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London, England, 1847-11-11 00:00:00

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THE EDITOR OF T N.
x,—At least one of our daily papers (Tine,
2, 1847) lately stated the number and the names
'yes now set down for hearing in the Courts
Iter ; but I do not find that any paper has
.he number of appeals already heard by, and
now waiting:for ths "udgment of, the Lord Chancellor.
I therefore take the 'hefty to furnish you with a list
thereof, to enable y u to supply that omission, toge-
ther with a few emarks upon the consequences of
delay in givi judgment upon appeals, in the hope
thatj with your usual desire to protect the interests
11)
of the public, you will give ins,:rtion to such of them
as you may consider pertinent.
About three-fourths of the appeals in the annexed
list, and now standing for judgment, were heard by
the Lord Chancellor last year, some of them as long
ago as July, 1846.
No one can doubt its being a misfortune to get into
litigation, and numberless are the cases in which
parties submit to be plundered rather than to be en-
tangled in the meshes of law, with its attendant evils
of expenses and delay.
Circumstances, nevertheless, compel others, how-
ever reluctant to enforce their rights, or to resist
attempts at pecuniary oppression by an appeal to the
law; the care, anxiety, trouble, and expense neces-
Court of Chancery, inevitably to be encountered, are
es as
erya
pfionrg traversing the
pit
fahliigs,h %a'nady s
nahri)cda
nhe3r•iwe
sa3o,sf, axle
miserysurel surely
of
fishfoarvtiung to
neewnoauitglai,
year,
more, after the cause or appeal has been heard, for
the decision of the judge. In every case there must
without
or
perhapsthe aggravatedtwoor
be a wrong-doer : this delay on the part of the judge
is a premium to the wrong-doer. Common sense and
common honesty dictate that a judge should deter-
mine one cause before entering upon another; a
competent, just, and duty-doing judge would always
act upon that principle. But, allowing for necessary
exceptions to such a general rule, what can justify
the postponement of a judgment for months or years?
The argument of counsel must of course be forgotten,
and such causes will at length be decided upon on
imperfect recollection of the facts, or a cursory re-
view of the papers : thus, besides the injury of delay,
there is the waste of time expended in arguments,
and the loss of money paid in fees to counsel.
There are now twenty•seven reserved judgments;
the last on the list was heard four months ago,
the first sixteen months ago, and the amount
of money or property involved in such cases
probably reaches to nearly a mfillun- aiserlin
no small portion of which is, perhaps, locked up in the Court of Chancery.
The amount of suffering endured by parties, and
their families and connexions, who ought to have
their cases decided, and this property distributed
months ago, is incalculable. And what now is their
situation ? Their counsel say, if you press for judg-
ment you will irritate the Chancellor, and he will
decide against you ; wait his time, your case is
good, and he will decide in your favour; but wait-
ing his time consigns the party to bankruptcy and
ruin, and when tardy justice at length arrives it is
rather a triumph to the evil-doer, at having de-
stroyed his adversary, than compensation to the party
injured.

[PRICE SD.

There is no exaggeration in this statement, neither
are there any of our institutions that require more
vigilant surveillance than the administration of the
law ; and, acting on the impression that you have
only to attain a knowledge of abuses to endeavour
to reform them, I take the liberty to forward these
observations, hoping that such use may be made of
them, if possible, as may lead to an abatement of the
evil.

I LIST OF APPEALS HEARD BY THE LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, AND NOW WAITING FOR HIS JUDGMENT,
NOV. 6, 1847 :-

Curzon v. Belworthy

Bellamy v. Sabine
Vandeleur v. Blagrove

Strickland v. Strickland
Morison v. Morison
Parker v. Morrell
'Penny v. Dawson
Peacock v. Kernot
Willinck v. Bentinck
Attorney General v. Mer-
chant Venturers of Bristol
,Grand Junction Canal Com-

Coore v. Lowndes

Minor v. Minor

Wrighton v. Macaulay
Andrews v. Lockwood

Stocken v. Dawson

Watts v. Hyde
Eyre v. Green

1 pany v. Dimes
Jones v. Rose
Mason v. Wakeman
IWestwood v. Slater
Hodgson v. Barrow, beard
July, 1847.
November 6, 1847.

Davis v. Chanter

Bell v. Earl Mexborough
Lacy v. Ingle
Bainbrigge v. Baddeley
Kirk v. Bromley Union

IMPROVEMENT OF PULLETS.--A patent has been
taken out in America for increasing the adhesiveness of
the surface of pulleys, drums, &c., by a coating cf India-
rubber, or some other gum of similar nature.—Builder.
EMANCIPATION OF SOUTHAMPTON FROM TORT
MISRULE.—This borough has been so long in the hands
of the Tories that they considered it their property; but
by a majority of one single vote, on the Ist of November,
a Liberal councillor was returned in the place of a Tory
one; and on the election of the mayor and five aldermen
this day (9th November), all Liberals, a substantial
Liberal majority is secured. The following gentlemen
take the place of an equal number of Tories:—Daniel
Brooks, Esq., mayor ; Aldermen Paul's, Brooks, Bien-
venue, Allen, and Stace; who are expected to make a
clear sweep of a mass of useless machines, the place now
occupied by which is to be filled by members of a snore
modern and useful kind.

