The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-20 00:00:00

A RUN UP LEVAL PATRuNAUE.

Although the remezhabk good fortune of con-
servative lawyers during the past two years hui
been frequently made a subject for comment, at
no time Las either a complete liet of the appoint-
ments or an estimate of the value of the patronage
been given. Now that three new judges have
been added to the already long list, there may be
some interest in knowing how the composition of
the judicial be eh hie been changed since the pre-
sent government came into power. Including two
new Lord Chancellors in England and two in
Ireland, 27 equity and common law judges have
been created. The following are the appointments,
distinguishing the three kingdoms :

Bovill, Rt. Hi.: Rif NV: .. Chief haglike of Common

Pleas.
Breft, 8i .W. R.
Cairns, Lent Lord Justice of Appeal ; uow
Lord Chancellor.
Cbehnsford, Lord
Mashy, lir amen. of the Encheyner.
ClWar Sid G.
Hanna, S,J Paisle Judge in Queen's
Reath.
Hayes, Serjeant
Bench.
ReUy, Rt. Ron. Bir P Chief Baron of the Ix.
Malin, Sir R.

V boenrsr.nce- Bor.

Phil Smote, Rt. HOD. Sir R. Judge of the Admiralty
Court.
Rolf., Rt. Hon. Sir J.
Selwyn, Rt. Eon. Sir C Lord Justice of Appeal.
Wood, Rt. Hon. Sir W. P Lord Justice of Appeal.

IRELAND.
Blackburn', Right Hon. P. Lord Chancellor.
Brewster, Right Hon. A... Lord Justice of Appeal; now
Lord Chancellor.
Chatterton, Rt. Ron. H. R. Vice-Chancellor.

Christian, Right Hon. J Lord Justice of Appeal.
Oecage, Right Hon. J Puisne Judge in Queen's
Bench.
Lynch, Mr.
Court.
Miller, Mr. S. B Judge of Bankruptcy Court.
Moms, Right Hon. M Puisne Judge of Cominuu
Pleas.
Napier, Right Hon. Sir J. Lord Justice of Appeal.
Walsh, Right Hon. J. J. Muster of the Rolls.
Whiteside, Right Hon. J. Chief Justice of Queen's
Bench.
ILIYILAND.
highs, Right Hon. J Lord Justice tteniiral.
Patton, Right Hon. O Lord Justice Clerk.
It will be seen that the office in which the
changes have been most numerous is that of Lord
Justice of Appeal. In England Lord Cairns left
it for the woolsack, and Sir John Holt, after hold-
ing the appointment only sin months, was com-
pelled to resign through ill-health. The nomi-
nation of Sir Joseph Napier to the Court of Appeal
in Ireland was objected to so strongly on account
of his suffering from deafness that he sent in his
resignation before he had entered on the duties of
his post. His successor, Mr. Brewster, held the
office eight months, when he was promoted to the
Chancellorship. It may be added that thirteen of
the new judges were returned as members of the
present parliament, and that the offices of Attorney
and Solicitor General in England and Ireland. and
of Lord Advocate and Solicitor-General in Scot-
land, have been filled and re-filled nineteen times.
The vacant Solicitor-Gene.ralahip in England will
now render a twentieth nomination necessary.
The value of the judicial offices which have been
filled during the past two years varies from 2,0001.
to 10,0001. each, and represents a sum of 115,00 W.
a year.—Daily News.

HEALTH OF THE BIEHOP OF PETERBOROUGH.-
It is with the deepest regret that we learn from Whitby
that we must resign the hopes we fondly indulged as to
the restoration of the Bishop of Peterborough. Last week
his lordship rallied wonderfully, but the effort seems to
have completely exhausted him, and he is now sinking
slowly to rest. —Reasr(l.

It is hoped that the health of Mr. McLaren,
Is improving. The orkds tea been of the severest
kind ; and even now the hon. member, confined to his
bed at Harrowgate, is prohibited from receiving either
letters or visitors.

THE NEW JUDGF.B.—Yesterday Mr. Justice
Brett the newly appointed judge of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, attended at the Judge's Chambers and re-
ceived the congratulations of Mr. Justice Wine+. The
persons in attendance on summonses withdrew, while the
two judges remained in conference.

