The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832

LAW INSTITUTION

HOPE

LOVE'S KERCHIEF

A SKETCH OF SINGAPORE.1

MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS

ROYAL AND NOBLE GLUTTONY

THE SKETCH BOOK

EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR. A FRAGMENT

RETROSPECTIVE GLEANINGS

SPEECH OF KING HENRY THE FIRST

REMEDY FOR ALDERMEN SLEEPING IN CHURCH

THE NATURALIST

THE BARN OWL

VAMPIRE BAT

THE SELECTOR AND LITERARY NOTICES OF WORKS

ANNUAL BIOGRAPHY AND OBITUARY OF 1831

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

THE DEVIL'S SONATA

THE CAMBRIDGE "FRESHMAN."

THE NOVELIST

THE CONFESSION OF SERVENTIUS

SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

ORIGIN OF PRAIRIES

SUTTON WASH EMBANKMENT

BRITISH IRON TRADE

THE GATHERER

FREDERICK I. OF PRUSSIA,

HALF-HANGED.—ANNE GREEN

ENIGMATICAL REPLIES

SMUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY

A NOBLE COUNT

EPITAPHS

FAMILIAR SCIENCE

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This handsome portico is situate on the west side of Chancery Lane. It represents, however, but a portion of the building, which extends thence into Bell Yard, where there is a similar entrance. The whole has been erected by Messrs. Lee and Sons, the builders of the new Post Office and the London University; whose contract for the present work is stated at 9,214l. The portion in our engraving is one of the finest structures of its kind in the metropolis. The bold yet chaste character of the Ionic columns, and the rich foliated moulding which decorates the pediment, as well as the soffit ceiling of the portico, must be greatly admired. We should regret this handsome structure being pent up in so narrow a street as Chancery Lane, did not the appropriateness of its situation promise advantages of greater importance than mere architectural display.

From the Fourth Annual Report, we learn that "the plan of the Law Institution originated with some individuals in the profession, who were desirous of increasing its respectability, and promoting the general convenience and advantage of its members." Rightly enough it appeared to them "singular, that whilst the various public bodies, companies, and commercial and trading classes in the metropolis, and indeed in many of the principal towns in the kingdom, have long possessed places of general resort, for the more convenient transaction of their business; and while numerous institutions for promoting literature and science amongst all ranks and conditions of society, have been long established, and others are daily springing up, the attorneys and solicitors of the superior courts of record at Westminster should still be without an establishment in London, calculated to afford them similar advantages; more particularly when the halls and libraries of the inns of court, the clubs of barristers, special pleaders, and conveyancers, the libraries of the advocates and writers to the signet at Edinburgh, and the association of attorneys in Dublin, furnish a strong presumption of the advantages which would probably result from an establishment of a similar description for attorneys in London.

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"A Library to contain a complete collection of books in the law, and relating to those branches of literature which may be considered more particularly connected with the profession; votes, reports, acts, journals, and other proceedings of parliament; county and local histories; topographical, genealogical, and other matters of antiquarian research, &c. &c."

"An Office of Registry in which will be kept accounts and printed particulars of property intended for sale, &c."

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