The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is time for joint stock companies to go out of fashion.
We only wish that they had begun where they seem to be
terminating, and that the world had enjoyed an earlier op-
portuuity of watching the rise and progress of an " Odessa
Black Sea Company," for grinding wheat by steam, and
exporting the flour, the grain being, it appears, unsaleable
except-in its manufactured state. This exception, we are
given to understand, is a matter of "hope," with regard
to the overstocked warehouses of Odesia ; and on sneh a
foundation annuls the Elack.Sea Company, with an impe-
rial rescript of Alexander to sanction it,a Bank7note capual
of one million of rubles, and the market of Gibraltar, now
supplied from America, to encourages it. We, repeat, then
our vexation, that the joint stock steam-grinding-madness
did not exist long enough ago among the Russians, to give
the rest of Europe a ,sample of the progress and result of
such specious enterprises, which in all human likelihood,
would -haiotended: to frighten away the gambling spirit
from tooredvilized. communities ; as by the ancient Greeks
an exhibition of drunkenness among slaves is said to have
been ordained as an ingenious lesson of temperance , and
sobriety to their freemen. Iladia few such warnings been
held out in time ti.v thoseamong thepeople of England whose
excess of confidence was in proportion to their lack of eiperi-
ence, We doubt net-that some m illions might have been spared!
fora useful and profitable employment heresinstead of being
cast into the bowels of the earth, or the " caves of ocean:'
as the rubles of Odessa are about to line the whores of
the Euxine with costly . an& empty vapour. We cannot
see any thing hi the process by which wheat is converted
into flour, Or when So manufactured, by which the cargo
is transported over sea, nor generally do wosconceive that
any such difficulty belong to the simple supply of a European
market .with either grain or flour froM Odessa, as would
render that particular trade a more appropriate unarm's-
ing for a body .of capitalists than for a single merchant.
It is not like those unwieldy hazards the existence or the
repute of which may have led to die formation of India
Companies, North West Companies Bank of England
Companies, end the rest of it. The sbipment of a single
cargo of wheat or flour from the out-port of the country
in which it is produced to one within a month or 'six
weeks' sail of it, appears to be one of the easiest opera-
tions of one individual merchant. The most moderate es-
pita' iii equal to such a business; and if so, the trade is of
a nature more likely to be well conducted, and to flourish
in the hands of private houses than of corporate bodies,
which last can never successfully resist the vigilance or
skill of their more active rivals. It will be seen before
many months have elapsed, how far the Imperial reseript,
the steam-engines, and the million of rubles, are capable of
contending with the nature of things.—Times.
Mr. Canning, it will be seen by the Court Circular, has
started for Paris, as we announced in our Tuesday's paper.
His visit to his friend Lord Granville is, of course alleged
to be one of mere pleasure : but he will hardly be idle in
such a eapital as Paris, when so many and great political
questions are still undecided. The affairs of Greece and
RRussia, of Spain and Portugal, may be supposed likely to
engage some of his time, as well as the hospitality of his
noble friend's table, or . the careless gossip of a Parisian
soiree. Indeed, in the present state of the political world,
an English Minister for Foreign A ffitirs must be a very
negligent, and by consequence, a very inefficient officer, if
he is content to " doff the world and let it pass," and
holds the discussion of a Perigord pate, or the unriddling
of a lady's charade, to be a better occupation of his leiaure,
than tho endeavour to rescue one people froth the horrors
of odesdating war, or another from the forced subjection
to a system of bigotry and tyranny, which reflects disgrace,
riot merely on the age, but on huts= nature.—Bid.
