The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-18 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

It would seem that the Lord Chancellors of this
country are doomed to suffer from their servants.
Who has not heard of the liberties taken with suitors
by Lord Bacon's servants ? But the officers of the
Court of Chancery have, it seems, been conspiring to
lower their venerable head in the estimation of- the
public, by giving out that they had his Lordship's
orders for excluding Reporters from the Court of
Chancery. 'What inference could have been drawn
from such an order, but that his Lordship was con-
scious there was something in the proceedings of his
Court which would not bear the light of day ? In-
deed we afe sorry to say the most ill-natured surmises
have been thrown out, ever since the report of the pro-
hibition took wind ; for the belief in the reality of the
order was universal, no,one conceiving, for a moment,
that such a liberty would be taken with his Lordship's
name, as the imputing to him such a proceeding
would amount to. It was distinctly said, by the Soli-
citor General, " That the statement, that an order had
been made for excluding Reporters, was wholly with-
out foundatiim." It wan observed by -Mr. Abercrom-
hie, 'who 'presented a Petition from Mr. 'Farquharson,
which lea to the above explanation, that " the pre-
sring of the Petition would, at least, have this good
e bet—it would, in all probability, have the effect of
preventing the authority of a Judge from being abused
by those who say they act under his directions,"--
A moment's reflection will satisfy any one that the
Lord Chancellor could never have issued an order
for excluding Reporters. Why should his Lordship
be anxious to keep the public in ignorance respecting
his proceedings ? It is very true, that the promises to
give judgments on particular days, and postponements
when the days come, and further postponements and
promises look very curious when set down in .black
and vy like. But then the public are so used to these
things, that it would be almost a disappointment,'
were his Lordship, at the twelfth hour as it were, to
depart from the practice of his judicial life. If his
Lordship had all his life, till now, been prompt to
judge, then there might have been some reason for his
wishing to conceal his infirmity from the public. Be-
sides, even allowing that the general attention has
been more directed to his Lordship's movements of
late than formerly, and that dissatisfaction has been
pretty loudly expressed, it is well known that his
Lordship is perfectly , satisfied that he has never
delayed suitors unnecessarily, and it is also well
known, that though his
Lordship is all sensibility
when others are attacked, he bears all attacks against
himself with the most delightful equanimity. It is
quite impoprible, therefore, that the Chancellor him-
self could have given the' order. But in the course of

