The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-20 00:00:00

CANDIDATES FOR THE BAR.

We are informed that the Benchers of the Honourable
Society of the Middle Temple, in following the course acted
upon by two other learned societies, have recently adopted
the after-mentioned regulations, for the purpose, we appre
bend, Of securing a standard degree of talent and character
in admissions to the bar. It is well known that of late years
the bar has been too easily accessible, and no doubt a pro-
cess of expurgation at the present day would be attended
with beneficial results. It appears that in Trinity Term,
1789, an order was made by the then members of the bench
of the Inner Temple, and that the then Benchers of the
Middle Temple, in adopting the same, ordered, "That
from and after that time no articled clerk, either to an
attorney or solicitor, or to a clerk in the Court of Chancery
or Court of Exchequer, ought to be called to the bar until
his articles shall either have expired or been cancelled for
the space of two whole years, and stating that it was then
ordered by the Masters of the Bench then present that the
said resolution should be confirmed and adopted as the rule
of that society, in all future applications of such articled
clerks to be called to the bar." We now find that, in con-
formity with certain stringent rules elsewhere adopted, the
Bench of the Middle Temple has ordered that for the future
" No attorney-at-law, solicitor, writer to the Signet, or writer
of the Scotch Courts, proctor, notary, or Parliamentary agent,
or person acting as such, and no clerk of or to any barrister,
conveyancer, special pleader, attorney, solicitor, writer to the
Signet, or writers of the Scotch Courts, proctor, notary, or
Parliamentary agent, clerk in Chancery, or other officer in
any court of law or equity, whether such clerk be articled or
in the receipt of salary, or of other remuneration for his ser-
vices, shall be allowed to keep commons in the hall of
this society, available for the purpose of being
called to the bar, whether such person be .already,
or may hereafter become a member of this So-
ciety, until such person, being an attorney, shall
have taken his name off the rolls, nor until he and every
other person above-named or described shall have ceased to
act or practise as such attorney, writer to the Signet, or
writer of the Scotch Courts, solicitor, proctor, notary, agent,
or clerk, as aforesaid, saving always to any person or persons
circumstanced as aforesaid, the benefit of any term or terms
which he or they may have kept in conformity with the or-
ders of this society." And that henceforth "No person al-
ready admitted, or who may hereafter be admitted a member
of this society, shall apply tor or take out any certificate in
pursuance of the statute 44 Geo. 111. c. 98, s. 14, without the
special permission of this society, under pain of expulsion,
and that such permission be in no case granted until the per-
sons applying for the same shall have kept such commons in
the hall of this society, as in pursuance of the order of the 16th
day of July, 1762, are required to be kept as a qualifical ion
fbr the bar, and that such permission, when granted,,do endure
only from the date thereof, but may be renewed annually by
order, upon petition."

Snirwligm•v—On the morning 61 Sunday last, the
12th instant, about two o'clock, the principal keeper At Kin-
naird lighthouse, while on his watch in the light-room, was
attracted by the noise of some one knocking at the door of
the house. Having summoned the assistant keeper,
w
found that the person who sought admittance was a ship-
wrecked seaman in a very wet and exhausted state. When
his necessities had been provided for, the statement that he
gave was, that his name was Alexander Hutchison, andthat
his vessel was the Eliza, of Kirkcudbright, bound fronalver-
-4 pool to Dundee, with salt. She atru on a rock on the 9th
instant in passing thrMAO the Pentland Frith, but from the
'
fog did pot lin.Rw eitactly where it was. e wind was fa-
vourable for crossing the Moray Frith, and this they at-
temptedpumpstill the morning of the
to do by working the
11th (Saturday), at five o'clock, when tht pump leathers
being worn out, and the water abo
de-
termined to abandon tht vwei, 40 cabin floor, they n putting the boat out for
this PurPOA )Rwaver;Alle rope by which she was attached
'Atop slipped, and she went adrift. Upon tlyi,a the
crew, consisting of four men, jumped overbogd, leaving a
boy, who was unable to swim, on bofgil the vessel. Hutchison
was the only one who macle the boat • the rest all perished
and the vewlA w.eo ,own in buoust. ant hour after he loft her.
