The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-08 00:00:00

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COURT OF CHANCERY, larterx 6.
JONES V. WORMLEIGHTON.
The SOLICITOR-OENERAL said that this- ease had: been
ordered to stand at the head-of the paper, merely to remind his
Lordship what • were the -principal points at issue. The appli
cation was, that the Solicitor in the cause might be ordered to
deliver the. papers in his possassien'inte:The Master's-Office.
The.object-waS not to destroy the Soliciter"s lien upon the, lured
in Court, but to put a speedy terniinatioa to the suit. - There.
was a cese in 1 Swanstone; p: 1; whieli bore. immediately upon
this point.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed; that in Courts of Law
Solicitors could not be dismissed without the have of the;
Court.
ROUPELL:apprehended that. there was a great differ.•
ence between Courts of Law and Equity upon this point. In
Courts of Law the Solicitor was the only acknowledged party
before the. Court ; but in Courts of itquitfthere was an inter-
mediate party, viz. the Six Clerks.- There were other cases be-
sides those cited by the Solicitoi;General, which were impor-
tant to be considered. Among them were Twart v. 'Derry, 13
Vts. 95,. and.Oeley v. Odey, 1 Sco, and Lef..Zlfi. There was:
also another case not reportedewhere Whitton had been
directed to deliver up a will.
The..LOnD CHANCELLOIL said, that the case of a .will differ-
ed from the others as a wilt could not be used until the party:
was dead, and until ititad be prOved. •
1:1r, Rot:Punt:intimated that that was the ground upon
which the Court had decided the case.
The Lonna .CTIANCELLOIL would consult with the Vice-
Chancellor and the Master of theltoils 'before he decided this
important question.
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XIIE ATTORNEY-GENERAL verius THE CORPOB.ATION OF
BRISTOL.
Mr. HART having been heard in reply on the demurrer,
- The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed decided opinion that
the demurrer could not stand, and that it ought to be amended,
rendering the Guardians elethe Poor, Relators. His Lord--
ship took this opportunity of .observing upon the intricacy of
pleadings. He recollected, in former times these.plead-
blies were extretnelf simpte," lint by modern practice they
had been rendered most complicated. • •It had been thought set:
visabie to assimilate the -pleadings of Scotland, the length ana
intricacyof which had been much complained of, to those of
England; but it appeared:to him, that the pleadings of this
country were now nearly as intricate as:those-of Scotland, and
therefore little would be gained •by this assitoiliation. There
was scarcely an Act of Parliament now introduced without a
clause for a general- issue, 'and this general issue frequently
created the greatest complexity. He slid ran confine these 'ob-
servations to.(ec. nuts of Equity only, but meant them to apply also
to Courts of Law. The practice which had been now generally
adopted, of making cases instead of taking a special verdict, i
had, he conceived, been most mischievous, inasmuch as it de-
prives the party of the benefit of a -writ of error. With respect
to the Act of Parliament -which had been made the subject of
tifis.dernurrer, there could be no doubt that-it was
.en,lst bene-
ficial, as it relieved prieoners from- the payment of jail fees ;
• but there was as little doubt that it requireti.considerable er
relent. His decided opinion was, that the use:4;es belonging to
the Corporation were not touched by the Act, but yet the At-
torney-General was certainly entitled to some discovery. The .1
demurrer, however, as now freMed, could not be sustained.

The high wind on Wednesday tai '.,t was so_
verely felt in Kensington Gardens. Fourteen
large trees have-been blown down, and the frag-
ments of loose branches were scattered in every
direction : some of large size. The keepers, in
their .daily and nocturnal walks, were often
placed in 'great danger from the falling pieces
but we have not heard .of any accident happening
to them.