Members who work hard in the House of Commons during
the small hours have now apparently to do their own reporting. Mr. Watkiu Williams, for example, writes to the Times to inform the public that the Bill for reforming the Judicial Committee of Privy Council passed at 4 Ran. on Tuesday with two most important amendments. The impertinent distinction which it was sought to establish between Indian and English Judges is abolished, and all alike are to receive 15,000 a year. Moreover, the J edges, though nominally Privy Councillors only, are not to be removable except as other Judges aro, upon address from both Houses. If under these circumstances good Judges are now selected, say Lord Pen- zance, Sir Barnes Peacock, and Sir J. Colvile, the new Court will, we predict, be the nucleus of a Supreme Court, which will absorb the functions alike of the Judicial Committee and of the House of Lords, and possibly become the Court of Reference for all capital cases. We want a great appellate Court at the centre of our judicial system.
