New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-02
FROM BOS TON.
Erom Our Orn Corre.pondent-


BesTOS, April 30, 1889.
The Court of Common Pleas, which was estab-
lished in Is2I and she Superior Court for Suffolk
County which was established in 1855, have been
abolished by the new law establishing the Supe-
nor Court" and eleven Judges, whose tenure of
Office was during good behavior" will be thrown
out of employment. OF these eleven only one
Judge Melen of the Court of Common Pleas, has
been in Office ten years. He was appointed in
ls47; Judge Perkins in 1913; all the others since
1850 The Court of Common Pleas has had twenty
seven different Judges in thirty-cght years. Of
these fourteen have resigned, four only died IN Of
fee. two were promoted to the Supreme Bench,
and seven are now abolished. The Suffolk Court
has had ak Judges in four years, OF whom two
resigned and four are DIV abolished. 10 1856
Court of Insolvency vas established, with Judge
for each county, with the gOva behavlJr-tenur
THIS Court lasted two years, and ~hen II was aoo-
i.brd in 1855 the old and venerable Probate Court
went with 1t, and a new Court was established,
STYLED the Court of Probate and Insolvency. by
Tins su ecping operation, fifteen twenty Judges
were throw out-oniy u few of the old ones being
retained Judge Loribg ~as made an example Vi
the terror of slave catching officials IN 1905; and,
i'm the same year four Vr hve thousand JUSTICES oi
the Pence were curailed of their criminal business
Yun will see by this that the tenure otJudlclal once
in this Commonwealth is getting to be alarmingy
| insecure The Judges themselves however, are III
| ereat degree TO blame for this state OF things.
| They have impaired the tenure Of their offices by
| res,gnng just as soon as they found something
| mere profitable "a do.
In oo times and uutil within about q dozen
Years, the Judges fulfilled the obligations which
| they imphedly took upon themselves to remain 10
ofhce. Of The early Judges Of the Supreme Court,
| Sar,ept, Sedgwick, P,IsoDs and Parker died 10
fiioe severally after terms OF ter, eleven, SIN and
| twrut, .foui years; Gushing WAS appointed Judge
| oi the Supreme Court of the United States, alter
| serving eight years; Sumner VAS chosen Governor
| after scryItg fifteen years; Thatchers 0fhce was
| vacated; Daba, jackson, Putnam aod Wide re-
| signed b, reason of i'll health or old age ALTER
terms twenty-one, teo twenty-esn' ana lnil-
ty-fye wears; and Llncoln aud Norton We're
| chnen Governor while 10 otfce, the latter having
| served fifteen years on the Beach no" coue
| 10 Oh ef.Justce Staw's time. He was nPpoloted
| in 1880 and has faithfully served nearly thirty
| years Judge Dewey Was appointed IN 1857, ana
has served twenty we years; Judge HUBBARD was
| appointed ia 1872 and died In iclo; Judge Met
calf has been the bench since ISIS; Judge Bise-
| low since 1850 ard Judge Merrick since 1895.
| Judges Fletcher Forbes Gushing and Thomas, re-
81, ned after brief terms of service. The nfsI
| lud,es of the Court Of Common Pleas held on re-
marsably we'll Judge W ard served from 'c>i 10
| is:q; Judge Strong Ia 1912; lndge Williams 10
| ls44 AID Judge Howe died 10 office in ISIS Alter
| that the designations becsme frequent. judges
Warren. Allen Mrrrick, Washburn, l.. ;. Cush-
ing Colby, Forbes, HopkOsop, Hear, Beelow aud
Merrck took themselves of; the two latter To tue
Supreue Bench. and the Others t. the bar or To
the presidency of railroad corporations or to pri-
waite life -
The Judges who are DOW thrown out are as iol'
lowe. or the Court of Common Pleas, Aelien
| (Cbief), Perkins, Bishop, Briggs, Morris, Aiken
aid Sanger; of the Suffolk Allen Chief \ Hunting
| ton, Nash and Morton. The Court will con
sisis ol ten Judges. believe there is no doubt Oh
the reappobtmeut Of Judges Allen and Morton
| CO the other band, it is generally supposed tha.
| Nash, Perkins Bishop snd Briggs will not be- re-
| sppoipted. This narrows the debatible men down
| to Huntingdon, Morris Mellea, Sanger and Aiken.
| Probably Huntington will be sppointed Morris
and M,lien's chsuces are good Ssoger's and Aiken
$3.50. This is the best judgment can make up a
pressnt.
have list of thirty candidates, beside the in
cumbents | suppose there ten or dozen
| more. or Glty in all. viii name of the most
prominent. Julius Rockwell Of Pittsheld stands
| an excellent chance. Bishop aud Briggs, who %
orr. are both Berkshire men, and so Mr.. Rock
| w,Ils location" is favorable. He is reckoned
| coed lawyer, and 10 man has higher reputation
| for integrity, or will have more durable popa-
larity. Otis T. Lord is al exceedingly able lawyer
lives in Essex and viii therefore do to take Judge
| Perkins, place, represents the old conservative
WhR e.eslent, aAi is personally rather popular