The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY -EVENING, JUNE 27, 1851.

to prevent the recurrence of inch frauds as had taken place
in this department
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied in
the affirmative, and the vote was agreed to.
2,7001., for salaries and expenses of the State-paper Office.
After a conversation between Mr. Hein and Mr. C.
Lewis,
Mr. EWART stated that a catalogue of the state-papers
was in preparation.
Lord J. RUSSELL stated that the papers to which this
vote referred had been in course of collection since the
time of Henry VIII., and were very valuable. It was
principally for their arrangement that this vote was re-
quired.
The vote was then agreed to.
2,2301., part of the expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners for England.
Ou the vote of 2,2301. for the expenses of the ecclesiastical
commissioners of England,
Mr. WILLIAMS said that he had always opposed this
vote, and would divide the house against it on the present
occasion.

Mr. TRELAWNY also opposed it.
Sir G. GREY said that the commission was not asked fur
by the church, but was rather imposed upon the church by
parliament.
Colonel SIBTHORP hated the very name of commissions,
awl would support Om hon. member for Lambeth if he di-
I Tided the house.

Lord J. RUSSELL said that the hon. and gallant mem-
b2r seemed to mistake the object of the commission in the
present instance, which was to make the funds at their dis-
posal as much as possible available in order to meet the
spiritual wants of the community. He did not believe
that the hon. and gallant member would object to that.
Col. SIBTIIOItP said that remembering how the noble
lord had acted towards the church on former occasions he
could place no confidence in the professions with regard
to it.

ILL'
Air. ME believed that if the property in the hands of
the church had been administered by responsible persons
100,0001. might be saved to the public, for he maintained
thatchurch property was public property. lie wished to
know from the noble lord on what principle the
right honourable gentleman the member for Cam-
br ides university (Mr. Goulburn) was entitled to draw
1,0001. as one of the commissioners when he had
already a pension of 2,000/., the law being that
where a public officer, in receipt of a public pension, was
appointed to another situation, the pension should merge
in the salary attached to the situation. In the present in-
stance the pension was greater than the salary, but he
thought that the right hon. gentleman was not entitled to
more than the 2,000/. a year, and that the other 1,0001.
ought to be saved to the public.
Lord J. ItUSSEI.L said that by the act of parliament of
last year three commissioners were to be appointed—two by
the crown and one by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Earl of Chichester and Mr. Shaw Leferre were ap-
pointed by the crown, and the right hon. gentleman, the
marcher tor the univerity of Cambridge, was nominated
'by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The pension which
the right hon. gentleman received was due to him in con-
sequence
of having performed certain services fur a certain
period of time as one of the officers of the state ; and the
1,0001., which he received as ecclesiastical commissioner was
given under an act of parliament for duties to he per-
formed, which duties, he presumed, the right hon. gentle-
man satisfactorily discharged.
Mr. HUM E thought a fraud was committed on the pub-
lic, because church property was, in his opinion, public
property.
After a brief conversation,
Lord J. RUSSELL tail the vote in the present instance
was for a sum of money to carry on civil business in regard
to certain arrangements in the elisirch which parliament said
it was necessary to make. If tin', were a commis,ion fur
carrying out reforms in the Court of Chancery or in the
court, of common law no person would say that the ex-
pens, should be borne out of the salaries of any persons in
these court,.

Mr. BRIGHT thounht that the noble lord bad failed in
the application of Iti4 arguments. The eommi,bion was for
the improvement of the property of the church or England.
lk hoped the noble lord would givo a more satisfactory
answer.

Mr. JAI SMITH thought that the church property was
very badly managed. A secretary had run away with no
We= than 10,010/. of it.
The hon.: divided—
For the vote
Against it
The vote was then ngr•ed tn.
On the vote of 211,400/. for the poor-law commission of
England, Scotland, and Ireland,
After a few words front Col. Dunne, Sir W. Somerville,
and Mr. Clements,

Mr. REIM/LDS felt justified in proposing that the
consideration of the vote should be postponed.
The CHAIRMAN said it was not competent to the hon.
gentleman to move the postponement of the vote. Ile
would have an opportunity of negativing it.
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said he did not consider that a
proper time fur entering into a defence of the poor-law sys-
tem in Ireland, though he had no doubt that when an op-
portunity arose he would he able to make out a ewe which
would satisfy the house, if not the hon. member for Dublin.
Mr. REYNOLDS said if it were not competent to hire to
move the postponement of this vote he should not divide
the house, because he wu not prepared to negative the
entire vote.

