The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-21 00:00:00

Inns of Court.

The Council of Legal Education have approved
of the following rules for the public Exlmination of
the students for the Michaelmas Term
"The attention of the students is requested to the follow-
ing rules of the Inns of Court :—As an inducement to stu-
dents to propose themselves for such examination, student-
ships and exhibitions shall be founded of 50 guineas per
annum each, and 25 guineas per annum each respectively, to
continue for a period of three years, and one such student-
ship-shall be conferred on the most distinguished student
at each general examination, and one such exhibition shall
be conferred on the student who obtains the second posi-
tion; and further, the examiners shall select and certify the
names of three other students who shall have passed the next
best examinations; and the inns of court to which such stu-
dents as afore-aid belong may, if desired, dispense with any
terms, not exceeding two, that may remain to be kept by
such students previously to their being called to the bar.
Provided that the examiners shall not be obliged to confer
or grant any studentship, exhibition, or certificate, unless
they shall to of opinion that the examination of the students
has been such.as:entitles them thereto. At every call to
the bar those students who have passed a General examina-
tion, and either obtained a studentship, an exhibition at
such examination. or a certificate of honour, shall take rank
in seniority over all other students who shall be called on
the same day.
RULES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES
FOR HONOURS, OR CERTIFICATES, ENTITLING STU-
DENTS TO BE CALLED TO THE BAR.
An examination will be held in next Michaelmas Term,
to which a student of any of the inns of court, who is de-
sirous of becoming a candidate for a studentship, an exhibi-
tion, or honours, or of obtaining a certificate cf fitness for
being called to the bar, will be admissible. Each student
proposing to submit himself for examination will be re-
quired to en to • his name at the treasurer's office of the inn
of court to which he belongs, on or before Saturday, the
221 day of October, and he will further be required to state
in writing whether his olject in offering himself for exami-
nation is to compete for a studentship or other honourable
distinction ; or whether he is merely desirous of obtaining
a certificate preliminary to a call to the bar. The examina-
tion will commence on Saturday, the 29th day of October.
and,will be continued on the Monday and Tuesday follow.
ing. It will take place in the hall of Lincoln's-inn, and
the doors will be closed ten minutee after the time appointee
for the commencement of the examination.
The examination by printed questions will be conducted
in the following order:—Saturday morning, Oct. 29, at
half-past eine, on constitutional law and legal history ; in
the afternoon, at half-past one, on equity. Monday morn-
ing, Oct. 31, at half-past nine, on common law-; in the
afternoon, at half-past one, on the law of real property,
&.. Tuesday morning, Nov. 1, at half-past nine, on juris-
prudence and the civil law ; in the afternoon, at half-past
one, a paper will be given to the students including ques-
tions bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of examination.
The oral examination will be conducted in the same order,
during the same hours, and on the same subjects, as those
already marked out for examination by printed questions,
except that on Tuesday afternoon there will be no oral ex-
amination. The oral examination of each student will be
conducted apart from the other students; and the character
of that examination will vary according as the student is a
candidate
.for honours or a studentship, or desires simply
to obtain a certificate. The oral examination and printed
questions will he founded on the books below mentioned ;
regard being had, however, to the particular object with a
view to which the student presents himself for examina-
tion. In determining the question whether a student has
passed the examination in such a manner as to entitle him
to be called to the bar, the examiners will principally have
regard to the general knowledge of law and jurispru 'ence
which he has displayed. A student may present himself
at any number of examinations, until he shall have-ob-
tained a certificate. Any student who shall obtain a cer-
tificate may present himself a second time for examination
as a candidate for the studentship or exhibition, but only
at the general examination immediately succeeding that at
which he shall have obtained such certificate; provided,
that, if any student so presenting himself shall not succeed
in obtaining the studentship or exhibition, his name shall
not appear in the list. Students who have kept more than
eleven terms shall not be admitted to an examination for
the studentship or the exhibition.
The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History
will expect the candidates for honours to be well acquainted
with the origin and progress of our laws and Constitution,
as explained in chapter s, part 3, of "Hallam's History of
the Middle Ages." He will expect them to be well ac-
quainted with the reign of Richard 11., and with the chap-
ters in "Hallam's Constitutional History" which give an
account of the reigns from the accession of Henry VII. to
the death of Anne; with the State trials of persons eminent
in our history, or otherwise important, from the accession of
James I. to the year 1760; with the history of the law of
treason and the law of libel. All candidates will be required
to know the principal events in English history from the

Conquest to the year 1782—t0 have an accurate knowledge
of the reigns of the Stuart Kings, of the trials of Sidney,
Russell, College, Bushel, and Mrs Gaunt—and to be well
acquainted with the provisions of Magna Charts, the Bill of
Rights, the Act of tiettlement, and the Toleration Act.
The Realer on Equity proposes to examine in the follow-

flg books : —l. lilynes's Outlines of Equity—Smith's

Manual of Equity Jutispluience—Hunter's Elementary
View of the Proceedings in a Suit in Equity, part 1, 2.

