27 NOVEMBER 1875, Page 3

A.,Coroner 'has-been elected this week for Suffolk, and the -electors;

who made the whole business a party affair, have elected an auctioneer, Mr. Chaston. We wish other counties would follow the example, and,elect coroners still more unfitted for the -office by training and pursuits. There would then be a fair chance that this anomalous absurdity in our system, the election of a judge with serious powers and duties, by a mob, would be summarily abolished; and the Coroners chosen, like the County- Court Judges, on the responsibility of the Lord Chancellor. The only effect of the present system is to keep up a thoroughly bad precedent, and degrade an office which, if a few more duties were thrown on it, might be made extremely useful.