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Secretary of State upheld the Lawyers 
Memorial, and Mr. Gillman's appointment 
was cancelled. Mr. Gregory accepted his 
defeat with characteristic good grace, and 
wrote a very cordial letter to Mr- Dias, 
which I saw, offering him the Kandy Bench, 
and assuring them that he would find as 
pleasant exercise for his horses and his 
hounds about the Central Capital as in 
Colombo. That, I believe, is the origin of 
the fanciful story retailed in conuectun with 
the Dissawaship" of the N.-W. Province. 
But the judical Lait did not take. Toe 
practice of the Unollicial Leader of the Bar, 
even at that time, was worth much more 
than the Judgeship ; and he had interests in 
Colombo which he did not care to leave. 
So he thankfully declined the offer, much 
to the annoyance of the Queen's Advocate 
who feared the imputation that the bar 
wanted Judgeships for its briefless ones. 
Mr. Cayley, then Deputy Queen's Advocate, 
was pressed by Mr. Morgan, net to refuse the 
offer which would be next made to him ; 
and he accepted Kandy at a great pecuniary 
sacrifice, as he had a splendid chamber 
practice, and also in the Appeal Court. He 
soon had his reward, for in 1873 he was raised 
to the Supreme Court Bench, came down m 
1876 on the urgent entreaty of the Governor 
to be the Chief Crown Law Adviser, and 
was appointed Chief Justice in 1879, with 
Mr. Dias as his Junior Puisne ! The retire- 
ment of Sir Richard Cayley, in broken health 
three years after, was a great loss to the 
Island, as few ever-equalled him as a keen 
lawyer, a laborious worker, and an upright 
Judge. Sir William Gregory used to say that 
Sir Hichard's break down sat heavily on his 
conscience, as he was afraid he had put too 
much work on his shoulders when he asked 
him to come down from the Bench as acting 
Queen's Advocate, and had him confirmed 
in that office when he lost his trusty old 
adviser. Sir Richard Morgan. Tlie local 
" Hansard " will bear out the statemen tliat, 
for grasp and lucidity, Sir Richard Cayley's 
speeches in introducing Ordinances were 
never excelled, if they were ever equalled 
in our Legislature. It is one of the ironies 
of Fate, that the civilian son-in law of Sir 
Richard Morgan, the djughty champion of 
Professioal Judges, is now District Judge of 
Kandy ! When it is his turn to retire, full 
of years and of honours, it is to be hoped 
the next Professional Judge will be a worthy 
successor of Richard Cayley. It is worthy 
of remark that three generations of eminent 
Ceylonese Lawyers enjoyed the friendship and 
confidence of Sir William Gregory— Sir 
Richard Morgan, Sir Samuel Grenier, and 
the present leader of the Unofficial Bar, 
whose acumen Sir William early recognised. 
The death announced, in the same Obse'>^vei\ 
of the Rev. W. F. Kelly, Rector of Charl- 
combe, carries the mind farther back to 
the days of boyhood— to the episcopate of 
the first Bishop of Colombo, when Warden 
Baly— the father in-law of Field-Marshal Sir 
George White— was assisted in the adminis- 
tration of St. Thomas' College, not many 
years old in the 'fifties, by a large staff 
9f European Masters. When I made_the 
acquaintance of the yet flourishing institu- 
tion — E^lo 2>«rpctua !— at the mature age of 
nine— Messrs. iJancforth and Phillips had 
already been ordained to the Ministry, and 
Messrs. Ellis, Ddrt, Kelly and Bhiett were the 
lay iMiisters, among whom was the veteran 
retired Secretary of the Colombo Municipality, 
Mi\ Edwin Ludovici. Rev. J. W. Bamforth 
— then thin and sallow — was the strict and 
much-feared Head Master of the School, 
He left for India some time after, but 
returned to the Island, rotund and rubicund, 
in the 'seventies as Colonial Chaplain of 
St. Paul's, Kandy, whence he was transferred 
to Galle, retiring on pension after the edict 
of Disestablishment went forth. Rev. T 
Phillips married a sister of Mr. S. T. Rich- 
mond, the well-known Merchant, and left 
Ceylon for good shortly after. Mr. Ellis 
died as Incumbent of Holy Trinity Church, 
Nuwara Eliya, in the later eighties. Mr. 
Dart left the Island after his ordination 
for a degre at Oxford, and is now the 
Bishop of New Westminster. Mr. Kelly pre- 
ceded Mr, Ellis as the Nuwara Eliya Chaplain, 
and was transferred to St. Peter's, Colombo, 
where he did good work— especially among 
the soldiers — before his retirement, after 
service under the fourth Bishop of Colombo, 
who esteemed him highly for his work's 
sake. Mr. J. V. Bluett was the only layman 
imported for the teaching work of St. 
Thomas' by the Venerated Dr. Chapman, 
who did not take Holy Orders. I recall him, 
a smooth-faced, thin man, with clear blue 
eyes, who stood over six feet in Lis stockings, 
and delighted to stretch his long limbs in 
long walks during vacation. His destination 
on one occasion on foot was Hambantota 1 
He turned Cofi'ee Planter, and, when on a 
Matale estate, had the clear skin of his 
face badly jiitted with gunpowder and his 
thumb blown off when superintending some 
rock-blasting. Unless he is still alive in the 
wilds of Australia, whither he went when 
Coffee was sore-smitten, Dr. Dart is the 
only survivor of the youthful band I knew 
as a mite. Mr. Kelly visited the Island five 
or six years ago— having had some remnant 
of interest in Coffee through his wife— and 
was welcomed by his old friends ; and he 
loved Ceylon so well that the Bishop 
(Copleston Primus) thought he need only 
be offered a cure, to consent to stay. Re- 
quiescat ill pace I F. B. 
THE COLOMBO MUSEUM AND THE 
PROPOSED ZOO. 
(specially contributed by a naturalist.] 
It is needless at this time of day to en- 
large on the utility and pleasure of museums 
in general, or even of our local one in parti 
cular ; but a visit to the Colombo Museum 
is always one of interest to the cuisory 
" Globo-Trotter," aud it should be even more 
so to the residents of this Isle. 
Yet I doubt if it is patronised as much as 
it might be by any chiss of the community, 
although it would be impossible to find any- 
one who could discover uo object in it of 
