The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-10-12 00:00:00

The New County Court Judge.

On Thursday Sergeant Tindal Atkinton, who sines
1875 has discharged the functions of Judge of the
Leeds County Court, eat in that capacity for the last
time, having been appinted to the Wilts and Dorset
Circuit. The esteem in which his Honour is held was
shown in the crowded condition of the court, both
branches of the legal prilfeasion, barristers end
solicitors, being numerously represented, and the
public portions of the room being well filled. On his
Honour's entrance,

Mr. Viscitre Tisourriog, barrister, addressed him as
follows :—I understand that to-day is the last day that we
shall have the pleasure of appearing here while you
occupy that bench. To allow this occasion topes' without
I few words would be as repuguent to my feelings as It
would be to those of my brethren at the Bar for whom I
also speak. There would have been • larger gathering of
us—l have, for instance, at this moment received a
telegram from one of our number, Mr. Grine who dourly
regreta that he is unable to attend—but, for various
reasons, several gentlenuu I know would have been here
had they known that this was the last occasion that they
would have the plewure of seeing you in that Waft. I
feel that very few words will beet bat the situation, and
I can only say that we shall long boar in mind not only
the OVIALOOI you have always made on behalf of the public
In sacrificing your own eau to the public arrangements,
and in fang to them that unvarying patience and atten-
tion w you have always displayed, but also the
uniform courtesy and attention that you hare always
bestowed upon my brethren of the Bar and myself. If we
have had anything to say that was worth hearing your
Honour has always listened to it, and given aU the weight
to it that it deserved. The memory of these most
fmportant queliiiee in • judge will long abide in our
memories, and we do most heartily wish you long health
and becoingss, and =UV years of enjoyment of the milder
clime, and. Perham in some respects, the sager work of
that district over which you are called to preside.
Mr. Flan solicitor, followed in the terms appended:—
brethren instruct use to say • few word*. I wish
someone also had had it to do. Many years have I Mal the
benefit of your Honour's acquaintance at the Bar and in
private, and I will say I believe the public feel that they
are losing • very valued and valuable friend, and that the
judicial Bench, when ornamented by • fresh head, may be
improved—but it is very doubtfuL The judlead attention.
the gentlemanly courtesy the unvarying kindness with
which both the profession and the public have been
treated by your Honour hove, I assure you, been so
appreciated that they will not soon be forgotten; and
when your Hon or retires to a probably more genial clime
we shall each and all of us Mel that we have lost • kind
friend. When we take leave of you and you part from us,
we all bops we shall not be forgotton. You. I assure your
Honour, will not be forgotten. Already the public speak
of you—they look at the past with pleasure, and they hope
that for you the futons mu prove equally as agreeable.
The branch of the profession which I represent hope that
in the calmer times to which your Honour retires you will
enjoy the the benefit of the quieter judicial employment
and the more genial clime ; and having entered the "sore
end yellow leaf" of life, that you will bring that valuable
and valued life to so satisfactory an end that those who
live to hoar of it—l hope it will be very lope distant—
may turn with pleasing affection to the years during which
they had the benefit of your Honour's judical attention,
experience, and gentlemanly demeanour towards us all,
and towards the public, too. We all wish YOU long life;
we wish that the public where you are going will value
your services u much as we do who have so long
experienced them: and on behalf of tho Bar and the
public, I wish you " God sped."
Mr. Gemmed' spoke in • similar strain, and
Mr. MAILAIIALL, the Registrar of the Court, also spoke.
He said—lf those whe have bed occasion to pra,•tieo
before you have had OCCIIsiOU YO appreciate the fitness and
courtesy which has distinguished your ilm'lur Pre-
siding in that east, those who have been brought into
official commankation with you have no lass cause to be
grateful to your Honour for the kindness—l may use a
stronger word, and say the friendliness—with which our
Intercourse has always been regulated. We cannot let
this opportunity peas without expressing to you our sense
of the manner in which our official and other business has
been transacted. I cannot affect to be surprised that your
Honour has thought it wise to seek • leas extended sphere
of work, because no one, perhaps, better than Mr.
Outherley and myself is aware of the vary groat, and I
may add, increasing amount of laborious sedPresponsible
business which has fallen to your Honour's share, and
that does not always appear to the public, beams, we
know, as no one else can do, that your Honour's lebours
do not end in this court. TWisefore we cannot be Kw.
rdes& though we may regret, that your Honour seeks a
ei- -extensive where of action. Yet in taking lama of us.
and in going to the MOO whke awaits yo ur Hamm. you
will carry with you the grateful temnambranom of every
amber of the °MAL Ma of this MIA