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 Century of English Judicature. what was humbling, and a shame which was real you have made burning. But the transaction without the aggravation is bad enough. It has already touched, and will every day touch more deeply, the heart of the nation. Other reverses we have had, other disasters; but a reverse is not dishonor, and a disaster does not necessarily imply disgrace. To

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which most of the leaders of the bar were engaged on one side or the other. In con cluding his argument on behalf of Mr. Windham, Cairns said: "In opening his case, Mr. Chambers referring to my client, frequently used the words, ' This unfortu-

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Her Majesty's government we owe a sensation which to this country of ours is new and is certainly not agreeable. ' In all the ills we ever bore Ve grieved, we sighed, We toiled, we wept; We never blushed before.'"

For a specimen of his stately eloquence at the bar, reference may be had to his argu ment in the Windham lunacy case, one of the most celebrated contests of the dav in

nate young man.' I attribute to my learned friend perfect sincerity and kindness of feeling, and I ac cept the expression from him in all frankness. My client is, indeed, an unfortunate man. Other mer» have passed their youth in excess, in riot, in debauchery. They have purchased, by an expen diture of health and property, a conviction of their folly, and they have settled down into active, useful, if not brilliant members of society. Other men have had youthful vices and immoralities over which the kind hands of friends and relatives have gently and tenderly drawn the veil of concealment and oblivion.