The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

poultice might have suggested itself as an instant
means of obtaining alleviation. However, No!
Vinaigrettes and Poultices are nothing to the pur-
poses in this extraordinary case. [An Irish echo—
Very extraordinary !] OARIBALBI was looking
fagged—GARIBALDI, upon close examination, was
found to have a maple of boils on his arm ! Away
with him ! Let him take ship at once for Caprera
Let him at any rate quit London immediately, or—
there would be no answering for the consequences
A consideration for his health alone, in fact,
prompted any interference like this with the
general arrangements. They all said so. The
most eminent surgeon living put it as plainly as
possible, to that effect, in black and white. The
GENERAL'S immediate removal from all this excite-
meat was, he said, of the utmost consequence, The
' professional letter plainly asserted that, it will be

remembered—though it spoke of nothing more im-
portant as visible reasons for the assertion than a
couple of boils and an appearance of fatigue. Mr.
GLADSTONE and Mr. SEELY stated pretty much the
same thing, quite as distinctly, though in a different
way. And, as a climax to everything, came the
almost clerical Earl of SHAFTESBURY with his ultra
positive statement to precisely the same effect" upon
his honour as a gentleman." So much for that side.
Now for the other—namely, for the side upon
which it was maintained, upon which it has all
along been maintained, upon which it is still
as emphatically as ever maintained, that
considerations of health had next to nothing at all
to do with GARIBALDI'S licensed departure.
And at the head of those who were and are upon
this aide of the argument, who upon earth do we
see all along but the principal personage in the
whole malter under dispute ?—the fatigued looking
hero with the two boils on his left arm—General
GARIBALDI himself. Really, if he oughtn't to
know anything about his own health, who ought ?

It is for all the woad—under a more picturesque
aspect, of course, but otherwise precisely the same

—it is for all the world poor SANCHO, with the
banquet, with even the tablecloth, snatched away
from him, while his appetite is still
strong upon him ! Yes—here, on this side,
first and foremost, stands General GARIBALDI
himself! From first to last nothing will induce
him to give the "state of his health" as a reason
for his Hurried Departure. From the draft of the

letter he is asked to sign, specifying that as a reason,
he strikes the mention of the state of his health
oat altogether. Requested to say so and so, what
are we now told to have been his point-blank reply ?

—" My lord, I won't tell a lie." Then come the
other declarations of committee men, of working
men, and so forth, distinctly corroborative of the as-
sertionsof GARIBALDI himself, and directly in opposi-
tion to the statements of Mr. GLADSTONE, of Mr.
SEELEY, and of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY. Else-
where will be found, in our columns, this evening, a
detailed report of these extraordinary counter-
statements. Bat still, "elsewhere, this evening,"
it is to be earnestly hoped—meaning in the House
of Commons—that Mr. GLADSTONE will be good
enough to offer his explanations thereupon. His
explanations are really required—these astounding
counter-statements being so very distinct, positive,
and categorical.

Following up the subject of compulsory examina-
tions for the bar, it has long been felt that all the
suggestions which have been made for the promo-
tion of legal education have been merely palliatives.
The full and complete remedy had yet to be dis-
covered and applied. Now, such a remedy the

Commissioners appointed some ten years ago to

inquire into the arrangements in the Inns of Court
and Chancery, thongPht/they had hit upon at last.
It was, in a word, the application of the University

system to the training for the bar. In the same
way that Christchurch, Trinity, St. John's, are

academic colleges, so Lincoln's inn, the two Tem-
ples, and Gray's Inn would be legal colleges.
In the same way that the colleges of Oxford and
Cambridge are combined into unifarmity_of action
by the intervention of a governing body, and co!-
lectively receive the name of a University, so would

the various Inns of Court and Chancery be com-
bined, at least for the purposes of legal education
and a legal University. This new and important
body would have its chancellor elected for life, its
vice-chancellor, and its senate. The senate would
consist of eight members elected from each Inn of
Court, five of whom, benehers elected by members,
would represent the aristocratic element of the
profession, and three, barristers elected by barris-
ters would represent the views and feelings of the
general body of the bar.
Tnis, in fact, would have been to throw the
regimen of this new University into the hands of
the barristers, as upon any point of difference they
would divide as 20 against 12. Whether this would
have been a wise regulation or not, it is useless,
after the lapse of several years, to stop to inquire.
Such was the proposal of the Commissioners of 1855.
The Commissioners did not propose that the juris-
diction of their University should have extended

beyond the incidence of forensic education. In
point of fact, they laid it down in their 21st pro-
position that the Inns of Court should not be com-
pelled to call to the bar even the students who
have passed the ordeal of the University examina-
tions. The Inns were to have retained their former
powers not only as to the admission of students, but
even as to the disbarring of them after examination,
subject to appeal to the judges. As far as
admission is concerned this proviso would necea•
sarily be a dead letter, save in the case of enormous
and notorious criminality. With regard to the dis-
barring of members of the bar, the powers exer-
cised at present by the benchers might with ad-
vantage be revived. The appeal to the judges has
ever practically been found to be of little avail, it is
so encompassed with doubts and uncertainties, and
the judges are so reluctant to move, that the powers
of the benchers in the various inns of court amount
to despotic authority.
We suppose the aforesaid resort was lost amid
the din of the Crimean War, as nothing has
been heard of now for many years. We will,
however, as we have lately pointed out in two
leading articles, that there was last Hiliary Term
appointed preliminary examinations in Latin the
English language, and English history)—just state
what the resolution of the Commissioners nine years
ago relative to the education of bar students
was. Their legal university was to have appointed
regular examiners who would have organised a
preliminary
ex
amination of candidates for admis-
sion as students. After this was to have followed
a more serious examination, or series of examina-
tions, which every person who was desirous of
having been called to the bar must of necessity have
passed. The needful knowledge was to have been
divided into two branches. The first was to have
comprised constitutional law and legal history.
The second embraced as subjects the common law,
equity, and the law of :real 'property. A pass
or certificate for a call to the bar was to have
been obtained by passing one subject in each
branch. The candidates for honours and for the
higher degree of Master of Laws must
have resolved to have grappled with the
full difficulties of the subjects enumerated
above. There was to have been one studentship,
worth £6O per annum, retainable for four years, to