putting the matter into judgment. They again wrote him that perhaps they could still negotiate the bonds to officers of the company rather than to have a suit -that they could compromise it. He wrote back that he would have both principal and interest, or he would come out West in person and commence suit. Shortly he received the full amount of his claim, with interest and costs. The company, doubtless, were aware of O'Conor's staying qualities in a lawsuit."Scott's Distinguished Lawyers, p. 550.

Moderate Charges.

He was a moderate charger; seldom asked a retainer; and waited till the litigation was over and took his fees in a lump.

BRITTON BATH OSLER, ONTARIO.

(1839- -.)

One of the foremost members of the Canadian bar. Born at Tecumseth, Ontario, June 19, 1839. Graduated in law from the University of Toronto in 1862, and the same year was called to the bar. Appointed in 1874 County Crown Attorney, at Hamilton; received his patent as Queen's Counsel in 1880; and in 1882 moved to Toronto, the legal metropolis of the province, and the seat of the principal provincial courts, where his wonderful abilities soon placed him at the height of the profession. He is a member of the firm of McCarthy, Osler, Hoskin and Creelman; an Honorary Lecturer on Criminal Law at the University of Toronto; and one of the Benchers of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Mr. Osler has been connected with many celebrated cases, having acted for the Dominion government in the trial of Louis Riel for treason, and in other cases arising out of the Northwestern Rebellion of 1885. He was also retained by the government in its litigation with the Canadian Pacific railway,

as to the construction of that line through the Rocky mountains. As Crown Prosecutor he secured a verdict against Birchall in the great murder trial in 1890, and his consummate skill in the cross-examination of expert or opinion witnesses was shown in the famous St. George cases, actions growing out of the railway disaster at the village of that name. And more recently he has been engaged by the government of Canada in the investigations into the conspiracy of certain contractors and members of Parliament to defraud the government, and in their subsequent conviction for the conspiracy.

It is particularly as a nisi prius counsel and as a master of the art of addressing juries that Mr. Osler has gained distinction, more than Provincial, his striking voice and commanding presence, united with a keen insight into the many phases of human nature, standing him in great stead. And his flashes of wit, and his quickness at repartee, have often seriously upset the conventional order and solemnity of a court room.

CORTLANDT PARKER, NEW JERSEY.

(1818- )

One of the ablest lawyers and most eminent advocates of New Jersey. Born at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, June 27, 1818. He is the son of James Parker, legislator and donor of the lands upon which stand the buildings of Rutgers College, in which institution the son graduated at eighteen, with Theodore Frelinghuysen, Joseph P. Bradley and ex-Governor Newell. Admitted at twenty-one, he began practice in Newark, where he has since resided. He formed a partnership in 1855 with A. Q. Keasbey, which continued for twenty-one years. In 1857 he was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas of Essex county, and held the office ten years. He declined, successively, the Judgeship of the Court of Alabama Claims from President Grant, the mission to Russia, from President Hayes, and that to Austria from President Arthur.

Among his most famous trials are: The successful defense in 1856 of Margaret Garrity, for murder; the famous Meeker will case, tried in three courts;

New Jersey Railway Company v. Plank Road Company, in regard to the bridges over the Passaic and Hackensack, in the United States Circuit and Supreme Courts; the Erie Railway Company v. Dringer, in many forms at law and in equity; the Lewis will case, involving a million dollars to the Government; the Boyeden and Duryea hat-body case, replete with intricate questions of patent law; the Franklinite ore cases, involving knotty mining questions; the Vanderveer and Hezekiah B. Smith will cases; the Ocean Beach land-title case; and the Baldwin habeas corpus case. He has been retained to defend thirteen homicides, and while not wholly successful, not one of his clients hanged. His judgment as master in Kean v. Johnson, in 1853, 1 Stock., 401, is constantly cited as the leading authority that a railroad company's directors cannot lease the road without the consent of the stockholders.

the Erie Railway Company.

He is now counsel for

He is patient, a hard worker, and keeps his health good and his form erect by constant exercise, never

missing before breakfast his horseback ride, at which he is an expert.