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    • THE NORTHERS STAR SATURDAY, JVItY S, 1851.
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      C 8 EAT AI * I > IMPORTAST BENEFITS TO AJLI . CLASSES . rriBE UNITED PATKIOTS' NATIONAL BENEFIT SOCIETY , AND BKITISII fiJll'IKE FUEEHOLu LAXD AND BUILDING SOCIETY ¦ Uni ted m action . Enrolled and Empowered by Act of Parliament to extend over the United Kingdom . AGENTS KEO . CIBED TO KWH LOCALITIES 1 . V AIL PAETS OF GREAT BRITAIN Bankers . —The Commercial Bank of London ( Hranch ) « , Henrietta Street , Covent Garden . Society ' s Ofjice . —So . 13 , Tottenham Court , l > eiv Jload , St . Pancras , London . IUX ! 0 . iroiua Kern-, Founder , Manager , 3 UU Secretary . —iht . JoII . v Smith , Treasurer . SociETl ' S JIEETISG ilorSE . — Lauio aud llaj ; , ' Jt < , se Street , >\ w Street , Cuvent Garden . —Meetings every Tuesday evening at Ei ? ht o ' clock . DrVPI'n ^ l r- *> T- ¦ . »¦«»¦ . _ .-. _ . —

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      THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY AND BALL OF THESE FLOURISHING INSTITUTIONS . Kill be celebrated on Tuesday , . July Sfh , 185 J , at Highbury Barn , Tavern , Islington . Mr . John Smith , treasurer , in hechair . Unner on tabb ; at Two o ' clock precisely . Tickets to admit a Gentleman to Dinner and Ball . 4 s . 6 d . ; tickets to admit a Lady to Dinner and Ball , 3 s . 'Ihe Ball will commence atEight o'clock in the Evening . Single Ball fickets , I .-. ; Double Ball Tickets , to admit a Lady and Gcn'leman , or Two Ladies , Is . Gd . Tickets to Oe had of the Jecretarv , at tbe Office , at llighbnry Barn Tai-ern , and of the Stewards . Conductor of the Ball , Mr . Clements .

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      Ji'ISWKA II <> ft . THE BRITISH EMPIRE PERMANENT EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION SOCIKTY . To secure to each Member a Farm of not less than Twenty-Five Acres of Land in America , by sma ll Weekly or Monthly Contributions . Losoo . n Office : —13 , Tott illham-courL , Non-road , i > t . Pancras . —D . W . IlUFFi , Secretary . OBJECTS . f VALUE OF SHARES . To purchase a large tract of Land in the Western States ! „ . , . . *« . , .. ¦> / . m , t ,. » f America , npro « hich to locate Members , giving twentv- i „ ? } & ?** ^ « f , th ? , ™ 7 , ? , , ^ Twenty-Ita Sre acres to each share subscribed for . lounds ; to be raised by Monthly or Weekly Subscnptions , To erect Dwellings , and clear a certain portion of the as * oUuns - ' — Utr . d oa eacii allotment , previous to the uriivul of the " P < ljlneut Of Ninepence per week for ten years will tlkttees . amount to £ 19 10 s . ; bonus £ 5 10 s . A payment of Sis-To provide for the location of groups , holding the Land P « ' «« per " cek for fifteen years will amount to JE 1 » 10 s . ; in common , as well as for individuals , s- 'curing to each bonus £ o 10 s . Repayments may be made to the Society in lit-ir collective and separate rights and immunities . Money , Produce , or Labour . To purchase in large quantities , for the common benefit , Prospectuses , Rules , Forms of Application for Shares , ill necessary live and dead stock , and other requisites , and every other information , may be h d at the Office as lupplying each Member oa location with the quantity re- ] above . AH applications by letter , addressed to the Secrejuirrd at cost price . tary , must bo prepaid , and enclose a postage stamp fol io establish a deput , from which to provide each ftmily . reply . By enclosing twelve postage stamps a copy of the ( villi the required qua-. tity of wholesome food , until their Rules will be forwarded , post free . Forms of Entrance bv >\ vn land produced sufficient for their support . enclosing three postage stamps . Agents required in all parts of Great Britain .

