BAR EXAMINATIONS.

Trinity Term, 1870.

EXAMINATION ON THE SUBJECTS OF LECTURES AND CLASSES.

THE Examination for Exhibitions on the subjects of Lectures and Classes delivered in the three Educational Terms 1869-70, will commence on Thursday, the 30th June, at Lincoln's-Inn Hall.

Students who propose offering themselves must enter their names on or before Wednesday, the 1st June next, at the Steward's Office, Lincoln's-Inn; and a Reader's Certificate of having duly attended the Lectures and Classes on the subjects in which a Student offers himself for Examination, must be sent to the Council of Legal Education at Lincoln's-Inn, on or before Thursday, the 23rd June.

Students having duly attended the Lectures and Classes of one or more of the Readers from the Michaelmas Term preceding the July Examination, are qualified to enter for Examination on such subjects, but they are not allowed to enter for the Elementary and Advanced Examinations on the same subject, and provided that the Terms they have kept do not exceed the limits prescribed by Clause 40 of the Consolidated Regulations of the Inns of Court.

Students who have passed an Examination under the 45th Clause, are not eligible to enter for the July Examination under the 39th Clause of the Consolidated Regulations.

Students who have obtained Exhibitions under Clauses 42 and 43, are not eligible to enter again at a subsequent examination on the same subjects.

The Examinations for the Exhibitions will be partly oral and partly in writing, by means of Printed Papers of Questions.

The following Days and Hours have been set apart for the said Examination—

Thursday Morning, June 30, from 10 to 1-Constitutional Law and Legal History.

Thursday Afternoon, June 30, from 2 to 5-Jurisprudence, Civil

and International Law.

Friday Morning, July 1, from 10 to 1-On Equity.

Friday Afternoon, July 1, from 2 to 5-On the Common Law. Saturday Morning, July 2, from 10 to 1-The Law of Real Property, and

Saturday Afternoon, July 2, from 2 to 5-A Paper composed of three Questions on each of the foregoing Subjects of Examina

tions.

GENERAL EXAMINATION.

An examination will be held in next Trinity Term, to which a student of any of the Inns of Court, who is desirous of becoming a candidate for a studentship, an exhibition, 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 examination, will be required to enter his name at the Treasurer's office of the Inn of Court to which he belongs, on or before Wednesday, the 18th May

next; and he will further be required to state in writing whether his object in offering himself for examination is to compete for a studentship, exhibition, or other honourable distinction, or whether he is merely desirous of obtaining a certificate preliminary to a call to the Bar.

The examination will commence on Wednesday, the 25th May next, and will be continued on the Thursday and Friday following, except as regards Hindu Law, &c., to be held on Saturday, the 28th May.

It will take place in the Hall of Lincoln's-inn; and the doors will be closed ten minutes after the time appointed for the commencement of the examination.

The examination by printed questions will be conducted in the following order :

Wednesday morning, the 25th May, at ten, on Constitutional Law and Legal History; in the afternoon, at two, on Equity.

Thursday morning, the 26th May, at ten, on Common Law; in the afternoon, at two, on the Law of Real Property, &c.

Friday morning, the 27th May, at ten, on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law; in the afternoon, at two, a paper will be given to the students, including questions bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of examination.

Saturday morning, the 28th May, at ten, on Hindu and Mahommedan Law, and on the laws in force in British India; in the afternoon, at two, a paper upon the foregoing subjects of Hindu Law, &c.

The oral examination will be conducted in the same order, during the same hours, and on the same subjects, as those already marked out for the examination by printed questions, except that on the afternoons of Friday and Saturday there will be no oral examination.

CALLS TO THE BAR.
Hilary Term, 1870.

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LINCOLN'S INN.-In addition to the lists published in last number, the under-mentioned gentlemen were called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn on Wednesday the 26th of January, viz. :-Mr. John Clifford Hopkinson, B.A., Cambridge; Mr. Edward Codrington William Grey, Oxford; Mr. George Barrington Baker, B.A., Oxford; Mr. Francis Gould, LL.B., Cambridge; Mr. Thomas Henry Briggs, B.A., Oxford; Mr. William Venn Drummond; Mr. William Coleman Watson, B.A., Dublin; Mr. William Edward Mirehouse, B.A., Cambridge; and Mr. Edward Beaumont, B.A., Cambridge.

