The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00

A COXSZOTATIVX ortmoN OP TUE XINI,TELT.

The &maitre/ rye that the men who form the backbone
of the government—its strength in debate, its admiaLstra-
tire power, its hold on the reepts:t of the country and of
the liberal party—are the IMO who hold the second-rate
and third-rate offices ; while the great prizes are chiefly
allotted to men whose long official esperience has not de-
veloped any oorreeponding capacity, and te.tifles rather to
their influence than to their genius. The aristocratic por-
tion of the party monopolies the plum. ; the plebeian&
with two signal exception.. must content themselves with
the leaving..

UZFORY 7111 ADZINIMATIOS Or LAW.

The 11... t maintains that it would be for the benefit of
the public if the political and legal functions now dis-
charged by the Lord Chancellor were separated by the
creation of • Minister of Justice, who should exercise
patronage of • judicial character. subject to the imme-
diate control of parliament ; sad by the appoh.tesert et •
Lord Chief Juidice I. Chancery, who should be invested
with all the legal and administrative jurisdiction now it-
emised by the Lord Chancellor is his capacity of
head of the Court of Chancery. Remarking upon
the expenses of the present system, the r.,/ says
that between the years 1834 and 1867, Ex-Chancellor Lord
Brougham received in the shape of pension, the sum of
163,0001.; Ex-Chancellor Lord Lyndhurst, about 100,000/.,
Ex-Chancellor Lord Cottenham, about 30,000/. ; Ex-Chan-
cellor Lord St. Leonard., 80,0001.: Ex-Chancellor Lord
Cranworth, 30,000/. ; Ex-Chancellor Lord Chelmsford,
48,000/. ; and Ex-Chancellor Lord Westbury, 13,000/. ;
making a total of 463,0001, er nearly half a million ster-
ling. 'This stun, if eapitalied, would, at 3 per cent., give
about 16,0001. • year, which would afford means sufficient
to pay 6,0001. a year to a Minister of Justice, and 11,000/.
or 10,000/. a year to the Lord Chief Justice in Chancery.

Ilia C1.61.1C.tL LOW ai TEN

TAVERV.

The Deily Nitro remarks that the question really at
iBl4lO at the meeting of the Society for the Promotion of
Christian Knowledge was the royal supremacy rnsme in-
dependence ; the principle on which the established church
of Kngland is founded versoss that on which unestablialted
churches, such as that of South Africa, are based. The
victorious party on Monday represent that large majority
of churchmen who are willing to accept the consequences
of establishment, to acknowledge the civil authority in
church matters, and to recognise the head of the nation
as the head of the church. The detested party are acme
who would make the church a self-governing institution—
living its ova independent life, and existing independently
of governments ae a "kingdom not of this world." To
the one it seems only to be the part of honesty and duty
to accept the restraints as well as the advantage* of es-
tablishment ; the other is ready to give up the material
advantages of union with the state in order to secure the
spiritual benefits of liberty.

- The Rear °Dienes that if any unhappy geologist had
appeared in the roc,m, or any arithmetician who could not
prove the sums in Numbers. it is more than probable he
would have sustained serious bodily harm. When Dr.
Miller, of Greenwich, one of the most zealous of orthodox
evangelists, was howled down as if he had been the
original Caffre who put questions to the bishop, it is iar
possible to say what would have been the fat* of any saw
who was suspected of favouring a less literal mohair of
the &et chapter of the Bible than the Thkly-ains Artistes
demand.

roo son-uunurr or WIXOM

Commenting upon the decision of the Conte of Quesn'e
Bench, in the am of "ussaar v. Weiket," the !Mry►gA
?splint to the argurmat that the tradesman needs pro-
tection es well as the weenier and ought not to loge the
pries of goods bewail* sold, by observing that eines he
spontaneously 11101121 the risk of dealing wit► miners,
and oilltdonsly forces his wares upon them. he muse bear
the oceasquenoss of his own temerity. He is the tempter
who studiously lures awn into the ociamission of sato
of extravagance, and therefore of dishonesty. Les hint
reap as be lowa.

A swain of the Trades Unions Commissioners
was hold yesterday, at 1, Park Prospect, Great Qum-
street, Westminster. Present : Bight Mon. Sir William
Pale, chairman, Earl of Lichfield, Lord Bich*, M.P., Mr.
Herman Merin* C. 8., Mr. Jame Booth, C. 8., Mr.
.1. A. Roebuck, Q.C., Mr. Themes Hughes, M.P. Mr.
Frederic Harrison, and Mr. William Mathews. Mr. J.
C. Trail', secretary to the commission, was also presenL
Tim Na. Eisner op Matunrrztra.—Nre have
authority to state that the Duke of Buck' has re-
commended the Bev. Themes Goodwin rector
of fit. Nicholas, Guildford, and rural dean, to be the
Bishop of Mauritius, and that her Majesty the Queen has
graciously sanctioned his grace's wial-advisud recouitnen-
dation.—Breorel.
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