " called his speech a diatribe. Ile (M. LEDRO
ROLLIN) had only given facts. If M. TRIERS' history
was nothing but a diatribe, the fault was that gentle-
man's and nut his. M. ODILON BARROT had called his
observations clamours.—(Cries of Enough, enough,'
from the Left.) You have spoken (continued the Hon.
Deputy, addressing M. ODILON BARROT), you have
spoken of reform, but where is your reform ? Where
are your plans ?—(Renewed cries of Enough,' Di-
vide) What will your coalition produce ? What did
your former one produce, unless the present Ministry ?
Take care, you have already voted the Regency Bill ;
you have voted the fortifications you will be carried
away far. I warn you of the danger; I am more your
friend than M. TRlERS.—(Renewed marks of disappro-
bation.) Yes, there has been corruption at home and
abasement abroad, but what else is that than the system
of M. TRIERS? M. TRIERS, when Minister, in like
manner did all he mild to influence the elections—also
made us follow in the wake of England.'—(Loud cries
of Divide, divide,' amidst which the Hon. Deputy
thought fit to descend from the tribune.") The Presse
thus characterises the discussion on electoral corrup-
tion :—" Although the sitting of Thursday lasted longer
than any previous sitting (it ended at half-past seven
o'clock), we shall only say a few words on the subject.
In our opinion, nearly the whole of the debates were
wretched, puerile, and unworthy of an assembly of poli-
ticians and grave men. Electoral corruption was agai❑
introduced, and the Opposition indulged in innumerable
recriminations, and adduced thousands of facts, which
were instantly met with irrefutable contradictions. Mane
proper names and microscopic details supplied the nu-
merous speeches delivered on the occasion. It is not
our intention to revert to the matter ; it was quite
enough that it occupied during upwards of five hours the
time of one of our two legislative assemblies."
The misunderstanding between the French Consul at
Hayti, and the President, General PIERROT, tall remains
unsettled according to accounts received from Port-au-
Prince, of the Bth December. The intelligence
gives some additional details. On the sth Cap-
tain LARTICUE, in command of the French station
at that island, not being able to obtain satisfaction
for the insult offered to the French Consul, took up
his station with the Thetis frigate and Hussard brig
at a short distance from the town, and made pre-
parations to open a cannonade. At the solicitation of
the inhabitants he consented to suspend his fire
for three days, in order to allow them time to represent
the matter to President PIERROT, who was at the
moment in the north of the island. He sent at the same
time the Styx steamer for the Griffon, which was
cruising along the coast, in order that he might have a
larger force at his disposal, and have more au►hority to
insist on a full reparation. Up to the Bth the President
had refused absolutely to give any satisfaction, and M.
LEVASUEUR, the Consul-General, deemed it necessary to
send in his uitinaittign-157000 gourds of indemnity, and
a salute of twenty-one guns. M. LEVASpEUR, at the
same time, was preparing to take up his residence on
board the Thetis' It was hoped that these demonstra-
tions would induce the President to make the peheetisioes
demanded.

A letter which appears in a Toulon journal, dated
" Hospital of Setif, January 10," states that the losses
sustained by the division under General LEVASSEUR on
the 3d are estimated at 420 dead. It adds, "A barrack
has been converted into a temporary hospital by order of
General LEVASSEUR ; the fort of Galbois has been ap-
propriated to the same use, and at the moment I write
twelve physicians have arrived from Constantine, It is
expectotl that we shall have in all eight hundred dead,
and a still greater number with hands and feet frozen."
The following letter from one of the persona on board
which was lost off Mazagan, appears
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" We left Mazagan on the 28d,
of Gibra:ial CP and arrived in the roail
the 25th, which town we quitted the follow-
ing day on board a French steamer, which brought us to
Toulon. When we were on the point of sairug from
Gibraltar the crow of the Flamer saluted with three cheers
the unfortunate sunerera who bad received so generous
and cordial an hospitality 'frog' the English flag.
I here offer, in nv own 41.11 well 41' In 'the flee of

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all my fellow-sufferers, the expression of our profound
reconnaissance towards the noble Commander, Postle,
as well as to the officers and brave crew under his
command. We were treated by them like brothers.
The English sailors shared with ours their clothing, their
beds, and victuals. As to myself, I was received into the
captain's cabin, and I was on his part the object of the
mot marked attentions. When I arrived on beard I was in
a most suffering state, and for 36 hours nothing could exceed
the care and attention bestowed upon me by the surgeon of
the Flamer, and it is to him I owe the commencement of
my return to health. I cannot terminate my letter without
equally offering the aestimony of our lively gratitude to-
wards Captain Salomon, the officers and crew of the Castor.
We met with that sympathy which we ought to expect at the
hands of our countrymen."
" A letter from Berne announces the primitive assemblies
are convoked for the Ist February, in order to come to a de-
cision whether they do or do not concur in the last resolu-
tions of the Grand Council, on the question of a revision of
the Constitution."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Friday,
at 83f. ; the Five per Cents. 121 f. 50c ; the Orleans Railroad
Shares, 1,257 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1.022f.50c. ; Havre, 737 f. 50c. ; Avignon,
982 f. boe. ; laerzon, 707 f 50c.; Bordeaux, 64' f. ; Boulogne, 550 f. ;
Troyes and Montereau, 460 f. ; Basle, 2551.; Great Northern, 7551.;
Fampoux, 5051.; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 573,4 ; Spanish
Three per Cents., 38% ; Spanish Passives, 614.
The following are the quotations for other lines :

