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London, England, 1826-05-25 00:00:00

THE CORN (ILLS.

.The Earl of LIVIMPOOL moved the Order of the Day for
committing the Bonded Corn Bill. _ _ _

The Ma-rquis of LANSDOWN had unfortunately been pre-
vented from attending yesterday, when the Bills before the House
were subject of debate, and should therefore take the prevent op-
portunity to say a few words on them. He thought the limitation
in the Bill as to 500,000 quarters wholly useless ; for if a great
scarcity should arise (of which, however, he must admit he saw
no prospect), did any one suppose that the Government would,
if the 500,000 quarters should nut be sufficient to afford an ade-
quate supply to the country, be at all deterred by this limitation
from authorizing the importation of more on their own respon-
sibility? With regard to the present system of the corn laws, in
his opinion it undoubtedly required revision; indeed, it would
be impossible to suffer it to continue in its present shape, without
having a power, annexed to it for occasional suspension. He
could have wished, however, that it had been practicable not to
have touched the system until it could have been permanently set-
tled and arranged ; for until such au arrangement were effected,
a very great check would be placed upon every species of industry,
as neither the agricultural nor the manufacturing interests would
know what they had to depend upon.
BONDED CORN BILL.

The House then resolved itself into a Committee on this Bill,
upon the motion of Lord lavtaroot, who mewed an amendment
of the defective clause alluded to in the last night's debate, which,
after a few observations from Lord Ettaxamtouott and the Earl
of LAUDZIMALIt, Was agreed to, and the report was ordered to be
brought up to-morrow (this day.)
IMPORTATION CORN BILL.

Upon the motion of the Earl of lavicaraoL) the House re-
solved itself into a Committee on this Bill.
The Earl of DARLINGTON expressed an opinion in favour of
the measures brought forward by His Majesty's Ministers, and
after a few words from Lords Liviearoot., ELLINBOROUOII, and
DAILINGTON, certain clauses were agreed to, and the Helm ad-
journed at etvxx O'CLOCX.

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Rev. Dr. Baker; 11. W. Barron, Esq., Lady and family ; his
Grace the Duke of Hamilton.
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As proof of thti excellenq of the ,Lite larabiirg
season, we have to state a fact A flock of 100 ewes, the pto.,
perty of Mt. John Stnith,..Barne no, nap' Eocksfitati,, Imo pro,
Aineed no leis than 206 /limbs, an instance of feCundity we belie*.
sewn, to b• paraUels(L—Shiffieki lifireury.

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my sbteyps, turns otthbe er myddifferent
path,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
sin—Among my many wanderings in the great Metropolis
of the
Lni tot st tue
rn fl'He lul et! y,
Courts that are held within that ancient and majestic structure.
All these Courts, as well as every thing of a judicial cheracter
towards world,Nries
in England, were equally hew to me ;, and though the manner of
pleading in all of them, end the forms .1 procedure in almost all,
seemed much alike, there was one in which I passed more of my
idle time than in any of the rest, I mean the Court of Chancery ;
hut when I ask myself what attracted me snore there than to the
others, I cannot answer toy own question. There must have been
something attractive in the venerable dignity of the noble and
learned person who presides in that tribunal, and that attraction
must have horn increased by contrasting his appearance, and
such part of hie judicial conduct as I witnessed, with the un..•
sparing awl indecent liberties that I had heard were taken by a
certain class of persons with the name of him who had filled that high
and important situation for to long a period, in a manner so ad-
vantageous to the country and so honourable •to • himself,--I say
advantageous to the country, tuulga the assertiongt, bread at('
sweeping as they are, date disceittented indicicluals, reepenting
that exalted branch of the judicature of the country, end 971 !grct
the great room for improvement in the Court itself, suggested by
the report of the Chancery Commissioners, which has lately been
laid before the public ; for Vouch defects have existed in the con-
struction and in the established ferries of procedure of that Court,
as would appear to have been the ease, the wrongs complained of
might well have been practised--end practised legelly ;--One of
the principal duties of a judge being, according to my Very hum-
ble apprehension, to see that the established rules of the Court,
where he presides, are adhered to, be they right or wrong. He
may, according to circumstances, modulate, but he cannot vary;
and if that learned•pereon had not in his sound judgment, nis,
tared by a long professional career, dealt out his justice
in a manner calculated to do away in a great measure with the
bad effects that might naturally enough arise in the 'administration
of justice in such a Court as that of the High Court of Chancery
of England, far more mischief might have been done to the
country than I would dare here to contemplate.: For, look to
the increased and increasing population of the country; look to
the frightful and almost overwhelming distress that has lately
clouded the' brows of our merchants ; consider the, immense in-
crease of litigants that must from these cireOtostances 'flock into
the Court of Chancery ; and then let reasonable persons ask them-
selves why that Court should have appeared to many who never
passed a thought upon these subjects, an engine of oppression, as
some have been pleased in the plenitude of their liberty and their
spleen to denominate it, instead of the safeguard of thousande of
otherwise unprotected individuals, as the experience of ages has
proved it to be.

