The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1866.

HORTICULTURAL

IN TERNATIONA.
Tickets may be obtained of
and at—
Austin's, St. James's Hall. Letts and Son's, Royal Ex-
lhappell New Bond-street. chance.
Cock, Add son, and Co.'s, Mitchell's, Bond-street.
Itegent-rtreet. Oltivier's, New Bond-street.
Keith and Prowse's, Cheap- Sam s, St. James's-street.
side. Werterton's, St. George's-
Lacon and Oilier's, New place.
Bond-st-ect.

d the principal Nurserymen,

W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
and UP INT TEI AIR, an entirely New Entertain-
ment. EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday);
Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL,
King William-street, Charing-cross
Luxurious sofa rails, 3s ; balcony stalls, 35.; area, 25.;
amphitheatre, ls.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

ITODARE'S 420TH REPRESENTATION.-
Tti EATRE OF MYSTERY.—EGYPTIAN HALL.—
STODARE', celebrated MARVELS of MAGIC and VEN-
T RIL, ,QUIS d, P performed by him, by command, at Wind-
sor Castle, before her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 21, 1865 ; and
twice before .R.H. the Prince of Wales, June 6. 1865, and
March 10, 1866.—The New Sensation, the MARVEL of
ISIECCA, the SPHINX, and Stodare's celebrated INDIAN
BASK ET PEAT, EVERY EVENING at 8. Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 3.
Stalls may be secured in advance at the Box-office, Egyptian
Hall, open daily from 10 till 6; and at Mitchell's, Ole amd-
street.—Admission, Is., 25.; stalls, 38.

•° Almost miraculous.' —Vide the Times.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS,
ST. JAMES'S HALL.
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EVERT EVENING at Eight. WEDNESDAYS and
SATURDAYS, at Three and Eight,—The orig. nal and veri-
tably legimate MLNSTRELS. First Season in
London the.e five years. The only company in existence
which possesses a legal claim to the title, from the fact of its
being the only one which retains all the marked specialities
and distinguished favourites who originally gained the re-
putation of the company first in the United States, and sub-
sequently in this country, in 1857. No other company as-
suming the title of Christy Minstrels possesses a single in-
dividual member of the least distinction who belonged to the
original troupe. The Christys (after an absence of five years)
return to London with their band strengthened and im-
proved in every respect, their entertainment being unani-
mously pronounced bi the metropolitan press to be the most
sparkling in London.
Prices of Admission—New and luxurious fauteuils, sa. ;
stalls, 3s. ' • area. 2s. ; gallery, ls. ; juveniles, under twelve,
half price to stalls and area only. Fauteuils and stalls may
be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-
street ; or at Mr. Austin's, 23, Piccadilly. - Manager, Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

T " OXFORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (1 fruited',

IF I WERE KING, Comic Opera, by AD°LIME ADAM,
havin_ been enthusiastically received, will be performed,
together with IL TROVATORE and MASANIELLO, by
the whole of the talented Operatic Company h VERY
EVENING in addition to the other novelties of the estab-
hshment, including the ce ebrated HUNGARIANS in their
new entertainment, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. RANDALL,
ned Messrs. PERSIVANI and D'RHONDE.
Notice.—The last Two Nights of the Hungarians' appear-
ance in England.
Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, le ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Doors open at hall-past 7. Commence at 8.

'MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
It BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS.
NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
notorious CHARLOTTE WINSOR.

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra
Rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Selections from all the favourite Operas will be performed
by the celebrated ARGYLL BAND every Evening.
Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. CURTI.
M. LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and
Eleven o'clock.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, le.

