The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-23 00:00:00

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE

In compliance wiiiiiiiewisVe;t7friu;;;;TsPam
will be performed in the middle of the Evening.—Continuation of
the moat brilliant Success ever known.
THIS EVENINH _

Winne repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End
Of Crime. Principal Characters by Mr. Henry Corr! (from the
Theatre Royal Edinburgh), Messrs. H. Hughes, Neville, R Honner,
Lewis. Heslop, and Seaman, Mrs. R. Honner, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs, W.
Daly, and Miss Martin.
To be PA owed by an Original Worldly Comic Pantomime. called
POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND, PENCE; or, HARLEQUIN
L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H: Harvey; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway;
Pantaloon, Mr. Henry Corri•; Columbine, Miss Mailer.
To conclude with THE WET NURSE. Supported Isy Messrs.
Neville, W. Smith,:and Lewis, Miss Martin, &c.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Four.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE
Extraordinary Success of " Marianne; or, The Child of Charity,
and the New Comic Pantomime.
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated MARIANNE; or, the Child of Charity. Sun-
ported by Mr. o:baldiston, Henry Howard, J. T. Johnson, T. H.
Niggle, J. Herbert, E. Jones, W. Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss E.
Terrey, and Miss Treble.
After which, MONSEIGNEUR. Monseigneur, the French Jack
Sheppard, Miss Vincent.
To conclude with a New Grand Christmas Pantomime,. eitilled
HARLEQUIN HOT CODLINS ; or, The Little Old Woman- and
the Demon of the Metal Mine. Harlequin, M. Chapin(); Clown,
Mr. Blanchard; Pantaloon, Mr. Coney ; Columbine, Mdlle.
Le Fite.

THE WEATHER.-SCIN OFFICE, JAN. 23.

THEamomETEn, Lowest, 41 ; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 44,

BAROMETER, 30.9.-WIND, S.

NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon. Water freezes at
32 ; 55 on Thermometers is marked "Temperate," and on
Barometers "Fair" is generally placed opposite to 30, and
" Rain" at 29 ; but there is no certainty of dry weather
when the mercury falls below 30.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning ... 51 minutes after 1 f Evening ... II minutes after 2.

length of speaking of free trade with respect ! Yes,
he had positively expressed himself—the monster !
not unfavourably disposed towards the experiment !
These were his very words :—" The doctrine of free
trade is the doctrine of common sense." "It might
be so," added Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLEY, " but the
agriculturists had not as yet sense enough to under-
stand it." The speaker is right. The agriculturistshave
not sense enough fully to appreciate the advantages of
free trade ; and GOD only knows when they will have,
for intelligence crawls among them quite at a snail's
pace, notwithstanding the indefatigable exertions of
the Anti-Corn-law League, who for years past have
been doing all they can to illumine them on the sub-
ject of their true interests. Poor Sir CHARLES
KNIGHTLEY ! He must be in a grievous state of
tribulation and perplexity, for nothing that Minis-
ters say or do, seems to give him the slightest plea-
sure. Nothing is right, but everything is wrong in
the political world. Society is turned quite topsy-
turvy, and men scarcely know whether they are stand-
ing on their heads or their heels. As for the present
Parliament, it is but a " compact of saints and sin-
ners—such a shoal of New England, and scarcely a
representative cf Old England among them !" As
we are far too polite to venture seriously to differ
with the llon. Member for Northamptonshire, we
will allow that there is some justice in his descrip•
tion of the House of Commons. It is really and
truly a " compact of saints and sinners"—the latter
preponderating—nevertheless, like another illustrious
personage, it is not so black as it is painted, but con-
tains within itself not a few of the seeds of good,
which, under favourable auspices, will, we trust,
bring forth fruit in due season.

