The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-08 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
PROTECTION or THR SUITORS' FUND.
A gentleman behind the bar applied on the Master's re-
port that a prisoner, who had for a long tirae been in con-
finement for not answering, might he discharged, and that
the costs, might he directed to be either coats in the cause,
or paid out of the Suitors' Fund.
The LORD CHANCELLOR desired to take this opportu-
nity of stating, that it appeared to him to be of great im-
portance that the Suitors' Fund should be protected. Where
an order of the description now sought was made, as far as
regarded the Suitors' Fund, there was no human being to
oppose it, and any party applying might be very glad to
have such an unprotected stock to fly to. His Lordship
intended, if possible, to discover souse means of protecting
that fund, whether it should he by the p iyment of Coon-
eels' fees for the purpose of appearing or not, at present he
was not prepared to say. At prevent he should consider
the application that had now been made.

IRREGULARITY OF PROCEEDINGS.

The Loan Cllitietl.LOA sat on appeals to-day. When

the first was called on,
Sir E B. SwanEts. rose to call the attention of the
Court to the business before it, in connection with the
engagements of the House of Lords. In consequence of
the House of Lords having so unexpectedly directed cases
to go on there in which all the leading Counsel here were
engaged, it was impossible for the paper here to he gone
into. One case (that of Page v. Broom) was to have
been at the head of the paper, which could have been gone
on with to far as regarded him (Sir E. B. Snrden), but
it had been struck out by the improper and irregular in-
terfesence of some one, and by that, no doubt, the indi-
vidual had been convenienced, but he had been much in-
convenienced, and unless some sort of regularity were at-
tended to it would be impossible for him to go on with

the business.
The LORD CHANCP,LLOR—We can make things here
regular ♦ery easily, but we shall hove great difficulty in
controuling any thing is the House of Lords.
Sir E. 13. SLIODEN—Why, we had no difficulty here-
tofore. The individuals who held the Seals before your
Lordship regulated the heAring of appeals in the House of
Lords in such a way that the leading Counsel here were
both enabled to attend there, and to do their business here.

If English and Irish cases were now to be set down to-
gether in the Lords (which had never been done hereto-
fore) it would be altogether out of the que►tion for Counsel
to think of attending there and here too, and consequently,
unless some more agreeable arrangement was immediately
made, he (Sir E. B. Sugden) should to-morrow return
his briefs in every case in which he was in the Lords.
The House of Lords never could have a separate bar, nor
could this Court ; there was nut business to support it.
The Loan CHANCELLOR—I believe there is only one
case in the House of Lords to-day.
Sir E. B. Suomi—There are two. I was told yes-
terday there was to be only one, but late last night I re-
ceived my papers in a second, in which all the Judges are
summoned for to-day, the Lord Chancellor not having been
in the House at the time.
The Loan CM% NCELLORI never heard till this moment
that there were two. Is there any probability of the se-
cond coining on to-day?
Sir E. B. SUGDEN—That quite depends upon how long

the first takes. lam situated in the same inconvenient
way as respects my business in the Vice-Chancellor's Court.
The Loin Citastcruoft—Allow me to ask, if the
Lords were not sitting at all, should ynu not he in the
same inconvenient situation, as far as this and the Vice-
Chancellor's Court are concerned ?

Sir E. B. SUGORN—No; it's very well known to the
profession that I scarcely ever take a brief in a rase in
which I do not manage so as to be present when the cases
are to be called on ; and unless your Lordship can do a
great deal more than ever your predecessors could do or
did, you never will have a separate bar here—the business
is not sufficient to enable you to keep one, and gentlemen
won't continue at it.

The Loan CHANCELLOR—WeIt, the only question at
present is, whether you can go on with this case now ; or
if you cannot, whether the gentleman who is with you can ?
Sir E. B. Suours—l really cannot.
Mr. \VALIUM—I am with Sir E. B. Sugden, and the
point is so important, that I could not fed justified in
going on with the case in the absence of my leader.
The LOAD CIIANcELLoa-1 believe 1 may venture now
to say, without disclosing any thing in public I ought
not, that arrangements are at this moment making that
will prevent the possibility of such inconvenience as this
happening again, after this week. The Lord Chief Baron
has behaved with the greatest kindness, and agreed to sit
on Fridays and Saturdays to take Scotch appeals, and
which will prevent any thing of this sort happening after
to-morrow. _ _ .

Sir E. B. Sucmix—l am very glad to hear it, ani

before the arrangements are completed perhaps some
communication may take placJ with some gentlemen at
this bar.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Yea, certainly. I shall be
very happy to communicate with you on the subject, and
to state to you in private what the arrangements are. I
am sure you will be satisfied with them—they are most
satisfactory to me.
Sir E. B. SuonEN then left the Court to attend the
House of Lords, and the second appeal was proceeded with.