6 MAY 1876, Page 2

The Empress of India has already got into Chancery. In

the case of " Bacon v. Turner," before Vice-Chancellor Sir Charles Hall, an application was made to know whether, as a writ would have to be served on a German gentleman and his wife, a lady of English birth, in Nassau, the writ, which would thus operate outside the United Kingdom, should run in the name of the " Empress of India," as well as of " the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland." Vice-Chancellor Sir Charles Hall is a prudent man. He declined to order on his own responsibility any change in the form of the writ in use, and referred the plaintiff's legal advisers to the Lord Chancellor to determine this knotty point. Indeed, it takes a Cabinet Minister to interpret the dark oracle of the Proclamation. Even an appeal from the Heralds' Office appears to lie, on this subject at all

events, to the unfortunate Lord Chancellor, who is likely to rue the day when the Government advised annexing an Imperial tag to the Royal name.