There is a report that Mr...
There is a report that Mr. Justice BEST iS to be made 'tbe Lortl Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas We can neither affirm nor deny the rumour: but recollect in-g Mr. Serigeane 'St asv do-a, not very well.advisec or discreet member of Opposition, we should be somewhat surprised at this appointment; should it prove -true. , And yet psople are required to respect Judge , -tO'treai their opiniins.wit.deferen ce, and to pay homage to theirrperiots. We would wish to do so: bus to. * .t .opiniAOiV&6i *e defer, when diteman who .cli.m; our dference -iiii f- been of maiy. opinions upon the same subject, aiupon the same system? Perhaps it is the recollectiir ? of his former respectful deme'Inour to; the ChiefstAO ' court over 'whieh- he W- now to preside, VIwich. has pointed him out as the fittest person . to eus,UrtWe ihat decorous obedience which he was so accustomed to pay. There is ano'ther circumstance in this appoinrment, shoul, it prove tme, most fatal to the dignity of ishe:erson ap. pointed. . A Judge should be chosen, he shoutd b6et,'U&ed as the most fit-not had recourse to, after the reef l of others: but to how many lawyers wil the Chief J Ustice. ship of tbe Pleas have been offered, and by li6wt' nan; will it have been rejected, before it was tendered, if it bas beeii tendered, to iMlr. Justice BEST ' Whether Judges were appointed in this way " in the olden time;n which may have be4n possible, we know not; but 1ii, the, present day, when the middling ranks of s6diety are really more cultivated, and more knowingthan the great, a re- 'spect should be paid to public opinion. Our rulers, nWo cannot be respected, if thev do pot respect us.