The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY STENING, OCTOBER 30, 1869.

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY, U.K.
LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1869-70.

LECTURES (6 to 7 p.m.)
Three Courses of Lectures on Conveyancing and the
Law of Real Property, Equity, and Common and Mercan-
tile Law, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society, in
the months of November, December, January, February,
March, April, May, and June next.
LAW CLASSES (4.30 to 6 p.m.).
In connexion with the Lectures, Classes will be con-
ducted under the guidance and superintendence of the
Lecturers, and will proceed concurrently with the Lec-
tures. The number of subscribers to each class will be
limited, and the instruction giv, n will be confined to an
examination of the students upon the subject of a preced-
ing lecture, or on portions of a given book bearing on the
same subject. A sufficient number of classes will follow
each lecture, and be of such duration as shall provide for
the efficient instruction and examination of the students.
The teaching of the lectures will thus be amplified, and
impressed on the memory by the classes; and the system
of constant examination will test, from time to time, the
progress made by the students.
Lectures on Conveyancing and the Law of Real Property,
by Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Esq.,

Barrister-at Law.

The Course will consist of Nine Lectures :—Lecture 1,
Introductory. The Theory of the Law of Real Property
Treated Historically; 2,3, Purchase Deeds; 4,5, Mort-
gages ; 6,7, 8, Family and Marriage Settlements; 9, Com-
mercial Conveyancing.
The Lectures (with the ocception of the first) will be
rendered as practical as possible.
Books, recommended for beginners :—Williams' Law of
Real Property. Davidson's Concise Precedents. Black-
stone's Commentaries, Vol. H. for Advanced Students,
Tudor's Leading Cases on Real Property and Convey-
ancing, Davidson's Precedents and Ir&ms in Convey-
ancing.
Lectures on Equity, by Fitzroy Kelly,,Esq., Barrister-

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that when Mr. ATRTON succeedEto the office just
now vacated by the appointmen of the ex-Chief
Commissioner of Public Works,as her BRITANNIC
MAJEsTY's Ambassador to the Curt of Spain, or,
it should rather be said, to the Councils of the Pro-
visional Government installed it power at Madrid
—the scheme as to the new Law Courts, or
as we were used to call the project formerly,
the scheme as to the New Palace of Justice, stands
exactly in the very position, now,as that in which it
stood when the ex-Member for Southwark was, as
nearly as possible a twelvemoth ago, inducted
into office as Chief Commissioier. A year has
consequently been entirely waste( in this matter of
the Law Courts, or the Palace of ;ustice. The site,
known as the Carey-street site, is till at this moment
what it was then, a howling wilderness. It is
a hideous eyesore in the very coreof the capital. Mr.
AYRTON must bestir himself to mite good the blun-
ders perpetrated in this matter byhis immediate pre-
decessor. The site which alrekly belongs to the
nation is the site upon which theprojected buildings
will have to be erected. Until thy are raised, there,
that site will continue to be whit it has certainly
been for the last two years, a miserable spectacle of
dilapidation. No more convenient site could possibly
have been selected, bearing in mind the squares and
streets and courtyards in London in which lawyers
"most do congregate." Other pitiable regions of deso-
lation there are in the metropolis towards the clear -
ing away of which as eyesores Mr. LATARD made
not one single effort. There is that disgrace to
London—Leicester-square. Will not Mr. ATRTON
see what can be done, 'there, towards the re-
claiming of that waste land? Will he not
put on a small army of labourers, with picks and
shovels, planks and wheelbarrows, in lieu of the
three men and a boy lately pottering away in the
black ooze, and slime, and abominations of all kinds
recently laid bare by the draining away of the water
from the bed of the Serpentine? Will he not
take some measures, at last, towards the re-
lieving the dead-lock perpetually occurring
at the southern extremity of Park-lane, where
it joins at right angles the great thoroughfare
of Piccadilly ? Will he not make an effort at
length for the clearing away of the hideous block
of buildings jammed in between the two mid-
churches of the Strand—St. Clement Danes
and St. Mary-le-Strand thereby at last
razing to the ground, and utterly obliterating those
haunts of abomination that have so long stunk in
the nostrils of the public—the notorious byeway and
byeword of Holly well-street ? In very serious truth
and earnest, there is plenty of good work lying ready
to hand to be done, if only he so pleases, by Mr.
AYRTON as Chief Commissioner of Public Works.
And the credit he may win for himself by its accom-
plishment will be all the more conspicuous by reason
of the do-nothing regime, or the worse than do-
nothing regime of his immediate predecessor.

