The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-11 00:00:00

SPARRING AT THE TENNIS COURT.

The Ex-Champion, Tom Spring, took his benefit
at the Tennis-court yesterday, and, as we antici-
pated, had a strong muster of Corinthians as well as
humble supporters. The expectation of a display
of good sparring seemed to have awakened the dor-
mant spirit of the admirers of the fistic art ; and to
this, as well as the respect which the good conduct
of Spring throughout his pugilistic career had ex-
cited, may be attributed the throng which was as-
sembled. The display of self-defence was of the
first order, and gave very general satisfaction.
The games opened with a display between Black
Davis and Donovan, who were followed by Sheen
and Smith, Bitton and Spencer, Ben Burn and Tom
Oliver, Young Dutch Sam and Baldwin. This set-
to attracted the fixed attention of the spectators,
and drew down bursts of applause. Neither of the
men was in, slap-up condition, Bob training too ge-
nerally among the swells of the Metropolis, and
Sam having injured his right hand in a recent "turn
up ;" still both resolved to do their best, and an
admirable contest for superiority followed. The
jobbing of Sam was very powerful, and his quick
execution when in, was equally creditable. Bob
caught it in the muzzle rather severely several times,
and at length had his cork drawn; he made
some good returns, but Sam, in our opinion, had
the best of the bout. Towards the conclu-
sion, Bob gave sam a cross-buttock, but in
the closing Sam was even with him, and threw
him as neat a back fall over his hip as we have ever
seen. The match was closed amidst enthusiastic
cheers. Ned Neal then set-to with Gaynor, and
had his cork drawn. Then came Alick Reid and
Harry Jones, Cousins and Berry, Simon Byrne and
Tom Reynolds, Reuben Martin and the Cheshire
Hero, and, as the wind up, Tom Spring and Peter
Crawley. Spring returned tha►►ks for the kind
maner in which he had been supported, and was
warmly applauded.

Simon Byrne looks well, but has still six or eight
pounds of flesh to get off. He will finish his train-
ing in the neighbourhood of London. The fight
between him and Sampson will take place on the
30th inst.

Deaf Burke and Fitzmaurice both shewed, and
their heads exhibited evident marks of the pepper-
box; but Fitzmaurice had most to complain of.
The Deaf-un had an arm in a sling, from the in-
juries which he had received in his right hand.
P

'eter Warren, the pugilist, died on Saturday last,
ai his lodgings in Heneage-street, Brick-lane,
Spitalfields. His death is attributed to an injury
which he received in his battle with Cocks, of Nor-
wich. He has left a widow and two children in a
destitute state.

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SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS,

The foreign papers perplex themselves with
laborious commentaries on articles which have
appeared in this journal, touching the war in the
East. We are charged with exhibiting Great
Britain in an attitude of menace and hostility
towards Russia. We have done no such thing:
we have but shown what must be the consequence
of hostilities directed against the rights of Eng-
land, or against the independence of Europe.
But it is easy to transfer the blame of unjust
proceedings from the aggressor to the sufferer—
we mean for a short season. We are asked if
Russia has in any particular transgressed the
stipulations of the Greek Treaty, by making this
war upon the Porte ? She may not, perhaps,
have violated the letter of the Treaty ; but states-
men must look at things, not words. If Russia,
paying respect to forms, should be found to
have infringed the substances and principles of
understood engagements,—if, without renounc-
ing the Greek Treaty, she has judged it more
politic to render a compact for the liberation of
Greece essentially subservient and conducive to
a. design against the existence of Turkey,—we
beg leave to ask, is not that a case which calls
upon France and England to deliberate ?
—Times.
The letters of our Dublin correspondent begin
to present a topic of considerable interest in their
allusions to the progress of the new registry of
freeholds under the Disfranchisement Bill.
Where property is broken up to such a degree
as in Ireland, and where the great bulk of the
old county electors was formed of individuals
whose qualification arose out of the very smallest
subdivision of land, it was absurd to pretend that
the number of voters would not be very sensibly
reduced by a law which substituted a standard of
101. for one of 40s. When we heard, for in-
stance, that in Clare, which is a small county,
from two to three thousand notices of registry
for 101. freeholders had been issued, we na-
turally anticipated—what has since occurred
that many of the claimants upon such notices
would experience a severe disappointment, and
that some vexation at least, if not bitter re-
sentment, would be the necessary consequence.
