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pay, which would amount to upwards of 611. (Cheers.)
The LOAD MaToR elect seconded the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.
Mr. M. T. SMITH, M.P., moved a vote of thanks
to the Chairman, which was seconded by Alderman
WIRE.

His Lordship, baying briefly acknowledged the com-
pliment, the meeting adjourned. Daring the course of
the proceedings the Lord Mayor read, at various times,
several long lists of subscriptions, the principal contri-
butors being the Corporation, 2,0001.; the Bank of
England, 2,0001.; the Goldsmith's Company, 1,000/. ;
the Grocers' Company, 1,0001. ; the Fishmongers' Com-
pany, 5001. ; Messrs. Gibbs, 500/. ; Messrs. Barclay,
5001. ; Messrs. Bury, 5001. • Messrs. Rothschild, 5001.;
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., 500/. ; the Sun Fire
Office, 5001. ; the Indemnity Mutual Marine Insurance
Company, 500/. ; Messrs. Glyn, 500/. ; Sir R. P. Glyn,
2001..; Messrs. Pickford, 5001., &c. The total amount
of the subscriptions already received was upwards of
16,000/.

The committee appointed will meet at the Mansion
House at 3 o'clock this day (Friday) afternoon, to carry
out the object of the meeting with vigour.

INLVS OF COURT.

The following prospectus of the lectures to be deli-
vered during the ensuing educational term by the several
Readers appointed by the Inns of Court has been issued
by order of the Council of Legal Education :

"CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL III5T0111".
" The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History,
proposes in the ensuing term to pursue the history of con-
stitutional law during the reigns of the Stuarts and Wm.
111., and during such further period as time may permit.
" The books to which he will chiefly refer are : Hal-
lam's Constitutional History,' Millar's Constitutional
History,' Tindal's Continuation of Rapin,' Parliamen-
tary History,' ".Blackstone's Commentaries,' Marten's
History of France,' Clarendon's Life," Temple's Me-
moirs,' Somerville's History,' 'Burnet's History of his
Own Time.'

"In his private classes, the Reader will treat of the
progress of constitutional law in England, sad of the most
remarkable State trials from the commencement of the
reign of Charles I. to the Revolution of 1688.
" The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History
will deliver his public lectures at Lincoln's-inn Hall on
Wednesday in each week (the first lecture to be delivered
on the Bth of November), commencing at 2 o'clock p.m.
The Reader will receive his private classes on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday mornings, from half-past 9to
half-past 11 o'clock, in the Benciers' Reading-room, at
Lincoln's-inn Hall.

" EQUITY.
" The Reader on Equity proposes to deliver, during the
ensuing educational term, a course of six lectures on the
causes which lad to the separation of the equitable from
the legal jurisdiction in England; the leading principles
on which the equitable system has been establishou the
origin of the superior tribunals and the distinctions be-
tween the modes of procedure adopted in the Courts of
Chancery and Common Law ; the history of the Court of
Chancery, and the recent alterations by which a partial
amalgamation of the two jurisdictions has been effected.
" The Reader on Equity will deliver his public lectures
at Lincoln's-in-hall on Thursday in each week daring the
ensuing educational term, commencing at 2 o'clock p.m.
(the first lecture to be delivered on Thursday, the 9th of
November). The Reader will receive his private classes on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, from 7 to 9
o'clock, in the Ranchers' Reading-room, at Lincoln's-inn-
hall.

" LAW OP REAL PROPERTY, ETC.

" The Reader on the Law of Real Property, 4;c., p -
poses to deliver, in the ensuing educational term, a course
of six public lectures, on the following subjects :
"1. On the law of mortmain ' • statutory restrictions on
the alienation of lands • licenses to hold land in mortmain;
statute of the 9th of George IL, c. 36.
"2. On the law of charitable uses ; statute of the 43d
of Elizabeth, c. 4 ; construction put upon the statute by
courts of equity; effect of the Statute of Limitation upon
testamentary gifts in favour of charities.
" 3. On the accumulation of income ; statute of the 30th
aid 40th of George 111., c. 93 ; accumulation iddependent
of the statute.
The lectures to be delivered to the private classes will
comprise the following subjects :—With the senior class
the Reader proposes to discuss the application of the rule
in Shelley's case, as illustrated by modern decisions; and
with the junior class, the leading principles upon which
the learning of powers and contingent remainders is fouhded,
and the application of those principles to the practice of
conveyancing.
" The public lectures will be delivered at Gray's-inn-hall
on Friday in each week, at 2 p.m. (the first lecture to be
delivered on Friday, the 10th of November). The private
classes will be held in the north library of Gray's-inn on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, from a-quar-
ter to 12 to a-quarter to 2 ,o'clock.
" JURISPRUDENCE AND THE CIVIL LAW.
"The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law will,
in the course of the ensuing educational term, deliver six
public lectures on the following subjects :
"1. On the science of jurisprudence, its nature, limits,
and uses ; on some prevalent errors concerning it; and the
misapprehensions from which they have arisen.
"2. The analysis of the conceptions implied in the
primary terms of jurisprudence ; on the extreme import-
ance of this analysis, the mode in which it has occasion-
ally been prosecuted., and the reaalta•to which it has been
supposed to lead.

3.
The relation of jurisprudence to certain departments
of moral philosophy; the ..1243 Gentium. and Joe Naturale of
the Romans ; on some modern theories of natural law,
considered with reference to the soundness of the assump-
tions on which they rest.
"4. On Grotius ; his method, his doctrines, and the
school which he founded—the influence of his writings on
modern private law, and the international system; on
some recent symptoms cf reaction against his views.
" 5 and G. On the Roman civil law and its relation to
scientific jurisprudence • on the principal points of con-
tract between the laws of Englund and the system of the
juriseonsult ; the study of the civil law in England, and
the grounds on which it is to be defended and recom-
mended.

" With his private class the Reader proposes to dine-ass
the Roman law of property, using as his text-book the
hmtitutione3 Juris Rom,c4ni Prima, of Warnke,,ig. It is
desirable that students should provide themselves with
the Latin text of Justinian's Institutes,' aud of Gaius's
Commentaries,' and also, if possible, with the Jedwlicatioi&
Ilistorique deslnstituts of Ortolan, or with the annotated
English edition of the Institutes,' by Sanders. Copies of
.the entire corpus juris will be found in the lecture room,
" The public lectures will be delivered in the hall of
the Middle Temple on Tuesday in each week, at 2 p.m.
(the first lecture of the course on Tuesday, the ith of No-
veznber).