The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-08 00:00:00

instead of one to pay for double attendance by
their solicitor, or to give fees in both places.
This officer, who is an attendant on the judicial
character of the Great Seal, should now, more
especially, be got rid of, when the present
holder of that dignity is about to -separate its
judicial from its legal functions. The salary of
the Lord Chancellor is not, we suppose, to
be reduced on such separation ; and so, if
any compunctious visitations of conscience
about turning out the present holder should
occur, he might well be remunerated out of
his Lordship's own purse, as his tenure and tha'
of his Secretary are but co-existent, and as his
Lordship, when only a political man, will have
so much the less to do. Another great deside•
return in bankruptcy is for the Court to have an
Accountant-General of its own, and not the
officer of the Court of Chancery, whereby all
money orders must be drawn up twice in Chan-
cery and in Bankruptcy too, at twice the trouble
and twice the expense, and to the infinite delay
of the suitor. Why not make the Chief Regis-
trar of the Court its Accountant-General also ?
Another thing is, to extend the jurisdiction of
the Commissioners of the Court, by letting them
have power to do every thing which the Court of
'Review now does, and enabling them to enforce
by a summary power all debts under a certain
amount due to the bankrupt's estate. Orders
which are made of course by the Court of Re-
view, or which, when asked for, are merely men-
tioned, might be madeby one Commissioner only,
and other orders by a sob-division Court, which '
should always sit one day in the week for that
purpose only. There should be but one appeal,
and that to the Vice-Chancellor, or the new
judicial character that is to be. The Commis-
sioners who have worked so well merit the ex-
tension of their authority ; and the Court of
Review, for which there never can be business
enough, and which has in practice proved no
very great improvement of the law, should be
abolished, and its Judges, who are excellent and
able men, be provided for elsewhere. The
Registrars of this Court would still be wanting
to draw up the orders which would still be
made, but by another tribunal, and their places
might be continued. The last improvement
would be to send all the costs, of whatever sort
or kind, or wherever incurred, to one officer, to
be taxed ; for there is now neither practice, rule,
uniformity, or any thing else, to guide the
suitors of the Court respecting them. How
much expense these alterations would save, and
how much they would simplify and expedite
business, is for the Lord Chancellor's considera-
tion.—Morning Post.

LOWTHER CONSISTENCY.—CoIoneI Low-
THER lately informed his auditors from the hustings. that
if a resident gentleman, viz.. Mr. WILSON, of Milani
Tower, had offered for Westmoreland, he, the said

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precious Colonel, and his dear brother would not have
been put in nomination. 111-uk Lowtherite consistency.
Mr. LITTLEDALE, a resident of Whitehaven, offers him-
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self for that borough—and at the desire, too, of a majority
of the voters—and the LOWI HERS send down a nominee
to oppose him. 0, rare consistency I What, was there no
Yellow in Whitehaven, of note enough to he even Lord
LoNsnALE's nominee? Alas, for the poor sell-lauded con-
temned slaves, and the consiatency of their task-masters,
self-titled Conservatives. It was quite amusing to watch
the countenances of the small contemptible knot of self-
styled Conservatives at Lancaster, when Mt. STANLEY
(not Lord LONSDALE'S Cumberland nominee), so bitingly
ridiculed and denounced these would-be perpetuators of
every abuse.—Kendal Chronicle.
ULVERSTON TORIES.—These liberal and
enlightened politicians are quite inconsolable at the signal
defeat, in North Durham, of Omir youthful leader, Mr. E.
BRADDYLL. The present of the Bear to Lord LONDON-
DERRY did not, it would appear, cause the electors of
Durham to send Mr. BRADDYLL, the son, to Parliament.

