The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-30 00:00:00

DERBY.

13 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Canvas colt
15 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Br. to Moses
16 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Post Obit (Posthuma colt)
_ _ _

16 to 1 agst His Majesty's Electress colt
16 to 1 agat Lord G. Cavendish's Espagnolle c.
16 to 1 aget Lord Sligo's Prince Eugene
17 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Morris Dancer
18 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Will-o'-the-wisp
20 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Luse filly
30 to 1 agst Lord G. Cavendish's Brother to Sontag
OAKS.
6 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Green Mantle
7 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Varna
10 to I agst Mr. Batson's Lusa filly
12 to 1 agst Mr. Rids&le's Clotilde
16 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Vat
30 to 1 agat Device (Defiance)
ST. LEGER.
12 to 1 agat Mr. Stephenson's Voltaire
13 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Rowton
40 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Vat
The rest as before.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINTMENTS FOR THIS "%TEXT.

Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Aylesby
Village; Wednesday, at Fox Dales; Friday, at Kettleby
Thorp ; and Saturday, at Hendale Lodge—at eleven.
Mr. Letter's Harriers, on Wednesday, at the Shoulder
of Mutton ; and Saturday, at Alderney Cottage—at half-
past ten.

- The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Winsford ;
Wednesday, at Booth-lane Toll-bar-gate; Thursday, at
Minahull Guide-poet; and Saturday, at Sandiway Head
—at half-past ten.
Mr. Price's Hounds, on Tuesday, at The Gint (Nant-
glyn) ; Thursday, at Cefn Llwyd-bridge ; and Saturday, at
Gwaenynog—at half-past ten.
The East Sussex Hounds, on Monday, at Firly ;
Thursday, at Chailey South Common ; and Saturday, at
Hellingly—at a quarter before eleven.
The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Badaworth-
hall ; Thursday, at Red-house—at half-past ten ; and Sa-
turday, at Acton, at half-past eleven.
Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at Shuckburgh-hill ;
Wednesday, at the Kennel, Dunchurch ; Thursday. at
Rourton ; and Saturday, at Princethorpe Village—at half-
past ten.

- Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday-, at Egginton ; Thurs-
day, at Eton Wood; and Saturday, at Blithfield—at half-
past ten.

The Warwickshire Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Mitford-
bridge ; Wednesday, at Wainbody Wood; ,Friday, at Al-
veston Pasture; and Saturday, at Austey Wood—at half-
past ten.

The Lambton Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Shotton ;
Tuesday, at Chester-le-street; Thursday, at Brandon ;
and Saturday, at Sunderland-bridge--.at ten.
The York and Ainsty Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at
Red-house ; and Saturday, at Whixley--at half-past ten.
The Surrey Fox-hounds, on Saturday, at Lock's Bot-
tom—at half-past ten.

H. Jolliffe, F.eg.'a Fox-bounds, on Saturday, at Chalden
—at eleven.

AWFUL,LY SUDDEN DIIATN.—As the Cham-
pion coach was stopping at Oxford on its way to London,
on Saturday night last, the guard, ( Vaughan) while stat-
ing to a gentleman passenger that his trunk was perfectly
safe, and in the act of pointing out its position on the roof,
suddenly dropped down and. expired, though apparently in
perfect health the moment before ! This appalling catas-
trophe is rendered more affecting from the circumstance
of the poor fellow (who was a steady well-conducted man)
having left a widow and four orphans (the youngest only
four months old) totally unprovided for. A letter was
sent to break the sad intelligence to the unfortunate
woman who Was suddenly bereaved of her only support,
but when she arrived at . Wycomb, some officious person
incautiously apprized her of the full extentof her loss, which
gave her such a shock, that her eyes became suddenly fixed,
and she lost the power of utterance for several hours, and
was carried in that state to Oxford, where her husband's
body lay. As soon as Richard Costar, Esq. and Mrs. Gel-
lett, of the Angel Hotel, Oxford, were informed of this
afflicting dispensation, and of the destitute condition of the
widow and orphans, they commenced a subscription on
their behalf, with the most prompt humanity, to which
they contributed very handsomely themselves, and we have
no doubt that their benevolent example will be quickly imi-
tated by the humane inhabitants of Oxford, to many of
whom poor Vaughan was well known,--Cheitenham
Chronicle..

