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TSE NORTHERS STAR SVf E7KDAY, JULY 5, 1851.
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
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EMIGRATION . TIIE LAND ! TUE LAND ! TO THE WORKING CLASSES AND OTHERS . In consequence of the immense success that has attended the societies instituted by ilr . \ V . 1 ) . Rufty , a few iriends have joined with him in a society , for the purpose of Em igration and General Colonisation ; they purpose to issue 5 , 000 shares of one pound each , deposit i's . O'd . per Share , calls t ' s . (! d- per month . The following eligible investment is now offered : —A -freehold estate in Eastern Canada , comprising 20 . 0 U 0 acres of land , within seventeen miles of a market town and the v ° rt of Su Francis ; from which stcsmfcrs y ! y daily lo Montreal and Quebec ; ihe lliver Xicolet , and the Sliver Becancour , tuuh through the Estate , and are navicable for boats and floating timber down to the St . Lawxence . This estate present ? as much as twenty miles of iroatage to these rivers , with several mill sites , < Ssc ; the land , which is of a fair average quality , abounds with ilmber , which , on Wing disposed of , it is considered will ¦ more tlian V& ! tbe price required for tlie land . iiTc lrcuciw ' uiai . iill accrue to tne snarenoiaers is lm-• xnense , as the estate may be disused of at a profit of frty per cent . Others purchased , colonised , and lots retained for the beuifit of tlie shareholders . For furtherparticulars , description . Ax ., apply , by letter , enclosing two postage stamps , to O . W . Rutty , 13 , Tottcnlam-courr , Xew-road , St . Tancras , London . No time must be . lost , as the first deposit ta secure the f state must be paid in a short time .
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CUBES FOR THE UXCURED ! HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Evil . £ stract of a letter from Mr . J . II . AlliJay , 209 IIigh-3 treet , Cheltenham , dated January ' --nd , 1 S 5 V . giBj—jfy eldest son , when about three years of age , ¦ was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time broke out 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 rears went or gradually increasing in -rtrulence , when Besides the ulcer ia the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third under the eye , hesides seven othew on the left arm , with a tumour between Ihe eves which was expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy had received tlie constant advice ofthe most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham . }> e £ ide 3 Wop for several tnontlis al the General Hospital ¦* rhere one ofthe surgeons said that be would amputate the left arm , but that the blood was so impure , that it ¦ that limb were taken off it would bo then even impossible to subdue the disease . In this desperate state I deterjnined to give your pills and ointment a trial , and after tvto months pa severance in their use , the tumour began 5 > erceptibly to disappear , and the discharge from all the ilcers gradually decreased , and at the expiration of eight months they were perfectly healed , and the boy thoroughly restored to the blessings of health , to the astonishment of a large circle of acquaintances who could lestify to the truth of this miraculous case . Three years Jmve now elapsed without any recurrence of the malady , and the bo * is now as healthy as heart can wish . Under these circumstances I consider that 1 should be truly ungrateful were I not to make you acquainted with this wonderful cure , effected by your medicines after every other means bad failed . —( Ssigned)—J . IL Aixidai . —To Trofessor Hoixowat . Cure of Acute Rheumatism of Four Years Standing . Extract of a Letter from Mr . John Pitt , Dudley , January 19 th , 1850 . Sib , —It is with the greatest pleasure that I write to thank you for the benefit I have received from your pills and ointment which have completely cured me of the rheumatism , under which I suffered for the last four vearr , at times I was so bad as hardly to be able to walk ; I had tried every kind of medicine that was TccommenQed ¦ without receiving any being . 1 at last thought I would gire your medicine a trial , and purchased from Jlr . Hollin , chemist , of this town , two boxes of pills , and two of ointta . eai , and in three weeks , through them and the blessings of God , I was restored to health and strength , and am now ss veil able to walk as ever I was in my life . I am well llBOwn in this JiJtrish , having been slsty-flve years in it , w . th tlie exception often years I served in the 21 th regim entoffoet . —lSigned)—Jons Pitt . —ToProfessorlloiiow-* tat . Ckre of a Bad Leg of more than Sixty YearsStandirig . Hr . Barker , of Xo . 