The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-24 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET.—Frs. 25.

This day's market did not exhibit more than an average Fri-
day's supply, but the carcass markets being full of meat, sad the
trade in them very dull, each kind of stock met with a 'insist
sale, at Monday's quotations.
PLIERS PIS STONE CT SLBS. TO BINX TAI OfFALS.
s. d. to s. d.
Infc,or Beasts 3 0 3 4
Second quality ditto 3 4 3 8
Prime large Oxen 4 4 4
Prime Scots, &c 4 8 5
Inferior Shccp 3 0 3 4
Second quality ditto A 4 3
Coarse-woolled ditto 3lO 4 0
Good short-horned Mulch Cows,
from 23/. to 25/

Beats.
486

SUPPLY, AS TER C
I Sheep.
1,5%'0

_
4. 4. tee. a.
South Down Wethers . 4 9 6 4
Large coars.: !'apes 4 L 6 1.4
Prime small ditto I 4
t arse Hogs 4 0 4 4
Small Porkers 4lO 6 $
Suckling Calres...llls. 10 60s. each.
Quarter old Pigs ..10s. to His. each.
,ith their mall Calf, ware worth

ARK'S STATZMINT.
Calves.
141

17g-

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stonz, by the Carcass.
a. d. to'. d. a. il. to IL g•
Beef 3 0 4 4 Veal
Mutton 2lO 310 Pork 3 A 6 II

NOTTIN'GHAM CATTLE MARKET.—Feb.
Beef (it. of 14.1b.) 7c 6.1. to Sc Od. Veal 7.. Oct. bo Ys Od
Mutton --- 7 6 8 0 I Pork=__...— 6 6 7
Supply moderate, and trade brisk, at improved privet.

ELEGANT FURNITURE, GLASSES,
Cooper, 93, Bishopmg-ate-street-Within, respectfully sp
Nobility and Gentry, that he continues toee aulever-ydpeseririse;tiouthe
of Upholstery and Cabinet Work, with Glasses of of the most m-
treme size as well as moderate dimensions, and errry other Elide
connected with the furnishing of Houses in the nsost splendid es
well as the neatest style, combining elegance and 'simplicity a
su-
with
true taste, thus obtaining, at a very moderate expence, such
perior general effect, which the most laboured and oostly furniture
when not well arranged, ever fails to produce. Fenton's New
Hotel, St. James's-street, which is considered one of the &at in
Europe for elegance and convenience, was entirely fitted tip from
this Establishment, and presets u handsome specimen of the style
adopted H. L. C. ma.
storaetxtacienlletee doesf i
Nr,crodr
ke ffmeacnt h p
and
quality a
compete
materials with any other house in London, and at such reasonable
Prices as will ensure him the patronage and support he has eo
long enjoyed of some of the most distinguished familiesi this
kingdom.
ide he b
cany n. C.
for

easterly Some wind,
.‘a•Geyre by
miYnfeacaenent.. Legion,
dioenm Which
notrnPpermit them
were uannsduceessful in their
In the month of May, in the year 1749, a Dutch
Monday
se'nnight, East Indianian, the Amsterdam, was wrecked on the eande a little
to the eastward of Bulverhithe (about two and a half miles from
two
this place),
,vben
regiments
tiaine and z
falits,atoisl
soldiers,
etriesn, b
elbvele:bieed;i
et
washedvhe e,r
ethamee
were quartered at Hastings and Bexhill, attempted to
parish commenced digging the
it down to
her, but owing to their not having the necessary i
well as to her being so far out, the tide would
she has remained
covered over ever since, till the late easterly
itioei.n•oBri
dkesm endeavours, obraaernetdh
taoi i
ultimatelythreeth e
dehpaotbhuarnsod,
fnt
abandoned her;
about
t w 0
Y winds having laid
se'nnight, the paupers of Bexhill
sand out of the bow of the vessel which lies nearest the shore, and
shortly after turned up a cask containing 1,000 knives, which
were however corroded with rust, and about three dozen black
bottles of a globular form, Which
supposed to be hollands , but i were filled with a clear liquid,
.on being
owing to the bilge water. A
great number of glass and china
tumblers, and some square case bottles, also containing a clear
liquid that smelt strongly, and on being thrown into the Are
burnt no more than water
, the spirit must therefore have
evaporated ; two casks m
ore of knives, with a variety of other
articles, have been extracted. A sale took place at Bexhill, on
Saturday, when the ha
amount came to lbout 401. not inclading t
glass, which r •
mama unsold. There ;s an old man here of the
name of Edmonds, who remembers it perfectly,—he was four-
teen years old at the time, and he says that there are two
chests of dollars near the main pump, and that it has a great
deal of lead and copper on board. She was outward bound...
Brighton Paper.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

