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London, England, 1825-06-21 00:00:00

distributing favours, instead of rendering to suit-
tors what they are entitled to. It is much as
:saying : Mr.. Petitioner, be thankftili have
allowed you to 'escape so well; if I had.
-chosen, I could have treated you very diffe-
rently. 'ln the
.same way his Lordship twits.
Lord Grosvenor with the favour he showed
him, in sending him twice very speedily out
of Court. :We'Suppose Lord Eldon's memory
is net overburthened with instances of similar
dispatch. There seems, however, more in
the mention than meets the ear. It conveys
a pretty intelligible hint to the Noble Lord,
that' if he had not to complain of the delays
in Chancery, he might have had. Lord- ]
ship grew, at last, quite pathetic. "If the,
country could go on Without the Court of Chan-
cery, their Lordships might send him at once to
the Old Bailey." This, we suppose, is to satisfy
us for the' manifold oppressive delays of justice
with. whiCh the country had been visited during
his Chancellorship. But even admitting that the'
country cannot go on without a Chancery,
(though many well informed persons think it
can,) it may go on surely though the proceedings
in that tribunal were to last in general not so
long as a life time. A man cannot walk without
legs, but one whose legs are swollen will not
walk so well as one in sound wind and limb.—
Lord Redesdale says the Solicitors are principally
to blame, that the poor Chancellor is made their
scape-goat.

[nue TIME!.]
Letters from Port-au-Prince (Hayti) of the 4th
of May, state, that a Decree had been passed by
the Ilaytian Government, increasing the import
duty on English manufactured goods from 7 to
12 per cent., thus depriving the English mer-
chants of that preference which had previously
been granted to them over all other nations. The
motive assigned for this decree is the indignation
of Boyer, the President, at the non-recognition of
the independence of Hayti, at the time when the
recognition of the New American States took
place. The amount of English manufactures im-
ported into Ilayti is estimated at nearly a mil-
lion sterling ; but in this amount a very serious
diminution is now contemplated, as other European
nations, in consequence of the equalization of duty,
are likely to enter into successful competition
with our merchants. We must say upon this
subject, that the Government and people of
Hayti argue very foolishly if they maintain that
their condition is at all similar to that of the
South American States when we acknowledged
the independence of the latter. Besides, have
other European States conferred any new favour
on the Haytians in acknowledging their inde-
pendence that we are sunk to an equality of pri-
vileges with them ? We think the most respect-
ful way in which we could possibly treat that
people is to trade with them freely as independ-
ent de facto, and to leave the care of asserting
that independence against France to themselves.

1 MORNING HERALD. j
Ttia resentation of a Petition to the House of
ing of delays Lift vt rzrnsvenorr coronlalii.
to some conversation on that subject. The Lord
Chancellor said that the proceedings particularly
complained of in this petition (connected with
some of the Queensberry causes) could not have
been more rapidly disposed of ; that much more
calumny had been heaped upon the Court of
Chancery than it deserved ; but that if there
were any who complained that the system was
wrong, that the country could go on without the
principles of Equity which characterised it, why
was not so much avowed, and the correction of
the law required ? lie was ready to contend that
such principles must be maintained for the advan-
tage of the country.—ln the Commons, on the
Bill to put an end to the Power of delaying Jus-
tice and Judgments by issuing frivolous Writs
of Error, Mr. J.Williams said it would be equally
advantageous to the community to put an end
to " sham pleas,"—a practice that was most pre-
judicial in promoting expence and impeding
justice ; and Mr. Williams said he would under-
take further to state, that if " sham pleas" could
be extinguished by this Bill, those of his (Mr.
W.'s) " trade,"—or profession, or whatever they
chose to term it, would not apply for any com-
pensation on account of the loss of fees, &c. Mr.
Secretary Peel admitted the importance of the
subject, but observed that he should not like to
propose the correction of such abuse, without first
ascertaining the most efficient mode of accomplish-
ing it. That he feared the advanced state of this
Session would not allow him time to do, and he
hoped the Bill putting an end to frivolous Writs
of Error would not be endangered by requiring
delay. This suggestion was acquiesced in, and
the Bill proceeded. Mr. Hume gave notice that
when the Newspapers' Bill should be committed,
he would move the reduction of the Newspaper
Duty generally one-half, and said he should be
prepared to show that the Revenue would be
benefitted by such reduction.

[BRITISH pa Essd
That all legislative interference to regulate
the price of labour, is not only unjust towards
the workmen, but injurious in itself there can be
rio doubt. There requires no circuitous train of
reasoning to prove it to be so. If such interfe-
rence is •called for by their employers, and is
for their benefit, in the same proportion it must,
be against the interests of the workmen ; if
-called for' by the workmen for their advantage,
its effect must be to Subject their employers to'
-their exaction, and thus to lead on both sides to
harassment, vexation, and ruin. The wages of la-
bour must ever be left to the adjustment of both
parties acting with perfect freedom, and to all
those circumstances—.never to be defined before-
itiand—which determine, the particular interests
of each. No questions of right enter into such
•negOciations on either side ; there is nothing,
-therefore,.for the laws to regulate, or, for the.
_tribunal of Parliament to decide. %V hen a
Manufacturer shall give, or a workinanaccept,
a. certain rate of wages, is, with each, purely an
affair of., prudence, and to be governed by all
.tficke' circ.umslances which control and influence
each in their order—all the contracts and con.'