The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P.

SOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY, APRIL 17.

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SHE RHYLOVAI, OP .7rpOES IN THE lONIAN

lewd CHELMSFORD celled attention to the ease of the
asumeval of two of the judges of the Supreme Commit efJaii-
ties of the United Staten of the lonian Islands, and moved
for the ourreepoodeece mid the paper. on the subject. The
moral, he allowed, was not illegal, but he should like to
kaow the resents which had impelled the Lord High Com-
aimiooer to take seep a step.
Ile Duke of NEWCASTLE said, in at:cordate)s with the
essetitutiou of the lonise Woods the judges were removable
every five years. It had been represented to him thrt the
amoral of these judges would is the confidence
of
the lonians is their courts of Pamela, and he thought
list where a power was provided by the constitution,
giving the Lord High Commissioner the means of re-
moving theta it was not desirable that his moans' for
dein aboe;la be questioned. He believed it was a wimp
mid proper step, sad beneficial to the people of the lonian

Lord DERBY said the question raised by Lord Chelmsford
ins, whether the removal- of them judges. wial ea
rupug-
mat to the maxims held on the subject in this country.
He exprosood his astonishment at the position laid down by
the Duke of Newcastle, that the Lord High Commissioaer
Amid arbitrarily remove men of emineeft, of ability, end
of integrity from their odic. without assigning any canes
whatever. He was at a Ices to recoocile the maim of hr'
Majesty's govermout in the present case with the
volition they had takes ap on • recent cooasion
is refusing to dismiss an Australian judge—that it
m above all things to uphold the lads-
plata pweartdeo es olis judges. By delaying the issued the war-
mete for appointing their esocestors, ao appeal to the lonian
as well as to the British parliament (the Doke of Newcastle
amid this in regard to the No parliameot) had been
denied the two judges ; sod, Sea this into comideration,
with the fain of their dismissal without cause magma, he
meld not help Oinking the step was contrary to the spirit
at the looka constitution and to the rules of justice
mid legality in this country for the independsoce
the judges. He trusted the house would not minion
W steps taken by the government, and hoped that the
Dake of Newcastle would recooaider his decision not to
produce the correspondence as the subject. As, perhaps,
the Italian Washes were &boat to aspirate themselves from
es, he hoped that the last Mica of the government would
set be me which maid rookie in their minds—vis„ an ill-
tothetoos with the iodates:km of joins*.
'The Duke of NEWCASTLE had no objection to produce
the papers moved for. He bristly explained the facts of
the cm a regard to his despatch on the iodepeodence of
two • is the lonian Islands.
in Mininlia--• aria no means kleutioal with that
trremonl the
The WILD OHANOELLO eciatesded that, se these
=we removable after a Axed period, them toad be
more hemediont that assigning reasons for not re-
appointing them. Ia regard to the manner in which them
Me lodges bed ea beak re-appointed, no one in the helm
Dimas bed eambused of iR except the two teatimes
affiestsd. He expressed his mama= that the reticence of
the Doke d Newcastle in regard to the climatal of the
two judges lad her kinder than the speeches a their atro-
cities, which had brought down a speaks of coodematios
epee them.
Burl GREY mid be had listened to this debate with treat
mom and with great regret, and the concern bad been
math hicresesd by the speech they had just heard from the
Lend Chancellor. Whether it were in a great empire like
`r is • humble colowy the Masi* of jedioal inde-
vendettas was at the root ail medigovieseasst, sad, with ell
soma* to the soils end loirsed lord os the mime, that
was sot issi seplicable to the judges is the lonian
than to the judges is this country. They were told
that these judges had not been removed, but that they
wee appointed fa a certain time, and that at the expira-
tion a that tines they had not been re-appointed ; end the
nails lord os the woolsack said the argument was the
Mier way. mast that hitherto the Imam Sainte bad for-
=say found se rams for not ft-appointing the judges, but
that. star twisty-roar yea* they had found • masa. He
may thought that if that argument had meat has • leis
mothority it wouldhave been regarded as emewhat agnivooth
When be ins admiti secretary be sever took the step of
mar* a jades without 'Wonky the ease to the Judicial
diarnittee of Privy Council. It was far better that they
shield bear for a time the evil of bad ji=il3.ll the beach
than that they should violate the great of the in-
depasdence of the judT. Thiry lead bac these judges
teak►
• palatal pith • libeght that a sisthasst
he thew remove, bat thought they ought to have bleak
hammed that if they couttaxed to bet ea *Aka partisan'
the technical power a the carom would be used to
thek re-appointment ; bet be did no Wok H right
that should be used, and thea wins the awe me
t famed in perlimaset they should have, mot a
direct asematios that this was the mum of that ershoral,
Ist an limeruita tbst it ins as. The greetwth unwise
Iheit MialteldtmeiM de the lonian Wrath was fie With them
to armed lad shot the ementratiolid maul width pee-
✓eiled is this erastry ; and it was with great latest that
he mew thit the arinciplos of ear someNtation had been so
widely departedbm In the present Mance.
The motion wee then agreed is.