... the Queen has approved the foliowing appoint. menth : The Right Hon. Sir Natlaniel Linaley to be a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the place of Lord Morris, resigned. Sir Richard Webster, Bart., Q.C., M.P., to be Master o0 the Rolls in the place of Sir Naahanil ...

... ally isduirew. There are at present four Lords of Apieral, of whom three are tmken front the Engiish Bar, and one fromD the Scctch. Thr irsb say that they also are entitled to one in place of Lord Morris, who ?? Lord Fitz- ger&ld. Such has, undoubtedly, been ...

... statement of the Secretary for the Colonies, and the statesmanlike speech from Mr. Asquith, which immediately fol- lowed. Lord Morris, whose appearance and manner mock the suggestion that he has retired from the Court of Appeal by reason of advanced age ...

... Con-rt wazs passe~d both Air. a'-qead Mr. DisraeLi aitreed thlat 9' re 'rio ' e nnon it an Iris;hn ?? With o~ ob-.e-s Lord Morris was nerr o ci' ed on Clotat0 Old aria. X hero- be- ?? on' y- von-.' Sa T.. ?? d ?? ' a. as much ir.ht a t to be to- BC'- ...

... the Mastership of the Rolls is now explained by the fact that a successor wvas wanted to Lord Morris as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. That noble and learned lord's thirty-three years of judicial service constitute a record, to score which he has waited ...

... Birth- day honours should be conferred on judges. Lord Morris is the first Lord of Appeal who has received an hereditary peerage on retirement, or at all. Sir Peter O'Brieln is the only (sitting) Lord Chief Justice of Ireland who has been made a peer ...

... general applause af tie meeting. The English people are ct guiltless in this matter. T'ley w-ioul have preferred to see Lord Morris sue- I ewded by annother Irishmaa in the ordinarv way. It is the Governmnt, and espeiaily the Prime }fister. against whom ...

... is by Phillips, Belfast. Sir Nathaniel Lindley, who succeeds Lord Morris as a Lord of Appeal, has only been Master of the Rolls since 1897, but he caused it to be known when ne succeeded Lord Esher that he wuuld not occupy the post more than two or three ...

... that has to be done in the C'fu: h by the Law Officers. Akfter thirty-three years of judicial service, Lord Morris has rc-ig,:c..e his position of Lord of Appeal, and thus has aft'orded an oppc: - tunity to the CGovernment of recognizing Sir N'athaniel ...

... anticipated would be the case- the Irish Bar are making no end of a pother over the appointment of Lord Lindley to be a Lord of Appeal in the place of Lord Morris. We confess to considerable sympathy for their protests, and we are' not at all surprised that ...

... obsclurity. most of thei namre are utterly unknown to the publio, and sonlO of those best known aro not known most fivourably. Lord Morris has been made so many things for no partiocular reason that his accoptance of an hereditary Potorago on lhs re- tiremment ...

... were issued last night. Peerages are corlferre6 on Lord Morris, Sir P. O'Brien, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and Sir R. Webster, Master of the Rolls ; Lord Justice Fitzgibbon, one of the Irisi Lords Justices, and Sir F. Milner, M.P., ale ...