ping and Mr. Scarlett engross a very great proportion of the business: they are commonly adversaries; but now and then a rich and cunning suitor will take care to retain both of them in his favour, and then Mr. RAINE is employed to oppose them, probably with the assistance of Mr. Sergeant Hullock, a hard-headed, straight-forward north-countryman, with a very strong brogue and as strong an understanding. Mr. RAINE however leads, as considerably senior, and I have heard him on such occasions make very strenuous and effective speeches: in some of the country towns he is preferred by a few, even to the two great men of the circuit, and it cannot be denied that he has with a certain class, what the knowing ones term, a taking way with him he is undoubtedly very shrewd, and in causes not obviously above his capacity he acquits himself to the satisfaction of all parties, and not least to his own: without being presumptuous or assuming, it is obvious, when he has gained verdict or made a good address, that he sits down in very good humour with himself. merous. It is notorious, I believe, that in Yorkshire there are more horse-dealers than in any other county in England; and as horse-dealers are usually also skilful in the pugilistic art, it follows that at the Assizes the causes regarding horses and assaults are tolerably nuNow to do Mr. RAINE justice, I do not think that there is a man at the Bar who knows how to conduct a horse-cause better than himself, who is more up to the tricks of the trade, and to the manoeuvres it is necessary to practise. Actions relating to insurances on shipping are now generally considered a distinct branch of the profes sion, and those that are connected with the soundness or unsoundness of horses ought almost to be looked upon in the same light: they are quite distinct in their nature from other suits, and distinct principles and precedents are applicable to them. Mr. RAINE seems to have made them his peculiar study, and they are seldom brought before a Jury without his being retained either for the plaintiff or the defendant. He has the terms of art and slang of the stable at his tongue's end, so as to make himself easily intelligible to the witnesses, and if they prevaricate or commit perjury (which is by no means uncommon) he possesses considerable art in their management or detection. He has a most knowing look, and a shake of the head, when he rises to cross-examine, or when he does not obtain a direct answer to a question, which alarms even a practised witness, and makes him believe that the advocate is much more in the secret than he is in reality. To the Jury also he appears so scientific, so well acquainted with the subject, that they cannot but hesitate in deciding against his judgment He is certainly a forcible and a pointed speaker, but most unselect in his phraseology, and very careless about offending the ears of his auditory, by vulgarisms and expressions that may be very proper when talking to a witness in his own language, but are altogether misplaced in a speech: he addresses himself to the question, and argues in a plain, though in an acute and often convincing stile. With regard to his classical attainments, I am not aware, as I have said, that he ever gives his audience the slightest glimpse of them. What he may be in private, I know not; but judging from his public life, I should be inclined to say, that elegant learning was never more completely thrown away. SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY. "A piercing wit quite void of ostentation; higherected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy; an eloquence as sweet in the uttering, as slow to come to the uttering.-Sir P. Sidney's Arcadia. I HAVE hitherto postponed all mention of Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, from an unfeigned diffidence in my own powers to do his talents justice at length the time has arrived, when such a task is unhappily a tribute to the dead, not a criticism upon the living; if before I felt my own incompetence and shrunk from the undertaking, how doubly difficult must I feel it now, and how reluctant must I be to avail myself of this last opportunity of speaking of an individual, regarding T |