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 Irish Legal Repartees. any intention of dealing harshly toward the priest, and invited O'Connell to continue the defense. The case went on, and the judge laid so much stress on the character given to the prisoners for honesty, that they were ac quitted by the jury. Mr. O'Flanagan has preserved some of the bon mots of Mr. Wyndham Goold, a son of an eminent Master in Chancery. He was a member of the Munster Circuit, and early in life entered Parliament as representative of the County of Limerick. He died before he had attained his prime, and thus a career was terminated which promised to be one of conspicuous success. An old gentleman named Crowe, a land agent in the County Clare, was remarkable for the extraordinary length of his nose. Mr. Crowe was appel lant in a civil bill appeal from a decision of the county court judge to the judge of assize. The merits of the case were with him, but the judge refused to disturb the decision of the county court judge, and told Mr. Crowe he could only obtain relief in equity, adding, " I regret I cannot do what you are entitled to, as this court is only a court of equity for the de fendant. If you want to enforce your claim, you must go to the Lord Chancellor." " It is plain," whispered Goold to one of his friends who was sitting in court, " it is plain Crowe will have to file his bill." When walking with a brother barrister named Hunt in the streets of Dublin in a severe frost, Hunt. more than once was in danger of falling on the ice, and was only rescued by Goold's aid. "If," said Goold, "you don't mind where you walk, you'll be called ' Hunt the Slipper.'"

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We will conclude by the relation of repar tees which were conveyed in verse, and have been rescued from oblivion by Mr. O'Flana gan, to whose work, " The Munster Bar," we have been indebted for many of the bon mots produced in this article. Mr. John Anstcr, the distinguished trans lator of Goethe's "Faust" and Professor of Civil Law in the University of Dublin, was appointed Registrar of the Irish Court of Admiralty, over which the late Sir Henry Meredyth, a very prosy speaker, presided. Anster was congratulated on obtaining a sinecure. " What do you mean by a sine cure?" asked Anster. " A place with little or nothing to do." " Then you are greatly mistaken if you think I am so fortunate." "What have you to do? " was the rejoinder of his friend, who was somewhat amazed by Anster's remark. " Why listen to the judg ments of Sir Henry Meredyth," replied Anster, adding the couplet : — "If you want to be bored, and bored to the very death, Go list to a speech from Sir Henry Meredyth." Michael Joseph Barry, a member of the Munster Circuit in the forties, was favorably known for his poetry, and also for his book on " Chancery Practice." Another barrister of the same name, Mr. Michael Barry, occa sionally obtained briefs and invitations to parties which were designed for the wit, poet and text-book author who, stung by these mistakes, wrote this couplet : — "No wonder my namesake my anger provokes, For he's feed for my law and he's fed for my jokes." — The Law Times.