No man whO watches the conduct of rc,:olar bred law.
versa or, indeed, reasons from the natural workings
legal practice and prejudice upon the character of the
steadiest min,l, has ever indulged a hope that extensive
reforms would be wrought upon the law of England,
through the voluntary agency of its professors. A prac-
tising lawyer seldom generalizes or glances at the philo-
sophy of jurisprudence. Whereas, one who would im-
prove a system, and above all things, one who would im-
prove by rendering it more simple, must look at it largely,
end in the outline, or his attempt will end in nothing but
patchwork and inconsistency. Lord Erskine, we have
ground for believing, had he remained a few years in office
as Chancellor, would have attacked one grand stream of
•expence and iniquity at the fountain head, by substituting
parele evidence in almost every case where written inter-
ogatories are now resorted to. tiir Samuel Romilly, it is
well kr; :vn, proposed to himself as the dearest object of his
a:nNtioti, a recasting of the whole code ofourcriminal law. But they
were both great men t they were capable of applying broad principles
to the correction of detailed Aimee ; and it is curious that the
two lawyers who were confessedly the most distinguished of their
time, should have been the only ones who meditated any sensible
change in the subject matter of their professional studies. Pe:-
haps here, also, it may not be unimportant to remark, that neith r
Sir S. I:torridly nor Lord Erskine felt bold enough to make a vigo-
rous experiment upon his own peculiar branch of English juris-
prudence. The splendid advocate, and(whatever cotemnotary envy
'or prejudice may have insinuated to disparage the real merits of
'Lord Erskine) the sound and ready 'common lawyer, seemed to be
actotted by the reverence of a child or pupil, for that especial
int...te of rules which had been for years the guide and measure
of his immediate practice. He would reform the equity juris-
diction by ingrafting on it the Trial by Jury, but the law of
crimes and punishments, together with those diseases in the
constitution of juries themselves, which have since been so
ably treated by a non-professional statesman, Was left by
Br;kine where he found it. In like manner the great
and enlightened ornament of English Equity, Sir Samuel
Romillv, selected for his proposed reforms, a different field from
that whereon he had achieved his personal reputation. He aimed
not at striking the enormous grievances of Chancery with the
same resolute and nervous arm which was ever braced for the ele-
ct:edition of absurdity or cruelty in the Criminal Code. "WA ex-
perience then assures us can scarcely be demanded from more than
one or two lawyers in as many centuries, practical and exten-
sive amelioration in any large branch of the law—Mr. Peel, the
youngest of our known statesmen, has already in great part exe-
cuted. He had before done much towards ensuring the honest
composition and real independence of juries, where the Crown
and subject where at issue ; and he now, at a single stroke, ren-
ders the rule of law more intelligible—redress for injury more ac-
cessible—the classification of offences more conformable to reason
—and their punishment less revolting to humanity. This is e
noble enterprise for any Minister, and, from the reception given to
Mr. Peel's propositions, so encouraging to the Right Honourable
Gentleman, e ad so creditable to one side of the House of Com-
mons, we trust that the judicious and successful reformer may be
led to pursue the path on which he has entered, and that the Law
of Libel, with all its oppressive barbarisms, will ere long engage
a portion of his solicitude for the public good.—Times.
A case at the Mansion-house, yesterday, of a cellarman
.old a carman, accused of robbing their employers, led the
Lord Mayor to express " his horror at the extensive
system of domestic treason and robbery, which was ex-
hibited in this case, and a number of others, which were
every day brought before him. No less than two-thirds
of the rases of felony brought before him, since he had
been Mayor, were cases of servants robbing their masters.
--It was melancholy, that whilst thousands were starving
for want of employment, those who obtained comfortable
situations could nut keep honest." It was stated at the
same time, by the officers, that " from the anxiety mani-
fested by the servants in the neighbourhood to aid the
prisoners, it was absolutely necessary that the book con-
taining the entry of the parcel at the White Hart Inn,
should be impounded, to prevent its being stolen, to get
rid of the evidence." It is refreshing to see an instance'
of a Gentleman who, after elevating himself to wealth and
distinction, by the practice of a profession which is, more
than any other perhaps, trying to a Saint, still preserves
such a keen abhorrence of deviations from rectitude, as to
express himself in such a strain of virtuous indignation as
that in which his Lordship indulged on this occasion.—
But while we admire his Lordship's freshness of feeling,
we cannot help thinking the practice to which we allude
might have suggested to him, that the tender anxiety
which it has all along manifested for the protection of
fraudulent transactions of every description, by affording
those who have been successful appropriators, loop-holes
through which they safely may creep, from the perni-
cious example which it holds out, as one main cause of
the extensive system of domestic treason and robbery of
which his Lordship expressed his horror. Do we not
see attorneys and solicitors every day availing themselves
of the resources which the laiv opens to chicanery, to
prevent the recovery of what they know to be just debts,
for half a generation ? • Are there not men in London who hold
their heads high who do this ? Yet, what is the difference be-
tween a man who covenants for hire to commit a crime (such as
stabbing 4 man), and he who lends himself for hire to ruin him
unjustly? Both acts are immoral; but the one may be practised
with safety, while the other is attended with hazard. But passing
from legitimate fraud and chicanery to more questionable courses,
wh6, that has lived any time in London, does not know that affi-
davits are daily and hourly manufactured by attorneys, for pur-
poses such as those developed in a late trial, which reflects eo much
credit on Mr. Tattersall? The national feeling is corrupted by
the constant exhibition of successful fraud, and of this we have a
instance, in the necessity for impounding the hook con-
taining the entry of the parcel, to prevent its being stolen by the
anxious servants in the neighbourhood. The plain English of
this is, that the servants are not behind in grating up a morality
for their own purposes ; they have a sort of vested interest (for
that ii the genteel word) in appropriating to thcnneelves the pro-
perty of their employers ; they are fully aware of the advantage of
keeping each other in countenance, and have, like their betters,
studied the law to know how to render it inoperative.—The na-
tion, we say, is corrupted by the constant exhibition of impunity
to fraud and peculation, and of appropriations of the money, both
of the public and of individuals, contrary to every rule of morality.
Hence there is an almost general scepticism as to the existence of
sucha thing as virtue, and men are laughed at for their simplicity
in believing in the reality of the motives avowed for actions. If
we wish to correct the evil, we must grapple fairly with it. It
is not by the manifestation of aversion by a rich man to
the picking of pockets, or the contempt of a Joint Stock
swindler for the more humble knave who does a shop boy
out of a pound of sugar, or the horror of a Magistrate
who shuts up a public-house, or refuses one to a neighbourhood
to serve the Brewer, who employs him as a hod-maker, for the
paltry rogue who is detected charging sixpence too much in the
porterage of a parcel, that we can hope to mitigate the evil. Few
men sympathise with the crimes or vices which they themselves
are under no temptation of committing. Let the high places be
pure ; let those who are in conspicuous stations, and in the pos-
session of power, not only act themselves with honour and purity,
not only manifest themselves a detestation of crime and fraud,
whether committed by high or low, but endeavour to destroy the
causes of immorality, and the beneficial effect will soon be felt. We
consider, for instance, the sincere respect manifested by Mr. Peel
for truth, in his Speech on Thursday night, and his adherence to
the principle, that the advantage of the community is the object
which ought exclusively to be aimed at in Legislation, to be of
incalculable importance in the way of tendency to improve the
national morality.—But when Sir George Clerk stated, ouly a
few nights before, that a number of rich factors, who had endea-
voured to poison a whole navy, had been allowed to escape with
the loss only of the gains they contemplated from their fraud,
what does this teach, but that the crimes of the rich are viewed
in a different light by the rich from that in which they view the
crimes of the poor ? We are not such enthusiasts or visionaries as
to suppose that society can ever be without crimes and vices ; but
there is no necessity for fostering and encouraging them by bad
laws. Whenever we defend what is notoriously an abuse, no
matter for whose interest, and advocate the continuance of insti-
tutions irreconcileable with honesty—whenever we give premiums
for hypocrisy and dissimulation, we are corrupting morality at its
source, and we can only expect to see the stream of pollution
spreading itself over the land. There are, in this city of London,
men r! education possessed of large properties--say from twenty
to thirty thousand pounds and even more, who are known to live
by depredation. These individuals (and their names are well
known to those principally exposed to their attacks) take their
measures so that they can never themselves be reached. They
find, tno doubt, in the practices advocated in high places, and'
pron4ed by some of the institutions of the country, no lack of
oPtliQui arguments for corrupting the principles of the numerous
individuals who become their instruments. That inimitable writer,

