Lord Justice Christian again ! Again there has been, accord-
ing to the Dublin "Correspondent of the Times, "a numerous audience assembled to witness what is popularly known as a field-day' in the Court of Chancery Appeal." On this occa- sion, the Vice-Chancellor, not the Lord Chancellor, was the butt -of Judge Christian's temper. Vice-Chancellor Chatterton com- plained some time since that a published judgment of the Lord Justice contained reflections upon him which he believed were not made during the delivery in Court, but were interpolated afterwards. The actual words complained of were interpolated afterwards, but Lord Justice Christian denies that they should have been understood in the sense in which the Vice-Chancellor and other persons understood them. He reiterated his old com- plaint -that the ,Chief Clerk is allowed to exercise functions that are really judicial in the Irish Court of Chancery, and he lamented that he had incurred the displeasure of his brother judges and the censure of the Press, and nevertheless had not been encour- aged by the public. But he declared that he had been sustained "by the honourable and independent portion of the Bar,"—who, no doubt, crowd the Court of Chancery Appeal on field-days, and who are said to have enthusiastically cheered the conclusion of the learned Judge's speech, in which he said that "his term of judicial life was-drawing to a close."
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