LAW STUDENTS' JOURNAL. To SECRETARIES.-Reports of meetings should reach the office not later than first post Thursday morning to ensure insertion in the current number. LONDON UNIVERSITY. SIR COURTENAY ILBERT, Clerk of the House of Commons, will deliver a lecture at University College on Wednesday, the 25th inst., at 5.30, on Methods of Legislation." The following lists of law examination results have been issued : LL.B. EXAMINATION. HONOURS.-First Class.-S. V. Farrington (University Scholarship), private study; R. F. Mattingly, Law Society and private tuition; E. C. Mayers, private study, and Chao Chu Wu, King's College (bracketed equal and awarded a moiety of a University Scholarship): C. H. Whitelegge, Law Society. Second Class.L. V. Chapman, B.A., King's Coll.; A. E. Delph, B.Sc., King's Coll., London Sch. of Economics, and private tuition; E. J. Edward and A. C. Gloria, private study; H. B. Hughes and A. R. N. Powys, Law Society and private study; O. A. Rad ey, private study. Third Class.-H. O. Brown, Leeds Univ. and private study; E. Deller, King's Coll.; H. J. Hoare, B.Sc. (Econ.), private study; R. E. R. Luff, Univ. Coll.; J. O'Connor, B.A., private tuition; C. E. Wright, Gray's-inn and private tuition. PASS.-H. S. Billing, Univ. Coll.; M. B. Clappé, private study; C. E. Edwards, King's Coll.; W. A. D. Englefield, private tuition; F. E. Grant, King's Coll.; T. S. Hutchings, private study; W. W. Nops, King's Coll.; F. N. D. Preston, A. B. Raffle, and M. E. F. Solis, private study; G. B. Willis and C. T. Young, private tuition. LL.B. EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS. Pirojsha Nasarvanji Daruvala, King's Coll., has obtained honours, qualifying for entry to the LL.D. Examination. INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION IN LAWS. PASS LIST.-H. E. Ayres, Law Society; A. W. Back, J. S. Boal, and W. J. Canton, private study; E. W. Chance, Gray's-inn and private study; J. Charlesworth, private study; J. O. Davis, private tuition; J. M. Dixon, private study; H. C. Ellis, private tuition; F. H. Gosling, private study; G. L. F. Grece, Law Society and private study; P. T. Grove, private study; P. M. Kerwood, Birmingham Board of Legal Studies and private study; R. T. F. Kirk, B.A., private study; T. K. Kurup, Univ. Coll.; N. M. Livingstone, private study; O. R. Lowis. Univ. Coll., Nottingham, and private study; D. Powell, Queen's Coll., Oxford, and private study; J. Ratcliff, private study; J. Read, Wren's; W. S. Scammell, J. E. Stephenson, and J. F. L. Talbot, private tuition; H. A. T. Trehearne and B. H. Whiteford, private study. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES. As Quain Professor of Comparative Law, Sir John Macdonell, C.B., gave on Wednesday last the first of a course of lectures at University College upon the chief systems of legal procedure as illustrated by certain trials. Unfortunately, he said, no entirely complete report existed of any ancient trial. There was nothing corresponding to the Year Books or our reports. Generally, only one speech, and that by a partisan, was preserved. Let them conceive the task of unravelling the merits and issues in the trial of Warren Hastings solely from Burke's heated rhetoric, or the ideas of posterity as to the Parnell Commission if got only from Sir Charles Russell's speech. Selecting first Socrates' trial, the lecturer disclaimed all intention of treating it except from a legal point of view. There was no class of permanent professional judges at Athens. Ancient democracy there did not know such, nor did ancient aristocracy at Rome. Every citizen above thirty was potentially a judge. With our population we worked with 75,000 jurymen; in Athens, with about 20,000 to 25,000 citizens and a free population of 100,000, they required 6000. Jefferson's idea of a judiciary elected and renewed at short intervals had been far surpassed. The Athenian people had taken the step which extreme modern democrats had sometimes threatened. The tribunal, 501 in number, was a