The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-22 00:00:00

an approximation to generalization. We hare
no security in England, but in a Jury in poli-
tical cases. Whether, in case we were altoge-
ther dependent on Judges, they might feel them-
selves bound to be more honest, is a question on
which we shall not enter. We have occasionally
had independent Juries. In all cases of Crown
prosecution, there should be a leaning to the
individual under prosecution ; for even allowing
that the language used may hare been indiscreet,
who shall say that it is not better that indiscre-
tion should escape, than that 'precedents should
be set, which would tend to secure an impunity
to men in office ?—Morning Chronicle.
The time is approaching when it will be seen
whether the House of Commons represents, as
it ought to do, the real feelings of the country
upon public affairs,\ and whether public opinion
guides, as it ought to do, the measures of Go-
vernment. We cannot disguise our apprehen-
sions that neither of these results is likely to be
apparent ; and we are
_the more anxious, should
such be the case, that the blame
.should fall
"here it is deserved, that neither Parliament.nor
the Government may have any pretext for plead-
ing ignorance of the real state of things as their
apology for a continuance in error. But why,
it will be asked, if its distresses are us appalling
as they are represented to be, is the country in
general so backward in making them known
through public meetings, and other proper chan-
nels? We would fain hope that we err in the
reply which we must give to that .question ; but
we fear that the apathy of the people but too
much wises from a want of confidence in the
tribunal to which its wants should be made
known. They have witnessed but too often the
accommodating pliability of the assembly in
question ; and they, more especially, cannot
forget in what a manner their representations
were received and treated on the last subject of
vital interest which came before it ; in fact, that
the mandate of the Minister is the talismanic
wand which guides and governs the delibera-
tions of Parliament. If we err, if this be not
so, the proceedings of the approaching Ses-
sion will convince us of an error that we shall
be but too happy to retract. In the mean
time we call upon the people to speak out.
Though past, and especially their most recent
experience, may have but too undeniably
shaken their confidence in the hope of being
patiently heard anti effectually attended to, yet
they ought, on the other hand, to remember that
their silence may be construed to imply an
acquiescence in their fate, while the very record
of their sentiments, even should they fail in pro-
ducing their immediate and due effect, will stand
as their justification to themselves and their pos-
terity that it will not have been their fault should
the impending ruin not have been averted. This
duty, on the part of the people at large, becomes
the more necessary, when we consider that the
main evils under which the country labours are
not difficult of removal, and are rather retained
by false pride and obstinacy than by any thing
like an unavoidable necessity. The evils of the
country have been mainly, if not wholly, brought
about by Parliament having unhappily lent itself
to a mischievous tampering with the currency,
and the absurd theories of free trade. Neither
of these errors (and errors their very authors
almost allow them to be) were the exclusive
work of the present Government or of the pre-
sent Parliament ; and why, therefore, the one or.
the other should be unwilling to retrace the steps
of ethers, when they are so evidently wrong, is
what we cannot comprehend. It is an instance
of mistaken pride more characteristic of narrow.
ness of mind than of intellectual power. It is
only men of superior understanding who know
how to acknowledge and retract an error without
any loss of high reputation or of moral dignity.
To be obstinate in the wrong, and to brave the
consequences of a:bad course of politics, rather
than reform it, is not consistent with the high,
minded sense of duty and comprehensive wisdom
which ought to be expected from those who are
competent to wield the destinies of a great
etripirer--Morning Herald.

We beg one 'lmre tp point the attention of
our readers to the shamelessl3 unprotpcte4 statp,
in which the Legislature has been pleased, in its
wisdom, to leave one of the most numerous and
benevolent bodies of men in the kingdom, as
evidenced tiff reports from Hatton-garden and
queen-ssnare poliee:pfifices, Jt npt too much
ro s4y? that by the mode in which Mstice is
dealt tliptm the Licensed Victuallers of
the Metropolis are wifely at the mercy of
the most infamous of all classes of so.;iet-y—
-common informers—that their property is not
for an instant safe from spoliation—and that
they iiwrs no help, highly as they are taxed
in every respect ate Legislature, but pay
an additional tax for libertyto
ttasty their
b;.;siness, and that tax entirely at the)nerd !
aF the iini:orrers I Such a state of things
ought ript, af,t;4 tn. wt not, exist ; and we trust
that the ensuing Session Of PHrlhiment will be
marked by a general petition against that part pi
the Act, which makes it the interest of informers
to bring such groundless charges against Licensed
Yiettni.llers as are frequently heard at the dif-
fe'rent-P9 - If they are to continue
.4(t:°-4 cP Y .
,9,44 yet ;() knformaiii(ws, brought by
those who Nye ,t?o pleres,t them
beyond the discharge of their duty, IR every
one will be satisfied, be the result What it may ;
but according to the present system nothing is
,trident than that while the testimony of
commOn interrqr; must always be liable to
suspicion, thei-systeiii. itself is •
kii:2o7nt with
gross ;niustice, and is a direct encourageMent to
4dvertue!..

HORIMM !pit"? on
Monday morning last, Aeinhai?.itants of Penzance and its
neighbourhood we're flioacittd with the MT.? *4f ty(;ttiurder
of a new-born infant, which W. 15 found ill a rasid-W4Y
‘.ell! near Castle Ilorneck, by a lad named PottiNS:.''.Litt-gt'd
eleven yea,.,. pf Penzance, on his way to Tregavara, au
adjoining village. In wet;';i,7g he observed something in
a corner of the field, not two feet ;ion; :he path-way,
which he at first thought was a little pig, hut on mov-,:i?;
sonic grass with which it was partially covered, he dis-
covereil jt to bp a young child, with its throat cut on one
sine and stabbed on the other, and dreadfully I icerated on
the chest. Jr.Z surgeon, was called to examine
the child, and he 7lerlareti is. to haye been born alive and not
many hours old when found. A CUroner's inquest haying sat
on the holy, the Jury returned a vet diet of " Wilful mur-
ilprog,,inst some person or persons unknown. Not many
b,eforf strong suspicions were entertained of
a certain fem de in rlr, t,•e.ryite of Mr, J. Ct:allow, at
nolog;us,
,In'Tiittirj her it:M-i.e.ss ;44 siale time sines.
charged her with being e' which, hotiaever, elty
always denied. It appears Ole' left her niasteiN lause'on
Smithy afteriiaog lot with a large bundle, which site tepid
her mistress consisted of i inv. clothes for her sister to
mend. She did not return till very late thit evening, and
rose to her work 'as' tumid on Monday inotllll%. Jrle
tress now chargedherwith 'had W deli she
denied. MI s. Cull N Ow, however; to keel) liCr
any longer as as,rvant, and She was shortly 'afierwatrils
taken into custo , iptiuspicion of having committed the
dy"
abova-stated Itotrihie crime.—Falmouth Packet.