The_ death of Lord Gifford has made a great stir among
the lawyers. 'We are not at all surprised at this, nor at
the great numbers that. crowd to this profession, for the
incomes of those who fill the higher offices are so greet
that it is natural many should put In for .the.prizes,though
only one out of 20 can expect to succeed, 'llte prizes of
' 10,000/. or 20,01)0/. hold out such temptations, that what
is called the Bar is now filled almost to' it nuisance.—
The number of books and pamphlets published respecting
the Bar is quite surprising, and would lead one to suppose
that this is now the only profession worth attention. The
evil effects of such a prevalent opinion are evident. Al-
most every young man whose father can afford to give him
education, begins to study law. lie gets a smattering
.of
Greek and Lain, cats his terms at one of the Inns p 1
Court, and then, in the professional phrase, is admitted.to
the Saar: With such acquirements, and a great deal of
assurance, many .persons of ' this description force them-
selves into notice, and wish to be looked upon as men of
great legal knowledge, When, in fact, they would be mut+
more in character at ie bar of an inn than at the. bar of,
a Court of justice. The parents, too, encournge the de-
lusion. They teach their sons to look up, to it as a genteel
profession, and do not forget that there itt a.chance of their
coming in for one of the 10,000/. or 20,0001. prizes in the
law. lottery. It would be well if those who have the
power of admitting these professional gentlemen in such
'. '
numbers, were more scrupulous in exercising their right,
otherwise N'l'e may soon have more banisters then briefs.
The doleful at:l6ns raised on occasion of the death of Lord
Gifford by some of these barristers. is quite sickening,
when we think of :he scramble which they and a great
many others have made to grit into his place. There is only
one party in this profession' who are completely shut out
from the prizes, and are not to blien:P on this account.—
Like the fox in the fable, the Catholic lie:sisters may look
at the great Object of their wishes in vain. No wonder,
while such distinction lasts, that at public Meetings in Ire-
laud we should bear of such inflammatory speeches. , Pro-
testants would be as much out of humour, end grumble as
kind as Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Shell, and Mr. Lawless, if
such objects of ambition as 10,000/. or 20,0001. alear
were couatantly before their eyes, and they were prohibited
from touching them. It is quite natural that this should
be the ease. However small the hopes of obtaining a
Prize, there can be no grimed of eomplamt, so long as all
have the :same chance. When, Messrs. Bish, Swift, or
other lottery contractors, make up a scheme, they take
care issi put in a few 10,0011. and 20,000/. prizes among
thousands of blanks. The public, however, are perfectly
eatistied Wlgi. this—all are alike, and one has just us good
ehaece of suesseso as another. The case, however, is quite
different with the Catholic Barristers. Messrs. O'Connell,
Shell, and Lawless, iixe obliged to buy tickets in the grand
lottery, but are not allowed to draw for the prizes.
It would be Well foil:viand—for, in England the num-
ber of Catholic! Batielsters• is $0 small, that they are
hardly to he taken into acium:s—if such an insidiuus dis-
tinction were one way or another put an end to. Our
great hope iv, that it will be gradually removed by the
introduction of British manufactories into [relax& The
Scotch, with the linen trade, introduced Presbyterianism
into the North. The'English. we believe, will - introduce
into the South, East, and West, along with cotton, silk,
and woollen manufactures, Methodists, Anabaptists, and
other religious sects,
who, in time, may supersede tire Ca--
e.
tholies. Such would be an effectual Made Of puttin an
end to this eternal grumbling, and growling of die yri,th
the Protestant religion egaima
Barristers, rand of secusing
fcawing Herald,
the inroads of Popery.—sl
the Public Meeting at Mans
We noticed, the other day, _. .
• e an individual of part of the expense
diester, to reimblus ,
in which his townsmen
of trying a case 4ts ii.'"c"itef! •s, was absurd to sPeak or
felt an interest, and sausweci teat i
d in their i•ights by the Law, whim
a people being protecte
ttendo with a cost of
the first step in deloding them is a
1 us dto infer that any
1,000/. It would, however, he Iltagri .
as
w,.
as
legal protesstloll
other Initials might exist. without , . .
Is stronger
we do, because the influence of public orllon.,„es
an
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in England than in any other country, anal modifies
craell.
that elsewheast would be intolerable. Pot- instance, lee :
tic n. of the law are 'daily winked at or countotollet 1 as
A dishonest
usisingneematarily Out of fie expensiveness. . .