COLL COMFORT.—The great protestant demon-
stration at the Crystal Palace can hardly be called a suc-
cess in the proper sense of the term, but, although the
atendance did not amount to much, yet the enthusiasm
of the meeting was not disturbed by any opposing in-
fluence. In point of fact it seems to have very much
resembled an ordinary meeting at Exeter or St. lamer's-
hall, excepting that, owing to the lateness of the season
and the exodus from London, the array of leaders on
the platform was very scanty, and the list of
the absentee promoters was unusually nume-
rous. The Duke of Portland, however, although
unable to attend, indicated his sincerity by a donation of
2,000(. to the National Protestant Union. This donation
sets at rest all anxiety about the expenses, which were
estimated at 500/., and of which only 3001., according to
the last appeal, had been paid or promised. The meeting
came to a close about half-past six o'clock, and although
it did not amount to a demonstration either of physical or
moral force, it wan not attended with any of the bad con-
sequences apprehended in many quarters. The official
returns of the admissions to the Palace on Monday 'how
997 by season tickets, 6,914 on payment; total 7,911. On
the prervietis Monday, without any special attraction, and
at ordinary rates, the numbers weris—eesson Wks* 1,041;
by payment, 4,632 ; total, s,673.—Ra:ea.—Eft thus
appears that the attendance war greater by only 2,238
than on the previous Monday. 5001. the expenses of
the meeting, divided amongst this number,i gives about
4s. 6d. a head.]

THE PROTESTANT REFORM...MIL—A clergymen
of the church of England, the Rev. P.O. Lee, from whose
letter to Mr. Gathorne Hardy the tory journals are culling
new stories of Mr. Gladstone a secret negotiations with the
church of Rome, thus writes of the protestant reformation
in England : ' The religious Changes of the sixteenth
century were ommene.d by a monarch who had mur-
dered his wives, carried on by a statesman who lied mur-
dered hiibrother, and completed by a queen whohad mur-
dered her guest."
AN ORTHODOX Low, BoAnn.—The little town
of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, is just now agitated by
a curious controversy. :Shortly after the death of Robert
Owen, a committee in Manchester raised 3001. for erecting
in his n lave town a memorial of his life and labours.
The local board of Newtown declined, upon religious
grounds, to lend their sanction, and positively refused to
grant any site for its erection within their jurisdiction.
The committee resolved to place the 3001. in the bank, and
await changes in the composition of the board. which
might possibly introduce gentlemen of more liberal views.
Last month a definite offer to erect in Newtown a mono-
meat to Robert Owen was made to the local board, and.
after an animated discussion, was declined by the votes of
seven members to four. A public meeting of the in-
habitants was thereupon convened, at which a resolution
accepting the offer of the Manchester committee was
carried with a single dissentient vote, and a deputation
was appointed to wait upon the local board, and represent
the ews of the meeting. This was done, and the board
held a special meeting on Monday to consider their re-
ply, when nine of the eleven gentlemen present pulsed a
resolution declining to rescind the former deciiion of the
board, and at the same time administered a rebuke to the
ratepayers for presuming to dictate. The board is sup-
ported ley an addrer from 87 inhabitants.

DiTZATION OF • ROYAL PRESINF.—The Queen
is jail now experiencing the effect of the Cattle Plague
Regulations. A gilandid heifer, a present to her Majesty
from the Duke of Saxe Coburg, arrived in Hull by steamer
on the IN,inst.. The orders of the Privy flounce, cep to
cattle, dilect that all foreign tattle landed at Hull
after a specified time, be slaughtered. The heifer from
Saxe Coburg, although consigoed to the Q 11066, 'was
therefore detained, and is still in Hull, in the keepiag of
the Custom-Mime authorities. Fortunately for the life of
the heifer one order of council has a clause allowing cattle
to go seaward, so on Saturday next her Matesty's present
will, under a bond for 1001., be forwarded by steamer for
London, and there she will be transhipped to Southamp-
tali, fromi whence, after a quarantine of 28 days, she will,
under a certificate, be taken to the Royal Farm at
Windsor.

DuxvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Midi Whisky is mom-
seeded by the nestles) profession an prelsronee to Frenals Brandy.
Supplied fa cooks sad owns tor limos use or onoerksilan Chsolo-
atireau= M.OllO. Davila* rod OR. Ihilliner or
swim, Um" W.o.—taatersimoteta

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

MR. AYRTON, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.