big crowd. The trial resembled rather trial by the House of Commons -a paid House of Commons-than a jury of twelve. The indictment as preserved would have been bad, according to English or Scotch law, for want of particularity. In all probability the Apology did not give the speech as delivered. Great literature, none greater, it lacked the air of reality. To the question, was it a fair trial and was Socrates guilty? there never could be one answer. Those who prized order and the safety of the State above all else would say it was a good and necessary deed. In the community were fears similar to those which sent Condorcet to the guillotine and led to the burning of Priestley's house amid shouts of No philosophers; Church and State! Had Socrates been tried elsewhere and at some other time he might have fared worse. Brought before an ecclesiastical court, as were Bruno and Campanella, he would have been tortured; he would have been subjected to repeated examinations and long confinement intended to break him down in body. On the strength of his belief in a demonic voice, he would have been charged with sorcery; he would have been cut off from his disciples, and he would have been delivered over to the civil power to be burned. In Tudor or Stuart reigns he would have been charged for high treason or blasphemy, browbeaten by the law officers prosecuting and scolded by the presiding judge as a pestilent nuisance in the State, and his last words before a cruel death might have been cut short or drowned in the roll of drums beneath the scaffold. Let them picture him coming before an English or a Scotch judge at the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century before Ellenborough, who tried Hone, or Braxfield, who tried Muir and Palmer; he would have been beslavered with pompous platitudes or subjected to coarse ribaldry, and his conviction would. have been certain. If they conceived the great searcher of truth in the world to-day, his fate would be different. He would be the terror of the ordinary party politician, unscientific lawyers and writers subsisting by the facile handling of undefined concepts. They would hate and dread his "heckling" and the consequent depreciation of their verbal stock-in-trade. But he would not drink hemlock. He would be explained "explained by those who did not understand him-as impracticable and as an obstructive. He would not be persecuted; he might be belittled. He would not be silenced by the State. But in a world noisy with many voices over little things, he might not have been heard. It was not certain that men to-day would understand, as his hostile judges did, that a great disruptive force had come into the world. He would not have perished by process of law. But his teaching would not have had the seal of martyrdom and his example its undying force. As Harnack said, it was not the living teacher, the unwearied searcher after truth, the supreme dialectician, it was the dying Socrates that spoke to posterity.-Times. STUDENTS' SOCIALS. LAW STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY.-At a meeting held at the Law Society's Hall, Chancery-lane, on the 17th inst. (chairman, Mr. F. Burgis), the subject for debate was : "That the case of Lloyd v. Grace, Smith, and Co. (104 L. T. Rep. 789; (1911) 2 K. B. 489) was wrongly decided." Mr. W. S. Meeke opened in the affirmative, and Mr. E. D. Shearn seconded. Mr. R. W. Handley opened in the negative, and Mr. R. H. Willcocks seconded. The following members continued the debate: Messrs. Blackwell, H. F. Rubinstein, Enness, Talbot, Pleadwell, W. S. Jones, King, Kafka, Davies, and Heal. The motion was lost by six votes. BIRMINGHAM.