all its departments." The public has begun to find its strength, and will be prepared to use it. If there be any practice that will not bear the light, any weak point, any branch or department more faulty than the rest, all will be discovered and set right with the strong arm. Let us assure our brethren that they alone are the true friends of the profession who do not disguise this state of public feeling from them, but also show how it may be averted. Real, extensive, and efficient reform of the Law can alone save the legal profession from destruction. We do not hesitate to use the words. Reform must come : if undertaken and completed by themselves, it is well; but it must come. Let the Superiors of all Branches ponder on these words; but small space is left them. Let it be well employed.

TRINITY VACATION,
July 29. 1851.

NOTE (A.) TO ART. XI.

ON the subject of this Article we have much pleasure in laying before our readers a letter from the Lord Chancellor to the learned Lecturer of the Middle Temple, as highly honourable to both parties.

"Eaton Square, 4th July, 1851.

"Dear Mr. Phillimore,—I have great satisfaction in being able to inform you that Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint you one of her counsel.

"As the ordinary, though by no means the exclusive, title to this rank at the Bar arises out of the state of practice in which the accidents of the profession have placed the candidate, I think it desirable to explain the grounds on which I have submitted your name to Her Majesty's approval of your promotion to the honour to which you aspire.

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In your legal studies you have not confined yourself to those acquisitions which are brought into daily use in Westminster Hall, but you have extended your inquiries into the manifold sources of our jurisprudence with a degree of zeal and industry befitting the professor of a liberal science, and having thus qualified your

self for the high and responsible office of teacher, you have undertaken the arduous task in your lectures at the Middle Temple, of guiding and facilitating the exertions of your junior brethren to attain the position which you have yourself reached. And thus it appears to me that I not only yield to a just claim on your part, but that I consult the interest of the public in recommending Her Majesty to confer upon you a mark of professional distinction which I hope will not be without its utility in adding to the effect of your labours.

“That your success may be commensurate with your talents and your learning, and with the importance of your enterprise, is the sincere desire of,

"Dear Mr. Phillimore,

“J. G. Phillimore, Esq."

"Yours very faithfully,

"TRURO.

NOTE (B.) TO ART. XIV.

WE have made no reference in this Article to the evidence before the Committee as regards the important communication of cases, which it received from solicitors and others, illustrating the positions we have given, both as to their opinions and our own. These cases are numerous, and we can only now run over a very few of them; but these few speak volumes. In one (Gaskell v. Holmes), there was only a question of Law to dispose of; and to avoid having an account taken in Court, nineteen out of twenty parties, interested in the distribution of the fund, had agreed that it should be taken by an accountant. There were no debts — one of the twenty, a bankrupt (and his assignees joined him), insisted on the account going into Court: eleven years have been spent, and the distribution is only now begun, after an expense of 28277. to the fund. In another case (Crallan v. Oulton), there had been a distribution by executors; a debt of 10007. came in; there was no other claim. Twelve to fifteen bills, and supplemental bills, have been filed; the suit has lasted since 1835; it will probably last five years longer; it has

cost 1500l., and will cost 20007. before it is ended. In another case (Campion v. Wight), an infancy lasted four years, and the income was 1551. The cost of obtaining the orders successively required for enabling the infant's supplies to be received, amounted to upwards of 687. yearly. So the infant received 3351. of his own money, and had to pay 2701. for obtaining it. In one case, 907. was the expense of obtaining an order for the repair of a water-closet, which was to cost 107. In another, there was a reference for impertinence, and the whole question was of 207., on account of needless setting out of documents. The proceedings before the Master, and on exception, and on appeal, cost 800%; two or three years were consumed in them; and the party prevailing-that is gaining-had probably to pay 501. over and above the taxed costs he received. The taxing Master could have struck out the 207. for 30s.; and even a motion to review his taxation never could have cost 1007.

THE FOURTEENTH VOLUME.

his parliamentary | France, condition of peasantry in, 110.
resignation of the Freehold Land Societies, 19.