The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-09 00:00:00

ALLEGED MURDER.

An Inquest was held yesterday, at the Lamb
public-house, New Turnstile, High Holborn, on the body of
Mary Welch, whom it is alleged was murdered by her husband,
and a female named Lyons, whose examination at Marlborough-
street has been already reported.
J. Kenedy, a publican, stated that on Sunday last he heard
the deceased was about to be buried, and he went to the lodg-
ing of her husband, and saw the corpse ' • the undertaker was
about to fasten down the coffin lid; he said the body should not
be buried till it had been examined ; he examined the head of the
deceased, and accidentally thrust his fingers into the back of
it. and they came out covered with gore. He held up his fingers
and shewed them to all present, and declared that the funeral
should not take place, as he suspected something fOul had
caused her death.. Welch came up stairs, and asked him why
he made himself so busy ; and stated that the. deceased fell
down stairs on the preceding Sunday, and cut her head open.
He (witness) did not know thedeceaied was the Wife of Welch,
till after the discovery of the wound, and he instantly informed
the beadles of St. Giles's parish.

Mr. Tweddale, a surgeon, stated, that he examined the head
of the deceased, after the wound was discovered by the first
witness, on Sunday night last, and he found a cut of about an
inch and half in depth, and a very extensive fracture on the
cranium. Ile was of opinion a person could not survive forty-
eight hours with such injuries.
Mrs. Donovan sworn.—She knew the deceased, and on hear.
ing of her death, went to lay out the body. She saw the prisoner
Welch, who informed her that Lyons, the female prisoner,
would .wash the body. She told him that she would assist her,
but he objected. While she was washing the corpse, Lyons
kept her hand near the . bead of the deceased, to conceal it;
and told her she had no occasion to wash the head and neck.—
She insisted upon washing the near, and discovered a wound
on the back of the head ; she instantly informed the searchers,
who gave notice of the circumstance to the beadles of the parish.
Mrs. Corkran (an unwilling witness) stated that she knew the
deceased, who had been ill for two months ; she called on her
on Tuesday week, and found her in bed, and speechless ; on
Friday she appeared to be dying, and she remained with her
till she expired. Welch said her death was caused by her fail-
ing down stairs on the preceding Sunday.
Stacke sworn.—He saw the prisoner Welch a short time
ago, and he said that the prisoner Ellen Lyons, his cousin, was
pregnant by him, and when his sister (meaning the deceased,
whom witness did not know to be Welch's wife) died, he VOUld
marry her.
A yortng woman, who said she was servant at the Ship Chbp.
house, St. Giles's, said that she used to visit the deceased to get
the empty pots. On Tuesday week witness went to the deceased's
room anti saw her lying in bed ; witness asked the deceased
how she did, and she replied, " Very ill indeed," and added,
" I have a secret to tell you, but you must not say a word
about it." somebody coming up stairs at the time, she said
hush, another time." Witness went to her room again on
Thursday, and she appeared very ill. Witness went to her
room again on Thursday, and she appeared very ill. Witness
spoke to Welch afterwards, and he said, " that when his sister
(meaning the deceased) died, he would marry his cousin."
Mr. Thomas, in whose employ the prisoner Welch has been
a short time, stated, that on Friday week the prisoner came to
him and asked him what would stop bleeding ; witness said
that flour would stop it, - and gave him a spoonful, which he
took away, after observing that his sister had scratched or hurt
herself.

James Hodges sworn. On Monday week the prisoner
Welch asked witness to go and see his sister. Welch said, " I
suppose you are not afraid to see a corpse." Witness went to
his apartment and saw the deceased lying on the bed speech-
les3 ; she appeared to be in a dying state. Welch said nothing
about the deceased having a cut on her head till the Friday she
died.

Juror : There is 'a female who can state that Weleh said to
her, that he must get rid of his sister, as he could not keep
two women.

