The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-12 00:00:00

(STAMPED ld. ADDITIOVAL.]

SPAIN.
MADRID, MAR= U.

The Congress has adopted a bill panting a longer
period for the conversion of bonds of the Passive
Debt.

BELGIUM.
BRUSSEL% MAscu IL
The ministry have declared that, if the Chamber
of Representatives reject the projects relative to the
contingent And duration of military service, they
cannot continue to hold Oka

COPBNHAOKN. MAscu U.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Den-
mark leaves this capital on Sunday next, vid Ham-
burg, Munich, and Trieste, for Athens, where he
intends to remain for a month, and after that
period to visit London.

ZONE PENIki

LORD PIASTVUBY uN Mk; SLATS We TM
.INGLIBff LAW.

14.4 ..sung Lord WlnTettnY pentitild at the
'salvers's, meeting of the Judaea Boast, wbfoh was
held at their odious in St. Haetizerplsee,Trefallse-nlume.
His Loentime, in announcing ihat Mr. Jena= Han n=
aseepled the position of one of the vices el
the seek* add he could net forbear expraW the g 240
ploneede wide be felt, • pleasure which he was sure was
=lewd br to. whole of the profeadon, at the selection of
that dinUestan to be one other Ma= judges—a more
anesegielsie and • more mealiest =odd sot have
bass made. (Hear, hear.) lordWeethisey then proceeded
es
w(artiveryour.high mesh
andpiniteato t to
oaths
ampresentlet lexdpresktenChamcy
el tie seelity should be au=to thst adds hied. He
dgeoribed Lad Cairns as • moat asmomplished lawyer, n
seek= legal reformer and scholar, and owe who was it
=snowzy desirous of promo ft the study et =As-
h would therefore be highly to the admalege
of the
oft the aeolity if they used =sore Lord Cahns as their
t.
After a presiden
short discard= it waif decided that the deed=
of president should stand ever until the oat ameting,sad
in the meantime Lord Westbury should convey to the
Lord Chancellor the wishes of the society that be would
accept the position of their president.
Some other formal bushier haveigbeen tesnemited,
Lord WISTBOEY proceeded to deliver en able =dram
upon the present ixeition of the English law suggesting
that the should not aseflas itself, as it gad hitherto
desk to hol meatier when pews were to be read,
but UM it sir enlarge the sphere ol its operations sired
metaimes by amemtding, say mum every fortnight, foe the
diesseden el some of those Important legal questions
which were now occupying the serious attention of parlia-
ment and the country. He said we had now got to the
brink of a time which was the moat important with re-
LI::our legal institutions and laws that he remembered
the whole of the forty=glit years that he had
bees acquainted with the subject ; and he was glad to say
that we had springing up emcee= us • greet
body of young men who were earnest and skilful in.
their legal knowledge. One of the most impede=
of the several commissions which were at present sitting
upon legal subjects was that with respect to our =iris of
justice sad the manner in which the Jude: Mare of the
country should be arranged. A more important substhan this °odd hardly be imagined; and he begged to
observe how much advance in the opinions of tlio profes-
don was indicated by the mere fad that this reconstitution
of the whole of the tribunals had been deemed a fit mut-
ter for discussion, whereas a few yeses ago to suggest such
• thing would have bees thought little abort of protium.
floe. The question was, should they alter altogether the
mode et trying the ordinary causes that arose at grin
prissy having ard to our present constitution. The
circuits were originally intended merely for the purpose of
creating local courts. Well, did these answer, and was
it desirelge to retain them!—or did not tiro enormously
increasing business of the recently require that they
should have institutions similar to those that prevailed
in other countries—local courts of enlarged jurisdiction.—
courts of the first instance— be tribunals of the metropolis
serving only as courts of appeal from =me other
tribunals ? He expressed no opinion on the sub-
ject himself, but these were questions which were now
ender discusaion, sad which required great consideration.
While he war • law oiliest( the oomplaiat of the judges in
Westminster-hall to him was that they were perpetually
being condemned to perform duties el the most insigni-
ficant character. They might be called upon to sit for
days in determining some trumpery dispute which ended
in a verdict for li. or 61., and the case was not merely
trifling in itself, but was immaterial in its details. Cer-
tainly some of the courts of Westminster were in a most
lamentable state. Take, for instance, the Court of Ex-
chequer. Its constitution as regarded judges was whdly
ion d, and the Court of Exchequer Chamber we„ht
be so constituted that three judges might overrule the
opinions of seven. One judge sitting a 1 nisi prim gives
an opinion with which four judges setting in Imam apse,
that made fire judges of the same opinion. The matter
might then be taken to the Exchequer Chamber, where
there were Ave judges, two of whom might agree with the
court below, which would make seven judges of ono
°platen. Yet three being the majority of judges in the
Exchequer Chamber their judgment world stand as
agar= their two brethren, and that of the amok below be
reversed. Now this could not be said to bo • satisfactOry
state of things. The cooatitntioa of the House of Lords was
also by no means satisfactory, fee there might only be two,
three, or four lords present, and no one could ascertain
before-hand what was the nature of the tribunal to which
the meet important questions to be settled would be
referred. The constitution of the Judicial Committee of
the retry COIIII4II was even more aneatidastory, yet • more
Impudent tribunal could not be eenesiveeL They had got
• walosial empire, (reeks than ever existed in the world
before, and from that empire questions of the most vital
importance were continually coming, yet the pointer of tea
discreet oases might have to be settled by gentlemen who
had given no particular study to die law in question, and
who only gleaned their knowledge from the arguments
and papers adduced. The anomalies in ecelegiartical
matters were simply ridiculous, for there were at this very
time four final tribunals to deal with these subjects,
each of them aids= from the other, sash
of them being finnl, and there being no further appeal
from any of them. The limo of marriage, too, were
• reproach to our country. When ho wan
First Law Adviser to the Crown it repeatedly
happened that be found whole communities of
English persons living abroad in n state of
eoecubinage, simply because of some legal technicality
which had been overlooked in the perfornizec of the mar-
riage ceremoey. But of all the charges of reproach in
connection with our law he knew none more just than the
one brought against the present position of the law of
debtor sad creditor. Take it either with regard to bank-
ruptey, or with regard to joint-stock and limited liability
compsniee, or with regard to railway companies. The law
bad at present been utterly =equal to grapple with the
amplitude of them evils. It had been founded in a great
measure upon bed principles • in addition it had been rube
jost to • most imperfect adolialstratioa, and ft was now
high time that they should arldrem themeelens to this sub-
ject, with a view to matters beiag placed upon a more satis-
factory footing to the people of Eugland.
A vote of thanks to Lord Westbury for his address con-
cluded the proceedings.

