The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-13 00:00:00

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—The reported omission of sixty-three
names from the special jury panel, and the probable
result upon the proceedings of this strange negli-
gence, or something worse, on the part of the func-
tionaries whose duty it was to preserve the list
intact, was commented upon at some length in
yesterday's Globe. The discovery was alluded to
by the Dublin correspondents of every London
journal of yesterday, without respect to its political
character. From the universal credence given to the
rumour, it was regarded as unquestionably true. The
Dublin Monitor of Wednesday (received yesterday)
also gave the report ; accompanied by a circumstantial
explanation of the mode by which the missing sheets
of names was accounted for. No contradiction
is given of the report by this morning's ar-
rivals from Dublin, where the rumour still
prevailed. An application was to be made
yesterday by the prosecutors to the Court, that in
the event of the trials not having terminated on
the 31st inst., each succeeding day, up to the 15th of
April, should be considered as a continuation of
Hilary Term for the purposes of the said trials—a
course determined on, it was generally supposed, on
the discovery of the omission, and to meet the exigen-
cies of the case. The Times of this morning assumes
the truth of the facts as they have appeared, but sug-
gests that the omission of the 63 names will not
operate to vitiate the panel, or retard the trials.
The Standard, more vigilant than discreet, employs
its proverbial sophistry to raise doubts respecting the
truth of the report. I laving stated, from a careful
examination, that the first name on the list is "John

Alley," and the last " John Yeates," it then infers
that their can be no lost sheets containing 63 names;
*for there could not be 63 names before John Alley
after John Yeates." As a specimen of our Contem-
-perary's mode of settling, byassumption, a matter which
is by this time placed beyond question by an official ad-
mission or repudiation of the statement, the following
extract from the Standard's article may suffice :- -"In
order to meet the possible case, that the numbers were
not prefixed to the names in the first instance, and
that they, in consequence, do not furnish complete
proof of the integrity of the list, we have applied an-
other test. We have taken the last Dublin Directory
list of the resident nobility, gentry, merchants, trus-
tees, &c., and having pretty accurately ascertained the
number of names under each letter, have applied the
ratio of names in the Directory to the ratio of the
names in the list, and find them to correspond with
wonderful precision. We are thus confirmed in our
opinion that there is nothing in the story of the
missing sheets." To this very ingenious mode of
mystifying a matter of fact, we might oppose—first,
the high probability that if the statement were not
true, it would before this have met with an au-
thoritative contradiction; and, secondly, that—taking
the Standard's own mode of disproving " the story
of the missing slieeit'iroisiy to assume that
the two missingsliWti consist of the first and last of the
series, and the whole fabric of the Standard's inferen-
tial argument in disproof of the story falls to the
ground. The Court Circular of this morning con-
tains au announcement which seems to strengthen the
rumour respecting this " untoward event." Another
Cabinet Council (the third during this week) was
held yesterday. The Council sat three hours. All
the Ministers were present. Such frequent meetings
of the Cabinet, and such long deliberations, imply the
existence of a dilemma which calls for combined
counsel, and the necessity of providing means for meet-
ing difficulties which have arisen suddenly, and the
existence of which were not anticipated. The ex-
clusion of every Catholic from the panel is, however,
felt by the Times to be the pinching difficulty. That
extraordinary stretch of prerogative—involving at
once the determination, on the part of the Go-
vernment, to pack a jury, in order, if possible, to
obtain a verdict at any cost; and this, though the in-
sult and injury inflicted upon the religion of seven-
eighths of the Irish population by the monstrous pro-
ceeding should inflame the public mind in Ireland
to a pitch of irrepressible excitement. This reproach
the Government—rail as its supporters may at thase
who denounce the ill-advised and indefensible act—
cannot roll away. The blunderings which have oc-
curred in the course of the proceedings may
be attributed to subordinates. The Times may
deplore " the way in which Irish placemen dis-
charge their duties," and " the manner in which an
English Government is likely to be served." The
instructions to strike every Roman Catholic name
from the panel was, manifestly, the orders of the
Government. The idea was conceived in the spirit
which would subjugate by intimidation a people
it lacks the generosity to propitiate by treating
them as fellow-citizens ; and is a practical exemplifi-
cation of the never-to-be-forgotten fulmination of the
Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst—" The Irish people are
aliens." The Times endeavours to justify the pro-
ceeding; but does so in a way which—if the writer
of the argument be not deemed insane, and there-
fore noetnewerable fur his own acts, and whose acts
ought not to be allowed to damage others—must be
taken as demonstrative of the insecure tenure on
-which Ireland is held by the British Crown under a
Tory Ministry.
STANDARD—.The Morning Chronicle infers,
from the impunity hitherto indulged to Mr. Cobden
and the Leaguers, that the Repealers ought not to
be prosecuted. To this we reply, " Wait a while."
Mr. Cobden and the Leaguers, whatever sums of
money they may exhibit upon paper, whatever con-
verts they may gain among the silliest of silly people
—" foolish lords,"— and they have succeeded in
catching three of the softest heads in the
House of Lords—whatever the Leaguers may
say or do, they are at present simply con-
temptible. Let the . Leaguers remember that Mr.
O'Connell and his associates had their " day of
grace," a much longer day than the Leaguers have
yet had ; that the Repealers had " three warnings,"
whereas the Leaguers have not yet had one. Let
tinkm, then, not be jealous if the O'Connellites are
prosecuted and they are not ; all in good time. Let
the Leaguers, if they are really candidates for
martyrdom, speak out as plainly as Mr. O'Con-
nell spoke at Mallow Clifden, Tara, and our own
ever memorable " dullaghmast of the Martyrs ;"
above all, let them organise militasy processions,
and meetings of tens of thousands to threaten
the public peace. But no; the last they neither can
nor will do ; cannot, because even hundreds will not
assemble, unhired, at their call; and if they were to
take part in any very public procession, according to
late experience, it would be a procession in their
favour to some shallow horse-pond. At present the
League is merely an object of disgust and
-etritempt to the country, and it hourly be-
comes more loathsome and contemptible ; but the
rule is " De minimis non curet lex," and they who are
appointed to put the law in motion, only upon proper
occasions, act -wisely and constitutionally in winking
at petty follies, and even at crimes that are only
ridiculous. Perhaps the time may come when the
League will be properly prosecuted as a swindling
conspiracy—but we confidently predict that it will
never be worthy of a State prosecution in any other
aspect. "The Government unable to enter thF,
lists against the repealer of the corn-laws !
In what county of England could such a pro-
position be gravely maintained without provoking a
burst of laughter ? Let the League dispose of Mr.
]'errand, who alone is wore than a match for them,
and even then they will have enough to do, before they
can be in a condition to challenge the Government.

DRATII or LADY BURDETT.—We deeply regret
to announce the death of Lady Burdett, which took
ipl!tee yesterday morping in St. James's-place, at twenty
Inmates past eight.