Star.
London, England, 1826-03-22 00:00:00

SWEDEN, MASON I.

The accounts from Gottenburgh are very alarming;,
seven or eight houses are said4ohave stoppedpayment,
among others that of Prytt, to have failed for 400,000,
rut dollars bane°. It is said that the merchants of that
town intend to wad a deputation to his Majesty, to
solicit a loan, in order to avert a mute fatal cri%is.

STOCKHOLM, Masten 10.

The terrible consmerci.l Crisis which is now fek in the,
elief mercantile et ; in .Europe, has extended its con-
sequences to es. 8 tne-Gottenbarg houses have stopped
payment, but kis hoped ttbat sno4 at thena will be able
sr,on to begin again. OtstEsehange has not been mach
affected by these misfortenes, and the loss of those who
Lad the most connection with Geusanttstnx is inconsi-

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The Report of the Chancery Commibsion, which has
been so impatitntly expected by some perscins, has made
its appearance ; and when the nature aid ex ent of the
investigation it embraced, and the vast body of evidence
it has collected, are considered, we think no person will
say any time his been lost in producing it.
It is one of the prominent features of the present ad-
ministration, that whenever sufficient evidence is ad-
duced of any grievance that requires to be redressed, or
any point in our civil polity that can be reformed, the
Ministers afford the most ample investigation into the
subject. The delays in the Court of Chancery have,we
believe, been the subject of complaint in all ages; but it is
only of late years that the charge has disingenuously been
attempted to be tranbferred from the nature and c.)n-
stitution of the Court to the time-honoured and
enlightened Nobleman who has so long presided in it.
In order, however, that the fullest inquiry might be
made, aid ever* error in the system, or blame in the
individuals who administer it, might be pointed out, a
Commission was appointed by the Crown, armed
with the extensive power, “to make a diligent
inquiry whether► any and what alterations can be

made in. the practice established in our said Court
'of Chancey, Or hi the .offices orthat Court, either as
a*Coort of Itaeror .Equittiie Causes, Suits, and other
matte::, in which 'Conn hes, or the Lard Chan-
cellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the
Greit Seal have; jurisdiction in the different stages of
such proceedings, from the commencement to the ttrmi-
nation thereof, by which the expense attending such OM•
ceedings,and the time doting which they depend inCourt,
may be abridged usefully and beneficiaily to the suitors
of the said Court; and also, whether any and what part
of the business now subject to the jurisdiction of our
said Court, or subject to such jurisdiction as aforesaid,
'can usefully and beneficially be withdrawn from the
same, and committed to t!te jurisdiction of any and
what other Courts or Tribunals."
The

appointed were, the Earl of EL-
DON, Lord REDESDALE, Lord GIFFORD, Sir JOHN
LEACH, Sir CHARLES WETHERELL, SAMUEL COMPTON
Cox, Esq. ANTHONY HART, Esq. STEPHEN LUSHINO-
TON, Esq. WILLIAM COURTIINAY, Esq. ROBERT PIM?
SMITH, JOSZPH LITTLEDALE, JOHN HUMAN Mild-
YALE, NICHOLAS CONYNOHAM TINDAL, and JOHN
tizArces, &qrs. all Gentlemen of acknowledged talent
and worth, in the several ranks of the profession, and
[some idea may be formed of the labour which has de-
volved on the Commission, when we state that their
Report contains 692 folio pages, of which 570 are
occupied with the minutes of evidence, given by wit-
foams of all parties, whose information was not merely
epted but sought after.
The Committee, it tou,t be considered, was not em-
powered to i-coire whether the Chancery Court was to
be swept away at once; they knew that the distinction,
which prevails in England, between Coons of Common
Law and Courts. of Equity, pervades in a consider-
able degree, the whole administration of civil justice,
not only is England,' but in Wales, in Ireland, and
in several of the dependencies of the Crown of the
United Kingdom, in various parts of the globe;" and
therefore they felt it their duty, and indeed the ex-
tent of their commission, 44 to consider that system, as
the foundation upon which they were to proceed, and{
to endeavour to discover whether the.administration of
justice under it• was not capable of improvement, and
tosuggest whatever might appear to them likely to
produce that improvement."
,That the Report will satisfy every person we do not
expect, since nothing less we believe than the destruc-
den of the Court glf Chancery,
and the Loan CHAN-
CELLOR along with it, would please some persons ; hot,
that the Committee have neither filed to discover, nor
attempted to conceal some of its imperfections (and
what system is perfect), will be seen by the folio vial

