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cution promoted by the latter ; the fiction of Papal infallibility , with several miscellaneous points upon which practical remarks are offered . No doubt the statements will surprise the reader , as they come from the reluctant lips of the sacerdotal perpetrators of this huge
mischief themselves ; but whilst the details sicken , they will be at least beneficial , if they serve as a warning to every father how he places his child within the scope of such pollution , either by sending his son to Maynooth or his daughter to any pseudo-independent school abroad , secretly under the influence of Popish domination .
Proceedings of Law Writers en Lord Cranworths Aiohtton of the old Chancery Polio . Correspondence upon the Party-Closing Movement . London : J . E . Taylor , Chancery Lane . —The first of these pamphlets refers to a grievance incident to a particular class ; the other to a public evil felt by all . The law-writers' payment for copying receivership accounts , schedules to answers , and other
Chancery proceedings , had been reduced more than one-half by an order of Lord St . Leonards affecting the standard number of words in the folio , by which apparently trivial change the interests of a very hard-worked and ill-fared body of men were affected . Lord Cranworth , however , upon representation , as set forth in this pamphlet , rescinded the order , and ruled that all office copies be charged
at the rate of seventy-two words per folio . The " Correspondence on the Early-Closing Movement" points out the importance of that regulation , both physically and in a religious sense ; and as Mr . Taylor justly remarks , in his preface , " No Christian man will read these letters without pain , sorrow , and regret that men are compelled by circumstances to transgress their Maker's law . " Especially ,
therefore , does the pamphlet point out the inexcusable culpability of Lord Chancellors and other judges , who , by not dissolving their courts early on Saturday , or refusing to sit at all on that day , give no opportunity to barristers , solicitors , and other officials , of preparation for a day of rest . The argument lies in a nutshell . Is the sealing of a ca . sa ., or the execution of a writ of injunction , of more consequence
than God ' s law ? or are we to be told that money is of such high importance as to trench upon the only day that the starved inhabitant of the body , the soul , has to think of heaven upon ? It is a noted fact that barristers are generally the most profligate men of all the learned professions , and no wonder , if constant traffic with the vices of mankind is made to accompany prayerless disregard of the Sabbath . One judge actually sat at Guildhall on a Saturday until
close upon midnight , and had to he reminded by the foreman of the jury , who seems to have had some fear of God before his eyes , that he was about to trespass on the Sabbath ; yet , doubtless , this ermined transgressor would have sententiously lectured some poor ignorant wretch upon crime which , in nine cases out of ten , begins in Sabbathbreaking ; so true is it that though the " justice frowns on yon simple thief , change hands , handy-dandy , which is the justice , which is the thief ? " We are glad to find that the booksellers , and many other trades
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cution promoted by the latter ; the fiction of Papal infallibility , with several miscellaneous points upon which practical remarks are offered . No doubt the statements will surprise the reader , as they come from the reluctant lips of the sacerdotal perpetrators of this huge
mischief themselves ; but whilst the details sicken , they will be at least beneficial , if they serve as a warning to every father how he places his child within the scope of such pollution , either by sending his son to Maynooth or his daughter to any pseudo-independent school abroad , secretly under the influence of Popish domination .
Proceedings of Law Writers en Lord Cranworths Aiohtton of the old Chancery Polio . Correspondence upon the Party-Closing Movement . London : J . E . Taylor , Chancery Lane . —The first of these pamphlets refers to a grievance incident to a particular class ; the other to a public evil felt by all . The law-writers' payment for copying receivership accounts , schedules to answers , and other
Chancery proceedings , had been reduced more than one-half by an order of Lord St . Leonards affecting the standard number of words in the folio , by which apparently trivial change the interests of a very hard-worked and ill-fared body of men were affected . Lord Cranworth , however , upon representation , as set forth in this pamphlet , rescinded the order , and ruled that all office copies be charged
at the rate of seventy-two words per folio . The " Correspondence on the Early-Closing Movement" points out the importance of that regulation , both physically and in a religious sense ; and as Mr . Taylor justly remarks , in his preface , " No Christian man will read these letters without pain , sorrow , and regret that men are compelled by circumstances to transgress their Maker's law . " Especially ,
therefore , does the pamphlet point out the inexcusable culpability of Lord Chancellors and other judges , who , by not dissolving their courts early on Saturday , or refusing to sit at all on that day , give no opportunity to barristers , solicitors , and other officials , of preparation for a day of rest . The argument lies in a nutshell . Is the sealing of a ca . sa ., or the execution of a writ of injunction , of more consequence
than God ' s law ? or are we to be told that money is of such high importance as to trench upon the only day that the starved inhabitant of the body , the soul , has to think of heaven upon ? It is a noted fact that barristers are generally the most profligate men of all the learned professions , and no wonder , if constant traffic with the vices of mankind is made to accompany prayerless disregard of the Sabbath . One judge actually sat at Guildhall on a Saturday until
close upon midnight , and had to he reminded by the foreman of the jury , who seems to have had some fear of God before his eyes , that he was about to trespass on the Sabbath ; yet , doubtless , this ermined transgressor would have sententiously lectured some poor ignorant wretch upon crime which , in nine cases out of ten , begins in Sabbathbreaking ; so true is it that though the " justice frowns on yon simple thief , change hands , handy-dandy , which is the justice , which is the thief ? " We are glad to find that the booksellers , and many other trades