The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-03 00:00:00

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The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for leave
to bring in a Bill for the Better Regulation
of the Administration of Justice. This Bill is
similar to the- one which was .before the
Howe last year, and is confined to the
Courts of Equity. The business in Chancery has
increased so much, that there are between 1,200
and 1,300 causes in that Court; and it takes, on
an average, five years, from the time a suit is
entered till it is disposed of. The Bill is to abo-
lish the equity side of the Court of Exchequer,
and to give two new Judges to the Court of
Chancery. There are funds in the Court to
meet the expenses which would be caused by
the Bill.

Sir EDWARD SUGDEN said the appointment of
two new Judges was the creation of two new Courts,
and with a new bar to each, and a new body
of lawyers. He thought a strong case should
be made out before the House consented to
such a measure. He said the ATTORNEY-GE-
NERAL had more than doubled the amount of
cases in arrear in the Court of Chancery. He
referred to the Courts of Review and Bank-
ruptcy, which had fallen into contempt, to
show the danger of appointing useless Conrts.
He doubted whether they would facilitate the
hearing of causes by multiplying Judges•
He recommended that the office of the Masters
should be remodelled; that a better Court
of Appeal should be constituted, for an appeal to
the House of Lords was little better than a
mockery. He would have two Judges appointed,
to be called Lords' Assistants, to make the House
of Lords useful ; and he would make the Court
of the 4)rivy Council, which has great powers,
an efficient Court, with a proper head and regu-

lar sittings.
Mr. LYNCH supported the views of the ATTOR-
NEY-GENERAL, and contended that a case was
made out for an additional Judge.
Leave was given to bring in the Bill; and Sir
E. SUG DEN also obtained leave to bring in his
Bill to improve the Court of Appeal in the
House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, after making a long state-
ment relative to the price of rum, and the quan-
tity imported both from the East and the West
Indies, after referring to the opposition his
proposition to equalise the duties on rum)
imported from both places, was likely to meet
with from the West India interest and the dis-
tillers, moved that on Monday next the House
should resolve itself into a Committee to consider
the duties on rum and sugar.
Mr. EWART regretted that Mr. LABOUCHERE
had narrowed the question, which was one of jus-
tice, to a contest with the West Indian monopoly.
The subject is of great importance to the com-
merce between India and Great Britain.
Mr. GOULBURN would not then discuss the
question, but he thought it impossible for the
House to accede to the proposition.
Mr. HUMS and Mr. HOGG supported the mo-
tion, but both thought it was only a part of what
ought to be done for India.
Sir JoHN HOBHOUSE appealed to those Gen-
tlemen, who thought the Bill did not go far
enough, to support the Government, which had
to encounter a formidable opposition in going
so far.

Mr. O'CoNNELL and Dr. LUSHINGTON referred'
to the possibility of rum made by slaves being
imported under the proposed Bill ; and Dr.
LUSHINGTON declared it would never do to allow
the East India produce to come in on the same
terms as the West India produce while slavery
exists in the East Indies. Perhaps the generous
Doctor will give a hundred millions of the
people's cash to buy the freedom of the East
India slaves. Finally the motion was agreed to,
and the House is to resolve itself into a Commit-
tee on Monday.
Lord STANLEY then moved for leave to bring
in a Bill to improve the Registration of Ireland.
He stated that the present Bill would be similar to
the Bill of last year, with some-alterations. With
a view to meet objections, the Noble Lord re-
ferred to the Ulster Association as agreeing with
him in almost every one of his principles, and
claimed them as his coadjutors.
Lord MORPETH announced the intention of the
Government not to oppose the motion, claiming
for himself a fair hearing when he introduced the
Government Bill to effect the same object.
Mr. O'CONNELL moved, after a short speech,
referring principally to the injustice done to
Ireland, that the debate be postponed till after
the 4th inst.
After a short discussion the House divided,
when Mr. O'CoNxELL's motion was supported
by 71, and opposed by 261.. Lord STANLEY
then received leave to bring in his Bill, and the
House adjourned.

We have to announce, with great regret, that
Mr. GLADSTONE has succeeded at Walsall. He
has been elected by a majority of 38. Mr.
SMITH received 327 votes, and Mr. GLADSTONE
365. Till we are supplied with the particulars
we will say nothing about the causes of
failure. There are none, there can be none,
which would have weighed with a discri-
minating, right-minded, and right-feeling
people, against the repeal of the accursed bread-
tax. Walsall will now be a bye-word in the
land. The electors have sanctioned the bread-
tax. They have resolved that the robbery of the
poor is proper, and henceforth robbery will be
the main principle of our social exist-
ence. Base and degraded Walsall ! which
votes to enslave and to plunder our suffering
countrymen. That we should be obliged to
give Walsall this character pains us for the i
4,4 L, of, ow f 3:27 lionez,t an.l vit.! il t-think int; 1
voters it contains; but the brand is nowindelible.
The majority have decided that the name of the