The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-04 00:00:00

TUESDAY

—to oblige those who had the misfortune to be involved
in litigation to maintain the judicial system"—a
proposition which had the high sanction of the
authority of Lords BaouGuhaa and CAMPBELL, cf
the late Lord LANGDALF, and indeed of every dis-

tinguished legal reformer whose attention has been
directed to the subject. It will there be seen that
not only did the sums extracted from the suitors of
the Court of Chancery, under the designation of fens,
amount to 180,0001., but it was levied by no less than
330,000 different payments, which would occasion
very considerable additional expense and annoyance
to the sufferers.

It must, however, be borne in mind that this
statement by no means shows the full extent
of the grievance as it was some years since,
when the system flourished in rank luxuriance, and
before the pruning-knife of the legal reformer was
applied to any of the excrescences that had sprung
up in our courts, when the present Earl of ELLEN-
BOROUGH received for a sinecure office in the Queen's
Bench far more than the salary of the Lord Chief
Justice. Indeed, the Noble Lord is still in vceipt
of nearly 11,000/. sterling per annum, as compensa-
tion for the abolition of the office, while Lord CAMP-
BELL only receives 8,000/. per annum, and the other
judges only
5,000/. per =mum each, for the devo-
tion of their entire time and ability to the effi-
cient discharge of the duties of their arduous
and important stations. From a Parliamentary
return just published, we find that the four late
sworn clerks of the Court of Chancery, Messrs.
GATTY, BAINES, MILLS, and WAINWRIGHT, have
received between them since the passing of the Act
abolishing the situations (5 and 6 Victoria cap. 103),
up to and for the 25th day of November last, no less
than 236,296/. 11s. 3d., of which 64,108/. 13s. Bd.
was for salaries as taxing officers, and 172,1871.
17s. 7d. for compensation, being nearly three times
the amount of the salarier, which, being about 2,0001.
per annum for each, might be considered fair remu-
neration for. the moderate duties imposed as taxing
officers, and tor which we venture to assert that the
services of the most competent persons might be
obtained.
It also appears that the sums to be received by
these fortunate individuals are as follows—viz., by
Mr. GATTY, 5,424/. 14s. 4d. for his life, and to his
representatives for seven years after his death (1 t .1) ;
to Mr. BAINES, 5,4031. 23. 91, and for seven years
after his death 2,701/. lls. 5d ! to Mr. MILLS, for his
life 4,9351. Os. 7d., and for seven years after his
death 2,467/. 14s. 10d.; and to Mr. WAINWRIGHT,
fur his life, 4,5001. is. ld., and fur seven years after
his death 2,250/. 2s. 7d.! ! These are pretty pay-
ments for the country to be saddled with. Already
have these comfortable individuals received far more
than the advertisement duties realise for a year, but,
exorbitant as the compensation may be for their lives,
Messrs. GATTY, BAINES, and Mum receive
some 8001. between them more for doing nothing
than Vice-Chancellors Teneen, KINDERSLEY, and
PARKER for their arduous duties. Some excuse may
be made, but we venture to assert that the allowances
for seven years after their deaths to their respective
representatives are utterly unparalleled. They would
surely not have received the fees and emoluments
after they had been removed by death and their suc-
cessors duly appointed. It certainly appears to cx-
h ibit the symptoms of a rank job—such as SWIFT
shadowed forth in his tale of " The Old Watch Coat."
We know not whether the matter can now be reme-
died. We would, however, commend it to the no•
tice of all legal reformers as an additional and
powerful illustration of the beauties of " the fee
system," and the mode in which things were managed
in the olden time.
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CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.)
His LORDSHIP this morning heard several appeal mo-
tions, bat nothing of importance occurred.
(Before the LORDS JUSTICES.)
SPARROW V. THE OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER-
HAMPTON RAILWAY.
The arguments in this case, which has already been
frequently reported in our columns, were terminated
this morning.
The COURT gave judgment, reversing the judgment of
Vice-Chancellor Turner, and making perpetual the in-
terim injunction which was granted by their Lordships
last Michaelmas Term. The Court was of opinion that
the strip of land absolutely required by the railway
company was part of the manufactory at the time of the
passing of the Act, and both the Learned Judges con-
curred in thinking that the 92d clause of the Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act was not inconsistent with the
special Act obtained by this company, and that the
true meaning of this clause was not that a railway
company re quiring partuf a manufactory, must absolutely
and imperatively take the whole, even in invitum, but
that they are only obliged to take the whole in the
event they aro so required by the proprietors thereof.
The case was ordered to stand over till Saturday to
settle the exact terms of the injunction.

