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fellows' end is the combination room, consecrated to the drinking 

 of a glass or two of port before chapel. The dinner is plain for both 

 dons and undergraduates, though it must not be imagined that 

 the picture in the Illustrated of the Prince of Wales' son looking 

 hungrily at a mustard pot gives a correct idea of our fare. The 

 custom of fines was mentioned, and from the account of dinner 

 a transition was made to tlie boat-races, and the "bumping" 

 was described : here were introduced the annual May races, the 

 college scratch fours, and the pleasant sight of what the irreverent 

 called "the Ancient Mariners : " some dons who wish to reduce 

 their bulk get exercise and appetite, and see what is going on 

 along the river, join together, and paddle down in an eight-oar 

 occasionally. A quotation from an edict issued by the University 

 authorities in 1869 was given in order to show some of the faults, 

 counted as grievous ones: the list included "gaming transactions, 

 dealings with money-lenders, pigeon-shooting, steeple-chasing, 

 tandem-driving, &c." This was followed by a brief summary of 

 peculiarities of the hangers-on of the University, tlie relations of 

 the members of a college to one another, and the animosities of 

 different colleges, and the description ended with an account of 

 Degree Days, and especially of a day when the Archbishop of 

 Syra was made LL.D. Degree-day being the end of the career 

 of the ordinary student, the description of it was a suitable 

 termination for an essay which aimed at nothing beyond repro- 

 ducing the peculiarities of Cambridge Life. 



LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AS IT AT PRESENT 

 EXISTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 



By J. S. HORN. March 16th, 1886. 



Mr. Horn said, at the outset, that his paper did not propose 

 to deal with Local Government elsewhere than in England and 

 Wales, and explained that the areas for the purposes of Local 

 Government were the parish, the union, the municipal borough, 

 the county, and the sanitary district. 



THE PARISH. 



For most purposes of local government the term "parish" 

 meant the poor-law parish, a place for which a separate poor-rate 

 was, or could be made, or for which a separate overseer was or 

 could be appointed. Every part of England was now comprised 

 in some poor-law parish, of which there were 15,000. The parish 



