1 JUNE 1889, Page 2

The solicitors entertained the Attorney-General on Wednes- day in the

Town Hall of Holborn, by way of showing how thoroughly they disapproved of Sir William Harcourt's attack upon him for his management of the Times' case in relation to " Parnellism and Crime." It was a great demonstration, more than four hundred solicitors attending the dinner, and an address being presented to Sir R. Webster signed by 3,800 English solicitors, assuring him of their repudiation of the aspersions cast upon him. Mr. G. B. Gregory was in the chair, and spoke in the strongest terms of the" straight- forward, manly, and honourable" conduct of the Times' case by the Attorney-General. The Attorney-General, in replying to the congratulations offered him, spoke of Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Lockwood, Mr. Reid, and Mr. Asquith as personal friends with whom political differences had never embittered his relations ; so that the qualified condemnation passed upon the Attorney-General's conduct of his case by Sir Charles Russell, as unfair, though not intentionally unfair, must, we suppose, be taken as the expression of a quasi- political prepossession.