The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-06 00:00:00

PEDESTRIANISM.

Artrstmav, Nov. S.—A man of the name of M'Cul-
lan, on Monday last, undertook to walk 100 miles in 24
successive hours, on half a mile of ground measured from
Mr. Rickford's bank to a spot. near Mr. Barker's premises,
on the Bierton-road. He accomplished his task with ease
in two hours Jess than the given time. He performed,
this feat for such trifling donations as those who witnessed,
it chose to bestow.—M'Cullan's mother, an old woman of
6G, exhibited her pedestrian abilities on Wednesday, by
walking 20 miles in fthir succesive hours. She also per-
formed the task she had assigned herself, and without ap-
pearing to he greatly fatigued.

NEW TON liiINT.--The annual Mayor's
Hunt, at NeWion, in Canine!, was held as usual, at Mr.
BECK'S on Monday last, and it was the general opinion of
the members, that a finer day's sport was seldom witnessed.
—lVeqmoreland Advertiser.

OXFORD; OCT. 27.--Mr. PA LLMER, the
member for Surrey, has jolt complimented the Corporation
of Oxford, by presenting -to them an Historical Picture,
representing the cekbrated Ammon on his death-bed, ex-
• finding his son-in-law, the young Earl of WARWICV.
Thp subject is said to be. ♦ery naturally conceived and e:i-
ecuted : there is a-just expression of . the calm resignation
of the dying Christian ; and the young man appears to be
deeply affected on receiving his:relation's last instruction and
blessing. The portrait of Anotsox is drawn from the
most esteemed Picture. Mr. REYNOLDS, the son of Mr.
REYNOLDS, engraver to his MAJESTY, is the'painter ; we
understand 'this effbrt is highly creditable to the talents of
this young though rising Artist.
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FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—Mr. Calctafti
M.P. in Hanover-square, from Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire;
Sir Alasseli Lopez, Bart. M.P. in Arlington-street, from
his seat, Westluiry,Wilts-; Colonel James Hughes, from
Anglesea; A. Stewart, Esq. from Ireland; Sir John Ni-
M:P. in Bruton-street, from Cardiff ; the Duke cod
Duchess of Richmond, at their house in Upper Brook-
street, fronvNewinarket ; Sir Francis Barker, from Ire-
land ; the Earl of Sefton, at his honsein-Arlington-street,
from Newmarket;- Sir Henry and Latly'Halford, from their.
seat, Westow'•ltall; Leicestershire ; Charles Taylor,• Esq.
-ALP. at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Holly Court,.
Liphook, Hants ;-, Colonel Maxwell. at ditto, from Bath ;
Thomas Geld, Esq. at ditto, from Brighton ; Richard Ray,
Esq. at ditto, from Oxford ; the Hon.' Archdeacon and
Mrs. Stopford, at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street, frOin
• Tunbridge Wells; Sir John, Lady, and. Miss Gime, at the
Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets, from
Windsor; Mr. and Mrs. Edge, and Miss Wright, at ditto,
froM East BOurne ; Sir M.- G. Wood, Bart. at ditto ; H.
Montgomery, Eaq. at ditto,- from a tour ; W. Y. Peel,
Esq. M.P. at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from
Tamworth ; William Welch, Esq. at ditto, from a tour;
Mr. and, Mrs. Thomas Blackmore, at ditto, from Wales ;
Mr. and Mis. NOrinan, at ditto; C. Mol!oy, Esq. and
Son, at the. Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from Ireland ;
Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart, at ditto, from Bath ; Sir H.
Fane, Bart. at ditto, from his seat in Hants ; W. H. Stan-
ton, Esq. at the Stratford Hotel, Oxford-street, froth
Wales; T. Whitfield, Esq. at ditto, from Hereford;
ThomaS Herbert, Esq. Mrs. Herbert, and family, at ditto,
from. Brighton. • -
DEPA RTURES.—The Dowager Marchioness
of Salisbury, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Verulam,
at their seat,Gorliambury, Hertfordshire ; the Hon. M. De
Roos, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Baring, at their seat in
Hants; Mr. and Mrs. George Carrington, from their house
in Montague-square, for their seat in Bucks ; the Hon.
Frederick Lamb, to Rad Cowper's seat, Pansanger, Herts ;
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. George Lamb, on a tour; Colonel.
Ellice, for Howick, Northumberland ; Colonel Baldwin,•
for • Versailles ;• Lionel Harvey, Esq. for Sunning Hill.;
Henry Smith,
.Esq. from the Grosvenor Hotel, for Bath ;
Rev. Dr. Pre*, from the Stratford, Hotel, for the Rec-
tory, Winslow, Buckinghamshire ; Rev. J. Prowett and
:ion, from ditto, for Brighton ; Rev. .1. Baynes, from ditto,
for Buckinghamshire; Walter Maurice, Esq. Mrs. and the
two Misses Maurice, from ditto, for Dublin ; Edward.
Frazer, Esq. from ditto, for Bath ; Richard Moore, Esq.
'from ditto, for Bath ; John Jeffery, Esq. from ditto, for
Bath; ,Colonel and Mrs. Brotherton and family, from
Gould's ;Hotel, Jermyn-street, to Nice ; J. Stratton, Esq.
from ditto, on a tour; D. Cameron, Esq. from ditto, to
Southampton ;...William Congreve, Esq. from ditto, to
Southampton; the Marchioness and the Ladies Hastings,
from the Burlington Hotel, Old Btirlington and Cork- •
streets, to Hastings; Lord Farnham, from the Royal
• Hotel, St., James's-street, for Bath; Lord . Valentia, from
ditto, to Bath ; ,T. Champion, Esq. from ditto, tq Black-
water; Mr. and Mrs. Morrison, frornditto, to Paris. , •

