The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-27 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Commissions in the Regiment of Bedfordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Bedford.
Thomas William Coventry, Gent. to be Lieutenant ; John
Clements, Gent. to be Cornet.
Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn is about to present to. the 23d
Regiment, or Welsh Fusileers, an elegant harp, to be added to
the regimental band. The worthy Baronet is an Honorary
Member of the Corps..

A Memorial from her MAJESTY was, we un.-'
derstand, yesterday delivered to the Home Se-
cretary, Lord SinmouTH, demanding her Coro-
nation along with the KING as a matter of right,
and claiming the immediate appointment of a
Commission to consider the Claims of the persons
who are entitled to attend upon her on that oc-
casion. Her. MAJESTY has signified that she ex-
pects an immediate answer.—lfer MAJESTY was
received in 'the most flattering manner at the Co-
burg Theatre last . night. The audience was
numerous and brilliant.—(Morning Chronicle.)
Sir Win. PArrox has declared his intention of
becoming a candidate to represent the Borough
of Carmarthen in Parliament on the present va-
cancy. •

Lord HOLLAND has been confined with the
gout in Paris for upwards of three weeks, but is
now, much better.

Lord SUFFIELD is now confined with a severe
fit of the gout at. his house in Charles-street,
Berkeley-square.

..None of the ;ea-ports of Great Britain, we imagine, rival this
port in the number of its packets, particularly steam-packets.
Four steam-packets sail to Dublin ; two to the Isle of 3/an',
Portpatrick, and Greenock ; one to the Isle of Man, White:
haven, and Dumfries ; and one to Bagillt, on the river Dec.
Six ply on the river alone. There are about eight sail-packets
to Dublin, and several to the Isle of Man and other places:
Not less than five or six steam-packets are fre9uently moored ha
the river at the same time. Being all beautiful vessels, they
present pleasing objects to the eye of the spCctator, and, when
under weigh, their chimneys, vomiting volumes •of smoke, ex:
cite ho little surprise in the minds of strangers from the coda.
try.—(Liverpool Courier.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EtAILT EXTRACTS FROM THU MORNING PAPERS

June 2r7.

[THE TIMES.]
_ We are not as yet able to present to our readers
her Alajesty's Memorial to the servants of her
husband; norare we sure that an answer has been
returned ; but these documents will no doubt
form a part of the history of the time. The King
returned to town yesterday, and Lord Liverpool
is to have an interview with his Majesty this
morning,

[NEW TIMES.]
The Election for Sheriffs proceeds nearly as
we anticipated. Crook, the favourite of the Ra-
dicals, yesterday obtained 180 votes, while Mr.
Alderman Garratt received 608. Mr. Crook
seems to have taken our hint, " to place a curb
cin his civic ambition." He was, at the close of
the poll, extremely urgent with his friends " not
to take any more trouble about the matter."—
" In fact," he said, " he did not wish any one
to vote for him." Problably he begins to have
a prudent eye to the costs of the proceeding. As
he stands the poll, he must- no doubt bear his
share -of the expences, which perhaps would be
,equally inconvenient and unpleasant, to him, as a
rejected Candidate. On the other hand, Mr.
Alderman Garratt, it is well kno%in, has not
forced himself into public life. He was not long
since called forward by his neighbours to take
the Gown and Presidency of a Ward, in which
:his family had been an object of the highest
;respect for a long course of years. He
;was thus placed in such a situation that
the office of Sheriff, by the usual order of
rotation, devolved upon him. But, although
'ready to go through any duty that clearly- ap-
peared to belong to his situation, he was so far
-from seeking the Shrievalty, that he refu?ed all
the applications made to him, and declined taking
one single step in the affair. The poll was ac-
tually demanded by four gentlemen, without his
privity or countenance. But after the attack
made upon him, the insulting rejection of his
'name by the show of hands, and the first day's
• poll, which left him below such a man as Crook,
it became Alderman Garratt to come boldly for-
ward, and demand to, have a clear and decided
expression of the sense of the Livery. So far as
one day's poll can give that expression, it was
given yesterday ; and we trust the same will
continue to be given every day till the Poll closes.
It is not a triumph that is required ; for triumph
there can be none in such a case ; but what is
necessary is, to mark the indignation of the
Livery at the very improper choice attempted to
,be forced on them at such a moment as the
present,

