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London, England, 1847-07-09 00:00:00

JULY 9, 1847.

THREE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.
Whereas about eight o'clock on the morning of Wednesday,
the 7th of July instant, a daring attempt was made by three men,
in Mitre-court, Wood-street, Cheapside, to Rob the Lombard-street
Latter-carrier of the Letters lie was proceeding to deliver. He was
knocked down and severely beaten with a lice-preserver, which was
found near the spot.
Whoever will give such information as shall lead to the apprehen-
sion and conviction of the offenders, shall be entitled to a REWARD
of THREE HUNDRED FOUNDS, payable on conviction. Apply
to M. B. Peacock, Esq., solicitor, General Post-office, London.
General Post-office, 7th July, 1847.

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Derby. By order,
June 25, 1847.

J. F. BELL, Secretary.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.
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BY 11ER MAJESTY'S COMMAND.
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PRICE SD.

LEGAL EDUCATION REFORM.
The report prepared by the House of Common's Public
Committee (of last session) on Legal Education, has only
just appeared, accompanied by voluminous evidence, &c.
Appended are extracts from its concluding pages, pre•
senting some of the principal recommendations of the
Committee :

" 1. That the present state of legal education in Eng-
land and Ireland, in reference to the classes professional
and unprofessional concerned, to the extent and nature
of the studies pursued, the time employed, and the
facility with which instruction may be obtained, is ex-
tremely unsatisfactory and incomplete, and exhibits a
striking contrast and inferiority to such education, pro.
vided as it is with ample means and a judicious system
for their application, at present in operation in all the
more civilised states of Europe and America.

" 2. That is shown, in a siriking degree, in our public
institutions. In none of our collegiate establishments,
serving as places of preliminary study to our Uni-
versities, are any legal courses, however elementary,
pursued. There is no , course sufficiently extensive,
available, or accessible, for the general student, still
less for .the professional. The Inns of Court have
long since, in England, discontinued their lectures
and readings ; in Ireland they do not appear
to have been ever given. Exercises altogether nominal
have been substituted; and these, with a certain number
of attendances, or presumed attendances, or dinners, are
the only conditions at present insisted on for admission
to the bar. No better provision has been made by the
public for the instruction of the solicitor. No profes-
sional education of any extent, or at all adequate to the
end in view, is provided for the practitioner in the Eccle-
siastical Courts, the diplomatist, or the administrative
professions which, on the Continent, have attracted the
greatest attention, and fur the education of whose mem-
bers such ample means have been contributed by the
State.

" 3. That it may therefore be asserted, as a general
fact to which there are very few exceptions, that the
student, professional and unprofessional, is left almost
solely to his own individual exertion, industry, and op-
portunities, and that no legal education, worthy of the
name, of a public nature, is atAliiaspinent to be bad in
this country.'
"4. That it does not appear to in that this state of
things is defensible, much less desirable. We bestow
great care on the education of the theologian and
physician ; nor has your Committee received any evi-
dence which would lead them to exclude from the
operation of such a principle the education of a barrister
or solicitor.

" 5. That this conviction is not less strong when we
come to a careful consideration of the rt. sults of the
present want of legal education as they affect the
student and society. He is called on to act as
magistrate, legislator, administrator, with insufficient
knowledge, crude ideas, and false views. The
professional man suffers still more. The barrister '
has to obtain his knowledge by practice only, and
must, more or less, however it may be useful as an instru-
ment in acquiring immediate wealth, feel, when called to
a higher sphere of usefulness and duty in his profession,
that technicalities will not supply the want of the spirit
and wisdom which would regulate their use. The soli-
citor comes ill entitled, through want of the qualities
which sound and careful education can best give, to that
confidence and reliance which the very. delicate and
complicated nature of his duties demand. The Minister
or Consul abroad has experience only to guide bias, and
in the many international questions which may arise,
looks principally to precedent for guidance and support.
" 6. That amongst other consequences of this want of
scientific legal education, we are altogether deprived of a
most important class, the legists or jurists of the continent;
men who, unembarrassed by the small practical interests
of their profession, are enabled to apply themselves ex-
clusively to law as to a science, and to claim by.their
writings and decisions the reverence of their profession,
not in one country only, but in all where such laws are
administered.
"7. That we do not ascribe these defects to indivi-
duals, but to our peculiar system and practice. The legal
education of the Continent is conducted almost exclu-
sively in the universities, and the universities are regu•
lated on a totally different system from ours. In our
universities, not only is the general student uninitiated
in such studies, but even if he were disposed to attend
them, his ambition is stimulated by higher rewards
in other branches, and by the exclusive and absorbing
cultivation of, especially, the mathematical and classical
divisions of his course.

