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...i..1..: OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'Cl.0( K.
...ank Stock.
3 per Cent. 'lra.
Vt per Cent. Cons. SOLY.,iini , South Sea Stock . ........ ........
:3%4 per Cent. . . OM Annnitieo ..- ..... -....
_Ditto Ned
New 3'~.; per Cent_
New 5 per Cent. ....» ... -..-- Exch. hills, £l,oot, 30 52 nun
it tnk Lone Annuitiestoexpire Ditto 50, ',O 51 mu.
Jan 5,186 n 14 I 1-14 ; Ditto Small
Oct. 10 I KIO 4 l4 P-16.. Ditto Commercial 1 pm. 5, •98n . -
--' Ditto Advertised ._
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Jan. -5, MOP • -.';'..‘""..,4 Sank Stock for Account ~... --.
April 4„.1580........-.......... ---...:.liitafltOck-for_Acenunt.......
„,tlh: 5-..11470.... ' - --Conant& for Acconnt
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PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds . ..... .........—. —i Peruvian Bonds —
Belgian Bonds •— Ditto Account ...............,..
Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds —
Brizitian Bonds ..., Bl4 Ditto Account .......,.. ........
Ditto Account — Ditto New Bondi —
14 hums A Tres Bonds — i Ditto Account —
Ditto Account ..—. .... .....—., Dian, 3 per cent .—
Chilliso BIM& ...... ....... .. ..... --- . Prussian Bonds —
Ditto Account ........ ~...... Russian Bones, Ikel —
CAniinhipm Bends— Ditto Account —
Ditto Accoui,t
C)liunbian Bonds, WS sNi„, Spanisn Bonds —
Ditto Account '26 I; ! Ditto Account —
Danish Bonds ... •..
Ditto Account ..... ...
Grxk 80nct5...... ........ .. ...... French, 5 per rent.......... —E —4.
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent. —l. —c.
Ditto Account . ......... —f. --e —, --- :3 per cent.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — , --- Exchange —fi —c.
Ditto Account ......... ........ 24 , Dutch, 214 ter Cent.
Ditto, Si per cent.
Ditto Acc0unt..„,....„„......, —, Ditto, 5 per cent
Se/inn:fink --I Ditto Account
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PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
id. Per Share
treat %Yr3tern railway Company Pass 634
I.‘ noon and Birmingham Railway Company 9O 141,,i,
i rnoon And Greenwich :lailwar Compyny.„
%•:- iichester and Leedg Railway Company ... ....
NI: i:chester and Birmingham Railway 5 ' 2!•4
' %all North American Bank '2o 17%
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PRICE'S OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCTOBER 14.
;(c .t Consols 91% Urand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 8914
Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent 60%
„ icr Cant. Stock.. 9534 Hibernian Bank
i i!o New, IMO ... ......... ... 994 i
City of Dublin Steam Co— lO7
! .cr Cent. Debentures.... 91,,i National Insurance Ce 29}i
p, r Stock .... - oCitv Debentures, 4 per cent,.
nova. Canal Stock
Grind Canal Stock ...... - ' per cent. —

MAILS.
A,rived. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due,
U Amenca.......... 0 2 France ... .. . ...... 0 0 Lisbon I
0 8razi1........... 0 I Gucni.&./crscy 0 0 Malta
II !limos Ayres.. 0 U Hamburg ..... ... 0 U Mexico 0
ti c trthaecna..„.. 0 I Holland
2 Dublin... ....... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden .. 9
:: Pand&r:.,..... 0 0 Leeward Island.: 0 2 Waterford 0

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LONDON
EVENING. OCTOBER 16 187.