An atrocious crime was committed in the railway
station at Dresden, on the 30th ult. At about ten
o'clock in the morning a well-dressed young man
oab ednitseerha a
rgcaerdriiatge a,t and,
drawing en-
tered, and walked about for some time in an agitated
state, smoking a cigar. All at once he rushed towards
The h e
bayoungl 1 faeenmptiaeslrteoeld whofr from his
was about
pocket,
e to
t,
heart, and she died immediately.
The murderer then drew another pistol from his pocket,
and placed the barrel of it in his mouth, but just as he
was about to pull the trigger, his arm was seized by a
bystander, and the ball lodged in the ceiling. The
murderer was immediately arrested and placed in gaol.
He is the travelling clerk for a manufactory of arms at
Liege. The young female belonged to a respectable
family at Berlin, and had been carried off by the mur-
derer. Her father and mother having followed and
overtaken her, insisted that she should return home,
and she was about to set out with them on her return
when the murder was committed.
At the Postal Congress, now sitting at Dresden,
y his face
s sincew a s qTahihreeittaiul
hearing
the
with
the Austrian commissary proposed the following uni-
form tariff for letters :-lid. (three kreutzers) for all
letters within a circuit of five miles, and 2id. (six kreut-
zers) within twenty miles, and sd. (twelve kreutzers) for
all letters exceeding twenty miles. The postage to be
divided equally between the receiving and sending office.
It must be observed that the German mile is equal to
4.61 English miles. There are sixty kreutzers to the
florin, and ten florins to the pound sterling.
PARK THEATRE, NEW YORK.--Donizetti's opera
of the Favourite has been produced at this theatre in the
most complete manner, and met with perfect success.
Miss Brienti (a pupil of Mr. Manvers) made her first
appearance as Leonora. She is a charming vocalist, with
a voice that touches the heart. She was received with
enthusiasism, and has made a most impres-
sionfavourableanverss
on the hearts of the Americana. Mr. M
first
rrg.t6;htne impression
bicuk
phial,
the best tenor on the continent.—
fsotaunrdyaeradrfsa,voaunrditefohlleyre,
continent.—New
Mr. W kl
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—Yesterday R. ey,
t at the Star, Chad's-row, a-
cross,King'M.P held an inquest "
body of James Clark aged 25, potboy at
on the
~ .
establishment, who:was found dead onSunda,mormng
that esta proved made
hisi first
claim
yaoprptkoeDatrhaaenilcyteiGttlhleoaboseef.
tate followingd
thact i rae
tu m
eightstad c es
o'clock:
or :—Harriet t
Sunday Groom,
on entering the washhouse of the Star, she
immersed in a washing-tub, and:apparently quite dead.
ti'aaps apparently
rgweaosnlt, h
as said
i itd
on the floor with his face and head
question be was summoned by Mrs. Groom, andn foundhis
from
emt rh. e
suffocation deceased
ba had
lyinglandlord, stated that on the morning in
stones,
out of his pur-
eeealrirnyg position, with both
armssktmel at thowsrart.
charwoman,
deceased
nuinoggmdts eeliaardynset4httehs
pandoievssciee.h. deceased
:lido
efacb lyingodi lt
ai as
partiallyts
asedescribed;c
tionhveasreseffedeth-kneeling
Di
ee
tub. In his pocket was found an empty
unsound mind."
m with the intent of paralysing any
self-preservation.t The jury returned
been tilted and propped up with sedt
tcoent
iasmsidedee roefddtihe
historyphial,wthaast so inmmospetal
seeing
ikhnasegdcc
deceased,aa‘
s s‘
case of
oottifsnoddn so'
his
drowning;
sin
seeing
struggles
taken con-
tainedterrudgicgttl,ehl ase, u,
IdTfaoauhrudai tatmn
to,h eis e
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER..-.Yesterday
y
drowning, being at thdace
morning an inquest was held before Mr. W. Baker,a"
at
the Five Bells public house, opposite Limeh ouse church,
on view of the body of Andrew Num' ter, aged thirty-
five, a sailor. It appeared that the
on board the schooner Margaret deceased had joined
Dawson's Dock, Limehouse.o, lying in the river off
n %aturday night last,
about twelve o'clock, he left the vessel for the purpose
of going on shore, and
while walking upon a plank,
which was placed on a descent from a tier of vessels to
the pier head of the
wharf, he suddenly slipped, and tell
into the water. It was raining
very heavily at the time,
and the plank was very slippery. The deceased ex-
claimed that he could swim ashore, and a sailor belong-
ing to another vessel immediately went to his assistance,
but he had disappeared under the water. His body
was recovered about two hours afterwards. It is a re-
markable fact, that when the deceased was searched his
watch was found to be exactly twelve o'clock, the time
when the unfortunate occurrence happened. The jury
returned a verdict of " Accidental death."

Is BAD WORK TO BE PAID FOR P—This is A
question, says the Iris, which frequently arises in Shef-
field, and one which it is often exceedingly difficult to
decide, especially as to work sent out to be done. In a
recent instance, a quantity of stuff for files was given to
a workman to cut, and instead of doing them properly
himself, he employed a boy to cut the round part and a
man to cut the flat, and the work was badly done. The
workman summoned his employer for 255., which the
mayor restricted to 205., dismissing the summons, but
ordering that sum to be paid, as he conceived that,
though badly cut, the employer " might manage to get
rid of them in some manner:" rather an equivocal re.
commendation, surely, from a magistrate. The defend-
ant was by no means satisfied with the decision, es-
pecially as this was but one out of many instances in
which he would be obliged to " get rid" of bad files " in
some manner."—Builder.