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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 2.

Loan RAGLAN is at rest. Hs hes been relieved
ran his arduous and responsible duties in the
Crimea, and from—what mast to him have been more
harassing still—the discussions which have arisen out
of our military operations there. When Lord
Rumen was made a Field Marshal we indulged in a
retrospective review of his career, and need not now
go over the ease ground again. We have not hesi-
tated to criticise his management when it appeared
that any good could come of free expression of senti-
ment. But now is not the time for dwelling upon
details: it is with the entire of the man we
have to do when the grave is about to close over
him. And the friends of Lord RAGLAN may
calmly and fearlessly await the judgment which
the public will pass upon him. A braver, a Mader,
a more honest man never existed ; nor one who was
more anxious to discharge any duties that devolved
upon him to the best of his abilities. He had the
interests of the army warmly at heart ; he was a
tree Englishman ; he was a gentleman in the beat
• and highest sense or the word. His memory will
live, not only in the history of his time, but in the
loving and grateful regrets of many en honest heart.
An expectation seems to be prevalent that General
SIMPSON is likely to be his successor. General
/Mason is no doubt a meritorious regimental officer,
but his appointment to the chief command would be
open to objections on many grounds. If it is made,
no one can entertain a doubt that the intimate rela.
tions ci friendship between his family and Lord
PIXIIIIIIIII will have been the principal reason for his
promotion. Having frankly and without eircumlc-
cation stated this truth, we may be allowed to ad-
dress a word of warning to moms officers who, in the
event of General SIMPSON'S being made Commander-
in-Chief, will be expected to serve under him. We
know that some of them have expressed their
determination not to do so ; but we hope
they will reconsider this resolution before they
act upon it. Every man owes something to his own
dignity, but his first duty is to his country. No man
has a right to indulge personal or profeisioaal sus-
. ceptibility to such an extent as to withdraw his ser-
vices at a crisis like the present. The more unfit
the General in command the more need there is for
good and tried soldiers to make op for his deficiencies.
Moreover, it is sometimes the wisest policy to submit
without murmuring to injustice. A time is sure to
come when public opinion will make good the wrongs
inflicted by the partial affections of the high in office.

THE NEW JUDGE.

After sixteen years' service Mr. Justice Mauls has
retired from the Bench of the Common Pleas. Dis-
tinguished in his youth—for he was Senior Wrangler
at Cambridge, in 1810—he has been eminent as a
judge. For largeness of mind and subtlety of intel-
lect combined, he was unequalled amongst his
ermined brethren. Failing health alone is the cause
of his retiremest.

The Lord Chancellor has nominated as his succemor
Mr. J. 8. Wines, of the:Home Circuit. This gentle-
man was called to the bar in Jane, 1840, and is thus
of 15 years' standing. He is only a stuff-gown, and
is about 42 years old. He is very little known out
of the profession. He ought, therefore, to be rarely
endowed to justify his selection to the high office he
is called upon to fill. From all that we can
learn, we believe that he is so endowed. He was
distinguished for his mastery of metaphysical studies
while an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin.
W. yet a student in the Temple, he gained a
chaenster for learning, industry, and a legal mind;
and Immediately on his call to the bar he attained
prellainial success and celebrity per saiturn. For an
adingod knowledge of all branches of law—foreign,
dead ecclesiastical—and equity, he is unequalled
lams the practising members of the profession, and
his immunon law learning is well known. His powers
as ma advocate are not great, for his mind is eminently
jelliksl—that is, so far as balancing facts and argu-
ments, and drawing a just conclusion from them go.
Whether he has that instinctive knowledge of the
human heart and character which is one of the most
necessary gifts of a magistrate, we are not so certain.
But we do know this, he has very great general
powers of mind, which have until now been—
too exclusively perhaps—employed in one channel:
he has vast learning and enormous industry. Had
he possessed the special powers of the advocate, he
would ere this have attained such a position that a
palms judgeship would have been no tempts ;ca t
him. As it is, we believe him—take him for aLis I
—to be most emphatically the man for tf 41 Mend
so we think will the great majority oiliest wag at-
torneys—no mean judges.

A letter from an offioer high in command in the
Thema army at the Crimea has the following I have
post he hears before Malakhoff, upon er 'mad ton by
bomb shells sad grape thole, is the midst of the horribly
mutilated armee of our lents soldiers, piously 'enacting
these minims remiss for burial. Amongst them Iliad the
happisess to lad Ms am vomited, bat living. It was with
mash ~ties that I grasped the hands of Qom unfortunates
who had pawed two dam sad two nights unwounded by
the serpeesef their semrsiee,:midse th<are of the Malakhoff

gear, aet dazing to Mu for-assiatease, hiding thalamiv6;
during the day, sad sot kaowiag whether they might hops
Sr a reams from death."

The Count de Chambord is at the waters of Tcep-
Mts. It is said that Count Mal is with bin.

IL do Mantsuffel has left Berlin for htiadroy, upon
As dims of the Baltic

A Uttar of the 27th, from Varsovin, says:—" The
Tired& le rising, sad threatens oar city with a flood. The
sppeassase of the mope is unfavourable. Eye, the pria-
dpal preduet of the matey, thrives scarcely anywhere."
M. Wallas. the last President al Mexico, has
just arrived at Paris.