IRELAND.
The Honourable Patrick Plunket, one of the Hannibals, is about to be appointed Second judge of the Bankruptcy Court,—a situation worth 1,2001. or 1,5001. a. year, and the duties of which require to be discharged by a men of some knowledge, if not of some standing at the bar. '1'he Honourable Patrick Plunket may be versed in "the learn- ing of the schools." We never heurd it even hinted that he was "learned in the law ;" and we believe Lerd Pluuket, in spite of his philoprogenitiveness, will be forced to admit that a judge ought to know something of the practice of his court. The Honourable Patrick Plunket bus occasionally held a brief at Green Street ; at least we have seen him figuring in our law reports us having held briefs on the part of the Crown ; but it strikes us very forcibly that the practice of Green Street and the practice of the Bankruptcy Court hear little affinity to each other. Mr. Plunket may be au excellent Equity lawyer, not- withstanding; but as there are gentlemen of established reputation at the bar, men who have made u character for themselves, and whose claims are somewhat less equivocal than Mr. Plunket's, we respect- fully submit to the Govermirent that the appointment of one of the class to which we allude would be more likely to give public satisfue. tion, than that of an inexperienced, though it may be precovious, young lawyer. The Mull say s the office was created by Lord Plunket him- self. Perhaps so; but the Government, we should think has the ap- pointment ; and it' the Government sanctione the appointment of the JHonomable Patrick Plunket, it will lend itself to a very disreputable and a very disgraceful job. —Dublin Freeman's Journal.
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