The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT` O 1 THE LON Di):N .101.TINALS.

The Dublin Papers contain little intelligence
north remarking on, if rve except another in-
stance of apparently very gross misconduct in
one of the administrators of the law. The la,t
case adverted to was that oftl-e Grand Jury who
refused to find a bill, in th€ teeth of the most
positive evidence. We now find it reported
from Rathangan, that a Zia bitting on
the bench refused to act as a Alagistrate in co-
operation with a brother jw:tice, a cleigyplan,
who had found it his duty to sign informations,
sworn by a young woman arainst a genticinz,at
for an assault. As couns€l attended in the

person of Mr. O'Connell, W suppose that th[3
peccant justice or the peace ha 3 not heard the
la st of it. Some of the Dublin Journals seem

to allege, that Sir Anthony Hart is to share with
Lord Anglcaca the honour of his impolitic and
much-lamented recall. On whrt ground can such
a punio,ment (for it is so designed) of the Chief
Judge of a great country be justified ? llas
Sir Anthony Hart failed :a any of those
duties which aro required u an honest Lord
Chancellor? Has he shown ignorance of the
law, or a disregard of justice, or any other inca-
pacity for the judgment-seat? Or in his political
character is there a single act of intemperate med-
dling to be brought against hill, or of imschiev-
ous partisanship, or of disrespeit toward the late-
commands or inclinations of the Govern-
ment? Tile angry removal of a Lord Chan-
cellor from his office, were he a far less eminent

lawyer than Sir Anthony Hart., and of less un-
blemished reputation for impartiality, may be a
more hazardous and awful indication of an unfait
spirit in the King's Ministers towards Ireland,
than the dismissal of the must popular Lord
Lieutenant, because it is a reproach to a Judge
fur not being a partisan, and in 3o far a downright
tampering with justice. It proclaims to the
whole bar of both countries, that whether an Iris(
Chancellor be or be not a lawyer upon the
bench, he must be at all evnits a politician
in his chamber ;—that the ory Ministers of
England will not tolerate a ,nan who is de-
voted to the law, and indifferent about faction ;
but that (in one sense) an *ndifferent Judge
will answer all the purposes of Irish equity,
provided he he a zealot in the affairs of party;

nd that the feelings of the 13€4f-steak Chili me
a preferable test of merit in a Lvrd Chancellor
to those of the suitors in his court. What else,

indeed, can be the conclusion, when we see such
a person as Lord Manners rais•2d to the peciar,
and left for more than twenty years in Ireland,
while Sir A. Hart rcrnnins a commoner, and is

