The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-11 00:00:00

EQUITY.

The Reader on Equity proposes to deliver during the
ensuing educational term a course of six lectures on the
following subjects :—" The Influence exercised by the Nor-
man Conquest on Judicial Procedure in England." "The
History and Constitution of the Court of Chancery," "The
Principles of Pleading in Equity," and " The Jurisdiction
in Bankruptcy."
The Reader on Equity proposes to form two private
classes, a senior and junior, according to the amount of pre-
liminary knowledge possessed by the students using in the
junior " Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence" as a
text-book ; and in the senior, while following the division
adopted in the manual, illustrating the subject by a more
frequent reference to cases.
The Reader on Equity will deliver his public lectures at
Lincoln's-inn-hall on Thursday in each week, during the
educational term, commencing at 2 o'clock p.m. (The first
lecture to be delivered on the 6th November. The Reader
will receive his private classes on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays, at half-past 3 p.m., in the benchers' reading-
room. (The first private class to be held on Friday, the
ith November.)
LAW OP REAL PROPERTY, &c.
The Reader on the Law of Real Property, &c., proposes
to deliver in the ensuing educational term a course of six
public lectures on the following subjects :-
1. A comparison between the old and new law of wills.
2. The statutes 1 Vic., c. 26 and 15, and 16 Vic., c. 24.

3. The decisions upon those statutes.
In his priv ate classes the Reader on Real Property Law
will explain the common form of wills, give suggestions as
to the best mode of framing wills, and examine minutely
the latest decisions on the Wills Acts.
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 the 7th November). The private classes will
be held in the North Library of Gray's-inn, on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday mornings, from a quarter to 12 to
a quarter to 2 o'clock (the first private class to be held on
Monday, the 10th November).
JURISPRUDENCE AND THE CIVIL LAW.
The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law pro-
pesos in the course of the ensuing Michaelmas Term to de-
liver six public lectures on the following subjects :-
1. The elementary principles of Roman law respecting
proprietary and possessory rights, modes of acquisition and
transfer, and the classification of things.
2. The departments of international law which have been
affected by Roman jurisprudence, particularly capture in
war, maritime and territorial dominion, sovereignty, occu-
pation, possession, and prescription.
With the private classes the Reader will proceed regu-
larly through the principal departments of Roman law, be-
ginning with the law of persons. The " Institutes of Justi-
nian" and the " Commentrriee of Gains" will form the
basis of the lectures, and will be read together ; but on
certain days selected portions of the digest will be taken.
Reference will frequently be made to the " Inetitutiones "
and " Cornmentarii Juris Romani Privati" of Warnkonif,
and to the " Explication Ilistorique " of Ortolan.
The private classes will assemble at the Class-room in
Garden-court, Middle Temple, on Tuesdays, Thursdays,
and Saturdays, at a quarter to 4 p.m., the first meeting
to take place Nov. 13.
The first public lecture will be delivered in the Middle
Temple-hall on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

COMMON LAW.
The Reader on Common Law proposes to deliver during
the ensuing educational term a course of six public lectures
on the subjects undermentioned :
Lecture 1 will be introductory to the study of our com-
mon law, will indicate the various matters of which it
takes cognisance, and specify its leading branches and sub-
divisions.
Lectures 2 and 3 will be devoted to an examination of
certain maxims and principles of our common law which
concern the Crown, especially of the following rules :—That
the Sovereign can do no wrong ; that the rights of the
Crown cannot be barred by lapse of time ; that where the
King's title and that of a subject concur the King's title
shall be preferred. These rules will be considered, not in
their constitutional bearing, but strictly in reference to
private rights and remedies at suit of or against the Sove-
reign.
Lectures 4 and 5 will treat of the nature of legal rights
and remedies as between subject and subject.
Lecture 6 will be devoted to an inquiry concerning such
rules of legislative policy as aro recognised and ordinarily
applied in courts of common law.
With his private class the Reader will pursue in detail
the various subjects and topics above sketched out ; and in
so doing will refer principally to the following works :
Blackstone's or Stephen's Commentaries, vols. 1 and 3 ;
the " Treatises of Messrs. Chitty and Allen on the Royal
Prerogative;" and Dwarris on Statutes," 2d ediiim.
The public lectures will bo delivered in the had of the
Inner Temple on Monday in each week, at 2 p.m. (The
first lecture on Monday, Nov. 10.) The private class will
be held in the hall on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
mornings, from a quarter to 12 to a quarter to 2 o'clock.
The first private class to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 11.
By order of the Council,
RICHARD BETHELL, Chairman.
Council-chamber, Lincoln's-inn, Aug. 4.
Note—The Michaelmas educational term commences on
the let Nov. and ends on the 22d Dec.
The first meeting of each private class will take place on
the usual morning or evening of meeting next after the first
public lecture on the same subject.

