Sir J. B. Kerslake, as we intimated last week, has
resigned his seat for Huntingdon, owing to the blindness which caused his previous resignation of office, and we see with satisfaction the suggestion that he should be made a Peer. Either so, or still better, a member of the Court of Appeal. Even in the House of Commons, we cannot but think that, apart from his political ,convictions, Sir John Kerslake without his sight would have been ten times as useful as nine members in every ten with perfect sight, for the grasp of his memory is most tenacious and the lucidity of his judgment unique. But in the Court of Appeal, where there will be no great pressure of business, Sir John Kars- lake would be a real element of strength, a new security,—and considering the weakness of some actual members of it, a security by no means superfluous,—that the last word spoken by the Law should be sound as well as final.
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