menaced at least with ignominious dismissal be-
fore a single twelvemonth has expired ? There
has, indeed, been. no proof made public that
the Learned Lord is actually destined to experi-
ence this manifestation of the loyal displeasure
for his contempt of party, and for his dispas-
sionate watchfulness over the King's peace : the
nation, however, generally fears it, and the Cum-
berland fanatics exult in the catastrophe as being
on the point of completion. Sir Anthony
Hart's appointment as one of the Lords Justices
demonstrates nothing on either side of the ques-
tion, except, perhaps, that in the opinion of
Ministers one shock at a time is as much as the
country can bear up against. It only wants the
substitution of Sir C. Wetherell for Sir A.
Hart, then will the Cumberland cauldron be
full—then, indeed, will the " hell-broth bubble:'
It is stated by our correspondents, that the
formal letter of recall arrived in Dublin on the
12th, and that Lord Anglesea v;rould lose no
time.in taking his departure from Ireland. Re-
pents have been circulated- that the government
by Lords Justices is to be protracted much more
than usual. If Lords-Lieutenant of counties
were appointed, as in England, and with the
same speoies of responsibility, we conceive that
a new and most important elsannel would be
opened for the flow and action of the executive
power throughout Ireland, and a fit foundation
laid for the ultimate abolition of the expensive
office of Viceroy. But at present we hardly look
to the consammi ation of such a change.— Times.
An Evening Paper, which labours to dimi-
nish the impression produced by the accounts
from Ireland of the deep and general regret
evinced at the recall of the Marquis of Auglesea,
, not being able to deny the fact of numerous and
crowded meetings having taken place, for the
purpose of recording the almost universal dissa-
tisfaction that measure has occasioned, proceeds
to exhaust a well-assorted vocabulary in giving
vent to its virtuous indignation at the desecra-
tion of religious edifices, by their being selected
for those unhallowed assemblages. No doubt
there is much that is highly laudable in this al-
most apostolic fervour, and it would be still more
praiseworthy, if its operation were not confined
to the atrocities perpetrated in this way by out
Catholic fellow-subjects. To be sure, the Irish
say that the grievances they complain of =arising
altogether out of religious disabilities—are not
unaptly discussed in buildings appropriated to re-
ligious purposes ; but this is one of Pat's usual
blundering misconceptions. But has our con-
temporary never heard of meetings for purposes
more exclusively secular being held in the
reli-
gious edifices of this metropolis ? Does he for-
get where the election of Common Councilmen
for the Ward of Farringdon Without took
place ? Has he no recollection of the ribaldry
which banished every decent female from the gal-
leries of the Church of St. Andrew, Holborn,
on that very recant occasion ? Are the Meet-
ings of Select and Common Vestries so decorous
in their proceedings, and so chaste in their lan-
guage, as to do no dishonour to the Douse of
God ? In the name of Heaven, let us have
done with this unmeaning cant ; or, if that be
impossible, let us be a little more impartial in the
use of it ; to speak in the strain of these modern
puritans, let us take the beam from our own
eyes before we find fault with the mote that is in
our brother's.—Morning Chronicle.
-Mr. O'Connell appears to be very confident
that there is no law to prevent him from taking
his seat in Parliament. We refer our readers to
the account of the proceedings of the Catholic
Association on Tuesday last, another column,
for an outline of the grounds of his opinion. It
has often been said that occasions create the men
whom they demand. This way be true to a
certain extent. We cannot, however, help
thinking that occasions are sometimes lost for
want of the -men properly qualified to take ad-
vantage of them. When we recollect the state
of apathy in which the Catholics of Ireland were
plunged before Mr. O'Connell devoted himself
to their regeneration, and the effect produced by
his exertions, we are strongly inclined to believe
that Mr. O'Connell has not been more created
by the wrongs of the Catholics than the present
imposing attitude of the Catholics has been
the work of Mr. O'Connell. He seems to
be the very man of all others demanded
for the exigencies of the Catholics in the
present day. Were the battle .9f the Catho-

ics to be fought in the tentedfield, the qualities
demanded for a leader would no doubt be very
different. The object in that case would be to
deliberate and not to divulge, and to employ the
powers of the mind in discovering the means of
acting with effect against the enemy, rather than
in seeking to produce an effect on friends. But
the battles which the Catholics are now called
to fight are battles wide: the forms of the Con-
stitution ; there C,i% be no concealment from the
enemy, for friends can only be acted on by means
which are equally open to the cognizance of the
enemy. Mr. O'Connell, of all men living,
seems the best adapted for the direction of such
a warfare. He possesses great experience of
business, great bodily strength and animal
spirits, a restless activity, and excitability, which
render the agitation, furnished by the state
of Ireland, necessary almost to his existence.
He -seems to have an instinctive knowledge
of this necessit,„ and to be aware that his
happiness is bound up wish his popularity.
Hence the promptitude with which he meets
every attempt of the numerous open or concealed
rivals in the Association to deprive him of his as-
cendancy. His faults are essentially connected
with the qualities to which he is indebted for
his influence and popularity. For ilistane, in
the Report to which we have alluded, he ex-
presses himself with a degree of bitterness
against the Press in general, on account of the
opposition of a part of the Press to one c)
his schemes, while cool reflection might have
suggested that without the Press, which is
his only means of communicating with and
influencing the people, he would never have
a7tained his present popularity. But then,
wi:h less irritability and sensitiveness, and
more equanimity, he would not have pos.-
sessrsi that restless activity which so peculiarly
qualifies him for the first place among
the Catholics of Ireland. - We consider the
Catholic cause identified with Mr. O'Connell,
and the manifestation of any mean jealousy of

