The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

THE 7.4813101 i TO BE POOR.

The Paris Bieck contains the following amusing
remark, The weathercock has veered round lAt thin
earns period kg year nothing was to be met with but mil-
lionaires. The goddess Fortune wont through every street
diepeneing her favours. When by chance a man wee met
who was modest ennugh to avow that he had not yet depo-
sited ermiliion in the Bank of France, he had the air of
excusing himself, like a man asking for credit. Give me
only two or throe months more,' he said., ' and my after will
be terminated. I have In hand five or ail superb operations.
lam orgamnnC Le Credit Ideditenuneen, I am founding
the European Bane, and I am on the eve of obtaining throe
railway concessions in America. You know lam not an
ambitions man I only want to get three millions from all
these enterprise., and I shall than retire from banner'',
and live quietly
iged by my own fireside.' But things
have all In twelve months. Now, it is
the fashion eel to to rich. Adieu to credits, banks, con-
(*Mona, and met like gilded illosiona, nothing is at
prment to be seen but man completely ruined I You are
aware of my sad position,' Nays one. 'No—what hap-
yaned oury 'I am completely ruined—False/pecula-
tion. I I went for the rise and there has been a constant
fall for the kat fifteen months. I lose 1,200,0006.' No
sooner is this unfortunate man gone, than you meet another
whom you never knew to have a eon at his command, and
who exclaims that he also has bean ruined by speculation,
and a third follows with the mme catalogue of disasters.
This new comedy appears' quite ma amusing as the former.
Loot year every one waited to appear rich, now every one
seek, to be thought poor, and yet in reality no change has
taken place. Perhaps the object of this general &anonym-
s's& of ruin is to make Kane reforms in the domestic bud-
get, Is reduce the wild luxury of furniture and deem, and to
cat sheet the enormous outlay of the toilette. No one can
undemeand how the wife of a ruined man can wear a walk-
ing dress worth 1,2006. Since poverty in words has every-
where succeeded to riches In shams, let us not imitate the
wife of a ruined beaker, who, a short time since made her
ce in a ball-room with 100,000 crowns worth of
appearance in a ball-room with 100,000 crown. worth of
diamond. on her shoulder'', ' Yonr husband is not then
ruined, as he represents himself,' observed a friend. ' lie is
as much rained as a man can ba,' was the reply, 'only it has
been impoosible for us to get rid of these &monde, as they
are heir-looms In the y."'&ma

LECTURES ,AT THE INNS OF COVEY.

The following is s prospectus of the lectures to be
delivered during the ensuing educational term by the several
Reader* appointed by.the Inns of Court

" CIXSTITI:TH;NAL LAW AND LIOAL HISTORY.
The public lectures to be delivered by the Rear on
Conatitutional Law and Legal Riator' wW competes the
following subjects :
" The Reign of George 11., the Progress of our Jarisßrn-
deuce, the Stets Trials and Debates in Parliament. The
Reader will then trace the Origin and Progress of our Con-
stitution through the Reigns of the Plantagenet% the Tudors,
and the Stuarts.

111;1; prate clams, the Reader will follow the same

coons.
" Books.—Titidal or Belaluim's History of George the
Second; Blarkstonee Commentaries, by Herrorile, 1 and
4 ; Political Register and Annual Restelsr daring the
Period; Parliamentary History, ROAM'S Cmtatitntforial
, Statute lioolr, Preface to Gilbert on Uses, by Sus-
dijaindlracton's Treatise, Matthew Paris, Reeve's History of
the English Law, Sullivan's Lectures, Forteseas de Laudibus
Leg= Anglin (Amoes edition), Millar's History of the
Constitution, Creasy on the ConstitutMn.

" EQUITY.

" The Reader on Equity Former+ to deliver daring the
ensuing educational Term • counie of nine lectures on the
following emblems •
.• 1. On the Oatmeal Principles adopted by_Courts of Equity
with ribranee to Tenets and to Equitable Encambrances ow
Real and Personal Estate.
. .

2, On Notice and Reentrance].
" 8. On the Relief afforded in Equity against Penalties
and Forfeitures.
. .

i.—Oictie—Ratire of Ligel Ilostgeges.
6. On the Nquitable Rights end Reetediee of Mort,
gair .8 and
treorirg.c.tion of the Coact over Charities.

The 1:4;le; vNrecain-67 it; Vs ;NWT siiijvidar
dares the general worms of equity she* exerneamd.
He win also continue in the senior elms sad eminent* In
the junior to explain the !setting ruler of pleading In equity
from the work of Lord Redsidale.

.6 THZ LAM 01, kIAL TIOPIIITY.

" The Iteade;onthe Lw of It.al Property proposes to
deliver in the matting wimeational term a mourn of nine
public lectua on the following subjects
" I. The Insolvent,' Acts, se far as they affect the Law of
Rad Property.
" 2. Om Conditions of Sale.
" 3. A Comparison between the Old and New Law with
respect to Wills.

tt 4. The &Mates Ist of Victoria, cap. 26, end 15th •ad
16th of Victoria, cap. 24.
" 5. The Decisions upon those Statutes.
" la his private dames the Reader ea the Law of Real
Property will refer more particularly to the cum cited in the
public lectures. He will mho endeavour to go through •
complete mune of Real Property Law, using the work of
Hr. lcalma Williams aa • teat-book.

JCIIIIrIVDENCI AND TUN CIVIL LAW.

