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INNS OF COURT,

The Council of Legal Education have approved of the
following rules for the public examination of the students
in the Michaelmas term, 1854.
As an inducement to students to propose themselves
for examination, studentships shall be founded of fifty
guineas per annum each, to condone fora period of three
years, and one such studentship shall be conferred on the
most distinguished student at each pubhc examination ;
and further, the examiners shall skeet and certify the
names of three other students who shall have passed
the next best 'examinations, and ' the Inns of
Court to which such students belong may, if desired,
dispense with any terms not exceeding two that may
remain to be kept by such students previously to
their being called to the bar, provided that the exami-
ners shall not be obliged to confer or grant any stu-
dentship or certificate unless they shall be of opinion
that the examination of the students they select has been
such as entitles them thereto.

At every call to the bar those students who have passed
a public examination, and either obtained a studentship
or a certificate of honour, shall take rank in seniority

over DA other students who shall be called on the same

day.

No student shall be eligible to be called to the bar
who shall not either have attended during one whole year

the lectures of two of the readers, or have satisfactorily
paned a public examination.

RULES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES
FOR HONOURS OR CERTIFICATES ENTITLING STUDENTS
TO BE CALLED TO THE BAR.
An examination Will be herd in Michaelmas term next,
to which a student of any of the Inns of Court who is
desirous of becoming a candidate for a studentship or
honours, or of obtaining a certificate of fitness for being
called to the bar, will be admissible.
Each student ptoposing to submit himself for examina-
tion will be required to enter his name at the treasurer's
office of the Inn of Court to which he belongs, on or
before Monday, the 23d day of October next, and fie will
further be required to state in writing whether his object
in offering himself for examination, is to compete for a
studentship or other honourable distinction, or whether
he is merely desirous of obtaining a certificate prelimi-
nary to a call to the bar.

The examination will commence on Monday, the 30th
day of October next, and will be continued on the Tues-
day and Wednesday following.
It will take place in the benchers' reading-room of
Lincoln's inn, and the doors will be closed ten minutes
after the time appointed for tho commencement of the
examination.

The examination by printed questions will be con-
ducted in the b followin,,- order :--
Monday morning, the 30th October, at half-past nine,
on constitutional law and legal history ; in the afternoon,
at half-past one, on equity.
Tuesday morning, the 31st October, at half-past nine,
on common law; in the afternoon, at half.past one, on
the law of real property, &c.
Wednesday morning,. the let November, at half-past
nine, on jurisprudence and the civil law. In the after-
noon, at hall-past one, a paper will be given to the stu-
dents, including questions bearing upon all the foregoing
subjects of examination.
The oral examination will be conducted in the same
order, during the same hours; and on the same subjects,
as those already marked out for the examination by
printed questions, except that on Wednesday afternoon
there will be no oral examination.

The oral examination Of each student will he con-

ducted apart from the artier htudents, and the character
of :that examination will vary according as the studthit
is a candidate !Cr honours or a studentship, or desires
simply to obtain a certificate.
The oral examination and printed questions will be

founded on the boo:ts below 'mentioned ; regard being
had, however, to the particular object with a view to
which the student preients himself for examination.
In determining the question whethera student has passed

the examination in such a manner as to entitle him to
Le called to the bar, the examiners will principally have
regard to the general knowledge of law and jurispru-
dence which he has diplaved,
A student may present himself at any number of exa-
minations until he shall have obtained a certificate.

Any student who shall obtain a certificate may pre-
sent himself a second time for examination as a candi-
date for the studentship, but only at one of the three
examinations immediately succeeding that at which he
shall have obtained such certificate, provided that if any
student so presenting himself shall not succeed in obtain-
ing the studentship, his name shall not appear in the
list.

Students who have kept more than eleven terms shall
not be admitted to an examination for the studentship.
The reader on the constitutional law and legal history
will expect all students to answer any general questions
relating to the history of England, and to know the out-
lines of constitutional law.

The candidates for distinction will be expected to know
the progress of our institutions and the changes in our con-
stitutional government. They will be particularly exa-
mined as to the struggles in the reigns of Edward the
Third and Richard the Second, to give an account of
the re►narkable State trials down to the end of Queen
Anne, and to be thoroughly and minutely conversant
with the history of the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Eliza-
beth, the House of Stuart, and William the Third.
Books for the ordinary examination will be Rapin,
Hallam, Creasy on the Constitution, and Sullivan's Lec-
tures.