Mr. 111, SIP. thought that as regarded the payment of
medical otfleem Ireland ought to Is: Oared on the 'mute
footing no England. Again, he found in the vote a charge
of 29,i/001. fir sehoolin inters and schoolmistres:es for Eng-
land ; but ho believed there was no ouch charge on account
of Ireland.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that,
in reply to a question which was put to him last year, he
stated that in ISM certain charges were laid on the revenue
of this country, which were supposed to he compensations
for the loss., entailed by the changes in the corn law.
(Laughter.) If hon. gentlemen referred to the accounts
they would hod that the taxes of the United Kingdom
fur the constabulary police amounted to 580,0001., and far
more than the proportionate charge was on account of
Ireland. As regarded education he mint observe that the
educational vote for that year was 150,0001. for England
and 131,000/. for Ireland; and, considering the relative
amounts of the population in the two countries, he did not
think the sister country had any reason to complain. The
loan of 301,0001. was granted last year to enable certain
unions in Ireland to pay off debts to contractors, and in
the appendix to the report there was a list of the unions to
which the advances were made.

Sir It. FERGUSON believed that if Ireland paid her
ono share for the constabulary the amount would be vory
much reduced.

Mr. ILENLEY wished for explanation with regard to
the reduction of the vote of 13,0001. to 20,0001. for educa-
tion in union workhouses. There were between six and
seven hundred unions in this country ; and 20,0001. gave
but al/. a year for the schoolmaster and sehoohnistress of
each union, in addition to lodgings and rations.
Mr. DAISES could assure the hon. member that no one
was more sensible than he was of the importance of im-
proving workhouse education. lie was happy to say that
some improvements were in progress, and that others were
contemplated. The lion. member was mistaken in sup-
posing that there was in reality any reduction in the
amount proposed for the salaries of schoolmasters and

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schoolmistresses. No more than 20,0001. had been ex-
pended in any past year, though the Treasury had asked
for 34,0091. He (Mr. Baines) would not consent to any re-
ductions, believing that the schoolmasters and school-
mistresses were, as a class, exceedingly ;useful, and that
they were by no means overpaid. 'l•he more he considered
the subject of education the more lw felt the necessity of
advancing it by every means in their power, and he could
assure the house that in his hands it should not be neglected.
After some remarks from Cul. ktawdou, Mr. Ewart, and
Mr. Baines,
Mr. G. A. HAMILTON stated that, according to the
last published return, there were 219,000 persons in the work •
houses of Ireland, and that of that number 103,000 were chil-
dren under the age of three years. Under these circumstances
he helievcal the great difficulty of Ireland was Willa to do
with these children. How were they to be hest brought up ?
Ilu thought that there ought to be some attempt made to
give these children an industrial education.
Mr. 11006 lilt said a complaint existed in the county
which he represented that the hoard of guardians were too
much controlled by the inspectors, when it was considered
they were quite well qualified to manage their own affairs.
The farmers were now directing their attention to the ne-
cessity of teaching the paupers, both young and old, some
industrial occupation as the best means of modifying the
evil effects of poverty, and this matter he thought ought to
be taken up with carnestnes.s by the Poor-law Bo ad.
Mr. M. 01PERICALL wished an explanation iu rc-
f.•rence to the poor law accounts. It appeared that
1,430,000/. was the poor law expenditure of Ireland. Of
this 5un5...431,0001. was spent for the maintenance of the
paupers, and the balance was paid for wages and other
expenses. These "other expenses" amounted to 417,000/.,
and he wished to know what these other expenses were.
Sit W. SOMEttVILLE was not able to state of what
tiles., expenses consisted ; but if the hon. member wished
for information on any points and moved for it he would
take care that it should be furnished.

Idr. M. O'FEILRALL s.ud thatt e present was the only
opportunity they possessed of gaining information of hue
kind, and these returns ought to be nude intelligible.
Sir li. W. BARRON said the Chancellor of the Excite-
quer had stated that the condtahulary charged in Ireland
were defrayed by government, in consideration of the alio-
litiou of the corn iaws. Now, he could not allow the °ppm-
tunity to pass without protesting against such u paltry sum
being anything like an equivalent for the ruin brought on
Ireland by the abolition of these laws.
Mr. REYNOLDS said the explanation of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer had not satisfied him.
Mr. lICME considered that Ireland should be placed on
the same footing as England.
Mr. COWAN wished some information as to the state of
the Mishima& and islands of Scotland.
Sir 0 OREY promised that the report of Sir J. M'Neill
should be laid on the table as soon as passible.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply
to Mr. Cleutents who thought sonic of the figures very on-
satisfactory, said the amount for the purposes of emigration
had been paid out of the rate in aid.
After mu,. fualier conversation,
The vote was agreed to.
The next vote was 47,000/. fur defraying the expenditure
of the Mint.

