The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

familiar intimates., of prolonging the memory of the
amateur of Saunders. Young men saw the old
celebrities of the circuit, and those who bare reaped
the honours of the profession could see their sums-
sore in yon g hope and prof mianal ambition•
The banquet wee In Iie&OST of a man who himself
forms a esaneedag link between the lost and the
present generation both of lawyers and of authors—
who ma tell CltalutSDlCiuse what Crtam.Es Luca
talked shoat, and recall personal associations of
DAUNCT, ROINIZLL, and Plassole as he strolls with
the last junior along the broad walk of Christchurch

meadows.
too much in the
The dinner itself was perhaps
nature of a privre entertainment to justify a detailed
publication of the proosediegs. W. WHATILIT,
Q.C., the new leader of the circuit, was in the chair,
and grouped around him were Mr. Justice TALIPOURD,
the honoured guest; Lord CAMPBELL, Mr. Justice
H moots, the Arrovar-GangitAL, the Hon.
JOHN TALBOT, Q.C., Attorney-General to the
Primo of WALES; Sir D. RTAN, Sir J. Com-
ALEXANDLI. Q. C.; CHILTON, Q.C.; Mr.
Serjeant Amin, HEMP HALLAII, and about
one hundred others, amongst whom we recognised
all the Oxford Mesa men, whose names have be-
come familiar to the public by the success of their
professional or li crazy labours, with the exception of
Mr. Judos Menus, whose health precluded his attend-
ance to honour toe occasion and the men.
There were but two speeches. When the QUEEN
had been drank to, and Prince ALBERT as a Benches
of an lon of Court, "Mr. Boston" proposed the health
of their distinguished guest.
Mr. J asticeTALFOUnD'S reply—his farewell to his old
circuit—will be indelibly impressed upon the memory
of all who heard it as one of his greatest efforts of orato.
rice' display. When he arose and uttered for the last
time the long familiar "Mr. Ration," all were
prepared for a great speech, and none were
disappointed. He told them what his real
position was at the time he received his ap-
pointment—and all felt that he had earned as Isemer-
shit, anddesa reed a dignified repose. He told dies
again of his first circuit—of how he was watched at
Reading by deer (friends who flattered him with
confident expectations, and how when he spoke
for the first tinse in the town of his birth
he trembled rather with hope, than fees.
He recalled his sensations upon treading for the first
time the halls of the great university city—he de-
scribed his first journey from Oxford to Woroerer,
and his auditory travelled the flat county of Oxfc.rd,
and toiled the Cotswold Hills, to view with him, far
the first time, from their summit the glorious vale of
Benham, and the blue Malvern hills that skirt
the scene. Stafford was associated in hi. mind
with the scenes of his greatest professional
success—Shrewe bury, by persona friendship, dearer
even to him than tie historical associatious of the old
metropolis of the west. He spoke of his first jour-
neying. down the worse of the Severn and the Wye,
and his visits to the cities of the vale, till the circuit
reposed under the shadow of Gloucester tower.
Had he exhaust. ed description when he came
to Gloucester ? No. He had agreeable asso-
elation. connected with Gloucester peculiarly
identified with his own generous Latent. " The city
of the hest of hostesses," the end of circuit labour,
and the birthplace of pleasant anticipations for the
long variation!
Admirably as all facie points told, the next part of
the address was still more effective. TALPOURD told
of his early contemporaries on circuit, and how, in
the persons of the juniors, he could hope his young
hopes again. It was because so many at the
table could feel themselves part of the thought
hat the generous ch, er broke forth. He ip dre of his
literary labows—of his impetuosity to give his
thoughts to the world—to announce his emancipation
too early from the narrow circle of merely profes-
sional studies, instead of waiting, as did his more
prudent predecessor, Lord CAMPBELL, until he had
secured the aim of his professional smb.tion, brfore
he adorned the lay literature of his country with his

works.
He defended his pursuit of a literary career.
It had, he admitted, brought upon him the un-
favourable judgment of the public, which persisted in
the belief that no man could succeed in two branches
of study. But, he raid, even had this been so, his
circuit had protected him against himself. The learned
judge will never utter a greater truth thin this. The
circuit knows that the poet TALFOVRD it a
lawyer—a lawyer not only well grounded in the great
principles of the science of law, bat also intimately
acquainted with its most minute technicalities. His
peroration was a tribute to a friend. The
severance of the circuit connexion between himself
and WriArr.f.ax, who together bad gone fifty-eight
circuits, was rather a brotherly than a profes-

sional Parting.
Long will the „TALFOURD dinner" be remem-
bered by the Oxford circuit. May the influence of
the last leader still continue in the memory of its
members, and guide them to that kindliness of man-
ner and gentlemanly forbearance which has always
pervaded their Nisi Prise Court under the leadership
Of TALFOURD.