CHANGES.--Sir Robert and the Hon. Lady
Gore Booth, at Southampton, from, Ireland; Mr. Gore
Booth, at Southampton, from Ireland ; the Earl of Buck-
inghamshire,,for Paris, from Hampden House, Great Mis-
senden ; Lord Kinnaird, from Rossie Priory, in Scotland,
on a tour ; Sir W..W. Wynn, Bart. M.P. at S. Peplo,
Esq.'s, Hereford, from the seat of E. B. Clive, Esq. ; Sir
Ronald Ferguson, M.P. at flolkham, from Scotland; the
Marquis of Tavistock, at Oakley House, from Newmarket ;
Lord Wharnclitfe; at Wortley Hall, from Newmarket ; Mr.
Fazukerley, M.P. at Harrowgate, from the Marquis of
Lansdowne's, at Bowood ; E. Unwin, Esq. fur Thorpe
Hall, Bedale, from Barnard Castle; J. Brissett, Esq. from
Richthond, for Bath; H. Seymour, from his seat in
Bedfordshire, for Wales ; the Marquis and Marchioness of
Exeter, at their seat, Burleigh, Lincolnshire, from New-
market; Lord and Lady F. L. Gower, at the Marquis of
Stafford's seat, West Hill, Surrey, from a tour ; Lord and
Lady-Anson,' at• Mr. Coke's seat, Hollrham, Notgulk, from
Newmarket; the Hon. ColOnel Anson, at Mr. Baring's
seat in Hants, from- Newmarket ; the lion. Agar and Lady
Georgiana Ellis, at Roehampton, from Lord it, Spencer's
seat, Woolbeding, Sussex,

•
~ARRIVALS,AND DEPARTURES FROM WAL-
KEes Bo y 4. HOTEL, GLasoow.—Sir James Miles Rid-
&Ur Bart. ; Captain Skinner and; family, let iiragoon
Guards ; Captain and Mts. Ross, Mrs. fkarnilton and fa-
mily, of Edinburgh; Kinnear; Esq. ditto; Captain
Tucker, Mrs.. lluir and faMily, Herefordshire;
Mrs. HaMilton and family, of Sunaram ; Mrs. West Ha-
milton and family, Ayrshire; Captain Archibald Hamil-
ton; Thomas Haggart, Esq. and family; Mrs. Timmins,
of Cheltenham ; Mr. and Mrs; Tilton, Yor;:shire ; Den-
ham Calderwood, Esc!. and family ; Colonel Limmond anti
family, Ayrshire ; Gilmore, Esq. of ine'n House ;
Frampton, Esq. of Cheshire ; ;Messrs. Gladstone, of
Liverpool ;. R. M. Atkinson, Es. ; Stronge,, F,iq, ';
AmbrOsiHnssey, Esq-..- of Salisbury ; Charles White, Esq.
of Trinidad; - Staples, Eeq.