Mr. IILML asked en what grounl the estimate for coin-
ing more gold was made ?
'Esc CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied
that a c,rtain quantity of li4,tt sovereigns were from time
to time returned to the Mint, and it was necessary to
repl.tea them occasionally by the issuing of new sovereigns.
The cost of the coiaage was, as stated in the estimate,

one-third per Dent: He believed that the new system
would come into operation in the course of a few weeks.
The vote was then agreed to.
The next vote was 8,0621. fur defraying the charges of the
Commissioners of Railways.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS observed that there was an increase
this year to a small amount.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said them was in the estimate
1,5001. for the salary of a commissioner. Before the end
of the session it would be his duty, in accordance with
the recommendation of the committee on salaries,
to bring in a bill for the purpose of reuniting
this department to the Board of Trade. Upon consulting
Mr. Booth, one of the secretaries to the Board of Trade, be
found that he was willing to give his assistance in the
way department in addition to his present onerous duties.
Therefore, though he put the whole sum of 1,5001. in the
estimate it would not be all wanted. He should propose
that the new system should conic into operation at the
end of September. In asking Mr. Booth to undertake
this additional duty he felt it his duty to pro-
pose an ;increase in his salary, and he should
therefore propose in another session of parliament, if he
had the honour of being then President of the Board of
Trade, that Mr. Booth's salary be increased from 1,500/. to
2,0001., thereby leaving the saving to the public in the rail-
way department of 1,0001. a-year.
In reply to a question from Mr. llcus, regarding par-
liamentary trains,
Mr. LABOUCHERE said this department had frequent
complaints made of railway companies in this particular,
and they were always investigated.
Mr. BOOK ER said he had heard with great pain that
the railway department was about to be reunited to the
Board of 'frade. The safety and convenience of the public
repaired that they should be distinct. lle hoped this de-
cision would be reviewed.
Mr. HUME hoped the government would not alter their

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The vote was then agreed to.
The next vote was for 11,9001. for the care and manage-
nvnt of public records, which was agreed to.
The next vote was 14,5831., to defray the expenses of in-
spectors of mines and factories, which, after a brief conver-
sation, was agreed to.
' The next vote proposed was of 1,7(101. for salaries of
officers in Scotland and other charges tormerly paid from
the hereditary revenue.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS objected to the items of this vote.
What did her Majesty want with a " limner," a •' clock-
maker," or an " historiographer ?" Ile particularly ob-
jected to the item " the Queen's plate to be run for at Edin-
' burgh," "The Caledonian hunt," and "The itoyal
Company of Scottish Archers." Ile moved that the sums
for the three last be disallowed, which would reduce the I,
vote by 2171. The amount was certainly small; but the
principle involved was of importance.
Mr. C. LEWIS—Those offices and these grants were of
very old date; and he thought it would be unfair to strike
out tho vote now.