eittraCt :mm
" Aldforegb As general plan. span 'obi& preetellings iA the
equitable jurisdiction of the Court of Chanter/ ant notedial, ap.
pease to us to be as wail esileubood, as say 'sloe* Nei' tumid ise
,devised, to secure the mod adedaistretfun utjastis, IX these easel

derable. nut events in England have hdd an itliMediate which fail within its jurtiiiictidn tee We' appfelietid that lake A-
nsi very injurious effect. widens may be safely proposed, and bead icillly adopted."
All advances in the timber exported have been re- The principal complaints against the Court of Chan-
fused, and several considerable orders have been .re- cery, are the, delay. and the expense. With regard to the
yoked. The owners of the great saw mills in Werme-
del ly, the Committee, after acknowledging that it'preo
land have asked teller of the Government, and the Go-
trails to a certain event, say,
vernment of Gottetiburg has represented the bad effects
" Yet we are satisfied. from the whole of the inVestigatisin before
us, that much misconception has arisen relative to the tutees of that
that the failures may have on the iron trade, because the delay which so frequently incurs in the progress of a ehaseery
funds from which the owners of iron works at the suit; and that much of it is imputable, neither to the Court, nor to
fair of Chi istinehammd receive advances, towards the its established rules of practice; but to the carelessness of some
end of the month, have been necessarily employed in Panes the obstinacy or knavery of others, or the inattention or
covering the prote.ted bills of exchange. His Majesty ignorance of agents."
ordered some Members of the Council of State to ex-
The investigation most completely exonerates the
L,.
amine into the mitten—The Deputies of the iron officeearned Judge who now presides in the Court of Chan
have expressed their readiness to employ that part.of cery, from all blame as to the delays in his Court,
wh:ch do not originate sith him, and are beyond his
the 60,000 dollars allowed by the Diet for such pur-
controul. In addition to the delays occasioned by the
poses, which is not yet disposed of. His Majesty has
ignorance, c -relessoess or knavery of the parties, and
also caused 250,000 dollars to be paid to the deputies
we mig' t s metimes add, of Solicitors in a Chancery
of the iron office, with which it is hoped the present
exigency may be met. suit, there are other causes of delay, as in the common
case of bills filed for the protection of the property of
This forenoon we received Hamburoh Papers to the . •
infants, when the suit must last until such infants attain
19th instant. They contain accounts from St. Peters- ,their ages of twenty-one years; and many trusts ate of
burgh, but they are not of a recent date. An article
much longer duration; the protection of property by
from Warsaw, dated the 4th inst. states that the Polish
the Court, and consequently the existence of the suit,
Senate had sent an address to the Emperor of RUSSIA, is therefore necessarily continued until some person be.
expressing its affliction at the death of the late Emmen,
comes the absolute owner of the property administered.
and requesting to be allowed to erect a monument to his
With regard to the expense of the Court of Chancery,
memory. His MAJESTY, by a Cabinet Order, expresses his
i tis the unavoidable result of the delays and if the lat.
great satisfaction and entire concurrence with this pro. ter can remedied, the former will be consequently
posal, and orders the uniform of a Polish General, which
lessened.
Itbe late. EMPEROR used to wear when he went iu the
The Committee, having taken these, subjects into
midst of the Representatives of the City of Poland,
mature consideration, have recommended some rime-
be preserved as a dear and valuable memorial in the dial measures, in 188 distinct propositions, for the.
Archives of the Senate. improvement of the present system. Oa these it is
impossible we can at present dwell at any length, for
they are connected with the whole progress of a suit in
the Court of Chancery. They are calculated to pro-
vide against the delays in the publication of the evidence.
in the hearing, in the taking down the decree of the
Judge, in the reference to the Master, in the business of
the Accountant• General, &c.
A material improvement is proposed in the appoint-
ment of Ten Commissioners of Bankrupts to act as a
Court of Appeal from the ordinary Commissioners,
three of them sitting in rotation for that purpose; and
it is also suggested that the time for hearing Bankrupt
Petitions should be extended. It is recommended
that the Vice-Chancellor's Court should be put on the
same independent footing as the Rolls, and means
are roposed to restrain frivolous appeals from both
,those Judges to the LORD CHANCELLOR. The Com-
mittee also recommend that two additional Registrars
be immediately appointed, and suggest the propriety
kof taking measures for securing a constant supply of
persons properly qualified to fill those offices in future;
in case it should not be thought fit to put the whole
restablishment of the Registrar's Office upon a dif-
ferent footing:*
Considerable improvementls alio suggested on the
subject of fees, which cannot fail to lessen the eXpense.
of a Chancery suit ; it is recommended thAt the Clet ks
in the Master's office shall have a fixed terhUneittien
instead of fees,ihat the price of mph* be reduced,
and that' the Masters should-muse to receive profit
.1, •
from them.
Such are a few of the many suggestions for improve-
ment in the practice of the Court of Chancery, and we
hail the Report as one instance more of the eagerness
of Ministers to reform whatever is faulty in the ad-
ministration of justice, and as undeniable evidence of
the seal, talent, and uncompromising integrity with
which the Commissioners hare discharged their import:
ant and arduous trust. The consent of the Lotto Carew-
cau.on to bt come a Member of the Committee, and the
signing the Report with his name, are the best proofs
that he neither feared investigation, nor deprecated re-
form, in the Court over which he has so long, so ably,
and so honourably presided.

