The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

provisions at far lower rates than she claps on
Irish ones !—and we allow the West Indians
cheap foreign sugar, in requital for their starving
our market with scarce and dear supplies of that
of colonial growth. In Canada, the Morning He-
rald stated the other day, " the Crown has sur-
rendered itsinheritance, the wastelands, to the dis-
posal and control of the Provincial Legislature; the
mother country has guaranteed a loan of one mil-
lion and a half, to complete those public works ne-
cessary to the development of the colony's great
resources; the Imperial Parliament has lowered
the Customs' duties which it levied in Canadian
ports, has reduced the import duties collected at
home on the staple productions of the province—
wool and grain—to mere droits de balance, and
has given its sanction to the policy enunciated
by the Chief Minister of the Crown, that hence-
forth Canada must be treated as an integral
portion of the empire." To say nothing of our
vast expenditure in
.fortresses and military esta-
blishments ! Well—here is a colony, thanks to
us, one of the most lightly taxed countries in the
world. Here is a colony, which we choose to
make the sole channel of our American corn
trade. Here is a colony which we say (and'
we more than keep our word) is to be
placed exactly on the footing of an Eng-
lish county. Truly a thankful and complaisant
English county we have of it ! We tell our Mi-
nisterial colony-fanciers, that all their exclusive
favours to Canada are doing nothing but people a
new region with commercial restrictionists. How
can it be otherwise ? Are they not lisping our
own lessons after us? Are we not setting up
amongst them precisely that machinery ofjealous
regulation which, if they once acquire a taste
for, they will turn one day against ourselves !
STANDARD.—The Irish State trials natu-
rally enough' occupy the attention of our Con-
temporaries; we have copied from the Times an •
able article upon this subject, against one pas-
sage of which article we must respectfully offer
a protest. The passage to which we allude is
the following :—" W hy, these Irish func-
tionaries cannot so much as get a jury
together; a simple process one might ima-
gine, under the guidance of a direct Act
of Parliament, without subjecting them-
selves to a challenge of the whole array."
Now, in justice to " Irish functionaries," it must
be said that neither can English functionaries
so much as get a jury together, &c. &c. &c.,
without subjecting themselves to a chal-
lenge of the whole array." The right of chal-
lenge to the array is the same in both coun-
tries, if men are so profligately impudent as to
make challenges which they cannot sustain ; the
only difference is that in England men will
not make such groundless challenges, merely
ad captandum, in Ireland, they do make them.
Surely, our Contemporary must have seen in the
proceedings in this case up to the present time,
enough to satisfy the most scrupulous that soli-
citors of the repeal class will do things in Ire-
hind, to which the least respectable members of
the profession in England would scorn to descend;
or, to use our Contemporary's strong langua2-e,
such things as " the most foul-mouthed igno-
ramus of an English pettifogger would not
venture upon." And having seen those things
our contemporary ought to have hesitated to be-
lieve, that" the array" of the Dublin panel was
justly challengeable, merely because such a person
as Mr. Peirce .Maliony threatened to challenge
it; but if the array is not justly challenge-
able what becomes of the censure of the
Irish functionaries? Whether Mr. Pierce
Mahony will prOceed a step further 'in
fulfilment of his threat, we of course
cannot pretend to guess. The, must we say it,
culpable facility of the Irish Court of Queen's
Bench in receiving frivolous objections, no doubt
holds out to bin: encouragement to employ every
'artifice of delay, and we cannot help adding
that the facility of some of the EngliSh jour-
nals to adopt and to exaggerate every charge of
:neglect or blundering made against " the Irish
:functionaries," holds out still stronger encou-
ragement. In the matter of the special jury
panel, the Irish Attorney-General has nothing
to do; it would be, indeed, a grave crime on his
part to touch it up to the day of striking the
reduced list. The Clerk of the Crown has as
little to do with the panel as the Attorney-Ge-
neral, and we have the happiness to know that
a more able, upright, or high-minded public
servant does net live in her Majesty's domi-
nions than the gentleman who fills that
office in Ireland. Mr. Bourne, the Clerk
of the Crown, receives tile list from the High
Sheriff, who is a very honourable man, and., we
believe, a Liberal in politics, and the High She-
riff receives it from the Recorder, the well-
known Mr. Shaw, a person whom nobody will
suspect of compromising msel fi a order to accom-
modate Sir Robert Peel's Government. Where,
then, has been the blundering or the dishonesty
which can afford grounds for challenging the
array ? We at least require something more
than the dictum of Mr. Pierce Mahony, however
positive, for admitting that the array is justly
challengeable. Capriciously, vexatiously, or
fraudulently, no doubt any array can be chal-
lenged, but this is an inconvenience that has
place in England as well as in Ireland ; an in-
convenience against which no care, or skill, or
vigilance on the part of functionaries can guard.

