I wonder how much it costs the New Zea land Law Society a year to keep its members " straight.” The annual balance sheet is not, I fancy, made public, which is a pity. In England, so it appears by a paragraph in the haw Times, for a copy of which I have to thank a correapon. dent, it costs the Incorporated Law Society more than JJQOOO per annum to maintain discipline in the body they represent. Rongbly speaking, there are 18,000 solici tors in Great Britain, two-thirds of whom are provincial practitioners. By a curi us coincidence the amount expended every year on keeping this large body of men within tho strict limits of professional reotitude thus works out the appropriate figure of 6s 8d per head.
It is not generally known that an organ, The Crescent —The Record of Islam —has recently been started by certain Moham medans living in England, the expressed object of tho proprietors and editors being, so it states, the ultimate and complete conversion of benighted England to tho faith of Mohammed- "Whether j;he (jresce iff publishes special correspondence from Armenia I do not know.
