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reports. But the improvement will be more striking, 1
and far more beneficial, in all causes brought before I
the Court in and after Michaelmas Term. Thence-
forward there will be ne references. The Judges in'

Equity, the Master of the Rolls, and the
three Vice-Chancellors, will, with the assist•
ance of their respective chief and second clerks,
dispose of all the business heretofore transacted by
the Masters. The whole of the cumbrous machinery,

which so fearfully multiplied the expenses and re-
tarded the progress, will be completely got rid of.
The same person who decides on the facts will de-
termine the law applicable to that state of facts ; or if
it be impossible to pronounce a complete decision, he
will be enabled personally to conduct the necessary in-
quiries, to see that they are pertinent, and to prevent
either party from riding off on collateral issues.
The Judge-Master question will thus be satisfactorily
decided, the important problem raised by the Society
for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, so ably
argu.d in the Law Review, and which we have
ourselves advocated for many years, will at length he
solved, and that in the most complete and conclusive
manner, so that cases will, under the new regime,
be disposed of in as many days from the first heating
and the interloeu,ory judgment, as they have here-
tofore required years, and that, too, at a tithe of the

outlay.
Tue learned and distinguished Judges who have
lent their aid to carry out this admirable plan
—the MASTER of the ROLLS, and Vice- Chancellors
TURNER, KINDERSLEY, and PARKER, have entitled
themselves to the marked thanks and gratitude of the
community, for the patriotic feeling which has in-
duced them freely, and gratuitously, to undertake so
large additions to their already onerous duties. They
have disregarded all personal considerations, looking
only to the public benefit, and we trust that the peo-
ple will duly estimate the zeal that has induced these
Learned Gentlemen to consent freely to the change
involving so much additional labour on their parts.
There is no portion of the Bill in which Lord ST.
LEONARDS has exercised a wiser discretion than in his
resolute avoidance of Southampton-buildings. If the
clerks once got from under the eyes of their respec-
tive principals, they would become to all intents and
purposes " masters," carrying on separate and inde-
pendent jurisdictions. Now,.it is the chief object of
the present measure that they should be in all re-
spects subordinate, diminishing the labour of the
judge, by clearing the way, and leaving only essential
points on which his opinion should be taken, but not
being in any degree substitutes or deputies. For
the present suitable chambers are to be provided in
Lincoln's Inn fur these learned judges and their re-
spective staffs until proper courts can be erected. No
expense of any consequence will be necessar3, for the
sale of the chambers in Southampton buildings will
provide the requisite funds. The change will also
have thiii good effect, that the courts must hencefor-
ward hold their sittings at Lincoln's Inn, and no
[onger vibrate between it and Westminster. When
this is effected perhaps suitable courts will be erected
in the vicinity of the different inns of court for the
transaction of all the law business of the country.

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