Defoe, whose prying eye -nothing escaped, in one of his novels has
..ixhibited one of these arch rogues, practising on the principles of
' necessitous youth, in a way that we fear is not yet obsolete.—
" Force and violence and injustice (he says) have eluded the de-
igns of the Deity; and hence proceed that horrid medley of po-
,erty and riches which now we see. The same wisdom, to po-
lish the unjust usurpations of the rich, has infused a spirit of in-
dustry and cunning into the industrious poor; and this is the
channel, by which riches flow so smooth and glib from the rich
to the poor, to relieve them in their great necessity. This in-
dustry and address which people have to get money by, :s called
')y the misers and tyrants—robbery, felony, knavery,- villainy,
and what not ?—But, among risen of parts, 'tis ycleped address,
flgenuity, cunning, and a thousand other pretty names, which
suit that incomparable trade. The rich, who have bought at a
high rate, the power of committing injustice with impunity,
,lon't love ti.is kind, of addr,..n, and punl:,!l it 50raetiineS
too severely. But for one that il:ey hang, a thousand escape
the gallows; for Judges have never ordered restitution to be made
of things taken with a bonne grace.".,--It is the considering on
the part of onc class, that they Otight.to have the power of com-
mitting injtistice with impunity, that leads another class to view
their injustice in the light of a retaliation. The great object ti
be aimed at, is the diminishing the power of committing injustice
with impunity.—Morning Chronicle.