5 , Grabam ' s-place , Drypool , near 3 Iull , had ulcers on his leg from tlie age of ei ghteen until upwards of eighty , and although for many years he had . - sought the first advire in the country , nothing was found ¦ to cure them . He very often suffered most excruciating pain for long periods together , which incapacitated him from attending to his business . lie had given up all hopes of getting s cure , when at last he was persuaded to try , Hollowaj ' s Fills and Oiutment ,. which he did , and however wonderful it may appear , tho leg was tlioroglily healed by . their means , and by continuing to use the l'iUs alone after Jlis leg was well , he has become in health so hale and liearty as now to be more active than most men of fitly . — Jf . B . —The truth of this extraordinary statement cau be Touched for by Mr . J . C . Reinhardt , 22 , ilarket-place , Bull . February 20 th , 1850 . ( StreofaD&p trate Case of Ringworm of Six Fears Standing . One of the most eminent surgeons in Lima ( the capital fr of Pern ) had a child covered with ringworm for more than six years ; in rain he exhausted all his art in his endea-¦ nnxi to effect a cure . Not succeeding , he consulted araang Jlis brethren , the most celebrated medical practitioners ol the city , but nothing was found to do the child service . When he was persuaded by Mr . Joseph P . Hague , the English chemist and druggist , residing at 2 fo . 74 , Calle de J ? alaao , to tp Holloway's Pills and Ointment , which , wu done , and after using six large pots ofthe Ointment , with ' S . e ^ 2 c ° ^ el > alS l the < aali ™* rascally cored , to -., toe wrpnte ef the whole medical profegsion . ' The Mme iiiKa ^^^ . " **•« " - JJSS ^^ - ^ i ^ ^ w-i-rtto .-Bis * , ass- * & athm ¦ Masr ssss * gas Coco-Bay Gout Sm ^? a Chiegj ^ foot Gland ular Bird . ! £££ " Chilblains lings Ulcers ISappea-hanas lumbago Wound * ^ d by tta Proprietor ? 2 « , Strand , ( aS ^ Temple Bar £ * odon , and bj all respectable Vendors of Patent MeS . ^ - « hroughont the civilised world , in Pot , aid B «« Sad ., : «*• * h » . »» -. 22 s :, and 33 i . each . There S » nrjconC **?* * <* "PS by taking the larger , eitts . U . B . —djtm ^ 0 ^ w " Stance of r * Sento areafflxea < oeachro ! orBo 4
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SATIOXAL CHARTER ASSOCIATION . Office , U , Southampton-street , Strand . qiHE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE -L hereby announce tlie following meetings : — On Sundaj next , at three o ' clock in the afternoon , the Lambeth locality wi ! l meet at the South London Hull , aud . Mr . Pattinson , the sub-secretary , will be in attendance to enrol members . At the same time the committee for inquiring inta the damage done to the monument of Hauihard , Williams , and Sharp , will meet at the City Hall , 20 , Golden-lane , to settle the accounts . On Sunday evening next at the Crewn and Anchor , Cheshire-street , Waterloo Town . On the same evening , at the Bricklayers' Arms , Toubridge-strect , New-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 aud Policy of Pitt . ' On the same evening , at the Literary and Scientific , Institution , Leicester . piace . St . I ' eter's-terraee , Ilatu > uirarden , a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening at tne Wonumun laveru , Whitestreet , Waterloo Town , at six o ' clock the members ofthe . ocality will meet ; and at eight o ' clock a lecture will be delivered . On the same evening , the Washington Locality will meet at the Two Chairmen , Wardour . street , Soho , to enrol members , and other business , and also for discussion . Oa ili . nday evening , the L'mmett . Brigade will meet at the Rock Tavern , Lissou Grove . On the same evening , at the lecture-room , 5 , Gale ' srow , Straight ' s Mouth , Greenwich , Mr . D . P . I'ox will lecture . Subject : ' Labour and tlie Itich . ' 0 u Tuesday evening , in the Coffee-room oi the Johnslrett Institution , a meeting will be held for the purpose of discussing ' The relative merits of Free Trade and I ' rotention . ' The sub-secretary will be in attendance to enrol members . Chair to be taken at half past eight o ' clock . O" Tuesday evening , at the Paragon Chapel , Bermondsty New-road , Mr . Ernest Jone * will lecture . Subject : ' i ' rosjiects of tlie Red Itepuhlicans of France . ' On Wednesday evening the United Councils of the Tower Hamlets will meet at the Crown and Anchor . On the same evening the Uennondsey Locality will meet at the Paragon Chapel , Bermondsey New-road . On tho same evening , at the Camden Coffee-house , Cumdcn'Strcet , Islington-green , the Islington Locality will meet for the enrolment of mevaberB . On Saturday evening , the Cripjilegate Locality will meet at the City Hall , 26 , Golden Lane , Barbican . N . B . —Lectures are delivered every Sunday and Friday evenings at the Eclectic Institute , 18 a , Denmark-street , Soho . by J . B . O'Brien . 4 ar Notices of Lectures , &c ., will be gladly inserted in this list , provided the same be forwarded to the ; -bove office oa or before Thursday noon . Joiijj Absott , General Secretary .
