The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-29 00:00:00

PHUT OF THE PUBLIC JOLIINALS,

We are informed in a letter from Lisbon, that
the l'oung Marchioness of Louie, with her hus-
band, intend to quit Portugal on or before the
Arrival of her brother Don Miguel. The old
Queen, likewise, is expected to chan-,;e her quar-
ters at that time. Her Majesty, it is said, will pro-
ceed to Rome, and probably occupy the residence
in which her father and mother died. The young
couple have announced an intention of visiting
England in the first instance, and thence pro-
c=eeding to join their mother in Italy. These
arran,geruents (independently c,f the authority on
which they rest) are extremely probable. It is
ragely that the youne Regent has now lost a con-
siderable portion of its veneration fer the autho-
rity of a parent, who in 1821 urged his inexpe-
rience to such criminal excesses ; and that she,
on her part, would iislike dependence upon a
son, over whom her influence must now be
rreatly if not entirely annihilated.
t'At the sail;Mg of the packet from Lisbon on the
20th ine"cant, Government workmen had begun
to erext in the Great Square a magnificent tent
for receiving the Prince Regent on his debarks-
'tion. It is the same as that v hick afforded
ehade and shelter to his father, King John VI.,
on his arrival from Braeil. The authorities of
the capital are preparing to receive the Infant
with expensive festivities and brilliant
No people on earth arc more lavish of
their rejoicings, or more prodigal of their money
on such occasions, than the-Portuguese. When
Philip 111. eisited Lisbon, some time efter his
eecession, he was welcomed, though a foreigner
and an usurper, with such teng,nificent fetes, as
not only impoverished the Royal Treasury, but
-elesurbed considerable funds collected to con-
struct an aqueduct for supplying the city with
water, We have seen a large volume, published
et the time for celebrating those fetes, and de-
eeribing the triumphal arches throu,Ali which his
Majesty passed. In that work the misapplica-
tion of the public money is boasted of as an act
of heroic loyalty:— Times.
It is supposed that from the absence of all the
),Ifinisters, except Lord Palmerston, there will
be little said or done in the House of Commons
this evening. An explanation may probably be
given by Mr. Tierney of the circumstances which
led to the dissolution of the late Cabinet ; and
a similar one will, it is thought, be made on the
Lart of Lord Lansdowne, in the Upper House.
ord Grey, who is in town, has, it is under-
7;teod, expressed his disapprobation of the man-
ner in which this Ministry has been constructed.
Sir Charles Wetherell resumes his former office
cif Attorney-General ; and Mr. Sugdeu has, we
believe, accepted from °Ministers the tender of a
seat in the House or commons. The eOlninand
of the Army will, according to some reports, be
offered to the Earl of Donoughmore. Lord
Beresford is spoken of as Master-General of the
Ordnance, vice the Marquis of Anglesea ; but
in that etee, of course, it will not be a Cabinet
office. Sir H. Hardinge and Sir George Clerk
return to their old posts.—lbid.
We are glad to find that the extreme unfitness
and inconvenience of the Public Office, Bow-
street, has at length attracted public attention.
It is most provokingly nonsensical to see public
money laid out, apparently without a limit, on
useless objects—such, for instance, as some of
the goings on in and about the Parks—when
places of general resort, where life, property, and
liberty are at stake, and in which every possible
facility of access should be afforded, are of a de-
scription far below any thing which could be
imagined by those who, fortunately, have no
occasion to resort to them. Of course it
ould be beneath a Committee of Taste to di-
eeet their views to any thing so vulgar as utility ;
but there is another body, called the Board of
Woiks, whose avocation, we should think, might
permit them to turn their attention to public
buildings such as this, where the art of man
3ould not have contrived any thing so totally de-
void of every shadow of convenience, both as to
:pace and arrangement, as this far-famed struc-
ture presents. Most, if not all, the rest of the
Police Offices, are, we believe, more or less, in
the same state ; and a man may almost as well
endeavour to essay the one-shilling gallery on a
benefit night as to obtain access to any of them
On some occasions. i\lr. Peel's return to the
Home Office has, we believe, given very general
satisfaction to the country ; and it is to be hoped
that, among other matters connected with that
Department, he will turn his attention to the
want of accommodation in those places—and, by
so doing, thus enable his own improvements in
the law to have something like fair play in places
where they are so constantly brought into action.
—fforning Herald.
We presume, whatever course-is proposed to-
day in the House of Commons, will, from cour-
tesy be adopted, as there cannot be more than
one Cabinet Minister present. It would be
deemed, no doubt, ungenerous to take advan-
tage of the absence of the Servants of the Crown,
to enter on subjects connected with the measures
of Administration. In the House of Lords the
same reasons do not exist for reserve ; and it
would not, therefore, surprise us, if a discussion
were to start up in that House. It is impossi-
ble for any one to say exactly, however, what
course will be followed in either House in the
present disjointed state of parties. Who are the
Opposition ? Who arc the Ministerialists ?
Mr. Canning's Administration, composed of
Tories and Whigs) led to an opposition of To-
ries and Whigs. The Duke of Wellington's
Administration is too moderate for the Ultra
Tories, and we shall, consequently, have an op-
position of Tories and Whigs. Ministers, by
endeavouring to meet the wishes of the violent
of the Tories, "ill, in the, proportion in which
they gain support from them, lose the support of
the moderate, Moderate measures and a dispo-
talon to economise, will obtain them the
.support of the Whigs as as of liberal
•
Jones. As they cannot please both Mo-
derates and Ultras, they must make their
election between them. The latter evi-
calculate on the Administration be-
dently
becoming more ultra, and if disappointed they
will oppose the Government. The Couricr says,
Lord Lowther cannot be spared from public
life." The English of this, we suppose, is, that
if his Lordship Is not made a placemau, he will
oppose Ministers.
God forbid that we should
think of doubting the profundity of a Statesman,
who can command a dozen votes. We have
elsewhere made some extracts from the country
papers on the subject of the New Ministry. They
are, like ourselves, exceedingly perplexed what
to make of the matter. With respect to his
Grace himself, the idea among them is, that he
is a mere locum tenons, and that the moment
his colleagues can agree as to another head, he
will descend from his elevation. Perhaps he
will make way for Lord Lowther. The Duke,
hewever, has his admirers as well as Mr. Hus-
kieeon and Mr. Peel. :John Bull goes indeed

