The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-31 00:00:00

molt of the Dividends, does not exceed 10,0061.,
which bears but a small proportion to the total sum
required. These Bills are drawn upon the Colombian
Mining Company. it is also stated, that the firm of
BARING and Co. advanced only 30,0001. towards the
payment of the last Dividends on Mexican Stock, and
that they hold towards the payment of the next Divi-
dends the sum of 20,000/. being part of the balance
transferred to them by Messrs. BARCLAY, HERRING,
and Co.

The Colonial Market is said to have suffered also
a considerable depression.
Our City Correspondent attributes this to the fact,
which ha states, that the largest proportion of the
Foreign vessels which have brought Corn to our ports,
return in ballast, without taking any of our goods in
exchange. This is very likely the case on the first re-
newal of the Foreign Corn Trade—but as soon as
the growers and exporters of Corn from the Conti-
nental ports come into receipt of the returns for their
cargoes, orders for goods from England will be an
inevitable consequence.

Our readers would have observed by our Corn
Market report in yesterday's Paper,. that the prices of
all descriptions of Grain were again on the advance.
We by no means regret this circumstance, as it will
more and more convince all classes of the propriety
and necessity of the measures which his Majesty's
Ministers have already resorted to, and of adopting

those which will be submitted to the consideration of
Parliament ! The feeling has become so strong in
favour of an alteration of the general system of the
Corn Laws, that it will be impossible for any set of
interested persons to stem the torrent of public opi-
nion; and we earnestly hope, therefore, that an oppo-
sition which can not be successful, but which might,
and undoubtedly would, excite angry feelings towards
the Landowners generally, will be abandoned—and that
all classes of Society will unite, for the accomplish-
ment of an alteration of the Corn Law system.

The American Papers mention that Admiral Sir
ISAAC COFFIN has endowed an academy at Nantucket,
for the education of the descendants of the family of
COFFIN, the five trustees and preceptor of which are
always to be persons of that name. We had heard it
mentioned, that the• Gallant Admiral's original inten-
tion was to found a naval academy for persons of his
name ; but we could hardly suppose that with all his
attachment to his American connections, he would
thus establish a perpetual nursery for officers of the
American navy—for the purpose, in fact, of serving
against the country in whose service be himself holds
so high a rank. As this purpose seems to have been
abandoned, we presume that Sir IsA.Ac has determined
that all the Collins shall be brought up to some grave
profession ; and we suppose that their name will
moulder on till the Reign of Death itself is at an end.

Now that the Sessions are in full play—with gaol

delivery at the Old Bailey, and general gaol delivery
for petty charges throughout the country—it behoves
the people of England, and still more their rulers, to
watch how business, in the current acceptation of the
word, is disposed of, for all are interested, more or less,
in the matter ; the first,- in being liable to undergo the
practice of the laws, and, the others, in the more de-
lightful province of putting them in execution. Watch-
men and police-officers are sworn foes to mercy.
Next to the pleasure of catching a thief is the mag-
nanimity of setting him at. liberty, with the proapectiva
certainty of catching him again—and the fiendish rap-
ture of seeing an old friend with a new face so irre-
trievably committed as to, be beyond redemption.
Then is the season for pity without a tear, and con-
solation without a sigh.--pity, that humbles the suf-
ferer in his fallen state—and consolation, that points
too surely to the certainty of his punishment; for the
officers of justice have no mercy save in the confiden-
tial assurance that they must do their duty, and that
the prisoner had better make up his mind to be a man
for the last time in his life, to show the world that he
could have done better, had they but allowed him an
opportunity of deceiving them once more ! But our
immediate object is with the officers of justice—not
their game; though we are abundantly assured that
they too frequently catch game merely to feel their
pulse, and set them at liberty till they are ripe—
in other words, till their weight render them a fit
and prOfitable commodity. . Of this at present un-
profitable description, one hundred and fifty worthless
wretches were liberated from Tothill Fields Prison and
discharged by Proclamation, because the Grand Jury
found no bills against them ! One hundred and fifty
innocent beings turned out of prison at the last West-
minster Sesstons—ptinished for their misfortunes, and
turned loose upon society with tarnished reputations—
loss of self respect—and bearing the contamination of
Bridewell and the Tread-mill upon their future con-
duct—for character they have none. Surely all this
deserves consideration—is worthy of some remedy—
for a less number of individuals have, before now,
turned the tide of.battle, and won or saved an empire.
That there must be some grievous defect in the causes
productive of such lamentable consequences there can
be no doubt ; and there can be less doubt that these
injurious causes should be speedily removed by those
who have the God-like power to spare the innocent
and punish the guilty.
The real cause why so many prisoners are set at liberty
is simply that there were no just grounds for depriv-
ing them of it. The fault rests with the Magistrates
who commit them indiscriminately, to save their patience
the tediousness of solving a difficult case, or from in-
capacity of understandin& it ; or perhaps more frequently
from a misconceived notion of the extent of their com-
mitting jurisdiction. But the prime cause originates
in the profligacy and tyrannous conduct of watchmen
on the community, and catch
--those corrupt purveyors of gaols, who for lack of legal
"e poach unmercifully
a they ean--for all is 6h that comes to their net—
as a watchman may seem; crawling
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cost, before h Feeble and drowsy
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prisoners know too well to their
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those houses which they before protected! Let not
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