Alsop, on behalf of the petitioning creditors under the bankruptcy petition, now applied for a stay of proceedings under the second liquidation petition, and for the appointment of Mr. Bolland as receiver in the stead of Mr. Carmichael, the debtor's nominee.

Alsop submitted that where a debtor had once availed himself of the provision the law had made for calling his creditors together with a view to effect an arrangement of his affairs, and the creditors had, by absenting themselves from the meeting, or from any other cause, neglected to pass a resolution, it was not competent for the debtor to fritter away his estate by filing a second petition. The intention of the Act was that where a debtor found himself in failing circumstances he might invoke the aid of the court to call his creditors together to decide upon his affairs; and where they withheld their sanction from any arrangement, and abstained from the meeting, it was only fair to assume that they were not in favour of liquidation by arrangement or composition. Their wishes having been so signified, he did not think the court ought to have received a second petition for liquidation, but should have left the debtor open to be shot at by her creditors, either in bankruptcy or by action at law.

Thursday, Jan. 11.

(Before Mr. Registrar WATSON). Re FOSTER.

Petition for liquidation.

His HONOUR, interposing, said that no doubt the second petition was informal; and although there was no express prohibition against a debtor filing a second liquidation petition under such circumstances, it was clearly at variance with the spirit of the Act. His own view was that where a debtor, by filing a petition declaratory of his inability to meet his engagements, failed at the first meeting to effect any arrangement with his creditors, the whole proceedings should be adjourned into open court, and the debtor at once declared bankrupt, without the delay and expense of any further petition on the part of creditors. Such was the practice under the Act of 1849, and it commended itself to his common sense. also thought, however, that if through some miscarriage of the proceedings the creditors' views had not been properly ascertained under the liquidation petition, or if after the meeting the debtor had an improved offer to make, to which the creditors assented, it was quite competent, on an alavit of the facts, to have asked the court to call a second meeting under the original petition, but he was quite clear a second petition for liqui dation ought not to have been presented.

Mr. Registrar Hime said that he so expressed himself when the petition was brought in, and it was only on being assured by the solicitor that he was receiving it quantum valeat that it was filed.

Alsop, in proceeding with his argument, said that if a debtor were allowed to renew his position in this manner he might keep his creditors at bay till doomsday; for if a second liquidation petition was valid, the court ought to restrain all other proceelings against the debtor and his property. With respect to the removal of the receiver, it was not for one moment intended as a reflection upon Mr. Carmichael, although he had not, as he ought to have done, prevented all the property in his power being swept away by a bill of sale creditor, but simply for the purpose of having a receiver who was the nominee of the creditors and not of the debtor.

His HONOUR asked if it was a fact that the property had been removed; and on being informed by Mr. Nordon that a gang of lawless rutians had, between seven and eight o'clock in the evening, taken away everything, he expressed his surprise, and said that he had little doubt but that the receiver was clearly responsible. He, clothed with the authority of the court, ought, by force if necessary, to have protected the pro

perty.

Nordon, in reply to the application, took exception to the terms of the notice of motion, in which, he said, Mr. Bolland was described as "official trustee" as though he held some office in connection with the court. He thought it ought to be publicly known that he held no such position; and although he was trustee for three or four hundred estates, he had no right to be described as "official trustee."

His HONOUR begged the learned advocate to proceed to the merits of the question, and not to waste the time of the public. It was immaterial to the issue before him how Mr. Bolland was described, or by whom he was so described; and if he were to take exception to notices by persons who legally described themselves as gentlemen," but who did not as such conduct themselves, he feared that justice would often be left in the

cold.

The learned REGISTRAR, after hearing the parties, said that he had considered the latter decision, to which his attention had been directed, but he had failed to see any ground for arriving at the required was that, where at a meeting of creditors same conclusion. All that he thought the Act there was a difference of opinion amongst them as to the course to be pursued, the chairman, in calculating the votes of the majority in number, should disregard those whose debts where under 101. The section expressly states that in the "calculation" of the majority at a meeting necessary to pass a valid resolution they are to be so reckoned, but where, as in the present case, no calculation was necessary, in consequence of there being no division amongst the creditors he did not think the provision applied. The only requisite to a valid meeting was the attendance of three creditors, and it was immaterial whether they represented debts of 31. or 30001. If three creditors constituted a valid meeting, there was nothing to prevent them, if unanimous, from carrying any resolution provided for by the Act. He entertaining those views, should register the resolutions.

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LEGAL NEWS.

LAWYERS IN AMERICA.-What the Memphis Appeal describes as an unpleasant state of feel ing existing between General Reuben Davis and Mr. S. M. Meek, both lawyers of Mississippi," has at length reached a crisis. The difference dates back to last August, when these gentlemen appeared before the Circuit Court, in Aberdeen, Missisippi, "on opposite sides of a killing case.' General Davis then insulted Mr. Meek, and all the intercourse between the two gentlemen ceased. A few days before Christmas Day they again met on opposite sides," in the Court-house of Colum. bus, Missisippi, and the General took the oppor tunity of indulging in a few sneers at the expense of his learned friend, Mr. Meck, who is described as being among the mildest of men, a modest, unobtrusive gentleman." But a worm will sometimes turn, and Davis's conduct was on this occa sion too much for Meek. After sitting quietly for some time he leaped up, and drawing his pistol said, "Davis, I can't stand your browbeating any longer! Defend yourself." Pistols, loaded and capped, appear to be among the ordinary contents of lawyers' brief bags in Mississippi, and General Davis was not without his equipment. But he was too slow in drawing it forth, and before he could raise his pistol to cover Meek, that" modest and unobtrusive gentleman' had shot him dead. "This, as the Memphis Appeal observes, apparently with some faint idea that the circumstance made the proceeding slightly improper, Wisin the court-house, in the presence of the judge and a full court."

mayor and magistrates, for refusing to qualify for the office of mayor, to which he was elected in

November last. It was endeavoured to show that the resolution to fine him was null and void from a clerical error in the minutes, but without suceess. The legality of the decision was disputed, and the case will go the Queen's Bench.