so far as to maintain that he is the only diplo-
matist in Europe, who is at all a match for Prince
Metternich, anti that under his auspices the
Cabinet of James's will rival that of Vienna.
But with respect to Lord Ellenborough,
we should be a little alarmed for him,
if we were not aware that he stands so high in
his own opinion, that he can safely dispense with
the approbation of others. By his habit of
speaking on one side and voting on the other,
he has ingeniously contrived to have the good
word of neither ; and his call to the Ministry,
though it may not have surprised himself, has
surprised every one else. In Smith's Theory
of illoral Sentiments, there is a passage some-
what applicable to Lord Ellenborough, which
we would recommend to their notice, as it holds
out a ray of hope that the case of his Lordship
is by no means yet so desperate as they might
think it : " Though your son (says he), under
five-and-twenty years of age, should be but a
coxcomb, do not upon that account despair of
his becoming, before he is forty, a very wise and
worthy man, and a real proficient in all those ta-
lents and virtues to which at present he may
only he an ostentatious and empty pretender."
Now, though tlrc term coxcomb has been applied
to his Lordship, and that so late as Sunday last,
by the contemporary from whom we yesterday
borrowed an account of the Administration,
and who gave the following old song as descrip-
tive of him.
A coxcomb, a fop,
A dainty milksop,
All cssenced and dizencd
From bottom to top,
NI ho looks just like a doll from a milliner's shop.
A thing full of prate,
All pride and conceit,
All fashion, no weight,
Who shrugs and takes snuff,
And carries a muff.
A minnikin,tinnikin,
Finnikin, minnikin,
French powder and puff."
And though it would be hardly candid to affirm
that his Lordship's opinion of himself has not
considerably outrun that entertained by the world,
yet months must elapse before the ominous pe-
riod of forty is passed ; and who knows but his
Lordship may in the mean time find himself
some morning in the possession of all the wis-
dom that it is desirable a British Statesman
should possess ? His Lordship passes for a Whig.
He does not possess, it would seem, that indif-
ference fbr office on which the Whig Leaders
have always, in our opinion, very foolishly
piqued themselves. It is not a merit, but a po-
sitive demerit, that men who have allowed them-
selves to be placed in the front of their party,
should be indifferent to office. They either
conceive their views important, with reference to
the public benefit, or they do not. In the former
case, they are bound to neglect no means which
will enable them to give effect to them. If tire
possession of great wealth indisposes them to
the fatigues of office and leads them to prefer the
distinction of a leader out of place to a Member
of an Administration, it is fitting they should
know that this does not give them an additional
title to the esteem of their fellow-citizens. We
are the more earnest on this head, because it has
not unfrequently been the fashion to talk of an
indifference to office as a merit—as if men sought
office merely as a personal advantage, and as if
public men were not deeply responsible for every
opportunity of which they neglect to avail them-
selves for placing themselves in a situation in
which they may, by themselves and others
sharing their views, render service to their coun-
try.—Morning Chronicle.
The second Session of the present Parliament
commences this day, when the Royal Speech
will be delivered by Commission. The Address
to the King will be moved and seconded, in the
Lords by the Duke of Montrose and the Earl of'
Chichester—in the Commons, by the Hon. C.
-Jenkinson and Mr. It. Grant. During_ the
greater part of the last Session the state of the
Administration was such as to make it one of
the chief objects to silence the deliberative voice
of the Legislature. The mask of unanimity,
which could for a time be worn with decent
composure in the Cabinet, was sure, it was uni-
versally felt, to drop off in the more animated
discussions of the two Houses of Parliament,
and the instinct of self-preservation taught a
Ministry which could agree in few other things,
to agree in this, that the postponement of all
matters of national interest was an interest of
theirs paramount to every other. Happily for
the country, the Session now about to begin
opens under auspices exceedingly different from
those which overhung and obscured the
greater portion of the last. We have now
an Administration which will not fear to
take a part in the public discussion of
any subject of national importance, from
the apprehension that points of disunion
may be discovered which they deem it essen-
tial to conceal. The public curiosity will be
satisfied early in the Session, probably at its very
commencement, as to the circumstances which
immediately led to the dissolution of the late
Administration. These circumstances are, it is
true, of no very great importance to the nation
now that we know them to have effected the
formation of a Ministry, worthy of and sure to
possess its unbounded confidence. Yet do we
not feel ourselves warranted to pronounce this
curiosity altogether idle or useless, since the cha-
racters of men who hold, or have held, or who
aspire, and may hereafter aspire to, exalted sta-
tions in the Government, cannot be too tho-
roughly known to the community. As to the
principles upon which the existing Government
is to be carried on, no honest doubt can exist in
the mind of a single individual in the country,
and no disclosures upon this head can be re-
quired. We trust, therefore, that every 'Mem-
ber of the Administration will be restrained by a
feeling of personal dignity from rehearsing the
tenets of his political creed—will be content to
let his past and his future conduct speak for him,
and resolved to leave the affected doubts and the
offensive anxieties of faction to their natural
punishment and their only effectual cure—ad-
ministered by a grateful and applauding nation.
Faction has often resorted to shallow artifices,
but it never before employed one so shallow as
the insinuation that the present Administration
is founded upon compromise. To what sub-
jects,would beg to inquire, does this silly in-
si ua t 0 wen
apply rls it to that of the Catholic
Claims ? The last Administration, We know,
existed by a scandalous compromise upon this
subject—for the profesSions of its most in-
fluential members flowed -in one direction,
and its active influence inn another; but the
present Ministry
is of a very different cha-
racter. Its, leading members are decidedly op-
posed to these claims, while ~ the subordinate
members who entertain opinions in their favour
are left individually at liberty to promote them.
A whole Administration cannot wave its opinion
upon such a subject without dishonour—indi-
vidual members, forming the weaker part of an