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      E 1 IIGRATIOX . THE LAND ! THE LAND ! TO TIIE WOKKING CLASSES AXD OTHERS . In consequence oi the immense success tbat has attended the societies instituted by Mr . W . D . Ruffy , a fenfriends have joined with him in a society , for the purpose of Kmi-iration and General Colonisation ; they purpose to issue -3 , 0 < H » shares of one pound each , deposit i ' s . ( id , per share , tails is . tju . p » r month . The lollnwing eligible iurestment is now offered ;—A freehold estate iu Eastern Canada , com ' pri-ing ' M > , 0 Q 0 acres of land , within seventeen mites « f a market town and the p- > rt of -St . Francis ; from which steamers ply daily io Montreal and Quebec : ihe River Xicolet , and tbe Hirer Ifi-canconr , runs through the Estate , and are uavtgaWc f"r boats aud floating timber down to the St . Lawrence . This estate presents as much as twenty miles of fr . ntage to these riv « rs . with several mill sites , & c . ; the land , which is of a fair average quality , abounds with timVr , which , on being disposed of , it is considered will n : ore than ray the price required for the land .

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      CUKES FOR , TIIE UXCURED . ' HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT An Ejitraordhmrii Cure of Scrofula , or Jung ' s " Evil . Eitractofaletterfrom 3 Ir . J . II . Ailiday , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January - ' -lid , IS 9 O . Sm . —My eidt-st sou , when about three years of age , was afflicted wjiJi a irlanriular . swelling in the neck , which after a short thus bvokoout into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for years went on gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the * neck , another formed below- the left knee , and a third under tho eye . besides se « -en others < m the left arm , « ith a tumour between the CTCS which was expected to break . During ihe whole ol the time my suneriiu ; Iw . y bad received the constant advice ofthe most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months " at the General Hospital

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      NATIONAL CHAltTElt ASSOCIATION . Office , 14 , Southampton-street , Strand . Hi HE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE X hereby announce the following meetings : — On Sunday next , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , the Lambeth locality will meet at the South London Hall , and Mr . Pattinson , the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . At the same time the committee for inquiring into the damage done to the monumentot Hanshard , Williams , and Sharp , will meet at the City JIalL - 'fi , Golden lane , to settle the accounts . On Sunday evening next at the Cr « wn and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms , Tonbritlge-street . JTew-road , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Mr . Samuel Kydd will lecture . Subject : 'Life and Policy of Pitt . ' On the same evening , at the Literary and Scientific Institution , Leicester-place . St I ' eter ' s-terrace , Hattonir . vrden , a lecture will be delivered .

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      UTJPTURES EFFECT a ALLY CUItED ± \ i WITHOUT A TRUSS ! Dr . Alvbi-d Bmikek begs to inform the renders of the XoltTiiEBN" Stab that a Volume of Upwards of One Thousand Testimonials will shortly be published . KEAp THE FOLLOWING : — ' In the tire cases I wrote to you about , the remedy has perfectly succeeded ; send me another for a case of Scrotal Hernia . '—John Armstrong , Navy Surgeon . We have witnessed the cure of three cases of llupture by Hr . . IabkEK ' s treatment , which confirm the remarks we made some time since on the utility Of this discovery tO tllOSe Suffering from Hernia . '—MEt / ICAL JoOBXAL . < Ycur remedy has cured my Rupture , after everything else had failed . I have used violent exertion since , but lhere is no sign of its comiugdown . '—Miss Symmonds , Bayswater . A fair time has elapsed since I used your remedy , and moreover 1 have been examined by a surgeon , who declares it is quite cured . '—Mr . Potts , Bath .

