Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-01-26


EBe Constitutional g2Ibt9.
MONDAY MORNING, January rs, $50.
phe dilatory proceedings OF our jodicial tribu
nuls, have long been cause Of grievous complaint te
onr citizsns. 1t was said by gentlemen in tho late
Convention, who were well qualified to decide, tina,
tue chief cause of complaint, originated with tho
Counsel, and not with the Court. This may have
aean the case, and VIC arc not disposed to dispute it,
b.t even il such were the cnse, is the censurc upon
the Judges less just! Il not the Bar under their con.
trout; and cannot the Judges exercise the power YES,
ted in them, to compel tho Attornies Of the several
Courts, to attend to their dutys Cur attention has
been drawnto this subject, by the following para
graph. which we extract from the London Courier, OF
I'd OF December lest.
LoRD TEsDsRDEs, it will he rooollected, intiuutsd
last week that oil cnses appointed to be hoard before
che Judges sitting b baaro al or term, under the au
thorty OF his Majestys warrant, i'll which the par
IRIS Counsel or Attornics) were not in attendance
when they were called on, would be struck out of the
pnper, and no excuse be- allowed for their restoration.
ahe Court has since issued q notice, which it seems
important should be generally known. Ilhe reason
OF so many CAGES being struck out at the last sitting
IN October was tho absence ofCounscl and Attornies,
IN consequence OF a general understanding as to the
particular cases which the Court Intended to take;
TOR, although their Lordships issoed q written notice,
% siVy q uOuS Oh IN pECdtnt CCCdskOA, II ulU nOt,
We believe, gain general publicity. a list has now
been put up OF the cusos intended to be heard, and
k1re Court has issued tho following no,ice:-
"Cuuntry new trials (except those tried before
Iaud Tenterden) ia the order in which they stand
On the paper.
Especial cases will be taken in the order in Which
they stand, unless previous application, upon special
grounds, be made to the Court.
; CAN cases in which Co,,ussl arc not in attendance
VIII be struck out, unless it shall appear to the
Court, upon the statement Of Counsel, or Of one of
the Attornies in the cause, that in cases in the spe-
cfal paper the Counsel who had been instructed to
aYgue on one side s,-or in those in the now
trial paper all the Counsel Oh one side are,-absent
from town, i'll, OF unavo,dably engaged ut .kf~i Prius;
under which circumstances the special case s will be
allowed to remain. Ii the COUNSEL on one eide are
In attendance, and those on the other absent, with
out such exouss, Judgment viii be given in favour
CT tho former
While remarking upon this subject, we cnnnot re-
frain from comment, upon the system by which juries
are supplied. It'll a grievous evil upon the citizens
ofHichmoad, and We havo frequently heard loud COM
pinints upon this subject. There is hardly a week in
the year, that some Court requiring iaries, 10 not
in session. Fhe Comfy and Hastings Conrts. cit
four times q year each. The SUPERIOR Court of
Law three times. phe General Coutt twice, beside
The United States Courts. There cau be no doubt.
that in all these Coorts. save one, the County ought
TO bear it's proportion OF the trouble and expence, and
loss of tinc sustained by Jurors. Now how is the
facts The Deputy Sherifs require whom they please
to attend and serve, and it needs NO prophecy to tell
that they will exercise this power, in manner least
troublesome to themselves. Instead therefore, OF trav-
cling through the county to procure its proportion of
jurymen, the practice is, and has been for years. to
sroaf tho Main, and business streets Of Richmond,
and compel the attendance of that very class of our
citizens, who can least spare the time. Our mer-
Chants perform more judicial duties, thnD all the rest
Of our citizens put together. we have no doubt
that if their grievances we're fairly placed before tho
Legislature. that a system would be devised, which
would remedy the present defects in the system, and
we therefore recommend ii TO our citizens, to have a
petition prepared, and presented to The next General
Assembly, on this subject.
sBank Of The STATE 9' Tsnnessee.-The Cashier of
this Bank, Col. Joel Parrish, has heen displaced, and
Wm. II. Berryhill, Esq. appointed IN his place. Pbis
was in consequence ofa deficit on hts part, conjectu-
red to amount to $50 900. Pho friends Of the CT de-
vuut Cashier stoutly defend his integrity, ind insist
that the defalcation vas occasioned by his permitting
friends who had no money on deposit, to draw to the
amount above stated. at fvst he refused either to
surrender the books, or to give any account of The
~tppdition of afFairs-but it appears by the subjoined
article from the Nashville Republican of the 18th,
tlrat he had subsequently given up the books to per-
SONS appointed by the Legislature (which happened
to be in SESSION. to receive them.
M. Chairruan and Gcnn2ucn If the jgiot Cowuitfes OH Bn,ts:
The undersigned. to whom by your resolution, was referred
she duty of receiving from Joel Parrish, late Cashier of the
Baub Of the State of Tennessee, such books and papers as re
had removed, beg leave TO report, that they have performed
that duty, and that said books and papers have been delivered
over, aud are now in their safe custody. TO he disposed Of as
your resolution has directed They have made such at,e x-
amination as the slortness of time would admit, the result oi
yhich has satisfied them that no alterations, additions, Or FRA
s,fes, have been made since the books were removed. They
are totally unable from the examination they have made, to as
certain the probable loss which the Bank has sustained, and
indeed owingt to the fact of the accounts Of persons at SAID
Bank having remained without being posted or balanced for
some eighteen months or two years past, they are convinced ii
cannot be done by them during this session OF the Legislature
Consistently with other engagements. lf such a measure Is
contemplate IT., the Cashef that will have 10 be re elected by the