The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-09 00:00:00

knowu and understood by those liable to be
affected by it ; if it be not a rule, it is useless or
mischievous. The thieves of the fowls are em-
ployed in a manner much less injurious to the
community than the Judges and Lawyers, who
are employed in destroying the security of pro-
perty, by the discovering of means to enable
these thieves to escape. Would that the Legis-
lature could be enabled to render them less pesti-
lent members of society ! Their whole science
is a disgrace to civilization. The partiality of
Judges for the tricks by which they have risen
to importance may easily be accounted for : but
it would be as absurd to advise with thieves as to
the means of putting down then, as with Law-
yers who live by allowing thieves to escape, or
on their ill-gotten gains
Judges who are living
when Lawyers.—Morning Chronicle.
The letter from Paris, which we referred to
in our City article of yesterday, was not, it ap-
pears, without good foundation. We now learn
upon authority on which we can rely, that the
negociations which have for some time been cor-
ned on between England, France, and Russia,
tor the joint execution of the Treaty of the 6th
of July, having failed, the three Powers are, in
oonsequenee, at liberty to pursue separately the
measures which each may think, according to its
interests, best calculated to meet (or, perhaps,
:turn to account) the innumerable difficulties at-
tending the question which now engages the at-
tention of Europe. 'Whilst Russia, ready to
pounce upon her prey, forthwith commences in
.ber own name an invasion,—the results of which
who can foretell ?—our neighbours do not re-
main idle. The Government of France is on
the eve of applying to the Chambers for a sub-
s;-idy of 100,000,000 of francs, for the purpose
of increasing her military and naval establish-
ments. The extraordinary levy will be from
.80,000 to 100,000 men. Besides t'ie squadron
-fitting out at Brest, which has bee ridluded to
in the Moniteur, another naval rmament of
considerable power is, we h aro„ preparing in
her southern ports. tinder the, a circumstances,
it remains to be seen what will be the measures
adopted by this country. We are quite sure
th,s.t England will be the slowest in resorting to
desperate measures, as she will be the last to
flinch from the contest. She will use, as we
know she is using, all honourable means to ar-
range a quarrel which is pregnant with conse-
quences far beyond the mere " ignorant pre-
sent :" but if, after a reasonable time spent for
such a laudable object, her efforts should fail,
she knows how to assume the dignity of her na-
sional character.—Times.

Amongst other crises of more or less national
importance, the approach and development of
which are now expeditiously, though almost in-
!:sensibly, advancing upon us, is that which
within five short years will be produced by the
expiration of the charter granted to the East
India Company in the year 1813. This nargain
let it be well understood, was stipulated to en-
dure for 20 years, and no longer. In the year
8`33, the legislative rower of the state will have
ei perfect and acknowledged right to renew the
(-entracte or to modify it as may be best for the
nation ; eq. if the good of the country and the •
public voice shall so demand of the Government
:sad Parliament, it will he lawful, wise, and ho-
nest, to terminate for ever the dominion of the
" merchants trading to the. Indies." If such a
spectacle as that of the Company and its lease-
hold empire were now for the first time presented
to us, we apprehend there are few among the re-
fleeting classes of our countrymen who would ,
believe that they saw aright. No Englishmen
of this age could believe that a free jeeople would
delegate to a trading corporation poweee tehich
in their extent cannot be measured by any sten.
dard known to the constitution of a limited
monarchy, and in their exercise must have ,
recourse yto principles which every British '
:subject professes to abhor. The Com-
pany's dominion is one which does not confine'
the claims of arbitrary authority to its relations
with Hindus and Mabometans. Englishmen
once landed on the peninsula of India are prac-
tically, if the present rules of the local Govern-
meut be adhered. to, as much slaves sa their
copper-coloured neighbours. The press, if it
utters a eound not strictly musical to the ear of
a Governor-General in Coesncil, though in
language not intelligible by the native: population,
is extinguished and its conductors ruiised. A
Judge upon the bench, who in the administra.-
tion of justice dares to imagine that at some
future 4ay the Parliament set' England may think
fit to refine another lease of India to its existing
:tenants, is haughtily dismissed from his office ;
and Englishmen reeieling in India are deprived of
all right 6f appeal to 'leer Sovereign, if a power,
more prompt and arbitrary than that known here 1
as the un-English and odious eZen bill, be em-
yloyed as an engine of their forcible expulsion
srom a country which ie nominally under the
Crown of George /V. To these attributes et'i
&erotism, possessed, and as we have seen
enforced, by the Company " trading to India,-
must he added others, which, if not legally
belonging to them, are not only put forward in
7.: he shape of pretension`, but acted upon as pre-
rogatives by construction. The indefinite impo-
sition of taxes on British subjects has been re-
cently claimed and executed bythe ruling autho-
rities of Bengal ; and has caused, as every
assumption of doubtful right and exercise of op
pressive power ought to do, a commotion through-
out the mercantile community of India, almost
without example. It appears as if the officers
of the Company had strained the privilege
f levying sums of limited amount of de_
finite character, and for municipal purposes only,
from the inhabitants of Calcutta, to a point
which, if yielded, leaves no interval or barrier
leetween itself and a system of dictatorial taxa-
tion, not referable to any sanction but that of a
eompeny's mandate,—not bounded by any con-
stitutionel principle, nor checked by any real re-
sponsibility. The history and immediate con-
sequence; of an attempt of this nature, far Im-
posing a sump duty on all commercial transaet-
tions in Calcutta, are elaborately and powerfully
treated in an article of the last Edinburgh Re-
viezv. But the writer, who is familiar with his
subject, and full of it, enpports his reasonings '
by expanding the discussion, and stating facts as
well as principles, which have 4. considerably
than on the mere dispute q.bout
wider bearing
the Stamp Act. We think it impossible to reed,
ever so cursorily, the following catalogue of per-
sonal and political disabilities experienced by
Englishmen who strive to prosecute the fairest
objects of active and industrious life within the
vast region ruled over by the Company of
Leadenhall-street, without asking for whom and
for what it is that such enormous and offensive
latitude should be given to one party, and such
cruel restraints and privations fastened upon the
other, that other being the community of Bri-
tish subjects. After affirming, and truly, that
the " undoubted sovereignty" of India is vested
by Act of Parliament in the Crown, and that
the countri is the property of the State, the