The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-02
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Er! Justice Hannen, recently appointed
to succeed Lofd PenxA1ce a. Jndge OF tho
English Probate and Divorce Court, Is the
youngest Judge on the bench. He never I
sst0ok silk" as it is termed--s. O., was CALI
ed within the inner bar as Queen's conn
seI-but was raised direct from being stun
gown barrister to o seat on the bench. ae
Court of Probate and Divorce since lta |
Institution in 1853. 'fEsI s'-. N4
The salary attached to this Office is the
same as that of the ordinary judges-$22'-
600 year-with a retiring pension Of $i1.-
500 after fifteen years. service. The posi-
tation to take the post il that the judge OF
this court is an autoerat, and ia always
appointed member Of the Privy Council,
and has moro patronage ut his oisposa'
than all the rest of the judges put together.
When the English Psob.te system .; vas
courts, both civil and ecclesiassical, for
proving wills, were, NJ q stsoke, superseded
by the Court Of Probate, and in their etead
forty "district regissFiee" were established
over the country, at large toWns Where wis
are proved. a new will nnst now DO proved
within the district in which the testater
died or at the principal registry in LONDON.
The judge Of the court appeiats all these
registrars, both In town and country, and
in this way has patronageto the extent OF
about ESQ, 600 year - -. ;" 1 ;. 80
. In former days JudgeA sold their patron
age, and the first Lord Eilenborough was
offered $4OO, OOO for the reversion Of the
place of Clerk of the KiDg's Bench. He de-
clined this offer, and gave the appointment
to his son, who died two years ago, having
hold the ofice-worth $685. 900 q year
about forty years. The story is well known
Of how the father heard of the vacancy
when ont riding on horseback immedia-
| tely dfsmounted told his groom to hold
his horse, and taking pencil from his poe
kst wrote his sons appointment on scrap
Of paper, the groom being witness and the
| saddle serving as table. Then he mounted
and rode comfortably home, secure OF
splendid provision for his son even If he
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 $50 600 year which have been
held for about fifty years by an old clergy
return save to sign his name in receipt.
This venerable ecclesiastic, to whom such
amazing share of legal loaves and fishes
has fallen, is q Mr.. Thurlow, nephew Of
the celebrated Lord Chancellor of the time,
the school companion of Cowper, to whom
there is such frequent allusion IN that poets
letters. To feather the nest Of his family
was an object which ThurlOw never lost
sight Of When he asked for the bishopric
Of Durham, the great pecuniary prize Of
the British bench of bishops, and then
} worth $150,OO year, George the Third
said :-'Anything else, my lord but the
bishopric of Durham has always been l
, position" "Then SIRE" said Thurlow, so
ask it for the brother of the Lord Higt
, Chancellor of England" Aud the King
} had to give in.