Lest night a crowded meeting of the inhabitants
of the Tower Hamlets was held at the Beaumont Institu-
tion, near Mile-end-road, in order to hear an address
from their senior member. The chair was occupied by
Mr. W. Hallam. In a very long speech Mr. Ayrton referred
to Ms political life since his first connection with the
borough, now sixteen years ago, sad reminded his hewers
of the fidelity and consistency of his conduct with regard
to reform, education, the rights of labour, the Irish
church, and other questions of the day. On the first
point he complained that those who had at length
adopted the great principle of household suffrage hail con-
trived so to complicate it by ratepaying clauses
and conditions of residence, as to resider 4 to
a great extent nugatory. Mr. Gladstone—(bud
cheers)—had posed amendments which would liave
relieved half a- lion of woskieg men from the disabili- -
ties under which the scheme of the government left diem ;
but instead of giving him a unanimous and honourable
support, the liberal party through indifference or faint-
heentedzsese, had allowed him to bo defeated. Then came
the abolition of the compounding systnm, and if people ex-
perienced inconvenience or annoyance from the RCWIAW,
let them understand that it was all due to the conduct of
the government. (Cheers.) As to the three-cornered
constituencies, he asked how it was that of all the great
communities of the country. the Tower Hamlets alone
shared with thut singular luienal the polypus the privilege
of being cut in two, and each part being able to rive by
itself t- (Laughter.) Was it not because the
Tower Hankie had mien its mark upen. the
Houle of Commons, and Werner they had a repre-
sentative that had lost no opportunity of enforcing upon
individual members of the government the absolute no-
eessityof dividing the borough °: (Cheers.) At the same time
he held that the redistribution scheme in the new !orients
Act must be regarded only :,s a provisional ne asun..
(Cheers.) He also regarded theuestion of the luilot as
one that must be re-opened, if they would have the
House of Commons the house not of a section or of a
class, but of the whole community. (Loud awes.) As
to the honour of carrying reform, he attributed it without
hesitation to the self-di:eying conduct of Mr. I ;1.1.14nta.t
and his colleagues, which-had rendered government im-
partible by any minister that would not take up the ques-
tion. The present administration had passiel tieir bill
not because they liked it (for in truth they hated at), bet
because they could not help it. (Loud cheers.) As to the Irish
church, he thought the net Gil owed an eternal debt of grit
tude to Mr. Gladstone foe the film, the intelligent, he might
say the consummate manner in which that gentleman had
dealt with the question. (Loud chasm) In conclusion? Mr.
Ayrton stated that in the comiug contest he should unite
his interest with that of another candidate, but that ho
should throw himself upon the intelligence of the great.
body of the electors. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. SHELTON moved, and In. CORNER SartMlloll, a vote
of continued confidence in the hoe. gentleman upon
which

Drrvigi came forward) to prope-e an amendment
of an entirely opposite character. This led to a icenc of
great confuaton, ni the midst et which a vote of thank, to
the chairman was passed, and the meeting broke up.

BEI.FAST.—At a meeting of the liberal party
held yesterday, Mr. Thor. J.P.D.L., was ire :test
as the liberal candidate at the coming election. Mr.
Wane, is a sound liberal and a presbyterian.
BIRMINCIIIAIL—In a letter to the liberal com-
mittee, on the minority clause, Mr. Bright mays, " Thu
odious and unconstitutional minority clause, intended to
stab vitally the great borough constituencies, can only be
baffled by &complete organisation, and by the willingness
of the liberal electors to consult the general good rather
than any personal preference in giving their votes.',
BRIBTOI..—The liberal candidates have issued
their addresses. Mr. Berkeley, who offers himself in
conjunction with Mr. Morley, after referring with pride
to his long connection with the city, insist on the im-
portance of adopting vote by ballot as the necessary ac-
companiment of household suffrage. While anxious to do
justice to the versatile talents and great ability of Mr.
Dina* the hon. gentleman expresses his regret that he
„ should have retained the pod of prime without a
vestigeof parliamentary power. After congratulating
the electors on the abolition of compulsory church rates,
Mr. Berkeley continues :—" Mr. Gladstone has sought to
take from the necks of the Irish Roman catholics the yoke
of a protestant state church. An humble member of the
church of England, and anxious for the honour and
welfare of that church, I conscientiously believe that the
scandal of imposing the paid ministers of a protestant
chu detrimental a pop opposed to its doctrines has long
bee to the true interests of the charsh of
England and to those of the Christian rertason."
Mr. Morley commences by congratulating the constituency
on the addition which has been made to the number of
electors, and adds :—" I am, as before, prepared to give
my independent and faithful support to Mr. Gladstone's
policy with reference to the Irish church; his pleb for
diadtablishment and disendovrinent is, I believe, neces-
sary for the government of Ireland, not as a conquered
province, but as a sister country, too long alienated by
repeated insult and injury, but now to be overcome b
justice and conciliation. As an earnest and thorough
protestant, I am convinced that protestantiam will not be
weakened but strengthened by the removal of that
which is a memorial of past opprodon and a menace
to the Irish nation. The proposal to ' level up,'
by the endowment by the state of all forms of
religion, will receive from me nnoualitled opposition.
I can perceive no necessity for the increased expenditure
of the present administration, preventing that diminution
of the public burdens which the country has a right to
demand. The old cry, ' Peace, retrenchment, and
reform,' las not with me exhausted its meaning. It will
give me pleasure, and will be my duty, to give time and
attention to the questions which must come before 1 new
parliament, such as education, the relations of capital and
labour, the anomalies and shortcomings of the Reform
Bill, the more just distribution of seats, the ballot, the
law of bankruptcy, as well as to any measures which may
relate to your own locality."
BueniNonAlf.—Mr. J. G. Hubbard, the con-
servative sitting member, seek. re-election. He says :
" The effeet of the ',..mirory Act, bad it posed the
Lord.? although =minions. limited to a year, would have
been irrevocable, and would have involved the repeal of
a fundamental condition of the Union, the of
thb church in Ireland, a grievous blow and disown t
to our national Christianity, and a corresponding triumph
to the intolerant church of Rome.',

