The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-27 00:00:00

LAW CLASSES

For the purpose of facilitating the acquisition of legal
knowledge, amongst the articled and other clerks of solici-
tors, and guiding them in their studies, law classes, in ad-
dition to the lectures annually delivered will be instituted
by and under the control of the Incorporated Law Society,
and will commence on the lst of November next. The
classes will be held during the months of November, De-
cember, January, February, and March, subject to a short
interval during the Christmas vacation, on, the following
subjects :—The law of real property : reader, Alfred Bailey,
Esq., barrister-at-law. Common law: reader, William
Markby, Esq., barrister-at-law. Equity: reader, Mon-
tague Cookson, Esq., barrister-at-law.

Each reader will hold two classes during the above pe.
riod, one on the elementary, and the other on the mare ad•
yanced portion of each particular subject.

The reader in roal property will, with the elementary
class, go through a course of real property law, taking tho
work of Mr. Joshua Williams as a text.-book ; and tho ad-
vanced class will examine, comment on, and illustrate the
principal forms in Messrs. Davidson and Stapylton's Con-
cise Precedents in Conveyancing, 6th edition, 1865.

The reader in equity will take Mr. Josiah Smith's Manual
as a text-book of principles with both his classes, and illus-
trate it by reference to White and Tudor's Lading Cases
in Equity, and the later reported decisions.
For the procedure of the court he will use, with his ele-
mentary class, Hunter's Suit in Equity. With his ad-
vanced class he will refer to the larger treatises on the
subject, and the Chancery acts and orders. collected in the
3d edition of the work of Mr. Osborne Morgan.
The reader on common law will discuss the following
subjects:—With the elementary class (1) the law of civil
procedure, (2) the law of contracts. With the advanced
class, mercantile law, including the law of bankruptcy.

The discussions will be founded on Smith's Action at
Law, Smith's Law of Contracts, and Smith's Mercantile
Law respectively.

The readers will call attention, as opportunity may serve,
to the bearings of their several subjects upon constitutional
law, and legal history.

No person will be at liberty to attend an elementary and
advanced class on the same subject simultaneously.
Three classes, one upon each of the subjects above men-
will be held, as noarly as powibl., in oveix .;eht
days. No classes ►ill be held on Saturdays. Tho elemen-
tary class will commence at 4.40 and close at 5.30 p.m.,
and the advanced class will commence at 5.30 ,and close at
6.30 p.m.

Applications for tickets may be made at the office of the
Incorporated Law Society, Chancery-lane.
Rooms will be appropriated for the classes at the Hall of
the Incorporated Law Society.

THE QUEEN OF THE GIPSIES AND THE PRINCESS
OF WALES.—Among the strangers present at Kelso
Races on Thursday last, attracted by the hope of seeing
the Princess of Wales, was the representative and head of
a dynasty now rapidly becoming extinct. This was no other
than the descendant of lohnny Faa—Estherßlythe, Queen
of the. Gipsies, who had come from Yetholm, her royal
abode, a village at the foot of the Cheviots, about seven
miles south of .Kelso, to witness her future Queen. She
sat on a bank near the entrance to the racecourse, smoking
twist tobacco from a very old cutty pipe, speaking her own
gibberish to one of her maids in waiting, who was seated
beside her, indulging also in the "weed." The Gipsy
Queen expressed a wish to see the Princess, and after her
anival, when she had seen her, she observed that "she
was a deuce and modest-looking lass," and expressed a
hope that she might be spared "fang in the land o' the

THE TOURIST HARVEST IN SWITZERLAND.—The
Journal de la Savoie says :—" The season of tourists is now
decidedly over. Letters from Chamounix state that snow
covers all the mountain tops. The list of travellers pub-
lished gives a total of 11,789, or about 1,500 more than
last year. The Abeille estimates at £48,000 the sum left
the country by excursionists ; about one-third of them
from England."

THE BATTLE :OF INKERMANN.—The anniversary
of the battle of Inkermann falls this year on Sun-
day, Nov. 5. The battle, it will be remembered, was
fought on a Sunday. The anniversary of the battle in
1855 fell on a Monday; in 1856 (leap year), on Wednes-
day ; in 1857, on Thursday ; in 1868, on Friday ; in 1859,
on Saturday; in 1860 (leap year), on Monday; in 1861, on
Tuesday ; in 1862, on Wednesday ; in 1863, on Thurs-
day; in 1864 (leap year), on Saturday ; and this year, as
above stated, the anniversary falls on a Sunday for the
first time.

INSPECTION OF THE GUARDS.—The half-yearly
muster of the Brigade of Guards is fixed to take place in
in St. James's Park on Monday, Nov. 6, for the Ist and 3d
Battalions of Grenadier Guards, and the Ist Battalion of
Coldstream Guards, and the Ist Battalion of the Scots Fusi-
lier Guards. The muster of the 2d Battalion of Coldstream
Guards, and of the Tower Warders (Beefeaters), will take
place at the Tower, on Wednesday, Nov. 8 ; and for the
2d Battalion of Grenadier Guards, at Windsor, on Nov. 9.

