The Bill for providing a Palace of Justice was read
a second time on Thursday. The site finally selected is that known as the. Carey-Street one. Some 400 houses, occupying seven acres between the Strand and Lincoln's Inn Fields, are to be pulled down, and a building erected to contain at the very least twenty separate courts. The Government believe it will cost a million and a half, to be obtained from the profit fund of the Court of Chancery, a payment of 400,0001. from the State in lieu of rent, and other sources. Neither the style nor plan of the building is settled yet, there are great possibilities of discord in both, and we think it may safely be predicted that the palace will not be occupied till 1872, and will cost a million more than the estimate. Even at that price it is grievously wanted, and so are new police-courts all over London. We wish magistrates could strike. They would have an excellent case against the fetid dens in which they are com- pelled to do justice.
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