Lord Lorton, in the House of Lords last night, on pre-
senting a petition from Ireland, called on their Lordships
to res.2ue the Protestants from the destruction with which
they are threatened by the Catholics. A dismal tale
the Noble Lord tell; but just when we were plunged in
the very depth of despair for our Brother Protestants, and
yielding to the influence of an overpowering grief, his
Lordship suddenly imparted to us a source of hope which
cheered our drooping spirits.—" TlTre was no hope of
improvement (he said) till the reformation was introduced
into Ireland ; and he was happy to say that a scriptural re-
formation was'now going on." The deuce is in it, if the
Protestants do not convert apace, when there is only the alterna-
tive of reformation or destruction. So long as the Church had
no other motive for industry, than the spiritual welfare of the
Papists, it consumed its tithes in ease and quiet ; but it is a very
different thing, when its own existence is at stake. It is a grand
and heart-elevating spectacle, and the attention of all Europe must
be turned to it. We have assumed that the inactivity of the
Church hitherto proceeded from a love of ease ; but it is possible
that what we attribute to laziness has its source in magnanimity.
It was perhaps thought the victory would be more glorious after
allowing the enemy a hundred years to grow and multiply in.—
Though not without hope, we are also nit without anxiety; and
we shall watch the progress of this auspicious Reformation. Out
of seven millions, twenty Protestants have already been made at
an expence of little more than twenty shillings a piece. It is
true, some of the Popish rogues have relapsed ; but still a begin-
ning has seen made. The mightiest rivers begin often with a
spring scarcely visible to the eye. It is a great thing that the Re--
formation has been fairly begun, whatever the motive for the long
inactivity of the Church.—/Lid.