SIR C. O'LOGHLEN.-The circumstances of the bankruptcy of Sir Colman O'Loghlen, which led to his resignation of the office of Judge AdvocateGeneral, were the subject of a lengthened discussion in the Court of Common Pleas. Sir Colman has taken an action for 10,000l. against Mr. Lewis Harris, a bill broker in this city, for having, without reasonable cause, had him adjudicated a bankrupt in England; and the detendant applied for an order to set aside or amend certain averments in the summons and plaint. That document alleged that the plaintiff being indebted to the defendant in the sum of 1081., the latter, by means of a false affidavit, sworn by another person, alleging that the plaintiff was keeping out of the way to avoid service of the debtor's summons, obtained the order of the English court deeming it good personal service of the summons upon Sir Colman O'Loghlen in Ireland. The defendant subsequently filed a petition, verified by affidavit in the London Court of Bankruptcy, under which, on the 9th Nov. 1870, Sir Colman O'Loghlen was adjudicated a bankrupt. The plaintiff appealed against the adjudication, and the Court of Appeal in Chancery in England allowed the appeal and annulled the bankruptcy. The second count of the summons and plaint averred special damage in the loss of the plaintiff's office of Judge Advocate-General, which he was compelled to resign, in consequence of the adjudication in bankruptcy. In the third count the plaintiff complained that the defendant, well knowing that the plaintiff resided in Ireland, and against him, setting forth that he was within the not in England, filed the petition in bankruptcy jurisdiction and process of the English Court of Bankruptcy, for the purpose of maliciously injuring him, and compelling him to resign his office of Judge Advocate-General. Mr. Justice Morris said the court was of opinion that the defendant, so far as he sought to set aside the averment of the jurisdiction of the English Court of Bankknowledge that the plaintiff was resident out of ruptcy, was entitled to carry his motion, and for the wise reason suggested by the Lord Chief Baron, in a case to which reference had been made, that they might be used in evidence. He could well understand that these were matters likely to be proved. With respect to the alleged vagueness in setting out divers orders and affidavits, the defendant could not succeed, inasmuch as the orders and affidavits were matters of record, which could be referred to in the proper quarter. The costs should be the costs in the cause.

THE NEW LEGAL EDUCATION SCHEME.-At

the meeting of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow this week, a paper on the above subject was read from Mr. Edward S. Gordon, who was Lord Advocate in the last Conservative administration. He said the defects in the system of legal education in England, of which Sir Roundell Palmer and those who agreed with him complained, appeared to be, first, that attendance on the lectures by the readers is not compulsory; and, secondly, that it is not essential to admission to the Bar that there should be an examination as to proficiency in law. It was with extreme diffidence that he ventured to express an opinion upon the disputes between the supporters and opponents of the scheme proposed by the Legal Council of Education, because it was generally difficult for one who was comparatively a stranger to the working of a system to form an accurate judgment on its merits or demerits, while his judgment might unconsciously be prejudiced in favour of the system which prevailed in his own country. But they might be permitted to express an opinion formed upon the experience of their own system, and it must be kept in view that attendance at universities for certain subjects of study, including branches of law, and the system of examination as to proficiency in these studies, is not peculiar to Scotland, but prevails probably in a more comprehensive and rigorous form in France, Germany, Italy, and other countries of the Continent. First, was it proper that there should be evidence of attendance on lectures on the different branches of law in a university or other public institution It was said that to require attendance at lectures given at a college or school to be formed by the Inns of Court would be equivalent to the creation of a monopoly, but it was most essential that the attendance should be confined to classes at such a school. In accordance with the course followed by the Faculty of Advocates and other legal bodies, in their rules for admission, it might be declared that attendance at lectures on the particular subjects specified shall be recognised. There need be no monopoly, while care shall be taken that a student of law shall not have wholly neglected the usual means of acquiring knowledge in other countries. Then again, it had been objected that it was not advantageous that the students for the two branches of the legal profession-the Bar and

legal practitioners-should receive instruction at the same institution. That objection took its rise from two different sources. Some members of the Bar in England appeared to apprehend that it might be a disadvantange to the members of their body, to be brought into too familiar companionship with those who were likely to have the selection of counsel to advocate their clients. They in Scotland, could speak of the attendance of students of both branches of the legal profession at the same course of lectures, as not being productive of the injurious consequences apprehended. Speaking for himself, and he was sure he spoke in accordance with the opinions of most members of the Bar, he had never felt that there was a lowering tendency in the association of the members of the two branches of the Profession in the same legal studies. There was this advantage resulting from the custom, that an aspirant for success at the bar, who had no other professional infiuence to support him, thus frequently obtained early employment in his profession from his fellow students, who thought he had the ability which would make him a good lawyer, and a successful pleader for their clients. It was somewhat difficult in Scotland to appreciate the objections urged by those who opposed the proposal, that a satisfactory examination in certain legal studies should be essential to admission to the Bar. Such an examination was required in all

other professions in the United Kingdom-existed in other countries in the case of lawyers-and even in England existed as a test of the qualifications of an attorney. The admission of an member of the Bar to practice not only conferred upon him that privilege, but also a title to hold certain judicial appointments and public employments, and, therefore, it appeared the more necessary that he should possess the real qualifications. THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT.-The Court of Exchequer has delivered a decision the importance of which both to art and literature can hardly be over-estimated. It has been decided by four judges, after an exhaustive argument, and in a judgment of great length, that Mr. Clark, the owner of the copyright in the comic song entitled "Come to Peckham-rye," is entitled to damages against Mr. Bishop for having infringed such copyright, although it not been registered at Stationers' Hall, as the defendant contended that it should have been, under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45. The Lord Chief Baron and other judges have now ruled that the provisions of this enactment apply only to books, and that it is not necessary that songs, whether comic or sentimental, should be registered at Stationers' Hall as a condition precedent to the right of the owner of the copyright to sue such persons as venture to sing them without his authority. This decision is likely, we imagine, to give general satisfaction. The owner of the copyright in a comic song is in common justice entitled to reserve to himself and his licencees the sole right to sing it, and we congratulate not only him but the public, that the right in question has been thus strictly limited.

Pall Mall Gazette.

AN IRISH JUDGE ON ENGLISH LAW.-Mr. Justice Lawson read last Tuesday night an important paper before the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland on the "Practicability of Codifying English Law." The Royal Commission appointed in 1866 had, he said, failed through having attempted to make a digest, which must be full of "mischiefs of detail," instead of a code, which would be a declaration of principles. He quoted Mr. Justice Willes in support of this view. The very mode in which our system of law has grown into its present shape, he added, demonstrates the utility and necessity of such a process of purgation as distinguished from one of mere collation. Judge Lawson supplies a specimen code on the law of evidence, and among other novel principles suggests that in criminal proceedings persons indicted ought to be competent but not compellable to give evidence in their own behalf, and if examined to be subject to cross-examination. The propriety and safety of this arrangement he contends for even against the objection that a refusal to be examined would amount to an admission of guilt. He disapproves, however, of the French system of interrogating the prisoner. "The true medium lies between that system and ours-namely, to allow the prisoner to explain on oath, if he desires, the circumstances of the case, and in that case only to subject him to interrogation." There are various other novelties in Judge Lawson's code, as, for instance, that proceedings should not be quashed or a verdict set aside on the ground of evidence having been improperly admitted against protest from the opposite side, if such evidence was not of a character to have an effect upon the case. A witness, also, he argues, should not be excused from giving an answer on the ground that the answer would criminate himself or expose him to a penalty; but no such answer should be used against him in any criminal proceedings or proceeding for penalty or forfeiture.

LORD JUSTICE MELLISH.-We regret to hear that the business of the Court of Appeal in Chancery has been practically at a standstill since Christmas, owing to Lord Justice Mellish suffering from gout. There are many appeals waiting the consideration of the court, especially in bankruptcy.

