The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-28 00:00:00

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land and France, according to such arrangements as
the united Powers shall deem expedient. There is
reason also, at length, to depend upon the hearty
concurrence of Prussia and Austria : whatever the
motives may be of this tardy coneurrence,it certainly
exists, and is not without its value. Under these
circumstances, we trust that we may, without much
hesitation, affirm that the peace of Europe will be
preserved : and this desirable result is, we think, in
a great measure owing to the confidence which
foreign Powers have felt in the British Government
both as to the sincerity of its intentions and the
firmness of its purpose to see the treaty of July
faithfully and effectively executed. Unless we sup-
pose the Sultan to be absolutely insane, he must at
last be convinced, by the cordial union of the Live
great European Powers, that all attempts to break
the alliance must be hopeless,—a conviction which
will be the more strongly impressed upon him, if, as
is, we believe, the intention, Russia shall immediately
occupy the Principalities as a pledge for the indem-
nities to her commerce, while the three combined
fleets blockade the Morea and Alexandria. So de-
termined and formidable an aspect will, we should
snppose,alarm even the obstinacy of Turkish fatalism,
and dispose it to settle both questions at issue,—the
indemnity to Russian commerce, and the independ-
ence of Greece.—lbid.

Mr. Sugden appears to have taken the earliest
opportunity of making the anzende honorable to the
supporters of the established system of legal abuse
and chicanery for having been betrayed into expres-
sione, the other day, which savoured of a liberal and
enlightened anxiety for legal reform. If those ex-
pressions gave offence to the learned and puissant
body of which he is a member, he made ample atone-
ment for the use of them, on Thursday night, by the
" generous" indignation which he lavished on Mr.
D. W. Harvey, for having dared to impugn the in-
violable sanctity of the Chancery system. If that
high Court of .Justice wanted any eulogy beyond its
own records, it only requires Mr. Sugden to become
its historian, to hand it clown in the most glowing
colours of panegyric to all posterity. There is, how-
ever, such a figure in rhetoric as hyperbole, and giv-
ing—as, of course, we do—all possible credit
to the motives which animated the Learned
Gentleman, we cannot help thinking that he
made a more abundant use of that figure we
have mentioned than was exactly consistent
with good taste. When he said, for instance,
that " he knew the high-minded spirit of the
Chancery Barristers," he ought to have recollected
that, being himself a Chancery Barrister, he could
not be eensiflered a disinterested witness in this
matter; and ;that, with whatever sincerity he might
have applauded himself and brethren, a man's praises
do not come best front his own month, When he
stated also that there existed, on the pert of the
Chancery Barristers, rather " over-anxiety for
reform," he ought to have done hie audience the
favour of assisting them to believe so novel a prepo-
sition by giving it the support of a few facts. We
agree with him that" nothing is more necessary than
to uphold the dignity of thr Court," though we
cannot easily conceive how its dignity is to be pre-
served by the perpetuation of its abuses, When
he goes on to say that "the fault did not lie with the
Judges or the Barristers," he admits, by implication
that fault does 1.;.e somewhere ; and so far we have
an admission of there being, eornething wrong in the
made in which justice is administgre4 in that Court.
But the,Jedges and-Barristers are not in fault, accere
ding to Mr, si";gden. Who then are ? Is the
blame to fall. upon ,•:,,elicitors or the system ?
Mr. Sugden says on neither, He has discovered
what the most ingenious champions for the Chan-
cery piaetice had not heretofore found out; he has
ascertained that " the fault lies with the executors,
the trustees, or the eetetipe who had an interest in
delaying judgment." Had nut %Ir. Sugden assured
his audience that he meant to pratse die Cenrt of
Chancere, we should have interpreted this sentence
as conveying thee i.,7-.,pst severe condemnation of the
system ever pronounced,. Nothing is more clear
than that parties who wish to eiettae judgment are
conscious of not having a just cause, and eoneee
quently hope to 01;4'in, by the length of the purse,
that victory over their adveievies which they could
not derive from the soundness or their eleims.
Now we would have supposed that a Court of
Equity, peeperly constituted, would prove its right
to the name by p,erenting, instead of assisting, the
designs of such unjust suitors. What would be
said of the constitution of a Crini,a; Court, if, 'on
a cletege of not protecting the public, the defence
set up was, that " the fault was not with the Judges
or the Barristers, Wet with the thieves, swindlers,
and other malefactot s, who had an interest in delay-
ing judgment ?" Yet such is Mr. gugdeh'e defence
of the Chancery system !—lllorning Herald.
It has i,eAti considered by many that the shipping
question had beers so entirely settled when the last
changes were effected in the'lla-eige(ion Laws, that
no attempt would be made to disturb tile exestine
srrangersrnt, .w.,d that the Shipowners, if they did
not benefit by its natoee, would at least submit in
silent resignation to the losses eehie it might inflict
upon them. This impression, we fear, l'a4 preveikq
to suet: an extent as to prevent the reconsideration
of many poiiete which could not otherwise have
escaped observatioa or h;eee denied inquiry. Shortly,
however, silence will be at an entl. In every port
of the United Empire, the inaction of British etse
seas, :44 the reduction of British tonnage, have
awakened th Members of the Shipping Interest to
the dangers of tile 4 .:itpation—dangers which in-
crease every day. In every poet, therefore, they
ayg preparing to address Parliament; 41,4 q!,. peti-
tionS eeent forth by individuals, who can Prowl;
that since tke well-meant, but unrequited favour
of other States, their pros-
shown td the sajqt,''
perity has gradually LleciinA and their flourishing
condition has been succeedAed by certainty of
approaching ruin—the petitions of individuate, on
whom depends, in a great measure, the present and
future strength of tin) British Navy—will not be re-
ceived with indifference, po dismissed without con-
sideration. That inv.es.tigation yiLJ he granted can-
not be doubted, for those times are past' when griev•
ances were met by a simple denial-and that Inves-
tigation will be followed by correction, or remedy, is
nearly equally certain. At all events, the Ship-
owners wilt and must be heard ; and when their
case is before Parhamga and the Country, and they
establish all the facts which they promise to bring
forward, there is no Minister unpirstriotiei or head-
strong enough to sacrifice to a vain regard for his
own consistency, the interests of a most important,
useful, and honourable hedv.—.2Ven, Times.