The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

COUNTY COURTS BILL.

This Bill, to improve the practice and extend the juris-
diction of County Courts (the County Courts Bill), which
was batought in by Mr. Fox Maule, Sir G, Grey, and
Sir Thomas Wilde, proposes to enact, amongst many
other provisions--1. That the Lord Chancellor may
uppoint, throughout England and Wales, Judges of County
Courts, not exceeding twenty-five is all, who must be
either sergeants or barristers-at-law, or certificated spe-
cial pleaders, or attorneys of the Superior Courts at West-
minster, but who must cease to practise as such during
their appointment as judges; these judges to bo remove-
able by the Lord Chancellor. 2. That the judges be dis-
qualified from sitting in Parliament. 3. That County Courts
may be held in every town, &c., in which her Majesty
shall be pleased so to direct, the intervals between the
holding of say two such Courts in the sane place being in
no case more than four weeks. 4. That a Receiver-General
be appointed in each county by the County Justices, who
shall render, Four times a year, to the Treasury, an account
of the receipts and disbursements of the County Courts. 5,
That if the receipts of said Courts ex cc ad the disbursements,
the surplus shall be paid into the Exchequer to the Con-
solidated Fund. O. That if the reverie be the case, the dif_
ferenee shall be raid out of the Consolidated Fund. 7. That
the RE-ea:ivorta. General shall provide court-houses, &c. 8.
Tbat Courts of R•queat, &v., shall be discentinuei as soon as
the Judges are appointed. P. That the Judges of the County
Courts shall solely de!ertsioe all actions a li 're the amount
is only 5L ; butt that when it is above that sum a Jury may
bo rettalreel. 10. That the number of rho Jurors :hall
be Eve s 4 that all saws shall be determined by the
verdict of *a cskjerity. 11. Thit the Judges shell
!Ave pow order a caw t_
i3l to le
h ad
in any 14 the next County Court, and in
the mcsalm4 to OtAy the gaceca.'ings ; but that if the vcr-
diet he agaida give.' for the some party, such verd'et
shall bo 12. That the Courts may award exe-
cutions &prima the goods or the persons of individuals
against atm= orders for the payment of money shall have
bsen made 'rat not Veil coral Led with ; but that in cer.
taus cues tloe execuian racy he ausEe.le.ol by the Courts.
13. That C.- a Raceise --General may provide prison?, &c.
14. That the provisions of 1 and 2 V;ct)ria, c. 110, shall
he uppacashle to the County Courts.

RF.,VISION OF THE IMPORT
DUTIES.

(From the Derby Reporter.)
Our readora will see that a putaio meeting is appointed
to be bold by his Worship the Mayor, in
compli:nice vrith a
requis:tion, on Thursday next, to consider the propriety cf
petitioning the Legidature to revise the 101 pc rt Duti .
TeL is a question w hieb deeply interests all classes of society,
except a few wealthy monopolists, to whose edv..r.t,a,
the trade of the country, and the °mica of the peaple,
have boon long saer:ficed. Tho time far petitioning is op.
Fortune and tech chosen ; the rewnue is t equal to the
; the eve, imont tree as
l last Esi ri to
augment our rewurc.'s by a
ilati;"" exPp ild"'2re
v dditional taxati3n has f i:ol
, .
aid the Report of the ordintett,d I-Lea—merchants and
e- on !h..? Impoit
crusprising the opinions of pr
tax-ax payers of dutie:ies
and reeei Tors of them—are
as fayourabla to the expediency of adapting these duties
to a reale which would promote comincr as could be
wished. This country owes its great) its manufilc-
turce and commerce ; a large portion of,
its indu.trious
inhebitaxts must depend upon trade for sub tepee ; and
classiu must look back t,) commerce fur the numerous
nr•L'zfoqa luxurea to which ire are ha'Atuated, a:tc!
witliont whieli they coull not be purchased. The reces.i.
tirs of tic) country arc prossing, sumethieg must Le done,
to increase the debt would be ruin us, but if present exi-
Aeuck could he rent by so doing it would be cruel and impo-
LAI,- to t2ouy the working classes the advantage] which a
rcs;.sion of our ImporiDuties would confer upon V. ern, %illicit.
would increase he revenue. The enormous disparity of prices
of vibes have become, by long use, necessaries of life—tin,
coffce, sugar, &e. Etre. ia this county and foreign States,
subjecta our artisans to a very unfair competition, and
taros their powers of endurance to a degree which is in-
compatible with their health and comfort and the national
welfare. Hitherto it has been urged that the heavy burdens
of the country would not admit of any remission of t'ne'o
duties, but since it is the opiaion of official men, whose
ittiioll
of what and eperience oug to smoke them the be,t jivlge]
is dexsirahle, that th!it e revenue woold be inerfaied
by lowering the Import Duties lecause it would iced to a
greater consumption of the articles on which they arc levied,
thg experiment ought to l,e
.tried. At all evars, if the
people et; alive to their own mt.:rest., ihey will now show
themselves in their strength, and tell the Legi-liture, in
such nueshers as will command respect, that they c .oft-
slently look for such meesure2 as will give ei:couragereent
to their inaestry,• and eryable them to consume a grea..er
quantity of those fireigri articles which arc become, from
long habit, necessary to their comfort and enjoyment.

MA
DUBLIN, ncti 4.—Viscount
. 11i,acisarene has
James and Arthur
sought the protection of the law against two young gen.
tlemen, I Lelisve relatives, Me.ssr3.
hii
brother
ceeding rappg Nassau-street, when they were encountered.
by the Mties.
.Fester one of whom, after putting. some
ireeri !or' Mnzgarenv, lifted a horsew hip and
struck 'him, iois, " Consider yourself horsewhipped,
and, it h stated, i-opvatee the blow. The Noble Lord did
not leizent, but appliel to the Magistrates of College-
street, to lodge informations. The Magistrates declined
So take them on lho ex parte ttatemenf, the usual course
boing to btu. a summos, which was accordingly done.
a a formal investigation to-morrow.
The matter will underg
The cause of the dispute did not transpire