The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

ThCCase of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Association is
now before the public, and may be considered as illustrat-
ing, in a conspicuous and impressive manner, the inherent
vices of most joint-stockecompany undertakings. There
is no fraud complained of in this Company or its Direc-
tors :.great respectability—great zeal, we, doubt not, for
the general good—a large capital—a rich and recognized
field for the application of it; yet, although two years and
more have elapsed since this Company was first:esta-
blished, and although, on every principle of commercial
calculation, some return ought ere now to have accrued
from its enormouS outlay, we 'find that the /oss admitted
by the Directors' exceeds hall a million sterling. It was
about six months ago that we foretold, this unfortunate
result to most of the adventures which had for their ob-
ject the working of the mines of , Mexico, by companies
stationed in Europe. We grieve that the foreboding has
been verified, so extensively end so soon. Extravagance,
and ate atfeetation of grandeor, are imputed by some to
tins disappointed Company, as its besetting follies. The
propriefors evince so little satisfaetion with the conduct
of the_directors, though no suspicion of them, that of the
Whole number of 10,000 shareholders, 4,000 have de-
clined to Pay the lust " call" to meet the current expences.
Many shareholders must of course be disqualified by thi!-
refusal, und the directors acknoWledge that it will be un-
avoidable to raise an additional 150,0001. from some new
capitalist, or to drop the purpOses of the undertaking. Ii
the ComMercial crisis be alleged by these gentlemen as
the real cause Of the failure of their enterprise, it would
have;Aiffected others in a proportionate degree ; but we
have not heard of any company whose shares are depre-
dated to the extent of .5-tiths on an enormous capital,
applied to schemes in distant countries, merely because of
a convulsion in the currency or industry of Great :Britain.
The ", commercial crisis" is a convenient stalking horse,
and has been mounted by. many a luckless dabbler in pro-
jects for which, they were unfit. But are there in this
ease no other causes? Have they not spread their opera-
tions too largely, and spent the4r funds too profusely ?
Was this Company satisfied to pay no higher wages than
the Spaniards, who worked their mines to good profit,
had paid, before this. Anglo-Association was hatched ?
Ought a huge body of directors to have been kept rip,
whoa(' salaries alone absorbed 2,4001. per ann. and this before
a single dollar had been extracted from the mine? And
see what deplorable consequences are to follow :.,the Eng-
lish .capitalist clears away the obstructions, brings the
mine. into working condition, and then, having spent his
entire capital, withdraws with execrations on South Ame.
rica 140 her unproductive mountains, while the wary
Mexican watches the;progress of his toil, and the moment
of his despairing! flight, seizes the prey which had dropped
from him untested, and laughs ut the eccentricities of
" enliglit end Europe."—Titnex,
Mr. tioe,one of the Police Magistrates of Marlborough-
street, has thought fit, in the plenitude of his power, to
expel, our reporter from that oilier. No reason was as-
signed for this arbitrary conduct. Such haughty and
im-
peritues proeeedings may do for the laud of Turkey, but
this Magistrate is mistaken if he thinks that they Will be

approved of here, or that a pollee Magistrate, even though
shielded by the dignity of the bench, may brave public

opinion with impunity. Englishmen are accustomed to
require reasons for, what appears partial and unjust con-
duct, and never fail to raise their voices against undue
harshness and severity. We cannot designate such con-
duct by gentler names. Might not the Magistrate lime
deigned, without at all lowering the dignity of the Bench,
to make some communication at least throngh the officers,
and Five sonic reasons fir this partial eAclutoon. Thututh
Mr; Roe has 800!. a-year paid out of the pockets of the
public,. and .ruay enjoy the luxuries of life without tut atixi-
ous thought about 'the future, he ought to reincinbci
that others are: not so fortunate. lie might have consi-
dered that the object of his resentment, perhaps, had a
wife and family depending on him for subsistence, and that
he was at least bound in common humanity to afford hint
any °pinto unity of justifying his.conduct, or correcting any
error lie might. have committed, before adopting a coursi,
which Might plunge hint and his flintily into poverty.' But
he appears in this instance to have had no more feeling
than when he condemned the blind infirm woman of 70 to
the House of Correction for being idle and disorderly. It
is not at all imprObable, indeed, that some sorenes on this
stdject may have roused his indignation, and made hint
-pitch qne Reporter in order, to deter the rest from gives
trig to the public any instances of magisterial severity or
inconsistency for the future. The whole transaction
•at
best shows 'a
pitiful spirit. It is quite in keeping with that
jealousy Of the press evinced by so many of those guilty
Directors of.loint Stikk Companies and swindling sehetnes.
They,shrink from the ga7,e of the public, because they are
conscious that their conduct will not bear the test of
truth. It.. is certainly singular that instances of expulsion
should occur oftener at this office than at any other. The
fault 'cannot lie-entirely with the Reporters, and we are
happy to. think that two of the Magistrates at least have
shown no tendency to this sort of persecution.—Morning
Herald.

