PRIZES OF THE BRITISH BAR.
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain is second only in position to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he enjoys an income of £10,000 a year. The Lord Chief Justice of England has a salary of £8,000 a year. The Master of Rolls has a salary of £6,000 a year, and the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary have the same. The lord justices of the Court of Appeal and the judges of the High Court earn £5,000 a year each. The masters of the High Court are chosen either from barristers or from solicitors, but all the other office-holders to whom we have alluded must have come from the bar. The Attorney General makes much more money than any of these dignitaries. His salary is only £7,000, but he has fees as well, sometimes to a very large amount. The Solicitor General has £6,000 a year besides his fees. Of course the double work, legal and parliamentary, which these officers have to undertake, is most arduous, requiring an iron constitution and a mind that requires but little time for rest. The private practitioners in some few cases make larger incomes than any of the official persons at the bar. It is not, indeed, many who make salaries of five figures, but there may be always one or two leaders who are achieving this. The leaders who are chiefly before the public in ordinary cases do not often make more than from £5,000 to £6,000 a year. Larger fortunes are frequently made by men who specialize in patent cases, who are engaged in rating appeals and compensation work, or who practise their profession at the parliamentary bar.—The Cornhill Magazine.