The mission of his Grace the Duke of Wecunoron,
has eoransenced soder favourable amplees. The first interview of
his Grace with kis Imperial MAISMY bore the aspect not merely
of a gracious feeling towards the Ambassador, but of an unequivocal
concurrence in the great °Meet of his embassy, vie. the preservation
of unbroken tranquillity throughout Europe.
It is uoderitood that his Grace was charged with what might be
termed credentials, from France, and Austria, and Prussia, as well
as from Great Britain, all calculated. to impress the Cabbies of St.
Petersburg,' Kith the conviction that the above great Powers were
unanimous in their purpose-
-Ist. Of protecting the Greeks against the Ottomans.

Of protecting the latter against an attack from Russia.
The Doke of Wattmeos is said to have received the most
prompt assurances of thesuisfaction with which the Emperor Ns.
cuotas regarded the Ara of the two objects exploined to him, and
of his entire aetrthitionin the second. • •
The Ave most powerful &ates of Christendom are now, it is elided,
to unite in a common and peremptory declaration to the GRAND
Smoaroa, that Greece shall no longer be occupied or invaded by his
antiles.—that be must give op all pretend'ss to the sovereignty of
that people, and erase in any manner to molest them.
On their part it is affirmed that the Greeks, aware of the negoti-
ation with .Russia, and contemplating its esecessfol result, have
u&tud the constitutional threw of their amity to each in metes-
dm of three foreign Princes—the Duke of Strassz, Levens of
Sale-Coburg, and the son of Gtorravos the Swede ; but that by
none of shun has the royal prize been accepted. The Greek nation,
however, will be left to the choice el' its sent Chief, and of the
form of Government which best my suit its genius, waats, or
prejudices.
With respect to. Ramie, she will feel the necessity of abstaining
from any positive act, or emir/1m demonstrations and menaces of
aggression upon Turkey. • •P

O
it k repotted, tit .t regard being had to the very deli
cate circumstances is, which the Kingdom and Royal Family or
Portagal are placed by the demise of the Crown, and coin*: es
tanglements of the Emperor: td Beam, the existing Resew,
it continued foe soine.conslderable titnet.ettd to be aityponed by
tbe,influencent the Bibb* and French. Governments. Toprittiet
it, a strong eipladrim d lielglisb men of war' has been giailually
,collrettifg in the Tagus, whet! it nowtremains; and *be*, t cannel
(44 toles*, the necessat y C.iaidente in the lt sour atAl lacy Minis•
ten, asaiLst all opponteta.
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