The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-03 00:00:00

THE- LONDON JOURNALS.

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DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNiNCI PAPERS,

JUNE 3, 1826.

[THE was.]
The proclamation for the dissolution of Parliament
has gone through the necessary forms, and will ap-
pear in the Gazette of this evening. This assembly,
therefore, which has sat since the year 1820, and may
be said to have got into its seventh year, the " three-
score and ten" of a Parliamentary life, is now defunct.
—We should say, " thank God," if we might hope
better things front its successor ; but, in reality, till
Parliament is rendered more frequently responsible to
the constituent body than it is at present, it is in vain
to expect that. it shall be pure. It is not sufficient in
this case to ask us, whether the electors are better
than the eleted ; we answer, that no man loves in
others those vices which he practises himself. A de-
praved father may read a' vicious son many a whole-
some lecture, and give him advice, the observance of
which would save him. The expiring Parliament may
be distigiguished as "the Joint Stock Parliament,
from the number of its Members implicated in those
swindling combinations called Joint Stock Companies,
and from the additional circumstance, that the whole
body of Parliament, in its aggregate capacity, did not
think proper to inquire into those transactions, in
which so great a portion of its Members were concern-
ed. In the dishonest), which we do not control or punish,
we participate. The South Sea Bubble was investigated
by the Parliament of that day ; and so many of its Mem-
bers as were stained with the fraud, expelled the House.
The celebrated Jewish historian Josephus relates, that
while Titus was besieging the city of Jerusalem, and
inflicting on its inhabitants those dreadful suffer-
ings which bad been predicted by unerring wisdom,
they, regardless of the danger which pressed them
from without, were persecuting each other with the
most malignant fury, on account of 'religious differ-
; till the foreign enemy broke in, and indiscri-
minately destroyed them all. In like manner, when
tae Turks besieged Constantinople, the Christians
without refused their aid to their brethren within, on
account of some differences in their common faith
which it is unnecessary here to specify, and the bar-
barbarous Musaulman triumphed. In like manner,
religious question—we almost fear to name it—has
been thrown down as a bone of contention among our
countrymen at the ensuing election ; whilst the real
enemy, that will inevitably devour us all, is the ex-
travagance of Government. Let electors, 6n this oc-
casion, but vote for the friend of retrenchment—pro-
vided he be a respectable man—and they will have
done their duty to meet the real exigency of the time.
In fact, it is obvious in what a situation we are placed
at this moment as to our finances. When the agricultural
interest is crying out " rob and ruin the national cre-
ditor ;" and the manufacturer replies, " rib, sink corn
in value till the cultivator is on the verge of starv-
ing ;" let the cry and the exertion be, that Govern-
ment shall take its heavy hand from both of them, and
reduce taxation to that point (which may be effected
without ceasing to pay the interest of the national
debt), that all may live. The only effort in the way
of finance during the hot Session (and an infamous
one it was) was an effort to burden the country with
a new salary of five thousand a year !

[MOANING 1-11ZRALD.)
In our account of the proceedings at the Mary-
k-bone Office on Tuesday, there appears one of those
instances that frequently occur of the advantage of
police reporting. If whatever, promotes the effective
edministratiou of justice be serviceable to a country,
the publicity which the daily papers give to examina-
tions at police-offices is of great national value and
frequently happens, as in the case to which
we immediately refer, that an offender, when first
brought before the Magistrates, feels sufficient confi-
tience, in the apparent want of legal evidence against
him, to defy his accuser, and challenge him to the
proof ; but on being remanded for the purpose of
ascertaining whether better evidence could he adduced
to carry the charge beyond a mere case of suspicion,
the publication of the report on the next day causes
persons who have suffered by depredations similar to
Those described, to come forward and try to identify
the party. Deuce, numerous cases of imperfect accu-
sation are furnished with the evidence necessary to
make out the presumption of guilt, which demands
Out the party shall be put to answer before a Jury of
the country. The career of practised and hardened
offiinders is often by this means cut short, when, had
it not been for the inquiry excited by the published
reports, they must be let loose again on society until
more daring or atrocious violations of the law placed
them once more in the hands of justice. It is not
therefore alone, because the spirit of the British Con-
stitution is averse to all secret and inquisitorial pro-
cewlings, that revorting should he encouraged ; but,
in addition to this sound principle in its favour, we
cue, by constant experience, urge the practical bene-
fits 64 it produces, by eliciting from various quarters
unexpected aids for the detection of guilt, or, as time-
times happens, for the establishment of innocence--a
result still more dear to those who, with sound minds
end pure consciences, perform the solemn duty of de-
ciding upon charges that involve the character, or
affect the lives, of their fellow-creatures. It is not,
perhaps, in all cases just to say that Magistrates
and Judges who object to the publicity which the
press throws on the administration of the laws, are
actuated by corrupt or vicious motives; but, certainly,
,vhere there are such frequent and manifest proofs of the
fiatheratice given to the cause ofjustice by the agency
of reporting, the objections taken cannot be reconciled
to any principle of reason or common sense. This
nano.; jealousy must, however, become continually
less prevalent—it cannot always resist the triumphant
answer which experience gives to prejudice.

[saw Timits.]
it is not our intention, in ci speta •
ng of Joint Stock
Companies, to defend or to condemn them—much
less are our observations meant to allude to any par-
ticular Company. We shall leave Lord Teynliam
and I,fr. Hendricks, and all similarly circumstanced,
in whatever alleged relation they happen to stand,
whether as dupers or dupes, to settle their own dis-
putes ; and to adjust, in the best way they can, the
share of blame worthiness that may attach to iem-
selves and their partners. There is but one point to
which we would direct the attention of our readers.
How happens it that all the violent accusers of Dire°.
tors antf Managers, Clerks, and Committees, heve
been so long e'er they commenced their vituperations?
How comes it to pass that not one of them, even the
most lynx-eyed, had perspicacity enough to perceive,
that the foundation on which these Companies rested,
was, in any respect unsound, until, like a structure, the
foundation of which has made a good deal of noise of
late, the building tumbled in the mud ? Why did they
not bee that the bottom was sound, and the piles pro-
perly driven, before they began to build ? Were the