The Irish Bar And Lord No...
During the sitting of the Crown Court at Xarvborough on Thurs- day last, Lorl NOBBtR1 addressed the Crown Solicitor in that complimcntary strain for which hiis Lordship is so distinguished, concerning he general correctnesc with which the business of the Crown-office is transacted ; chatrging himn at thc same time, never acain o suWer any persos to take a prosecution out of the hanJs of the Crown by employing counsel in cases where the A ttorney-Ge- neral h2as directed a prosecution. " I do not allude," he addled, ' to any thing that is now going fbrW.qard, but you knou to what I allude." (The allusion is belEeved to have been made to she engaging of .M'r. Wallace at the last assi.es among the counsel for the prosecu- tion, at the suit of the King, against the police constables in ADl 'a- niel's case.) MIr. (:PAMBERLAIN WALKEit begged lea'.e to controvert the position. whiich he considered to be an encroachment up)n the privi- leges of the Bar. He was quite sure that a Ue;son interested in it pro)- secution had a right to e'iojloy counsel, whether the Crown took ut, the matter or not; and that the counsel so employed to assist theKing's counsel, had an equal ri.~ht to be heard. Lord NoassRBt.-Well. I a'n not going to argue the point with yotu. 1 only tell you, Mr. Crown Solicitor, to attend to what ;aAK WALKERE persistedl in rnaintaining whiat he considered to be the right of the Bar, anti he appealed to the Recorder, who was present. The REconDEa shook his head, but nothing dropped out of it worth being recorded. Mr. ARAnia\, w!'o is generally engaged on the part tf the Crown in criminal prosesutions, sait, that it swas tiot the timse to diiscuss the .ubject, as no cate was before the Court. Lord NoRnsutY.-I a.n always ready to protect the Bar afid its rights. AIr. 1rALXER.-rMy Lord,- it is in behalf of those rights that I have ntasle the allegation. Lord NontnuRY.yYou are not counsel for the Bar : they 4lid not employ you. ilr. WALK;Es.-I will v^rture to say that every mnember of the Home Bar corcurs in the view I hiave taken. Lord NORBusty ucissented frorm this obseriation. Air. MA.LX?R.-Let theni say so, if they dotn't. Here the matter ended for the prtsent, but we understand it tobe \lr. WValker's determisation tus take the sense of the profession at large upon the questiorn.-Freenait's Jotutlal. TIHE IRISH BAR AND LORD XORBURF.