The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

But not one of all these authorities laid dottri the prin-
ciple of a reversal of the judgment for itot giving a day
after the verdict; But. he would sho* their Lordships
several atitlinrities stating that it could not be reversed
dit thia kround: Ho quoted frOm Coroyn's Digest) title,
tleader.
turd OAMObELL—That is a common law without
statute. .

The ATTORNEY.GENERAL—It was without the aid of
statute. it .was laid down that a discontinuance made
prior to tbe verdict, but not discovered until after the
verdict, could not be held to be a discontinuance, and
the rule was the same in civil as in criminal cases.
Lord CAMPnELL—It seemed it was not thought ne-
cessary to continue the operation of the statute of dis-
continuance after the verdict was pronounced.
The ArrottlitY-GENERAL said it was not necessary.
lie quoted also the case of Rogers and Ellin, from
Comyn's' Digest. In the case before their Lordships
the verdict had been given. What was the objection of
the dcfendants ?---That a day was not given them on
which to appear and hear judgment pronounced. Why,
they did appear to hear judgment ; then where was the
injury ? If a party had been outlawed for not appear-
ing to receive judgment, he c-tmld understand the objec-
tion, as the party would then plead the discontinuance
order to have his outlawry reversed. But he contended
that the statute of William IV., under which this trial
had taken place, rendered every other form informal.
It was a statutory adjournment which every one was
bound te, take notice of. _ • .

The Le irned Gentleman then said that, with their
Lordship' permission, he would close his argument on
that point, and resume it to-morrow at ten o'clock, on
the question of the challenge of the array.
Their Lordships then adjourned until ten o'clock to-
morrow (this day).

TILE SECOND VOLUME
THE OF MEMOIRS OF
HOll SE OF COMMONS,
Ily W CHARLES TOWNSEND, Esq.
DEDICATED TO SIR ROBERT PEEL,
Will be ready on Saturday next, July 13.
Orders received by all Booksellers.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

13, Great Marlborough-street, July.
NEW BOOKS OF THE SEASON,
PUBLISHED BY MB. COLBUILN.
1. Mr. D'lsraeli's Coningeby.
2. Hon. Mr. Smythe's Historic Fancies. 1 Vol.
3. Marchioness of Londonderry's Travels. 1 Vol.
4. Memoirs of the Babylonian Princess.
5. 311ss Strickland's Queens of England. Vol. VII.
6. llyde Marston. A Novel.
7. The Wilthlness of Woman. A Novel.
B. A Winter in Italy, by Mrs. Ashton Yates. (Just ready.)
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING JULY 9,
Will be performed tiossini's Opera Sella, OTELLO.
, Deedeanoma, Madame Grisi ; Emilia, Madame Bellint;
g. Lableche; lago' Sig. Fornasari; Rodrigo, Sig. Conan; II Doge,
ig. G. Galli ; and Mello. Sig. Ma-ie.
After which, a " DIVERTISSEMENT," In which will be intro-
duced a new Pas de Deux by Mdlle. Fanny Elssler and M. St.
Leon, Pas de Deux by Mdlles. Scheffer and Plunkett, and the
admired Spanish ance "La Sarigossa," by Mae. Fanny Elssler.
To conclude with a Divertissement, entitled LA VIV AN MERE,
nu, tucing the Redowa or .•riglnal Polka of Hungary, by Itldile.
Cerite and M. Leon.
Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box
Office, Opera Colonnade.
S•gtior Cesta's new Opera, " Don Carlos," will be repeated
forthwith.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE,
Signor PUZZI respectfully informs the Nobility, Subscritwri to the
°erre, his Friends, and the Public, that HI 'lib:NMl"' will take place
ON THURSDAY NEXT, JULY 11,
On which occasion will be presented (for the First Time these Three
Years), Doniaetti's celebrated Opera,

the substance of which is, that there never was a
period when England could make a greater naval
demonstration than at present, and that the Govern-
ment had taken measures for protec_ing British in-
terests in the Mediterranean.

