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LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 30.

?num ma be no doubt that the Soricrroz-Clairs.
Les present Mu for the Transfer of Jurisdiction
in matters Testaniestary front the Ecelsoketital
Courts is in some respects an improvement on that
originally introduced. It is an improvement, for
instance, to hare adopted the rule of vim cow
examinatioas and the simple forms of Common Law
Procedure, in lien of the more cumbrous process
originally contemplated. It is a still mare decided ad.
ranee in the right direction to have adopted so
much of Mr. Couutz's plan as relates to the esta-
blishment of district testamentary Alen, Gee far
each circuit of the fifty-two proviso's' Canty
Courts, instead of centralising the whole of the me-
mos form business in the metropolis.
In giving power to the County Court :edges to
deal with dispute@ relating to wills and to adjedi-
eats oa administration suits where the property in.
valved does not exceed 30W., the Boucxxos-Cirtrz.

am. has also shown a annesesdahle desire to mesh
the interests of the humbler threes of salter& The
ispertant object of wearing peeper phase of de-
posit for wills, and the doesanits consteted with
ass, has also, we Sr. quite willing to believe,
bean ellelently provided for by the Goverment Bill.
The Rzolsrlat GintlAL reports that ample rem',
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may be found in flonsersst-hoise for the memo ens.
tedy and reserved= of mem than six million@ of
wills ; and is addition to this central dsp6t, the local
mislead= Aloes throughout the country will seek
of them be provided with so adequate building for the
deposit, and a sompetent staff for the doe =sego.
meet aid elessifleatioo, of those testamentary dam-
meats the originals of which it is not propossd shall
be traaunitted to the metropolis. There can be so
idol, moreover, that the provision foe having
• and official copies of wills printed
under the soperintendeose of the Metropo.
litan Registrar is, in every point of view, a
wise alteration of the existing meek.. We quite go
aloes with Sir Rimier) Brensm. in his denunais•
Boa of "the tyranny of parchment." Not only will
the public convenience be consulted by the vastly
diminished balk of the documents to be deposited sad
Mond in the registration olliess, bat the interests of
all those sonesened in seeertaining the exact nature
of testamentary dispositisee will be materially sub-
aped by the substitution of pew and print he
Osman text and sheepskin.
With them adaiiisions(and they are not fammider.
able), our approbation of the Goveraineat Masan
mast sass. We assume, he ketones, as at present
advised, as any adequate ground for restricting the
currency of probate to England sad baked, instead
of extending it also to Secitlaad ; more especially if, es
we are informed, there are Railway Ante which
give an English probate validity in Scotland for the
paves of the transfer of Principle and eta.
meioses alike require that a yrobate taken out is say
portion of the United Kingdom should be valid
over its whole extent, and until we are shown some
more cogent proof of the lapresticelglity of this
ceneession than has hitherto been minuted we mist
tepid it as a defect in Sir R. Durant:a Bill, that
it falls short in this respect of the jest loaders and
reseal aatielpatious of the public. There is mother
and a somewhat important point se to which we are
by no means satisfied. We entertain SWIM doubts
whether the transfer of juriedietioe, as proposed by
the SouciroseOznazaL, to an entirely saw tribunal
is &feasible, on the ground of neemeity, came-
abase, or seaway. On this point as opinion
MERIN what it has bees from the first. We en-
firmly concur in the view taken by Mr.omarinteedBlr
EaSIIIII Pam, that the Saporito Courts of Cosmos
Law sad the County Courts are fully adequate,
without the creation of any new legal ma-
ehiaary, to transact the whole testemmtazy busi-
ness of the monsitry—ot all events all that potion of
it whir& has hitherto been dealt with in the Bair
gelded Courts, and which Blom, be it renumbered,
it is now proposed to transfer to the sew "Tatum.
nary Mart." As to the ampetseey of the County
Courts, Sir R. Biro= has given the most isms.
testable midges* of his opinion by traseuring to
these the jurisdiction as to all wills ievolving pro.
petty up to the limit of 3001. Is it, then, a usable
position to maintain that the Superior Courts of Com-
mon Law are not equally capable cl dealing with
wills involving property up to any =test P TM pre-
sent state of the business is these marts is sea that
they mold meet readily and eoeveeisatly dispose of
all that elms of testamentary muses which, under the
title of"contested." as distinct from " mums firm"
isneleas, alone eons up fir adjedisatioa beam the
various judges of the existing Raelesiestical Courts, aad
are, therefore, sloes attested by the Oevernmeat Bill.
A " Testantsatery Ofiles" for the traneemka of " corn-
ass hem" beldame, as proposed by that Bill, and
the Court of Common Pleas foe adjudication on all
the notated business sot disposed of by the County
Owen would, we lesi maddest, have answered every
perms white ma possibly be gained by the ems-
Muss sad costly oontriveme of Sir R. linaues
sew court. Even !opposing that some &heretics
might be rcquisits in the procedure of the Courts of
Wedsiester before they could be completely fitted
kr &alias with the new jurisdiction, it would rarely
ham Men much MOM simple and meek owe geom.
tadeal M have vested new posters in the old courts
Asa Islam burdened the seentey with the expose
et a sew, an unnecessary, sad, what is pitmans&
to be deprecated, a special end exeeptimel tribunal.
The real sting, however, of the Goverameat Bill is
in its tail. Oa this part of Sir Riciman Brritu.'s
plan we cannot abate an iota of our knee ape.
tione. A more monstrous scheme of sogalled sum
pommies has
British Parlimmet. Let us call things at ones by
their right nausea. It is not compensatice, bat hush
mosey that Parliament is by this Bill asked to be.
stow. The " sons of Zeman " are too strong
for as ; we must buy the privilege of abo-
lkhiag sae branch of the jurisdistio• of
Doetorse.oommons by the small donne of
181,0001. a year. That, it seems, is the lowest figure
at which we ere to be allowed to shake off ken our
seeks the absurd yoke of this Ecclesiastical jurisdi'o,
ties. The Church Courts will consent is future not
to meddle with our wills if we ea oar sides @gram to
pay down to the officers of those melts fir the term
of their natural lives a sum which represents the
mama interest of more than three and a half ignitors
gessflng, ea the consideration far their essigeisg a
isemepsfy which they ought serer to have raved-
The only emertatice is, that m the lime et these for.
tomato besedsiariss drop is, the usual sum white we
are ti pay far sileashag their (Treaties' will Min a
gradual mares of diminution.. It maybe tree—as eu