EXAMINATIONS AT THE INCORPORATED LAW
SOCIETY.

Hilary Term, 1870.

AT the final examination of candidates for admission on the roll of

attorneys and solicitors of the Superior Courts, the Examiners recommended the following gentlemen, under the age of 26, as being entitled to honorary distinction:-Thomas Dewhurst Lingard, Lionel Barned Mozley, Augustus Beddall, Thomas Stockwood, jun., Oswald Walmesley.

The Council of the Incorporated Law Society have accordingly awarded the following prizes of books:-To Mr. Lingard, the prize of the Honourable Society of Clifford's-inn. To Mr. Mozley, the prize of the Honourable Society of Clement's-inn. To Mr. Peddall, Mr. Stockwood, and Mr. Walmesley, prizes of the Incorporated Law Society.

The examiners also certified that the following candidates, under the age of 26, passed examinations which entitle them to commendation-Harry Campbell Blaker, Joseph Bennett Clarke, Robert McTurk, William John Mann, Walter Sherburne Prideaux.

The Council have accordingly awarded them certificates of merit. The examiners further announced to the following candidate that his answers to the questions at the examination were highly satis, factory, and would have entitled him to a certificate of merit if he had not been above the age of 26 :-George John Vanderpump.

The number of candidates examined in this term was 114; of these, 99 passed, and 16 were postponed.

APPOINTMENTS.

THE Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto John Lucie Smith, Esq., C.M.G., Chief Justice of the Island of Jamaica, to Robert Hodgson, Esq., Chief Justice of the Island of Prince Edward, and to Michael Roberts Westropp, Esq., Chief Justice of Her Majesty's High Court of Judicature at Bombay.

Mr. George Young, the Lord Advocate has been appointed Queen's Counsel.

Mr. J. A. Russell, Q.C., Judge of the Manchester County Court, has been appointed a Magistrate for the County of Lancaster. Mr. W. H. Cooke, Q.C., Judge of the Norfolk County Courts, Magistrate for the County of Norfolk.

Mr. Henry Clark has been appointed Recorder of Tiverton, in succession to the late Mr. Richard Roope. Mr. John J. H. Saint, Recorder of Newark, in the place of Mr. Bristowe, M.P., and Mr. Serjeant Cox, Deputy Assistant-Judge of Middlesex, in the place of Mr. Joseph Payne, deceased.

Mr. C. W. Lovesy has been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate of Sheffield. Mr. J. C. Fowler, Stipendiary Magistrate of Merthyr and Aberdare, to the Deputy Chairmanship of the Glamorganshire Quarter Sessions.

Mr. James Bryce, Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford, in succession to Sir Travers Twiss, resigned.

Mr. Frederick J. Fegen, R.N., Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed Naval Counsel to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G. Mr. W. R. Malcolm, Barrister, has been appointed to the Assistant-Secretaryship of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade, vacant by the appointment of Mr. R. G. W. Herbert to be Assistant Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office, in the place of Mr. Ralph Lingen, C.B. Mr. H. Thurston Holland, Barrister-atLaw, to the Assistant Under-Secretaryship of State, at the Colonial Office, and Mr. F. D. Longe, Barrister-of-Law, to a Poor Law Inspectorship for six months during the absence from ill-health of Dr. Markham.

Mr. William Chater, Solicitor of Lowestoft, has been appointed by the Board of Inland Revenue, Distributor of Stamps for the Lowestoft District, in the room of Mr. R. Morris, deceased. Mr. Augustus Keppel Stephenson, Assistant-Solicitor to the Treasury, temporarily to perform the duties of Registrar of Friendly Societies, pending the decision of Parliament upon the measure affecting that office, which has been introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. J. Elliott Fox, to the office of Solicitor of the Customs Fund. And Mr. Rose Fuller, of the Principal Registry of Her Majesty's Court of Probate, London, to the District Registrarship for Newcastle-on-Tyne, in succession to Mr. M. S. Jobbling, deceased.

Mr. Walter Hyde, Solicitor, of Stockport, has been appointed Town Clerk of that borough, in succession to Mr. Henry Coppock, deceased, and Mr. Thomas Lewis, Solicitor, to the Town Clerkship of Tunbridge Wells.

