The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-30 00:00:00

is not yet, but it is nearer by years thati it would have
been but for Mr, RottitTK's Bribery Report.

The inhabitants of the metropolis have occasionally
just cause of complaint against the conduct of the Ma-
gistrates and police, but owing to the vigilance of the
Press, and also to the open manner in which the pro-
ceedings in all the inferior Courts are conducted, the evil
is trifling when compared with the doings of these func-
tionaries in the country. In remote 'districts they are
almost left without control. The local new4paper is
probably, under the influence of some of them,
and consequently the grossest acts of oppres-
sion only reach the ears of the public through
correspondents to leading provincial or London
journals. We noticed on Thursday a remarkable stretch
of power in committing some poor man to prison for
non-payment of rates, and some months ago another of
even kworse description, which occurred at Stoke-upon-
Trent. A respectable man, the owner of a boat on the
canal, was taken into custody by a constable, on sus-
picion of having stolen a plank, conveyed to. a station-
house, where he was chained by the kg to an iron
ring fixed in the fluor, and confined in this manner
fur four days in a most filthy condition, when he
was at last taken before a Magistrate and discharged.
This cruel treatment did not satisfy the parties, fer a bill
was filed against the unfortunate man, the Grand Jury
returned a true bill, and having been arrested on a Bench
warrant, he was again committed to prison. The Ma-
gistrates refused to bail him, and he was consequently
confined till a Judge's order for his release could be ob-
tained. He surrendered to take his trial at the present
Assizes at Stafford, but the Judge stopped the case.
He of course brought an action for false impri-
sonment, and obtained a verdict with 201. damages.
The constable against whom the action was brought was
the least guilty party, for the gaol, it appears, was in
such a dilapidated state, that this iron ring with chains
was found necessary to prevent prisoners from escaping.
The Magistrates and Grand Jurors who suffered such an
abomination were allowed to go free. Yet this is called a
land of liberty, and praises without end are bestowed on
the humanity of ()lir laws, and the mild administration 4
justice, and the sum of 201., is considered a sufficient
compensation to this unfortunate victim of oppression.
To crown the proceedings, the intelligent Jury at first
refused to assess the damage, and asked the Judge to fix
the amount, hut Lord Chief Justice TINDAL said that it
was no part of his duty, and no doubt looked with
wonder and amazement at the twelve gentlemen in the
jurors' box.

Sir IL PEEL on Thursday protested, and we think
with good reason, against the system lately adopted of
reporting interviews between Ministers and Deputations
from different dosses. The practice is objectionable,
even when correct and impartial reports are given, be-
cause it tends to check free communication between the
two parties ; but it is quite unjustifiable when only a
one-sided view of the question is given, and the conver-
sations are reported from memory. It would be only
fitir, when the result is to be published, that the state-
ment should be drawn up and submitted to the revision
of the Minister before it goes forth to the world. Dad
such a plan been adopted many misconceptions which
have arisen from the late interviews with the Govern-
ment would have been avoided. We have found it
necessary to mention the subject, in order to justify
ourselves for refusing certain communications made to us
by respectable Correspondents.

The French Journals have all been received. We sub-
join the following extracts from them :

It appears (says the Debats) that the Deputies of the Left
have determined on giving all their votes to M. 0. Barrot for
the Presidency of the Chamber.
We yerceive by the Austrian Observer that the Court of
Vienna went into mourning for the Duke of Orleans en the
19th. This was to continue to the 26th. Half mourning was
to be worn from that period till August 3d.
We find in the Leipsic Gazette the following letter from
Constantine:de, July 6, stating that conflicts had taken place
between the Turkish and Persian troops, near Erzeroum
and Bagdad. The letters from Constantinople of the 7th,
from other sources, do not, however, speak of these collisions.
The account in the Leipsic Gazette says :—" The Turkish
troops have fought with those of Persia in the env►rons of Er-
zeroum and near Bagdad. The Turks were conquerors. The dif-
ferences between Persia and Turkey, relative to the frontiers,
led to this collision ; to vi hick must be added the fact that the
Persians refused to give up to the Turks a Pacha who had
taken refuge in Persia."
The Egypt►an General Edhem-Bey, Minister of Public In-
struction, has arrived at Marseilles from Malta, on his way to
London. He is acccmpanied by a numerous suite.
An ordonnance relative to the expenses of the funeral of the
late Duke of Orleans was signed by the King, at Neuilly, on
the 18th instant, on a report of the Minister of the Interior,
and with the advice of the Council of Ministers. The follow-
ing are the essential articles :—" There is opened to our Mi-
nister of the Interior, on the grant for 1842, an extraordinary
credit for 400,000 f., for the expenses of the obsequies of our
well-beloved son the Duke of Orleans Prince Royal. The re-
gularisation of this credit shall be proposed to the Chambers at
the next session." By another Royal ordonnance, dated 20th
instant, the King, after reciting the law of the 7th of May,
1637, fixing the sum to be paid out of the public Treasury as
a dower to the Duchess of Orleans in case of her widowLooil,
ordains as follows:—" There is (Toned to our Minister of the
Finances, out of the grants for 1842, an extraordinary credit f
139,166 f. 66c., applicable to the dower of our well-beloved
daughter-in-law the Duchess of Orleans. This expense shall
be the object of a special chapter in the budget of 1842. '1 he
regularisation of this credit shall be proposed to the Chambers
at their next ses,ion."