THE TICHBORNE CASE-The Advertiser observes that "So far as the public at large are concerned, the expenses of this particular case will be a matter of nine days' wonder, to be referred to subsequently only at intervals by those who are specially curious in such matters. One point that comes nearer home to many is the blockade to business in this particular court, and the general derangement and difficulty thereby caused to other suitors. This is just one of those chances of legal war which those must risk who enter upon litigation either from choice or of necessity. It is to be hoped that we shall be spared a repetition of legal sparrings between counsel, and counsel and Bench, that cannot be regarded as dignified. Disputes between the Bench and the Bar are never seemly or edifying. We should strenuously deprecate the introduction of any scenes resembling those to be witnessed occasionally in French courts of law, and still more so the manners and usages of American courts."

ANOMALIES OF ENGLISH LAW.-The Daily

Telegragh, commenting on Mr. Watson's trial, notes that "by our laws of evidence almost every light upon the character of the crime or upon its circumstance that could possibly have thrown consistency or inconsistency with the prisoner's previous conduct, was carefully excluded from the knowledge of the jury. They were asked to decide upon the bearing of a general issue on a particular fact; and they were deprived of all material for judgment regarding the force of that issue, except from the incidents of the fact in question. A similar anomaly arises whenever the plea of insanity is raised. How the anomaly should be corrected in practice it is not easy to tell until we have, in some form or other, a Court of Criminal Appeal. But it is shown, according to every rational theory of law, that the jury should decide solely upon the matter of fact, whether the offence charged has or has not been proved by the evidence; and that the collateral issue-whether the criminal was in a sane state of mind-should be submitted to a tribunal possessing special aptitude for the inquiry and wider powers of investigation."

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE

PROFESSION.

NOTE.-This department of the Law TIMES being open to free discussion on all professional topics, the Editor is not responsible for any opinions or statements contained in it.

COUNTY COURT FEES.-In your paper of this day is an article upon fees in the County Courts, wherein you say that on a claim of 10%, a fee of 11. would be payable for the plaint. This is not in accordance with practice; the additional fee of 1s. when the claim is above 40s. is not understood and charged as being so much extra in the pound, and therefore the fee payable upon a claim of 101. is 11s. only. Allow me further to point out that no higher fee than 1. 1s. is payable, whether the claim be 211. or 501.

Jan. 13.

J. E. P.

-I presume your attention has been drawn to this matter by the correspondence that has ap peared in the Times on the subject, in regard to which, let me say that, having inserted letters containing erroneous statements preju dicial to the Profession, that journal did not insert a letter I wrote correcting these errors. You have actually fallen into an error yourself in stating that a fee of 11. would be payable on a plaint for 101. The fee for service is not 1s. in the pound, but 1s. only, no matter what the amount. What should at least be done is to follow the practice of the Mayor's Court, and allow fees on writs on the County Court scale in matters under 10l., and above that sum, small but fairly remunerative charges. The Mayor's Court scale of costs is adjusted admirably. I recently taxed the plaintiff's costs to trial and judgment in a 701. case at 12. 1s. Why should the costs of going to trial and recovering a sum of 201. in the Superior Court inevitably amount to more than the debt, while if it were 197. 19s., the attorney's profit would be 15s. only?

S. J. DEBENHAM.

THE LEGAL PROFESSION.-I beg to acknow. ledge your courtesy and kindness in preparing the mind of the public for alterations in the law of infanticide, bastardy, and seduction, by a series of leading articles on those subjects, the last of which appeared on the 30th ult., and by remarks upon the measures respecting them, which I have given notice of my intention to introduce in the first week of the approaching session of Parlia.

ment. I need scarcely assure you that your suggestions will receive the attention they deserve at the hands of the Infant Life Protection Society, which is framing these measures. I am desirous, however, in view of the approaching session, to recall your attention to a wider subject. which I brought under your notice in the spring of last year the subject of "The Existing State of the Legal Profession." Last session I gave notice of my intention to move "That the existing state of the legal profession is not satisfactory, and needs reform." The wording of the motion has been criticised, and I admit that it is fairly open to criticism, as unpractical. It merely affirms a proposition which no legal practitioner will be prepared to deny, which no layman would controvert for a single moment. In order to bring the ques tion of reform in the legal profession to a practical issue, and to enlighten public opinion upon the subject, some organisation is indispensably neces sary out of doors. I shall be happy to receive the names of any members of the legal profession who may feel disposed to assist in forming a Legal Practitioners' Society, for the following (amongst other) objects: First, to revise the rules of the legal profession, and reduce them to a written code; secondly, to readjust the relations of the existing branches of the legal profession; thirdly, to place the government of the legal profession on a sound representative basis; fourthly, to secure the legal profession against the depredations of unscrupulous non-professional persons.

Wм. THOS. CHARLEY. 5, Crown Office-row, Temple, 15th Jan. 1872.

CAUTION.

employees should bear in mind that by the Stamp Act 1870, s. 100, "every person who executes or prepares, or is employed in preparing, any instru ment upon which the duty may, under sect. 99, be denoted by an adhesive stamp, and which is not, at or before the execution thereof, duly stamped, shall forfeit the sum of 5l." I may prepare such an instrument and copies and part with them, having no further control over them or their being signed or stamped, yet I shall be liable to penalties when they are signed; and by sect. 26 of the Stamp Duties Management Act 1870 I am also liable to full costs of suit by Exchequer informa tion, and if I attempt to guard myself, my sta tioner, and clerk against penalties, by putting on and cancelling stamps, I am subject to further penalties under sect. 25.

The Profession, stationers, and

H.

LEGAL RESTRAINT OF DRUNKENNESS.-In an article in your last paper called "Legal Restraint of Drunkenness," you make a quotation from a pamphlet on licensing reform, by "Two Barristers," which, taken without the context, might convey a wrong impression of its conclusions. The sentence quoted approves of the restriction of public houses so that they should " never become so many in number as to cause a public nuisance." On the preceding page the nature of the restriction intended is explained. It is there suggested that no new licence should be granted in a neighbour hood where, from the number of convictions for drunkenness obtained within it, the addition of a new public-house might, taken together with the existing ones, create a public nuisance. In fact, the pamphlet is in favour of free trade, with stringent regulations, as recommended by the Com mittee of the House of Commons in 1854, and within the last few days advocated by Lord Derby and Professor Fawcett. As the very opposite might possibly be inferred from your article, we trust that you will insert this explanation.

THE "TWO BARRISTERS."

