Australian colonies, which measure afforded the solution of the great difficulties which the Legislature of this country had so long been struggling to overcome in amending this important branch of the law. He regarded it as the greatest practical reform of the day and congratulated the Society on having the author of that system, Mr. Torrens, amongst its members present on that occasion. There had been a report sent in by the Commission on the Execution of the Criminal Law, and from all he had heard he was very much grieved to say that he did not think it would in all respects prove satisfactory. The noble Lord concluded by giving "The Amendment of the Law."

After several other toasts had been given and responded to, the noble Chairman, in proposing the concluding toast, "Colonial Justice," bore testimony to the wisdom and sound legal knowledge of the colonial judges generally, as exhibited in their decisions which had come under his cognisance as a member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, and coupled with the toast the name of Mr. Torrens, to whose labours, as he had before remarked, jurists, both in the mother country and the colonies, were so much indebted.

Mr. Torrens, after acknowledging the compliment paid to himself, returned thanks on behalf of the colonial judges, who, he believed as a body, well deserved the eulogies that had been bestowed upon them by the high authority of the venerable president. There were several legal questions of great interest, involving affairs of the mother country conjointly with those of the colonies, which he hoped would become the subject of discussion during the next session of the Society. He referred to the want of reciprocity in the bankruptcy and insolvency laws as inflicting much injustice on colonial creditors. With reference to the remarks of the president upon the report of the "Penal Servitude Commission," he gathered from the article which appeared in the Times that morning, that transportation was to be resumed, and that Western Australia was recommended as a receptacle capable of absorbing all the convicts from this country. At that hour he would not go into the merits of this question as to deterring punishment, but, as representing the Australian colonies on that question, he must raise his voice in protest against this conclusion. It had been asked, what right had they to interfere while Western Australia was willing to receive convicts ? He replied, the same right which an Englishman would have were his neighbour to post a notice on the land adjoining his dwelling-" Filth and night soil may be shot here." There was a moral atmosphere as well as a political atmosphere; and you had no more right to pollute the one than to pollute the other. A shipment of some forty conditionally pardoned felons had recently been made from Swan River to Sydney, and one of them taken in charge for drunkenness, was found to have concealed a complete set of pick-lock tools. Their properties and lives would be imperilled, their police and judicial expenses largely increased, by the proposed resumption of transportation, and therefore they had a right to pro

test. They had passed an Act in South Australia making it penal in the captain of a ship to land in the colony any conditionally pardoned criminal, and rendering such criminal liable to be imprisoned and shipped back whence he came by the first opportunity. This Act might be declared ultra vires, as repugnant to British law; but the colonists were determined to uphold it, and the position was calculated to induce collision between the Legislature and the Bench, than which nothing could be more disastrous. Her Majesty had no more loyal subjects than the Australian colonists; even the colonial born, when they speak of visiting England, say, "We are going home." They had shown their loyalty by pouring out their wealth to relieve distress and famine in the mother country, and in contributing largely to every national testimonial, whether to commemorate those who fell in defence of the empire, or the memory of a revered Prince, and this was an evil requital, and would be received in Australia as the grossest insult. He begged to be excused if, as a colonist, he spoke warmly on the subject; but he yet hoped her Majesty's Ministers would consider well before they took a step which would alienate the affections of a million and a quarter of her Majesty's loyal subjects in Australia.

APPOINTMENTS.

Mr. R. Vaughan Williams, of Lincoln's Inn, has been appointed Judge of the County Court, district of Flintshire (Circuit No. 29), in the room of the late Mr. E. L. Richards, deceased.

Mr. Edward James, Q.C., has been appointed Attorney-General for the County Palatine of Lancaster, in the room of Mr. Bliss, Q.C., resigned.

Mr. C. H. Keene, of the Equity Bar, has been appointed a Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy, in the room of Mr. Vizard, resigned.

Mr. George Loch, of the Middle Temple, has been appointed one of Her Majesty's Counsel.

Mr. James Sharp, jun. (of the firm of Sharp, Harrison, and Sharp, Southampton), has been appointed Treasurer of the County Courts of Hants and Sussex.

Ireland.—Mr. W. O'Connor Morris has been appointed Assistant Crown Prosecutor for the King's County; and Mr. G. W. Abraham Assistant Crown Prosecutor for Meath.

AFRICA.-Mr. T. L. Ingram has been appointed Her Majesty's Advocate and Police Magistrate at the Gambia.

Mr. J. C. Choppin, of the St. Vincent Bar, has been appointed Attorney-General for the island of St. Vincent.

Mr. Horatio James Huggins has been appointed Queen's Advocate for the colony of Sierra Leone.

