The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-14 00:00:00

charge of 40,0001. a year. Its force is inenneer-
able to every one who ever had or even wens to
have to pay a lawyer's bill, or to lave fp de with
the new courts either as client, whams, or jury-
man. Far more than his share of the burden
of the 40,0001. will be saved
snd to gbh a one
in the saving of fees, of time, of health.
But we do not forget that there is a large portion
of the nation that does :at suffer from these
miseries, in London at less!. To them, however,
there is a double argument applicable. The pub-
lic already relieves them in part of the burdens simi-
lar to that from which London now asks relief. The
State has built courts in Edinburgh sad Dublin—
and in every county it takes on itself some share of
the cost of the administration of justice. But the
broader and sounder plea is that the administration
of justice in the courts whose decisions form the
law for the whole kingdom is matter of national
concern. We confess it by the payment of the
Java, and we cannot deny it by refusing them
suitable courts in which to exercise their fano-
These positions are indeed now so generally ad-
mitted, that it would hardly be neesseary to Weed
them if it were not that they we still Wailed by
a certain party, whose true motive, however, be-
longs only to the subordinate question et sits. It
is Mr. Set wre who parable in urging breed objec-
tions to every scheme for the oeneeetration of the
whole courts. Bat Mr. Sur im. is the advocate of
a minor scheme of the Society of lalooln's-inn-
which proposes to provide soossusodation for the
Courts of Chancery if it is paid 4 per emit. on the
outlay. The profit of Lincoln's-hin io this arrange-
ment is very obvious, for it would thus keep up or
enhance the value of the chambers belonging to it,
which would probably denim if the Equity Courts
were moved to a little diatoms. But the profit to
the public is not so deer. There would still
be the Common Law Conan, the Dimes Court,
the Admiralty and Probate Courts, to be provided
for. For them a site aunt be purebred, and
separate buildings erected, since Lincoln's-inn has
no site to offer larger than would serve the Equity
Courts alone. But if the outer hie to be made,•
half the benefit from it would be lost if the oppor-
tunity of osocentration were lost. Therefore we
must prefer the Government proposal to that of
Lincoln's-inn, even if the first charge on the nation
should be a trifle more. Nor do we be that any
boson exists for delaying the scheme in order to
allow consideration of the idea which has been lately
stinted, that the new Thames Embankment offers
a better site than that which Government has
fixed upon. It is less central as rogues the pre-
sent chambers of the majority of counsel and soli-
citors, it is further from the City, and if ac-
cessible by railway from east and meet, it would
be leas accessible from the north. The situation
which the Bill at present in Parliament contem-
plates is, on the whole, the best that could be dc•
vised. It is a block of old buildings between Lin-
coln's-inn and the Strand, it will be fairly in the
centre of the Inns of Court, with only the Temple
atween it and the river or railway, and with the
line of the Strand and Fleet-street abutting on it.
Moreover, as all the notices have been served, the
work can be commenced se soon as Parliament
penes the Bill, while it will certainly be some
years before the land reclaimed from the Thames
could safely be built upon. All these considerations
seem to us conclusive, and we trust this Session
will not pass without removing from us the 'bade'
which has so long attended the practical administra-
tion of the law in the metropolis.

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