The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18.

Tas alleged appointment of Mr. STIJAIIT WOZTLIT
be tbsedise of Bolicitor•General can in no respect be

regarded as satisfactory. The legal profession, the
political supporter of Lord Pahnuerox, and the
general public, are alike at a loess for.the motives that
can have dictated such a nomination. We need not
remind our readers that the choice of the Parlia-
mentary Lew Officers of the Crown avowedly rests
on different grenade from those which influence the
selection of hedges. Legal learning is, indeed, an
indispensable requisite in both cues; bet in choosing
an Attorney or Solicitor General it is sallleisatly
notorious that legal lousing is not by any means
the only test, bat that reference most aka
be bad to thine politial considerations which ought
wholly to be kept out of sight in promotions to the
judicial beach. The Attorney and Solicitor General
are ez•nfficio members of the Ministry. Their province
Is to milieu, and sestet the Cabinet in all the legal
holiness of the State, and to support in the House of
Commas sash measures of the Government as may
be in any degree connected with the administration
of the law. They are in fact not merely legal but
political inactions:in, and, se each, by an almost
invariable rule hare been selected from among thole
lawyers who, in addition to profusion'', distinction,
have come forward u parliamentary supporters of
the Government. In the present day the sphered
duty devolving on the Law Officers of the
Crown has is one most important respect been ma•
terially enlarged. In the abuses of any established
Department of Justice, it is epos these function-
aries that it mainly devolves to advise Government
not only ea what the law is, but en what it ought
to be. The Attornf y And Solicitor General of the
day are the principal Geverneneat manual Law Re-
form; and Law Reform, let Lord PALMEUTON be
assured, whatever the Tadpoles and Topers may
think of it, is that department of our legal adminis-
tertian to which the public now-a-days attach more
importance than to any other.
We have indicated the three requisites which the
legal profession, the political supporters of Lor
PALNERVION, and the general public, had
a right to expect to see in some degree realised
in the selection of a new Solicitor-Cleural.

They had a right to expect that he would be a man
of high legal ability, of liberal Vial,/ in polities, of
comprehensive views in the matter of law reform.
Dona Mr. STUART WORTLEY is soy one rasped come
up to this very reasonable standard of requirement P
Unheeitatiegly we answer that he does not. Mr.
STUART WORTLEY WAS DIVOT eminent SR a lawyer.
The advantages of a strong local and aristocratical
coons:los speedily pushed him into a certain extent of
business at the West Riding Sessions and on the
Northern Circuit, but it soon became apparent that he
was not qualified to maintain the position to which
he had been thus advanced, rather by the fortunate
accidents of powerful friendship than the sterling
claim of intrinsic merit. Mr. Wormwee bad•
nese on the Northern Circuit had been in a course
of steady decline from the period of his all within
the bar, in 1811, to that of Ms appointment as Judge
Advocate, ander Sir ROBERT PEEL'S administration,
in January, 1846. By hie acceptance of that office
he necessarily lost whatever circuit practice still
remained to him, and from the period of his resign.
log ir, on the break up of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S
Ministry, down to hie election by the City of
London u R• corder, in the year 1830, hie
professional functions may be regarded as having
been virtually in a state of almost absolute
abeyance. He has held the dike of Recorder for
six years, but in that capacity his duties have been con.
fined almost exclusively to the administration of the
criminal law, and on all other branches of juridical
science and leg4l practice the fair, nay the una-
voidable, inference is that Mr. STUART WORTLEY
in 1836 is even less skilled than he was in 1846.

With regard to polities it is pretty sonoefees that
Mr. WORTLET 4 OR essay piste a Pulite ati that
deep con tire die which is only distingtlahable
from Toryism by the prevalence of a buy muted
tint ; the " pale cast of political Jesuitism siokly-
ing over the " native has" of Tory resolution.
We have no taste for these natures of parllausatary
life, end it is with deep regret that we see Lord
PALMERSTON thus shaking the confidemee et the
Liberal party, by an attempt to gain owe theme
whom he - set en entire attendee.
' claims on popsies
. the proepeels
ALMEP.STON should
a gentlemen

whom he cannot secure without an en
meat of hi. beet and strongest claim
support. It is cot of good augury for
of the comieg serum that Lord PALM!
hare ctosto as his Solicitor-General