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of the divers was augmented, anti. such was manifestly the
result of the medifications of the ordinary apparatus intro-
duced by Reinke' which had been exhibited and described.
It was resolved, that in order to insure a fuller attendance
of members than could be obtained on Easter Tuesday, the
meeting should be adjourned, by special resolution, until
Tuesday evening, April 1, when it was announced that Mr.
Drysdale's paper " On Steep Gradients of Railways, and
the Locomotives employed," would be read.

INNS OP COURT.

The Council of Legal Education have issued the fol-
lowing rules for the public examination of the students
in Trinity Term, 1856 : _

"As an inducement to students to propose themselves
for examination, studentships shall be founded of 50
guineas per annum each, to continue for a period of
three years, and one sack studentship shall be conferred
on the most distinguished student at each public exami-
nation ; and further, the examiners shall select and cer-
tify 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 examiner shall
not be obliged to confer or grant any studentship or cer-
tificate unless they shall be of opinion that the examina-
tion 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 stu-
dentship or a certificate of honour, shall take rank in
seniority over all other students who
.shall be called on
the same day.
"No students shall be eligible to be called to the bar
who shall not either have attended during one whole
year the lectures et two of the readers or have satisfac-
torily passed 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 held in Trinity 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 proposing to submit himself for exa-
mination will be required to enter his name at the trea-
surer's office of the Inn of Court to which he belongs on
or before Friday the 12th day of May next, and he will
farther 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 19th
of May next, and will be continued on the Tuesday and
Wednesday following. It will take place in the benchers'
reading-room of Lincoln's•inn, and the doors will be
closed 10 minutes after the time appointed for the com-
mencement of the examination.

" The examination, by printed questions, will be con-
ducted in the following order
" Monday morning, the 19th May, at half-past 9, on
Constitutional Law and Legal History ; in the after-
noon, at half-past 1, on Equity.
" Tuesday morning the 20th of May, at half-past 9
o'clock, on Common Law ; in the afternoon, at half-past
1, on the Law of Real Property, &c.
" Wednesday morning, the 21st of May, at half-past
9 o'clock, on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law ; in the
afternoon, at half-past 1, a paper will be given to the
students, including questions bearing upon all the fore-
going subjects of examination.
" The oral examination will be conducted in the same
order, daring 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 ea.th student will be con-
ducted apart from the other students, and the character
of that examination will vary according as the student
is a candidate for honours or a studentship, or desires
simply to obtain a certificate.

" The oral examination and printed questions will
be founded on the books below mentioned, regard being
had, however, to the particular object with a view to
which the student presents himself for examination.
" In determining the question whether a student has
passed the examination in such a manner as to entitle
him to be called to the bar, the examiners will princi-
pally have regard to the general knowledge of law and
jurisprudent) which he has displayed.
" A student may present himself at any number of
examinations until be shall have obtained a certificate.

" Any student who shall obtain a certificate mayprel
sent himself a second time for examination as a candidate
for the studentship, but only at one of the three exami-
nations immediately succeeding that at which he shall
have obtained such certificate, provided that if any stu-
dent so pre.ienting himself shall not succeed in obtaining
the studentship his name shall not appear iu the list.
" Students who have kept mere than 11 terms shall
not be admitted to an examination for the studentship.
" The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal His-
tory proposes to examine the following subjects :
" Hs will expect the candidates for honours in the
ensuing examinations to be well acquainted with the
chapters in Hallam's Constitutional History,' which
treat of the reigns of Elizabeth, and of Charles 1., and
James 1., and of Charles 11. He will expect them to be
well acquainted with the chapters on Stephens' Black-
stone' relating to the law of treason and the history of
our testamentary law, and with the State trials daring
the period mentioned above. _

