The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-13 00:00:00

sod still remains in all its

the order of the day in tl

&pins', in its most

justice the most scandalous and revom-e,
sloe of all freedom of thought, speech, writing, and
wambijEtlen meet rigid, and penal severities of
every dolioriptioa without trial, the most un-
relenting—these and a concomitant suns of untold
cruelties and crimes make up the daily mend of
Neapolitan rale. An ex-Minister of 1848—the
brother of one of the Kisn's present advisers—is
permitted to live in silent obscurity, and to die in
Ids own house; bat lest the occasion of his inter-
ment should elicit some &w popular groans or tears,
ids corpse in mind en by the ',11i:., his relatives
ail mounting friends Sr. ordered to stand wide,
aid the last rites are accorded to him in secresy
end darkness, nobody knows how or by whom.
The deem of the unhappy enthusiasts who conceived
the desperate scheme of seizing the Cagliari, and
compelling her erew to land them on a remote por-
doe of the Neapolitan shore, for the purpose of
Wiseating certain of their captive countrymen,
hes been too recently made known to need
tempitulation. Condemned after prolonged im-
peiscament and protracted trial as guilty of
disloyalty to a Government which France and
England two years ago solemnly declared to be in-
tolerable and inimical to the welfare and peace of
Europe, NICOTERA and his comrades have been
sentenced to the slowest death known to the inven-
tion of the unmerciful. Chained to one another and
buried alive in noisome, sunless, narrow dungeons,
they are to be made to die, by imperceptible degrees,
of disease, disgust, and despair. Though thirty
years should roll away during the proms of tor-
ture it will not be thought too long a term of retri-
bution by the patents' Government of Naples. Yet
this is the Government to whom Mr. Dream=
tad Parliament the other day he eaw no
Minn why a representative of the Queen
ca ENGLAND should not be sent ; and this is
the Government whose alienated friendship and
alliance Mr. DISRAELI'S Foreign Secretary la
reported to be now actually seeking diplomatieally
to regain. Ere it be too late, we warn Ministers
to pause. Let the fate of Lord CLARENDON be ever
before them. It is an example not to be forgotten--
a precedent which the country, if provoked, will be
very apt to follow.

THE English Judges deservedly enjoy an excel-
lent reputation. Some are better lawyers than
others, bat it is the rarest thing to find among
them any want of zeal or industry in the per-
formance of their duties. It is the practice
to surround such high functionaries with respect
and ceremony, and there are obvious advantages in
doing so. The public appreciate these things, and
even smart writers are willing to overlook faults in
a Judge which if committed by another would evoke
remonstrance. But forbearance bas its limits, and,
unless we are misinformed, the conduct of one of
the Qtaen's Judges is just now very properly
giving rise to much comment.
The

Sir JOHN ISTVART is what
is technically called Vacation Judge in Equity.
His duty is to remain in town, or at all
events within a reasonable distance of town, so
that he may settle at his chambers whatever
questions of urgency may be submitted to him.
Unfortunately, however, hie Honour first saw the
light in the western isles of Scotland, and to that
dreary paradise he flies every summer with prema-
ture alacrity. Of course the public have no right to
complain of this strange peculiarity in his Honour—
so different from the feeling which is popularly sup-
posed to iIAOOI2OII Bootehmen in general—that he
should wish to re-visit his native shores. Such a
complaint would be simply impertinent. Bat there
is work to be done in London by a Vice-Chancellor,

and who is to do it ? Has Sir JOHN STUART an
electric telegraph wire carried to his Highland home
along which applications, and arguments in support
of them, are to be transmitted ? Are injunctions to
be granted or refused by the same process ? In
abort, how is the work of the Vacation Judge to be
carried on ? If, indeed, Sir JOHN STVART had been
a very eminent lawyer, or an industrious judge, kis
startling coolness in betaking himself to hie native
hills when he ought to have remained in Loa-
don might have been perhaps forgiven for the sake
of his judicial services. But the truth is that few
men who ever sat upon the bench have had the re-
putation of being more ignorant of law—few judges
have had more of their decisions reversed—fewer

Mill have exhibited more indecent huts to cut short
the hour of work and to lengthen the vacation. The
first door in Lincoln's-Inn that closes is that of Vice.
Chancellor BTDAILT, and, indeed, it has even been
said that more than ODDS the LORD CHARCILLOI

for the time being has been compelled to address
a letter of remonstrance to this judicial idler.

It certainly is strange that a man of the world
ehould expose himself in this way. It would
Barely be much better to follow the example of his
judicial brethren. There are seven Equity Judges,
including the LORD CHANCILLOR, and therefore
only once in eerie years ought it to be necessary to
sacrifice a Long Vacation. The Constitution, relying
upon the real and good sense of men in high position,
has provided a somewhat cumbersome remedy for
judicial neglect or incompetence. A Judge
can only be removed by the address of
both House of Parliament. It is hardly probable
that this extreme measure will be resorted to, nor
is it likely that any public remonstrance will have
mete east epos the Vics-Cmexcem.o& than the
private letter of the LORD Citexcruza. Perhaps,
however, the public diaconteut, expressed through
the Haase of Commons, might have some effect :
more especially if a motion were made for a Return
of the number of oases in which the Vms•CaAxcm.-

tot's decisions have been reversed by the Court of
Appeal, and of the expense thus ceased to the un-
happy suitors. A seat in the Hones of Commons and •
vehement political creed were the only ground,
upon which Lord ST. LIONARDIS reoouinimaded the
appointment of Sir JOHN STUART to the Quime.
His judicial career has neither surprised his Meads
nor disappointed his gamier.
It in to be hoped, however, that the LORD CHAR-
EILLoR will set allow the bumpiness of the Courts of
Equity to stiffer in erniasquenoe of the obstinate
idioms of a Highland lawyer. It really will setae
to insist upon men of business hurrying off to the
moors in order to obtain an injunction from Sir JOHN
STUART monctsd on his Shetland pony. A Vice-
Chancellor has before now been known to have beard
an argument whilst enjoying a swim, but that was
within a few miles ef the Metropolis. It would have
been a very different thing had he been oaring his
way on Loch Sakai If Lord CHELMSFORD cannot
prevail upon his subordinate to attend his c►ambers
in London, the only comet will be for Lord ennui-
FORD ED de se himself. Probably no man needs a
bads? MD mush as the Loan CHANCELLOR, but Sir
JOHN anAla having fled to the Higklands, there Is
no one else to de the work.

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