18 JUNE 1864, Page 3

Somebody is beginning, we perceive, to pull down the buildings

round Lincoln's Inn Fields, in preparation, we trust, for the new Palace of Justice. The present arrangements in Westminster Hall would disgrace a third-rate Republic in South America, judges, barristers, accused, and accusers all scrambling for the room which is not to be had, panting for the air which can get no entrance, and tortured by the light which comes in flashes, as if somebody were tormenting the heads of the law with reflections from a mirror. One would think the arrangements had been settled by the architects who restore churches, and whose object is to make of every seat a stool of repentance, a contrivance enabling the pious to enjoy the three-fold advantage of worship, instruction, and penance all at once.