THE TENURE OF LAND IN IRELAND.-May I beg for a small space in your valuable paper, hoping my letter may attract the attention of some one, amongst the many, interested in the Irish Land Question, who can point out a remedy for the evil I wish to complain of? A neighbour ing landowner succeeded to an estate which is entailed upon himself and his two sons. Shortly after the death of the testator, the eldest son had a sad accident, which deprived him of his reason, and for the last twenty years he has been confined in an asylum, his case being pronounced hopeless from the first. This son is amply provided for by

Government for his life; and as he never can succeed to the property, the only parties now interested under the will are the father and the younger son, with whom the entail dies out. Under these circumstances, why should not the father and younger son be able to show a title to enable them to dispose of the property, which they are both anxious to do? Could the testator have foreseen that the elder son would have been cut off from the entail in the way I have de scribed, he would have left the property to the father, and the second being the only other son in succession, the intention of the testator ought to be considered as law, and not the mere wording of the will. Having just disposed of my property in the south of Ireland in allot

TRUSTEES IN BANKRUPTCY.-A case of some importance to trustees was heard in the Huddersfield County Court a short time ago, before Serjt. Tindal Atkinson, upon which the Pall Mall Gazette made some remarks. These appeared in a local journal on Saturday last, and have led to a good deal of talk. In the course of his summing up, the judge referred to a certain payment made to the solicitor. to the committee of inspection. Seeing Mr. Moseley, as a solicitor, ought to know the law better than the trustee, do you consider the ruling of the court to be just both in law and equity? A TRUSTEE. [We condemned the decision last week in a leading article. We thought it was entirely wrong. -ED.]

NOTES AND QUERIES ON

POINTS OF PRACTICE.

NOTICE.-We must remind our correspondents that this column is not open to questions involving points of law such as a solicitor should be consulted upon. Queries will be excluded which go beyond our limits. N.B.-None are inserted unless the name and address of the writers are sent, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee for bona fides.

Queries.

67. ECCLESIASTICAL.-What is the proper course to be pursued upon the death of one churchwarden? Can the other churchwarden legally act alone? S.

68. MERCHANT SHIPPING.-A ship or vessel under 15 tons is not registered under the Merchant Shipping Acts. Can a valid security be made of such a ship or vessel as against subsequent purchasers or mortgagees, without notice, and how, seeing that "transfers or assignments of any ship or ves el, or any share thereof " are excepted from the operation of the Bills of Sale Act P A SUBSCRIBER.

69. DISTRESS FOR RENT ON PROPERTY OF INTESTATE. -A. dies intestate, leaving furniture in his house. Can the landlord, to whom rent was owing at the time of A's death, distrain for his rent on the furniture left the house, or must he share in the proceeds of the ale of the furniture with A.'s other creditors? W. E.

LICENCE-STAMP.-Will any of your readers kindly inform me what stamp a licence to use a patented invention requires? It does not appear to be mentioned in the schedule to the 33 & 34 Vict. c. 97; but the 4th section of that Act enacts" that any instrument which by any Act heretofore passed, and not relating to stamp daties, is specifically charged with the duty of 358., shall, from and after the commencement of this Act be chargeable only with the duty of 108, in lieu of the said duty of 35s." Before the passing of the above statute, such a licence as I refer to would be stamped with a 358. stamp. Will a licence now be stamped under the above section, and will a 10s. stamp now be sufficient? What is the meaning of the words, "and not relating to stamp duties?" PON.

71. CONVEYANCING.-The churchwardens of a parish have paid quit rents for from sixty to 100 years for land formerly waste. They underlet the property during the last thirty years or so; the tenant paid rent to them, and paid quit rents for them in addition to his rent. The churchwardens have always given the rent they have received to the committee of the national schools of the parish. It is now desired to lease the land for as long a term as possible, and it is wished to

reserve the rent for the use of the schools. The school committee imagine that they have the right to lease: this, of course, cannot be. The question is who should join in the leave? Should the vicar and overseers join with the church wardens, or should the churchwardens act alone? If the rent is reserved to the lessors, in trust for the schools, will not the deed require enrolling, and the other formalities of the Mortmain Acts ? and this, notwithstanding 31 & 32 Vict. c. 44. A conveyance would be preferred if it was thought that a conveyance could safely be taken from the churchwardens. The vicar is adverse; the over-eers willing to join in any arrangement. T.

72. AUSTRALIAN WILL. What is the simplest and most inexpensive way of obtaining a copy of the will of a person who died in Australia within the past five Years, and whose property was all invested in that country?

E.

Answers.

(Q. 58.) LIQUIDATION.- My practical experience has been that the registrar will, upon the filing of the petition and before the appointment of a receiver, grant an interim injunction, with a notice to the creditor that upon a certain day he must show cause diately after the first meeting. why the same should not te extended to a day immeE.

(Q. 59.) COUNTY COURT EQUITABLE JURISDICTION.transfer of suit from County Court to Court of ChanI am not aware of any reported cases on the formal cery; but the rule on the subject is clear. The ViceChancellor will, as a matter of course, upon an ex parte application, remit the same to the County Court. I imagine that the judge must at any time after the filing of the bill, upon it appearing that the subject matter of the suit exceeds 500l., make his order for the transfer, and this may be done at the stage mentioned by "Rus.' DEPUTY-REGISTRAR.

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(Q. 64.) ARTICLED CLERK.-There does not seem to be any difficulty in the service of "Inquisitive" under his articles. The question whether or not his master was entitled to take a clerk on the 7th will not arise, as the first day of service is the 8th, on which day the duty on the certificate was paid, and there being no division of a day, Inquisitive" will be entitled to admission on making the usual affidavit of service. H. L.

Replications.

(Q. 50.) CONVEYANCING.-In replying to "W. D.," I must record my regret at taking up valuable space in argument about an idle query. W.D." misrepresents my note. I did not imply that "E. A. S." had not consulted his text books," for I had no means of ascer

taining the extent of his library. What I said was that

he should have looked into "one of the many practical treatises on the subject," e.g., Smith's Practice of Con veyancing, p. 81, where the practice is stated thus: "When the answers have been drafted to the requisitions (which they should be in the half margin left for them on the paper delivered by the purchaser's solicitor) a fair copy of the whole shoull be made, and the fair copy being signed, &c., should be sent to the purchaser's soli itor; the original requisitions, with the answers drafted to them being retained." Again, in Greenwood's Manual, at p. 10, 3rd edit., the vendor is told in the chapter on "Sales," that "the usual and most convenient plan is to copy the requisitions on brief or opposite to the requisitions, nd then to make a copy foolscap paper, half margin, and to write the answers of the hole and forward it to the purchaser's soli citor." Further, also, in Scott's Costs, p. 661, 3rd edit., in Precedent of Vendor's Bill of Costs:-"Copy requisitions and replies thereto for purchaser's solicitor, large conveyancing firms," that is matter of fact of no 48.," and so passim. For the rest, my "contact with public interest, and as to my "emphatic tone," matter of opinion, neither of which I shall here comment upon. "W. D.'s" concluding "whip" and "probability" are irrelevant to the original query, which asked information on a "point in practice." T. WILKINSON.

(Q. 53.) SEIZURE BY SHERIFF.-The answer of "Z. Y." to the query of "C. P.," appears to have ben sent Law Procedure Act 1860. without due consideration of sect. 13 of the Commou F. W. J.

LAW SOCIETIES.

HULL LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. A MEETING of this society was held on the 9th inst., E. Laverack, Esq., solicitor, in the chair.

LEGAL OBITUARY.

J. W. TEEVAN, ESQ.

ERRATUM. In the obituary notice of the above gentleman, in our impression for Jan. 6th, the statement that he had married a few months previous to his death was inserted by an accident and oversight, a confusion being made between Mr. Teevan and another gentleman of a somewhat similar name. The deceased gentleman lived and died unmarried.