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'ORS.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES—We lately had the painful duty of calling
attention to the fact that the highest place on the
Irish Common Law Bench is occupied by a Judge
90 years of age. Chief Justice Lefroy was once a
I man of learning and eloquence, of a powerful and
penetrating mind. If he had been advanced to his
present office in the full strength of his intellect, he
would have fulfilled all his duties with success, and
might have left a name honoured in the annals of
the law. But, unfortunately, the unworthy close
of his career is likely to obliterate the recollection
of his former merits. He will be remembered, not
as the keen lawyer of the past generation, but as
the feeble and decrepit magistrate of the present,
clinging to a dignity the duties of which he cannot
perform, and exhausting the patience of too forbear-
ing and indulgent people. We have refrained from
entering into individual cases in which the senility
of the Chief Justice has worked a denial of right to
suitors ; but the matter which was the subject of
conversation in the House of Commons yesterday
evening shows in so strong a light this great scandal
that we must call particular attention to it. It will
be remembered that last year a young officer named
Clutterbuck was murdered by a man whom he had
hired as a guide on a shooting excursion. This man
was tried before Chief Justice Lefroy, and the At-
torney-General for Ireland prosecuted. What oc-
curred will be best understood from the debate of
last evening. Mr. Bryan, the member for the county
of Kilkenny, asked the Attorney-General whether
his attention had been drawn to a statement pub-
licly made, to the effect that the Lord Chief Jus-
tice, 'then passing sentence of death on a prisoner
at Tullamore, was unable to read the sentence,
although written for him in large handwriting, and
that his lordship required and had the assistance of
some other person in the performance of that duty ;
and whether that statement was substantially cor-
rect. To this question the Attorney-General con-
tented himself with replying that the statement
" was substantially correct." Up then rose Mr.
Lefroy, the son of the Chief Justice. This gentle-
man, who is himself 66 years old, hastened to vindi-
cate his father from the charge of failing energies.
He entered into an explanation which, so far as we
can see, explains nothing at all, and informed the
house, on the authority of "an eminent Queen's
Counsel," that a mistake had been made by the in-
formant of the member for Kilkenny. But Mr.
Lefroy was probably little prepared for what fol-
lowed. The Attorney-General rose and declared
that he knew the statement to be strictly true, in-
asmuch as it was he himself who had dictated the
sentence to the Chief Justice. " The day on which
the execution was to be carried out," said the
Attorney-General, " had been arranged beforehand,
and the officer of the court wrote out the sentence
in large characters for the Lord Chief Justice, who
however, was totally unable to pronounce that sen-
tence in the legal form, and omitted a material
clause, which would have rendered it void in point
of law. As conducting the prosecution for the
Crown, it became my duty to call the Chief Jus-
tice's attention to the omission, and I was obliged
Ito stand near him on the bench, and dictate the
sentence to him over again in legal form. These
are the facts, which can be substantiated in any
lway if necessary." Such is the declaration of the
First Law Officer of the Crown in Ireland with
respect to a matter in which he played a principal
part, and on which he cannot be mistaken. If
anything can add to the scandal of such a proceed-
ing, it is that men should be found in the House
of Commons to defend the Chief Justice, and
to encourage him in the retention of his office
by pretending that he is still in possession of
all his power. Mr. Whiteside begins roundly
that " the complaint was the most miserable cavil
ever submitted to a body of intelligent and
reasonalse men." This is the confident nisi prius
style, and may have its effect upon twelve Irish
jurymen, but is not likely to persuade the House of
Commons, particularly when followed by a lame
attempt to show that the Chief Justice merely
hesitated as to the day of the execution, and by a
deprecation of any reference to an event which took
place at such a remote epoch as eight months ago.
It is quite evident that the Attorney-General would
never have made so public and confident a state-
ment if he were not sure both that the facts were
undeniable and it was necessary for the public ser-
vice that they should be known. On this last point
we entirely agree with him. The incident at Tul-
lamore is only an instance of what is said frequently
to occur, and we have no hesitation in declaring
that if what is reported be correct, the time has
