THE Dublin Freeman's Journal announces the appointment, of Mr. Roo
it THERRY to a judicial situation in New South Wales. There is one circumstance connected with this appointment which induces us to notice it • more pointedly than we otherwise should have done. The Journal tells us that Mr. Tummy is the son of this man, the nephew of that man—that he was educated at a cer- tain University—was secretary of a certain society—that he is an English barrister—in short, it tells us all things and every thing but one, namely, that Mr. Merry is a rfporler V the Morning Chronicle. Why was that fact so carefully suppressed ? Fools for the most part are afraid of the press, because they do not under- si and its tendencies, and knaves because they do ; but it shows a singular lack of taste as well as of judgment in those who conduct the press, to subserve, even by t heir silence, the false objections of the one class or the real objections of the other. Is the Freeman's Journal so very silly as to imagine that there is any lurking dis- reputability about the profession of a Parliamentary reporter ; or so very ignorant as not to know, that the little room at the end of the Gallery does not now for the fist time send out a Colonial Judge ? and that not only Colonial Judges, but Members of Par- liament, and Secrelcrie': of State, have issued from the same place ?
Mr. THER RV is a by birth. (he is the grand-nephew of BuaKE,) lw education, by talent : it is creditable to him, and to the Government that appointed him, that he has been selected to fill an important and a highly responsible office ; and it. is creditable also to the body from which he has been taken, that .it. possesses a mem- ber fit for and worthy of such an appointment.
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