The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

BROUGHAM IN COURT. A correspondent of the
United States Gazette, writing from London, closes
an article on Lord Brougham, as Lord Chancellor,
with the following remark:

"His whole manner in court seems to be founded
on a resolution to break down the attachment of
the limbs of the law to their antediluvian forms and
follies, by treating all such, himself, with the grea-
test disrespect, and to convince them what law is
or ought to be, based on the foundations of justice
and common sense, and not on the whims of clerks.
and the conceits of perruquiers. He preserves the
dignity without maintaining the stately gravity of
the bench; and he delights to rebuke the pompous
advocate, by himself speaking in the voice, and with
the countenance of a human being. He usually
has lying before him a huge pyramidical bunch of
flowers, some seven or eight feet in length; and
this at times he twirls in his hand, now and then he
smells at it, snuffing short and violently, as if vastly
delighted with its odours. In this manner he lis-
tens to the most important arguments, and delivers
the greatest decisions."