The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-10 00:00:00

PROPOSED ALTERATION OF THE CIRCUIT

AND LAW TWS.

A series of alterations are about to be suggested
by the Council of the Incorporated Law Society to the Corn.
mon Law Judicial Comnawaon, am being desirable to be made
in the present 'imago and law ten.. Considering the long
interval of eight months between the euminer and apring cir-
culla, it la submitted that thorn should be • third circuit in
every year throughout Englund and Wales, fur the trial of
civil cameo as well as criminal, and that the terms should be
reduced to three ; and either Easter ur Trinity Term be
abolished. Each term should be immediately followed by
nisi prim millings in London and Westminster, and a cir-
cuit should take place immediately after the termination el
the sittings. This dispoeition of the tense, @Wimp% sal
circuits, the council say might be so snowed as to leave a
vacation in the autumn immediately priced* the Michael-
mas Terra of about the same length se at present. Each
term and molt eittings after term should occupy abont the
me time en the present termsand sittings., and inch
cuit oesspy about seven weeks. It is further salmitted
that gni addition to the circuits, unless a term intervene
between each, would be of conmerstlvely little utility in
dell baldness while it would entail great expense sad incon-
venience to the public and to the eeveml COUOtkVealid that it
could be so arranged that one judge should sit at nisi prim
throughout the term for the trial of common juu causes,
which would, it is thought, show of the sittings after term
being shorter than at present. As the length of time nein.
Eii:sl by the various circuits is very unequal, (henget' might
tuede in minty of oho circuits so as to shorten them. In
carrying into ettoct the proposed changes, the council sug
gest that the present arrangement. be retained with slight
alterations in regard to Michaelmas and Trinity terms, and
the sittings at nisi prim in London and Middlesex after
those terms—Easter term being the term recommended to be
abolished.

Tin FOTIIERGILLIAN GOLD MED kL.—At the
18th anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of London.
held at Willis • Booms, yeeteltday, the above valuable medal
was prestented, with an appropriate wfdrees, from the presi-
dent to Mr. Edwin Canton, Y.R.C.8., surgeon to the Char-
ing Cress Hospital, the successful author of the vise testy
ea Memos and injuries of the spine—their pathology and
tmetment," This sandal Ms been annually competed for
iineciiLasores 1773, when the society. WM founded by the
pliEsinkragists and phrecians, Lenora., and
Foiliergillorhe b their mew in tea formation and their
sinwilicent tweet for Us wpoet, have earned the gratitude
met only of their own peatrssfm but of the whole family of
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