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reports. But the improvement will be more striking,
and far more beneficial, in all causes brought before

;he Court in and after Michaelmas Term. Thence-
forward there will be no references. The Judges in

Equity, the Master of the Rolls, and the
three Vice Chancellors, will, with the assist-

once of their respective cbitf and second clerks,
dispuse 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 dtcides on the facts will de-
termine the law applicable to that state of facts ; or if
it be impu-sible 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-Mister question will thus be satisfactorily
decided, the important problem raised by the Society
for Prk,moting the Amendment of the Law, so ably
argued 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 hearing
and the interlocutory judgment, as they have here-
tofore rsquired years, and that, too, at a tithe of the
outlay.
The 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 for these learned judges and their re-
spective staffs until proper courts can be erected. No
expense of any consequence will be necessary, for the
sale of the chambers in Southampton sbuildings will
provide the requisite funds. Toe change will also
have this good effect, that the courts must hencefor-
ward hold their sittings at Lincoln's Inn, and no
longer 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.

To-morrow evening the Honourable Gentleman
the Member for Manchester will bring under the
consideration of the -House of Commons the different
taxes on knowledge, and will move, in separate
resolutions—The, such financial arrangements ought
to be made as will enable Parliaxm-nt to dispense
with the duty on paper. That the newspaper
stamp ought to be abolished. That the tax on
advertisements ought to be repealed. It is more
than probable that Honourable Gentlemen,
who will speedily have to meet their constituents face
to face, will lend their aid in carrying out some or
all of these important objsc4. It is also certain that
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHFQUER will receive the
suggestion more favourably than his prede-
cessor, to whom the gross and palpable in-
justice of any impost appeared to be its
strongest recommendation. We can scarcely conceive
Mr. DISRAELI affirming the propriety of a law which
charges as high a duty on the humble appli-
cation of a wretched sempatress or servant-maid
out of place, for employment as on the an-
nouncement of the sale of wide-spread
domains, or the organization of Leviathan companies
with millions of capital. We do not mean to say that
the tax on advertisements is not objectionable in every
case. It is, indeed, equally impolitic in all, as crea
ting an impediment to the publicity that is exceed-
ingly desirable. But it is not attended with the same
heartrending results, which render it as cruel as it is
unjust and inexpedient. There are many, alas ! too
many, persons whose only capital is their labour, whose
only a,piration is to obtain that occupation which
will enable them to gain an honest livelihood.
To these we refuse assistance through this infa-
mous law. They shall not make their wishes known
unless on payment of a sum which would supply them
with bread tor a week, and hence many hundreds,
aye, thousands are driven to the union workhouses,
or to the most heartrending miseries through the
malign operation of the tax on advertisements:
Gladly would we see the other matters alluded
to by Mr. GIBSON abolished, but the adver-
tisement duties are even more pressing ;
and we would gladly accept their repeal as
an instalment of justice during the present session.
Mr. DISRAELI has a large surplus, and although
tbere are many claims on him, he might surely make
some concession in a matter which possesses peculiar
claims on his consideration. A boon on such a
point gracefully conferred would have a strong
effect at the present moment, and afford the best
answer to the prejudiced reports that have been raised
against him. The repeal of the advertisement dutiee,
and an equitable modification of the income-tax,
would be most favourably received throughout the
length and breadth of the land. There is not a single
constituency in the empire in which they would not
be hailed with pleasure and gratitude.

PORTUGAL
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
PORTSMUUTH, WEDEFDAY Monstusa.
11?rld.,j-ey's ship Encounter (14), Captain Gor-
don, arrived at Spi:head this morutog from Li6bon
which she left on the 15tb.

The Queen and King bad embarked in the war-
stevmer Terceira at 7 in the morning of the 15► th to
proceed up the Tagus as far as Villa Francs, whence
the Court would go on to Coimbra, Leiria, Porto,
and Vienna, returning to Musa and Cintra
about the 15:h of May. The Duke of SAldanha ac-
companied their Kij-sties, but the Duke of Terceira
had not arrived at Litbon in time, the French war-
steamer Newton not having returned with his Grace
froM Cada at the timeappointed.
The Tagus packet, with the Peninsular mails of the
7th, arrived at Lisbon on the 11tb, and left for Gib-
raltar on the 12th.

The Teviot, with the Brazil mails of the 9th, ar-
rived on the 13th, and left for Madeira on the 14th,
at seven in the morning. All well.
Our correspondent feared that few of the mer-
chants would have been enabled to answer their Eng=
lish letters, as the Encounter's leaving for England
on taking a mail had been posted at the British post
office at two r M , and it was understood she was to
leave in two hours after that time.-