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to keep ourselves on guard, for he intended, it was
said, to carry him away." "When will he have the
power of leaving ?" "At seventeen ; but he has a
marked calling for the ecclesiastical state," " Does
he often speak of his father and mother P" "No
he appears to have forgotten them. However, he
writes to them twice a year., imploring them to be
converted. The parents make no reply to his let-
ters." (I thought to myself that such letters, writ-
ten by this unhappy child from a cop; made by
the priests, could poorly satisfy the parents.
Moreover, they knew very well that a reply
would not reach the child.) " The mother, they
tell me," said be, "is a good woman, who would
willingly become converted, but the father is a
hardened sinner. It was he who went to Cavour
at Turin, and was the cause of all the fuss that was
on account of the carrying away of this child.
Henceforth the child belongs to God. He will have
his first communion next week, and will receive the
holy sacrament from the hands of a French bishop."
I could report to you several other details of this
interesting conversation, but my space fails me.
I will only say that I shall never forget the accent
with which the priest to whom the young Mortara
is confided said to me these words, " They talk
much of the rights of the father and of nature re-
specting the carrying away of the child, but divine
rights, supernatural rights, override the rights of
the father—of the family. A baptised child is our
property."
I was loth to leave. Slowly I descended the
steps of the cloister which led to the church, and.
took a last look at that poor Israelite, passing. his
infancy amidst those black robes. Entering the
church, I came across a grozlp of devotees, who were
kissing the chains of St. Peter, They offered them
to me to kiss; but, thinking of ti:e poor child, I
turned away my head, saying to myself that resig •
nation could never reach such a depth with me as
to embrace the emblems of such a horrible 6e,rvitude.

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 !'lle
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 vve
the
said judges, by such regulations, may require suck
examination to be passed either before persoys. so
become bound, or at any time before their adfimtission.d.
as attorneys or solicitors, as to u. a m
aryevseoeke or alter
that we may from time t o
as 77ethink fit, and
any such regulation for s
from time to time appoint examiners
conducting
such examinations as aforesaid ; and no person re-
quired to pass such examination shall be capable of
being bound as aforesaid where such examination
is required to be passed before being bound, or of
being admitted as an attorney or solicitor where
such examination is permitred to be passed at any
time before admission, unless before being bound or
before being admitted (as the case may require), he
obtain from the examiners a certificate of having
satisfactorily passed such examination. Provided.
always, that We or any ono or more of us may,
where under special circumstances we see fit so to
do, dispense with compliance with such regulations
entirely or partially, or subject to any such condi-
tions as to us may seem fit. And whereas, b 7 the
second regulation made by us, bearing date the 20th
day of July, 1861, it is directed that every person
i 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
i 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 and, 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
that he has successfully passed one of the local
ford,
minations established by the University
Of
Tished
certificaate
or one of the Non-Gremial examinations eV
COCK-
by the University of Cambridge.---A.
, Flap, Pore.
BURN, JOHN ROMILY, ALB, W. Elti'l
LOCK."
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FEL, TOTTENHAM.
SALE OF WHITFIELDS
rCellpaAertY, consisting of the
QOUKT •ROAD.— I. d of Tottenham-court-
The freehold
wPos.si 0
large circular building
°netehast lido of John-street Fitzroy..
and the adjoining
road, and abutting
Illitilltfield's Chapel,
square, known as
ataslVdt.posed of by auction on WedivisdaYl
burial ground,
bHi • h Court of Chancery. The fourlda-
I • 1 •' church au inhe
under a decree of the g
lion stone of the was
1756, and it was opened for public twoshipbeginni byng theofJune, Rev.
George Whitfield on the 7th November in the same year.
'rho chapel, with the boys and girls' schools,, formed the
first lot, and realised, after a brisk competition, £4,400.
The burial ground, with frontages to the Tottenham-corrct
road and J ohn-street, was divided into six lots, and brought
altogether £1,565. It was rumoured at the conclusion of
the sale that the purchaser of the property proposes to
erect a music-hall on an extensive scale on the site of the
chapel.
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 Riehfoerhmeeards e
of the
diately after. On the obverse of this coaind,
of the Devil—
Pope, when reversed, becomes thethhee
meaning that the things opposed to
forroP°
po Were satanic,
s the motto of the
especially the opponent whose Dame
rEssnws,
which
medal, lOAN CALVE...7I'S
inscription (supplying
lated, "John Calvin, the worst
liEfreviations) may be trans-
the
of the hereaarchs,"