The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-28 00:00:00

APPELLANT JURISDICTION.

The Lords' Committee on the Appellant Jurisdiction
has made its first Report. It gives interesting views of
the causes of delay and the means of preventing it hence-
forth. It is an important fact stated by the Committee..
that it would take five years to go through the appeals
at present pending, supposing the wheel of appellant
litigation, during that time, to stand still. The Cote.
mittee proposes to check the growth of appeals, and to
disengage the time of the Lord Chancellor. For the
former purpose, it is recommended, thin in Scotland''
(which produces a vastly great diaprop-qtion of appeals)
an intermediate appeal should be established, in either of
three n ays—the most advisable of which, on the first
view, seems to be, the giving of an appeal from any one
section of the Court of Session, to the whole Court—and
making the jurisdiction in Scotland final in ozone cases
hereafter to be specified. Secondary to this, the Com-
mittee proposes such an alteration in the procrealibgs in
Scotland as would extend the trial by Jury, beyond its
actual spltere—and separate the facts from the I aw,
so that the hitter ouly should come tinder the
cognizance of the aprellant'sjsristliction in England. In
order to re ieve the Lord Chancellor. various matters ore
proposed to be referred henceforth to the Courts in West-
minster-halt, in some instances—as writs of error—at the
discretion o: the Chancellor. The most important recommen-
dation, however, is that which would releue hint from tho
prescriptive honour of presiding over the proceedings of the
House of Peers. It is proposed that a new Prolocator, or
Speaker. should be appointed by warrant from the King,
being or wit being a Peer of Parliament. It might he deemed
p.esumptuous to give any judgment in detail of the recom-
mendation of this Committee. ant it may he permitted
to question their adevaey to meet the vast accumu-
lation of business which is intended to he redaced and
checked. Considering the weightof the bankruptcy and
lunacy jarisaiction, the appeal from the Vice-Chancel-
lor's Coop, the actual arrear of hasiness in the Coan-
c.llor's own Co•lrt, and the progressive increne of
Chancery salts, almost from, year to year, singe true ar.

At the Dublin Commission Court on Tuesday, Thunna
Martin was found guilty of Bigamy, in having at tli
Parish of St. Mary's Dublin, unlawfully married Ann*
Sailing ; his former wife (Catherine Wright, to whom
he had been married in the Parish of St. Luke, Middle-
sex,) being then alive. Ho was sentenced to be trans-
ported for 7 years.
The Cork Adviser, of Saturday says :—Two nights
ago, Temple Valley, near Tallow, the residence of Col.
Uniacke, was broken into by a party of Insurgents it is
supposed, with the intention of assassinating him. Thy
family, however, were prepared ; and three of his sots.
after a severe contest, succeeded in repelling the ruffians.
whom they pursued for ?me distance, keeping up a well-
directed fire. As the morning approached, evident tracer
of ranch blood were discernible along the line of retreat,
and immediate application being made to Henry liu•n-
bleton, Esti, of Curriglats•house, he promptly and spirit-
edly joined in an active search, whsn one fellow despe-
rately wounded, was found concealed in a corn field.—
Little doubt is entertained, but that he is one of the
party; and as many others must have been wounded, it
is hoped that this circumstance wi►l lead to further de
tection.

VAI.TIAT. Jim; 18.—The troopslnattered here have
been kept. for some reason or another, more upon the
alert, for a few days past, than lserrtofore.—There ap-
-1 pears also, to be an unusual vigilance on the part of all
those to whom the pr. servation of the peace belongs as
a peculiar they. Any soldier billetted out of Barracks,
is strictly ordered to deposit h's musket, bayonet, &a. in
the barracks, previously to his retiring at night to his
queers. A strong military patrol parades the streets
at night. There is no doubt that some suspicions are
entertained of the nature of which we do not affect to
be informed. The lest Connaught Journal would in-
sinuate, that there have been some anonymous communi-
cations made to the tiovernusent respecting the state of
Galway. The 64A ernment do not generally pay ►ery
implicit attention to rape or inonynsons communica-
tions. It may not, perhaps, he very wild or very silly
to suspect that some itd..rmation has been conveyed to
the Cus:le. authenticated by real and most respectably
signatizres.—(Golicuy Chronicle.)
' The vacancy in the Kornai Catholic See of Cashel, in Ire-
land, has beta at length declared duly filled up by the no-
mination long since mid* by the clergy of the dioeeae, iii
favour of the Rey. Dr. 1.4 w. A question was raised at
Rome as to the propriety of 3.s:intoning the principle of do-
mestic nonunion in ttse parson of this Rev. Gentleman
in the discussions upon that Point, the Rev. Dr. Ryan, who
was sent out for the purpose, ab'y sustained the right of the
clergy to exercise this power, as well as_the Steen for the
sac.rpl edrice of the !Awned and Reverend Gentleman
whom ,hey elected. It is said that the Hanoretian Minister
at Rome exerted all his indoence its order to rat Dr. Cola's
appointed to the See in tptestiou.