Practice And Pleadings

lt will b3 seen ihat Mr. Hill, one of the commissioners appointed at the last session, on Legal Practice and PleaHings, s?nt in his resignation to ho legislatura yeslerday. We alluded to the matler mainl on a.-count of the reasons assigned lor tliis step by the re:iring cmmssioner. It seems that he cannot unite with his two associate commissioners - "Messrs. Graham and Loomis - in recommending (as they hnve determine i to do after a careful and delibérale survey cif the wholr subject ,) the abottion of the tohole nf llie ■present praclicc and rules nf pluading in courts nf record, and the subslilulion of a systern entirelij new. This clinnge Mr H. as "purely expfirimenlal" - ns loo "mudden and general" - nnd ut the same ime "parilons" - and therefbre cmnol farther co-operate wilh his associates in carrying out their views. This is the first authentic inibrmrttion which Ihe public have hade of the resuh of the deüberations of this commission - ihougli intimations have hefn thrown out that ihere was a diíFeience of opinión bniween ihem as to ihe extent to which reform should be car ried in this direction And this, probably, is to be a'.tributed to the rail made on the comniisioners, at the inslnni-e of Mr. P.lthkrford of Ne'.v York, for a statement of the progress made by ihem ia the dsharge of tiieir (iuties, and of the time when thev wou'd be al)!e to report. The f irthcomir.g ontüne of what the oomnnssioners hve dcridsd to reoorninend to the legislulure, (wfhioh is promisd in a short tiine.J will be lo"ked for bv ihe piole-sion a:id by the public, witli