The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-08 00:00:00

8, 1651.

That every person who has matriculated, or as a
non-matriculated student of one of the Queen's Col-
leges, sh.e,ll have attended, or shall attend, the pre-
scribed lectures, and shall have passed or shall pH
the prescribed examinations of the professors of the
faculty of law in any of the said Queen's Colleges
for a period of two collegiate years, and who shall
have duly served as an apprentice or clerk, by con-
tract in writing, duly stamped at or before the sign-
ing thereof, or within six months after, for the term
of four years, in like manner as by the said herein-
before recited Acts is directed respecting the service
for the term of five years, shall at any time after
the expiration of five years from the commencement
of such attendance on lectures, or of such period
of service which shall first happen, be qualified
to be sworn and to be admitted a. an attorney or
solicitor respectively, according to the nature of his
service, of the several and respective superior courts
of law or equity in England or Ireland, as fully and
effectually, to all intents and purposes, as any person
having been bound and having served five years is
qualified to be sworn and to be admitted or enrolled

an attorney or solicitor, under or by virtue of an Act
or:Acts now in force for the regulation of attorneys
or solicitors in England or Ireland, anything in the
said Acts or any of them to the contrary, in anywise
notwithstanding."
It will be seen from the reports of the professors
that the students have been generally most assiduous
in their attendance upon lectures, and that when
they enter on their studies with a sufficient amount
of preliminary learning, their progress has been only
retarded by their endeavours to pursue at the same
time too many branches of knowledge. It will be
necessary to explain what has mainly given rise to
this. In many instances young men are unable to
meet the expense of residing near and attending the
college unless they are sufficiently fortunate to obtain
scholarships. The large majority of these endow-
ments are annexed to the faculty of arts, while there
are comparatively few in the faculties of medicine
and law, and in the schools of agriculture and
engineering. Now, the students attending these
professional and industrial departments are pre-
cisely those who, looking to the profession or em-
ployment they may adopt in after life for support,
stand most in need of those aids in obtaining edu-
cation which scholarships afford. Accordingly many
students enter the faculty of arts, gain scholarships
therein, and thus deriving the necessary means for
attending the college, endeavour to pursue, cotempo-
raneously with the studies required in arts, the
courses of instruction given in other departments.
Scholars in arts are constantly found attending medi-
cal, legal, or engineering lectures, but particularly
the former. It would be unjust to prevent any stu-
dent from obtaining at once by increased labour the
endowment which enables him to prosecute his colle-
giate career, and that particular species of knowledge
which he may consider most useful to his future pro-
spects. But the pursuit of so many branches of know-
ledge serves, it is feared, to distract his attention, and
to prevent his attaining that complete familiarity with
the subjects of his duty which so effectually helps to
sharpen and fortify the mind.
Acting upon this belief, the college authorities have
determined to recommend to the senate of the Queen's
University that a modification be made in the
courses of instruction in arts for such students of
the faculty as may be in attendance at the same
time upon the medical lectures, and that they may
be thus enabled to carry on simultaneously their edu-
cation in both departments. They conceive that, by
such an arrangement, many persons will obtain the
means of pursuing their medical studies who would
otherwise be precluded from doing so, while the stu-
dents of the medical faculty will be encouraged to
cultivate, together with their professional pursuits,
those branches of classical and general learning which
every day's experience proves to be so essential to the
medical practitioner.
I have referred to the fact, that the scholarships in
the faculty of arts are often sought for by students to
enable them to attend lectures in other 'departments,
and to the injurious effects likely to result from such
a practice. The cause of thie I have already ex-
plained to be the difficulty which students find in meet-
ing the expenses of the college. This difficulty, I
have little doubt, will form the only real obstacle to
the speedy and entire success of the institution, and
not any opposition arising from a misconception of its
nature, which every hour must serve to dissipate. I
am far from wishing to recommend that any of the
scholarships at present annexed to the faculty of arts
should be transferred to the other departments, be-
cause I believe it right to encourage the youth of the
present day to a diligent cultivation of those great
models of ancient literature, and those exact sciences,
which form the best mental culture ; but I most re-
spectfully venture to submit that some means should
be devised by which the cost of attending the college
would be lessened, and the advantages it offers be thus
more widely diffused. The fees pay able to the college,
which at present constitute the sole means of defray-
ing its current expenses, add largely to the cost the
student must encounter.

To enable the authorities of the colleges to reduce
these fees, by a grant for meeting this expenditure,
would be an object worthy of the wise and benevo-
lent policy which, in other respects, has so nobly en-
dowed it. No educational institution that I know of
is left without some provision for its maintenance.
The establishment, too, of boarding-houses or halls
under the control of the authorities, where the stu-
dents could reside at a fixed and moderate rate, would
largely contribute to extend the benefits of the insti-
tution. If the college fees were reduced to the same
moderate standard which prevails in the universities
of Scotland, and boarding-houses or halls provided
for the students—all of which could be done at an
expense utterly insignificant as compared with the
great end in view—the college would, I am persuaded,
overcome every obstacle it may have to encounter,
and would cast far and wide throughout the province
those precious seeds of knowledge sure to yield at no
distant period that abundant harvest which would
repay with usurious interest whatever cost or care
has been expended in its establishment.
(Signed) EDWARD BERWICK, President.
Queen's College, G-11wsy, ug. 5, 1851.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE
Walter Whittaker was charged with having com-
mitted an assault upon a policeman with a tobacco-
pipe, and inflicting a most dangerous wound.
It appeared that the policeman was called in by the
landlady of a public-house called the Custom-house
Stores, to remove the prisoner from the bar, on ac-
count of having used offensive language to her. He
induced the prisoner to leave the house quietly, but
after going a short distance be returned, and said he
should go in again. The policeman told him he mu-t
take the consequences it he went back. Upon this► he
took a long pipe from his mouth, and thrust it into
his face. On finding that blood began to flow, he
went to Mr. Childs, surgeon to the police force.
Mr. Childs said the pipe had made a most danger-
ous wound; it had penetrated the side of the face.
With great difficulty he contrived to extract a piece
of pipe about two inches long from the wound, it had
forcibly perforated the bone, and was lodged in the
cavity of the upper jaw. To do this great violence
must have been used. He could not say what would
be the effect of the wound, but the complainant would
perhaps suffer more or less from it all his life.
The prisoner was apprehended by another police-
man while running away. He said the landlady had
given him a pinch of snuff, after which he became in •
sensible and knew nothing of what had occurred.
It was proved that he was not in liquor.
The prisoner was committed for trial for having
assaulted the policeman with intent to commit some
bodily harm.