The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-21 00:00:00

has happened P The new Board—the reformed, corrected
Board--,contains precisely the
,sume monitor of members as I
the old One! Seven I instead of two; while the revenue
is declining, the business: diminishing, and the distresses
of the country more extensive, and more deeply rooted
than ever. So that the effect of the late inquiry has been
just this—to load the nation with the same tunount of sa-
laries as before, plus the pensions to the offending and
dismissed Commissioners. On this point, likewise, we
trust that the House of Commons will immediately acquit
itself of those obligations, which were so solemnly and
emphatically undertaken by candidates of all classes and
parties (except the mere Court hack) in their late ad-
dresses to the constituent body, the first of which never
failed to be a pledge of " independence," and of attention
to the "real interests" of the State. Such, also, should
be the feeling with regard to all the public boards without
exception, every one of which presents a picture of sala-
iies and members disproportiOned to the wants of the
State, and cruel towards the necessities of the people.—
Ibid.

in trials at Com Mon Law, parties often suffer much
from the necessity of having all their witnesses in that
spot where the trial takes place at the precise time fixed
on, end of having all their evidence, parole and written,
gone through during the brief space which can be allotted
for that purpose.. The Court of Chancery steers clear of
this evil, and the principles on which it proceeds may be
said to be more in accordance with the suggestions of com-
mon sense. But, unfortunately for suitors, such a lati-
tude has been given to the' principles of Thancery prac-
tice, that the evil resulting from the'endless admission of
evidence is a thousand times greater than that of the de-
fective Common Law system. When the means of litiga-
tion exist in sufficient abundance, so ihat Counsellors may
be feed, and affidavits supplied, as often as may be requi-
site, if one of the parties wishes to avoid a judgment, we
do not well see how the time for delivering judgment can
ever arrive. The principle on which the Lord Chancellor
would seem to act is, that it' is never too late to receive
fresh evidence, so that if he were to state a hundred
times, " I shall' deliver my judgment in ' this on a cer-
tain given day,," and regularly when that day came, a
fresh affidavit should ibe. offered, containing additional
particulars, the judgment must be postponed, till the ad-
ditional particulars have been discussed. A Chancery
Judge puts one in mind of some of those indefatigable
German Collectors of materials for history, who, striv-
ing to clear up every conceivable point, are overwhelmed
with the mass of their :materials, and literally do nothing,
There may be too much of a good thing. The system
of the Court of Chancery would seem to be too perfect
for this sublunary state. In the days of Methusalem,
when fifty, or even a hundred years were hardly worth
talking of, the Chancery practice—to use a homely phrase
—would have been just the thing. Unfortunately, the
great and learned Lord, who has brought it to the utmost
conceivable perfection, has come somewhat too late into
the world to be appreciated, as he certainly would have
been in a better age than the present. Some regard must
now be had to the shortened period of human life. A ease
respecting the education of infants, may be decided on
more perfect evidence after a litigation of thirty years than
after one of thirty ' days ; but, it is somewhat too late to
determine this matter when the infants may themselves
be grandfathers and grandmothers. The case of Welles-
ley a. the Duke ;of Beaufort, which has drawn these
observations from us, was yesterday to have been advanced
a stage, with a view to a judgment this day. " Coming
events east their shadows 'before," as Mr. O'Connell re-
marked after a sweat authority, and we imagined we saw
the shadow of this day. The 'affidavit containing the im-
portant matter was not filed, and the Lord Chancellor ob-
served very naively, that "as it had beennot Meddle could
not possibly hear it." " If, howeVer," added his Lord-
ship, " you do not file it between this and to-morrow
morning (this morning), out of compassion to myself I
must -rye the judgment." But his Lordship will, no
doubt,' be relieved from the necessity of taking compassion
on himself. Another will appear in doe tune, to take com-
passion on him.--Mr. Hurt observed, that
" If Mr. Wellesley was to he thus baffled by • the skill ,01
Counsel (to use no harsher term), be might never hope to read
the end of the cease. The system had been pertinaciously pursued,
and some new affidavit was presented just at the moment his
Lordship was on the point of giving judgment The
affidavits sworn on the 25th of October had not been flipd till she
20th of November."
