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 The Student's Mournful Plaint. mand all the forces raised, or to be raised, in the province. The Earl of Orrery, in answer to articles exhibited against him before the House of Commons in England, said that the presidency court of Munster had an ab solute jurisdiction to hear and determine any cause whereof it had cognizance, without being subject to any other court, and con stantly proceeded to the determination of causes, notwithstanding certioraris sent from other courts to remove causes commenced there; and added that his predecessors had

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imprisoned persons who brought such cer tioraris. (Orrery's Letters, vol. I.) Not until the reign of James I. had the English law supremacy in Ireland. The use of the Irish language in court records ceased about the year 1619. The study of the Brehon Laws, dating back into remote antiquity, is extremely interesting because it furnishes the connecting link between the jurispru dence of the pagan and the enlightened legal procedure of the Christian.

THE STUDENT'S MOURNFUL PLAINT. (" FOR EXAMPLE, GENTLEMEN, IF A OWES В AND В OWES C.") BY ROBERT MUNGER. О WELCOME peaceful seventh day, When from these friends I can be free And flee their most insistent sway! Why all this wrangling, friends, I pray, This vain continual mystery: Why don't the beggars up and pay, If A owes В and В owes C? There is no end that I can see, The debts are old; let each, I say, Just plead the Statute legally And make the whole affair R. J., Heavens! if С had gone astray, Whatever had become of me? It is a thing to make one gray, If A owes В and В owes C. L'ENVOI. Prince, on the road to Mandalay I've friends who wait impatiently; But stop, how can I get away If A owes В and В owes C?