But such feelings will, we trust, be soothed, by
a general conviction of the fairness and impar-
tiality with which the assistant-barristers are dis-
posed to exercise their judgment upon the claims
submitted to them. If the notion once gets
abroad that party mixes itself with the decisions
of those to whom the law has intrusted the right
of admitting or rejecting freeholders, the agita-
tion produced by such a fancy, however delu-
sive, may long prove troublesome to the public
peace. It is probable that the soreness of men
whose titles to vote have been refused, may ren-
der them unjust to the authorities which have
defeated them ; but we should be sorry to have
gro
ground forsta
standard, imagining,
high enough for Ireland, should be drawn still
higher by artificial objections and subtleties in
which,t h at
likein that any
of instance
o/. is
a
freehold
the construction of the recent law, more rnner.
ous than had been fully contemplated by the le-
gislative body which framed it. In the great
county of Limerick, one may look for a
more than average amount of new freeholds;
yet, guessing from the four baronies, where,
if we understand the accounts transmitted
to us, the registers have been finished,
and the numbers (fifty-five only) of freehold
qualifications ascertained, the whole county,
containing ten baronies, would not yield above
140. This, however, is a vague criterion. In
Cork, the Irish Yorkshire, no more than 31
freeholds had.been registered at the date of the
last letters; and in the county of Tipperary,
which ranks next to Cork, although the gross
amount of notices is near 2,300, that of the ad-
mitted freeholds for the whole county it is not
conjectured will exceed 400 altogether. Now,
if this be a measure of the general condition of
Ireland with regard to the county constituency,
we fear it may exhibit a basis too narrow to an-
swer the full purposes of a system of national
representation. In other respects, there are ap-
pearances of improvement throughout the coun-
try,—the affairs are advancing, and when money
is laid out with more freedom in purchases, a
strong proof is afforded that confidence and se.
curity must have revived.—lbid.
In the Chronicle of yesterday there was an
account of an Inquest at Lewisham on the 4th
instant ; from which it appears that Mr. Carttar,
Coroner for the county of Kent, laid it down,
" that a medical man who gave his servict,
gratuitously (as the dispensatory Apothecaries
do) is not bound, and cannot be expected, to
bestow much attention upon pauper patients."
Mr. Carttar has been led by analogy to transfer
to unpaid Physicians the favour shown in our
Courts to unpaid Magistrates. Except a cor-
rupt motive can be proved, an unpaid Magistrate
has full scope for his vagaries ; except it can he
proved that an unpaid Apothecary intended the
death of a pauper, the: Coroner says he may
purge, bleed, and blister the paupera without
mercy. Mr. Carttar, we suppose, is one of those
who hold in horror the dissecting the dead bodies
of the poor; but provided the dead body be
protected, he thinks that any liberty may very
properly be taken with the living. An unpaid
Tailor, or an unpaid Shoemaker, will be apt-to
be somewhat remiss in the execution of orders ;
a Barrister, who is Counsel for a client who sues
in forma pauperis, will hardly over-work him-
self in the cause ; and few who have heard of the
wishßa
re btr who
ofall
sha
ved
the
handsr
of
sn
ch aGo God, would
p ewr
aotuol
rd.
It would be unfair to impose harder terms
on unpaid Magistrates and unpaid Apothecaries
than on unpaid Barbers ; and hence, no
doubt, the consideration of our Courts and Coro-
ners for these two meritorious classes a citizens.
In a monthly Journal, dedicated to Jurispru-
dence and-Legislation in Scotland, entitled The
Scots Law Chronicle, a which we have the
first number before us (it is gratifying to per-
ceive that the attention paid to this important
subject is so rapidly increasing), no little wonder
is expressed by our Northern Contemporaries, at
the predilection of the people of England for
unpaid Magistrates. They quote upon us a
passage in a Memorial to the Hotta() of Peers of
the Lords of Council and Session (1807), that
" the jurisdiction and office of the Sheriff-de-
pute in Scotland, undoubtedly, is one of the
most valuable and beautiful parts of our system
of administrative justice ;" and another from Mr.