SPIRIT (JP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

We have given in another otion of a paper which has beensenf*us by a cor-
respondent, purporting to be the• outline or
.the
independence. of Spanish America. We have
cvrluonrin the
securingtfa fisla
conditions of a projected tree
these
Government
e sconditions,
ditions„ and we
no doubt
be
satisfied that
the
whe on of Ferdinand -
would
believe that probably some of her statesmen may
have dreamt of,the possibility of realising them ;
but,_considered.as forming a treaty, tne) appear
a grosa.fabrication. The five or six. Governments
which Spain proposes to cover with the shield of
legitimate independence; after they have been se-
veral years Independent, in spite of all her at-;
1, •
tempts to subdue taeß, are made no parties to a
convention which proposes to rob them of
144,000,000 of dollars, and to render them tri-
butaries for ever to their former oppressors.—
Their money is, in fact, to be the great weight
in one scale against the " airy nothing" of Ferdi-
nand's recognition in the other ; and they are to
be cited into court as slaves, in order to feel the.
touch of the manumitting• rod, in the presence of
the two powerful allies who have already acknow-
ledged their independence and shared their com-
merce. How can these allies stipulate for the
submission of parties whom they have already,
invested with the character of independent States,
or consider, the conditional payment of sums,
which America will certainly refuse, as a dis-.
charge of •the -debts which Spain confesses that
she -owes • them. Still further, how could
England; which in the case of Mexico, Buenos
Ayres, and Colombia, Tefused on principle to
interfere between the mother country and her
colonies, and stood ready to accept the friend-
ship of these colonies after they had shaken off
the colonial yoke, agree to any stipulation by
which Cuba or the Philippines should be gua-
ranteed in: perpetual vassalage to the Spanish
crown ?' It will be recollected, that one of the
lures held out tolhe Spanish Government as an
inducement to commit suicide before the inva-
sion of 1823, was, that incase of submission
without fighting, France would assist his Catho-
lic Majesty in recovering his colonial dominiona;
but England, which was then opposed to the in-
terference of France, cannot now offer a similar
interference of her own. But it would be sit-
perfluous to argue at greater
length on the con,
'tents of a projected treaty, which, though it may
express the wishes of one or two of the parties,,
is never likely to be negotiated or adopted. In-
deed, the two last articles, which have no refer-
ence to the subject of South America, show that
the document has never been reduced to forth by
any diplomatist, and that its framer, when his
hand wa's in, was resolved to settle all political
questions at once, without caring much about the
character of his. plenipotentiaries, or the range of
his negociations. We, have.orily . been led to,:
mention it; because ait was sent us by a respect-.
able Correspondent:, ':and because being current,-
in a neighbouring capital, it might, without ex-,
posure, be apt to mislead.— Times.
We should suspect that the intelligent people
of France will, in consequence of the absurd cen.,
sorship established there, have to look to this
country for fresh information, or for the re-echo
of public opinion in Paris and the departments.
Our correspondence in this day's journal is ample,
and not without interest. The dissolution of
the Chamber pf Deputies, of which the French
journals dare ii-Of speak, seems a measure decid-
ed on. -The French Minister—the Ministerpar
excellence—is. grievously. abused. Of this, how-
ever, we are.certain, that no insignificant person
was ever the object of such bitter hatred. He
must have talent, because he has made many and
powerful enemies, and' still supports himself
against them. It is difficult even to conjecture
the motives for dissolving a Chamber which waa
originally formed by
such direct Government in-
terference, and which has always acted with such
conscientious complaisance to Ministerialwishes..
The Ministers failed, indeed, in most of their.
great legislative projects for the last two years,
but the blighting tempest blew from the higher
and more inaccessible Chamber. Their faithfill.
Deputies never refused them any thing, and the'
only apology for dismissing them is, that bv per
petually, adopting laws which the people opposed,
and agreeing to projects which the Peers reject-
ed, they have sacrificed their character as national
representatives, and can no longer act as a popu-
lar shield to their masters. Al necessary -conse-
quence of the dissolution of the Chambers is,
the temporary abolition of the censorship, so that
the suspended exercise of several rights will thus
be surrendered to the people at once, and the
Government will be able to gather from various
sources the state of public opinion—the
electors
pronouncing it by their votes, and the press pro—
claiming it through the constitutional journals.
The latter, after being so completely enslaved,
will enjoy a kind of satnr2zalia, which the good
sense of their directors, and' the fear of future
retribution, will prevent from degenerating into
riot and licentiousness. They will for some
time, of course, employ their recovered freedom
in pointing -out to the electors their rights and.
duties, in discussing the tnerits of candidates,
and warning the nation against a repetition of 1t,3
forrner choice. As M. de &New: had the
chief direction of the last election, and used his
power with an alleged disregard to constitutional
rights, the people .may expect some improve-
ment from the good sense and
more liberal dis-
positions of the -Prime Minister who Now holds
the seals of the Interior.—lbid..