Those for candidates for distinction will he the State
Trials, Parliamentary History, Clarendon, Burnet, Mil-
lar, Rapin, Tindal, and Blackstone's Commentaries.
The reader on equity proposes to examine in the fol-
lowing books :-
1. Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence ; Fon-
blanquo on Equity, Vol. I. ; the Act for the Improve-
ment of Equity Jurisdiction, 15th and 16th Vict., c. 86.
2. Mitford on Pleadings in the Court of Chancery ;
White and Tudor's Leading (with the notes), Vols. I.
and 11. Pothier on Partnership, by Tudor.
Candidates for certificates of fitness to be called to
the bar will be expected to be well acquainted with the
books mentioned in the first of the above classes.
Candidates for a studentship, or honours, will be exa-
mined in the books mentioned in the two classes.
The, reader on the law of real property proposes to
examine in the following books and subjects :-
1. Williams, Real Property ' • Stephen, Commentaries,
Vol. I. ; Sugden, Powers, Vol. I.
2. The Practice of Conveyancing with reference to the
framing of Purchase Deeds, Mortgages, and Settlements.
3. The Statutory Rules of Construction laid down by
Ist Viet., c. 26.
4: The Liability of Purchasers to see to the Applica-
tion of the Purchase Money.
3. The Law of Judgments with reference to Real
Estate Ist and 2d Vict., c. 110 ; 2d and 3d Vict., c.
11 ; 3d and 4th Vict., c. 82.
Candidates for a studentship or other honorary dis-
tinction will be examined in all the foregoing books and
subjects. Candidates for a certificate will be examined
in 1 and 2.
The reader on jurisprudence and the civil law proposes
to examine in the following books and subjects :-
1. The Roman Law of Persons ; of Real, Verbal, and
Consensual Contracts. The modern commentaries em-
ployed may be the Institutiunes, or CJamaentarii Juris
Romani Privati of Warnkonig.
2. Grotius on the Natural Obligations arising from
Ownership, Promises, Contracts, and Oaths. De Jure
Belli et Pacis, lib. 11., cap. 10, 11, 12, 13. (Whewell's
edition, Vol. 11., pp. 18 et seq.)
3. Dig lib. 1., tit 16, 17 ; De Verborum Significa-
tione ; De Begulis Juris.
4. Kent's Commentaries. Law of Nations. Lec-
tures 3,4, and 6.—The subjects of these lectures must
be considered in connection with the modifications in-
t7oduced into the general International Law by the
pitactice of the present war (Hazlitt and Roche's Manual
of Maritime Warfare, Appendix).
5. Story's Conflict of Laws, Chap. 17.—Candidates
for distinction will be examined in all the foregoing
books and subjects.
Candidates fur a certificate will be examined in (5), in
(2), so far as regards Chapters 11 and 12, and in (1). so
far as the subjects there indicated are discussed in San-
dars' edition of the Institutes of Justinian, and in Cum-
in's edition of Lagrange's Manual. .
The reader in common law proposes to examine in the
following books and subjects :-
1. The ordinary steps in an action at law, particularly
the practice connected with the writ of summons, the
appearance, the joinder of parties, and of causes of ac-
tion (Corn. L. Prob. Act. 1852, sec's. 1-41 inclusive).
2. The elements of the laws relating to contracts not
under seal ; together with the cases of Lampleigh v.
Braithwait, and Marriot v. Hampton, and the notes
thereto (Smith's Lead. Cas., 3d ed.)
3. Rights and remedies ex delicto, so far as illustrated
by the following leading cases :—Amory v. Delamine,
Ashley v. White, Scott v. Shepherd, and Merryweather
v. Nixon—with the, notes thereto (Smith's Lead. Cas.,

3d. ed.)
4. The law relating to homicide and to simple larceny
(Arch Cr. Pl., 12th ed.)
Candidates for honours will be examined in all the
above-mentioned subjects.
Candidates for certificates will be examined in the 2d
and 4th only of the above subjects.
By order of the Council,
EDWARD RYAN, Chairman pro tem.
Council Chamber, Lincoln's-inn, August 2, 1854.