,re unable t 9, render anya assistance as were no
oars in ;he wit,' which was
chore, which he's the SernoonY. The
witnolvacrhdsan theo.
11,46,A4 mg, afraid of being drifted off again, he determined
10 SWIM to shore, about a mile distant, which he reached at
midnight, about a mile west of the lighthouse, and, ke.epaing
the light in view, he arrived as already pAeuttou.
burgh Paper.
ACC ID ANT. --,On Monday last the lion. William
#eAtir' teaill of Trinity College, son of Lord Leigh, of
otonelelgh Abbey, near Leamington, was thrown frop,t his
horse near Six-Mile Bottom, and received a severe concussion
of the brain, from which serious regglf.a were at first appre-
kended. We are, f owever, bappjilo learn that Mr. Leigh is
sing towards recovery in very satisfactory luatmeT.
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BRITISH AND FOREIGN AN

SLAVERY SOCIETY.

r The following are full reports of the speeches made by" Mr.
O'Connell and Mr. Bright, which we were obliged to omit
on Saturday for want of room : , '
Mr. D. O'CONNELL, M.P., who looked remarkably Well,
was received upon advancing with the most vociferous cheer-
ing, which lasted for some time, spoke as follows :—The reso-
lution which is intrusted to me to move is in these words :
" That this meeting, in common with a great mass of their
countrymen, have read with feelings of indignation and
horror the sentence of death pronounced by Judge O'Neale,
of South Carolina, on John L. Brown, for aiding and abetting
a slave woman to escape from the intolerable yoke of bond-
age, by which sentence, and the terms in which it was pro-
nounced, not only were the sacred principles of justice vio-
lated, and the forms of law prostituted to the most atrocious
purposes, but the Divine system of Christianity itself grossly
outraged and dishonoured."
Nobody who has heard of that trial and sentence but must
concur in every word of this resolution, and that being so, I
really have very little to say to it. At one time I anticipated
that I should have to address you at considerable length, and
upon a most unpleasant topic—a topic which has created
something like division amongst ourselves. Fortunately,
however, that division is healed ; the appeal is made to the
proper tribunal, and all I have to say is this, that I beg I
may not have my opinions upon this subject judged of by
the fervid eloquence of my friend George Thompson.—
(Loud cheers.) I rejoice in being allowed to raise my voice
in an assembly of the old and tried friends of human liberty
amongst the enemies ofslavery in every country and in every
clime, amongst the advocates of morality and Christianity,
which can never be perfect or valuable in any country till
there is neither master nor slave.—(Cheers.) I rejoice to
stand amongst you, and, whatever may be my own lot, I
shall have the gratification to recollect that I have joined in
one more effort to strike the fetter from the slave.—(Cheers.)
I don't know whether you understand what our cause of
quarrel was a while ago. It seemed to me once or twice that
it was something in the situation of my worthy countryman,
Sir Lucius O'Trigger, who, having sent a Challenge to a
man, and, being asked the cause of it, said, " It's a mighty
pretty quarrel as it is : explanation 'll spoil it."—(Cheers
and laughter.) For my part, lam bound to say that I urn a
free trader, perfectly attached to the principles and the
practice of free trade.—(Cheers.) I am convinced that it is
injustice to prevent men from buying their food in ' the
cheapest market, and that it is a crime to make the 'rich
richer at the expense of increasing the poverty of the poor.
I am a free trader in corn especially, though I stand here the
representative of 7'50,000 of an agricultural population—of a
population that have no means of paying their rents or sup-
porting their families but by the produce of the land—who
sanction me, and join with me, in asserting, for the labour-
ing classes of England, the privilege of having their food as
cheap as they can possibly get it.—(Hear, hear.) If I, on an
anti-slavery question, differ with those who agree with me
on the principles of free trade, they, I think will do me the
justice to say that I may be mistaken, but that I am not
designedly wrong. The question between us, to be disposed
of by the Committee, when I shall not have an opportunity
of appearing, is this—"whether slave-grown sugar ought to be
more taxed on coming into this country than free-grown sugar
—whether the produce of free labour ought not to have the
preference in our market over the produce of slave labour ?"