We do not wonder at the great
.opposition
shown by many.of the Clergy to the new 'Lon-
don University.. Self-interest always has been—
and probably always will be—the ruling motive
with more than half mankind ; and unfortu-
nately religion 'itself has not hitherto been of suf-
ficient force to subdtac that all-pervading motive,
even among those whose province it is to instil
self-denial and benevolence into the rest of man-
kind. Themost ceontjtonytreides
—almbOsttoaf
• Clergyl,_av e
this especially
ofhithertomost
monopoly in the task of educating the male part
of the population ; and ~ thereout reap they no
small advantage." We ao. not. wonder—much
less express any regret—at this being the case ;
on the contrary, we readily admit that, from their
learning, their station,, and their principles, no
class of men can, generally speaking, be found
nearly so well qualified for so important ill 1
office.
But It must, at the same time, be apparent to
Any one, that, like most other monopolies, this
of education has' been not a little abused; and
that, especially on the score of expenee, it has
become so onerous, that persons of moderate
means are absolutely precluded
froth giving their
sons any thing like what is considered
the best
edlication, scarcely any classical school, either

public or private, exists, of any character, at I
which the annual charges of all kinds amount to
p
less than one hundred pounds, while at some
they are twice as much ; and when a lad reaches
the University, so little controul over expellee
exists there, that he is generally most popular,
and caressed by the " Fellows," who discharge
the office of tutors, in proportion to the extrava-
gance and disregard of money which he is able to
evince. One natural and unavoidable, but :to
many parents painful conseqiience of this is, that
they. are obliged to expatriate themselves and
their children, for the sole purpose of educating
the latter ; there being no doubt that as good an
education as can he got in England is to be
obtained for one-third the cost in France, Hol-
land, Flanders, or Germany. We would net be
understood to attribute this great disproportion
wholly, or indeed principally, to those in whose
hands the subject is placed ; mach, we believe,
is owing to monopoly—much to over-reaching
avarice and neglect—but much more, probably
to the high price of many of the necessaries of life.
A dear country. must necessarily be dear in all
things; and it would be as unreasonable to ex-
pect the English schoolmaster to compete with
the untaxed pedagogue of the Continent, as to
expect the British farmer to grow and sell corn
upon equal terms with his competitor in Poland.
But there can be no reason why an evil which
is partly unavoidable should therefore be enhan-
ced : and we cannot, therefore, but look with sa-
tisfaction at any reasonable prospect which is
held out of bringinc, down the cost of education,
by means of which many of our youth, who
are now sent abroad, may be detained at home :
and, above all, a competitipn created, Which may
have the effect of hringing.down and defeating
the abuses of the monopoly we have alluded to.
The London University seems likely to do this ;
and, if it does so, its originators and construc-
tors will be entitled to the gratitude and support
of the whole community ; while those among the
Clergy, who are so vehement in their censure of
it, may as well, we should think, make a virtue
of necessity, and, as there seems no prospect of
their opposition or their ridicule succeeding, by
themselves anticipating the removal of some
part of the evil it is destined to meet, they may
thus deprive it of the whole merit which it will
otherwise assuredly obtain.--Morning Herald.