Bentham, that " Scotland has the happiness of
possessing already a set of local Courts i" and
seem to think it odd enough that it should
never have occurred to any of the grave anti
wise men in either House of Parliament to in-
quire whether the Institution wag or was not be-
neficial ; and if btneficial, whether there was any
thing in the idiosyncrasy of a true-born English--
man which made any other administration of jus-
tice than the very rawest quite unsuitable for him.
The lurirAiction of the Sheriff Court (says the

writer) appears to be nearly as extensive as that ing the necessary vouchers. The City has been •
of the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, from time to time endowed with great revenues
or Chancery, with the exception of questions as for public purposes, and, when they come to
to the titles of real property and Jury trials. supplicate Parliament for more money, they
The greatest defect in the English Judicature is ought to be able to give a satisfactory account of
the want of local Courts with jurisdiction as ex- every shilling of their expenditure. We ask, is
tensive as that of the Sheriff Courts of Scotland. it right that a Body who did not hesitate to
If such local Courts were established in Eng- lavish 20,000/. on a single dinner should have
land, with the power of trial by Jury, and their the power of raising taxes on any portion of his
proceedings and judgments liable, as in. Scot- Majesty's subjects ? Mime about ere has been a great
land, to he appealed to the supre:ne Courts— deal of talk from time to t that corpo-
which would secure an uniformity in the proce- rate trust which is called the " Orphans' Fund."
dare and principles of decision—a great benefit We should like to see some account of that
certainly would be conferred on the people of charity which we could understand. This fund,
England. But although a sufficient model of and others which the Corporation hold in trust,
such local Courts exists in Scotland, the Eug- may be admirably administered, for aught we
lish lawyers are either ignorant of the fact, or so know ; but, it they are, it is a pity the right
prejudiced as to treat with derision any attempt steps are not taken to convince the public of the
to benefit the English system by any thing con- fact. It is worth observing, that, during the dis-
fessedly taken from Scotland, how excellent so- cussion in the Common Council, the Reporters
ever it may be." So far from being in love with for the Press were excluded. Were the " pa-
unpaid Magistracy, the Scotch writer seems triots" of that liberal Body afraid of too much
anxious to get rid of that remnant of it which light being thrown on their proceedings ?
resembles what in England drew from Lord When they have to be delivered of pompous
Durham the Other day strictures which have speeches about patriotism, free trade, civil and
not been very palatable to the City Functionaries. religious liberty, &c., they court the notice of the
s, The admiration we have expressed (he says) Press ; but, when the question of the accounts is
of the constitution and usefulness of our Sheriff' discussed, they shut the door in its face !
Courts does not extend to the Burgh Courts ; Morning He? ald.
for these generally exhibit an epitome of all the Our readers will find, under the head of Com-
vice§ which can be supposed to exist in the Su- mon Pleas, a report of a trial in which the
promo Courts, with not one of their redeeming Morning, Journal is interested not a little.
qualities. Their institution might have been NA' e allude to the libel case of " Ferstandeg v.
useful at a period when the laws were few and
sienple, and there were no lawyers by profession, Gutch and others." Several monthsago the
and when it was the policy of the Crown to prosecutor was charged, as it afterwards turned
render cities and towns independent of the feudal out unjustly, with a larceny. He was tried and
Aristocracy ; but they are now mere capita acquitted, and a second bill that was submitted
mortua, excepting that they are pregnant with to the grand jury was thrown out. Mr. Fer-
much evil. A Judge should at least have an standee. afterwards waited on the committing
intimate knowledge of the laws, and be of such magistrate, and called on him for an apology,
a liberal education, and in such a rank of life,as which was given ; at least an explanation some-
to afford some guarantee of his integrity. But what tantamount was given. One of our con-
who in general are the Judges (Baffles) in temporaries, in the meanwhile, took up Mr.
