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The Anti-Reformers at Hawick are all "down i' the mouth," by the Duke of Buccleuell having given a farm in the neighbouthood to one of the stanchest Reformers • in Hawick.—Scotsman. [Few persons that know any thing of the Duke would suspect him of any design of preferring a Tory groat to a Radical sixpence.] A petition to the House Of Commons has lately been signed by the procurators in the Sheriff-Court of Cupar, for effecting an extensive reforna in the system,of Scotch conveyancing. The petitioners suggest the discontinuance of sasines and charters by progress, and that the deed, whether it be a disposition, a settlement, an heritable bond, or assignment, should be" pruned of all its redundant Clauses and verbiage,- and registered within a fixed period in a certain record. A change is also proposed in the mode of conducting the services of heirs, and in the forms of precepts from superiors, and cognitions within burgh. The plan Seems to us strongly based on common sense, and to present one of the many instances of the rapid "and wide diffusion of Utilitarian doctrines. The professional men who have now conic forward to ask the correction of a system, whose workings, although so ,noxious to the public, arc' the sources of much extra emolument, :Ilford at once a con- vincing proof of the necessity of the change and of their own indivi- dual disinterestedness. 'We hope. that the example will not be lost on other legal bodies in Scotland, and that the matter will be speedily taken up, by emporations.and mercantile companies. More especially do we trust that the Edinburgh Convey:11161.s,- who, in this affair, seem to hold the place of the idol-makers of Ephesus, will not offer any op- position, nor show themselves of the school of Bailie Macquheeble, who had so blind a veneration for every thing in the shape of a notorial instillment.- If superiority is no longer to be .the criterion of a right to vote in counties, what reason can be urged for keeping up the ex- pensive machinery of Crown titles, with their huge paraments, filled with doggrel Latin made more Unintelligible by the Saxon t.haracter in which it is scrawled? Sir William Rites •bill for abolishing saSines was one of those abortive half-measures that come under the term of a bit-and-bit reform. When the House of Commons shall devote its attention to the subject, we hope that, in cleaning -oat this vast Augean stable, not a particle of rubbish will be left behind.--:Fife Herald..
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