The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

EXAMINATION OP ARneurn CLERKS.

The following further order for conducting the
examinations of articled clerks in general knowledge, under
the Bth section of the act for amending the law of attorneys,
has just been honed—
Whereas by the Bth section of the 23 and 24 Viet. e.
127, it is enacted that we, the Londe Chief Justices of the
Courts of Queen's Booth and Common Pleas, and the Lord
Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, jointly with the
Master of the Rolls, may from time to time make regula-
tions for the examination is such branches of general know-
ledge as we may deem proper of all persons (not having
takes degrees orsucoeufully ceased the University examina-
tions in the act mentioned) thereafter becoming bound under
articles of clerkship to attorneys or solicitors ; and we, the
saidjudges, by such regulations, may require such examine-
tario to be passed either before persons so become bound, or
at any time before their admission as attorneys or solicitors
as to us may seem fit, and that we may from time to tints
revoke or alter any such regulations as we think fit, and
from time to time appoint examiners for conducting such
examinations as aforesaid ; and no person required to pass
such examination shall be capable of being bound as dam
said where such examination is required to be passed before
being bound, or of being admitted as an attorney or solicitor
where such examination is permitted to be passed at any
time before admission, mien before being bound, or before
being admitted (as the ease may require), he obtain from
the examiners a certificate of having satisfactorily passed
such examination: provided always that we or any one or
more of us may, where under special circumstances we
see fit so to do, dispense with compliance with such regu-
lations entirely or partially, or subject to any such con-
ditions as to us may seem fit:
And whams, by the mooed regulation made by us,
bearing date the 26th day of July, 1861, it is directed
that every winos proposing to enter into articles of clerk-
ship, not having been called to the degree of Utter Bar-
rister in England, or not having taken a degree, orpaseed
the ammunition prescribed under the ritli section of the act,
shall produce to the registrar of attorneys a certificate that
he has successfully pared an examination by special
examiners appointed byes
Now, we do hereby order and direct that such second
regulation shall not extend or apply to any person proposing
to enter into articles of clerkship who shall, previously to
being articled, produce to the registrar of attorneys •
certificate that he has successfully passed one of the local
examinations established by the University of Oxford, or
one of the nomgremial examinations established by the
University of Cambridge.
Dated the 6th day of Jone, 1862.
A. E. Cockburn. John Romilly, M. R.,
W. Erie, Fred. Pollock.

THE ALLEGED MURDZES OF ILLEOITIYATI
CHILDEZIL-lAluEsT.—(Tau DAL)—This morn* the
iaysstigatiou was resumed at the Green-gate Tarim, City-
road, by Mr. H. Ratites Waltham the deputy coroner for
East Middlesex, teaching the death of • male child of Jaw
Sharpe, which was alleged to have been murdered some
hours after its birth under very deliberate circamnances.
The coroner raid the case was very strong aping the
mother. Her child must have been strangled during the
fiftieth. witness Catherine Owen was gone to the workhouse;
but it would be hardly fair to bring in a verdict of
wilful murder until they had heard her my what she had to
state in her own defeees. He should therefore adjourn the
inquiry for the production of the mother.
SERIOUS Eget/Aiwa lir • Costar!.—An explo-
sion of firedamp, which has resulted in the death of one
man and serious injury to soother' occurred a few days
ago, at the Bradley Hall Colliery, in Standish. It appears
that on the day of the explosion, two men, named Richard
Mama and John Onocbley, were "reking together
be the pit. At one portion of the workings a
ran had been fastened up for the purpose of indicating
Intim misers that there was danger io that direction, and that
MOW mad enter with • naked light. la the afternoon, the
Ids assn named pulled down the ,rail, and Mason proceeded
was wed for something or other, leaving Critchley at the
=Waft with a light in his hand. Mason, it is thought.
disturbed the ps ; for in a few momenta after he had got
up the road, a serious explosion ensued at the opening, a
few yards from the spot where the light was placed. The
flame rushed over °Atchley, and proceeded up the road in
the direction of Mason, who was afterwards found to be
very seriously boned. Critchley was also badly scorched
In several places. The men were got out of the pit as soot
as possible and conveyed home, where they were medically
attended. Mason has siooe died from the injuries he em-
balmed. Critobley is very ill, but is expected to recover.
An inquest will be held over Mason to-day (Friday).
FRIGHTFUL °CO:TERENCE AT A RAILWAY STATION;
—Yesterday mornisg, about!) o'clock, a frightful oceurreace
took place at the Harwich and Blackrod Railway station,
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway,similar in its
nature to one which recently occurred in London. A man
named James Davenport, about 40 years at age,. and who
was employed as * bookkeeper in Mr. Buckley's priatworks,
HMO% COLLEGE HOSPITAL FNISTIVAL.—Situsted at Burnley. but whose wife and family reside at florwich
midway betweeo the two great thoroughfaresof Holborn and Vale, committed self-destructioa by placing his head under
the Strand, and nerving as • kind of harbour of refuge from • trait On the railway. The dowsed had for a short time
the wide see of human misery and destitution which rbssu io • low, dowlomdb3ll way, and had Doom borne, and at
spreads around it, tr.shialhiaosph
public. The
egic,isfloactliaTaimmwuhpa the
u I the time stated he was loitering about a siding near the
benevolence of the statiou, watching a number of men remove some
held last night at the Albino Hotel, Aldarsgate-street, was empty waggons. He deliberately took off his bat and laid
gua
mcou whomplete were presentsureses;a had a chance and the numerous
a measuring
usforeigu his head under the wheels of the train, an although them
were six men present they could not stop the progress of
the depth and heartiness of English generosity. The the oralgotta before ono of As wheels bad gone over
ha
subscriptions amount to more than 2,0001. and there wok. and a scoot wheel had just come upon it. The
is every reason to hope that an institution thus munificently weight of the was upwards of a ton, and the poor
supported will be enabled to extend still more widely the ! fellow Was dead taken up. What has been the auto
field and scope of its beneficent exertions. The chair was Of this sad affair is at pressat unknown.
occupied by the Lord Mayor, who was supported by the Dlnumarr.—On the 14th of April the represents.'
Earl of Faversham, the Bishop of Nova Scotia. Sir Robert tires sheeted to the first Legislature of the State of Deseret
Carden, Admiral 'Sir W. F. Grey, Captain Walter, !c.c. assembled in Senate and Goose of Wives. The
150 bade am already provided fee patienhi in this hospital ; offieed message of the Governor was de 'raced by Brigham
more than 200 would readily be filled by the deserving ay-p-- Young in penes, in which, among other principles, heblZ
plicants, to whom it is now • stern messily for the offldW down that the Dumber of inhabitants of a territory m
to refuse admission, be no criterion for its fitness to be admitted as a eovereits
Accounts have been received from the French state into the Union. The moot important hosinam that
West India Islands to the 10th of April. A second levy this Ant Mormon legislature will transact, in its meson
of sailors had bees made at Ouadaloupe for the French weion will be to elect two senators for the puma 01
lest on the coast of Mexico. These unlooked for levies =hug to Wsahingtoe. Ppresentingthe oomottl°ll°° of
have caused great embarrassment to commercial operations, t, and demanding admiesiou as a sorwesga date into
and much of the port Woo's' bad bees waspewled. The the Federal Maim. One of these senatess has Men akeedl
accounta of the crops in both islands were catudacte..cy, as eleeted, and probably both are now ea their way to Wash-
were also those of the health of the °Way. —New York *toe. fee the Puree of carrying out the obioot° men'
Herald. tiosied.—Saa Prascsato Mirror.