The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-18 00:00:00

"The temporary relief obtained by means of purgatitt
medicines is purchased at the high price of the aggravation
and d the perpetuating the disease."—HENßY, M.D.

NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC
FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI-
TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS,
DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH,
ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT,

AMERICA.

ment of those laws ? That Mall—honoured at home
and abroad more than any man on earth ever was
honoured—did he go for enforcing the laws ?No ;
he went to resist laws that were oppressive against
a free people, and against the injnstice of which
they rebelled. Did Lord Chatham go for enforcing
the laws ? No; he gloried in defence of the liberties
of America. He made that memorable declaration
in the British Parliament—' If I was an American
citizen, instead of, as I am, an Englishman, I never
would submit to such laws—never, never, never !'
Such is the spirit that animates our Southern
brethren, and shall we war upon them for it No.
We must avert civil war if possible ; and I close by
exhorting my. brethren to do all in their power to
avert civil war. Concession-.—conciliation—any-
thing but that ; and no man amongst us in his dying
hour will regret that his conscience is clear, and
that he can lay his hand upon his heart and say, I
did all in my power to turn from the bosom of my
country the horrible blow of civil war."
Immense sensation followed the remarks of the
venerable Chancellor, and the deep silence that had
attended his remarks was followed by an enthusi-
astic outburst of applause. Mr. George, of Orange,
and Mr. Soutter, of Queens, both natives of Vir-
ginia, responded in touching terms to the remarks
of Chancellor Walworth, and a large portion of the
Convention gave vent to their feelings in tears.
The scene was rendered yet more impressive and
affecting when Mr. W. 11. Carroll took the floled
or,
and with all the eloquence of deep feeling app
ea
to the North to stay its hand before it did any act
to plunge the country in civil war. The venerablk,
appearance of Mr. Carroll, and his allusion to his'
ancestors, one of whom signed the I.)eelaration of
Independence, while his grandfathetiyaniel Car-
roll, ceded to the United States hisminor on which
now stands the Federal Capitol, touched the heart
of the Convention, and when he had closed a
unanimous call was made for the adoption of a
second resolution against civil war by acclamation,
and it was carried with a burst of applause that
made the rafters of the building ring. This scene
was the great feature of the morning session. The
resolutions gave rise to some debate, but they were
ultimately adopted without amendment.
The mass meeting, of which preliminary an-
nouncement had been made, was held in Baltimore
on the evening of the Ist. The call was to all
those favouring the restoration of the Union of
States, and the ostensible object was the endorse-
ment of the Crittenden plan of compromise; but
the proceedings showed very plainly that the real
intention was to exert a pressure towards the
calling of a State Convention. About 2,000 people
only attended. Messrs. Morris, Teakle, Wallace,
and R. M. M'Lean addressed the meeting. Reso-
lutions were passed denouncing the course of
Governor Hicks in refusing to call a State Conven-
tion ; denying his authority to send delegates to
Washington; also, to make arrangements for
electing delegates to a city convention, called for
the purpose of electing delegates to a State
Convention, to give expression to the views of
Maryland,

7RE LAW COURTS.

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to the police and to those for whose supervisiori N
the police are employed. These hovels and ricketty
rookeries encumber acres of land and extend hack
towards Lincoln's-inn-fields. They must be opened up
in some way, just as the region of dens on the banks
of the Fleet-ditch was opened up. Government are
about to propose to raze these all to the ground, to
purify both the physical and the moral atmosphere
of the spot, and to build a complete set of Courts,
where Justice may sit with all her satallites around
her, and whore something like dignity and • order
may prevail. We are disposed to think that the
natural site for the great Hall of Justice would be
Lincoln's-inn-Fields, and that the demolition of the
alleys would necessarily follow the presence of the
Courts in their neighbourhood. Let this, however,
pass for the moment. Government have also found
out a means of paying for this great building.
There has been for many years in existence a large
unappropriated sum of money called "the Suitors'
Fund,"—an unappropriated sum of money which
hes bsen like a bit of " flotsam" in a river_ All
the minnows.heve ben nibbling at it at all times;
but, strange to say, no great fish has ever swal-
lowed it bodily. We must explain this almost
incredible fact. The first thing the Court of
Chancery instinctively does when such a process
is possible, is, of course, to get the money in dis-
pute into its own clutches. It now has some ,forty
millions of such moneys. Now, it is open to the
-pay.in these sums either to
unhappy people who
have them immediately invested in Stocks, and
take their chance of Stocks rising and falling, but
of course receiving interest, or to pay in the
money simply, and take the same money out again
without interest. When they adopt the latter
course—which many'do, either from a careless hope-
lessness, or from a fond confidence that the cause
must be decided before much interest can accrue—
the Court, knowing
.better, invests the sum upon
the Court's own risk, taking the interest and
gathering it up into a Suitor's Fund,but incurring
all responsibility in case the Funds should fall
when, the ;Timmy is to be paid out. • Now, if it
.ppen that our Funds should go down
to bU, as tney did in the last war, this would be a
very losing transaction ; but as for the last half-
century the Funds have rather gone up, upon the
whole, this has been a very painful transaction, and-
the Suitors' Fund has been a temptation f general'.
plunder of a lawful kind. Pensions haws, oeitiri)
been fixed upon it. The rent of the wigytatn i
Lincoln's inn has been paid out of it, and has
been reduced in various ways and under the autho-
rity of various acts of Parliament. Still, however,
law is so gainful a business that there is now
a " rest " of nearly three millions, which is
liable to what the Commissioners call " the
shadowy and unsubstantial risk" of being
called upon to make up deficiencies to the suitors.
Unless the Funds should suffer a very great fall,
and unless the Court of Chancery should at the
sa
me time shut its doors and payoff all its suitors
at the same moment, this risk is nothing. The
suggestion is that out of this money the new Courts
should be built, and that the Legislature should
guarantee that if ever the unlikely contingency
which this " rest" was created to meet should arise,
they will make good the funds required to pay the
suitors. The arrangement seems to us to be per-
fectly unobjectionable. Whether we build in Carey-
street or in Lincoln's-inn-Fields, we shall get
rid of a horrible neighbourhood, we shall get a good
set of Courts, we shall pay nothing for them, and
we shall remove from the eyes of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer,legal reformers with compensation
designs, and others, the temptation of a large sum
of money possible to be conveniently used at any
pressing emergency. We shall incur nothing
but a risk of being obliged to repay some part
of the money in the case of an event which is,
in the nature of human events, impossible to
arise. This is the proposition which Lord St.
Leonards came down to the Lords to denounce
on Friday night, and which he did denounce in
a set speech. As, however, every Peer upon Lord
St. Leonards' side of the house departed during
the course of the speech. we suppose we may take
it for granted that the dispersion of the Judges is
not likely to become a party question, and that Lord
St. Leonardts' lamentations over the poor people of
Ship-yard and Shire-lane who will be turned out
of their lodgings are not likely to impede a mea-
sure which, if well carried out, will do more lasting
credit to the present Government than anything
they have yet done.—Times.