Burgh Courts ? Men drawn from the ordinary Ferstandeg's case, and grounded on it some
walks of life—shopkeepers and artizans, to whom strong charges against the magistrate, in answer
the simplest and most elementary of all law to which the writing which the jury of yesterday
treatises (Sir George Mackenzie 's Institutes) determined to be a libel appeared in the Morn-
would be more perplexing and puzzling than the ing Journal. We had not, up to the moment
Apocalypse, or the Rev. Edward irving's Eirtei.• of our unlucky insertion of the alleged libel, ut-
tuitions of the same, are to others. • • . . tered one comment, or made one remark, on the
If the common run of Bailies have any legal case. We considered it, and we consider it still,
knowledge they must have it by intuition, as one of those common-place operations of a law
which cannot legally be predicated of a man who generally salutary, although sometimes injurious,
which our remarks could neither mend nor mar.
has never stunned law merely because he is
clothed with legal aothority," It is astonish- Had we made any comment we should not itn-
ing how much men are influenced by what probably have regretted that appearances had
they are accustomed to see. Ask any English- placed any person connected, ever so remotely,
man what are the chief advantages !leen propose with the sacred cause of literature in such a po-
sition that an honest magistrate had no
to themselves by the social union, and he will et
live but to commit him as a thief. We should
alterna-
once say the protection of life and property.
not have extenuated the case, nor should wel
Religion is left by the United States of North
aggravated it, To the former
ellslY
America to the discretion of individuals, as not have malici
falling within the scope of Government; and our habits would ioturally have disposed s-
in all other countries it is merely an object of certainly not to the latter course. Such would
the care of the Legislature, on account of have been our conduct had we intermeddled in
the support which a belief in a future state of the case at all ; but, in point of fact, we did not.l
rewards and punishmer,ts is conceived to give to Indeed, had the inadvertency of the magistrate,
ff
the administration of justice. Religion, it has or the sufferings of the accused, been much
been said, is an affair between man and his more marked and severe, it was not very likely I
Maker ; and the same principle which leads that, at a moment when not only our feelings'
man to attend to his temporal welfare, would and thoughts, but those of every man in the
lead him to attend to his eternal welfare. Though, kingdom, were intensely fixed on the great meae
therefore, there, were no Establishment, man sure which Ministers were then about to bring
would still be religious ; but in England and forward, and within but a very few days of the
Ireland a Religious Establishment is kept openient that had ng of the most im
helport d fantmS tession of P ar-1
he ;
up at an expense of many millions, that jus- liam been rohe era of t
tice may have the sanction of a belief in a future Revolution, it is not very likely that we sho!,hl I
state, while, for the great object of the social have employed our pen in discussing the nee its
union, justice itself, there le no provision, of a dispute between Sir Richard Birnie and an
unknown stranger. Our correspondents, of
except for a few of the rich. The great body of
the people are without Courts; and delivered whom, at that moment, we had a press such as
no journal, we believe, ever groaned under, were
over to such individuals as choose to administer
gratuitously to them such justice as they may not, at least of all of them unfortunately were
chance to have any knowledge of. This absence not, so busy as we were ; and one accordingly
of the first of all the duties of Government has undertook to do that for which we had neither
ever been spoken of as a matter of boast ; and inclination nor leisure, namely, to defend Sir
ainst
the time was when the multitude, by dint of the Richard Birnie, not ag Mr. Ferstandeg, but
constant repetition of the boast, conceived that against certain attacl:s of a morning contemporary.
it was not more advantageous for England to be We read over the letter of" Reprehensor at the
without wolves than without Local Courts. It time (who " Reprehensor" might be we keew
has been the subject of boast that great anxiety no more than the child unborn), and it appeared
has been manifested to communicate to the peo- to us no more than we have here stated it to be.
pie of Hindostan a suitable administration of We read it over last night after the verdict of
justice ; and great stress has been laid on the the jury had been pronotinsed, and we declare
due administration of justice as a means of pro- to Heaven that this second perusal bee not in-
moting the welfare and improvement of the duced us to alter our opinion one tittle, The
people. As the religion of the Hindoas is not letter in question we now again declare, as we
only not a good one, but worse than no reli- did when put on our defence, is no more a libel
gion, and it would be a great blessing conferred on Mr. Feestandeg than it is a libelb on the
on them them if we could convert them to Christianity, peror of China ; and none but mle-pated
what would be thought of the Government of fool, or a malicious knave, or a compound of
this country, were it, with a view to produce both, could,
such. by aily
The perveve ryrsity
.scope and of ingenuity
purpose
? make
that result, to employ the revenues of that catin- it out to be
try in paying an Establishment of Christian mi.
