The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-02-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LINCOLN. in reply to a  said there was no it  public Richmond and Kew Park Mr. PHILIPS said th  Old Baffle  station  corresponde  t a true bill had been found at the ,ainst a nobleman appointed to a high  should, on Friday, move for  •eturn of the  ich had taken Place relative to the circum In reply to a question from Mr. DUNCOMBK, Sir R. PEEL said he feared he could not bring forward his bill for the registration of electors until after Easter ; but  e time its det  uld be given to make the country acquainted  'ssing it forward  the commanicatic  On the motion of Dr. BO;RING, copies were ordered of -ms addressed from Bolton to the Hornelite recess on the subject of Mr. Mott's  Mr. BROTHERTON moved that no opposed motion should ought forward and decided after twelve o'clock at night, finless there should be 100 members present. Sir R. PEEL opposed the motion, as calculated to obstruct public business. It would require a total change in the 3abits of life and society at the present day to carry out the 3bject of the hon. member.  The motion, on a division, was negatived by a majority of 200 to 26.  Lord J. RUSSELL moved for copies of letters of the late Lord President cf the Court of Session in Scotland, and the late Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, resigning their judicial offices. He did not mean to impute anything improper in the course pursued by the government, for when those judges resigned, it was imperative upon the government to supply their vacancies; but their long retention of office, and their immediate resignation on a change of ministry, raised a prima' facie cass of suspicion that they bad retained their offices until they could have an opportunity of surrendering them into the hands of their own political friends. Considering the importance of maintaining, the purity of the bench, he thought it would be a great misfortune to the country if judges were looking to the interests of the treasury bench instead of to the duties and interests of the bench of  Sir J. GRAHAM said, until that moment he was at a loss to guess the motive of the noble lord in bringing forward the present motion, which it now appeared was an attack, not upon the government, but on the two judges referred to. lie would tell the noble lord that, in the case of the Lord President, he had neither directly nor indirectly any communication from him upon the subject of his retirement. The right hon. baronet then referred to the negotiations which bad taken place with respect to the retirement of Lord Corehonse, and also to those which had more recently taken place to induce a Lord Chancellor of Ireland (Lord Plunkett) to resign, not upon the accession of a new ministry, but when the existing ministry was virtually condemned, and quoted from the noble lord's farewell address to thz Irish bar the passage where he declared that he was not in the slightest degree responsible for his retirement, for he was requested to do so by a person to whom he was under such obligation that he was impelled by an irresistible sense of gratitude to comply. The right hon. baronet concluded by stating, that the government had never asked either of those judges to resign, and that he could never assent to stamp disgrace upon such venerable  a vote of that house  Mr. F. MAULE said it was perfectly well known that the Lord President was for many months incapable; from in firmity, of performing the duties of office. fie defended the conduct of the late government in the case of Lord Corehouse, and said that for a long time back the people of Scotland were disgusted with the judgments of the late Lord President. The honourable gentlemen instanced the judgment in the Strathbogie case, in the delivery of which be allowed his temper so far to get the better of his discretion as to call the General Assembly of Scotland a set of thimbleriggers.  The LORD ADVOCATE defended the Lord President, who had performed the duties of his office down to the time of his retirement. Very recently he had become somewhat deaf, and had also an affection in his limbs, which prevented him from going to court; and to these affections it was that  s resignation was to be attributed. Mr. O'CONNELL said a judge should have no politics, and  yet it was generally believe-El throughout Ireland. that Chief Justice Bushe, after his memory and faculties had become a wreck—a noble wreck certainly, but still a wreck—still retained his office in order that he might be able to give the appointment of his successor to his political friends.  after which  Mr. SHAW defended Chief Justice Bush( Mr. WAKLEY said that this was altogether a most edify scription of people fell out the consequences were sometimes beneficial to others. He was in the habit of writing on his parliamentary, paper a sort of commentary in the shape of a  but when  motion it contained ;—to one he ap ;e," to another " nonsense," and so on ; e motion of the noble lord, in his capaarked it "suicide." (Great Laughter.)  It was, he thought, a reflection on the good Sense of the country, that the judgment-seat should be made the reward  of political party services  Sir R. PEEL said that he acted upon the very principle just laid down' by the hon. mernber'for Finsbury, by offering to Lord Cottenham one of the vice-chancellorships, which, however, for reasons principally of professional etiquette, and  lined. He was not prepared to expect the res right honourable friend Chief Justice Bushe,  he was compelled to fill up the vacancy. The right honourable baronet quoted a passage from a former speech of Mr. Fox Manle, defending the Lord President, and contradicting the assertion that that learned judge was labouring under those infirmities which he now insisted he was a martyr to. (Cheers and laughter.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply, said that• the retirement of Lord Plunket was not a case in point, for the appointment of Lord Chancellor was of a wholly different nature—it being an office held during the pleasure of the Crown ; and the real fault, if any, was that Lord Plunket had remained on the bench too long. The. noble lord then referred to the fact that Lord Campbell, on accepting the chancellorship of Ireland, stipulated that he was to have no retiring pension, and asked if Sir E. Sugden had made any such proposition. He thought it would be difficult to convince the country that those judges to whom his motion referred had not remained on the bench for the purpose of giving the appointment of their successors to their political friends The hous  i receive i  vided, and the motion of the noble lord was negatived by a majority of 148 to 75.