The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-05 00:00:00

COMMON LAW.

The Reader on Common Law proposes to deliver,
during the ensuing Educational Term, a course of
nine public lectures upon mercantile law, the sub.
jects treated in which will be as under :
Lecture 1.-enmrnn.„l iiinerk.7.s•to ca. ki V,
mvichula, and sources whence it is derived.
Lecture 2.—Specifications of the leading Statutes
which affect or regulate Mercantile Transactions.
Lectures 3 and 4.—The nature of Mercantile Jn-
struments, particularly Bills of Exchange and Po-
licies of Insurance, will in these lectures be con:i-
dered, and the main principles of law governing
them stated and investigated.
Lectures 3,6, and 7.—The leading rules of law
having reference to mercantile persons, especially
principal and agent, partners, trading corporations,
carriers, warehousemen, and wharfingers, will be
explained and exemplified.
Lectures 8 and 9.—The concluding lectures will
be devoted to an enumeration of an inquiry respect-
ing mercantile remedies.
With his private class the Reader will traverse,
so far as time may permit, the ground above marked
out, using for purposes of reference the following
books :—Smith's Mercantile Law (last edition of
Dowdeswell) ; Byles on Bills of Exchange ; Arnold
on Marine Insurance; and Broom's Commentaries
on the Common Law.

By order of the Council,
RICHARD BETHELL, Chairman.

Council Chamber, Lincoln's-inn, Dec. 20, 1858.

The following are the days and hours for the de-
livery of the public lectures by the Readers ap-
pointed by the Inns of Court, and for the attend-
ance of the private classes :
The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal
History, at Lincoln's-inn-hall.—Public lectures :
Wednesdays, 2 p.m., first lecture, Jan. 19. Private
lectures : Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at
half-past 9to half-past 11 a.m. First class meets
on the 20th of January. Classes meet in the
Benchers' Reading-room.
The Reader on Equity, at Lincoln's-inn-hall.—
Public lectures : Thursdays, 2 p.m. ; first lecture,
Jan. 20. Private lectures : Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays, at a quarter past 3 and a quarter past
4 p.m. First class meets on 21st Jan. Classes
meet in the Benchers' Reading-room.
The Reader on the Law of Real Property, &c.,
at Gray's•inn-hall.—Public lectures: Fridays, 2
; first lecture, Jan. 20. Private lectures :
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at a quarter
to 12 a.m. to a quarter to 2 p.m. First class meets
on the 24th Jan. ClasseS meet in the North Library.

The Reader on Jurisprudence and Civil LaN-V,
at the Middle Temple-hall.---Public lectures :
Tuesdays, 2 p.m. ; first lecture, January 25.
Private lectures : Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Saturdays, at a quarter to 4 p.m. ; first class meets
Jan. 27. Classes meet at 3, Garden-court, Temple.
The Reader on the Common Law, at the Inner
Temple-hall.—Tublic lectures ; Mondays, at 2 p.m.;
first lecture, Jan. 17. Private lectures : Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, at a quarter to 12 to. a
quarter to 2 p.m. ; first class meets Jan. 18. Classes
meet at the Inner Temple-hall.
Note.—The Educational Term commences on tho
11th Jan. and ends on the 30th March.
The first public lectures of this course will be
delivered by the Reader on the Common Law on
Monday, Jan. 17, at 2 p.m.
The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law,
who is now recovering from a severe illness, pro-
poses to delay the delivery of his first public leetulv
till Tuesday, Jan. 25.
The first meeting of each private class
of will
tin take
place on the usual morning or evening meeting
next after the first public lecture on the same
subject.

DARING BURGLARY AT CIIATILAM.—At an early
eg
com-
mitted at the residence of Mr. J. military storekeeper,
hour on Saturday morning last a daring burglary was
Gun-wharf, Chatham, the burglars being, it is conjectured,
ealeth°l4ht
sthagea
circumstancen. in
prison there. It is a remarkable that,
a party of convicts reeentlyr
posted • •
there are a number of sentries in various parts of
the Gun-wharf, the burglars contrivedto obtain an entrance
into the premises without having been perceived. After
entering the house by means of one of the downstair win-
dows, the shutters
.of which were not properly secured,
they proceeded at once to the storekeeper's office, at theme
further end of the building, their object being, it is sup,"
posed, to secure a large suns of money, about £BOO, together
with about £lOO worth of plate, which was believed tole
deposited in the office. The greatest violence was used by
the burglars to effect an entranbe into the office, two doors
leading to which were completely smashed in by means of
crowbars, or some other equally heavy instruments. Once
in the office, every drawer and desk were ransacked, but a
large iron safe defied the utmost efforts of the burglars to
break it open. After spending some time in the office they
decamped, taking with them a small bag of silver and a
plated 'candlestick ; and from the precipitancy in which they
appear to have left, they evidently fancied themselves over-.
heard. As the gates leading to the gun-wharf are always
kept closed at night, the burglars must have obtained an
entrance on the wharf by scaling the boundary wall near
Chatham-church, several of the instruments used by bur-
glars being found the next morning in the churchyard. Ono
of the
,domestics in the house heard a noise during the time
the burglars 'were there, but being under the impression
that it was tho drums at the barracks, she paid no agent Oil
to the circumstance. . )