SPIRIT OF Tlfl LONDON JOURNALS.

We have hitherto been silent, though not un-
observant, spectators of certain circumstances
which appear to us to be fraught with momen-
tous, and, we hope we may add, auspicious, con-
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Circular, though generally remarkable for the
singular brevity of its communications, and all-
unused to meddle with State secrets, may some-
times nerve as a guide to inure attentive ob-
servers of passing events. Front this source, ac-
cordingly, we learn that almost daily Cabinets
have oflate been held, which have seldom sepa-
rated till a late hour. ilia question naturally
suggests itself; upon what topic these long ain't
frequent deliberations have been employed,—
what great public question is there which, inure
titan any or all others, attracts—and, we 311i1N,,
say, absorbs—public interest, and which may
therefore fairly be presumed to occupy the at-
tention of Government It can scarcely be one
connected with foreign affairs : there our
course must have been long since determined,
and if not easy, it is at least evident ; besides,
any difficulties which might arise in that quarter,
would affbrd matter rather for negociation
abroad, than for discussion at home. But a
single dance at our internal policy presents
an
object of sufficient interest to engross, and suffi-
cient perplexity to demand, the sedulous and
undivided consideration of Ministers. NN'e may
say, without fear of contradiction from any side,
that the hopes of the nation are fixed in anxious
suspence upon the course to be pursued with
respect to the Catholic question. Emancipation
is hailed by the one party as the harbinger of
peace, and the extinguisher of religious and
party feuds, while it is deprecated on the other
as fatal to the Constitution. In short, however
opposite the opinions of its expediency, none
refuse to admit its paramount importance.--.
What, then, so likely to be the subject of
anxious, toilsome deliberation upon the part
of the Government ?—now, to more than
ever, when Parliament is approadung
with
rapid strides, and threatens to over:ake them
while their course is undetermined, and
...thelr.
re-
solution yet unformed ? What other sii./lect
could have kept the Duke of Wellington 2"
such constant personal communication with the
King ? What, but to lay before his Majesty
the solemn conviction of his advisers, that the
period is at length arrived when peace and union
may be safely given to all classes of his Majesty's
subjects, without injury or risk to any ? Above
all,'what else can have taken the highest digni-
tary of the church to Downing-street (a piece of
information for which we are again indebted to
our friend the Court Circular) immediately pre-
vious to the Premier's last visit to Windsor ?
Was the Archbishop of Canterbury summoned
for the purpose of advising the Minister upon
points of foreign policy ? Will it be pretended
that the object of his Grace's visit was to
soothe the unchristian enmity of the Turks
and Russians, or to preach religious peace be-
tween the Greeks and Mussulmans? What could
it be, again we ask with confidence, but to confer,
as the first officer of the Church, with the prin-
cipal functionary of the State, upon a matter so
nearly concerning the best interests of both ?
We own that these reasons appear conclusive to
our minds in warranting the very strong impres-
sion of the truth of our surmises ; and though

the rumours of the same tenour which meet us
at every turn have probably no other source than
that which has given rise to dur own opinion,
yet they serve so far to confirm its accuri,ey, as
to prove that we are not singular in entertaining
it, but that others have drawn the same conclu-
sions from the same premises as ourselves. We will
venture, therefore, to assume that we are not
deceived ; but that the Cabinet has been—and,
for aught we know, is still—engaged in consi-
dering the great question of Catholic emancipa-
tion. What will be their decision ? Can any
one doubt it ? Is the Duke of Wellington's -
character such, that having once submitted his
views to the consideration of his colleagues,
and so far committed himself in their favour, he
should consent to withdraw his own proposals,
and to stultify himself by succumbing to any or-
dinary difficulties ? We have not so humble an
opinion of his Grace's firmness, as to suspect
him of wavering from a purpose gravely and
honestly adopted. lie cannot have lightly re-
solved to consult his colleagues upon this ques-
tion, and, his course once chalked out, he is not
the man to swerve from it, much less draw back,
in compliment to prejudice, or from fear of oppo-
sition. His splendid military career ought at
least to spare him the suspicion of such pusilla-
nimity ; and if we have not misapprehended the
object which he has in view, or over-rated his
perseverance in the pursuit of it, his Grace may..
rest well assured, that, splendid as that military
career has been—unrivalled as it undoubtedly is,:
in the brilliancy of its exploits, or the more solid
glory of its results—he is about to ascend one •
step yet higher in the temple of lame. The
conqueror of all other nations' has left himself
one, and but one, triumph to achieve—the peace
and happiness of his own.—Times.

