The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-29 00:00:00

mit of even the slightest relaxation in the burdens which
it imposes on ourselves.--(/Lid.)

[MORNING HERALD.]
The necessity,of a thorough reformation of the
Chancery system appears more evident every day. As
business increases in the Courts of Equity, the utter
incapacity of their Constitution to afford substantial
justice to the suitors is more glaringly exposed. Law
writers have stater' that one of the chief objects of
equity, according to its original intention, was to
controul and rectify matters of fraud, which could not
be reached by the strict application of defined laws.—
Hence a mode of inquiry was allowed under this sys-
tem, which neither the common nor statute law re-
cognizes—namely, that of the examination of the in-
terested parties upon oath, and in written depositions,
which remain and are available in Courts of Law, in
cases of indictments for perjury arising out of them.
If ever there was a time when the tribunals of this
country ought to be strong to put down fraud, it is the
present time, when* so many nefarious confederacies of,
Schemers, countenanced and abetted by men of rank
and family, are ende"avouring to resist the demands of
those cred.ulous people whom they have eased of their
money, and to whom they have denied restitution.--
But what is the fact ? The Bubble-Act has been repealed
just at the time it was most wanted. The application of its
provisions would have been found very awkward by many
of those Noble and Honourable Legislators, who co-
, operated with ignoble sharpers in defrauding their in-
fatuated countrymen by bits of nicely-printed paper
called shares, and pompous knaveries called Director-
ships. The Bubble-Act being gone, which was in-
' tended to apply a prompt and efficacious remedy to
mischiefs of this nature, .what redress remains to the

foolish people who have subscribed their money to,
wards projects which have never had any real exist.
ence, and which money has been, in most instances,
as completely made away with, as if subscription was
synonymous with confiscation ? These unfortunate
shareholders are advised. to go into Chancery, and
there what remained in the purse is soon emptied,
while the delinquents entrench themselves behind the
forms of the Court, more securely than banditti within
the passes of Mount Caucasus. 'Thus the persons
who have been deluded by joint-stock schemes dis-
cover that, between law and equity, there is a
way for fraud to elude both, and laugh to scorn all
attempts to place it within the retributive grasp
of justice. If an individual, for instance, files a
bill against a Joint Stock Company, consisting of two
or three hundred, or as many thousand persons, they
must all be subpcened as defendants, and many sepa-
rate answers may be returned, although they are all in
meaning, and even their very words, the same, and
drawn up by the same solicitor, for the defence of the
common interests. The person who files the bill is
under the necessity of having copies of the answers
taken at his own expence, before he can proceed fur-
ther in the suit, though they may consist of 10,000
folios, and the enormous expence would, in nine cases
out of ten, intimidate the plaintiff 'from any more of
these costly ..experiments upon the tender mercies of
such a Court. We refer our readers to a letter, bear-
ing upon this subject, and signed " a Chancery Bar-
rister, ' which will be found in another part of our co-
lumns, the facts there detailed we have no personal
knowledge of :should they be incorrect, we will as
readily insert a contradiction of thud; but if they are
accurately related, what an illustration. do they afford
of the principles and practice of the Court of Chan-
cery 1 This letter also contains a charge against some
leading Members of the Bar, which, if they cannot
exonerate themselves from, they must stand in no very
pleasant light in public opinion., The Bar talks of its
nice sense of honour and professional duty; we hope,
in this instance, some of its leading Members have not
compromised both.

[MORNING POST.
We almost begin to commisserate the situation of
those Dignitaries of the Church or the Law who have ,
not yet happened to become the objects of Mr. Hume's
vituperation. They can scarcely, we imagine, feel
easy. They must almost suspect themselves of some
defect of piety, zeal, learning, or virtue, thus to have
escaped aspersions which invariably seek for their ob-
ject the persons in whom these high qualities are most
conspicuous. For instance, in the ease of the Bishop
of London, the other night (to which we have already
alluded)l who can believe that the tithe dispute in the
parish of St. Olave, Hart-street, was any other than a
pretext for the display of a malignity, of which the
high station in the Church, the amiable character, the
distinguished piety, learning, and virtue of the Bishop
of London, were the veritable source ? Suppose the
proposed arrangement in the parish of St. Olave had
been permitted to take effect, and the present Incum-
bent had concluded a bargain with the parishioners, in
virtue of which he was to receive, during his incum-
bency, a stipend larger by one third than that stipu-
lated for his successors—let us just suppose this case,
and ask ourselves what would then have been the lan-
guage of Mr. Hume ? Is there any man upon earth who
can doubt that Mr; Hume would have got up with all
solemnity in the House of Commons, to impeach
the present Rector of having taken a bribe to induce
him to sacrifice the interests of his successors, and to
impeach the Bishop of London as a partaker in the
enme, and the gain, too, of the iniquitous and cor-
rupt bargain ? This impeachment might, for any
thing we know, have been as unfounded as the calum-
nies and the opprobrious epithet he has recently le-
velled against the Bishop. We are quite certain,
however, that it would have been more plausible ;
and although we do not believe Mr. Hume to have
intellect sufficient to distinguish between the different
degrees of plausibility, we have no doubt that it would
have served his turn.

A rumour has been circulated about the town that
a certain " youth," on the wrong side of forty, was
detected in amorous dalliance with a married dame
a few nights ago by the enraged husband, and that
the simpering swain was compelled to decamp" sans
ceremorne " without hat, coat, or boots ! with the
marks of a sound thrashing to remind him in future
how to trespass on other folk's premises.---(l3rOton
Gazette.)

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