There is no sort of establishment in any country, or under any
sort of government, so much calculated to crests discontent as
such, as have for their object the settling of differences between
contending parties. A person who is blind enough not to see, t,r
obstinate enough not to be convinced that he ought not to oppress
his neighbour, or wrongfully to withdraw from him his rights, is
not very likely to be convinced by the successive dee'rees of infe-
rior and 'supreme Courts against him, or even when the chequer
has been closed upon him by the seal of the Court of last of resort
of his country, that he has been wrong, and that these Courts
have been right. I think the very circumstance of his appealing
from Court to Court is tantamount to a proof of his determination
not to do justice till he be forced to dolt. Something there is in
human nature that prevents those, whose education bar not taught
than to put a sufficient curb upon their paesions,from acknowledging
themselves in the wrong after they have once resolved to submit the
determination of their disputes ton judicial functionary ; and I have
no doubt that, if a scrutiny could he made of the persons who cry
down the judicial authorities of the country, the majority of thaw
malcontents would be found among the numbers of discontented liti-
gents. It often happens that a disappointed party,after going through
all the above mentioned grades of legal investigation, when he is
jeered by his neighbours about the loss of his suit, will still maintain
that he was right, and that had it not been for the advantage afford-
ed to his Antagonist by the forms of the law, be would hive come off
victorious ; and so besets about abusing the Courts,. the Lawyers,
' and even the Judges. The way, however, to obtain justice, sr to
profit by justice when it has been obtained, is not to abuse the
functionary at whose hands it is sought, end by whose judgment
the very circumstance of his having appealed to him, binds the
applicant to abide and be content with, however unfavourable it
may be to his supposed interest, 'and however different from the
erroneous view which his own prejudice led him at first to enter-
tain of his own case.

One party must be wrong : a decision can be given in favour
of one only : there is no such thing as a compromise of justice,.
while the intervention of a third party, as an arbiter exists ;—the
Judge must decide as his conscience and his judgment direct him,
in favour of one party and against the other; in so doing, he
administers justice equally to both, and the unsuccessful party,
who readily acquiesces in that judgment, shows his good +lenge
more by such acquiescence, than by the most ingenious arguments
he could advance to support appeals through all the different *L.
caturce of the couutry. .

Unless the Kill's subjects have conihkrice in thtpereens
ap-
pointed by his Majesty to administer justice among them, there
can be no peace in the nation; justice will not be worth the put,
chasing, and the very sanctity of its name will be poisoned into
unholiness, when breathed by the lawless reprobates that dare-us
calumniate its administrators. A set of restless persons seem to
be constantly employed, stirring up, one, would suppose, in the
very spirit of the devil, the peaceable subjects of the kuigdorn into
a state of disorder and discontent. At one time the conduct of
the members of the two great legislative departments of the state,
both collectively and individually, seemed to be their mark; and
now, when they find that their ill-timed abuse and M.:directed
criticisms have met with the contempt they deserved, and that the
measures of those high assemblies, wisely timed and adapted to
circumstances, give no excuse for such licentious attacks, they aim
their envenomed shafts at the still more sacred chitaeter of the
Judges of the land, the exercise of whose functions might to re-
main uncanvassed and uncriticised by those who are incapable cif
judging wisely and impartially, and abiWe all, by those who h.ve
submitted the adjustment of their dispute* to their final and irro-
' vocable decision.
. ,

