Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-02-11
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VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.

The House OF Delegates is still engaged on the
Judiciary resolutions. Yesterday Mir. McFar
land addressed it, in very close and handsome
argument, in opposition to the second resolution,
uniting equity and common law justice.
But, Notwithstanding the ability with which
the discussion has been conducted, and the I'M
portance of the question, House, lobby and gale
ry, are weary of the subject The topic is dry
aud exhausted, presenting in fact, but the simple
enquiry, whether under the plan proposed, Of I'M
lting law and equity jurisdiction in the same
judi es. nd Sc nding one to every county of the
commonwealth, the business can be done with
reasonable despatch. and done WELL Heretofore,
this question has been blended with another
whether the Constitution gave the Legislature
power over the subject. But as the Convention
has expressly confded full power to the Legisla-
ture, that question is now at an end; and thus
restricted it is wonderful how the enquiry can be
so spun out. That the debate has been tolerated
thus long, is proof of the talent of the speakers,
which has contrived to make that of some inter-
est and attraction, its nature destitute of either,
and meagre and barren of the materials Of elOcu-
ton.
What is most remarkable concerning this dis
cussion, is that it is admitted on all hands, as it
regards the second resolution Offending law and
equity to be wholly gratutous-or rather for the
country and not for the House of Delegates-it
being well known fact, that probably three
fourhs of the body are pledged TO it, by the known
will of their constituents.
Considering that the subject is exhausted-that
the bone # we may SO say, is sucked OF the mar
row-that the 9th week of the session is nearly
terminated-that nothing is yet done, and that
there is much to do, important, necessary, indis-
pensabe-we trust that the House of Delegates,
in its wisdom, will close the dscussion.-Rich-
mond Uhig.-S
We received the Southern mail too late yester.
day evening, to admit of copying any thing more
than the following abstract from the Wing, of Sa-
turday. Yesterday, it will be observed the Re-
solutions of the Committee of Courts of Justice
the Judiciary, were disposed of-the
House of Delegates by great majorities, adopting
the cd and Sd, uniting Equity and Common Law
Justice in the same Judge, and carrying Court
into each County. The whole subject, with the
proposed by different gentlemen,
is again before the Committee of Courts of Justice
for the purpose of arrangement by bill.
fredericksburg .arena.
Yesterday the House of Delegates was princi-
pally occupied in Committee of the Whole on the
Duelling BiII--Richmond Whig, Feb. 6.
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Plus YIH-Francis Xaverius Castigione,
called Plus VIII. after mis- election to the Pom
ifcal See.) was born in 1889 at Cingolia, a
mall town in the states Of the Pope, distant a.
,out 100 miles from one of the most illustrious
amllies of Italy; the ChatilIons Of France and I
he CastigIiones Of Italy being. according to the
'es, accounts, nearly related. 4be subject of /
he present notice manifested sa<San early age !
reat industry and an extraordinary facility in