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London, England, 1852-04-17 00:00:00

law, although no remarks from the Bench were
reported.
Now, we ask, is this anomaly to be continued
merely to gratify a few leaders of the profession who
oppose any change, however beneficial, or who wish
to be enabled to attend more easily their duties as
Members of, or practitioners before, Parliament ? We
believe that if the bar were required to express their
opinions on the subject there would be a vast majority of
at least seven or eight to one in favour of having all the
courts, not only of equity, respecting which there can
be no question, but also of common law, held in the
immediate vicinity of the inns of court. The other
branch of the profession—the solicitors and attorneys
—would be unanimous on the same point, and the
suitors, who have eventually to pay for every annoy-
ance or expense sustained by their advisers, would,
or unquestionably " ought," to take the same view.
The chambers of barristers and of many leading
solicitors, es well as the principal, if not all, the legal
offices, are situated in the same lczalities. Solicitors
who have much business to transact, in many different
causes, can easily effect their objects, if they have not
to fly from place to place; but much time is lost and
heavy expenses incurred by the distance between
the different localities where their services may be
required at one moment, having to hold consultations
at another, to attend the masters or taxing officers,
and at a third to be present at the hearing of a cause.

If papers or do3uments require to be sent for much
time must be wasted, and every junior barrister can
speak feelingly of the necessity that compels him to
spend much of his time at Westminster, watching day
after day the fate of a single motion, while he might
otherwise be making considerable progress with his
other business at his chambers, while he was awaiting
clients. But it is

" An aged vice, a grey iniquity,"

and the years that have elapsed since the grievance
was seriously felt are by some considered sufficient
reasons for its permanency. We trust, however, that
in this, as well as in other legal matters, we are on the
eve of better times, and that efforts will be made to
confer a boon of no ordinary importance on the pro-
fession and the community in general. The expense
would be by no means equivalent with the vast
advantages that would result from such an ar-
rangement. Among the many legal reforms so
urgently required, the removal of the Courts of
Equity and Common Law to Lincoln's Inn, the Tem-
ple, or Grays' Inn, would be one most easily
achieved, and by no means the least ac-
ceptable to the nation. The courts now on-
cupied would be by no means thrown away.
The space thereby afforded for Committees end other
Parliamentary proceedings would , be exceedingly
valuable for the public service. We trust that the
attention of Lord ST. LEONARDS may be directed to

the subject, for we are satisfied the Noble Lord would
not, like some of his predecessors, permit his own
private convenience to interfere with or retard a great
public benefit.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have receivci the Paris journals of yesterday,

Prince PAUL of Wurtembeig died on Thursday
night in Paris, after a long end painful illness. His
death bed was attended yesterday by the Minister of
Wurtemberg, the Russian Minister, the Duke of
NASSAU, M. DE MONTESSAY, Msrsbal JEROME BONA..
PARTE and his son NAPOLEON, and some others,
when the Papal Nuncio announced that the Prince
had a fortnight previously abjured the Protestant
faith, and become a Roman Catholic. This announce-
ment took all present by surprise, as the affair bad
been kept a profound secret. The priests of the
parish of the Madeleine also attended, and in the
presence of the Nuncio administered extreme unction
to the dying man.
The Council of State met on Thursday to examine
the amendments proposed by the Committee on the
Copper Coinage Bill. It seemed inclined to approve
of the modifications suggested, and, according to all
probability, its opinion has been transmitted to the
Committee yesterday. In that case the report will be
ready to-day or Monday.
The PRINCE PRE!IDENT of the Republic has, with-
out solicitation, accorded to M. F. V. HUGO, son of
VICTOR HUGO, a remission of the period of imprison-
ment he had still to undergo for an offence of the
press. M. F. V. HuGo has, however, declined to ac-
cept the proffered favour, on the grounds that while
his father is in exile, and his old colleague, PAUL
Maumee, in prison, he could not think of enjoying
liberty.
MM. Mancox, advocate, late editor of La Frater-
nite, at Carce3onne; HUGUES BERNARD, professor,
former Commissary- General of the Provisional Go-
vernment in the Hautas and Bas3es Pyren6es ;
RATNAL, ex-Constituent; BESSE, ex-Commissary at
Cotelnaudary, sentenced to explusion by the Mixed
Commission—have quitted France with passports for
Madagascar and Constantinople.
The Moniteur du Loiret states that incendiary
fires were increasing in a frightful manner in that
department. On the Bth a fire broke out in the
wood of Cour Dieu, in the commune of Ingrannes,
and consumed about fifteen acres. On the following
day fires were discovered in the wood of the Chene
Pointu, in the same commune, and in the forest of
Seichebrieres, belonging to the Duke DE LA ROCHE.,
FOCCAULD, where about 125 acres were destroyed.
On the 11th a fire broke out in the forest of the
State, in the commune of Bouzy, which destroyed
150 acres. All these fires are attributed to male-
volence.

