The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-15 00:00:00

THE LAW REVIEW
URNAL AND QUARTERLI

Commences with a favourable article on Lord Derby's
f ttlah e ancients, with a
policy as to law reform. Chapter the first
life
ed
ot, practices
Aristotle,
History of Jurisprudence" treats of
the political and
jskudeticcibalovfiethwes
apprenticeship, if it may be e length of whose
example of the Complete so called, to P
plete devotion
Leto, is an
to study. Aristotle was born of the philosopher
at
Thrasian Chersonese, B.C. Stagira, a city of the
year he repaired to the h 384. In his seventeenth
which rightly has been termedse°°l
of Plato at Athens,
sity of the world. The the then great univer-
and his laborious devotion he remained twenty years,
by Plato, who termed 101 l
to science was appreciated
At the death of pi him the itdellect of the school-
fellow pupil X.en Plato Aristotle accompanied his
tyrant of Artne °crates. to the Court of Hermias,
us and M
throw of her —Pis. Thence, on the over-
Mitylene. naias by the Persian King, be went to
his a • His great reputation was now shown by
appointment asf Philip of Ma-
cedon, Alex tutor to the son o
Alexander the Great, then fourteen years of
age. He continued with Alexander until be set out
on his Asiatic campaign B.C. 334 ; and although a
personal coolness had arisen between them,
still Alexander some thousands of per-
still placed
sons under Aristotle's directions, to make inquiries
on natural history throughout AsiAa
ni andmals Greße-
ece.
The result was the " History of :9
turned to Athens, he taught in the Lyceum ; Xeno-
crates and Theophrastus then had the Academy, and
' the Cynics the CynosugeS. Whilst he delivernd his dis-
courses he was in the habit of walking up and down,
a trait of character which forcibly illustrates the
restless activity of his min, and his school has hence
obtained the name of Peridpatetic,. He Lectured at
the Lyceum for twelve years. Exposed at length to
the same intolerant spirit which had put Socrates to
death, be fled to Calms, saying " that he was unwill-
ing to involve the Athenians in another crime against
philosophy There he died, B.C. 321, i
onsPl"
n his sixty-
sixth year. The " Trial of Lord Grey for C
racy and Abduction," is the first of
Ta series
eon f
ing
re-
markable trials to be continued. he cont
merits of and' Bar and tbe Attorney " are discussed
at length, the probable consequence if a union
should take place. The " Recent Judicial
it
History
of France," the " Fusion of Law sad Equity," wh
an article on " Lunacy and the Commissioners there•
of," complete this number.

THE ACT FOR THE AMENDMENT OF
THE L A .W. 5 WITH RESPECT 7'o WILLS.
By T. Park - Deane. Wilde and Sons.
In these pages are collected the principal decisioni
which have been given upon the Wills' Act. In the
ise book e conc o reference
f
introduction is to be found a short retrospect of the
laws resyecting Allis in t).ie time of our Danish au.
cestors. This must prov a
as rep. rds recent decisiens.

A 7 MOTLEY CREW.--Captain KeayTof the fine now
ship 1V lirzapore, which is now in Liverpool, but -was built at
Jemes -, found sailors so scarce in that island, that he had to
make up a crew from retired rnsaine-rs who now followothe r oi:cupations. Clerks, sbipbrokers,, and even a Boni:
face were enrolled. Tho tiirz.lpore is to sail from Liver.peol
to A mtralia, under the au— •
and ' Co.
auspices of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright,

BEAL I' :UN
zsaSON PP Cl.k‘ SIR CTIA.p.LEs Rowor, TUB LATE COM*
Si
--- OF POLICE.— The remains a the late Colonel Sir
res. "'les R'-'w an, 1i.C.8., were conveyed yesterday from
ehst.is
in • 44,..peirlaccee,:1, Norfolk street, street, Park-lane, to therairetfierynalerThe
:private vault at Kensal-greon ''
Antra was d'itctly private.