The Attorney-General (Sir J. D. Coleridge) expressed on Mon- day
night a rather surprising opinion, that, according to his own reading of the various Acts imposing and repealing Disabilities, there is nothing to prevent either a Roman Catholic or a Jew be- coming either Lord-Lieutenant or Lord Chancellor of England.. He admitted that there were doubts as to the exact effect of the disability-imposing and disability-repealing Acts, and that as eminent friend for whose legal judgment he felt the greatest re- spect differed from him, at least as to the disappearance of the Roman Catholic disability, but that was his own view. We sincerely hope it may be a true one. But we suppose the public preju- dices would be rather severely tried by any very early attempt to test the truth of the Attorney-General's view.
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