Mr. HOME thought that these alramlities had existed
too long, and ought to be done away with.
Mr. C. LEWIS.—The office of " cliwkmalter" was no
sinecure. The person tilling that Mice had to attend to all
the clocks at Holynaml.
Mr. DISRAELI thought that the hon. member for Lam-
beth, when lie spoke of a principle, ought to explain what
the principle involved in this case really was. (Dear, hear.)
The committee had to look to the origin of these grants.
They were grants formerly paid out of the hereditary re-
venue of the crown. Parliament had made a certain ap-
rangement with the crown, by which the: crown gave up
its hereditary revenue, parliament undertaking all the
charges with which that revenue was burthened. In point
of fact, therefore, this was not to be regarded as a vote out
of the public taxes.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS denied the correctness of the argu-
ment. ller Majesty got a civil list of 355,0091. a year ; and
' he believed that since her Majesty's auession the lands and
estates of the crown had not produced so much as 1:10,0001.
a soar. Nobody made now any objection to the amount of
the civil list, or to the cost of all her Majesty's palaces,
yachts, &c. But if her Majesty required such things as
were mentioned in this vote, she oiLtlit to pay for them.
INo Queen's plates were given in England. lie would vote
against all such grunts.
Mr. MOORE begged to inform the hon. member that at
least 25 Queen's plates were given in England, at u cost of
2,400/. This showed the rashness and the whit of informs-
tion of the hon. member. (blear, hear.) While granting
these plates in England it would be most unfair to reftra,
them to Scotland or Ireland.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS had only said that he would vote
against Queen's plates for England.
Sir IL INGLIA had understood the hon. member to
make the po•ioivc statement that no Queen's plates were
granted in England. 1k thought the discussion on this
vote was altogether of an improper character. The dig-
nity of the crown ought not to be cornmomised by persons
who were capable of little more than putting twenty sea-
tences together.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS would not condesund to notice
what had fallen from the bun. baronet. (Laughter.) The
observations of the hon. baronet were impertinent.
(Laughter, and cries of "Order.")
Sir It. NGLIS appealed to the house if anything he had
said then, or laud said on any former occasion since he had
posues4tod a seat in that assembly, wai of a character to
justify in any degree the language applied to him by the
hon. member for Lainbeth. (Cheers.) If the hon. member
would rite and apologise he would sit down—(the hon.
baronet here paused, but Mr. Williams did not move) ; but
if the hon. member would nut rise, be would tell the lion.
nyanber that he woo not the man to tell him (Sir It. Inglis)
that he was using impertinent language. (Cheers.)
Mr. W. WILLIAMS withdrew, as a matter of course,
whatever expression he had used which was inconsistent
with the rules of the house. He had understood the hon.
baronet to insinuate that he (Mr. William-) could not string
twenty sent: acca togetlicr—(Sir 11. high: here denied that
he had said so)—and in the heat of the moment he might
have used improper language. There was not a gentleman
in the house fur whom he had a greater respect than he hid
thy the hon. baronet, and he should be must sorry to hurt
his Co...dings in any way.
Sir It INGLIS acknowledged the kindless of the hon.
member, and hoped that the subject would drop.
Mr. ACME, who objected to the vote, thought it was a
great pity that they should be quarrelling among one an-
other. (Laughter and cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL uuderstonl the hon. member for
Lambeth to suggest that parliament had made a lead bar-
gain with the crown. He would not dispute whether the
crown had done wisely in making that bargain; but he
thought it scarce fittio, that parliament should interfere in
this CAW with the liberality of the crown. The grunt of
ISO to Mr. Brodie, a man of considerable literary eminence,
could not be considered too great. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. \V. WILLIAMS contended that the plates for Ire-
land and Scotland ought to come out of the civil list as
well as the others.

'llw committee then divided :
Fur the amendment

Against it
162-123
The vote was then agreed to.
6,41311., salaries of the oaken of the household of the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Mr. ItUME moved that the vote be reduced by 1,5711.,
the item fur Queen's plates."
Mr. W. WILLIAMS wished for an explanation of the
item, "two gentlemen at large 140/. a year each."
(Laughter.) It was right the public should know what were
the duties of those gentlemen at large. lie should support
the aineuilment of his hon. friend, not b. cause he grudged
a single farthing paid to the crown, but i/eCUUS4, he thought
the country ought not to be called on to support horse
racing. _ _ _

Alt.7:r a few words from Mr. Moults,
Mr. BRIGHT said it would be impossible to justify the
vote of this LW!. It would be just as proper fur the
house to take Bela Life and look over the various amuse-
ments announced, and give a vote for killing nits. (Laugh-
ter.) Ile hoped these votes would be resisted as long as
the)• were brought forward.
After a few words from Colonel DUNNE and Colonel

The CHANC...A.LOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped
that a division would not he pressed, as there had
already been a long discussion and a division un the same
question.
Mr. lIUME said he should press his amendment.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE supported the vote on the ground that
the shipment of horses was one of the beet trades that
Ireland had, and these plates tended to encourage the
breeding of horses.
The committee then divided;
For the amendment 4l)
Against
The vote was then agreed to.
6,0451. were voted to defray the expenses of the office of
Paymaster o, the Civil Services in Ireland.
Oa the vote of 31,4311., to defray the salaries and ex-
penses of the Board of Public Works, Ireland,
Mr. ANSTEY objected to the item of LIDO'. for salaries
and travelling expenses of fishery commissioners. It was
absolutely necessary to separate the inspection of fisheries
from the duties of the Hoard of Works, and to establish an
independent board of fishery inspection for Inland.
The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCIIEQUEIt could not'
consent to any such separation.
After a few words from Colonel DUN, E and Mr. SCULLY,
as to the necessity of creating an independent fishery in-
spection board for Ireland,
Mr. 01100 AN begged to assure the 11011f0 that the quel-
-1 tion had taken a deep hold on the opinions of the people of
llreland, who wished to see their fisheries better managed
than they were at present.
Mr. HUME said that the Scotch people were most
anxious to get rid of their fishery. boards. (Hear.)
Mr. ANSTEY said that the Irish people did not want the
fishery board, but if it was retained they desired it to be more
independent of the Board of Works. 1 he sum of money pro-
posed to h , given W.'S too small and would be lxrfeetly useless.
Lord NAAS said that if the present fishery board was
kept up, he believed there would not be a salmon in Ire-
laud in tea years. (Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Mr. 11. GUATTAN,
Mr. REYNOLD:: complained of the extravagance of the
board. He was not going to oppose the vote, -believing it
would be useless to do so, although it was a mass of ex-
tr.Tightice.