PROMOTIONS & APPOINTMENTS [N.B.-Announcements of promotions being in the nature. of advertisements, are charged 2s. 6d. each, for which postage stamps should be inclosed.]

MR. CHARLES BOORN BARNES, of Brackley, Northamptonshire (late of Lamborne, Berks), has been appointed Joint Clerk with Mr. Arthur Weston, to the Justices, and to the Commissioners of Land, Assessed, and Income Taxes, for Northampton. The division contains thirty-two the division of Brackley, in the county of parishes.

The Right Hon. Sir William Bovill, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, has appointed Henry Thomas Duncan, of South Shields, in the county of Durham, Solicitor, to be a Perpetual Commissioner for taking the Acknowledgments of Deeds to be executed by Married Women, under the Act passed for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple Modes of Assurance in and for the county of Durham.

COCKAYNE and TALBOT, attorneys and solicitors, Nottingham.
Dec. 31. Ben Hawkridge Cockayne and Charles Henry Talbot.)
JONES and MORRIS, solicitors and attorneys, Llanelly. Jan. 1
(Benjamin Jones and James Lloyd Morris.)

QUINN, J and H. attorneys and solicitors, Liverpool. Dec. 31
John Quinn and Hugh Quinn.) Debts by J. Quinn.
SHAEN and GRANT, attorneys and solicitors, Kennington-cross.
Dec. 31. (Samuel Shaen and Joseph Humphry Grant.; Debts
by Shaen.

Bankrupts.

Gazette, Jan. 12.

The Secretary announced that the Hull Law Society had rejected the application of this society for the gratuitous use of the law library, but had passed a resolution granting the use of the room for the cetings of the law students, they paying the librarian's expenses for his attendance, &c. To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Much dissatisfaction was expressed with the course NELKI, HERMANN, warehouseman, Basinghall-st, and Bryant the Law Society had taken, but it was resolved wood rd, Holloway. Pet. Jan. 15. Reg. Roche. Sol. Kynaston, that the matter should stand over for the present. Queen-st, Cheapside. Sur. Jan. 25 STEPHANY, BENJAMIN, wholesale china dealer, Crispin-st, SpitalThe question for discussion was, fields. That the Pet. Jan. 8. Reg. Brougham. Sol. Salaman, King-st, Cheapside. Sur. Jan. 20 policy of the present Government is worthy of the nation's confidence." Mr. G. P. Spink and Mr. J. T. Woodhouse argued in favour of the affirmative; and Mr. A. Wray and Mr. W. F. Glover supported the negative. After a very long and NIXEY, THOMAS, jun., innkeeper, Redcar and Middlesbrough. animating discussion, the question was decided in the affirmative, by a majority of two. There was a large number of members present.

BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA.-GRATEFUL AND COMFORTING." By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctor's bills."-Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with Boiling water or Milk. Each packet is labelled-"JAMES EPPs and Co., Homœopathic Chemists, London.' Also, makers of Epps's Milky Cocoa (Cocoa and Condensed Milk).

AUSTIN, ALBERT, boot maker, Well-st, Camberwell; Jan. 24, at cleven, at office of Sol., Haigh, King-st, Cheapside

AUTY, JAMES, colliery proprietor, Eust Ardsley; Jan. 24, at two, at office of Sols., Harrison and Smith, Wakefield

BARKER, JOHN, general fronmonger, Manchester; Jan. 25, at three, at office of Sols., Sutton and Elott, Manchester BARRETT, EDWARD, grocer, Exeter; Jan. 23, at eleven, at the White Lion hotel, Exeter. Sol. Floud, Exeter

DARTLE, WILLIAM, stuff merchant, Bradford; Jan 26, at three, office of Sol., Browning, Bradford

BATHER, JOHN, joiner, Southport; Jan. 26, at half-past four, at at office of Sol., Fowler, Liverpool

BELL, WILLIAM MONCRIEFT, draper's assistant, Liverpool; Jan. 25, at twelve, at offices of Goson and Bolland, accountants, Liverpool. Sol. Fowler, Liverpool

BOWLEY, WILLIAM, grocer, Worcester; Jan. 19, at eleven, at office of Sol., Simmons, Birmingham

CANNON, HENRY WILLIAM, druper, Taunton, and Ilchester; Feb. 1, at twelve, at office of Sols., Reed and Cook, Taunton CAVE, CHARLES SAMUEL, boot manufacturer, Wolverhampton; Jan. 25, at three, at office of Sol., Stratton, Wolverhampton CHAPPELL, FREDERICK PATEY, gentleman, Golden-sq: Feb. 7, at three, at office of Sols., Lewis, Munns, and Longden, Old Jewry

CHILD, JAMES JOSEPH, and HINDE, WILLIAM JOHN, japanners,
Euston-rd; Jan. 31, at one, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Gres-
ham-st. Sols., Messrs. Clarke and Rawlins, Coleman-st
CHITTY, CHARLES, grocer, Liss; Jan. 23, at four, at the Dolphin
hotel, Petersfield. Sol., King, Portsea

CLARKE, GEORGE EDMUND, innkeeper, Clayton West, par. High
Hoyland; Jan. 27, at one, at the Globe inn, High Hoyland
COLLINS, EDWIN, painter, Wolverhampton; Feb. 3, at twelve, at
office of Sol., Barrow, Wolverhampton
COLLINS, THOMAS, builder, Norbiton, and Cable-st, Whitechapel;
Jan. 23, at three, at offices of Hume, Webster, and Co., King's
Arms-yd, Moorgate-st. Sol., Salaman, King-st, Cheapside
DAVIES, JOHN CANN, grocer, Swansea; Jan. 22, at eleven, at office
of Sol., Hartland, Swansea

DEAN, HENRY, carter, Church Coppenhall; Jan. 29, at eleven, at
Temple-chmbs, Oak-st, Crewe-town, Monk's Coppenhall. Sol,

Cooke

DE GROOT, MAURICE ALEXANDER, importer, Birmingham; Jan. 21, at twelve, at office of Sol., Griffin, Birmingham EDWARDS, JOHN, flour dealer, Bethesday, par. Llanllechid; Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Prince Abert hotel, Bangor. Sol., Williams, Carnarvon

ELLISTON, FREDERIC HOLMES, auctioneer, Southampton; Jan. 23. at twelve, at 6, Portland-ter, Southampton. Sol, Leigh, Southamptou EMERY, JOHN, builder, Gray's-inn-rd; Jan. 22, at twelve, at office of Coward, solicitor, Guildhall-chmbs, Basinghall-st. Sols, Reed and Lovell, Guildhall-chmbs, Basinghall-st FERNEYHOUGH, GEORGE, butcher, Birmingham; Jan. 23, at three, at offce of Sol., Parry, Birmingham

FRANKEL, JACOB, picture dealer, Sunderland; Jan. 25, at twelve, at office of Sol., Fallows Birmingham