A person present observed, that the female alluded to ought
not to be examined, because she had said " she should like;
Welch to be hanged." •• •
Mr. Patesey, surgeon, sworn.—He examined the head of the
deceased ; there was a cut an inch and half deep, and a fracture
in it; the cut was an incised wound; the injuries he had &-
scribed, appeared to him to be the effect of two distinct blows ;
the cut, in his opinion, was made by some sharp instrument ;
he thought a person with such an injury, though very danger-
ous, might live 24 hours ; the wounds had not healed in they
slightest degree ; these injuries, in his opinion, caused the death'
of the deceased. •

The Jury expressed a wish to examine the female :pri-
sorter Lyons, and the following is her statement :—" Is first
cousin of the deceased, who had been ill two months. On
Sunday week the deceased got out of bed, and put on an old
coat, and said she would go to St. Giles's. Witness called
Welch, the husband of the deceased, and told him that the de-
ceased would disgrace them by going out in a state of naked-
ness, as she wore only a chemise and a coat over it. Welch did
not get up, and witness began to cry ; he then got up and went,
after the deceased. On his returning to the room, he said that
he and the deceased had both fallen down stairs; but he did
not say they were hurt. On the following morning witness
saw signs of blood on Welch's person when he came to break-
fast, and she asked him how his wife got hurt. He replied, " I
suppose it was when we fell down stairs." Witness was in the
same room with the deceased, but she did not speck to her ; she
was not in the habit of speaking to the deceased; they were
good friends ; witness went out and returned again, and asked
the husband if the deceased had spoken to him. He said,
yes, she has. He then cut a little hair oft' the head of the de-
ceased, and having washed the head with milk and water, put a
plaister on it. Witness asked him why he did not send for a
Doctor ? and he replied, "itisof no consequence." Though
the deceased did not expire till the Friday, she did not speak
to her once during that week. Witness knew that two women
called at the deceased's room on the Tuesday. At that time
she knew of the injury on the back of the deceased's head, but
she did not tell the women of it. The deceased was light- .
headed part of the week, and when the Priest came to see her
and prepare her for another world, he said, that if the window
were left open, site would jump through it. She did not tell the
Priest about the injury nn the head of the deceased. Witness
took the cap and handkerchief off the head of the deceased. She
could not say what condition they were in at the time. She
did not look at them. She put them up in a corner of the room.
Witness did not see any flour till the Friday, and then it was
sprinkled by a female on the deceased's face. Witness cleaned
out the room during the week; but she did not touch the
chairs, or scour the floor near the bed.

The Jury went to see the apartment in which the deceased
expired. It was on a third floor; they examined the stairs,
but found no traces of blood marks on them ; the flock bed on
which the deceased died, a sack of shavings underneath,
and a bed tick were soaked in blood, and there was a stain of
gore on the floor underneath, which appeared•to heave run from
the bed ; there was also some flour on the floov. The Jury ex-
pressed an opinion that the deceased must have been in the bed
when she received the mortal injury.
The Jury having retired to the public house, Mr. Stirling ad-
dressed them, and adverted to those points of the evidence
which seemed to attach suspicion very strong against the pri-
soner Welch, if it did not also implicate the female, Lyons.—
He thought the case ought to undergo further inquiry. The
concealment of the injury till the body was about to be interred,
and its discovery by mere accident, were, in his opinion, cir-
cumstances which ought to have due weight in'the minds of the
Jury.
The Jury consulted fir about an 110f,-and finally returned a
Verdict of " Wilful Murder against leW.lch and Lyons." They
were committed to Newgate on the Coroner's warrant.

CURE FOR THE BITE OF AN ADDEn.--It wilt
be found a particularly useful application for dogs, which are
often bitten in the sporting season :—Take the leaves, of the bur-
dock, bruise them well with a hammer or the head of an texe,
strain the juice through a linen cloth, rub- the part affected first
with the juice, and then with the inside fat of a goose (If Wit
cannot be procured lard or sweet oil will do) alternately fork
quarter of an hour ; repeat it every three hours until the paui
and swelling subside. If the leaves bruised can-be bound on-
the wound it will accelerate the cure, which is often effected in
two or three days. The remedy should be applied as soon as
possible after the infliction of the bite, particularly on dogs, as
there are instances where death has ensued a few hours after the
infection.

FILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extractt from the Morning Papers, July 9, 18'25.

[MORNING POST.]

