The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-23 00:00:00

subject it may not be amiss to remark that, in
the case of coroner's inquests, both the selection
of the jury and arranging the evidence rest in
hands not very fit to be intrusted with so re-
sponsible and important a duty. The parish
beadle, the last remains of the Dogberry race,
is not the person on whom these duties, especially
the latter, should devolve ; and, indeed, consi-
dering how often the conduct of parish officers is
involved in these inquiries, it is above all things
desirable that they should not have it in their
power to defeat the objects of these important
inquiries, and obtain a species of acquittal and
applause for themselves which, under other and
impartial circumstances, would not unfrequently
end in a very different result.—Morn. Herald.
The Beer Bill, it seems, is to be "amended."
Not a day passed since the very beginning of
those discussions in which the present Bill ori-
ginated without producing some effort on the
part of monopolizing brewers and jobbing ma-
gistrates to prevent, in the first place, its passing
into a law, and afterwards to get the law repealed
and the old system of brewer and justice despo-
tism to be re-established in all its iniquity. It
hurts the fastidiousness of certain grandees, as
it does the sordid and selfish interests of others,
that the magistrates should have so little power
to refuse a beer license to an unfriended appli-
cant, however unblemished may be his reputa-
tion, and to bestow it, and a spirit licens• to
boot, upon another party, whose sole merit is
comprised in the fact of his being a ready slave
to some great firm or distillery, or a favourite
with some worshipful personage on the
Bench. It galls the old dispensers of ale
and spirit-shop patronage, that the working-
classes of the people should be at liberty to
drink cheap beer, and the beerhouse keeper to
buy it in the open market, wherever he can get
it best, and on the easiest terms. In truth, the
breaking up of that curse of England, monopoly,
whatever branch of industry, or right, or power,
it may have invaded, is sure to throw the whole
den of thieves into agonies of rage and mortifi-
cation. No endeavour, therefore, has been left
untried to extinguish or neutralize the free trade
in beer, so that " the Bench" may be enabled,
by a new Act of Parliament, to resume in one
shape or other the privilege of tormenting both
the licensed vender and the humble consumer
of that essential article. The Local Magis-
trates, therefore, according to the Report
of a Committee, at the head of which
stands the inauspicious name of Lord Chan-
dos, are to have a power of determining
at what rate between 71. and 151. beer licenses
shall be granted A tolerable stretch of autho-
rity this, and a pretty large field for caprice and
oppression. We hope at least that if Nit.. Lamb
perseveres in his motion to amend the existing
law, he will not be guided implicitly by the dog-
mas of Lord Chandos' Committee. It is evident
to us that a few very mild and easy regulations,
merely administrative in their character, would
suffice to put down any frolicsome irregularities
which may now disturb the refined tastes of
men of rank, who drive past the beer-house
doors at the rate of 10 or 12 miles an hour ;
and that a few judicious instructions from ma-
gistrates, addressed in good temper to the land-
lords of such shops, might, without any harsh
restraint upon the poor, or any tyrannical and
odious intermeddling by the affluent, render
quite superfluous the ponderous and suspicious
machinery of an Act of Parliament founded on
Chandos principles to cure them.— Times.

Two very important amendments were last
right proposed in the Committer.: on the Irish
Church Temporalities Bill by the Duke of Wel-
lington, acceded to by Earl Grey, and of course
adopted without much discussion. The first
amendment was to the effect that one of the
Lay Commissioners to be appointed to carry
certain provisions of the Bill into effect, instead
of being nominated by the Crown, shall be
elected by the Lord Primate of Ireland and the
Archbishop of Dublin. The second was an
amendment of the same nature, but carrying
the principle to a greater extent with respect to
all vacancies in the Commission which may from
time to time occur, from death, resignation, or
removal. The Noble Duke moved that the
power of filling up all such vacancies should be
placed in the hands of the Lord Primate, and
not of the Crown. It is not possible, we fear,
that this Bill should be so completely metatnor-
phosed in the House of Lords as to become
a beneficial or prudent act of legislation. But
we see good ground for the opinion that it will
come out of the hands of their Lordships a
much less desperate, pernicious, and unprin-
cpipled measure than it was when they received
it.—Morning Post.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is
said to be generally at business at the Treasury by nine
o'clock in the morning, and, on an aver, Vie, attends 17
hours out of the 2l.—Lord PALMERSTON commences
later in the day, but frequently continues till four in the
morning.

MELANCIIOLY CASE OF SUICIDE.-Yes-
terday an inquest was held at the York and Albany
Tavern, Park-street, Camden-town, on the body of Mr.
JAMES HAY MAN, late landlord of the White Hart,
Catherine-street, Strand. The body of the deceased was
found in the Regent's Canal, on Saturday morning; his
hands were wrapped round at the wrists, with a yellow
silk handkerchief. Mr. SWEETLAND, of John•street,
Fitzroy-square, said, the deceased was related to him, and
slept at his house on Friday night. On Saturday morn-
ing he got up before breakfast and went out, saying he
should take a walk. He then appeared quite composed.
The deceased had for some time laboured under a delusion
that all his affairs were going wrong, though they were in
a very prosperous state. Mr. CALLAGHAN, collector of
the parochial rates for St. Paul's Covent-garden, said he
had known the deceased, who was much respected, for
more than 20 years ; be had lately been very despondent.
On Friday last, be was returning with him in a steamer,
from a trip to Gravesend, when be leaned his head upon
the gunwhale, and taking witness by the hand, said,
" Oh, my dear friend, what will become of my dear wife
and my poor mother? I have no wish to do anything
wrong, but I shall never get over it." Verdict—Tempo-
rary Insanity.
DELICATE AND DIFFICULT NEGOTIATION.
-Eight of the principal dancers of the Opera, Mesdames
NOBLET, LEGALLOIS, JULIA, ALEXIS DUPONT, PAULINE
LEROUX, PAULINE DUVERNAT, CLEMENCE VAGON, and
VARIN, are engaged to dance a quadrille at the grand ball
to be tiven at the Hotel de Ville in honour of the fetet! of
July. The following account of the negotiation preceding
the engagement is in current circulation :--After M. VER-
RON had called them to his office, and acquainted them
with the wishes of the Prefect, the Ladies reflected, and
conversed together for a moment; then Mdlle. NOBLET,
the senior of the party, said that she should only ask 500 f.
and a carriage. Ail the others immediately declared that
they would adhere to the moderate demand made by their
friend. Granted, said the Director ; every one shall
receive 500 f. and have a carriage at her disposal. Have
you any observations to make ? One of the ladies then
expressed a wish to be permitted to retire after the close
of the quadrille. Granted. The lady was promised that
after having danced officially she would not be obliged to
compromise herself by staying at the ball. Another
wished that her carriage might be escorted by the muni-
cipal guard, in order to prevent her being exposed to delay
or inconvenience from the crowd which would encumber
the streets. This claim is to be the subject of a special
negotiation with the administration of the department, but
it is not yet certain that it will be granted. It is, how-
ever, hoped that the Prefect will find means to remove this
difficulty, as well as all other obstacles which may occur at
so momentous an arrangement.