The death of the Lord Chief Justice must be followed
by a whole series of legal promotions. It appears to be understood that Lord Russell of Sillowen (Sir Charles Russell) will suc- ceed Lord Coleridge, and that Sir John Rigby will accept the vacant Lordship in Appeal; Sir R. T. Reid will then become Attorney-General, and will be succeeded as Solicitor-General by Mr. R. B. Haldane. These promotions will be approved by the Bar, and are indeed almost inevitable, the right of the Crown to make its own choice being limited both by tradition and party feeling. One advantage they certainly have. It is not possible to accuse the "predominant partner" in the Kingdom of using her predominance to monopolise patronage. It was Sir Arthur Helps, we think, who, in advising young men how to succeed in life, said, above all things "be born North of the Tweed ; " but the apophthegm should now run differently. "Above all things, do not be born an English- man, unless indeed you prefer obscurity."
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