Notwithstanding the pertindcity with which
certain persons continue to deprecate the Quaran-
Otte Laws in this crenitry, we are well persuaded
that Government will not relax in their wonted
-vigilant attention to these salutary and important
regulations. The following communication, re-
ceived yesterday, added to many others, of which
our Readers are already 'in possession, must re-
move all doubts of the actual existence of this
dreadful scourge of the human race in a quarter
to which our attention ought to be most parti-
cularly directed. The plague being now unde-
niably prevalent in Alexandria, goods from that
part, of which cotton wool constitutes by far the
greater part, will doubtless be subjected to due
purification before they are permitted to be
received in our warehouses. The multitude
of both sexes, and of all ages, employed in
our cotton factories, would be most destructively
exposed to the influence of pestilence, were not
the most rie,orous precautions taken against the
introduction of infected commodities; whilst the
nide spreading consequences are not to be con-
templated but with feelings of the utmost dread
and horror. The following is a postcript of a
letter received yesterday by an eminent Mercan-
tile House in the City, from Marseilles :
" I open my letter to add, that a vessel has arrived within
the last half hour, from Alexandria. Four of her crew died on
the -voyage of the plague, which, at the time of her sailing.
raged in that city with greater intensity than could be remem-
bered by the oldest inhabitant ! It is scarcely necessary to say,
that, in consequence of this alarming information, the most
rigorous quarantine has been established here."

• •EBRITISH PRESS. j
The Times is resolved to find fault with the
" City," happen what. may. This Journal has
suddenly assumed a high tone of moral feeling,
equally edifying and surprising to his readers.
Its hatred of " gambling" leads it to abuse
every new undertaking with transferable shares.
"Mining concerns" especially are " gambling—
gambling all !" When the fever of speculation
was at its height, the Times was as suspiciously
silent as if the whole attention of its conductors
had been absorbed in soliciting shares. They
never complained .then that cautions were not
issued " against dealings in shares of mushroom
companies," but now, when the infatuation is no
more, they rail against the Committee of the
Foreign Stock Exchance, because, in consequence
of some recent transactions of a questionable cha-
racter, they have warned the members of their
society to look to the respectability of the corn.
panies in whose shares they traffic. Gambling in
shares is no doubt a vice, and so is gambling in
tallow or hemp. We complain that the Times,
under pretence of upholding " common honesty
and plain dealing," is seeking; for purposes of its
own, to cast a false imputation generally on the
" City." The insidious attempt to connect the
appearance of the new Brazil Mining Association
with the notice from the Committee of the Foreign
Stock Exchange, particularly deserves to be re-
probated. That notice was no " commentary,"
as the Times pretends, upon that Association.
It was aimed at a very different object. The re.
snctable names in the direction of the Castello
and Espirito Santo Association will bear it harm.
less from the spiteful and scandalous insinuations
of the Times.

[THE TIMES.]
We said not long ago, that the evidence before
the Committees of Inquiry into the State•of Ire-
land was calculated to bring the inquiry itself
to an abrupt, and if practicable, an abortive ter-
mination. Too many sore subjects were touch.
ed upon—too many evils were displayed, and
in colours too glaring and alarming—too much
truth, in fact, was told, for the comfort or pa-
tience of men who feared to be fully instructed ;
and instead of preparing themselves honestly and
energetically to profit by the lessons which day
after day were read to them, or to cure the mis.
chiefs which became every hour more manifest,
nerve and principle equally failed them : they
silenced the screech-owls, and resolved that
they would hear no more. For executing this
purpose, it was necessary to save appearances.
The parties of whom we are speaking came to a
vote, that the Committees should within ten
days or a fortnight report upon matter which
would have required from the ablest men in
the kingdom at least six months to digest it ;
and they negatived another vote, recommending
that the report should be presented next Session,
and that the Committees should commence their
labours anew.—The design of this management
was more obvious than creditable : it was no
other than to extinguish the injury ; and well has
the reporter of the Lords succeeded in accom-
plishing his moiety of the task. It does not
seem to us that the annals of Parliament—no,
nor of a parish vestry—ever put on record an of.
ficial document in all respects so unworthy of a
great occasion. In reports from a Committee of
either Hotte of Parliament, the country looks
for something of enlightened discussion on the
subjects which have employed its care, or at
least for some attempt at illustration—some ex.
planatory reference to the impression produced
upon the minds of the members by the know-
ledge which they have acquired, if it were only
to satisfy the people that a serious and effective,
not a mimic investigation, had been meditated.
But this " Report," if we must call it so,
answers no such intention. We pass it over
as a feeble, drawling, and spiritless composi-
that! since the defects worth mentioning are
of so much a graver stamp. But it k really
more meagre than a title-page to a volume ; the
" report" affirms nothing—suggests nothing—
explains nothing—and is worth far less than no-
thing ; for, like Shakspeare's Lord Mayor to
the citizens•of London, in proposing Rkhdrd for
their King, the Lord Reporter in this notable
record seems as studious to shelter himself tinder
the verb impersonal, as if his only object had
been to throw the blame of an opinion of any
kind off.the shoulder of the Peers whom his pen
thus worthily represented It has been sug-
gested," " it is stated," " it has been recommend.

