CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY. 445 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MR. J. N. BENNETT. 
(Read March 10th, 1811.) 
THE paper consisted mainly of the statement of a series of facts, 
embracing three cases, two of them involving the right to large 
estates. The first was the strange and eventful history of a gentle- 
man who disappeared from a neighbouring county under circum- 
stances of deep interest, giving rise very long afterwards to a case of 
disputed identity, which rested entirely on circumstantial evidence. 
The second showed how, previously to the late reform of the real 
property laws, a family was disinherited by a legal fiction, in spite 
of the clearly expressed intention on the part of the husband and 
father to give them all his property. The third commemorated a 
professional deliverance of a remarkable nature under critical cir- 
cumstances, 
CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MR. W. SQUARE, F.R.C.S., F.R.G.S. 
(Read March 17th, 1881.) 
Tue present system of judging of Criminal Responsibility is not 
sufficiently accurate. Four heads to be considered—youth, igno- 
rance, drunkenness, insanity. Youth: The juvenile criminal. His 
present inadequate treatment. Remedy. Ignorance: The great 
question of the criminal class generally. The unfairness of courts 
to the prisoner. The marked jail bird: The difficulties of treating 
with drunkards. Attempt at explanation. The Insane: The 
tender and careful examination that is necessary so rarely given. 
The value of treatment. Conclusion: The difficulties and _ tre- 
mendous responsibilities of judges. 
