14 APRIL 1883, Page 3

Mr. justice Fry is to be the new Lord Justice

in place of Lord Justice Brett who has been made Master of the Rolls. Sir E. Fry is one of the soundest lawyers on the Bench, and will make a very good Judge of Appeal,—especially if he will beware of the- danger of refining and making too much depend on single issues not of the widest kind. He is at once lucid and conscientious, and while grumblers might call him too scrupulous a Judge, even grumblers would find it difficult to name any other Judge so fit for the Court of Appeal. His forte is discrimination, and his danger is excess in the same direction. Mr. A. L. Smith is to be raised to the vacant seat on the Bench.