DETEBSUNED SUICIDE AT THE HOUSE OF DETEN-
TION.--Yesterday afternoon Charles Gustaldi, an
Italian, and one of the men under remand from the Marl-
borough-street Police-court, charged, with another, with
breaking into the residence of the Earl of Fife in Dover-
street, and the Earl of Eldon, Hamilton-place, committed
suicide in his cell by hanging himself with his handker-
chief, which he had attached to tho ventilator in a most
ingenious manner, making use of a spoon to enable him to
carry out his object. He had been visited in his cell about
half an hour previously, and nothing was then observable
in his demeanour to lead the officers to imagine that he
contemplated taking his life.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO LIVERPOOL.—A meeting
of volunteer officers was held yesterday, and a recommen-
dation (which will have to be ratified by the mayor) was
agreed to, that if possible-the volunteer forces, both rifles
and artillery, should be massed in front of St. George's-
hall. This would present the finest spectacle, but there
are some doubts as to whether there will be room for the
men. If not they will be distributed in detachments at the
most prominent points of the royal suite. We understand
that the Sylph and Sprite, two of the Mersey River Steam-
boat Company's smartest vessels, have been assigned
places alongside the Woodside steamer, which is to con-
vey the royal party on their river trip.
THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—During the last few
days the catches of herrings by the Groat Yarmouth boats
have been comparatively small. Some fresh herrings
brought in have sold at high rates ; the general prices
have been £l2 to £2l per last (13,200 fish). The opera-
tions of the Lowestoft boats have also been interrupted by
the weather ; those boats which have made good catches
made fair prices. A large trade is anticipated at Lowestoft
during the next two months.

THE WEATHER IN THE CHANNEL.—PORTLAND,
DORSET, Wednesday.—The weather in this locality
for a week past has been very unsettled, with fresh to
strong winds from E. to N. and N.W., with much rain.
Yesterday the Coastguard received orders from the Board
of Trade to hoist the drum storm signal, in anticipation of a
continuance of bad weather. The signal had not been hoisted
but a few hours before the wind began to freshen from W.,
with heavy squalls of rain, and by 9 p.m. the wind had in-
creased to a gale, which continued all night and to-day.
About 3 o'clock this morning the gale was at its height, the
squalls being very heavy, after which time the wind veered
to N.W., and it has blown a heavy gale from that quarter
all day. The Weymouth and Channel Islands steamer
Aquila, Capt. Falle, which should have left at 6 a.m. for
Jersey, could not proceed on her voyage on account of the
heavy weather, the captain wisely considering it best to
remain in harbour until 12 to-night before leaving for
his destination, should the weather moderate. A large
number of vessels brought up in the roadstead
,during
yesterday, and a number of others have been in the offing
to-day, vainly endeavouring to beat to windward to
anchor, but were compelled to put their helms up and
run before the wind. Some anxiety was felt in Wey-
mouth yesterday as the probable fate of three youths
named Mace, Gale, and Tizard, who, in spite of the storm-
warning signal and other cautions, proceeded in a small open
boat for a sail in the bay, but as the wind fast rose—being
off shore—their efforts to regain the harbour were ineffec-
tual, and as darkness came on considerable anxiety was
manifested as to their safety; but as one of them had just
returned from an Indian voyage, and being a native of
Weymouth, it was conjectured he would steer for Lulworth
Cove (the piece near where five coastguardsmen lost their
lives by the upsetting of their boat in the early part of the
year), which turned out to have been the case, as they made
their appearance home again this morning, having walked
14 miles after their perilous passage of last evening. The
barometer has now, 6 p.m., risen considerably, with the
wind and sea abating, but from present indications the lull
will only prove temporary.

THE GARRISON DRAG HOUNDS.—This flying
pack, belonging to the officers of the Ist Life
Guards, had their first trial meet yesterday (Wednesday),
at Harbour-hill, Slough, when Green, the celebrated
runner, gave them some first-rate leaps over fences and
ditches, taking the drag first over the white rails and
away to Eton-wick, thence across the meadows to Dorney-
common, away to the right to Mr. Aldridge's farm at
Cippenham, on towards Two-mile brook, and away to
Farnham Royal, leaving Stoke-park to the loft, and finish-
ing at Mr. Henry Cantrell's farm, Bayliss farm, Stoke.
The master ofEthe hounds was Lord Earlsfort ; the whips
were Messrs. Trollet, Thurle. Most of the officers of both
regiments were out.

THE HERRINQ JRADE.—The herrings in stock
are now fast disappearing from our quays—ships being
taken up for the whole in hand. Six vessels have loaded
this week, principally for the Elbe and Rotterdam, and
one to Ireland. Accounts from the continent report the
market very stiff, and buyers willing to submit to high
prices.—Peterhead Sentinel.
THE " BENEFIT" OF PRISONERS.-4n the new
Prison Act, which will shortly take effect, there is a pro-
vision that where a sentence expires on a Sunday the
prisoner shall be released on the Saturday. preceding. '