A meeting of the Neutrality Laws Commistuopers
wag held yesterday. Present—Tim Right Hon. the Lord
Chancellor, Maim Hem Sir Wi Mist Beale, Sir it J.
Q C., Sir Beendell Palmer, ALP., Q.C. Sir
Trams Twice, Q C., Mr. W. V. Vernon Harcourt,
Mr. Themes Man. M.P., Mr. W. H. G , .P.,
an l Mr. W. E. Feeder, M.P. Mr. C. S. A. Abbots, at-
tached to the moamiesion, and Mr. F. P. Onside, the
Secretary, were also present
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SKOCKINt: OUTRAGE TO • CHILD.—[The fouow-
lag appeared in our Third Edition last evening.]—Yee. r•
day afternoon Mr. Payne, the City 'Groner, remised, at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, the inquiry relc4ve to the c:r-
eumetanees of the death of John Hone caged fon • years..
It appeared from the evidence of Bridget Hunt that.
the dimmed was her child, and that on Wednesday last
ohs left him at her lodgings, No. 1, Demnarkmourt, City,.
while she went out on ..new. While out she wes in-
formed that he wee frightfully sodded and bed been tam
to the hospital The next morning she my hint in.
Me hospital and he told her that Mrs. Newell, the lan
_.d-
=had put Mee is a pot of bogies water aad hat
him. She told Mn. Newell what the boy mid..
and the answer the accused made was "If you don't Ilk&
it you can leave the house. He fell over the pot as he
me into ream" The deceased died in the hospital on.
riday. _ John Whelan lodger in the same house, said on
F the Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Newell called hint into her.
room and said, " Little Johnny is burnt." The deceased
was on her bed with the akin dripped from the abdomen
and thighs, and he was not able to speak from pain. 'Mrs.
Newell said that the poi was on the floor and the bq rag
in and fell over it and upset it. Witness, homes . saw.
no sign of water on the floor. John Hunt oorroborded.
Whelan's evidence, and added that he said at the time to .
Mrs. Newell, "It is strange that the hep's outside &ohm
ars not wet, and neither axe his little mu." She replied,'
" I don't know nor I don't ewe. Let ye hang mei( ye
Gan." The child was terribly injured, the skin hung-down'
in strips from his legs, Mrs. Newell had threateted to
beat him on the previous day for running in and But of.
the playing. She bad also throe n water emir tbe
chi sL The mother, stated in her evidence Usti she:
had frequently left the child in Mrs. Newell's care, and
that the Mater bad always taken proper ears °Maim.;
Mrs. Mary Newell denied that she injured the MALI
He ran in aad fell over the pot and upset it. Thus was.
only three pints of water in it. There was Inter.
on the door, on the child'. clothes, end on bar apron.,
Mr. Hondall, the home-rargson, deposed that tbc de-
ceased was brought in terribly scalded over the stomach
and around the idwer part of the body. Death resulted
en Friday last from those injuries. It was 14817 intPlo-1
beblo that such injuries Gould have been reeeteed byi
merely falling over a pot, as described by Mrs. NewelL
The body was melded ell armed, bet the arms wets not.
The clothes of the boy were preassed, and it appsand
that none of them were wet auspeig eke trswes, leach)
appatrod to have boss is water only ate* Ws, sleet dial
body. The jury returned a meant old uldeniimrgider ^
against Mary Newell.
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