The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-01 00:00:00

PRICES OF SHARES Tllll

Brazilian Mining Co.
United Mexican Mining Co.

COURSE OF EXCEL!
Amsterdam C.F l2 2
Ditto, at sight l2 0
Rotterdam 2U. 12 4
Antwerp l2 4
Ham burgh 2t U. 37 1
Altana 2% U. 37 2
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 45
Ditto 2 U. 25 70
Bordeaux 25 70
Berlin
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 153
l'etersbuigh, rble... 3 Us. 10
Vienna, efrectivefl. 2 M. 10 8
frieste do.
Madrid 14 14 -
Cadiz 3-1%
llilboa 14%
Barcelona 33
Seville 94
Gibraltar 4b

FOREIaN EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HA >annum, Jay 6.—Two months, 36,
I.KIPMIC, JULY 22.—Three months, e. 14%.
CUIIISTIANIA, JULY 18.—Three months, 6. It
BunLtx, JULY 24.—Three mouths, 6. 25%.

MAILS.
Arrived. Due. Arrived. Du
O America 0 0 Hamburgh . ....... ... 1
O Brazil 0 0 Holland. 0
O Buell°, Ayres
1 Dublin
O Flanders 0 0 Lisbon U
O France
O Got teriblirgh 1 0 Mexico • 0
O Guernsey& Jersey 0 , 1 Waterford 0

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON iiRIDOE TO-MORROW.
Morning... 47 minute, After 8.1 Evening... .2.S minut;ss after 9,

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1827.

The Russian Fleet, from Cronstadt, arrived
at Elsinore on the 24th ult. The George the
Fourth Steam-boat, from London, also arrived
in the Roads on the same day, and the outward
and homeward vessels sailed that morning for
their destination.

The Paris Paper's of Sunday, and the Gazette
de France of Monday morning, which were re-
ceived last night, are without matter of political
importance, with the exception of a paragraph in
the Quotidienneothich states, on the authority
of letters from Cronstadt of the 23d of June,
that -a second naval expedition will shortly follow
the first into the Mediterranean. This fleet, it
is said, will be commanded by Admiral BEL-
LINGHAUSEN. The strenuous naval exertions
making by Russia cannot be viewed with indif-
ference by this Country, as it will certainly be
-proper to augment our naval force in the
Mediterranean, if not commensurately with that
which Russia may have there, at least to a far
greater extent than has hitherto been necessary.
Extracts of these Papers are given in another
column.

The trial of Joshua Slade, for the murder of
Mr. WATaRHOUSE, will be found in another
part of our paper, Rnd our readers cannot fail to
remark the extraordinary circumstance of a verdict
of Guilty being found by the Jury, in 'direct
opposition to the charge of the presiding
Judge. That Learned individual, in summing up
the evidence, observed, that the circumstantial
testimony was so loose and disjointed•that no
English Jury could deem it sufficient to affect
the life of the accused, and that the case entirely
or mainly rested on the testimony of WM. HED-
DINGS, a convicted felon, against whom sentence
of death was once recorded, a fact which, by the
way, we had erroneously conceived fatal to the
testimony of any man being even listened to, far
less accredited.

His Lordship proceeded to draw the at-
tention of the Jury to the fact of this most
suspicious individual having, without the
slightest variation, repeated the evidence
given by him before the. Magistrates more
than a fortnight ago ; and stated, that he had
received from this coincidence a strong impres-
sion that the witness had made up the whole
story and committed it to memory. In defiance
of these-observations from the Learned Judge,
the Jury without even the compliment of a pro-
tracted consultation, found the prisoner guilty of
the crime laid to his charge.
Far be it from us to impeach the verdict of a
British Jury, but giving them credit in this case
for the purest motives and the most laudable de-
testation of vice, and even going the length of
believing firmly, that from local evidence to
which they may have had access, their verdict
was a just one, and:that SLADE was actually
the murderer of Mr. WATERHOUSE-still we

must protest against the discretionary removal of
those barriers which the laws of this land have
wisely erected for the protection of innocence,
even though the guilty must, in conse-
quence, occasionally escape the just
penalty of their crimes. By those who
have the happiness of living amidst scenes of
rural innocence, and in a county where a murder
has not been committed for forty years, legal
forms may be considered merely as legal
quirks, and it would be difficult to convince
them that a Jury may be called on to acquit a
prisoner, even in the face of his own confession,
and though they had by some accident (if it
were possible) been eye-witnesses of the offence.

It would be far too wide a field for a newspa-
per article to undertake the vindicat:Qa 9f the