Iris debt to ft trades-
or litigious 4utacidttat:;:teNfto to.pay.o4
iNo. , Ille iiirtAtttr . 'news better than to throw go
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neighbourhood of the debtor, . and Makes it too hot for
himr—he meets hiM in the street, and insults' him. Should
the debtor take the creditor to a -Police-office,. the latter
will complain (Stile roguery of the former, and the Magi-
straw will refuse,to interfere, and hint to the debtor, that
the. best way will be. to pay his debt.. At all events, the.
exposure will injure the debtor . more than the creditor.
The process of ejectment is, in like manner, executed every
day in the year in a much lesit expensive: form than that-
, prescribed by law.. -It-is true,. the business :is-sometimes •,
not so well • managed, but that - the superior Courts see
ground for reaching the party offending;
,but, ittAinety-
nine cases out of a hundred, the party escapes. We some-
times, indeed, hear people • complain of the 'exposures at
Police-offices, which are often twparte and there is no.
doubt a hardship in giving to an individual, whois or sup-
poses himself aggrieved, the power of being, in some mea-
stirejudke in his own cause. But. defective as the process
may be, without it the poor would he entirely.at the
mercy of the rich. The Police -Offices are not without
their defects, but they are by fur the best part of the judi-
cial Institutions of England. . They are natural tribunals,
and substantial justice, in contradistinction to judicature,
is dealt out in them. Ho*, in a law-ridden country like
this, any thing so natural should have been allowed to
spring up, is almost a mirecle.—•-117orning.Chronicle. •
We are no admirers of that' cheap wisdom, or that cheap
morality,- which struts about with solemn gravity and vir-
tuous indignation, when the results of particular transac,
dons stare every man in the face. 'A personage of this
description is a Mr. Clark, whose name promises to be
its imperishable as the disastrous speculations with which
it is now so inseparably connected. • The hue-and-cry is
up ; every company is a -.bubble ; and every bubble has
Mr. Clark as a shareholder. Has it never occurred to
•any one to ask this indefatigable detector of 'bubble's, how
he came to dabble in so many ? Was he an innocent
dupe, or a willing coadjutor ? If the former, what a for-
tune be must have expended ! If the latter, what a-laud-
ahle conversion he has undergone! Somehow or other,
While a shilling was to be extracted' from these schemes,
nobody heard of Mr. Clark. But we do him wrong,
probably. It may be, that, from an excess of amiable and
virtuous feeling, he has 'voluntarily sacrificed-a large pro-
perty in purchasing the depreciated shares of exploded
undertaki»gs, only to qualify himself for the office of-a
public accuser. He has generously sacrificed himself, per,
haps, for the good of others: We cannot suppose ,he
held his tongue while he saw the plunder going on, and
only opened his mouth when that same plunder was at an
end. Ile appears to have had "an itching palm" for
shares in almost all the Companies that were projected ;
and the only thing which pilules us is, that we never
heard of Mr, Clark till, we heard that these Companies
had failed. We do not. say that a man who turns. wing's
evidence, may not, sometimes, consult his conscience, and
so don public good; but he must not aspire to the purity
of an unimpeached and an unimpeachable -witness. We are
iot fond of cant phrases ' - but there £c a word in popular
se, which, to our minds, exactly defines Mr.. Clark's
retensions in these matters-414)4r Times.

AN ACcOMPLISIIED NATION.----Portuguese
women indulge in a coarseness of manners and amuse-
ments which could neither be thought, of nor tolerated
in this country. Thus ladies are not unfrequently
seen hiding behind a balcony or window-shutter, with
a large syringe in their hands, watching the approach
of a gentleman who may be coming along the street,
in order to squirt its contents in his eyes. Many, in-
stead of using the latter projectile, provide themselves
with small bottles made of India rubber, having an
ivory pipe at the end, which, when the bottle is
squeezed, projects the water contained in it to a great
distance.--Cork Southern Reporter.
