14 DECEMBER 1872, Page 3

A legal reporter of the Times publishes an account of

the number of Cases now before the principal Courts. There are 172 before the Queen's Bench, 58 of which are remanets ; 202 before the Common Pleas, 93 of which are remanets, and a great, though unascertained number before the Ex- chequer, 20 of which are remanets. Cases, he observes, now often remain in the Common Law Courts two, three, and four years, and of the cases now on scarcely one will be finished within a year. There exists, in fact, a practical refusal of civil justice, the very first boon, after criminal justice, which Govern- ments exist in order to confer.