The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-23 00:00:00

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Invastan of property, If once commenced, ever have
an end ? Governinent cannot raise the revenue which
its various extravagances require, because its subjects,
landed, temmercial, and manufacturing, are so iinpo-
verished: It therefore seizes a part of the property of
those: impoverished ' subjects. They must, therefore,
be poorer hereafter, and the, revenues of Government
fail yet more and more, progressively. No, Say,
let Government retrench, and the subject will thus be
relieved ; min-tierce, mannfactures, and agriculture,
will take a fresh spring ; and then, if the necessities or
honour of the State call for new exertions, it will have
renovated its vigour by repose, and be able to Make
them. But new bfirdens during peace must either
end in some tumultuous. act of despair, or must lay
us breathless and exhausted before the first enemy that
chooses to insult us.—lbid.

Nothing is 80 great a nuisance to English Magi
straws as pleasure, or rather, nothing that does not
assume the shape or pleasure is in any danger of being
decland a nuisance. To be smoke-dried by manu-
factories--to be stunk to death by shambles and slaugh-
ter-houses in the midst of our cities—to be thrust
into the kennels by files of soldiers-,-to be cleared out
by pickpockets--these ordinary grievances a man may
protect himself against as he may, If he is robbed,
he must pay a pollee officer to catch the thief, pay to
get back sus property, pay to prosecute the offender.
If a cripple be kicked, he may indict his adversary at
his own expence. But if a ballad-singer overstep the
bounds of a decent gravity—if a man eat Welch
rabbits or drink ale after eleven o'clock—if a score
of people dance at a fair, or delight themselves
with gazing on a tom-foolery, the, justice of the
country is alarmed, and the Great Unpaid exert
all their powers to protect the nation against ex-
cess of happiness. The fact is, that the ordinary crimes
against person and property are of a decent and clan-
destine description, to hunt out which requires some
trouble, and is rewarded with little glory. But merri-
ment and enjoyment are of an open, bold, and nude,
cious character, of which every justicing man, oven
though he be a fool, can understand the full enormity.
They present some mark to a clumsy sportsman—they
are the pheasants in the ,Justices' Preserves, which may
be knocked on the head without labour at a grand baitue.

The other day there was a field day of Surrey
Magistrates, in which the amusements of Vaux-
hall were treated upiin the principles we have de-
scribed. So long as Vauxhall has been Vauxhall, fire
works have been let off at 12 o'clock at night, and
some persons who, well knowing the practice, went by
choice to.live in the neighbourhood of this place of
amusement' have taken offence at the congregation of
the people who cannot afford to pay to enter the Gar-
dens, and who get an imperfect view of the fireworks
from without. The time during which this offence of
being amused at fireworks is committed cannot exceed
ten minutes, three times a week, a fourth part of the
year ; but this is too much. A memorial is presented
to the Surrey Sessions, and the Magistrates gladly
take occasion of this absurd memorial to revise the
whole system of Vauxhall, evidently with' a great
hankering for its entire suppression. The fol-
lowing account of the conditions under which the
license was finally granted, is taken from a Sunday
Paper ; and if it be an exaggeration of the enactments,
it is by no means a caricature of the spirit which clic-.
tated them. The power of regulating public amuse-
ments, if nitrusted to any authority, should not be given
to -taste of volunteer busy-bodies, who, from their own
natural moroseness and stupidity, or from the desire of
paying court to particular lanatacs, whine and affect to
he shocked at all pleasures in which they do not
themselves participate. The proper duty of Magis-
trates is executive and judicial. If these gentry were
set to trim the lamps, or to drive out the dogs, they Would
he usefully employed ; and if, by a system of judicious
checks, we could guard against corruption, we would
'trust them to decide on the proper thickness of the
slices of ham and the strength of rack punch, but to
make laws for the letting off of fire-works and the
distribution of lights is far beyond their depth.—
. Morning Chronicle.
We were .inuch pleased at the result of the trials—
Walter Blake Bourke v. Morning Chronic*, and
Courier. The Jury properly appreciated the thing,
and saw the secret working in the back-ground ; the
Judge did not, or he never could have delivered such
a charge. If Mr. Walter Blake Bourke had done
that which iVas right, he would have brought his action
against Edmonds, Here, as Mr. Scarlett said, we
might have seen the Pot versus the Kettle. But
Juries have taken our hint, they have erected them-
selves into what they ought to.be—Courts of'Equity.
They appear to disregard Judges' charges—we are
glad of it, for Juries,
.ninety-nine times out of a hun-
dred, know the bearings of these things much better
than Judges do or can do. They also know what,the
judge does not tell them, but yet when he charges
Juries he ought to tell—that if a man only gets one
farthing damages, it carries costs on both sides ; so
that a farthing or a shilling damages is punished, in
consequence of the excessive law charges in our Courts
by the payment of 300/. Now let juries always bear
this in mind. We know not who were the attornies
in this case, but we look upon these actions as attor-
ney's actions, and no doubt the Jury thought 80 too ;
therefore, in the very teeth of the Judges charge,
they saddled the attorney with the costs on both sides;
as to Mr. Walter Blake Bourke, we question if he
has the money to tray fur the actions. We arc glad
to see such a spirit rising in England, on the part of
Juries, in opposition to the Bench—that is, when
they think the Bench wrong and themselves right, so
far as the equity of the matter is concerned.—Morning
Herald.
The Stock Exchange people are all agog respecting
a commercial treaty with France. This, no doubt
is.put forth by the 13u11 party, in order to toss up the
price of funds. That Mr. Canning ~would
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for any such purpose we do not believe.
must know, that in the present unnatural state of Eng-
land as 'compared with France, we could have no
commercial treaty with France that would be worth a
pin. The fact, we think, is, that Mr. Canning would
have too much sagacity to propose any thing,of the
sort to Mr. Villele; the first reply to Mr. Canning
.
would be, " Pray, sir, on what principle ?"—" On the
principle of reciprocity," would be the reply of 'Mr'
Canning. " Well, then," Mr. Villele would say,
suppose we take your cotton and woollen goods at a
30 per cent. tax, will you take our brandies, wino),
&c,, at the same tax, but which you now tax at the rate
ot
a 'two or three thousand per cent.. ''v "No " Mr• .
wit:Ll4“rtildh—lestiek
- Canning would re fly ? " Why not ?" Mr- v Lucie
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Jour revenue could not afford
if. you 118.41110 revenue," 'Then Mr. Villele and Mr.
Canning would laugh eacoluirortehvecitient thleree7veNnt;
probably he an end of the commercial Areaty negocia-
tion. Both the great statesmen would sit down to
dinner; and laugh at the talk of -the stock and instal-
faluring interests. We have often said that connner-