The Bishop of Evreux, who had returned to his diocese,
will come back again to Paris to assist at the funeral of the
Duke of Orleans, and will accompany the corpse to Dreux.
Two African priests, in behalf of those of their own colour
living in Paris, and who have so frequently experienced the
benevolent protection of the Royal family, celebrated on Mon-
day, in the chapel of Neuilly, a mass for the repose of the soul
of the Duke of Orleans. A great number of blacks of both
sexes on the same day attended the mortuary mass at the church
of Saint Sulpice.
. . . . .

Count d'iippony, the Austrian Ambassador, had the honour
of delivering on Monday to the King and Queen at Neuilly
letters of condolence from his Sovereign on the death of the
Prince Royal.
The Swiss journals publish the following letter sent by the
King of the French to the Helvetic Diet, on the day after the
death of the Duke of Orleans :—" Very dear and great friends,
allies, and confederates.—A horrible accident has just deprived
our family and France of our beloved son Ferdinand• Philippe-
Louis-Charles Henry Duke of Orleans, Prince Royal of the
French. He expired in our arms, and in those of the Queen,
yesterday at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon. Over-
whelmed with the most profound grief, and a.sured of the
sympathy which the praiseworthy Cantons of Helvetia, the an-
cient and noble allies of France, feel for all that affects her,
we announce to you this cruel and unexpected event, and offer-
ing up prayers that Heaven may have in reserve for Switzer-
land only days of felicity, we eagerly renew to you the assur-
ance of our sincere esteem and unchangeable good will.
(Signed) " LOUIS PHILIPPE.
( Countersigned ) "GUI Z OT."
So fully was the Chamber attended yesterday by the Mem-
bers of the Two Houses, that a little before the King entered,
M. Emile de Girardin, after in vain seeking a seat on the lett
side, went to the right on a similar mission, and was equally
unsucci- ssful. We believe that the Hon. Deputy was obliged
to stand during the whole period that the King was present.
BOURSE—PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cent5.....117 65... 117 65... 117 50... 117 55
4 per Cents 101 35... 101 35... 101 35... 101 35
3 per Cents 77 40... 77 45... 77 30... 77 45
Belgian Bank... 775 ... 775 ... 775 ... 775
Belgian Fives lo2i ... 102 i ... 102 i ... 102 i
1840 lo3a ... 103 j ... 103 a ... 1031
Spanish Active ... 221 ... 24 ... 24
Neapolitan
Roman

RAILWAY SHARES
St. Germain .. 810 ... 810 ... 810 ... 810
Versailles, R.B ... 290 ... 290 ... 290 ... 290
L.B 95 ... 95 ... 95 ... 95
Rouen
Orleans.
Strasburg to Bale 2OO ... 202 50... 200 ... 202 50
BELGIAN r UNDS—Baussats, Aux 27
Actual Debt, a% per Cent.
ttothschild'b Loan, 5 per Cent lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 9l
Sper Cent.
---. O%
.(1640) 1013%
Loan of City, 1'232,4 per Cent 93%
Societyol Contincree,4 N,per Cent, S6
dank of Belgium, 5 per Cent . 73
National Society ...
Exchange on London (short) .......
—Brussels Papers, July 27.
AUSTRIAN ruNu..-viENNA, JULY 19.
!•treper CORM BleillniqUCS
~ 101 l
lose per Cents. llO%
1 hree per Cents.
Hank Shares . 00000000000000000 "................ 1606
HAMBUItGH BORSEN HALLE, JULY 23.

Thirty.scven

Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
Anglo-Russian Loan lo 914 ii 9
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate lO2,
Inscription, Ist series .
Russian a per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per tent. (1840) B9 88
Dutch Actual Debt. per Cent stili 53)
Ditto a per Cent. -
Polish Bonds

Money.

New Tickets. llB _
Anglo-I/mid) Loan, 3 per Cent.
Spanish, New 5 por Cents. IS .
EXCHANGES ON LONDOS.

HAMBURGH, JULY 26.-13 t , Two months 1 4 7%.
STOCKHOLM, JULY lit— Seventy-live days, 136.
VIENNA, JULY I:4.—Three months, 9. 12.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JULY 23.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cont.
Prussian English Bond , 1830, per cent. I 2 y,
Exchange on London
Prussian State Gazelle, July 24.

LUCKY TOWNS.-It is no less singular than true
that there are three market towns in the county of
Somerset, without an attorney .esiding in either, and two of
them arc sea-ports.
IVe have much pleasure in remarking that symp-
toms of reviving trade begin to appear. The accounts from most
Of our:great seats of manufacture and commerce speak:of improve-
ment. This is particularly the case in London, Liverpool,
Bristol, and Manchester. here in the woollen districts we can
also speak, in the language of a correspondent, of "more business
and to better purpose." And in Scotland, too, there are marks
of revival.—Leeds Journal.

After the departure of her Majesty and suite from
the Slough station on Saturday, upon the arrival of the Court
from Buckingham Palace, Gibbs, the Superintendent of the
Police to the Great Western Railway Company at that station,
discovered in one of the carriages of the special train a brace
of loaded bolster pistols which had been Incautiously left by
one of the Queen's attendants. The pistols sere fortunately
discovered tirisave been loaded Wore any accident occurred,
and they were immediately dispatched by a special messenger
to Windsor Castle.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1842.