Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-12-13
English Judgeshfps.

youngest judge on the bench. He never took
silk" as it is termed-i e., was called within
the inner bar as Queens counsel-but was
raised direct from being stuff. gown barrister
to seat on the bench. He will be the third
Judge appointed to the Court of Probate and
Divorce since its institution in 1853.
The salary attached to this Office is the same
rs that of the ordinary judges-$25,000 year
with retiring pension OF $l7500 after ff-
teen years service. The position is difficult
and arduous, but the temptation to take. the
post is that the judge of this court is. an auto
crat, and is always appointed member OF the
privy council, and has more patronage at IBIS
DISPOSAL than all the rest of the judges put to
gether. When the English probate system
was remodelfed, in 1858, the various ancient
courts, both civil and ecclesiastical for proving
wills, were at a stroke superseded by the Court
Of Probate and in their stead forty district
registries" established over the country at large
towns, where wills are proved. A new will
must now be proved within the district 10
which the tsstator died. or In the principal reg
istry in London. The judge Of the court ap-
points all these registrars, both IN town and
country, and in this way has patronage to the
extent of about $350e00 year.
In former days the judges sold their patron
age. and the first Lord Peterborough was Of
fered 100000 for the reversion OF the place Of
clerk of the Kings bench. He declined
this offer and gave the appointment to his son,
who died two years ago, having held the Of
6ce-worth $4,000 a year-about forty
years. The story is we'll known of how his
father heard of the vacancy when out riding on
horseback; Immediately dismounted told his
groom to hold his horse and taking pencil
from his pocket wrote bis sons appointment
on scrap of paper, the groom being witness
aud the saddle serving as table. Then be
mounted and rode comfortably home, secure OF
q splendid provision for his son even 1t be
should himself be thrown and killed on the
spot.
Nearly all the great legal sinecures in England
are now gone, but the greatest yet remains IN
the shape Of two Offices worth nearly 800, GOO
"a year, which have been been~held for about
fifty yearsb by an old clergyman who has had
nothing on earth to do in return save to sign
his receipt. This venerable ecclesiastic to
whom such an amazing share Of legal loaves
and fishes have fallen is Dir. IhurloW,
nephew of the, Lord Chancellor of the time,
the school companion of Cowper, to whom
there is such frequent aflusion in that poets
letters To feather the nest Of bis family was
an object which Thurlow never lost sight or
When he asked for the bishopric Of Durham
the great pecuniary prize OF the brltsh oeoch
of bishops, and then worth 100000 year,
George the Third said Anything else, my
Lord; bu. the bishopric: of Durham has always
been bestowed on gentlemen OF high family
aud position" ''Then, Sire, said IhurIoW'
Il ask it for the brother of the Lord High
Chancellor of England, and the King had to
give in. Sales OF Office are now and long nave
been completely at an end, and the J9dlcla
bench is utterly free from all suspicion OF com
plicity in such proceedings. Mr.. Justice Han.
mem. successor as puisne judge Is Mr. Arehl-
bald, brother Of the British consul-general at
this port.
Mr. BEssEMER, of England is scientific
man of no mean attainments, and OF 80 praee-
cal turn of mind that he has made an I'm
mense fortune by his new process OF manufae,
turing steel. But Mr.. Bessemer is mortal, ana
has been sea sick, and don like it, at which
we do not wonder. Many persons have e1-
perienced the same qualms, however, without
thinking of a remedy, unless indeed, 1t be
brandy, or creosote, or ice bags to- the spine,
all of which are aggravating humbugs, Mr.
Ressemer soon perceived that instead OF ex-
nerimenting with his own internal arrange
ment,, BY trying to -pacify them with creosote
or brandy, he would have more prospect OF
success if he tried those of the ship ITSELF 80
he has invented swinging cabin, that IS said
to act on land like CHARM, tor on .iand only
has it vet been tested. MIR, Bessemer mas, ,tTlea
it in bis garden, at Denmark Hill, near London,
and got up as good an imitation OF storm at
sea a. was possible by machinery. n Lonooh
paper saye: 30, &, ;. railway
carriage when the couplingsare not well fastened
mn and Mr.. Bessemer explained that the. sIight
gr11nts we heard and the trivial Vibration We We
felt we're due to the length OF the hydrsuHc
hines. bv means of which the mimic sea mo-
tinn was nbtained., But that as broad TACT,
the effect of rolling at sea has been disposed Oh,
il is impossibIe to doubt after the experience
,ofyesterday. .'-Baltinaore Gazette,
MARRIAGEs.-Them man who said that ne
had observed this year that there we're more
men married than women, was right a1ter al
Daradoxcal as it sounds The person VINO COL,
'ects the statistics in England, Belgium and
Rance has been around, and here IS the sum
Of his deductions, as given in Appleton our
nal The reason why men marry more ire
onrntlv than women is because three or tour
w;dowers marry for every widow that re-enters
the married state. This, ,,of course, ass deli
cate compliment, extracted even from the,ter'
rible dryness of q statistical table, ito the lades
Further than this, it is demonstrated that tneTe
is more hope for an old maid, than Tor an oiu
bachelor, in the ratio of>sixty-two 'of the lot
mer who marry to fifty Of the latter = VINO
are able to get anybody to take pity on thslr he
lonely state or estate as the case may be. Ihe
nronortion , of .widowers to widowsis startling.
fu England sixty six widoEers marry and only
twenty-oue windows, in, Belgium forty; :, eight
widowers and sixteen widows, and IN france &c
the ratio is forty to twelve AS to the ages al
which persons are married. young men lIom =,
fifteen to. twenty usually marry girls some yealS
their senior men oyer l%say ms
younger ~ w than themselves. Gazette.