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Armour/8 a majority of the &leer Committee ap-
pointed to ioquire into the praetior of Courts of
Equity in Ireland have some to a eerie, of decisions,

wind practically amount to a recommendation that
Incembered Beaus should no longer be sold in
the manner hitherto adopted, and that inde-
feasible titles should no longer be obtainable by per.
ohasere—it dose not follow that the noose of Com-
mons will ratify that retrograde proposition. Even
in its present state of anarchy sad revolt from
all moustosed leadership, some sense of right
ad policy may, In ni hope, still influence that
assembly. The magnates of oppasidoo, Sir
Jamas Gummi and Mr. WALPOLE, may indeed
persuade a certain number of tkinservatine of dif-
ferent shades to confirm what they combined with
certain Whip to do in the committee. But we are
unwilling to believe that the bulk of soy great party
—or what was once a party—in Parliament will be
guided or goaded into Use overthrow of a system
eminently popular, and in the main, we an bound
to sayrioninestry soda
The chief objection put forward spinet the main-
, tisanes of the Inoumbend Estates Court in
its present or some modified form is that no
jurisdietion of a similar kind exists or is pro-
posed in England. Uniformity is the first
article of the Doctrinaire creed, and every
infrispanst thereof, we are quits aware, is held to
be high treason with its disciples. Centralisa-
tion is the second article of faith to which no
wavering or qoaldird allegiance is permissible; and,
by the joint application of these two arrogant dogmas,
bureaucracy hopes to be coos day able to establish the
complete despotism is the hands of a privileged few,
which it has long sighed for, and towards which it has
amady made very considerable strides. Talk to your
thoroughbred Downing-street denizen about specific
wants and local flares, sad differentiae between one
portion of the empire and another—and you are met
with a supercilious smile or an insoles% stare. The
ritual of Canterbury sad the equity pleading of
Lincoln's-inn are to be enforced at say eost, in Ireland
as well as England, no matter how ilenited they
may be to item:teal condition, or how much better it
would be seder a different system. Notoriously oar
maser of paying sad pleading has never dons well
on the other side of the Massa We have neither
seconded la getting land or oosseisnee into a quiet
or healthful state. Whether it be owing to the
dissimilar circumstances of society or to some
invincible repugnance to law and liturgy of
exotic growth, certain it is that for generations the
chief endeavour of the community mesas to have
bees to devise methods of evading the obligations
which in this country are considered as most sacred.
The Church, after 300 years of garrison support and
pulpit fulmination, is bat a vast concatenation of
sinecure garrison chaplaincies; and the system of
family estates imposed by confiscation and maintained
by equity and conveyancing, on the English model,
rooked its climax of ruin and desolation some nine
years ago, when a single crop unexpectedly failed,
and the whole edifies of unreality suddenly fell to the
ground. By the prompt interposition of men of plain
good sense, who sought to form laws to snit the cir-
cumstances and not to force circumstances to yield to
srbitrary laws—a processor re-building was begun in
1860; many of the old Carinthian columns which had
been overthrown, were broken op into materials for
humbler construction; and, in a short time, much
progress began to be visible in clearing away the
rubbish and oonfusioa that had been suffered to aeon-
mulatto, and left a vast portion of a naturally prolific
nil a pauper-batted waste. The 'membered Estates
Court was a principal instrument in effecting this
salutary change. It has dons its work well. It has
shown the way to solidify landed property in Ireland,
to cheek absenteeism, and to draw capital to the
losprovedealtintion of the soil; above all, by breaking
up peremptorily and finally the old over-grows
properties which their owners could notate sell nor
till, it has taken the first great step in our day
towards stimulating the growth of a resident and in-
dustrious agricultural middle class in Ireland, the
want of which was in itself an evil of inestimable
magnitude. All these benefits are as dust in the
balance, however, in the eyes of Sir JAMES GRAHAM
and Mr. WALPOLE, Of Mr. ELLICE and Mr. WHITE-
SIDE. Uniformity of equity pleading and practice is,
in their estimation, worth all the substantial blue-
isgs connected with the liberation of the land from
spendthrift ownership and the blighting mismanage.
mint of receivers—contested titles and the complies-

tioa of cams wider which, ander the old eyatom, half
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It will be asked, Whit course do Government
WWII to WIMP P Will the ATTOANEY-OZNIULAL
persevere in his proposition to teenier the power of
the Membered Beam Commission to the Court of
Chancery P Or will Ministers acquiesce in the pro-
posal of the Committee, and allow these powers to
expire ? They intend, we believe, to do neither, bat
for the sake of eluding a serious and troublesome die.
melon, they proves@ to wrap the subject up in what
is technically called a Continuum Bill--that is, a bill
to keep everything es it is for twelve menths—and
so to throw it over till the session of 1857. We
era constrained to say that such a mule *under the
eirmunatenoes,far from defensible. If it really be in-
tended to abandon the system, it is neither fair nor
wise to allow petitions for sew sales to be presented
during the next twelve mouths, and so to put a
gambling dismiss is operation for an arbitrary period,
at the end of which it is to be arbitrarily withdrawn.
What is even more grim and important still, es a
legislative ensideratices, arises from the feet that
by a retest decision of the Court of Queen's
Beach in Ireland, the indeferdbility of what
are termed Parliamentary titles has been called
in question. A purchaser of certain lands seder the
Ommissioners lately brought an ejectment against a
tenant, who pleaded in defeats a subsisting lease
from the previous p►oprietor, which lease not havieg
bees en forth In the sehedule of sale, the purchaser
esoesived to he sot blasting upon him. A verdict
having bum obtained by the plaintig a majority of
the Jars of the Qum's Bench, upon a bill of
ex-
septieas, bold that the lease was good, sad that coo-
seqently ho was not entitled to remover. A writ of
error is now pending ; bet it is widest that the
lquestion raised is on. which in point of principle
attests the nature of Parliamentary titles generally.
Nothing but a deelaratory act can questa mach
doubts sr destroy the seeds of the new seep of mimes
litigation wherewith the arentry is maned. Minis-
fns propose se such dosieratory sett but they do
proms to let all the doubts and deniers multiply
Wag another year, and to reader the Tales el a