Mr. C. WOOD was not at all satisfied by the
answers of Sir R. PEEL, and after alluding to the
attacks made by the Tories on the late Government
for neglecting the navy, said the shores of England,
the interests of the country, were never left in such a
helpless state as they were at the present moment.
He then asked if the Government were prepared to
put the naval force of the country in a state that
would command confidence at home and abroad
Sir R. PEEL would give no answer, as the notice
applied only to the force in the Mediterranean. He
considered that he had not been fairly treated. After
some remarks fro:n Lord PALMERSTON and Lord
Howicx, on the small naval force now in commission,
and the bitter taunts made by the Tories on the same
subject in 1838, the conversation dropped.
An interesting discussion then took place on the
Railways Bill, introduced by Mr. GLADSTONE. Mr.
GISBORNE announced, that if the Government did
not withdraw the Bill he should move that it be read
a second time that day six months.
Mr. ILtwEs and Mr. CoLgnuouis said they would
support the motion of Mr. GISBORNE; Mr. WALLACE,
Mr. LABOCCHERE, and others supported the Govern-
ment, and trusted the amendment would not be
pressed to a division. Sir ROBERT PEEL said in
bringing forward the Bill, the Government had, and
could have, no other object in view, than to protect the
public. They had offended many of their supporters
by the measure, but still they could not sacrifice their
duties N party purposes. All the Government wished
was a full, fair; and impartial discussion. Mr. GIS-
BORNE withdrew his amendment.

Mr. GLADSTONE then moved the second reading of
the Bill. His speech contains statements of the
highest importance to the community. An abridg-
ment would do it injustice, and we, therefore, recom-
mend it to the careful attention of our readers, for all
are interested in this momentous question. The dis-
cussion occupied the rest of the evening, and the de-
bate was adjourned till Thursday.
Leave was given to bring in the Party Processions
(Ireland) Bill, and the House adjourned at Half-
past One.

