The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

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The Magistrates for the Division of the tinalco
Middlesex, comprising the extensive and 1,1,004
borough of the Tower Hamlets, held an se`i,ctid
meeting yesterday, to give their decision le to'
certain licenses which had stood over fro° °toll'
former meetings, and we are glad to find that - ere
license in the district was quashed. This is ceriodet
ditable to the justices, as well as to the parties for
their control, but while giving them all due rj,.
their liberal conduct, and perhaps occasional lel'otbi
we ask whether it is just to place a large tradestus!tt 0
mercy of a few Magistrates. The state of anlie
which many publicans have been placed by thee:
pension of their licenses is almost beyond 01,.(1...00'
Many of this class are widows, with large 7,00
they must fee counsel to state their -differe9"te,
and from no fault of theirs but want of due Pr°
frOm the police their licenses are suspended, °rrotiOdt
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away altogether, and they and their families 'p P,
to ruin. This is no uncommon occurrence, "
Magistrates are not so benevolent and 6.
as those of the Tower' Hamlets. In the cff,,t
where the power of the press has little er't,
the squires and parsons the most grievous l'eri
partiality, injustice, and even oppression, ere,
tised with impuity, and the unfortunate vietili,l3lofi
only the choice of unqualified submission, or gl'oe,
of property. The present feud between Chore
and Dissenters respecting Church-rates aff°l44.llo)
instance out of hundreds of the small chapel' 'l,%clis
the latter class have of obtaining justice &oil oiet
bench. A licensing parson will of course ne
a multitude of offences amply atoned for 111 foi
ment of the obnoxious tax. The Tory ecluir.feej' $ll
(according to Lord BROUGHAM) they :0110‘
Tories, will keep an eye to politics, o'oo
no mercy to a Whig or Radical publican.
an anomalous state of thitigs, which is a derv'
to the Legislature. Why should any tra°„diol,
perty be placed in such a precarious cn,o'
that he must abjure, or feign to abjure, his P°iti
and religious creed, in order to be allowed t°o
We do not blame the justices half so mue.ll slt/
nobles, the bishops, and the country gentleulel4
make laws for the rest of the commuoittestiol
who thus subject a large and ilwau
class to the caprices, the jealousies, I'll TV
worst passions of a few of their neighbours'rea 0
property of a publican should be as • sse
that of every other member of the cone 401
and in the name of common sense and itl
why should it be taken from him, or ie,,v 110
way injured, without a fair and open trial
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P
eers ? We trust this important subject
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duly considered in all its bearings when the 1310jer
licensing and regulating public-houses conies tied
the discussion of Parliament. If this act of jet'
again delayed, the publicans have an easy- re,,t in"
They amount to many thousands througll4),"
kingdom, and have no little influence in re't?
Members of Parliament. Let them unite as en C t jefl
and resolve to support no candidiite who. will n ° opPi
his assistance in abolishing a system that entail tif 0,0
them incessant annoyance, and brings not a-
them to the workhouse.

•0 There is no class of criminals for whom vc elec'
less sympathy than persons guilty of bribery rpri;l;
tions. No matter what may be their polities-`,."
ciples, we regard them as more deserving of 111'0111
execration than the thieves and pickpockets al° We'
shipped from our shores to Norfolk Island'
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therefore, have no. fault to find with the Tories ,
new-born zeal which they display in the punish°
re
bribery at the election of Members to ser
Parliament. On the contrary, we desire 11(1` 011
more than that they allow no criminal to escape- ts,
the principle of setting a thief to catch a thil
Tories are the fittest persons to prosecute a e3fiiiicil
which they were the original instigators, and okv js
they still secure a monopoly in their own
ehi#
How sturdily they fought to preserve the frial
to the pauper freemen, during the deba tefolY
the Municipal Reform Bill, solely because 6400
sisted wholly on bribes ! While the rotten 13°1.1tr
system lasted, they openly bought and sold tile ore'
liamentary representation of the country. Tll,)elec'
therefore, perfectly acquainted with bribery g"
tions, in all its most concealed corrupting pluat 019
practised by time Whigs, they now discover than
them, and they prosecute it. We heartiri,
they may utterly eradicate it. Let them but end Ba
cot'to do so honestly and impartially, and we slud
dially support them in such a cause. But &Poet
must go honestly and impartially to work. 91
must make no distinction between Whig ancl.A, po'
criminals. Neither must they be content vow' the
nishing the recipient of a bribe, and allow-`D$ apd
greater criminals, the rich man who supplies it'
his 'agent who administers it, to escape.

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The most important items of intelligence -
by the Levant Mail, are the answer of the Suareat
Porte to a joint note of the Ambassadors of the ,1)1,1
Powers, recommending the restoration of allin;At
relations with ' Greece, and the removal of.. eiit
mo''
PASHA, the Austrian renegade, from the Gove"—ft.Ate'l
of Syria. As a large Turkish force was coneen-a;
on the Greek frontier a conflict must undouu'"eJ
have taken place, but for the prompt and
interference of the Ambassadors of the Great We'
Some time must, however, elapse before an entirevili°
conciliation takes place. Prince AlAvitocADAO'frool
has arrived in Constantinople as Ambassaa°ll.,eti4
King OTHo to the Porte, has made some de 'very'
which are not stated, but which are said to he
ore,
displeasing to the Sultan. No doubt the :bre,
sentatives of the Great Powers will again hit
so that this new difficulty will be removed h,

exchange of a few diplomatic notes. nioat
The removal of OMAR PASHA from the Govern-- et
of Syria is a still more important event. And /tea
what was there which might not have been exPec
in his persecution of the Christians of Lelo°.iisto
Who ever expected toleration of former co-religi°ll/
from a renegade from their faith ? What mall)" sold
prises us is, that the Porte did not foresee what I%;° ot
have been the career of OMAR PASHA in SY,,,P:ere
the time of his appointment to that Pashalic. -",_*"t
was a report in circulation at Constantinople Oil
son of the EMIR BESCHIR would succeed o,oisbe
Governor of Syria. Such an appointment ivouluoli,
popular among the Christian inhabitants of Lebsuire,
and without conciliating them the Porte caniAt
tain Syria.

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Nothing can be conceived more humiliating
he condition of the French Press. It is prostrateerg
he feet of the Commissary of Police, for the Mil'i„talo
lardly deign to notice it. • Of this fact the J°llA be
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of Sunday report an instance which vv°ll,l"e plo
ludicrous but for the despotic Pr'