The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-12 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Phillips and P. Gardner, Brighton, printers—J. and
D. Paulden, Stockport, Cheshire, attorneys—J. Wright
and W. Prescott, Liverpool, coffee-dealers--B. Blakeman
and G. Turvey, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire,
timber-merchants—J. Barke and A. Greaves, Bir-
mingham, woollen-drapers—R. Biass and IL T. Elliott,
Birmingham, linen-drapers--T. and C. Atkinson,
Upper Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, architects—
L. Bell and M. Hodgson, Solihu!l, Warwickshire,
maltsteis—J. Dixon and J. Glover, Leeds, corn-mil-
lers—T. Owen and W. Eccles, Chancery-lane, surgeons—
' J. Broadbent and E. Blackburn, Scammonden, York-
shire, stone-delvers--C. Chalk and Co., Chelmsford, auc-
tioneers (as far as regards J. Beadel)—P. M'Nolty and
J. Clark, Liverpool, common-brewers—J. Shepherd and
J. Ruddle, Melksham, Wiltshire, upholsterers—J. Wool-
ley and T. Ward, Nottingham, lace •manufacturers—S.
Forster and E. S. Owen, Goldsmith-street, silk-agents—
T. Hardy and W. Gould, Myton, Kingston-upon-Hull,
paper-hanging-manufacturers—J. Nowell and Co., Dews-
bury, Yorkshire, builders.

A man named ISAAC JACKSON, a sergeant
in the Ist regiment of Guards, cut his throat on Sunday
evening in a house near Buckingham-gate, and was quite
dead when discovered soon afterwards. A Coroner's Jury
sat on the body, and brought in a verdict of " Insanity."

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We insert a letter, as we are in duty bound,

from one of our confidential correspondents in
the good city of Paris, oft the recent change in
the Ministry. He is outrageous : without par-
ticipating in his anger (for we are not French-
men), we think it right to make it known. We
ourselves anticipate no changes in the law of the
press, nor a dissolution of the legislative body ;
and to appoint a Ministry which cannot com-
mand a majority in the Chamber of Deputies,
seems to us like hiring a cook who does not
know how to dress a single dish. The King
must have been strangely misled if he has done
this. however, as our correspondent justly re.
marks, time will dissipate the illusion, wherever
it may be. With the personal qualifications and
antecedent history of the men composing the
new French Ministry, we have nothing to do ;
and it is absurd to suppose that the Duke of
Wellington has had any concern in the nomina-
tion of them. We certainly do not wish for a
Ministry in France that would go to war with
us because we eat puddings, and the French
omelettes. But exclusive of that, let France
pursue her course, and we will pursue ours. If
the two happen to lead to the same issue, side
by side, so much the better : if not, let each
exert his intellect to show that his own is best.
With respect to the affairs of the East. If the
Turk will neither accommodate his differences
with Russia, nor oppose the progress of the nor-
thern invaders, we do not see what either Franca
or England can do, but let him be beaten, as he
seems to wish. And if, again, he will come to
no terms with the Greeks, is England or is
France to make war for him upon this wretched
people ? No ; the Greeks must take what they
can get. But if, on the contrary, he confesses
the impotence of his arms, and throws himself
upon the protection of France and England, it
is probable that the two Powers, confederated in
amity, may procure for him better terms, both
towards the Balkan and towards the Pelopon..
nesus, than he can conquer for himself. And it
appears to us that this would now be his wisest
course : for let it be observed, that France and
England arc not in the situation in which me-
diators are generally placed. They want nothing
for themselves ! and we cannot, as we said yes-
terday, conceive it possible for two nations to
have a more glorious task assigned to them than
that of prescribing terms which shall be graciously
accepted by embittered combatants ; but it is a
task in which, whatever might be the French
Ministry, neither of the nations would have the
pre-eminence. We have already given our opi-
nion of the new French Ministry generally ; but
we are neither pledged to its continuance nor its
fall: we wish for the former for peace-sake,—
that is, for peace in France, for there is nothing
in the dissolution of a French Ministry to dis-
part England. The rumours of the instability
of our own Cabinet are, as we predicted, now
wholly vanished. The mutual attachment be-
tween the Duke and Mr. Peel, arising front
kindred views, and the common cause in which
they have fought and triumphed, is obvious ; and
we should not think it likely to be disturbed, or
the firm dissolved, by that amiable personage,
who, now that his virtuous mother is dead, dares
to present to his startled adherents his wife in
her stead.— Times.
That the selection of the Prince de Polignac
to fill the arduous duty of a Prime Minister of
France is at this moment a subject of congratu-
lation to the British Cabinet, we hold to be mat-
ter of certainty—that the intrigues, or, to use a
less offensive phrase, the personal influence of
the Duke of Wellington, was directly exerted to
procure this desirable consummation, is quite
another affair. It has been for some time well
known that a change in the French administra-
tion was inevitable ; it was equally well known
that the Prince de Polignac, possessing the en-
tire confidence of his Sovereign, would be con-
sulted in carrying into effect the contemplated
arrangements ; but we have good authority for
the assertion, that up to a very recent period, we
might almost venture to say to the moment of
the promulgation of the Royal Ordonnance, it
was not supposed here that the representative of
the King of France at St. James's was to ex-
change a diplomatic for an efficient and leading
ministerial appointment. We by no means in-
tend to draw the inference that an unexpected
must necessarily be a disagreeable occurrence ;
in the present instance the very reverse is the
fact. We only wish to guard our readers from
incautiously adopting an opinion already confi-
dently put forth by a portion of the French
press, and which will assuredly meet with many
supporters at this side of the water—that the in-
trigues of the British Cabinet have in any
way immediately contributed to the recent
change in the French Ministry. But to leave
this part of the subject, which is more a
matter of curiosity than of sterling import-
ance, it may be worth considering what will
be the probable results of this ministerial re-
volution on the future policy of France, more
especially as connected with English interests.—
On this point we speak advisedly when we say
that we have the assurance of those who have
the best personal opportunities of ascertaining the
fact, that the recent appointments are the subject
of unmixed congratulation—that they are consi-
dered as a guarantee for the continuance of the
good understanding on Foreign Policy which
has for some time existed, and as the harbinger
of advantages of another description, less showy,
perhaps, but infinitely . more substantial. On
this last topic we shall have much more to say.—
Morning Chronicle.