Those of our readers who may happen to be ac-
quainted with GOLDSMITH'S works, can scarcely have
forgotten his diverting, full-length portrait ( f
Croaker, in the comedy of the Good Natured Man.
This Croaker, like his prototype Heraclitus of
old—who certainly ought to have been an Eng-.
lishman—is a born genius for grumbling. He
holds the reverse of POPE'S famous axiom, that
" whatever is, is right," and stoutly maintains that
" whatever is, is wrong." Where other more cordial
spirits find the materials for consolation, if not of
hope, he finds only the materials of discomfort and
despondency; and is never so much in his element as
when discovering some fine, fresh grievance, " war-
ranted genuine"—as our shep placards have it—on
which he may descant with all the powers of his
gloomy and splenetic eloquence. Just such as
was Croaker in private life, is the Morning Post in
politics—that is to say, a grievance-hunter of the
first water. As the former was always indulging,
like a JEREMIAH or a CASSANDRA, in the most dole-
ful vaticinations, so is the latter never so completely
at home as when terrifying his numerous readers with
all sorts of dire predictions. We have not the good
fortune to be acquainted with the person of our
triste Contemporary, but whenever we see a
gentleman in the streets looking more downcast and
;hypochondriacal than the general run of London
peripatetics, as if some alarming grievance were fer-
menting;in his prolific imagination, we always feel
tempted to exclaim with a _ sigh of affectionate
compassion, " there goes the Morning Post!" We
hope that our desponding Contemporary may not
be discovered some fine morning self-suspended
to the lamp-post in front of his office—a vic-
tim to overpowering affliction brought on by his
conviction of the present ruinous state of the agricul-
tural interest ; but we must confess that such a catas-
' trophe, however it would grieve, would not surprise
us, for.- nothing can be more lugubrious—nothing
more hopelessly dejected than the language; which
he holds this morning. That we may not be Bus-
t pected of exaggeration, we will just beg leave to cull
a few sprigs from his plantation of henbane, hemlock,
and nightshade. " When distress shall return," he says,
' " and distress such as our agriculturists have never
yet known, cannot be far distant, let not our Parlia-
mentary landowners affect to ascribe the ruin of
tenants and the disaffection of peasantry to some in-
scrutable dispensations of Providence. Recent legis-
lative measures will account for the utter ruin of the
agricultural interest." Again—" In the autumn
of 1845, if not earlier, our Parliamentary land-
' owners will have an opportunity of witnessing the
action of the economical principles which they have
embraced since 1841. When farmers shall be sold up
by, hundreds—when involuntary idleness and disaffec-
tion shall have spread to a fearful extent among our
artisans and peasantry—when the throat of the land-
owner shall blacken under the gripe of the mortgagee
—then will the agricultural supporters of Sir R. PEEL
understand the true nature of that great statesman's
enlightened principles." This last vaticination is in .
our Contemporary's finest spirit of horror, and was
evidently penned with a view to depress the spirits
of those country gentlemen who may happen to
have been too much elated by the late decision on
the corn-laws. But, though no very enthusias-
tic admirers of the Premier, we are far indeed from
anticipating that such awful calamities as the Post
conjures up, will be the inevitable results of his policy.
The agricultural interest need fear no very great or
decisive injury at his hands,. lie stands too much in
need of their support to work them any serious mis-
chief—at least for some years to come. The pear is
not yet ripe. The hour is not yet arrived when he
may safely throw them overboard, and form an al-
liance, offensive and defensive, with the free-trade
party. Sir R. PEEL'S present policy is to commit
himself to no parties, but to establish a sort of claim
on all of them, by alternately cajoling and threaten-
ing -them, and blinding them by such vague pro-
fessions of good will as may fill them with hopes
destined, most probably, never to be realised. One'
day he throws out a lure to Mr. COBDEN ; the
next, to Mr. BANIEES, of Arcadian-happiness
notoriety. Last year, he advanced a step towards
the free-traders ; this year, he makes a retrograde
movement, and falls back on the Monopolists. Those
who may have seen two school-boys playing at see-
saw, and watched with what clock-work regularity the
ono goes up as the other goes down, will be able to form
a pretty correct idea of the Premier's system of policy.
It is a perfect game of see-saw between the manufactur-
ing and the agricultural interests. The Minister fur-
nishes the plank on which the two parties are seated,
and as they go up and go down alternately, he
boasts of the impartiality with which the game is
played, and the cogent reasons that each party has to
be satisfied with it.

Madrid journals of the Ist inst. have been received.
According to a letter in one of them from Barcelona,
the Emperor of MOROCCO had replied to the ulti-
matum of the Spanish Government in so insolent a
style as to leave no alternative but war. The con-
clusion of the conferences and the commencement of
hostilities had been communicated to the diplomatic
body. The Madrid Gazette of the Ist contains the
following revolting summary of the executions in
only one district of Catalonia :
" Between the Ist of February and the 15th of June, the
' faction' in the Maestrazzo have sustained the following
losses :—Killed on the field of battle, 54 men; shot, after
being made prisoners, 120 men ; pardoned, for various rea-
sons, 107. Among the prisoners shot are the chiefs El Ser•
rador, Viscaro, Lauva, and Taso ; Marsal and his lieutenant,
Pilaren, Cotarro and his second, Martinez El Serano, 'reran-
ques, and Galo de Santa Oleon ; and 25 generals or officers,
including one colonel, one commandant, three captains, and
thirteen lieutenants. Since the 29th of May fourteen spies
and nineteen officers, coming from France, and a certain
number of douuniers who bad joined the bands have been
shot. General Don Juan de Villalonga has, by his energetic
activity, not a little contributed to this result:"

THE
__SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 9. 1844.