Review of Literature. 
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ture or advantages. But: his) observations 
on the generality of former inventions: of 
this sort are correct and judicious ; his: ob- 
jections to) the use of India rubber and 
sponge, unanswerable ; and his invention, as 
far aswe can judge, is an ingenious improve- 
ment. But artificial palates have been fre- 
quently: under our consideration ; not for 
the purpose; indeed, of either applying or 
manufacturing, but of superseding the ne- 
cessity of appealing to them ; and this is a 
part ofthe subject upon which we, per- 
haps, may ‘think ita duty to speak more 
at Jarge- hereafter. In the mean time, 
we must inform Mr. C. that he does not 
appear. to be in: possession of the whole 
history of-these implements, or of the cases 
to which: they refer; that his palate, though 
apparently! an improvement, as applicable 
to one species of the defect under con- 
sideration, ‘has not: all the novelty he seems 
to suppose—that,some essential parts of 
it we have seen and examined twenty years 
ago. And, above all, we should observe, 
that, important as,,in eases of diseased or 
accidental perforations, it would be, that 
a perfect apparatus: of this kind, free from 
all the objections which he so justly states 
against former expedients, should be pro- 
duced and known; yet, in cases of natural 
fissure, a successful experiment seems lately 
to have been tried in Paris, of a chirur- 
gical operation, which ought to supersede 
the use, by removing the necessity of any 
such artificial application. For ‘some 
aecount ‘cf this discovery we refer to the 
M.™M. for April last, p. 247-8. 
If the length of this article should ap- 
pear to our readers disproportioned to 
the bulk of the book reviewed, our apology 
must be, that it is not our system to con- 
sider the number of the pages, or of the 
volumes, of the work before us ; but the im- 
portance of the subject, and the degree of 
useful information we may hope to communi- 
cate concerning it. And the number of our 
fellow-beings is not small who have an in- 
terest in knowing all that can be known on 
this topic. 
Observations on Mr. Secretary Peel's 
House of Commons’ Speech, 2\st March, 
1825, introducing his Police Magistrates’ 
Salary. Raising Bill. Also on the An- 
nounced Judges’ Salary Raising Bill, and 
the pending County Courts Bill. By 
Jenemy BentHamM.—At a time when the 
benevolent propensity for taking into con- 
sideration the oppressive Jabours and penu- 
rious compensation of magistrates, judges 
and public functionaries of every descrip- 
tionor, in other words, of raising the 
wages of every description of labourers, 
except those by the sweat of whose brows 
all other wages are paid, is so rife,—it was 
not to be expected that the venerable 
patriot, Jeremy Bentham, should omit the 
opportunity of illustrating the arguments 
by which these charitable and benignant 
propositions ‘are supported. Of the man- 
637 
ner of his ¢o-operation in the design we have 
already given some specimens (No. 410; p. 
408), and we-confess ourselves to he pretiy 
much of the opinion that, with respect to 
the police part of this benevolence, the 
real object is not so much to make due 
compensation for the-mecessary labour of 
such persons as may be most competent to 
discharge the duties of the police magi- 
stracy, as for the still more benevolent pur- 
pose of rendering nominal magistracy of po 
lice a something worth the acceptance of 
those unfortunate gentlemen, the younger 
sons of the younger brothers: of illustrious 
or well-connected families ;-and who, though 
educated to the bax, having neither 
the talent nor the industry to do any 
thing better for themselves there, might 
gratefully accept of a bounty that would 
enable them to assist the great machine that 
works so weil, to work siill better, for the 
overseers thereof. As for the Judges, 
poor men! whose case is so very pitiable, 
we do not know that even less tender- 
hearted people than we are, could have 
any great objection to the advancement: of 
theirscanty salaries—upon these conditions, 
—that. all sinecure and useless law offices, 
useless forms preserved only to secure pa> 
tronage to the judges, and enhance, by fees 
for vexatious and unmeaning forms: and 
fictions; the expense of justiee, shouldbe 
abolished; that no sinecures, of any des= 
cription, should be permitted to be held 
by them or their families ; and above all, 
that a judge, once. upon the hench, 
should be ineligible to all further promo- 
tion; so that, having nothing further to look 
for but the esteem and veneration resulting 
from the upright impartiality of his conduct 
there, he might be, indeed, indépendent, 
and- have no temptation to indulge’ the 
amiable weakness of gratefully leaning, upon 
all political occasions, towards the doctrines 
and decisions most acceptable to his, per- 
haps, unwearied benefactors. Lote 
A Letter toa British Member of Parlia- 
ment on the State of Ireland in the Year 
1825. By an Irish Magistrate. 8v0i— 
To the description substituted for the au- 
thor’s name, we suspect, from some of the 
176 pages contained in this pamphlet, that 
another.might have been added—namely, 
Beneficed Clergyman. Certainly the feel- 
ing, on many occasions, is sufficiently: cle- 
rical. Be this as it may, it contains, \to= 
gether with much of the taint of prejudice, 
much valuable matter, not) exclusively 
applicable to the Catholie question ;:and 
satisfied as we are, that nothing can be done 
to meliorate the state of Ireland without 
Catholic Emancipation, yet are we equally 
convinced that very little can: be done: by 
that alone. ‘‘ The great error usually com- 
mitted in considering the'state of Ireland,” 
says the author, very “truly (p./26);0‘‘is 
attributing its disorganized. state to: one 
cause.’’ It is, however, a customary error 
in political logie. | The school: dogima,..no 
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