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COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER t.
ATTortxvv-GENERAL N. BULLER.

This case stood for judgment to-dav ; but, after
some conversation on the subject of the two petitions
which were presented on Friday last, the LORD CHAN-
Et.eort postponed judgment till to-morrow.
The first Cause on the list having been called by
tl:c Clerk, an apology was offered by the Counsel for
not being prepared to pinceel in it, in consequence of
a misunderstanding respecting the place it held on
the paper. The second was then called, and a simi-!
hr apology was made. Ilis Lordship smiled, and
desired the next to be called ; but the third was des-
tiiled to share the fate to which " the law's delay"
had doomed its two predecessors. To a remark of '
his Lordship's, that this cause had been set dowu for
hearing to-day at the express request of the Counsel,
it was replied by the latter, that had the two first
,causes proceeded, as there was reason to expect, they
You'd have occupied the Court all day. Ills Lord-
ship then whispered to the Clerk to try another; the
fourth was accordingly called, and after a long pause,
Mr. WETHERELL rose, and stated that he had de-
voted a whole day to the study of his brief, and was
prepared to proceed ; but he believed the Counsel on
the other side had not expected the cause to come on
so soon. After some desultory conversation on the
subject, the LORD CHANCELLOR said he had no ob-
jections to a walk in the Park; but the Court of
Chancery could not afford to observe Saint Mon-
days ; and therefore, as Mr. Wetherell was so well
prepared, as he must be after a whole day's study, he
might as well proceed.
BROWN V. DE TASTET.
This was an appeal from the deci,ion of the late
Master bf the }lolls. The plaintiff had filed a Bill
for the production of certain accounts against the
defendant De Tastet, and De Pavier, another partner
in thc same firm ; and the late Master of the Rolls
had dismissed the Bill with costs, as against De Pa-
vier, but had sustained it as against De Tastet.
After Mr. WETHERELL had been heard at great
length, his Lordship directed the case to stand for
further bearing to-morrow, the Counsel for the re-
spondent nut being prepared w gc on.

001.7 RT OF KING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER 8.
JURISDICTION OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
We mentioned in our Law Report of yesterday,
that Mr. JONATHAN EVANS had moved, on Saturday,
'n behalf of a person named John Cowan, for a
Writ of Prohibition, to be directed to the Lord
Chancellor, sitting in Bankruptcy, for the purpose of
pin-eating the execution of an Order made by his
Lordship, in a case of ex-parte Richmond, and that
the Court had refused the application, announcing,
at the same time, that they should look into the Sta-1
totes concerniag Bankruptcy, and if any doubt re-
mained, they would mention the case again, on ac-
count of its importance. At the sitting of the Court,
this morning,
The CHIEF Jt7srtce again adverted to the case,
and delivered the written opinion of the Court, in
confirmation of what passed on Saturday, that the
Lord Chancellor had jurisdiction in the case which
was the subject of the motion. The Court was the
more inclined to this decision, inasmuch as since the
first institution of the Bankrupt Laws, now more
than 300 years ago, no instance had ever occurred
in which this Court had been called upon to restrain
an alleged excess of jurisdiction on the part of the
Lord Chancellor. The Court, however, did not dis-
claim any authority to entertain such an application,
in a case prop:r for its interposition ; but they were',
clearly of opinion that this was not such a case, and,
therefore, refused the Rule.
In the course of the day several motions were made
for new trials, in cases tried at Guildhall, and at the
late Assizes, but none of them were of general im-
portance. Mr. HUNT had come into Court at its
first Sitting, but finding its attention preoccupied by
the above-mentioned business, he went away, and re-
turned again about three o'clock, when finding that
the Court was still going thiough the Bar with'
motions of the same nature, lie spoke pi ivately to,
Mr. DEALTRY, in the Crown Office, requesting
him to mention to the CHIEF JUSTICE that he had a
motion to make, for which he bad been in attendance
the whole day. Mr. DEALTRY, accordingly, at the
first opportunity, mentioned the circumstance to his
Lordship, when a discussion, upon the follewing sub-
3ect, took place :
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