tered the tent, there could be no conviction. The Judge charged the jury that if they were not satisfied that the whole man was involved in the crime, they might bring in a verdict of guilty against so much of him as they believed from the evidence was involved. The jury found the right arm and shoulder and the head of the prisoner guilty of burglary. The Judge sentenced the right arm, the right shoulder, and the head of Thomas Cowdry to imprisonment at hard labor in the State prison for two years, remarking that as to the rest of his body he might do with it what he pleased.

Commerce of the Greeks.

"The universality and stability of the Greek tongue were owing largely to the conquests of Alexander, to the loquacity of the Greeks, and the inimitable excellence of the language itself; but it is mainly due to the commercial genius of the people, and the colonies and factories which they established, and the trade and correspondence which they maintained throughout the then known parts of the Eastern world."

The Chancellor's Speech in Dishabille.

In the early days the Chancellor and his wife were driving to the then almost inaccessible region of Canandagua. As night came on they lost their way, stopped at a log house and solicited entertainment. They were welcomed by the good housewife,

given supper, and told that the husband was chopping wood a few miles off, and would be home late. She then told her guests to take her bed in the corner, and that she and her husband would sleep in the "chamber;" and desiring the Chancellor to let her husband in on his return, took a candle and climbed a ladder through a trap-door into the "chamber." The guests retired, but the Chancellor was uneasy. He told his wife "Betsey" that the door did not lock, that he feared the chopper finding another man in his bed, apparently with his wife, would begin to "chop." While in the act of putting a table against the door to gain time for explanations, a tall, stalwart figure, in red flannel shirt and big black cat-skin cap, pushed open the door. He looked thunderstruck, but was addressed by the guest in dishabille: "My name is James Kent. I am Chancellor of the State of New York. The woman in that bed is my wife, Betsey. Your wife is upstairs. There is your supper." The explanation, which was certainly not constructed on the theory of pleading in the Chancellor's court, made everything harmonious.

Learned.

"Kent has more law learning than most of the judges in the United States put together."-Wm. Wirt, 2 Kennedy's Life of Wirt, p. 181.

SIR ALEXANDER LACOSTE, QUEBEC.

(1842-———)

The Honorable Doctor of Civil Law, Privy Councillor, Chief Justice of Quebec since 1891. Born at Boucherville, January 12, 1842. He is of distinguished French descent, his father being for years a leading politician and Senator. Studied at St. Hyacinthe Seminary, and graduated with high honors at the University of Laval. Called to bar, 1863; took silk, 1880; rose rapidly and attained high rank and a large clientele. Of vigorous constitution and splendid talents, his capacity for dispatching work, either in chambers or the courts, was very great. His pleadings were characterized by a thorough mastery, not merely of the law, but of the facts. Rarely detained the court over an hour, and often but half that time. His great forte was getting at the pith of the case and tenaciously adhering to it till the end. He has been connected, during the last fifteen years, with some of the most important cases in the Quebec courts, appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada and to the Privy Council of England. He held leading

brief for the Quebec government in the case of Lambe and the Bank of Toronto, involving the right of the Legislature to impose a direct tax upon banks and commercial corporations, and conducted it to a successful issue before the Privy Council.

He was also a conspicuous political figure, strongly sympathizing with the Conservatives, and taking an active part in the campaigns, chiefly as the man of brains behind the scene. He was appointed Legislative Councillor of the Province of Quebec, and in 1884, was called to the Canadian Senate, becoming leader in the absence of Mr. Abbott, and in 1891, Speaker, in which capacity he proved a master of parliamentary procedure. Deeply versed in law, blessed with common sense and vigorous health, he has imparted fresh energy and vitality to the administration of justice in the Court of Appeal. In April 1893, he was appointed Administrator of the Province, thus becoming the chief of the executive. He is now discharging the duties of the dual office of Chief Justice and Administrator.

RODOLPHE LAFLAMME, QUEBEC.

(1827-1893.)

Queen's Counsel, Doctor of Civil Law. For thirty years one of the most successful and distinguished lawyers of the Province of Quebec. Son of Toussaint Laflamme, a leading Montreal merchant, and of Marguerite Susanne Thibaudeau, a daughter of an expelled Acadian of Nova Scotia. Born in Montreal, May 15, 1827; died December 7, 1893, aged sixty-six. Educated at St. Sulphice College; was unmarried. Called to the bar of the late Province of Lower Canada, 1849; appointed Queen's Counsel, 1863. Was for several years professor of the law of real property in McGill University, from which institution he received the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, 1873; was late Emeritus Professor of the fac ulty of law of that university. Represented in the House of Commons, the county of Jacques Cartier, 1872-8. At the time of his death he was a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Canada; was appointed Minister of Inland Revenue, 1873; declined a puisne judgeship in the Supreme Court of Canada,