When our critical Contemporary, the Athriwurn,
&nomietd the Statit:e /ASP. of En,:land .as " verbose,
im:ne:hotlical, inconsistent, excesAve, (Jefective, arb:•
trgrv, sided, partial, .turd,ility.
surd,— hr but expres,,ed the deliberate opinion of NIL
save prol:st•ional lawYers, who have ventured upon the
11-rculcan task of w:ldin, thron.2.ll the -.mitten cvi.knees
(if the Legislative ‘‘isdOut of t!i British Farb:mull%
.1.0 accomplish s:;ch a performance as that of perusing
carefully the Statute Law of this conutrY, would ex-
trans:. fh,. hit ylinable Portion of a loth life in a labour

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onialon n'thisli —of more u !mete
tug, ridiculous, vexatious, and mischievous enact-
ments, under the name of laws. than arc to be
found in the Statutes at Large," were never exhibited
in the world as evidrueeJi of the triumphs of human
intellect. Of late this evil has sessionally acquired a
greater and a greater magnitude. Half" the time of
()ornament has been taken up in passing laws to
° amend and explain" laws pas.-Jed by the same Par-
)iament—the enactments requiring such immediate
`N,unentlinent being themselves avowedls'
iiatOry of Acts passed in a previous' session :
legislation has so fearfully increased—particu-
larly in the Local and Amendment Bill department—
that the intellectual organs of the community gene-
rally to express all eager-loess for the adoption of
measures for restrainin:l, it within bounds simply corn-
nreusurate with the welfare of the people. As politi-
cal intelli:,ence hetotnet more spread abroad, the public
voice will be rlised still louder in reprobation of a sys.-
ton which only serves to promote litigation, and to
nor the wheels of justice. The laws of England may
be described as so Many man-trips set up without no-
tiee—so many :mares in the path of the people, in
Which all
,who arc caught are rubbed of their property,
their reputation, or their life. in fact, they only ap-
pe-,r to unsophisticated -mindn as "ingenious and dis-
honest contrivances for supporting gentlemen of the
long robe at the expense of their- inure scrupulous
countrymen. A writer in the Chrmide, who, with
praiseworthy zeal, advocates a more enlightened system
of Legislation, would have hi.- readers believe, however,
that the Lawyers, as a body, are not to blame-for the
wianifest absurdities of our Statute La-Y. He denies
that Lawyers " love mystery because it is productive
of gain to theinselves"—adding with more plausibility.
than truth :

There is no class of persons who suffer more than do the
li'-vcrs by the nistery Of the Statute Law, and it is pro-
ductive of loss rather than of gain to them. In truth,
there arc few good statute lawyers ; the Statute Law is so
pulling to theta, as well as to others, that it is not reading
they arc fond of; and the impossibility of predicating with
half so much certainty as they can of the c4-minion law what
the law is involves them io risks of loss of professional re.
putation, and, with respect to the lower branch of the pro-
fession, of money- too. We have reason to believe, there-
tore, that- no class of men would rejoice so heartily at the
reformation of the Statute Law as the lawyers, for interest's
sake as well as fOr the comfort of the thing.
And although the lawyers' language is used in our
law, it is not their fault that it is used, but that of the
Lirislature, which surely should Le at the pains of writing
down its own will in the apt phraseology of its mother
tongue. The truth is, that our laws arc not always written
by the best lawyers ; and some of those who do write them
labour under the mistake of supposing that the language
they employ is legal and technical because it has a smatter-
ing of legal phraseology."

With equal felicity of illustration it might be con-
tended that no persons suffer more from the detection
of theft than thieves, and therefore it must follow that
they never sanction stealing. No persons suffer more
from crime than its perpetrators, but the fact is no
argument in favour of their innocence. It is just
the same with lawyers and the laws. Not an
Act has passed the House of Commons since
the accession of CHARLES the SECOND, which
has not undergone the revision of some member of the
1e.241 profession. If any one will take the trouble to
compare the rolls of Parliament in the reign of
EDWARD the Third with the Acts passed since the
accession of the House of Brunswick, he will easily
c„„yinec himself of the part which the lawyers have
had in loading ani perplexing the Statute-book. The
lawyers first obtained an exclu,:ire supervision of Par-
liamentary Bills in the rogn of HENRY the Seventh, and
legislation in consequence
such was the growth of , that
throughout the long reign of EL tzABETtr we find her
Majesty sessionally complaining of the excessive num-
her and conflicting nature of the laws then in being,
and urging the necessity of abridging rather than of