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London, England, 1850-11-05 00:00:00

NEW ORDERS IN CHANCERY. Ith rum, are to be the same as are now rc&-ived and
The New Gem rid Orders arid Boles for regol,,ti/mI take:.: fmr setting down excepticas sad for orders made

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ay ut N:o:ewlier, 1850, Lisa.... a) the L rd enanceie,r,
in pursuarico of the Act of the last session of Parlia-
ment, intituled " An Act to diminish the delsy and ex-
pense of proceedings in the High Court of Chancery in
England," and which came into operation en the fit
day of Michaelmas Term, are as follows
:--
I. The several orders comprised in the general order
of the 3d of April, 1828, which are respectively num-
bered 7,9, and 10; and the order comprised in the
gene tat order of the 214 of December, 1833, which is
numbered 19 ; and the order comprised in the general
01 der of the 9th of May, 1839, which is numbered 6; and
the several orders or parts of orders comprised in t'le
general order of the Bth day of May, 1845, which urn
re:pt.e.ieely numbered as the 2d article of the 14 hof
the said order : and the Gtb, 7th, Bth, 9.h, 20th, 21st,
23d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, and
31st articles of the IGth of the said order; and the several
orders comprised in the said last mcnlioned general
order, which are respectively numbered 17, 19, 38, 39,
40, 41, and 42; and all other orders and parts of orders,
so far as such oahe r orders and parts of orders are in-
consistent with these orders, but not further or other-
wise, are hereby abrogated and discharged.
If. A:1 former orders and part; of orders are not spe-
cified in Order 1., sa far as the same are now in force,
and consistent v‘ ith these or& rs, or applicable to the
s:llnr,, or the subject thereof, are to remain in full force
ar.d eif. et.
111. These orders are as to all suits or matters now
penning, or hereaf.er to be commenced, to take effect on
this 23 day of November, 1350.

IV. The times of vacation are not to be reckoned in
the compu'ation of the time allowed for filing or setting
down exceptions for scandal, impertinence, or insuffi-
ciency, in cases where the time is not limited by notice
given purstemt to the 13:h of these orders.
V. The orders do not apply to any reference
fur iscanc'al, impertinency, or insufficiency pending before
any of the masters at the time when these orders come
into operation; but as to all such references the existing
rules and orders of the Court are to remain in force.
VI. No order is to be made for leave to Me excep-
tions nunc pro tuhc.
VII. A defendant whose answer is not excepted to or
set down for hearing on firmer exceptions, alleging dist
the plaintiff is prosecuting him in this court and also at
law for the same matter, may, upon the expiration of
eight days after his answer, or further answer, is filed,
obtain, as of course, on motion or petition, the usual
order for the plaintiff to make his election in which he
will proceed.
VIII. After the filing of a defendant's answer the
plaintiff has six weeks within which he may file excep-
tions thereto for insufficiency. '
If he does not file exceptions within six weeks such
answer, on the expiration of the six weeks, is to be
deemed sufficient. _ .

IX. A defendant desiring to prevent exceptions to
his answer for insufficiency being set down for bearing,
has for that purpose .only eight days after the filing
of such exceptions, within which he may submit to
the sam,,,.
X. If a defendant, not being in contempt, submits to
exceptions to his answer for insufficiency before the
plaintiff has set them down for hearing, he is allowed
three w eeks from the date of the submission, within
which Le is to put in his further answer to the bill.
XL The plaintiff having filed exceptions for insuffi-
ciency to a defendant's answer, is not to set them down
for hearing before the expiration of eight days from the
filing of such exceptions, unless in a case of election he
is rLquir( d by notice in writing from such defendant to
set thetndown in four days pursuant to the 13th of these
orders, or in a case where the common irjunction muy
be obtair:ul or retained on the allowance of such ex-
ceptions.