Administration, may honourably and consistently
do so. Then, as to the theories in favour of
free trade, is there any reason for the supposi-
tion that the opinions of Mr. I luskisson differ
materially from those of the other Members of
the present Administration, or that any compro-
mise on either side can have been necessary ?
Can one of the measures which arc called his
be pointed out (and it is known that these mea-
sures have not our unqualified approbation),
in the responsibility for which the Duke of Wel-
lington, Mr. Peel, Lord Bathurst, Lord Melville,
and we might add even the Earls of Liverpool
and Eldon, have not been united with him It
may safely be asserted, that there is not one
in this splendid list of Statesmen who was
ever capable of shrinking from his individual
duty by yielding implicit and unreflecting con-
fidence to the opinions of a colleague. If Mr.
Huskisson has erred therefore in common with
many of the greatest men who were ever engaged
in the service of this or any other nation ; and if
errors, common to so many, have been detected
by experience, why should their correction, while
it is not yet too late, be considered in one rather
than in others, a dereliction of principle ? It is
one of the most shallow and will prove one of
the most fruitless artifices of faction so to con-
sider it. But is needless for us to insist further
upon this very obvious view of the subject. We
are persuaded that no feelings of false pride, no
mistaken substitution of obstinacy for consistency,
no dread of factious vituperation will induce
the present Administration to persevere in any
course which experience has shown to be unsafe,
or deter them from retracing any steps, whether
taken by others or themselves, which have al-
ready injured or seem likely to injure any impor-
tant interest of the State. All palpable injuries
will honourably be remedied—all proved grievan-
ces will gladly be redressed.—Morning Post.
Parliament will this day be opened by Com-
mission, and the business of one of the most im-
portant Sessions ever known in the history of
the country will commence. Important, not
merely because it will decide the fate of parties,
and put an end to that anomalous state in which
men of all opinions tried in vain to form a com-
pact and harmonious body ; but because it must
bring into discussion every great public interest,
and place the policy of' Government at home and
abroad on a fixed, defined, and, let us hope, a
sound and substantial basis. That this would
be the case without the aid of Parliament, is not
to be imagined. However strenuous have been
the efforts of individuals, and of individuals
most distinguished in the land, and most deeply
invested with public confidence, to form an
Administration acting on one and the same
principle, those efforts have not proved suc-
cessful. We possess, indeed, a Ministry whose
head has sufficient strength to command, and
sufficient mind and resolution to impress its own
character on all the elements of which it is com-
posed. But those elements are still too hetero-
geneous in their natures to combine, without the
presence of that controuling force, the continued
action of which becomes the law of their united
existence. Remove it but one moment, and all
those dissidences which broke the strength of
former Administrations will appear. Remove
it for a length of time, and the operation of dif-
ferent and even opposite principles must bring
the coalition to an end. That it is not more
perfect, however, is solely the fault of the times.
With the materials presented by the political
world, it was impossible for human ingenuity to
construct a more solid work. It will b for Par-
liament to correct its imperfections. As discus-
sions arise--as principles are abandoned or
maintained—as interests are protected or at-
tacked—the sense of the country will be heard
through her representatives, and that sense will
be obeyed. It is in unison with the presiding
spirit of the Administration, and will increase
and double its power. Then, what can prevent
it from remodelling its own work—lopping off
each incongruous member, and infusing into the
whole that perfect unanimity of views and feel-
ings without which it has now been proved, by
repeated trials, the public service cannot be per-
manently, still less beneficially, carried on, or
the prosperity of the country secured ? The time
for political coalitions is past. They succeeded
indifferently well when they consisted of monarchs
—they have constantly failed when composed of
subjects. Union is not less wanted in our Coun-
cils than justice to our trade, protection to our
landed proprietors, and repose to our country.—
New Times.

