The Sun. — 1824-06-21 (London, England)

MORNING HERALD.] One of the Paris Liberal Journals has indulged itself in a fine-drawn speculation of a certain compromise which it supposes has taken place between England and Russia. England, it is said, was anxious beyond measure for a trade with the new States of America, now become independent ; but Russia, as the guardian of the " Monarchical principle," as it is called, was hostile to their independence. Now England, which, it seems, likes circuitous courses, began by relaxing her system in favour of the Greeks. But the Emperor of Russia, who has his eye upon a Protectorate of the Morea and Archipelago, would be foiled by their independence; and in order to save the chance of attaining her ends in Greece, has accepted from England the sacrifice of the Turks, and given up the Monarchical principle in return. We give this profound speculation as we find it—observing only, that if the Greeks are fortunate and brave enough to resist the Turks with success (and this is the only true title to independence in their case), it is not likely that Russia would dare attempt to reimpose even the name of Turkish sovereignty upon them. A note of Lord Strangford to the Turkish Minister, of which the text is apocryphal, and the date wholly doubtful, forms the basis of the reasoning to which we have been alluding.  [THE TntEs. We are not sorry that Government has undertaken the improvement of the Special Jury system ; but at the same time we think that their proceedings in the matter should be viewed with a degree of jealousy. Mr. Peel stated with truth, that a prejudice existed against Special Juries; but in reality it is the Constitution itself which instils this prejudice ; for Special Juries are not allowed by the Constitution in cases of the greatest importance—in felonies and murders. The subject may, therefore, justly entertain a suspicion of those of whom the law entertains a suspicion, special jurymen being persons precisely in that situation of life on whom the influence of the Crown may be supposed most likely to operate. They are placd high enough in society to be within the range of ministerial patronage ; and we believe as a matter of. fact, that there are very few, if special jurymen, any, who may not be found, either in their own persons or in that of some one of their relatives, to be in the enjoyment, or expectation, or hope, of some place or office dependent on the will of the Sovereign ; and we leave it to common sense to decide, whether men ought to be allowed to try a cause between two parties, one of which parties they have an evident interest in obliging, or a dread of offending. Whilst the common juryman can have nothing to expect in the discharge of his duty but the satis.  Eying his conscience that he decides rightly, his station places him at too great a distance from the Crown to share its favours : it therefore as rarely occurs in his case, as it happens frequently in that of the special juryman, that he either enjoys or expects any thing from the Crown. b 9 r. Peel, it will have been observed, stated, that " no persons in the country were more anxious to have the system amended, than those gentlemen who attended in the courts in the capacity of special jurors." This testimony is certainly creditable to the persons of whom it speaks, but does it not also discover a very singular fact, totally at variance with the Constitution—namely, that there is a body of men, having an interest, as. it were, in the office of special juryship, Of we may coin such a word in order to express a new idea), or to whom that office appertains as a matter of right or custom ? We know what is meant by the Bench and the Bar; each of those terms comprise a definite body of men, peculiarly educated, and carrying peculiar privileges about with them; and to these, we suppose, we may now add, the Box. The Bench, the Bar, and the Box; meaning by the first the Judges, by the second the Advocates, and by the last the Special Jurymen—not those only who are in Court upon any individual cause (as by the Bar we do not mean the Advocates only who plead upon that cause), but the whole body of Special Jurymen in or out of Court. Now this, we say, is a totally new discovery, that there should be such an order of men.  MR.