-A meeting was held at the Law Library, Bennett'shill, on Tuesday, the 17th inst., Mr. E. H. Clutterbuck in the chair, The following moot point was debated: "A., a solicitor, is instructed by B. to recover damages from C. in respect of an accident which has in fact occurred to D., whom B. personates. C. agrees to pay £20 in settlement on having a receipt in full discharge of all claims and demands. B. forges a receipt in these terms, which A. forwards to C. with a letter in which he states that he incloses 'form of receipt duly signed by D.,' and B. accordingly obtains the £20. C. is subsequently called upon to pay damages to D. in respect of the accident. A. has no knowledge of the fraud. Has C. any right of action against A.?" Mr. T. H. Ekins opened in the affirmative, and was supported by Messrs. P. M. Kerwood, B. B. Davis, E. C. G. Clarke, A. J. Hatwell, H. Cooke, and Maurice I. Clutterbuck. Mr. J. D. Sampson opened in the negative, and was supported by Messrs. J. B. Hargreave, D. E. Ward, D. A. Parry, W. J. Blackham, R. W. Frazier, H. S. Brookes, H. D. Price, and G. H. Willcox. After the openers had replied the chairman summed up, and, on the question being put to the meeting, the voting resulted: For the affirmative, eleven; for the negative, nine. A hearty vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. MANCHESTER. The 104th annual general meeting was held on the 10th inst. in the Law Library, Mr. William H. Denham, solicitor, in the chair. The minutes of the last annual general meeting were read and confirmed. The accounts of the hon. treasurer and hon. librarian, the balance-sheet of the hon. treasurer, and the committee's report were taken as read, the same being published in the Chronicle. Many questions were asked with regard to the accounts, which were answered by the hon. treasurer and hon. librarian. Mr. F. S. Oppenheim pointed out that there seemed a likelihood of the society's expenditure being permanently in excess of the receipts. and advised the committee when appointed for the new session to institute inquiries with a view to cutting down expenses. The accounts were then passed. The following gentlemen were elected ordinary members of the society: Messrs. J. W. Dulanty, E. A. Chatham, J. Marshall, E. C. Thompson, D. Hickey, J. P. Storrs, B.A., A. Ledger, C. O. Hockin, and A. G. Taylor, LL.B.; and Mr. H. C. Jones was elected an honorary member. The result of the essay competition was announced, Mr. J. A. Hislop being first and Mr. R. V. Rylands second; there were three entries. The officers for the session 1911-1912 were then elected as follows: President, Mr. W. H. Norton; the three vicepresidents who, together with the president, retired (Messrs. A. A. Tobin, K.C., M.P., A. C. Maberley, F. S. Oppenheim, and C. Dunderdale) were all re-elected vice-presidents, together with Mr. Elkanah Hewitt; hon. auditor, Mr. C. J. Cooper; hon. librarian, Mr. E. O. Hudson; hon. secretaries, Messrs. E. G. Lord and J. A. Hislop; hon. treasurer, Mr. H. R. Eaton. The following gentlemen were elected members of the committee: Messrs. Denham, Levi, Branthwaite, Gilmore, Horsfall, Jackson, Knott, Morris, and Wardley. It was proposed by Mr. Wardley and seconded by Mr. Lord that "the word 'sixteen' be substituted for the word 'fourteen' in rule 14 of the society's rules." Mr. Horsfall added as an amendment that there should be no limit to the number of vice-presidents; this, however, was not seconded, and the proposal was carried unamended. Mr. Wardley proposed and Mr. Lord seconded: "That the subscription for all hon. members of the society shall in be future be 5s., and that rule 10 of the society's rules be altered accordingly," which was carried. A hearty vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the meeting. Present: Messrs. Oppenheim, Hudson, Levi, Cottrill, Wardley, Lord, Gilmore, Horsfall, Branthwaite, Brodrick, Townson, Rylands, Blumberg, Hislop, Chambers, Vaudrey, Witt, Wood, Pollitt, Jackson, Jones, Morris, Knott, Dequesnes--twenty-four in all. NOTTINGHAM.