The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-21 00:00:00

COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION.

After infinite pains and vexation the County Courts
Extension Bill has been safely passed through the
Commons. This night it is to be taken up to the Lords
to receive their Lordships' consideration, and, we trust,
approval. The principle of this measure has been dis-
cussed usque ad nauseam, and even the details of the
present ancillary Bill must be so familiar to as many of
our readers es take any interest in the subject at all,
that it would be mere idleness in Its to reopen the ques-
tion at auy length. The Commons have done their duty
by the country.; it only remains for the Lords to follow
the example of the popular branch df the Legislature
and extend the prsetic,l utility of the County Courts.
The only point in the present measure from which any
obstruction may be anticipated lies in the 10:h section.
Sir John Jervis, as is vv.!l knoeev, when the County
Courts first came under tiiseu.sion, ousted the bar from
practice before the new tribunals, unless instructed by
an attorney. The question has been moused ever
since; and the bar—especially what is called etie
junior bar—has made desperate efforts to regain its
lost position. The popularity of the new courts
has drawn the clients away from Westminster-hall; and
Sir John Jervis has shut the doors of the substitutes
for Westminster-hall in the faces of his Learned Friends.
Much inconvenience to suitors and much injustice to
the bar have been the natural consequences of so false
a step. Now, the present Bill, by its 10th clause, enacts,
" that it shall be lawful for an attorney . . . . or
for a barrister retained by or ou behalf of the party on
either side, or, by leave of the judge, for any other
person allowed by the judge to appear instead of the
party, to address the court without any right of exclusive
or pro-audience, &c." This is where the hitch lies
which may in some measure interfere with the smooth
progress of the Bill through the Lords this evening. A
phalanx of not the first class attornies has been driven
to desperation by the apprehended destruction of their
monopoly. They have not left a stone unturned to en-
list the sympathies of one or two of the law Lords in
their interest. We shall see to-night how far their
mat ceavring has prevailed.— Times.

LAUNCH OF A RIVER STEAMPR.—The directors
of the Gravesend Star Steam-packet Company, in the same
laudable spirit of providing the best class of vessels for the
Gravesend station which has so long actuated them, added
on Saturday to their fleet another beautiful vessel, which,
I aoefk constructionwaii
from her appearance, bids fair to deprive their own hitherto
unexcelled Jupiter of her laurels. The vessel having
re-
ceived from Miss Annie Dobson the name of Mars,
launched about three o'clock, from the yard of the eminentrrhv
se!pigorwaneir,anadteSiohnsc,hantrsße
g builders,
iIl e,,
Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and Salkeld, of Glass. house-fields;
but, from the interruption caused by the engineer'souse-fields;
o f M9e380 bores-power,
is not expected that the Mars will be, strike, it
before the end of July,
reaaY for the station
TEE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE deputation
waited on the Right Hon. the Earl i---A deputation
ship's official residence, Downing-street,n Derby at his Lord-
o'clock, in order to urge upon his Lordship on Saturday, at two
adopting measures to prevent the Crystal
the expediency of
grounds being opened to the • Crystal Palace or its
public on Sundays. The depu-
tation consisted of the Archbishop Ys• '
of London, the Bishop of W ' of Canterbury, the Bishop
the Earl of Shaftesbury, the the Earl of Plarrowby,
Sir John D. Paul, lg.' T. liOn* Arthur Kinnaird, M.re.e,
Mr. H. Tudor, the Rev. C. Llankey, Rev. Johnd Tn., Ilary. R,.
Carrington, Rev. Dr. RussellEnglish' Rev. E. hard
Lon-
don District School), and (chairman of the
(chairman of
the North Surrey Dist Mr. Joseph Wileson
deputation was
favourably received. Et. Het School). T
ailed they
eat im-
portance of the object Is
Lordship
admitted
had w, and
promised it should have the deputation
eration in case the in-
his best con
terference of the Governmentuired by the Crystal
Palace Company,
ware req
REPEAL of T W w DevEs.—On Saturday
last a deputation HE
ill"
of Bath, consisting of Wil-
liam from
Hunt, E the city
as _..., EN.
waited upon Lord
Duncan, at hisscla and Thom.,?2,.itiree , Z.,
t Berkeley-square, for
the purpose ,
residence, Ili!' '
0,
acknowledgment
to his Lordship a handsome piece
of plate, in of his valuable, energetic, and Persevering services which the repeal of the window-tax.
nial consisted of a mas-
sive with success. The testimonial
figures, emblematic
of silver candelabrum, with allegorical..
e. The deputation presented
of light, health, and eloquence. he
i, 'table address, thanking his Lord-
the testimonial with a,.stlels
since
1841, and his uniform at-
ship for his public 6erue • t ts, irrespective of political
tention to their
party.local in eres
They also strongly expressed the regret of a large
constituency, of all shades of opinion, that
majority of the Duncan 's intention to allow diem another
opportunity 0f re
it was not Lordtur -rung him as one of the representatives of
-.
the city of son
Tian
NEw POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.—TeIegraphic
news
the last overland India and China mail reached
London
of the
the 11th inst. The date from Singapore bY that
,„ may 1, consequently intelligence from Singapore
mail was
to London was conveyed in 41 days. When the mail
packet on their way out begin to run between Aus-
Pac— and Singapore, intelligence will reach the latter
trails
from Western Australia in rather more than a week.
place th Australia in a fortnight, and from Eastern
from
Sau
Australia
in about three weeks. The telegraphic news
al
1 tided to above was dated from Marseilles at 5, A.m., on
the 11th instant, and was published in the second cations
of the London morning journals of that day. The space
therefore between Marseilles and London may now be said
to be extinguished by electric telegraph agency. Next year
the distance between Singapore and Marseilles will be tra-
versed, owing to the new postal arrangements, in about a
month. Without, therefore, au extension of the electric
telegfaph into south-eastern Europe, we shall receive news
from Swan River in about five weeks, from Melbourne,
Adelaide, in six weeks, and from the gold diggings in New
South Wales in about seven weeks. The importance of
this rapid communication to the country and colonies, and
ha aiding the emigration movement, can hardly be over-
estimated. Australian journalists will shortly be ordering
telegraphic messages to be sent from London, through
France, a few hours before the departure of the packet from
Marseilles with the ladian, China, and Australian mails,
and Australian emigrants will scarcely consider themselves
separted from old England, when they can receive intelli-
gence from it in a space of time not much exceeding a
month.

COUNTY COURT APPEALS. —On Saturday. notice
was issued in the Court of Common Pleas that on Tuesday
next two or more of the puisne judges would sit to hear and
determine appeals from the county court decisions, puratutot
to the 18th and 14th Vie., cap, 61.