Earritit,—The liberal sitting member, Mr.
Coleridge," QC., issued his address yesterday. If re-
elected, the learned gentleman will continue to strive for
the disestablislunent of the church in Inland.

LANCASHIRE (Bount-EAST).—At a meeting
of the LtheralMegistzation Committee it was unanimously
rewired to invite Mr. Frederick Peel and Mr. H. Yates
Thompson to become candidates for the representation of
this division. Mr. Peel has consented to offer himself to
the electors. Mr. Yates Thompson is on his wuy Imam
from India.

MANCHEerrit.—As yet the conservatives have
made no sign with regard to the representation of this
city, owing, it is said, to the want of the necessary funds.
--owing,
Harvey Lewis ham issued
his address seeking re-election. He thus refers to the
great question of the day : " I gave, and shall continue to
give, my cordial eupport to Mr. Gladstone on this great
queetion, which will, I firmly believe, remove a fruitful
source of discontent in Ireland, and will, in m opinion,
greatly tend to promote the true interests of
throughout the United Kingdom.
NorriwortArl.—Mr. P. W. Clayden, of 13, Mavis-
tock.equare, London, has issued an Wrens, which is an
appeal to the working men and the new ecorstitusetey of
Nottingham to select a candidate who shall repwent the
feelinp and wants of the working chaise. . Clayden
offers himself to the new electors to be their candidate at
the election if they wish him to take that position. He
states that he has worked with them for nine jean in
social and political affairs, and having removed to
is willing, if they oh to carry on the mine work fer
the enfranchisement of labour in a wider and more illus-
trious sphere. Mr. Clayden'e political views are those of
the extreme section of the liberal party.
Bot-ra DEVON.—A crowded -meeting of the
electors was held on Tuesda afternoon at Plymouth,
Lord Amberley spoke for an hour and a quarter ; after
which Sir Robert Collier, H.P. for Hyman*, moved that
his lordship was a fit and proper parson to t the
southern (Urinal. This was monde& by . Quotes
tore
Trelawn , and carried with only two disesstisnin •A re.
solution ' the liberals to sappest Laid=
nee pro by Mr. Lewis, the aidata for
second by Yr. Bowden. mayor of Totals, and adopted
br the meeting.

Fetters have been received trona Lieut. Warren,
from Jerusalem, to the 21* of My, stakiag that be wee
i*ttleti in the city, and bad toned Mr two- sappers in good
boatel. sad the works slaking fair protean. Mr. War-
ren aurouneas farther discoveries -importance on the
line of the Wall of Onkel:
DR. DZ amaze 8 LIGHT BROWN COD-LP/ER 011,.
testaylier to the testivened testorstive preissettes et Dr. do
Jef—la's OR la
Ma
mow et measeel debilt
bl 7. Mr. Daltee,
st Barr de enad's, *eeves I have iwtri
suchen( Oaddmee say ethic Mod. The eleste ed Dr. de
Joesk's Ott ere sure sad mot reemuitabts. emeedettlr la thee
lroh state if bsel& sad shrank *Wei essoao preemies
sad favours teberealaresd nerArreecosastad say Ohm
wt." Raid only la Men Ulla.; Me*
te. ed.: Qaertetembh=st Aiwa. Rs&
tag. awl Oc.

~_ __ .