The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-25 00:00:00

with the consent and approbation of the pa-
rishioners at large. It was even shown that down
so late as the year 1723 they were appointed by
the parish ; but this Committee, in process of
time, by the supineness of the inhabitants, and
their own artful management, got the affairs of
the parish into their own sole control and direc-
tion, the parish at large retaining nothing of its
ancient rights but that of electing Churchwardens,
and even to that the Select Vestry laid claim.—
Thus these persons, who were only appointed by I
the open Vestry of the parish to look after their
business, subverted the power which appointed
them, and slapped the doors in the faces of their
masters. Such, upon inquiry, would be found
to be the origin of many corporate and other ex• '
, elusive powers of local government in this king-
dom. The crafty few, by unity of action and
vigilance of purpose, are generally able to over-
come the disunited and inactive many. Where-
ever the inhabitants of a parish have been so
neglectful of their own interests, or so addicted to
their ease as to allow a busy, meddling, grasping,
little knot of individuals to take the trouble off
their hands of governing their own affairs, they
have paid clearly for their laziness and neglect by
the taxes they have had to pay, and the insolence
they have had to endure.—Morning Herald.
Whoever perused the letter from our Man-
chester correspondent in our yesterday's paper,
can scarcely have failed to be impressed with the
truth of what we have all along been endeavour-
ing to inculcate on the minds of our readers—
namely, that the cotton trade, notwithstanding
all our advantages, is taking its departure from
this country, and that the great evil under which
the country is groaning is neither excessive trad-
ing, or over-production, or the substitution of
machinery for manual labour—but one which
has for years been approaching us in every
shape, and which has now come upon us like an
" armed man," in all its terrors—we mean exces-
sive poverty; this painful and melancholy truth
is now clear to every one. There is no possi-
bility of avoiding seeing it in every branch ; for
it is visible in all, and becomes daily worse,
without any feasable prospect of its being either
amended or remedied. If we go to the manu-
facturing districts, we find the capitalist not
only obliged to content himself with some-
thing less than a fair remuneration for his
outlay, and even for that remuneration, trifling
as it is, to trust his property for months
in the hands of those who have little other se-
curity to give than their industry and enterprise.
If we take a survey of the agricultural districts,
we find the stock of the farmer exhausted, and,
maugre the aid of the Corn Laws, pauperism the
main characteristic of his labourers. If we return
to the metropolis, there is no quarter from which
time cry of distress is not heard. Credit is almost
unknown—the capitalists will not lend their money
to traders, but lay it out instead on Government
Funds, mortgages, and reversionary interests—
profit is a term in the mercantile vocabulary
which has lost its usual meaning, and in a word,
" come foul, come fair," there are few living at the
present day who remember to have ever witnessed
such a general depression among all classes.
coupled with so small a prospect of its being
removed. The primary cause of all these evils,
we have already observed, is the excessive poverty
of those whose industry and enterprise were
formerly wont to promote the prosperity of the
country ;—but the proximate and immediate
cause is the substraction of the small notes, and
the consequent limitation of credit by bankers.
This was a step which the country could not
afford to take. Gold may lie the best tender
for luxurious living ; but where there is no gold,
a cheaper medium and less comfort must suffice ;
and co►►fident we are that, sooner or later, the
Government must make a return to paper
money, The increased amount of taxes and
charges of all kinds, in consequence of the in-
creased value of money, is now felt to be a
burthen which no one has the ability to bear.—
Morning Advertiser.

NEW INNER TEMPLE REGULATIONS.

A statement has been circulated amongst the
profession, that in the King's Bench, a day or
two ago, a barrister inquired of Mr. Gurney,
the King's Counsel, and one of the Benchers of
the Inner Temple, what was intended by the
new regulations ? The reply is said to be in
substance, that the effect of the new regulations
would in fitct be negative, and that the object
was merely to keep out low people. It is also
said that Mr. Richards, one of the proposed
examiners, intimated, in answer to similar in-
quiries, that in general the examinations would
be light, for the fact was, that they were insti-
tuted for the purpose of keeping out certain in-
dividuals who could be kept out by no other
means. In reference to a public matter of this
nature, there can be no breach of confidence in
making knowß statements of this kind which are
in circulation amongst the profession. These
avowals at once confirm the apprehension of
those below the bar—special pleaders, attorneys,
and students—as to the sinister purpose of the
regulations, and stamp their conclusions from
the mass of other evidence, that the pretence of
anxiety that the future members of the bar should
be highly qualified was utterly unfounded. For
low persons must be read persons not of recog-
nized aristocratic rank, for the Benchers have
already the power of refusing to call persons
against whom any disreputable transaction can be
proved. In one or two instances, to which it is
necessary to advert, they have exercised the
power in a manner which would perhaps obtain
the sanction of the public, but in the majority of
instances they have interfered in a manner en-
tirely reprehensible. In general, their existing
rules, as respects attorneys, are framed in a
narrow and most invidious spirit. Horne Tooke
was a student of the Inner Temple, and he was
rejected, not because he had not property, for
he had at the time an independence—nor be-
cause he did not know Latin and Greek, and
General Literature—nor because he had been an
attorney; but because he had the stain of having
been ordained a clergyman, a blot which the
Benchers decided never could be washed from
his character, though his morals and qualifica-
tions in other respects were indisputable.—
Morning Chronicle.

STEUART, and his female associate, who re-
ceived sentence of death on Tuesday, for the murder of
ROBERT LAMONT, on board the Toward Castle steam-
boat, on the River Clyde, in the month of December last.
being classed
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ibne,
amr
noantsetedresmoofnism
oy
the Nlviroerstth ypto)rft.
...yen be-
fore his trial, STEUART admitted to some persons who had
access to him that he had dyne. (murdered) seven persons
besides LAmoNT, by administering to them what he called,
by poisoning
in his
them
tainted,dsoiicitetetr,i,
shactonisv
icti
on
he
has,
we understand, confessed to three more murders, making
eleven in all,_ Caledonian Mercury.