The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-02 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Three o'Cloch.

Lord CAMPBELL'S Bills for abolishing the Court of
Privy Council, improving the appellate jurisdiction of
the House of Lords, and placing a permanent Judge at
the head of the Court of Chancery, will not pass this
session. This is evident from the way in which the Law
Lords received them in the House of Peers last night. The
Noble and Learned Lord, in commencing his career in
the Upper House, as the rival of Lord BROUGHAM, gave
offence to many of his colleagues by the unscrupulous
way in which he had appropriated their several
projects, and amalgamated them so as to form
a system of his own. In one of Lord CAMPBELL'S three
Bills, Lord COTTEHAM discovered one of his own strangled
progeny; Lord BROUGHAM hinted that he had supplied
the conception of a second ; and the LORD CHANCELLOR
contended that the empire would suffer no less by
the postponement of the passing of the three till
the Greek Kalends. We may, therefore, safely
predict that Lord CAMPBELL'S Bills will nut pass this
session, whatever may be their respective merits. The
Bills themselves are not yet printed, but from the outline
given of th em in the speech of the Noble and Learned
Lord, we entirely approve of the leading principle
upon which they are based. We think that
th ere ought to be one, and but one Tribunal of
Ultimate Appeal. We further contend that the
Chief Judge of the Court of Chancery ought
to be a permanent Judge. and totally without political
functions. The President of the House of Lords is not
and cannot be, a fit and proper person to preside over a
Court of Equity, and yet be removable with every
change of Ministry.

A pamphlet, entitled " The Unlawfulness of all Wars
and Fightings," has been transmitted to us from one of
the " Religious Society of Friends," with a request
to impress the importance of the subject on
our readers. We would willingly comply with
the request, if we saw how the object of the writer
could be obtained, without leading to slavery or to
crimes greater than even those committed in war.
Before cessation from all fightings can be accomplished,
we must have not a quintuple, but at least a
centuple treaty, which shall bind all the nations
of the earth to turn their swords into ploughshares and
their spears into pruning-hooks, and even then what
security would there be against some petty state
landing a few soldiers at Gravesend or London-
bridge, marching along Cheapside and the Strand,
loading themselves with plunder and carrying off
perhaps not a few of • the most beautiful Qua-
keresses in the metropolis ? What security would
there be against another party in want of labourers
for the mines of Brazil or Siberia, following
the example, and carrying off , next year their
husbands as slaves ? As the world exists at
preable s e nctl a
sthe
foundinjunction
their
practice
could nots ber eosbwhich peeyeetd-
without throwing the whole state of society into inde-
scribable confusion. Till the Millenium arrives, or till
all mankind shall assume the habits and doctrines of " the
Friends," we shall have wars and rumours of wars. They
deserve all praise for:their humane and peaceable conduct,
but even they would be driven to fight if others did not
protect them. Self-preservation is the first instinct of
human nature. Would even they not have recourse to
violence if they were thrown among ravenous wolves ?

The following extraordinary article, respecting the
personal conduct of the Emperor of RusslA, and the
mode of life at the Imperial Court of St. Petersburgh, is
from the leading columns of our now Tory Contempo-
rary, the Times. For the statements contained in it we
do not hold ourselves responsible. That the Emperor
NICHOLAS, in his regal capacity, is an iron despot, in
whom there is no bowels of compassion, all conversant
with the sad fate of unhappy Poland know too well.
But as a husband and the father of a family,
we have hitherto heard nothing but what was greatly
to the credit of the CZAR. The health of the EMPRESS
has been for several years exceedingly delicate, during
which the EMPEROR is reported to have treated her with
great tenderness, carefully concealing from her any
folly of the Court calculated to occasion her any un-
easiness. His eldest daughter he permitted to choose
a husband for herself—no indication certainly of