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The Derby regime is very fatal to judges. Dr. Lushington

is ill, and has resigned his seat, after a career during which he may be said almost to have made maritime law, and Lord Justice Turner died on Tuesday. He did not fill a large space in the public eye, taking little part in politics, but he was esteemed in the profession as a good lawyer, a most painstaking judge, and a man of most estimable character. Should Sir J. Holt take the appointment, the new Solicitor-General will probably be Mr. Selwyn, but nothing has yet transpired.

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