--iiiTic.RORREYS bore his testimony to the extrava-
gance of the present board. He thought no subject was
more deserving of inquiry. (Cheers.)
The vote was then agreed to.
The Chairman reported progress.
On the order of the day for going into committee on the
Court of Chancery and Judicial Committee (Annuity to
Judges) Bill,
Mr. STUART said the great cause of delay in the Court
of Chancery was the want of a proper staff of registrars, and
he hoped the government would direct their attention to
that subject.

Captain ARCIIDALL said he should move the adjourn-
ment of the house on account of the course pursued bv the
government on Tuesday week last, which had the efft.et of
preventing him from bringing forward a motion of which he
had repeatedly given notice.
Sir G. GREY assured the hon. and gallant gentleman he
had no such intention as he imagined. lit would assent to
his motion with a slight verbal alteration.
After some further conversation, the amendment was
withdrawn, and the house went into committee.

~ --.
A resolution was passed, "That a sum not exceeding
3,7501. be granted to any judge of the Court of Appta in
Chancery. who shall resign his office."
The hill then went through committee.
LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL.

In comin-ittee—O;il7i;bill

kr:/iNgfiimovediiie insertion of a claw,: enacting
that the bill should not extend to Ireland, stating that his
intention in doing so was to prevent the landlord front ac-
quiring the power of distraining growing crop:.
Mr. NAPIER saw no reason why such a bineficial mea-
sure should not be extended to Ireland. The hill did nut
effect any change in the law as to the liability of grow-
ing crops.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL would be very trilling to accept
of the beneficent provisions of the bill, but eme.idered thut
the law would be altered to the worse as regarded the sell-
ing of crops under execution.
Mr. HATCRELL said the bill did not interfere with tho
law in Ireland regarding the right of distraining on crops.
After a few words front Mr. ANSTEY, who withdrew his
motion, the bill was read a third time and passed.
POLITICAL EXILES

Mr. ANSTEI moved for copies of all communicaCons
received from the Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's
Lind, and not already printed by order of this house, on
the subject of the revocation of the tickets of leave lately
held by the state prisoners Messrs. M`Manus, ('Doherty,
and O'Donoliue, their subsequent imprisonment and treat-
ment at Port Arthur, the proceedings taken by any of
them to obtain their discharge from such imprisonment,
with the result of such proceedings, and the measures taken
by his Excellency Sir William Deni,on in consequence
thereof ; and of all l.•tters addressed to his Excellency by
Earl Grey upnn the said matters.
Mr. HAWES opposed the motion on the ground that
legal proceedings were pending in reference to these mat-
ters. When the proper time came there would be no objec-
tion to produce the papers.
After a few words from Mr. M. J. O'Cossigt.t., the mo-
tion was negatived.
The house adjourned at a quarter pert one o'clock.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 27.

