The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-18 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(C

DOSING PRICES.)
FUNDS.
!Ditto Bonds £l,OOO pm.
Ditto under £l,OOO 73 pm.
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Es. Bills, 1,000/. I%d 57 pm.
Ditto 5001. 5'7 pm.
Ditto 5ma11........, 57 pm
Bank Stock for _A
Consols for Opr..;. ..... 100%
India Stock far Acct —

BRITISI
Bask 2083(
3 per Cent Bed .... ..... 100%
3 per Cent. Cons. —
Per Cent. Red ......
New 35i per Cent. ...... 103%
New 5 per
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 12 1-16,4
Oct .....
Jan. .....
.......

FOREIG

Austrian, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent.. ...
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent
Chllian, 6 per Cent 170,,
Colombian, 8 per Cent
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, l81!5, 5 per Cent
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Neapolitan Bonds, 1;, per Ct —
Prussian Bonds. 4 per Cent —
Peruvian 6 per Ct 3O
Portuguese 'bonds, 5 per Ct

4 FUNDS.
Russian, 7h per Cent..„.„
Metallic
Spaniskl, 5 per Cent., 1840 25%
.to, 1841 ......„„....» —
Ditto, ........
Ditto, 1843.
Ditto, 1844
Ditto, 3 per Cent 3'7%
Venezuela Bonds, '2 per Ct —
French, 5 per Cent....... —t c
French, 3 per Cent —f. —c.
exchange ....... —c.
Dutch, '2% per Cent
_—
,Ditto,.s per Cent 9914

SH A
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid)
Caledonian (5 paid)
Churnet Valley, 2 paid
Eastern Counties (25 paid)
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 (.aid
Great Western (75 paid)
Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
Jo%
Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid
12%
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid)
London and York, 2% paid
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto Quarters ('2 paid) .., ...... .. . ..... ••••••• '....
Manchester and Birmingham, 40 pP ..
Northern and Eastern (45 paidl,
South Eastern and Dover (•ri 2s ~,
paid)
Ditto *law Shares (4 -iaid) -"'
1171
West" Cornwall, IL 5. '
York and North • ••• ......• 4
nidland (50 paid) —
Ditto Half ',,iares (.25 paid) Ditto Sc.P:.rboro,
Brancn, 10 paid
B4O",_INIP:e and Amiens, 2 paid .....
••...
',,an.' and Lyons, 2 paid 3IA
f '....ris and Orleans (20 paid)
earls and Rouen, 20 paid ••••••• ...... ....... ......... .... 40%
Paris and Strasbourg, 2% paid 3

