The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-23 00:00:00

Imo, they warmly modiste any math notices. The
object that any sensible man has in sending his son up
to landau to a barrister's chambers is, that he may
read law in a serious way. His own experience has
taught the father.the advantages of a knowledge of
the principles of law, whether he continues to
reside at his place, or secures to a sat
in Parliament. He knows well snoogh the
Mops which ',mounds my young man just released
from college amidst the thousand temptations of this
modern Babylon. Therefore, so far from desiring to
KO every restraint removed—every incitement to
intellectul exertion cot off—it is his wish rather to

see some at least of thou tests retained, by which be
may know whether his son devotes any considerable
portion of his time to reading and refection. It
may, indeed, be mid, that any father may insist
upon his son presenting himself at the examination;
bat excellence shows, that =lees an examination
is made imputative, to insist upon this is very difficult,
if not praetkally imponsible.
But there is another view al this subject. It
is sometimes urged by those who advocate a cow
plow examination that the patella have a right
Is knew whether those peens who style thew
same Banisters are instructed in their profemion.
Is the sue of attorneys or physicians this is deemed
reemsable. Why does not the sun principle apply
to lineristerell To this the approved answer is that
the bliatasiumis upon a special ground. The attu-
ne", advisee him silent in his own room, he manages
his sal», he deals with his property in private; sad,
until the poor client is ruined by negligence, igno•
, ranee, or deliberate fraud, nothing is heard
of the attorney. The relation in which. the
attmney stands to his dint is m close, so eseliden-
Hsi, that • client ought to have some method of
suntsining whether the attorney is It to transact
his buti•ese. Bo it is with the surgeon sad physi-
cist,. The damage which they may do, the injury
which a men may suffer at their hands, is so terrible,
that it is clear they ought to be furnished with •
certificate of knowledge. The unrcumnate person
who meets with an accident, or falls ill, has no time to
inquire into whether an unmediated preen has the
requisite knowledge of medicine. Moreover, the
public have esectionedoompolsory examination@ is the
mss of medics' men and attorneys, and therefore each
examinations are properly insisted on. But the ems of
the barrister is very different. He suet appear in open
court. He meet display hie knowledge before &Jodie
—generally an eminent lawyer—who *filet once de-
tect the ignorance of consul. Henn we are told it
is impomible to @appose that Ignorant barristers can
lug deceive the public, became they will at once be
openly exposed. This, however, is a simple misstate-
sent. If, indeed, ►t were tree that all business
transacted by barristers irec conducted in 0;30 court,
there might b 3 something in the argument.
But the fact is that a very small proportion
of • barrister's business is conducted thus
openly. Two branches of the profusion the
'pseud pleaders and the sonvermems never go
into mart at all; and sometime the jsaior maid,
who is responsible for the sanded of the prier steps
of the ease, is not heard ia wart. What proportion,
let es ask, does the number dosses in wart bear to
the number of sues for *aka, of envoys:bees of
large property, or the thoesaad matters which are
dose in a banister's chambers ? and yet, epos each
matters ea these—transacted is private--emen's
right, en determined, resolutions to fake or to
refrain from legal proceedings are adopted, enormous
poseemeions are bindweed, and vast sums are paid.
That each matters as these should be maducted with
knowledge, promptitude. and economy, is quite as
essential as that those gentlemen who argue cues
in court should do so with laming. And yet it is
notorious that the oleos of lawyers who transact the

nee sort of baldness is quite distinct from those who
transact the other ext. If the vigilante of the Beach
is requited to ensure knowledge on the part of those
who figure in wart, what IMAM are there to ensure
knowledge on the part of those who transact bad.
noes in chambers? Foe these at least the tat of as
examination is imperatively needed.