ME leading organ of continental reaction in this
country would fain have it believed that the new
propositions of Denmark with regard to the Duchies
meet with entire acquiescence in Schleswig, and :tro
likely to encounter no very serious opposition in
Holstein. The evidence which is offered in support
of this somewhat marvellous assertion consists in rho
nets and deeds of a sort of extemporised privreouwil,
dignified by the name of an Assembly of Notables,
which has been summoned to meet at Flensburg, there
to hear and discuss the proposals laid before it
by, the cabinet of Copenhagen. A majority of this
80i-disont diet has pronounced in favour of tho
novel scheme for settling the succession to the crown
and determining the nature of the connexion which
shall in future subsist between the three component
states of the monarchy. What is the value of such
an approval ? And what does it imply?
To correct the erroneous impression which a pre.
tensions misnomer is calculated to create, it is
hardly necessary to do more than state that the
assembly whose sanction is thus ostentatiously re-
corded, is nothing more than a committee of 21 re-
spectable gentlemen named by the Ktug from his
loving and unloving subjects of Denmark and the
Duchies. The proportions from each are protiAseilly
equal ; but as the nominees from Schleswig have all of
them been taken from the Danish party there, they
constitute, along with the royalist representatives of
Denmark itself; an effectual preponderance of two to
one over those of Holstein. lladthere beenany Danes
to be found in the latter, no doubt they would have
been favoured with this mars of dynastic confidence.
As it is, the eight Holsteiners may, we presume, ho
taken as the best specimens to be had of Teutonic
pliability to the wishes of an Mien court and donti-
mint race. Yet we learn that the whole of this, tho
only German section of the " Assembly of Notables,"
entered from the outset their earnest protest against
the propositions fur absorption and clump of the
succession.
To the latter point attention has been primarily
directed. The claims of the Duke of AniusrEN-
Beno are said to be forfeited by the attainder
pronounced against him in consequence of the part
he has borne in maintaining the rights of his family.
IVitlt what justice or regard to public law this for-
feiture is assumed, we shall not stop to inquire.
Enough that it is so, and that the pretensions of the
Duke of OLDENBERG, for which so many swords and
pens have hitherto been engaged, are with equal
tint!, fmid put altogether aside, in order to make
way for a new successor to the childless King. A
boy of eight years old, the young Duke of Giurks.
BERG, has suddenly become the favourite of Danish
diplomacy ; and in assertion of the right divine of
this collateral "issue of a King," that is to "bear
upon his baby brow the round and top of sove-
reignty," the great powers of Europe, we use gravely
assured, are quite prepared formally to join.
We shall be slow in believing that even Russia
has given any intimation of her readiness to become
a recognising party to an arrangement that bears
on its front so little the character of stability or rea-
son. Russia has her own separate and selfish views
respecting the Danish succession ; but a project like
the present is one which, were she to acquiesce in
to-day, she would to-morrow find ready excuses for
discarding as inadequate to provide for the safety
and good order of the state. France is still less
likely, we are persuaded, precipitately to give tho
weight of her guarantee to a scheme that
must be looked upon throughout Germany with
detestation or derision. Its sole purport and aim
appears to be the affected annulling of the claims of
the House of Augustenberg, the branch of the royal
family round which the hopes and sympathies of
whatever is royalist in Holstein will continuo
instinctively to cling. In the event of the reigning
sovereign of Denmark being removed by death, at
any period within the next dozen years, a war of the
succession would be specially invited by the help-
less incompetency of the infant heir to the
crown. Regencies are sufficiently trying to
the rationalistic faith of modern times in
monarchy, even under circumstances the most
favourable to the perilous experiment. But when to
the feebleness and inefficiency of such an administra-
tion is added the rancour and resentment of rival
claims, and when to all this is superadded the deep-
rooted enmities of races arrayed under the hostile
pretenders to a legitimate title, it is impossible to
conceive a state of things more inevitably doomed to
distraction and civil conflict. France can have no
inducement to prepare such elements of couibustion
in Northern Germany. As an intelligent power mho
cannot fail to foresee its obvious impracticability ; as a
free state she cannot wish to concede this new triumph
to the evil influence of Austria.

As for England, we are persuaded that nothing
can less enter into the contemplation of the parlia-
ment or people of this country, than any partieipa-
: tion in so stupid and reactionary a project. Every
leaning of the liberal party in Great Britain WILi
towards the privileges and rights of the l/uchies
during their recent struggle. If that struggle has
been brought for the present to a termination by the
interposition of Austrian force, we are not upon that
account likely to be more disposed to behold with
satisfaction the permanent imposition of terms on tho
weaker party, which tht,v loathe, and would if
they could resist. .We are not to be bamboozled
by such barefaced pretences of fair play and
free discussion as the sham assembly at Flens-
bturs ; and we can as little recognise the arbitrary
disinheriting of the Augustenberg line, as the over-
reaching measures by which Gemutn opinion has
been virtually set at naught in the mock discussion
of the proposals. England has only one interest in
the matter, namely, that of peace among her kins-
folk on the other side of the German sea. Hut as
she knows that in tie present and the coming condi-
tion of Europe there can be no security for per-
manent peace where there is not popular content-
ment, it is and must be the interest of England to

sec the brave and intelligent inhabitants of the
Duchies assured in the enjoyment of that ancient
freedom they so dearly chensh, and the remem-
brance of which neither fraud nor force will succeed
for any length of time in compelling them to forego.

