The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-30 00:00:00

lenge. " Witt► respect to Police Reports (the Lord
Chief Justice said), they have greatly increased in
numbers, and have now become very frequent ;
but on that account they are not the less law-
ful." Ilis Lordship did not enter into the ques-
tion of utility or expediency, in which respect
he displayed more tact than some of his brethren.
We have only.to remark that the Courts of Law
have always been bitter enemies of the Press—
sometimes open, sometimes insidious.

[MORNING HERALD.)
A complaint was made in the Court of Chan-
cerg, a few days since, by one of the Learned
Gentlemen, that the briefs were so voluminous as
to render It impossible for Counsel always to
read them, Something of a similar complaint has
been since made in another Court—it was an ap-
plication to strike out several superfluous counts
from, we believe, a declaration. This Volumi-
nousness of law papers has long been a mat-
ter of grievance and of pleasantry—for it
is as ridiculous as it is mischievous. It is
not surprising that the expence it brings
upon the parties should not have checked
the evil. This is seldom a consideration in
these matters, especially where others have an in-
terest the other way. But it is extraordinary that
in law, where clearness and precision are so neces-
sary, and so ostentatiously aimed at, there should
be used a superfluous verbiage in style, which,
so far from rendering meaning clear or precise,
introduces uncertainty and vagueness. A check
upon this introduction of irrelevant matter and
superfluous phraseology would be a great saving
of money and ►
tine and is loudly called for—not
only in the Courts of Justice, but in Parliament.
One of the great grievances of the Statute-book
is its voluminousness. The superfluity of words
hero is such, that a folio might be reduced
to the compass of a nut-shell without impair-
ing the sense—indeed, rather rendering it more
obvious and exact. How the evil could be reme-
died in the Courts we will not take upon us *to
say ; but there is an easy, remedy in Parliament.
Let it be imperative upon the Honourable Mem-
ber ushering in a Bill to read it through, instead
of reading only the opening words in each stage ;
and more brevity of style will soon be called for
by the impatience of tl►e Representatives of the
People. There would also probably be fewer
Acts of Parliament, as most likely many would
be strangled in the first stage, to escape the ennui
of hearing them read a second.

It is strongty rumoured that a high Military
Commander in the East Indies is about leaving
that country on his return home, in consequence
of a disagreement with the Gcivernor•General us
to the expediency of striking a decisive blow
with the Burmese, by marching an overwhelming
force to the capital of the enemy, instead of ha-
rassinc; them by a few thousand troops on thtir.
froll Lie

ETH6 TIMES.]
Our journal of this day contains a judgment
of tlie"Court of kitties Bench, wherein the publi-
cation of paliCe` reports is reprehended as
; and a Proceeding at Bow-street, from which
it appears thatthe publication 'of a previous pro-
ceediiigAt that otlice'has led to the detection of a
robbery, ind -(to say nothing of the probability of
conviction) ,the consequent recovery of the stolen
goods., We may se t one against the other—practical
utility against theoretic wrong. It is amusing to
hear laWyers talk of the prejudice excited by
what they are pleased to call ex-parte statements.'
They must have a strange idea of the great in.j
lerlority of all other Understandings, when corn.
, pared wltlr their own ; for they certainly think
themselves above the prejudice `of which they
complain, and yet suppose juries. incapable of dis.
tinguishing between the evidence adduced in
Court, and the reports which they may have read
out of it.' . What n difference between a jury-
man's skull and that of a jurk.eonsulto The
former, we suppose, according to . the Spun-
heist philosophy, must want all the knobs of
time, place, distinCtiveitess, &c. ; the latter must
be very perfect in all those particulars. We had
hoped that the complaints of the, ill effects of
police reports would have been confined to the
criminals.
.To those unhappy persons the;
have served, and may hereafter serve, as a topic
in their defence.

IN 1:1V TfloltS.]
The I.lxpresses received , yesterday from Paris
bring accounts to Saturday evening. The ltentes
closed at, 10L 40.,. having been preiionsly at
101'. 25. The private letters state this decline to
proceed in a great 'measure from the scarcity of
money which still continued in that city. It is
again. asserted with considerable confidence, that
the reduction of the 5 per Cents: to S. per Cents.
will certainly be attempted, and the most exile.
deuced parties are of opinion that it will be carried.
A certain de,,reepf alarm seemed to prevail 'yes- ,
terday Morning on this ::Stock Exchange on ac.
count of the state of Ireland. It -was not to 'bel
' asciib'
ed to any ptirtiCtilar Occuireiice but merely
•• 7 •
to ILthe 1111E1151114!.tiS WiliCh has prevailed in
that 'country for SOtni,..:Otne ('gist; and n loch has
Of late fOrmed‘u proinineiit topic pf in
•
,mi. public 'Journals. J fie itading 'Capitalists,
hip 4 4:l''er, feel it thdrough confjdeuca:that there'
is littit. canse 'to suppose any,peely,alteratiao. in
"the present State of the `
country as flkely: to
occur ; and their inflUenee. tended materially
to' produce the im iprovertent which took place
' -• '
be'forelhe close or InAitiess. consols ppentu at
fl ', r.~leclineif to 941', and iclosAl at o'l' for the
also
.
depreSSPd in price : Auitrianma Ansslan flotles
half per 'cent. ,
; also' die Prenclt
and' Scrip.----Mexican Icoi cis after; being
tit 65f; lo pt WI! dloinbiari Bond's in
% I' . e
alt tlual:proportion higher. Ihe New :Nltning
hares to '2ll.

tytt f: pßut:ic C. En
.]
ris ,13a rs, of Satnrdag' th gig Mono
of quticlay, cotitaiti hitt
littie,,potilicul ;natter wus noi:pr'eviottsly
known. ratter announces ti slight tteptesf
siiin of the ltentes, caused by,the
contintiea k;ieparations to evacuate'-gpain, or