his ascendancy at a moment in which he is
about to appear [.-song us as the representative
of their cause, or any lukewarmzess or want of
devotion towards him, to br.: treason towards
the Irish nation. That O'Conneii is proud of

the elevation to which lie has been raised, is

allowable. That in devoting himself to the
cause of his countrymen, he has. not been
insensible to the distinction of occupying
the most prominent phce in the eye of his
countrymen, may well be believed. This is
not the question which ought to be asked at
a time like this. The question is, has Mr.
O'Connell seriously in view the emancipation
of his countrymen from the bondage under which
they now suffer ; and is he the man who, from
his qualifications, is best enabled to fill the sta-
tion to which he has been elevated by the suff-
rage of his nation ? We firmly believe that he
wishes sincerely the good of his country, and
that there is no man living better qualified than
himself to promote that object. Had lucre
been his object, he would have devoted his whole
time to the practice of a lucrative profession.
But the intense earnestness with which he has
devoted himself for years to the service of the
Catholics, proves, at all events, that lie is more
ambitious of fame than of lucre. We have no doubt
that from the constitution of Mr. O'Connell's

mind, he would he miserable were lae not at the
helm of Catholic affairs. But this necessity is an
additional reason for all good Catholics rallying
round him. He cannot, if he would, betray them.
The applause of his countrymen is as necessary
to him, as his activity is necessary to them.
There is one reason for determining all good
Irishmen to rally round O'Connell, and that is

the peculiar hostility which has always been ex-
pressed towards him by all those who are the

declared enemies of Ireland. The abuse of
O'Connell from such a quarter is signicant.
The praise and abuse of an enemy are not to be
neglected. We may be sure, that if it had not
been felt that O'Connell had been a formidable
enemy to the ascendancy which would wish to
perpetuate the degradation of Ireland, he would
not have been the constant
.object of their in,
vective. Once more we say—let all mean jea-
lousies be laid aside at this int_: neat. He that
is not with us is against us—he that is not
with O'Connell at this time, is not with Ire-

The Surrey Magistrates have done themse4 es

great credit by their recent determination to lay
before Government their views of the immoral
and mischievous: effects of the Game Laws.—
Country Magistrates are just the persons, of all
others, who, is they will allow their minds to he
cleared of the mist of prejudice by which they
have i!itherto been clouded, ought to feel and
know, even more, perhaps, in one sense, than
the actual sufferers themselves, the sad effects c-. 1.

a system, of which they are the organs. Every
one who knows anything of mankind must have
learned that they are best got at through the
medium of their interests ; and how the land-
owners of England can have been so blind to
their interest as to have suffered such a drain
upon their purse-strings, as the Game Laws
hare long been, to exist, we are totally at a loss
to imagine. Country gentlemen, in their double
capacity of landowners and Magistrates, have
been unfortunately the main abettors of this.
iniquitous system ; and this example, therefore,
of a contrary spirit, late as it comes, is both
cheering and consolatory. Seeing, as they must
do, the gaols crowded, the poor and county rates
increased, the labourers every day becoming
more and more demoralised, our only wonder is
how they could so long have suffered such a
mass of experience to have had so little infiu-
er.a.t upon their conduct as to allow.tben to
stand quietly by, the silent and inert witnesses of
an evil which they might so long ago have re-
medied. It seems to be from custom, rather
than from any season or necessity, admitted that
no measure, on which there are two opinions,
can be got through Parliament without being
adopted by the Administration of the day. It
is in vain to point out the folly of this, or in-
quire why-Parliament should subject itself to an
imputation of dependence or of influence, where
neither need exist. It is sufficient for our