"8. That your Committee have not, however, come
to the conclusion that this state of things does not admit
of correction; on the contrary, they have received during
their course of inquiry, very direct and unquestionable
proofs of all classes, professional and unprofessional,
not only from the necessity, but also of the facility of re-
form. Already commencements, with no small degree
of success, have been made. The period thus appears
to have fully arrived when larger, wider, and more
systematic co-operation may be demanded and expected,
and when suggestions from the Legislature will not be
disregarded by the public, but especially by professional
bodies.

" 9. That a system of legal education, to be of general
advantage, must comprehend and meet the wants not
only of the professional, but also of the unprofessional
student.

" 10. That legal education for the general unpro-
fessional student can scarcely be commenced on any ex-
tended scale, earlier than the period of university educa-
tion. It is deemed advisable, however, with a view of
general or non-professional, rather than of professional
education, that chairs of law, &c., should comprise
amongst their courses, besides the general principles and
elements of jurisprudence (the base and introduction to
all legal study, and the natural sequel to history, mental
and moral philosophy), courses also of constitutional law,
comparative constitutional law, political and commercial
geography, statistics, and political economy.
" 11. That an outline of the history and progress of
law, with the elements of jurisprudence, from approved
text books, might very advantageously form a portion of
the under-graduate's course in the English and Irish
universities, in continuation and illustration of the
elements of history and mental and moral philosophy:
and should the present course of academical studies be
so extensive as to preclude such addition (which may be
doubted), such portions thereof as are of comparatively
minor importance might be suppressed, so as to allow
the proposed law studies to be substituted.
" 12. That in order to give efficiency to such change,
two examinations should be admitted, the one of the
character usually required to qualify for degrees of arts,
the other such as is required for honours.
" 13, That with a view of making similar provision
for the more advanced students, especially such as pro-
pose to devote themselves to the legal or even clerical
profession, it appears essential that greater efficiency
should be given to the existing chairs; and in propor-
tion as the study shall be more cultivated, greater ex-
tension to the courses and a greater number of chairs to
each department. To realise this, it will be necessary
that greater advantages should be attached to the law
degrees, and a greater amount of study and knowledge
be demanded fur their acquisition. Connected with the
chairs of civil law, might be instituted chairs of inter-
national law and colonial law, for such as might find it
necessary or advantageous to attend them; and with the
chair of English law, and subsidiary to it, chairs of con-
stitutional, comparative constitutional, and municipal
law, might successively be established, for the conveni-
ence and instruction especially of such general students
as might wish to prosecute their studies in the univer-
sities farther than the proposed elementary legal course
of the under-graduate.
" 14. That to render these lectures of benefit, your
Committee are strongly impressed with the importance
of accompanying all lectures with as much of private
instruction and questioning as may be practicable, but
especially with periodical examinations, which may thus
afibrd tests not merely of a given amount of knowledge,
but, to a great degree, of assiduity and perseverance in
acquiring and retaining it.
15. That it appears from evidence before your
Committee, that the professional student could scarcely
acquire, even with these additions, that special and
thoroughly professional education necessary for pro-
fessional success at an university. In other words, a
college of law seems not less important to the lawyer
than a college of surgery or medicine to the surgeon or
physician.
" 16. That this institution is to be sought rather in
the application, if possible, of old establishments_ than
e
the erection of new ones, from the guarantee which
andh
former give of order, efficiency,
that such institutions are, to a great degree,
countries.b
No
with in the Inns of Court' in both-sattempted to be
and permanency;
met
violent or inappropriate innovation
onlyi
to their own
forced upon them. Theyresume anew the
ancient statutes and practices, and
original objects of their stt 1
effect to this application of the
17. That to giveresortand
appears much more advisable that the
law college, it
Inns of Court, to the purposestof a special or professional
for its own use or that of its
of each providing inlegctures
several inns in this country should co-operate ; and in-
steadon all the great depart-
mentsE alish law,
of civil and n„ that should rather fur-
nishh its quota to the general course,
each students,
in that depart-
ment which is most congenialto its constitution; and to
a series
admit indiscriminately, on payment of the same fees, all
students of the inns of court, no matter of what inn,
without distinction. The four inns would thus form, for
w
all purposes of instruction, a sort of aggregate of col-
leges, or, in other words, a species of Ln
The King's Inn' in Ireland, adopting the same course,
but forming one body, would, like its university, be at
the same time college and university.
" 18. That in order to give full effect to these lectures,
it appears to be advisable that entrance into the inns of
court, like entrance into an university, should be pre-
ceded by an examination by way of matriculation, to
which should be considered equivalent a degree in arts,
but especially if the changes above recommended were
carried into effect in the universities, a degree in law.
The lectures should be accompanied with questioning
and examination daily, and with an examination of
greater length and minuteness at the terminationofeac h
course. Finally, before applying for admission to
ationathr)
the
bar, the student should be required to pass apo b
qinAit)ing exaa-,iaa.ion, and p,raatted to r;;othtengh
an additional one fur honours, the notice and record of
which, after each examination, should be kept, and pub-
lished. It has been doubted boT he heneners would