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rate, hopes are entertained that the Commission will recommend wholesale reinstatements. One of the acutest of our English judges, Mr. Justice Matthew, is president of the Commission. He is an Irishman, a Radical, and a Roman Catholic. The senior common law judge, the Hon. George Denman, retired from the bench at the commencement of the present term. As his name would lead you to infer, he is a son of the Lord Denman who wss Chief-Justice of England. His elder brother, the present Lord Denman, is a very old man, and generally known as the bore of the House of Lords. The devotees of arbitration are at present in a

condition of feverish expectation. It is proposed shortly to open in the City of London a central Chamber of Arbitration, by way of focussing in one central tribunal the numerous arbitration bod ies which have for many years existed for various trades. An elaborate constitution has been drawn up, based to some extent on that of Continental tribunals of commerce; but, as our friends in the city would tell you, embodying more than their merits and none of their faults. It is just possible that the plan will be very successful. One con dition of success assuredly is. that appeals to a court of law should not be too strictly vetoed.