, present purpose to know that tne tact is
so ; and the constant failure of every at-
tempt to modify these odious laws shows, we
fear, be and a doubt, that, until taken up by
Parliament, each future attemlit is likely to be
equally fruitless. The Surrey Magistrates, there-
fore, in a body, calling upon the Government to
interfere to stop this tide of mischief, are doing
that, which is most likely to be effectual. Whe-
ther they will be followed by the Magistrates of
other counties remains to be seen. We trust that
they will, though we are not very sanguine that
those who have so long, been blind to the exist-
ence of this enormous 'evil ill suddenly have
their eye-sight renovated by the light which the
Surrey Justices will have thrown upon the sub-
ject. This one appeal, however, from one of
the first counties of the kingdom, will at least

force the subject upon the attention of Govern-
ment ; and lead, we trust, to its being taken up,
during the ensuing Session of Parliament, under
a sanction and an influence which must insure a
reform of an evil which is, at present, little better
than a pestilence.—Morning Herald.
The City is at the present moment as free
from political rumour as from the mania of spe-
culation, to which it has occasionally shown
some symptoms of returning; but other ques-
tions are canvassed in it with a degree of keen-
ness wholly unwonted of late, and fears enter-
tained which have more reference to the general
interests of the country than City discussions
generally have. In other words, although the
Exchange is now haunted by fears of' an ap-
proaching panic, those who frequent it .seem to
have been infected with a sort of slow fever, aris-
ing from the fear that our gold currency is taking
flight to the Continent, and which, if it does not •
produce the same direful effects as the former, and
is slower in its operations, is not less baneful to
commercial confidence, sad public credit. Of all
the fears, however, which have ever haunted the
;Minds of the mercantile community, this is de-
cidedly the most groundless and silly. The im-
portations of foreign grain, however they may
appear in the outset, are a matter on which all
classes ought rather to felicitate themselves than
to entertain groundless fears; for there need be
no dread of our continental neighbours either
locking up the sums which they receive from • us
in exchange for their graM, or of their pre-
venting others, into whose hands they may pay
it, from returning it to us in the purchase
of other commodities—except in the case of
panics, or extraordinary gluts, almost amounting
at their momentary consequences to panics, the
currency of' either gold or silver never exile-
, riences any check. Its characteristic is universal
circulation ; and though the route which it
adopts in order to return to its first holder be
sometimes circuitous, it does always return.—
Nay, more, as has been remarked to us by a cor-
respondent, the usual course of " trade, in
every instance in which foreign markets have
been open to us, has always brought back
the money which has been exported in pro-
portion to the rate at which it was sent abroad ;'•
so that, instead of being never returned to us,
the more quickly and freely we have parted with
it—the more rapidly and freely has it returned,
and- in almost every instance been accom-
panied with a rise of prices at home—the
agricultural labourer, however strangely it may
sound, being generally the first to feel the be-
nefit of an importation of corn from abroad—
the manufacturer following in due course—and
the merchant in every instance reaping the fruits
of a capital amply employed, and yielding fre-
quent as well as profitable returns. In short, as
cur correspondent has remarked, neither the
wages of labour, nor the profits on capital, have
ever decreased in consequence of the purchase
of' foreign corn ; but, on the contrary, have al-
ways fallen in both cases %%believer our foreign
trade has been shackled by an anti-commercial
policy, and the intercourse between this island
and the two continents been interrupted by such
measures as the American tariff', which, in in.
:luring us, does still greater injury to the coun-
try from whose legislature it has emanated.—
We might extend these observations to almost
any length ; but we trust we have said enough
to convince the reflecting portion of the com-
munity, that of all the fears which could pos-
sibly be entertained, that of our falling short of
a gold currency, in consequence of the impor-
tation of foreign grain, is the most shadowy and
baseless. We augur, in fact, from the present
importations, both a rise of wagon to the work-
man, and an augmentation of profit to the mer-
chant and.manutacturer. The result would of
cause be".widely different were the gold which
is now exported to be expestded on foreign arma-
ments or foreign wars , but even in that case,
commerce and industry would receive a tempo-
rary stimulus from it.—Morning Advertiser.
Every man who has the interest of the
at heart must have felt the necessity of recalling
the Marquis of Anglesea from the Vice-Royalty
of Ireland. The encouragement given to the
factious Association, which the Noble Marquis
(by his letter) seems to regard as a constitutional
assembly, contradistinguished from a legal one,
was any thing but an act of good faith towards
the English _Ministry. The measures of the
Noble Marquis were compromising, and time-
serving, and any thing but calculated to re-
stole tranquillity in Ireland. The Irish people
are disposed to be quiet and industrious, if
the Agitators and 'their priests would allow
them. But it would appear as if the interest
of the latter could not tolerate quiet, for
then they would sink into their proper
-insignificance. This, at all hazards, must be
avoided ; and to this source, more than to any
other, do we owe the mischievous existence of
the Popish Parliament in the Irish capital. The
people of Ireland enjoy all the blessings of our
Constitution and Government which are avail-
able to their condition ; and if they are kept out
of a few political privileges, the grivance is
rather fanciful than real : the Irish landlord,
farmer, and manufacturer, have all the advantages
of our colonial markets, and in the whole of our
extended empire from east to west. There is no dis-
tioction made be tween English and Irish industry in
any part of the kingdom or- its dependencies;
and the marts of this country are impartially
opened for the produce of their land, their la-
bour, and their looms. Our army and navy is
an ample shield for their protection ; while the
hand of taxation lies more lightly on Ireland
than upon almost any other country in Europe,
and we would not be far out of the way by
saving in the whole world. But it may be
asked, how will you govern Ireland ?—will
you grant the Agitators what they demand ?
Certainly not ; and for the most plain and
intelligible reason, that they form no part of
the necessary condition and happiness of
the great bulk of the people of that coun-
try ; and we are persuaded that from the
moment the Catholics are admitted into political
power in this country, the downfall of our Pro-
te: taut Constitution will commence, and the Nun
of England's glory- will set for ever. Send the to
a Lord Lieutenant who will govern them as they
ought to be governed, by trampling down the
seeds of rebellion, and manacling the Agi-
tators by the strong arm of the law. Emancipa-
tion such as the Priests and their colleagues arc
now calling for, is a dreadful farce—nothing
more than a mountebank trick got up by a few,
with a view to deceive the British people.
Morning Post. •

