of costSj we:;findthe/ Com' mission has boldly thrown over all pre conceived ideas dri this subject, and ,/made it ;iawful' in;the/'first place for; /solicitors (sec. 33) client as to the amount of pastor fui !ture sefvicesi either by a gross siim'or; Jby cdmiriission, ( perce^ntage/sala^y,'' or. otherwise,'subject to reluctipri,' by'thp; .Judge, ifj in T i his discretion, rife; seems unfair* but not liable td be increased ;by the 1 solicitor. In actions, the'costs 1 are in' the discretion of the j Judge;. whp' may direct the amount to be pai.p, or, ;;if left ; to the! Registrar,' the', judge i is, empowered to review the'discretion of ,that officer, even 1 in quesfipns fts |to amount, which hitherto the case* ... Where. rip ;dippptibnj fyy'MH, Judge is:given, the code'provides a '; sliding 1 scale of costs fdif the ; diffel 4 ent , substantial/proceedings in ariactiPti, from a perusal of which it appears, that in future the costs of a simple con tested case will not,' if the rules be properly adininistered, exceed £2O on each side, increasing ' propprtipriately according to the amount involved jnor. the difficulty of the case. The intro duction of some degree of certainty as tothe amount of costs an, intending litigant may have to pay will be espe cially appreciated by the commercial world. Long bills of costs, marvel lously constructed out of ' imaginary and nnnecessary items, will,, it is hoped, disappear, and with them one of the principal causes of complaint against the profession., It is not the amount oE a bill which a client objects to —it is the individual six-and-eight pences of which it is so largely com posed. More credit will be given to the skill and of the solicitor than to the needless copyings of the junior clerks and the sundry atten dances of the office ; boy. 