The Privy Council which was to have been held on
Tuesday next has been postponed until Thursday the 12th instant. Parliament will then probably be prorogued till the beginning of February.—Times.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Carden has gone down to St. Alban's, on the requisition of some Conservatives and Liberals in unison, who have naively resolved that it is desirable to contest the borough " without having recourse to any system of bribery."
There have of late been a variety of rumours in circulation as to fur- ther legal changes in, and even an addition to, the judicial bench. Lord Langdale will, it is reported, resign, at no very distant period, the Mas- tership of the Rolls. The short experience of only two Vice-Chancellors is said to be so unfavourable to that experiment, as to be likely to lead, on the reassembling of Parliament, to the introduction of a measure for the reappointment of a third, to keep down the pressure of suits in Equity. Now that Lord Cottenham is ill and abroad, Lord Lyndhurst almost de- prived of sight and unfit for business, Lord Campbell occupied in the Queen's Bench, Lord Chancellor Truro unable to greatly reduce the arrear of appeals in the Court of Chancery, and Lord Brougham threatening to pay a visit in the spring to the United States, some further provision for the exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords on the meeting of Parliament will, it is obvious, have to be made : so there is a very prevalent belief—we may add, a strong desire—that should the senior Puisne Baron of the Exchequer be then disposed to retire on the pension he has so well earned, a peerage would be conferred on him. And we regret to say that one of the ablest judges in Westminster Hall is at present very seriously unwell.—Daily News.
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