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      THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE fiOLOEN UNO n A h I F ORNIA , U ITS PAST HISTORY ; ITS PRESENT POSITION ; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS : WrfH A MINUTE AND authentic ACC 0 D-Kt OP THE DISCOVERY OF TIIE GOLD REGION , AND THE SUBSEQUENT 1 MP 0 BTANT PROCEEDINGS . In the course ofthe work will be given pluh mmm to iugeahts CALIFORNIA , OR THE UNITED STATES , OR TO ' CANADA ; AUSTRALIA ; NEW ZEALAND , OB A . NT OTHER ' BRITISH ScTTUmENT . SHEWING THEM WHEN TO GO . WHERE TO GO . HOW TO GO

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      In Nos . at One Penny each , splendidly Illustrated , A HISTORY OF THE DIFFERENT EXPEDITIONS ENGAGED LY THE SEARCH FOR SIR J . FRANKLIN CONTAINING ALt . THE RECENT VOYAGES TO THE POLAR REGIONS . Including in particular the Expedition sent out under the command OF SIR JAMES ROSS TO DAVIS' STBAITS AND Of Commander Moore and Captain Kellott , to Behring ' s Straits . With an authentic copy of the dispatches received from SIR GEORGE SIMPSON , OF THE HUDSON'S BM COMPANY With other important and highly interesting

      information relative to the Expedition under SIR JOHN FRANKLIN . Compiled from various Official ZtocumenlS , and Private Communications , By tub Lme ROBERT llVJISIl , Ese .

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      ivoio Publishing in bos . at One Penny each . Uy the Authoress of' The Gipsev Giri ,. ' Each Venhy Number of this Novel will contain Sixteen Pages of solid print .

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      The RmiflEEs . — J . B ., Marjldlioiie . — Tbe last excursion trip for ( he benefit of the Exiles will leave I ' addington on Sunday ( to-morrow ) morning . : u ten o ' clock . Hungarian UefuqeK ' . —The following sums have been received by Mr . T . Brown : —Mrs . iilunt . Is . " - Thomas Blunt , » s . ; Mr . Williams , per Barakruski , 2 s . 9 d . - < Norwich , per Air . lloh ' wion , 5 s . ; Lisiiiuan , Gd . ; lUcharu Parker , Cs . lid . ; Wilson ' s , Wardoar street , Soho , ls . Gd .

      Novel Rudder . — C . ipt .-iin Comstocl ,- , of . the United States mail stc ; itu ship , lu » a placet ! in tbe Liverpool Exchange Itooins the icodelof a rudder constructed by Q ^ . L-. vston , of tne ship Warren ' bound from Glasgow to New York , and b y which that vessel with a valuable cargo and 150 passengers , was atcorcd safely to her port of destination after having lost her rudder 2 , 000 miles from New York . It is con-tructed chiefly of rope , with lashings of K-oo . 1 and iron , and was attuciiid to tbe tillei- by a reiics of chains , with - . v coupie of blocks and ropes , —Liverpool Chronicle .

      Death or Right Hon . W . S . Lasoellbs , M . P . The Right lion . W . S . LasceUes , M . L \ , Comptroller of the Queen ' s Household , dieii at six o ' clock on Wednesday evening , at his residence at Campdeo Hill , Kensington . The right hon . gentleman died r roni an affecti' -n of the brain , which , from the first symptom * , defied all medical skill , and , consequently , the members of hi * family have l < ec-i prepared for the melancholy end of his illness . Tub Mormons of Salt Like City propose to construct a railroad from the S : ilt Like to San Fran Cisco , an . I this proposition is highly favoured bv capitalists ami Ie tiling men in San Francisco ' , " Tlii » Mormons , " remarks an American corivspon-• lei . i , " i . liou :: ! i a fanatical , am rally a wnij . Jorful f . i'iip ) .: fur iii . luii . ji .-ib ' tM'iirriry , indu .-try , an . I persevi ; r . itifi ' . Already tiiey form quite a powerful ii .-it . ion in Iln « vmy mitre of . s . ivagt » tribes , and Uteii Hjcli-o / mlin > "iiUins !' . "» , i > i' () , a otl ! . < . "

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      The following Engravings of this unrivan ^ P edifice , are now ready , and may be had at this Office *—~ I-View of the Exterior of the Building ; ' a magnificent print—two feet long-esqnisitely engraved ; from a drawing furnished by Messrs . Fox and Henderson ; and consequently correct in every respect . Prick only Sixpk . vce . tt—Vmofs of the Same Print , printed on 11 IS impeml Vxmtog Taper , Price Osb

      The Northers Star Saturday, Jvity S, 1851.

