The Solicitors' Journal seems to say that the place in
the Judi- cial Committee of the Privy Council reserved for Sir Robert Collier was certainly not first offered to some of the ablest of the Judges,—in other words, that the spirit of the Act was ignored without any necessity. If this proves to be so, we should fear that a Parliamentary vote on the matter might prove a very critical one to the Government. It is exactly the kind of ques- tion on which all the discontents might safely combine, without any fear that the constituencies would blame their representatives for their hostile vote. Anxiety for the dignity and full competence of our tribunals of justice is so highly respectable a Parliamentary motive, that only the most earnestly loyal of the followers of the Government will be able to resist its dictates.
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