The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-25 00:00:00

TUE BAR, THE ATTORNEY, AND TILE
CLIENT.

A meeting of the members of the Law Amend-
ment Society was held on klenday night, at the sreiety's
rooms, 21, !Regent-street. Lord Brougham occupied the
chair.
Mr. Tuckett and Mr. Kingdom having bees el sal
members,
Mr. CItAI7rIJRTI read the amended report of the spo-
cial committee on the relation between the bar, the actor-
fey, and the client, which submitted, at its elms, the fol-
lowing moduitiens
t. 1. That any practice which has a tendency to prevent
the public from obtaining the assistance of counsel except
through the compulsory Intervention of an attorney should
he discontinued. 2. That so much of the 91st section of the
Act of 9 and 10 Vic., e. 96, as prevents a barrister from ad.
vocating the causes of suitors in the county courts, unless
instructed by as attorney,' should be repealed. 3. That
attorni ys should not be permitted to act a. advocates in the
superior courts. 4. That attorneys should bo eligible to be
called to the bar without any intermediate cessation from
practice. 6. That counsel should be made responsible to their
ciliate for erases nese igusatio, breach of contract, and breach
of confidence. G.Tbatalegaluniversity,composedoftheinns
of court, and governed by an elected senate, should be esta.
Walled, end that such senate should have jurisdiction in all
Sues .ions COllft/01111K the discipline and conduct of the her.
4. That all candidates for admission to the degree of bar-
rioter 'hostel pass a public examination."
After some discussion, a motion for the reception of the
report was agreed to.
Mr FITZROY (M.P. for Lewes) moved the second reso-
lution appended to the report of the committee—namely,
•• that so much of the 91st section of the Act of 9 end to
Vkt., c. 9d, as prevents a barrister from advocating the
causes of suitors in the county courts, ' unless instructed by
an attorney,' should he repealed."
Lord BROUGHAM remarked that he understood there
was a very general feeling at the bar iu favour of the repeal.
Mr. M. D. RILL seconded the motion, which wits carried

THE MATNOdfII COLLEGE. A public meeting
wee had at the Assembly Houma, Urih, yeaterday, for the
purpose of petitioning parliament against the endowment
of Maynouth College. Ibe chair taken by W. Std-
cliff., Est , who declared his opiaion that the up-
holding of Maynuoth College in its ',recent share, or
anything like its present shape, no a national sin. It
could never ;be the duty of indisiduals, awl, theretare,
was not the duty of the govisnment of a nation which was
•econspeced of individual. to support that alueli they he.
lieved to he great and dangerous cetera. It woe the duty
of al consi,tent protestant, to mutest ag iinst the endow•
meut of the Hinson Catholic College ut Mayoooth, and if
they dill so in a right spirit no consioersto Iteman
catholic ought to think t:ie worse of them because they did so.
W. T. Blair, , moved That the intolerant character
of Humanism, its mimic:. ace with Ilia proper famine,* of
civil govenno at, and its unserintural awl anti-Christian
doctrines sod practice, render it unworthy of legislative
mant'on or support." The resolution was carried %monk'
moray. The next reoulutimi was, "That, in the opinion of
this meeting, which is strongly attached to the grand geW-
eipleo of the protestant relig.no, the original establishment
ut the College of Alnywroli, as well as Its ..ebecrine.it en-
glaentent in waft b..* I upon a mistaken view of stew
dieney, with the design of educating a wimrioe order of
ministers for the Itossish church in Ireland, bat that the
Ohio of that polity have been entirety different from those
which were awicipsted by its prima:fr.. end flu worst
predictions of its aunts hive heat fuiiv retch. I " Tide
resolution having also n !Uri% don ur. nowly, a mt.tion
embodying the lorcgoing ecootntintia, anal prayin4 tie
Howe of CW4010114 to forthwith repeal all enactments now
in form for the maintenance of the Calle,' of AI onwith at
the public rap taits• was agr..ed upon, and the iwetiog,
which lasted neatly flee hours, terminated.
(kmeEgelltesi PEON POPERY.- —On Sturiny last,
at St. Paul's, Ilermondwy, of which tie Rev. Dr. Arm-
strong is the incunihent, twenty-stem persons ri bounced
I the errors of law ltresith sharsh.