We felt it to be our duty, some time ago, on an-
nouncing the vacancy which had occurred by the
death of the late ILTID NICHOLL, Esq., in the office
of her MAJESTY'S Proctor, to exhibit some glimpses
of that unlimited nepotism which has, for so long a
course of years, appropriated all the lucrative offices
connected with the Courts of Doctors' Commons in
the two families of the NICHOLLS and the JENNERS,
and their nearest kinsmen. We showed how this line
of hereditary office-bearers, virtute nominis, was con-
tinued, by links of a " golden chain," like that which
the poets fabled as binding this globe to the footstool
of JOVE'S " empy teal throne"—from the supreme
judge in the ecclesiastical and spiritual jurisdictions,
down to their inferior officers. We demonstrated
that the rule of office-appropriation, in that somewhat
obscure region of the law, was so strictly exclusive,
that all the possessors of appointments within the gift
of the Dean of the Arches, or the vicarious patronage
of the Archbishop, are but varying phases of the
Jenner-Nicholl, Nicholl-Jenner, Jenner-D yneley,
Dyke-Jenner combination, which overrules and
over-rides the whole of these judicial and official
establishments. In conclusion, we did venture to ex-
press an earnest hope that on the occasion of filling
this vacancy in the office of QUEEN'S Proctor, the
chain of nepotism would be broken, and that room
would be made for the induction of the most ex-
perienced and best qualified practitioner among the
proctor-candidates into this appointment. It gave us
great pain to name one of those candidates, Mr. F.
HART DYKE, as one of the "family compact," be-
cause we knew how highly and justly respected he
was for his probity and business-like habits. But he
stood in a degree of relationship to the judge which
made the several appointments already held by him
distinctions provoking much invidious commentary,
especially when his pretensions were opposed to those
of men of much higher pretensions on the score of
seniority, experience, and legal knowledge, as well as
knowledge of mere technical practice in the courts
and registries of the civil law and maritime courts.
This gentleman (if we mistake not the junior of
the several candidates) has been appointed her MA...
JESTY'S Proctor. It is painful to find so little sense
of decorum operating with those who control such an
appointment. These are not the days in which family
favouritism in public affairs—and this is one of that
class—can be safely persisted in. The public opinion
has been loudly and emphatically expressed against
class-legislation. The motive of this hostility is a
generous desire to see the law devised and ad-
ministered for the benefit of all, not of the few. But
family office jobbing is a sin against the good sense,
as well as the good feeling of the public. They will
not endure that the example of the Roman Pontiffs in
elevating to all points of honour and emolument, not
the worthiest candidates for them, but those most
nearly allied by blood or by family connexions to
themselves, should be imitated, though on a micro-
scopic scale, in the genial atmosphere of Doctors'
Commons. It may be very true that, as one of our
Contemporaries has stated, the gentleman appointed
her MAJESTY'S Proctor is the Proctor employed by
Sir ROBERT PEEL. This fact does not help the
matter. It cannot purge the transaction of the taint
of outrageous favouritism. But it may be productive
of one good effect, in common with most of the
indiscretions committed by the Premier—it may tend
ultimately to advantageous results never contemplated
by him.

For the last twenty years, at least, there have been
impending over that classic ground of the canon and
civil law, of spiritual tribunal and civil forums, threats
more or less formidable of inquiries into antiquated
customs and modern abuses, snug sinecures, &c., &c.
By dint of some clever management and wheedling
on the part of Hon. and Learned, or of Right lion.
Members, attached to them in divers capacities, the
discussion of the expediency of going into such
matters is always tided over till the fast outrunning
current of the session leaves it stranded, high and
dry, among the dropped orders of the session, where
it is clear it must remain till the " springs" of the
following year, when, in the shape'of new or renewed
notices of motion, it may float off again upon the
surface of the business periodically brought before
the Legislature. Terrible things have been talked of;
some of them but reasonable propositions ; others,
unfair in themselves and calculated to produce ruinous
consequences. It has been endeavoured to open the
advocates' bar to barristers—to allow attorneys to
practise as proctors—to reduce all fees—to reform the
whole scheme of appeal courts, &c. The peril has
from time to time subsided; the storm has blown over.
But most assuredly the spirit of indifference which
this last appointment manifests for public opinion (so
decidedly intimated as that has been through the
public press against the continuance of all family
monopolies of office), is the sort of challenge best
calculated to provoke in the House of Commons a
searching, uncompromising, and severe scrutiny into
"the way in which they manage these matters" south
of St. Paul's Churchyard.

The Madrid Gazette of the 15th inst. contains the
new regulations for the management of municipal cor-
porations throughout the country, the great object of
which is to place them as much as possible under the
control of the Central Government. The debate on
the Clergy Rotation Bill was still going on in the
Chamber of Deputies. Her Majesty the QUEEN•
MOTHER had announced to the Committee on the Es-
timates her marriageiwith MoNoz, for the purpose, we
suppose, of obtaining a pension suited to his new rank
and dignity as a grandee of Spain. The intelligence
from Morocco, by way of Gibraltar, is not favourable.
Anarchy was said to prevail in the interior, and the
authority of the EMPEROR had been much weakened
by the peace with France. Some accounts even infer
that Ann-EL-KADER is plotting against him.
The Three per Cents. closed at 32i for cash,
and 33 at 60 days ; th,2 Five per Cents. at 238 for
cash, and 24 at 60 days ; the Coupons at 274 for
the ISth of February next; and the Floating Debt
at 80 at 60 days.

