The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-23 00:00:00

THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.

It gives us great pleasure to state, that after enjoying a
good night's repose, the NOBLE EARL awoke in a very
composed and comfortable state, having also recovered a
little strength.
At twelve o'clock, Sir ASTLEY COOPER, Sir HENRY
HALFORD, and Mr. TUPPER arrived, and at one, the fol-
lowing Bulletin was issued :

" Fife House, Feb. 23.
Lord Liverpool has passed another goof night, and is still a
Ale better than he was yesterday."

It appears by the Dublin Morning Register that the
trial of Mr. Slim has been postponed to next term—the
SOLICITOR-GENERIL expressing his intention of removing
it by certiorari to the Court of King's Bench. This will
give Mr. SIIEIL a week longer to prepare his defence.—
The particulars will be found in another column.

We received this morning the Allgemeine Zeitung of
:he 15th, Hamburgh Papers of the 17th, and Dutch of
the 21st instant, but their contents are unimportant

Our City Correspondent informs us that by private let-
ters received this morning from Paris, Russia and France
are stated to be greatly dissatisfied with the conduct of the
Court of Madrid, in regard to the affairs of Portugal, and
on Tuesday last the Russian Ambassador at Paris sent off
an express to the Russian Ambassador at Madrid, desiring
him to unite with Mr. LAMB in his remonstrances with the
Spanish Cabinet on the subject of Portugal. They may
remonstrate, and FERDINAND may promise; but the Priests
will do what their Master is afraid or ashamed to avow.

Tim proceedings last night in Parliament were interest-
ing. In the 'House of Lords, Earl BATHURST moved
that the order for the consideration of the Corn Laws
on Monday next be discharged, in consequence of the
illness- of Loan LIVERPOOL, who was to have stated the
subject to their Lordships. The Noble Earl intimated
at the same time that Resolutions explaining the measures
to be proposed by his Majesty's Government would be
submitted to the House of Commons on Monday. His
Lordship expressed his intention to oppose any thing like
a general inquiry into the state of the Corn Laws, because
they had already been discussed so often, and because their
Lordships knew more upon the subject than they could
learn from any witnesses that could be called before them.
To an inquiry of a limited extent, however, he thought
there could be no objection. There were, he conceived,
two questions to be considered—first, at what rate the
home grower could bring his corn into the market; and
secondly, at what rate the foreign grower could supply us
with corn; and upon this latter point Government had
sent a person abroad to make further inquiries as our
knowledge was not perfect.
In the Commons Mr. PEEL brought forward his motion
for the Consolidation of the Criminal Law. The proposed
improvements were included in four Bills :—The first Bill
had for its object to consolidate and amend the laws rela-
tive to the various offences under the head of larceny—
The second Bill the consolidation and amendment of the
law relating to another class of offences, consisting of ma-
licious injuries to property—The third Bill was to com-
prise in one Statute all the provisions of the law, now scat-
tered through our Statute Book, for recovering damages
and compensations from the Hundred—And, the fourth
Bill was to be a repealing Act. In order that he should
not incumber the three first Bills with unnecessary repeti-
tions of clauses, he proposed to reserve this fourth Bill for
the repeal, in one view, of all the Statutes, or parts of
Statutes, as would be superseded by the preceding Bills.
Thus the three amending Bills would Dot be incumbered
with any unnecessary provision or exceptions.
Hon. Gentleman made a very
speech
in detailing
Right
luminous
the particular nature of these improvements, and a
ccived repeatedly the applauding tribute of the House re-
his manly, candid, and meritorious exertions, for improving to
the Criminal Laws, by condensing their spirit, while he
increased their practical efficacy. We have so often
touched upon these points that we need only refer the
reader to the speech of the Right Honourable Secretary.
One point, however, deserves our particular notice—the
great simplicity and clearness which Mr. PEEL proposes to
introduce into our Statutes—for this will render them in-
telligible to all whereas at present they are often scarcely
understood by many of those who have devoted years to
their study and practice.
Mr. HOI3IIO USE expressed himself in eery high terms of
the great benefits which the Right Hon. Gentleman was
conferring upon his country, by his unostentatious but use-
ful labours. He said, that a more splendid fame than that
which attended his present course, could not be acquired.
" The lasting reputation which it would be his happy fate
to enjoy with posterity, and to have stamped in the page of
history, it was his good fortune to see realised now, in the
approving testimony which the whole country concurred
in bestowing on his services. This was a fame which
nothing could destroy or abate."
Next to the consciousness of doing good, must be the
gratification of knowing that the intention is duly appre-
ciated by those for whom the benefit is intended—and
this Mr. PEEL enjoys in its fullest extent. He can wish
nothing more.
We regret to observe that the SPEAKER had become so
much :indisposed last night, as to be unable to sit any
longer—the consequence of which was, that Mr. HusrE's
motion respecting the mutiny at Barrackpore was post-
poned to this day, when the Right Honourable Gentle-
man is expected to be able to resume business.
As it frequently falls to our lot to censure Mr. HUME,
we can assure the Hon. Gentleman that we are equally
alive to his merits. His conduct towards the SPEAKER argues
the possession of good feeling and consideration for others,
and leaves a more pleasing impression on the mind than
that endless system of abusing men and measures to which
he seems systematically addicted.