The Sun. — 1841-10-26 (London, England)

HERALD.—We are now enabled to lay before our readers the proceedings which hare taken place in the preliminary stages of M'Leod's trial. It is in a remote town in a remote corner of the northernmost of the United States—the youngest nation in existence which can be said to have taken rank among the maritime powers of the world—that, the person of a private individual no less a delinque3,c is arraigned than the Imperial Majesty of Great Britain. It is in the nineteenth century—in the zenith of her power, in the perfection of her institutions, in the undisputed supremacy of her commercial capital, and her social prosperity—with no other interruption to the accumulated trophies of a quarter of a century of peace (glorious to herself and fortunate for mankind) but the laurels newly culled by her victorious forces in the noblest countries of the east—it is in the full vigour of her political existence, and in the plenitude of her grandeur among the paramount empires of the old world—that Great Britain has, by her Government, tacitly consented to permit her own acts, in the extinction of a rebellion among her subjects in one of her distant Transatlantic colonies, to be Criminally challenged and adjudicated upon by a municipal rather than :a national tribunal of those United States. It remains to be seen whether or not she will permit those acts, after solemnly reclaiming them for her own to be punished, too, in the person of that private subject, her accredited and recognised servant. To the operation of what potent but at present inexplicable causes, posterity 'may one day attribute her submission to such indignity and insult, it might be matter for curious speculation to anticipate, did time or space permita, us to enter upon it. But at resent all that our duty as journalists exacts of us, itn relationthat the to this matter, is to record the astounding faeuestion evolving of nations in the old world—on. a question volving the rights of her independence ln repthe foreign revolt among her own colonists and punishingt lerself to be abettors of that revolt—has cited, and, in the personunfranchisedbpeerinor Justices of Oyer and provincial American Court—before subject has actually appeared— dictment of murder ! We Terminer—to plead to an in tae ofap eliceiresouotfraged ewirtp,hotloiitsitchaoeln e task doei od fo ndoitsetruuassitnegurse ourselves, questionsat present, dsehtarolawit and of the life or death— underf an illegal and indefensible practical political owlithiceanl the assumption. the case ; noCriminal Court—of a British jurisdiction by a t.brh tactiie whichd evenrg eoiff committed by his duty to his iui subject, was committedcsloiarg t e ..ifinn Sovereign, and on the responsibility of his allegiance. ftlienature of the evidence, to which we shall more particularly recur at another opportunity, we know not  lo dai n „an "- h ouse" Class 7.—Single women and widows having occupations" Class B.—Minors of both sexes, including all who meanskeoerf erssu,basnisdtetnhcee,likseu.ch as dress-makers, were minors at the time of the original deposit, and who have since attained their majority, but have not notified the same to the officers of the savings' bank, so as to be comprehended in any of the above classes.