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CUBED WITHOUT A TRUSS ! Dr . Alcpcp BifiKtn begs to inform ihe readers of the NoRthebn Stab that a Volume of Upwards of One Thousand Testimonials will shortly be published . REAP THE FOLLOWING : — 'In the five 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 Rupture by Dr . JSabkek ' s treatment , which confirm the remarks we made some time since on the utility of this discovery to those suffering from Hernia . '—Mewcal Jodbnal . Your remedy has cured my Rupture after everything elf e had failed . I have used violent exertion since , but there is no sign of its coming down . '—Miss Symmonds , Biijswater . ' 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 . 1 1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letters , and thank you for your kind attention . Your remedy has cured my rupture . ' —Mrs . 1 ' arren , Woburn . Many thanks for your remed y ; I have thrown away my Truss , glad enough to get rid of the torture of it . '—G . Henrys , Chepstow . ' My rupture being twenty-eight years old , I really never expected so periect a cure . '—Mr . Eldred , grocer , Longthorpe . Mrs . Sims begs to inform Dr . Bj 3 keb that his remedy has liesn successful '—Willcsden . ' It is now ten months since I used your remedy for Rupture , and I am glad to say I have gone through every sort of eiertion without the least re-appearance of it . '—J . Masters , Mill-street , Bedford . I have witnessed a good cure of double rupture in s lady by your remedy . ' —K . Brindley , chemist , Bow . ' Your remedy has quite cured my rupture of twelve years' standing . ' —II . Siorgan , Camden-town , ' Send me another remedy for a customer . I have recommended it in scores of cases with perfect success . ' — K . Jones , chemist , Snaith , Yorkshire . AXXOUNCEMENT . DE . BARKER still continues to supply tlie afflicted with his celebrated Remedy for tbis alarming complaint , the great success of which for many years past renders any further comment unnecessary . It is easy aud painless in use , causing no inconvenience or confinement , and is applicable to every variety of single and double rupture , howerer bad or longstanding , in male or female of any age . The remedy , ¦ wi th full instructions , for use , 4 c ., will be sent post free , to any part of the Kingdom , on receipt of 7 s . in postage stamps or post-office order , by Dr . BAUKEU 48 , Liverpool-street , Kiug ' s-cross , London . At home every day ( Sundays excepted ) for consultation from 11 till half-past 12 inoruings , and 5 to 7 evenings ; Post-office orders to be made payable at the Gensral Post Office . A cure in every case is guaranteed . DEAFNESS , AND SINGING NOISES IN THE HEAD AND EARS EFFECTUALLY CURED . DR . BARKER'S Celebrated Remedy for Deafness , &c , permanently restores bearing , enabling the patient in a few days to hear the ticking of a watch , even in cases where the Deafness has existed for many years from any cause whatever , and has been successful in hundreds oi cases where instruments and surgical assistance have failed in giving relief . It removes all those distressing noises in the head and cars , and , by its occasional use , ffili prevent Deafness eccurring again at any future period . The remedy , which is simple in application , will be lent free by post , with full instructions , on receipt of 7 s . by Post office order , or postage stamps , by Dr . Aifked Uarkeb , 4 S , UTerpool-street , King ' s-cross , I / ondon . Hours of consultation daily , from eleven till half past twelve mornings , and five to seven evenings ( Sundays excepted ) . Post-office orders payable atthe General Post-oflice . A Curein every case is guaranteed . Dkath op Cat . DrcE Sombre . — On Tuesday evening at hia apartments , No . 8 , Terrace , Datiea-552 died Colonel Djce Sombre , after » painful
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The Ladies' Guild . —Miss Wallace , a lady who has devoted considerable time to experiments in the application of glass to decorative art—some of whose results may be seen at the Crystal Palace—is said to have succeeded in producing , by processes for which she 'has taken out patents , the most perfect imitation of gold , silver , and other metallic works , enamel , mother-o ' -pearl , rubies , amethysts , and other gems , in this cheap material . These patents she has munificently bestowed on 3 society which is to be established , as we understand it , for the study and practice of the new art—and to be called "The Ladies' Guild . " So far as we can anticipate the working of such a Guild , it seems to m wisely conceived and full of promise for the class-which it is intended to benefit . The productions of female skill
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The following Engravings of this unrivalled edifice , are now ready , and may be had at this Office : — I-View of the Exterior ofthe Building ; a ma « nificent print—two feet long—exquisitely eng aved ; from a drawing furnished by Messrs . Fox and Henderson ; and consequently correct in every respect . Price okly Sixpence . IT-Proofs ofthe Same Print , printcaon thick Imperial Drawing Paper . Price One
Tse Northers Star Svf E7kday, July 5, 1851.
