The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-19 00:00:00

effecting the more speedy termination of those
which were established at the Union between
both countries.

[MORNING CURONICLIE.j
The state of the Court of Chancery, and the
conduct of the present Chancellor, form the sub-
ject of an article in the number of The Quarterly
Review just published. In all the discussions
which have lately taken place on ,the subject, it
has been assumed by both parties, that " law's de-
lay" is a great evil, and it has never been denied,
that during the period of Lord Eldon's pre-
siding over the Court of Chancery, the delay has
been felt to an extent never before known. The
evil is admitted ; the friends of the Lord Chan-
cellor maintain, that the delay is not attributable
to any want of industry on his part, but to the
great increase of business ; others again maintain
that whatever the cause, his Lorship is responsible
Was either equal or un-
for the evil, because he
equal to the dispatch of the business of the Court;
if equal, why the arrear ? if unequal, why
was not a remedy Provided long ago ? The
writer in The Review, however, finds every thing
as it should be. Ftrst, the Court of Chancery is
the best of all possible Courts, because it is the
most dilatory, the perfection of a judicial system
being inversely as it admits of expedition. " The
law's delay has been a complaint ever since Eng-
land has had law. . .. Every nation which enjoys
a free and impartial administration of law, also suf-
fers the inseparable inconvenience of delay, and
that inconvenience is generally in proportion to
the merits (in other points) of its legal sy stem. We
hear little complaint of delay in Russia ; in
Turkey, we apprehend, there is none at all."—
If judicial delay is a great good, of course what-'
ever produces delay is necessarily a good. Un-
certainty with respect to Ns hat is and what is not
law, tediousness in the forms of proceeding, de-
fective modes of obtaining evidence, by which the
facts may not be discovered without great diffi-
culty, all tend to the protracting law suits, and
are the highest excellencies of a judicial system.
The only valid reasons for delay are, first, to
ascertain the facts ; and, secondly, to ascertain
the law. If facts could be easily come at, and
if the law were clear, the dispatch would neces-
sarily be greater. Every well-wisher to his
country ought to oppose all attempts to facilitate
the discovery of the truth, and to render the law
less uncertain ; for the law would then lose
its great perfection, that of which it cannot
have too much—namely, delay. The Roman
Emperor, to whom the world is indebted
for the Digest of the Civil Law, the Emperor
Joseph Leopold of Tuscany, the King of Prus-
sia, and Napoleon, who all endeavoured to di-
minish the delay in judicial proceedings, were in
so far the enemies of the human race. Let us al-
ways bear in mind that savages have no litiga-
tion, while the English, the most civilised of all
nations, have the most protracted law suits.

STOLEN HOIZSES.-It is with pleasure we an-
nounce the recovery of one of the numerous horses which have
of late been stolen from this neighbourhood. Mr. Cheveley,
of Boyton-hall, Roswell, who lost a horse on Sunday night
last, dispatched persons in various directions, and' among
others, Mr. William Harrington, constable of Brick Chig-
nell, who went to London, where, by perseverance and good
luck, he recovered the animal ; and at the same time dis-
covered a system which is now carried on in very remote parts
of the capital, which, if not put a stop to, the greatest encou-
ragement will thereby be given to the continuation of this spe-
cks of theft, which it has always been the most difficult to
provide against, and will continue so to be, as long as such re-
ceptacles as those called boiling-houses are allowed to afford so
ready and so apparently safe a market, by the almost instanta-
neous
dmdo n andetotructio withr o f
feelings
the
of ,
animals.
Our readers
la tn three ofthese
i will learn wit h
indignation,
boiling-houses, established in the neighbourhoodt of Whitecha- 11
pel-road, according to the confession of the owners, no less than
200 horses are killed in a week. It was in a condemned cell
belonging to one of these receptacles, kept by a man named
Matthews, that Mr. ChaveleY'S mare was found; and notwith-
standing she is sound, without blemish, not over aged, and
upon a full estimation worth 121. to 141., she had been pur.
chased at 2/.,'and had been condemned to die within an hour
of the discovery ! ! It is in such pl• , ?s, we have reason to
fear, a most unwarrantable crage of the lost animals has
been carried on, where the horse worth 50/. and that of 20s.
value have shared the same fate ; even mares heavy with foal,
held in all probability in the highest estimation by their owners,
were seen to have been butchered by the remorseless hand
of such abettors in the crime of horse-stealing. Mr. Cheveley's
,t o belonghevery ingeniouslyeSparks
to onac-
counts
who
pinraorveedwrt-ohebnedllilscaottyheeread's"swfaos said to
and
for her coming into his possession in the following impro-
bable manner :—" Wm. illingay, Esq. a Frenchman, of Chig-
well-row, being about to quit England for France, desired John
Brown, his servant, to take the mare to a boiling-house, and
see her killed with his own eyes !,,
How John Brown perform-
ed his trust is clearly expo
exposed. Harrington visited four boiling-
houses in the vicinity Smithfield,of where he saw 50 horses,
several of them dead, and others waiting only for the stroke of
the executioner. It appears that the horses arc all killed as
they arrive ; their entrails taken out and the bodies made as dry
as possible, to-preserve them until a market for the flesh can be
found. Mr. CheVeley was allowed to take his mare without the
least opposition. On Wednesday night a horse was stolen from
the Rev. E. Latter, Rector of Great Worley. A man, who
formerly lived servant with Mr. Cheveley, has been appre-
hended on strong suspicion of being the person who stole the
mare.—( Citelmsfird Paper.)