The removal of two such magistrates as those whose careers we have so
briefly sketched out--Mr. Mayne having died, still a magistrate,
since Mr. Froude's departure--has afforded opportunity for the
restoration of British protecting influence. In the person of Mr.
Llewellyn Lewis, as magistrate of Port of Spain, this opportunity has
been secured. He, it is generally rumoured, strives to justify the
expectations of fair play and even-handed justice which are generally
entertained concerning Englishmen. It is, however, certain that with
a Governor so prompt to hear the cry of the poor as Sir William
Robinson has proved himself to be, and with a Chief Justice so
vigilant, fearless, and painstaking as Sir John Gorrie, the entire
magistracy of the Colony must be so beneficially influenced as to
preclude [110] the frequency of appeals being made to the higher
courts, or it may be to the Executive, on account of scandalously
unjust and senseless decisions.
So long, too, as the names of T. S. Warner, Captain Larcom, and F. H.
Hamblin abide in the grateful remembrance of the entire population,
as ideally upright, just, and impartial dispensers of justice, each
in his own jurisdiction, we can only sigh at the temporal
dispensation which renders practicable the appointment and retention
in office of such administrators of the Law as were Mr.
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