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4 Pump Court 1 (1886-1887)

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LONDON, JUNE, 1886.

PUMP COURT,
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Manager, Advertisement Department.  In no case should any
of these officials be addressed by name.
ery handsome Cases for holding the current numbers for Club and
Library Tables are on sale, price 2/-.
Third Volume of Pump Court will shortly be ready. Price
8/6. Order at once.
CURRENTE CALAMO.
IT is with the deepest regret that we record the
death of a Bencher of the Middle Temple who had so
long held the principal clerical position in the House
of Commons, and who, as Sir Erskine May, enjoyed
an enviable popularity. Only last month we did jus-
tice to Sir Erskine's merits in an article which also
dealt with another old Parliamentary hand, Lord
Redesdale; while in our February number will be
found a portrait and a biographical sketch of Sir
Erskine May, who, as will be remembered, was made
Lord Farnborough only a month before his regretted
decease. P1r's  CoUr has lost a good friend.
MR. JsiSTcE GrANTHAM has been entertained at a big
nner at the County Hall, Lewes, the Mayor (Alderman
irncombe) presiding, supported by Viscount Hampden
we former Speaker of the House of Commons) and a large
.mpany. This was a fitting compliment to pay one who
id done Sussex such valuable political service for many
ars.
AN advertisement has been lying for a little while in the
ner Temple Library which notified that a secretary to a
iblic company was required, and that any young barrister,

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who was prepared to devote himself exclusively to his duties,
would receive [300 per annum. Candidates to apply to Mr.
Hall Dare, the steward of the Inn. From enquirieswe have
made we understand that the advertiser is a lady who is
interested in a company promoted for the purpose of making
bread, the staff of life, cheaper. We understand that the
Inner Temple Treasury office was crowded with aspirants,
some three or four hundred having volunteered to devote
themselves and their time to the arduous occupation!
Where is the line to be drawn about placing advertisements
in the libraries, and why were not members of the other
Inns afforded a chance?
MR. CHARLES SHAW, the sub-treasurer of the Middle Tem-
ple, has been requested to resign and has departed. After
a paragraph which appeared in our columns some time ago,
we purposely abstained from saying much that we might
have said, as we knew that in any case the end could not be
far off. We limit ourselves to saying that Mr. Shaw will
not leave any regrets behind him. He contrived to make
himself odiously unpopular with the members of the
Inn. We wish to impress on the Benchers the desirability,
nay, the duty of appointing, if possible, a member of the
Inn to fill the vacancy. There must be many barristers
able, and, in these hard times, willing to accept the berth,
which provides a competence for life and entails no
degrading occupation.
THE illness of one judge, and the absence, through
domestic affliction, of two others, necessitated a re-arrange-
ment of the Spring Assizes.
THE QUEEN has opened the Colonies, and the season of
Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Six may be said to have
begun fairly well. Up to now the evenings have been too
chilly to permit of much promenading at South Kensington,
but very soon we may expect to see a recurrence of the
lively scenes which we have all witnessed these three last
seasons. It would be tiresome to enter into details of this
year's show after the newspapers have published so many
columns about it.
A FEATURE which has characterised previous Exhibitions
will be missed this year: there are to be no foreign bands,
the money which went into French, German, and Austrian
pockets being destined to line the purses of our own
musicians. This decision will, doubtless, meet with general
approval, though it cannot be gainsaid that Herr Strauss's
hand was a great draw last year.
SINCE the Vienna composer to whose waltzes we have all
danced left us last autumn he has actually turned Pro-
testant-an item of news which Mr. Martin Tupper might
introduce in the second edition of his new book of
reminiscences.
ON Tuesday, the 18th ult., the diners in Middle Temple
Hall were startled by an occurrence unprecedented in the
memory of the oldest member. After being kept waiting for
dinner half-an-hour beyond the usual time, two Benchers
rushed in unannounced and unpreceded by the head porter
with the usual wand of office. One of the two functionaries

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