pirouetting of the over-reached nag, whose displeasure would be vented in a four-hoofed breakdown, sure to dislodge any but a rider of well-tried coolness, pluck and experience. Stawell occasionally visited the "Sholty" head-quarters, went through the "up-a-tree" trick to perfection, performing the ' drop" scene with a methodical firmness and precision, and picking up the bridle and settling himself on the horse's back with a skill and rapidity from which the horse instinctively learned that resistance was useless, as the rider was master of the situation. But a time was to c o m e when the Stawell mind would be purged of all such worldly impurities as tree-mounting, Flemington drag-driving, the hunting-field, Platonic saunterings along the ti-tree enclosed banks of the Yarra; and even the Sabbatarian In 184S Dr. Perry, the first Anglican matutinal equestrian constitutional was to be tabooed. Bishop, m a d e his appearance, and from shortly after his installation as such, the change in the Stawell idiosyncracy set in, and was soon complete. T h e "William Stawell" of the previous year could hardly be said to exist, so great was the transformation, so assured the alteration ; and that such was really the case was soon publicly notified by the appearance of the erst blitheful barrister in the role of a lecturer on the Reformation. T h e event was received with mixed feelings by a community in which the lecturer was held in the highest esteem ; but he was free to take his o w n course, and the public confidence in him underwent no variation. H e was actively connected with all the early charitable institutions, and though at one time directly interested in pastoral pursuits, on the Anti-transportation Question he would listen to no compromises, for in the hard-fought struggle to avert the contaminations of a penal colony from Port Philip, Stawell was always as true as steel. O n the inauguration of the new colony in 1851, he was appointed to the office offirstAttorney-General, and as senior m e m b e r of the Executive was the Government leader in the Legislative Council, a position which he held with consummate ability and untiring energy for several years. In October, 1856, when the bicameral system of legislation was initiated, he was selected as one of the three members returned in February, 1857, he was elevated to the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court, vacated by the retirement of Sir William A'Beckett. H e was soon after Knighted, and on three several occasions it has fallen to his lot to fill the office of Administrator of the Government. LL.D., an Irsh Barrister, and son of the Postmaster-General of New South Wales, arrived in Melbourne in 1841, with the appointment of Deputy-Sheriff, which he held until the close of 1842, when he was superseded to m a k e way for an appointee sent out by the Colonial Office. H e then went to the Bar, and obtained some practice until the close of 1884, when he was elected by the Magistrates of N e w South Wales to the office of Chairman of Quarter Sessions, on his acceptance of which he bade good-bye to Port Phillip. M r . R a y m o n d was a quiet, gentlemanly, well-liked individual, of pleasing and unassuming manner, of moderate ability, and wanting the " g o " of Barry, Williams, and Stawell.
SAMUEL RAYMOND,
a m e m b e r of an English family remarkable for having supplied the legal profession with both Barristers and Attorneys in abundance, joined the Bar here in 1844, and settled down to practice. Possessed of m u c h natural or acquired courtesy, and an almost unending copiousness of talk, which he could work off smoothly by the fathom, he was m u c h personally liked and glided into considerable practice, m u c h less in the Superior Court than his o w n contemporaries, but realizing a tolerable dividend from the Criminal Sessions and the Police Office. Though not renowned for any profundity in legal lore, he owned an attractive suavity of tongue which rendered him a fluent conversationalist and a tolerably effective Advocate. H e professed himself a staunch religionist, officiated at the founding and opening of Wesleyan Chapels, and was quite at h o m e when holding forth at an anniversary tea meeting and its oratorial hymn-chaunting wind up. O n e of his brothers was Chief Justice of N e w South Wales, and the family influence standing well at the Colonial Office, after some years, M r . Stephen was appointed to a Supreme Court Judgeship in N e w Zealand, which he held until his death. His family remained in Victoria as permanent occupiers, two of his daughters marrying squatters and two sons becoming well-known colonists. O n e of them is Mr. Frank Stephen, Melbourne's only City Solicitor; and the other Mr. James Stephen, w h o died some years ago, when Clerk of the County Court, and respecting w h o m I never heard even one unkindly word uttered. SIDNEY STEPHEN,