We do not wish to interpose• between parties in any
suit. We do not presume to say, for even if we were an-
thorised to give an opinion—which we are not—we know
nothing of the particulars of the ease, that there is not
good reason for postponing the filing of an affidavit, sworn
the 2.5 th of October, till the 20th of November. But this
wit will say, that in any, case similar to that of Mr. Wel-
leeley, whieb involves an inquiry into a man's life, it can
never be difficult, especially if he should have been a tra-
veller, so to menage matters, as to have a succession of
affidatits, embracing fresh matter, and matter tot 4 demand-
ing au answer, ready for presentation on the eve of a judg-
: meat, to its to prevent that judgment from ever being yen.
He who waits till no more affidavits can be presented, may
almost be compared to the peasant in Horace, who waited
till the stream should rain itself out, We were not a little
amused by the observation, in the subsequent case of the
Highgate Charity, of Mr. Temple, who, on his Lordship
sasful, " j think the parties can never do so ill for the
Charity as to ptace it in my hands," very ingeniously
answered, " I should bo most, happy to get it (At of your
Lordship's hands, by receiving the jadgmerit of the
Court. —Morning Chronicle.
To the host of Pamphlets on the Corn Laws one has
been added by Earl Stanhope, which, from the extrava-
gant nature of some of his Lordship's assertions, deserves
A little notice. ,The Politioal geonOmists seem to have
terribly frightened his Lordship. " May Heaven in its
mercy (says he) preserve us from all the -professors of, that
pretended sciew, who are snore to be dreaded than the
plagues of Egypt f" The, alteration in the Corn Laws, he
rontepds, will produce universe) ruin.
" It is undoubtedly true, and the proposition ought at present
to be re-erhoerl in a voice of thunder throughout the country, that
the measure would ' ruin entirely all the nobility, and all the other
landed proprietors,' and not there` alone, hut also the tenants and
the labourers."
But this is not all : we are threatened with the loss of
the landholders altogether. •
" The proprietors would be compelled to remove to other court
trite where a residence is far less expensive than it is in this; and
many of them, from finding it also much More agreeable, would
be induced to settle permanently
.abroad
If a genoil ' transfer of property is to be etr
pro-
prietors have a right to expect that due enticeeethdilitellfihew la:jiveead, I
that an Act of Parliament shall empowerto sethellion4
tint nature of their family settlements, tli is
whatever
eirt a t may
, e be
to invest their proceed* In other countries, in which it would be
more secure than it had been under
admiration of other, nations.' "
the English Constitution,
.tvi44 Is said to be ' the envy and ado .
• to sell after tine -notice
But if4l,,,p,L,..,;;,;tero.afnoditheorlidnegrs cannot live. in this
country,
Y, we to. quit ? Who would consent to take their tan
dass front
them ? Who would cry-" stinking' fish e
are benevolently inclined, we will, consent to pass tIT rest
of our th..yo in this country, though other countries $ may
be much more ii,grpeable," and relieve his
Lordshi r
Nref tat
e
the louden of keeping 44 . unproductiye estate.
ro
the
even. on
lect to all
onemsts condition of holding an are ii
eve
page ,
eantiont to oh„, 4.4 the gener4 ptipa"
burdem,.-174(1,
The abdicalo)l of Pr, Francm, as President of the Statft
_uvernmenb that
gAtinP:764l47ol,l4lll6Lltiehacioifsesipdeprro,yidi4eatsi atriiyonlutiOn in South
flues -e44* him should remove the plata) 0f toil-illter°ll",
alt" 6 he had always acted. The State of ParaguaY 14
il P°PWAMS andprodutlive one, And it was the pri4cll4. of
Dr. Truoltie, from the time he attained supreme power, to
isolate it from the rest of the world, as comploteiY 'is if 't
were surrotended by a, wall Tof brass. To preserve this
Britem of e"l",ifoi lie -exercised the tyrafilocal potter °‘
seizing every stranger who came into the country, and de-
Ptivirq him of the li°wer of leaving it, tit probibited,4ll