ed," "representations have been made," &c. &c.
With regard to the two or three great questions
whichoccupy,and willcontinue toagitate the public
mind, the report observes an edifying freedom,
not merely from all bias as to the mode of settl-
ing them, but from every thing like a conscious-
ness that their adjustment would be of the least
value to the nation. Upon the Catholic disa-
bilities, the Committee are persuaded that no-
thing more was required of them than " to col-
lect information." With respect to the 40s.
Freeholders, they limit their voice to the pro-
bable expediency of guarding against fictitious
votes ; and upon the condition and maintenance
of the Catholic Clergy, not one word is uttered.
'We conclude by repeating, that it was the
evident purpose of certain persons to get up
a nonentity such as we have been describ-
ing, and pass it off upon the country for
" a report." It is indeed a report, extremely
not,ll fitted to crush all expectations of a spon-
taneous remedy for the mass of evils which Ire-
land has so long but so impatiently endured. It
is a smoaky ending to a flashy outset—a delibe-
rate extinguisher of confidence and hope ; but,
we will add, a most unworthy and humiliating
farewell to the people whose grievances were the
professed subject of investigation. The report
finishes with a statement of the measures which
have been taken within these three years for the
relief and tranquillity of Ireland, of which mea-
sures we do not, so far as they go, mean to ques-
tion the success or the importance.

[MORNING HERAT.D.
The late proceedings at the Middlesex Sessions,
as recorded in the Public Papers, seem to place
the Magistrates in a singular, and not, we think,
very enviable or creditable situation before the
public. If we understand the nature and result
of these proceedings rightly, the purchase and
sale of offices in the gift of the Court (in
trust, let it be remembered, for the public),
is not only connived at, but openly avowed,
acknowledged, and recognised. If any thing
so flagrant as this be allowed to pass muster,
we hope we shall hear no more of a Minister of
State prosecuting a poor tinman for only offering
him a bribe ; and that the Law against the sale
and purchase of public offices will be repealed
in favour of the virtuous and incorrupt Magis-
tracy of Middlesex. It is some consolation,
hoe ever, to find that the majority which was
found to sanction the transaction to which these
proceedings had reference, was so small, and
that it would not have existed at all, had not
the matter been (very prudently, no doubt)
brought forward at a period when many of
the better part of the Magistracy had left town
for the season. We are glad too to see that some
account of these proceedings has found its way
into the papers ; for one material reason, which
has paved the way to this, as well as many
other transactions equally honourable to this
county, is the want of publicity, owing to
the proceedings on county days being always{l.
carried on with closed doors. Surely it is as fit
that the rate payers, as well as the public at large,
should krtoW what Magistrates do, as that the'
latter should know the proceedings of their Re-
presentatives in Parliament. We rejoice to find
that those who disapproved of those proceedings
have had the manliness to set their names to a
protest against them ; and we trust that every
Gentleman, whether present or absent upon the
occasion, who feels himself disgraced by such
transactions, will, by adding his name to that
protest, show the public (and the Lord Lieute-
nant in particular) who it is who are not partici-
pators in them.