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THE CHURCH IN DANGER . Last week the newspapers were horrified at the appearance of 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 the bishops interfered to put such things down with a high hand . This week the debates in Parliament have thrown some light on the reasons yrh y these "Right Her . Fathers in God ' have no time to look after such matters . They are 1
too busy in looking after thenown interests , and plundering the public property for the ad-Tancement and aggrandisement of their own families . These eminent and pious men have the utmost contempt for tho Gospel advice" Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust corrupt , and thieves break through aud steal'' They are quite prepared to encounter with Jon-like patieuco all these drawbacks on the possession of temporal wealth—and don't care a fig for the " incorruptible '' troasures 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 tho inhabitants of England—would be found quite enough to provide a sufficiency of '' ghostly'' teachei' 3 and guides . According to the Marquis of Bmnd-FORD , tho very contrary i 3 tho case . This richly endowed Church has left tho people in the midst of the most grievous " spiritual destitution . " There is not Church room for
more than one-tenth [ or one-twelfth of the population—thesupply of parsons iswoefully 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 duty heing to stay at home aud look after the parsons in the now circumscribed dioceses allotted to them , vhila their more lucky brethren enjoy all the pie isurcs of the " London season , " under pret : nce of "
attending to their Parhameniary duties . " Before acquiescing in tuoh a proposal , wo maybe permitted , with aJi humility , to suggest , even to Bincere Churchmen , that two or three preliminary questions may be fairly asked by them . First—Bo 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 be created will be any more conscientious ? And , third , what chance is there that the enormous malversation aud robbery of Church property , perpetrated by the dignitaries of the Church , will terminate , so long as they have its virtual management and control ?
The speech of Sir B . Hall enables us to answer these questions by anticipation . The specific facts adduced were new , but tho theme was old . Mr . HoitSMAN hag , session after session , graphically depicted the greediness , and exposed tho 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 b y 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 Hakky , " who found himself , two years after tho formal establishment of the English Church , compelled to pass the statute 38 Henry VIII ., c . 28 , limiting the power of granting leases by any person or pcrBOUB having any estate of inheritance either in fee simple or in feetail , or in their own right , or in the right of their Churches . The direct object of the act was to secure to the clergyman in possession at all times the full income arising from the estate annexed to his Church ; that it was unsuccessful in preventing mal-appropriations is evident from the succession of statutes passed during the following reign of Elizabeth , and in those of subsequent sovereigns .
