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The following list of distinguished alumni of the Michigan University Law School has been kindly prepared for us by a Michigan correspondent : — Authors: James L High, J. C. Knowlton, A. C. Angell, Lawrence Horrigan, Marshal D. Ewell. Cabinet Officers : Don M. Dickinson. Assistant Secretary Interior. Geo. Chandler. Editors: W. H. H. Beadle, H. H. Metcalf, J. K. Barud, John B. Alexander, Henry S. Dow, C. H DuBois, B. F. Bower. Speaker of the Michigan Legislature : G. J. Diekema. Judges Michigan Circuit Courts : Michael Brown, Geo. P. Cobb, Jno. A. Edget, Silas S. Fallas, George Gartner, D. J. Arnold, Chas. J. Pailthorp, Levi L. Wixson, Henry Hart, F. A. Hooker, E. A. Burlingame. Judges Michigan Supreme Court : Isaac Marston, Jno. W. McGrath. Judges (other States) : Jno. W. Emerson, Mo.; Jas. E. Hawes, O.; W. R. Day, O.; Jos. I. Hoke, W. Va.; D. H. Hammer, Ill., J. H. Cartwright, Ill.; George Chandler, Kan.; John M. Ritter, Kan.; W. D. Decker, Cal.; Jas. F. Hughes, Ill.; J. A. Shauck, O.; Thos. J. Wood, Ind.; R. B. Archibold, Fla.; Geo. Carson, la.; L. G. Kinne, la., Allen Smalley, O.; James R. Vaughan, Mo.; Patrick C. Dooley, Ark.; Isaac N. Everett, Cal.; Jno. B. Cleland, la.; W. M. H. Utt, la.; M. P. Kincaid, Neb.; W. R. Day, O.; S. W. Vandivert, Kan.; Charles W. Smith, Kan.; James E. Reddick, Ark. Judges Supreme Courts: T. J. Anders, Wash.; Wm. Story, Ark.; A. L. Zollers, Ind.; T. L. Noval, Neb.; O. W. Powers, Utah, J. C. Shields, Ar.; Thomas Burke, Wash., J. B. Cassoday, Wis. Representatives in Congress (Michigan); E. P. Allen, B. M. Cutcheon, Seth C. Moffatt, T. E. Tarsney, T. A. E. Weadock, E. W. Keightly, James S. Gorman, Wm. C. Maybury, J. H. McGowan. Representatives in Congress (other States). A. J. Holmes, W. I. Hayes, Iowa; J. H. O'Neal, B. F. Shively, Geo. Ford, Ind; Nils P. Hangen, Wis.; J. D. White, Ky.; S. R. Peters, Kan.; Marriott Brosius, Pa.; John C. Tarsney, Mo.; M. M. Boothman, O.; James Laird, Neb.; J. A. Pickler, S. Dak. Supreme Court Reporters: Hoyt, Post, H. A. Chaney, John W. Kern. Attorney-Generals (Michigan) : Byron D. Ball, I. Marston, M. Taggart.

should not only be a court of appeal, but in which all causes of importance should originate and be finally decided. This was afterward called Curia Regis, and sometimes Aula Regis, because it as sembled in the hall of the king's palace. The great officers of State — the Constable, the Mareschal, the Seneschal, the Chamberlain, and the Treasurer — were the judges, and over them pre sided the Grand Justiciar. Next to the king him self, he was chief in power and authority; and when the king was beyond the seas (which fre quently happened), he governed the realm like a viceroy. He was at all times the guardian of the public peace as Coroner-General, and he likewise had a control over the finances of the kingdom. In rank he had the precedence of all the nobility, and his power was greater than that of all the other magistrates. The administration of justice continued nearly on the same footing for eight reigns, extending over rather more than two cen turies. Although during the whole of this period the Aula Regis was preserved, yet for conven ience causes, according to their different natures, were gradually assigned to different committees of it, — to which may be traced the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the Court of Exchequer, and the Court of Chancery.

FACETIÆ. The prisoner had just been sentenced to death. "Your honor is a old fool," he said. "Officer," cried the insulted judge, " arrest that man! Your contempt, sir, must be punished. Sixty days in jail, sir, is the sentence of the court. Not a word. I 'll hear no defence." Not long ago a jury went out early in the day on a simple case, and when it came near the time for the court to adjourn, his honor sent for the jury, and asked the foreman if they required any further instruction. " We need no instruction, your honor," replied the foreman, "but here are eleven pig-headed men who won't agree to any thing."

LEGAL ANTIQUITIES. William the Conqueror's plan was to have a grand central tribunal for the whole realm, which

Sir George Rose had a friend who had been appointed to a judgeship in one of the colonies,