CANADA.-Mr. John Sandford Macdonald has been appointed Attorney General, and Mr. Lewis Wallbridge, Solicitor-General, for Upper Canada; and Mr. A. A. Dixon, Attorney-General for Lower Canada.

FALKLAND ISLANDS.—Mr. E. R. Griffiths,of the Common Law Bar, has been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate for the Falkland Islands. INDIA. Mr. F. D. Faithfull, of the firm of Faithfull and Keir, Solicitors, High Court, Bombay, has been appointed Judge of the new Small Cause Court, at Bilgaum. Mr. A. Hope, Civil and Sessions Judge of Hooghley. Mr. E. Jackson, Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal. Mr. R. B. Swinton, Civil and Sessions Judge of Negapatam, Madras Presidency. Mr. A. St. J. Richardson, Judge and Sessions Judge of Ahmednuggur. Mr. R. F. Mactier, Judge and Sessions Judge of Satara. Mr. C. Forbes, Judge and Session Judge of Khandeish. Mr. Walter, Senior Assistant Judge and Session Judge of the Concan, for the detached station of Rutnagherry. The Hon. G. A. Hobart, Judge and Session Judge of Sholapore. Mr. C. Gonne, Judge and Session Judge of Tanna.

Mr. W. T. Tucker, Additional Judge at Tirhoot, Sarun, and Shahabad. Mr. R. B. Chapman, Magistrate and Collector at Pubna. Mr. R. Hankey, Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of Moorshedabad. Mr. J. W. Dalrymple, Civil and Sessions Judge at Bhaugulpore. The Hon. H. B. Devereux, Civil and Sessions Judge of Purneah. Mr. F. G. Millett, Magistrate and Collector of Tipperah. Mr. J. S. Armstrong, Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of Tipperah. Mr. F. M. Lind, Commissioner of the Allahabad Division. Mr. M. B. Thornhill, Civil and Sessions Judge of Furruckabad. Mr. H. B. Henderson, Judge of Jounpore. Mr. A. Monckton, Magistrate and Collector at Cawnpore. Mr. M. J. Walhouse, Civil and Sessions Judge of Mangalore, on the retirement of Mr. Chatfield. Mr. W. Stokes, Administrator General of Madras. Mr. J. Graham, Standing Counsel to the Government of India, to officiate as Advocate General at Bengal. Mr. W. C. Plowden, Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of the first grade at Ghazepore. Mr. J. Chesson, Subordinate Magistrate of the second class in the district of Sattara. Mr. T. H. Thornton, First Class Judge at Lahore, Captain C. A. MacMahon, First Class Judge at Umritsur. Mr. L. Berkeley, Second Class Judge at Delhi. Mr. J. C. Murphy, Second Class Judge at Simla. Mr. J. H. Penn, Third Class Judge at Jullundhur. Mr. G. C. Westropp, Third Class Judge at Hoshyarpoor. Mr. F. R. Scarlett, Third Class Judge at Peshawur. Major F. L. Mayniac, Judge of the Small Cause Court at Nagpore. Hon. R. S. Ellis, C.B., Collector and Magistrate of the Madras District. Mr. G. Banbury, Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate of the Madras District. Mr. H. M. S. Græme, Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate of South Arcot. Mr. R. W. Barlow, Sub-Collector and Joint Magistrate of North Arcot.

Mr. Roberts, C.B., Judicial Commissioner of the Punjab, has been appointed to act as Judge of the Bengal High Court, in the place of Mr. Loch, who is absent on leave.

Mr. Holloway, of the Madras Civil Service, has been appointed a Puisne Judge of the High Court at Madras.

Mr. A. B. Warden, of the Bombay Civil Service, has been appointed Judge of the High Court, in the room of the Hon. H. Herbert.

Mr. H. S. Maine, LL.D., Member of the Legal Council of India, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University. Mr. R. Westropp, of the Bombay Bar, Member of the Legislative Council of Bombay.

ST. HELENA.-Mr. William R. Phelps has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Island.

CALLS TO THE BAR.

Easter Term.

INNER TEMPLE. William Bennett Player Brigstocke, Esq.; Thomas Benyon Ferguson, Esq.; William Henry Milligan, Esq.; John Alfred Hudson, Esq.; James Edouard Ferdinand Poulin, Esq.; Francis Ashton Drake, Esq.; Samuel Sanders, Esq.; Percy Arden, Esq.; Charles Skidmore, Esq.; Arthur Richard Jelf, Esq.; Henry Offley Bright, Esq.; John Martyr Ward, Esq.; Charles James Jenkins Hannay, Esq.; Matthew Henry Starling, Esq.; and Ernest Algernon Sparks, Esq.