The. project of a Joint Stock Bank to be
established as near the Metropolis as the Charter
of the Bank of England will allow, seems to
become more and more the subject of conversa-
tion. It appears to be generally understood, that
this establishment is intended, on the expiration
of the Bank Charter, to become a rival to the
Bank of England in London. It would be pre-
sumptuous to anticipate any thing in regard to
the failure or success—to the utility or mischief
of such an institution, till we know who are
the parties likely to unite their interests with it,
and to devote their attention to it. , We are not
gifted, like some of our contemporaries, with the
power of appreciating a Bank in the abstract, or
even of conceiving the possibility of so refitted
an abstraction. We know that ID a Bank there
ought to be -partners possessing property, and
managers possessing mercantile talent and expe-
rience, and we dare not, hazard an opinion upon
the success or utility of a projected establishment
of such a nature, without knowing very accu-
rately who those partners and managers are to
be; and the amount of property, and the kind of
talent and experience they possess. We have
one or two observatice:s however to offer upon
the subject,. but they shall proceed upon the
assumption of, the projected establishment being
quite unimpeachable, and indeed quite perfect in
respect to the matters to which we have alluded.
Indulging in- this assumption, then, it is plain
enough that the project will answer the purpose
of those who embark in it ; because, by the very
terms of the proposition, they are to he persons
cOnapetent to judge of the probability of
failure or success. Such persons of course
will not be actuated by any other feelings
than those of fair enterprise. If they en-
ter into competition with the Bank of Eng-
land, itwill be in the honest spirit of competition,
and not in that of acrimonious and short-sighted
hostility. They will 'commence the undertaking
exclusively with a view to promote their own in-
terests and that of their co-partners, and not prin-
cipally or indeed at all with the desire of injuring
the Bank of England. Such persons, if any ofc
them happen to be Country Bankers, will of
course be very far from entertaining a desire to
convert the proposed institution into a means of
revenging or averting any real or supposed injury
which they may have received, or with which
they may be threatened in that capacity by the
establishment of Branch Banks, or by any other
pail of the conduct of the Bank of England.
The least symptom of such a desire on their
parts would be quite sufficient to deprive. them
of the confidence of the public as the pro-
jeCtors or managers of a Metropolitan Bank,
Such competent persons as we have de-
scribed, must further have the good sense
and candour to perceive, that the business
of Government will remain in the hands of the
Bank of England, and that no new institution
will have the least chance to enjoy the advantages
.of any portion of it. Confidence and gratitude
will both be on the side of the Bank of Eng-
land, and will give it an unquestionable title
to the preference in all government employment
merany other establishment, upon equal terms.
And it, will scarcely be supposed that any
new Bank can do the work of Government
cheaper than the Bank of England can do it,
if it please. Thus much with reference to the
interests of the Shareholders in the projected
Bank. So far as the public generally are con-
cerned, such a Bank could not, we think, do any
hartn, and might probably do much good. If it
is to he an establishment, qualified by the mag-
nitude of its capital, and the prudence of its
management, to enter into competition with the
Bank of England, it will beyond all doubt enable
Government to treat with the latter much more
independently and advantageously than it could
otherwise do in any negotiation which may take
place upon the expiration of the Bank Charter.
The New Bank will, upon this approaching oc-
casion, be a watchful guardian of its own inte-
rests, which to a considerable extent will be
identified with those of the public, and we may
be assured that in such circumstances the Bank
Charter will not be renewed unless upon condi-
tions eminently advantageous to the community.
The Bank of England, almost ever since the
period of the revolution, and through a great
variety of trials and vicissitudes, political and
commercial, has been intimately connected with
Government, and has ever been found a zealous,
faithful, and valuable servant of the State. We
do not hence infer that the privileges it has ac-
-suired, and which have no doubt already yielded
it a rich remuneration
for its services, ought to
be eternal. tut we do
confidently infer froM
in
this, that it has notany of its recent measures

meditated its own aggrandisement as a Corpora-
tion, independently cf any regard to the public
welfare ; that, 'above all, it has not intended to
.advance it 3 own interest by the ruin of any
valuable class of the community.--Morning
Post.