The plunder of tho Church property perpetrated under cover of these leases is perfectly astounding . In tho old Danish aud Norman times , when a marauding baron and his hungry retainers fixed thoir eyes on the castles and broad lands of their nei ghbours , they at least risked life and limb , and the certainty of good hard blow 6 , before they accomplished their object . But the episcopal plunderers went a quieter way to work in alienating the property confided ' to their keeping as trustees and tenants for life . Hero is tho cunning scheme by which the Church or the public retaining the nominal foe simple
of that property has , in fact , in very many cases been juggled put of all , but a very remote reversionary interest in it : All leases for twenty-oue years are renewed at the end of every seven years for a nominal rent to the lessor , of the amount of two years real rent of tho 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 , pockecting the other five-sevenths as the reward for his ingenuity . The leases for three lives are , in like manner repewedupoa the dropping of one life for a
nominal rent , upon payment of a fine of two yeara' income of the estate . A leaso for threo young lives is equal to a term of seventy-two years , and grants away ninety-four per cent , of the fee simple . In order to give an idea of the malappropriation and wholesale plunder effected by this mode of Clerical " conveyance , " wo shall take the case of St . Tarn's the Metropolitan Cathedral . In the reign of the two last Georges , the " dilapidations' * committed in this way by the Prebends upon the estates confided to their card , amounted to no Ioib a sum than £ 3 , 553 , 5 G' 5 . Add to
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these nice pickings , £ 58 ( 5 , 781 reserved to the Church , and paid for doing nothing , and we have a total in ninety-uine years of £ 4 , 139 , 346 , or one hundred and fourteen pounds a day ! The Communists and Red Republicans will find it difficult , we fear , to eniulato the deeds of their voracious and saintly predecessors , when they set about doing what tho Times says they intend to do . But it is not to the estates directly intrusted to them these wholesale spoliations are confined . 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 were to receivo £ 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 1700 there has been no " bedesman " in Rochester . The last of them , Thomas Feathkrstone ,
having died in that year . Honest men would have applied to the Loud Chancellor for a new " scheme , ' ' by which tho charity might have been made ministrant to the public benefit . Not so with tho Rochester Chapter . They appropriated to themselves the £ 2 , 400 yearly , that shoujd have gone to the support of the " six bedesmen , ' and their clerk used—till lately—to go through the farce of calling , " Thomas Ejjaxheustone , come forward and receive your annuity . ' " when he and his masters knew that
the said Thomas had been in his gravo for sixty years . This , scandalous job was some time Bince put a stop to . Six poor old men were appointed , instead ofthe defunct "bedesmen , " to recoive the benefit ofthe charity , Tho Chapter is notorious for nou-residence and nou-performance of duty , besides a most capacious maw for all the stray property they can lay their hands upon . They are by no means p leased at the change , and charge by their clerk , these poor old men a fee of 10 s . on paying them £ 1 10 s . 10 tl ., or more than thirty per cent , on tho incomes of these recipients of charity ; while they grumble loudly at paying threo and a half per cent , to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , out of the thousands they receive annually for doing nothing .
Wo have not space to advert to other illustrations ofthe manuerin 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 tho parishes for many years—of others in ruins , where the cattle walk in and cut at thoir pleasure , and tho baptismal font is converted iuto 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 , ov tho footmen of their ecclesiastical superior .
The question is , when these facts are mace public in Parliament , by lay members of this very church—when even the redoubtable Ingli 8 and Goulbourn are 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 Blandford is for the former . Whai think you ? Suppose some honest man were to proposo the appropriation of the whole of the remaining revenues and estates to
the establishment of a national , efficient , and gratuitous system of Secular Education , and leave " tho church" to stand upon its proper foundation as a religious corporation alone ? That would bo stigmatised , no doubt , as spoliation . But would ifc not be a more creditable application of the public money than suffering it to bo jobbed , alienated , and plundered by a set of rapacious and insatiable " black slugs , " in tho way wo have shown it ? ib
ouunu ; :-A People ' s Parliament would effect a radical reform of this monster abuse—this foul dim of corruption , aud restore to healthy circulation tho wealth which is now improperly , and too often fraudulently , employed in pampering a bloated episcopacy and an idlo , luxurious parsonocracy .
