Court of Appeal; and whether the Government proposed to take any steps to
remedy the delay and increased cost occasioned to the suitors by the
present administration of the Judicature Acts.

The Attorney-General said the number of cases of all descriptions then
waiting for trial in the Chancery Division was 848, and in the Court of
Appeal 270. The House would be aware that a committee of Judges had been
engaged for some time in framing rules in the hope of getting rid of some
of the delay that now existed in the hearing of cases; and until those
rules were prepared, which would be shortly, the Government were not
desirous of interfering with a matter over which the Judges had
jurisdiction. The Government were now considering the introduction of a
short Judicature Act for the purpose of lessening the delay.--_Morning
Post_.

[No rules or short Judicature Act at present!] {0a}

On the 13th April, 1883, Mr. Glasse, Q.C., thus referred to a statement
made by Mr. Justice Pearson of the Chancery Division: "The citizens of
this great country, of which your Lordship is one of the representatives,
will look at the statement you have made with respectful amazement." The
statement appears to have been, that his Lordship had intended to
continue the business of the Court in exactly the same way in which it
had been conducted by Mr. Justice Fry; but he had been informed that he
would have to take the interlocutory business of Mr. Justice Kay's Court
whilst his Lordship _was on Circuit_; and, as it was requisite that he
should take his own interlocutory business _before the causes set down
for hearing_, "ALL THE CAUSES IN THE TWO COURTS MUST GO TO THE WALL"!!!
His Lordship added, that it would be necessary for him to rise at 3
o'clock every day (not at 3 o'clock in the _morning_, gentle reader),
because he understood he should have to conduct the business of Mr.
Justice Kay's Chambers as well as his own.--_Morning Post_.

On the 16th April, 1883, Mr. Justice Day, in charging the Grand Jury at
the Manchester Spring Assizes, expressed his disagreement with the
opinion of the other Judges in favour of the Commission being so altered
that the Judge would have to "_deliver all the prisoners detained in
gaol_," and regarded it as "a waste of the Judge's time that he should
have to try a case in which a woman was indicted for _stealing a shawl
worth_ 3_s._ 9_d._; or a prisoner charged with stealing _two mutton pies_
and _two ounces of