THE proceedings at the Central Criminal Court
just now are worthy of note. The present is a session
of numerous and flagrant crimes, and it is also a ses-
sion of remarkably heavy sentences. No such
severity has been shewn by judges of late years;
in fact this gaol-delivery may be regarded as the
beginning of our new system of criminal procedure.
The policy of merciful treatment has been
found wanting, and now the way of transgressors is
being made truly hard. " JAMES WORTLEY, 28,
agent," who has been convicted before, pleaded
guilty, on Thursday, to forging two orders for the
delivery of goods. His career of vice has ended with
a sentence of fourteen years' penal servitude. A lad
of 16, who had stolen a horse and cart, and had
received sentence on a further occasion, was thought
by Mr. Commissioner KERR to deserve seven years'
imprisonment. Mr. Justice KEATING passed sentence
of fifteen years' penal servitude upon a youth of 17
for extorting money under an infamous threat. A
conspiracy to defraud by means of a sham Plate Glass
Company was punished by two years' imprisonment—
the heaviest visitation the law allows for such an offence.
What do other commercial conspirators think of this ?
A second conviction for obtaining goods under false
pretences was visited with a fourteen years' penalty ;
two watermen who had stolen a quantity of brandy
were punished, one with fourteen years' penal servi-
tude, the other with five ; a robbery with violence
met with a seven years' infliction, besides
twenty-five lashes with the " cat; " a highway
robbery of £5 involved a seven years' sentence
upon two men ; tic. women, who had stolen some
articbmaker, y
punished, former offences
beingwa tch
proven
rs
en were
; andsim a watchmaker, who was found guilty
of knowingly receiving stolen property, will have to
labour hard for his country's good during the next
eighteen months. To some persons this rigour
will appear startling, and the weight of some
of the punishments excessive ; but it must be
remembered that the judges are acting only in ac-
cordance with the new principle of criminal treat-
ment. In passing the Habitual Criminals Act, the
v
Legislature decreed the end of the old system—
simply punishing for the actual offence committed—
and inaugurated a new method, by which
criminals are to be dealt with according to their
character as well as their crimes. Previous
convictions will in future materially affect the severity
of a sentence for a criminal offence. The object of
Parliament is to provide a system by which regular
offenders will be unsparingly dealt with and kept
continually under the eye of the law. Whether the
experiment will succeed or not remains to be tried;
but there can be no doubt that the former mode has
miserably failed. It actually encouraged crime, not
merely by light punishments, but by furnishing
various loopholes for the release of the prisoner whilst
in gaol and subjecting him to no restraint whatever
when set at liberty.

DR. TEMPLE.

The toilowing important letter has been sent by tno
Dean of Exeter, Dr. Boyd, to the Dean of Ripon. Dr.
111'Neile

