The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MOANING, NOVni4B.
28, 1344.

then appeals to its Registrar sitting beneath him.
Who is he ? Perhaps his nephew. But N•liicl ne-
phew, where there are so many nepotes a-field ? Mr.
DYNELEY, himself a Proctor, himself a chief officer
of the Court, and in both capacities already nettled,
we will imagine, at having had his opinion disputed.
What is the antagonist Proctor's chance of carrying
the Court with him ? But we have spoken of Depu-
ties to the Registrar of Faculties, the Registrars of
the Prerogative Court, &c. We must not omit Dr.
LUSHINGTON'S (Consistory) Court; the Registrar, the
Rev. R. WATSON, having for Deputy, JoHN SHEP-.

HARD, Esq. ; nor the Vicar General's office, whose Re.

gistrar, one (more) JOHN MOORE, Esq., hath, for
Deputy, P. IL DYKE, Esq., who has already ap-

peared as son-in-law of the Judge, and as a Proctor;
and who re-appears as the able managing partner in
the great house of " JENNER, linsu, and DYKE."
Surely, in these times, the Government will see reason
not to appoint to be the new Queen's Proctor any
one of these multiplied relations of the Judge ;
his two sons-in-law, his nephews, &c. ; nei-
ther Mr. HART DYKE, nor Mr. CHARLES DYNR-

LEY, nor either of the two Messrs. NicuoLL, nor Mr,

Fox, jun. Among the Proctors there can be no d

ficulty in finding more than three able men, every way
fitted, by long practical experience, professional know-
ledge and sagacity, character, courtesy, and industry,
for so high an office. The bar and the profession of
Doctors'-commons must be relieved from the into-

Eerable incubus of any further creatures in the Jen

nerian-Nicholl College. The compact has worked
well enough, surely, for an extensive family ; and the

public interest requires that the seals be now broken

The MooßEs have had a long hand of registrarship,
the NicuoLts of forensic and judicial patronage. Let

the best qualified civilians have a fair field and no
favour. The presence of the latter has denied them
the former. Let the best qualified practitioner be

Queen's Proctor—not the nearest family connexion

The Madrid Gazette of the 19th instant publishes
a supplement, containing a dispatch from the military
chief of the Logrono, in which he states that he came
up with the band of ZURBANO near Montenegro, and
that his followers, on the approach of the QUEEN'S

,roops, threw down their arms and fled in all direc

tions. ZURRANO and his two sons made their escape,
with the intention, apparently, of crossing the Ebro,
and seeking refuge in France. The Government
continue to show great jealousy and suspicion of the
numerous disbanded officers residing in Madrid and
the provincial towns. The Generals ESPINOSA,
RAMIREZ, GRACES, &c., have been ordered to quit
the capital. All the officers have been ordered
to present themselves every week to the mili-
tary commandants of the towns where they reside,
and not more than three of them are to be permitted
to meet at the same time. These discontented officers
are said to amount to nearly ten thousand. "Most
of them," according to a Madrid letter which appears
in a French Government paper, " are destitute of the
means of existence, and are disposed to join any party,
whether Carlist, constitutional, or 'republican, pro-
vided they can procure bread. It is thus that almost
all the bands of brigands that infest the roads and
environs of Madrid are commanded by old officers.
These bands, if a civil war were to break out in any
part of Spain, would become factions, fbr they have
arms mad money."

The Paris lifoniteur, on the authority of a letter,
says ZURBANO had entered Saragossa and put the
Governor to death, but the report is not entitled to
credit.

The QUEEN'S fete was celebrated on the 19th,
when a grand levee was held at the Palace. The
Bourse in consequence was closed on that day.

Some of the Paris journals of Sunday commented,
with much bitterness, on an offensive letter from
Otaheite, which appeared in some of the London
journals. The subject, however, hardly deserves
further notice; and we should not have adverted to

