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Mr. Denman, Q.C., and M.P. for Tiverton, has, it is

stated, accepted the puisne judgeship vacant by the death of Mr. Justice Willes. His elevation to the Bench has been long expected. He is not an orator, but a sound lawyer, a steady Liberal, and a sen- sible man. There is also some rumour that the Lord Chief Justice may accept a peerage in recognition of his not altogether judicious services as British Arbitrator, and resign his seat on the Bench,—in which case the Attorney-General, Sir J. D. Coleridge, would probably succeed to it, and Mr. Henry James would be con- sidered the heir-presumptive to the Solicitor-Generalship. But all this is as yet mere rumour.