The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-26 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Mr. B. Webster, dale Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton.
THIS EVENING,
Will be presented an entirely new and original Comedy, entitled
LEAP YEAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Sir Solomon Solus,
Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstone ;
William Walker, Er. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Floweriew, Mrs.
Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Mrs. Crisp,
Mrs. Keeley.
After which THE NINTH STATUE or, The Jewels and
The Gem. Principal characters by Mr. Munyard, Miss P. Horton,
Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam.
To conclude with the Farce of AN ALARMING SACRIFICE
The Boa-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer.

THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI.
Under the di-colon of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW
COPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed-
fore , O. Smith, Worrell; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar.
After which FRANKENSTEIN ; or, The Model Man. Franken-
stein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It ? Mr. P. Bedford; Zamiel, Mr. 0.
smith ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woolgar ; Tiddlewincz, Miss E.
Chaplin ; Agatha, Miss Coveny ; Undine, Miss E. Harding.

. _
To be followed by a new slippery sketch called MRS. BURBURY'S
SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. Bedford ; Bob Twinks,
Mr. Wright; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F.
Matthews; Mrs. Highbnry Barnes, Miss Brooks.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed a new and original comic Opera called MINA
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Ilarrison, Weiss, Corri, Wynn
Mrs. Weiss, and Miss Louisa Pyne.

To conclude with KING JAIME ; or, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle
Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Flex-
more ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett.

£STLE i'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty.
THIS EVENTS(.
:The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a
new Grand Spectacle of THE KNIGHT OF THE EAGLE CREST;
or, The Tonrnay of Love, in which Mr. N. T. Hicks will appear.
To be followed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of
:he Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish-
ment.
To conclude with a grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, by Nel-
son Lee, called HARLEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, who came to
Town upon his little Pony.
Box-office open from Eleven till Emir.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRID.'4E.

Tins DAT "t,rnlng, 15 min. after 11 f Evening, 49 min. after 11
To-Moszow —Morning, 0 min. after 0 Evealn.„ 19 mlu. after 12

WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, JAN. 26
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44. Highest, 48; Noon, 48.
BAROMETER. 29.48; falling fast.
WIND variable from W. to N.W.—mild and cloudy.

an object of the Government. I should be giving a
very narrow view of the importance of the occasion
if I were to tell you that this was an object of the
nation. I could only be giving a true account of the
occasion if I were to tell you that it was an object
beneficial to all nations." This enlarged and cosmo-
politan view of the character of the Exhibition it is

which has induced the Royal Commission to abandon
the original contracts and to throw themselves en-

tirely upon the country. That the country
will respond to the generous confidence of the
Commissioners we are satisfied, especially
after witnessing the rapid increase of the preliminary
subscription from the first few hundreds to the pre-
sent total of more than 11,0001. Before 1850 has
expired we are sanguine that the preparations for
the proposed Exhibition will be so far advanced that
we shall await with security the new year and its
splendid demonstration.