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REFORMATION OF THE LAW . Cheap Law and real justice may be said to bo the panacea for most of tho ovils , political and social , which affect society ; but if the people possessed the franchise , and wero their own Law-makers , improvements still would be required to meet the advanced spirit of the age , for Law , like every other science , must progross . We have always rendered assistance to obtain a reformation of all the abuses in the State , and though the present subject may possess but few points for the interest of the general reader , Btill it should never be forgotten— " That Law grinds the poor ,
And rich men rule the Law ; and that no clasa of society is more interested in the impartial administration of justice thau the working classes . Perhaps no man has done more for the improvement of our Courts of Judicature than Lord Brougham ; and it is gratifying to find that the cheapness aud 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 tho 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 tho country iu promoting the amendment of the Law , ( as an acknowledgment for his retiring pension ) . than any of his predecessors , and his endeavours to remove the onormou 3 abuses in Chancery merit tho 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 tho boast of this country that a pauper may go to Law with his Sovereign ; - " True , hd may : but if he possessed the means he would not be a pauper . All the gates of justice are effectually closed to the poor man , and , indeed , will never open to any except by tlio application of a golden key . " Think twice before you go to Law , " is a virtual condemnation of the systom , —an adage which should be well considered before treading its sinuous intricacies , and becoming acquainted with the certaint y of its enormous expense , and its " glorious uncertainty , "
In the stateof New York , Common Law and Equity have for a long period been administered in the same court , and the judges have been entrusted wit , h the remedies of both courts to enable them to do justice to the suitors . This salutary , step met with the approval of eleven judges of the superior courts the' majorit y of the Bar expressed an unhesitating opinion in favour of the change , and the public also gave their hearty concurrence to it . This reformation has since been adopted by many of tho most intelligent states in the Union , and it is probable that ere lon g the distinction botweon Common Law and Equity will not exist in America .
„ 5 enmark has for many years enjoyed its Courts of Reconcilement , " and by a parliament ary return just printed it appears that lnone year ( 1846 ) out of 24 , 025 cases onl y 4761 were tried , the others having been adjusted , withdrawn , or postponed . "We » vo unacquainted with the working of these courtu , but , judging by thoir cognomen together with the above result , are led to believe that thoy
ally dragged into its gigantic and fraudulou * . web . If a poor man could provo himself tho legal heir to property , his rich opponent has but to throw it into Chancery and his rifrjif would be of no avail . A curious case respet-t ing heavy Law expenses was heard on Tufts day at the insolvent debtors' court . The insolvent appeared for judgment , and was op . posed by a creditor on tho ground that lie had been put to £ y 2 Law expenses in getting a barren verdict
prevent litigation , and as far as possible reconcile their belligerent suitors . In this country the system of Jurisprudence is costly , dilatory , and vexatious , and pregn i with the grossest abuses . Justice is sold to the highest bidder , and her cormorant m ' u > $ {< are continually crying out " costs ! " " costs ' . ' > The decrees of some cases in Chancery iu ^ Q been suspended for seventy years , and sonio of its unfortunate victims have been confined fw years iu the prisons of the court . There L detained in this court no less than £ 9 , 000 , 000 of real estate , and a similar amount of peV 0 nal property , and 100 , 000 suitors are anllu
on an accommodation bill for £ io . Had there been no defence the cost " would have been under £ 10 . Tho pleas alone had put the creditor to upwards of £ 00 expense . The judgment of tho court was , that the insolvent should be imprisoned for seven months for putting tho creditor to unnecessary expense by a vexatious and frivolous defence to his action . ^ Nothing , in our opinion , can bo more in error thau this judgment . Tho Law permits a fraudulent debtor to put his creditor
to £ 72 expenses for tho recovery of £ 45 , i «« then punishes him for doing that which theLaw allows him to do . Will the Law refund the heavy and unnecessary expense ? iS ot a frac . tion ;—the butter in the dog ' s throat is as easily attainable . Innumerable cases might bo cited to show the absurd partiality and injustice of the law , aud as many volumes might be written in defence of the position we have adopted . 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 thn
people who were called upon to oboy . it . This was the chief aim of the great Law Giver Moses . Tho Ivomaus and Athenians had their laws written up iu some public situation , Tho famous Justinian Code was digested into one comprehensive volume , and 1 \ ai'oj . eoa "' s code , which could be bought iu any town in France for a few francs , w . ib contained in a limited number 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 man is too short to read .