THE approval with which the plan for increasing
the judicial power of the Court of Chancery was
received on its announcement in the House of Com-
mons, seems to have been ratified by the public, now
the bill has been printed. This forms a striking
contrast to the universal derision with which the
first proposal of the government for the same pur-
pose was received. And herein the Premier might,
if he would, read a moral which has a far more ex-
tensive application than to amendments in a court of
justice. It cannot be doubted that the first scheme,
by which the Master of the Rolls and a common law
judge were, with or without the Chancellor, to con-
stitute
the Appeal Court in Chancery, was dictated
by an over-scrupulous, not to say affected, deference
to the sentiments of economy in public expenditure,
which prevail by fits and starts in the House of
Commons—for the plan was utterly unworkable
and would have impeded not advanced the despatch
of business. More power for the disposal of the in-
creased business which had grown out of the events
of modern times, was one of the essential necessities
of any amendment of equity judicature, and more
power could not be had without inure cost. And we
see that when a really effective plan is proposed, the
meet rigid economists show no disposition to grudge
a reasonable increase of expense. Of the measure
itself we have little to say in addition to the outline
we gave of the scheme when first proposed.
The crown is to have power to appoint two judges
who are to form the Court of Appeal in Chancery,
and will take precedence next after the Lord
Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer. The
jurisdiction, appellate and other, of the Court of
Chancery now exercised by the Lord Chancellor is
to he exercised by the new court. The statutory
jurisdiction of the Chancellor mar also be exercised
by the appeal court and the authority of the Vice-
Cliancellor sitting in bankruptcy is transferred to
such court. The full court will consist of the Chan-
cellor and the two judges of the appeal court; and
in case the two appeal judges sitting alone
shall be equally divided in opinion, the decree
appealed from is to be taken as affirmed, unless the
Lord Chancellor shall direct the cause to be heard
bet Ore the full court. And this point is the weak-
est part of the new plan, lending force to the sug-
gestion which has been made that there ought to
have been three instead of two judges of the appeal
court, so that its decisions might in all cases be
decisive.

It is certain that there are few eases of import-
ance, either from the difficulty of the questions or
the amount of the stake at issue in the cause, in
which an appellant party will be satisfied with the
sort of negative affirmance of the decree from which
he appealed. whirls will arise out of an equal divi-
sion of opinion in the appeal court ; and the result
will be an effort to have the appeal re-heard in full
court. This will involve, we apprehend, a special
application to the Lord Chancellor for such a re-
hearing, on probably 'special grounds. and then a re-
in aring of the appeal with its attendant increase of
expense and delay. To avoid this, wo incline to
the opinion that it would be bolder and better po-
licy at once to incur the additional cost of appointing
a third judge.
At all events, should the bill pass in its present
form, a great responsibility will be thrown upon the
government in tilling up the appointments of judges
us the appeal court. It will be essential that both
judrs should be not only men of learning, energy,
and good.intension, but they must be men of temper,
with calm, patient. and judicial minds; men who are
capable of hearing a ease argued and have patience
sufficient to permit each party's counsel to present
his client's case without interruption. One of the
rumoured appointments to the new court all will
admit to fulfil these conditions. and it is abso-
lutely necessary to the success of the new judica-
ture that such a judge be not matched with
a yoke fellow of opposite tendencies. The decisions
of the appeal court are to be subject to appeal to the
House of Lords.