It is,
indeed, difficult to conceive the grounds upon
which the re-admission of Mr. WILLIAM HENRY
BARBER, to whose fearful and heartrending, but
most unmerited sufferings, we recently alluded, to
the active duties of his profession can be resisted.
What can be the objects of the Incorporated Law
Society in exposing that cruelly persecuted and ill-
used gentleman to new and formidable expenses, and
vexatious and harassing delays ? Under the peculiar
circumstances of his case his application should at
once have been conceded ex debito justitim, or,
at the very least, the accusations should
be of a direct and tangible character, sustained
by prima facie evidence sufficient, if unanswered, to
justify the expulsion of the party from the list of at-
torneys, if then in possession of his certificate. The
former charge of being concerned in the vile for-
geries, with a guilty knowledge of the frauds, had
been fully adjudicated on by the only authority re-
cognized by law, by which the erroneous decision of
a jury upon facts could be revised, or modified.
After the most stringent•and searching inquiry, after
maturely weighing every circumstance of the case,
not as a jury would do, where the benefit of
any reasonable doubt should have been given
to the party on trial, but as a judge
in a civil case, deciding on the balance of evidence,
Sir GEORGE GREY arrived at the deliberate conclu-
sion that Mr. BARBER was "free from any guilty
participation in the frauds, of which he had been
made the instrument." Here, then, the subject was
finally and for ever closed. The innocent and much
injured man could not be subjected to a new trial
at the prosecution, we had almost written per-
secution, of an irresponsible body. If he had even
evinced a want cf due caution, which we most em-
phatically and positively deny, and on which we would
willingly join issue with his oppressors, has he not
already far more than sufficiently expiated the over-
confidence in the character of his wealthy and, as he
believed, respectable client ? Ii the breaking up of
his former connexion, the loss of the position and
standing in his profession, to the very highest point
of which he was rapidly progressing, to be accounted
as nothing ? Is the total annihilation of five of the
best years of his life, during which he would unques-
tionably have acquired a handsome independence by
his own indefatigable exertions, and the necessity of
commencing his labours de novo, to be considered
a light or trivial punishment for a simple
act or acts of indiscretion Above all, is the weary
and tedious voyage, for more than one-third of a
year, as a manacled felon, in a floating dungeon—
the miserable captivity in that earthly hell, Norfolk
Island, for nearly three years, during which he was
compelled to perform the most degrading offices—a
slave among the most miserable and wretched of
slaves, and in which he was deprived of the scanty in-
dulgences allowed to the most criminal of his guilty
associates, to be altogether involved in oblivion ? No !
if the vague and unwarranted suspicions, of his
worst enemies, his most unrelenting antagonists, were
even as well-founded as they are really false and un
justifiable, he has endured hardships and privations,
he has sustained heavy and irretrievable losses, far
more than sufficient to have atoned for every fault
of omission or commission that had ever been
ascribed to him, and he should now be received with
open arms by his legal brethren, and cordially wel-
comed back to the arena of his former labours—the
busy scenes of professional life.
What then, we again ask, can be the ob-
jects or motives of the Incorporated Law So-
ciety, which is supposed to represent the great and
influential body of attorneys and-solicitors, not only
in the metropolis, but throughout the entire king-
dom, in bringing their entire strength to bear against
a single individual whose means of resistance have
been so greatly reduced by previous misfortunes ?
The duties which the association has undertaken,
and for which it was constituted, are simple and
clear; they are to take cognizance of any improper
or unprofessional conduct by members already,
admitted, and to guard against the introduc-
tion of persons whose characters were so blasted,
and reputations so totally destroyel, that they would
reflect disgrace upon an honourable profession. But
in the proper and efficient discharge of these impor•
tant duties, the society must deal with facts and not
with surmises ; they must bring forward distinct
and unequivocal charge!, which may be fairly grap-
pled with and successfully rebutted ; they must not
establish a domestic inquisition, prying into the most
secret events of an entire life, on the mere possibility
cf establishing some grave offence ; they must
not call upon the suitor to perform a literal
impossibility, " to prove a negative," to show
that he has ever been free from blame
or imputation ; they must not call for proofs
and evidences such as no tribunal that was ever
established has ventured to demand. They attempted
in Mr. BARBER'S case to institute an inquiry into his
entire private and professional conduct, to produce
unknown and unnamed witnesses to establish charges
openly alleged or fairly put forward, but which were
concealed in the thoughts, or rather the suspicions, of
the managing committee. That attempt most sig-
nally failed. The Learned and eminent Judge (PAT
TESON), to whom their application was preferred, most
properly refused to notice their vague insinuations, or
to sanction an investigation which was wholly without
a precedent in the entire history of British jurispru-
dence ; and yet, although their failure was so signal,
they have succeeded in protracting the inquiry for
nearly an entire year, at an enormous expense and
most serious injury.to Mr. BARBER.
It is a trite remark, that members of a public and
irresponsible body will, in their collective character,
be guilty of acts of which, as private gentlemen,
they would blush to be supposed capable. It has
been, we fear erroneously, supposed that a numerous and
important association could not be influenced by private
or personal considerations, and that its every act must
be regarded as emanating from the purest and most
straightforward motives and intentions. But, un-
fortunately, there are but too often " wheels within
wheels ;" there are secret machinations and concealed
influences in operation, of which the public can know
nothing, and which they can scarcely understand or
conceive as being within the bounds of possibility.
A preliminary mistake often leads the erring
parties to lengths which they themselves
would shrink from, if placed fairly before
them in the first instance. They speedily cease
to struggle for justice, the contest becomes one for
victory—for victory—we say. to be obtained under
any circumstances, and at any cost. The Law Society
have maintained their first false position too long ;
they now endeavour rather to justify themselves than
to preserve the purity and honour of their profession.
Having struck the first blow on frivolous and insuffi-
cient grounds, a spirit of rampant and virulent anta-
gonism has sprung up, growing on what it fed—
" nursing its wrath to keep it warm," which it would
appear could only be satisfied by the destruction
of the doomed victim. Victory, not truth, is now
the object. Air. BARBER must not, however, despair;
his case will be disposed of by a high and impartial
tribunal. No preconceived prejudices, no secret
bias will influence the judgment of a British Court
of Justice. Ills judges are above fear, and above
reproach ; magna eat veritas, et prevalebit. How-
ever thick the mists, and dense the darkness with
which prejudice may, for a time, succeed in enveloping
a subject, the light of truth will eventually shine
forth clearly and brilliantly and dispel all de-
lusions. He, above most men, should know
that there is an overruling PROVIDENCE,
a retributive justice at work, that breaks
the fetters of the captives—that takes the sting from

4 t., ft. 7.
.7. •
• .
4_ll,
7 50,7 •
frA6"6—..l*(ll, t
• eh- ,
'tj °T#O.l.-.rte• 4' It° 'l4 •-•,•--"'
*0,4 04
_