The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies,
if such an exhibition can be so called, was resumed on
Friday; and as M. TIIIERS, who is supposed to be the
prime mover in the intrigue against his friend M.
GUIZOT, was to speak, some interest was excited to-
hear his denunciations against the Ministry; but mi-
serable must have been the disappointment, judging
from the first part of his speech. It contained abso-
lutely nothing except what had been said and written
fifty times about Morocco and Otaheite, the Eng.
lish alliance, and the visit to Windsor Castle. We
never remember any similar occasion when the French
ever
orators were in such difficulty
,for a theme. Un-
luckilyth
there is no passion of the day to play upon—
y foreign grievance is worn out ; the right of
search is an old almanac, and no fictitious story has
been got up, to give it life, abous the capture of fair
traders on the coast of Africa, and the brutality of Eng-
lish sailors. This is a grievous oversight on the part

of the coalition. In fact, if these intriguers had
not England to talk about, and e3pecially "one
PRITCHARD," who from a quiet, inoffensive mis-
sionary, has been transformed into the "lion of the
day," they might give up business. Yet the occasion
is not so barren of subjects. Why not talk about
other countries as well as England ? Why do these
patrons of democracy—these friends of the people,
and these ardent advocates of liberal institutions—
not pass the Pyrenees, and see what Frenchmen have
done for liberty in Spain ? In that devoted country
they could find ample scope for the expression of
patriotic feeling (for France cannot see despotism in
Spain without thinking of her own fate) ; they
would see the Constitution trampled upon by a mer-
cenary army—trial by jury, and even the ordinary
forms of justice, which are observed in absolute states,
set at defiance—hundreds of Spaniards who resisted
Nan VAEZ and an abandoned woman shot like mad dogs,
and the only men who could raise their voice in the
Cortes against such atrocities, either thrown into
prison or banished like felons to penal colonies. But
perhaps we do M. THIERS injustice. He had not
finished his speech when the post left Paris on Tues-
day ; he may have asserted the principles which
brought him first into notice as a politician ; but the
chances are small, when we look at the utter silence
of the Opposition press, and, above all, the silence of
his own journal on every topic that ought to exercise
the mind of a liberal statesman. The following brief
extract from his speech will show that Morocco, Ota-
heite, and PRITCHARD are the great grievances of
which he complains. The speaker, after lamenting
that neither Marshal BUGEAUD nor the Prince DE
JOINVILLE had sufficient forces under their com-
mand to vindicate the claims of France, says—" It was
not in consequence of the difficulties offered by the
season that the treaty had been so hastily concluded ;
it was owing to the apprehension of new complications
with England. France had made England the judge
of her grievances, which the latter had pronounced
to be well-founded, and it appeared, even by the
documents seized after the victory of Isly, that she
recommended the EMPEROR to satisfy them. France
was consequently, at the time, in a favourable condi-
tion to obtain an advantageous peace. But then she
was engaged in one of the most serious compli-
cations with England ; the young diplomatist
who represented her in Londan, described in
terms of great emotion the dangers of the position,
and insisted on speedy' satisfaction being given by
France. The Ministry in their alarm had then seen
the necessity of throwing the heavy baggage over-
board, and on the 29th and 30th of August, within
an interval of 24 hours, satisfaction was granted to
Lord ABERDEEN for the treatment of Mr. PRIT-
CHARD at Otaheite, and directions were forwarded to
its negotiators at Cadiz to insist only on the redress
of the four grievances which France complained of
previous to the commencement of hostilities, and to
conclude peace at any price. All these concessions,
he maintained, had been made under the impression
caused by the complication of Otaheite, and the inte-
rests of France in Morocco had been sacrificed to
that consideration."

