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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

STANDARD.—The Morning Chrcnicle has a
long wiseacre article in behalf of the conspirators
convicted at the late State trials in Dublin. The
article is a reply to an argument of an opposite
character which appeared in a late number of the
Times. In our opinion, the time has not yet
arrived when with propriety the subject can
be treated with proper freedom.. There can be
na doubt that if the parties convicted have
acknowledged the justice of their conviction, have
borne testimony to the constitutional feeling and
candour of the prosecutor, such as both merit,
have cheerfully admitted what no honest man
can deny—the exemplary patience and zeal for
justice of the jury, and the learning, temper, and
impartiality of the judges—and have shown a
fixed resolution to abstain from a repetition of the
practices that have brought them into jeopardy—
justice may be satisfied by a lenient sentence ;
and the effect of all the expensive and irritating
proceedings that the conduct of these men have
caused will not be thrown away. If unhappily,
however, they and their friends have pursued a
precisely opposite course—foully calumniating pro-
secutor, judges, and jury, and declaring a resolution
to persist in their crime, they force on their own
punishment, not as the forning Chronicle intimates
by a fear, on the part of government, of being
thought afraid, but by a necessity imposed upon the
government to do justice to itself, and to the admi-
nistration of the law, and to take care that the
law shall not be again violated as soon as de-
clared. Surely in such a cause a Government,
even if it should owe nothing to its own character,
or to the public peace, must owe it to its prosecu-
tor, to jurors and judges, not as it were to put the
seal upon the foul calumnies heaped upon them for
doing their duty, by treating as nothing the acts done
in discharge of that duty. However, as we have said,
we put the question merely hypothetically, as the time
for treating it absolutely has not arrived.
GLOBE.—Lord Lyndhurst has introduced a Bill
to the House of Lords, to " consolidate the jurisdic-
tion and improve the practice of the Ecclesiastical
Courts of England and Wales, and for otherwise
altering and amending the law in certain mat-
matters ecclesiastical.' The part we took in ex-
posing the palpable job which was sought to be
perpetrated by Dr. Nichol), by means of his
Bill of last session—and which, after promising to
alter, amend, and regenerate it, was withdrawn by
the consent of all parties in the House, as too
bad to be improved—seems to lay us under spe-
cial obligation to examine this new attempt. At
the outset we admit that the measure brought
forward by Lord Lyndhurst is an improvement
on the present law, and is much better calcu-
lated to give general satis'itction than Dr. Nicholl's
clumsily constructed and self-serving Bill of the last
session. There is also some indication of good taste
in changing the person by whom, and the House
in which, the new measure should originate.
After the unequivocal expressions of condem-
nation by which Dr. Nicholl's Bill was con-
signed to the fate it merited, it would have been
dangerous, if not fatal, even to a better measure,
had it been intrusted to the same functionary to in-
troduce it to the House of which he is a member. A
recollection of the glaring demerits of the repudiated
Bill would have provoked opposition to any measure
emanating from the same quarter, which it was well to
avoid. The Bill before us proposes that all Courts Peculiar
shall merge in the Archidiaconal and Diocesan Courts.
These latter Courts, in addition to the Arches Court of
Canterbury, and the Chancery Court of York (with
the exception of Cornwall, Leicester, Nottingham, and
Suffolk), will alone, in future, have the power to grant
probates or administrations, and marriage licenses. In
this particular the present measure differs from, and,
we think, is an improvement upon Dr. Nicholl's
Bill, as well as upon the existing system. The Bill
of last session proposed to abolish the jurisdiction
of the Diocesan as well as of the Peculiar juris-
dictions ; and Doctors' Commons was constituted
the place to which all the business of these
Courts was to be carried—to the manifest
inconvenience and injury of the public, as well as
to the practitioners in those Courts. The pre-
servation of the Diocesan Courts removes the nu-
merous and strong objections which prevailed against
the former Bill. As our object is the public advan-
tage—which we desire to see secured to the
utmost possible extent by this attempt to legis-
late on a subject that has so long claimed
the attention of the Legislature—we shall en-
deavour in the spirit of fairness to specify the parts
of Lord Lyndhurst's Bill which appear to require
re-consideration. By leaving the law of bona
notabilia untouched, it perpetuates a system which
creates delay and increases expenses. What
imaginable objection can be stated against a
clause being introduced into the. Bill by which
the grant shall be taken out in the diocese, or
the Court, within the immediate jurisdiction of
which the party shall be domiciled at the time
of death ; and that if domiciled in more than
one jurisdiction, the executors or administrators
shall have liberty to make election within which
jurisdiction they will take out grant ? By
this change, which would, we think, be an im-
provement in the Bill as it now stands, the
local juridiction3, which are proposed to be retain-
ed, would be rendered more efficient, and the obvious
mischiefs he removed, which frequently arise out of
the practice, now sanctioned by the law, of allowing
any executor or administrator to institute proceedings
for grant at a distance, merely because a portion—
possibly a very small portion—of the estate is in the
dist int jurisdiction. The design of local jurisdictions
is defeat d, if those who are principally interested
in the due administration of effects have not ready
access to the Court out of which the grant proceeds.
Ihe bulk of the personality, and the majority of the
parties interested in its distribution, will, in the great
majority of instances, be found resident in the juris
diction of the domicile.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of March 8 )
SUGAR.-There was a dullness in the West India Sugar
mat ket in the early part of the week, grocers and refiners pur-
chasing all descriptions with much caution. To-day stiff prices
were paid for all descriptions of West India Sugar, and all par-
ties were desirous to purchase, but business was checked by
the smallness of the quantity on offer. The total sales for the
week are 660 hhds. Brown Sugar of dry quality is not to be
had under 60s.per cwt.