An attempt was made yesterday to burn part of
the Bois de Boulogne. A man had just set fire with
a torch to the dry grass,: when some gendarmes
arrested him. The fire was quickly got under, and
the man was taken to Passy and interrogated. It is
reported that the man is insane.
On Tuesday next, the 20th, the PRESIDENT of the
Republic will enter on his 45th year, having been
born (a few minutes before 1 A.m.), on the 20th
April, 1808.
The women belonging to the market of the Blanca
Menteau (on Wednesday) mnie a subscription for
the purchase of a bust of the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public, which was yesterday inau.guratEd in the pre-
sence of the Commissary of Police of the quarter,
who male a short speech, in which he praised the
women for their idea, and pointed out ali that the
PRESIDENT had done to promote the general prospe-
rity of the country. His words were received with
enthusiastic cries of " Vive Napoleon ! Vive le Pre-
sident !"

It appears that some explanations have passed
between the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the
Russian Minister on the subject cf an almanac
published at Warsaw for the present year, and in
which it is set down that the reigning family in
France is the younger branch of the Bourbons.
Assurances, it is added, have been given that there
was nothing of an offensive kind meant to France or
its PRESIDENT.

LOUIS NAPOLEON sent to the committee of the
annual ball for the civil list of CHARLES X., which
took place on Thursday night in the Italian Opera-
house, his personal subscription of 2,000 f. The ob-
ject of thin ball is to provide old servants of the
royal household with a portion of the pension of
which they were deprived by the revolution of 1830.
The receipts were about 30,000 f. This, distributed
among the 14,000 pensioners, would leave them little
more than 2f. a pi€ce.
The Independence of Brussels states, on the au-
thority of a Paris letter, that the PRINCE PRESIDENT
has accorded dotations to the members of his family
from his own civil list.

The Palolic says—" All the Legitimist notabilities
have disappeared, or nearly so, from the political
scene; M. BERRYER has retired to Angerville ; -M.
DE FALLouz moves about between Nice and Paris;
M. BENOIST D'AZT turns his attention to manufac-
tures, and will not listen to a word of politics, and
M. DE VATIMESNIL has resumed his sedentary occu-
pation.s and the same may be said of many others."
M. Lours LUCIEN BONAPARTF, ex-representative
for the Seine, is now at Valencienne2, after having
visited the public libraries in the principal towns in
Belgium. His attention is at this moment, says a
Valenciennes journal, principally cccupied with the
study of languages, and he has formed the largest
collection known of books on all the idioms and dia-
lects of Europe.
The Prefect of Police, on Thursday, assembled at
the Prefecture the prud'honzmes of the carriage-
making trade, together with a certain number of
masters, and the delegates of the men who have struck
for an advance of wages. He declared to the latter
that whatever might be the desire of the Government
to ameliorate the condition of the working classes, it
would not allow masters to be menaced by acts of
disorder and exorbitant demands. He, accordingly,
recommended the men to return to their work, and he
promised that he would endeavour to obtain from
the masters such concessions as would not have the
effect of checking the resumption of business. In the
course of the day a certain number of men returned
to their work.
At the grand review cf the 10th of May all the
soldiers are to wear the gilt eagle on the front of their
shakos.

aucuaNN the celebrated violoncellist, has
just returned to Puris, after a short residence at Nice ,
and a
It is stated that in
most successful concerts.
journey to Algiers, where he gave several
on the part of the lAinitster of Wurtemberg 011 a the
much dissatisfaction was manifested