Our Contemporary (the Standard) avails
himself of a letter addressed by Mr. Daniel
Whittle Harvey to the Times, complaining of
the injustice of his exclusion from the Bar by the
Benchers of the Inner Temple, to offer the fol-
lowing observations on the subject of exclusion
in general:--
« Mr. D. W. Harvey's complaint may be very
just, and his own grievance very severe, but we
cannot see exactly a cure for what he laments.
Will any one (assuming that the bar ought to be a
gentleman-like profession) assert that nothing but
such flagrant and substantive offences, provable by
affidavit, as would defeat a mandamus, ought to ex-
clude from it ? We suspect that all will agree that
an absolute discretion ought to be vested somewhere,
though men may differ as to its proper depositaries.
For ourselves, we would agree with Mr. Harvey in
taking it from the Societies that have manifested so
little vigilance and discrimination as to reduce the
bar to its present deplorable condition ; but here we
should part with the Member for Colchester. We
would at once assign to the Universities the virtual
right of introduction : by making the Master's De-
gree from Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin, which now
obtains merely an abatement of eight terms' proba-
tion, an indispensable requisite; and then compel
the Benchers to admit and cull any candidate so
qualified, unless there could be assigned against him
some reasonable objection. How this would work
in Mr. Harvey's case, in the case of Mr. Wooler, or
in the case of others who have been rejected, we
neither know nor care; but it would ensure that no

roan, without at least seven years of liberal pursuit ;
and it would obviate the ludicrous exhibition of one
toothless senior examining the proficiency of another

