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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8.

Tin: legal appointments just made by the pre-
sent Covennnent have, it is generally felt, weak-
ened the appellate jurisdiction of the Court of
Chancery, without at all strengthening the law
ailvisers of the Crown. They have also the de-
merit of disregarding tho rule by which the dif-
ferent branches of the law contribute equally to
the ofilees of Attmney and Solicitor General ; and
most miaeciwarily,beavase Mr. Rua:ALLAY—quite
as eminent a practitioner in the Equity Courts as
Mr. Encrr is in the Common Law Courts—is in
the House of Commons, and has been just as deter-
mined a supporter of the Government as Mr.
Bi:LTT, though he has not clamoured for every legal
post from the Court of Passage at Liverpool when
it became vacant to plume judgeships that were
not created.

Through the elevation of Sir CHARLES SELWYN
to the high office of Lord Justice, the appellate
juriAiction of the Court of Chancery must fail to
inspire confidence. The warmest friends of Lord
I.OlsyoKLI will nut compare him as Lord
Chancellor, either in learning, capacity, or in-
(l,l,try, with the late Lord CAM rBELL; Lord
NV ::-TEU KY, or Lord CHAN WORTH ; he is in point
of Let a weak judge, who skilfully avoids the
difficulties which his prtsleeessors would have deaL
with to the satisfaction of the bar. Lord CAIRNS
is brilliant ; some think more brilliant than solid ;
and though no one would have objected to have
aven Sir CHARLES SELWYN made Vice-Chan-
cellor, when any errors he might commit could
he swiftly and inexpensively corrected on appeal,

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plain during the last few days. Mn inoscam
Roosss has Buffeted a penal expulsion from 1
professorship on account of his political opinions.
To say this is not affirming that there was any-
thing political in Mr. BONAMY Psica's candi-
dature ; that gentleman had Liberal friends
in the University who desired to restore him
to Oxford, and to a fair contest on
academic or scientific grounds no one could object.
But the state of the case was no sooner perceived
than the men who compassed the substitution of
Mr. GATIIORNR HARDY for Mr. GLADSTONE set in
motion all the agencies which had effected that
notable triumph, turned the election into a
political contest, and conducted it by methods
from which all honourable minds reooil. Not only
were political and ecclesiastical prejudices vio-
lently appealed to, but falsehoods were circu-
lated throughout the country with a secresy which
had calculated that refutation would be rendered
impossible until it was too late to have any effect.
The worst feature of the case is that these disre-
putable arts have been practised by men of high
station in the University, who were especially
bound to guard its independence and honour. They
have succeeded now, as they have succeeded be-
fore, but at the sacrifice of interests which should
have been dearer to them than any party success.
They have given to the world one more token
that, constituted as the governing body of the Uni-
versity is, high qualifications as a Professor are
not to be accepted as excusing independence of
political character. Triumphs such as this may
yield a momentary gratification, but in the end
nothing could be more prejudicial to the interests
of the University than the belief which it will
tend to confirm and diffuse, that it is a
place where political intrigue and the lowest elec-
tioneering arta can be employed with certain suc-
cess to punish a reasonable and manly indepen-
dence, and deprive a teacher's merit of a teacher's
reward.