The residue of the panel shall be the jurors to try criminal cases during that day, and shall not be called on to try civil causes unless needed and required to do so by the judge presiding in the civil Court.

The jurors thus taken by ballot, and who continue in attendance during the day, and such others as actually sit on the trial of any civil cause or causes, shall be considered as the jurors in attendance for that day, and entitled as such to the payment of 10s.: Provided that the names of those jurors who have already been taken by ballot for one day shall not, except by order of the judge, be included in the ballot for any other day during the assizes until all other names have been drawn.

(2.) That the sum of 37. shall be deposited with the associate upon the entry of every common jury cause for trial at the assizes by the party entering the same.

(3.) That in every cause wherein notice is given to the sheriff by either of the parties to the cause, that such cause is to be tried by a special jury, the party giving such notice shall before or at the time of giving such notice deposit with the sheriff the sum of 127. 12s. towards the fund for the remuneration of the special jurors; and in default of such deposit such notice shall be of no effect. The sheriff shall forthwith pay over to the associate the money so deposited with him.

(4.) The sum of 127. 12s. shall be deposited with the associate upon the entry of every special jury cause for trial at the assizes by the party entering the same, unless he has previously made such deposit of 127. 12s. with the sheriff as before-mentioned.

Provided that where, before the entry of such cause for trial by any party, it has been made a special jury cause by the opposite party, then the party entering the cause may, if he think fit, give notice to such opposite party of his intention to deposit with the associate the sum of 37. only, and to enter the cause for trial by a common jury, and may thereupon enter the cause to be tried as a common jury cause, and deposit with the associate the sum of 31 only; and in that case, unless the opposite party deposit with the associate the further sum of 97. 12s. within one day after such entry, the cause shall be tried by a common jury as a common jury cause, unless a judge otherwise order.

Provided also that where a party to a cause has obtained an order that a special jury be struck for the trial of a particular cause, he shall, on or before giving notice to the sheriff of such order, deposit with the sheriff the sum of 25l. 4s., otherwise the said order shall be of no avail, and the said cause shall be tried in the same way as if no such order had been made. The sheriff shall forthwith pay over to the associate the money so deposited with him.

(5.) Where a cause after having been entered as a common jury cause has been ordered to be made a special jury cause by rule or order, the sum of 97. 12s., being the difference between the deposit of 37. made at the time of entry and the sum of 12l. 12s., shall be forthwith deposited with the associate by the party obtaining such rule or

order; and in default the cause shall, notwithstanding such rule or order, be tried by a common jury, unless a judge otherwise order.

(6.) That in all causes, whether tried by a special jury or by a common jury, the sum of 3l., if deposited by the successful party, shall be recoverable as costs in the cause if he be otherwise entitled to such costs.

(7.) In special jury causes the further sum of 97. 12s., if deposited by the successful party, shall be deemed to be costs of the special jury, and shall be recoverable as costs in the cause if he be otherwise entitled to such costs, and the judge certify that the cause was fit to be tried by a special jury.

(8.) It is further ordered that in all causes pending, and which are already entered for trial at the ensuing assizes, the plaintiff in any common jury cause shall, before the cause is tried, deposit the sum of 31. with the associate for the purpose of the fund to be provided under the Statute for the remuneration of the said jurors to try common jury causes; and in case the plaintiff shall make default in paying such deposit the other party in the cause may pay the same, and in default of the same being paid the cause shall be struck out unless the presiding judge shall otherwise order.

(9.) In all causes pending, and which are already entered for trial by special juries at the ensuing assizes, the party who has made the cause a special jury cause shall forthwith and before trial deposit the sum of 127. 12s. with the associate, and if he make default the other may pay the same, but if the party who has made the cause a special jury cause fail to pay the said sum of 127. 12s. the other party may pay the sum of 37., and thereupon the cause shall be tried as a common jury cause, and if the sum of 31. be not paid to the associate by either party, the cause shall be struck out unless the judge otherwise order.

PROPOSED ECCLESIASTICAL LEGISLATION.

THE following letter has been addressed to the Bishop of London by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury:

"San Remo, Italy, Dec. 27, 1870. "MY DEAR BISHOP OF LONDON,-As the time is approaching when such ecclesiastical measures as are to be submitted to Parlia ment next Session must be matured, I think it well that the clergy and laity should have an opportunity of quietly considering them in the interval which has still to elapse before the meeting of Parliament, and of the Convocation of Canterbury.

"I am in communication with the Archbishop of York, and hope that the two Provinces may be able to act in concert with reference to such measures as are desirable, and I now take the constitutional step of publicly addressing you as Dean of the Southern Province, in order that the attention of our own clergy and laity may be directed to what we deem desirable.

"It cannot be denied that many important matters of ecclesiastical reform, which have been long talked of, have hitherto been

unaccountably thwarted in their passage through the Legislature. The good hopes, for example, which were entertained by all of us for last Session came to nothing, and, with the exception of the Bishops' Retirement Act, the only considerable improvement in an ecclesiastical system, which has been effected of late years, is the revival of the ancient office of Bishop Suffragan, and this was accomplished by the resolution of Her Majesty's Government, at the request of the heads of the Church, and at the suggestion of the Convocation of Canterbury, to revive an already existing Statute which could be acted on without fresh legislation. Last Session the proposal to sanction a new Table of Lessons in the Prayer-book, to improve the law of ecclesiastical dilapidations, to reform the ecclesiastical courts, and other important measures of reform, though it was known that they were generally acceptable, both to clergy and laity, and most of them had received the distinct sanction of the clergy in their constitutional corporate capacity, all failed to command such attention as was necessary to insure their passage through Parlia

ment.