      THE NORTHERS STAR SATURDAY , JVItY S , 1851 .

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      THE CHURCH IN DANGER . Last week the newspapers were liorrificd at the appearance $ f Chartism in the pulpit of one of the metropolitan Churches . A considerable amount of virtuous indignation was expended upon such an unwelcome and unseemly intruder , and tho dangers to " our Israel" forcibly pointed out , unless tho bishops interfered to put such things down with a high hand . This week the debates in Parliament have thrown some light on the reasons wh y these " Right Rev . F & thevs in God'' have no time to look after such matters . They are

      too busy in looking after their own interests , aud plundering the public property for the adraucement and aggrandisement of their own families . These eminent and pious men hare the utmost contempt for the Gospel advice" Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust corrupt , and thieves break through and steal . " They are quite prepared to encounter with Jou-like patience all these drawbacks on the possession of temporal wealth—and don't care a fig for the "incorruptible" treasures in the " other place , " which they recommend so zealously to "the poor . "

      One would think that ten millions a year for the support of a Church nominally national —but in reality not including within its pale more than one-third of the inhabitants of England—would be found quite enough to provide a sufficiency of " ghostly'' teachers and guides . According to the Marquis of Bland-FORD , the very contrary is tho case . This richly endowed Church has left the people in the midst of the most grievous " spiritual destitution . " There is not Church room for

      more than one-tentbjor one-twelfth of the population—tho supply of parsons is woefully behind the demand of the assumed market , and we are not sufficiently be-bishoped by a very long way indeed . The Marquis kindly proposes to relieve this " spiritual destitution" by splitting up parishes into smaller lots , by creating a host of new parochial clergy , and manufacturing a fresh regiment of bishops , who may wear lawn sleeves , but not sit in Parliamenttheir dut y being to stay at homo and look after the parsons in the new circumscribed dioceses allotted to them , while their more lucky brethren enjoy all the pleasures of the '' London season , " under pn . ' teace of " attending to their Parliamentary duties . "

      Before acquiescing in such a proposal , we may be permitted , with all humility , to suggest , even to sincere Churchmen , that two or three preliminary questions may be fairly asked by them . " First—Do the bishops and the clergy do all they vow they will do on being ordained to their respective positions ? Second—If not , is there any guarantee the new batch of bishops and clergy to bo created will be any more conscientious ? And , third , what chance is there that tho enormous malversa * tion and robbery of Church property , perpetrated by the dignitaries of the Church , will terminate , so long as they have its virtual management and control ?

      Tho speech of Sir B . Ham , enables us to answer these questions by anticipation . The specific facts adduced were new , but the theme was old . Mr . Horsman has , session after session , graphically depicted the g reediness , aud exposed tbe peculations of these so-called guardians and overseers of the Church , and the member for Marylebone merely supplied a few new illustrations . One of the most common modes adopted by these dignitaries of robbing tho Church , and appropriating to themselves the public property , is that of leasing on lives , or

      for certain periods , renewable by fines , the estates belonging to their sees or deaneries and chapters . Against this practice there has been a series of statutes enacted ever since the time of the Reformation itself . The plunder began , under " Bluff Ha . ij . RY ., " nvIw found himself , two years after the formal establishment of the English Church , compelled to pass the statute 38 HiiNRY VIII ., c . 28 , limiting the power of granting leases by

      any person or persons having any estate of inheritance cither in fee simple or m feetail , or in their own right , or in the right of their Churches . The direct object of the act was to secure to tho clergyman . in possession at all times the full income arising from the estate annexed to his Church ; that it was unsuccessful in preventing inal-appropviations is evident from the succession of statutes passed during the following reign of Elizabeth , and in those ofsubaequeut sovereigns .

