The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

Now rately, ins sole., post 870., r patrician Order indirectly advocate the raising of
THIRD EDITION of "C 0 -.Li IN GSBY; '
OR, THE NEW GENERATION. , mere l pebeian men of letters to posts of hi h
By B. D'ISKAELI, Esq., M.P. political distinction—posts which should be held,
Also, just published,
A SECOND EDITION of "HISTORIC FANCIES." By the as of old, solely by the PELHAMS and the NBW-
Hon. GEORGE SYDNEY SMYTHE, M.P. Bvo., 12s. bound. CASTLES—men who are born statesmen by virtue of
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough.. street.
hereditary descent, and who lay claim to superior
wisdom as an inseparable adjunct to their Peer's co-
ronet ! Monstrous heresy! Flagrant assault on the
exclusive privileges of rank and blood ! So would ex-
claim an aristocrat of the old school. But, thank GoD,
the youthful generation of our nobility are, many of
them, of a different mettle to their more bigoted sires!
The striking historical vicissitudes of the last half
century and upwards have not been regarded by them
with indifference; they have derived valuable lessons
from the stirring events that have been passing in the
world about them ; they have seen the broad cur-
rent of public opinion pressing on, in spite of all the
dams and locks that aristocracy conjointly with
priestcraft has set up to check its progress; and
seeing this, they have wisely and nobly resolved to
fall in with the temper of the times, and to become
conspicuous among their fellow-countrymen rather
by their intellectual wealth than the lucky accident
of birth, since, after all, intelligence is the only true
lasting power—the power that moulds individuals and
nations—that hurls down the showy Falsehood, how-
ever exalted be the pinnacle whereon it is perched,
and uplifts the sterling Truth, no matter how humble
or disregarded be its position among men. We say
no more than the strict truth, when we say that
by far the best speeches at the Manchester
Athenmum were made by those who were the
most distinguished among the meeting by their posi-
tion in society ; and we may search among the re-
cords of Parliament for the last ten or a dozen years,
without finding such displays of the truest and purest
eloquence—that, namely, of thought and sentiment—
as characterised the orations of Messrs. SMITIIB and
DISRAELI.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
I'HIS EVENINGOO:7OBER 7,
Will be performed a New Grand Opera, in Three Act?, entitled
THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnhem, Mr. Berrani ;
Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Devashoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline,
Miss Rainforth ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mies Betts.
After which, the Grand Ballet, entitled THZ CORSAI rt.
Conrad, M. Alhert ; Julien, M. Desplaces; Sanguso M. Montessu
Metiora, Miss CI ira Webster; Une Virandiere, ildlle. Auguste
Delbes ; Guinare, Mille. Adele Dumilatre.
It is respectfully announced that no one can, on any account, be
Admitted in future, either to the Dress Circle or Malls, unless In
Evening Costume.
Die Box.otce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Slx
in the Evening, where Private, and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons

THEATRE KO t AL, HAY MAILILLT.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBS? ER.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 7
Will be repeated Vanbrugh's Comedy of THE CONFEDERACY.
Adapted to the present Period.
The Principal Characters by Messrs. Strickland, W. Farrell,
fluckstone, and C. Mathews, Ma.,ame Veztris. Miss P. Horton,
Mrs. E. Yarnoid, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Stanley, and Mrs.
Glover.
Atter which, a New Farce, by Mr. Buckstone, entit 'ed THE
1 :11...8LE RIG. Ji.hn Ginger, Mr. tsuckstone Sim Shindy,
Mr. Strickland ; Mrs. Ginger, Mrs. W. Clifford.
To conclude with THE MIL LINE 'S HOLIDAY.
Orche,tia Stalls cwhich may be retained the whole of me Even.
mg), Si. each. First Price—Boxes, bs ; Pit, 3s. ; Gall, ry, 3s. ;
Upper Gallery, Is. second Price at Ntne zes, 3a ; Pit,
2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gabe, y, rd. Doors opened at Half past
Six, Pc forrnance commence at even.
Private Boxes, Two tiuinea.s and One Guinea and a.Half each
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer, at the Box.office,
from /On till Five o'Clock.
THE ATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 7,
Will be perrinned FOREHIN AFFAIRS ; or The Court of
Queen Anne. St Louis, Madame Celeste ; Courtall, Mr. fludsen ;
Baron, Mr. Wright; Baroness, Mrs. Yates; Lady Bell, Miss
Woolgar.
To be followed by a New Comic Operetta, called the FOX
AND THE GOOSE. Principal Characters by Messrs. nudson,
Paul Bedford, and Mrs. Fitawilliam.
To conclude with DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, ir Pitt; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box—sitite open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STRELT.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 7,
The perforrnanees will commence with Donizetti's celebrated
Opera of LUCIA DI LANIMERMOOR. Lucy Ashton, Mae.
Nati; Douglas AEhton, Mr. Lefler; Edgar of Ravenswood, Mr.
Allen.