Paris and Lyons, definitive, G2sf. ; the Paris and Strasburg, defini-
tive, 549 f. ; Tours and Nantes, definitive, 5721. 50c. ; Lyons and
Avignon (Talabot), 511 f. 25c. ; ditto (Lecoints), 5071.; ditto (Cona-
pagnie Meridionale), 503 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Cetto (Mackenzie),
503211.A5.0scE.L;ia.ditto
J(AENs.p ei9l e.t7a )m, Saros7efi.ll:o c. ;
rnarre), 502 t . 50c. Charleroi (Kysaens), 4951.;
Caen (Dela
and Avignon, 9051.

i,yoma, Jam: 21.—Faris and Roueu, 1,0251.
The Paris papers of Saturday have since been re-
ceived. In the Chamber of Deputies another division
had taken place on Friday, but the question is of little or
no interest to the English reader. An attack was made
by M. FEUILLADE CUANoIN against the Keeper of the
Seals, for having violated the law in regard
to the Council of State, by the appointment
of a greater number of officers, called Maitre
des Requetes, than the law allowed. The
Keeper of the Seals, in his defence, showed that he acted
from motives of kindness to individuals who, deprived
of their situations, were yet held by the terms of the
law to have a right of promotion according as vacan-
cies fell in, and appealed to the Chamber
whether, supposing, which he did not admit,
that he had strained the law upon the side of
benevolence, he had not acted with perfect
good faith. M. VITET, the Chairman of the Committee
of Address, protested against the petty line of warfare
adopted by the Opposition, but they persisted in their
amendment which was, that after the words " The ac-
cord of the great. Powers," there should be added, "the
sincere execution of the laws." On a division there
were for the amendment, 181 ; against it, 206 ; majority,
25 for Ministers.

The Speech of the Queen of ENGLAND, at the open-
ing of Parliament, was received in Paris on Friday, and
had a favourable effect on the Funds. On Saturday the
market closed as follows :—Three per Cents. for Cash,
83f. 25c., for Account, 83f. 45c. ; Five per Cents. for
Cash, 121 f. 85c., for Account, 121 f. 90e. ; Bank of
France Shares, 3,375 f.; Neapolitan, 100 f. 50c.; Spanish
Threes, 39; Spanish Fives, 37i. New Loan not quoted.
The share.market has remained nearly the same. For
cash Paris and Orleans left off at 1,260 f.; Paris and
Rouen, 1,027 f. 50c. ; Rouen and Havre, 737 f. 50c. ;
Avignon, 980 ; Vierzon, 706 f. 25e. ; Strasburg and
Bale, 255 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 550 ; Northern,
757 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 645 f.
Definitives have receded. Lyons offered at 621 f. 25c. ;
Tours and Nantes, 571 f. 25c. ; Strasburgh, 548; and
Lyons and Avignon, 565.

BUSINESS DONE IN FORED;N RAILWAYS IT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 24.
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Ceti.* (Mackenzie's), 2—Ditto (Es-
plea's), 2—Demerara, 2% —Dutch Rhenish, 7% —East Indian. 1%
—Great Northern of Francs Constituted, 141 A, —Great Indian Pe-
ninsular, % —Great Western Bengal, I—Jamaica South Midland
Junetion, 5 Luxembourg, 2%--Namur and Liege, 334—Paris and
Lyons (Laftlite's), 21,i —West Flanders, 5 .

CABINET CouNcir--At one o'clock this afternoon a
Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Down-
ing-street, the summonses for which were issued on
Saturday. The Duke of Wellington, Lord Ellenborough
Sir Robert Peel, and most of the Ministets, were present'
Lord Mahon has tendered his resignation of his
office of Secretary to the Board of Control, but keeps it
back, at Sir Robert Peel's request, till after the an-
nouncement of the Ministerial measures. It is ru-
moured that the reason why a new writ has not yet
been moved for Ripon is that Lord De Gray' support of
the Ministry is not yet certain ; and the seat is not,
therefore, yet at Mr. Gladstone's service.
It is said that Mr. Goldamid, of the Chancery Bar,
and son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsinid, will offer himself
for Brighton, in conjunction with Captain Pechell, at the
next election. Mr. Guldsmid is a Jew, and if elected
could not sit ; but the return of a Jew by a large and
enlightened constituency like Brighton,' could hardly fail
to settle the question of Jewish emancipation.

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