      • The plunder of tho Church property perpetrated under cover of these leases is perfectly astounding . In tho old Danish and Norman times , when a marauding baron and his hungry retainers fixed their eyes on the castles and broad lands of their neighbours , they at least risked life and limb , and the certainty of good hard "blows , before they accomplished their object . But the episcopal plunderers went a quieter way to work in alienating the property confided to tllCll' keeping as trustees and tenants for life . Here is the cunning scheme by which the Church

      or tho public retaining the nominal fee simple of that property has , in fact , in very maincases been juggled out of all , but a very remote reversionary interest in it : All lease ' s for twenty-one years are renewed at the end of ever y seven years for a nominal rent to the lessor , of the amount of two years real rent of the estate . By this , seven years are added to the fourteen unexpired of tho lease , so that the estates leased for twenty-one years produce to the Church only two-sevenths of their value ; the '" parson" who does this neat little job , poekecting the other five-sevenths as the reward tor his ingenuity . Tho

      leases for three lives are , in like maimer renewed upon the dropping of one life for a nominal rent , upon payment of a fine of two years' income of the estate . A lease for three young lives is equal to a term of seventy-two years , and grants away ninety-four per cent , of tho fee simple . In order to give an idea of the nmlapprnprhitiou and wholesale plunder effected b y this mode of Clerical " conveyance , " we shall Lake the case of St . Paul ' s tho Metropolitan Cathedral , hi the rei gn o f the two last Gbouoks , the "dilapidations' ' committed in this . . ray [ , y the Prebends upon the estates confided to their care , amounted to no less a sum than Jl ' AX & M :, . Add to

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      these nice pickings , £ 586 , 781 reserved to tho Church , and paid for doing nothing , and we have JV t ^ J n ninety-nine years of £ 4 , 139 , 346 , or one hundred and fourteen pounds a day ! The Communists and lied 7 ? -publicans will find it difficult , we fear , to emulate £ J ' ^ ^ ° ? their voracious and saintly predecessors , when they set about doing what the Times says they intend to do . But it is not to the estates directly intrusted to them these wholesale spoliations are con-* v , „ oo nino ninkincrfl . -PKRfi 7 R 1 roonrirnrl in thfl

      fined , Wherever—by position or collateral circumstances—any property , foundation " , or endowment for educational or charitable purposes , is committed to their management , they always manage in the long run to devour it . Take for instance a case in the see of Rochester . A fund was left for the support of six old bedesmen , ' who w * ere to receive £ 40 a year each . Like many other charities of a specific nature thus devised , it lapsed for want of the objects to which it was devoted . Since 1790 there has been no " bedesman " in Rochester .

      The last of them , Thomas Feathekstone , having died in that year . Honest men would have applied to the Loivd CiiANCELLOB for a new " scheme , ' 'by which tho charity might have been made miuistraut to the public benefit . Not so with the Rochester Chapter . They appropriated to themselves the £ 2 , 400 yearly , that should have gone to the support of the " six bedesmen , '' and their clerk used—till lately—to go through the farce of calling , " Thomas Eeatheustone , come forward and receive your annuity !" when lie and his masters knew that

      ; said Thomas had been in his grave for sixty years . This scandalous job was some time since put a stop to . Six poor old men were appointed , instead ofthe defunct "bedesmen , " to receive the benefit ofthe charity . The Chapter is notorious for non-residence and non-performance of duty , besides a most capacious maw for all the stray property they can lay their hands upon . They are by no means pleased at the change , and charge by their clerk , these poor old men a fee of 10 s . on paying them £ l 10 s . 10 d ., or more than thirty per cent , on the incomes of these recipients of charity ; while they grumble loudly at paying three and a half per cent , to the CHANCELLOR of the Exchequeb , out of the thousands they receive annually for doing nothing .