Men in every situation of life, in the most as well as
the least important of its concerns, arc continually com-
pelled to do or adopt this or that plan, expedient, or
what not, as the phrase goes, " for want of a better."—
This, we apprehend (and with no shadow of disrespect
he it spoken), is just now very much the King of Eng-
land's case, in the choice of a Prime Minister. Qn whom-
soever the mantle of Elijah may descend, we suspect it
will not he so much from any superior fitness for the ho-
nour, as for the very homely reason we have alluded to—
viz. " for want of a betterf' Time was, when some great
master-mind presented itself, to which, by common con-
sent, pre-eminence was assigned. If one party had it
not, another had—but now all parties seem to present, if
not a rivalry of insufficiency, yet such a palpable share of
mediocrity, as gives the King, it is true, a large choice ;
but prevents, we will be bound to say, his satisfying his
own judgment or wishes upon the occasion. Part of the
Press is anxious to persuade the country that Mr. Canning
is the only man at all fit to occupy the place of Lord
Liverpool; that to become second to any man is quite
beneath the Right Honourable Gentleman's notice; and
that, in fact, he is born to be " aut Cecsar aut nullus."
He is himself said (but possibly by those who know no- i
thing at all about the matter) to be ambitious of occupy-
ing
the same station in the Government so long held by
his great prototype, Mr. Pitt ; and report adds, that to
enable him to be at once First Lord of the Treasury
and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Robinson is to
resign the office he so, creditably fills, and accept, in
its stead, the Seals of the Foreign Office. This may or
may not be true; were we to augur from the tone of
that part of the Press which most warmly espouses Mr.
Canning's cause, we should be inclined to say that
the proposed elevation of the Right Honourable Gentle-
man meets with obstacles from sonic of his present col-
leagues, whom one of the papers in question, under that impres-
sion, actually designates as " brutes." This, to be sure, is not
very courtly or seemly language ; but it is excusable, perhaps,
upon the principle of " tel maitre, tel valet;" Mr. Canning him-
self, aornetimes, when he is warm or angry, having recourse to
epithets which, in his calmer moments, he regrets the use of. For
ourselves, perhaps, we may be permitted to say, that having no
party or private interests to serve, we are impartial spectators of
the conflict ; and, like other lookers-on, see quite as much of the
game as the players. For Mr. Canning's talents we entertain a
high, but reasonable respect. In those showy qualities which
take most with the multitude, we believe him to be without a
rival; but of that consummate skill and prudence, which form
the more essential ingredients in the character of a statesman, we
believe him to be exceedingly deficient. Of this we cannot give,
among many, a more striking instance than in his lust, and almost
only speech of any consequence since the assembling of tl t present
Parliament. What will foreign Governments think of a Prime
Minister of Great Britain, who delivers a studied and prepared
oration upon a given subject, full of manifest errors and false as-
sumptions, and some- of the main features of which he is com-
pelled to disclaim almost as soon as they are uttered? It may
appear invidious, as it is really to us mortifying, to be com-
pelled to put Mr. Canning's pretensions iu this point of view;
but when we are told that he is the only man in the
country fit to occupy the station now vacant—that to place
him second to any man is impossible--and when some of the
first persons in the Government are called by a low
and opprobrious epithet, merely because they are supposed
not to feel his pretensions as altogether so indisputable,
it is due to truth that these pretensions should be unmasked, and
that Mr. Canning's over-eager adherents should be told that he
has condescended ere now to he second to some whose talents
were not quite on a par with some of his present colleagues; and
that there may be no small portion of the well-judging part of the
community who do not regret that his ascendancy has hither'•
been, in some degree, controlled by a discretion which he is pret y
well known not to possess. Without alluding to the physical ob-
stacles which the shattered state of his health presents to his un-
dertaking new and more extensive duties (obstacles which we
sincerely hope that his entire restoration to health will speedily
remove), we see no reason why Mr. Canning should be designated
as the only person fit to fill the office of Prime Minister; and,
destitute as the country unfortunately may be of that commanding
talent which would unite the suffrages of all men in its favour, yet
we feel equally confident that on the other hand there is not such
a poverty of intellect among modern Statesmen as to leave Mr.
Canning the only man fit to wield the destinies of the empire.
That Mr. Canning should be called upon to fill the office would
not be to us a matter either of regret or surprise ; all that we
contend is, that if it should not be the case, and that the King's
choice should fall upon some other person, Mr. Canning will
Lave no right to take umbrage, or on that account cease to fill the
eminent station he now occupies in the Government.--Morning
Herald.

An exorbitant portion of the time of our Law Courts is
now almost daily taken up in heari.T trumpery cases of
libel, the most of which are instigated by the lowest class
of attorneys, as a means of concocting bills of costs, and
thereby enabling them to live. This is the natural re-
sult of that absurd provision of the law which allows a
shilling or a farthing damages to carry costs—in other
words, compels a defendant—who, in the opinion of a Jury,
has published nothing that deserves more than nominal
t'amages—to pay the expenses of both parties, which sel-
dom amount to less, and often to a great deal more than
2001. Can there be a greater temptation, a more inviting
bonus to the pettifoggers of the law ? It, in fact, operates
as a premium to the most sordid experiments in litigation.
Many of those low practitioners, who disgrace a profession
otherwise respectable, have found themselves sadly out of
employment since the demolition of the joint-stock bub-
bles, in which they enjoyed salaried secretaryships or
other lucrative situations; for there was no bubble-con-
triver who had not one or more of these gentry at his el.