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London, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

surprise, which we believe was generally shared,
that the Canada Bill was passed through
the Committee so rapidly on Friday. Part of that was
due to his absence, for he has objections to the Bill,
which he means to state.

Mr. HUME objected to the Bill, as it levied addi-
tional taxes ; and inquired of Lord PALMERSTON whe-
ther any propesiti2n had been made by France to pro-
mote peace betw&n Egypt and Turkey. The lion.
Member complained of the expense which our foreign
policy entailed on the country.
Lord PALMERSTON showed that the necessity for
more taxes resulted from the postage reform, from the
state of affairs in Canada, and from the war with China,
and not from our foreign policy ; but. the Noble Lord
declined to enter, as the Hon. Member wished, into
any lengthened discussion on the subject.
On the motion for the SPEAKER to leave the Chair,
Mr. CHRISTOPHER moved that it is the opinion of the
House, as Ireland pays no assessed taxes, that it would
be unjust to impose any new tax exclusively on the
people of Great Britain, such as the assessed taxes.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON opposed his Hon. Friend's
motion, and complained of the increase of the duty on
Irish spirits, which was 14i per cent., while that on Bri-
tish spirits was only 4i per cent.
Mr. O'CONNELL also opposed the motion, and dwelt
on the disadvantage Ireland suffered. He called on the
Hon. Member to do justice to Ireland in other respects
before increasing the inequality of taxation.
Colonel SIBTFIORP proposed a tax on salaries above
800/. a-year. After a brief conversation the House di-
vided and Mr.CHRISTOPHER.S motion was negatived by
86 to 11. The House then went into Committee.
On clause 16, providing for an increase on the duty
on spirits, the Irish Members objected to it as unjust
and likely to promote smuggling. The Committee
divided, and the blank was filled up, as the Chancellor
of the Exchequer proposed, by 57 to 26.
Another division took place on the assessed taxes
clause, which was carried by 83 to 36 ; and still
another, on a proposition of Mr. GILLON to abolish the
duty on all carriages let for hire, which was lost by 69
to 58. The Bill went through a Committee.
The Grand Jury Cess (Ireland) Bill, meeting with
some opposition, was postponed, and the House ad-
ourned.

Whether the English be more priest-ridden or
lawyer-ridden we will not undertake to decide, but
certainly they are very hard ridden by both these
learned professions. Law yercraft and priestcraft
seem in these piping times of peace and commercial
restriction to absorb all the youthful ambition of
society, which, in other times, sought distinction in
the army and navy, or in extending trade, and which
now labours to subdue, not the foreign enemies of
the people, but the people themselves. The two
crafts seem the only unrestricted trades, and each
keeps the other in countenance as they march, pari
passu, t 9 their common goal. The patient people
are extremely submissive, and, like the camel, come
at their master's call and kneel down for a fresh
burden. That they will always be less sensible than
the animal is hard to believe, for he being over-
loaded will refuse to rise, and it may be hoped that
the long enduring people, staggering along under an
almost insupportable weight, will at length, like
the camel, refuse to carry the burden any further.
The additional load called Church Extension, and
the additional Judges to be appointed by the LORD
CHANCELLOR'S BM, if they be not the actual last
straw which makes the burden unbearable, are very

like it.
We must admit that lawyercraft has in legisla-
tive craft a powerful auxiliary, which priestcraft
wants. The Commons, at least, look a little
askance at the priests, and cannot well add an•
nually to the profitable mysteries they possess. But
though the laws be so numerous that a life devoted
to the study cannot master them, and so contradic-
tory that the most commanding genius cannot
unravel them, yet the Legislature goes on heap-
ing law on law, sesssion after session, and so
making the mass more voluminous and mure con-
tradictory, and so giving annually more extension
to the craft of the lawyer. To this we must add,
that there is less distrust in society of this craft
than the other, and it seems likely, therefore, to
last longer, and to throw on us heavier burdens.
The Bill for the improvement of the administra-
tion of Equity, discussed last night in the
House of Lords, has for its object to create two
new Judges, who, of course, must each have all
the accessories of a Court, registrars, masters,
clerks, beadles, porters, counsel, solicitors, &c.,
&c., not only constituting so many more lawyers to
pay out of the funds of the people, but creating
more business for themselves and their brethren,
and calling into existence an additional batch of
Judges, counsel, clerks, solicitors, and beadles.
This is a consequence which the public should
well consider. To establish new Courts promotes
litigation. They do not encourage individuals to
go to law, but they stimulate solicitors to carry the
business of those who are unfortunate enough to
confide in them into Court. Such undoubtedly was