      We have not space to advert to other illustrations ofthe mannerin which these shepherds fleece instead of feeding their flocks , or to enumerate thecasesin which churches have , in some places , totally disappeared , and no service whatever has been performed in the parishes for many years—of others in ruins , where the cattle walk in and cut at their pleasure , and the baptismal font is converted into a pigtrough by wandering porkers—of rectors and vicars , who pass their years in continental cities or travels , and leave the drudgery and the responsibilities of their offices to poor curates , who are paid , in many instances , not one-half the salaries of the butlers , or the footmen of their ecclesiastical superior .

      The question is , when these facts are made public in Parliament , by lay members of this very church—when erceu . the TeuoubtaWe Ix-GLIS and GoULBOUBNare shamed into silence , and dare scarcely offer an excuse for their "pious clients , " whether " extension" or extirpation is the measure most needed . The Marquis of BLANDFOBD- is for the former . What think you ? . Suppose some honest man were to propose the appropriation of the whole

      of the remaining revenues and estates to the establishment of a national , efficient , and gratuitous system of Secular Education , aud leave "the church" to stand upon its proper foundation as a religious corporation alone ? That would be stigmatised , no doubt , as spoliation . But would it not be a more creditable application of the public money than suffering it to be jobbed , alienated , aud plundered by a set of rapacious and insatiable "black slugs , " in tho way we have shown it ?

      A People ' s Parliament would effect a radical reform of this monster abuse—this foul den of corruption , and restore to healthy circulation the wealth which is now improperly , and too often fraudulently , employed in pampering a bloated episcopacy and an idle , luxurious parsonocracy .

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      REFORMATION OF THE LAW . Cheap Law and real justice may be said to be the panacea for most of the oviis , political and social , which afibct society ; but if the people possessed the franchise , and were their own Law-makers , improvements still would he required to meet the advanced spirit of tiie age , for Law , like every other science , must progress .

      We have always rendered assistance to obtain a reformation of all the abuses iu tho State , and though the present subject may possess but few points for the interest of tho general reader , still it should never be forgotten— " That Lnw grinds the poor , And rich men rule the Law ;" and that no class of society is more interested in the impartial administration of justice than the working classes .

      Perhaps no man has done more for the improvement of our Courts of Judicature than Lov ^ BunVjGHAM ; aud it is gratif ying to find that the cheapness and facility of proceedings in the County Courts bid fair to shut up the Law Courts altogether , and to compel the gentlemen of the long robe to turn their legal lore to pursuits beneficial , instead of injurious , to the well-being of society . However much

      we may disagree with the political opinions of the Ex-Lord Chancellor , still we are forced to admit that he has done more good for the country in promoting the amendment of the Law , ( as an acknowledgment for his retiring pension ) than any of his predecessors , and his endeavours to remove t \ ie enormous abuses in Chancery merit the approbation of every true Reformer .

      All Laws should be so plain " that he who runs might read , " and at the same time so cheap that the poorest individual might have his full measure of justice . It is the boast <> f this country that a pauper may go to Law with his Sovijuejga . True , lie may : but if he possessed the means ho would not bo a pauper . All the gates of justice are effectually closed to tho poor man , and , indeed , will never 0 ]> en to any except by the application of a golden key . " Think twice before you go to Law , " is a virtual condemnation of the system , —tin adage which should be wolf considered before treading its sinuous intricacies , and becoming acquainted with the cet-Utinty ol its enormous expense , audits "glorious ' uncertain tv . "

      In the stateof New York , Common Law and Equity have for a long period been luimiuk tered in the same court , and the judges have been entrusted wMi the remedies ° of both courts to enable thorn to do justice ro tho suitors . This salutary step mot with the approval of eleven judges of the superior courts , the majority of the liar expressed an unhesitating opinion iff . favour of the change , and the public also gavo their hoavty concurrence to it . This reFurnwtJf . ii has since been adopted by many of the most intelligent states iu the Union , and it is protoioh that ere long tho distinction between Common Law and Kmuty will not exist ill America .