-The first ordinary meeting was held in the Exchange Hall on Monday, the 9th inst., Mr. A. V. Bright in the chair. The subject for discussion was: Law Notes Moot No. 1. Mr. C. E. Whitworth opened the debate in the affirmative; Mr. A. F. Fraser replied in the negative, and were supported by Messrs. A. C. Flewitt and J. E. Richards respectively. The following gentlemen also spoke : Messrs. S. C. Armitage, F. L. H. Jackson, and A. W. G. Hall. The moot was decided in the affirmative by a majority of three votes. At a meeting held in the Exchange Hall on Monday, the 16th inst., Mr. A. C. Flewitt in the chair, the subject for debate was as follows: "A. travelled on a railway without having first paid his fare or provided himself with a ticket, but without intent to defraud the railway company or evade payment. His luggage, which was in the luggage van of the train, was lost. Can A. recover compensation from the company?" Mr. H. S. Moore opened for the affirmative, and Mr. W. A. Scott replied for the negative. They were supported by Messrs. A. V. Bright and A. M. Williams respectively. The following gentlemen also spoke Messrs. A. F. Fraser, A. W. G. Hall, J. E. Richards, and C. E. Whitworth. The voting resulted in a win for the negative by five votes to four. LEGAL OBITUARY. Mr. JOHN MALCOLM FORBES LUDLOW, C.B., who died on the 17th inst., was one of the originators of the Christian Socialist movement, the friend and fellow-worker of Maurice and Kingsley and Hughes and Neale. He was born more than ninety years ago, educated in Paris, and was called to the Bar by Lincoln's-inn in 1843. Mr. J. W. MELLOR, K.C., died at Taunton on the 13th inst., at the age of seventy-six. Mr. Mellor was the eldest son of the late Mr. Justice Mellor, and was born in London in 1835. He was educated at Trinity Hall, and took his degree as Senior Optime in 1857. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1860, and went the Midland Circuit, and took silk in 1875. In 1886 he received the office of Judge-Advocate-General, and in 1892 was appointed Chairman of Committees. Mr. Mellor became a Privy Councillor in 1886, and was a justice of the peace for Somerset and Devon, and a deputy-lieutenant for Somerset. For many years he was deputy chairman of the Quarter Sessions of Somersetshire. Mr. Mellor married, in 1860, Caroline, daughter of Mr. Charles Paget, M.P. She died in 1900. Mr. E. H. PICKERSGILL, the recently-appointed metropolitan magistrate, died on the 13th inst. from pneumonia, at the age of sixty-one. Born in 1850, and educated at York Grammar School, he entered the Civil Service at the age of eighteen as a clerk in the Savings Bank Department of the Post Office. Having graduated at London University in 1872, he continued in the same department till 1885, when he resigned on being elected as member of Parliament for South-West Bethnal Green. In the year preceding his election he had been called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, and henceforth he devoted himself to legal work, obtaining some practice as a Treasury counsel at the Old Bailey. His advocacy of the establishment of a Court of Criminal Appeal will be remembered. He received his magisterial appointment in the present year. Mr LEONARD NEW, deputy magistrates' clerk, and president of the Stockport Law Society, died suddenly on the 10th inst. The deceased gentleman, who was a member of the firm of Messrs. Lake, New, and Lake, of Stockport, was fifty-three years of age, and was admitted in 1878. Mr. JAMES WALLACE, solicitor, died at his residence, 6, Thornhillpark, Sunderland, on the 17th inst. Mr. Wallace, who was fifty-two years of age, was born at Southwick. As a boy, after spending some little time at Preston's glass works, he went to Messrs. Pickersgill's shipyard as an apprentice shipwright. Leaving there he became office boy with Messrs. Oliver, Botterell, and Roche, solicitors. In 1878 he opened a branch office for the firm at Newcastle, where he remained for some time, and was then transferred back to Sunderland. In 1885 he became senior manager. He served his articles under the firm, which had then taken the title of Botterell and Roche, and was admitted a partner in 1895. In Aug. 1903 the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Wallace commenced practising for himself, his office being in