GITTINS, CHARLES, flannel manufacturer, Newtown; Jan. 24, at two, at office of Sols., Williams and Gittins, Newtown HARRISON, GEORGE, grocer, Derby, Jan. 23, at twelve, at offi of Sol, Potter, Derby

HARTLEY, GEORGE, brewer, Llangollen; Jan. 20, at two, at th Royal hotel, Llangollen. Sol., Minshall

HARVEY, WILLIAM, boot maker, Old Swinford; Jan. 27, at eleven at office of Sol., Clulow, Brierley-hill HATHAWAY, JOSEPH, grocer, Bishopwearmouth; Jan. 22, at three, at office of Sol., Bell, Sunderland

HAYWARD, GEORGE GODDARD, upholsterer, Carlisle; Jan. 24, at eleven, as office of Sol., Donald, Carlisle HENDRA, CHRISTOPHER, greengrocer, Aberavon; Jan. 24, at three, at office of Sol., Tennant, Aberavon

HINDE, WILLIAM JOHN, japanner, Euston-rd; Jan. 31, at halfpast three, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Gresham-st: Sols., Clarke, Son, and Rawlins, Coleman-st

HITCHINS, HENRY, gentleman, Southsea; Jan. 24, at eleven, at
the Sussex hotel, Landport. Sol., Barrow, Walbrook
HODGSON, JAMES, Birkdale; REES, JAMES; and BATHER, JOHN,
Southport, builders; Jan. 26, at three, at office of Sol., Fowler,
Liverpool

HOPKINS, THOMAS JOHN, coach plater, Cramer-rd, Brixton-rd;
Jan. 25 at two, at 55, Berners-st, Oxford-st. Sol., Oldreive
HOPPER, JOSEPH, grocer, Gateshead; Jan. 23, at twelve, at office
of Sols., Keenlyside and Forster, Newcastle
HULME, THOMAS, hair dresser, Liverpool; Jan. 23, at two, at
office of E. Mingaud, accountant, Lime-st, Liverpool
HUNTINGTON, THOMAS, Corn dealer, Liverpool; Jan. 24, at two,
at office of Sol., Etty, Liverpool

HUNWICK, FREDERICK, grocer, Layer de la Haye; Jan. 24, at three, at office of Sol., Jones, Colchester JACKSON, JOSEPH, wholesale grocer, Sheffield; Jan. 26, at twelve, at offices of Sols., Messrs. Binney, Sheffield JOHNSTON, JOHN ALEXANDER, and ROOS, GUSTAF EHRENREICH; commission merchants, Leadenhalt-st; Jan. 30, at three, at the Corn Exchange tavern, Mark-la. Sols., Willoughby and Cox Clifford's-inn JONES, ABIATHER, provision dealer, Middlesborough; Jan. 21, at eleven, at office of G. Hudson, accountant, High-st, Stocktonon-Tees

KENT, WILLIAM HENRY, tailor, Liverpool, and Bootle,_near Liverpool; Jan. 25, at three, at offices of the Home Trude Association, York-st, Manchester. Sols., T. and T. Martin. Liverpool

LAST, JOHN, Woodman, Lawshall; Jan. 24, at eleven, at the Angel hotel, Bury St. Edmunds. Sol., Walpole, Bury Saint Edmunds LAW, JAMES, file manufacturer, Wolverhampton; Jan. 20, at eleven, at office of Sol., Langham, Wolverhampton

LE PERRIER, PAUL CONSTANT, merchant, Botolph-la; Jan. 22,
at twelve, at office of Sol., Sparham, St. Benet-pl, Gracechurch-st
LEVIN, JOSEPH, outfitter, Liverpool; Jan. 26, at two, at offices of
Sol., Etty Liverpool

LOVERIDGE, GEORGE STAPLE, pastry cook, Southampton; Jan. 23,
at twelve, at offices of Sol., Kilby, Southampton
LIGARD, JOSEPH, hardware merchant, Manchester and Bradford ;
Feb. 1, at three, at the Clarence hotel, Spring-gdns, Manchester.
Sol., Duckworth, Manchester

MADGEN, WILLIAM, woollen manufacturer, Haltwhistle; Jan. 26, at one, at office of Sols., Carrick, Lee, and Sons, Haltwhistle MAITLAND, WILLIAM, tailor, Conduit-st, Old Bond-st: Jan. 29, at two, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Gresham-st. Sols., Peacock and Goddard, South-sq, Gray's-inn

MCCORMICK, DAVID, hosier, Oswestry; Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Green Dragon hotel, Eastgate-st, Chester

MILLS, ALFRED EDWARD, out of business, Darby End, par Dudley; Jan. 25, at eleven, at offices of Sol., Shakespeare, Oldbury

MITCHELL, CHARLES, farmer, Wroxham; Jan. 19, at twelve, at offices of Sol., Balley, Norwich

MOON, JOHN, grocer, Middlesborough: Jan. 31, at eleven, at office of Braithwaite and Co., accountants, Middlesborough. Sol., Bainbridge, Middlesborough NICHOLLS, GEORGE GOss, ironmonger, Plymouth; Feb. 8, at eleven, at offices of Conway and Almond, Piyinouth. Sols., Rooker, Matthews, and Shelly, Plymouth; NICHOLSON, THOMAS, manufacturer, South Hylton, near Sunderland; Jan. 26, at twelve, at office of Sol., Bell, Sunderland NUTHALL, BENJAMIN, baker, King's Lynn and Gaywood; Jan. 26 at twelve, at office of Sols., Messrs. Nurse, King's Lynn PEDLER, WILLIAM, umbrella manufacturer, Cardiff; Jan. 25, at two, at office of Sol., Merrills, Cardiff

POWELL, JOHN, innkeeper, Blaenavon; Jan. 26, at three, at office of Sol., Lloyd, Pontypool

PROCTOR. JAMES, jun., held manufacturer, Burnley; Jan. 27, at one,at office of Sol., Hartley, Burnley

R-DMAN, WILLIAM EDMOND, builder, Longton: Jan. 25, at two, at the Copeland Arins hotel, Stoke-on-Trent. Sol., Welch, Longton

REES, JAMES, builder, Southport; Jan. 26, at four, at office of Sol. Fowler, Liverpool

REYNOLDS, GEORGE, and KIDSON, CHARLES, galvanizers, Bilston Feb. 8, at eleven, at office of Sol., Barrow, Wolverhampton ROBINSON, GEORGE THOMAS, out of business, West Malling; Jan 23, at two, ut offices of Norton and Son, Earl-st, Maidstone. Sol. Nordon, Town Malling and Maid-tone

ROWE, WILLIAM, baker, Hartlepool; Jan. 31, at three, at offices of Sol, Bell, West Hartlepool

SAMUEL, JOHN ROBERT, shopkeeper, Llanfairfechan; Jan. 24, at three at office of Sol., Jones, Conway

SAMUEL, LEWIS, jeweller, Manchester; Jan. 25, at three, at office of Sol, Hardy, Manchester