"3ly dear 111`.Neile,--1 was not aware, when I received
your note of the 25th, that it was your intention to give to
it the publicity which I find, from perusing the Record, it
has obtained. Had I been aware that such was
your intention I should have replied to it, not as
I have done by a private note to yourself, but as I now do,
in a more public manner. I am happy to repeat my thanks
for the cordiality of your note, as well as the sympathy
under present responsibilities which it expresses. I should
be guilty of dissimulation if I allowed you to think that
my views as to the course which the Chapter of Exeter
ought to take coincided with your own. Admitting
to the fullest degree the force of some of the objections
urged against Dr. Temple, and confessing only great regret
that he did not years since disunite himself from apparent
fellowship with the other writers of the "Essays and
Reviews," I cannot permit myself to commit an act of (as
it seems to me) disrespect to the Crown, and unfairness to
an individual by promoting a refusal to elect him to
the office to which his Sovereign has called him.
It is one question whether, were this act of
election spontaneous and uncontrolled, I should
give my vote in his favour, and another whether in
the confessed absence on his part of heretical teaching and
sympathy with the sentiments of the other essayists, he
should be pronounced by men professing to be true and
just in all their dealings, ineligible. I regard myself as
one reluctantly called with others to sit in judgment on
his supposed and suspected guilt ; and I cannot without
evidence, reaching to demonstration, condemn him. My
late diocesan, keen in detecting error, and well
inclined to strike him through the joints of his armour,
could not, did not, feel himself justified in saying more
than that his essay was open to very grave remark.
"Prove to me that Dr. Temple is a heretic, that he
has denied the faith, and avowed dissent from the
.I.Arines of our Church, and my path is clear.
No consideration, whether of respect for high authority, er
of provoking obloquy, or of incurring penalties, would
prevent my fulfilment of the duty of rejection ; but while
I would in such a case dare to be inflexible, I have not
courage enough to dare to be unjust.—l am, yours faith-
fully,
" Oct. 27." "A. BOYD.

The John Bull of to-day publishes an article disclaiming
the charge that in opposing the appointment of Dr. Temple
it has been influenced by any desire to promote the
separation of Church and State. The John Bull does
not oppose Dr. Temple because he is a Liberal, for it is
only natural that a Minister should promote a
political supporter—but because he has consorted
with heretics. The same paper defends the appointment
of a provisional committee, because there was no time to
ascertain if those gentlemen, who were named, would
accede to the use of their names. The refusal of the Low
Church party to act with the High Church is a lamentable
and damaging confession of division. The same paper con-
tains a letter from Mr. J. G. Talbot, M.P., supporting the
opposition to the Bishop-designate of Exeter.
Yesterday, at Rugby, Dr. Temple had an address pre-
sented to him by several gentlemen. They congratulated
him in his new position, and expressed an opinion that he
would carry with him " zeal, integrity, Christian
liberality, enlightened toleration, and earnest piety."
The reply was expressive of sorrow at leaving
Rugby after twelve years' happy residence in it. " I can
assure you it is with very great reluctance, and only
from a feeling of duty, that I consented to leave here,
and when at first the Prime Minister asked if I should be
willing to accept a bishopric, I answered that, though I
thought it to be my duty to accept it if it was offered to me,
yet I should be glad to remain where I was while the energy
was in me to do the work, and afterwards to retire to some
quiet country living, in which I might pass the rest of my
days. I said this because I felt it very warmly, and as
a considerable interval elapsed before the offer was made
I had hopes that Mr. Gladstone had reconsidered the whole
matter, and I should remain here. But when the offer
was made, I thought I was bound to go, though I was
wanted elsewhere. I thought it was my duty to take the
position to which I was called, both by the authorities of
the State and by the number of people who seemed t'
think I should be more useful there than here."

Earl and Countess Russell and family have arrived
at Paris.

Archbishop Manning will take his departure for
Rome on Friday next.

The late terrible outbreak of cholera in India, l'he
Lancet states, shows every indication of a speedy subsidence
The latest accounts were very favourable.

The Board of Trade, at Liverpool, have presented a
telescope to Mati Ander:on, for saving the crow of the ship
Americana in th© Atlantic hurricane, in September, last

year.