"The candidates for a pass will be required to answer
any genera! question as to the leading facts on English
history ; to be well acquainted with the history of the
reigns of James I. and of Charles 1., and with the chap-
ters in 411allam's Constitutional History' in which the
events of that period are discussed.
" He will expect them also to be acquainted with the
trials of Russell, College, and Sydney.
"The Reader on Equity proposes to examine on the
following books and subjects
1. Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence ; ' Mit-
ford's Pleadings in the Court of Chancery.' Introduction:
—Chap. i, secs. 1 and 2 ; chap. ii., sec. 2, part 1 (the first
three pages) ; chap. ii., sec. 2, part 2 (the first 2 pages) ;
chap. ii., sec. 2, part 3 ; chap. iii. The act for the im-
provement of the jurisdiction of equity, 15 and 16 Vie.,
chap. 86.
" 2. The cases and notes contained in the first volume
of ' White and Tudor's Leading Cases,' and the subjects
of charitable and superstitious uses with reference to the
statutes, 43 Elia., c. 4 ; 1 Edw. VI. c. xiv. ; and the cases
Attorney-General v. Ironmongers Company,' Cr. and
Ph. 208 ' • West v. Shuttleworth,' 2 M. and K., 684 ;
Thetford School Case,' 8 Co. 136.

"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 the studentship or honours will be ex-
amined in the books and subjects mentioned in the two
classes.

"The Reader on the Law of Real Property proposes
to examine in the following books and subjects :
" 1. Real Property ;' ' Sugden, Powers,'
vol. 1.

"2. Alienations by Tenants in Tail,' and the altera-
tions introduced by 3 and 4 Will. IV., c. 74.
"3. The Power of Testamentary Disposition and the
Statutory Rules of Construction,' contained in let Viet.,
c. 26.

"4. The Law of Perpetuity' with reference to indefi-
nite powers of sale and exchange (2`Sudden,' p. 460),
and the 'Doctrine of Cy-PrZ;s ;" Moneypeny v. Dering,'
16 M. and W., 416 ; Do Gex, M. and G., 145.
"5. ' The Transmissibility of Powers of Sale,' Mac-
donald v. Walker' (14 Beay., 556), and the Liability of
Purchasers to see to the application of their purchase-
money,' Stronghill v. Anstey,' 1 De Gex, M. and G.,
615.

"Candidates for honours will be examined in all the
foregoing books and subjects. Candidates for a certifi-
cate will be examined in thoee mentioned in parts 1,2,
and 3.

"The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law
proposes to examine candidates for honours on the fol-
lowing books and subjects :
"1. Warnkonig's Institutiones Juris. Romani Pri-
vati'—The introduction and the let part of the 2d Book.
"2. The article on Law' in the Eucyclopmdia Metro-
politana;' the preliminary observations and Ist chapter.
"3. Lintiley's Introduction to the Study of Juris-
prudence.' Part 1,, chapters 3,4, G, 8, and 9 (the text
of Kubapt, as translated by Lindley, and the notes of
the translator).
" Candidates for a certificate will be examined in—
" Sandars's Institutes of Justinia,n,' Books i.
and

" 2. The article on 'Law' in the 'Encyclopaedia Metro-
politana ;' the preliminary observations and Ist chapter.
"The Reader on Common Law proposes to examine
in the following subjects :
" Candidates for a certificate will be examined in—
..

" 1. Tho elements of the law of contracts, a;d, in
connexion therewith, Carter v. Boehm' (1 Smith, L.
C., 270) and Dalhy ♦. the India and Life Assurance
Company' (15 C. 8., 355).
"2. The rules of evidence relating to (1) the burden
of proof, (2) the beet evidence, (3) secondary evidence.
(` Taylor on Evidence,') second edition, part 2, chap. iii.
—v. inclusive.

" 3, The jurisdiction of quarter sessions, and the ordi-
nary mode of procedure at a criminal trial.
" Candidates for honours will be examined in the
above subjects, and also in—

" 4. The law relative to distress for rent (' Smith's
Lectures on Landlord and Tenant '—lectures 5, com-
mencing at p. 141 and 6).
" 5. The new rules of pleading, Trinity Torm, 1853,
in connexion wherewith should be read Lush's Prac-
tice' (edition by Stephen), book 1, chap. iii. and iv.
"By order of the Council,
" "Council-chaEDWARD RYAN, Chairman pro. tem.
Council-chamber Lincolia'.-inn, March 4."