The Journal des Debuts, and indeed most of the
papers, assert that nothing can be gained by talk.
There is but one question which occupies every mind
—" Shall the Ministry be overthrown by the coali-
tion ?" That is the entire affair. As long as the co-
alition shall not have appeared at the tribune, there
will be words but no action, and it is action alone
which gives importance to words. Well, the coalition
has appeared in the person of M. TRIERS, and still
there are only words, because there are no facts ; the
vote is everything. The following remarks of the
Presse on this point display judgment, though we re-
gret to say, the latter paragraph contains assertions
which destroy much of their effect, because the writer
must have known that he states what is contrary to
facts. England was deserted by France, when it
suited her purpose, both as regards the affairs of
Spain and the East:—
"We gave good advice to the adversaries and to the
friends of Ministers, but neither followed it. The ad-
vice we gave them was to pass over the general dis-
cussion, and to arrive at once at the paragraph upon
which the existence of the Cabinet ought to turn. To
what purpose are all those preliminaries except to ener-
vate the debate ? The sitting of Monday will not have
changed our views on that subject. Five orators were
heard, and still the question did not advance one step.
Why not at once enter on the affairs pending ? Our
foreign and domestic policy have been in turns
brought before the public in the reply to the
Speech from the Throne. Every opinion, therefore,
those which are favourable to the policy of Minis-
ters, and those which are opposed to it, might declare
themselves on the speeial debate on each paragraph. The
general debate is only calculated to lose time, and to
drown facts in an ocean of common-place phrases. It
was certainly to this cause which must be attributed the
little interest with which most of the orators were
listened to. Some of them made sensible speeches,
which merited more attention. Messrs. de Tocqueville
and de Beaumont, for example, were happy in their defi-
nition of the attitude which :France ought to assume in
her relations with foreign Powers. The system!of an
exclusive, permanent, and absolute alliance with Eng-
land, found in them convinced and enlightened adver-
saries, who indicated without passion the general and
particular reasons which ought to lead France to seek
assistance in other points of Europe. In their minds no
more than in ours, that did not mean that we should
hastily break off from England, prefer misunderstanding
to good accord, or seek pretexts for collision or war.
Such conduct would be insane. It simply means, that
whilst living in peace we ought to reserve our liberty
and our independence, and not devote ourselves exclu •
sively to a PoWer whose assistance, ever interested, and
for that reason capricious, has already abandoned us in
the most decisive circumstances."

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the
papers:--

"We learn from the Cherbourg journal that a com-
pany of infantry, which has been embarked at that port
in the Prevoyante, for Brest, is to proceed to Otaheite.
A company of grenadiers will be taken on board at
Brest for the Marquesas Islands.
"A letter from Oran, of the 10th, states that the
officer of the Emperor of Morocco, who is charged with
General Delarue to fix the limits of the frontiers, had
arrived at Ouchda, and that the Emperor appeared to
be sincerely desirous of fulfilling all his engagements
with France, but that his power over his subjects was
becoming every day less. The same letter states that
Abd-el-Kader had succeeded, notwithstanding all the
precautions that had been taken, in getting together
nearly 1,000 men, at the head of whom he was waiting
for some turn in his fortunes.

" The Fiance publishes the following letter from St.
Petersburgh, dated the Bth. It shows that the report
from Berlin of the illness of the Emperor and Empress
of Russia was wholly without foundation:—' Last Satur-
day the Emperor held a grand review of the garrison.
The troops were drawn up in the square of the Admi-
ralty. His Majesty was on horsback, accompanied by
the Hereditary Grand Duke Alexander and a numer-
ous suite. tThe Emperor wore a general's uniform.
The troops were two hours in defiling before him.
On the 6th, the festival of Christmas, according to
the Russian calendar, was celebrated. A high mass in
music was performed in the chapel of the imperial
palace. The Emperor, the Empress, and all their fa-
mily were present, in deep mourning. It is the day on
which, in all the churches of Russia, a public prayer is
offered up, thanking God for having repulsed the inva-
sion of 1812. After the mass, there was a grand recep-
tion in the outer palace of the civil and military autho-
rities and the nobility. The Duke de Leuchtenberg is
eipected here the day after to-morrow, to be present
with all the Court at the celebration of the Russian New
Year."

We learn from Zurich that the Swiss Vorort has re-
solved to convoke an extraordinary Federal Diet for the
end of January.
The Univcrsal German Gazette states that the Aus-
trian Government, in order that France may not assume
to herself the exclusive Protectorate of the Christians in
the Holy Land, has appointed a Commission charged
with that duty on the part of Austria.
THE BOURSE---TUESDAY, JAN. 21.

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