The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY .114/VENINGr; OCTOBER 2, 1563.

MISCELLANEOUS— [Continued].
Gen. Crcdit and Finance of London, lim., 51 5
Hudson's Bay, 9 ;
International Financial Society, Um., 10;-
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), r
Ditto, C per cent. Bonds rd. sB7O issued 90, 89
Joint •stock Discount, 6i
London Financial Associaticn, lira., 14k ; 4
London General Omnibus Company (lim.), 2} it
National Discount Company, lim.,
Oriental Gas (lim.), 11
Oriental Inland Steam. lira., 3}
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 803
Quebrada Land, Rail, and llininrr, lim., 23/4
S. African Mortgage and Investment, lim.,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
ILE R. WESTBROOK.

This bankrupt was a solicitcr, of Marsham-street, and
this was a meeting for last examination and discharge. The
debts are stated at £675, and debts secured £7oo—assets,
good debts, £135.
There was no opposition, but his Honour adjourned the
case for an amendment of the accounts.

ADELPHi THEATRE.

The New Law Officers of the Crown,

Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., MX. for Richmond,
Yorkshire, who has been appointed Attorney-Gene-
ral in the room of Sir William Atherton, is the
second son of the late Rev. William Jocelyn Pal-
mer, 8.D., of Mixbury, Oxfordshire, by the youngest
daughter of the Rev. William Roundell, of Gled-
stanes, York. He was born in 1812, and was edu-
cated at Winchester, where he gave high promise
of his future honours in scholarship. He obtained
a scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford, and in
1831 obtained the Latin verse prize for the poem,
" Nuniantia ;" in 1832, the Ireland University
Scholarship, and the Newdigate English poem
" Staffa ;" in 1834, a first-class in " Literis humani-
oribus ;" in 1835, a fellowship at Magdalen, and
the Latin essay "De jure clientelse spud Ro-
manes ;" and in 1836, the Eldon law scholar-
ship. Such a brilliant university career has
rarely been known. Mr. Palmer was called to
the bar by the Society of Lincoln's-inn, June 9,
1837, and speedily obtained a very large Chancery
practice. In 1848 he was appointed Queen's Coun-
sel, and is now one of the leaders of the Chancery
bar. In 1852 he was appointed deputy high
steward of the University of Oxford, of which he
is one of the greatest living ornaments.
In 1847 Mr. Palmer obtained a seat in the House
of Commons for Plymouth, in the Liberal-Conser-
vative interest, and retained it till 1852, when his
vote against the Papal Aggression Bill, which he
joined with Mr. Gladstone, Sir J. Graham, &c., in
opposing, caused him to be displaced by a severer
Protestant, Mr. R. P. Collier, the new Solicitor-
General. He regained his seat in 1853, and
held it till 1857. In Parliament he took a high
position at once by his ability, his unforensic
style of speaking, his earnestness, and his evi-
dent religious principles of action. Latterly Mr.
Palmer seemed to approximate more nearly to
the Conservative aide of the house than Mr. Glad-
stone and the Peelites generally. But in 1862, on
the appointment of Sir R. Bethel' to the Chancel-
lorship, and the promotion of Sir W. Atherton to
the Attorney-Generalship, Lord Palmerston secured
the services of Mr. Palmer as Solicitor-General, who
Was then out of Parliament. He obtained a seat
for Richmond by the friendly resignation of Mr.
genry Rich. Last session he conducted the chief
legal business of the Government in the house, and
this year he took the leading part as counsel for the
Crown in the Alexandra case.
Sir Roundell married in 1848 Lady Laura Weide-
greet, second daughter of the late Earl Waldegrave,
and Sister of the Lord Bishop of Carlisle. He is a
nigh Churchman, in favour of church rates, against
the ballot, and earned a high reputation by his
energetic and eloquent speeches in apposition to
marriage with a sister-in-law. His "Book of
Pt'aise' a unique and most valuable repertory of
devotional poetry.
Dir. Robert Porrett Collier, Q.C., M.P. for Ply-
mouth, who has been appointed Solicitor-General in
the room of Sir Roundel' Palmer, is the son of Mr.
John Collier,
by Emma, daughter of Mr. Porrett, of North
M.P. for Plymouth from 1832 to 1841,
Hill, Devon. He was born in 1817, and graduated
at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1841, without
taking honours. He was called to the bar by the
Inner Temple, January 27, 1843, and soon obtained
a large practice ou the Western Circuit. He was
fora time Recorder of Penzance. In 1854 be was
appointed a
Q.C., with a patent of precedence ; in
1859, Judge_
Advocate of the Fleet and counsel to
Admiralty,
the in the room of Sir William
Atherton•

In 1802 he was returned for Plymouth to the
House of Commons, in opposition to his present
chief, Sir R. Palmer. He has taken an active part
in advocating the abolition of church rates and
supporting marriage with a sister-in-law ; he earned
th
Ministry by supporting the
Conspiracy
to Murd©r Bill (1858) against his Ra-
dical friends, and generally • has rendered himself
eligible
r high legal preferment. He, of course,
e favoar of the Whig
supports the ballot. In 1841 he married Isabella,
daughter of Mr. W. R. Rose, of Woolwich.
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