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the understanding among a large proportion of intellectual endowments to him as of external
those who concurred in the measure—the under- and adsentitious advantages. Be this, however,
standing without which the measure could not as it may, his Grace has determined to put his
have been rerriel—unquestiorably was, that it shoulder to the wheel, and for the sake of the
would be a final concession, and be purnanentiy peol;le of Ireland, and the peace and prosperity
satisfactory to the party for whose benefit it was -ape-empire generally, we wish him all the
made. The measure was adopted Upon errone-. -euecesslie desires in his new office. He may at
ous and delusive ground; We do not say that all events rest assured that no one covets his
this is a sufficient cause to demand its repeal, if office, and least of ail the Nobleman who has
upon the wllnle it has proved an advantageous now demitted the Government of Ireland, and
measure ; but we do say that this fact, which is left the country, followed by the regret of all but
undeniable, renders the question of its repeal or the very few who are enemies alike to its pea.:c
continuance an open one, and one peculiarly and prosperity.—Morning Advertiser.
within the discretion of the Legislature. If the
Papists will so employ the privileges then
granted them as to reduce the Legislature to the
aLrnative of retracting that grant, or of grant-
ing in addition to it so much more as would
effect a complete change in the Constitution of
the country, there can, we should imagine, re-
main no doubt as to what ought to he the choice
of the British Government and people—a
choice to be assisted besides by the memorale
and impressive lesson they cannot fail to derive
from the lamentable mistake under which that
concession took place, and the deep and griev-
ous disappointment which it has occasioned.—
Morniag Post.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 20.

;NFRINGENLENT OF A PATENT-CROS3LEY V.BEVERLE

In this case, which was not concluded yesterday
when we went to press, the Jun• found a verdict for
toe

ARCHES' COURT, J. 20._

This belly; the first day of Hilary Term in the
Ecclesiastical Courts Sir John Nichol', the judge of
the Arches' Court, with the advocates, proctors, and
other officers, assembled in the dining room, where
prayers were read by the chaplain.
The Court was afterwards opened with the usual
formalities.

A practice has too (alien been resorted to in
our Courts of trying men for one offence, and, if
found guilty, punishing them for another. No-
body believes that the notorious Probert would
have been executed fbr the solitary and some-
what doubtful case of horse-stealing on which he
was convict, d, had it not been for his previous
connection with Weare's murder, from the legal
guilt of which he had purged himself by giving
evidence for the Crown ; and other instances
are too frequently occurring where previous cha-
racter seems to have much more to do with pu-
nishment than actual recorded guilt. This ap-
pears to have been in some degree the case with
a man who was tried on Monday at the Old
Bailey, for robbing the porter to the French Am-
bassador of some trifling articles of linen. No
sooner was the verdict pronounced than the
Counsel for the prosecution stated to the Court
that " the prisoner was an old thief, that he had
been tried 'in that Court before, and that there
was very little doubt but he was the person
who had committed the late extensive rob-
bery at the French Ambassador's ;" and he
was thereupon immediately sentenced to
twice seven years' transportation. That an
old thief, and one who had been tried and con-
victed before, was a fit object for transportation,
cannot be doubted ; but the last reason which is
here given for treating him with the greater se-
verity is one which ought not to be offered, and
which, at any rate, we humbly conceive, no
Court or Judge ought to entertain. By the
humane theory of our law every man is presum-
ed to be innocent till he has been proved to be
guilty ; but here we have that principle in prac-
tice openly violated ; and a Court is urged to
consider that there is little doubt of a man s
guilt, after the police have been unable so much
as to bring proof on which to sanction his com-
mitment, or to prefer an indictment. Sufficient
for the day is the evil thereof, and sufficient for
a Court of Justice should be the crime of which
a man stands convicted. To load him with other
crimes, of which there is only the surmise of an
Advocate partially instructed, is not just, and
rather tends to realise a proverb almost too trite
to be applied to the grave proceedings of a
Cou rt of Justice—viz. the consequence which an
ill name too often brings upon the canine species.
—Morning Herald.
The Duke of Northumberland, it is now po-
sitively affirmed, is to he the successor of the
Marquis of Anglesea in the Vice-regal Govern-
ment of Ireland ; and, if the aristocracy of
wealth and the aristocracy of rank went hand in
hand with the aristocracy of talent and liberality,
the people of Ireland would perhaps find but
little cause to complain of the change. His
Grace of IsTorthumberland is not only the
wealthiest. of England's Dukes, but also, it is
said, not the least liberal of his purse ; and with
these advantages he might not unfairly hope to
excite some prepossession in his favour among
the people of Dublin. But his Grace is also
unfortunately what the opponents of Emanci-
pation in this country, and its advocates in the
sister Leland, term a downright Protestant—he
is favourable to the maintenance of the Consti-
tution at present established in Church and
State, and one of those who see no possibility
of altering that Constitution, by the admission
of Roman Catholics to political power, without
destroying its very bulwarks. Now, in any other
country,--nay, in any of the colonies of Great
Britain—such a pre-fession of religious and po-
litical faith would never once be noticed ; and for
the simple reason, that the people are happily not
disunited by religious and political animosities—
that• them.-are no parties who would consider
such adjunct's as either militating for or against
them—nor any individuals whose hopes would
be elevated, or their `expectations dashed to
the earth by the mere circumstance of the
King's Representative ranging himself on the
side of liberalism or throwing the weight of
his influence into the scales of Toryism.
But Ireland is like no other country on eardi ;
and, what would neither be remarked as a griev-
ance, or noticed as a calamity, or hailed as a
Wessing, in any lather, will give rise there to the
most intense feelings of jel or disappointment,
of gratitude or hatred. lhere is no common
bond of union in the country—there is no love
of it for itself ; but between six and seven millions
of its people aapiring to the possession of rights
and privileges from which they have been de-
barred by the laws of the country, and some-
where about another million who see no-
thing but ruin to themselves and the Conati-
tution from granting thecae privileges, and who
strain with all their might to p&e;'ent the former
from obtaining them. It must be evident, therefore,
that in such a country the religious and political
faith of a Viceroy will be narrowly watched, not
Geis. as indicative of the sort of justice which the
•./
contending factions may expect to receive at his
hands, but as ehewing the temper of the Cabi-
net, and the piobability or improbability of its
granting or not granting further concessions ; and
woe to him who, like the Duke of Northnenber-
land, sides, in his political creed, with the mi-
nority, and rouses into ;Action the hostile and
disappointed feelings of more than six millions of
people ! A Nobleman of mild manners, of a
firm but conciliatory disposition, and of sufficient
talent to unravel the intrigues, and bid defiance
to the exaggerations cf portico, might do much
undoubtedly to counteract the unfavourable im-
pressions arising from his political creed, and
- tea maintain the peace of the country without the
aid of military fote ; but the mere factrc ),y in a
of his
Grace's haviiiglecepted the office of N ier
country so distracted by faction, and ruined by ina
ternal dissension, says but little in favour of his
Grace's judgment, while, if public opinion may
be relied on, nature has not been so profuse of