Twenty-six Judges and2:30 members of the Bar attended an entertaiument
given on Monday, at the Inner Temple, to Sir George Bramwell, the retired Lord Justice of Appeal. The meeting was remarkable for the sincere cordiality with which any praise of its object was received, and for a certain genuine- ness in the eulogies poured out, which is very often wanting. Sir H. James and Lord Coleridge both spoke warmly, and both were received in a way which showed that the strong old Judge,. known to the public as distinctly a " hanging Judge," from his abhorrence of cruelty, had acquired the affection, as well as the respect, of the whole profession. Sir G. Bramwell,. in his reply, showed that he was aware of this reputation, and declared that his practice had always been to avoid severe sentences on a first offence. He spoke, too, with thorough bonhomie, feeling, and wit of the difficulty he had sometimes had in keeping an equable mind, confessed to "an anxious temper," and begged, quite unnecessarily, as the cheers of the whole meeting assured him, pardon of any whom he might have offended. The tone of the meeting was a real honour, even to. a Judge like Sir G. Bramwell.
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