the discussion on the presenting Mr. Farquharson's
Petition',
,other.thingis,came out. We think we could
gather from what fell from Mr. Scarlett and the Chan-
eellor of the Exchequer, that though the Lord Chan-
cellor may be anxious to be before the Public, there
is a feeling, among the Judges in general to exclude
the Public AS much as possible, and this feeling led to
the orders, given to Mr. Soane, by which " the ac-
commodation for the Bar, was extremely slight, and
that for the Public still worse." If this be not cor-
rect, strange liberties were taken with those venerable
personages last night.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Several Heads of Houses' Professors, Tutors,
Lecturers,- Fellows, and other Members of the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, have taken a sudden alarm at
some supposed violation of the purity of election at
that seat of learning ; and two of them, a Dr. Lamb
and the Professor of Botany (whom some of the young
wags, for that reason, designate Lamb and Mint Sauce),
have actually been at the joint labour of writing and
publishing a pamphlet, of some ten or a dozen pages,
upon the subject. It is quite exhilirating to see purity
beginning at the fountain's head, for " Sincerum est
nisi vas, quodcumque kfundis, acescit." But our
Readers will probably feel somewhat disappointed when
they learn that all this fuss is about a very insignificant
matter, but one which these learned persons have
thought worthy of a long and wordy protest—viz. that
it has been discovered that candidates have now and
then been known to pay the travelling charges of
bringing some of their distant friends to the poll.
With all our love of purity and independence, we
have not, we confess, been able to discover any great
sin in this. It might be a mighty convenient doctrine
were the resident Members of the University thus
able to shut out and disfranchise the greater num-
ber of their non-resident brethren ; but as we are not
quite sure that book wisdom and practical wisdom are the
same thing, or that monkish seclusion from the world is
that whicl best qualifies men.to decide' upon its most
important concerns, we would rather of the two
hazard the opprobrium of seeing the out-voters
brought up at the expence of the candidates, than that
the elective franchise should fall exclusively into the
hands of the kind of persons we allude to. These
learned persons, to establish the position they are
contending for, have thought proper to publish some
facts, which we suspect they would have been highly
indignant at the disclosure of from any foreign quarter.
Among other things they state that, at the last elec-
tion, " one Member of the Senate (not a poor man)
modestly demanded and was paid the expence of his
journey to the poll, together with those incurred for
a week's entertainment of his wife and family at a
hotel ; that another produced a bill for the expences
of certain excursions, which, in the abundance of
his zeal, lie was pleased to undertake in the functions
of a canvasser ; that a gentleman who came to Cain-
bridge in his own carriage, both demanded and
received payment for the expence of posting there
and back ; and that a candidate has been applied
to by gentlemen. [we presume the appellation is used
in courtesy] who have declared their willingness to
vote for him, provided the expence of taking their Mas-
ter of Arts' degree is first paid by the candidate." Theae
are awkward circumstances certainly and might lead
one to fear, either that minds are not always im-
bued with high principles of honour, and virtue
in the shades of Academus, or else that the seed,
having been sown on stony ground, springs up and
speedily perishes. But, seriously speaking, do the fifty
or sixty
,grave persons, who have put their names to
this declaration, really believe that the world
cannot see through such solemn trifling as this ? Do
they suppose that the parents of youths, who are
spending their time in the wanton vice and extra-
vagance which is known to exist openly both at
Cambridge and Oxford, must not despise this chaf-
fering. about minor points, while the more import-
ant evils, which they so feelingly lament, pass un-
heeded and unredressed ? But humbug is the all-per-
vading mania of the day, with which the docti and in-
docti, are, it is clear, equally infected. But this mighty
disinterested and patriotic proposal, it would seem, is
not likely to be of much avail; for the Committee of
one of the candidates having refused to accede to it,
the others, like the apothecary, must permit their ne-
cessity to .yield a compliance with what their
will and their convenience would alike reject. In
the mean time we would recommend to Dr. Lamb
and the Botanical Professor, as a solace to their
iterary fatigues, a herbarizing excursion ; or, if ve-
tetation be not sufficiently advanced to furnish food
or the one 'or specimens for the other, the fanner,
ristead of those of the field, may disport himself among
he flowers of rhetoric, and the latter betake himself to
he equally pleasing task of " culling simples."

REMARKABLE DAY."-This is the anniversary of
the deaths of James Leland, the antiquary, 1552 ;
Judge Jefferies, in the Tower, 1689 ; Charles Pratt,
Earl Camden, 1794 ; and Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 1802.

AWFUL SUDDEN DiATII OF THE DRIVER OF
TIIE DOVER MAIL.—It seldom occurs to us to
have to record a more melancholy instance of sudden
death than that of the present. On Sunday, evening,
JOSEPH TYRRELL, who for some time. drove the
mail in question, took his seat on the coach box in
apparent health and spirits, in fact, so much so, that
he joked with several of his friends. On arriving at
Shooter's Hill, the attention of the guard was particu-
larly called towards him, at the bottom -of which the
deceased dropped the reins, and the guard caught them
up, at the same time putting, his arm round the de-
ceased's body. In this.situation they reached the Red
Lion, at 'Bexley Heath, Where the guard called for
assistance, which' was instantly afforded. The de-
ceased was lifted from the coach, and taken into the
house, when medical aid was sent for, which as
promptly attended, and the deceased was bled in both
arms, but without effect. Every attention.was paid to
the unfortunate man until five o clock in the morning,
when his soul winged its flight to Heaven, the Medi-
cal gentlemen, anti every person in, the house, having
been 'in attendance on him for upwards of eight hours,
the dreadful circumstance having occurred about nine
o'clock. It is a fact worthy of notice, that so instan-
taneously must have been the shock, that the pupil of
the eye remained, after death, possessed of the most
bright, and, if we may use the term, ." life-like ap-
pearance." Every praise is due to those persons who
were immediately concerned ; and it is but fair to
state, that the poor man bore a most exemplary cha-
racter, not only
for sobriety, but for Careful and ex-
pert driving. The body lies for the' Coroner's Inquest,
at the Red Lion, at Bexley,

Yesterday there was exhibited in a gardener's shop
-window, at Hammersmith, a small plant, in a garden-
pot, a new kind of the Camelia Japonica, for which
only two guineas were asked !