The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-09 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS
FOR. THE. ENSUING WEES:,
His Majesty's Stag-hounds will meet on Monday, at
Farnham Common; Friday, at Richling's Lodge, near
Colnbrook—at half-past 10 o'clock.
H. Jolliffe, Esq.'s Fox-hounds, on Monday, Wednes-
day, Thursday, and Saturday, at Pratt's Bottom—s.
The Surrey Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Adding-
ton Lodge Bottom ; Thursday, at Godstone ; Saturday,
at Pratt's Bottom—half-past 10.
The Surrey Harriers, on Monday, at Sanderstead ;
Wednesday, at ditto ; Saturday, at ditto-10.
The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, near Patcham ;
Wednesday, near the Race Course ; Friday, near the
Dyke—quarter before 11.
The Lewes Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at New-
market lltll ; Wednesday, at Ashcombe (the alternate
Wednesday at the Kennel, Ilford) ; Friday, at Telescombe
Tye—half-past 10.
The Hambledon Hounds, on Monday, at Southwick;
Wednesday, at Fair Oak House ; Friday, at Westineon
Hut—half-past 10.
The East Sussex Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Laczkton
Pound—at a quarter before 11.
Sir John Cope's Hounds, on Wednestl,y, at the Kennel,
World's End; Friday, at Jack's Baoth—half-past 10.
The Cray.n Hounds, on Monday, at Clench Common;
Wednesday, at We'rford Wood ; Friday, at Stipe; Satur-
day, at the Hare and Hounds, Lambourn—half-past 10.
The Worcestershire Fox-hounds, OA Monday, at Up-
ton Snodsbuty ; Thursday, at the Red Lion, dolt; Sa-
turday, at sth mile-stone on the Stonebow-road—half-
past IQ.
Mr, Boycott's Hounds, on Monday, at Ewsinesa ; Thurs-
day, at Moseley Court—half-past aO.
The Warwickshire Fox-hounds, on Moralay,, at Watford
Wood—half-past 10.
Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on M4lnesay, at Canon Froome;
Wednesday, at Westhide ; friday, at Bacho Hill-10.
The Cottesffro;-o Hounds, on Monday, at Cole's Lodge ;
Tuesday, at Burley ; Thursday, at Tolthorpe
ter before 11.
Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, ai; Barnwell
Wold-10.
Lord Scarbrough's Fox-hauxds, on Monday, at Tickbill
Spital ; Wednesday, at Crook's Ford ; Friday, at Langold
—half-pct 10.
Foljambe's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Saxilby;
Thursday, at Gate Burton ; Saturday, at Fiskerton-11.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Aylesby;
Wednesday, at Kingsforth House; Friday, at Kingerby ;
Saturday, at Fox Dales-11.
Mr. Muster's Hounds, on Monday, at Oxton Warren;
Wednesday, at the 7th mile-stone, Mansfield. road ;
day, at Holrne Pierrepoint—half-past 10.
Mr. Meynell's Hounds, ou Monday, at Loxley Park ;
Thursday, at Swarkstoue Bridge ; Saturday, at Stone's
Gorse—half-past 10. •
The Perhyshire Deer-hounds, on Monday, at Morton ;
Thuzsday, at Holland Ward Qate—half-past 11.
Sir George Sitwell's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at 1301.
toyer Moor; Friday, at Handsworth
Sir Jacob Astley's Hounds, op Monday, aattßcecokneHhaafill:
Billingford ; Tuesday, as Swanton Church; Friday, at
Sparham—half-past 10,
Farm;The Friday, at S
WestereBtapgo-rhl eo-1a
Stag-hounds,
ndl
s on
f- pa st 1,0.
The Badsworth Fox-hounds, no Tuesday, at Pollington ;
Thursday, at Sprottso' Boat ; Saturday, at Notton Vil -
lage—lva-P7f 10.

