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to Parliament for a bill to exempt the members of the profession 
from serving on juries, and parochial and county offices ; but in 
their endeavours to obtain this boon they have, for the present, 
failed. Aware of the value of a division of labour, the Council 
appointed a Committee also to carry out this object. The gen¬ 
tlemen selected were the President, Professors Spooner and 
Simonds, Messrs. Henderson, Mayer, A. Cherry, and the Secre¬ 
tary. From their arrangements the bill was introduced into the 
Lords, and passed without opposition. In the Commons it was 
read twice and referred to a committee, in which, from some op¬ 
position, altogether unexpected, it was thrown out. At the fitting 
time, when political excitement shall have somewhat quieted 
down, your Committee will be prepared to resume their labours. 
Your worthy President, Mr. W. Robinson, who last year pre¬ 
sided at the Annual Meeting as the locum tenens of our first 
President, Mr. T. Turner, so satisfactorily fulfilled the duties of 
that office, that his unanimous election for the ensuing year was 
determined on. The Council having during that period expe¬ 
rienced the advantage of his able, calm, and courteous demeanour, 
but one feeling, and that a most satisfactory one, has been the 
result. 
In the Board of Examiners some changes have taken place. 
Mr. Bransby Cooper, the highly respected Chairman of the Eng¬ 
lish division, has resigned. The terms in which he tendered his 
resignation to the Council, the manner in which it was received, 
and his eminent services acknowledged, were alike honourable 
to both parties. The Chairman of the Board is now Professor 
Brande, a name that renders eulogy unnecessary; and the va¬ 
cancy in the Board has been filled by the appointment of Mr. 
Quain, of the London University. Mr. Goodwin, who has left 
London, and whose health has not been such as his friends 
could wish, has also resigned : his place is most ably and effi¬ 
ciently supplied by Mr. Mayer. 
Several deaths have occurred during the year, two of which 
require especial notice, because they have deprived us of 
men who were working well with and for us. The late Mr. 
W. J. Godwin, of Birmingham, was a most zealous member of 
the Council, unremitting in his attendance, and ever ready to 
lend a helping hand to the onward progress of the profession. 
Mr. Tindall, of Glasgow, was a member of the Scotch division of 
the Board of Examiners, and on no one occasion was he absent 
from his post. They have both been taken from us in the 
prime of life, and the Council, it is feared, will long have to look 
for others to replace them. 
Precisely the same number of pupils have received the Di¬ 
ploma of the College this year as did last; viz., forty-one. The 
