have so generously conferred and you have so suitably communicated.—I have the honour to be, dear Mr. Treasurer,

"Your faithful and obliged,

"To A. J. Stephens, Esq., Q.C., LL.D.,

"Treasurer of Gray's-inn."

"JOSEPH NAPIER.

The Yelverton Marriage Case came to a conclusion on the 19th December, on which day judgment was given in the First Division of the Court of Session in favour of the pursuer, Mrs. Yelverton, reversing, by a majority of the judges, the decision given by Lord Ardmillan in July last. Lord Curriehill and Lord Deas were of opinion that the pursuer had proved a marriage, according to Scotch law, by interchange of consent, and by promise followed by intercourse. The Lord President differed, holding that the evidence adduced by the pursuer had not been sufficient to establish either point.

APPOINTMENTS.

THE Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Earl Grey; the Right Hon. Lord Naas; the Right Hon. Lord Cranworth; the Right Hon. Lord Chelmsford; the Right Hon. Sir John Somerset Pakington, Bart., G.C.B.; the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole; the Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley; the Right Hon. Edward Pleydell Bouverie; the Right Hon. Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Bart., Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench; Horatio Waddington, Esq.; Russell Gurney, Esq, Recorder of the City of London; Charles Owen O'Conor, Esq. (commonly called the O'Conor Don); and Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Esq.; to be her Majesty's Commissioners to inquire into the operation of the Acts relating to transportation and penal servitude, and into the manner in which sentences of transportation and of penal servitude have been and are carried into effect, under the provisions of the said Acts, or any of them.

Mr. J. G. Teed, Q.C., has been appointed Judge of the Lincolnshire County Courts (circuit 17), in the room of the late Mr. J. G. Stapylton Smith, deceased.

Sir J. E. Eardley Wilmot, Judge of the Bristol County Court, has been appointed Judge of the Marylebone Court, vacant by the death of Mr. J. C. Adolphus. Mr. Willis, Judge of the Northumberland County Courts, has succeeded Sir J. Eardley Wilmot; and Mr. W. Blanchard, of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed Judge of the County Court of Northumberland.

Mr. Francis Edward Guise, of the Oxford Circuit, has been appointed Recorder of Hereford, in the room of Mr. Serjeant Pigott, resigned.

The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, M.P., has been appointed an Ecclesiastical Commissioner, in the room of Mr. Deedes, deceased. Mr. G. Wingrove Cooke has been appointed to the Copyhold and Enclosure Commission Board, in the room of the late Mr. Mules.

Mr. J. Osbourne, Mr. J. R. Kenyon, Mr. T. Southgate, and Mr. A. Hobhouse, Members of the Equity Bar, and Mr. J. St. George Burke, of the Parliamentary Bar, have been appointed Queen's Counsel.

At a Pension of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn, Mr. Thomas Southgate, Q.C., took his seat as a Bencher of the Society.

Mr. Edward Lloyd, Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed Secretary to the Royal Commission for Inquiry into the Patent Laws; and Mr. T. F. Kent, of the Equity Bar, Secretary to the Commission of Inquiry into Convict Discipline.

Mr. C. F. Trower, gentleman of the Chamber to the Lord Chancellor, has been appointed Secretary of Presentations, in the place of Mr. P. H. Pepys, appointed principal Secretary to the Lord Chancellor.

Mr. Holdship has been appointed Registrar to the Court of Chancery, in the place of Mr. F. Metcalfe, deceased; and Mr. W. Pugh has been appointed Clerk in the Registrar's Office, in the room of Mr. Holdship.

Mr. W. R. Drake, of the firm of Bircham, Dalrymple, and Drake, has been appointed Treasurer of the Lancashire County Courts, vacant by the death of Mr. Hugh Hulton.

Mr. Robert Holsby, of York, Solicitor, has been appointed Clerk of Arraigns of the Northern Circuit, vacant by the death of Mr. W. T. Pritchard.

The Master of the Rolls has appointed E. S. Bailey, J. H. Bolton, W. S. Cookson, C. K. Freshfield, F. H. Janson, Henry Lake, Edward Lawrence, Joseph Maynard, Parke Nelson, F. J. Nicholl, William Stephens, and William Williams, Esquires, Solicitors, to be Examiners for the current year, to examine candidates for admission to practice as Solicitors of the Court of Chancery. And the same gentlemen, with the addition of Ralph Barnes, John Clayton, William Murray, and Edward Leigh Pemberton, Esquires, Attorneys, have been by the Common Law rule appointed to examine all candidates for admission as Attorneys for the same period.

