TAXATION OF JUDICIAL SALARIES.
[To TEE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' S1R,—The letter of "Y?' in the Spectator hardly calls for a reply. The point of my letter was that the High Court Judges of the United Kingdom accepted their offices at a salary fixed by statute, and were debarred from a further practice of their profession, or any other form of business, and that to sweep Sway their salaries by immoderate taxation is against right and a breach of public faith. I fail to see how it is useful or relevant to assert that in one part of the kingdom, at present in a state of chaotic disorder, there is not enough of business to occupy the full time of the Judiciary, or to allege political reasons for their appointment, or to suggest that the Judges should supplement their depleted incomes by literary work. To discuss a matter of grave national importance it is necessary to have an opponent who is capable of understanding what an argument is, and with all respect your correspondent seems to
he wanting in this essential.—I am, Sir, Sic., X.
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