The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-09 00:00:00

stayed away ; and there being no evidence, the
defendant was, of course, acquitted. Directions
were given for his discharge ; but previous to
his being liberated, a bill Containing the follow-
ing items was handed to him in the shape of
Court fees :

X B. d.
Venue

Jury and Cryer 0 16 0
Trial . 0 10 8
Drawing Recognizances - 0 2 8
Serving notice of trial, swearing, &c 0 7 0
Bench warrant

Total £2 17 8

Surely it is a sad pity that this Court either.has
not more business, or none at all. We suspect
that the former would soon lead to the latter, for
we cannot persuade ourselves that such a scale
of Court fees could exist, if they were better
known than they can be by reaching only
now and . then an obscure carpet-heater.
The Court (or rather the Deputy-Judge,
the principal, it is said, ". being
.quite in-
capacitated from discharging the duties of
his office") declares that it had no discretion ;
and the consequence, we suppose, was, that the
defendant paid the bill, which- inflicted upon
him, who had just been declared innocent, a
punishment tenfoldgreater than his offence could
have deserved had he been found guilty. While
reforms are going on in the law, why is it that
this obvious abuse, this freehold in fees, is sup
posed to remain ? Is it because some great si-
necurists are too strong for Government or Par-
liament to grapple with, and who are able to
throw their unrighteous shield over the whole
tribe? The Great Charter, on which we Eng-
lishmen so justly pride. ourselves, declares that
justice shall not be sold. Whether that be the
case or not, we, need not here stop to inquire ;
but that injustiCeis, there can be no doubt, while
such flagrant instances as that to which we have

here alluded are suffered to stain our judicial
annals. Session after Sessiorkof Parliament glide
away in mere talk, or in that perpetual career of
promise which witnesses no performance. One
act done would be worth a thousand of these
empty promises; nor can there be any subject
to which the observation can more strictly apply
than to those abuses which retard that which is
of most value in a regulated State—public justice.
—Morning Herald.
We extract the following paragraph from
Felix Farley's Bristol Journal of Saturday

East, without passing any opinion on the matters

to which it alludes. We should be sincerely
sorry to see Mr. Peel any where else than in the
high official station which he fills so ably
and so creditably to himself; but we are sure he
has too much honour and too nice feelings to
stand 'an instant in the way of any measures
which the Duke of Wellington may meditate
for the benefit of his country. If the -rumours
be unfounded, we shall be excessively obliged if
any of our Treasury friendS will be good enough
to contradict them upon authority:—
" We should not revive the rumour of Mr. Peel's

intention of retiring from the Duke of Wellington's
Administration, had we not received the hint from a
quarter on which we can place considerable reliance.
The whole.of Mr. Peel's connexions will also.follow
his example; his brother, the Under Secretary, as
well as -his brother-in-law, Mr. Dawson. The latter
gentleman could hardly remain, after his knowledge
of the displeasure of the Premier at his -con-
duct at the Derry dinner. But the retirement of
Mr. Peel, we are assured, ha's nothing to do with
the question of Catholic Emancipation. Upon
this head Mr. Peel is no recreant—he is as
staunch as ever. The difference of opinion that exists
between himself and the Noble Premier is upon the
Currency Question. And we can assure our
Commercial . and Agricultural friends, and the
Country Bankers generally, that the Act for" the
suppression of Small Notes in April next, will
not now be carried into effect, without a Parlia-
mentary Committee being appointed to inquire
into its probable effects and operation. And for
this purpose, and for that of introducing into the
Legislature such a Bill of Securities as every
good Catholic ought to apprcve, and for laying be-
fore Parliament the state of our foreign relations,
more particularly in. regard to Greece and Turkey,
the Legislature will be assembled in November next.
In the interim, and it will be an interval of little more

than ten weeks, the country will, we are sure, with
confidence rely upon the wise, energetic; and decisive
measures which our Noble Premier will take to
lay before it, a clear, true, and unvarnished.stale-
ment of its foreign and domestic policy. Where
danger threatens, he will boldly meet it--where the
errors of his predecessors obstruct the public pros-
petity he will gradually and unhesitatingly remove
them; nor will he, we are sure, deceive the nation
with false hopes or delusive promises. Wherever
we travel, and whatever provincial paper we peruse,
with few exceptions, we find the most perfect con-
fidence is placed in the intentions of our NobleYre-
mier."—New nnes.

We announced some time ago, that although
the Lord High Admiral had tendered his resig-
nation, his Majesty had never Thought himself
called on to accept it ; and it is now announced
that the reasons which then induced his Royal
Highness to retire from office have been satis-
factorily explained, and that the Navy will still
enjoy the benefit of his services. Should this
prove to be the fact—and for our own part we
entertain no doubt of it—we need scarcely observe
that it will diffuse the greatest satisfaction among
all classes of his Majesty's subjects, and tend,
perhaps more than any other event which could
have happened, to diminish the unpopular feel-
ing which has taken such deep root against the
present Ministry.—Morning Advertiser.

. .The village of Wanlockhead is about 1,380
feet above the level of the sea. How does it happen that
there is no natural wood on the Clyde above the Bonning-
ton Linn? which is about 2q miles distant from it ;
while in Nithsdale, down the Memock, at less than four
miles, hazels and alders deck the banks of every stream, and
natural thorn and ash grow to a gigantic size in every glen.
The same may be said of furze. Above Quothquan Law,
in the parish of Libberton, WO know of none ; whereas
in Nithsdale brooM and furze abound on tha braes two
miles below Sanquhar. However, at some distant period
thick woods must have abounded in the Upper. Ward ; for
the moss hags about Leadhills contain pieces of birch with
the bark suite fresh; and the same may be said of almost
every mosa.• Di l not these remnants of former forests and
brushwoods remain, we should have dared to affirm that
trees only thrive without care and attentinn at a certain
level above the sea; and the discrepancy in the number of
miles ii the above, might he compensated by the rapidity
of the descent towards the Glasgow Civonicle.

ANN WILSON, an old widow, who resided in
Bannockburn, trret with her death under the following pe-
culiarly distressing circumstances:--For some time past
pip increasing,- infirmities of age and disetse had evidently
unhinged her She arose on 5/onday morning about
seven o'clock ; and, incautiously approFliefl the lire, her
night-clothes were ignited, and in a few moments she
enveloped in fl ones. Strange to tell, she made no effort
to assist herself, nor did she call for aid from others. A
lime 141 Ole slept in the house was awakened by the
smoke, and immediately gave td4rm ; when a woman, one
of her neighbours, ran to the spot, and dashed wateit ahgyt
the poor widow. She was sharply reproved by the in-
fatuated victim, who expressed her determination to die,
being weary, ;he said, of the sufferings of life. Whatever
pain she might feel, she ailowed 'no sign of it to escape
her—not the slightest grdinble,--7-tnt spoke in a calm anti
collected tone. She died in the course of five hours.—
sliding Journal.