SCHAAP, LEIPMAN HIYMAN, provision dealer. Green-st, Bethnal-
green Jan. 31, at two at office of Sol., Jennings, Leadenhall-st
SEAG, SAMUEL, smack owner, Great Yarmouth and Southtown;
Jan. 29, at twelve, at office of Sol., Costerton, Great Yarmouth
SHUTER, SAMUEL, hat manufacturer, Brushfield-st, Bishopsgate
Jan 31, at two, at office of Sol., Solomon, Finsbury-pl
SIMPSON, THOMAS, tailor, Eccleshall; Jan. 30. at two, at the
North-Western hotel, Stafford. Sols., Robinson and Dempster,
Eccleshall

SMITH, ALFRED JAMES, heald manufacturer, Burnley; Jan. 27,
at twelve, at office of Sol., Hartley, Burnley
SOPWITH, ROBERT, Jan., ship chandler, Falmouth; Jan. 23, at
two, at office of Sol., Jenkins, Falmouth
STUBBS, WILLIAM, wheelwright, Ladderedge, par. Leek; Jan. 23,
at eleven, at office, of Sol,, Sutton, Burslem
SUTTON, EDWIN, photographic artist, Regent-st and Rochester-
sq. Camden-rd; Feb. 1, at three, at office of Sols., Lawrance,
Piews, Boyer, and Baker, Old Jewry-ehmbs

TEARE, EDWARD, joiner, Salford; Jan. 24, at three, at office of Sol., Duckworth, Manchester

WALMSLEY, GEORGE WILLIAM, provision dealer, Barnsley; Jan. 27, at eleven, at offfee of Sol.. Dibb, Barnsley

WALTER, JOB. wood dealer, Crowborough, par. Rotherfield; Jan. 24, at ten at the Railway hotel, Rotherfield. Sol., Palmer WHEELER, JOHN, grocer, Blaenavon and Abersychan: Jan. 24, at half-past twelve, at the Queen's hotel, Bridge-st, Newport. Sol., Catchcart

Gazette, Jan. 16.

ABEL, GEORGE, school tutor, Bury St. Edmund's; Jan. 1, at twelve, at the Angel hotel, Bury St. Edmund's. Sols, Messrs. Salmon

ADAMS, ARTHUR, hosier, Hanley: Jan. 26, at three, at the County
Court Offices, Cheapside, Hanley. Sol, Tennant, Hanley
ADDY, JOHN, iron merchant, Sheffield; Jan. 26, at twelve, at office
of Sol., Tattershall, Sheffield

ARCHER, JOHN, dyer, Derby; Jan. 30, at eleven, at office of Sol.
Moody, Derby

ASHBY, ROBERT LAMB, grocer, Northampton: Jan. 31, at three, at the Chamber of Commerce, Corn Exchange, Northampton. Sol., Hensman, Northampton BAILEY, REBECCA, butcher, Wellington; Jan. 29, at twelve, at office of Sol., Marcy, Wellington

BEZER, ALFRED, tailor, Richmond; Jan. 30, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Richmond

BICKELL, JOHN WILLIAM, boot manufacturer, Exeter: Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Globe hotel, Cathedral-yd, Exeter. Sol., Floud, Exeter

BRAMLEY, WILLIAM, farmer, Arnold; Feb. 1, at twelve, at office of Sols., Messrs. Hunt, Nottingham

SHEEPWASH, WILLIAM, barge owner, Whitstable; Jan. 23, at twelve, at office of Sols., Sankev, Son, and Flint, Canterbury SKINNER, THOMAS, hat maniacturer, Bristol; Jan, 21, at two, at offices of Mr. J. Collins, jun., Broad-st, Bristol. Sol, Becking ham, Bristol

SLATER, CYRUS, draper, Macclesfield; Jan. 29, at three, at office of Sols., Atkinson, Saunders, and Co., Manchester SMITH, THOMAS, labourer, Crewe; Jan. 31, at two, at the Royal hotel, Nantwich-rd, Crewe. Sols., Jno, and Jno. H. Cooke, Middlewich

SOYLAND, TONNES, tailor, Kingston-upon-Hull: Jan. 29, at two nt the George hotel, St. George's-sq. Huddersfield. Sol. Summers, Hull

STEPHENS, WILLIAM, draper, Brynmawr: Jan. 30, at two, at office of Board of Health, Brynmawr. Sols., Cox, Davies, and Browne, Brynmawr

STIMSON, ANTHONY, out of business, Weybridge; Feb. 6, at eleven, at office of Sol., Greaves, Essex-st, Strand SUTTON, MARY, stationer, Taunton; Jan. 26, at twelve, at cffice of Sol, Trenchard, Taunton WHITBREAD, JAMES, smith. Clophill: Jan. 25, at three, at the Rose Inn, High-st, Bedford. Sol., Marshall, Lincoln's Lan

fields

WILKINS, JOHN MOORE, innkeeper, Pitsminster; Jan. 2, at twelve, at offices of Sols., Reed and Cook, Taunton WINSCOM, EDWIN, bookseller, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Feb. 12. at twelve, at office of Messrs. Izard and Betts, accountants, East. cheap. Sols., Reed and Love!!, Guildhall-chmbs, Basinghallost WORMALD, JOHN, trading as George Fuller, gunmaker, Wych-st, Strand; Jan. 29, at two, at office of Sol., Cobb, Lincoln-Innfields

WYNNE, JOHN, shoe manufacturer, Stafford; Jan. 29, at three, at the Swan hotel, Staffor1, Sol., Morgan, Stafford YARROW, WILLIAM HENRY, and ADKIN, WILLIAM JOSEPH, wholesale druggists, Wilson-st, Finsbury, Jan. 25. at two, at office of Sols., Learoyd and Learoyd, South-st. Finsbury YOUNG, THOMAS, shoe dealer, Oldham Jan. 2, at three, at the Mitre hotel, near the Cathedral, Manchester. Sol, Clarke, Oldham YOUNG, WILLIAM, miller, Newark-upon-Trent ; Feb. 6, at tweine, at the Clinton Arms, Newark-upon-Trent. Sols., Toynbee and Larken

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

BIRTHS.

CASTLE.-On the 12th inst., at 25, Redcliffe-street, South Kensington, the wife of Edward J. Castle, barrister-at-law, of us soli. CLARKE. On the 15th inst., at 12, Peckhan-park-road, the wife of Edward Clarke, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. WOOD. On the 9th inst., at 5, Stephen's-square, Bayswater, the wife of Charles Wood, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, of a son. MARRIAGES.

RUMSEY-PITTAR.-On the 11th inst., at Keymer Parish Chur Sussex, Almaric Rumsey, Esq., barrister-at-law, Assistant Solicitor for Her Majesty's Customs, to Caroline Monty second daughter of Thomas John Pittar, Esq., late of H.M Customs.

DEATHS.

BAGNALL. On the 12th inst., at his residence, Mevrick Hense, West Bromwich, aged 67, James Bagnall, E-q., D.L. and JP. for the county of Stafford.

