The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-28 00:00:00

iTIIE MORNING HERALD.)

',Whatever some people may think or say, the Lord
Chancellor has really, o hard life of it. EVery body
knows what a world of trouble he had. about the',
Opera Muse. Season after SeaSmi, his Lordship
wAs,celled in to ,direet Operasbichre,atid
comical, pastoral; or heroical—though . his Lordship
assuredly is'ae innocent as any:other man in the,king-
done-;--or woman either—of braetirae and cavatinas, '
Pirol'cl#ll altd,elli#coneS, Scarcely had his Lordship
obtained a release, or. rather, a relaxation, flue his
dutien.of manager of the Opera House, when all the
other theatres in their turn stepped in twobtain the
benefit of his Lordship's skill as a manager, and this
at the very time when his Lord trip was proclaiming
himself the worst manager of a theatre living, and fe-
ferring„itti.indubitahle.evidenee, to the Fitate of the se-
veral theatrical concepts:then on In LordAiipts
fie at least obtained some repute hole the theatrical
people. But no sooner was he allowed a moment's
quiet' •
in the microcosm of the stage, when he was
called upon to decide the legitimacy or,iliek,ritimacy
empires. Most of the new itepublies of South Atne-
rice have passed under revision, by his; Lordship;---
and so satisfaCtorily has he decided, that the King of
Spain is now couio into Court to have his l'
c)e.litioe upon tile very -like point of political casuistry,
whether lerdinited the Absolute n responsible for the
acts of Ferdinand the Coestitutional:Kingo,e-Questions
of ear/meal identity and diversity are difficult and eu-
-1.16115 .only in metaphysics, but in politics and lies.
Iris Lordship, however, like the god of old, has given
his inquirers the slip. lie hes sent them for iriforma-,
Lion to a Jury ! ! When it is remembered what ex-
traordinary respect the Gentlemen who make motions
in :the Court: of Chancery have for
,the verdiets' of
jgrics;:it. may he concluded that they will regard the
reference itt.this (!use of the King of Spain anti-Men,
dizabid end Machado, as founded on the Orieetal end
very ancient case, in which the Crown and .Monarchy
of Persia were referred for decision to tin neighing of
horses., • It shoittd, perhatts, not he omitted, tea
the result the decision was not ,at all to he complained
of., it is to be hoped the reference to the Jury in the
modern case will prove.elnially fortunate.

Our' readers saw, by our report of the COMlnon
Hall, the other day', that A Merman Wood, in a meet-
ing convened ,for the purpose of electing Sheriffs,
thought proper to come forward and talk of himself
fuld the bill sticker. Every body knows that, from
time inunemorial, the war of tap as and placards has
t cep part and pared of the business of Parliamentary
irti9M. All candidates, or their committees or
ageritu, have indulged in the practice, and no where
with more zeal and rithony than during such con-