the consequence of the Reform in Equity in 1813,
when a Vice-Chancellor was created. The
number of suits which the solicitors carried

into,_ and kept in Court was doubled by the
appointment of a Vice-Chancellor. At the
same time as the number of causes was increased

the number of years each cause had to wait for a
decision was prolonged. The LORD CHANCEL-
LOR expressly stated when the Bill was read a se
cond time, on May 11, that he expected that its
results would be to augment business, and he de-
fended the proposition to create two new Judges by
asserting that they were likely to cause a great in-
crease in the number of causes brought before them.
Thus the lawyers ate a most procreative tribe, and
require only a little room rapidly to double their
numbers. A new Court is a bounty on their fecun-
dity, and no person can be surprised that nu-
merous bodies of solicitors have petitioned for the
LORD CHANCELLOR'S
It is true that the Loth) CHANCELLOR said there
would be no occasion to take any portion of the
taxes to pay for the new Court, and that the ex-
pense might be taken out of the suitor's fund.
We are astounded at the assertion. The Court of
Chancery then, has a quasi power of taxing the
unfortunate persons whose property falls under its
control. The proposed expense will, in fact, be as
much taken from the people as if it were the pro-
duce of a tax, and it has this to aggravate it, that
it is taken in large sums from a small class,
instead of being taken in small sums from the
whole community. The amount of the fund which
the Court of Equity now has to administer was
stated by the LORD CHANCELLOR, on May 11,
to be 41,000,0001., " Besides," says the Woolsack,
a new and spirited fellow-labourer in the field,
" holding in abeyance the right to other personal
and real estates of much greater and unknown
value." The Court of Equity taxes the suitors to
a great amount every year, and out of this tax—not
out of any tax levied by the House of Commons,
and therefore under the control of the public—
the LORD CHANCELLOR proposes to pay the ex-
pense of his new Court of Equity, which will taz
the people still further, and still further extend the
influence. of the lawyer tribe.
The Lotto CitAieegt.t.mtt, on concluding his
speech
h on May
11,
Equity,referred to the practices
of the
but left them
for future revision. They ought to be the
first reformed. It is in vain to hope while there
are two large armies the banisters and the
sclicitorm—who demand, and generally receive, the
implicit confidence of their clients, who have a
strong interest in protracting suits, and who have
the power, and the art, for they draw up all legal
writings to occasion suits,—it is in vain to hope that
any increase in the number of Judges will serve
any other purpose than thatsesl
ofitto Court,enal)lnig andtlie these two
i
classes to carry more causes
propertyau d
byofauthiemirperlolnuitse.utThlrtyherepquraicre.
to b moreetchecked,he
which is within
bethceheLckoettdp;
and till they are checked, till they oreCticieisANOCfELLhLeOßCu.os power,
wer, they
made to lose
instead of gaining by protracted litigation, to mul-
tiply Courts will only be to multiply their means of
sweating every property which they can carry Into
Court.
The last debate on this Bill supplied an excel-
lent illustration of the conduct both of solicitors
and barristers. It was then stated, and admitted
by all the Noble Lords present, that causes arc
disposed of, in the Equity side of the Court of
Exchequer, in as many hours as they are
kept months T
andher e even e n
oneyearsappeal
iii the
less
Court of
too,
from the decisions of the Court of Exchequer
in Equity, than from those of the Master
of the Rolls or of the Vice-Chancellor.
,
In all respects, the decisions of the Court of Ex-
chequer are as valid and satisfactory as those of the
Court of Chancery. Notwithstanding these ad-
vantages, the Court of Exchequer, as an Equity
Court, he'! comparatively little business, while the
Courts of Chancery are overwhelmed with it. In
oc,d, calwar Q lltc 1n Eauitv in

the Court of Exchequer, than in any year since
1794. While a cause, said the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, on May 11, might wait from three to six
years in the Court of Chancery, in the Court of
Exchequer there are no arrears whatever. At the
same time, the fees in the Court of Exchequer are 10
per cent, higher than in the Court of Chancery, but
solicitors will not carry their clients' causes into
that Court, nor will barristers practise there. NN by
is this ? The answer deeply concerns the public,
' and we shall give it on a much higher authority
than our own.

