Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-11
ministers to obey it. Impeachment is the only constitutional remedy and this is to be tried

onAy CONSTITUTIONAL remedy and this IS to Dc tried
 The British Postofiee department knows
 good thing when it sees it. After August,
 1884, it will adopt the American plan of l ocean mail service, making contracts from month to month. The Cunard line formerly carried all the British mails Now the ser
 vice is shared by the Inman and the White Star lines. Postmaster Pearson, of New
 York, continues 8 practice first adopted in
 1873. Arrangements are made from month
 to month with those steamships having the
 best sailing record. Foreign mails are sent
 four times week. and American shippers of
 goods to Europe select the same steamers to
 carry freight. The receiver of the goods loses
 no time in getting his invoices By the British
 system goods arriving, for instance, on the
 Arizona yesterday will have to be put in
 public stores until the Bothnia comes with
 the invoices, @ delay of from thirty-six to
 forty eight hours.
 Machine guns have not, it appears, done
 what was expected of them. The French
 mitrailleuse, from which such wonders were
 expected, was as heavy as a field gun and re-
 quired six horses to draw it. It's range was
 practically the same as that of infantry, and
 had it's disadvantages If the range was cor
 rect and the mark remained steady, great ex-
 ecution was done, but the slightest error
 would throw every bullet out unless at short range. Both French and Germans have giv- en up machine guns for the field and have in- creased and developed their field artillery. They both admit that the machine guns can not face field artillery at artillery ranges, and that it's projectiles have no power whatever against walls of buildings or earthworks; but they believe when two hostile bodies of in fantry are closing, the machine guns may be brought from cover, in which they should be kept till then, and may then exercise great influence on the result.
 The Newark bar is at work for change in the present judicial system of New Jersey. legislative commission has already decided that such 8 movement is desirable. The proposition in substance is, that the court of errors, court of chancery and supreme court be abolished, and that there be judicial dis tricts whose judges shall have law and equity jurisdiction, and also that there be an appel late court of three judges who are not mem- bers of any other court. A recent account of the New Jersey courts shows these facts: There Is court of errors consisting of six teen judges, of whom nine circuit judges whose errors arc to be corrected. Each of these nine judges is judge of the orphans court, judge of the common pleas, judge of the quarter sessions, and judge of the oyer and terminer. He is the sole judge of the circuit and judge of the supreme court, and can hold the circuits and sit in banc; and he is judge of the court of last resort, and, with | legal brethren, has a majority of that court. The chancellor, representing the equity l courts, is also on the bench of appeals and 1 the remaining six judges of this court are lay men who have had no education in law. In ! addition to these judges there are sixty judges of the inferior courts of common pleas with various powers and duties, two l Vice-chanceIlors and nine advisory masters who have some of the functions of vice-chan- l ,ellors. The law and the equity courts (the l alter represented by the chancery courts) l nave separate jurisdiction.