The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-01 00:00:00

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.

General Hon. C. Hope, Rankellour.
LIEUTENANT-GENERALS--Lewis, late Royal Invalid
Artillery ; Stevenson, London.
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Colonel Davidson, late of 15th Foot, Brompton.
LIEUTENANT-COLONELs-Hon. R. Clements, Groia-
dier Guards, London ; Graham, late Scotch Brigade,
Deputy Governor of St. Maw's.
MAJORs-Smithi, 80th Foot; Gordon, half-pay 08th
Foot ; Archibald Taylor, half-pay Unattached, Dublin ;
Charles Grant, ditto, Tunbridge Wens;
Hugh Stewart,

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Chat-R-31i ; Mathew, half.pay 9Sth Foot, Tlioinastown ;
Jenkins, late of 15th Dragoons, Brighton.
MEDICAL. DEPARTamir Surgeon - General Irwin.
Royal Artillery ; Inspector IStraghan, half-pay, Barba-
does; Surgeon Sir P. M`Gregor, Bart. Military Asylum ;
A thistant-Surgeon Tennent.
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THE ORANGE!stEN.—As the Secret ooctety,
alias the Algerine Act, has expired with the Session of
P,irliament, which terminated yesterday, the Orangemen
a, c quite busy in reviving their Lodges; and it is alleged
they have come to the deteimillatiun to exclude all persow.'
from them who hold situations in any of the Public De-
partments, such as the Post-office, Stamp-ofEce, Custom-
house, Etc. And why? Because they think they were
betrayed some few years back by individuals who then held
situations under Government ! The first Dublii: Lodge is
henceforth to be called " The Loyal Bottle Throwers."—
Lublin Evening Post.

SPIRIT OF THE PUIILIC JOURNALS.

The following paragraph is froth the SuiT

last night :

" A Council was held yesterday, at which it
was decided that the blockade 'of Madeira should
not be respected, as Don MIGUEL, has de-
clared himself KING. The blockade of Oporto
was recoanized because he was Regent."
We shall be glad to find the above statement
confirmed, though the grounds on which the
Oporto blockade was defended leave us little rect.-
son to believe that less respect will be shown to-
wards that of Madeira, if undertaken with an
effective force. The noble Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs defended his recognition of
the former act of usurpation, exclusive].) on the
around that the Government by which it was
enforced was a Government kfircto. In this
respect there has since been no change ; or if
there has been any, it is entirely in favour of the
fOrTner policy, inasmuch as the existing Govern-
ment has been subsequently strengthened, if not
justified, by success. The transmutation of the
despot's title ftom that or Regent into King has
nothing to do with. the question so propounded.
Don Miguel was as much a usurper when he
ceased to be, his brother's Lieutenant, and as-
sumed the title of Regent independent of his
brother's authority, as he would have been, had
he called himself Dey, Dictator, King, or Em-
peror. We had recognized him only as the
Lieutenant of our ally Don Pedro, and when
he renounced his delegated power for indepen-
ident sway, he ceased to be entitled to our recog:
nition under whatever title he chose to be ad-
dressed. To show, indeed, that it was his pos-
session of power as a de facto ruler, and not his
mere designation of Regent in the Court Calen-
dar, which procured an acknowledgment of his
blockade, it need only be stated that we respected
it even after he had declared himself King.
Against the eager recognition of the fatal mea-
sure at Oporto, we pretested at the time, and
we shall rejoice to hear that, even at the expellee
of Government's consistency, such a policy has
been abandoned with respect to Madeira. That
island may be almost called an English establish-
ment. There are in Funchal between 400 and
500 of our countrymen. Its trade is chiefly in
our hands. Our merchants would be the prin-
cipal sufferers by the interruption of its commu-
nications with the rest of the world. Its defence
is easy against any expedition which the Usurper
can direct against it. If the garrison remains
faithful to Don Pedro, and is strong enough to
repress internal faction, it may defy external at-
tacks. A blockade, which would prevent the
introduction of the military stores of which it
stands in need; and repel the approach of the
military reinforcement on which it may soon
reckon, is the only hostile measure which it has