Before the Parliamentary campaign com-
mences, it may not be uninteresting to take a
view of the opposite champions now buckling on
their armour for the fight. In the Lords there
will be, on the one side, Lord Ellenborough, the
only debater amongst the Ministerialists, encoun-
tered by one not less keen, cutting, and pertina-
cious, than himself, we mean Lord Durham.
The more regular and systematic speakers on the
right hand of the Throne, are Lords Aberdeen,
Dudley, and Bathurst, which last is, bating great
deficiencies of manner, a very sensible and dig-
nified speaker. On the left are Lord Holland,
the most impetuous ; Lord Grey, the most
eloquent ; and Lord Lansdowne, the smoothest
of the Whig orators in the. Upper House.
Among the auxiliaries the former will have the
Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Colchester, and
several others—the latter will have Lord King,
perhaps the Earl of Lauderdale. The Premier
does not pretend to speak, and will not, we arc
inclined to believe, attempt it. His brief ad-
-dresses, however, cannot fail to carry great
weight, not only from his station, but ham his
high character. In the Commons the lead will,
of course, fall to Mr. Peel, and it could hardly
fall to one more able to take it. He is not only
an able debater, but his exquisite command of
temper renders him admirably adapted for sooth-
ing the storms of opposition. Mr. Grant is
no debater, nor is Mr. Huskisson. Mr. Goul-
burn and Mr. Herries are no speakers. The task
of supporting Mr. Peel will fall principally to
Lord Pahnerston. The Opposition Bench is
strong in speakers. In replying on financial ques-
tions, Mr. Tierney is singularly felicitous,
and Ins talents in dry, cutting satire, arc un-
matched. Luckily, Mr. Peel's course has been
so amiable and consistent—he has done his
mi-
nistering in every office which he has succes-
sively filled, so gently, yet so firmly, that there
are very few joints in his mail that satire can
4 powerful
of
ffuol t speakerhers.
hope to pierce. On general questions, Mr.
Brougham is, perhaps, the most
in either House, and there are Sir F. Burdett,
Sir James Macintosh and host )
Ibid.

