The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

The prisoner is an old man of nearly 80 years of age, and
the prosecutor was his son, who, however, did not live at
home. On Friday evening, about Bor 9 o'clock, the son
came to his father's house in a state of pa,tial intoxication,
and he went into the cellar to fetch a reaping-hook. The
prisoner was there, and some words took place between
them with:reference to the old man's cutting some vetches
which the son had grown in a field of the old man's, The
old man justified what he had done, and the son brandished
his reapiug-hook about, making the sparks fly from the
stone flooring, and threatened his father. The father ordered
him out of the kitchen. He refused to g 9, and then he took
down a gun and pointed it at his son, the prosecutor, who
whipped behind the settle, but he fired, and some of the
shot lodged in the son's leg. The son was taken up stairs
and put to bed. There was no doubt that he had given his
father great provocation, and it was stated that he had re-
fused to prosecute, but the magistrates thought that it was
a case which ought to be brought to the assizes, an opinion
with which the learned Judge expressed his concurrence.
After his Lordship had summed up, and told the jury
that though, no doubt, the provocation had been great, yet
guns must not be used in family quarrels, they found a ver-
dict o f guilty of unlawfully wounding, with a recommends.
tion to mercy.

The prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment
in the common gaol.

INNS OF COURT.

The following is the prospectus of the lectures to
be delivered during the ensuing educational term
by the several Readers appointed by the Inns of
Court :
" CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY.

"The Reader will trace the history of our Constitution
from the middle of the reign of Henry VIII. to the latest
period which the time allotted to this course will enable him
to reach. lie will dwell particularly tin the judicial and
legal history of the different ages which he describes as re-
corded in the statute books, the volumes of reports, and the
State trials.

" In his private classes the Reader will begin with the
reign of William 111., and proceed in regular order to that
of his successors till the accession of George 111.
" The books to which he will chiefly refer are—' Black-
stone's Commentaries,' by Kerr (last edition) ; Burnet's
History of the Church;' Rapin's History of the Period :'
Statute Book of the Period ; ' Lord Clarendon's History ;'
'May's History Rushworth's Collections ;" Brodie's
History' Hallam's Constitutional History ;" Haye's
History of Conveyancing;' Burnet's Memoirs ;" State
Trials ;" Starkie's Law of Libel.'
"EQUITY.
"The Reader on Equity proposes to deliver during the
ensuing Educational Term a course of six lectures :-1. On
the Sources of English Law. The Origin of the Feudal
System, and the Judicial Procedure to which it gave Rise
in Normandy and England. 11. On the Office of. Chancel-
lor; its Connexion with the Common Law Courts. The
Rise and Principles of the -Equitable Jurisdiction. The Cus
tody of the Great Seal. 111. On the present Constitution
of the Court of Chancery. The Principles of Equity Pleading.
The Reeent Alterations in the Procedure of the Court. IV.
On the Law of Bankruptcy.
" The Reader on Equity proposes to form two private
classes—a senior and a junior—according to the amount of
preliminary knowledge possessed by the students; using in
,he junior ' Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence' as a
text .book, and in the senior examining the principal branches
of equitable jurisdiction, with a frequent reference to cases,
and also commencing the perusal of Lord Redesdale Trea-
tise on Equity Pleadings.'

"THE LAW Or REAL PROPERTY.
"The Reader on the Law of Real Property, &c., proposes
to deliver in the ensuing Educational Term six lectures on
the following subjects :-1. The Specific Performance of
Contracts for the Sale and Purchase of Real Estate. 11.
The Ownership of Machinery and Chattels attached to or
used with Lands or Buildings.
" The Reader on the Law of Real Property will in his
private classes refer from time to time more particularly to
the cases cited in his public lectures. He will also endea-
vour to go through a course of !teal Property Law, using
Mr. Joshua William's work on Real Property and Mr.
Tudor's Leading Cases on Conveyancing as text books.