VICE-CHANCEity.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice• Chancellor TURNER.)
WARD v. SWIFT.
engaged part of Saturday and the
w
yesterday and this morning with these causes,
who 10 The
o Court
y e s was
which originated in the simple claim of an annuitaat, for
an annuity charged by a testator on his estate, and in
which the difficulties have been ma trtplied by original
bills, bills of supplement and revivor, amend proceedings
before the the case in a labyrinth from
which
the Meftabsrttesr,
and invexplanations of the different coun-
sel seemed perfectly unable to extricate it.
The other Courts were occupied with part-heard
causes, which presented no feature of interest.

THE KAFIR WAR.
PLYMOUTa MONDAY, MAY 3.
The mere'nant-sbip Maidstone, Captain Nash, from
pCaasspeenger here.
which
landed left
aof Good Hope on the 17th
ofm Calcutta,
arehhAs
Her accounts from the seat of war are seven days later
than those by the Agincourt' on Saturday.
Colonel Yarborough, of the 91st, has been slightly
wounded; Ensign Ilibbert, of the 91st, wounded; Cap-
tain Bramley, of the Cape Corps, wounded; and 26 sol-
diers of the 91st and 74th Regiments killed and wounded.
These casualties occurred among a patrol who had
successfully attacked some Kafir kraals in the Water-
kluof, and who were themselves attacked on their return
(as usual) by combined Kafirs and HOttentots. This
affair occurred between the lat and 17th of March.
Sir Harry Smith left Ring William's Town on the 4th
of March, with the intention of attacking the enemy's
fastnesses.
His forces were divided into three divisions, and con-
sisted of the 73d, 60th R.ln
the 43d and 12th Lancers,
Artillery levies, &c.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
May 19 ~ 1 8
and goods, week ending
6,
may 3, 1851 ..• •
••• ...
•• Xll, 9
12,808 2 6
•.• .. DilttBos,2

.. X 1,129 0 10

Decrease in 1852
London Terminus, May 3.183.1.
GLASGOW AND SOUTII•VESTERN RAILWAY.--Traffic for
the week ending May 1, 1852
Passengers (19,',21), goods and
parcels, horses and carriages £3.852 5 4
Corre disponng week i
Glasgow, May 3. n last year 3,678 16 8

Intelligence Was - --
received yesterday from the su-
perintendent and cashier of the Nouveau Monde Company
in California, which
may tend to enlighten the public as to
the value of the " leases" a
have lately been vended as
prizes to English speculators.
nd claims in that State, which
The report, both with respect to the difficulties connected
with Colonel Frem
-°rlt's title and with his power to put par-
ties into possession of any mineral grants, was such as to
prevent their making any attempt at present to esta-
blish themselves on his property. The superintendent was
accordingly about to visit other localities more to the north
of California, where favourable positions for works and
abundance of
-- gold quartz were understood by him to exist.
PRESENTATION OF THE FEEEDOM OF AYE TO
LORD CowAi.t.....
ne freedom of the burgh of Ayr was pre-
sented to Lord Cowan- on Saturday last on the occasion of
his first visit to his native place as one of the Judges of the
Justiciary Court —Scotsman.
DEMOLITION OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—In Con-
sequence of many thousands of persons in the United King-
dom having been unable to obtain a copy of the Great
Exhibition Chart, printed in colours, and presented by the
proprietors of the Weekly Dispatch, to their subscribers and
the public, in the months of January and February last, a
re-issue has been determined upon, to take place on Sunday,
the 16th of May. The Chart, which has undergone a careful
revision, shows by simple diagrams the number of persons
that visited the Exhibition daily, the amount of money taken
at the varisas entrances, the quantity of refreshments con-
sumed; the names of the Royal Commissioners; an account
of the origin of the palace, and its dimensions in feet. In
order that every individual in the country may possess this
statistical reflex of curious and interesting results, to mark
the demolition of the building, and to serve as a memento
of its existence, the Chart will be delivered gratis to every
subscrib:re and purchaser of the Dispatch on the day stated.i
The Dispatch is published at four o'clock every Saturday
morning, in time for the first railway trains leaving London,.ven to
and for t tie morning mails. Early orders should be g 1
all news-,venders in town or country ; or to Mr. R. J. Wood„.
No. 139, Fleet-street. The news agents will have a copy of
the Chart with every Dispatch of May 16th.
"Pe understand that the Earl of Pembroke has
take in a chateau at St. Germain for the sun-liner. His Lord-
ship is perfectly recovered from his long and dangerous
Hine W.
LLAST-HEAVERS IN TUE PORT OF LONDON.—
On, W ednesday a Bill in the hlouse of
_e read a second
Commons, brought
forwa rd by Mr. George Thompaon
time , the object of which is to establish bis to
a general registry-
office for the banefit of the ballast-heavers of the port of
Lour ion.