      Denmark 1 ms for many years enjovod its V . om-ts of Reconcilement /' and by ' a parliamentary return just printed-it appears that mono year ( 184 ( 1 ) ' out of 24 , ( 325 cases only -, lh'l were tried , the others having been adjusted , withdrawn , or postponed . Wo are unacquainted with tho working of these courts , but , judging by their cognomen together with tho above result , arc led tobclii-ve that tht > y

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      prevent litigation , ttnd as far as possib ^ n reconcile tiieir belligerent suitors . In this country the system of Jurisprudonco is costly , dilatory , and vexatious , and pregnw with the grossest abuses . Justice is sold ^ the highest bidder , and her cormorant priests are continually crying out " costs ! " " costs <" The decrees of some cases in Chancery hav „ been suspended for seventy years , and some of its unfortunate victims have been confined for years in the prisons of the court , TllCl'O ia detained in this court no less than £ 9 , 000 , 000 of real estate , and a similar amount of personi'Avent litigation , and as far fla r > rv »« : i .

      , ; v il property , aud 100 , 000 suitors are aunually dragged into its gigantic and fraudulent web . If a poor man could prove himself the legal heir to property , his rich opponent has but to throw it into Chancery and his ri ght tt ' ould be of no avail . A curious case respecting heavy Law expenses was heard on Tuesday at the .. insolvent debtors' court . The insolvent appeared for judgment , and was opposed by a creditor on the ground that he had been put to £ 72 Lav" expenses iu getting a barren verdict on an accommodation bill for

      £ 45 . Had there been tfo defence tho costs would have been under £ 10 , The pleas alone had put the creditor to upwards of £ 60 expense . The judgment of tho court was , that the insolvent should be imprisonedi . for seven months for putting tho creditor to unnecessary expense by a vexatious and frivolous defkuca to his action . Nothing , in our opinion , can be more in error than this judgment . The Lav permits a fraudulent debtor to put his creditor to i !; 2 expenses for the recovery of £ 45 , and then punishes him for doing tbat which tbeLaw allows him to do . Will the Law refund the

      heavy and unnecessary expense ? JS ot a frac tion;—the butter in the dog ' s throat is as easily attainable . Innumerable cases might be cited to show the absurd partiality and injustice of the law , and as many volumes mig ht be written in defence of the position we hare adop ted . These evils could not exist if we had an uniform code of laws so simply framed as to be known to the judges who administered it , and the people who were called upon to obey it . This was the chief aim of the " great Law Giver , Moses . The Romans and Athenians had

      their laws written up iu some public situation . The famous Justinian Code was digested into one comprehensive volume , and Napoleon ' s code , which could be bought in any town in France ^ for a few francs , was contained in a HmitcdVuinber of pages . What a contrast to the interminable mass of English statute , scattered over an endless variety of volumes , which no human industry can master— -which the life of jaan is too short to read .

      We have been led to this subject by perusing a letter from Lord Dekuak , which was read at the recent annual meeting of the society for promoting the amendment of the Law . The opinion of one who has attained the highest judicial dignity , and retired from its honours , cannot fail to be of great advantage to this moment , or to have a beneficial weight upon all parties interested , either for or against it . Speaking of the County Courts , his lordship aays : I take the fact to be clear that the people must prefer the county courts to the common law court . The proof of this fact is that the former tribunals swarm with suitors , while the latter are deserted .

