Place of Education. 56. Sir James Parker, V.C. Trinity College, Cambridge: seventh wrangler. 57. Sir John Patterson, Just. K.B. Fellow of King's College, Cam bridge: winner of Davies' Uni versity Scholarship. Trinity College, Cambridge. 58. Lord Cottenham. 59. Sir Gillery Pigott, B.E. 60. Sir T. J. Platt, B.E. Trinity College, Cambridge. 61. Sir Frederick Pollock, Ch. Fellow of Trinity College, Cam 73. Sir John Vaughan, Just. C.P. 76. Sir James Wigram, V.C. Trinity College, Cambridge. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge: seventh wrangler; Chancellor's medallist. Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- Michell Fellow of Queen's College, Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 77. Sir James Plaisted Wilde, B.E. Trinity College, Cambridge. 78. Lord Truro. 79. Sir J. S. Willes, Just. C.P. 80. Sir E. V. Williams, Just. C.P. 81. Sir John Williams, Just. Q.B. Trinity College, Dublin. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 82. Sir W. Page Wood, V.C. Place of Education. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Of these eighty-two judges who discharged judicial functions in one or more of three English reigns-thirty-two (so far as this compiler can ascertain) received no education at Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, or Dublin; one was educated at Edinburgh; four belong to Dublin University; eleven were trained at Oxford; thirty-four came from Cambridge. It does not appear that the number of Cambridge men who have joined the Inns of Court during the present century is above that of the Oxford men who have nominally devoted themselves to law. It should, morcover, be observed that with the exception of Lord Tenterden, Mr. Justice Coleridge, and Lord Westbury, the eleven Oxonian judges cannot be said in any way to represent the special culture of their university; whereas of the thirty-four Cantab. judges, the larger proportion do unquestionably represent the intellectual life of their Alma Mater. It is also worthy of notice that the superiority of Cambridge is more strongly manifested, when we come to the times in which the existing Oxford and Cambridge systems of study can be said to have been fully at work and on their trial. Looking at the foregoing list, Cambridge men may find abundant consolation for the defeats which in recent years they have endured on the Thames at the hands of Oxford oarsmen. Trinity men also may find some justification for the boast, that their college is the nursery of English lawyers, when they consider the names of the twenty-three Trinitarian judges. The derision which Lord Kenyon's frequent exhibitions of deficient culture aroused in the court over which he presided, and the humiliating scrapes into which he was perpetually falling through his ludicrous ignorance about everything, save the rules and practice of English law, place in the strong light of irresistible comedy some of the evil consequences which would result to the legal order and the country, if our lawyers, narrowing their studies within strictly professional limits, surrendered their present position of intellectual equality with the most learned and enlightened sections of the community. A "legal monk" and an honest man, Kenyon not only made himself ridiculous to scholars, but failed in his special duties to society, because he lacked the learning of scholars, the knowledge of men of science, and the general information of men of business. Mr. Townsend has described many of the occasions when this illiterate Chief Justice made even justice contemptible by pedantic blunders that in the present day would excite the scorn of a haberdasher's apprentice; and from private records, as well as published memoirs, it would be easy to make copious additions to the biographer's anecdotes. In the fulness of his intellectual light this Chief Justice, who exerted himself to revive the obsolete law of the land against commercial speculators, was convinced that the sun made the circuit of the earth once in every twenty-four hours. Whilst he occupied a stool in the office of a Nantwich attorney, he experienced an uneasiness known to sentimental milliners of the Byronic period as "the stirring of the Sacred Muse;" and under its influence he glorified Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and his noble seat "Wynnstay," in the lines: "There Watkyn stood firm to Britannia's cause, Guided by natural prudence and sound judgment, the young Welshman never repeated this brief flirtation with the "sacred muse;" and from the date of his arrival in London to his dying day he set his face against literature, science, and all other intellectual phantasies, with one exception. But though totally devoid of any tincture of classic culture, the man persisted in larding his homely English with scraps of misquoted or misapplied Latin; and so frequently