The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-24 00:00:00

TUTS VVFNYNG

Will he produced Lord Ityron's gorgeous Spectscle of MAZEPPA
A-1.1 the WILD DORSAL. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Lucks.
To he succeeded by an Display of liatty's resits of
wnifitation In the Cirone Olympique, by the male and female Eques-
trians of the EstabliS:auent, and grand ragcaUt of The Festival of
Flowers.

To con,lnde with the lash able Farce of NEW LIGHTS ; or,
The Irish Pedagogue.
Box-office open fro:n Eleven till Four.
Stage A:minor, Mr. T. TtrrnpAon.

TO COWIESPQNDE
A Constant Reader" is informed that tho price of Annui-
ties for :10 years, ending 1860, is about 7 9-15 to %.

I Elt Al LONDON BRIDGE.

Tuts DAT Morning 35 min. after 3 t Evening 53 [dn. after 3
To-Moasow— Morning 12 min. after 4 I Evening 31 mm. cuter 4

THE WEATHER.—SCAT OFFICE, OcroßEz. 24.
THERHOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
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38—lowest this morning and during the night.
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LONDON, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1850.

It is generally admitted that " desperate cases re-
quire desperate remedies ;" that measures may he
adopted in pressing emergencies which would not for
a moment be contemplated under ordinary circum-
stances. These measures may sometimes prove suc-
cessful, the results may surprise the parties by whom
they were suggested; but they are at best but dan-
gerous expedients, that should: rarely be resorted to,
never until every milder course had been tested and
found ineffectual, and it was clear not only that no
alternative remained, but that there was no danger
of any ill consequences flowing from the fancied
care, which would not certainly occur if it were
rejected. In public matters, affecting the welfare
of the community, perchance the liberty of the sub-
ject, even greater caution is essential. Experimental
enactments are especially to be deprecated. Legis-
lative proceedings should be calm and deliberative, not
rash and hasty. Before new restrictive or penal laws
can be sanctioned, it must be distinctly shown that
those already in operation are wholly inadequate, and
that the deficiency lies in the law itself, and nut in the
mode of its administration.

The numerous burglaries and robberies that have
recently been perpetrated, the outrages which deprived
Mr. HOLLEST of his life and to which Mr. INIAItSTON
nearly fell a v.ctiin, have excited a panic in the
public mind, and loud demands are made for the
adoption of more effectual measures of prevention.
It is indeed desirable that every reasonable precaution
should be taken to afford protection to person and
property,' and to break up the organized bands of
ruffians—tbe predatory hordes whose hands are
against the entire community, who live in open and
undisguised hostility to the law of the land, and make
a trade of thieving, following it, as others do " tailor-
ing" or bastck-m4king," fur a subsistence. But in
attempting to achieve this great object care must be
taken not to treipass on the limits which the law has
wisely assigned f.r the security of the innocent, of
those who are entleivvouriog tot arn their (-laity bread' by
their honest industry. Let habitual plunderers be dealt
with on conviction as severely as the law permits--
send those who are found to ba incorrigible out of
the country, as suggested by Mr. RiGBY WASON, or
keep them in prolonged seclusion, compelling them
to work harder within the prison walls than they
would be required to do to earn an honest livelihood
without, as proposed by the Rev. JOHN DAVIS,
the excellent ordinary of Newgate—lo everything
practicable to prevent youths from swelling the
ranks of the criminal population, or to reclaim them
so long as the slightest hope can be entertained of
their reformation ; but do not substitute suspicion for
proof, abrogate that which his long been considered
the palladium of British liberty, or establish a police
and magisterial despotism on the ruins of the Con
stitu.t.ton even for objects so desirable as to diminish