PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your article of February 11th on "Payment of Members" you say : "Every thinking man admits that it is a most serious evil to underpay Judges or any officials whose work is highly responsible, and who have to give decisions which involve very large sums of money." You may not be aware that while the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council each receive a salary of .26,000, there are other Judges of the same Judicial Committee who receive no salary at all. For instance, the Right Hon. S. Ameer Ali, a pensioned Judge of the High Court of Judicature in Calcutta, is a Judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. To use your own words, be is one of those judges " whose work is highly responsible, and who have to give decisions which involve very large sums of money," and, I would add, to settle questions of far- reaching importance throughout the Indian Empire, yet he
receives no remuneration for his important seems to ma that such a state of affairs indefensible.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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