The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-11 00:00:00

mize the time of the Court, the importance of which '
I have already shown."
Another mode of procuring justice cheaply
:And satisfactorily, proposed by Mr. Dance, is
that of admitting the plaintiff and defendant to
call his adversary as a witness. At present this
can only be done by filing a bill in equity, the
expense of which, as every one knows, is enor-
mous ; yet it often happens that there are facts
within the knowledge of either the plaintiff or
the defendant which are essential to a right
understanding of the case, and which cannot be
elicited unless the one is allowed to call the other,
and put him upon his oath as a witness. With
regard to actions for debts extending to 501. or
1001., Mr. Dance thinks that, with a few easy
arrangements, they might have the benefit of a
trial in a superior Court; and for this purpose
he proposes that—
" The Lord Chief Justice be freed altogether
from the necessity of holding any sittings within
Term; but instead of these, that one or other of
the Puisne Judges should sit for trial of the class of
causes in question, every day during the Term, and
afterwards if the number should require it. In order
to diminish the expense of witnesses and parties in
attendance, these causes ought, as they are set
down, to he allotted in succession by a certain num-
ber to each day, the notice of trial being given to
the defendant after the cause shall have been so
fixed for a particular day; and I apprehend, that if
the number for each day were not to exceed twelve,
it would very seldom happen that more than two
days' attendance would be neeeL=sary in any case. I
will venture to assert, that this arrangement would
of itself go far towards a sufficient indemnification
to the attorneys for a considerable reduction in the
r charges on other parts of the proceeding•, their sa-
crifice of time in watching and waiting for a cause
on the eve of trial being now a positive, and some-
times an intolerable loss to them. _ _ _

" Costs might in these cases be reduced further,
without any inconvenience, if the brief and fee to
one counsel only on each side were to be allowed
on taxation, ntld certainly the Court fees on this
class might very reasonably be diminished.
" In connection with this part of the subject, it
is impossible to pass over a suggestion made by Mr.
Brougham for the establishment of a Court of Arbi-
tration. Such a Court appears to me susceptible of
being rendered a most valuable part of the system.
" The best mode of carrying this proposition into
effect, would probably be to appoint a certain num-
ber of Commissioners of Arbitration, leaving it to
parties to agree on the one to whom their cause
should be referred."

The greatest evil, however, in the present
system is that whether a case be or be not dis-
puted, the same costs and the same expellees
must be incurred ; in every case without any
benefit to either party, and in most with decided
loss to the party whose cause has most justice on
its side.

" But let us look," says he, " to the effect of
costs arising in cases of debt, which are neither dis-
puted nor disputable. Such costs are in truth most
fearful and double-edged weapons, wounding as
often those who strike the blow as those at whom
it is aimed. In cases wherein the debt is actually
recovered, the costs add to the misery and oppres-
sion of the debtor, and by tending to disable him
om meeting other engagements, their recurrence very
commonly drives him to bankruptcy or insolvency.
" When, on the other hand, the debt is not re-
covered, the costs operate in aggravation of the
creditor's loss; and therefore all such parties, per-
ceiving nothing in the expellees of law but un
engine of mischief to themselves, must be expect-
ed to look upon it, as they actually do, with great
abhorrence. .

" It seems, therefore, most imperatively necessary
to do something towards reducing most especially
the costs of this class, or at any rate, of enabling
debtors to submit honestly and cheaply to such de-
mands as they have no wish to dispute."
Such are a few of the remedies pointed out by
Mr. Dance for abridging the expenses of law
proceedings. They do not, perhaps, go quite so
far as the evils of the present system would au-
thorize ; but they are practical and well meant,
and we trust will not pass wholly unnoticed by
those who are now employed in a revision of the
law. An arbitration court, as suggested by Mr.
Brougham, would, if based on sound regulations,
be unquestionably a great improvement ; and we
would fain hope that that learned person would
find leisure, in the course of the ensuing Session,
to bring forward a Bill upon the subject.--
Morning Advertiser.
It is rumoured that an intention exists of ap-
plying to the Preachers at the Chapel Royal,
St. James's, the same pruning-hook which has
lately been used towards the Whitehall Preachers
—that is, by abolishing the greater part of them,
and dividing the whole of the duties and emolu-
ments among the few who may be selected to re-
main. We know not whether this feature of
Church reform has yet been determined upon;
but that it has been in contemplation we have
good reason for believing, and the reason as-
signed for it is the same as in the other case—
viz., that the frequenters of the Chapel do not
like such a constant change of Ministers, and
that the Chapel itself would be better frequented
by the Courtly circle if its spiritual wants were
supplied from a purer and less copious fountain.
These Reverend Gentlemen consist of 48 per-
sons—viz., four for each month ; and, on
running our eye over the list of them, as pub-
lished in the Court Calendar, appear to
consist, for the most part, of persons dis-
tinguished alike by name, rank, and talents,
Of their mode of preaching of course we
cannot be supposed to be much aware ; but
we remember that George the Third and his
family constantly frequented the Chapel ; that he
and Queen Charlotte were not only eminently
pious themselves, but esteemed as excellent
judges of clerical merit—Bishop Porteus, we
believe, as well as others, having been selected
for preferment by the satisfaction they gave here.
His present Majesty, too, it is generally admit-
ted, has as regularly attended this Chapel when
in town, and is well known to have exhibited a
no less correct taste in these matters, and to have
have raised persons to eminence in the Church by
much more elevated tests of merit than gene-
rally appear to influence similar selections, when
made by his Ministers.' It strikes us, therefore,
we must confess, as rather singular, that it is not
till a time when the Royal Family have, from a
variety of circumstances, almost ceased to attend
this Chapel, that this deficiency should be dis-
covered among the Preachers, and that we
should on a sudden witness what we must be
allowed to call a plebeian fastidiousness where
Royalty itself has listened to the Ministers of
religion with content and edification.—
Mornin
i Herald.

It appears from a letter of the great agitator
O'Connell, that he has contrived a scheme by
means of which he imagines the law of last Ses-
sion for the suppression of Political Associations
in Ireland may be evaded, and an Anti- Union
Society, as efficacious for the purposes of agita-
tien as the late-Catholic Association, may carry
on its operations without violating the letter, or
incurring the penalties of the law. This Act
of Parliament, which prepared the way for the
Catholic Relief Bill, and formed one of its in-
dispensable conditions, we now hear the Hon.