On May 11th Lord ABINGER stated that causes
were delayed in the Court of Chancery, and that
this was the reason why solicitors carried
them into that Court. The term-fees alone
he said amounted on arrear causes to 20,0001.
a-year. What a nice spoil It is clear
that double, treble, and quadruple fees are ob-
tained, by sweating the estate by delay, in the Court
of Chancery more than could be obtained were the
ca use carried into the Court of Exchequer.
The class of suitors, said Lord ABINGER, who
come into the Court of Exchequer, are those whose
I property will not afford to pay the expense of the
Court of Chancery arising from delay. If the
property be very rich—if the funds very large—the
suit found its way into the Court of Chancery."
We do not charge the solicitors on our own autho-
rity—we charge them on the authority of Lord
ABINGER—Oi unjustly fleecing their clients by
carrying causes into the Court of Chancery, where
they are hung up for years, instead of carrying them
into the Court of Exchequer, where they could be
speedily decided. Having stated this fact on such high
authority, those who are unfortunate enough to
have Equity suits will not be just towards them-
selves it they do not insist on their solicitors car-
rying their causes into the Exchequer.
But the LORD CHANCELLOR will not allow
them. One part of his Bill is intended to abolish
the Equity side of the Court of Exchequer, and
transfer its business to Chancery. He falls in,
then, with the views of the solicitors and
barristers, and because they will not, for the
sinister interest we have stated, go into the
Court of Exchequer, he wishes to create,
for their especial advantage, two additional
Courts of Chancery, where a still greater number
of causes may be hung up. We are far from sup-
posing that the Noble and Learned Lord is not
actuated by the purest motives, hut his mind, like
the mind of the community, is enslaved by lawyer-
craft. Pure, upright, intelligent, one of the best
and wisest Judges who ever sat on the Wool-
sack, Lord COTTENHAM proves by his advocacy
of this species of re-form, which means—re-create
abuses, that, like the most ignorant and vulgar, he is
domineered over by the sinister interests of solicitors
and barristers.

On the first day after the coming recess, which
is the first day on which the motion can be made,
Mr, HumE will move for the appointment of a
Select Committee, to inquire respecting the effects
of the Corn-laws on the wages and condition of
the working people.
The Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association
have appointed a Committee to make inquiries, and
to carry out some which have not been completed,
in various parts of the nation in reference to the
subject, and for the purpose of aiding Mr. HUME
and his friends in the House, who wish to show
more at length, as well as more particularly, the
several consequences on the working people,of these
laws. Though the people will see from this that
there are still some men in the House of Commons
who take an interest in their welfare, we are afraid
that all such motions, however well intended, come
too late, and fall much too short of their wishes
and hopes now to render it possible to reconcile
them to the House of Commons.

The Moniteur of Sunday is silent respecting the
death of the King of PitussiA. Of the fact, how-
ever, no doubt was entertained in Paris.
On Saturday M. REMUSAT, Minister for the
Home Department, presented to the Chamber of
Deputies the amended Bill for removing to France
the remains of Napoleon. M. REMUSAT stated
that a million of francs would not defray the expense
of the removal, and that the Government would be
obliged again to ask the Chamber for an additional
grant. We exceedingly regret that M. THIERs
did not advise the KING to advance tile other
million out of his own pocket ; and thus have
left the Deputies to enjoy the glory of
having refused supplies adequate to the removal of
NAPOLEON'S ashes to his beloved France. Such
a measure would have crowned the popularity of
the KlNG—would have for ever united to him the
strong affections of the veterans of the empire.
The Madrid Papers received are of the 24th ult.
The Chamber of Deputies had agreed to take into
consideration the Report of the Minority of the
Committee on the new Loan Bill. The substance
of this Report of the Finance Minister has already
appeared in our columns.
We have received the following letter