West Sunniside, where he has carried on business up to the present time. He was chiefly interested in shipping cases, and for many years acted as solicitor for the British Shipmasters and Officers' Protection Society. In legal and other circles in which he moved Mr. Wallace was highly esteemed. BRAY, J. A. T. LAW- PICKFORD, B RENCE, J Oxford Circuit ... J.J. S.J. " Circuit ་་ : : : Divisional A-In charge of Special Jury List. Nov. 2 44 DO 46 44 44 2 Divisional Midland 2nd PART. Court ་་ 44 B-In charge of Common Jury List. C-In charge of Non-Jury List. 44 Two of His Majesty's judges, yet to be selected, will attend the November and December Sessions of the Central Criminal Court. CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.-AUTUMN ASSIZES. THE following judges will remain in town: Grantham, J., Darling, J. Bucknill, J., Bray, J., Lord Coleridge, J., Hamilton, J., Scrutton, J., and Bankes, J., during the whole of the circuits; the other judges till their respective commission days. WESTERN (Lord ALVERSTONE, C.J., 1; A. T. LAWRENCE, J., 2). Bodmin, Wednesday, Oct. 25 Winchester, Saturday, Nov. 4 Exeter, Saturday, Oct. 28 (civil and Bristol (2), Monday, Nov. 13 (civil and criminal) criminal). To surrender at the High Court of Justice, in Bankruptcy. BERTHIER, HENRY (trading as H. Berthier and Co.), Holland Park-av, Kensington, corn dealer. Oct. 7. BRETT, FRANCIS SAMUEL, Pilgrim-st, wholesale bookseller. Oct. 9. ISAACS, HENRY LAWRENCE (trading as Henry and Co.), Gravel-la, Houndsditch, hat manufacturer. Oct. 6. LIVESEY, EDWARD CAKTER, Brixton-rd, variety artist. Oct. 10. MAY, JEROME WALTER (trading as J. W. May and Co.), Cock-la, Snow- REED, FRANK, Belsize-rd, Hampstead. Oct. 11. CROSSLEY, SAMUEL, Liverpool, hosier. Ct. Liverpool. Oct. 10. DAVIES, EDWIN, Ellesmere, farmer. Ct. Wrexham and Llangollen. EASTHAM, THOMAS, Barrow-in-Furness, motor repairer. Ct. Barrow-in- EDWARDS, THOMAS, Birmingham, butcher. Ct. Birmingham. Oct. 9. GRIMES, GEORGE ALBERT, North Walsham, corn dealer. Ct. Norwich. HAYNS, JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM, Southampton. Ct. Southampton. HYDE, EDWIN (trading as Hyde and Sons), Yeovil, builder. Ct. Yeovil. Oct. 9. KAYE, HARRY NEVILLE, Sydenham, engineer. Ct. Greenwich. Oct. 10. KERRY CHARLES, Shrewsbury, licensed victualler. Ct. Shrewsbury. Oct. 11. LEMBERT, GEORGE, Ilford, builder. Ct. Chelmsford. Oct. 9. LLOYD, ABRAHAM, Pontygwaith, collier. Ct. Pontypridd, Ystradyfodwg, and Porth. Oct. 9. MEEKLAH, HERBERT WILLIAM, Long Eaton, lace manufacturer. Ct. Derby MOORE, FRED, Castleford, painter. Ct. Wakefield. Oct. 11. Oct. 6. NICHOLAS, WILLIAM WEBB, Neyland, baker. Ct. Pembroke Dock. Oct. 11 RABNETT, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Sileby, late coal merchant. Ct. Leicester. THACKREY, WILLIAM, Grewelthorpe, butcher. Ct. Northallerton. Oct. 9. WEST WORTH, ARTHUR, Preston, stockbroker. Ct. Preston. Oct. 11. Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, Oct. 3. AVERY, WILLOUGHBY JOHN, Bledlow, farmer. Ct. Aylesbury. Sept. 28. Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, Oct. 10. KERR, JOHN BRUCE, Pinner, barrister-at-law. Ct. St. Albans. Oct. 4. GAZETTE, OCT. 17. To surrender at the High Court of Justice, in Bankruptcy. EDWARDS, HAROLD WILLIAM (late trading as the Arcadia Malt Products PARKER, JAMES, Ormside-st, Old Kent-rd, cartage contractor. Oct. 14. and Co. Limited. Oct. 12. SMITH, H. P., late Wrentham, farmer. Oct. 12. STEPHAN, M. J., Broad-st-pl, mining engineer. Oct. 12. TYSON, THOMAS WILLIAM, Gray's-inn-sq, journalist. Oct. 12. Oct. 13. To surrender at their respective District Courts. ASHLING, ARTHUR, Worthing, builder. Ct. Brighton. Oct. 14. BURDEN, LUTHER CAWS, Durrington, fishmonger. Ct. Salisbury. BURGESS, HENRY (trading as C. Burgess), Cilfynydd, baker. Ct. Pontypridd, Ystradyfodwg, and Porth. Oct. 13. BELL, GEORGE FREDERICK, Margate, solicitor. Ct. Canterbury. Oct. 14. BURRAGE, W. H., Edenbridge, builder. Ct. Tunbridge Wells. Oct. 13. Cox, FREDERICK