PROVIDENT
1 LIFE OFFICE.--A General
Meeting of the Members of this Institution was held
yesterday at their house in Regent-street, Sir GaosaF
DucxErr, Dart. in the chair. The object of the Meeting
was finally to confirm a septennial bonus of 35/. per cent.
lately voted, being the third septennial division
with the
taken place. The members were highly pltoed
flourishing state of the concern ; but some disappointment
was expressed by a few Shareholder?, that so lalge. a portion
persons insured as
of the profits were appropriated to the
only took
fourteen parts in fifteen, while the Shareholders
at the deed had .iettlez'A
a fifteenth part. It was explained th
the rule in that respect,
cured was mainly considered flit' '.._ula tb!tt, Pr°l' 1.. 0. 1 y
which has
that
the
intelllC
cfmtebteeePen "u
party a' at the
i
11".C'Onth: persons insured.
in-
next Septennial Metal>, -
twenty of the ,-- - . ,
rimileinintltedlren!he Chairman, to whom
Earl v—
aseLoovSintsp
•-
- .RRE .
adjourned.
I thanks were unanimously voted, and the lge,,..tial wa•

THE SPIRIT OF THF, PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The respectful silence and unbroken attention wirh
which Mr. Brougham's speech on the state of the
law was received on Thursday evening,—a speech
too, which occupied six hours in the delivery,—are
more powerful recommendations of it than any which
we can pronounce. It is to be remarked also, that
the interest which it excited did not spring from the
causes by which Parliamentary. eloquence is
known fix the minds of its hearers—such as strong
airiy
personalities, and inflammatory party topics. In any
otheroldi hands than those into which it fell, the subject
of Mr. Brougham's speech would have been dry and
repulsive. In his, it came forth an animated treatise
rather than a political effusion, was listened to with
unabating pleasure, and imparted, as it proceeded, rc
continual stream of information. After Mr.
Brougham had divested his proposition of all that ,
matter to which it was not meant to relate, such as
the courts of equity, the commercial code, and many
parts of the criminal law, already discussed and ar-
ranged by Sir Samuel Romillv, and Sir James
Macintosh, and by Mr. Peel's Bill, the careless wonli
scarcely have thought that so much remained requir-
ing moderate change and rational improvement. To
what length reformation may go, it is not now pos-
sible to state; but on this, the first opening of the
business, the propriety of several alterations was at
once acknowledged by the Secretary of State for
the Home Department. Other points will be dis-
cussed and even contested hereafter,—some gained
to the side of reform, and others, no doubt,
reclaimed and suffered to fall back into their
ancient course. It is difficult to do more here,
than to refer to the speech itself for the various sub-
jects which it comprises We will in this plaea„
however, notice some errors which crept into our
report. Mr. Peel is made, in his speech, to deactibe
Mr. Brougham as having said that Lord Tenterden
" had not maintained a character so brilliant since a
judge as during the period of his advocacy." On
the contrary, the learned and eloquent gentleman
said, and was described by the Right Ron, Secre-
tary as having said, something to thia effect—" that
his Lordship was a very great I.aidge,—one of the
very best we ever had,—thons comparatively little
known as an advocate." Iwo typographical errors
also deform Mr. Brou
was received svith. such distinguished and merited
marks of adm;:sation by the House. " The shield
;;;liain's fine peroration, which
of the in solvent" he is made to say, instead of
" the shield of innocence;" and " absorbed" ap-
ri;ears in print instead of " a two-edged sword."
To our own opinion of this elaborate and able speech,
we shall, in conclusion, add what Mr. Peel spoke of
it :—" From the speech of the Hon. and Learned
Member he had derived tiodissembled satisfaction,
which he shared only in common with the entire
House. The laborious range of his research was ac
creditable to his acknowledged legal reputation, as
the nature of his measure was calculated to reflect
on him honour as a Senator."—Times.
The public will sea with pleasure that Mr. Peel
has given notice for Tuesday next, the 12th inst., of
a motion for a select committee on the state of the
revenue arid expenditure of the country. The
word " select" is of high importance. It is indeed
the very word which we like best to see employed
on such an occasion,—for a different reason, how-
ever, from that which was suggested by Lord Pal-
merston a few days ago, when his Lordship, with
less respect for the sagacity of the nation than reli-
ance on their simplicity, put on a grave face and
talked about the committee being chosen by the
" wisdom of Parliament !" as if the wisdom
of Parliament ever went farther in the con-
struction of a select committee, than to make‘ itself master of the list of names recommended by
his Majesty's Ministers, and to rote the committee
accordingly. NOW, we like the word " se.),ect," not
because it is calculated to blindfold or mystify people
but because it fairly tells the world that :Ministers
are to take the " selection" on themselves, and are
therefore satisfied to be responsible for selecting a
good one. Ibis is the first trial of the new Go
vernment—this will decide their real character with
the country. The conduct of the Duke of 'Welling-
ton and Mr. Peel with regard to this finance corn-
inittee,—this vital pledge of Mr. Canning's bottom.,
and source of hope and consolation to the people,—
their honesty or duplicity on this single preliminary
point will raise or sink them in the eyes of the;
whole empire, Mr. Peel, if we may judge by his
tone on Thursday evening, has no desire to evade
the fulfilment of the sacred obligation of redeeming
Mr. Canning's pledge. Indeed, telly should he?