t ande a it was to
dome, or mmenon what t, not onhad been imputed
what Mr.
nesters, and and to leave the administration of justice
g bad
to be discharged gratuitously by, any one who to him, but on what he had written, and what
should be ready to become an Unpaid Magis- had been written about him. It is not the
Irate ?---Morntng Chronicle. Ferstandeg of the police office, nor of the ses-
sions, but the Ferstandeg of the
The Corporation of London, after all their newspapers,
that the letter adverts to ; and it adverts' LC him
high talk about " chartered privileges," have in the latter capacity, not to plant a blow, but
thought it prudent to " strike their flag," and to parry one—not to attack his character, but to
submit their accounts to be " overhauled"• by defend the character of the Magistrate, which he
the House of Lords. It would have looked and those who took up his case had attacked. We
better to have dose this with a good grace in the then knew nothing—we now know nothing—of
first instance, instead of making it a reluctant Mr. Ferstandeg. We never knew one who did ,
-He
concession, for certainly it was -very proper and could seedier nothing by our neglect which we av
reasonable that, when the Corporation came to I him—he could suffer nothing by our notice had
the Legislature to beg for money, the Legisla- we been inclined to give it to him. His charac-
lature should inquire how its funds had been ter might be black, or wielte, or piebald, we cared
expended. If the petition of the Corporation not—the public cared not,
We had all of us
had been entertained in Parliament without such matter of more lasting moment to ponder pp! if'
an investigation being instituted, the public would we had been inclined to libel so obscure an inch, I
have a good right to complain of the " liberality" vidual our pains must have been thrown away.
extended to the Civic Body at the expense of We should have subjected ourselves to an accu-
the interests of the nation. The public would ' sation, not of criminality of intention, but of
have reason to suspect that Parliament connived want of tact. But we did not libel Mr.
Fer-
at the extravagance of that Body, and cared not standeg, nor did our correspondent.
What
how they squandered their revenues as long as injury has he sustained by the remarks of the
they could come for new supplies to the pockets latter ? Who esteemed him lightly, who ridi-
of the people. We hope, now that the accounts culed him, in consequence ? \Vas his character
are to be submitted to the House of' Lords, that darkened by oise shade from any statement that
that august Body will require all the vouchers ever appeared in our columns ? If it was, will
for every item of expenditure, and not be con-1 ten pounds remove it ? What is the nature of
tent with a merely formal or superficial examine- that moral injury forwleigh two hundred shillings
tion of general statements. Mr. Hunt, in his' is a satisfactory solatiurn ? U the Jury, as by
situation of Auditor of the City Accounts, has their verdict it may be assumed, thought that Mr.
found it no easy matter to obtain the informa- Ferstandeg's character had really been wounds.,
tion requisite for a faithful and effective discharge how could they possibly imagine that it would
of that office. He was not content to be an he cured by so pitiful a plaister ? It is by
Auditor in name only—he was not satisfied tol such monstrous proceedings that the insti-
tread in the steps of those predecessors who ! tution of trial by Jury is brought into con-
were too courteous to scrutinise the accounts of tempt, and by such monstrous proceedings
SO honourable a Body as the Corporation with the institution will finally he overthrown.. At
any thing like a suspicious severity. He did not, this moment we see many symptoms of de-
like them, think he ought to remain in that situa- creasing attachment to that celebrated form of
Sion more for ornament than use—he thought trial. Carry ;what case we please to counsel, be
it right and necessary to investigate the par- it clear as noon day, both in law and in fact,
ticulars iR detail, and every obstacle was the answer I cannot advise you as to going
thrown in the way of his obtaining the docu- into court—you must advise yourself pn that
gents essential to forming a correct judgment of point—it is a perfectly good case, but—it is ins,
what appeared on the face of the papers laid be. possible to foresee what the jury will say to
fore him and his colleagues. We trust that, f it." The impossibility of foreseeing what a
when the House of Lords come to look into the jury will say to any case is, in fact, proverbial ;
accounts, they will be more fortunate in obtain• R and it is their a iorance, stupidity, and knavery,
ignorance,