NEW TIMES.)
The Select Committee of the House of Lords
has produced a valuable Report on the State
of Ireland. Upon the great question of the
civil disabilitie=. of Roman Catholics, indeed, the
Committee abstain from offering any opinion ;
but they deliver a positive approbation of certain
measures, which have been adopted with a view
to the tranquillising of the country, which effect
appears to have been greatly promoted by such
arrangements. They approve of the establishment
of the Police and Constabulary force. This force
we regard as the first essential step towards a
tranquil and orderly course of submission to
the laws ; and without such submission it is self-
evident that no legislative measure can be
effectual for the relief of the country. From
what we have heard of the actual operation of
these measures, we cannot hesitate to give our
ready acquiescence to this part of the Report.
Not less convincing is the opinion of the Com-
mittee on the new regulations relative to the
Magistracy. There has been a revision of the
lists of Magistrates, and those lists have been
corrected by striking out all improper names, so
as to give to those which remain additional weight
and respectability. The meeting of the Magis-
trates in Petty Sessions, and the aid derived, in
the administration of justice, from the as-
sistant Barristers, are circumstances of which
no one can doubt the utility. ' Means also
have been taken to improve the selection
of Sheriffs, and thus to ensure, what was
long a desideratum in Irish affairs, the fair
execution of the judgments awarded by the
legal tribunals.—So much for the administration
of the laws ; but the laws themselves have lately
undergone some notable meliorations. Of these
perhaps the most prolific in beneficial results has
been the alteration in the Distillery Laws.
Any one who has attentively considered the
state of Ireland, for some years past, must be
convinced that there is no cause of evil more pre-
dominant than the Illicit Distillation, and it
has been the great object of the new system
(even at•the expence of a temporary deficiency of
Revenue) to render the pursuit of the illict
distiller no longer a profitable occupation. Add
to these 'causes of improvement the repeal of
direct taxation, the remission of the Union Du-
ties, and the increased facility of commercial in-
tercourse, and we shall find abundant cause to
hope that the prosperity of Ireland, if not inter-
rupted by violent political agitators, will advance
with a steady pace. Manufacturing industry begins
to find employment; and if the capitalist, who
promotes such undertakings, can find security for

his person and property, we may be assured that
abundant supplies of money will not be wanting
to the support of Irish manufactures. Upon
the whole, the views of the Committee, within
the limits which they have chalked out to them-
selves, appear to be sound and judicious ; and
though there are other and perhaps higher con-
siderations to which they have not thought it
proper to advert, the information contained in
their Report will be found to be of extreme
interest to all who look to the practical improve-
ment of Ireland.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
The German Journals pretend to know much
more of the secret history of France than
the French Journals themselves, though it
is notorious that the resources of the lat-
ter are any thing but contemptible. Of
this pretension an instance is given in the Papers
which reached us yesterday, where it is stated
that negociations between the French Govern-
ment and that of Hayti have been renewed, at
the solicitation too of the former. It is further
stated that an agent from Ilayti is actually in
France, though he bears no public character.
All this, it must be admitted, is highly plausible;
but, we are obliged to add, it is highly impro-
bable, particularly that which relates to the
agent, for, however snug he might have kept
himself, he could scarcely have escaped the lynx
eyes of the Parisian Press. A t the same time this
statement pays a higher compliment to the libe-
rality and independence of the Cabinet of the
Turneries, then the latter is entitled to. That Ca-
binet has repeatedly declared that it will not sacri-
fice the interests of legitimacy to considerations of
personal advantage ; and we apprehend it is not
free to pursue a different course. The other
great Continental Powers will never consent, that
it shall have a free will in matters of this kind ;
and whenever it claims a right to act for itself,
it must be ready to support it with an army of
500,000 men. It must be prepared, at the same
time, to introduce great modifications into its
system of domestic policy, as it could not hope
to resist the confederacy of the other leading
Powers without an appeal to the national feel-
ing, accompanied by important concessions to
the great body of the people. We doubt much
whether the King has this magnanimity ; and
we are quite certain his Ministers have not.—
The party, too, who support the Ministers,
would consider them as madmen, and denounce
them as traitors, if they were to compromize the
monarchical principle, under the plea of vindi-
cating the rights of the nation ; and therefore
these speculations of the German papers are idle
dreams. The report that the French Ministers
are occupied at this moment in paving the way;
to the establishment of-political relations with the
new American States is still more absurd. In
support of our opinion we need only refer to the
answer which the French King gave to the De-
putation of merchants and manufactures, who
waited upon him with an address, praying
him to appoint , Consular. Agents for the
protection of French commerce in that part
of the world. To recognize the independence
of those States would be more than the French
Government would venture to do, unless it were
determined to despise the remonstrances, and
even brave the hostility, of the other landing
Continental Powers. It has not the least objec-
tion, we are well aware, to participate in the
profits of an unrestrained intercourse with South
America ; but it has not, even in its dreams,
thought of obtaining them at the risk we have
just mentioned. It may be said, that the re-
moval of M. Hyde de Neuville from the Lisbon
embassy, disproves some of our preceding argu-
ments. Here is an ultra displaced on account of
the rigidity of his principles ; and here too
is a striking instance of a desire to conciliate
England at the expence of the monarchical
principle ! Notwithstanding the speciousness of
this remark, and its complimentary character
with respect to our own Government, we appre-
hend it is more shewy than solid, and that M. de
Neuville has been dismissed solely on account
of his opposition to the Minister in his favourite
project for the conversion of the rentes. M. de
Villele, it is true, may wish to stand well with
our Cabinet, particularly as he can gratify his
vengeance at the same time; and where is the
concession of principle after all, seeing that the
Portuguese Government is fully as legitimate in
form, and no doubt in its practice, as the most
paternal Government of them all ? These Ger-
man lucubrations are excessively puerile, and
are only tit for minds of a similar cast.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Lord Chancellor has at length found a
strenuous partizan in the Vale of Rod borough, in
Gloucestershire, who, in The Courier of yester-
day, gives us the history of a suit in Chancery, in
which he was a party, and in the course of which
Lord Eldon displayed a degree of judicial excel-
lence, that did not merely satisfy him (that of
course is an every day matter), bqt actually
overset his principles. " My feelings (says Mr. E.
Wall) were formerly rather favourable, than
otherwise to these ostensible Reformers (the
Whigs) ; but it is a fact, not now expressed the
first time, but known to the whole neighbour-
hood in which I reside, that I returned from the
Court into the country, impressed with the idea
that the Lord Chancellor was the greatest and
most just character that I ever contemplated."
This beats Prince Hohenlohe all to nothing. It
is well for the Whigs that their adherents have
not all had an opportunity of contemplating the
excellence of his Lordship, for it is pretty clear,
from the example of Mr. Edward Wall, that it
is too hard a trial for ordinary faculties. Mr. Wall,
while, however, he maintains, frOm his experience
in his law suit, that the Chancellor is the greatest
and most just character that he ever contem-
plated, seems to lament that he monopolizes
all the greatness and justice of his Court ; and
more than insinuates, that he is surrounded by
men who are every thing but what they ought to
be.—" I know that it is often asked (he says)
why the Lord Chancellor does not prevent the
misconduct of others in his Court ? I pretend,
not to answer the question, as in much alit, I know
neither his power nor his will ; but I observed