'Wc, cannot imagine why the Lord Chancellor should
prefer giving judgments his private room, instead of
doing to,in the open Court. It car. be of little conse-
quence, tve should imagine, personally to his Lordship in
what partieiklar,reotn or chair he sits, while to the public
it is of inflOitg rOpstitittOCe that the business of public
Corte should not be transferred to pr
ivate parlours—u
. .
precedent which, in hands less pine than those of Lord
Eldon, is eupable of being converted to very questionable
purposes. Besides, the decisions of an Equity Judge,
more especially When that Judge is a man so justly emi-
nent as Eldon, become part, as it. were, of the law of
the laud, for the guidance of future suitors, solicitors, and
Chancellors, and should therefore be delivered er cathedra'
openly and intelligibly before the world. If his Lordship
stays in his private room because be is deserted by the
Counsel, that is precisely one of the reasons why, if we
were be, we would not do so. Their deserting th;•Court
aq of the causes in which they are concerned are
&Toning!, is an open insult.to thei judge, and a gross de-
i,.ll 4if their' (hit to their'
the
world
toitet;
ice mints; and we should like
the piocemintrit
of it c
tt:Sytt bias imuedes and thwaas
in its
Pr°‘\•'ilings. Cinibrinat:tillat any
tittle
too
alert
yaw s the ,Solicitors are, in fact,
flee
amt teir
bayr.
110
inure right
their retaining
selves front their employment Zieil . übse" the,"l-
- services, than those in ab
il(:situation have.
Lord Eldon is,, in fact, Me tie,
int:l'l4'lr 14"ter requires
to these gentlemen. Ile should "°llll,sscending
et. in ea„ it cairsnte:;,(:irli'iteritt
ance of those who
briefs and their fee:r:heortr:rdte ihanded over At
any rate,.tii show who it is that attends 'to 1U
duty,
h"Ri
who does not, we wish his L,ordshit) *Mild inTside
last in his open Court, that the public [night )tear the,e
the real facts, ea well as be benefitted by a hnowiede
what it is his Lordship himself is doing.—Bbd.
Some of the Irish Papers have commenced an tme,
Culded land most unbecoming species of hostility against
intb.;cidutibt. The amount, of the donationa to eit4rillible
fund's, by penowl of distinction, to whose politics they are
adverse; are made the subject of criticism ; and the donor
has meted out to him a greater or less degree of reproba
tion, according as the newspaper writer conceives the
amount of the gift to fall more or ,les, short of that which
should haVe been given. Nothing esti he more unjust or
migencrons—nothing (lot be more prejudicial to the erase
of Charity. Those who .judge of the:4o'6o2s rendered to
poverty by the great and the opulent, merely from their
subscriptions to publik.eptributionsi forin a very erro-
neous estimate. „„it-sri:...."•2lattittlieSaarries a the great

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shoold appear in such contributions, not so much for the
sake of what they give, as for; the example which they set ;
but the efficacy of such contributions always depends in-
finitely more on the subscription being very general, than
ou the largeness of the sum given by this or that indivi-
dual. It is only by subscription to a common fund that
the man of small income can take any share in the work of
charity ; but the man of rank and wealth cani,and gene-
rally does, exercise a much more effective benevolence in
his own immediate sphere, and by means of his own
unaided connections and resources. To judge of his An-
cities by his public subscriptions, is unfair' and, even if
the criterion were a just one, we know nothing that can
justify the making such matters a theme of public discus-
sion.—New Times and Repreterdative.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Auo. 29.

DECLARATION Or INSOLVENCY.
Llewellyn, Rochester-terrace, Stoke Newington, stationer.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
W. Sitns,Portsea, grocer.

3. Gething, NAforcestar, coal-merchapt.
S. Jackson, Congletou, Cheshire, silkman.

BANKRUPTS.

W. Watson, One Swan, Binhopsgate7street, inn-keeper, to sur-
render Sept. 11, at one,'l2, and Oct. 10, at the Court of Con,
missioners. Attorney, Mr. Parton, Bow Church-yard.
J. Shakeshaft, jun., Widegate-street, St. Bon)lph, Bishops-
gate-street, dealer in earthenware, Sept. 5, 30, and Oct. 10, at
eleven, at the Court of Commisaioners. Attorniea, Messrs. White
and Barrett, Great St. Helens.
O. E. Dintalule, Middlehatn, Yorkshire, scrivener, Sept. 14,
15, and Oct. 10, at ten, at the Bishop Blaize Inn, Richmond,
Yorkshire. Attorniea, Messrs. Strangeways and Walker, Bar-
nerd's Inn, London; and Mr. Bradley, Catterick, Yorkshire.
G. Keating, Waterloo-road, Landreth, lineu-draper, Sept. 11,
at 'Me, 12, and Oct. 10, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.
Attornies, Messrs. Green and Ashurat, Sambrook-eourt, Basing-
hall-street.

