The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-12 00:00:00

year upwards of 150,000 perms appeared at the
bar of the Courts of Justice, of whom more than
122,000 were convicted, and sentenced to punish-
ments of different degrees. How humiliatingto
human nature, and to polished France, is this
Picture, which exhibits proofs of one in every
two hundred of her population having been
brought to trial in one year !
Extracts of these papers are given in another
column, and we subjoin the price of the Funds in
Paris on Monday :
Frtlxcx Funds.—Five per Cents., 100 f. 100 f. se. ;
Three per Cents. 70f. 80e. ; Bank Actions, 2,020 f.
2,022 f. 50c.
Foluticx Funds.—Renter Nap. Cert. Falc. 77f. 30c.
"c• ; Ohl. Nap. Em. Roth. 1. s. 25f. 50c. ; Spanish
lientes, 101. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 54. 54k. ; Perpetual
sPanish Annuities, 42.; liavtian Loan, 637 f. 50e.

Wc beg to offer our sincere condolence to the
Brute Creation on the result of the Galway
-Election Committee. It has been too much the
fashion to laugh at the useful but unpretending
labours of Mr. MARTIN, but the House of
Commons could have " better spared a better
Man." What will now become of maimed bul-
locks, overdriven horses, and tortured donkies :
In short, of all dumb animals who are cursed
with cruel and unfeeling masters. Their vigi-
lant and uncompromising- champion has again
shrunk into the condition of a private indi-
vidual, and most Statesmen have too much
supposed dignity to compromise it by taking his
place, and standing forth as the protector of those
who have no votes to give, no cheers to bestow.
We do not mean to say that Mr. MARTIN has
not occasionally made himself ridiculous by
carrying matters too far, and by treating the mi-
series of a quadruped with an importance which
a biped is apt to think quite uncalled for, but
errors of the head are more easily forgiven
than those of the heart, and over anxiety for
the happiness of dumb animals, has dt least the
merit of not being a vulgar failing. There is one
branch however, of Mr. MARTIN'S vocation
Which we hope some Honourable Member
will deem worthy of notice, we mean the condi-
tion of
the hackney-coach horses in this metro-
polis. No cruelty can well exceed that of work-
ing animals to death—allowing bull-dogs, game-
cocks, and other pugnacious animals to follow
the
natural
bent of their inclination, is not to be
'ftpared with it. It is heart-rending to hear
the unceasing application of the whip to a horse
who seems not to have fed for a week, lame on
two or three legs, blind of at least one eye, and,
with scarcely sufficient strength to prevent his
falling even if he had no carriage to draw. No
indn
need be afraid of encountering ridicule by
adl'ocating the cause of the noblest of animals.

Demerara Papers of the 28th February, have
been received at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee-house, from which we make the
fon
"owing extract
The Legislature of St. Vincent had addressed the Go-
qaer of tbat Island, stating their rejection of certain
-
lauses
of the Consolidated Slave Law Bill, submitted by
Excellency for their adoption, (agreeably to the instruc-
v;z°,l?' of Earl Bathurst) ma explaining the grounds upon
h they consider such clauses cannot justly or con-
iently be carried into effect ; this address also gives a
41 and clear exposition of the ameliorations already effect,
by Legislative enactments, which in a great measure
isiiPate the wishes of his Majesty's Government.
citice had been posted at the Custom-house, Georgetown,
that the principal Officers of his Majesty's Customs
'ad received the directions of the Honourable the Com-
j]ialioners of his Majesty's Customs, to admit to entry in
I etch vess els, goods the produce or manufacture of Hol-
aild or the Dutch colonies, not being among the list of
Prohibited articles. This permission extends only to Dutch
P"iletion and not to that of any other nation whatever,
and that consequently American or other foreign articles
%not be admitted ; the importan tio of such articles being
41trained entirely to British ships.

The Dutch Papers which arrived last night,
to the 10th instant, contain nothing important.
Accounts from Batavia had reached Rotterdam,
1? the 13th December, announcing the submis-
Zit of Prince MANGICOE DI NINGRAT, and
at he and his troops had joined the Dutch
reeFi for the purpose of opposing the Insurgents.
The debate on the new organization of the
Courts of Justice in the Netherlands had been
'"tinucd in the Second Chamber of the States'
general, and was to be resumed on Monday.
Royal Decree of the 28th ult., appoints a
thCommittee to revise the regulations under which
DePartment charged with the care of the
Dikes
and Canals now acts.

Extract of a letter from Pictou, dated February 11 :—..
" Clo the 10th inst. we had one of the most severe snow
";°lll' 6een here for a long time : it commenced about two
.e
:°. lock, and continued till eight. The going on the
sat week being good, great number' of people had been &c.
ellin bringing to market coal, pork, flour, hay,
About four o'clock the storm was dreadful, and the cries
of h
t-e People on the • the more awful ; the
ice made scene
Cla.urch and College bells were kept ringing, and field-pieces
firing every eight Or ten • The • habitants of the
town minutes. m
formed lines from the shore at a small distance from
one to the other, extending out on the harbour, and by
which means saved the lives of ten men, who must have
perished : some of the people from the shore are frost-
bitten, but not badly. lam af
bein lost raid we shall hear of many
g . A man of the name of John APlntire was lost :
he was found nearly covered with snow, and would not
have been discovered but for his dor', who remained with
the corpse of his master. He has left a poor family, con-
sisting of a wife and three small children. The wind
varied from E. to N.E.

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We received this morning the zeineine
4itun All
gof the sth inst. It contains a —very in-
tferre
teating and satisfactory article in favour of the
navigation of the Rhine. In former times
th
th
et n
t. n of this great river being
aviga io open to
large cities in the interior of the country,
4frord
arid
vv
-e a " them the means of amassing much wealth,
48 the source of comfort to the inhabitants.
I'l fact,
by the , Cologne had grown into vast importance
freedom of access to the ocean ; but its
tcho:nnereial checked, when
prosperity was soon
sinc_navigation was closed. The Dutch have
~ e assumed the exclusive right to restrict the
Thation of this important inlet into the centre
Pro ern ut Germany, but Prussia has lately very pro-
py questioned the right of Holland to this
advantage. We d, - •
ple of justice the
heanaviga A
elusive j urisdiction over th can claim an ex-
ijiat.hsee upon what pruici-
Rhine, merely because they tion of the
its ccrumunication with the peen to command
they Link it very desirable to per.pett)tedtoliliebirt
enjoyment of privileges so beneficial to
tional interests, but in wishing to do ee, h the na-
Should not forget that these advantages aretey ob-
tained at the expence of their neighbours. It