The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-30 00:00:00

WARRANTS.

Your Committee have had submitted to them
suggestions for alterations in some existing sta-
tutes, that at first view seem likely to afford bene-
ficial.changes, and to be worthy of the attention of
those on whom the preparation of a new Police law
may devolve. _ _

Yet as many more or less invade the principle
upon which legislation is constitutionally conducted,
it would be imprudent to notice any, of which
your Committee do not entertain such an opinion
;s would justify the recommendation; for their

_
adoption.
Mr. Dyer, an experienced Magistrate of the Public
Office, at Bow-street, has noticed the great incon-
venience which is produced by the necessity that
exists of furnishing the Magistrate with a written
information in cases in which a summary jurisdic-
tion is given to him. He states, " that the techni-
cal accuracy required in an information before a
Justice, such, that the most extensive practice
and longest experience in the profession, are not
sufficient in drawing up, to insure ultimate success
and certainty, not to escape objections being taken
to the manner of setting out thet offence m this
mode of proceeding; there is besides, additional de-
lay created by it. In order to avoid these difficul-
ties, and to render the punishment of offenees more
easy and summary, the proceeding by summons,
should, he thinks, supersede the necessity of com-
mencing proceedings by a written information, which
amounts to an absolute denial of justice to the poorer
or busy classes, and summary jurisdiction becomes in
fact dilatory, and frequently nugatory.
Another impediment to the administration of jus-
ti!'e has been represented to arise from the delay oc-
ev;oned by the necessity of having the warrants
i.ssued, in cases of felony, " backed" by Local Ma-
gi,trates ; for while a constable who is sent, under
the warrant of a Justice, to apprehend an offender,
!s waiting to have the warrant " backed," it is ob-
wioa; that the culprit may escape; and with regard
to qeareb warrants, still greater impediments are in-
terpwed, for, no power being given to Magistrates
to give effect by indorsement to those issued out of
their jurisdictions, no steps can take place in " search
stolen property until proceedings have been re-
newed before the Magistrate within whose jurisdic-
tion are situate the premises to be searched. Under
,uch legal impediments, little prospect of success can
attend a process so dilatory and so useless, with re-
ference to any protection that the party suspected
ought to derive." The remedy, therefore, recom-
mended by Mr. Dyer, is, that in a case where the
charge is for felony, the warrant issued against the
Person should run into all counties and over all ju-
ii„!;ctions, without being backed by the Local Ma-
aistrate t and that, in the ease of a search warrant,
the Local Magistrate should have the power to
back, and to auttrwize the execution of the original
warrant.
But your Committee do not see any reason for
Making any distinction between the cases, and re-
commend that in future, warrants whether to appre-
hend the person, or to search the premises, shall be
executed in all parts of the kingdom, under the au-
thority of the Magistrate from whom it originally
issues, who alone can and ought to be responsible
for the legality of the proceedings.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

It. Meeting of the New Catholic Association
svae held on Saturday last at Dublin, 013 am; DILLON
Esq. in the Chair, at which Mr. O'CONNFLL congratulated
the Meeting on the Act, which he styled the " Algerine
Act," for suppressing the Old Catholic Association, having
expire/I. A Mr. Ttotaanws also, a Protestant Banker, ad!
dressed the Meeting, in strong term., inveighing against
its illegality. lie was promptly and forcibly replied to by
is O'CONNELL, who stated, among other rants, that
when the Old Cath9lie Association was created, 18 frith
counties ,s-ere in arms—now, they were all tranquil.
The Jiid,7es of Assize will allAv4 in this city
to-morrow, about IVO o'clock, aad attend piyipe Sgrvice
at the Cathedral the came afternoon. The business will
continence on the follmeing morning, at nine, in the Nisi
prjus Court, and at eleven in the Crown Bee. '1
calendar is unusually light, :here being only twenty pri-
soners for trial. It is expected at the causes at Nisi
Prius will not be ;,.ery numerOmm-gseter Alfred of
Thursday.
It has been suggested that the whole site of
buildings of the British Museum might be advantageously
disposed of to the founders of the intended New College,
and a new range of buildings erected for tile Museum, in a
siitnation better adapted than the preeent for woos Af taste
and leisure.
T A pciliTE has taken from the As6ignees of,
Ctia-ustEto; and SON the King's Theatre for the ensuing
i,eason. Contracts were signed between the parties on
-monday eveo:o, The annual rent is thirteen thousand
pounds, which is an advance of five thousand upon the.'
jam paid for the yea.; about to expire. • The Assignees of
pv,t the Opera-Bonne in solid and
substantial repair ; and the:Chart of Chancery have tie-
signed to them, from the assets in their posession, seven
thousand pounds towards defraying the expoke l.tt
as
?his sum may ultimately lie fossnd inadequate to the
repairs'
O.APORTE has agreed to give them t 4 profits of one night's
performance in the months of May or LA PORTE is
alone the adventurer in this hold speculation.
A Poor man from Cloniiiej has been SO ,(41.;''
tunate as to discover his son, who was b the employment
of a sweep name HARVEY, in this city, four 'years and a
half. The boy was brought before the Magistrates this
day, when he immediately reeogui,ted 4is father, and was
restored to the embraces of his parent,—The :weep did not
appear.— cork Chroniele.
of cigars 'which is 'low con-
The quantity
Fumed is truly surprising. One day last week we saw, in
the shop of Messr:4. Palter and CH•nftsrtnn, at the cor-
ner of Castle-street, a huge box, containing not less than
180,000 cigars, which those gentlemen had imported direct
trom the Havannah.—Lirerpool
A foot-race between a Welshman and
Cheshireman was run at Chester in the early part of the',
week, in which the former was beaten hollow, although
backed at odds by his countrymen, The losses sio4i„i
by one clodpole so preyed upon him, that, not being able
to drown his chagrin in copious draughts of "rwrte dos
"
he drowned himself the following afternoon, by throwing,
himself over the battlements of the Dee bridge into the
raging flood, and was never seen afterwards, nor has the
body been yet found, although a reward is offered by his
friends for its recovery. Another man drowned bilwelf
Above the bridge this afternoon.