On Wednesday, Mr. Justice Mellor took his leave of the
Bench and the Bar, after an unsullied judicial career of seven- teen years, in which his legal capacity was never impugned, and his character for patience, forbearance, and the genial use of great authority, stood as high as that of any Judge of his time. Mr. Justice Mellor was one of the three Judges who sat for many weeks continuously to try "the Claimant" for perjury. The Lord Chief Justice announced on the same day that the place rendered vacant in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice by Mr. Justice Mellor's retirement, would be filled by Mr. Charles Bowen, still only a stuff-gownsman, and a young man for such promotion,—he is only forty-three,— butone whose legal arguments have long attracted the admiration of the whole Bar, and frequently determined the character of a judgment. The appointment is the more
creditable to the Government, because Mr. Bowen is understood to be a thorough Liberal.
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