The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-12 00:00:00

LAW APPOINTMENTS.

(From the Dublin Mercantile Advertiser.)
We were enabled, on Monday last, to announce the ap-
pointment of Mr. Fogarty to one of the vacant Chairman-
ships. The facts has since been stated by our Contempo-
raries, some of whom, however, have been premature re-
garding the individual- selected to fill the Second Chair-
manship. The naives of two gentlemen have been men-
tioned for this office, neither of whom has been appointed.
Mr. Pigott was offered, but, on account of- the extent of
his professional business, declined the appointment. Mr.
John Gibson, of the Munster Bar, yesterday received an
official notification of his nomination to a Chairmanship ;
but no particular county has been fixed upon with regard
either to that gentleman or Mr. Fogarty, a fact which ren-
ders it not improbable that there will be something like a
general move against the Assistant Barristers. Mr. Bur-
rowes, the venerable and excellent senior Commissioner of
the Insel-:ent Debtors' Court, is now on circuit. The state-
ment regarding .his retirement is, therefore, premature.
The unWillingness of Mr. BUrrowes to resign the station
which he has so ably and so impartially filled since the for-
mation of the (ourt over which he presides, is attributable
to a laudable reluctance on his part to receive the money
of the public so long as his health would permit him to dis-
charge the arduous duties- of his Office ; but, as far as we-
can learn, it is not unlikely'that, on his return from cir-
cuit, Mr. Burrowes will retire full of years and honour,
and that he will have a fit successor in a distinguished mem--
her of the bar, and a man every way qualified to fill the
office, Mr. William Henry Curran. The promotion of
Mr. Curran would necessarily produce a vacancy in the
Chairmanship of Galway.

ASSISTANT BARRISTERS.
(From the Dublin Evening Post,)
Mr. John Gibson has been appointed to one of the va-
cancies. We understand, it is the intention of Government
to make a general change in most of the counties. Of the
particular nature or the alteration, we do not pretend to be
entirely ignorant ; but as the final determination, though
adopted, we believe, is not yet prepared for circulation, we
shall content ourselves with stating, that no Assistant-
Barrister practising in the county, can he longer continued
as Chairman. We are aware that this rule had been pre-
viously laid down and acted upon in some cases. But it
was not. general. No exception will hereafter be allowed.
We believe it is even in contemplation to withdraw the
Assistant-Barristers from their Circuits—that-is to say,
that no Barrister shall be a Chairman of a county in the
Circuit in which he practices. Thus, for example, Mr.
Freeman will be :withdrawn from Kerry, Mr. Robinson
from CarloW, &c. This determination, on the part of the
Irish. Government, will, we knew, produce a prodigious
sensation. But the principle is one which the public will
recognise as excellent. It will be another step to render
this important body still more valuable to the country than
they are at present.

DINNER TO LORD JOHN RUSSEL'.

AT BRISTOL.

(Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health of Lord
Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers." This toast was
bailed with rapturous applause. The cheering lasted for

many minutes.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose to return thanks. He had
again to express his gratitude for the honour done to him
and his colleagues. He had the satisfaction of being
joined with Lord Melbourne in the conduct of public af-
fairs.—(Hear, hear.) He said he had the satisfaction,
because he was quite sure, from his personal and private and
intimate knowledge of the Noble Lord, that there never was
a man more determined to carry into effect useful Reform in
despite alike of any opposition or of any difficulties or ob-
stacles that might be attempted to be thrown in his way.
—(Loud cheers.) Of that fact, indeed, he thought they
'had a convincing proof in the conduct pursued by his No-
ble friend when in the House of Lords he was urging those
provisions of the Municipal Corporations Be.form Bill
wilch had been carried by large majorities in the House of
Commons, but upon which the Government was left in
small minorities in the House of,Lords. But no one could
discover from Lord Melbourne's conduct on' that occasion,
either that his equanimity was in any degree disturbed, or that
his conviction of the correctness of the principles involved in
those provisions was in any respect changed. Lord Mel-
bourne and many of his colleagues, having been likewise
the colleagues of Earl Grey, when that illustrious Noble-
man brought forward the Parliamentary Reform Bill, had
identified themselves with the principles which, in the,Cor-
porations .Reform Bill of the last Session, were obnoious
to the majority of the House of Lords---(Cheers)--and if
he (Lord John Russell) ventured to say that there ought
to be any preference of the present Ministry over those
who, in the course of the last winter, were placed at the
helm of the State, it was because he confessed himself of
opinion, that if measures of Reform were held to be desira-
ble, those who adopted such measures frankly and freely,
and after a long and steadfast conviction of their necessity,
were the most likely to carry them into effect.—(Cheers.)
It was said that those who came into power last year, if
left to themselves, would carry all necessary reforms. He
confessed he should like to know how.—(Laughter and
cheers.) If they were sincere in the course they had for-
merly pursued, it would be difficult to consider them more
sincere than consistent, when they came forward in the
character of Reformers.—(Cheers.) If they said that the
measures of reform of which they spoke, and of which they
asserted they were prepared to become the advocates, were
necessarily to the result of the carrying of the Reform Bill,
then, they must have originally opposed the Reform Bill,
because they saw that such measures would become neces-
sary.—(Cheers.) In that case, the opponents of the Re-
form Bill attaining to power, and proposing the very mea-
sures which they had foreseen and deprecated, would, in
fact, be placed in the situation of recommending to the
Adoption of the Legislature that which in their secret hearts
they could only be regarding as so many evils.—(Cheers.)
Were these the men in wose hands the carrying out of
further measures of improvement in our institutions could
be safely intrusted?—(Cries of " No, no.") He thought
he might venture to say this of Lord Melbourne and his
colleagues, without taking credit for superior wisdom or ca-
pacity, that with regard to measures of Reform they had the
advantage of men who worked willingly ovei• those who.
worked only under restraint.--(Cheers.) After some
further observations, which were totally inaudible in that
part of the room. where our reporter sat, the No'ble Lord'
concluded by stating that Lord Melbourne and his colleagues,
considered they were strengthening and aiding the preroga-
tive of the Crown, when they proposed measures which were
to extend the liberty and promote the welfare of the people.
—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health of Lo d
Segrave."--(Great cheering.)
Lord SEGRAVE said that after the very able and eloquent