The Reader en Jurisprudence end the Civil lAw pro-
poses to deliver in the coarse of the ensuing edsicaUtinel
terse nine public lectures on the following subjects:
"1. The influence of certain Theories of the Roman Jule-
conealt. en Intrinetional Law and the Existing Relations
of Sovereign States to tech other.
" 2. Crimes end Deliceta.

9: AiiTentEOdea7th7ir Nature and Inflame.
4. The conception of Equity, and the Porno it boa
mid is vanuua aysteeliid Juriaprulescia.

" 3. The development of the Roden Law.
" With his private clam the Reeder .111 proceed through
the principal departments of Roman Law? using as his text
book the "Systems Avis Romani Hodes I:sitati," Latin
edition of hiselteldfly (beginning at pegs 132).
" The Render will endeavour to farm a second class for
the study of the Elements of Roman Law. This latter class
is intended for gentlemen who hare no previous acquaint-
ance with thr Roman jurispradence. It will reed the
' Institutes of Justinian,' beginning at their commencement.

e- e
"concur Law.
"The Reader on Common Law prop... to deliver during
the ensuing oluestional term nine public lectures • the firm
Ma of which will be on the Law of Contracts, and tlu three
rommning lecture* on the Lew of Bailments, as under :
" TOO LAW OF CONTRACTS.
"Lecture I.—On Contract. generally; their Nature and
Claesidoation.
" Lecture 2.—On Bimetal Contract..
"Lecture 3.—On Contracts between Landlord and Tenant,
and the Remtdim incident thereto.
" Lecture 4.—Of Simple Contracts and the Ingredients in
• Right of Action ex-Contractu.
" Lecture 5 will be devoted to an inquiry respecting the
Nature of Implied Promises.
"Lecture 6.—A general view will in this lecture be taken
of Mercantile Contracts and Remedies.
"TRU LAW OF pAILIIINTS,

" Lecture 6.—The nature and classiticetien of bailments,
with eapeeial reference to the cue of 'Coggs v. Bernard;
Load Raym , 909, will be considered.
" Lectures 8 and 9 will be devoted to an examination of the
law applicable to various clues* of bailees, common carrier*,
ineksepws, and others.
" With his private class the Reader will consider the law
of contracts end of Winton aecording to the plan above
indicated, Mutitrating the subjects treated of by reference to
recent CAW, and to tee following work...—. Smith's Mercan-
tile Law' (ad- by Dowdeswell) end Leading Caw' (4th
ed.), ' Story on Bailments ' (6th ed.), Broom's Cowmen-
taxies on the Common Law.'
" By order of the Council,
.‘ RICHARD BETIILLL, Clubman,
" Council Chamber, Lincolee-ien, Dec. 18."
"The following are the days and hours for the delivery of
the public lecture* by the Headers appointed by the Lane of
Court, and for the attendance of the private cisme :
"The Reeder on Constitutional Law and 1.1 History,
at Linooln's-inn Hall. Public lecture*, Wednesdays, 2 p.m. ;
tied lecture, the 20th of January. Private lecture*. Tee-
days, Thursdays, and Seturdaye, at half-put 9 to half-pest Ii
a.m. First clan merle on the 21st of January. Classes meet
in the Beechen' Reading-room.
. .

The Reader on quit', at ncole s.ints Uf. Public
lectures, Thursday, at 2 p.m. • first lecture, January 21.
Private lectures, Mondays, Wsdl
esdays, and Fridays, at •
quarter toast 3 and a quarter past 4 p ro. First class meets on
tho 22nd of January. Classes meet an the Bentham' Reading-

"The Reader on the Lew of Reel Property, fie., at Gray's-
inn Han. Public lectures, Fridayo, at 2 p.m. ; first keture,
January 15. Privets lectures, Mondays, \Yahwism and
Fridays, at a quarter to 12 a.m. to a quarter to 2 p.m. Pint
Clam meets on the 18th of January. Classes meet in the
North Library.
The Realer on Jurisprudence sad Civil Law, at the
Middle Temple-hell. Public lectures, Tosedays, at 2 p.m.;
first lecture, on the lath of January. Private claseete, Tam-
days, Thursday., end Saturday., eta quarter to 4 p.m. Pint
CiSPO meets on the 2let of January. Chases meet at No. 4,
Garden-, curt, Temple.
"The Router on Common Law, at the Inner Templeiall.
Public lecturers, Mondays, at 2 p.m.; fast leeturo. the 18th
of January. Privets chasm, Tuesdaya, Thursdays, and
Riturdays, Lunt a gamier to 12 a m. to a quarter to 2 p.m.
First riOPM OMNI on the 19th of January. Chasm moot at
the Liner Temple 11.11.
" Note.—The educational term entOMMOIS on the 11th of
January, &ad ends on the 30th of Match.
" The first meeting of each private clue will take place nn
the usual morning or evening of meeting next after the foot
public lecture on the game eubjoet."

A letter from Jerusalem of the 25th nit., in the.
CboutituLarsa, says t—" Ths pilgrims now teen ars very
numerous, and the Greek convents are all full. There are

not less than 1,800 Greeks end 800 Arestaisas ; what will
the number be at Beam ? We hays also some travellers of
cliAtinction here; and smug them are the Pillions de Latour
d'Auvergire, who iutends to slop here for six months;
Count de Labddoyere, Count de Belgiojoso, Prince Lubo-
Week two Rued= genera., sad Mgr. Triechst, Bishop of
baklkve.