The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

LONVON, WEDNESDAY

advantage to the suitor, will the exception of the
provision which substitutes printed for written bills or
.claims. This, " instead of an improvement, will
crede inconvenience, delay, and expense "—probably,
however, the C C ELLOR will exercise the discretion-
ary power vested in him by the Act, and restore the
practice of filing written bills or claims. All the
other provisions of the Act will diminish expenses
prevent delay, and simplify the procedure.
The Suitors in Chancery Relief Act, which substi•
Lutes salaries for fees, is another excellent measure.
Our regret is that in all cases this principle has not
been carried out. It extends now to the Common
Law as well as the Chancery Courts, and there is no
reason why in Binkraptcy, also, the of-
'
ficers should not be salaried. Th
of the number of official assignees, leaving
gounctn
one to
each court as treasurer, is desirable, and the retiring
acionmi
npge nos
ffiateioianlss, aca nn db sea ari
paid,es t ow
iretiring
nays
srem
allowances,wel
la
charge on the Public P-
utv3nue, out of the immense
accumulations from
Unredeemed Dividends in bank-
rupts' estates. Is. is
the leading clauses in the new Equity Acts were
suggested, years ago, by the Association whose Cir-
cular we have been considering.
The further Law Reforms of 1852 are contained
in the
Enfranchisement of Copyholds Act, the Wills
Act Amendment Act, the new County Courts Act,
and the Common Law Procedure Act. On the two
last, the Committee report rather fully. _

On the 10th section of the County Courts Act
(15 and 16 Victoria, c. 54), which allows "a barrister
to appear for a party, although not instructed by an at-
torney," the Committee report that,"without benefiting,
but rather prejudicing, the suitor, it inflicts an in-
jury upon the profession ;" and they give a detailed
and curious history of that segment of legislation
which, they remark, " will certainly not tend to in-
crease the disposition of attorneys to regard the
question as finally determined." They complain that
with scarcely any notice, and without a due oppor-
tunity of expressing an opinion on it, by the public
or the profession, an organic change in the position of
the two branches of the legal profession was passed
through Parliament. Our own opinion, repeatedly ex-
pressed here, is that it is for the interests of both
branches of the profession that barristers and attor-
neys should cordially co- operate. But the manner
in which some attorneys had united, in local courts,
for the purpose of monopolising the whole
business, to the exclusion of the bar, was
fast tending to create dissension among barristers and
attorneys. Nor can we think that, by the section in
question, the interests of the attorney will be injured.
So long as the attorneys give the barristers their fair
proportion of the business, they will find no intrusion
on their department.
Law Reform must advance, and in the spirit of the
Speech from the Throne, at the close of the session,
which said—" Every measure which simplifies the
forms, and diminishes the delay and expense of legal
proceedings, without introducing uncertainty of deci-
sion, impairing the authority of the Courts, or lower-
ing the high standard of the judicial bench, is a vain-
able boon conferred upon the community at large."
There must be sweeping changes in the Ecclesiastical
Law, involving the total abolition of the tribunals
which have earned such unenviable reputation. Toe
Bankruptcy system must be made simpler in itspro-
cesses,- speedier in its work, i
and less expensive its
charges. Courts of Law and Equity must be amal-
gamated. Until these changes take place, the public
will have continued cause for thinking that, as now
administered, law is not justice.

Variable as the accounts received from the pro-
vinces have latterly been in reference to the ap-
proaching harvee, it happily appears at the present
moment in the highest degree probable that the crops,
in the majority of instances, will be of rather more
than average excellence. Sunshine has so rapidly
succeeded the excessive moisture of the past week or
fortnight, that hopes are reviving in parts of the
country where the most painful anxiety has
hitherto been experienced. Accounts from Essex
state that the harvest in that direction is
already making fair progress—the corn cut
during last week having now been all housed,
the warm weather having effectually dried the
sheaves on Sunday. A considerable portion of
the crops in Kent have in like manner been got in—
while a better feeling is gradually reviving in Sussex,
as well as in Suffolk, in consequence of the sudden
cessation of rain, and the steady rise in the baro-
meter. Had the wet lasted much longer it is
tolerably certain that much of the produce
of the land would have suffered irrepa-
rable injury. As it is, in the fens of Lincoln-
shire, especially in the more loamy soils, the
mildew has effected much damage—besides which
the rapid and almost simultaneous ripening of the
crops in other directions, has caused a different
kind of solicitude—namely, that as to the possibility
of obtaining labour adequate for the emergency.
An illustration of the necessity was afforded
only the other day by the employment
of a body of soldiers to assist the agri-
cultural labourers in reaping—thereby figuratively
changing the sword into the sickle, if not the spears
into reaping-kooks. From the latest information
received from various parts of the country we are
rejoiced to announce, therefore, that the future proba-
bilities in regard to the harvest of 1852 are of the
most propitious character.