-
" Algiers, May 24.
" Yesterday we witnessed the arrival of the Marshal
and the Dukes of Orleans and Aumale, with a strong di-
vision of the army employed in the expedition. The
whole population went out to meet them. M. Guizot,
Director of the Interior, congratulated the Princes on their
conduct. The following is the answer of the Duke of
Orleans
" lam proud, as well as my brother, of having paid
my debt in the first period of the great struggle which is
commencittg. The intention is fully formed to found in
this country a peeple and a great empire. This will be
followed up with vigour and perseverance, and, believe
me, it will be comprehended at Paris as well as in Africa.'
" This speech was received with cries of Vive le Roi,'
' Viva le Due d'Orlcans," Vive le Due d'Aumale.'
" At preget±t Ite are re-organizing the column that had
arrived with the Ilr::'?ne; these troops, with Marshal Valea
a thatll t t
a n
possession, they
and tat their head, will set out tO return to Medeah in a week.
Fromke
r
Mlreine(: Miliana, of which the
:
till the hot season sets in. One thing
Is is now certain
my will
•
rrieration will continue

is that Medea': and Miliana will be retained."
that
The Guardia National of Barcelona announces ..
the Carlist Chiefs have ordered a general disbanding of
their troops. It is said that there arc above 830 men re-
maining at Berga.—Le Constitutionnel.
The National says_" The subscriptions opened by the
Journals of M. Tniers on the one hand, and by the Buona-
partist Journals on the other have reached the following
sums:—

THIERS.

Le Siecle 17,237f. 50c.
Le Courrier 3,716f. 50c.
Le Constitu-
-1,1351. —c.
tionnel

LOUIS BUONAPARTE.
Le Capitole 2,089 f. 80c.
,Le Commerce.. 1,491 f. —c.

22,489 f.
The amount of M. Louis is tl
as 3to 12. This argues ill.
were concerned in this affdi
have given loo,ooor.
The subscriptions for Gene
in the first week, the sum of
France.

3,550 f. 80e.
.herefore to that of M. Thiers
If the memory of Napoleon
ire Paris alone would already

,ral Foy had reached at Paris,
/ 3,000 francs.—Gazette de

Canada,
CANADA CLERGY RES.ERVE .--Frolll a return laid
before the House of Commons it appears that the total
number of acres set apart for religious purposes in Upper
been disposed of at the average price of 13s 6W. per
acre. There remaia disposable 1
was 2,354,669 ; of these 500,43:3 acres have
Captain Pringle states, may be reckoned worth
,828,290 acres, which,
1,000,0001. sterling, with great safety,

.-7....—5e5er.....—
VOLUNTARY PRINCIPLE. The English
Baptist Chapel at Cardiff, under the pastoral care of the Rev.
William Jones, has long been too small for the increasing. con-
gregation. An enlargement has consequently been determined
on, and scarcely determined on, when it was vigorously
acom-
menced. The old vestry is thrown innto the chapel,
are andalre a sdy
pa-
cious new vestry and school-room, o a larger scale,
erected and carried in. The cost is estimated at something
less than 1,000/., of which 600/. have already been collected
from the members and hearers.— Welshman.
WATERING GA RDENS.---lt is doubtful whe-
ther artificial watering is not often more productive of disad•
vantage than of real service to plants. hen plants are wa-
tered naturally, the whole air is saturated with humidity at the
same time as the soil is penetrated by the rain ;
and in this case
Vs
the aqueous particles mingled with the earth are gradually in-
trt•tliteed into the circulating system ; for the moisture of the
air prevents a rapid perspir..tion. Not so when plants in the
open air are artificially watered.
CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE SCHOOLNIAS—
TErts---A serious endeavour is to be made in th;s county to ruin
the Schoolmasters; for which, we are very sorry to say they
are indebted to some of the Clergy, aided by the Tories. The
facts are these :—lt will be remembered that a great outcry
was made some time ago about Diocesan Education; a Societ)
was formed for the purpose of establishing Diocesan Schools in
places where the means of education for the poor were defi-
cient. Such a purpose could not but meet the approval of all
the friends of
was sectarian and exclusive, yet any education is better than none,
popular education, for, though the avowed plan
and it is certain that the knowledge would prove inure than an
antidote for the sectarianism. But it seems that the Tories, by
whom this scheme was concocted,- rot satisfied with educa-
ting the poor, have resolved to grasp at a monopoly of the edu-
cation of the middle classes. They have announced schools for
the middle classes, on terms with which no private establish-
ment can compete. One of these cheap shops is to be opened
forthwith in the deanery of Frome, and the unhappy school-
masters of that district are to he starved out. The plan is to
be pursued as speedily as possible in the other deaneries, anti
the schoolmasters of I Aunton, Bridgewater, Wells, &c. &c. &e.,
are to be served in like manner, as fast as their amiable Tory
rivals can accQinTlisli it.— Somers,:t Om/nick.