23 APRIL 1864, Page 3

To your quills, 0 attorneys, for your incomes are in

danger! Lord Westbury's Land Transfer scheme has not succeeded, there having been only sixty-four applications for registration, and he thinks the cause is the mode in which attorneys draw their bills. They are paid for deeds by the folio, i.e., paid to be as long-winded and obscure as possible, and Lord Westbury intends to abolish all that. His Lordship is evidently fond of doing his work completely, and having abolished Tartarus now proposes to mulct those who were formerly its most prominent inhabitants. De tninimis non curat lex means with him that lawyers should not count words quite so closely, and all England will wish him success in his new reading.