"My belief is that these failures are, in part at least, attributed to the fact that sufficient publicity was not given to the measures intended to be proposed, and thus they had not received through general discussion that distinct sanction of public opinion which seems necessary in England for all important changes. It is with the view of obviating, if possible, this difficulty in the coming year that I now thus formally address your lordship.

"(1.) I take it for granted that Her Majesty's Government cannot allow the proposed change in the Table of Lessons, as embodied in the Lectionary Bill of last Session, to fall to the ground. Important branches of industry have been disturbed by the failure of that Bill, and great confusion, both in the University printers' and Queen's printers' offices, has followed. Yet it seems probable that the same opposition which caused the withdrawal of the Bill last Session will again prove fatal to it unless its scope be enlarged. The Bill professed to embody a recommendation of the Ritual Commission, and many felt that other most important recommendations of that Commission, on which there was little or no diversity of opinion in the Church, ought to have been embodied in it, and that otherwise the original promoters of the movement which led to the appointment of the commission might be thought to have been treated deceitfully. It is true that the most vexed questions, affecting the vestments of the clergy and certain recently introduced extravagances of the Ritual will, in all probability, be settled by the courts of law before Parliament meets, and it seems to have been thought wise by the Ritual Commission to await these decisions of the courts, before calling for legislation on such points. But there remain a great many important improvements, respecting which there is scarcely any difference of opinion in the Church, which have been recommended by that Commission. I may instance an improvement respecting the use of the Burial Service, a power of abridging the daily Church Service with the consent of the diocesan, a distinct

recognition of the propriety at times of dividing the several parts of the Sunday service, and some amendment of the rubric regulating the use of the Athanasian Creed, as matters on which there seems to be an almost universal consent in the Church.

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(2). Connected with the same subject as the proposal of the Ritual Commission to give the communicant laity of each parish some voice in the ordering of the mode of conducting the Church services, not intended to be everywhere entirely alike, was Lord Sandon's measure upon the appointment of parochial councils. There was

also a clause of a similar nature in Lord Shaftesbury's Ecclesiastical Courts Bill. From all these several proposals some measures may well be devised which shall give the laity of each parish their legitimate influence, and yet not interfere unnecessarily with the discretion of the parish clergy.

"There remain

"(3.) The Archbishop of York's Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Bill. "(4.) The Bishop of Winchester's Bill for allowing disabled clergymen to retire from their cures.

"(5.) The Bill advocated by the Duke of Marlborough in the House of Lords to restrain the sale of next presentations to livings. "(6.) The proposal to reform the Ecclesiastical Courts, which Lord Shaftesbury has for two Sessions brought before the attention of the House of Lords.

"The proposals to remove the abuses attendant upon the seques tration of benefices which occupied the attention of a Select Committee of the House of Lords last Session.

"I do not think that we shall have done our duty to the Church and nation till all these questions have been finally settled. I hope that such of them as have not yet been formally approved by our convocations may speedily be discussed in these bodies, and that both clergy and laity will lose as little time as possible in making their opinions known to the Legislature. It seems to me to be the duty of the heads of the Church to consult at once with Her Majesty's Government as to the best means to be taken for giving effect to the wishes of Churchmen on these important reforms. Some of the measures may with great propriety be introduced in the first instance in the House of Commons, either by the Government or by some of those private members who so well represent our feelings in that House, and have secured to themselves the attention of Parliament. Meanwhile, it seems to me also desirable that when the proper time comes joint committees of the two convocations of Canterbury and York should be appointed to discuss and communicate with the Government on such of these proposals as have not yet been fully considered by the clergy of both provinces.-Believe me to be, my dear Bishop of London, yours very sincerely,

"(Signed)

"The Right Rev. and Right Hon. the Lord Bishop of London."

"A. C. CANTUAR.

LAW UNIVERSITY.

THE following are the proposals of the Legal Education Association for a University, or School of Law :

(1.) To place the general course of studies and the examinations preliminary to and requisite for admission to the practice of the law, in all its branches, under the management and responsibility of a Legal University, to be incorporated in London.

(2.) To make the passing of suitable examinations in this University (or of equivalent examinations in the legal faculty of some other university of the United Kingdom) indispensable to the admission of students to the practice of the Bar, or to practise as special pleaders, certificated conveyancers, attorneys or solicitors; such examinations, and the courses of study preparatory thereto, being either combined or divided as may be desirable and convenient with a view to the knowledge of the general principles of law, or to the acquisition of the special attainments necessary for particular branches of the practice of the legal profession.

(3.) To offer the benefits of the course of study and examinations to be afforded by the University to all classes of students who may desire to take advantage of them, whether intending or not intending to follow the legal profession, in any of its branches, and whether members or not of any of the Inns of Court.

(4.) To enable the University to confer (among other honours) such degrees in law as are conferred by other universities.

(1.) The fundamental principle of this proposal is to distinguish between legal education and the practice of the legal profession, making the former necessary as a condition precedent to the latter.

(2.) In accordance with this principle, the Association does not propose to ask on behalf of the University for any power to confer the status or degree of barrister-at-law, or to admit students to the right of practising either at the Bar, or as conveyancers or special pleaders below the Bar. It proposes to leave the regulation of the right of practising at and below the Bar, the other conditions (i.e., other than legal study and examinations) of admission to practise, and the exercise of discipline (including the power of exclusion from practice) over all such practitioners, to the authorities to whom it is now, or to whom it may from time to time be, by law committed.

(3.) In like manner, the Association does not propose to interfere in any manner with the admission of attorneys and solicitors to practise in any of the courts of the realm, or with the disciplinary or other powers of those courts over attorneys or solicitors, as their own respective officers.

(4.) The Association is desirous of constituting the University under the government of a Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Senate, with the Crown as visitor; according to the analogy of the other universities of the realm.

(5.) In the constitution of the Senate they would desire to see those bodies which now represent the organised power and opinion