      In allusion to the destitution of tho Ear , aud the ruin of many now in business , he proceeds . to say ;— If the interest ofthe bar conies in competition with that of the public , there cannot be one moment ' s hesitation as to which must be sacrificed . Neither they nor any other set of men liav _> any vested riglitinmispjovernment or to maladministration ; they have no privilege to defeat , or even a delay for a silltfe hour , U well concerted improvement , 'Ihe barrister must turn his power to some other account , nor breathe a murmur , nor ask a farthing of compensation , still less demand the restoration of the bad old system . After some lengthy remarks on tho difference between the county and other courts , Lord Desman gives the following advice

      ;—The evil points out its own remedy ; if we are right ia our premises , and suitors keep aloo ' ffrom courts of unimpeachable knowledge and integrity because they are exelusive und exjjensive , the conclusion is obvious . Make tla-m open to receive information from all , cheap enough to be acceptable to all , and the same amount ol business will be found to flock thither as was seen before thisunexpected and novel rivalry created by the Legislature . I cannot help feeling sanguine in my own opinion as to the

      success oi your great measure foi-Jreceinni ; the evidence of parties . ; for , looking to the names and the character of the commissioners for inquiring into the practice of plcadinjt , I fully anticipate suc / i a reform of abuses—such a sweeping abolition of fiction and verbiage—those pets ol 1-hiRlish lawyers , and the establishment of such a natural and intelligible course of procedure in our courts , as will be satisfactory to the public and conducivo to the honour and interest ofthe profession .

      The truth of all we have hitherto advanced upon this subject is here acknowledged . The first two extracts are irrefutable , but the last is not likely to realise the expectations of tho writer . For ourselves , we have little sympathy with this class of surplus professionals . Let them take the advice given by the Chief Justice , or otherwise , emigrate to the gold diggings of California . A lecture , given by Mr . Green , a Barrister , and member of the Society before alluded to , recently appeared in this Journal , and we cannot better conclude than iu his words : — " He ( Mr . Green ) would venture to

      predict , that the day was not far distant when the labouring classes would receive the franchise , and would return , as their representatives to the House of Commons , men conversant with their wants , and animated by an earnest anxiety to promote their interests . The people should arouse themselves from their apathy upon this subject , and declare their irrevocable determination to obtain cheap and' expeditious justice . Then , and tllCU only , can a rational and intelligible code replace the absurd and cumbrous system of jurisprudence which disgrace this country in the eyes of every civilised community in the world . "

      Farliamentah Y Review. The Anti-Papal Bi...

      FARLIAMENTAH Y REVIEW . The Anti-Papal Bill gave rise to some rather curious occurrences on the consideration of the report , and at the conclusion of the debate the Bill assumed a totally different shape , and one far more stringent aud obnoxious to the Roman Catholics than the measure proposed b y tho Government . Mr . Kkogh proposed several amendments , th « object of which was to enact , in express words , ihut which Lord John- had tdl along declared to bo the purport and scope of the Bill . One of these was admitted , and the member for Athlouo was advised b y Mr . IIaYTEII tO bo brief on another , as the Government had assented to it , and he would "keep his men to vote for it , if the debate did not last till dinner time . " Poor Mr . Keogii had made up his liiind to be very brief , when tho Treasury whipper-in astonished him by giving him car bhnche to speak as long as ho liked , for the Government were going to oppose him . The honourable iwink-r was , as may be supposedwroth

      , at this cavalier sort of " treatment , and UlO CXpUttmV ' um offtred b y Lord . JOHN RUSSELL as to the reasons which caused him first to concur with the Law Officers in thinking the amendment might be admitted , and then resolving upon opposing it , were not of a elmi-actui- to mollif y Mr . IVEOGH . TlleVG wassome rather smart sparring and instructive disclosures of the way the tiling is done , which quite shocked "Official" Mr . Hatikb , who declared his communications were "

      coiiudential , .-uid not meant to be made public iu Mat inconvenient and awkward way . The result was , of course , that the Government ' men" who five minutes before , would have said " aye , " walked into the lobby when ' the division hell rung and said " no , '' and then scampered off to their dinners . There i * not such an accommodating , obli ging , duct'ifc animal in existence as your regular " " MUuS terial supporter . " The hound is not move obedient to the huntttnau than ho to the " skipper-in . " As to conscience , conviction v »> ftectiott ov opi

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05071851/page/4/