JOHN, Shipston-on-Stour, farmer. Ct. Banbury. Oct. 14. CARRIER, VICTOR VALENTINE, Great Yarmouth, baker. Ct. Great Yarmouth. Oct. 12. CRAWFORD, JAMES (trading as James Crawford and Co.), late Dudley, boot dealer. Ct. Dudley. Oct. 13. CUTLER, SAMUEL ROBERT, Chesterfield, farmer. Ct. Chesterfield. Oct. 14. D'ORAZIO, PIETRO, Manchester, ice cream maker. Ct. Manchester. Oct. 10. DUNN, CECIL DE SIVRAC, Titcombe, director of public company. Ct. Newbury. Oct. 11. Oct. 12. FIELD, JOHN, Langley, turner. Ct. West Bromwich.. Oct. 14. Low, GEORGE HENRY, Torquay, carpenter. Ct. Exeter. MOORE, JOHN, Shrewsbury, insurance inspector. Ct. Shrewsbury. Oct. 12. MEREDITH, NCAH, Tonypandy, grocer. Ct. Pontypridd, Ystradyfodwg, and Porth. Oct. 16. MACLAGAN, WALTER DOUGLAS DALYRYMPLE, Burnham Market, clerk in holy orders. Ct. Norwich. Oct. 13. NIXON, ROBERT WILLIAM, Ramsbottom, fish dealer. Ct. Bolton. Oct. 13. SAUNDERS, THOMAS, late Southfields, baker. Ct. Wandsworth. Oct. 12. SMITH, MARCUS, Acton, ironmonger. Ct. Brentford. Oct. 13. SINCLAIR, CHARLES TRERY, Streatham. Ct. Wandsworth. Oct. 12. ADJUDICATIONS. GAZETTE, OCT. 13. BERTHIER, HENRY (trading as H. Berthier and Co.), Holland Park-av, BISSELL, FREDERICK EDWARD. Ct. High Court. Oct. 11. BROWN, THOMAS NORMAN (trading as Brown and Co.), Liverpool, draper. BEXON, ARTHUR (trading as Arthur Bexon and Co.), Daybrook, wicker dealer. Ct. HERFORD, HENRY FRANCIS, Budleigh Salterton, gentleman. Ct. Exeter. Oct. 5. HOGGARD, DAVID (late trading as D. Hoggard and Sons), Whitley Bay, late confectioner. Ct. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Oct. 10. HYDE, EDWIN (trading as Hyde and Sons), Yeovil, builder. Ct. Yeovil. Oct. 9. LIVESEY, EDWARD CARTER, Brixton-rd, variety artist. Ct. High Court. Oct. 10. LEMBERT, GEORGE, Ilford, builder. Ct. Chelmsford. Oct. 9. LLOYD, ABRAHAM, Pontygwaith, collier. Ct. Pontypridd, Ystradyfodwg, and Porth. Oct. 9. LONNIE, SYDNEY GEORGE, Teather-st, Camberwell cabinet maker. Ct. MANSELL, E., late Marylebone-rd, amusement caterer. Ct. High Court. Oct. 11. MORTON, SARAH SUSAN, late Oxford, widow. Ct. High Court. Oct. 11. MOUNTFORD, EDWARD JOHN (trading as E. J. Mountford and Co.), Butler-st, tie manufacturer. Ct. High Court. Oct. 9. MEEKLAH, HERBERT WILLIAM, Long Eaton, lace manufacturer. Ct. Derby and Long Eaton. Oct. 11. NICHOLAS RICHARD, Chepstow, coal merchant. Ct. Newport, Mon. Oct. 6. NICHOLAS, WILLIAM WEBB, Neyland, baker. Ct. Pembroke Dock. Oct. 11. OLDHAM, ALBERT, Kippax, waggonette proprietor. Ct. Wakefield. Oct. 7. ROWBOTHAM, JOHN COULSON, Bradford, tinplate worker. Ct. Bradford. Oct. 10. RABNETT, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Sileby, late coal merchant. Ct. Leicester. Oct. 10. ROBERTS, HENRY PENROSE, St. Keverne, foreman of stone quarry. Ct. Truro. Oct. 11. SHEPHERD, GODFREY BRETTELL, Long-acre, motor-car agent. Ct. High Court. Oct. 7. STOKES, ARTHUR, Clapham-rd, builder. Ct. High Court. Oct. 7. WILSON, CHARLES HARRY, Leeds, dyer's manager. Ct. Leeds. Oct. 9. WILSON, ELIZABETH, Leeds, widow. Ct. Leeds. Oct. 9. WILSON, JAMES SEAL, Leeds, late managing director of a limited company. Ct. Leeds. Oct. 9. WOOD, THOMAS, Nantwich, contractor. Ct. Nantwich and Crewe. Oct. 10. GAZETTE, OCT. 17 BRETT, FRANCIS SAMUEL, Pilgrim-st, wholesale bookseller. Ct. High Court. Oct. 12. BURDEN, LUTHER CAWS, Durrington, fishmonger. Ct. Salisbury. Oct. 13. BURGESS, HENRY (trading as C. Burgess), Cilfynydd, baker. Ct. Pontypridd, Ystradyfodwg, and Porth. Oct. 13. CARRIER, VICTOR VALENTINE, Great Yarmouth, baker. Ct. Great Yarmouth. Oct. 12. DOLLMANN, JOHN PAUL CARL FREDERICK (described in the receiving order as C. Dollmann), King's-grdns, Hampstead, commission agent. Ct. High Court. Oct. 12. DAVIES, EDWIN, Ellesmere, farmer. Ct. Wrexham and Llangollen. DUNN, CECIL DE SIVRAC, Titcombe, director of public company. Ct. DICKINSON. WILLIAM HENRY, Aldbury, farmer. Ct. Aylesbury. Oct. 12. FIELD, JOHN, Langley, turner. Ct. West Bromwich. Oct. 14. HALL, HERBERT ROBERT, High-rd, Willesden Green, cycle stores. Ct. High Oct. 12. HARTLAND, JAMES, Langley. clothier. Ct. West Bromwich. KING, ARTHUR, Mansfield, umbrella maker. Ct. Nottingham. Oct. 12. MOORE, JOHN, Shrewsbury, insurance inspector. Ct. Shrewsbury. Oct. 12. MOORE, FRED, Castleford, painter. Ct. Wakefield. Oct. 13. SMITH, JOHN, Castle Donington, joiner. Ct. Leicester. Oct. 12. Oct. 13. Oct. 12. TYLER, WALTER WILLIAM, Denmark-hill, gentleman. Ct. High Court. Amended notices substituted for those published in Gazette, Oct. 13. ADJUDICATION ANNULLED. GAZETTE, OCT. 13. JONES, PERCY LEONARD, Newmarket, market gardener. Ct. Cambridge. Sept. 27. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. HARRIS. On the 9th inst., at 49, Cholmeley-pk, Highgate, N., the wife of John Henry Harris, Barrister-at-law, of a son. LANGFORD-JAMES. On the 12th inst., at 3/2, Lee-rd, Calcutta, the wife of J. W. Ll. Langford-James, Barrister at-law, of a son. STEPHENS. On the 8th inst., at Atherton, Chorley Wood, Herts, the wife of Richard H. Stephens, Solicitor, of a daughter. ZEITLYN.--On the 28th ult., at Carmel Lodge, Hampstead Way, N.W., the wife of Elsley Zeitlyn, Barrister-at-law, of a daughter (Carmel). DEATHS. BALL. On the 8th inst., at Brasted, William Edmund Ball, LL.D., Barrister-at-law, of 3, Pump-ct, Temple, after prolonged illness, aged 57. BOHN. On the 7th inst., at 17, Holland-villas-rd, Kensington, Henry Bohn, Barrister-at-law, Middle Temple, aged 78. MELLOR. On the 13th inst., at Culmhead, Taunton, the Right Hon. John William Mellor, K.C., aged 76. SEDDON. On the 13th inst... at 7, Porchester-sq, W. Arthur Seddon, formerly of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Solicitor, aged 84. WILLCOCKS. On the 6th inst., at Venice, Edith, wife of W. K. Willcocks, Barrister-at-law, of 6, Stone-bldgs, Lincoln's-inn. PARKER, JAMES. Ormside-st, Old Kent-rd, cartage contractor. Ct. High RHODES, ALFRED, Nottingham, joiner. Ct. Nottingham. Oct. 12. 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Circuits of Judges: Autumn Assizes -Rota of Registrars-Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: List of Business. 588 THE GAZETTES.. 589 336 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, And Deaths... 590 The Law and the Lawyers. ON Saturday last the report of the Royal Commission appointed to investigate the working of the Railway Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme of 1907 published its report, which was unanimous, and we have little doubt that the recommendations therein contained will commend themselves to all reasonable and fair-minded persons. Naturally, neither side obtained all they desired, but it is particularly unfortunate that certain persons, before they could have possibly digested the meaning of the report, publicly repudiated the findings and recommendations therein contained, and announced their determination to disregard its provisions. There is no doubt that the scheme of 1907 and the machinery provided thereby with reference to the Conciliation Boards was faulty, and the complaints made by the men were shown to have good foundation. The commissioners, however, have submitted fresh proposals whereby the matters in dispute can be disposed of with more expedition, and in a way that should be satisfactory to all concerned. ON the question of recognition, it would seem that the commission has come to the only conclusion that was possible, apart from handing over to the trades unions the entire It is now conceded that the management of the railways. men may have as their secretary at the Conciliation Board, who may take part in discussions and act as advocate, any person they choose to select, even although he is not an employé of the railway in question, and, as in practice this man may be an official of the union, this amounts to recognition to this limited extent. On the other hand, however, the Conciliation Board will deal only with rates of wages, hours of labour, and conditions of service, and therefore neither the official of the union nor the board itself will have |