The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-25 00:00:00

Pl~i'T iii TLIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Weichmen, as we find from the Cant-
kriam newspaper, are turning Tories, now that
:It but refuse Englishmen have ceased to be so,
and are, in some places, ready to pledge " lives
and fortunes" against any Jacobin attempt to
imriose upon the Principality a better and more
economical administration of justice than that
which the wisdom of their Celtic ancestors, or

rather of the ancestors of their Saxon and Nor-

man conquerors, had provided for the restraint of
their honest but unruly spirits. A meeting or
the county of Cardigan took place at Aberayron
on Wedneslay last, for the purpose of petition-
ing against the reformation, called, in the lan-
guage of that c:lnntry, the abolition of the Fri:-
nut system of judicial proceeding throughout
Wales. One man of sense had indeed the frank-

ness to tell his auditors, that they were petition-
ing against " a 15 et ter administration of justice,
better judges, better counsel, and better juries."
The popular cry, however, was against this gen-
tleman. One speaker denounced the assimilation of
the tribunals to those of England as a " disfran-
chisement" of the county of Cardigan. We wonder
what he meant by this, inasmuch as no idea, we
believe, exists of meddling with the Welch
Members of Parliament or electors, or with any
right or privilege derived from Royal charter.
the notion which prevails amongst the higher
'class of professional men, and pretty generally
throughout the well-informed world is, that
Welch justice leas hitherto savoured of being no
justice at all—that the matters in litigation are
swallowed up, even inure than among ourselves, I
by costs—that the jurisdictions arc too mitch
broken up into patches, the remuneration for
the several Judges too small to tempt men of
superior eminence at the bar to accept, and yet
in the aggregate constituting a disproportionate
burden on the country—that, in short, the judi-
cial and forensic apparatuS is too cumbersome,
the. material too common, and, moreover, the
discords and ill-blood arising from the close
vicinage of parties, jurors, low attornies (with
which last tribe
.the whole principality
swarms), and all the other ministers and
appendages of petty litigation, such, that
a great relief from expeuce, and a great ad-
vance towards equal and satisfactory justice,
would be obtained by consolidating districts
which are at present separate, enlarging jurisdic-
tions which are now inconveniently minute, and
raising to a higher level the whole order of per-
sons, including attornies, barristers, juries, and
judges, engaged in the service of the law,
throughout the country of the ancient Britons.
That the prejudices of the natives may be
shocked by any change,—.-110 mater in itself
how valuable,—is a thing to be expected, and
prepared against. But Fluellen, though a pep-
pery, was a placable and worthy gentleman, and
so we doubt not will . the Esquires of Cardigan
prove themselves, albeit we can neither compre-
hend their arguments, nor in every instance re-
cord those antique but unutterable names of
places by which the several members of one mul-
titndinous family, in -Wales (as in some parts
of Scotland and Ireland), are driven to identify
their persons.—limes.

A .correspondent complains of our silence on
the subject of the late appointment of a Baron
in the Exchequer, on which he animadverts with
touch severity. - He draws our attention to the
f(4lowing passage- in the valuable and laborious
Report of the Common Law Commissioners, in
%chid: they give some hints to the Lord Chan-
cellor as to the 'means of expediting and im-
proving the administration of justice :—" It is
obvious," say they, " that the efficacy of such
arrangements, and the attainment of the object
in view, must entirely depend upon the judicial
character of the persons from time to time: ap-
pointed to fid the Benches of the different
Courts ; and we may be permitted to suggest that
the benefit of a fortunate selection is never so
sensibly felt as when it relates to a Court which
at the time may happen to stand lowest in the
public e‘stimation, and consequently to have the
smallest share of business. The nomination of
a single individual of great and acknowledged
talents might restore the equilibrium, while the
appointment of another less qualified might so
depress the falling scale as to render the restora-
tion of the balance hopeless for a length of
time."—P. 23. Our correspondent thinks the
Lwal Chancellor could never have read the
above recommendation, as the appointment in
question is so completely at variance with it. He
i,druits that the individual appointed is an amiable
man,
.possessed of some literary acquirements,
and that he is without any enemies; but he con-
tends that the appointment is, nevertheless, un-
justifiable, as an instance of sacrificing all pub-
lic considerations to private friendship and
favour, as the individual does not possess the
requisite strength of mind, is unused to business
of difficulty or importance, and is besides in an
infirm and feeble state of health (not likely to
improve at sixty.) Such an individual, he ob-
serves, is far from being fit for any judicial sta-
tion, but is peculiarly disqualified for adding
vigour and efficacy to a Court in the last.stage
of ignorance, imbecility, and uselessness ; and he
adds, that there is but one opinion among pro-
fessional men as to the character of this appoint-
ment. We have heard some of our professional
friends speak of the appointment as extremely
objectionable. We regret that the Lord Chan-
cellor should thus lay himself open to animad-
version in the outset, as it were, of his own ju-
dicial career.—Morning Chronicle.
The proceedings in the Vice-Chancery Couri
yesterdq, in which the parties are paupers, but
two attorneys are the real combatants, remind
us of the battle of two wolves for the carcase
of a lamb. A century ago Thomson indig
nantly exclaimed—

" In this rank age
7.luch is the patriot's weeding hand requirec:—
The toils of law (what dark insidious men.
Have, cumbrous added to perplex the truth,
And lengthen simple lostico into trade) :
How glorious were the day that SVA, these broke,
And cvery man within the reach of right."
As the lines are as much in point now as ever,
it cannot be said that the patriots of the coun-
try—a numerous band, if we take their own
word for it—are chargeable with that feverish
impatience of execution, which Burke deemed
so great a blot in the French Patriots of the
Constituent Assembly. Draper, the occupier of
a small leasehold property at Ducklington, in
the vicinity of Witney, in tile county of. Oxford,
:Lei intestate in the year 1814, leaving a widow
and eight children, two of them by a former
wife. The value of the leasehold property is
va,-i,:usly represented—from 401. to 701.; and
the personal property, taken at the highest,
amounts to 111. 15s. 5-1,-d. The widow Draper,
t-finding herself sufficiently occupied with pro-
tiding ;or the wants ofDrapers
young'intoxicated
and herself', and being by-no meari
with the property of which she had' been' left
in possession--namely, a falling cottage, the