—that is all. I confess lam for giving a preference to the
produce of free labour.—(Hear, hear.) I do not think there
is anything opposed to free trade in that. If less is to be
paid for slave-grown sugar, recollect the mode in which it
has been produced. Remember that no wages have been
given for its production, no gratuity to the men who fainted
even under the labour. It was not half-a-crown or a shilling
a day, but the lashes of the whip if they did not work
heartily.—(Cheers.) 1 cannot bring that to my notions of
free trade. We had at one time a slave trade in England,
openly carried on by the sanction of the law. There is not
here one human being who would be for a free trade in slaves ;
and I see no distinction between being for free trade in
slaves and for free trade in an article which would augment
slavery.—(Cheers.) As to your fifty per cent. cheaper, why
I think honesty is still the best policy. There was a man
transported a year ago, named Money Moses, who was in the
habit of receiving all the stolen plate he could get, paying the
thieves a very small sum for it. That man would give you
50/. worth of plate for twenty-five sovereigns, and the conse-
quence would be, that you'd have a free trade in plate.—
(Cheers.) Free trade's a good thing, but honesty's better ;
and the country which gave that sublime example, without
one murmur, from one end of the land to the other, from
Land's End to the north of Scotland, from Cape Clear to the
Giant's Causeway, freely contributed 20,000,000/. to the cause
of humanity, cheaply purchasing the liberty of 800;000
human beings.—(Cheers.) I have heard of the difference
between Royalty and Republicanism ; but Royalty has
beaten Republicanism in the race altogether, and has at
least the advantage of having totally abolished the horrible
crime of slavery. Wherever the English flag waves, or our
Queen's power extends, slavery is at an end, and man is
on an equality with his fellow-creatures.—(Cheers.) No;
I cannot bring myself at all to do anything that shall have
the least appearance of augmenting slavery. It is, indeed,
said, that if you don't buy slave-grown sugar, others will
that they will have it in the markets of other parts of
Europe. It is said, too, "If you adopt this principle, why
not apply it to cotton and tobacco?" I think I have a very
good answer to that—" Because it is not in our power to do
it."—(Cheers.) If I could possibly prevent a single pound's
weight of slave-grown cotton, or a single ounce of slave-
grown tobacco from entering this country, I would sacrifice
my existence, and gladly perish on the scaffold, to prevent
such a foul crime being enacted—(Cheers)—but if I cannot
do that, is it any reason why I should not prevent what I
can ? We cannot cure ene evil by committing another,
Crime should be diminished as much as possible ; unlike
wealth, it does not become more valuable by accumulation.
I therefore stand up amongst my brother free traders to state
that I cannot consent to increase the number of slaves by ea-
couraging'slave-grown produce.—(Cheers.) I came here, as
you may perceive, tolerably well prepared to defend my
opinions ; and if I should be able to attend the Committee
I should defend myself there. lam sure I have not said Et
word disrespectful to my able friend ; but Ido hope this
Society will never be a pro-slavery society, either in England
or anywhere else, and though other markets should be open
to slave grown sugar, that England never will.—(Cheers.)
I will ask any man, is not England the best market in the
world for any commodity ?—(Cheers.) It has the two
great ingredients—plenty of money and certitude of pay-
rnent.—(Cheers.) In some other countries the payment is
not quite so certain.—(Cheers and great laughter.) Pardorx
me for having detained you so long. I was brought up in
abhorrence of every adjunct to slavery—of everything that.
could assist—of everything that could increase slavery. I
have spent a long life in struggling against tyranity and ov-
pression of every kind, and I shall not be a participator in
anything that can augment the misery to the alleviation of
which I have devoted all the energies of my life.—(Loud
cheers.) But I ceme to the resolution before me, and I must.
