The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-22 00:00:00

!XIIANCERY REPORT.
,The Report of the Chancery Commissioners
after due delay, made its appearance, and
the public will now be enabled to judge, in some
degree, of the benefit the long and protracted
consideration of this important point has secured
to them. " Parturient mountains have 'ere now
produced muscipular abortions ;" we cannot
therefore be surprised if such Commissioners as
those, to whom the consideration of the practice
of the Court of Chancery was referred, were
alike unhappy in their conceptions, and tardy
in their delivery. Be that as it may, we are dis-
posed to make the best of a bad matter, and
take the good, these Gods provide us as a sort
of a God-send, snatched from unwilling hands,
and accorded with a very bad grace. Thus much
for the benefits the public will reap from this
report. The Officcrs of the Court may laugh
in their sleeves, but as for the unhappy solicitor,
he alone will feel the weight of the recommenda-
tions of the Chancery Report, nod be made to
pay for amendments, (fur in truth they are
amendments), about to be introduced into the
practice of this miscalled Court of Equity.
The fees of the Officers certainly will be
diminished, but the Lord High Chancellor,
;lie Master of the Rolls, and Vice-Chancel-
lor, are '6 to suggest what shall appear
to be reasonable with respect to the future emo-
luments" of officers, o hose fees will be diminished
by positive abstraction, or by sharing them with
w
sundry new claimants,ho are to be nominated
to enable this over-grogn moustrosity to carry
on the public business."
This last hint, as to the appointment of new
Officers, is sufficient to sliew the spirit with
‘tat sp
actually iro•
which this report has been got up. We al-
ways thought that the multiplicity of Of-
ficers in the Court of Chancery was one
it is not
of ifs
likelyitsgrievtaoncebse but ; vl
proved upon. Additional officers are to be ap-
pointed, but as a sort of salvo for this new
burden, they nre to be paid, not indeed
by fees, but by something reasonable the CuAsz-
ccm.on and Co. is to suggest, viz. out of the
Public Revenue. One really would think the
Public Revenue had no end, was absoluteli in-
exhaustible.

The recommendations of the Commissioners go 1
to expedite the cause, and this they seem to have
set about in right down earnest, and perhaps by
the aid of these alterations a suitor may arrive
at his ruin some year or two earlier than hereto-
fore ; but ruined he must still inevitably be, for
the ;aurL• is not in any degree shorn of its
usurped and stolen prerogatives, prerogatives hos.
tile to tho libertyof the subject, and in direct con•
travention of the fundamental principles of the

British Constitution.
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sixty Clerks, and every Officer connected
with the Administration of Equity (we cannot
prostitute ' the word Justice), remain in un•
diminished splendour ; all the objectionable
powers are retained, and little conceded in
point of practice, beyond that which two respect-
able solicitors, when carrying on a suit, have
invariably grunted to one another in order
to prosecute the interests of their clients,
and at the same time facilitate the attain-
mentof justice between them. It is, however,
something to have that made law which before
was matter of discretion, and no small matter,
that innovation has been permitted to make even
a small advance into the transactions of this
venerable Court. We must then be content
for the present, and hope that when the innova.
Lions are grafting on, the ancient practice, they
may be, found in some instances incompatible,
and further concessions rendered necessary, in
order to give effect to those already allowed.
One of the wisest alterations that has been
suggested by this Report is the erection of a
Court of Appeal from the Commisioners of Bank-
rupts.'' We cannot but confess: 4ik ' wonder by
what happy forgeffu4ncss the Commissioners
'stumbled upon this idea, a recommendation that
will in the end terminate the bankrupt juris-
diction of the
vest it for every useful purpose io the
hands of the. Members of this New Court. Bit
by bit the power of the Court will be taken away,
for we are convinced the utility .of this Court
in 'proper hands will become so apparent
'and so prominent, that no resistance at a future
;period can be offered to a proposition for extend-
hia its power and authority, if seasonable times
and good opportuilities are selected for bringing
' the question under the consideratioq of the
Logisla tore. With unqualified pleasure, therefore
we hail this amendment. We see in it the
wt (Is Of destruction to the overgrown power
of the formidable Court of Chancery,' and an
in wa ril conviction, that upon its 'basis a renew.
ed, a wiser, and a more poetical system will
tie intrOduced, and its proceedings better adapt.
, ea tot e 4rand end and purpose of all Courts,
t ,iii.:_-..The. 11;GUCIDATION Or TRUTH AND THS
'A ostigtvra ATION o/ JUSTICE properly so called.