In another part of this SPECTATOR, our readers will find
a liberal letter from a lawyer, on the subject of Law Reform. Hitherto the profession have only gone so far as to seem disposed to supply the remedy for acknowledged abuse ; b'ut their zeal has usually relaxed, as the temporary excitement of the public mind subsided. It is impossible not to suppose, that many questionable practices in our courts of law originated in some useful purpose, and oftentimes, indeed, in the desire to extend an Useful jurisdiction ; but a change of customs, of habits, and above all, the diffusion of knowledge among the people, beyond the cell or chamber of the monk or the lawyer, have exposed the incon- gruous character of opposing fictions, and the want of system and applicability of means to the end, in the present practice of the law. The case cited by our correspondent is real, and intelligible even to laymen. We suspect there are few Members of Parliament in these times who will not find themselves interested in it ; and we join our correspondent in the earnest hope that Mr. PEEL Will bestow upon it his able and business-like attention.
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