MAGISTERIAL DIGNITY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XIV, Issue 829, 20 October 1860, Page 4

MAGISTERIAL DIGNITY.

To the Editor of the Lytlelton Times. SIE, —I want to call attention to the following facts -~ In a certain disfrict, men, who hare cases in the Resident Magistrate's Court, are in the habit of going to some Justice of the Peace in whom they affect to believe very intensely, asking Mm to take care and be sure to sit on the particular day on which their case is to be heard. Now, I think this is rather derogatory to the J. ]>, asked than a compliment: to bo a Justice of the Peace is one thing—(we daily offer prayer for our Magistrates)— but to hold the commission just to gratify some parties who, on. asking your presence on the bench, hint that as the other interested is a well known protege of the R.II. and that the stream of equity and justice is likely to be mixed with partiality, and to stand and listen to such imputations and by acquiescing give colour to the implied libel, does not appear to me to merit the honor. Your obedient servant, PALMAM QUI MEHUIT, FEEAT.