again, but for an amusing, and at the same time,
in some respects a very sensible article, in the
Journal des Dibats. That journal treats these
(:xparte statements as they deserve. " In the dearth,"
it says, " which at present prevails in the domain of
polemics, several journals have contrived to discover
A new subject against England, and yesterday copied,
with a great increase of indignation, a letter from
Otaheite, published by an English journal. We
should ourselves have given this Methodist tirade if
we had believed that it merited our doing so, or if
we had discovered anything new in it. But, in truth,
we do not consider ourselves obliged to pay a serious
attention to all the epistolary fragments which we
find every day in the vast catacombs of the English
papers, and to which these journals themselves attach
only a very secondary importance. In England, the
principal object of the journals is to have news
which the others have not, and thence it follows that
they in general receive all the communications sent
to them, without much caring what political signifi-
cation they may have. It is, we are inclined to
think, to this unlimited custom of publicity, more
than to any deliberate sentiment of malevolence,
that must be attributed the insertion in an English
journal of great circulation of the famous letters dated
from the harbour of Tangiers. These letters, al-
though the whole affair concluded in a manner bur-
lesque enough by the confession and contrition of a '
chaplain, nevertheless possessed a certain importance, j

NicnoLL associated with Dr. It JENNER as counsel

against him, the opposite Proctor being Mr. E. F.
JENNER, or one other of the kaleidascopic cousins—
(yeu cannot turn the list without throwing fresh
combinations of NicHOLL-JENNERS or JENNER.•
NICHOLLS) say Mr. J. NICIIOLL, or Mr. J. I.
NscuoLL, or Mr. F. 11. DYKE—and the Judge—
their common "Pater Anchises"—Sir HERBERT
JENNER FUST ? Perhaps, warned by experience, or,
as they say in these Courts, ex abundante cautera, the
unhappy litigant flies to a Mr. W. Fos, jun.—he,
too, is a son-in-law; or to a Mr. CHARLES DYNELEY?
He is a nephew ! By the bye, this gentleman is some-
thing more. In the courts and offices of Doctors'-com-
mons, the great principle is a venerable abuse : the end-
less one of representation by deputy. Thus. The last
Archbishop of CANTERBURY was so lucky that, pend-
ing his lifetime, he procured the reversion, we believe,
of the lucrative sinecure of Registrar of the Faculty
Court for the Hon. I. H. T. MANNERS SUTTON, one
ochis grandsons. This gentleman (a son of Viscount
CANTERBURY) pockets the fees which remain to him,
after paying " two Deputies," P. C. MOORE EFq.,
and a Mr. J. SHARPE. The predecessor of Arch-
bishop SUTTON, £1 luckier Primate still, the late
MOORE, gave the very rich patent sinecure appoint-
ments of Registrars to the Prerogative Court to two
of his reverend kinsmen, the Rev. G. MOORE, and
the Rev. R. MOORE. They, like your true " fine
old English gentlemen, all of the olden time," have
consistently abstained from doing any duty as
" Registrars," beyond that of drawing a noble
income of some thousands a year apiece. The Rev.
GEORGE and the Rev. ROBERT appoint three
" Deputies," whose offices are at present filled by--
(1.) Mr. CHARLES D YNELEY—(iterurn Crispine ?) ;
(2.) Mr. JOHN IGGULDEN ; (3.) Mr. W. F. GOSLING.
They do a considerable amount of work, and are
very handsomely paid by fees for their labour ; but
they have again their several " Deputies," under
the appellation of Clerks of the Seats. Each of
these clerks has a certain district of country appro-
priated to him, and prepares and makes out the va-
rious powers and other instruments to give effect and
validity to probates of wills and letters of administra-
tion, in respect of personal property within the seve-
ral dioceses and the province of Canterbury. In their
collective capaeity, these gentlemen, the Clerks of
Seat, really advise, from their greater experience,
the Deputy Registrars in all cases of doubt or diffi-
culty, the principal of those Deputies being little dis-
tinguished from his two colleagues, except by a
greater assumption of authority, as we have heard,
and a greater fondness for playing ." Triton among
the minnows" whenever an unfortunate clerk or a
lowly-minded Proctor happens to disturb his equa-
nimity, or to challenge his hauteur. Now let us sup-
pose the case of a Proctor having a sharp battle with
his Deputy Registrar, in his office of registry, on some
disputed point of practice—the Proctor relying,
perhaps, on the advice of some one among the many
old and intelligent clerks of practitioners, or in
the public office, the Will-office (and of these
there are very many, highly respectable, but miser-
ably underpaid, as the Registrars and their Deputies
are largely overpaid). The Deputy Registrar is ob-
stinate, and on the Proctor's announcing his intention
to carry the matter before the Court for its opinion, is
not always very civil. Perhaps the Court itself may
have forgotten the practice on the particular case