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LINCOLN'S INN.

EASTERN ITEMS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

“THE COGENET GUIL

The_marriage will take pince,]Elis Education Now Complete. Five Hundred Years of History at 8. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, The education of the gull as a on the 70th, instant at 150 p-Landoner is now complete, says a The Honouraba Sosisty of of Mr. James H. Oilerdessen to writer in the Times During the Lincola Inc. which recently Miss Violet Elaine celebrated the five hundredib, an-daughter of Mr. James Hawit the white-headed winter Hawes, tast few days black-headed gulls niversary of Its occupation of its states the Mercury.

dress which they wear whila visit- present home. doubtless existed long before 1422. But this is the

ling us-havs been feeding with: The quiet but pretty wedding the flocks of pigeons on the road- date at which its records recom- of Missa Mabel Mary Johna, way of by-streets in Westminster mence. They show that a society eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.and displaying all the assurance withthe name 'Socistas de Lin-J. H. R. Johns, of Paignton, of trus Cockneys in scarcely coln's Ino" was then in existence, Davoo, and formerly of Shangbai, condescending to evade passing with a well-established constitu- and, of Mr. Donald Stawart, rahicles. Even a motor-omnibus tion, and with rules regarding ad-eldest son of kir. and Mrsonly moves them a few feet far- minion and membership which, Alfred Stewart of Horsforth, ther on.

with modiBostions, still obtain. Leeds, took place on December Forty-one years ago, in the' The official view is that the 30:h. at the Holy Trinity winter of the freat prost of 1831 Honourable Society originated Cathedral Shanghai The very when their first predecessora batween 1286 and 1310, in a Rev. Dean Symone officiated. Aeight in number, astonished Lon- group of lawyers, who were reception was later hold at 695, don by making themselves athome brought by Henry Lacy, Eart of Avenue Foch, the residance of on the water in St. James's Park, Lincola, to settle near his manor Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Symons. Mr such a development of the gall's house in Holbars. They occupied and Mrs. Stewart afterwards left familiarity would not have seem- a house in Shoe-lane, from by the R.M.S. Empress of Canada whence they moved to Thavies for Hongkong, where the boney Inn, and afterwards to Furnival's | moon is being spent. Ion, from which they passed to

Lateket

ed possible. The mere presence

of seagulls in London" sufficed

to keep up a surprised procession

of pedestrians, carrying paper the present sita. Tbera is, bow- The Shanghai Revolver. Club's bags of bread, over the bridge all aver, so socient tradition, which sixth annual revolver competition day long. No doubt the open has never been entirely discred-for the club championship (mem-water, broken for the waterfowl, ited that the Earl of Lincoln's bere only) closed, on December and the sight of ducks feed-:{ mansion actually stood on part 31st. Capt. E. I. M. Barrett, S. Ling there had attracted the of the present site of Lincoln's Police, wins the gold medal and golls in the first instance Ino, and that the Society had its will be transferred to the casm but the public quickly dis origin here, and nowhere else. pionship class in future compati-covered that the visitors could

Another portion of the present-sions.

day Lincoln's Inn then balong-

ed to the Bishops of Chichester

pick up bread off the ice. Day after day it cained broad, and even the ducks became expert but comical skaters.

gulls--they

Extensive damage to property To whom the Society paid rent of accompanied by heavy loss of life ten marks a year. Later oo, this is reported from Shanghai. A fire Thes pioneer portion bacam: the property of broke out at p.m. on December scarcely deserved the name of the Society by purchase.

30:h. on Ferry and Robinson eea" gulls, by the way, being It was the Bishop's Hall which Rosda in a group of Chinese huts, always birds of marsh and waste, the Society first used as a fall. Fanned by strong braez the rather than the open sez-| This was the centre of the life fire spread with alarming rapidity evidently liked London, because of the Inn: here its members met and quickly engulfed all the they brought many friends with and dined, here readings were houses in the vicinity until them the next winter; and after given and points of law mooted, total of between five and sixthat the annual invasion of bere revela and masques were hundred homas were a roaring London increased until a few held Christmas plays were mas of flames. Over thirty years ago, when, the pastime of presented, and dancing was bodies bave been recovered and it feeding the gulls on the Embank practised B.S + necessary is expected that there are many ment having lost all the charm accomplishment of a young law-more which have been totally of novelty, the birds discovered rer. The Hall had an open fire burned to ashes leaving no traces. that their numbers exceeded their in its centre, and this probably

welcome. Meanwhile thes bava supplied the only warmth to the members, for few of the chambers gone on

The amabs of Tientsin have learned to disperse themselves all

The British over the country and have be-i had replaces, and curfew was Municipal Council resolved that come common objects of ialand tolled at nine-an o'd custom those using Victoris Ganiens ornamental waters in scores of kept up in the Inn to this day. should be registered and have places; while the ploughman

card stating their identity, show-parsuing bis winter labour amid)

"JARNDYCE V. JARNDYCE"

strike.