:COURSE OF E•XCHA.
Amsterdam CF. 12 7

Ditto, at sight ~ l2 6
Rotterdam ..... ....2 U l2

Antwerp
Haraburgh ALB. 33 15
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles , 26 5
Bourdeaux 26 5
Frankfort on Maine 122
Petersbnrgh, 3 Us. 36k
Berlin
Vienna, effec. tl. 3 M lO 0
Trieste, ditto lO 1
Madrid ......

Cadiz 36i
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville ... - 36

INGE.--," TH I S DAY.)
(Gibraltar
Leghorn ...
Genoa
r, Ilan
Venice
Naples - ...... .... 594
Palermo, per ,oz ! lti
1 isbon
Oporto 524
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia
!Buenos Ayres
!New York,2l days slifit 4Ei
Philadelphia
4RICEi OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars k!5 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin.. 3 1 5
Few Doubloons .....0 0 0
'New Dollars... 0 4 9g
Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 14

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STRET, JAN. 8, 1844.
The Queea has been pleased to appoint William Fish-
bourne, Esq., to 13.7 Magistrate for her Majesty's Settle-
ments in the Falkland Islands.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 8.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev.
James Gillau, Master of Arts, to the church and parish
of Alford, in the presbytery of .Alford and county of
Aberdeen, vaca.nt by the death of ;Doctor James Farqu-
harson, late Minister thereof.
The Queen has also been pleased to present Doctor
John Crombie to the church and parish of Scone, in the
preabytery and shire of Perth, vacant by the transporta-
tion of the Reverend James Craik, late Minister thereof,
to a church at Glasgow. _

The Queen has also been pleased to present the Re-
verend Henry Taylor, M.A., to the church and parish of
Westruther, in the presbytery of Lauder, and county of
Berwick, vacant by the resignation of the Reverend
John Crosbie, late Minister thereof.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
Walter Low to the church and parish of Lochlee, in the
presbytery of Brecbin and county of Forfar, vacant by
the admission of the Rev. Alexander Tod, lute minister
thereof, to the church and parish of Monifieth, in the
presbytery of Dundee.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorsetsbire.
T. Hussey, Esq., M.l'., to be Deputy ideutLnant;
J. Flcyer, Esq., to be ditto, Dec. 29 ; Capt. C. A. Man-
ning., R.N., to be ditto, Jan. 1, 1844.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
Queen's Own Regiment of Worcestershire Yeomanry
Cavalry—J., Ilarward, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Graze-
brook, promoted, Jan. 2.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, bookseller,
Great Marlborough-street.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

WILLTA NI GORTON, fishmonger, Gutter-lane,
Cheapside.

BANKRUPTS.

CALEB CLARKE, linen-draper, Banbury, Oxford-
shire, to surrender • Jan. 19, at half-past eleven, and
Feb. 16, at eleven, at. the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee, Basingball-street; Sole and Sole,
Alderman bury, London.
JAMES TURNER,• -cabinet-maker, Grange-place,
Iloxton, Ji. 16, at three •ancl Feb. 16, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy-. Pennell, official assignee ; Wire
and Child, St. Swithin's-lane;City. • - • - •
ARCIII.B.A.LD SCOTT, auctioneer, Cambridge-
street, Golden-square, Jan. 16, at half-past twelve, and
Feb. 16, at -twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,
Aldermanbairy, official assignee ; Davies and Son, War-
wiek-Ltreet, Regent-street.
ALEXANDER BLAZI)ELL, harp maker, Upper
Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square,• Jan. 16, at two, and
Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,
official aadgnee, Aklermanbury ; a Beckett, Son, and
Sympson, 'Golden-square.
CHARnES BASSETT ROE and THOMAS JOHN
BLACHFORD, bankers, Newport, Isle of Wight,
Jan. 19, a 2d Feb. 27 , at twelvr, at the Co !.1-: of Bank-
ruptcy. Follett, official I3asinghall-street ;
Foster and Evans. John-street, BLdrord-row ;
Newport, Isle of Wight.
GEORGE SMITH carpenter, Northampton, Jan.
16, at twelve, and Feb. 14, ut one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Lackington, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildirqs ' - Wright, New Inn, London.
JOHN SHERWOOD, stationer, Wood-street, Cheap-
side, Jan. 26, at half-last twelve, and Feb. 16, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee,
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Harman, Earl-steet,
Blackfriars.

IiENRY ORBELL, victualler, Romford, Jan. 25, at
two. and Feb. 20, at e!.,ven, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Grow, oeial assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-