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APPOINTMENT OF MAGISTRATES. Un t riday, there was a lively, and not wholly unin- structive, conversation in the Lords, on the subject of the recent appointment of so many Tory magistrates, the Manufacture of my lord Lyndhurst. This conversation arose out of the presentation by the Marquis of Nornianby of a petition from Gateshead complaining of the swamping- ot the Corporation by Tory Magistrates. The factcharged was not denied by the Lord Chancellor and was defended on the ground that" there ought to be a due admixture persons of both parties in the magistracy"! The Earl Radnor asked the noble and learned lord if he had ceen invited to make the addition. Lord Lyndhurst rplj cd in the affirmative; but when further questioned, his Lordship could find no answer. The Earl of Radnor Iwgged to be informed by whom the Lord Chancellor had been invited to make ''the due admixture'' of which the I noble and learned Lord had before spoken, but the noble %is dutiib!-Iie could not say a word. me Marquis of N orman by. in 'answer to the eomp?ut raS ?"?'?\' ?'S'"S the subject before their t WH*W«'5 iVC ,at "bis object was to refute the asserfinn of the noble and learned lord, that he had not made .ny appo;ntments to give a majority. Additional appointments were not made by him with a view to the el TIe case of Birmingham had nothing to do with the elections, and the other instance might be judged by that. The case of Bridgwater originated in the fact of so many of the corporation declining to act, that the mag. istrates reported that they were not sufficient to perform the duties. At York, two on each side were auidied for the same reasons. Would the country (asked the Nobi- Marquis) think the government not sufficiently active to reward their partisans when there were 300 appointments for which there was no occasion?" The Marquis of Londonderry, who seldom speaks but to damage the cause he takes under his advocacy and is as frequently laughed at for his folly as chastised for his presumption, edified their lordships by a speech to shew that Gateshead, Sunderland, and South Shields were actually stuffed with Whig Magistrates-" they were all so conspicuous for Whigmry that the greatest dissatisfaction was expressed"! Upon the Marquis of Isormanby intimating that "he would not allow the noble marquis or any one else to insinuate that in presenting the petition he had not done so in the honest discharge of his duty." The Marquis of Londonderry slud that he Inti cast no imputation on the noble marquis. lie had no doubt that he was acting on information which he believed to be correct. But the Earl of Radnor took the bull by the horns. His lordship, it will be seen, put in a word for the People I-lis lurdsliip, it will be seen, tue t expresse d his utifei tie d of England, and in doing so, he expressed his unfeigned disgust at what had passed, and at the motives which had been admitted and defended by the Lord Chancellor in relation to the appointment of magistrates." He did not know whether his noble friend had acted on the principle which the noble and learned lord had mentioned, but this lie did know, if he had acted in that way, and if the noble and learned lord could satisfy himself by proof that he had so acted, the.i the noble and learned lord ought to have instructed some of his own party in the other house of Parliament TO IMPEACH HIM or the government of which he was a member. The noble and learned lord had said that the appointment of magistrates to administer justice bad been made for ejection purposes. He (the Earl of Radnor) said that, that was a high crime and misdemeanour, and if the noble and learned lord had proofs of it, he had better exhibit articles of impeach- ment against the noble marquis or Lord John Russell for their conduct in the appointment of magistrates. He could not disguise the disgust he felt at the tone which the noble and learned lord had adopted on the present occasion. The iioble and learned lord threw out all imputation on the late government for the magiste- rial appointments they had made. The noble lord justi- fied his own proceedings by saying that both political parties should be equally represented on the bench. But the noble and learned lrd did not say that any ma- gistrates who had been appointed had acted improperly He (the Earl of Radnor) should have thought that the inquiry ought to have been, not what the politics of a man were—whether he was Whig- or Tory-but whether he had conducted himself honestly. He must deprecate the sort of defence laid down by the noble an d learned lord on the woolsack, and protesting against the idea that justice was to be administered not by fit persom-uy persons qualified from their general behaviour and demeanour—but by persons whose only qualification was their politics. He protested against that- doctrine as nfost improper, as most inconvenient, and as one which would give rise to great dissatisfaction as to the mode of administering justice;"

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