In the Oriental Herald for November, we
find an account of an event which cannot fail to
create considerable sensation in England ; namely
the suspension of a Judge in India, Courtenay
Smith, Esq., brother of the Rev. Sydney Smith.
The circumstances which led to this measure are
thus detailed :
"A case in which Bebee Kadureh, commonly called
Bebee Ismut, was appellant, and Shah Ilhburrooddeen re-
spondent, was, in the year 1824, decided by a majority of
the Judges of the Sudder •Desvanny Adawlut against the
appellant, as far as her claim concerns lakhuraj, or free
assessed lands. I first mention briefly the nature of her
claim to those lands, and the substance of the defence on
the part of the respondent. The appellant states, that the
lands in question were at different periods granted to the
ancestors of her husband, and to their successive heirs for
ever, by the Kings of Delhi, for charitable purposes; that
the late husband of the appellant, who was the legal heir
and the sole representative of those grantees, departed this
life, leaving her his widow; and a daughter; and that,
previous to his death, he gave up to her such land as was
in his possession, in consideration of a part of the sum of
dower which he owed her ; several portions of these lands
having been formerly disposed of in a similar manner by
his predecessors. She further states, that the old respon-
dent is by no means entitled to any property given to the
ancestors of her husband, and their successive heirs, since
he can prefer no hereditary claim to such property. In
his defence the respondent prefers no hereditary claim to
those lands ; he simply states that the husband of the ap-
pellant appointed him as successor; and that the local
agent in behalf of Government having approved of this
nomination, he has therefore a just right to those lands,
which were given for benevolent purposes, and not for the
maintenance of the heirs of the grantees, or subject to their
uncontrolled disposal.
" The deeds of gift by the former Kings were produced
before the Court, the validity of which was acknowledged
by both the parties, and admitted by all the Judges. In
those documents two terms are specified—first, that those
lands were given to the grantees and their heirs for ever;
secondly, that they should employ the produce of those
lands for benevolent purposes. Judges, perhaps in refer-
ence to the second term, decided the case in favour of the
respondent; and he was consequently put in possession of
them. The consequences were, that the appellant has ap-
pealed to the authorities in England against the decision of
of the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut; and that Court required
of the respondent to produce securities to refund the sum
which those lands may annually yield him until the final
decision, should the King in Council reverse the decree
passed by that Court. The pleader in behalf of Govern-
ment, on receiving instructions conveyed in a purwanah to
his address, offered that Government should stand as secu-
rity for the respondent; and the following opinion and or-
der were then pronounced by Courtenay Smith, Esq. :--
" BEEBEE KADUREH, CC,:,r,MONLY BEEBEE Issiur, APPEL-

LANT ; SHAH UEBUROODDEEN, RESPONDENT.

" According to the orders of the 31st January of the
current year, Moonshee Hussun Ulee, Government Pleader,
delivered a purwanah to his address, dated the 7th Fe-
bruary of this year, as well as English papers, which have
been perused. As suits appealed to the authorities in Eng-
land are decided by them, after many years, and as the
period of the Honourable Company's charter will shortly
expire ; and as, after the expiration of the term of the pre-
sent charter, it is uncertain whether it will be renowed, or
the Government of the country will be assumed by his
Majesty, or what other event may take place, in my opi-
nion, the security of the Government in such a case can-
not be accepted. But, as this is an uncommon circum-
stance, it requires the concurrence of another Judge. It is,
therefore, ordered that the papers be presented at the sit-
ting of another Judge, for the final order as to whether the
offer of the Government Pleader shall be rejected.'
" I have been subsequently informed, that two other
Judges having differed from Mr. Caul tenay Smith, his
opinion has been overruled ; and, it is said, that his opinion
has subjected him to the severe displeasure of Govern-
ment."

We should say, that in our judgment Mr.
Smith was wrong in refusing to accept the se-
curity of the Government, on the ground " that
the Honourable East India Company's Charter
will shortly expire, and that it is uncertain whe-
ther it will be renewed, or the government of the
country will he assumed by hir Majesty, or what
other event may take place." The question pro-
perly is, have the East India Company power,
under the Charter, to give the security ; because,
if the Company possess that power, it is of no
consequence into whose hands the government
may devolve at the termination of the Charter,
for the government must be taken with all the
burdens and liabilities legally created by the
Company. It was not doubted that the afford-
ing the security rls one of the acts which the
Company were entitled to exercise under their
Charter. This, we own, is our opinion. Others
may vices the matter differently. But admitting
that the view taken by Mr. Smith is untenable,
and that the two Judges who differed from him
were in the right, we are yet to learn either that a
Judge must be infallible, or that he is account-
able to the Government for the opinions he pro-
nounces in his Judicial character. It would
seem, however, that different principles prevail
in India. The following account is given by the
Oriental Herald of the consequences to which
Mr. Smith's judgment has led :—,
" On this subject, we present a short extract of a letter
which we have seen from India on this subject. The

