27 NOVEMBER 1869, Page 3

The death of Mr. Justice Hayes leaves a vacancy on

the Bench which might allow of Sir R. Collier's promotion, but it is said the vacancy is not to be filled np. It was rumoured also in the beginning of the week that the Speaker intended to resign, and that Sir J. D. Coleridge would be elected Speaker ; but it appears that no such good fortune is in store for the House of Commons. The Solicitor-General, who was created by Providence to be Speaker of a great assembly, will probably not fulfil his destiny till he reaches the Upper House, where, with only Peers to govern and nobody needing to be looked at with stately benignity, he will be a good deal thrown away.