The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-26 00:00:00

the most servile adulation-. - The bigotry of James IL
incited 'and abetted by .the Priests and Jesuits, induced
hini to pursue measures which were at first secretly
disapproved of, but which at length drove the people
into open rebellion, and banished him and his de-
scendants for ever from England. What influence
the Jesuits may have on Charles X. we do not pretend
to say ; but there is, no doubt, a great number of the
French people who think it paramount to all others,
and their hatred and jealousy of the sect are propor-
tionally great. The late disturbances at Rouen and
Lyons displayed as much bitterness and animosity
/Against them as ever were displayed- in England, and
nothing but the well-grounded dread that they had
gained a footing within the palace, and were concoct-
ing plans rot their own aggrandizement, and
not for the general good, could have driven
to such excesses a people naturally submissive
to their King. For the peace of Europe and the world, we
hope those who are the primary causes of these partial 'dis-
turbances will take warning in time. If they were not
blinded by bigotry, experience would point out to them
the dangerous consequences. If owing to their advice a
change of Ministry should take place in France, it would
hardly be possible to avoid a war with Great Britain. A
love of change, and a dislike among certain classes to this
country, might make it popular at first, but when people
began to miss the thousands and tens of thousands that
are yearly spent in France by Englishmen, when their re-
viving commerce, and perhaps their Navy were again anni-
hilated, and the conscription, with other horrors of war,
anew established, they would see the folly of submitting to
such hardships, merely for the sake of putting down liberal
opinions, and elevating a sect which they cordially detest.
Under such circumstances any serious disaster might make
them consult their own interests, and imitate, not for the
first time, the conduct of the people of England in their
treatment of Kings. These, we confess, are the best
grounds of hope that the peace of Europe will not be dis-
turbed. However anxious certain persons may be of car-
rying their measures, either by. Jesuitical or open "means,
when they come to the brink of the gulf they will think
twice before they plunge into a war, the consequence of
which to them, and to the world, no human being can
foresee.—Morning Herald.
" The public Papers," says Lord Chief Justice
Best, " instead:Of .conveying useful and pleasing in-
formation, were made the vehicles of conveying to the
innocent and the unwary a knowledge of every trick
and every degrading and disgusting exhibition to be
found among the lowest and worst portion of society."
This observation followed his answer to Mr. Sergeant
Wilde's qualified defence of Police Reports, that " he
was surprised to bear that Learned Gentleman, who
had been so long acquainted with the administration
of justice, should express an opinion that Police Re-
ports had ever been attended with any but bad conse-
quences ;" so that it appears the Learned Lord,Chief-
Justice 'obects to Police Reporting on a principle
Which would exclude froth newspapers Reports .of the
proceedings of all Courts whatsoever, civil as well
as criminal. "The Lawyer," it is said in a popular
novel (attributed to the present Editor of The Qudr-
/ed.,/ Review, himself a Lawyer), "feeds his eyes,
almost without exception, on the dark Side of the
tablet. All men and women
,too are mean when
they go to law. Persons who in general life are even
distinguished for generosity, sink scruples when the
litiscothestation is fairly begun, and say, "in war
all is fair." Accordingly, who ever talked with an
old Lawyer, without perceiving his thorough be-
lief in the universal depravity of the species ?"
If, therefore, we wish to make newspapers vehicles
for conveying exclusively " useful and pleasing
information," in the sense of the Lord Chief. oTus-
tice Best, we must never allow a Reporter to enter
the polluted atmosphere of a Court. Newspapers
should confine the:MOTS to the conveying useful
and agreeable information !" Agreeable to whom ?
To the individuals, of course, of whom any thing is
related. That is a condition sine qua non. It must
always be kept in mind that by the Judge-made-law,
" it is a Crime for any man to write any thing which it
happens to any other mean not to like ; so that as the
information to be conveyed must be agreeable to the
individual of.whorn any thing is related, it must also
be useful only to him, because the condition of being
useful to others Would be incompatible with this sine
qua non of being agreeable to him. Let us examine
a little more closely the sort: of matter with which,
when the Press shall be a perfect exemplification of
liberty, purified from it excesses, Newspapers will be
filled. Here a Contemporary, The laaminer, has
anticipated us; and we cannot do better than copy the
Model which it has furnished to the public

" What, according to judge Best, is the liberty of the press?
To circulate useful information through the country.' But
what is this permissible information? It clearly must be an in-
formation which does not offend any one in any way, or ' infringe
on the offices of Courts of Justice.' The Parliamentary Reports,
the Law Reports, the Police Reports, ivouhl not come under this
description, as they all contain matter offensive to particular indi-
viduals; nor would any discussions on public events and the
actors in them. The liberty of the press, then, we conceive, is
the liberty of publishing 'the useful information, for example, that
'an extraordinary large turnip was lately grown in the garden of.
Mr. James Dobson, of Eaat Stoke, in the parish of Rottenden, in
the county of Wilts; it weighed 37 lbs. and 14 oz. and measured
sixty-two inches in circumference.' It is the liberty of the press
to announce to the world that ' a peal of triple bob majors, in the
key of D, was rung round by the ringers of parish, in the
short Space. of thirteen minutes and two seconds; and that the
tenor weighed 1 cwt. 14 lbs.' It is the liberty of the press to
give to the world the useful information, that 'yesterday his Ma-
jesty came to town, and returned to Windsor in the evening.'
It is its licentiousness to say, that 'his Majesty is not in the bloom
of youth and beauty,' and that 'he anasures more than the span
of an eagle's talon in the waist.' It is the liberty of the press to
say that Chief Justice Best is a Judge eminent for the evenness
of his temper, and the profundity of hie legal attainments, and re-
markable for the urbanity of his manners and the peculiar graces
of his conversation.'"

it is odd enough, that the time chosen for placing
the Press of this country in complete•accordance with
the pure principles of the Holy Alliance, should be
that in which the Arch-Radical, Canning, as he is
styled in the French Ultra-Papers, should be threaten-
ing to stir up, all the Jacobins of Europe against legi-
timate Governments I When will wonders cease ?---

It is not, however, unnatural, that the Press, spoiled
as it has been by thirty years' licentiousness—by thirty
years' employment in the degrading and disgusting
work, of conveying to the unwary and innocent a
knowledge of tricks and frauds--should be a little re-
fractory for a time. We learn that stomachs habituated
to poisons loathe wholesome food ; and, reasoning from
analogy, why should we be surprised that Lord Chief
Justice Best's pure doctrines should be unpalatable to
stomachs vitiated by the stimulants against which he
has directed his virtuous indignation ? The following
letter appeared in the Times of yesterday, from one of
the Jurymen in the case :—.

111441,16 V. W11E1.0014.
Sig"—morn li 4044 to set tba puhlie.mind right in reference
in the Common Picts,
to the verdict of the Jury in the case of id Harris V. Wheldon,"
for libel,
short explanation, which will on Thursday last, 1 beg GO offer a
refute many of the remarks made
upon the madell". 4 PNtectiort afforded by Juries to the press, in
the discharge of
its fill/Cti°ll4s as reporters of the transactions at
our Police 011ica'

it will be observed, that the °Hew report of what mod at
Bow-street appeared in the Brilish Traveller of the 4ai of
aim alluded to, it
Au-
gust last, and on the 11th, when the ease is ay