Leofric Temple, Mr. Charles W. Wood, Mr. Æneas McIntyre, Mr. William J. Bovill, Mr. S. B. Bristowe, M.P., Mr. Joha Day, Mr. J. B. Torr, Mr. Nathaniel Lindley, Mr. J. Napier Higgins, Mr. Thomas H. Fischer, Mr. James Kemplay, Mr. Theodore Aston, Mr. A. E. Miller, Mr. Charles Russell, Mr. Farrer Herschell. Mr. Serjeant Sargood has a patent of precedence next after Mr. Samuel Pope. Mr. J. W. Mellor, Recorder of Grantham; Sir Henry S. Maine, K.C.S.I., Member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India; Dr. A. R. Adams, Q.C., Assessor to the Chancellor's Court of the University of Oxford; Mr. John Bridge, Stipendiary Magistrate of Wandsworth and Hammersmith; Mr. Joseph Henry Warner, Counsel to the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords; Mr. Edward Bromley, Clerk of Assize on the Northern Circuit; Mr. C. J. Middleton, Principal Registrar of the Court of Probate; Mr. J. O. Griffits, Junior Counsel to the Admiralty; Mr. J. J. Johnson, Taxing Master of the Court of Chancery. The Benchers of the Inner Temple have appointed the following gentlemen "tutors" for 1872:-Jurisprudence and Civil Law, Mr. Sheldon Amos; Real Property, Mr. C. S. Medd; Common Law, Mr. Arthur Wilson; Constitutional Law, Mr. J. J. Hooper; Equity, Mr. George Wells. Mr. G. P. Bidder, Barrister-at-Law, Secretary to the Royal Commission to inquire into the loss of the Megara; Mr. H. Leigh Pemberton, Solicitor to the Suitors' Fund of the Court of Chancery; Mr. William Charles Ward, Solicitor, Deputy Prothonotary of the Court of Pleas of Durham; Mr. Henry De Jersey, Solicitor, Secondary of the City of London; Mr. C. Grey Spittal, Sheriff-Substitute of Ross-shire, at Stornoway; Mr. R. Craig, Sheriff of Dumbartonshire; Mr. Thomas Rice, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor for the East Riding of the county of Cork; Mr. Ridgway Harrison, Receiver-General of the Isle of Man; Mr. James Armstrong, Chief Justice of the Isle of St. Lucia; Mr. J. Pitt Kennedy, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Bengal; Mr. Francis Snowdon, Senior Magistrate of the Straits Settlements; Mr. Charles Jeffrey, District Magistrate in Jamaica. Mr. Richard Copley Christie, Barrister-at-Law, Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester. NECROLOGY. 3rd. MOODIE, Afleck, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 33. 21st. SMITH, R. Bryan, Esq., Solicitor, aged 78. 22nd. CHILD, C. Morgan, Esq., Solicitor, aged 23. 26th. COLLING, Thomas, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 69. 28th. TEED, J. Godfrey, Esq., Q.C., County Court Judge, aged 77. November. 1st. GREEKWOOD, Thomas, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 80. 2nd. MYERS, J, Postlethwaite, Esq., Solicitor. 3rd. ASTON, William, Esq., Solicitor, aged 54. 4th. TRIPP, R. Stevens, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. 5th. FOSTER, William, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 52. 10th. BIRD, John, Esq., Solicitor, aged 55. 12th. GODLEE, Rickman, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 67. 15th. WALKER, Edward, Esq., Solicitor, aged 37. 15th. MADDOCK, Charles, Esq., Solicitor. 18th. SMITH, A. Lockhart, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 29. 18th. ALDERSON, F. Bennet, Esq., Solicitor. 21st. PARK, Alexander A., Esq., Senior Master of the Court of Common Pleas, aged 69. 24th. HAYWARD, Philip, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. 24th. CHAPMAN, William, Esq., Solicitor, aged 77. 26th. LLOYD, W. Hodson, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 29. 27th. CARGILL, Hon. Jaspar F., a Judge of the Supreme Court of Jamaica, aged 65. 27th. POWELL, James, Esq., Solicitor, aged 77. 28th. HARVEY, Moses W., Esq., Solicitor, aged 72. 29th. KIRKBANK, John, Esq., Solicitor, aged 39. 29th. REEVES, J. Frederick, Esq., Solicitor, aged 60. 29th. KIPLING, J. Philip, Esq., Solicitor, aged 63. 30th. TINNEY, William H., Esq., formerly Master in Chancery, aged 77. 30th. PAYNE, G. A., Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 60. December. 1st. BRETT, Wilford G., Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 56. 10th. TEPPER, Jabez, Esq., Solicitor, aged 54. 12th. WILLIAMS, G. Henry, Esq., Solicitor, aged 52. 13th. BLAINE, D. Roberton, Esq., County Court Judge, aged 64. 17th. WAGSTAffe, W. Godwin, Esq., Solicitor. 21st. COOKE, J. Malsbury, Esq., Solicitor. 21st. DAVIDSON, Harry, Esq., a District Judge of Jamaica. 22nd. WILLIAMS, Lewis W., Esq., Solicitor, aged 61. 23rd. BAYLEY, Sir John E. G., Bart., Barrister-at-Law, aged 78. 23rd. GRIFFITH, E. Clavey, Esq., Solicitor. 24th. MAYER, Samuel, Esq., Solicitor, aged 61. 24th. MIDDLETON, Joseph, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 52. 25th. WINTERBOTHAM, Lindsey, Esq., Solicitor, aged 72. 26th. THORNE, William, Esq., Solicitor, aged 67. 27th. SEEVAN, J. Watton, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 32. 29th. MASON, Joseph, Esq., Solicitor. 29th. EDEN, John, Esq., Solicitor, aged 66. 29th. BRADY, Sir Francis, late Chief Justice of Newfoundland, aged 62. January. 8th. CUFFE, William L., Esq., Barrister-at-Law. 10th. CLOWES, J. Ellis, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, aged 82. 10th. MORGAN, John, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. 15th. VERNON, Hon. Gowran, C.B., Barrister-at-Law, aged 47. 24th. FORSHAW, Henry, Esq., Solicitor, aged 62. THE LAW MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. No. II.