The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

THE MOST

SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOEILT

EVER TAKEN,
BY WYON,

FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES ;

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Tara DAT —Morning 22 min. after 3 I Evening 42 min after 3
rO-MOsatow—Morning 2 vain. alter 4 I Evening 24 min atter 4

THE W.EATHER.—Sos Onnos, DECEMBER 11.

'rIiItitNEOMETXR, H THE SuA.D.e.
54—highest since noon yesterday.
38—towel; this morning and daring the night.
45—this day, at neon.

BAROMISTItTi, 30 53.
WEID S.W.—light breeze and fine weather.

DAILY WEATEIER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
ete arranged hi order cf latitude.
PIANIOUTH—Wind S., strong breeze— overcast.
fit:tuterorr—Viind S., gentle breeze—overcast
ilatiTlNG%—Wind S. %V., gentle breeze—overcast.
Souni.e mFrots— Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
FOLKKSTONE —Wind S. W., gentle breeze--overcast.
TetTnalDOn—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
GREEN w ICH—Wind S S.W., strong breeze— overcast.
Sraeor:, —Wind S. W., hard wind—overcast.
SWINPON—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast.
ewe ell KTER.— Wind S.W., gentle breeze —overcast.
fl,..t.ler.inGE—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast.
I .;tm,,e-rn—liitel S. W , i,ent le breeze—overcast.
, EA —Wind 5., bald wind rain.
'ilart S., s nng breeze - rain.
Art ocic—Wiud N. W.. gentle breeze—overcast.
The returns trom the followin, places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine
o'clock :

LLlKnica—W ind strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Blutt.l:l4:mr.t ind S.W. bard wind—overcast.
k °MAC—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—.send, rain.
Axe,t,TKR—IN ind S., gentle breeze overcast.
ilfrj y Wind S., gentle breeze--overcast.
DA ttl-INcaoN—Wind S. S E., gentle breeze - overcast

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1851

The sanguin2ry and atrocious outrage recently
penetrated in
and whichnthevieioi has
of Caatleblayney in the
Monaghan,
county led to the death of
a kind-hedrted, hemane, and
estimaible gentleman,
big prcduced great excizement
diem district where the fearful not
erimenhYaidnbleheenlincomme--
mitted, but throughout the entire count
onryce. commonlt be-
longed to a peculiar class of outrages,
enough in Ireland, but which had become
compara-
tively rare bince the Exodus had set in,
and
the
anxiety to obtain or retain possession of land
had been superseded by the desire to ob-
tain a new home on the other side of the
Atlantic. Where so many farms had been
abandoned, and were now lying uncultivated and un-
occupied, it could not be supposed that there would

be any temptation to the commission of agrarian
offences. Exceptional cases will, however, some-
times occur, where the old leaven is still at work,
and the machinery of crime, although rusted, may
again be put into opera,ion. The bloodthirsty murder
of Mr. Thomas DOUGLAS BATESON was unquestion-
ably one of this class. Every circumstance of the case
indicates its nefarious origin too clearly to
leave the slightest doubt as to the nature of the trans-
action. The time and place, and manner of its com-
mission, all lead to the same conclusion. The hour,
two o'clock in the afternoon, the locality within a
few hundred yards of three different houses—one of
them the residence of the clergyman of the parish,
and also within about half a mile of a considerable
town, and the fearful mode in which the murderers
achieved their infamous object, alike show the deli-
berate and cold-blooded determination of the assassins
and their confident reliance on the support and as-
sistance, or at least on the non-interference, of the
neighbouring peasantry. To those unacquainted with
the character of the Irish people they would give the
t. offence almost a character of nationality, as if the
entire locality was implicated and every inhabitant
, more or less involved in the transaction.