On Sunday week, the sexton of Dewsbury
Chureh,on entering that sacred edifice about six in the
evening, saw, in his "mind's eye," the late Mr. Twig, of
Earl's Heaton, who was interred about three months ago,
sitting in the pew which he fAinerly occupied in the
church. The sexton's occasionee, by this proof of
the insufficiency of his.. labours to confine the dead, was
such that he immediately took to his bed, where be still
remains.—. York Chronicle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION.HOUSE.

Isaac Lee was brought up for further examina-
tion, charged with embezzling 7501., the property of
his creditors, he having been declared a bankrupt.
There was not any fresh evidence gone into to-
&+y. The bankrupt was apprehended just as he
was about to embark for America by a. vessel sail-
ing from Liverpool; and the way that he accounted
for the 780/. was, that he had paid it to a man named
Davies, of whom he Had bought goods to that extent,
and he produced an invoice.
Davies's son, who had the management of his
father's accounts and affairs, declared the invoice to
be a spurious one---for no such transaction ever took
place—but his father was too ill to attend.
The father was not in attendance. to-day ; and
the prisoner's solicitor pressed hard for his dis-
charge; but
'l2tie solicitor for the prosecution declaked that
Davies was purposely kept back. He was of the
Jewish persuasion, and did not like to give evidence
against the .prisoner, who was aISO a Jew.
The LoRD MAYOR said the charge was of a very
weans nature—indeed it was that of a capital
felony ; and therefore he cuuid not consent to set
the prisoner at liberty without having ample
The prisoner's solicitor suggested that two
sureties for 401. each would be crate sufficient.
The LORD MAYOR—Oh no I I shall require bail
for at least 1,0001. for his appearance at the next
Sessions.-

After considerable desultory discussion, the
prisoner was remanded until Monday.

MARYLEBONE.

