• Even in these Christmas tides, the memberis of the
Law Amend- ment Society seem too much in earnest to•alkiw themielves a holy- day. Or perhaps it would-fie-move- strictly- correct to say, that, witha prudent economy of:Ownerthey: have contrived 'to combine , pleasure with business. The speeehei en entertainment Wiwi& they gave on Saturtlay to the American-Law-reformer, Mr. I/144y Field, were agreeably characterized by-an increasing catholieity.of • spirit. The views of the speakers appear :to grow more tdetided and broad,' and their _tone is becoming more popular. Mr. . Field's account of the results of ."--ondification " m the- State ' of New York was 'highly instructive; and encouraging.; and Mr. Lowe's remarks on the amalgamation of Law and Equity, illustrated and enforced by appeals to the example of Ikrd Mans- field, evinced a happy- consbinatiOn :of the. practical preeisiod of the Beuthamite with the more comprehensive and philosophical spirit of the historical school of jurisprudence, free from what is merely mechanical in the former, and from.the indolent laissez faire in the latter. The proceedings at the Society's meeting on Monday show that the sentiments expressed at the social board were not a mare effervescence of a vague though generous enthusiasm.
