We hope it is no contempt of court to say,
that some of the opi- nions announced by the late Mr. BROUGHAM in the case of Mr. FARQUHARSON, and the publication of the proceedings respecting the efforts of the Duke of YORK'S Creditors, are at least a little singular, coming from this particular personage.
The Lord Chancellor said, the diffieultywhich pressed on his mind was. this.-- .No doubt the Committee had a right to meet and talk over the state of their -affairs, and to devise the best method of expediting the suit; but the question tva.s this, had they a right, by the publication of their arguments and proceed- ings, to call in the public to be participators with thesis in the contest with the 'executors? and when it -vas jproved they did so, was not that calculated to pre- judice the administration of justice?
`Whence this new dread of publicity? Why should not the People know what is going on in any and every court ? We seem to hear 'the ghost of the late Mr.. BRoUGHAM—an admirable actor— echoing, in deep sepulchral Voice, WiazNen ? WHY?
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