to dread. The Governor is the Colonel Valdez
who distinguished himself by his fidelity at Bra.
ganza in the autumn of 1826, and has, there-
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fore, no hope of life but by a stout resistance.
He and his little garrison arc too deeply com-
promised to think of surrendering ; and if Great
Britain refuses to acknowledge the blockade
which must soon be declared, the cause of legi-
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timacy will have one chance more.—Times.
Of the innumerable complaints which have
reached us against the present system of Bank-
rupt Laws, those against the manner in which it
has been administered by the inferior tribunal of
Commissioners of Bankrupt, and against the
constitution of that slovenly, clumsy, and ineffi-
cient Court, arc not the least worthy of atten-
tion. Our readers know that the learned gen-
tlemen who form this judicial mob,—we might
have said regiment, but for the want of discipline
among them,—are all appointed by the Lord
Chancellor, and that such nominations constitute
a very considerable portion of his Lordship's
patronage. They may also have heard, upon in-
quiry, that the favour of the Chancellor, in mak-
ing these appointments, light for the most part
on the heads of barristers, who either do not
mean to practise in the Courts, and therefore
have not shown much industry in the acquisi-
tion of legal knowledge, or of those who, having
tried the experiment of practice, have failed, and
been thrown upon the shelf. Moreover, that
there are from 70 to 90 of these barristers di-

vided into squads of five each, and paid for as-
saulting, in various directions, and by sundry
crooked paths, the creditors, and assignees and
assets of every bankrupt. In the discharge of
this momentous duty, besides affecting occasional
and not infrequent, though of course unin-
tentional breaches in the law itself, under whose
banners they profess to be marshalled, the Com-
missioners never fail to make a serious, if not

fatal, impression on the bankrupt's estate, and on
the resources of his unhappy creditors. Of the
property of most bankrupts, it is not going too
Kir to say, that if the accounts be voluminous,
the claims pretty numerous, the attorney for the
assignees up to his business, and the Commis-
sioners of Bankrupt not possessed of more than
an average acquaintance with, or anxiety about,
theirs, one third at least of the available assets
must be subtracted from the funds to cover the
costs, over and above what may be calculated on
as an irrecoverable sacrifice, if blundering Com-
missioners or litigious parties should create a
pretence for pitching the estate into Chancery.
But there are other reasons for murmuring
deeply at the waste of time and property by this
Bankrupt Court, besides such as spring of ne-
cessity from its constitution, from a vicious law,

and incompetent Judges. It is the neglect and
idleness of the Commissioners, who seem—
whether from number or long impunity—to have
lost, in many instances, all sense of shame and
of humanity. We refer to a letter on the sub-
ject, from a highly respectable correspondent,
signed " A Creditor, which relates the intole-
rable fact of three Commissioners out of five,
forming the 12th List, being absent on Tues-
day last front their duty—one on circuit, a se-
cond on a tour of pleasure—and thus the appro-
priation of no less than six bankrupt estates (one
only of which involved claims of more than
20,0001.) being put off till next November
term ! The punishment of these Commissioners
(if punished they can be), would bring no ad-
vantage to the public. The fault lies in the
composition of the body, in its numbers, and its
rules of proceeding, which must be reformed,
though even at the risk of some loss of patronage
to the Chancellor. Is it not shocking that bank-
rupt cases, in their nature so replete with dis-
tress, should present that department of our judi-
cial system where justice is most obstructed, and
poverty and calamity most exposed to depre-
dation
BANKRUPT LAWS.
TO TIIE EDITOR. OF TICE TIMES.
Sir—l addressed you on the 17th of August last,'
for the purpose of illustrating, by the detail of an
event which occurred to me at the Court of Com-
missioners of Bankrupts, before the 7th List, the
position that our code of bankrupt laws is not only
inefficient in itself, but that its inefficiency is aug-
mented by the negligence of the Comnissioners.
The case which I detailed in my letter to you, by