It is to be regretted, too, that the victim was a
gentleman of the most active benevolence, one who
had exerted himself to the utmost to promote the wel-
fare and happiness of every person with whom he was
in any degree connected. Had a person of different
character been sacrificed, although it could not have
justified or even extenuated the brutality exhibited,
it would have occasioned less astonishment. If any
person carried with him a passport which should have
conveyed him safely through the most disturbed
districts, and the most outrageous and riotous
mobs, it was the gentleman who has been so cruelly
massacred. As agent over the extensive estates of
Lord TEMPLETON he had exhibited an active benevo-
lence deserving of the highest eulogium. None ap-
plied for assistance in vain ; every claim was promptly
investigated, and, if well-founded, liberally and freely
liquidated. But it was not merely to individual cases
of hardship that he afforded willing aid. Every tenant
on the estate was treated es a friend—his interests
were vigilantly guarded. Not only did he procure
a return of 15 per cent. to every man paying his rent,
but he caused the entire county-cess to be paid with-
out any charge to the occupier. But these were not
all. To the cottiers he gave constant employment,
and every man able and willing to work was
sure of obtaining remunerative occupation, suffi-
cient, if he thought proper, to enable him to psy
his rent by his labour. Mr. BATESON was, in fact,
justly regarded as a model agent, and few have been
more sincerely deplored than him, who was regarded
as a friend by even the humblest tenant on the
Templeton estates.
But, notwithstanding these many favourable cir-
cumstances, Mr. BATESON bad offended against the
agrarian code that once prevailed, and thus drawn
upon himself the vengeance of the midnight
legisla-
tors. Although kind to the occupants, he was faith-
ful to his principal—although making every allow-
ance
to well-disposed parties, he was not by any means
inclined to yield to the unwarranted and unjustifiable
demands of ill-conditioned parties, er to surrender
Lord TEMPLETON'S property into the hands of idle and
reckless scoundrels. Those willing to exert them
selves received every possible aid, hut persons of
a different character were set at defiduce.
Various ejectments had been served, and it was unr'.er-
stood that a portion of the property was to be cleared
of those who would not liquidate their rents either
in money or labour. This offeace (!) demanded the
notice of the secret tribunal, and notwithstanding his
many estimable qualities Mr. BATESON was con-
demned to death, and the warrant for his execution
given to the ruthless assassins who were willing to
undertake any outrage, however desperate, on the
order of the committee. We have seen how the fatal
edict has been carried into operation, how brutally
the bloodthirsty order has been complied with ; we
can now only hope that the infamous agents may be
detected, and that the whole machinery may be dis-
covered. The Irish people may be well assured that the
welfare and prosperity of their country depends on
such a result, ar.d that so long as it is possible (even
for their unceasing calumniators) to assert that the
inhabitants of the locality are in any degree impli-
cated in the transaction, even by a merely tacit
connivance, or by not exerting themselves to give the
fullest information to the officers of justice, and en-
deavouring to the utmost extent of their ability to
render the assassins amenable to the offended laws,
they cannot hope for prosperity. Capitalists will not
make investments where there is not ample security
for life and property ; and it is the want of capital,
which, but for events such as those above alluded to,
would freely flow in, that has reduced the sister king-
dom to its present melancholy condition.

" The Society for Promoting the Amendment of
the Law" is steaiily and energetically proceeding in
the course it had marked out for itself. Although it
has been many years in existence, although it has not
only directed the public attention to raany glaring
grievances, but also pointed out suitable remedies,
which if adopted would remove the evils, it still
finds subjects of the deepest interest on which
to bestow i:s useful and valuable labours. There
has been no lack of abuses. There is no
person who has ever engaged in legal proceed-
ings who could not, from his own personal expe-
rience, point out some matter in which be had
sustained serious injury, and respecting which some
....melioration was urgently required. But, unfortu-
nately, the results of individual experience cannot be
brought prominently forward. We may occasionally
hear of isolated cases, where Chancery prisomrs
had been incarcerated some score of years,
or where persons with well-founded claim:
to extensive estates or considerable personal propert3
bad perished for want of the common necessaries of
life, victim; to the " hope deferred, that maketh the
heart sick." These may excite a temporary sensa-
tion which would speedily subside, and all the cir-
cumstances be involved in oblivion, but for the bene-
ficial exertions of the association.

The interesting and important question of the ex-
isting relations between the bar, the at-
torney, and the client, formed the chief
topic of discussion at the general meeting
held at the offices of the so-Aety on Monday last.
The report of the special committee appointed at tile
last general meeting, on the 10th of November, was
read, and received with the most perfect unanimity.
The gentlemen selected had exhibited the greatest
research and judgment, and spared no pains in the
efficient discharge of the duly which they had under.
taken. They entered into the history of the profes-
sion, which they traced back to the very foundations.
They also pointed out the origin of the so-called
"etiquette," which prevents the public from obtaining
the advice and assistance of barristers, save through
the intervention and agency of attorneys, a rule of
which they most strenuously advocated the discon-
tinuance.

