474 Welsh Jurisprudence. [Nov. 
pharmacopeeia, published under the sanction of our Collége of Physi- 
cians. The fact presented to the consideration of the legislature was, 
the demand of the inhabitants of Wales for the establishment of a 
supreme court of justice there, which, if not permanently open to the 
resort of its inhabitants, might at the very least be sitting a large propor- 
tion of the year. The measure adopted was the extension to the judges 
of the Court of Great Session, “in all cases, both at law and in equity, 
when the said courts shall not be sitting in Wales, to hear motions and 
petitions, and to make such rules and orders thereon in vacation, and 
out of the jurisdiction of the said courts, as to them the said judges shall 
seem meet, and occasion shall require.” But where will it be supposed 
that these extraordinary sittings of the judges were to be holden? Our 
readers, “ good easy souls,” will naturally enough exclaim, oh, in some 
incommodious court, built expressly for the purpose, at only double its 
necessary cost, planted possibly at no further distance from the centre 
of Wales than on the outskirts of one of the boundary counties, and so 
far open to the public as it pleases the dignity of javelin men to tolerate. 
No such thing. This vacation court, with the charming ubiquity of 
the King’s Bench, disdains to be confined to one wretched spot. To 
day it may be taking the tour of the Highlands—to morrow, it may be 
steaming it from Southampten to Cowes—or the next day be visiting its 
great relative of Westminster—it follows its judges while they are shoot- 
ing over preserves—it is at their heels again when they are gorman~ 
dizing at the bench table of inns of court—nor does it forsake them when 
in the Lethean waters of some fashionable Spa they are whiling away all 
remembrance of ermine, save its profit. In short, the sitting of the 
court at all depends upon the good fortune of the attorney in getting two 
judges together at any spot throughout Great Britain, which may happen 
to suit their convenience; and as no other is allowed to practice in 
Welsh courts, this attorney must be a Welshman, a whole Welshman, 
and nothing but a Welshman. This collection of the judicial forces is, 
as Lord Cawdor observes, no easy matter— For instance,” says he, 
“one of the judges of the Carmarthen circuit resides in Denbighshire, 
the other in London ; and there is nothing to compel the one to come 
from Denbighshire to London, or the London one to go into Denbigh- 
shire.” Suppose this difficulty, however, surmounted, the next is to hit 
upon a place of sitting. This is, of course, discretionary with the judges 
selected ; and, embued with the requisite quantity of veneration for the 
institutions-of their ancestors, they might take a fancy to re-enact the 
part of thé Druids, and fix the judgment seat on Stonehenge Crags— 
we find nothing in the act to prevent it. Indeed, we would recommend 
the scene to Cruikshank. It would form an admirable subject for a 
sketch under the title, “ Welsh Administration of Justice at your own 
Door.” But suppose they are resident lawyers in London, or, which 
is an even chance, country gentlemen resident on their own estates, we 
apprehend neither the chambers of the one, or the libraries of the other, 
are exactly the fittest place in the world to make courts of justice of. 
‘To crown the whole, there is nothing in the act imperative on either 
party to a suit to submit his cause to the judgment of this vacation 
court ; and the advantages -it presents are not quite so obvious as to over- 
come all reluctance on the subject. 
Thus much for the outward framework of the Welsh Courts. As to 
the lustre likely to be shed upon their proceedings, from either 
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