writer says :
" Courtenay Smith's suspension or dismissal from his
Puisne Justiceship of the Sudder (the Supreme Native
Court) is referred to the Governor-General, and Holt
Mackenzie, his chief adviser, who are both still in the
Upper Provinces. His crime is detailed in the enclosed
scrap of to-day's Bengal Chronicle, and the Editor's
ironical horror at the " breach of the Press Regulations"
will not escape your notice. Mr. Smith has replied, that
he is sorry to offend the Government; but, acting under
his oath, in the highest tribunal, and having certain legal
doubts, he could not do otherwise than express them,
leaving to his brother Judges to add or take away from
their official weight, by pronouncing their own opinions,
and thus ascertaining the views of the majority. The Go-
vernment is in a phrenzy about this, although it went out
of its way to übtain the official knowledge of this Judges
single opinion. Right or wrong, however, Mr. Smith's
opinien had no practical result; and even had it been
otherwise, it is surely better to endure one erroneous, or
foolish, or even wicked Judge, than to run the risk of
intimidating or forcing consciences, or incurring the impu-
tation of tampering with the integrity of the administrators
of justice.'
" Ay, truly ! if the Government of India were in-
terested in the good of its subjects, and wished to see liberty,
prosperity, and justice advance under its sway. But they
have no such wishes; and hence their utter disregard of
all but the. gratification of their own love of power, and
its accompanying passions."
' '

. .
To suspend a Judge for pronouncing the opi-
nion which, on d consideration of the case before
him, he was led to form, is certainly a strong, a
very strong measure. We confess we are at a
loss to see one single ground which can be urged
in justification of it, which would not go to place
the Judges entirely at the mercy of the Executive,
and consequently to make them merely the'
mouth-pieces of the Government functionaries.
The tenure by which Judges hold their offices
in England, is quamd;.zt se bene gesserint ; that
is, so long as no improper motive can be brought
home to them. The time is not very remote,
to be sure, when the tenure was different—when
it was expected that the opinions of a Judge
should always be in accordance with the views
of the Government. We were not aware that
this old tenure, which expired in England with
the Revolution, had been revived in India. If,
however, a Judge is to be held responsible, not
for his conduct, but for the accordance of his
opinions with the views of Government, every
thing like independence must disappear from the
Bench, which must be occupied by men of sen-
timents suited to their degraded condition,

