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LA IV REFORM;;

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app J toe party question. Matters not who
is Chancellor, whether Lord Cairns or Sirßoundell Palmeg(
These eminent men are upon this subject equally
enlightened, and will each cordially co-operate with the
other in the advancement of this great object—the improve.,
ment of our civil procedure. They will be aided also to
the utmost by an eminent person who, happily, occupieg
the highest position in our common-law judicature—
Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice of England,
whose enlarged and enlightened mind would lead 'hint
to adopt and advocate any practicable measure of
legal reform, and whose authority would lend it great
weight. He is the senior surviving member of the Com-
mon Law Commission of 1850, which did so much tt
improve our procedure, and recommended the salutary
provisions to which we have adverted; and it was under-
stood that his views were far more advanced than those of
his coadjutors ; nor can it be doubted that he would
gladly lend his aid to carry out the principles then laid
down. There are, moreover, still three more judges on the
bench who were members of that commission : Baron
Martin, Baron Bramwell, and Mr. Justice Willes, all men
of sound sense, of great legal learning, and of great ex-
perience. And happily-the bench, as it is now constituted,'
is largely—one might say entirely—composed of men at
once enlightened and experienced ; such men, for instance,
as Sir H. Keating, whose name has been already men-
tioned as that of a law reformer, and the author of a very
valuable measure ; Mr. Justice Montague Smith, n,
man of vast experience and cultured mind ; Mr. Justice
Mellor, a man of very sound judgment ; and last, not
least, Mr. Justice Blackburn, who combines in a rare
degree deep learning with common sense. From such men
law reform will meet with no objection or obstruction.
Nor is this all ; there has lately been added to the bench
a man of the same order of mind as Mr. Justice Willes—
we mean Mr. Justice Hannen, a man evidently learned,
liberal, and enlightened. Then there are men like that
eminent judge Sir James Wilde, with minds at once
philosophical and practical, who would lend all their aid
to legal reform. In Parliament, again, there are men like
Mr. Ayrton and Mr. Torrens on one side, and Mr. Henley
and Mr. Hardy on the other ; to say nothing of able Liberal
lawyers like Mr. Coleridge, Mr. Denman, and Sir R. Collie;
who would lend all their assistance. Anyhow, we rejoice
to think, considering the construction of the commission
now sitting, and that it includes the honoured name of
Sir William Erle—a man in whom Liberal views are
happily blended with matured experience—no doubt can
be entertained that, next session, we shall see a large and
valuable reform of our civil procedure.—Westmiester
Review.

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