Oh, ye undiscriminating el ctors ! Fie upon ye.—lbid.
MARCH OF INTELLECT.—Among the sup-
porters of Colonel EVANS, at the Westminster election,
were some honest fellows who had the misfortune of
being born before the " schoolmaster." Two of thes,
patriots met before the hustings on the last polling day,
when the following dialogue took place :—Higgins —I
say, he's a werry clever chap, I kno's he is. I shall vote
for him; if I don't, blow me ! Spriggins—And I means
,o vote for him, too, for he's a regular trump. Higgins_
Trump ! don't you he a fool, Mr. Sprigging, he's no such
thing, be's an hofficer ! Spriggins—Thankee, for no-
thing ; d'ye think I don't know my own language ? Vhy,
I gees it printed on his blackguard that he's a Leeftenant
Kurnel ! And so saying, Mr. Spriggins turned upon his
heel, and went up to vote.— Gentleman's Magazine.
NOVEL RAT TIRAP.—On Tuesday night
last the family of Mr. JENNISON, fishmonger, in the But-
chery, Queen street, were alarmed by a great noise in the
shop, and suspecting some person had broken in, one of
them went to the place, when to his surprise he found the
disturber of his repose not a human, but a four•footed
thief, namely, a rat, who, in helping himself to an oyster,
on the shop-board (as, we are informed, is the custom
with this species), had his intruding paw so firmly clenched
in the grasp of the assailed oyster as to render escape im-
possible. We have seen the ponderous oyster, and the
maimed rat m IT still be seen alive at the shop above men
tioned. —Hull Advertiser.

I once saw a Spanish gentleman in a crowded
Tertulia, present a rose to a Peruvian lady, who had cap-
tivated him ; and shall never forget her look, and the fatal
action which accompanied it. She dashed the flower on
the ground, and trampled upon it with a frown of inef
fable contempt. The astonishment of the assembly, and
the frantic rage of the Spaniard, can be more easily ima-
gined than described. He rushed from the room, and tl,e
next morning was found a corpse, a strong dose of lauda-
num having terminated his earthly career. It is but just to
add, that such instances of, self-destruction are extremely
rare, the philosophy of love being better understood by
the Spaniards than perhaps any other nation ; and the
general remark made upon this melancholy event is seldom
called for, " Que Bongo! debia haberse enarnorado de
otra." " What a fool ! be ought to have made love to
another." The author of this tragedy was little affected
by it. I met her at a ball a few evenings after, looking as
gay and as beautiful as ever.—Tait's Magazine for Ja-
nuary.
STATE OF TRADE IN PAISLEY.—We have
seldom seen the year commence under more favourable cir-
cumstances as regards the trade of Paisley. During the
whole winter, the weavers engaged in almost every branch
have been kept in constant employment, and since the
preparations for the spring trade have commenced, a great
increase in the demand for workmen has taken place.
The jaconet harness dresses, which have been se very
dull since about the beginning of the agitation for Reform
two years since, have been greatly in demand for some time
past, and the prices paid for weaving have within this late,
been raised from 20 to 25 per cent. This being the season
when the Canton shawl trade usually begins to stir, there
is every appearance of a very brisk spring trade in these
articles. The silk mills are all uncommonly brisk pre-
paring the materials for the loom, and the weavers for
plain cantons are greatly in demand, although as yet no
advance in the price paid the workmen has taken place.
Flush trimmings are also very brisk, and the demand for
weavers cannot be supplied. But what those connected
with the trade of Paisley look forward to with the greatest
pleasure is, that the rich Indian imitation shawl trade is
equally brisk with the other branches we have referred to ;
and weavers are finding ready engagements at prices con-
siderably advanced. The importance of the present great
demand for workmen in this department is much enhanced
by the spring patterns being of a very rich description,
which, besides spreading a great deal of work through all
the tradesmen connected with the preparation of the goods
for the loom, enables the weaver to earn a far superior
wage above what is to be got for common work, and pre-
vents the market from being overstocked by a super.
these e
are articles,
likewise
which
rathe it;
gone abundant soppy, which is too often the case when the
patterns are inferior. The demand for blue dresses, which
lately gave employment to a great number of bands, has
passed over with
nowon transparentfor
dull, but that is customary at this time of the year. A
revival in -this department is, however, confidently looked
by.
The the se season
forward to in a lew weeks, when the assembling of Par
liament will have collected the nobi ity in London.
Scots Times.