MIDDLE TEMPLE.-Henry Cecil Raikes, Esq.; Henry Thomas Wrenfordsley, Esq.; Charles Lovell Lovell, Esq.; and Richard Banner Oakeley, Esq.

LINCOLN'S INN. George Edmund Wicksted, Esq.; Richard Dickson Preston, Esq.; Edward St. Aubyn, jun., Esq.; Stephen Blount, Esq.; Albert Glenie Perring, Esq.; Thomas Pitts Langmead, Esq.; and Stephen Ellis Rogers, Esq.

GRAY'S INN.-Nugent Charles Walsh, Esq.

Trinity Term.

INNER TEMPLE.-Frederick Albert Bosanquet, Esq. (Certificate of Honour, First Class); William de Burgh, Esq.; Algernon Thos. Lempriere, Esq.; Henry Crompton, Esq.; Jacobus Petrus de Wet, Esq.; Arthur Moseley Channell, Esq.; Edwin Brooke Cely Trevilian, Esq.; William Henry Alexander, Esq.; Charles Bathurst, Esq.; the Honourable Douglas Edward Holroyd; Francis Thomas Egerton Prothero, Esq.; Duncan Darroch, Esq.; George Macfarlan, Esq.; Drummond Smith, Esq.; Charles Garth Colleton Rennie, Esq.; Charles Forbes Hodson Shaw, Esq.; Henry Worms, Esq.; Gwilym Williams, Esq.; John Thomas Crossley, Esq.; Robert Augustus Bayford, Esq.; John Cameron Ross, Esq.; George Godfrey Farrant, Esq.; and William Laurence Mackenzie, Esq. MIDDLE TEMPLE.-James Lynam Molloy, Esq.; William Conrad

Reeves, Esq.; William Primrose Mills, Esq.; Lionel Browne, Esq.; Leonard Harper, Esq.; Henry Edmund Cartwright, Esq.; William Frederick Haynes Smith, Esq.; Francis Peter Labilliere, Esq.; Charles Frederick Collier, Esq.; and William Newton, Esq.

LINCOLN'S INN.-Charles Frederick Bockett, Esq. (Certificate of Honour, First Class); Robert Tennent, Esq.; the Hon. Evelyn Melbourne Ashley; Walter Molesworth St. Aubyn, Esq.; John Gregory Watkins, jun., Esq.; Robert Jasper More, Esq.; Herbert George Henry Norman, Esq.; Thomas Willert Beale, Esq.; Charles John Hampden, Esq.; George Miller, Esq.; John Eden Duncombe Shafto, Esq.; Dudley Zamoiski Beaumont, Esq.; William Thirlwall Bayne, Esq.; Mackertich Stephen, Esq.; Peter Stevenson Davis, Esq.; William Baillie Skene, Esq.; Henry Jenkyns, Esq.; George Alfred Paley, Esq.; Joseph Knight, jun., Esq.; Montague William Lowry Corry, Esq.; Swinton Henry Boult, Esq.; and Alfred Lorenz Drieberg, Esq.

GRAY'S INN.-William Bush Cooper, Esq.; Arthur Pigou, Esq.; and Robert Carr Woods, Esq.

BAR EXAMINATIONS.

AT the public examination of students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's Inn Hall, on the 19th, 20th, and 21st June last, the Council of Legal Education awarded to Mr. John Munro, student of the Inner Temple, a studentship of fifty guineas per annum, for a period of three years; to Mr. Frederick Albert Bosanquet, student of the Inner Temple, and Mr. William Charles Druce, student of Lincolns Inn, certificates of honour of the first class; to Mr. William De Burgh, Mr. John Kennaway, Mr. Duncan Darroch, Mr. R. A. Bayford, Mr. Henry Stewart Reid, Mr. Maurice Powell, Mr. Henry Crompton, Mr. George Macfarlane, Mr. F. E. Prothero, and Mr. Henry S. Syres, students of the Inner Temple; Mr. W. B. Skene, Mr. W. H. Weldon, Mr. Walter B. Renshaw, Mr. M. W. L. Corry, and Mr. J. Gregory Watkins, students of Lincolns Inn; and Mr. W. F. Phillpotts and Mr. James Molloy, students of the Middle Temple, certificates that they have satisfactorily passed a public examination.

EXAMINATIONS AT THE INCORPORATED LAW
SOCIETY.

Easter and Trinity Terms.

AT the final examination of candidates for admission on the roll of attorneys and solicitors of the superior courts, the examiners recom