The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-01 00:00:00

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Eton he proceeded to King's College, Cass-
. In those days the King's men, like ha
men of New College at Oxford, did not pass
the ordinary examinations in order to obtain
their degrees ; but it has often been said that,
if the present system had prevailed, Sir JOHN
ParresoN would have distanced all his contempo-
raries. As' it was he obtained an University
scholarship. Having completed his University
career by obtaining a fellowship at King's College,
he transferred himself to the Middle Temple, where,
under the tuition of the acute and accurate Lima-
n/LE, he studied the mysteries of special
pleading. Thoroughly sound as a lawyer, LITTLR-
DALE, like Lord ELDON, was dilatory to a fault.
On one occasion, upon returning some papers
which had been under his consideration for many
months, with the observation that he thought an
action niiiiht probably be maintained, it is said that
the client replied, " The fact is, air, an action has
" already been brought, and judgment has been
" recovered." Sir JOHN PAT/R.IION had all the
merits of his master without his defects. To equal
learning and equal acuteness he added a quickness
of apprehension and a promptitude of decision
which enabled him to despatch business with ex-
traordinary facility. His career as a pleader and
at the bar, to which he was called in the year
1821, was singularly short. For nine ryears
he travelled the Notthern Circuit, maintaining his
place against such men as Sir Jane SCARLRIT,
Lord BROUGHAM, Lord WENSLEYDALE, and Mr.
Baron Mammon, sad at the youthful age of forty,
whilst yet wearing a stuff gown, he took his seat
in the Queen's Bench beside Lord TaXTERDEN and
his old master Sir JOSEPH LIITLEDALS.

It is now some nine years since the eminent
magistrate whose loss we deplore retired from the
scene of his labours. Those who were present
upon that occason will not soon forget the inte-
resting scene. The members of the Bar who
crowded the spacious court seemed to feel that
they were about to bee not only one of the lights
of the profession, but to be separated for ever
from a personal friend. There was not then, nor
ie. _gam nal. ..tio,B4ach AnY. MOP •
thorough master of the pruiciples of the ootti-
mon law of England than Sir JOHN Parrstion.
It was not merely that his long experience and
' singularly retentive memory enabled him to arrive
at a sound conclusion. He was no mere case law-
yer. When the point to be discussed was a pure
question of law, not only did his learning supply
the whole history of the cues in which the question
had been debated, but his profound knowledge of
the principles of law enabled him to test the cor-
?sebum of these cases and the value of the reasons
adduced in support of the doctrine affirmed. Whether
in bane or with a jury ho was equally successful.
The most complicated facts, the most conflicting
evidence, had no power to confuse his clear-
sighted intellect. His faculty of methodical
arrangement enabled him to reduce the most intri-
cate chaos of hide to the most perfect order—
his remarkable memory prevented the omission of
the minutest circumstance, and whilst the acute
promptitude of the lawyer at once fixed upon the
legal points which required decision and decided
them, the strong common sense and practical
judgment of the man of the world were vigorously
applied to ascertain the bearing of the matters of
fact. Nor were these intellectual qualities the
sole merits of Sir Joan Parrason. The most
conspicuous legal abilities may be obscured and
even neutralised by moral defects. A want of
decorum, or even of proper dignity, may not only
destroy the legitimate influence of the Bench, but
may seriously impede the administration of justice.
Perhaps there never was a time in which circum-
spection of conduct before the public and reasonable
patience towards the bar were more needed than
in the Common Law Courts of Westminster at the
present hour. Happily, some judges still survive
who were brought up in the school of the late Sir
NICZOLAN TIN DAL and Sir JOHN PATTABON, and
who maintain upon the Bench the traditions of their
more illustrious predecessors.

Sir Jour Pserssoir's retirement from the
Bench did not relieve him from public duties.
For some years he sat as a member of the Privy
Council, where, from the peculiar construction
of the court, he was enabled to hear the argu-
ments of counsel, notwithstanding his infirmity.
The many difficult questions which arose before
this tribunal, in consequence of the Russian war,
rendered Sir Jose Parresores presence of great
importance ; and some of the most elaborate
judgments then delivered are known to have
been drawn up by his pen. But the most re-
markable transaction in which he was engaged
during this latter period of his career was con-
nected with Cambridge. For years a dispute had
been going on between the town and the Univer-
sity. Length of time had embittered either side.
At last it was proposed to settle the mitten in dis-
pute by arbitration, and an Act of Parliament was
passed for the purpose. Most of those who knew
the subject doubted the possibility of finding an
arbitrator. It was Sir Cossrzwam. Lnwm, we be-
Beve,who had the merit of selecting SirJorris Par-
seem to undertake the almost impossible task.
The result exceeded all expectation. The
perfect justice of the award was admitted on both
aides. The dispute was finally settled, and both
the town and the University joined in presenting
the illustrious arbitrator with a splendid tribute of
their esteem.

It is scarcely fitting, perhaps, to intrude into
the columns of a journal the private virtues of a
public man ; but it is difficult to overlook them in
estimating the character of the eminent person
whose lose we deplore. Without condeireAdieg