The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-11 00:00:00

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day
in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, to hear appeals. The
Lords present were :—Lord Brougham, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Campbell), the Master of the
Rolls (Lord Langdale), the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall (the Right Hon. Thomas Pemberton Leigh), the
Judge of the Admiralty Court (Dr. Lushingtou), Sir Alex-
ander Johnstone, and Sir Edward Ryan.
THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF GRENADA V. THE CHIEF

JUSTICE OF THE SUTRE)IR COURT OF GRENADA.
The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed and
concluded to-day. The case came before their Lord-
ships on a memorial and appeal presented to her
Majesty in council by the House of Assembly of
Grenada, complaining of the conduct, ever since his
first appointment, in the year 1832, of John Sanderson, Esq.,
Chief Justice of that island, and praying his dismissal from
that high office. The conduct of the Chief Justice complained
of by the memorialists and appellants may be thus summed
up, from the statements in the case of the
memorialists : Exhibiting habitually on the bench
a harsh and offensive demeanour towards the bar, the magis-
tracy, and the grand juries, and addressing them in intempe-
rate and violent language, and expressions unbecoming his
dignity as a judge: denying the co-ordinate and co equal
jurisdiction of the Fuisne Judges, as established by
statute, and taking constant occasion to assume a
superior and independent authority: refusing to carry
the statute law into effect, for which he was suspended, and
only restored upon his undertaking to enforce it. Disbar-
ring Clement Thomas Richardson, a barrister. without notice
given to him, or an opportunity afforded to him of justifying
or defending himself. Ordering Fielding Browne, another
barrister, to be committed for moving to have the ptre-.
vious order of disbarment rescinded, and that a nwi
standing the other judge of the court, who
co-ordi-
nate jurisdiction, objected to such order being made.
Procuring from the Governor of the island the suspension cf
Mr. Justice Wells, for rescinding the above-mentionedwas
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jesty, under the advice of the
law otticers of the Crown in
England. Making without know or concurrence of the
of Court, by which the puisne
judges were forbidden
s
to transact any business
at chambers; rules which
were
rescinded by order
of her Majesty, under
the advice of the judicial
committee of this most honourable council. Sentencing
summarily, and without one Andrew Lambie, a witness
for the defence on the t trial,rial
of an indictment, to a month's
imprisonment! and
a fine of 101. for prevarication ; a tine
w
hid, was directed by order of her Majesty's Secretary of
State for the Colonial Department to be repaid to him,
and an
imprisonment which was only not re-
mitted because it had been suffered. Imprisoning
John Ross al‘Combie for three months, and imposing on
him a fine of 1001. for animadverting in a newspaper upon
the committal of the said Andrew Lambie; an imprisor,
ment which was likewise half suffered before it could be re-
mitted by the Governor, though the fine was by his order
never demanded. Ordering Daniel M`Lean, a prisoner on
his trial, out of court during the examination of the wit-
nesses for the defence ; and fining, in opposition
to the opinion of the puisne judge sitting with him,
Robert Gentle, Esq., and Jonas Browne, Esq., two justices of
the Peace, for the alleged i'regularity of taking down in
writing certain depositions of witnesses in the third
person instead of in the first person, notwithstanding
the custom had been to take such depositions in the
third person, and no warning had been given to
either of such justices that any alteration in such
practices was desired ; a fine which, by authority
of her Majesty's Colonial Secretary, and by the consent
of the Chief Justice himself, was never demanded.
I3y the memorial of the respondent, the Chief Justice of Gre
nada, he insisted that a juoge was not legally liable for any-
thing done in the exercise of his office, unless chargeable
with corruption, and complained of the numerous and
Inveterate controversies in which it had been mis-
chievously contrived to involve him with vast
trouble and ruinous expense in bygone matter
since 1832, and which had from time to time been
ffi-posoi of by competent authority, opened on,l re-
moved. With respect to the complaint of the re.spondt.nit,
the mt-noni-di,t,z asserted that the by,:•gona toattt.r,
the respondent stated had been disposed of by competent
authority, had not, in their effect upon his conduct and