Mr. E..T. Smith having secured the services of Mr.
and Mrs. Keeley for his short season before Christmas,
is about to employ their laughter-moving powers to the
best advantage in a new burlesque upon Pizarro--in
which Mrs. Keeley will perform Rolla to her husband's
Pizarro. The announcement of this intended perfor-
mance is so whimsical as to be worth notice beyond the
ordinary run of playbills. It is as follows e
PIZARRO.
A SPANISH ROLEA-KING
PERUVIAN DRAMA, IN ONE ACT.
The success which usually attends a well-written and
well-acted burlesque can leave no doubt that public taste
approves that description of entertainment. In compliance,
therefore, with an opinion of my own, and a suggestion of
the author, we have sought for a fresh chapter in the pages
of bombast, which may combine with the revival of a play
appertaining to a period of gree's interest and little princi-
ple, much that is undoubted.'sy novel and amusing.
Heretofore the subjects have been chosen from the creep
tien of one Mr. Wm. P;nakspeare • in the present instance
I have selected the well-known d "rama of Pizarro," for
the purpose of exemplifying many of the performances and
exhibitions ci Pere, at the time when the people found
out that 'she Spaniards wore down upon 'em. The discovery
of the, "Western Hemisphere by Kitty Columbus (perhaps
the most hair-brained exhibition of the great lengths to
which adventurers will sometimes go, in the aunals of com-
mercial enterprise) opened a way to a good many places
up to that time unknown, and numerovs successors of the
illustrious pion eer penetrated region after region of the
vast continent, eager in the search of what they could get.
Europe recei wed the startling intelligence, " by our own
Correspondent," that Mexico and Peru teemed with mil-
lions of all fear ts , and no ends of gold-fields. While Nature
appeared to rev( 1 in various ways, according to the aspect
you took of her, the land abounded: with precious gems and
metals to such 1 ,n extent that the gold was actually trod-
den under foot in the dust. It was this discovery that
originated the a veil-known behest, so often made, and so
seldom complier t with, of " Como down with the dust."
Indeed it is beli eyed that the streets of the city of Peru
would have bees i paved with gold, but that the people at
the time of the drama were aove the weakness of pave-
ments of any kit ad. In placing upon the stage former spec-
tacles, I have as; ailed myself of anybody's discoveries that
wore appropriat o, and have laid my hands upon anything
useful I could gt •t. I have adopted precisely the same
course on the pa esent occasion.
By the recent excavations in Assyria all sorts of mum-
mies were disco vered, while through the adventurous and
unscrupulous Ns' .pit of the Spaniards in the 16th century
vast nations wet •e pillaged and plundered to an extent
which only a rat ilway fro bank director, who has unlimited
control of the ft Inds, can have any notion of. We read,
without the sl. ightest surprise, whole nations of people
doing the best, they could for themselves, and enjoying
their theatres, n nd other evening entertainments.
In adapting is be selected play to the purpose of amusing
illustration, she rt cuts have beeu made with certain pas-
sages,
been arrant;
•ad in appropriate lines. In adopting this
I
course have • v entured to introduce many effects which
theare cnieenthteoybeehfr. ci;,..u,nerdefinpitahaerroer,i
calledginal dramae—efori
ninar Janercne'- ;
salemoke, has been most *unaccountably left behind the ‘
introducing : A remarkable . instance of the fatality which sometimes
scenes in the C t erman v , . .
sio . n I did think of '. ' hcertain persons is related in tl ie Droit. A mar-
the grand Fest aval of Pe - . we,g s on
knife swallow, es . b.dt-sarao Semen, the celebrated Indian' • dcouple living in the Faubourg Sods Le Denis were, by
rie
aer swellower could be ob-duced to t le most frightful
twined at so al sorl a
notice,
sicno d, no misconduct of their own, re
iee, i
e, dagger perhaps the auliepehe
distress. The husband at last succee( ~jafew days ago,
would not sw allow the ceremony without, I have I chink distress.
obtaining place letter-carrier, aec i Saturday teas
judiciously le ft it alone. a as
As we posy ess no infernal. Ort Friday evening
fixed fur his entrance on his duties.
ion respeeting Quito (the place
named by tht s dramatist),' I 11l they had literally not a morsel of bra: sii in the house,
Sip not intend to give any.
hut the wilt , being a dress-
order, however, to represent t 1 and no money to buy any ;
it Accurately, I have diasec rte .
l se had to make,
The scientific ; eirtist to paint maker, sat up all night to finish a gown H
The mush ;•throughout ii; another place.
el Allan , and on Saturday morning she took it home to get
in moments 'of conriposur o piece
Jash been arrangt, , .
ells ' She left her child, five years
airs are foue sided on a, by Mr. H. Tully. The yen
.. money to buy a ,breakfast.
other operas not • melodies in the " Trove , age,
tore " and of asleep in bed, and on her return. ' was horrified to
av •akenin began
though they ha- ~eluded to in Peruvian antiquities, al- find that the little creature bad, on g,
tiques. ‘o extensively been lauded in modern cri-
playing with the chemical matches, who: ruby she had set
By the we, herselfdreadfully.
fire to her clothee, and bad burned
most
bombastic, so'''• action of "Pizarro," long known as a .
The child was convoyed to the hospitA but she died in
is "
101°00 c ~ay, I cannot but think that a wide field
Los'?
_oi the introductiou .4 _in
c t le' dof wit and fun, " . hours.