Many instances might be supposed where a Judge may give SI
judgment well calculated to excite disappointment in the person
against whom it is pronounced, but such judgments ariaefrom the
circumstances of the case, and I will leave it to lawyers to in-
dulge in putting such hypothetical cases; prudence, however, as
well as loyalty and juitice, ought to teach those who have the
mieforlurie to be visited by such judgments, that if the wrongs,
they complain of do not justify, or their . coward nerves will not
support them in carrying through an impeachment of the Judge
they have presumed td libel, they ehould give a holiday to their
slanderous tongues, and let the fancied grievance sleep in oblivion,
by passing it over in respectful silence.
A CONSTANT 'READER.•

TIM •DIFFERENCr. BETWEEN` GOOD CHllls*,
matt AND THI Ptoet.x op, Looxenuy.---So exclusively are
some districts inhabited by people of the names of Johnston and
Jardine, that there are several villages without any other. It is
said that an English traveller, one winter-night, coming to *
border-town called Loskerby, went to every house in search of
lodgings, but without succeeding in rousing nny of the inmates.
At length en old woman looked over her window, and asked
what he wanted. - Ile exclaimed piteously, " Oh, is there no
good Christian in this towo, that will give shelter to a poor bs
nighted 'traveller ?"—" Na," answered the woman, we're a
Johnstone and Jardines hire!" Th. old woman's misters' w;:a
natural enough, as Christian is a common family name in I
adjacent territory of. Cumberland.—Clumibers' /ars" If
Scotland.
liTllsla .ng llrjage cAv"
the Mine is formed by two imrneuee hargso44,tu,":,idet°44tbe„:4
and Which are decked, and railed round, to Jrim,vt - on, thousand
said to be sufficiently capacious to reesir±, 7. it keto„,l
Per" besides clArriagw' 4thlfinjitTi;ktnithlie of tbe-s.ri'ver";
possit% down the stream by an,atte * act at 13414.. wiry akt
on the tirsekling of a bell the whoa'
b the rudder, carries It to the.
force of the current, asttistod,
:very quarter of AD ADat
other aide. This it roPormr-
Min's Tor.

COURT OF CHANCERY AND THE

BANK ftt.TPT

in common with our fellow subjects in general, we
arc very little disposed to be contented with the Court
of Chancery, its practices and•principles. - We feel
that the system it"; wrong in very many particulars, rind

-evils of area and astoutiding feature have resulted
from it. At the same time, howevei, we are aslittle
disposed to visit these faults`upou the Lord ,Chancel-
lor, or to hold him responsible for all or even any
put of the evils that have sprung .from this fertile
source.

. .
It has been advanced, that the Lord Chancellor bad
authority, without the,interference of the Legislature,
• to correct, by rules,,the malpractices of the Court, and
to reader:his jurisdiction more efficient in the attain-
- meat of substantial equity between Man and roan.
'This position cannot 7be - denied, but then, on
the other hand, it may 'be asked, with what grace
could the 'Lord Chancellor, on his own indi-
-vidual authority, interfere to subvert the ancient
system of the Court, :and to overthrow its practice
established and acted upon .so long, . and through so
many ages. It must be obvious, ;that the exercise of
such authority would have brought down upon his
Lordship all the wrath of the .nation, and with this
additional feature, that had he done so, he would
have deserved all that, could have been urged agalust
him. To be sure on this ground •the Lord Chan'

cellar has little to choose, for even now when mea-
sures of alleviation are proposed by competent au-
thority, the Learned Lord is made the butt of the vulgar