did he give way to this comical habit, after his elevation to the bench, that the scholars * Mr. Townsend's memoir of Kenyon was transcribed by Lord Campbell even more closely than the memoirs of Loughborough and Erskine. who practised at his bar, or gave evidence in his court, used to look for one or more of his favourite Latin terms whenever he opened his lips. One day he would silence an importunate suitor or loquacious barrister by exclaiming, "Est modus in rebus, or as the vernacular hath it,-There must be an end of all things:" on another day, he would clothe his face with the wisest of his judicial aspects, and observe, "In advancing to a conclusion on this subject, I am resolved stare supra antiquas vias." When a glaring case of fraud was brought before his observation he exclaimed, "The dishonesty is manifest; in the words of an old Latin sage-apparently 'Latet anguis in herbâ ;'" to a deeply-edified grand jury he remarked in a tone of solemn pathos, "Having thus discharged your consciences, gentlemen, you may retire to your homes in peace, with the delightful consciousness of having performed your duties well; and as you compose yourselves for nocturnal slumber, you may apply to yourselves the words of the heathen philosopher, 'Aut Cæsar aut nullus.'" Without the assistance of Latin, some of his remarks uttered from the judgment-seat were very provocative of laughter. "The allegation," he exclaimed indignantly during the examination of an unsatisfactory witness, "is as far from truth, as old Booterium from the Northern Main, a line I have heard or met with God knows wheer.” On another occasion, when he reprimanded an attorney for causing a needless and vexatious delay in a cause, he observed in boldly metaphorical language, "This is the last hair in the tail of procrastination, and it must be plucked out;" and he is reported to have lectured "twelve gentlemen in the box" thus::"If an individual can break down any of those safeguards which the Constitution has wisely and cautiously erected, by poisoning the minds of the jury at a time when they are called upon to decide, he will stab the administration of justice in its most vital parts." But Kenyon's grandest oration was made at the trial of Williams for publishing Tom Paine's Age of Reason,' when the learned judge in his summing-up observed,-" Christianity from its earliest institution, met with its opposers. The professors were very soon called upon to publish their Apologies' for the doctrines they had embraced. In what manner they did that, and whether they had the advantage of their adversaries, or sunk under the superiority of their arguments, mankind for near two thousand years have had the opportunity of judging. They have seen what Julian, Justin Martyr, and other apologists have written, and have been of opinion that the argument was in favour of those publications." Telling this story in his own way, and improving it—as he was fully justified in doing-Coleridge in the Table Talk' assures his readers that Lord Kenyon, in his address to the jury in a trial for blasphemy, said, “Above all, gentlemen, need I name to you the Emperor Julian, who was so celebrated for the practice of every Christian virtue, that he was called Julian the Apostle?" To several later judges, as well as to Kenyon, has been attributed the memorable judicial address to the dishonest butler who had been convicted of stealing large quantities of wine from his master's cellar. "Prisoner at the bar," the judge is reported to have said, "you stand convicted on the most conclusive evidence of a crime of inexpressible atrocity-a crime that defiles the sacred springs of domestic confidence, and is calculated to strike alarm into the breast of every Englishman who invests largely in the choicer vintages of Southern Europe. Like the serpent of old you have stung the hand of your protector. Fortunate in having a generous employer, you might, without dishonesty, have continued to supply your wretched wife and children with the comforts of sufficient prosperity, and even with some of the luxuries of affluence; but dead to every claim of natural affection, and blind to your own real interest, you burst through all the restraints of religion and morality, and have for many years been feathering your nest with your master's bottles." On another occasion each of the several judges to whom the foregoing story is attributed is reported to have spoilt the effect of a stirring appeal to a prisoner's better nature by an unfortunate omission of certain connecting observations which the learned speaker had formed in his mind, but unfortunately neglected to put in language. "Prisoner at the bar, the offence with which you stand charged," said the judge in an awfully impressive tone," has been fully proved, and it now becomes my duty to pass upon you the sentence of the law. You cannot |