Mr. Johann Fried Christoph Muncke, Ph. D., and Mr. Christopher Knight Watson, M.A., have been appointed special examiners for the intermediate examinations of Articled Clerks in the present year. Mr. W. H. Ashurst has been appointed Solicitor to the Post-Office, in the room of the late Mr. Peacock, deceased.

Mr. Thomas James Nelson has been elected City Solicitor. Mr. Mackrell, the senior Under-Sheriff for London and Middlesex, appointed Solicitor to the Irish Society; and Mr. A. J. Baylis, Solicitor to the City Commissioners of Sewers, each in the room of the late Mr. Charles Pearson.

SCOTLAND. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Edward Francis Maitland,

has been appointed to the vacant seat on the Bench, in succession to Lord Ivory, and Mr. George Young has been appointed SolicitorGeneral. Mr. A. R. Clark, Sheriff of Inverness-shire, has succeeded Mr. Young as Sheriff of Haddington and Berwick. Mr. W. Ivory has been appointed Sheriff of Inverness-shire, and Mr. A. B. Shand Sheriff of Kincardineshire, vacant by the death of Mr. Montgomerie Bell.

IRELAND.-Mr. Edward Parkyns Levinge, of the Home Circuit, has been appointed a Judge in the High Court of Fort William, Bengal, and Mr. Richard O'Reilly has been appointed Assistant Crown Counsel for the County of Meath, vacant by the promotion of Mr. Levinge.

Mr. Joshua Clarke, Q.C., has been appointed Chairman of the Quarter Sessions of Cowan, vacant by the death of Mr. P. M. Murphy, Q.C.

Mr. Lionel E. Fleming has been appointed Crown Solicitor for the County of Longford. Mr. John Francis Teeling, Solicitor, has been appointed Assistant-Registrar to the Court of Bank. ruptcy, vacant by the death of Mr. Thomas Battley.

Mr. Robert F. Franks has been appointed Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in the room of the late Mr. Thomas Burke.

The Benchers of King's Inn have elected Mr. Joseph M. Lambarte, Barrister-at-Law, to the office of Librarian. Mr. James Henry Monahan, Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed Purse-bearer to the Lord Chancellor, in the room of Mr. David Pigott, lately appointed Assistant Barrister for the County of Louth.

AFRICA. Mr. George Frere has been appointed Judge, Mr. E. L. Layard, Arbitrator, and Mr. W. T. Smith, Secretary or Registrar of the mixed Court, established at the Cape of Good Hope for the suppression of the Slave Trade; and Mr. George Skelton, Judge, and Mr. W. Smith, Secretary or Registrar of a similar Court at Sierra Leone, under the Treaty of April last, between Great Britain and the United States.

Mr. Charles Mills has been appointed Sheriff of the Territories of British Kaffraria.

CEYLON.-Mr. Henry Byerley Thomson has been appointed Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court; and Mr. R. F. Morgan has been appointed Her Majesty's Advocate.

INDIA. Baboo Sumbhoo Nath Pundit, of the Calcutta Bar, has been appointed Judge of the High Court of Calcutta.

Mr. Henry Newton, of the Bombay Civil Service, has been appointed Judge of the High Court of Bombay.

LAGOS.-Mr. R. W. Gifford Watson has been appointed Chief Magistrate of the Settlement.

MAURITIUS. Mr. Robert Temple has been appointed Master of the Supreme Court of the Island; and Mr. G. Barthelemy Colin has been appointed Puisne Judge.

QUEENSLAND.-Mr. James Cockle, of the Midland Circuit, has been appointed Chief Justice of the Colony.

CALLS TO THE BAR.

Michaelmas Term, 1862.

INNER TEMPLE.-David Knox Mair, Esq., M.A.; Thomas James Richard Hilton, Esq., B.A.; Alexander Oliver, Esq., B.A.; Jean Pierre Georges Aubin, Esq.; Robert Watson, Esq.; Robert William Cary Reeves, Esq., LL.B.; Philip Albert Myburgh, Esq., B.A.; Hubert Seymour Leeson, Esq.; the Honourable Edward Nugent Leeson, B.A.; Henry Davidson, Esq., M.A.; John Edward Meek, Esq., B.A.; Charles Edward Fox, Esq., B.A.; John Edward Barker, Esq., M.A.; Alfred Jobling, Esq.; Robert French Sheriff, Esq.; Richard Lambert, Esq.; Brian Wilkes Wand, Esq., B.A.; and Florence Crauford Grove, Esq.

GRAY'S INN, Berkeley William King, Esq.; Henry Danby Seymour, Esq., B.A., M.P.