tests in tle-:City of London. We, do not pretend to
know who pays for the pens, ink, paper, and inspira-
tion,- employed: on those occasions, but we do belieVe
that, ever 'since:: the, art of printing was invented,. a
contested election in the City ha.s'always. been a glo,
rious time for bill-stickers, and never was one of
those, " venerable" pioneers of literatnre dragged to
prison mail it was done. at the late ,election by the
friends of a " patriotic " candidate.7o :Who could
have imagined that Alderman Wood, ' the " warns
friend of civil and religion& liberty,7:. as: he has de-
scribed himself to be, -should :" take umbrage"- at a
printed
Squib, which represented' him and the Roman
Catholics to ,be a -state of, politieal. fraternity ?.
Who could have imagined that :the, "'Advocate of
the Liberty of the Press," as he alao styles himself,
should, grasp: the, lance of penal law, and run a tilt
against the licensed privileges of .election-tbne ? We
would like to know how many of a more offeiniive.sort
of placards his
.own committee-men, or agents (we will
suppose without his knowledge), formerly directed
against the political, and even personal Character of Sir
William C.iirtis; and bow many
,of the Placards
against Mr. Ward, on the late occasion, had a similar
origin ? I, Both these gentlemen are Tories, hot they
bore the Ireedorts Which the electioneering
illesquins
used towards their names with great good humour, and,
slid not threaten any body with , prosecution. We
wish the," patriotic Ahlerinan would take a lest of
good sense anti practical liberality from their example.
Certainly, whatever credit /Weisman Wood's friends
deserve for zeal, their adviee; in the present instance,
partakes of
,any thing but wisdom... Ilad they been
persons of discretion, when they found lie was going
down upon the poll, and losing his temper at the
same time,
,the best thing they could have advised
him to do would be not to Jurn a nonsensical
squib into a most serious and important matter.
—We should like to know whether such advice
arose out of mere folly, or whether some shrewd
attorney wants to make a jok,,of, the transaction ?
It is possible all the time the ,worthy Alderthan sup-
poses he is maintaining the dignity of his character
he isinnocently made a stalking-horse, to put a'large
amount of costs in the pocket of some keen practi-
tioner of the law, by one of those trumpery cases of
libel, too many of which 'are already obtruded upon
the valuable time of our Courts of Justice. Looking
on the matter in this light, we (lid think it only doing
a kind :office to give Alderman Wood some 'well-
meant advice, :by which 'be might, in some measuie,
have retrieved the intemperate error into 'which he
has fallen--huh his mind being still under some un-
happy influence, he chose to repel our kind offices,
as if to.rescue. bins 'from absurdity were, to do him
a personal: wrens._ Let bins now: pursue his own
course, and, derive the advantage he can front it.
—ln reference, to our advice: be:.said, the other day
in the CS)I10110i1 There, had. also , appeared
some -strong animadversions on his conduct in the
Morning /Jerald, written evidently- for the purpose: of
deterring him from proceeding. with the inquiry." We
tell Alderman Wood that wencither did, isor do care,
one straw whether., lie proceeds with the imptiry, or
not. fact itself would have been too, contemptible
for notice if his conduct did not evince,an over-readi-
ness to attack the press, and Ono:upon a most. paltry.
occasion. We cats not ulwthen lit cultivates the close
intimacy with “,111ritti Callitlit:; which she placard
imputed to lOW, or W110111(1' hi' lie :t,11:011C4 of II; but
wt, w ac tr. bvar n Inuit Omar; cryiny; unit fur the
lilwity .1 the Wad it tiCailz; upon bits own curm;,
' and tlnm, Gagetting all his One sentiments, trying his
Band at persecution. " lie said, moreover, " that he
was net to be divertedfroni' his purpd.;.e(by what could be
said of hire in the newspapers." We'should like to him
whatineans Alderman Wood ever had of making apublie
character, whether in of out OfParliament;withont the aid
of the newspapers. We should also like to see hies
who is' more indebted to then's'. Thisrway of talkinw is
novelty in one whose public name, :aich as it is, was
created and buoyed up, and floated into notoriety, by
the newspapers. One would think :that he either
inherited distinction; or achieved it by splendid-talents,
or pre-eminent virtue, so contemptimusly (1°0,4 talk,
now that the election is over, of the newspapers. . It
May be seven yea's belisie he again goes :to. the poll,
but if it ;were fourteen he has made a, foolish circuits-,
stance be rememberyl against him„ which, but for
himself', would have fallen into , oblivion. That.. cir 7
clunstance may have lost
,trim a few votes at the last
election, but the manner in which he has noticed it
may, A t a future time, lose him a great many more.'
There is • a wide differenee between drinking the
" liberty of the Press" ;it pnblie dinners, and shOwing
constant and infleicible attachment to it in one's ae
tions. And it is by' actions, not by the ' enssigns of
party, that we judge of the charaeters of mein.----/bid.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ADMIRALTY ,COURT--Jom 27.
331 X A.VOI). .

. .
Lord Srow_►.t, g.we sentenee ht this Case, which was argued .
the last Court day. It was at questiOn eta to the right of the Bun
ship of war to share in the beneate accruing from the capture of
the,ftrazilian slave-trader Aviso, actually taken by the ship-of-
,war Maidstone. The learned Judge, after, ,detailing the ciretun-.
stances of the capture, observed that, according to the prize law,
there could' be no"doubt that the Rea was a joint captor, and
entitled to share in. the proceeded the capture ; and that where the
legislature authorized an appeal to the High Court of Admiralty:
he must presume Ott it, did not mean that the Coot t should lay
doers new rules. The fact, therefore, of an app..l seine; admitted,
called upon this Court to 'apply the prize4lllo with dqe cautio.u.
end temperance (0 cases of this description. In eases under the
prize law, the rule respecting constructive capture-31ml been carried
to an eztent.which later unties had condemned. But here was
an actual co-operation ; the ./or would have been the sole captor •
of the priie but for the superior attiling. of the other ship. She
was therefore entitled to share in the bounty noney,. and a
prtidri to, thee proceeds of the ship turd apparel. 116 440414
here inquired Ideal. became of the ship,
Dr. Lb.niNu'roi. A....te41, that by treaty, 'the' vessel was „con-
demned to the Government, and that by stator*, a Middy of 'the'
proceeds went to Oa Clovernment, and the other_ to thtteimpters.--.'

Lord ti-r0,,v5341, concluded by lotatiolf, that under the, drown.;
stances of the original sailing 'Acts, the continual association, the
"mak:tiler* which took place the act of caplnt,, the tint., dis-
•suvery, and the fact that the Bun Wil4 Only prevented from being
the- eetnal captor by the superior Nailing of the Mithistent,' the
forrnetvei4sel was, in his opinion; entitled to share in the profits
of the, Capture. o; ;: •