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Mr. E. Reddish, LL.B., Solicitor of Stockport, has been elected Clerk to the Magistrates of that borough, in the room of the late Mr. Henry Coppock; and Mr. W. S. Banks, Solicitor of Wakefield, Clerk to the Magistrates of that borough, which has just received a separate Commission of the Peace. Mr. William Fowle, Solicitor of Northallerton, Yorkshire, has been appointed Clerk to the Local Board of Health, Clerk to the Commissioners, and Clerk to the Northallerton Board of Guardians, in succession to the late Mr. Thomas Fowle; and Mr. William Lisle, Solicitor, Clerk to the Durham Board of Guardians, in succession to the late Mr. Richard Thompson. Mr. J. Blacklock Lee, Solicitor, has been appointed Registrar of the County Court at Haltwhistle, Northumberland, and also Clerk to the Highway Board; and Mr. J. W. Sangster, Solicitor of Leeds, Registrar of the Pontefract County Court, in the place of Mr. Henry J. Coleman, resigned. Mr. John Burder, Solicitor of Manchester, has been appointed Legal Secretary to the Right Rev. James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester.

Mr. P. O. H. Reed, Solicitor of Bridgewater, Somersetshire, has been appointed Coroner for that Borough, in the room of Mr. J. Poole, deceased; Mr. James Broughton Edge, Solicitor, Coroner for Bolton; and Mr. Weedon, Solicitor, Coroner for East Berkshire. Mr. J. Wybergh, jun., Solicitor of Liverpool, has been reappointed Solicitor to the Borough Magistrates, in appeal cases, at a salary of 2001. per annum.

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IRELAND.-Mr. Serjeant Dowse has been appointed SolicitorGeneral for Ireland; and Mr. David Sherlock, Q.C., M.P., Third Serjeant-at-Law, in the room of Mr. Dowse.

SCOTLAND.-Mr. Adam Gifford, Advocate, has been appointed one of the Judges of the Court of Session of Edinburgh, as Lord Gifford, in the room of the late Lord Manor; and Mr. Donald Makenzie, Advocate, a Lord of Session, in succession to the late Lord Barcaple.

Mr. Stair Andrew Agnew, Advocate, has been appointed to the office of Queen's Remembrancer for Scotland, in room of the late Mr. John Henderson. Mr. A. C. Sellar, Advocate (1862), has been appointed Secretary to the Lord Advocate, in room of Mr. Agnew. Mr. W. C. Spens, Advocate, has been appointed Sheriff-Substitute at Hamilton, in room of Mr. James Veitch, resigned.

INDIA. Mr. F. D. Chauntrell, Solicitor, of Bombay, has been appointed Government Solicitor at Calcutta.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.-Mr. Henry Pering Pellew Crease has been appointed a Puisne Judge for the colony of British Columbia. Mr. George Phillippo has been appointed Attorney-General for the colony of British Columbia, in succession to Mr. H. P. P. Crease. BRITISH GUIANA.-Mr. J. T. Grivert, Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed Attorney-General of the colony of British Guiana, in succession to the Hon. J. S. Smith, C.M.G.

INDIA.—Sir Richard Couch has been appointed Chief-Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal ; Sir Michael Roberts Westropp, Chief-Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, and Mr. James Kerman, Q.C., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Madras.

Sir J. Couch, Chief-Justice of Bombay, has been promoted to the Chief-Justiceship at Calcutta, vacated by the retirement of Sir

Barnes Peacock.

Mr. H. S. Cunningham, M. A., Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed by the Government of India to officiate as a Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab during the absence of Mr. C. Bouluvis.

Mr. L. P. D. Broughton, Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Calcutta, from the 1st of January. Mr. Joseph Graham, Standing Counsel to the Government of India, has been appointed to officiate as Advocate-General at Calcutta, during the absence of Mr. T. H. Cowie.

Mr. G. C. Paul, Barrister-at-Law, of Calcutta, has been appointed to officiate as Standing Counsel to the Government, vice Mr. J.

Graham.

Mr. Theodore Thomas, Barrister-at-Law, as been appointed Professor of Law at Canning College, Lucknow.

Mr. H. M. Plowden, Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed to officiate as Advocate and Legal Adviser to the Government of the Punjab during the absence of Mr. Cunningham.

ISLAND OF TRINIDAD.-Mr. Joseph Needham, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, has been appointed Chief-Justice of the Island of Trinidad in the West Indies, which