The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-06 00:00:00

THE GREAT CHANCELLOR BROUGHAM•

The blunders and ignorance of Lord Brougham as Lord
Chancellor are daily developing themselves. We have already
exhibited three cases, in which either the most shameful care-
lessness or woeful inability has been detected and exposed- in
open court. This week comes another.
eoutur or CHANCRRY.—MONDAY.
Mr. Burge applied to the Lord Chancellor to grant a re-
hearing in a case, the name
.of which was not mentioned. It
had been fully argued before Lord Brougham, and that learned
ju Ige bad disposed of it, but in a manner so unsatisfactory to
his clients,
_ that they felt; compelled to make this application.
17w late Chancellor had in this, as well as in several , other cases,
declined to pronounce judgment in open court, but satisfied his.con-
science by endorsing on the copy of papers handed to the court the
.words ",Judgment reversed," or "judgment affirmed," as the case
might be. Of this short-hand mode of di.posing of mutters of
great personal importance his clients naturally cumplain,d The
learned gentleman was proceeding into the detail of the facts of
the case when he was stopped by the Lord Chancellor, who said
the application must be blade on the next seal day. it Was al.
tovther irregular to take motions to-day.
These are no " quirks or quiddits,"—tiaese are no jokes about
his madness, or his nose, or his drunkenness, or any Of those
things in which the looser sort of vituperators deal. 'Here are
facts—reports from the courts—facts involving the fate of suit-
ors, the property of individuals, the interests of families. It
really.is monstrous, and more monstrous than all, that the man,
who, being turned out of the office which be never had the ca-
pacity to fill, and for which, as is notorious, Lord Grey never
intended him, should be lauded up to the skies for having done
such a wonderful deal of business in the court, arid cleared it of
arrears. \Vhv, so could any body, who wrote judgments with-
out ever opening a case, and who, when he did give a judgment
in court, delivered it from a paper not written by hit-used. The
extent of mischief this eccentric person has done is not yet
known, nor can it be ascertained at present ; but we have rea-
son to believe that, as time rolls on, discoveries will be made,
which will perfectly astonish the innumerable dupes of the no-
ble and learned (by courtesy) editor of The Penny- Magazine.—
Juhn Bull.
[A statement is now going the round of the Londoti•clubs
and saloons, that the ex-chancellor has written to. Mr. Chitty,
the celebrated pleader, for his opinion as to whether lie
.( Lord
Brougham) can or cannot resign his peerage. To suppose for
a moment that the noble and learned lord has done so is. to sup-
pose him utterly ignorant of the •cobstitution of • the British
peerage. A peer cannot un-peer himself. ' The present Earl of
Berkeley calls himself Captain Berkeley, but, by an order of
the House of Lords, was compelled to sit and vote on the trial
of Queen Caroline. if the -noble and learned lord be really
anxious again to become Mr. Henry Brougham, the three estates
of the realm will, no doubt, oblige -him by passing an act reliev-
ing him from the disagreeable duty of sitting in the House of
Lords, or of receiving-his live thousarid a-year as ex-chancellor.
, A great deal too much has been said about. this splendid quack.
' There are other matters of much greater importance Which
ought to wimpy the attention of the public.—E. L. Si