The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-19 00:00:00

day. The many objects which they used to take cog-
nizance of by plaint, they have still a jurisdictio'
over by the common law ; but the want of intel-
ligent Judges and respectable practitioners, has con-
signed them to the lowest state of forensic degra-
dation. These Courts formerly tried cause; civil
and criminal, in the districts in which the complaint
arose ; but were inspected, controlled, and kept
within the bounds of the general law of the realm by
the King's own Courts, which were, in early times,
itinerant, following the household as the appendages
of the palace, in the Royal progresses which used
to be continually made through every part of the
kingdom. In those early times the County Court
differed from the modern ones, in this respect, that
the ecclesiastical and civil jurisdiction were blended
together, the Bishop and Sheriff, or, as he was then
called, the Ealdorman, sitting in the same Court.
Also, that their practice was simple—calculated to
do substantial justice, without being embarrassed
with the refined complexity of forms, which is the
reproach and scandal of justice its all our Courts
at the present day, and the fruitful source of legal
rapacity, delay, extortion, and chicane. Whether
these Courts are to be revived, by competent
and respectable assessors being appointed to the
Sheriff or the Courts, on Mr. Brougham's, or any
other person's plan to be tried, we are quite certain
of this, that whatever may be the qualifications of
those appointed to preside, they will never give sa-
tisfaction to the public ; nor ought they, unless the
practice of the law be thoroughly reformed, its ma-
chinery of cumbrous, expensive, and dilatory forms
cut away, and the process of justice restored to
something like the simplicity of truth. It appears
from Mr. Brougham's statement, that it is intended
his plan of local jurisdiction should have a trial
in two parts of the kingdom remote from each
other—namely, in Kent, and in the counties of Dur-
ham and Northumberland. We are glad to observe
that the trial is to be made on a reformed principle
of practice ; for, indeed, without that, it would be
vain and useless to put the country to the trouble
and expence of the experiment. He says his Bill
comprises a sufficiently comprehensive system of
pleading, wherein the rules of pleading in the Courts
are laid down with sufficient strictness, perspicuity,
and simplicity, so as to avoid the chances so -fre-
quent now-a-days, of justice being avoided by nice
distinctions as to form. The Courts, too, are to be
furnished with full powers to execute this process,
and compel appearance therein; and the whole Bill
is intended to enable these Courts to exemplify on
their records, something that is decent, consistent,
and becoming, instead of being made the vehicles of
vexatious prolixity and falsehood. We imagine that
part of the Bill which gives a compulsory jurisdic-
tion to these local Courts, with regard to legacies,
will meet with no small opposition from those who
are interested in maintaining the profitable abuses of
the Ecclesiastical Courts against the intrusive visi-
tations of reform. But the speech from the throne
has pledged the Government to the improvement of
the administration of justice, and we trust it will
not be forgotten by the people.—Morning Herald.
It seems quite obvious, from the experience of
the present Session, that unless some me,ns be
adopted to alter the mode of getting through with
public business in the House of Commons, little or
no business will or can be done there: and the
utility and importance of the House itself will ne-
cessarily sink in the estimation of the people. One
very obvious remedy for a great pint of the present
evil we have frequently adverted to; viz., that the
Session should commence, as formerly, in November,
and not, as now, in February. The idea that, as
business multiplies, the time for doing it in should
be circumscribed, is too absurd to admit of being
for a moment seriously defended Supposing the
Session to commence with February, and to end
with June, Parliament has the appearance of being
occupied for five months; but when it is considered
that it only professes to sit for business on four days
in each week, and that there are two intervals of
vacation at Easter and Whitsuntide, to say nothing
of blank days and other casualties, the House will
be hardly found to sit 70 days, or, in reality, one-
half of the five months. No wonder then that the
Notice-paper is crowded, and the House, on its days
of sitting, inundated with more business than the
physical powers of its Members can possibly un-
dergo the fatigue of; whereas, were this mass of bu-
siness spread over a larger period, much, if not the
whole, of the extraordinary pressure would be done
away with. As another means, subsidiary to this,
much convenience would arise from more legislative
business originating in the House of Lords than can
be the case at present, owing to a somewhat too
fastidious adherence to the rule that money Balls
cannot have their source in that branch of the Legis-
lature. We look upon the privileges and usages of
Pediment to be among the most valuable safe-
guards of the liberties of the people, and should,
therefore, be among the last to counsel any serious
departure from them. But we are too apt to mis-
take the shadow for the substance; and it is one
thing whether the public supplies shall originate
with the representative branch of the Constitution,
or whether the toll on a bridge, or a penalty for
breaking a lamp, first finds its way into a Bill in the
Lower or Upper House. Yet it is often on points
of no more consequence than these that the privi-
leges of the House of Commons are supposed to be
invaded, and preliminary details thrown upon that
House, which might with ease, and without any
encroachment on just Parliamentary jealousy, be
avoided. At any rate, like many others, the evil is
now became of that magnitude that it must in effect
a'oik its own cure ; nor do we think that Parlia-
ment can now separate without coming to an ar-
rangement which may prevent the recurrence of
such a state of things as it, is now experiencing.—
Morning Herald.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

Whitehall, June 9, 1830.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Marsden, of
Wakefield, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

War Office, June 18.

Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Hon. G. W. W.
APDonald to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Ongley, who re-
tires, dated March 3.

Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign
Lieut. Hon. C. J. F. Stanley, to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice Marquis of Tichield, who re-
tires; lion. R. Bruce to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Stanley, both June 18.
Bth Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon P. Fraser,
from the half•pay of the 103 d Regiment, to be Assistant-
Surgeon, June IS.
13th Foot—C. J. Carter, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Dunne, appointed to the 18th Foot, June 18.
18th Foot—Ensign W. 0. Temple to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Thompson, deceased ; Ensign
C. Dunne, from the 13th Foot, to be Ensign, vies Temple ;
June IS.

32d Foot—Staff Assistant Surgeon R. Poole to be As-
sistant Surgeon, June 18.
35th Foot—Capt. J. W. Amos, from the half-pay, to
be Captain, vice Popham, who retires, June 18.
57th Foot—Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Inglis, K.C.8., to be
Colonel, vice General Sir Hew Dalrymple, deceased,
April 16.
62d Foot—Capt. J. Thigge, from the half-pay of the
Regiment, to be Captain, vice A. Macdonald, who ex-
changes; Assistant-Surgeon H. Carline, from the S9th
Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, both June 18.
90th Foot—Lieut. J. Murray to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Dickens, who retires ; Ensign Philip Sinyly
to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Murray ; G. G.
Canny, Gent. to be Ensign by purchase, vice Smyly,
June 18.

Rifle Brigade—Capt. Lord C. Wellesley, from the
half-pay, to be Captain, vice G. S. Byng, who exchanges,
receiving the difference, dated June 18.
UNATTACHED,--TO be Captain, by purchase ; Lieut.
James E. Alexander, from the 16th Light Dragoons,
June 18.

HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant Surgeon Hugh Frawr,
from the half-pay of the 18th Foot, to he Staff Assiqant
Surgeon, vice Poole, appointed to the 32d Foot, June 18.
(;Aitaisox.—Lieutenant General Frederick Augustus