The report showed that the bar bad for many ages
been identified with the inns of court—that it wl,s,
in fact, as old as the common law itself, and that its

members Ead the exclusive privilege of practising
as advocates, pleaders, or counsel in the
secular. courts, and of exercising the profes-
wie of " law.) ere " as distinguished from
officerscets of the courts and officers of justice.
~Ai
I.Y Persona who had not attained the degree of bar-
rister were "Preossrlybpfrohibited from practising in the
asunyperpieorrscoonusrntso,t
of
that ed
..three jeurdegnedserio.nfg easnsyize,and
assist-
ance to litigants, were 4uabtijirk.gegted to
h stringent punhh-
to
a c atnp e r
stilly andwitnhhe mefteloiraer, imcndie:s
fact that 8
111E,nt under the lawa 1%,1
tenance. These statutes
although seldom resorted to---r:
to have been forgotten by some ee
protection soci-ties now in operation, „i
the event of any prosecution, may involve the mem-
bers in very unexpected and unpleasant cons(cinenees.
In the olden time the bar took a prominer,t part in
every proceedirg ; nothing could be done without
their assistance ; and, as the report truly states,
" their aid, sanction, and advice were rendered almost
indispensable" to every suitor. There was, however,
no fixed payment for their services ; they should be
o
remunerated t by a present or honorarium, and, with the
exception
physicians, who were placed in an al-
most similar position, they were perhaps the only
persons who could recover no demand for work and
labour, however valuable.

The other branch of the legal profession—the al

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torneys—sprung into existence at a later date. They
were not recognised by the common law, under which
every party to a suit should appear in person. By the
statute of Westminster 2, cap. 10, attorneys, duly
admitted, were allowed to appear "to prosecute or
defend any action, in the absence of the
parties to the suit." It was, however, only in " the
absence" of the parties that this privilege was con-
ceded, and it was expressly recognized that these
parties might act fur themselves whenever they
thought proper so to do, without the interference of
any intermediate person. Indeed, the retainer or
consultation through an attorney constituted the
exception to the rule. The sergeants and
"utter" barristers regularly attended at the
"purvise," or in other words, their respective
pillars at St. Paul's, where those requiring legal ad-
vice hastened to receive it from the fountain head,
there being no bills incurred of unknown magni-
tude, the full and fair remuneration being satisfied
in the first instance—a principle to which, we believe,
many suitors at the present day would give in a
willing assent.
In these cases the honorarium was paid, and
the advice obtained, without the assistance of
either attorney or clerk, and it has recently been
decided in the case of "Bennett v. Hall," that there is
no absolute necessity for such intervention ; there is,
in fact, nothing but the feelings of the individual
members of the bar to secure the other branch of the
profession a continuance of the practical monopoly
which they have attained.
As an illustration of what may be done by the
bar, the committee refer to the well-known
case of Lord BuounuAsz, who, when a leading
member of the northern circuit, was threatened
with a total loss of his professional practice
in consequence of a resolution of the attorneys, who
were opposed to the legal reforms of which he was
the strenuous and indefatigable advocate. HENRY
BROUGHAM, however, defeated the combination by
publishing his intention of dispensing with their ser-
vices, and of affording his counsel and advocacy to
such lay clients as should seek his aid. In that reso-
lution he was generously supported by the members
of the Northern Circuit, who, with a view to relax
any contrary rule of etiquette, directed the records of
their circuit to be searched, when no trace of any
such rule was found to exist.

It was not every man who could venture on
a course so decided, who could so boldly " take the
bull by the horns," but Hs NWT BROUGHAM did so in
1824, and vtith the most unequivocal success. His
brethren sustained him in the struggle, and we ven-
ture to assert that the northern bar, second to none in
England or in the world, will still support even its
humblest member, who stands forward in support of
the rights and privileges of the profession.
The committee, before completing their report,
strongly recommended that the present too general
practice, which prevents the public obtaining the ad•
vice and assistance of counsel, except through the
compulsory intervention of an attorney, should be
discontinued ; and that so much of the 9th and 10.11
Victoria, cap. 95, stc. 91, as has been considered to
prevent a barrister from advocating the causes of
suitors in the C,,unty Courts, unless instructed by
an attorney, should he repealed ; that an attorney,
desirous of being celled to the bar, should, if iu other
respects a fit person, be admissible into an inn of
court for such purpose without previously
removing his name from the roll of attorneys, and
should be permitted to keep his terms and perform
his exercises as a student-at-law, without ceasing to
practise as an attorney, but should be required to dis-
continue such practice and remove his name from the
rolls at some period not longer than six months be-
fore his call to the bar. That attorneys should not
be permitted to act as advocates in the superior courts.
That counsel should be responsible for crassa
negligentia and for breach of contract or of
confidence, and be liable under the sum-
mary jurisdiction of the court either to refund their
fees or to make such other reparation as the court
should think fit. Lastly, that the legal university
composed of Sergeant's Inn and of the inns of court
should be revised, with a senate consisting of an upper
and lower house, the former elected by the sergeants
and benchers, the tatter by the utter barristers, such
senate to have jurisdiction in all cases concerning the
discipline and conduct of the bar, and to appoint a
board of examiners to superintend the public exami •
nation of all candidates for admission to the degree
of barrister•at-law.