11. Exceptions to answers for insualiency-, or to any
pleading or other matter depending before the court for
sea tcla? or impertinence, or for scandal and impertinence,
arc to be set down for nearing by the Registrar at the
revest of the party filing the same upon the production
of a certificate of the Clerk of Records and Writs of the
tiling of such exceptions, or (in the case of Exceptions to
an answer for insufficiency) of the filing of a furthtr
unswer; and the same are to be adcaccei and put in
ihe paper for hearing on an Early day, and the vary
setting down any such i xeEptions shall on tie day OD
which the same shall be so Fut down serve a notice
thereof n the party whose pleading or other matter is
excel t •ebto, otherwise the said exceptions shall be deemed
not to (041.3.

XIII. A defendant, whose answer is Excrptel to,
allEging that the plaintiff is prosecuting him in this nowt
and also at law for the 101111 a matter, may by notice in
vriting require the plaintiff to set do vn the excedtions
within four days from the service of the nA!ce.
And if .ho pl.:intiff does not set down such exceptions
within such four days, such defendant is entity d, as of
course en motion or petition, to obtain the usual order
fcr the plaintiff to make his election in which court he
will prect a I._ _

XIV. The plaintiff having filed exc. ptions for insuffi-
ciency to a defendant's answer is to set them down fur
h( aring ufter the expiration of eight days, but within
foul teen days from the filing of such exceptions.
It he does not, the answer, on the expiration of four-
teen daye, is to be deemed sufficient.
XV. The plaintiff having shown exceptions to a de-
fendant's answer for insufficiency as cause against dis-
solving an injunction is set down such exceptions
for hearing at the latest on the day next after showing
such exe4 ptious as cause.
If he does not the injunctien is dissolved.
XVI. After the filing of exceptions to a defendant'►
answer for insufficiency, and any further answer put in,
the plaintiff has fourteen days from tho filing of such
further answers within which he may set down the old
excei,tione.
If the old exceptions be not set down within fourteen
days after such further answer put ir, the answer is, on
the t xpii ation of such fourteen days, to be deemed suf-
ficie it

