To-day the officers and men (the litter represented in person by a small deputathe honorary freedom sion at the Guildhall, and rst hatch of 50) of them Southampton for the front. Phe whole batch are to be entertained at supper to-night by the Trevurer and Benchers of the Inner Temple, Altogether they will have a. magnificent, send-off. Much more than the £100,000 originally asked for the establishment and equipment of the Force hus already been subscribed and it now numbers some 1,490 instead of the one thousand at first aimed at. The enrolment of the Imperial Yeomanry, too, goes on apace, and a "special corps" i now being formed of men in position to provide their own kit, mount, and cost of transport, to pay all their own expenses, and to devote their pay to the Imperial Fund for the support of the widows and children of soldiers killed in the war, Already a number of men with distinguished names have eagerly joined the corps; and there is no doubt that a very little time will see it fully formed. a satisfac. appointment to the wiping out his old reputation as the "Lord High Jobber." Neither political nor personal motives can have influenced him in the appointment of Mr. Buckley, a very distinguished lawyer, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. Justice North. The retiring judy is a most estimable gentleman, but his retirement will not be very seriously reyretted. He was. most painstaking judge, Dut in spite of his extreme deliberation his judgments did not always commend them-aoives either to law or to common sense. His last remarkable judgment was to the effect that the copyright of a speech vested in the shorthand reporter and not in the man who delivered it. The appointment of a big new batch of (.C.'s has raised anew the question of the pris ple apon which these appointments are made. is notorious that x great many Q.C.'s had any practice worth mentioning at the Bar in all their lives, and that a good many barristers with big practices either do not want or cannot get silk, The whole aystem seems antiquated and illogical. A barrister whose " i e is not among the wealthiest classes often dares not take sills Teat the crile which forbids a Q.C. to appear without a junior should frighten away hia clients, who cannot afford to pay two
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