The Rajah of Sarawak was marred on Thursday to
Miss do Windt, of Warneford- place, Sevenhampton, Wilts
in IlighwortL Church. The Bishop of Sarawak performed
the ceremony.
The death is announced of Sir Thomas Finlay,
%t, the age of 66. fie was knighted in 1837, when
high sheriff of Cavan, by the Marquis of Normanby, then
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
It is rumoured that Sir John Simeon is to Le raised
to the peerage. A vacancy will arise in the representation
of the Isle of Wight should this prove true, and the on'y
English Catholic who has a seat in the House of Commons
will thus cease to belong to that assembly.
The Mersey Dock Board, at their meeting on Thurs-
day, paid a tribute of respect to the late Earl of Derby, as a
neighbour with whom they had had many transactions in
connection with the extension of their estate, in which Lord
Derby bad invariably treated them in the most honourable
manner.

The British Medical Journal is informed, on the
best authority, that Lord Derby's last illness began with an
ordinary attack of gout. The acute symptoms subsided,
and his lordship appeared to be on the eve of convales-
cence, when a subacute form of muco-enterite supervened.
At first there was restlessness, which soon passed into a state
of semi coma, with inability to take food. In this state his
lordship lay several dayF, and, without chance f nally sank,
exhausted.

THE FIRE AT NEWINGTON BUTTS.—The jury
appointed to investigate the cause of the death of the
persons who lost the r lives in the fire at Newington Butts,
have returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased
Lost their lives in a fire on October 10; and they are of
opinion that such fire and loss of life wore purely acci-
dental ; and that the conduct of the fireman Watling was
highly praiseworthy, a 3 well as the general conduct of th•
police and fire-brigade engaged."

THE ALLEGED AGRARIAN OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.
—The attempt on Mr. Brett's life was not agrarian. He
had a dispute with a road contractor, named Bourke, who
met him on his return from an inspection. After some
angry words with him in his house he went out. In a few
minutes a pistol-shot was fired through the parlour win-
dow. Half a dozen pellets lodged in his side, ono broke
his watch chain, another grazed his watch and lodged in
the chair. He is not dangerously wounded. It is the
second attempt on his life.
THE LATE LORD DERRY.—The f. lowing resolu-
tion has been passed at a meeting of the council of the
City of Louden Conservative Association:—" That the
council of the City of London Conservative Association
takes the earliest opportunity of recording its high appre-
ciation of the character of the illustrious statesman,
the late Earl of Derby, and deep regret at the death of
the noble patron who, throughout a long and brilliant
career, served his sovereign and the nation with great
ability and unselfishness, and it requests the president to
forward copies of the resolution to the present Earl of
Derby and the Countess of Derby, and to assure his lord-
ship and family of the sympathy of the association at the
heavy loss which it has sustained."

INFLUENCE OF BEING IN LOVE.—Every one
knows how being in love changes for the time a man's
spiritual atmosphere, and makes animation and buoyancy
where before there was flatness and dulness. One may
even say that this is the reason why being in love is so
popular with the whole human race—because it relieves
in so irresistible and delightful a manner the tedium or de-
pression of commonplace human life. And not only
does it change the atmosphere of our spirits,
making air, light, and movement where before
was stagnation and gloom, but it also sensibly
and powerfully increases our faculties of action. It is
matter of the commonest remark how a timid man
who is in love will chew courage, or an indolent man will
;hew diligence. Nay, a timid man who would be only the
more paralysed in a moment of danger by being told that it
is his bounden duty as a man to shew firmness, and that he
must be ruined and disgraced for ever if he does not, will
shew firmness quite easily from being in love. An indolent
man who shrinks back from vigorous effort only the more
because he is told and knows that it is a man's business to
shew energy, and that it is shameful in him if he does
not, will shew energy quite easily from being in love.
This, I say, we learn from the analogy of the most every
day experience ;—that a powerful attachment will give a
man spirits and confidence which he could by no means
call up or command of himself ; and that in this mood ho
can do wonders which would not be possible to him with-
out St. Paul and Protestontism," by Maylqw Arnold.
the !! Cornhill Magazine.",