In early times, all the members ing a finger print, and declaring a whirling snowstorm of `gulis" of the Society lived in the Ior, that they and the children white wings bas become a familiar and were summoned to dinner and under their care would observe spectacle in many & countryside. supper by the blowing of a born. the rules of common decency and Whether we call him Ben" But, strange to say, although they abstain from creating a dis-gul or cos, the black-headed gul! dload and sappol every day, they turbance or using bad language, has seafaring instinct enough to breakfasted only four times a Bather than use the Gardens play the pirate wherever he goes. week. I พ. a meagre maal, under such conditions the amabs The motive of his first visit to consisting of bread and brez.)started a boycott, and during the Loudon was robbery of the They were subject to severe dis-past day or two foreign childrenjducka in St. James's Park, and cipline. Stu tents were forbidden bave had to be content to take when the ploughs are idle in to kill the rabbits in the coney-the air on the roads outside the country be chiefly lives by garth adivining the Hall, or even Latterly, however, the female robbing the peewits with menaces. to carry a bow an order which element seems to have weak So perhaps, if his new venture of when gunpowler was invented, ened, and a few have agreed to feeding with the London pigeons should prove successful, we may see exciting chases in sod out of the traffic, potil the pigeon who has been unlucky enough to find a crust of bread drops it for the

·was extended to firearms.

The Inn claimed jurisdicion over its members both outside as well as within its precincts. And!

read we

soma who

FO

of

register,

FAMOUS MEMBERS.

Of the rest of Lincoln's Inn's

GIRL'S SUICIDE.

Expected Scolding from Parents.

were censured for playing carda buildings, some date from a 90-ecreaming gull behind. at the Porter's house of eral rebuilding of the Inn in the Meanwhile our modern succes- the Rolls, for wearing gowns in sixteenth century, when the sors of those soothsayers who the City, or for visiting dis-coneygarth was dug up for the read omens in the fight of birds reputable houses in the vicinity, making of thousands of bricks will tell us that this гет as well as for assaults upon ser-Some of these were used for the departure of the gulls in London van's of the Society. Panish-wall on the western side of the probably presages a winter of ment ranged from Ense, or being Inn, where, tradition says. Be severity like that of 1881, when put in the stocks, to expulsion Jonson worked "with a trowel in their predecessors first came. from the Inn. The chief servants his hand and a book in his were the Butler and the Steward, Docket." In one of the old bouses who are still important officials.that still remain lived John The Bulter, for some time, also Thurloe, one of the Council of held the position, of Librarian, State under Cromwell. Long after and made the first catalogue of he died a collection of State the Library, which, unfortunately, Papers was discovered, hidden in Afraid that she would be scold- has not been preservede

a False ceiling.

led by her parents because she The existing Old Hall, which More recently erected are the had been punisbed at school for succeeded the Bishop's Hall Hall and the Library. In the the first time, Edith Noyau, a dates from 1489, and is now the Hall, a very spacious building, pretty carly-haired girl of nine, oldest building in the Inn. Be- which containe a remarkable threw herself from the Alma sides being used by the Society, fresco painting by the late G. F. Bridge into the River Seine, says it was, a century ago, the Lord Watts, the students still keep the Paris correspondent of the Chancellor's Court the Court their terms by eating dinners, London Erening News. which Dickens describes in the just as they did centuries ago. Ic The only daughter of a railway openioz chapter of Blesk the adjoining Library, which, as porter, she was, according to her House," when be introduces us to regards its contents, is the oldest parents, a well-behaved and in. Jarndyce v. Jarnoyce," that library in London, there is telligent child. A few days ago, picture of Chancery delays and collection of books dating from because she had failed to do s abuses. It is interesting to note the time when a very few printed task, her school-mistress repri that this imaginary case was in-volumes, supplemented by manu-macded her, and entered "punish- spired by an actual suit heard in script treatises and commonplace meat" in red ink on ber exercise Lincoln's Inn Hall, known as the books, constituted the lawyer's book, telling her to show it to her

Great Jenten Case." It had library. Now some 70,000 volumes father. commenced long before Dickens minister to his wants,

The girl, afraid, did not do so; was born, and outlived him by Of famous members there is a nor did she do the "lines" which

long roll of names, beginning with bad been set as punishment. Next in age to the Old Hall is Sir John Fortescue, who was the A second punishment followed, the Gate Hours opening. into Gubernator or Treasurer of 1424 also duly inscribed in red ink. Chancery-lane, which dates from 6, and including Sir Thomas More. The little girl, as soon as the 1520-1, sad is one of four such the first lay Chancellor; Sir day's work was

over, want Gate Houses left in London, Matthew Hale, whore MSS. in straight from school and flung the others being at St. James's the Library help to keep bis herself in the river, her distraught Palace, Lambeth Palace and ama fresh: Lords Mansfield, father being one of those who Clerkenwell. Another link with Brougham, St Leonarda Camp helped to recover the body. the past is the Chapel which bell, Selborne, Cairns, Herschell, was designed and built by leigo and Rossell of Killowen, William NEW STEAMER LAID UP. Jones, and opened in 1623. It Pitt also was a member, as were After undergoing successful was built on pillars, and the Disraelid Gladstone, while, trials on the Clyde a new pass- cloister below is the burying place coming to more recent times, the enger steamer, not yet named, of many more or less famous names of Lord Haldane, Mr. built by Messrs. Barclay, Curie members of the Inn. Until a Asquith, Lord Morley, Lord and Co., of Glasgow, for the Com "Zeppelin bomb destroyed them, Bryce, and many other lawyers pagnie Francaise de Navigation | its greatest glory was the beauti. and politicians occur to the mind Vapeur (Cyprien Fabre), has ful windows, painted, according those of members who have been laid op indefinitely in the to Horace Walpole, by the Dateb taken a more or less active part Gateloch owing to the high costs family of Van Linge, who painted in the government of the Inn. of working sad the stagnation in many windows at Oxford.'

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| emigration, “

many years,

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