The Lord Chancellor may pit alone in Chan-
cery, while the judges of the appeal court are
also sitting, and will have a co-ordinate jurisdic-
tion with the appeal court. This will undoubtedly
give great facilities should there be at any time an
extraordinary press of businetoi in Chancery;
but we apprehend that for the most part
the Lord Chancellor will confine himself
to the hearing of important ceases as a
member of the appeal court, and to appeals
in the House of Lords. The ministerial duties of the
Lord Chaneelloe are not to be affected by the act,
and as holder of the Great Seal he will still retain
all his present jurisdiction in lunacy, and in relation
to letters patent, and as visitor of charities, and of
making general orders for regulating the practice of
the Court of Chancery or the duties of its officers.
The powers given to the judges of the appeal court to
sit for the Master of the Rolls, or any of the Vice-
Chancellors, during temponwy illness, to sit on the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and to at-
tend to give advice and assistance in the House of
Lords, as well as the intended regulations of salaries,
have been before fully stated.
This measure seems to render the judicial power of
the Court of Chancery strong enough to cope with
the vast mass of important and intricate business
which comes within its portals; but there is much
more of amendment required to render the court
what it ought to be, and rs capable of being, a com-
plete tribunal for the administration of justice in
questions relating to property. Some further mea-
sures for this purpose are promised, and we shall
await their proposal before offering any opinion on
the anticipatory rumours of their purport which cir-
culate in legal circles.
But we cannot abstain from referring to some
notions, which have been put forth in publications
usually grave and serious, on the subject
of Chancery reform, and which betray an
almost ludicrous absence of knowledge on the
part of the writers. Thus, in the Evismnist of last
week, what are called Chancery "anomalies arid
barbarities" are dealt with in a style of trenchant
declaration totally inapplicable to the subject, and
are illustrated by statements and cases which have
little or no foundation in fact. And it is because we
really desire a thorough and complete reformation of
the Court of Chancery that we notice erroneous and
jejune exaggerations on the subject. For instance,
the writer says the Court of Chancery " may order
him [the reader] to do what is physically impossible
—to produce deeds which he never saw, to pay into
its hands money which he has not got, to answer
pleas which concern him not, to fee officers and
solicitors whom it would drain his purse ten times
over to satisfy ; and then commit to hopeless impri-
sonment for ; contempt,' for not doing what it is
utterly out of his power to do." Now, all this is
sheer fiction or misapprehension, and the cases cited
to support it prove the writer's total want of ac-
quaintance with the topic he handles so jauntily.
Thus he states a case in which a residue was divided
between residuary legatees, who invested the money
in Spanish bonds, and of course lost it. Afterwards
a suit was instituted in the Ecclesiastical Court
to recall the probate of the will, and pending that
suit, which, had it proved sucesseiful, would have
defeated the right of the residuary legatees
to the money they had received, they were
called upon to pay the money into the Court of
Chancery, to abide the result of the litigation in the!
Ecclesiastical Court. This seems only a reasonable;
measure for preserving the .liind in dispute until de-
(islet'. Of course persons whose prudential notions
led them to invest in Spanish bonds were unable to
°lay the order to refund the mouey, their right to ,
which was in question, and one was committed fer
nun-payment, while the other went to Boulogne.
I he ordinary resource of persons who are called on
to pay money not their own which they have fooled'
away— the Insolvent Debtors Court—was open to'
the relief of these persons, and if one preferred long
imprisonment and the other' absence from the coun-
try. it was their own choice, and they had pro-
blibly reasons of their own for so doing.l
It is quite untrue that persons arc
.required by the
Court of Chancery to do what is impossible, save,
perhaps, in the matter of payment of money due
hum them, wherein it acts as other courts act, send'
insolvent debtors to gaol to obtain liberation if
can, by a full surrender of their property for distri-
bution amongst their creditors. We have seen some-
thing of cases in which Chancery suitors have un-1
derv= long imprisonment', and we hesitate not to

say that, for the lut fifteen years, at all events, such
imprisonment was the result of their own obstinacy
and choice. In the instance of producing deeds, no
such order will ever be made if the person against
whom it is sought can show that ho has
no means of procuring the production of the deeds
sought for. But usually where such an order is
made, the alleged inability to produce these docu-
' ments is a shuffle, an attempt to baffle the court and
defeat an opponent. Something of this sort oc-
curred in the well-known case of " Bute v.
Stewart," wherein a partner in a mining concern
was ordered, at the suit of another partner who had
been excluded from the concern, to make certain
discoveries of the mining accounts and documents,
when he declined to do so, stating that the clerk
of the concern, acting under the direction of
other partners, refused to let him, the person
called for discovery, have access to his own books.
The court, however, said "that will not do, the clerk
is your and your partner's servant, you are entitled
to see the books as well as bound to give the required
information to your opponent, and you must take all
or any means necessary to compel your servants and
your partners to enable you to do that which by law
you are compellable to perform." In that ease the
person who tried the dodge was one of station and
rank, and the result of the order made, was that the
information was afforded ; but an ignorant or more
obstinate man might have resisted, and gone to the
Queen's Prison, uttering piteous lamentations against
the " barbarities" of the Court of Chancery, while all
his inconveniencies arose front his own dishonesty.
One of the most persevering litigants in the court,
and who was for many years a chancery prisoner
for costs, is a man who tiled a bill to enforce the spe-
cific performance of an agreement of his unfurnished
lodgings for one year. Of course the term expired
before the cause was heard. From such sources ns
these arc derived much of the objections against the
Court of Chancery which only obscure its true evils
and obstruct their rational consideration and amend-
ment.