The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Oct. 1.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince Louis of
Hesse, drove out yesterday morning, and her Ma-
jesty again drove in the afternoon to the Balloch-
buie. accompanied by Princess Helena, and attended
by Lady Churchill.
The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse rode on
horseback.

The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with her

Majesty.
The Judge Advocate. General, the Right Hon. T.
E. Headlam, arrived at the Castle yesterday, and
had an audience of her Majesty.

His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon and
suite left the Clarendcn Hotel last night, and proceeded
to Paris via Dover.

PRINCE NAPOLEON and suite yesterday visited
the establishment of Mr. D. Brucciani (Formatore to the
British Museum), Great Russell-street, Covent-garden,
and expressed great satisfaction at viewing his extensive
collection of works of art.

The Earl of Lincoln arrived in town yesterday
evening from Newmarket.

The Earl and Countess Russell, Viscount Am-
barley, and Ladies Russell arrived yesterday at Minto
House, near Hawick, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Minto. On leaving Minto House the noble earl and countess
will continue their journey southward:
The Earl and Countess of Erroll are expected to
arrive at their residence in Grafton-street to-day from
Slaines Castle, Aberdeenshire.

The Lord Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait were
last week the guests of the Lord Bishop of Bangor, at the
Palace, Bangor. They have since been staying with Colonel
and Lady M. L. Douglas Pennant, at Penrhyn Castle, near
Bangor, and are now the guests of the Hon. W. 0. Stanley,
au Penrhos, Holyhead.
THE INDIAN PRINCE, lATIENDEA. NATH JAGORE,
has recently ascended Mont Blanc.
MIL JOHN LEECH, the popular artist, has gone
for a holiday to Homburg.

MGR. DEBELAY, ARCHBISHOP OF AVIGNON,
expired on Sunday evening, in the 64th year of hie age.
The deceased retained all his faculties to the last, and died
so tranquilly that those present were not aware when he
breathed his last.

Why has Mr Sergeant Shee been Passed
Over ?

[We would particularly direct attention to the
subjoined remarks which appear in to-day's number
of the Law Times. Coming, as they do, from a
professional organ of so much ability and of such.
well-known independence, they will be regarded, we
doubt not, by Mr. Sergeant Shea himself as a tr i-
bute not unworthy of his acceptance. Beyond whit
has here been said, so very sensibly and so very rea-
sonably, by our legal contemporary, we ourselves are
perfectly well satisfied that the surprise, and regret,
and even chagrin, caused by this discourteous pass-
ing over of a man as distinguished and popular as
Mr. Sergeant Shee, whose claims to a seat on the
bench have been so long and generally recognised,
will not be confined to the profession alone, but
will extend beyond the profession to men of all
creeds and all.parties.—En. Sun.]

Mr. Sergeant Pigott has received the office that
was, by the whole profession, desired for Mr. Ser-
geant Shee. Except that he was M.P. for Read-
ing, the new Baron of the Exchequer had no claim
not enjoyed by the man to whom all fingers pointed,
as the man having the best title. We have no ob-
jection to make to the new Judge ; on the contrary,
he is quite competent, and must have attained the
honour in due time, but it was not his turn now ;
Mr. Sergeant Shee had a better title, and should
have been preferred. It is said that his religion
stood in his way ; that he is ostracised because he
is a Roman Catholic. For the credit of a Govern-
ment calling itself Liberal, we hope it was not thus.
If so it was, what becomes of our boasted tolera-
tion ? Religions liberty is based upon the principle
that a man's religion is solely a question between
himself and his God, and that no other man has a
right to question it in any way, or directly or in-
, directly to subject him to any disability or annoy-
ance on account of it. If Mr. Sergeant Shee, having
every professional title to a judgeship, is thrust
aside because he is a Roman Catholic, inasmuch as
no other is likely ever to have a better claim, his
rejection is, in fact, a proclamation by the Govern-
ment that Roman Catholic lawyers shall in Eng-
land be excluded from the Bench. Most deeply is
such a decision to be lamented, not merely for the
present loss of an ornament to the judgment-seat
which it entails upon us, but for the indignity to
which it subjects a numerous seetio.n of our brother
lawyers.

MOLDO-WALLACHIA.