XVIL After exceptions to an answer for insufficiency
are set down for hearing, if a defendant, not being in
contempt, submits to answer, or the Court holds the an-
swer to be insufficient, the Court may in such cases ap-
point tha time within which such defendant is to put
in his further answer.
If such defendant does not obtain time from the Court,
or does not answer within the time which the Court al-
lows, the plaintiff may sue out process of contempt against
such defendant.
XVIII. The answer of a defendant is to be deemed
sufficient-
1. If no exception fur insufficiency be filed thereto
within six weeks aftei the filing of such answer.
2. If, exceptions being filed, the plaintiff does not set
them clown for hearing within fourteen days after the
filing thereo:
3. If within fourteen days after the filing of a further
answer the plaintiff does not set down the old ex-
cep-liens.
XIX. If after a defendant's second or third answer is
filed the p'aintiff sets down the old exceptions for insuf-
ficiency, then the particular exception or exceptions to
which he requires a further answer is or are to ba stated
in the notice of setting down such exceptions.
XX. If upon the hearing cf exceptions the answer t e
held sufficient, it shall be deemed to be so from the date
of the order made on the hearing; and if the defendant
submit to answer, without an order from the Court, the
answer shall be deemed insufficient from the date of the
subrnis don.
XXI. The Court holding a first or second answer to
be insufficient may appoint the time within which a
defendant, who is not in contempt, is to file a further
answer.
XXL.T. Upon a third answer being held to be insuf-
ficent the Court may order the defendant to be examined
upon interrogatories to the points held to be insufficient
and to stand committed until he shall have perfectly
answrred the interrogatories; and the defen ,ant is to
pay such costs as the Court shall think fit to award.
XXIII. No pleading or other matter depending be-
fore the Court is to he set down for hearing for scandal
or impertinence, Ludo's exceptions are taken in writing
and signed by counsel, describing the particular paisagcs
which are alleged to be scam:lo,w or impertitn nt.
XXIV. Where any person or party having filed ex-
ceptions to any pleading or other matter depending to-
fore the Court for scandal, sot any person or party
having fil.d such exceptions for impertinence does not
set the same down for heuribg within six days am- the
filing thereof, such exceptions ore to be considered as
abandoned, and the person or 'party by whom such ex-
ceptions were filed is to pay to the opposite party such
coats a; may have been incurred by such party in re-
spect of such exceptions.
XXV. Upon the production of an order made, upon
its being held that any pleading or other matter depend-
ing before the Court is scandalous or impertinent, the
officer having the custody or charge of such pleading or
other matter is to expunge from such pleading or other
matter such parts thereof as the Court has held to be
scandalous or impertinent; and thereupon the person or
party requiring such scandalous or impertinent matter
to be expunged is to pay to the officer expunging the
same the same fee as on the like occasion has heretofore
been paid.
XXVI. Applications to discharge, reverse, or alter
any order 'Jude on motion or petition of course by the
Lord Chancellor, the Matter of the Rolls, or one of the
Vice-Chancellors, are to be made to the judge, to whom
special applications in the cause or matter in which such
order is made, ought to he made according to the prac-
tice of the Court and the General Rules and Orders ap-
plicable thereto.
XXVII. Every petition or motion paper for a
reference under the 19th section of the said Act is to be
marked at or near the tcp or upper part thereof, in the
same manner as a Bill is now marked with the name of
the Lot d Chancellor and one of the Vice-Chancellors,
or with the name of the Master of the R ills ;
and every order for any such reference is to
be marked in the same manner as the said petith n
or motion paper, and the matter in which such order
is made is thenceforth to be considered as attached to
the court of the judge whose name shall be so marked
upon such order in like manner and for the like pur-
pose as causes are attached to such court, but shall be
subject to be transferred from such court in the same
manner as causes are so transferred ; and the provisions
of the order comprised in the General Order t f the 5'.11
of May, 1837, which is numbered 15, and of the General
Order of the sth of August, 1842, shall apply to ever;
matter so attached.
XXVIIL The fees to be received and taken by the
Registrars and their clerks, and by the Clerks of Re-
cords ate Writs and their clerks, respectively, for filing
a special case, and all proceedings thereupon, are
to be the same as are now received and
taken by them respectively for filing_ a bill,
bil;
and the fees to be received and taken by the Registrars
and anti for proceedings in suits institute d b
and their clerks for setting down exceptions for scan -
impertinence, and insufficiency, and lur orders made

Ls~GIJ•
J. L. I(NIGUT BRUCE, V.C.
R. M. RoLFE, V C.

PRUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN FINANCES.
A compari- on of the Prussian and Austrian finances
in our Austrian correspondence exhibits the condition
in which these two jealous neighbours are running
the risk of a general war. As Austria, in the name
of the Federation, has actually occupisd Hesse, she
must be considered to have spared no provocation to
war. Prussia, acting only in her own name, but
with almost equal menace, is not far behind in the
race of honour. That war has not hitherto re-
sulted from these threatening movements is the
undeserved bounty of an overruling Power. Let
statesmen say what they will, exaggerated arma-
ments, overweening pretensions, and the interchange
of defiances put the question of war out of the
reach of political control, and expose it to the rash
and momentary decision of accident or caprice,
pasion or insanity. The Hessians have had the
common sense to see that they would gain very
little by inviting all the nations of Europe to
settle their long-cherished grudges in their cornfields
and vineyards, their villages tend their cities. But
contingencies which it is unnecessary to describe
might have rendered their discretion abortive, and
made them pay dear for their taste of constitutional
freedom. In what state, then, are the powers that
have risked on the throw of a die a war the first flash
of which would have extended from Tilsit to Aix-la-
Chapelle, and from the Baltic to the Adriatic Sena ? In
what state are the Powers that, wearied 3et exaspe-
rated, exhausted yet irreconcilable, would have been
compelled to invoke the dangerous interventions of
Russia and France, and would have seen their
roads once more :traversed by the alternate streams
of Republicans and Cossacks ? Their state is such
as to suggest the idea that they may possibly look on
war rather as the last hope of repairing a despe-
rate condition than as a grave and honourable neces-
i sity. So far as regards mere revenue and expendi-
ture, under existing conditions, Prussia has something
to boast of. Her budget for 1849 was about
14,000.0001., of which the moderate sum of
750,0001. was all that was required for the in-
terest of the national debt, then estimated at
18,500,000 Z. For thirty years her debt has been in
process of reduction, and 375,0001. is yearly appro-
priated to a sinking fund for this purpose. Her army
is estimated to cost no more than 3,100,0001. for the
current year, being less than a quarter of the revenue.
The sum of 2,000,000/. was added to the debt in
1848, and a new loan of 3,000,000/. has been raised
in the present year, against " the eventualities of the
German question." What at first sight.appears to com-
plete a vision of finance almost Utopian to a British un-
derstanding is the circumstance that Prussia has im-
mense State domains and Crown lands, moderately esti-
mated at 55,000,0001., which provide the interest and
secure the capital of the debt. Were the finances of
England in this plethoric and elastic condition,
there is no doubt that we should be at war
with all the nations of the earth before the twelve-
month was out, and that any new war would be hailed
wi h cheers on the Stock-Exchange, as happened once
b,-fore in the days of our political innocence. But
these finances, which we are compelled to take on
trust, and which are enveloped, even iii the best in-
formed circles of Prussia, with a certain inscrutable
mystery, must be submitted to a little analysis, and
also be compared a ith the political and geographical
circumstances of Prussia. It out of 14,000,0001.
only 3 100,0001. be required for the army, and only
1,125,000/. can be spared fur the interest and re-
demption of the deb', what becomes of the remaining
9 775,0001. ? It is evident that the income must de-
vour itself before it reaches the Exchequer. The
Crown lands, like cur own, must cost as much as
they yield, and the taxes must be absorbed by the
collector. The figures admit of ne other hypothesis,
for the civil administration of the empire, exclusive
of tax-gatherers, cannot honestly r.ccount for a
moiety of this mysterious balance. But a
war, it is evident, wauld nadea the direst
havoc with the Prussian resources. Sae is
all -frontier, all rampart, all river, all road, open at
,every pore, with infinite breaches to defend against
hostile attack and internal dilapidation. Scattered,
and even heterogeneous, she would have to struggle
for cohesion as well as for defence. In such a state
her customs would dwindle and her rents disap; ear.
Her expenditure would be substantial and her revenue
on paper. Her army of 220,000 men, supposing only
the younger section of the Landwehr to be called out,
would certainly cost, while in active seta ice, as much
as 10,000,0001., which, under the circumstances, would
probably be the extent of her revenue. We have left
out of the question certain contingencies. We have
supposed Russia severely neutral, and France nobly
unambitious. We have set nothing down to the ac-
count of Schleswig. Holstein, anal only remotely
alluded to the Red Republic at Berlin. Having
in our view nothing more than a war with
Austria, which, to .say the least, is only half the
danger in the Prussian horizon, we cannot set
down the annual expenses of that war at less than
the whole of her income, with the prospect
of decreasing revenue and increasing expense. Ti e
case of Austria is confessed. Her affairs are in such
utter confusion that our correspondent, in the vain
attempt to reach a terra firma, starts from a dividend
of 4s. in the pound in 1811. This is only one of
four bankruptcies. Not to follow our correspondent
through the long series of financial embarrassments
and dishonest evasions, it is enough to observe at the
end of 1849 the public debt amounted to
103,500,000/. ; there is a floating debt of 22,500,0001,
which the State owes to the Bank; and the paper
money in circulation amounts t) 34,500,000/., against
bullion to the amount of 3,000,0001., leaving
31,500,000/. of paper unprotected. Such a protec-
tion is, of course, none at all ; and Austrian paper in
a yearof "peace," and only three years from the com-
mencement of these troubles, is now as much de-
preciated as our own paper was after almost a
generation of war. The Austrian expenditure
in 1849 was estimated at 16,000,0001. for
nine months, or about 21,330,0001. for the
year ; the army being set down at the incredi-
bly moderate figure of 6,000,0001. As that army
during the Hungarian war was reckoned at 500,000
men, it is evident that part of its cost must have been
out of this estimate.' The interest of the Austrian
debt may be guessed from the above-mentioned ca-
pital ; and as the expense of collecting the taxes was
not less than 4,140,000/. in 1839, it will not be much
less now. Yet to meet a confessed expenditure of
21,000,000/. the income in 1849 was not more than
9,330,000/. a year, the revenue being thus not half
sutlicent for the expenses. Such a state of things, it
must be admitted, offers some inducements to war.
As Austria cannot possibly continue to maintain her
standing army, though it be the rope of sand that
binds her discordant dominions, it is possible that she
may cherish the hope of quartering it upon Federal
Germany. She m ay catch at that straw. An active pre-
sidency in the affairs of the Federation may resu i•crtate
that unity which has recently received such terrible
shocks en both the Daaube and the Po. Foreign
war is a very old specific for disen.-ions at home.
These, however, are but dangerous exped'ents. The
surest results of a war is its cost, end should Austria
be once fairly embarked in a struggle for the German
supremacy with her formidable rival, she must soon
he reduced either to another bankruptcy or to still
more dishonourable. and ruinous ex;erlients. In the
face of history, we contest indulge the hope that the
prospect of insolvency will ever rintke Austria wise.
Her late movements exhibit. a reckless disregard of
prudential considerations. The truth, however, must
be known for the benefit of all whom it may concern .
The notoriety of her insolvent condition may lead to
such a " pressure from without " as shall make her
attempt more by moderate counsels than by formid-
able demonstrations. Her present course, as well as
that of her great rival, tends to the subjugation of
Germany, and small pity will ch her receive if they,
are both ruined in the attempt.— Times.