What could he,- or any man with a shadow of
discernment, propose to himself by inflicting such a
disappointment on his countrymen ? The public
will beige a sound Finance Committee, with a Chair-
man above seduction or suspicion. Let Ministers
took well to this.—lbid.
Mr. Hume, last night, drew attention to the lasi
the country had sustained from Saving Banks,
amounting to nearly half a million. The worst or
allowing are advantage to the depositors over other
lenders is., that it tempts the rich to avail themselves
the
theeexit,ecnceoemomfotdhaetiponu,blwich. o
larnefateht,usit
ibseittienfidtetieldto3adt
that the deposits, as far as amount is concerned,
chiefly belong to people in easy circumstances. lint
could not the poor be afforded a facility for laying
by their sayings without the public being injured rich depositors ?—illorning Chronicle.
Mr. Brougham has stepped forward as a Reformer
of the Law at a most auspicious period; for we be-
lieve we may confidently say, that in all ranks and
classes of the community the conviction is general,
that extensive changes in the law, the systems of
judicial procedure, and the organization of the tri-
bunals, are imperiously called for. What was
wanted was a man sufficiently experienced in the
advantages and disadvantages of the existing state
of things, to be able to direct attention to real and
out imaginary defects, and to suggest the means
of remedying them most efficaciously—sufficiently
high in the lists of his profession to command
the esteem of the experienced and to deprive
interested illiberality of a handle of attack--
and sufficiently disinterested to prefer the well-
being of the present and future generations, to
the share which might- accrue to himself of the Jucte.e
mere outline, and at the
from abuses pregnant with
suffering to those most entitled to the protection.. oz
the haw, The deep attention with .winch he Was
listened to bye crowded House, throughout a speech
that the soil is prepared for the r o seed.
bi
gl
of; we believe, unexampled lengths" alone a proof
e tasl: of
delivering to a popular as 9 Yi view of the
dr
a? extensive
whole of the extensive field of a,:w) avoiding the
detaQilPP
aarn executed the
osite evil of run-
ning gneei stnistmoi inseparable
tspepaerrrotiipnbogl er
teiflerenoa:m3tfrecafs,
is
One
to
which
undertook with extraordi-
nary tact, few
y hesitation to admit. In
difesffiveatdret etaqsukahwiTchihilatahvee
Atct, he so es
livened
practice, of the vari-
tus subject by illustrations,
latencies and
ous incoe , absurdities which pervade
the ja„ and
.!fs administration, that those who
are even a
derived front
hm ifferent to the object, will read
gPeee " a means of amusement--
, we hope e not the slightest doubt, from what fell
from Mr. Peel, that a Commission will be granted.
The inclination of Mr. Peel's mind was evidently
in favour of such a measure; and his doubts with,
respect to particular points, such as the insuring
despatt.h in decision by the payment of fees to the
'Judges, go merely to points which would be most
advantageously elucidated in a Committee. Indeed
no Minister, who regards reputation aral character,
and has discernment enough to see :.'sat in the pre-
sent day these te a certain extent are indispensable
to a Pubb rie• man, and that he Who throws t'rem aw-,\-
41111;1..,;1ates the chief indut:-ement for retainingm in
power—no t te na
such Minister, we say, would :t of
baulking the expectations of the nation by refusing a
Commission, But everything ill
deriend on th
Commission. It may be composed 'of men f char
racter and talents disp
(3614 to 'oevaefit the nation, usd
honestly to set ab's:at the proposed inquiry : or ,t
Imaycw7.-eosed of men, either too much lute,- -t -

in the perpetuation of existingfabuses to lend 'them-
selves honestly to the task of devising remedies for
them, or too narrow-minded and prejudieed to ren-
der services adequate to the occasion. We will not,
however, after the encouraging speech of Mr.: Peel,
anticipate any other than -a fair endeavour or:
the part of the Government to meet the wishes of
the country. In so extensive a subject, there must
- exist infinite variety of opinions as to the remedies
for the various descriptions of evils. The law itself
requires to be ascertained and expounded in such
manner as to allow it to be a guide to the people.
