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lAMENT.

FRICI 5d

, self praise; but as we do not expect the Dispatch to call
stinking fish, we think the working classes !R's the best
judges of its extent of friendship to themselves ; and sub-
scribe ourselves the advocates of justice.
Signed on behalf of the body,
ARMSTRONG WALTON,
An Operative Stone Mason.

FINANCIAL AND LEGAL REFORM.
Two Commissions:of Inquiry are about to be appointed
by her Majesty's Government.
The one at the suggestion of the First Lord of the
Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer—the
other at the suggestion of the Lord Chancellor.
The object of the first of these Commissions will be to
inquire into the charge of collecting the public revenue,
and of considering whether it will be possible to effect
any reduction in that charge, either by the consolidation
of offices or by the suppression of them, or by new ar-
rangements, for the receipt and transmission of the
revenue.
This Commission will also inquire whether any addi-
tional facilities can be given for carrying on the com-
merce and manufactures of the country without loss or
risk to the revenue.
We understand that Lord Granville Somerset, Mr.
Gladstone, Mr. Bingham Baring, Mr. Milnes Gaskell,
and Mr. Pringle, have undertaken to conduct the inqui-
ries above referred to. Lord Granville Somerset, who
will preside oche Commission, took a leading part:in
the investigatiM on which the reductions made by the
Duke of Wellington's Government in 1828, 1829, and
1830 were consequent. It is probable that the Commis-
sioners will visit some of the principal outports for the
purpose of examining personally into the mode of con-
ducting business.
The object of the second Commission, which the Lord
Chancellor proposes to institute, will be to examine into
the forms and modes of proceeding in the Courts of
Equity, with a view of rendering the system lass cum-
brous, and the progress of a suit less tedious and ex-
pensive.
We have reason to believe that Lord Langdale, Mr.
Pemberten, and Mr. Wigram, who has been recently
appointed Vice-Chancellor, have undertaken to lend
their invaluable services for the conduct of this investi-
gation, which, like the other, will be carried on without
any charge to the public.
The preceding announcement, we are sure, will be ,
read with sincere satisfaction. Perhaps there is no
very great pecuniary saving to be made by the sup-
pression or consolidation of the offices connected
with the collection of the revenue ; but saving is
not the sole object ; another and at least equally
important consideration is the feeling of the public,
who revolt not so much at the actual amount of the
total yearly levy of taxes, as at the proportion of
that levy which is withdrawn from the national ser-
vices by the expenses of collection. The impediments,
too, which various branches of commercial dealing not
unfrequently sustain from the operations of fiscal regu-
lation, are infinitely irksome to men of business, and the
removal or modification of them, as far as may be prac-
ticable without loss to the revenue, will be a boon very
highly "glued by all the classes connected with the
foreign trade of die country. The direction of the in-
quiry is committed to a Nobleman eminently qualified
by his official experience to conduct it with sagacity and
judgment ; and the whole measure, unforced as it has
been by any Parliamentary requisition or popular outcry,
affords a most satisfactory earnest of the Government's
sincere desire to administer the public affairs fur the
public good.
The other of the proposed Commissions, that which
has been instituted for the purpose of examination into
the proceedings of courts of equity, holds out the pros-
pect of advantages still more important. The delays
and expenses of those proceedings have for centuries
been a curse to the country, and a slur upon its jurispru-
dence. The names of the Commissioners, two of them
presiding over courts of equity, and the third, the ablest
and most eminent man whom the bar of those courts
has boasted in our time, are sufficient guarantees that
no half-considered, headlong changes will be at-
tempted ; but we trust, from their enlarged views
and their elevated position, that they will feel them-
selves entitled to treat the subject boldly, and to recom-
mend a large re-casting, not, indeed, of the principles
which regulate the decisions in Chancery, but of its
general procedure—for instance, by an effectual curtail-
ment of pleadings, by a devolution upon the Masters of
a variety of duties and powers now vested only in the
superior Judges, and by an extensive substitution of parol
evidence for affidavits and written depositions.
Sir Robert Peel's reforms are not of the kind which
fill the pockets of Reformers. The revisions here con-
templated tend on the contrary to the retrenchment of
patronage and the reduction of expense ; and if they
repay their authors, it will be only in the approbation
and respect of the public.—Times.

WOOLWICH—Nov. A.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.
Owing to the great destruction of muskets by the late
fire at the Tower of London, it is intended to remove
those at present used by the Royal Artillery and in store
at Woolwich, amounting to 7,000, to the Tower, in case
they should be required for particular service upon short
notice. The gunners and drivers of the Royal Artillery
will mount guard with swords, in the same manner as the
men of the Royal Horse Artillery.
PERC USSION SHELLS.
It will be in the recollection of the readers of The Sun,
that during the past summer we gave full accounts of va-
rious experiments made by several inventors of percussion
shells in the marshes at Woolwich, the liberality of the
Board of Ordnance having afforded every facility for that
purpose. It now appears that nearly at the same time as
these experiments were made here openly, similar experi-
ments were carried on in France by the students of the '
Polytechnic School, by order, or, at least, under the im-
mediate sanction of Louis Philippe and the French Go-
vernment, but so secret that they were not noticed by
the press. Notwithstanding all the care that was taken
to keep the experiments and their result secret, we know
that the number of shells fired were 200, and that two-
-1 thirds of them succeeded, and that they are ordered to
be introduced into the French navy.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Dasher, steam-vessel, Master Commander Robert
White (acting), has had her repairs completed, and will
leave Woolwich to resume her station at Weymouth.
Mr. Henry Bannister has been appointed inspector of
caulkers in the Woolwich Dockyard, vice Moore, dec.