say that 1 heard with great pleasure the American gentleman
who spoke with so much moderation and good sense while
condemning slavery in his own country. Was there ever a
thing equal to this trial of John L. Brown ? He was charged
with attempting to aid a woman in escaping from bondage;
he was tried, and was convicted. I wonder what kind of a
jury he had.—(Cheers and great laughter.) Judgment was
pronounced against hint—alas! by an Irish judge—not an
American, but an Irish judge. Are there no strange ones
nearer home?—(Cheers.) Humanity and morality were se
trampled on, Christianity made such a mockery of by this
prosecution, that I wish I had language to pour forth the
torrent of my contempt upon a country and its institution,
where such a horrible crime as that can be perpetrated under
form of law.(Cheers.) Tried for his life! For what? For
an act of humanity; for that for which he should have been
rewarded—for a virtue—for a noble, a manly virtue ; for
feeling of compassion for a wretched female.—(Cheers.)
Then he read the manner in which the judge pronounced the
sentence. He defied his God ; he; used the hol3scriptures to
aggravate the bitterness of the sentence of death. _ He intro-
duced the name of the ever-adorable Redeemer, the only me-
diator between God and man, as if he would make a sin of ,
compassionate and humane act. Oh! pardon me, Sir, I can-
not continue--
" Just Heaven! What must be thy look,
When such a wretch before thee stands, •
Unblushing!—with thy sacred book,
Turning its leaves with blood-stained ran

And wiesting from its text sublime
crime,!'
insi
to mark the
his law of hate, and blood, an
d ~)
—(Great cheering.) Something should h donee
disgust with which England views such conduct. For my-
own part, I would no more speak to a New Orleans man than
I would to a pickpocket or a felon thief. They don't deserve
to be placed upon the same footing with civilised men. Eng-
land silould say to them, " Stay at home ; come net among
us ; don't pollute us with your presence ;ave no other mode of
for we will hold no
commune with you."—(Cheers.) W
controlling a nation but
sy the expression of public opinion—
Republicans are naturally proud; let us meet their pride,
and show them that they shall have in return nothing—but
our scorn% our contempt, our hate, and our re probation
(Cheers,) Pour out your indignation on them. Let them
know that they are out of the pale of society—that they
shall be excommunicated from intercourse with Christian
men, whilst they have their statute-book stained by so bloody
a law as this. The blood in their statute-book shall blush in
their countenances, and they shall be marked as men of blood
throughout the civilised globe--(Cheers)—the wretch that
pronounced the sentence—that Judge O'Neal*, oh I I abhor
him for his name. Let his 0 be blotted out any rate—
(Cheers and laughter)—and then nail the rap to the counter
as soon as you please.—(Cheers.) Our public press is too
calm; we have had, to be sure, some important remarks on
the aishject, some good sentences of reprobation ; but they
haven't repeated them often enough ; they haven't marked
with sufficient strength their sense of the iniquity, ofthe abo-
mination, of the seoundrelism of it.—(Cheers.) Representing
large masses of my countrymen, I denounce the miscreant who
derives his pedigree at least, if not his birth, from my country
in the presence of this
great meeting assembled in the cause of
humanity. Sacred Heaven ! where else could such a meeting
as this be got together, not for any personal or private object,
but at the impulse of generous hearts, with the single desire
of making the cause of humanity triumphant throughout
the 011: it is a glorious meeting, and
delightfulpart in it. But I cannot yet pass
i(sCtoheers. a
take
IfirasomnoOt'Nbeete
extmocd
uhtised,
asentence.nd ihu
It hoc been said that Brown
been
boasted in the Ame-
rjoap papers that he has been pardoned. That is not so. The
sentence has been commuted—to what? To a flogging by
the common hangman at the gallows' foot.—(CJseers and
cries of " Shame !") Why, that is worse than death. Ha
might have perished, as many men have perished, innocently.
but that is treatment you would not subject your dog to—no.,
uar your enemy's dog; it was a canine punishment, an*
worse than the wolves that prowl the forests were themon-
stars that inflicted it.,-(Cheers.) It is not to be passea over
such oondWa as this, and I thank God that e'er long my words
Vlll he Wilifto on the wings of the press along the Missouri
and the Ohio till
) itstlythore United sMto and the microns
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