The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-08 00:00:00

the judge at Nisi Pries, or by the full court'
in case of appeal The man whom combined
learning and sagacity are nab as to command
an unrivalled range of Otis -descriptiskoe„
practice will, supposing him to be only
gifted with readiness of elocetion lad
mind, make a better judge thin another whelk Mare
oratorical accomplishments may hi mere showy,

but whose sense a less solid and Whose knowledge
is less sound.

Mr. BRAMWELL, as our readers are already aware,
has taken a prominent part in those procedure
reforms which, with so much benefit to the public,
were in 1862 and 1884 introduced into the Courts
of Common Law. It may not be so generally known
beyond the circle of the legal profession that in the
interval which elapsed between the two Reports on
which the Common Law Procedure Acts were
founded, both Mr. BRAMWELL and Mr. WILLIS
spent a long vacation in the United States, with a
view of ascertaining by personal inspection the actual
workingot the amended procedure system of New York.
It was that State which first let the example, now
extensively followed throughout the Union, not only
of purging away the barbarisms whisk, with them as
with us, bad too long defaced the practice of the law,
but also of assimilating the procedure of the Courts of
Equity and the Omits of Common Law, fusing both
systems of jurisdiction into one, and establishieg a
uniform, simple, and comparatively inexpensive me-
thod of procedure on the ruins of the old technicalities.
Without proceeding so far as to recommend the im-
mediate adoption in this country of the American
scheme in its entirety, the Commissioner, yet showed
themselves strongly sensible, in their Second Report,
of the many advantages held oat by a plan which
thus *gabled the suitor to obtain full and entire re-
dress, in one and the same tribunal, without Wog
bandied shoat from Law to Equity, and from
Equity bade again to Law. Of the steps towards a
fusion actually recommended by the Commissioners
in their Second Report a few only were sanctioned
by the Legislature; still to the knowledge thus so-
gaited by Mr. WiLize and Mr. Bianwatt. in
their llpg vacation tour, English litigants are in-
debted for the privilege they sow possess of rais-
ing equitable defences and procuring equitable re-
medies in the Courts of our Common Law, without
being driven to the ninons refuge of the Courts of
Chesney.
It is an important point in the present state of the
legal profession to have on the bench of our Common
Law Courts mesa who will he disposed rather to
promote than to dieseurege the reforming spirit
whisk has already pedestal champs so bane-
deist, end which will assuredly ere long lead
to iseproveniests of still higher value. In
this point of view Mr. Bitemwam. is a men
of the right stamp, and we confess we shall be
diseppointed if be den not turn out to be in all rs.
spats a very valuable magistrate. "Oda proves
the man" is a troth at lead as applicable to judges
as to ether men ocoupyline a high position in
the public service; and Mr. BIIANWELL is the
ramessor of one Whom it will set be easy for any
seesessor to sival. We have, however, little doubt
that he will stand the test well, sad believe we may
sahly cootgratelate the petals en the appointawat of
a judge who brings to the enemies of his great elk*
the acuteness of a penetrating intellect, the liberality
of a compreheasive culture, and the commanding
vigour of a reheat and masculine mind.