come for some action in the matter. if the Chief
Justice will not take the advice of those whose
counsels, though more unpalatable than those of his
intimate friends, are more wholesome, there will be
nothing left but to resort to that extreme course
which the Constitution provides for the removal of ,
an unsuitable Judge. The public is, we think, very
ill used in this matter of judicial appointments. No
country pays its Judges so well, none gives them
such splendid allowances on retiring. After a term
of service, which is not long to any man who comes
to it in the prime of life, a Judge may retire with
a pension equal to the major part of his salary. If
he be overtaken by permanent illness or infirmity,
he is provided for during life. We ought, then,
never to have a physically incapable Judge. If it
were understood that men were to be selected as
Judges in the full strength and energy of life, and
were to retire as soon as they became unequal to the
perfect discharge of their duties, the public would
only have the advantages which are justly its due.
But this is not the case. Men are not placed on the
Bench until an advanced age, and until they have spent
all the best years of their lives in building up their
private fortunes. They then feel themselves at li-
berty to keep their appointments as long as they
are bodily able to take their seat in Court. The
cause of their persistence is not difficult to find.
They are often unconscious of their failing powers,
and perceive no distinction between their present
and former treatment of a case. As long as they
are capable of rousing themselves occasionally—
and sometimes they succeed thus far in a wonderful
manner—they imagine they possess all that they
ever possessed, and would resent criticism if they
ever heard it. It is the rarest thing, however, that
anybody criticises except in a whisper. The Bar
submits sullenly; the unfortunate suitors suffer in
silence ; the Government leaves things alone ; a
somewhat odious subject is left to the press. But
this indulgent silence cannot be always preserved.
The country requires as judges men in the vigour
of mind and body. To speak of the isolated speeches
of Lord Lyndhurst at an advanced age as proof that
a man can fulfill the duties of a chief justice at 90
is an absurdity. There can be no comparison be-
tween making an occasional speech and sitting in
Court from morning till evening, day after day,
with the mind continually taxed, to say nothing of
the labour of noting down voluminous evidence.
The bench and the bar would not, we conceive, have
any ground of complaint if an age were fixed for
the retirement of all persons holding judicial and
legal appointments, and if no one were alkowed to
remain in office beyond it. Our own opinion is,
that few men are capable of fulfilling the functions
of a judge after they have attained their three-score
years and ten. Who would commit any important
business to a man 75 or 80 years of age ? If men
of that age remain members of a firm of merchants
or lawyers, the business is always really done by
younger men. How, then, should the most im-
portant of all functions be fitly performed by per-
sons of such advanced years ? The subject is one
of much importance, and we trust it will not be
allowed to pass out of remembrance.
HERALD.—It is much to be regretted that the
rumour, which on Wednesday evening caused a
sudden rise of securities in the Paris Exchange, to
wit, that France, England, and Russia had agreed
to mediate or intervene in the interests of peace be-
tween Austria and Prussia, has derived no sort of
corroboration from the news which has since reached
us. That such a combination might do something
more than advise, that it might speak authorita-
tively to the opposed Powers, whose bickerings have
now arrived at such a point that they threaten an
immediate disturbance of the peace of the world,
can hardly be a matter of doubt to any reasonable
man. We may go further than this. The co-ope-
ration of the great neutral Powers is not only the
most likely means of extrication from this great
dilemma, it affords us the only chance of escaping
from an embroilment, the disastrous consequences
of which it would be impossible to exaggerate.
United these Great Powers would be strong, indi-
vidually they are powerless. The advantages of a
common action, which would cost them so little, are
so great and so obvious, that it seems almost super-
fluous to insist on them. Without adding a single
soldier to their armies, a single gun to the arma-
ment of their fleets, without a pound of extra ex-
penditure, save what would be required in foolscap,
the three Great Powers might become the benefac-
tors of mankind—might save their speeches f
a from
overwhelming calamity, by the utterance of
—There is peace, and there shall bdeßpoesai
ae
to
Europe. Were France, England, an
say this simultaneously,simultaneously,war thebetween German