The Northern Guardian. — 1893-12-11 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

OOO- Mr Shoe, Q.C., who has been appointed to the Salford Hundred Court, is the son of Mr Justice She% long famous at the Bar as Mr Sorjeant Shoe, and remarkable as the first Roman Catholic elevated to the Bench fora very long period. The ,:tiford Hundred Court has very much the same jurisdiction as an ordinary County Court, but its existence was long anterior to that of the tribunals created by Lord ' Brougham; Like the City of London Court and certain ancient courts f Bristol, Exeter, and a few other places, it dates hack to Anglo-Saxon times. Mr Shoe is a compaNtively young and a very young-looking man, and his appointment to this judgeship need not put an end to his political ambitions, inasuov,h as, unlike an ordinary County Court judgeship, it does not disqualify for a seat in Parliament. —OOO  It may be questioned whether very much good has been done by the Commission of Inquiry into the Featherstone riot. Judging by the opinions expressed by newspapers, it comes to this, that those who in the first instance upheld the action of the military do so still, whilst those who ranted about "brutal butchery' and , the "deliberate murder" of the workers at "the behest of capital. repeat their ranting in the teeth of the rep..,rt f the ~iitinissioners. Th, report has probably not chang,d the opinion a dozen people in the ''s hole country upon the matters at issue. When Mr Ball m refused to graiit a Cominis,,ion 1,0 inquire into the Mitchel-town airair, his conduct was severely censured. but he was probably right. No findings of a ComInissbin in oxeuip4.Liori. of the police would have rweighti4l with the Rome Rule Party ; whilst, on the other hand, the whole Irish Constabulary vcould have beeo ci pending the inquiry. —ono—  I rumour was industriously circulated giatdilu repori. Feathello:one riot wonla  ,contain a urgeni: i ouieudariontha a lt,reater number or magistrateS who poSseSsed the efintickticoot utetvoricitKelasses Should* ".UPon. tho face-dt it.; this a.‘irpa .groottr,,:tery likely. Lord Bowen no eiOuli 'cut tin sinlre amiable and decorous demo:et:4c hieas, but he is the last man in the NV4441(1 ti) ri.•,:rard the lack or education and position as a al;fieation for the seat of jugice. Sir Albert Rel Lit is progressive, though a Tory, but he has botrapal no !timings towards the " t.emocratiwttion," of the magistracy. Mr Haldane, QC. • lakes to think himself and to be thought an .h.ilvancei4 Radical, but 1 doubt whether be *mild lieto illustrate his Radicalism by helpbig to bring about the creation of those 18,000 Liberal .I.P.s who are necessary to the balance 'of political parties on the Bench. The publicsthin of the report proved a great disappointmete. to; .Mjssrs S. Stovey & Co. who have been V.oruiluz, Lord Herscheli. —oso—  The fam; is well authenticated that the L 'at &Avail has lost bequests, two of ulna to4ethor immunted to £lOO,OOO, during the last month or two, owing to meta changes. The scheme -id the Charity Commissioners pro-ides for the education of a much larger /Weber of boys. bat it undoubtedly goes far to transform the character of the institution. Then, the removal of the school from Newgate Street is a great shocl,. to old boys, and it is from old boys 'that mos?, additions to the school revenues are, derived. The institution may bevastly improved, hot it is practically improved out of existence. .Mter- all, it seems a pity that the Old City house of the school should have to he abandoned. The place, no doubt, ougle.. to be dreadfully unhealthy, but, as a matter of fact, it has not been so. There is 4.4,11•,t“iy snAter school, public or private, wilith small percentage of seholarsby 41eriti4 .uring the last thirty" years. • ThorOot ~4ea:atoly intother large school' which has. had mti 'ns.l alight; visitatlerill *,,f 'epidermic dig.; l!' iS true That thb sanitary authorities • declare ii-,thedrainsge system requires overhaa .!iat that is probably true of half of