in Xenophon or Caesar.
" Particular hardship there would be none, if the
measure were to be made so far prospective as not
to affect any whose names are now entered at the
Inns of Court; and, as to general hardship, none
could be pretended in a proceeding which went
rather to limit the arbitrary power exercised over the
profession, than to narrow the approaches to it. If
the English barrister is to be saved from falling even
below the condition of a Dutch Advocate, whose fee
is half a florin (91c1.), he is to be saved by securing
some such connexion as we have described between
the legal profession and the literature of the country."
Murder will out. Save, Oh, save, the Eng-
lish Barrister from falling even below the condi-
tion of a Dutch Advocate, whose fee is half a
florin ! Not a word of the clients. One would
suppose that Courts. of Law existed merely for
the benefit of barristers and attorneys ; and that
in all law reforms, the only consideration ought
to be, in what manner can most money be wrung
from the people, for the behalf of those who con-
duct their causes. In reality) this is not very far
from the mark ; but the doctrine has never been
laid down with so much naivete as by our
contemporary, who does not scruple to de-
clare the end and object of regulations to he
to make the Barristers gentlemen, and to prevent
them from being so poor as Dutch Advocates.
But what is there in this, after all, to surprise
us ?--There is not a shoe-maker, a tailor, a
weaver, or a spinner, throughout the kingdom
who does not agree as to the necessity of keep-
ing up the dignity of his trade, by throwing,
difficulties in the way of entering it. The com-
mon labourer is indignant that an Irishman
should step in to do his work for one-half of his
terms. The spinner is indignant that knobs
should work on lower terms ; and that he
may have money to treat his friend or his
mistress on Saint Monday, he endeavours to
terrify his competitor by blows and vitriol. The
printers endeavour to secure their respecta-
bility by refusing to work in Rat-houses
—that is, houses that employ men who have
either not served their full time, or choose
to take lower terms. But the same Sir James
Scarlett, and other Benchers, who look with
such complacency on plans for narrowing the
admission into their own profession, are ready to
stir up heaven and earth against the attempts of
their inferiors who tread in their footsteps. The
employer, in all other cases, is to be at liberty to
take whom he pleases, and on his own terms ;
but we must be gentlemen, in the English sense
of the word—that is, we must be preserved from
the necessity of lowering our terms. Such is
human nature. We can never be too indulgent
to ourselves—never too severe to others. What
is wanted by the public is the utmost possible
competition of talents ; what is wanted by the
profession is the least possible competition. If
a man possessed of the highest talents and learn-
ing could be obtained for half a florin, the ex-
peaces of obtaining justice would be so much
less, which would certainly be an advantage. If
cheap cottons and cheap corn be a blessing, why
should cheap law be an evil ? But there is no
danger of the highest talents and learning being
at the Bar, to be had in this country for half a
florin. The education, without which a man
cannot appear to advantage at the Bar, is too ex-
pensive and tedious to admit of any such ruin-
ous competition. The theatres are not shut
against any claimants ; but competition does not
lower the salaries of good actors. The literary
market is an open one ; but the terms have been
continually rising within the last thirty years.
Notwithstanding the complaint of improper ad-
missions, the fees of Barristers are, com-
pared with the prices of commodities, far
higher now than ever they were. Respec-
tability forsooth ! Every man of sense will
endeavour to preserve a character for re-
spectability. But what test can secure gene-
ral respectability ? In the present day, every
man must stand or fall by his own respectability,
and not by that of others. A man can always
answer for himself ; and more is not required of
him. The Master's Degree from Oxford, Cam-
bridge, or Dublin, would afford but a very
slender guarantee for respectability ; though it
might diminish the number of candidates for ad-
mission, and narrow the choice of the public.
Ingenuity has, in all ages and countries, been
racked to keep the ranks of the Learned Profes-
sions as thin as possible. We were not a little
surprised with air instance of the perfection to
which the art of exclusion had attained among
the Indians of Cayenne, described in the 4th
volume of Voyages to Guinea, the neighbouring
Isles and Cayenne, by the celebrated Father
Labat.—" All Indians (he observes) are not
Piayes, as all whites are not Physicians. Many
ceremonies must be passed through before arriv-
ing at this degree of distinction. If it does not
cost so much money as in our Faculties of Me-
dicine to arrive at the robe and cap of Doctor,
it costs much more pain and suffering. The
time of trial is at least four years. They are
counted by the returns of a particular star ; for
their years have neither months nor weeks, their
science not reaching so high.
" He who wishes to become Piaye presents him-
self before the Doyen (Dean), or Chief of these
Charlatans. The latter, having assembled his
brethren, examines the claimant; if he is the son
of a Piaye he is received without expences, and
without difficulty, in the number of candidates. If
he have not this advantage, lie must compound with
the Elders ; nothing is done for nothing. They
have paid for their rights; and without they are
paid in return, the requisite quantities are not pos-
sessed.
" Things being arranged, they begin by making
the candidate observe a severe fast during four whole
revolutions of the star ; that is, during the four
years of his studies. No dispensation is allowed;
the smallest infraction spoils all—he must recom-
mence without mercy, though even lie should have
arrived at nearly the end of the fourth year.
" This fast consists in eating no beast with hair,
and no fish with teeth ; all the fish and all the beasts
with hair are too substantial and too nutritive; they
weuld prevent the intellectual operations which are
necessary to learn the science of piaylerie, or kna-
very, which is, of the three parts of medicine, the
only one which is necessary to them.
" They live during this time only on certain small
delicate and substantial birds, killed with the ordi-
nary arrows, but more commonly with the Tapire,
a kind of arrow which crushes the stomach of these
little creatures without piercing them; and the
number of these small birds is regulated; they must
eat to live, and not live to eat. These birds are
called Tonorinzirsi. The fish they may use is not
more large or substantial. They are called Aarcous-
sari ; they are a little larger than their name ; they
are fresh-water fish, difficult to take from the small-
ness of their size. They give them, I know not
from what reason, the name of a gum or a tree
liatso,he same denomination. However this
.T.&ll_st nourishment, taken in such small
sluantitteS!*o-dewthe candidates so feeble, so atte-
nuatos,..
Fa: liatt:t* the end of their four years, that
they'' eletons tither than rrten.
Pligar
" This is not all, the Candidates are obliged to
- take a wine each radon,—that is, a drink, oe'rather
%:,k a medicine, which operates in a very rude manner.

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