ELOPEMENT AND SEDUCTION.—An extraordinary case
of elopement and seduction has within the last few days
been brought before the magistrates at Bath. It appears
that about the latter end of April or the beginni.-g of
May,. Mr. Jones, livery stable-keeper, at Weston-super-
Mare, had a daughter, who employed her time in dress-
making, being engaged by the most respectable persons
in the town. While she was so employed at the house
of a lady. a note was taken to her by a ragged bay to
meet a man called Pearce, with whom she was familiar,
in what was called " the Lover's Wilk." She accord-
ingly did so, and was taken away in a cart, on the pre-
tence that she was goin,; to a pie-nic, hut nothing was
heard of her till a few days since, when her family dis-
covered her at the Railway St!:tion Tavern, Bath, where
she and Pearce had been living together as man and wife
for several months. Her father and brother went there
to her, and persuaded her to leave; but the landlord in-
terfered, saying that she was of the Queen's age, and
could not be molested. He also struck her brother. In
• the midst of the excitement which occurred the young
woman took up a carving knife, and was in the act of
dashing it into her side, whea her hand was arrested by
a person standing near. The landlord then succeeded
in pushing the father and brother out of the house ; and
by the time they had returned with a policeman their
beer ,; !r.l a.,...;;y, ael
been heard. of her. Tie landlord has been fined by the
magistrates, who also intimated their intention of bring-
ing up the matter when he nest applied for his license,

COUNTRY MARKETS.

DERBY SMITFLFIELD.-AUGUST 29.

The number of fat beasts was sc.trcely an average one,
with a full attendance of buyers. The supply of sheep and
lambs was large, but in littlA request, and several lots were-
driven away unsold. Fat calves more plentiful. Fat pip
about the same.
The following were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to 6id ;
mutton, 6cl to 7d ; lamb, 7d to Od ; veal, 641 to 7d pl.
lb. ; pigs, 9s 4d to 9s 6d per score ; rough fat, 6s 61 to Os
per 141 b.; hides, 34d to 4id per lb; calf-skins, to 01
per lb.

EDINBURGH GRAIN.—AuGusT 30.
I` Wheat ou the top 2S 6d, and the average 4s 6d, down.
Barley on the top this 6d, and the average COs 5d np. Oats
on the top is 4d, and the average is 4d, down. Beans on
the.top 2s up, and the average Os 3d down.

Total Supply and Sales.
Wheat 486 qrs sold 434 qrs .
Barley ' 406 qrs sold 324 qrs
Oats 7lB qrs sold 697 qrs
Beans 62 qrs sold 52 qrs
Top of Wheat ......... ..... ............... 64 lb 67, 61
Barley 57 lb As 6d
Oats
Beans 66 ib 524 01
AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER.
Wheat, 2/. 1,7 5 1-12ths 1 Barley, „At. 9.11 4.l2ths
Oats, ... 1/. 13 2 3-12ths 1 Beans, 2/.. 8 0 9-12ths

BOSTON—AuoIIST 30.
At to-day's market the grain on offer was chiefly of the
new crop, the quality never exceeded since the memorable
dry summer of 1826, and sold at 6s to 7s per qr. under lad
week's quotations. In other articles there was no material
alteration.
Prices :—Wheat, red, 52s Oct to 50s Od ; white, 54g Od to
61s Od - extra. 00s Od. Barley, 00s 0(1 to tOe Od. Oats►
27s to 31s. Beans, 475 Od to 50s Od. Peas, 408 Od to 41*
per qr.

NEWARK—AUGUST 30.
At our Corn-exchange to-day wo had a very thin attend•
ance, but a good supply of new wheat, which experienced
a heavy sale, at a reduction of 8a to 108 per quarter from
the prices of last week.
Prices :—Wheat, white, 56s Od to 61s Od; red, 56s 03
to 60s Od. Barley, malting, 304 Od to 32s Od ; grindinT.
00s Od to 00s Od. Oats, old, 34s Od to 36s Od ; new, 201
Od. to 23s Od. Beans, 48s Od to 50s Od. Peas, 48s 'id to
50s Od. Malt, 68s Od to 70s Od. Tares, 00s Od to 00s 01.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 31.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been rather 101
active to-day. East Lancashire, 11; Great Northern, 21i;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 72i ; London and North-
Western, 104; ditto Fifth Sharas preen; Manchester,
' Sheffield, and Lincoln, 25i • Midland, 69g ; outh Eastern,
19 13-16; Dutch Rhenish, 2b dis. '

MANCHESTER, AUG. :31.
STOCK EXCFIANGE.—The marlot closed with the follow-.
ing prices ;—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire junc"
Con, t 1 dis.; Blackburn, 5; RAstern Counties, 12 ; GrAtit
Northern Adef,rred, Si 5.16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
72& ; ditto, W. R. Union, 3i dis • ditto, Preston and
Wyre, No. 2, cx dir., 45 cum ; 'ditto, Sixths, No- 3,
7i cum div.; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 251
North Western, 7i ; Shrewsbury and Chester 101., 9 9-16
c.; ditto 20t., 14i; South Es.tern, 19i 4.

BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was flat and heavy {0"
day, and prices tended towards a decline. Little business
was done on 'Change. The following were the only 881"
raported :—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Val-
ley, 9ex div.; and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 25.