The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

EXAMINATIONS IN LAW.

The following further order for conducting the
examinations in General Knowledge have been Pub'
lished :—" Whereas by the Bth section of the 23d
and 24th Victoria, chap. 127, it is enacted that we,
the Lords Chief Justices of the Courts of Queen's
Bench and Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief
Baron of the Court of Exchequer, jointly with the
Master of the Rolls, may from time to time make
regulations for the examination it such branches of
general knowledge as we may deem proper of all
persons (not having taken degrees or successfully
passed the University examinations in the Act men-
tioned) thereafter becoming bound under articles of
clerkship to attorneys or solicitors ; and we tlyi.
said judges, by such regulations, may requireo:suso
examination to be passed either before
as attorneys or solicitors, as to us may
or become bound, or at any time before their fits and
or alter
that we may from time to time
oei
any such regulations as
able
from time to time appoint examiners for conducting
we thrink fit, and.
shallnd nobo peeerps
on
quired to pass such
such examinations
examinationasaforesa
being bound as aforesalbeforesuch examination
is required to be passed being bound, or of
being admitted as an attorney or solicitor where
before
time
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e beforebeinga examinationdamd mi
sistiitosendp,eu( permitted
unless
tshis
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before
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case
b me
being
may
ya s passed
obtain from the examiners a certificate ocidbfuoihaurtaeniainnhoyger
satisfactorily passed
always, that we or sauncyh examone oir n amt ioorne .
of
Pur
so vmi da eyd,
where under special circumstances we see fit so to
denot,idreisipyeon
rsewithcoalpliance with such regulations
partially, or subject to any such condi-
tions as to us may seem fit. And whereas, by the
second regulation made by us, bearing date the 26th
day of July, 1861, it is directed that every person
proposing to enter into articles of clerkship,
not having been called to the degree of Utter Bar-
rister in England, or not having taken a degree.,
or passed the examination prescribed under the 6th
section of the act, shall produce to the Registrar of
Attorneys a certificate that he has successfully
passed an examination by special examiners ap-
pointed by us ; now, we do hereby order awl, direct
that such second regulation shall not extend or
apply to any person proposing to enter into articles
of clerkship who shall, previously to being articled,
produce to the Registrar of Attorneys a certificate
that he has successfully passed one of the local elm:
minations established by the University of Ox.foel_
or one of the Non-Gremial examinations establls ed
by the University of Cambridge.--A•
. COhrM
BURN, JOHN ROMILY, M.R., W. ERLE,
LOCK." 'FBEp.

pi 1 Wednesday,
the Rev.
COURT •JtOAD.--The freehold
SALE OF WHITFIELD'S CHAPEL, TOTTENHAM-
property, consisting
ofofjth
large circular building on the west side of Tottenham-court•
road, and abutting on the east side ofJohn-street, Fitzroy.
burial ground,
square, known as Whitfield 's Chapel, and the adjoining
under a decree of tho High Court of Chancery. The was disposed of by auction oi
founda-
tion stone of the church was laid in the beginning
1756, and it was opened for public worship h June,
George Whitfield on the 7th November in the.
The chapel, with the boys' and girls' schools, same year.
first lot, and realised, after a brisk competition, formed the
The burial ground, with frontages to £4,400.
road and J ohn-street, was
divided i the Tottenham-court
altogether £1565. It was rum into six lots, and brought
the sale that the purchaser rumoured at the conclusion of
erect a music-hall on anof the property proposes to
chapel. extensive scale the .
on site of the

There was a medal struck by the Catholics against
Calvin about this time, which is curious as having been
taken as the model of some struck by the Reformers imme-
diately ntihee
diately after. On the obverse of this coin, the
thheead_oev.._
Pope, when reversed, becomes the head of
were
sDatanilie,
meaning that the things opposed to thef Popethe motto of the
especially the opponent whose name which
medal, loAN CALVINVS ITERESIARCSA
:
-
inscrip ion (supplying heresiarcha,"
I fated, "John Calvin, the worst o
the abbreviations) may be tram