The death of Mr. Justice VAUGHAN made room for the
promotion of the Solicitor-General to the bench ; and it was said that Sir ROBERT ROLFE strenuously put forward his claim to the Judgeship ; but, unfortunately for that respectable Equity lawyer, he represents a constituency almost certain to elect a Tory as his successor, and therefore there is a hitch in Sir ROBERT ROLFE'S appointment. Sergeant TALFOUED has been talked of; but neither is Reading quite safe. A correspondent of the Morning Post declares that Mr. Ttneros will be the stew Judge ; a most improbable conjecture. Should Sir Romer ROLFE be elevated to the bench, the succession to the Solicitor-Generalship will be open, and Sergeant WILDE is said to be a candidate for that office. Lastly, it is positively asserted that "old Plays:ma " will retire on a pension, and perhaps a new bit of preferment for one of "the Young Hannibals," in order that Sir JOHN CAMISPELL may be made Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; an arrangement which, supposing the Whig Ministry on the point of dissolution, would secure to Sir JOHN a retiring pension of 4,000/. a year for a few months' service. The Act which prohibits pensions to more than three Ex-Chancellors at once, would not, as a correspondent of the Horning Chronicle supposes, interfere with this arrangement, as, no doubt, Sir EDwano SUGDEN would take office with Sir ROBERT PEEL, and thus his pension would be in abeyance, leaving still only three pensioned Ex-Chaucellors. If Sir JOHN CAHFBELL should really go to Ireland for the purpose imputed—merely to get a pension, after enormous profits by the AttorneyGeneralship—it will be the greatest Whig job yet perpetrated.
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