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A. B.-You may go up to the intermediate examination in Easter Term, 1869, but not before.

A. F. B.-Ayckbourn's Chancery Practice is out of print. Hunter's Suit in Equity, is 10s.; White and Tudor's Leading Cases, 2 vols., £3 10s.; Archbold's Criminal Law Pleading and Evidence, 31s. 6d.

H. T. G. E.-The indispensable branches of the final examination are common law, equity, and conveyancing. It will not make the slightest difference, because you go up for your final examination in Easter instead of Hilary Term.

A. B. O. The earliest time at which you can go up for your intermediate examination will be Michaelmas Term, 1868. You can go up at every succeeding term until you are successful, but if you do not pass at the second term after one half of your term of service you may have your final examination postponed for a time equivalent to the lapse of time after such second term.

METROPOLITAN BRIDGE TOLLS.-At the meeting on Friday, the . 23rd October, 1868, the solicitor reported that by the Coal and Wine Duties Continuance Act the funds so derived will be applied, in the first instance, to the freeing from toll of the bridges across the Thames at Kew, Kingston-upon-Thames, Walton-upon-Thames, and Staines, and next in making free from tolls Chingford Bridge and Tottenham Mills Bridge, upon the river Lea. Should there be any surplus, it will be applied as Parliament may hereafter direct. The report suggested that the board would probably take joint action in the matter with the Corporation of London before the provisions of the Act come into force.

REGISTRATION APPEALS.-The number of appeals from the decisions of the revising barristers lodged at the Common Pleas up to the 15th October, 1868, was eleven, and it is anticipated that before the fourth day of the ensuing Michaelmas Term the list will contain nearly thirty. Unless the appeals are forthwith lodged, and notice given as required by the Registration of Voters Act, the cases cannot be decided by the court before the elections. The first case in the list will settle the claims of about 6000 women to be placed on the register.

MICHAELMAS TERM.-On Monday, the 2nd proximo, Michaelmas Term will begin, with "eighteen" common law judges. The three newly-appointed judges and the new Solicitor-General, with other dignitaries in law and equity, will assemble at the Lord Chancellor's mansion, and proceed to Westminster. It is expected that additional courts, with eighteen judges, will be held, and the rush of business on the Home Circuit prevented.

NEW LAW ON "COMPENSATION CASES."-An important amendment was made in the New Regulation of Railways Act, 31 & 32 Vict., c. 119, by which much litigation will be avoided, if not considerable expense. In cases for land, or affecting land, either side can apply to one of the judges of the Common Law Courts to try the case as an ordinary issue under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, and all the proceedings are to follow as in other actions. The application is to be before the issuing by the company to the sheriff of the warrant. This new enactment has reference to land to be purchased by railway companies, or land injuriously affected. Wherever a company obtains a judge's order to try before the superior courts, the order is to be the same as the warrant to the sheriff. The provisions have immediate operation, and can now be heard by the superior courts.

NEW REGULATION ON COUNTY ELECTIONS.-Under the new Regulation Act, an alteration will take place as to elections in counties. By the 16th & 17th Vict., c. 68, an election was to take place not later than twelve days from the proclamation, nor sooner than the "sixth day." The section is now to be construed as if the words "fourth day were substituted for the sixth day. The dissolution of Parliament is expected early in November, and the writs will be issued about the 8th or 10th of November.

FIRST DAY OF TERM.-On Monday next, the first day of term, the Lord Chancellor will express her Majesty's approval of the Lord Mayor elect, and on that day the Common Law judges, according to custom, will appoint the sittings of the Central Criminal Court.

REGISTRATION APPEALS.-Up to 25th of October the number of registration appeals, lodged at the Common Pleas, was forty-two, and it is expected that upwards of fifty will be appointed for hearing.

DERBYSHIRE CUSTOMS.-Among curious local customs is that which was kept up for 140 years at Hilton Hall. On the first day of the year the lord of the manor of Essington brought a goose to the hall and drove it three times round the fire, after which he carried it to the table and received a dish of it for his own use. This droll proceeding was only discontinued when the manors came under one lord. At Walsall there is an annual adult scramble; for here a custom exists of throwing out apples and nuts from the Town Hall, on St. Clement's day, to be scrambled for by the people. Happy are the boys that are born in Walsall! At Wichnor the same custom that has prevailed at Dunmow was once in use, and a wooden flitch of bacon still hangs in the hall. In this case it was John of Gaunt who instituted the custom by arranging that the owner of the hall should hold the tenure in virtue of his keeping a flitch of bacon always ready for any married pair who had been married a year and a day, and would take the following oath :-"Hear ye, Sir Philip de Somerville, lord of Wychenor, mayntennor and gyver of this baconne; I, A. B., sithe I wedded my wife, and sithe I had her in my kepying and at my wylle by a year and a day after our marriage, I would not have changed for none other, fairer ni fouler, richer ni poorer, &c. And if the said B. were sole and I sole, I would take her to be my wyfe before all the wymen of the world. So help me God and all fleshes!"-Builder.

TURNPIKE ABOLITION.-An Act of last session (31 & 32 Vict. c. 99) provides for the expiry, on the 1st of November next, of seven provincial trusts. The most important abolitions will be those at Hereford, Bury St. Edmund's, and Devizes, on account of the keen Parliamentary contests which they encountered. The Devizes gates surrounded all the approaches to the town, and the "freedom of the road" is to be marked by a banquet and a bonfire, for which latter purpose two of the obnoxious gates were purchased at the sale of the trust property.

NEW ACT ON JUDGMENTS.-A new Act (31 & 32 Vict. c. 54) on judgments obtained in the courts of England, Scotland, and Ireland has just come into operation. A certificate of a judgment in one country can be enforced in another without bringing an action. The judgments are to be registered, and the courts at Westminster and in Dublin are to make rules to carry out the new Act, which is of considerable benefit in respect of judgments in the United Kingdom.

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