At present it is uucertain, often inconsistent, full of
anomalies, and rules and exceptions,. resting on
equally fanciful gromula. This, however, is a field
of boundless extent, and perhaps in the first instance
it may be prudent to attack only the more striking
evils. The administration of the law is the evil that
calls first for a remedy. The provision for the ad-
ministration of justice is altogether inadequate. It:
treating of this part of the evil it struck us that Me
Broughain did not go far enough. Justice ought,
if possible, to be brinight to the door of every man;
and the delay of justice is often the height of in-
justice -,NOw, why should the inhabitant of York-
shire and Lancashire be subjected to the delay of
half a year in having a cause tried, when, if a' Lo-
cal Court were •appointed,' it Might he decided•in
a week or two ? It may be true, that the Judges
of the Metropolitan Courts may be better fitted ,
than Local Judges could be expected to be to
decide particular. cases ; but then those who arc
dissatisfied with the decision of Local Judges might
have an appeal to a Metropolitan tribunal ; and it is
hardly fair, that to guard against the chance of im-
perfect decision in, a few cities, all the rest should he
made to suffer. By a return to Parliament from the
Local Courts of Scotland, Which decide causes of all
- descriptions, real anti personal, to the highest:
amount, it appeared, that in a country where the=
people ire, perhaps, less disposed to put up with
auppoSed private wrong than the people of any coun-
try: in the world, only one case out of 118 was re-
moved by appeal to the Court of Session, so that in
117 caseaVut of 118 the parties were satisfied with
tlve lost aeeiaion. But what is more, if Mr.
Brougham is reel.lY anxious that a remedy should be
found for that enOrronts evil, which is tuch.a scourge
to the lower orders—the Unpaid Mat itracY—it can
only be found in the appoiterient of local tribunals
deciding according to law. Ka' matter. who ap-
points the Justices of Peace; the objections
which now apply to them must d!Ways.
applicable. As auxiliaries to justice they way
be useful ; as the only means of diStributini
justice they
,are objectionable. Liiniting the number
of men, bound by no ties to the spot but their own
inclinations, might have the effect of leaving a ,vhole
district without Police ; for it is -only by having an
alnindent supply that the public can he secure against
the possibility of being left entirely destitute. A
regular Tribunal for the decision of Civil and
Criminal Causes would soon, as in Scotland, throw
Justices of the Peace into the shade, to the great
benefit of the people. Means might easily be
devised for connecting the lowest Tribunals in the
cauatry with the highest, so that a Gentleman
who distinguished himself. by his talents and
...pigment, • might be elevated to higher judicial
situations. At present we have Barristers in our
Police Establishments ; but- they are left without
any of the motives which lead men to distin-
guish themselves, their diligence, or -talents availing
them nothing. No 'man, who is worth any thing
at all, will allow himself to be thus shelved in
. this country; and thus -the situation of a Police.
Magistrate will, in general, be only applied for by
those who are without the talents to get on in their
profession, or are captivated by the prospect of indo-
lence which the office holds out. Mr.-Brougham.
