New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-13
TALPOURDS SUCCESSOR.

setd the fe Sir Thomas Noon ldourd as one OF the punt
judges ftbe Common Pess The spponr rnsnt de
hyee by the ususi courtesy Of etiquette until .fer Tai
urds funeral Eui, from the time tha, the vacancy
cured Mr. Crowder pointed out by the general feesg
sfbe EnglRh bar consetOe Of three thousand counsel
% TO soy nothing OF than twice n mfny attorney.
and socors as The most proper perJD be would ae-
sept the Office. to b. placed upon the Judicial bench
Some Of our readers may repesr words be wond
accept the Office and AK whether there would be much
chance of lawyers not accepting $4,000 per Gnnum ths
s.sry OF pusne Judge in EngsndJ With rsversOn1ry
pension Of 1880 after feea years service should be
then with 10 retire the pension s,ter any
pancy OF the Office long short if placed h0rs de combat
by III heshh But II IL certain III Talfurds the
bench bad been oered 70 and rejected by Sir Alexander
Cotkburn and Sir Richard Bethel rspectyelythe Attorney
General and Solicitor General Of England before had been
accepted by Nr Crowder Such refusal you'll result, no
doubt from the certainty the par oshese gentlemen that
ntbe prtseDt English Ministry should continue in Office
higher judicial station and ye. larger empumen,s than Mr.
Justice CIowder hes attained will probably them
Sir Alexander Cockburn cannot realize less by his prae
tee az Attorney O. neral than from fifteen To seventeen
tAoussnd. pounds Sterling per ennum, and Sir Richard
Bethel Solicitor Genera would problby make
ten thousand pounds year Ia the natural ccurse Of
events Cookburp, who s not yet fifty years old may
pee, become Lord Chid Just Of England the de-
mse or ie,iremen. Of Lord Campbell who aged 70
Behe who h a aud very able equity lawyer h+s svery
CHARGE tf becoming Lord Justice Of Appeal or Of
the three Vice CHANCELLOR wb saiary OF 10000 year.
and retiring pension Of 1890 With such prospects these
gentlemen have declined the b. ralfouris seat
IL true that their promotion the bigger Offices have
named depends wholly upon the present Ministry con
,inuirg in Office for the officers OF the Crown las
fhe Attorney ard the Solicitor General are commonly de
signsted are among the comparatively few officials WHO
NECESSARILY retire change Of the Administration IN
England That contingency they must be prepared for,
and il is curious fact that at this moment, when Lord
Aberdetns Csbne quite probably on The eve OF dissou
ton point Of honor must prevent Cockburn Bethel
even inclined from accepting such conbara
lively inferior position n lie Judgeship, With
IS eco year salary and large pension IN J1tero with
elevation "the dignity Of kDghtbo and The rank Of
Priyy Councillor 1t is notorious that SfRichsrd Bethel
albeit Solicitor General Of England and also Vice Chan
eeor oftbe County Paane OF Lancaster we'll Coun
eel to the Upiversy Of Oxford .hre he graduated the
age Of le with first class hoDors in classics and second in
mahemacs would be very glad. political reasons apart
10 settle down into the comparative and the unhuctu
afipg and permanent income Of pune Judgesbp; but
with faithful adhesion to his parry party-whsh Burke
bss defined to be the madness Of many for the gain of
~few"-he cannot 90 it At such a crisis the present
When the Aberdeen Ministry are vibrating between dis
nissa from, continuance in Office, the acceptance OF
pubne Judgesbip by of is law officers would be sgn
fesnt Of bis opinion that the Cabinet not likely to be
permanent The bar aud the public would conclude jadg
ing from former precedeLts that the Solicitor General
of the instability of official situstion glad
his party retired 10 permanen, position and emou
nent Cor himself
We reoollec notable example bearing upon this point
In June 1871, when the Melbourne Ministry beaten by
the late Sir Rohr; Peel after six years of almost
unequoled Parliamentary warfare, showed that what
ever virtues they might possess that Of resignation
was not among them The first direct assurance that
they would be compelled TO leave Office, was given
by their Attorney General Sir John now Lord Campbell
lie had been first law officer OF the Ministry for several
years but disappointed in his expectation of of the
great prizes in the lottery Of legal life by the fact that
neither the Master of the Rolls the Vice Chancellor the
Chief Justice Of the Queens Bench the Chief Baron
Of the E1chequer the Chief Justice Of the Common
Pleas would make vacancy for him by doath or retire
ment Campbell who is "a canne Scott had reaizeda
very large fortune lat least $500 600 by his profession but
desired rank and station. While he protesting him
self to be almost Republican Boosting that he was plain
John Campbell obtained peerage for his wife who
was daughter of Sear,tt the celebrated Advocate who
became Lord Abnger and Chief Baron of the Exchequsr
To give Minsers pretext for comforting peerage upon
him. and TO permit him TO have the life pension Of "a 600
when goes Win the once he made Lord Chancellor
of Ireland, ard Lord Plunke after eleven years occu
psncy Of that Office TO the satisfaction of the bar and the
public compelled to resign also the large retiring
pension to make this vacancy for Campbell The mo
men that Campbell allowed this scandalous Job to be per
petraed wholly to provide him with poerage and pen
sion oil England took it confession het the Melbourne
Ministry was virtually more Two months aerward it
resigned and after actually sitting the Irish Chancey
Bench for mere than thirteen hours in all Lord Camp
bell had TO resign also enriched by his unearned pension
ennobed but unhonored by his peerage With this recent
example in view, Sir Richard Bethel lmu h against his
will we believe has been compelled in fidelity to his party
10 continue in a temporary and uncertain Office instead Of
taking the desideraed and agreeable station lately oecu
pied by Mr. Justice TalCourd
Az have said the general opinion Of the bar already
had decided before his apponm mt hat Mr. Crowder
was the most desartless msn TO be placed on the va
cant judgment sSst Taliourd died March &c, and ex
scy ten days after when Mr. Crowder reached the bur
ough of BodmiS in Cornwall TO attend the Asszes there
be found letter nom the Executive appointing him jus
tee Of the Court Of Common Pleas The newspaper which
records this ADDS mir Crowder immediately resigned mis-
briefs and returned London 1t does not say whether
with the Briefs he Also returned the fees he had received
with them What is called the etiquette of the bar
would prevent this In Shakspeean paranoe base the
"save who pays and in the legal practice of Great Brit
Gin and Ireland this principles fully carried out strictly
that even when btrister does not attend in Court to
plead for when has already received the inva
rable epsym n 1.-THE etiquette Of the bar thathe
shall retain the money though be has done the work
t may be incid, nialy mentioned here that an English
bafser has no legal claim am compensation for p-oes
siona purposes What be receives always ia advance on
that aceount is viewed al kOsorarium while the
ney entitled to payment a scse of remuneration fixed
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