Show MR MB 13 BROADHEAD tint masterly argument made by hon 0 O broadhead on tile the question of the appointment of a receiver in the suits against the church has been tile the absorbing topic in legal and other circles this afternoon it is a matter of regret that it is impossible to present a complete report of it in this issue time being too limited to eni enable ible us to do so at the conclusion of its delivery quinera nui nera lof numbers members of the afie bar viere were heard to pass encomiums upon it among these was mr dickson who said ilgis his argument is unanswerable it throws the cases out of court 11 mr kirkpatrick remarked it is the bluest I 1 ever listened to in my opinion opinion the government has BO case f mr r brown was heard to remark anat settles it that was a clever argument 11 the learned gentleman introduced to us si a somewhat new line of deportment and tactics in the ina master ter of delivery yu 80 for far as we could observe from listening to him for fora a short time his voice seldom rises above the conversational sat ional tone but when it does the effect is all the ake more telling the emphasis asis being always appropriately placed e so as to give conspicuous force to t the t e chief points where they culminate 11 te in climax we learn that in the peroration which of a terse condensation of the argument he rose to eloquence one of the chief beauties of his style aside from the pithy yet simple imply method of presenting his points is his admirable ability to construct the whole argument belag behig a complete building from foundation to summit we adhere to our first ment meat regarding mr Bro broadhead adheld that lie he is in the front rank of american lawyers that thatis is about as high and as far as the disciple of blackstone ever gets |