We havo been led to this subject by perusing a letter from Lord Deioia . \ , which was read at tho recent annual meeting of the bociety for promoting tho amendment of the Law . Tho opinion of one who has attained the highest judicial dignity , and retired from its honours , cannot fail to bo of great advantage to this moment , or to have a beneficial weight upon all parties interested , either for or against jt . Speaking of the County Court ? , his lordship says : I lake the fact to bo oloni' that the j ^ t'le must !> re /« - the county courts to tho common law court . The proof uJ this fact is that the former tribunals swarm with suitor ; while the latter are deserted . '
In allusion to tho destitution of the Bar , and tho ruin of many now iu business , he proceeds to say : — If the interest ofthe bar comes in competition with tli&t of the public , there cannot be one momont ' s hesitation ;; % to v ; luul \ n \ w&besacrilwed . Keither tVicy iwir any otlur set of men have any vested right in mUgovcrnineiit or to maladministration ; they have no privilege to dclcnt , , . ., urea a delay for a single hour , a well concerted improve , mum . The barrister must turn his power to some other account , nor breathe < i murmur , nor ask a furiliiug oi compensation , still less demand the restoration ofthe bat ! old system . After some lengthy remarks on the diflcrence between the county aud other courts , Lord DENMAN gives the following advice : —
The evil points out its own remedy ; i £ ire are right in our premises , and suitors keep aloof from courts of utriinpruchubic knowledge and integrity becMKe fhey are exclusive and expensive , the conclusion is obvious . Make them open to receive information from » ll , clieap enough to be acceptable to all , and the same amount of businusj will be found to flock thither as was seen before this unexpected and novel rivalry created by the Legislature . 1 cannot help feeling sanguine in my own opinion as to tlic
successor your great measure forjrteeiriiif ; the evidence of parties ; for , looking to the names and the character of the commissioners for inquiring into the practice of pleading , I fully anticipate such u reform of abuses—sue !) a sweeping abolition of fiction and verbiage—those pets of English lawyers , ami the establishment of such , a , natural and intelligible course of procedure in our courts , as will he satisfactory to the public and conducive to the honour aud interest ofthe profession .
Ihe truth of all wo hare 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 , l <\) r ourselves , wo have little sympathy with this class of surplus professionals . Let thorn take tho advice given by the Chief Justice , or otherwise , emigrate to the gold diggings of California . A lecture , given by Mr . Queen , a Barrister , and member of tho Society before alluded to , recently appeared iu this Journal , and we cannot better conclude than in his words . He ( Mr . Green ) would venture to
predict , that the ( lay was not far distant when tho 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 apath y upon this subject , and declare tlwir . irrevocable determination to obtain cheap and expeditious justice . Then , and tlieu onl y , can a rational and intolligiblo code replace tho absurd aud cumbrous system oi jurisprudence which disgrace this country in the eyes of every civilised community in tie world .
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PARLIAMENT ARY REVIEW . The Anti-Papal Bill gave rise to some rather curious occurrences oh the consideration of the report , and at tho conclusion oi tho debate tho Bill assumed a totally different shape , and one far more stringent and obnoxious to the lioman Catholics than the measure proposed b y tho Government . Mr . Kgogii proposed several amendments , the object of which was to enact , iu express words , that which Lord John had all alon « declared
to bo the purport and scope of the Bill . One of these was admitted , and the member lor Atliloue was advised by Mr . Hatter to be brief on another , as the Government hai assented to it , and he would "keep his raeo to vote for it , if the debate did not last til ) dinner time . " Poor Mr . Keogh had made up his mind to be very brief , vheu tbo Treasury whipper-in astonished him Itf giving him carte blanche to speak s 0 long as he liked , for the Government wero going to oppose him . The honourable member was , as may be supposed , vroto
at this cavalier sort of treatment , and the «• planation offered by Lord Joun Russell » e to the reasons which caused him first to codcur with the Law Officers in thinking the amendment might be admitted , and theu resolving upon opposing it , were not of a ch& racter to mollify Mr . Keogh . There was Borne rather smart sparring and instructive disclosures of the way the thing is done , w bOT quite shocked "Official "Mr . Hai'XBR , declared his communications were " confide ?'
tial , " and not meant to be made public »> that inconvenient and awkward way . Thel ' f ' suit was , of course , that the Government " men" who , five minutes bofore , would ha « said " aye , " walked into the lobby when t ^ division bell rung and said " no , " and tneD scampered off to their dinners . There is » ° such an accommodating , obliging , ductile aW ' mal in existence as your regular " Minister ^ supporter . " The hound ia not more obedieJi ; f . o tho huntsman than he to the " whipp er-lB \ Ad Lo aouscience , conviction , reflection or op »
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 5, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1633/page/4/
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