Time and space alike prevent us from entering into
a close consideration of these valuable suggestions
this day.; we shall, however, refer thereto on an early
occasion.

When the Right Reverend PAUL CULLEN bellowed
wrathfully against Freemasonry in Ireland, we ex-
pressed a belief that no very perceptible results would
follow from the blind obedience of " the Brethren"
of his creed to his tyrannous and absurd manifesto.
What, after all, is the result ? Namely, this, that up
to the last meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, not
a single Roman Catholic member had withdrawn,
while, we learn from the provincial journals, that
many Roman Catholics have recently joined the
order. The Limerick Chronicle says, " Upwards of
300 gentlemen of Ireland have joined the Masonic
body since the denouncement by Dr. CULLEN?' To
which the Car/ow Sentinel adds, " Our Limerick con•
temporary should add, that very many of those who
joined are Roman Catholics, connected with the Irish
oar, with the banks, country gentlemen,and solicitors.
So much for Dr. CULLEN's excommunication, in the
19th dentury, of the Freemason order."
We congratulate the " Free and Accepted" on thus
properly upholding the dignity of their useful and
time. honoured order. It has stood several rude
shocks uninjured, and Dr. CULLEN may depend upon
it that he can no more succeed in crushing Free-
masonry by his big words than he can in proving
that the solar orb has a diameter of six feet, as hi,
Italian protege gravely asserted. He may as well
give up the-crusade ut once, for we can confidently
assure him, on the part of the Masonic fraternity,
that he will not in the very slightest degree reap
profit or pleasure thereby.

LATEST NEWS FROM

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
(From the Herald.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, HALF-PAST SI; P.M.
M. Theirs has been sent cff from Paris under an
escort of gendarmerie. It is said that he has been
cent to the frontiers of Germany.
It has alio been reported that M. Leon Faucher
has been sent off, but this is not the case.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
(From the Chronicle.).
PARIS, THURSDAY; NINE, A M.
The departments of the Gerd, Var, and Lot-e'
Garonne are declared to be in a state of siege.
Paris is tranquil.

REPRESENTATION OF GIUSENWICII.—..We understand
that a gentleman of the highest mercantile standing
in the City, and of Liberal principles, has, as a mem-
ber of the Merchants' Committee for the Reform of
the Customs, been solicited to offer himself as a can-
didate for the representation of Greenwich, and that
he has intimated his intention of complying with the
request. The promises of support already tendered
to him, we learn, are so numerous, that his success is
undoubted.

HUNGARIAN AND POLISH CONCERT, AT THE HA-
NOVER-SQUARE ROOMS, ON. TUESDAY NEXT, THE lent INST.
—Miss Kate Hickson having generously volunteered to give
fa
and
sd
of ayntehitetLiitneraairdyof the
Asso-
ciation of the Friends of Poland, under the patronage of Lord
nnggarian concertcommittee on Tuesday
ungdrsanodf thee evening
Dudley Stuart, M.P., has by her own exertions secured the
support of many distinguished artistes now in the metropolis.
Miss Louisa Pine, Miss Pine, Mrs. W. Weiss, Miss A lain,
Miss Poole, Mdlle. Coulon, Mr. Wrighton, Mr. Swift, Herr
Stoffregen, Mr. W. Weiss, Mr. Orosz, Mr. Remenyi, Signor
Piatti, Mr. It. Blagrove, and Mr. Charles Salzman, appre-
iutsheel
nf ks
it
for
Iprtoe hwierrfme luibleefreodf attraction
the
narte
tiutgs to e
proceeds
sr
elating the noble intentions of Miss Kate Hickson, promised
!heir gratuitous services on this occcasion. The concert in
the,ocweietdhlovers 8 oet fo
unfortunate
ri ct
u, iaant
appro-
priatedand
efate a strong By mpathy is felt in this country, we trust that
the public will fully co-operate in so benevolent an object.
A Parliamentary contPst is likely toensue be-
tween the Taff Vale and the V,le of Neath, respecting which
of these companies shall form a branch line'
into the rich and
fertile field of the Cwmdare Valley. Both .
companies have
deposited the requisite notices.
Tile Prince de Joinville, the Duke d'Aurnale, and
the Count de Paris, are at Esher, and not, as reported, gone
to the continent.

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