As the Session of Parliament is now so near
at hand, it is to be hoped that the Commission
which has been so long sitting to consider the
present state of the practice of the law, more
especially us regards special pleading, will expe-
dite its labours, and report early enough in the
Session, to allow some effective reformation to
be adopted before the long vacation. That the
practice of Special Pleading can long continue
as it is at present is out of the question. A
system of verbal and technical subtility—calcu-
lated not to promote but defeat justice—not to
elucidate but embarrass legal questions—par-
takes too much of the dark ages of the law to
be tolerated in these enlightened times. Such
a system is continued solely for the benefit of
the " craft" that practise it, and, in proportion
as it brings gain to them, it is a grievance to
the community at large. When suitors pleaded
orally in Court, or when the pleadings were,
to speak technically, ore tents, it was im-
poss►ble that the quibbling forms and su-
perfluous verbiage which now abound in
pleadings, could have had any existence.—
It is necessary that all legal proceedings
should be carried on by certain defined and ap-
propriate forms—such forms arc requisite for
the purpose of ensuring regularity and clearness.
But simplicity is the parent of precision, and no
,ms can be conducive to clearness which are

n..,t simple. Is it so with our mode of pleading
at the present day ?—Quite the reverse. It is
complicated and loaded with absurd fictions and
useless verbiage to an extent that not only ob-
scures and encumbers the question to be de-
cided, but frequently shuts it out of view, and
sinks the merits of the case in a wrangle about
the pedantry of forms. All this, however, con-
tributes to swell out bills of costs, and make
law a luxury. This is very well for those who
sell the article, but the purchasers ought to

have ju.tico cheape;;;in a land that boasts of tivi
excellence of its ; but :he hest laws is the
.world could not- be satisfietoiily :Idministered in
connection with the present system of Special
must remain hoodwinked
it is reformed.—Mornia. flerald.
Tn our remark.; on the case at the Wilts Quar-
ter Sessions, reported in the Devizes Gazette,
which appeared in the Chronicle of Tuesday last,
when noticing the practice of compelling a de-
fendant, before allowing him to have a trial, to
ply the fees of the Clerk- of the Peace,
chiding not only the expenee of ,I.stlmeloning a
Jury, but the c!targes for re(icrding his verdict,
and enterinT the
sjurignient of the Court
agaiii.ct hint, though, by a late Stdtute, the fees,
paid by a prisoner win• !multi he lcquittvd are
ordered to be paid by the county—we observed
that this bare-'raced iniquity, practised in the
county in question, was probably practised in
every other county, with the conntrance of the
Magistracy. we have since inquired of Barris-
ters whetiocr our conjecture was well-founded,
and we find that it is the general practice for
Clerks of the Peace to deny justice to all who
will not comply with the above terms. That
any Clerk of the Peace who has brains enough
to be suffered to go * large should pref;ie throw.
ing the charges on a defendant rather than on a
prosecutor, will surprise no one. His object is
a rich harvest, and the more is thrown on the
defendant, the more eneouragemcnt is given to
prosecute. and consequently the greater the
amount of fees; for we shall hardly he accused
of a veant of charity in strpposing that a
prosecutor will seldom be discouraged from con4g
forward by any fear of di!iLessingoa defend-
ant, and that he wouldhq tmos'lt more scru-
pulous in exposing .pecuniary sacrifices
than in exposing hi4...vitt,,ponent. Moreover, the
Clerk of the Pe!" 'without posse:-:sing any great
stock of penetrati:an, could hardly fail to per-
ceive, that were a prosecutor to be called on to
pny as high 'an amount of charges for every in-
dividual /:ie included in his indictment as if there
were r;nly one indicted, this would operate as a
st.7o;ug inducement to include as few persons as
possible in an indictment ; whereas, by charging
each of ten defendants as much as if only one
were indicted, the prosecutor has en encourage-
ment to include as many as possible, both for
purposes of annoyance and to deprive defendants
of witnesses. The clerk's business is not justice;
but sacking money ; and he would only be
laughed at as a fool were he, in this knowing
country, to diminish his income from an abstract
love of justice. Neither do we blame clerks of
the Peace for giving splendid dinners to the Ma-
gistrates, as au inducement to them to shut their
eyes to the peculiarities of this beautiful inter-
pretation of the passage itt the Great Charter
respecting the denial of justice—that passage
which Sir Francis. Burdett pronounced to he
alone worth all the discoveries of modern philo.
sophers. The Clerk of the Peace could not, per-
haps, employ more judiciously a hundred or two
of his five or six thousand a year than in reach-
ing Magistracy through that very sensible part
of an Englishman, his stomach. But what we
complain of is, that English gentlemen should
be so lost to all honourable feeling as to look
pTatiently on these abominations, year after year,
to see the poor labourer . writhinr, .under the ex-
periments of an officer of their Court, passing
between the torture of a protracted imprison-
ment—the prospect before him if tillable to pay
the seven or eight pounds demanded from him—
and the stripping himself of his all, and laying
friends and relations under contributions to raise
a sum of such magnitude to him. Whenever
they hear of odious and iniquitous practices in
any part of the world, before condemning them,
let them bethink themselves of the uncontradicted
declaration made by Mr. Holcomb in presence
of the Wiltshire Magistrates, that a poor la-
bourer had before their faces been denied a trial,
and taken back to prison, there to remain till
the next Sessions, because he could not raise
enough to satisfy the demands of the Clerk of
the Peace. The men who connive at these do-

