The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-25 00:00:00

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with wry faces, but thousands of their subjects
with exultation ; and the small constitutional
states will all look with thankfulness to their great

model, and have at least an argument from the
highest precedent for declining to yield to foreign

interference.

It is, however, after all, melancholy to think
;hat Lord PALMERSTON should be the man, and

that at 73 years of age, to be dismissed for attempt-

ing to lower the dignity of England. It belies all

hi; reputed antecedents, and is unworthy of his
reputation at least. We are sorry for it. Time
was when the country looked to him more than
to any man to assert its rank among the nations ;
certain it is that he was regarded as the despot's

foe. How all is changed. Since the Treaty o
Paris be has come to be regarded as the despot's
friend. His Foreign Minister signed away the
liberties of the press in Belgium, and rebuked the
independence of Sardinia, and even Austria seems
to have participated in his blandishments. Naples
itself—Naples that was to be taught how to treat
its own subjects, has been permitted to seize,
piratically, as Lord CLARRNDON now admits, two
of our own subjects, and to subject them to all the
injustice and barbarities which are inflicted upon
Neapolitans themselves before trial. And,
to crown the whole, we must do what Englishmen
—Tory Englishmen, too—have always steadfastly
refused to do—we must mend our laws because
they do not please a neighbouring autocrat ! It
was the last straw. The Parliament elected to
the my of " PALMERSTON' and English Honour at
Canton," thought they were at least bound to
maintain English Honour at Paris.
rZWe certainly cannot imagine a severer stroke
for the ex-Premier. That he of all men should
be censured for undignified foreign policy. It
was not, we know, all that the House and the
country had against him. The CLANRICARDE ap-
pointment no doubt did him incalculable damage ;
his aristocratic nominations to the colonies and
comparatively subordinate appointments, outraged
the growing feeling that the public service does
not exist for lords and the connections of lords
only, and his folly even in beating the Liberal
party by the help of the Tories, on the Church-
rate Bill—a policy which Liberals feared might be
repeated—all had combined to make the PALMER-
STON yoke an uneasy one ; still, had he but acted
in a manly waytowards France; had he but respect-
fully rebuked the insolence of Count WALEWSRI,
had he suggested, if but through the amiable vo:c
of Lord COWLEY, that the Pfloniteur ought to
publish the regrets as well as the offence regretted ;
and had he left legislation till our criminal
Reform Bills were before us, he might still have
been, and with pretty strong support too, the
Minister of England--PAL➢SERSTON has fallen,
alas 1 as—the Minister of France

In Lord BRouuIL&M'S " District Court 4 of
Bankruptcy Abolition Bill," to which we referred
in our impression of Tuesday evening, we find a

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most important clause relating to the County
Courts—namely, a clause giving them jurisdiction
in debt to any amount, the defendant having

power, if he shall be so advised, to remove the
cause to the superior courts of Westminster Hal),
on finding security for costs to the satisfaction of
the judge of the County Court in which the ac-

ion
t has been brought. This will indeed. brio

ustice home to every man's door, and the do

"endant having the power of removal, there can

be no hardship whatever in the proposition which

we consider to be by far the most useful that ha,;
ever been made in relation to these courts. I(

will no doubt vastly increase the business
in them, and of course their importance ; and Nie
perceive an addition to the number of judges, and
also an increase in the amount of their salaries is
provided for. We annex a copy of the clauses
which bear on this. The towns mentioned in
Appendix A are—
Bradford Brighton Cambridge
Carlisle C'nester Darby
Dorchester Exeter Gloucestor
Halifax Hereford Huddersfield
Hull Lancaster Leicester
Lincoln Norwich Nottingham
Oxford Plymouth Portsmouth
Preston Sheffield Shrewsbury
Southampton Stafford Worcester
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Clause 9 would therefore ensure a County Cour.
sitting daily, throughout the year, for the trans
action of County Court and Bankruptcy business,
at Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle ; and at least *price a week
at each of the places mentioned in the appendix.
Our notion, however, is, that that appendix ought
to be so enlarged as to include every market town
in England and Wales, and for this simple reason,
viz., that the market towns are those to which
people notoriously resort once a week ; and we
hope Lord BROUGHAM will consequently sea the
propriety of so extending this schedule.
VI. All actions which may now be brought in any
of her Majesty's courts of common law at Weetmin
ster, save and except actions for libel and slander, may,
from and after the commencement of this act, be brought
in the county courts : provided always, that it shall be
lawful for the defendant in any action on contract where
the amount sought to be recovered shall exceed the sum
of 201., or for the defendant in any action of tort where
the damages sought to be recovered shall exceed the
sum of 101., to remove the same into any ono of her
Majesty's superior courts of common law aforesaid by
writ of certiorari, on application to the judge of the
county court in which the action is brought, and on
giving security for costs to the satisfaction of such
judge.
VII. And whereas the business of the County Courts
aforesaid has largely increased,and various and important
duties have devolved upon the judges thereof by reason
of recent act : and whereas such duties will be still
further increased by this act : be it enacted, that besides
the additional judges mentioned in sect:on four of this
act, the Lord Chancellor shall have power to appoint
such further number of additional judges as he may
think fit, and as the state of the business in such co sits
may appear to him to require : provided always that,s
including the commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy
so appointed ex-officio judges as aforesaid, there shad
not in the whole be more than twenty-five additional
judges appointed.
VIII. The commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy
now acting in the country, and se appointed ex-officio
judges of the County Courts, as aforesaid, at d the
additional judges to be appointed unlir this ant, shall
be appointed to and act in ench of the C unty Court
districts as the Lerd Chancellor shall think fit to direct,
or as may be ordered by any general rule or order to be
made in pursuance of this act.
IX. One of the judges or ex officio or additional
judges, and one of the registrars or ex officio or addi-
tional registrars of the County Courts shall sit for the
despatch of business daily, throughout the year, from
10 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the after-
noon (Sunday, Christmas-day, Good Friday, Monday
and Tuesday in Easter week, and days appointed for
public fast or thanksgiving, exeepted), at each of the
following places, namely, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds,
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Typo ; and
one of such judges and registrars shall likewise so bit at
east one day in every week at each of the places in
serted in appendix (A) to this act ; and all sittings of the
judges of the County Courts in matters before them
under this act shall be held at the town-hall, court-
house, or other public building used for the purposes of
holding the courts under the first herein-mentioned act.
X. The salary of every ju fge of the County C nuts
and of every additional judge appointed under this act
shall be one thousand eight hundred pounds per annum,
and the salary of every registrar of the County Courts
and of every additional registrar who me), be appointed
under this act shall be eight hundred pounds per annum;
and such salaries shall be paid by the Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury out of the Consoli
dated Fund ; and such additional Judges and additional
registrars shall be entitled to the came retiring pensions
as the other judges and registrars of the County
Courts.

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