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London, England, 1826-04-04 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

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[MORNI NO- CHRONICLE.]
The general opinion
,seems to be that Mr.
Soundry, in lois recent operations,, has committed
an uopardonable sin against English morality.
Ile ought to have gone about the business in a
more, decorous manner, and associated with him-
self two or three Lords, or, at least, a dozen or
two of Members of Parliament, and Bank Direc-
tors, whose co-operation would insure the suc-
cess of any ingenious plan. These solitary at-
tempts * preying on the public, are highly dis-
cretPtable, and must be discouraged. There Is
the less excuse for Mr. Goundry, that Members
of Parliament have never shown the least reluc-
lance to aid any deserving citizen, who could
satisfy them of the feasibility of any plan for
transferring the property of others to themselves
on a scale sufficiently large to remunerate all
parties. Besides, it is not doing justice to the
Learned Profession. No fact is better esta-
blished than that, if there be but enough of
money to spend, the law is quite adequate to
the protection of the most desperate plunderers.
It is, therefore, a downright slight to the profes-
sion to,attempt doing the thing on a scale which
will not afford enough for their remuneration. It
might put it into the heeds of inexperienced per-
sons, that the law is weaker for the protection of
fraud-than it actually is. The old -fable of the
handle of sticks will now be out of date. Mr.
Goundry stands alone, and therefore he will be
easily overpowered. It is in union that mankind
appear to due advantage. Nay, even the wolves
have the sense to go in bands when they are in
quest of prey. The solitary individual labours
under great disadvantages. A multitude em-
bolden each other, and a host of friends and con-
nections are at hand with sympathy and aid, in
the way of evidence and otherwise. In a country
like this, where associates in any feasible plan
may always be obtained in abundance, it is, the
very height of imprudence to neglect acting with
friends. We fear Mr. Goundry is, destined to
afford a double triumph to the law. He will
give the venerable Judges of the land an oppor-
tunity of boasting its effiency to reach offenders ;
and be will, at the same time, be pointed to as
an instance of a man who might have been saved
by Its well-meaning tenderness, had lie only known how to go properly to work. ,

NOttNINO 'mused)]
While Mr. Peel is engaged in the useful task
of reforming the Criminal Lew' we cannot help
suggesting how no less laudable it would be, could
some means be devised to lessen 'the number of
those who now fall within its grasp unavoidably,
and owing to little or no original fault of their
own. We allude in particular to the mass of
juvenile offenders who now crowd our streets at
Well as our prisons, some of whom are actually
trained up to a career of vice by parents who
subsist by the plunder of their offspring, and
others who are cast upon the world by ac-
cident, design, or negligenee, and who fall
into dishonest paths, as much from neces-
slty as inclination. We know that it would
afford a dangerous inducement to this WI•
natural indifference among parents, were it
mice understood that the State would adopt the
children whom they abandon; at the same time
it will not ad:oit of a question that it must be the
duty, as well as the interest of the State, to
rescue from inevltahle.destructine those who are
thus thrown either upon its bounty or its yen.
geance ; and that the Sts to which neglects to do
ig partakes its some degree of the original
fault of the parents. The Marine Society hall
done wonders in this respect. The Philan-
thropic Society, too, and the Refuge for the Des-
titute, are excellent in their way, but their meet's
are totally insufficient to answer the increasing
demands upon them ; and of our Courts of J ustice,
especially those in the metropolis, are therefore
constrained again and again to turn loose the lame
delinquents upon society, who, they well knew,
have no resource but to return to habits which
mays in the end, fix them with a degree of guilt
sufficient to subject them at once to the ven-
settees, of the laws, and with it the protection of
.society. We wonder that the Society for Pro-
moting Prison 'Discipline does not turn its atten-
tion to this subject. We have no doubt but that
means might be devised of providing for many
wore of those helpless, and unfortunate children,
an 4 at the same time of punishing the parents of
such as desert them ishout a cause. And seeing
what the Mari .1. Society effects with its limited
funds, we cannot help thinking that the fisheries
and other mutitime sources of the country might
be called in aid, to convert into a hardy and
useful race those who now perish by premature
disease, or the more slow and demoralizing influ-
ence of crime and its certain consequences.

E.ritE TIMES.]
'rite public are not generally aware that the
Order in Council, which a short time since pro.
Whited the exportation of arms and ammunition
from this country, expired in the course of last
week. The Order was to be in force during six
nfooths only from the 30th of September, 18125,
and no renewal of it has yet taken place, nor is
it understood that any intention is entertained by
Ministers of reviving it 1. a =hint having been
'conveyed to the Custom.liouse that at present no
measure is contemplated. We are told, in
conseqUeoce„ that the spirits of all who imme.
diately interest themselves about the ,affairs of
ts r
i.eLpece have ()pen a good deal enlivened by this
cirrutnstatnce—oot so much, we suppose, from any
great incryoe to the existing means of transport.
tog warlike stores to the A rchipeittgooloce they
tti;*gitt 1111 along he conveyed from other countries
more c'entignous to the >ivette of action than Eng;
JAW, as (win the approxinonlioo of feeling thus
the British Government
apparently exhibited by
ione'tiuse of Greek independence. If it had been
true that the Ordei in Council proceeded from n
hostile: spirit towards the Greeks, there might
grociud for lorerring a qualification of unit
spiettrom the permission or the ill-omoned order