nd other Courts in England. All civil causes
of importance and capital cases are determined in this Court. The
present Chief Justice SAUNDERS, who presides in this Court, the reader
will observe, was a Member of the first Council in the Province. He has
ever since been actively employed in the first stations in the country,
which he has filled with the greatest ability and integrity. He is the
only survivor capable of filling a public station among all those who
bore a share in the public concerns of the Province on its first
erection into a separate Government under Governor CARLETON. The salary
of the Chief Justice is L700 or L750 sterling. The other Justices have
each L500 sterling per annum. The Justices, besides attending the
Supreme Court at the Seat of Government, hold Circuit Courts in the
different Counties.

The Inferior Court of Common Pleas consists of two, three, or more
Justices, who preside occasionally. They are assisted by the
Magistrates of the County. Here civil causes that do not involve
property to a great amount are determined, as are also crimes and
misdemeanors not affecting life. The Grand Inquest of the County
attends this Court, when Bills of Indictment are found, which if
involving matters above its Jurisdiction, are handed over to the
Supreme Court for trial. Most of the Police of the Counties and
Parishes is regulated by this Court, which is held half-yearly or
quarterly in the several Counties, as the public business may require.
Here the parish officers are appointed, parish and county taxes
apportioned; the accounts from the different parishes audited;
retailers and innkeepers licensed and regulated, &c. In short, this
Court exercises in many respects the same powers in the several
Counties, in regard to their internal police, as those that are
exercised by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of incorporated
Cities.

Besides these Courts there is a summary mode of recovering debts under
five pounds before a single Magistrate.

The Legislature of New-Brunswick, like most of the British Colonies, is
a miniature of the British Parliament, consisting of the
Lieutenant-Governor, the Council, and House of Representatives. The
Governor represents the King. The Council form the upper House, in
humble imitation of the House of Lords in England; and the
Representatives from the different Counties forming the lower House, or
House of Assembly. The number of Representatives for the several
Coun