Ma'L Dr. AT Wednesday evening
a young boy, named David Bolgeri about fourteen
years of age; had occasion to go to a room which was
unoccupied in a house in the Main-street, Waterford,
and seeing wine bread and butter lying there, he hi-
. cautiously eat it. in a short time he was taken alarm-
ingly ill, and on being questioned as to the cause of
his illness, he said he had taken a glass of whisky, and
he supposed it did not agree with him. It was, how-
ever, ascertained that he bad eaten the bread and
butter which had been left in the waste room, having
been previously poisoned for the destruction of rats.
Medical aid was immediately procured, but unhappily
too late to be of any avail, and the ill-fitted boy ex-
pired on that night. We would .strongly recommend
to our readers the use of traps for the destruction of
vermin, instead of poisoned food, whereby the lives

oilman beings may be too often endangered.
PROCESSION OF fIIREE THOUSAND OIdANOE.
MEN.—An unfortunate wretch of the name of Wiggins,
headed an Orange mob at the last fair of Clones, and
in an unprovoked and most ferocious attack on the
unoffending country people, received a wound of
which he in some short tine afterwards died. At his
funeral, on the sth inst. the Orange Lodges assembled
in such force, and from so many.parts of the country,
as to form a body, altogether of 3,000 people. They
all carried arms, displayed flags and badges, and were
attended with bands of musie. A general massacre of
the Catholics was for some time apprehended, but the
day, as it happened, ended in the display of no greater
lawlessness on the part of the Orangemen, than a refu-
sal to disperse or lay aside their paraphernalia, on being
complanded to do so by Mr. Jamaison. It was deemed
prudent to put all the police in the place under arms,
and to keep them thus. prepared for an emergency the
entire of the night. --42121b1ia Morning Reeder.
SINGULAR PIIENOTOILNA.--Ou Friday last a
whirlwind dud water-spihit made their appearance in
the air above the farm of Calside, in the parish of
Anwoth, and, by their striking appearance, excited not
less the admiration than dismay of those who beheld
them. The water-spout was observed at a great distance,
resembling, pretty nearly a sugar loaf; but to Such as
witnessed it mingling. with the whirlwind, when it be-
came tossed and broken, and fell, shattered into im-
mense drops of rain, the spectacle which the two ele-
ments exhibited, rivalled in sublimity an Alpine tem-
pest. The contents of the aqueous meteor were scat-
tered over the extent of a square mile, and the united
gushing of the water, and roaring of the whirlwind,
formed one of the mightiest notes of nature's music--
exceeding in loudness the voice of the sea, when the
teu,pest is sweeping over and agitating its waves. A
little boy, named Carson, who is herd upon the farm
of Calside, had the misfortune to be within the circle
of the whirlwind, and was hurried along by it upwards
of a hundred yards, until, having reache4 a gate, he
caught hold, of one of its posts, and in that manner
saved hirdsOf, perhaps from destruction. While he
clung resolutely to this support, the force of the wind
tossed his heels repeatedly into the air ; but terror lent
him strenth to maintain his hold, and fortunately he
virexeari littleviscttkrifl::ogf
dl
iyapkyeerwav,teiliviaelswi,ni
swept
site same
saUdooktlndes
iu like manner dis.perseti,
tered in • • every direction, nineteen stacks of oats were
°f
overthrowntwi) ru s;
atnftrio;:lutil'iinetiirt
yseaaftsi
tn,d‘sSicilacti-i
was spread out in a field to y became embodied
with the other wrecks of the tempest, anti totally dis-
appearaiL rt'he small stream of Skyreburn, beside
v'in'ioni(ishintagihiB °
iitu" idewr
ZlAss'sa: sseotwayd into surges of uncom-
sound of such loud el,
unawtir
liiiteness, and emitted a
al wildness, as to appal
every one who heard ii,—Edinburgh Evening
Courant.