ings, whose indignation does not boil over at I
witnessing them, are not ready to do every
thing only because every thing is not safe ; but,
we protest, we do not believe there is any one
thing which they would be withheld from do-
ing, if it could be done with impunity. These
arc the dark spots in England. Corruption has
pervaded every part of the mass. Wherever we
turn, from the highest to the lowest, we find
abuses of the grossest kind flourishing Without
check or controul. Let one measure of justice be
proposed, immediately thousands of interested
corruptionists start up and exclaim, our rights are
invaded. The question in England is not to re-
dress evils, but, for the sake of the corruptionists,
themselves, to keep them within such bounds as
to prevent their destroying the substance on .
which they are fed. Our law reforms will ex-
tend thus far. Never,however,willjustice in Eng-
land be brought to every man's door, by the
establishment of local courts. Never will the
Unpaid be deprived of trafficking in licenses,
under the pretext of preserving morals. Pallia-
tives are all that we can expect. One thing
surprised and at the same time delighted us in
the Wiltshire case. The operation of a recent
statute of Mr. Peel has been more extensive
than we could have imagined. Mr. Swayne,
the Clerk of the Peace of Wiltshire, is re-
ported to have said, that "by a recent sta-
tute, which empowers Magistrates to dispose
of assault case, nine-tentils of the fees he
usually received were taken off." Bat the fees
to the Clerk of the Peace are not the only
relief which has been afforded to the poor by
this excellent Act ; they have also been relieved
from all the char attendant on summoning a
Jury, &c. One 'grown, in a discussion with an-
other, reinforces his argument with a blow, the
assailant and the assailed proceed at once to a
Magistrate, and the whole affair is disposed of
in a trice, to the satisfaction of both parties, and
without the ruin of either. To bring such cases
before a Jury, is a shameful waste of the time of
men called on to leave their._ avocations to dis-
charge a serious duty. The seaspp for enabling
Magistrates 'to dispose of such cases, summarily
is obvious enough ; but how was Mr. Peel al-
lowed to make such an inroad on corruption ?
We suppose that neither himself nor the inte-
rested parties ever anticipated such a momentous
annihilation of fees as it has effected. Well may
the Clerk of the Peace bite hard in the case of
those poor devils who have the misfortune stillto
come into his clutches !—Morning Chronicle.

A gentleman, who hail not been remarkable
for his appetite, became, without any apparent reason, very
voracious, so much se, that he could not dine out, without
first allaying the 'ravings of his stomach. He consulted
several medical men, without any alteration i❑ his com-
plaint. By accident, a book on the medicinal virtues of
water came in his way, and from the doctrines contained
is it, be was induced to give up all other fluids, which, in
the course of a few months, restored him to his former
reel health,--/diuerpool Albion.