24 JANUARY 1874, Page 3

Sir Samuel Martin's place in the Court of Exchequer has

been filled up by the appointment of Mr. Amphlett, Q.C., and M.P. for East Worcestershire, a Conservative, and a Chancery barrister, —the intention being to begin at once the fusion between common law and equity, by taking Mr. Amphlett into the Court of Exchequer, where he will at once be employed in going circuit. The thing has happened before, as Baron Rolfe, Sir Samuel Martin's predecessor, was taken from the Chancery Bar, and was never thought unequal to his new work. Mr. Amphlett is a strenuous law-reformer, as well as an able lawyer, and has de- served his promotion by giving a very earnest assistance to the work of the Legal Education Association.