The cases and notes contained in the first volume of White
and Tudor's Leading Cases—the Act to further Amend the
Law of Property and to Relieve Trustees, 22 and 23 Vic ,
c. 35—the Act to further Amend the Law of Property, 23
and 24 Vic., c. 38—the Act to give Trustees, Mortgagees,
and others, certain powers now commonly inserted in Settle-
ments, Mortgages, and Wills, 23 and 24 Vic, 0. I4s—the
Act to regulate the Procedure in the High Court of Chan-
cery and the Court of Chancery of the County Falatinate of
Lancaster, 25 and 26 Vic., c, 42—the General Orders of the
Court of Chancery, of Feb. 1, 1861, and of Feb. 5, 1861.
(Jurist, vol. 7, N.S., part 2, p. 58.) Mitford ors Pleadings

in the Court of Chancery. Introduction—chap. 1, sec. 1
and 2—chap. 1, sec. 3 (the first six pages)—chap. 2, sec.
—chap. 2, sec. 2, part 1 (the first tbree pages)—chap. 2, see.
2, part 2 (the first two pages)—chap. 2, sec. 2, part 3
chap. 3; Candidates for certificates of having passed a
satisfactory examination will be expected to be well ac-
quainted with the books mentioned in the first of the above
classes. Candidates for the studentship, exhibition,or hon-
ours will be examined in the books mentioned in the two
classes.

The Reader on the Law of Real Property, &c,, proposes to
examine in the following books and subjects :-1. Joshua
Williams on the Law of Real Property, sixth edition.
2. Joint Tenancy and Tenancy in Common; Morley v.
Bird, 3 ties., 629, ".nd the notes to that case, Tudor's Load-
ing Cases in Conveyancing, pp. 778-804 3. Void and
Voidable Deeds and Contracts; Josiah W. Smith on Real
and Personal Property, second edition, chap. 6, pp. 759 -
802. 4. The Common Forms of Mortgages. 2. Davidson's
Conveyancing, pp. 497-1088, second edition. 5. Real As-
sets ; Joshua Williams on Real Assets, published by Sweet,
1861. Candidates for the studentship, exhibition, or hon •
ours, will be examined in all the foregoing books and sub-
jects; candidates for a certificate in these under heads 1,2,
and 3.

The Reader on Jurisprudence, the Civil Law, and Inter-
national Law proposes to examine in the following books
and subjects : —l. Justinitin's Institutes, Book 1., with the
Notes of Ortolan or Sandars. 2. Mackeldeii—Systema
Juris Romani hodie Usitati—Pars Specialis, Lib. 111. Jus
Familisre, § 504 ¢ 600 (edit. Lips. 1847). 3. Code Napo-
leon, Livre 1, Art. 1— 515. 4. Wheaten's Elements of In-
ternational Law (edit. 1863), part 4, c. 1. Commencement
of War and its Immediate Effects. 5. Maide's Ancient
Law, chaps. 2,3, 4, and 5. Candidates for honours will be
examined in all the above subjects ; but candidates for a
pass certifioste will be examined in 1,4, and 5 only.
The Reader on Common Law proposes to examine in the
following books and subjects. Candidates for a pass certifi-
cate will be examined in-1. The Ordinary Procedure and
Course of Pleading in an Action. 2. The Law of Contracts,
as set forth in Smith's Lectures on Contracts (last edition),
lectures 1-5 inclusive. 3. The Law of Torts and Remedies
ex Delicto, which may be read from Broom's Commen-
taries (last edition), Book 111. 4. The Law of Homicide
and of Simple Larceny, as stated in Archbold's Cries. Con.
Plead. (15th edition), Book 11., Part 1., chap. 1, sec. I (so
far as applicable), chap. 2, secs.
_1 and 2.

Candidates for the studentship or honours will be ex.
smined in 1,3, and 4 supra, and also in-5. The under-
mentioned cases :—Smith's Leading Cases, Vol. 1,, with
the notes thereto—Armory v. Delamiria; Ashby v,
White; Chandelor v. Lopus; Coggs v. Bernard; Collins
v. Blantern ; and Lampleigh v. Brathwait. 6. Smith's
Mercantile Law (last edition), Book I.:-Of Mercantile
Persons ; omitting chap. 3. 7. Broom's Legal Maxim.
(fourth edition), chap. 5; Fundamental Legal Principles.
8. Taylor on Evidence (fourth edition), Part I.: Nature
and Principles of Evidence.
By order of the Council,
'WESTBURY C., Chairman.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—FLEETWOOD, LANCA-
SHIRE, Thursday Night—During a heavy gale at
wind this afternoon, from the westward, the brigantine
Highland Mary, of Fleetwood, was driven on the Barnard
Wharf Sands. The lifeboat of the National Institution
stationed at this post was at once launched to her assistance,
and has fortunatly brought safe on shore the brigantine's
crew of five men. She was bound from Ardrossan to
Fleetwood with a cargo of pig iron. The cost of this life-
boat was presented to the National Institution about two
years since by a benevolent lady.

LIFEB)AT SERVICES.—ThiS afternoon, in a heavy
gale, a smack, coal laden, was driven ou a sand
bank off this place, and sunk. The National Institution's
Lifeboat was promptly manned and launched, and suc-
ceeded in saving the crew of three men. This boat was the
gift to the Institution of James Knowles, Efq.,. of Eagley
Bank, and since she has been on her station she had
rescued the following shipwrecked crews :—Barque St.
Lawrence, of Liverpool, 14 men saved ; sloop Hope, of
Dublin, 3; barque Tamworth, of Skien, Norway, 17; ship
David White Clinton, of New York, 8; and the crow of the
above mentioned smack, 3—total, 45 men saved,

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMOrtAL, Oct. 19,

The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold, and
attended by Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon.
Ea m-1 Lascelles, drove yesterday to Loch Muick.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Lieutenant Haig, left the Castle in the morning fo
Edinburgh, whence his royal highness proceeds to-
day to pay a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Roxburghe at Floors.

Prince Albert "Victor of Wales arrived at the
Castle at five o'c!ock in in the evening from Aber'
deep.

Dr. Sievcking was in attendaree on the infant

prince.

Princess Helena, attended by Lady Augusta
Stanley, honoured the Earl and Countess Delawarr
with a visit at Abergeldie in tho afternoon.