The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-25 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. 1. London, 1834.

As the Freemasons constitute a social, close-
knit corporation, and this periodical is for the
most part dedicated to their interest, giving full
reports of the proceedings of their various
lodges, &c., from time to time, we have little
doubt that it will rapidly get into circulation
among them. Among the contents is a singular
and interesting tale entitled the " Mason,"
which the author assures us is founded on a
fact communicated at Cambridge during the
autumn of the last year, by a member of the
masonic fraternity, of distinguished character
and literary reputation. This tale is well worth
a perusal, and we regret that we have not space
to do it justice by making an extract or two
from it. There are many pleasing snatches of
verse in this number ; the best of which is a
fragment of a poem on the old subject of the
fate of genius, which, however, contains not a
few novel thoughts. The magazine is neatly
got up ; and, considering the body for whose
amusement it caters, is by no means dear in
point of price.

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COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

HIS MAJESTY'S WARRANT OF ABOLITION OF THE CLOSE
BOROUGH SYSTEM OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, upon taking his seat this
morning, said " His Majesty has been graciously pleased to
commit to my hands his warrant, under the sign manual,
which lam directed to read aloud." His lordship then
handed the warrant to the Registrar, directing him to
read it aloud for him, which the Registrar did, and of
which the following is a verbatim copy
WILLIAM R.

c. Whereas it hath been represented to us that it would tend
to the general despatch of business now pending in our several
courts of common law at Westminster, if the right of counsel to
practice, plead, and be heard, extend equally to all the said courts;
but such object cannot be effected so long as theSerjeants-at-Law
have the exclusiveprivilege ofpractising, pleading, and audience,
during term time, in our Court of Common Pleas at Westmin-
ster. We do therefore hereby order and direct that the right
of practising, pleading, and audience in our said Court of Com-
mon Pleas, during term time, shall upon and from.the first day of
Trinity Term now next ensuing cease to be exercised exclusively
by the Sergeants-at-Law, and that upon and from that day our
Couns..l learned in the law, and all other Barristers learned in
ihe law, shall and may, according to tneir respective rank and
seniority, have and exercise equal right and privilege of practisi ng,
pleading, and audience in the said Court of Common Pleas at West-
minster with the Sergeants-at-Law. And we do hereby will and
signify to Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knight, our Chief-
Justice, and his companions, Justices of our said Court of Com-
mon Pleas, this our Royal will and pleasure, requiring them to
make proper rules and orders of the said Court, and to do what-
ever may be necessary to carry this ourpurpose into effect. And
whereas we are graciously pleased, as a mark of our Royal favour,
to confer upon the Sergeants-at-Law hereinafter named; being
sergeants at this present time in active practice in our &lid Cont t
of Common Pleas, some permanent rank and place in all our
courts ofl.w and equity. We do further order and direct that
Vitrivius Lawes, Thomas D'oyley, Thomas Peake, Wm. St.
Julien Arabin, John Adams, Thomas Andrews, Henry Storks,
Ebenezer Ludlow, John Semen, Henry John Stephen, Charles
Carpenter Bompus, Edward Goulburn, George Heath, John
Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas Moore Talford, Sergeants-at-
Law, shall from henceforth, according to their respective
seniority amongst themselves, have rank, place, and audience
in all our courts of law and equity next after John Balguy, Esq.,
one of our council learned in the law. And we do hereby will
and require you, not only to cause this our direction to be ob-
served in our Court of Chancery, but also to signify to the
Judges of our several other courts at Westminster, that it is
our express pleasure that the same course be observed in all our
said courts. _ .

" Given at our Court of St. James's, this twenty-fourth day of
April, in the fourth year of our reign.
To the Right Hon. Henry Lord Brougham and Faux,
our Chancellor of Great Britain."
The LORD CHANCELLOR then directed that the war-
rant should be filed in the registrar's office.
His LORDSHIP added—the Court of Common Pleas is
now open to all barristers, as the bar will perceive. The
bar will observe, also, that the rank given to the present
sergeants is confined to the present sergeants—
and extends to no future sergeant, his Majesty
having been graciously pleased, in consideration of the
great expense to which they have been put, in the abolition
of their monopoly of the practice in the Court of Common
Pleas, to secure to them their present rank.