JUDGES IN PARL1 A ALEN'''.
TH 1.1 House of' Commons has rejected Lord InstassNeS motion to prevent the Judge of the Court of' Admiralty front sitting in future Parliaments. We consider this as tote of the most reprehensible site's which the House has passed this seeion. Dr. I-emits/ems himseir concurred in the Report of the Cemmittee of 1833, which recommeniled the exclusion of the Millis-thy Judge front Parlia- ment. The general objection applies with part icular force to the Representative of the Tower Hamlets. But perhaps it was part of' the arrangement by which Dr. leusinNoros Wit the appointment, that he should retain or acquire a seat in Parliament, to vote and speak fbr _Ministers? Assuredly they could not desire a more zealous partisan. As the public have an interest in this question, it may be well to recollect what Dr. LesinsteroN's Tory predecessor, Sir JOUR. Nienot„ said of' it in his examination before the Committee Of 1833— " Do von think there would he any ohjeciiiin to lendering Ow °nice a those Judges incompatible with a seat in !ht.! !loose of Commons ? "—" My own feeling, ;icier silting above thirty t ears in Parlmnicnt, is rather ligainst Judges Iijttitit it, the House of' (luminous." :Might there not arise eases in which there might be debates in the House of Commons on matters which come judicially before one of the iludges?"-- " Certainly." " You would consider that to he an inconvenience? "—'• I should think 30."
Lord Jolts Busse IL opposed Lord 1 IOT in A M'S 1110t ii tin IR-Caine some Judges were allowed to sit. in t hem her 'louse of Parliament- " II/ could not see the justice of applying the principle to one set of Judges and withholding it from another ; 81111 therefore he trusted the Muse would not consent to the motion of the noble lord. The Judges were eligible to sit in the {liaise of Lords, and lie believed the country was benefited by it and tin rctl,re he did not Nee Why the 1111eSe ut C01111110eS Sheeld be deprived of si- milar benefits and similar advantages."
Lord Joins knows, that only such Judges as happen to be Peers sit in the House of Lords, in virtue of their Peerages. When the
Loris need the opinion of the Judges, these venerable persons are set about to see if we could not find some other parallel with milder should not ndopt the. same practice. 'I here is this essential differ- ence bete sett seet in the House of Lords and a scat in the House of Commens—iis the former is held for life, and the possessor has not to „Isle too oi Nal of election, he never comes reeking from the litiet;neei to the hetich of' justice : he is not obnoxious to the ribaldry lorovrrent,, to be pelted or hooted; he loses no dignity pi„ing the oretor : finally, he is under no temptation to suit his ,iteene its to his electioneering necessities or asivantage.
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