11.. Thornley, Yale How, Longdendale, Cheshire, cotton-spin-
ner, 'Sept. 11, 12, and Oct. 10, at two, at the Star Inn, Man
chester. Attorney, Mr, Kay, Manclwter.

H.: P. Buck, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, cabinet-maker, Sept.
at five, 6, at eleven, at the Office of Messrs. Powell and Son,
Kliareshorongh, and Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Ship Inn, Hare-
wood Bridge, Yorkshire. Attornies, Messrs. Stocker and Daw-
son,New Boswell-court, London ; and Messrs. Powell and Son,
Knave borough.

'F. Weer, Brighthelmstone, Susses, builder, Sept. 12, 14,
and Oct. 10, at ten, .at the Star Inn, Lewes. Attnrnies, Messrs.
Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bedford-row, London ; and Mr.
Verral, I.e►ves.

J. Palmer, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, mercer, Sept.. IS, 14, and
Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Shrewsbury. Attornies,
Messrs. Clarke, Riehards, and Medealf, chancery-lane, London;
and Mr. Williams, Swan-hill, Shrewsbury.
Sleddon and T. Sleddon, Preston, Lancashire, cotton-spin-
ners, Sept. 21, 22, and Oct. 10, at twelve, at the White klorse
Inn, Preston.. Attornies,• Mr. Norris, John-street, Bedford-row,
London •; and Messrs. Buck and Statiifant, Preston.
T.; Barlow, jun. and H. T. Barlow, Liverpool, drapers, Sept.
20, 21, and Oct. 10, at one, at the George Inn, Liverpool. At-
tornies, Mr. Davies, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Adlington, Gregory,
and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London,
C. Marriott, Manchester, eotton-skinner, Sept. 15, 16, at two,
and Oct. 10, at one,, at the White Bear Inn, Manchester. Attor-
nies,' Mr. Brackenbury, Manchester ; and Messrs. Hurd and
Johnson, Temple, London.
Sleddon, Preston, Lancashire, machine-maker, Sept. 20,
21, and Oct. 10, at twelve, at the White Horse Inn, Preston.—
Attornies, Mr. Norris, John-street, Bedford-row; and Messrs.
truck and Startifunt, Preston.
A. Clarkson, Thatcharn, Berkshire, innkeeper, Sept, 5, 12,
and Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners, London.
Attornies, Messrs.- Henrich and Stafford, Bockingliant-street,
Strand, London..

J. Lee, Wood-street, elleapside; warehouseman, Sept. 12, 19,
and Ort. 10, at. ten, .at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney,
Mr. ,lantes, Charlotte-row, Mansion House. • ,
Italkett and T. Iltighea, Liverpooli.titnher.:ttereliante, Sept.
29, , and Oct. li.l, at one, at the George Inn, Liverpool. At.
tornies, Mr. Leigh, Charlotte-row, Manaion-house, London ; and
Mr. Leather; Liverpool.
I. Weed, 11awkesbury, Cloweaterahire, draper, Sept. 15, 16,
and (Jet. 10, at twelve, at the Ounmereial Ronnie, Bristol. At-
tornies, Messrs. Bourdilion and Hewitt, Breed-street, Cheapside,
London; and Messrs, Bevan and Britten, Bristol.

A. Phelps; Bath, milliner, Aug. 30, Sept. 19, and Oct. 10, at
ten, at the Angel inn, Bath. Attornies, Mr. Mickey, Bath ; and
Mr. Fisher, Queen-street, Cheapide, London.
W. Monk, Biaplia►n, Lancashire, maltater, Sept. 8, t 2, and
Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Office of MOlBlll. Howart' and Harri-
son, Preston. Attornies, Mr. Stock, Chorley ; and Mr. Vallop,
Suffolk street, Pall-mall East. •
M. Blood, Bath, surgeon, Sept. 1,8, and Oct. 10, at eleven,
at the Court of Commissioners, London. Attorney, Mr. Dignam,
Newman-street, Oxford-street.
DIVIDENDS.

S. Hodgson, Ilebden-bridge, arid S. Hodgson, Halifax, iron-
founders, Sept. 20, at three, at the Royal Hotel, Matichester—P.
Charmer!, Piccadilly, jeweller, Sept. 19, at ten, at the Court of
Cominiesioners—W. Roberts, Shoe-lane, printer,, Sept., 21, at
one, at the Court of Commissioners--C. and M. A. Dandy, Dur-
harn.liouse, Ilackney-road, dealers, Sept. 21, at the Court of
Commissioners-1 T, and S. T. Gilbert, Exeter, linen-drapers,
Sept. 19, at ten, at the Court .of Commissioners—G. Cnasons,
Manchester, cotton-spinners, Oct. 5, at eleven, at White's Hotel,
Manchestvr.