TffE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION
AND SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOCIETY.

These two societies have, within the last two or three
years, made great exertions respectively to I ucrease their
usefulness along the coasts. Indeed, the National Life-
boat Institution has incurred a debt of upwards of 3,0001.
in its efforts to augment tie number of its life-boat esta-
blishments on the shores of the United -Kingdom. A
correspondent of the Nautical Magazine thus ingeniously
propoves to relieve both institutions, He says :

"Leaving to others to act according to their several op-
portunities, I have taken some pains lately to iv-rive at the
amount of tonnage owned and sailed by yachtsmen. in Great
Britain. I can give names and particulars of nearly 1,200
yachts, and the proportion of each rig, viz. :
250 schooner yachts, averaging about 60 tons 15,000 tons.
1,000 cutters „ 17 17,000
PP PP _ PP

60 yawls
Gluggers
7 sloops
2 wherries
6 stoam-yachts

„ 35 ;; 2;100
500 „
. 800„
70
....

1,000 ~

36,470 tons.

"This enormous amount of yacht tonnagt 3, contributing
6d. a ton, would yield 9001. for ono year, be ides additional
subscriptions, to which those contributions, when known,
might give rise. In three or four years the : National Life-
boat Institution might pay off all its debts, amounting to
3,0001., from this source alone. I propose, • therefore, that
the sister societies make v. joint appeal to pm 3htemen. I, as
one, having a small vessel, will cheerfullj - subscribe ten
goewninerssixcopenmeceaw2Trd r,a'ffea" I .s a beginning.
c,r only one year,
tLainemdteoastlaittersirflyteoancfhrnotam each will indeed prove a blessing to the
coast. Again, the mercantile tonnage of ' Great Britain is
estimated at 3,637,231 tons. Is it likely that ono British
shipowner in three would refuse his farf :king per ton, or
his half•farthing ? If all subscribed, thest farthings would
amount to nearly 4,0001. for one year. *This, with what
might reasotiably be expected from shippii i g societies, each
contributing its mere trifle, would raise such an amount
as would do more real good than the public—ignorant of
the actual working of these societies—wo- aid believe ; aud,
what is more important, would, before t be winter, enable
the whole system to be put in more ;perfect working
order."