-MARCH 1, 1872. L-ADDRESS OF M. ROUSSE, BATONNIER OF THE FRENCH BAR. THE It is not universally known that in France the Order of Advocates is governed by an elected council of discipline, at the head of which is the batonnier, elected annually. The appointment is highly esteemed and respected, and the choice invariably falls on some gentleman distinguished for learning, character, and position. It is his duty on the opening of the Courts to pronounce to the assembled Bar a "discours" of a nature analogous to that annually pronounced by our eminent surgeons and physicians at our hospitals. The translator has confined himself to rendering so much only of the lecture as is of general interest, and as touches certain plague spots from the infection of which our own Bar is not free. The remainder refers to the part which the Bar took in the late war, and to the numbers who had died field of battle. We trust that the echo of the lecturer's noble, and generous, and wise sentiments will not be heard on this side of the water without profit and pleasure to many of our readers. MY DEAR COMRADES,-When for the second time you elected me batonnier of your order, I came under an engagement to you which I am here to-day to discharge. told you that I would narrate the history of the Paris Bar during the war, and under the reign of the Commune. It is a sad record, but we may derive from it instruction to which we ought to lend an ear, and lessons which we must learn to turn to account. Struck down by such calamities as we have undergone, it is childish to blame fortune, or to accuse one single individual of such accumulated disasters. People reduced to hopeless slavery have alone the right to throw all the reproach on their master, and a nation which could be prostrated by the crimes of a single man deserves that the prostration should be eternal. The fault is all our own; let us have the manly courage to own it. Every one of us, with a common eagerness, has had a hand in our ruin, and the foolishness of nearly every one of us has rendered that possible, of which the folly of one man has laid the foundation. The Bar must take its place amongst the crowd of criminals, and by an effort of self-sacrifice must leave to no one else the right to point a finger at its delinquencies. Whilst running over the legends of this disastrous year, I have fallen on some instances of glorious devotion, of generous sacrifices, of heroic virtues, and of acts which will live in the memory, and of which you may justly be proud. But, on the other hand, from the walls of this palace, from the ruins which surround us, in the making of which time has had no hand, accusing voices have, within my hearing, been raised against you; bitter reproaches have been launched against you, as if you were in truth the embodied country. Did I not recall them to you, the story I am about to rehearse would be neither honest nor useful, and this is no time for frivolous talk. We have had enough of self praise. The time has arrived for knowing and judging ourselves. the young men that surround me, it is my duty to point out the dangers that beset them on their line of march, and it is for them, on their part, looking at their own interests, to think less of the merits they may justly claim, than of the duties they have sometimes forgotten. To Why should I not speak out? At this moment the Bar is in ill odour. Flattery without limit is followed by accusations without justice. The public is ready to lay on its back the crimes of the whole country, and many are they who, having with a blind infatuation incited the Bar to mix itself up with the political world, are now asking what business they have there, and what can be done to bring about their perpetual exclusion? In this we may observe the caprice which is habitual to democracies-shafts of childish spite, by which, when troubles fall on them, they love to distract their minds from the strokes of ill fortune. But think of the matter as we will, amongst a people free or desirous of freedom, that is to say, wherever the litigation of citizens and the affairs of State are matters of open and public discussion, advocates must have, in the council of the nation, a position at once legitimate and inevitable. Were they to retire alto. gether from politics, compulsion, doing violence to their modesty, must force them to a participation in public affairs. For the last sixty years, however, there has been no occasion in France to resort to this extremity. Under the government of the Bourbons, our manners and institutions presented many temptations to the Bar, but the advocates were not readily seduced by them, and yielded only with a timidity which to us of the present day is surprising. It was in the Courts rather than in Parliament that they sought at that time consideration and celebrity. The military conspiracies of the first years of the Restoration, and the prosecutions of the Press which succeeded, gave to the Bar illustrious clients and favourable opportunities for gaining popularity. But, under those circumstances, the Bar gave proofs of a praiseworthy discretion-it was represented in those brilliant conflicts only by the ablest and the most celebrated. If some juniors succeeded in fortunate openings, their talent sufficiently justified their boldness, and in their youthful enthusiasm, and the rush of their undisciplined eloquence, one might easily detect qualities which in due time. would confer on them a legitimate title to celebrity. The Revolution of 1830 exposed the Bar to a formidable temptation. Under a liberal government, which set so great a store on oratory, the Bar played an important part in politics, but it would be a departure from my present functions to trace their history. Equal success was not their lot, but nearly all proved worthy of their positions, and one of them, engaged in combats the most hotly contested and opposed to adversaries the most illustrious, remained by common consent the greatest orator of our age.* But before long, what with the noise of parliamentary strife, and the agitation of popular movements, the spirit and discipline of the Bar showed symptoms of decay. At the courts, politics by degrees took precedence of business-they were everywhere; they invaded the lobbies and the halls of justice. but rarely indeed were their utterances heard from the lips of the most experienced or the wisest. Then might be seen emerging from the lowest ranks, from the most obscure and the youngest of the Bar, an intrusive activity, a crowd of impatient aspirants, who looked to their profession for nothing but the means and • M. Berryer. |