ITCAIRN'S ISLAND, PACIFIC OCEAN.

We have letters from this oolny by the Pea.-
arrived en Saturday at Portsmouth, which contain some
interesting details relative to the Wand, and the descendants
of the unfortunate men connected with the mutiny of the
Bounty, and from which we make the following extracts.
Pitcaine's Island, July, 1849. —The number of inhabitants
149—malere75, females 74--of this number three are English,
one • Tahitian woman, widow of Edward Young, midakim
man of thelßoanty, aged 80, two sun of the first generation,
one of them a son of John Adams (Bonny) named Arthur
and the other a see of Matthew Quintal (Bounty) named
Oeorge, seven females of the first generation, three daughters
of Adams, one of Christian, one of Youn one of Mills, one
of Mc Coy, the remainder are children of the seemed and
, third generation.
' During the last five years one-fifth of the populetlon have
been born, and only one has died a natural death, one of
lock-jaw, and a child burned to death. The inhabitants are
occupied chiefly in cultivating the ground and carpentering;
several of the young men are good at cabinetwork, and se
blacksmiths. There are eight marriageable males and seven
haulm at present unmarried. The soil is very rich bee
porous ; a great properties decomposed lava, the ether a
rich black earth and clayey ground. The climate is tempi-
rate; thermometer from 59 to 89 in the shade. The spring
eseemeases in August, which is harvest time, and yams sad
potatoes are dug, which is the principal food ; mid of pota-
toes there me two crops per year, which an planted in
February and July, and dug In June and November. There
We no regular erne winds: in the summer months the
wind peeved' mostly from E. 8. E. to north. Nor-
therly winds are generally. light, often accompanied
with rain or fog ; whet the wind is N. it invariably goes
round to the westward, from which quarter and S.E. the
strongest gales penal With wind from S.W. it is gene-
rally clear web. with moderate beeez-s. In winter pre-
ruing winds W. to E.B E. The animal and vegatahle
productions of the Wand: goats, hogs, and poultry, yams,
sweet and Irish potatoes, the api-roet and tarn us null
quantities. Fontaine: pines, melons, oranges, bread-
fruit, sugsvcanee, limes, and the vi, or Brazilian plum. The
only grain is maize. The food of the inhabitant, is chiefly
yaw and potatoes; animal food two or three times a week.
Fish are getting warn. Bed•clothes are g e fly
manu-
factured by the females, from the ante, or paper mulberry.
Wearing apparel is obtained from whale ships, in exchange
for vegetables, etc. Cotton cloth is much wanted. Blankets
and woollen articles, and steep, very scarce.
" The avenge number of ships touching at the island an-
nually ie eight or eine, mostly Americans, and they always
behave well. Last year there were seven ships, ten lees than
is 1847 ; the last vessel that touched there was an English
brig, from New Zealand, bound to California with mi.
grants, there being eight Englit•la women amongst them.
" On the Ist day of-each year a chief magistrate and men-
sillor are elected, all peeress (male and f. male) ov r 18 years
of age are voters. The chief magistrate then Memoirs his coun-
sellor or secretary. The duty of the magierate is to con-
vene meetings and hear men; it is then left to a jury of
five persona, and if the decision is not Mitigatory
to both parties, they are allowed to appeal to
the commander of her Majesty's ships of war.
punishments are geserally fines or labour. The inhabitants
tinnily retire to rest early, and rise with the sun. Prom
Augers to November they have plenty of employment,
digging yams, also plantiag bananas, yams, and potatoes,
weeding ground, de., and when net busily empeeyed they
generally meet in the morning, and if the weather is fa-
Tearable gofishing ; if notes Baturdsyg they go out hoot.
lag for a Sunday's dinner. On the arrival of a ship off the
Weed no one is allowed to go on board before the pilot, who
always takes charge of the boats when landing, and pro-
vides for the captain when on shore, sock family in rotation
famishing a Mlot, or providing a substitute, who always ex-
pects a small remuneration for his serving. The females
paned, assist in the cultivation of the ground, preparing
thatch for the houses, in, and, in fact, are more employed
that the males: they are generally very strong, many of
them being able to carry a barrel of potatoes down to the
leading-place, the path to which is very rugged and steep,
and is the rainy NOM very difficult to ascend or dowsed.
Sinn 1831 then have been 18 deaths: 4 of them accidental,
4 glow, 1 a diens& of the ear, 1 of the heart, 1 cleaner,
1 of ctosseamption, 2 of Janne, 1 In childbirth, sad 1 is
infany. The diseases ant prevalent are asthma asi
ea-
tarck, whin prevail mostly among the females; Wien
attacks are frequent but slight, and easily give way to to&
I mat. Isamu& had visited the Wand during the lan sues
e sai sassed