that he strenuously endeavoured to cause the
Counsel to divide themselves, so as to be part al.
ways in one Court, and part always in another,
which would have been a great step in reform, but
that he was trying in vain to the end of the time
that I attended there." The Barristers are bad,
the Officers are bad, Lord Eldon's excellence is
lost, altogether thrown away on them. They are
all incorrigible as so many Heathens, nay, so
thoroughly lost to all goodness,that they are now
joining in the cry against him, the pretext for
which is their own worthlessness. Mr. Wall
chimes in admirably with his Lordship. He sees
now that with the best disposition in the world
to remedy abuses, they are multiplying around
him,—ke calls on Mr. Agar and other Barristers
to tell, if they can, of any plan to remedy ac-
knowledged evils,—for he himself knows nett of
any. The Lord Chancellor may be all that is
excellent, and the other parties above referred
to, may be chargeable with all that is faulty in
the Court of Chancery. The Chancellor may be
only chargeable with au excessive and disin-
terested indulgence. Certain it is, however, that
he carries his indulgence for the errors in his own
Court very far indeed. We do not remember
ever hearing him till now complaining of the
grievous injury sustained by suitors from the in-
crease of fees. We remember, however, having
often heard him justify, with all the ingenuity of
which he was master, the multiplication of
sinecures in Chancery ; we remember having
lately heard him dwell on the injury which
suitors would sustain, if every office were
not filled with persons who merely received
fees from those performing the duties, without
discharging any duty themselves. Hence, no
doubt, the necessity for increasing fees, that as
many persons as possible may live on the same
office. Mr. Lowe says, " There is now a strong
disposition to render Officers and Ministers in-
dependent of attendance, labour, and care, by
giving them high salaries whilst in office, and
providing large pensions for them when superan-
nuated ; by establishing fee funds ; and by em-
ploying the unemployed cash of the suitors for their
benefit. Hence arises an indifference to expedite
business; such indifference continually increases ;
and men in office, like Masters in ordinary in
ancient times, are becoming men of other habits ;
not indeed humbled as the Masters in Queen
Elizabeth's time were, but by brilliant salaries
and emoluments, lifted from the middle into the
highest ranks in society. The hour of attend-
ance, for the dispatch of business, which, when
the writer was admitted an attorney, and long
afterwards, commenced at nine o'clock in the
morning, is now delayed until ten or eleven, and
then the attendance is only until two or three
o'clock in the afternoon, without, as heretofore,
the evening attendance."