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cent. This has afforded, it appears, too great a'
temptation to the cupidity of commercial enterprise
to be overlooked. It has occurred without doubt
to those persons who supplied the Brazilian Mint
with the copper blanks, that a much superior ad-
vantage would result, if, instead of being content
with the ordinary profit and commission on such
transactions, the same copper could lit got into cir-
culation in Brazil in the shape of coin. But if the
hint has first been given in England, we do not be-
lieve that English merchants will as yet have to
bear the reproach of acting upon it. There is no
doubt, however, that copper blanks, of the same
kind as those ordered by the Brazilian Government,
have been shipped off to the United States, where
they have received the stamp of the currency of
Brazil ; they have been sent in large quantities to
Pernambuco, Bahia, Mararkham' and other places
on the coast, and introduced by degrees largely into
circulation. This is the consequence to which all
Governments are exposed who take a large seigno_
rage, or alter a coin much below its nominal value ,
but the situation of Brazil offered peculiar induce'
meats to such an enterprise, in the difficulty of de_
tection, in the great extent of its copper circulation
and in the largeness of the profit.-IVfol ning Herald'

It is not difficult to foresee the fate of Sir C.
Wetherell's motion, of which the object is to pledge
the House of Commons not to agree to the ap-
pointment of an additional Judge in the Court of
Chancery without first hearing evidence at the Bar
to establish the necessity of this increase to the force
of the Court. On the failure of his motion the
Hon. and Learned Member himself will be, we
imagine, as little surprised as any of his opponents.
It is impossible indeed to read his speech and to re-
tain the impression that he is in earnest when he
insists upon the adequacy of the Court of Chan-
cery, as at present constituted, to the proper and
regular discharge of its important duties; or that he
is in earnest at all, except in the desire to fire off
against his political adversaries and his professional
rivals, a succession of effective sarcasms from be-
hind the masked battery of his motion. How far
the Honourable and Learned Gentleman is likely to
exalt his reputation either:as a lawyer, a statesman,
or a patriot, by rendering a proposed reform of
the Court of Chancery subservient to such a pur-
pose, we stop not to inquire. It is sufficient to
say, that so much of his sarcasm as was not
pointless recoiled upon himself; for it was levelled
against others on account of some real or sup-
posed changes of opinion, while, upon the very
subject under discussion, his own notions were seen
to have undergone a very considerable change since
the period of his expulsion from office. We aban-
don, however, with alacrity this unseemly and of-
fensive feature of Sir Charles Wetherell's speech,
in order to advert to his single argument against the
proposed measure for giving greater efficiency to the
Ccurt of Chancery. The Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man asses is that the actual number of Judges are
sufficient to perform the business of the Court of
Chancery with all the celerity that can be desired,
and deprecates the proposed change, because it will
leave the Lord Chancellor no judicial duties to per-
form, and thus lead, in future times, to the appoint-
ment of persons to that high office, with a view to
their fitness for political rather than legal services.
The apprehension, if it be real, that the appointment
of another Chancery Judge will admit of all future
Chancellors being idle men, intriguing courtiers,
hangers on to political parties to whom the posses-
sion of legal learning and experience is not essential,
may be fairly classed among the most chimerical of
all human apprehensions. The insufficiency of force
in the Court of Chancery to decide the causes
brought before it, without delays the most inconve-
nient, and often ruinous to the suitors,has been a sub-
ject of complaint, and of well-founded complaint, for
upwards of two hundred years. And we are per-
suaded we are greatly within the mark, when
We say that, since the accession of George 111. from
a variety of concurring causes—the increase of
wealth and population— the extension of commerce
—its more varied and complicated character—the
successive and important inroads of equitable upon
the former boundaries of legal jurisdiction—the ag-
gregate of business falling within the province of
the Court of Chancery, has increased in at least a
fourfold proportion. It must here be observed that
the business actually brought before the Court is
no adequate criterion of the increased demands and
necessities of the public, for nothing can be more
certain than that the everlasting delays and accu-
mulated arrears of the Court of Chancery have re-
pelled suitors in great and incalculable !lumbers.
People have not reverted to our Courts of Equity,
because they knew that all access was blocked up.
The Judges have been oppressed by an excess of
labour, while to the public, with the exception of a
comparatively small number of resolute and unfor-
tunate applicants, the benefits of ,the tribunal have
been denied. Is there any shadow of ground, then,
for the apprehension that the introduction of a
fourth Judge will convert the office of Lord High
Chancellor into the reward of political partizans,
the closet of political intrigues, or the refuge of in-
dolent and unlearned favourites ? Was the office
generally prostituted to such purposes prior to the
accession of George 111., although it may very safely
be asserted that its duties were then much lighter

than they would now be if two or three additional
Judges, instead of one, were to be immediately
created ?—.2llorning Post.

HYDROPHOBIA.

(From the London Medical Gazette, June 12.)
We were inclined to hope that the alarm on
the subject of hydrophobia had been very much
exaggerated. We think it right, however, to
state that we have instituted some inquiries upon
this subject, and find that, at one of the veteri-
nary establishments at the west end of the town,
not less than sixty rabid dogs have been received
during the last three months ; being a number
greatly exceeding what has been met with during
any former season. It appears, indeed, to pre-
vail epidemically, and not to be much, if at all,
connected with the state of the weather—at least
as to heat. We saw two mad dogs and a hydro-
phobic cat, at Mr. Youatt's, in Nassau-street,
all at the same time, during the coldest part of
last winter. The best thing which persons
having dogs which they are unwilling to destroy
can do, is to send them to a veterinary in-
firmary the moment they shew the least symptom
of illness. If it prove hydrophobia, they are pre-
vented from doing harm ; and if not, they are
taken care of till they recover. As to the number-
less remedies which have been published within
this fortnight, there is not one of them good for
any thing ; indeed, they are calculated to do
harm, by leading persons to place confidence
where they will not find safety. There is no
cure, and but a short period for prevention. We
have known the disease come on though the part
was cut out within half au hour after the receipt
of the bite : the excision ought, therefore, to be
instantaneous.

Two sisters, named HARvEi, who were young.
women of loose character, and lived with their parents at
Durweston, near Blandford, have been recently suspected
to be in a state of pregnancy ; and one of them having
been seen early on Saturday morning last, walking hastily
by tl.e side of the river, into which she threw a bundle,
suspicion was excited, and an examination, which was
made by the proper authorities, left no doubt that the
other young woman had been delivered of a child. Upon
opening the bundle it was found to contain the body of a
female chill, which there is every reason to believe was
born alive. Something had been tied round its head, by
which the features were disfigured, and a piece of iron was
enclosed in the covering, to sink the body. After a mi-
nute investigation, a verdict was returned of " Wilful
murder" against the mother and her two daughters. It is
stated that the two sisters had mutually agreed to destroy
each other's chill as soon as born,—.Dorset County
chnnticle.