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Unoifott, SATURDAY JUNE 11. i THE KING'S LETTER TO THE IIARI, OF LIVERPOOL.—The Dublin Evening Afail if Friday says-" Wc- are enabled to state ipon authority which has never yet deceiv- ed us, that the most exalted personage in the Empire has been pleased to express his approbation of the speech of Lord Liver- pool, on the late discussion of the Catholic question, in a written communication to that illustrious statesman. AT JG TO BE DONE?——The question is incessantly asked, and may be answered by a speech as lengthy as one of the Magee rhapsodies. At present we will content ourselves with announcing the following- trifles:- There is to be a new Catholic As- sociation: there is to be a revived collec- tion of the rent: there are to be weekly, and sometimes daily meetings. More anon. -Dublin Morning Register. WE have received a file of Giberalter papers to the 20 ult. They state that the Colombian privateers continue to infest the Straits and neighbourhood, to the great an. noyance of the Spanish brig of war Primero de Cataluna, of 14 guns, bound from Ha- vanDah to Barcelona, was attacked on the outside of the Straits on the 14th May, by the Columbian brig of war Vencedor, and after a short action was sunk by a shot from that vessel. Of the persons on board, ammounting to eight in number, only three were drowned the remainder being picked Up by the boats of the Vencedor. TheResolutions of the Commons' Commit- tee on the subject of the conveyance of newspapers, Sec. to the Colonies, propose* that two-pence be charged for the conve- yance of Parliamentary proceedings and newspapers sent by post (with directions on.the slips of the papct* as in England) Great Britain and Ireland; and that three- pence be charged for papers sent from the Colonies: and, secondly that the Treasury be authorized to make compensation to such person in the Post-Oiffce, whose emoluments may be reduced in consequence of being deprived of the privilege of franking (ex- clusively) newspapers to the- ^oionie^. — It is much to be feared that here, as in the case of vicious Writs of Error, &c. the fees and emoluments of a few persons have stood in the *ay of merits The Chancellor of the Exchequer and IVIr. Harries, however, have prepared, and last night introduced it Bill to make these Resolutions law, regarding the con- veyance of newspapers to the Colonies, a regulation that wilt aid the Revenue, as well as advance the comforts ot British "rhtpresent Session, if it b* »ot very prolific in political measures, will at least be memorable for the improvements which it has introduced, or forwarded, in our ju- dicial proceedings. The Delays in the Court of Chancery, which have long fur- nished subjects ofcomplaint are now placed in a course of reasonable improvement. The attempt to throw the blame of these delays on the Lord Chancellor is perfectly absurd. They are incumbrances of a system of prac- tice, which has grown up long before his Lordship's time, and which, in its main outlines, is founded on the immutable prin- ciples of justice. This was clearly shown in answer to Sir F. Burdett last night, by the speech of Mr. W. Courtenay. That Learned Member quoted, from Mr. Miller (an author sufficiently disposed to freedom of attack) the following remarkable testi- mony in behalf of the essential utility of the Chancery system- It will not be easy to propose any plan »f ™°n ""l full or appropriate, than that of the Court of Chancery now is. If wero, <^encum- Wd of that load of abuses and anomalies which time and carelessness have accumu- lated, it is well fitted, by means of plead- ings, hearings before a Judge, references by a Judge to one of the llIasters for his opinion on subordinate matters, and hear- ings on further directions when it returns o the Judge again, to settle the tedious and involved legal controversies, to which a re- fined state of society necessarily gives bir i. Mr. Courtenary also adverted to a work recently published in America, Hoffman's Office and Duties of Masters in Chancery *_lSome of our readers may, perhaps, be surprised, that in the Republic of the United States the establishment of Masters in Chan- dlery, which some persons here represent as an absurd excrescence in the legal system, should be found to exist. But they not only exist--they are furnished with the same au- thorities, perform the same functions, and are, in fact, precisely the officers in America as in England. This may, teach us, that there is more of practical utility in our system than we are apt to suspect; other- wise so acute a nation as the North Ame- ricans would not take it as their model.

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