THE FRENCII REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Illonzteur announces that two treaties have
been signed between France and Belgium by M.
DnoUYN DE Lrtuys on the one hand, and MM. Ro-
GLEE and LIEDTZ on the other. One of these treaties
gives a reciprocal guarantee for works of intellect
and art, at the same time lowering the duties imposed
on books, prints, engravings, &c. ; and the other
makes borne reduc►ions in the duty now imposed on a
few Belgian articles. These two conventions are to
be ratified cn December 10, ++.nd, if agreed to, are to
be in force from January 1, 1853. They are con-
sidered as the prelude to immediate negotiations for
the renewal of the treaty which has lately expired.
The same journal states that the French Govern-
ment has received intelligence from Constantinople,
of the 10th, announcing that FUAD-EFFENDI has
been nominated Minister of Foreign Affairs, and that
every satisfaction has been given to France in the
affair of Tripoli. It vlso denies the truth of the
.ttatftment made in the Morning. Herald relative to
thi3 affair.

Cardinal WISEMAN is at Cambrai, where 03 Sun-
day last he led a procession of the miraculous picture
of the VIRGIN, said to be painted by St. LUKE ; also
a miraculous image of the VIRGIN which, according
to tradition, caught in her apron the balls of a be-
siegiag general. Both these pices justicatives have
been solemnly placed—the one in the church, the
other on the ranrarts. In the procession a
number of young maidens in opera-girl muslin,
with wings glued to their shoulders, personified
angels. Among3t the relics was a monster crown,
Riven to the Church by that monster King Louts
XI., whose crime and superstition have been ren-
dered familiar in the "Quentin Durward" of SCOTT.
Military bands accompanied the procession. That
the spectacle did not take is acknowledged by the
1 writer from whose enthusiastic account, addressed to
the Gov •
details
:_erntnentiournal, the Pattie, we borrow these

jubilees couldlYthing
lime had there
a word, the precession was admirable, and leaves
"In -
far behind it that the most brilliant sunder
been
0 attenaptA It would have been sub-
tiny, with its barrel!
weantniA.
enthusiastic
people
for :.ctor or spectator the pious and
population of the nineteenth cen-
14thGemtcslergre also
1463611 i.,
which there Was the population three centuries ago, instead of
ev,r sceptic." curiosity, sometimes mocking, and
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foreigners present was Lordy' Ss
the number of
entered the Catholic Church.
The session of the noun:ll4
telegraph ler
Monday. The Putrie say,
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Perpetouatfl.""-
these
councils similar to those from the councilsrofra
dir,ernent, all of them calling for the
LOUIS NAPOLEON'S power. ten of
According to the Dibats the number of warnings
issued against the newskaper press since the 10th
April umout to 53 to 48 journals, with tw„usptn_
!dons. The reduction of the Moniteur to 40°. a year
by means of a disguised subvention has told seriously
must ale ke
ou the Paris journals, which feel the necessity of re-
ducing their subscription to a point which
publication a dead loss. The rays has reduced its
subscription to 40F., and the Constilutionnel to 32'.
. 'ein9' that the strip duty i 3 alone 22f., that there
is additional d .4P
•
centime whenever a roman
uty of a .
fcuille to '
a IS given, it is quite clear that the balance

left can do little more than cover the mere cost of
paper.
Ai. MARCHAND ENNEBX, grand rabbi of th'i central
consistory of the Jews of France, died on Saturday
last.

The receipts of the different theatres, spectacles,
concerts, &c., of Paris, for the month of July,
amounted to 463,1211. 35c., being a decrease, as com-
pared with June, of 225,1031. fic., end 555,1891. 60e.
less than in ay, when the receipts amounted to
1,018,310 f. 950.. must be, however, mentioned
that in May all the theatres were open, while in July
the Odeon, the Theatre Lyrique,tho Ambigu, anl the
Gaite were closed.
The Moniteur contains the following report from the
Minister cf Marine, addressed to the PRINCE PRE,-
DENT of the Republic
Monseigneur,--Concentration of forces and unity of
direction increase naval power. ne policy of France
and the interest of our commerce require that the ves-
sels of the State show themselves on ail the seas of the
globe; but the more our stations are scattered or multi-
plied, the more necessary it becomes that they should, et
a given moment, be able to reunite, to concentrate their
means of action, end to range themselves under the
authority of a tingle chief. Yon have already autho-
rised me to place under the same command our two naval
divisions of India and of China, I have the honour to
propose to you to reunite under the authority of the
same chief our two stations of Western America and
the Pacific, and to confide the superior command to Ad-
miral Fobvrier Despointes.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) "'THEODORE DIICOE."
A decree follows in accordance with this recom-
mendation.

The Bourse was remarkably firm, with a rise in most
of the public securities. The Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. opened at 105 f. 20c., and closed at 1051. 303.
for the end of the month. The Three per Cents. closed
at 76f. 55c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,4251.; Rouen,
875 f.; Havre, 370 f. ; Great Northern, 665 f. ; Avignon,
475; Basle, 3051 ; Paris and Strasburg, 660; Paris and
Lyons, 776 f 25c..; Lyons and Avignon, 582 f. 50c.;
Western of France, 600 f.; St. Dizier to Gray, 5501.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 24.
East Indian, 27%—Grand Junction of France, 53/8—
Luxembourg, 67/8 ex d.-.:Northern of France, 201. 3 per
cent. Bonds, 135.8—Paris and Lyons, 20%—Paris and Rouen,
34% ex d.—Pans and Strasbonrg, 26'4—Sambre and Meuse,
7IA —Westet nof France, 9%, -