[MORNING CIIRONICLE.]
A Motion was brought forward last night, by
Mr. Maxwell, for a Commission to visit New
Lanark, to examine the condition and treatment
of the working classes in that establishment, and
to report on such further arrangements as Mr.
Owen proposes to make for the advantage of
Manufacturing Labourers. The motion was of
course negatived without a division. We have
no doubt that the arrangements of New Lanark
are excellent, and that the Labourers who are
placed under the benevolent superintendance of
Mr.-Owen, have cause to rejoice at their good
fortune. Neither have we any doubt that our
Workhouses, which by all accounts 'are generally
conducted' on a deplorable system, may advanta-
geously adopt much of Mr. Owen's system of
management. But the notions of Mr. Owen
respecting Agriculture and Machinery are so ab-
surd (we are sorry we must use so harsh a word),
and the idea of parcelling out the country
into parallelograms, in which the movements of
every individual shall be regulated with all the
precision of clock-work; is so visionary, that no-
thing but the unwearied perseverance of Mr.
Owen, and the excellence of his character, could
have gained for them the attention they have al-
ready received. That the Magistrates and Cler-
gy of the county of Lanark, and a number of the
Professors of the University of Glasgow, really
think that it is possible or desirable to convert
this Island into so• many New Lanarks, has
certainly excited in our minds no small degree
of astonishment.—What is really valuable in Mr.
Owen's Plan, we have no doubt, will find
its way" into those places where it may be ad-
Nan.tageously introduced. But even with respect to
,this, too high expectations may easily be enter-
tained. It was well observed by several Mem-
bers, that the success of new inventions very
often depends on the zeal of the inventors. Mr.
Owen, according to the account which he gives
in his new view of Society, had immense difficul-
ties to struggle with before he could subdue the
opposition of the community of New Lanark to
Isis plans. Without a perseverance and a patience
possessed by very few men, he could never have
auct-4eded. But we cannot expect to find a Mr.
Owen in every Manager of a Workhouse. From
the opinions which Mr. Owen on one occasion
avowed, on the subject of religion, Mr. Canning
was induced to believe that his community was
without any religious principles. But this mis-
taken notion was corrected by Mr. Brougham,
who inforMed the Ilouse " if any fault was to
be found with the system pursued at Lanark, it
"was on the score of there being too much religion
:6 ,9

[BRITISH PRESS.
The Bridge-street Association has at length
succeeded in crushing one tradesman by the fre-
quency and weight of their prosecutions against
him. A Treasury Print exults in this event, and
baldly follo.ws the example of the Society by de-
claring the individual guilty.. To apply such a
term to a man who has never been .put upon his
- trial before'a jiffy of peers, is not only hazard-
otts . wholly unconstitutional ; the successful

party, however, may exult, for the victim is
crushed, and, whether innocent or guilty, he now
suffers. the worst consequences that could have
I.llowt4even upon conviction. The subject really
aduresse4 Itself gravely to the dispassionate.con-
sidet, ..a4l. of all Englishmen, for, as an example
of what.t. ite malice or public corruption might
effect ugam the welfare of any obnoxious in-

dividual, this occurrence appeals forcibly to
our most serious apprehensions. Let the in-
dividual alluded to be really guilty of every of-
fence imputed to him, let him have sold pamphlets
of the most seditious character, let him even have
proved himself an enemy to the persecution of the
Queen, still we would ask, has he been legally and
constitutionally punished for his offences? He suf-
fers, untried, the penal consequences of guilt ; he
has had no opportunity of proving,in the presence
of his country, that he has not been deserving of
this absolute ruin of his fortunes; no time has been
allowed to him for repentance, but he is singled
out for destruction at the caprice of 1 or'? of his
fellow subjects; indictmentS after indictments are
levelled against him by persons who screen them-
selves from public view,and act under no public re-
sponsibility; he might probably succeed in inducing
some a his friends to become sureties for his
good conduct upon one or even two indictments;
but the power of reiterating these attacks rests
with his enemies alone, and they being deterred
by no considerations such as may influence the
legal Officers of the Crown, can outstrip the zeal,
or exhaust the numbers of his friends, and he is
at length torn from his family and business and
thrown into prison, and his friends are punished
for their temerity in daring to assist him. Ruin
inevitably overtakes him long before he can
proceed to trial, so that even conviction can
bring no farther punishment, while the tardy
triumph of an acquittal offers him but poor
consolation for his sufferings. Such a Mode
of proceeding cannot distinguish between in-
nocence and guilt, so that the fortunes
of every publisher, newsvender, or book-
seller, in the empire, may be said to
rest upon the caprice of this self-constituted •so-
ciety. No private fortune can safely compete
with the accumulated subscriptions of some hun-
dreds of individuals, and, even if it could, shall
it be endured that the results of many years of
honest and laborious industry shall be forced into
so unfair a competition ? These few remarks will
probably suggest a train of similar reflections to
the mind of every reader, and we are satisfied
that if the subject be fairly and candidly consi-
dered, the existence of this self-constituted tri-
bunal will be universally felt to be pregnant with
dangers of the worst and most formidable de-
scription.