LINCOLN'S INN.-Edward Gilbert Herbert, Esq., LL.B. (holder of the Studentship); Thomas George Fardell, Esq., B. A.; George Moody, Esq., M.A.; John Ross Coulthart, Esq.; John Booth, Esq., M.A.; Edward Howorth Allen, Esq., B.A.; John Knill Jope Hichens, Esq.. M.A.; Thomas Tindal Methold, Esq., B.A.; Edward John Foster, Esq., B.A.; Marshall Hall, Esq.; Horace Waddington, Esq., M.A.; George Isaac Foster Cooke, Esq., B.A.; Clifford Evans Fowler Nash, Esq., B.A.; Walter Morshead, Esq., B.C.L. and M.A.; Kenyon Charles Shirecliffe Parker, Esq.; Henry Burrell, Esq., B.A.; Woodyer Merricks Buckton, Esq.; Lewis Pugh Evans, Esq., M.A.; James Stirling, Esq., B.A.; and Thomas Lloyd Murray Browne, Esq., B.A.

MIDDLE TEMPLE.-R. Tarrant Harrison, Esq.; Charles Philip Cooper, Esq.; Edmund Russell Roberts, Esq.; Daniel Logan, Esq.; and Charles Lightfoot, Esq.

Hilary Term, 1863.

LINCOLN'S INN.-Isambard Brunel, Esq., M.A.; Reginald Cardwell, Esq., M.A.; James Henry Ramsay, Esq., M. A.; Thomas Godfrey Faussett, Esq., M.A.; Frederick Whitting, Esq., M.A.; Thomas Erskine Holland, Esq., M.A.; Joseph Henry Warner, Esq., B.A.; James Weston, Esq.; Edward Montague Earle Welby, Esq., B.A.; Marwood Tucker, Esq., M. A.; John Cutler, Esq., B. A.; Edmund Henry Wodehouse, Esq., M.A.; Henry Montagu Doughty, Esq.; Charles Perring, Esq., B.A.; Frederick Augustus Burgett, Esq., B.A.; John Henry Brougham Vivian, Esq.; Francis Nethersole Cates, Esq.; Decimus Sturges, Esq., B.A., LL.B.; Charles Henry Stewart, Esq.; and Muter Coomarasamy, Esq.

MIDDLE TEMPLE.-William Tayler, Esq.; John Hill Gough, Esq. (holder of Certificate of Honour, first class); William Robertson, Esq.; William Thomas Makins, Esq., B.A.; Henry Graham Lawson,

M.A., Esq.; Fleming Smythe, Esq.; and John Leybourne Goddard, B.A., LL.B., Esq.

INNER TEMPLE.-William Grantham, Esq. (holder of the Studentship awarded this present Hilary Term); William Arundell Yeo, Esq., B.A.; James Marsham Moorsom, Esq., B.A.; Albert Venn Dicey, Esq., M.A.; Bruce Campbell, Esq.; Alexander Mortimer, Esq., B.A.; Erlysman Pinckney, Esq., B.A.; James Thomas Foard, Esq.; Henry Mason Bompas, Esq., M.A., LL.B.; Frederic Thomas Durell Ledgard, Esq., B. A.; Ralph Forster, Esq., M. A.; and Robert Barclay Chapman, Esq.

EXAMINATIONS AT THE INCORPORATED LAW
SOCIETY.

Michaelmas Term, 1862.

AT the 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 twenty-six, as being entitled to honorary distinction:

Frank William Stone, aged 21; Samuel Stephenson Booth, aged 22; Stephen Brown Dixon, jun., aged 23; Daniel Birt, aged 24. The Council of the Society have accordingly awarded the following prizes of books:

To Mr. Stone, the prize of the Honourable Society of Clifford'sinn; to Mr. Booth, the prize of the Honourable Society of Clement'sinn; to Mr. Dixon and Mr. Bird, each one of the prizes of the Incorporated Law Society.

The examiners also certified that the following candidates passed examinations which entitle them to commendation :

Francis George Gorton, aged 21; Mr. Tuffnell Samuel Cedric Houghton, aged 21; Owen Low, aged 24; Thomas Porter Lyon, aged 21; Henry Thomas, aged 23.

The Council accordingly awarded the certificates of merit.

The examiners have further announced to the following candidates that their answers to the questions at the examination were highly satisfactory, and would have entitled them to prizes or certificates of merit if they had been under the age of 26:

Alfred Curtis, aged 33; Joseph Gratian Jackson, aged 35.

The number of candidates examined in this Term was 98; of these 74 were passed, and 24 postponed.

At the public examination of the students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's Inn Hall, on the 30th and 31st of October, and the 1st of November, 1862, the Council of Legal Education awarded to Edward Gilbert Herbert, Esq., a studentship of fifty guineas per