CORRESPONDENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 309, 17 October 1855, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times. Sir, —A great English Chancellor has transmitted to posterity his opinion that " there is no greater bore than a legal bore." Your correspondent " Euphron'' is a legal bore. To use his own phraseology: "wasit not" that his ultimate didactic besides being very " semi perspicuously" grammatical (" Euphron" likes large -words—so do I), contains bad law, I should not, while inviting him to choose a fresh theme, request him, in his more jocular moments, to make nearer approaches to the pun " perspicuous;" for bad puns are as much to be avoided as bad law. " EuphronV law is bad. The 43rd chap, of the llth and 12th of Victoria, upon which Le and your other correspondents waste much idle discussiou, has no place in the jurisprudence of this Colony. It is because '* Euphron" claims to have his opinion unhesitatingly accepted as (hat of a " professional" man, that I feel bound to bring this fact before your readers. We have had more than one proof in this Province that professional men very egregiously err in their law. " Euphron," I observe, shews all the caution of a professionally educated man, and is careful not to commit himself or risk his reputation by signing his real name. Yet without doing so, he has no right to set up his opinion as better than that of any other anonymous correspondent. And although he jocosely declares himself to be no " no advocate oi sham way" he has certainly proved himself an "advocate of sham law." I remain. Sir, Your very obedient servant, BoREMEX-roUGH. F.S.—My classical lore having quite failed me, I recurred to Lempriere's Dictionary, and found that " Euphron" was " an aspiring man of Sicyon, who enslaved his country by bribery." It would seem then jhat the original " Euplnou" was un-

constitutional, and like your correspondent, a bad lawyer. So far the signature is well selected; but it is ominous. P.P.S.—I find that the inhabitants of Sicyon were remarkable, among other things, for their peculiar attention to the minor points of dress.

To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times.

Slit, —I observe among your advertisements one announcing that. Evening Classes are held (apparently in connexion with the District Schools) for teaching French and Drawing, No one can complain of the formation of these classes —but ought they to exclude those branches of education from the District Schools ? Your obedient servant, P.