SOMNAMBULISM.—An extraordinary and distress-
ing occurrence took place on Sunday morning at the house
of Dr. Eccles, in Newhall-street, Birwinghatr. It appears
that, Mr. Blurton, brother of Mrs. Eccles, :-.as beda in the
habit of rising from bed and walking in a state of somnam-
bulism, but no ill consequences resulted from his infirmity_
until Sunday morning, when he left his bed about a quarter-
past five o'clock, opened the window of the attic room in
which he usually slept, and precipitated himself to the
ground. In his descent he fell against the dining- room win-
dow, which to some extent broke the fall, b the neverthe-
less came with fearful violence against the spiked railing in
front of the house, anti was dreadfully injured. Two police-
men who were on duty in the neighbourhood heard the noise
occasioned by the fall, and on proceeding to the spot raised
Mr. Blurton and conveyed him to the house; the injuries
received were of t m'st frightful character; for many hours
the cries of the unfortunate man alarmed the whole neigh-
bourhood ; and up to last evening he continued in a state of
extreme danger. -
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LITE. —A
dreadful accident occurred on Wednesday last at the Fron-
goch lead mines, near Aberystwith, the property of the Earl
of Lisburne. Seven of the miners were making preparations
early in the morning for commencing work, when one placed
a lighted pipe, which he had momentarily taken from his
mouth, near some powder which they were about to use.
This ignited three half-cwt. barrels close by, znd an explo-
sion, heard for miles distant, followed, the place being In-
stantly enveloped in flames. One poor man was killed on
the spot; two others were so severely injured that they sur-
vived but a few hours. and the remaining four are in such a
dreadful state that their deaths ore hourly expected. Inq..ests
upon the three unfortunate sufferers were held on Thursday,
and verdicts in accordance with the evidence returned. In
each case the poor men have left wives and children to
lament their ultimate loss.
To some men it is indispensable to be worth ra 3 n y,
for without it they would be worth nothing.—Elizu Cook's
.rournal.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S CHARGE.--Yesterday
morning his Lordship repeated his visitation charge at St.
Paul's Cathedral, when there was a large attendance both o
clergy and laity.