The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-27 00:00:00

surrounded the Judge, who decided in the open
air. There is no other reason why the whole
people should not be present now, than the ne-
cessary want of space. But what is told in the pre-
sence of ten or twenty, or two hundred, or two thou-
sand, may be conveyed to the whole public through
the instrumentality of the press. The latter merely en-
ables the whole public to participate in what the apace
of the Court would otherwise confine to a few. It is
the applying of an ear-trumpet to the public, and
the enabling them to see at any distance in spite of
the walls of the Court. But the Lord Chief Justice
Abbott laid it down in his charge to the Jury in A
case in which this paper was concerned the, other day,
that though Counsel were privileged in saying what
they chose, Reporters were not privileged in repeating
it. But we contend (and the Jury, thank God, took
the same view), that tie same reason which allows as
many of the public as can find admission into Court,
hear all that is said from beginning to end in a cause,
allows a Newspaper to convey the knowledge to others.
If the accounts of proceedings are to be good for any
thing, they must exhibit, not merely the results, but
all the circumstances which weighed with the Judges
and Jurors—the evidence, the harangues of Counsel,
&c. The feelin,gs of individuals may be occasion-
ally hurt, by the rude and indecent invectives of
Counsel ; but though that, may be a good reason
for recommending to Counsel more caution in the
language they use, it is no reason for suppress-
ing its publication, for the publication has for its object
the public benefit ; the complete and unmutilated
publication is essential to that object, and the deli-
cacy of the individual must give way to the public
good. We have no doubt that many individuals are
deterred by delicacy from appearing in an open court
to seek redress of their wrongs, who, if causes could
be decided privately in the houses of Judges, would
have no hesitation in diking the aid of the law ; but
the good of publicity, which secures impartial justice
to all, is of so much more importance to a commu-
nity than the benefit which delicate suitors could de-
rive from private audiences, that the latter object is
very properly made .to yield to the former.—lf re-
ports of the speeches of Counsel are to be mutilated

from considerations of delicacy to individuals, the ad-
ministration of justice will have thereby received a

deadly stab, and we protest, therefore, against the doc
trine of the Lord Chief Justice, as a most dangerous
invasion of the right of publicity.—We cannot con-
clude without expressing our regret in being obliged
to remark, that the Press owes less to Lord Chief
Justice Abbott, than to any other Judge who has
lived in our time. No Judge ever possessed a larger
share of the public estimation, and he stands deserved-
ly high with the Profession. But his decisions are
,not certainly calculated to advance the rights of dis-
cussion.

[THE MORNING HERALD.]
Notwithstanding the indefatigable labours of the
Lord Chief Justice, a considerable arrear of King's
Bench causes must, unavoidably, be left untried when
the Circuits commence, to the great loss and incon-
venience of the parties. It is a pity that, when the
Judges salaries were raised, some remedy had not
been provided for this growing evil. It seems quite
obvious that the method adopted at the Old Bailey, of
having two
.Courts sitting at once, would expedite the
business greatly ; and were attornies less interested thin
they are in delay, they might obviate meek of the
evil by bringing Nome of their ?mini into the Common
Pleas and Exchequer, instead of loading King's
the
Bench with nine-tenths of them. At present some -of
the Puisne judges (those in the Exchequer especially)
have comparatively nothing to do ; while Chief Justice
Abbott, in an impaired state of health, actually under-
goes more labour (in a manner, it is true, highly satis-
factory to every one) than the other eleven Judges put
together. We trust that Mr. Peel will be induced to
turn his attention to this Matter ;_ and that means will,
through his influence, be adopted, of distributing the
labour of the Courts more equally between the Judges,
and thereby expediting the business of the suitors.—
Perhaps were there one Judge taken from each of the
other two Courts, and added to the King's Bench,
giving to the latter six instead of four; much good
might be effected.. At any rate, something is impe-
ratively wanted to lessen a grievance which is felt by
all but those worthies who thrive by what is wrong.

An Evening Paper the other day said—" One rea-
son for the peculiar difficulty of credit at Manchester
is, that a foreigner, known for many years in that
market, bought goods to the extent of nearly fifty
thousand pounds, for cash, that is, according to the
usage of trade, prompt 14 days, giving that allowance
for the necessary delay in the delively of the goods.—
At the expiration of the time the goods were in Hot-
land, and the buyer off in the same direction." The
wonder is that this trick is not oftener played. Ma-
nufacturers for the sake of doing business, will trust
almost any one to almost any amount—in fact, the
greater the amount the adventurer purchases, the better
pleased are the manufacturers. Nothing could be
easier than for an adventurer to purchase goods in our
manufacturing markets to the extent of a million, ship
the goods to various parts of the world, take his de-
parture from the country, and leave the credit-givers
to hold meetings. This trick will probably be so
often played, that at length trade will be brought to
that which we call a healthy state—that is, that in mss
cases

where there is no money, there will be no goods
obtained. If the law of arrest were done away
with, trade would soon come to this healthy state.—
But, however, the Insolvent Debtors' Act and the new
bankrupt laws have rendered it so easy for a man to
escape from the fangs of his creditors, that credit is
narrowing every day, because creditors find out to their
cost that to arrest a man is of little use.—lbid.

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