lo be followed by a new Divertissement, called The SLAVE
MARKET, in which M. J. Rouser, Mdlle. Caroline Kousset. Mdlle.
Teresine, Mr. Gilbert, and Miss Marshall will appear.
To conclude with a New Farce, called TAKING THE PLEDGE.
Augustus Larkins, Mr. Oxberry ' - Alexander Paps, Mr. Walter
Lacy; Emily Gussett, kliss Emma Stinley.
S age Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack. Stage Director, Mr. Emden.
Machinist Mr. Edmund BradwelL
Dress Circle, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. Half-price at
Nine o'clock—Dress Circle, 2s. tid. ; Boxes, 2.5. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d.
Private Boxes, Iwo Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half ; Prosce-
nium Boxes, Two Guineas and a-Half. Doors to be opened at Half.
pest Six, and the Performances to commence at seren o'clock.
The Box-oitice; under the direction of Mr. W. Massingham.
Private Boxes and Free Admissions for the Season to be had at the
Theatre.

There are no such livlelo ;reliersonifications of
the Dogberries and the Vergeses, whose immortal
prototypes were designed by the hand of SHAE-•
SPEARE nearly two centuries ago, as the judicial func-
tionaries of our provincial jurisdictions. Among
these provincial jurisdictions, it has always been a
question with us whether any could exceed, in the
extravagance of their pretensions and the absurdity
of their deportment, the courts of our Channel
Islands ; the mighty Manx Parliament (this latter
wielding, like ST. PETER, the powers of certain obso-
lete " Keys), and our multifarious manorial and other
local courts. But the Royal Court of the little ditch-
and-orchard-divided island of Jersey has removed all
doubt and difficulty on the subject from our minds,
by clearly establishing a pre-eminent title, in a case
recently pending before it, to occupy the very first
rank on the records of this unenviable notoriety. It
has now approved its own superior ignorance of
the local law itself administers, and of the
common-law of the mother country. It has shown
an utter want of self-respect in the petulance of its
bench and its officers; and an utter want of respect
for the undoubted rights and privileges of English-
men, throughout every portion of the widely-ex-
tended dominion of Great Britain, ;by the bare-
faced and tyrannical violation of these privi-
leges and rights in the person of an Eng-
lish gentleman, a sojourner (to his misfortune)
among the men of Jersey. Mr. CARUS Wm.
SON, whom most men who have resided lo eg. in
London may remember as " the long gentleman in
spectacles," has been unlucky enough, it seems, to get
involved in some squabble with the petty -authorities
of this " islet." With the particulars of the squabble,
or the printed reflections that led to it, it is not
necessary for our purpose to meddje at all. Mr,
WILSON may afford to have them 0:11 taken as agab st
himself, and as establishing a good and equitable
ground for the prosecution ins'Atuted against hiw by
LE Su cult. We are far from intimating that the
fact is so ; but were the hspothesis even admitted, it
could make no difference in the very serious delin-
quency of which Mr. WILSON has to complain.
On the former bearings, Mr. WiesoN, who evi-
dently has his •orofessional wits about him, took
various objections to the pleadings before the court,
its competen'ey to try them, and other matters which
he mooted with so much address and effect, as mate-
rially to disorganise the equanimity of his judges.
The overweening nationality of the islanders is not
the least remarkable feature in their moral compo-
sition. These judges were, we apprehend, Jersey-
men, and Mr. 'WILSON, after taking many objections,
more or less formidable to the prosecution, had
completed the measure of his offence by imputing
to them a bias or prejudice against him. They
found WiLsoN too strong in his constitutional
and technical objections, to settle the matter in their
off-hand Jersey fashion. The further hearing was
adjourned until two or three days since, when Mr.
WILSON took a preliminary objection to the con-
tinued proceeding, on the very substantial grounds,
founded on the express terms of a local Act regulating
and defining the law of these matters, that himself
and co-defendant had not been legally summoned, and
that the cause itself had not been regularly entered
and brought on. This objection was sustained and il-
lustrated by the island Solicitor-General, but affirmed
on the plea in rejoinder on behalf of the plaintiff that
the practice of the court of late years had authorised
such deviations from the law (a law, as the Times well
observes, "as yet scarcely ten years old"). That the
objection came too late, was no answer to the original
vice of the proceeding as being contrary to law; and
an unrepealed expressed law of so recent a date could
not be overruled by vicious or lax practice. But further.
more, the court itself was composed of the Bailli and
two jurats, all of whom had been previously " re-
cused," or challenged, by WILSON, on the ground of
personal animosity to him. Now, we entreat the reader
to observe-1. That the challenge was good at law ;
2. That another jurat has formally declared, that
after it had been recorded, these parties ought not to
have assisted at all at the hearing of the cause. On
their return into court, and when they were about to
read their decision on this plea, reduced into writing,
Mr. WILSON made a protest against " that act being
read." Those terms, we affirm without hesitation,
embodied as sound principles of law, expressed in
language as concise, temperate, and proper
as it was possible for any man to em-
ploy under such circumstances. But then, it
seems, that Mr. WiesoN's manner, in uttering
them, was too energetic ! Mr. WILSON, who had
over and again, from time to time, sent them back t
re-consider the mistakes of practice and construction
they were committing in dealing with his case—who
had been subjected to very gross and personal re-
flections from LE SUEUR, without the Court's once
interposing to check them—whose very protest was
grounded on the plea of personal animosity to hurl.,
in these men, his " judges"—he was too anitr,at,d
and energetic for the nervous susceptibilities of these
Channel Island Rhadamanthuses. M. T
BAILLI
- high officer
desired him to sit down, and the sal,e
Gene-ml for his opinion
'tied employed. The
then appealed to the Attorney-
of the language which WILSON
latter again interposes to rep:est that he will speak in
English. But what says, this officer of an English
Sovereign, in an English possession, responding to an
English subject, eeid suitor in her MAJESTY'S courts
of law ? As if. the example of Dogberry turnulence
were irresieale, he, too, takes a long inflation, lend
with eqilal pomposity and forgetfulness, or ignorance
of Lis duty, to his fellow-subject, " declines to do
that, under the circumstances, which he mint do, as
an act of courtesy, but is not bound te) do." Of
" courtesy," truly ! We should like to know what
an insular Attorney-General's notions of courtesy
may be ; his notions of law are elearly not worth the
collecting ; but we hope some other party, if Mr.
WILSON should omit to do so, will have the
"courtesy " to bring this strange declaration under the notice of her MAJESTY'S Government, or of the I
Imperial Parliament. Mr. Attorney was at that
moment about to move, and did proceed to move, in
language the defendant could not understand, that
defendant should be committed and criminally
punished. Next, the Registrar was about to take,
down only part of Mr. WiLsores protest, till !'eat
gentleman enforced the addition of the omitted (and
concluding) words. On the motion of the same illus-
trious Attorney, he was then condemned "to pay a
fine of 101. to her MAJESTY, and demand pardon of
the court." Mr. WILSON, much to his honour, flatly
refused to do either the one thing or the other, having
already protested against, the w'liole pmeeeein"
under the authority of a statute. He -was then'
amidst the insolent and indecent uproar of the native I

THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 7,
Will he repeated a New Drama, entitled MARTIN CHUZZLE.
WIT. Principal characters by Messrs. R. Younge, Craven, t. eery,
F. Mathews, A. Wigan, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, Manton,
J. W. Collier, Yarnold, and Keeley • Miss 2 ortescue, Mrs. A.
Wigan, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Groves, Mrs. Usher, Miss Turner, and
Mrs. Keeley.
Alter which, a, New Comic Scene, called OUTGENERALED;
or, a Hint to Bachelors. Charles S:anley, Mr. F. Vining; Mrs.
Hartley, Miss Walcott.
to conclude with an entirely Original, and much better than
New, Grand Operatic, Romantic, Melo-Dramatic, Burlesque Extra.
vaganza, fbunded on the celebrated Eastern Tale, in the Arabian
Nights' Entertainment, entitled ALADDIN AND THE WON.
DERFUL LAMP; or, New Lamps for Old Ones. With very
extensive New Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, &c. Principal cha-
racters by tire. Keeley, Messrs. F. Matthews, 'Turner, A. Wigan,
J. W. Collier, and Keeley; Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woolli ige,
Miss Grove, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Ms ,a James, &c., &c.
PRICES OF A l)MlSSlON.—Baicony coxes. 4,, Upper
-Boxes, :36.; Pit, 2s.'; Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2.. ;
Upper Boxes, Is. Bd.; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the itiicony Tier
((holding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Boxes on the Second
Tier (holding eight persons), One Guinea and a.Halt Private
Bores on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guirel'
'The Box.•ittice is open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

Immense Attraction and Double Spectacle at
ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE 01 ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY.
Re.engagement of Mr. Co tee, the American Lien, King.
CMS EVENING, OCTOBER 1,
Will be performed Lord Byron's Equestrian and Dramatic Spec.
facie of MAZEPPA, AND THE VV ILD HORSE, with all its
Original klfects.