On Thursday the evidence of a Mrs. Poole was
taken against Frederick Byrne.
In November she kept a house in Howard-street,
Strand, and about the `zOth the prisoner called to see
a suit of apartments which she had to let. She
rook him up stairs, ar -1 he expressed himself saris-
lied with them. He said they were for his uncle,
and he would call again. 'Made he was up stairs, a
fair yountg man, who had called before to see the
same apartments, came to the house, and was shown
by Ole servant into a parlour. He stayed there by
himself two or three minutes, arid then abruptly
went away, and took with hint four table-spoons,
two dessert-spoons, and six tea-spoous, all of silver.
In the evening Byrne came again ; he went into the
parlour while the servant called Mrs. Poole down
stairs, and as she approached the door of it, he came
out in a hurry, and appeared much confused, and
said, " I can't give you a decisive answer till to-
morrow ;" arid directly after he was gone, she rnisse4
a gold watch which she had just taken from her
side, and placed in a mahogany case upon the man-
tel-shelT, and she never saw him again till he was ap-
prehended; and these circumstances so distressed
her mind, that she gave up housekeeping, and sent
her servant, who also could have identified Byrne,
back to her friends in Ireland.

Byrne told Mr. Hoskins he had nothing to say ;
and he was committed to Newgate for trial under
two charges of felony, and three of larceny.
The fair young man told Airs. Poole he was a
lawyer in the Temple. There is no doubt he was
in confederacy with Byrne, and the police are
looking after him.

REMINGTON AND CO.'s BANKRUPTCY.

At one o'clock yesterday an immense number of
persons assembled in the First List of COrnmissioners'
room, and in the hope of affording more accommoda-
tion the Commissioners immediately adjourned to the
room in which the Second List usually sit, it being
considerably larger, but almost instantaneously that
apartment was crowded nearly to suffocation.
At half-past one, Mr. Byrig, M. P. for Middlesex,
made his appearance in the space where the Com-
missioners sit to prove, which he did for uptvardg,
as lye understood, for 1,0001.

Sir G. HAmPsos observed, that he was sorry to
see the Hon. Member on that occasion.

Mr. BYNG smilingly said, he was a little snfferer,
but he could not help it.
Sir E. CODRINGTON presented himself at two
o'clock. His presence excited great interest. He
proved for 1,534/.
A Mr. GREENWOOD from Hampshire attended
with his attorney, and strenuously urged permission
to prove a debt of 16,6051., but Mr. Montagu
objected to it. The attorney thought no objec-
tions could be raised to the validity of the debt that
might not be answered in five minutes. Mr. Mon-
tagu was sure then that they would be " Chancery
minutes," because he was in,tructed to raise every
Obstacle in the way of the proof being made. The
question would be, whether this would have to be
eons'dered a separate or joint debt; and under the
circumstances, tTr. Montagu thought he would be
able to persUade ti►e Commissioners that Mr. Green-
wood had made himself the separate creditor of
Stephenson. Mr. Greenwood was finally informed,
that if he would attend a private meeting of the
Assignees to-morrow in Chancery-lane, at one
o'clock, his account should be investigated. A great
number of debts were proved, constituting in the
whole we should suppose from 70,0001. to 100,000/.
Sir GEO. HAMPSON considered it fair to suite
that by a calculation, the petitioning creditor had
made it appear that the debtsamounted to 425,0001.,
to which would have to be added sums abstracted
by Stephenson, for which the firm was likely
to be liable, to about 70,0001. To meet this,
there were assets in cash securities, good debts,
amounting to 350,0001.; and by this it
appeared, said Sir G. Hampson, that there would
1:,! from 12s. to 14s. in the peund paid. Messrs.
Wm. Saltair, George Robertson, Wm. Strachan,
and Wm. Crawford, were chosen Assignees without
opposition.
It was then declared that the next public meet-
ing would take place on the 13th of next month, at
one o'clock.

Mr. Remington sell. was in attendance, sitting in
a most dejected condit;un.
In the course of the business there was un an-
nouncement g-iren that there were pickpockets pre-
sent. One gentleman stated that he had got his
pocket turned inside out, and 10/. taken out of it ;
another said he had hie purse stolen with its contents;
and a third, that he had been robbed in the room of
four sovereigns and some silver.
The Meeting then adjourned

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