SWINE.—BLUMENBACH brought as a proof
that there were animals that had been created since the
first general creation ; that the finnen-wurnmr are found
no where but in louse swine ; but GOD did not create
house swine, ergo-0 most lame and impotent oonclusion !
In Minorca they use swine to plough with. Formerly it
was the fashion iu France for the ladies to carry on their
arms young pigs instead of lap-dogs.—Lonekba Medical
Gazette, Jan, 26.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 28.
FRITH V. THRUSH.

This was an action by an endorsee against an
endorser of a bill of exchange. It was tried at the
last sittings in London, before Lord Tenterden,
when a verdict was found for the plaintiff.
Mr. BROUGHAM now moved for a rule to show
cause why the verdict should not he set aside, and
a nonsuit entered, or why a new trial should not be
granted. Rule nisi granted.

EX-PARTE BAXTER.

Mr. ARCHBOLD moved for a writ of habeas corpus,
directed to the Governor of his Majesty's gaol of
Newgate, to bring up the body of a person of the
name of Baxter, who had been committed to that
gaol, under a warrant of certain commissioners of
bankrupt, before whom he had been summoned to
give evidence as a witness.
Lord TENTERDES.—Take the writ.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 26.
SF4GO V. DEAN.

This was an action upon a special agreement, to
recover a sum of 20/. which the defendant had pro-
mised to pay the plaintiff, who is a widow, upon
condition of her accepting a lease, which she agreed
to do, at the same time undertaking to put the pre-
mises into repair. This agreement was, however,
only a verbal one, and when the plaintiff paid her
first rent she demanded the 20/. which had been
promised. The defendant, however, did not find it
convenient to pay at that time, butassured the plain-
tiff it should be deducted from her next rent. He
had, however, never thought proper to fulfil his en-
gagement, and the plaintiff was compelled to bring
an action to recover the 20/. This action was tried
before Mr. Justice Gaselee, at Westminster, when
the agreement having been proved by parole evi-
dence, a verdict was found for the plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE now moved for a rule to
show cause why the verdict should not be set aside.
Rule refused.
GOODMAN V. KENNELL.

The plaintiff in this action sought to recover com-
pensation for an injury he had sustained in having
been thrown down 'by the furious riding of the de-
fendant's servant. The case was tried at Guildhall,
during the sittings of last Term, before Mr. Justice
Park, when it was proved that a man named Cocking,
who, it was alleged, was the defendant's servant, was
the person who rode over the plaintiff, a labouring
man, in poor circumstances. Tine Jury returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 601.
Mr. Sergeant TADDV now moved for a rule to
show cause why that verdict should not be set aside,
and a new trial granted, on the ground that Cocking
had taken the horse, which was not the defendant's,
without his authority, and that therefore be was not
liable for the consequences of any accident that might
have happened.—Rule refused.

ARCHES' COURT, JAN. 2S.
PRAM} ARD V. DEM:LE.

This was an appeal from the Consistorial Court
of Bath and Wells, in a suit wherein the office of
the judge was promoted by the Rev. Thos. Deakle,
rector of Uphill, Somerset, against Edward Prankard,
for brawling in the parish church, and smiting, which
offence was cognizable by the Ecclesiastical Courts,
under the statute of 6 Edward VI. The Judge in
the Episcopal Court sentenced the party proceeded
against to imprisonment for fourteen days (under
the statute of 53 George 111., which modifies the
penalties attached to excommunication, by autho-
rizing imprisonment, for not more than six months),
and to the payment of costs. From this sentence
the party condemned HOW appealed, on the ground
that the proceedings in the Episcopal Court were
void as corani non judiec, the appellant being no
party to the ulterior proceedings after they had been
commenced in the Bishop's Court.
After hearing Dr. LUSHINGTON and Dr. JESSE
ADDAMS, for the appellant, and Dr. JENNER and
Dr. DonsoN, for the respondent,
The Court intimated that it would take time to
consider the effect of two cases mentioned by Dr.
Addams, in the years 1727 and 1732.