-and the ignorant, and we will defy the bitterest
•of his enemies under any circumstances to invent more
malevolent calumnies, or use greater exertions, to vilify
and blacken his character, who is one of the oldest,

as well as one of the 'most deserVing, of the public
-servants. If this Lordship adheres to those old fa
shioned doctrines, under the influence of which this
.country has grown up and prospered, is it to be won-
.dered at ? :Is. it marvellous, we say, that the Learn-
-ed Lord should be sceptical, when their evil tendency
asserted, and 'throw himself between the sound
y.rinciples of former times and the threatened- innova-
,.tion, which, 'however good, has not the sanction of
,experience to justify its adoption or uphold its force.
'We are 'ready to admit that the Lord Chancellor has
sometimes stood between the public and A good mea-
sure ; but then he ought not to be blamed for this
-conscientious interference, which, if it does not entitle
him to our approbation, at least would call for some-
'thing better than unmeasured abuse.
But the disposition of the public to look upon the
ICourt of Chancery as a Court perpetually working
-Avil has been greatly abused, for the same spirit of
'finding fault has been extended to every branch of its
jurisdiction with' which-the public is at all .acquainted,
and the whole bodily ,condemned as entirely bad.
In this general condemnation ,we find ourselves

put able to join, and we wish therefore to lift

.up our yoke against it ; for i►► truth, though bad
in part, this Court has points about it of great
value, and, we hold the Bankrupt jurisdiction tis
lone of these. That even this is defective in
part we are ready.to admit, but the alteration proposed
the Chancery Commissioners will, we think, go
far to correct the evil, and take away at once all,objec-
tions to this part of the equitable jurisdiction of the
Lord Chancellor. The proposition is to select a
body of ten from the present 'Coniinissioners of Bank-

rupts, ,for ,the,,purpose of sitting as Commissioners
.Of Appeal from the decisions of all London Com-
nissioners, a plan by which a great deal of time
will he saved to the Judge presiding in the
Court of Chancery, and which time may be occu-
pied in getting through the InoN .regular business
the Court. it has been objected that 14 lists

of Commissioners is far too great a number, and that
these lists bave been extended only with a,view to in-

.crease the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and

place at his disposal an additional quantity of valuable
,offices. However this may be, we mean to contend,
-that 14 lists of Commissioners is by no means too
.many, and we appeal to any person who has visited

the New Court of the, 'Corniu'issioners, whether
'there was , not ample occupation fur the whole
number ? They will there perceive that the num-
ber of commissions proceeding in at once he-
fore one 'list. of Commissioners, precludes almost all
p.ossibility of doing justice to each party,' and we
•think it may be very truly advanced, that if the prov.
ing Of a debt were not,a matter of course, and very
-easily accomplished, would be totally impracticable
to get through the business at all. The necessity of
some one to preside and judge between the creditors
and bankrupt, in the-first instance,. and afterwards be-
lween them and parties thinning to be creditors, is
Obvious.

We confess then we know of no -better method
than that at present acted upoh, unless a permanent
Commission should be established to sit like the in-
solvent Court, but we trust 'w►th more advantage and
}ess expence to the nation. This ;would to our judg-
ment-be ,a great improvement,. especially as 'in that
case the business of the Insolvent Court 'could be

einitied with.it, and thus atford•opperttnity of destroy-
ing an establishment, which to say the very least of it,
as a,disgrace to the nation, and to the officers con-
ii,eted with it. When the full benefits of -this .tiew
Court 9f Appeal shall have been felt we do not despair
that this-plan inayle -adopted, :for we feel wonviricad

that it only reguiresyractice and experience to display
at at once the groat and inandlald advantages of this new
jurisdiction. We AikOtlid deSire, therefore, to see this re-1
ca4mrne/uhtion of the Chancery Conunis,imiers fully i.e.
civilized and acted upon ; and, although it is
pe wished that they had imrried'their,enquiries and
I.6,,osnynendatiyni3 a little further, and had probed the
wound a f little deeper, we •moverthele.ss can forgive
them, 'teeing they have rhatle the first steps in the
grand vtArk; 'and, recominolded the eitablishinent of
Couti4)f.Appe.i4 BanktuPtcY.