RE&
...... 69%
4%

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)
TEE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEY.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
The Learned Counsel having concluded,
Mr. BURGE proceeded to reply, but not having con-
cluded when their Lordships rose, the further considera-
tidn'of the case, was adjourned till Friday at ten o'clock.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
PR:4)I THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—Mr. Justice Coleridge, in the course of
his '4harge to the Durham Grand Jury on Monday
lass made some strong remarks on the general mode
of arranging the jury lists, which will, we trust, lead
to an early improvement of the present system. His
Lordship alluded to the exemption—by a custom
which is unsanctioned by the law—of persons placed
on the special jury-list from serving on common
juries. When the heavy pecuniary expenses in •
curred by a residence of several days in an assize
town, at a time aben the price of food and lodging is
increased by the influx of strangers, joined to the in-
convenience and loss to which the small farmer or
tradesman is subjected by being removed from his
avocation, are considered, the injustice of placing this
combination of inconvenience and loss on those least
able to sustain it, becemes obvious, As if to en-
hal-ace the unfairness of the system, the special jury-
'lien is paid a guinea in every cause he serves
on ; while the common juryma.'a receives only eight-
pence in every civil cause on which he is sworn,
and nothing in criminal. cases. The distinction is
manifestly unfair, and pointedly invidious and
ought to be ra'ootished. " The gentry," said Mr.
Justice Coleridge, " to use a common term, never
serve on coroanon juries." To he sure they do not.
If, tbroup3a inadvertence or mistake, the officer of
the county has summoned one of the privileged
orders on the common jury, he regards it as a per-.
soma), indignity—an affront to his rank and sta.
tir,o. We have occasionally witnessed the manifes-
'tatlon of wounded pride with which one of the
" gentry" will address the Court, and plead exemp-
tion from serving on the common jury, on the ground
of his rosme being on, or his quality giving it a right
to be on, the special jury list. The claim has been
allowed—rather in compliance with custom than
in conformity with law. Mr. Justice Coleridge has
ripenly declared that the custom is " unsanctioned by
law." His Lordship has also pointed out the injury
idflicted on the administration of public justice by
the practice, as well as the inequitable distribution of
the inconvenience and expense of serving on juries,
which it entails :—" If the special juryman," said
Lordship, " had no right to be exempted from
Berating on common juries, he was enjoying
a privilege at the expense of his poorer neigh-
bour without the sanction of the law. In addi-
tion to numerous other reasons, he could not help
thinking that it would be desirable, in many cases of
an intricate character, that there should be a little
-more intellect upon the common juries than was at
present always to be had ; and he thought, therefore,
it was absolutely necessary that the common juries
should be drawn from the whole jurors' list of the
county." If individuals of a certain class be sum-
monad to serve on a special jury, that service is inci-
dental. It is additional to the general obligation which
ought to be shared in common by all those whose names
are on the jury-list. It is therefore made the subject of
special provision. Thencher suitors choose to have
their cause tried by a jury chosen from a superior
class of society ; and he pays for his preference. The
special juryman receives his guinea for the special
service he has bean called upon to give—not to the
public justice of the country, so much as to the pre-
ference of the party who thinks proper to have his
cause made "a special jury cause." Mr. Justice
Coleridge also alluded to the frequent lack
of intellectual competency in jurymen. "He could
not help thinking it would be very desirable, in
many cases of an intricate character, that there should
be a little more intellect upon common juries than
was at present to be had." To obtain this increase
of intellect, the Learned Judge " thought it was
absolutely necessary that the common jurors should
be drawn from the whole jurors' list of the county."
It is only necessary to enter a court of
j‘ntice—whether of civil or criminal juris-
diction—in an agricultural district, to induce a ,
cordial concurrence in Mr. Justice Coleridge's
remark. The clodpoles who are often to be
seen in the jury-box, on whose verdict the
property, the character, the liberty, possibly the life,
of an individual may depend—but whose vacant stare
during the proceedings evinces a lamentable lack of
ability to understand the evidence, or their duty with
reference to it—exhibit the danger, no less than the
indecorum, of the existing system. Trial by jury is
'valuable because of the protection it affords to the li-
berty and property of the subject. But, to secure its effi-
ciency, juries must understand their duties. Ignorance
may prove as mischievous as corruption. If the common
jurors were drawn indiscriminately "from the whole
jury-list of the county," there would be an infusion of
instructed mind into the constitution of juries, which
would give diFnity and efficiency to the administration
of the law. "The glorious privilege of Englishmen,
trial by jury," is often on the lips of men who, most
inconsistently, shrink from taking their fair share of
the duties connected with the privilege. To this in-
consistency may be traced the deplorable incompe-
tency of the juries in many parts of England, and
universally in Wales. Let the " gentry " no longer
shun the common jury-box, as a place in which it is
beneath their station to be found; and their humblbr
fellow-citizens will, by their aid, become more com-
petent for the duties of jurymen. The reproach which
is occasionally cast upon the most valuable institution
of the country will then cease.
STANDARD.—Mr. Thomas Attwood, of Bir-
mingham, and the Morning Post have clubbed their
geniuses to demonstrate a fact which has hitherto, we
believe, escaped the observation of all other persons
—namely, the fact that there is no such thing as rent
in England. The demonstration is somewhat tedious
and a little perplexed ; but here is the propositum
laid down in the very words of our morning Contem-
• porary :—" We insert in another column a letter
from Mr. Thomas Attwood, on the subject of the an-
nihilation of rent in England— a result which we
'lately attempted to show has been virtually ef-
fected by the action of Sir Robert Peel's recent
industrial policy, combined with the action of his
deadly Currency Bill." As we have said, the de-
monstration of Messrs. Attwood and the Morning Post
is tedious and somewhat perplexed, and therefore we
decline the task of replying to it in detail, which
would involve the previous task of unravelling it;
and we avoid the labour the more willingly, be-
cause there is, we think, not only abundance of evi-
dence patent to all, as well as a vast body of wit-
nesses easily produceable, to prove that there is still
lingering a remnant of rent in this ruined country.
If we wanted to convince a stranger upon this
point, we should lead him from Leadenhall •street,
via Cornhill, Cheapside, Ludgate-street, Ludgate-hill,
Fleet-greet, Strand, Charing cross, Haymarket,
Piccadilly, Regent-street, and so on to Portland-
place, a promenade, say, of about two miles, in the
course of which he would see exposed for sale by re-
tail, more goods in value and amount than are in all
the cities of all the world beside, and then we should
remind him that all this vast amount of property was
held out to tempt a class of the community said to
isl2;AßSlTlWiejsettkr as the Leaguers admit that they, as
"qiictill:N are only "summer birds" (hoarse
.-ang-csirn• ..es), all the goods exposed for sale
' • • "1110 18th" e'f,Vecember must be intended for some
e: . derivinitk their means of purchase, directly
;Indir.eotly,/fsom the land. in the same pro.
menatie-the:,4ranger would no doubt see, if the time
were betwe* four and six rat., more numerous
and nsotespl'endid equipages than all the world could
muster, and at least nine out of ten of these equip es
would belong to the class said to be rentless, or to scree
of the classes immediately dependent upon that clam