strangers to honour or honesty. If unerring -
wisdom must be the attribute of a Judge, we ,
know not where the Indian Government can ob-
tain them. The most enthusiastic- admirer of
our English Judges would not, at all events, lay
claim to any such perfection for them. Let any
man coolly analyse the judgments pronounced
day after day in our Courts, and he must be
possessed of very little acuteness, indeed, if he
do not find specimens in abundance of all pos-
sible faults in reasoning.—Morning Chronicle.
We are still without any news of so positive
a character from the East as to put an end to the
doubts which have been floating over that quar-
ter for the last two or three months. It is evi-
dently the plan of the Porte to procrastinate, if
by any means the Allies can be deluded into a
sufferance of delay. It is still advised, probably
to endeavour to obtain better terms by a show of
firmness which it cannot feel, to await any
chances which may possibly arise to sow disunion
between the Powers by which the present terms
are proposed. In this it will be disappointed,
The understanding between the Allies is too
perfect to be interrupted, and whatever length of
time they may suffer to elapse before they compel
the Porte to come to a decision, or they settle
the question their own way, there is no danger of
their falling out among themselves. Even should
the Porte grant all that is demanded, it seems
evident that not only the guarantee, but in some
measure the surveillance of the united Powers,
will be requisite to give to the Greek Constitu-
tion that degree of consolidation, without which
it cannot hope to fight its own battles with
its former masters in the event of a future
rupture. It appears quite obvious that the
mere dissolution of the band, which has hither-
to so feebly connected the Morea and the Isles
with the government of Stamboul, is the least
part of the labour which the Allies have pro-
posed to themselves, and that the most patient,
prudent, and watchful guardianship must be
exercised over both parties, to prevent the half-
extinguished embers of hatred from being blown
up again into a wasting flame. Nothing can be
more amusing than the cry of certain of our
contemporary journals for precedents from the
law of nations to justify the interposition of the
Allies, as if the sacred cause of religion and hu-
manity, or the more vulgar and better under-
stood claims of mutual safety and mutual inte-
rest, must not be allowed to produce a treaty
between three of the most enlightened Courts of
Europe, unless all the circumstances be fully
and fairly laid down in Puffendorf and Grotius.
Let us suppose for a moment, which,.by the bye,
is not the case, that nothing of the nature con-
templated by the Allies is contained in the Cos-
mopolitan Code of the expounders of the Jus
pentium—what is the inference ? That the law
of nations ii not fixed any more than other laws—
and that what isnot in the books must not be found
in practice ? is not the interior relations of na-
tions changing every day—and who shall say that
their exterior relations are to remain unchange-
able? Do not the sciolists perceive, that the
establishment or destruction of a constitutional
Government in any nation, changes not only the
real condition of its people, bnt places them, in
reference to all others, in a totally different posi-
tion, infuses into them new feelings, consecrates
new ties, and imposes new duties e Would they
persuade us that the conduct of Great Britain is
not to be regulated by other principles under
the family of Brunswick, than those that go-
verned it under the Tudors ? We are steady
opponents to any uncalled for interference with
the affairs of other nations; but we are of opi-
nion that circumstances may not only justify
but command such an interference. Are W 3 to
be told that the compliance by Prince William,
with the requisition, not of the whole of the Eng-
lish
nation, nor even of the majority at the era of
our revolution, is to be designated as unjust, be-
cause, forsooth, the case was not noted and pro-
vided for in the pages of a German commentator ?
Was it wrong in the great and good men of 1688 to
invoke his aid to rescue their liberties and their
religion from the furious and bigotted grasp of a
Popish despot, until they had searched die vo-
lumes of the schools for a precedent ? And if
the parties giving and the parties soliciting help
on that memorable occasion were justified, who
shall say that the Greeks, who have been waging
open war with their tyrants for several years, are
in a less favourable predicament for requesting
aid of the Allies, whose relation is so much more
disinterested than that of the Prince of Orange
was ? What means the objection of " neces-
sity, the tyrant's plea ?" Why is necessity his
plea in particular ? Is it not as much the plea
of the freeman ? The pretence of necessity is
only tyrannical when it is falsely pleaded, and
for the gratification of the tyrant's own selfish
views. Those who apply the phrase to the pre-
sent conduct of Great Britain, in reference to the
oppressed Greeks, are base libellers of the ho-
nour of their country. No war, should it come
to war, that ever England engaged in would be
entered upon from more honourable and disinte-
rested motives. No act in modern times is in-
deed more eminently calculated to cast lustre on
the age in which we live than the Treaty of
July 6. Had the Allies been as selfish and
interested as their traducers represent them, no
plan was so well calculated to disappoint their
wishes as that which :they have adopted. If
Russia wished to weaken Turkey, the most effec-
tual way was to foment, the disunion between
her and her quondam provinces, not to quash it ;
and similar feelings must have dictated to France
and England a similar line of policy. The Al-
lies themselves can be influenced by no feelings
but those of the most honourable kind, for all
their selfish and peculiar interests are in complete
opposition to the line of conduct they are at
present pursuing.— New 7rinzes.

RIOT AMONG THE MILITARY.--On the
night of the 24th ult., a quarrel relative to the
merits of their respective troops, arose among
some soldiers belonging to the 7th Dragoon
Guards, now quartered in Coventry ; who were
drinking at the Three Tuns public house, Hert-
ford-street. Three men were severely wounded;
one is in the guard-room and two are in the hos-
pital.—Coventry Observer.

ACCIDENT ON TIIE TAY.—The crew of a
fishing boat, consisting of five men, after the day's
labour at sea, put into port there to leave their
lines, and take in victuals, and immediately set
out again with their fish to market at Dundee.
They set sail, and there being scarcely a breath
of wind, sat down to take a repast, during which
an instantaneously sudden gust of wind filled
their sails and upset the boat. Four of the poor
men were, drowned. James Gall, a young man,
alone escaped to tell the mournful tidings, having
saved himself by swimming.—Perth Courier.