dwelt at great length' on- the benefits _derivable troinil
Juries, and even remirathended the eine-nsion of this
peculiarity of 'nor iysteto to-India. '-'We are aware
that we are solely indebted 'to the institution of
Juries for that which constitutes the chief excellence
of the English Judicial System—publicity and the
admirable mode of examining witnesses, which is
known only in England.. But we have great doubts,
notwithstanding the-high testimony of Sir Alexander
-Johnson,. as to. the., possibility- of communicating
Trial by Jury•to people in the.situation of the I-lin-
..Aoos- With us the Institution-has the sanction of
-immemorial custom. It is the remnant of a tribunal
composed of the Notables of a whole district, with
the Chief at their head, such as we find at this day
iu certain stages of civilization, and from its popular
origin is held in peculiar veneration. But the effect
of transplanting the institution.; as modified by time
among ourselves, to a people in a low state of civiliza-
tion, would be eigther a denial of justice in many cases
or the laying a foundation for endless bloodshed and
, violence. Of this we had a striking experience in
boh,„(1, Sir John Davis informs us, in -his Letter
to the Earl of Salisbury„ 1,44 ,
way, —o.—ctanea,
that when the Justices of Assizepenetrated into the
North of Ireland, after the- conquest of that part of
the island, " the Juries that were in:Tani-wiled for
.• trial of the Prisoners, did acquit them As fast, and
found them not guilty; which, whether it were done
for favour or for fear, is hard to jodget for the.
whole county '(Monaghan) consisted of three or four-
names only, M'Mahon, M`Kena, M`Cabe, and..
O'Connolly ; the Chief was even one of those
.names, and of these names this Jury did consist, so.
as it was impossible to try hi bet„by his kinatnen
and therefore it is probable that the malefactors were;
• . acquitted for favour ; for, on the other part, we were'
inducers to think that-fear might be the,cause : for-
asmuch as the poor people seemed very unwilling to
be-sworn of Juries, alleging, that if ihey condemned
any man, his friends in revenge would rob, or bunt,
• • or-kill them for it; and that the like mischief had
happened to divers Jurors since the last Sessions
'holden there; such is the barbarous malice and im-
piety of ntese people." Even at this day, we un-
derstand, it' is no easy matter, in several parts of.
• Ireland, to find Petty Juries willing to expose them-
selves to the consequences apprehended froM the re-
lations of, those convicted. 'When our ancestors were
rude,•the whole tribe judged, and the relations of the
party convicted could not resist such .7t hod), ; as they,
became-civilized a selection took place ; l,ut what a
nove`proposed is, to give the institution as
gradoally
modified by civilization, to a rude people, as a means
producingthat civilization of which it is the con-
sequence and not the _ cause at home. It forms a
material deduction, fforn the advantages attributed
Jude
Mr. Brougham to Jories in civil cases, that the
Judges do in effect disregard them. What they
`ay by their conduct is this--if we like the verdict
well and good-,-but -till we get a verdict' that we
like we will allow ne' trials" Now this is, in effect,
taking the eognieenae entirely out of the hands of
-the Jury, andletainiaa lie Jury Merely as a screen
;.or themselves. EitCer Jury Biala are good; or they
are not ; if -00 d,
IC why should the Judges allow trial
after' trial till
they L
Obtain a verdict
and thus rola
suitor,rdict to their mind,
. and delay ? if
why shouldhad, with expene , ,
tot the Judges
(tame at once
simply?" But these; and numberless other points,
suggested by Mr.Breligeam,"
ainvaltiable speech, will
.come properly under consideration hereafter.—lbid.
Our readers will recoil'
eat that we live frequen- •
•
a endeavoured to draw th' e attention of the L.egisla.
~,istave to the practice. of special pieddincr. we have
Fitts pointed out, fromi. time to time, its
mischievous ef-
f'.4•• fects upon the (Ist)
,!°,"-*ti the laws, the delay
--nee wmen- it oc— ,• •
and grievous expe ,asions to suitors,
• and -ridiettle.whiett it bi
Au.. and the 'discredit
of justice. Our- 01. "'Ts upon
the administration•
,she has been
dice separated from•
baateto have the bad pra whatever is
.-w-,%excellent in the principles of ourdawe. • .In this ob-
-,-1 jest,.. for which •we have long contended—and cc,
tended without support'. or, .cokveiaAon—we are
happy to haVe such an auziliary.as Diu:l4644m
In thatatarteof his speech in which he alludotathie
subject, his exposition of the questionrand hisconrse
otf argument, give ample. confirmation to!ail, , which
age, have stated -relative to the pernicious effects
which this absurd branch of legal practice, has on the'
Adrninistrs4* of justice. It is time that Jaw should,'
be stroe4 of the barbarous .technicalities which en-
cumber and degrade it. Do we. therefore contend