REFINED.-To-day little desire was shown on the part of
the home trade to buy Refined Sugar, and prices are droop-
ing ; brown lumps are 76s to 76s 6d, and standard 77s 6d to
78s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar was taken sparingly at
26, to 26s 3d per cwt.
MAURITIUS.-This afternoon the prices paid were fully
equal to those of the last public sale-ord foxy brown fetched
545, good 58s to 595, low yellow 59s to 61s, mid 61s 6d to
63s 6d, good 64s to 66s 6d, ord strong grey 60s to 61s 6d, mid
and good mid 62s to 63s 6d, and good 64s to 65s per cwt.
EAST INDIA. -This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with
attention ; two parcels, amounting to 2,757 bags, were offered
at public sale, and sold at full rates-good white at 68s 6d, mid
67s to 67s 6d, low mid 665, damp and washed 63s 6d to
66. 6d, mid sound yellow 61s to 61s 6d, damp 59. to 61s, low
damp foxy yellow 54. 6d to 55s 6d, rather better 56s 6d,.sound
Date yellow 60s, and damp 59s 6d per cwt.
FoaErost.-There has been less activity in the market for
Foreign Sugar this week, but holders are firm, and have re-
frained from pressing sales. This afternoon there was no public
sale of Foreign Sugar ; privately some parcels of yellow Ha-
vannah sold at 193 6d to 22s 6d per cwt. for low to fine, and
the market closed firmly.
COFFEE._Prices have been fully supported for West India,
and some parcels disposed of privately : the market is still
scantily supplied, and none has been brought to public sale.
Ceylon, 580 bags at 2s to 3s above those of
this day week ; good ordinary fetched 70s 6d to 71s. 9 puns
of Berbice sold at 63s 6d for good ordinary greyish. Mocha at
74s to 75s for middling yellow, and 72s to 73. for middling
greenish. In other sorts of East India Coffee a good deal of
business was done privately at stiffer rates : Padang fetched 32s
to 345, and Batavia 33s to 403. The closing prices of good
ordinary Ceylon were 71a to 71a 6cl per writ at a late haul( a
parcel of fine ordinary Plantation sort sold at 85s to 90s per cwt.
Cocoa.-All descriptions of West India are much wanted,
and higher rates paid. Trinidad sold at 46s to 46s 6d for low
grey, being Is to 2s above previous rates : privately, good and
fine red sorts have been fetchings2s to 575, and low to middling
47s to 51s per cwt. Foreign is held rmly at 28s to 32s
per cwt.
TEA.-To-day there was less inclination shown to purchase,
in consequence of the accounts come to hand from China, stat-
ing that shipments of Tea were going on largely. Holders,
however, were firm, and sound common Congou cash is not to
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to
be purchased under Is. 04d. per lb. The falling off in the de-
s
ma_ndois considered as only temporary.
W2t7ss'tp alidndfioar cannot be
epoubrcahaisieodneyontakleonwienr
terms,
at 20s per cwt.
SeicEs.-Black Pepper is not to be purchased on lower
terms. East and West India Ginger have been in excellent
request and prices are rather higher. This
afternoon at auc-
tion 21 chests of Cassia Lignea went briskly at 65s 6d to for good middling mixed, being the full worthis 66'
wor ; middling not
to be had under 65s per cwt.
SAGO. -Mid 'sage pearl all taken in at 17s 6d, small brown
15s to 16s, a small part sold at 18s to 18s 6d for good large
bright pearl, 18s. fir small white old pearl. Tapioca at 5d to
7d per lb for good to fine quality.
Rim-Bengal low white lls to lls 9d, trid I2s, good
12s 6d, and fine 13, 12s for fair mid and white, and sea damaged
at 9s to 11s 6d per cwt. Madras and Java are held firmly, and
the lower descriptions have met with attention; several parcels
of yellow sold privately as 9,6 d to 9s 9d per cwt. Patna at
14s to 17s; and Carolina cleaned here at 21s, 245, and 26s per
cwt. 'lbis afternoon Bengal at stiffer rates, middling white at
12s6d, and low middling 12s per cwt.
,BUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS..-.Jamaica at 3s 6d to
3s 9d for fair quality 30 to 37 per cent over proof; the dealers
have disposed of 250 puns at 3s 4d to' 4s 3d for 32 to 36 per
cent over proof of fair to good quality ; for small parcels of
supei for 4s 6d to 5s 6d paid. Leewards at 2s Id to 2s 2d per
gallon, proof. Demerara at 2s lld to 3s 3d for fair to fine qua-
-Irs
lay. Calcutta Rum at Is 10d to is lop proof with certificate.
"IT' In Brandy
220 holders manifest firmness :-Cognae, best brands of
If 8 the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s I Id, puns 5s 9d; ditto, 1t339,
90 }Ads 5s Bd, puns 5s 6cl • ditto, 1840, hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d ;
„74' ditto, 1841, blids 5s sd', puns 5s 3d ; ditto, 1842, hhds 5s 4d,
5s '2d •and infe •24 puns , inferior and middling marks 3s to 4s 6d per
12 gallon. Geneva for exportation at is 10d to Is Ild ; fine for
2G home use is fetching 2s 41 to 3* per gallon. English Corn
, Spirits at 10s 2d, and single casks at lOs 3d per gallon, cash.
l "'" To-day proof Lee wards sold at 2s 2d to 2s 3d, Calcutta Is 104 d
, to Is I Id, and common Jamaica 31 to 33 per cent overproof
3s 4d to 3s 6d per gallon.
"'H.'', OILS.-The market for common descriptions of Fish Oil
is firm; Cod at al 5s to 331105. Pale Seal at 351, and