CLOWES.-On the 10th inst., aged 82, John Ellis Clowes, of the Elms, Iver, Bucks, late of Brunswick-square, and of the Inner Temple, London.

CUFFE-On the sth inst., at Florence, William L. Cuffe, Esq, barrister-at-law, Inner Temple.

DAVIDSON. On the 21st ult., at Falmouth, Jamaica, Harry David son, Esq., advocate, one of the District Judges for the Island of Jamaica.

LAKE. On the 14th inst., at 2, Middleton-road, Camden-roai, N., Harriet Anna, wife of J. P. Lake, Esq., barrister at-law, MORGAN.--On the 10th inst., at his residence, Elm park, Ras gate, John Morgan, Esq., barrister-at-law.

26. at two, at office of Sols., Bateson, Robinson, and Morris, Liverpool

BROWN, WILLIAM, licensed victualler, Merthyr Tydfil; Jan. 31, at one, at office of Messrs. Harris and Taylor, High-st, Merthyr Tydfill. Sol, White, Merthyr Tydfil CHAPMAN, GEORGE, painter, Gloucester; Jan. 25, at twelve, at office of Sol., Clifton, Bristol

CLARKE, THOMAS, provision dealer, High-st, Camden-town, and Dockhead, Bermondsey; Feb. 7, at two, at office of Sol., Cain, Langbourn-chmbs, Fenchurch st

COOK, AARON, out of business, Great James-st, Marylebone; Jan. 31, at eleven, at office of Sol.. Smedley, Chancery-la DAVIDSON, WALTER, miller, Gateshead; Jan. 30, at two, at office of Sol, Bush, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

DOWSING, WILLIAM, cabinet maker, Bristol; Jan. 24, at eleven, at office of Sol., Ayre, Bristol

DURRANT, CHARLES THOMAS DEBENHAM, estate agent, City-rd, Finsbury, and Sandringham.rd, Hackney; Jan. 29, at one, at office of Sol., Ody, Trinity-st, Southwark

DYSON, HENRY THOMAS, attorney-at-law, Sheffield; Jan. 25, at
twelve, at office of Sol., Tattershall, Sheffield
FOWLER, GEORGE, farmer, Bolsover; Jan. 29, at three, at the
Cutlers'-hall Sheffield. Sols., Broomhead, Wightman, and
Moore

GOULDING, THOMAS CARTER, bookseller, Gloucester; Jan. 27, at twelve, at office of Mr. Thomas Jaynes, Clarence-st, Gloucester GREEN, JAMES, out of business, Yardley; Jan. 26, at three, at office of Sol., Parry, Birmingham

GREENER, HANNAH, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Jan. 26, at twelve, at office of Sol., Kewney, Newcastle-upon-Tyne HARRISON, HENRY, boot top manufacturer, Hulme; Jan. 29, at twelve, at offices of Sol., Thompson, Manchester HEASELDEN, JOHN, grocer, Hulme, Feb. 1, at eleven, at office of Sol., Ritson, Manchester

HOWARD, THOMAS JORDAN, carpenter, Thetford; Jan. 29, at two, at the Royal hotel, Market-pl, Norwich. Sols., Messrs. Salmon HUGHES, ROBERT, machine manufacturer, Birmingham: Jan. 23, at three, at office of Sols., Matthews and Smith, Birmingham HYMAN, MORITZ, clothier, Liverpool; Jan. 30, at two, at office of Sol., Etty, Liverpool

JACKSON, JAMES, cotton waste dealer, Oldham; Jan. 31, at three at office of Sol., Rylance, Manchester

JONES, HENRY WILLIAM, glass dealer, Wardour-st, Oxford-st;
Jan. 29, at eleven, at office of Sol., Crump, King-st, Cheapside
KAY, THOMAS YOUNG, auctioneer, Liverpool; Jan. 24, at two, at
offices of Sols., Meadows and Crang, Liverpool
KIMBELL, FREDERICK, baker, Sandringham-rd, Dalston, and
Hackney-rd; Jan. 30, at eleven, at offices of Sol., Holmes,
Threadneedle-st

LEWIS, JOHN, farmer, Shrawley: Jan. 29, at three, at office of Mr.
Ebenezer Guest, accountant, Church-st, Kidderminster. Sol,
Saunders, jun.

LIEBERMANN, PAUL, merchant, Mincing-la; Jan. 26, at three, at office of Sol, Mason, Gresham-st

LUXTON, JOHN, commission agent, Threadneedle-st; Feb. 1, at two, at office of Messrs. Cooper Brothers, and Company, accountants, George-st, Mansion-house. Sols., Thomas and Hollams, Mincing-la

MACFARLANE, SARAH, hotel keeper, Usk; Jan. 29, at half-past two, at office of Mr. Joseph Gibbs, solicitor, Commercial-st, Newport. Sol., Williams, Monmouth

MANN, SAMUEL, of no occupation, Kennington Park-rd, Lambeth; Jan. 25, at one, at 82, Rochester-row, Westminster. Sol., Smyth

MCKENNA, PETER, grocer's assistant, Wigan; Jan. 29, at eleven at office of Sol., France, Wigan

PALMER, BENJAMIN ARTHY, hatter, Leicester; Jan. 30, at one, at office of Sol., Owston Leicester PORTER, ISAAC, hatter, Stourbridge; Jan. 27, at twelve, at office of Sol., Clulow, Brierley Hill

POTTER, JOHN ALBERT, licensed victualler, Llantrissant; Jan. 19, at four, at office of Mr. D. T. Alexander, Institute-chmbs, Pontypridd

PROCTOR, EDWIN, brewery agent, Handsworth; Jan. 29, at eleven at office of Sol., Allen, Birmingham

RIDGWAY, WILLIAM, butcher, Winslow; Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Elephant and Castle Hotel, Linslade. Sol., Shepherd, Luton SHEPHERD, GEORGE, baker, Kingston Bagpulse; Jan. 26 at three, at the debtor's residence, Kingston Bagpuize. Sol., Jotcham, Wantage

DRAFT PAPER, 48. 6d., 68., 78.,78. 9d., and 98. per ream.
BRIEF PAPER, 158. 6d., 178, 6d., and 238, 6d, per reum,
FOOLSCAP PAPER, 108. 6d., 138. 6d., and 188, 647. per ream.
CREAM LAID NOTE, 3., 4., and 5s, per ream.
LARGE CREAM LAID NOTE, 48., 68., and 78. per ream.
LARGE BLUE NOTE, 38., 4., and 6s. per ream.
ENVELOPES, CREAM OR BLUE, 4. Gd., and Gs. G., per 1000.
THE TEMPLE" ENVELOPE, extra secure, 98. 6d. per 1000.
FOOLSCAP OFFICIAL ENVELOPES, 18. 6d, per 100,
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The Law and the Lawyers.

THE Ministerial organ has contradicted the rumoured retirement of Lord HATHERLEY. The rumour doubtless arose because it is difficult to see any other solution of the COLLIER problem. Such retirement would, however, only add to the embarrassments of the Government, as it is hardly probable that Sir ROUNDELL

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PALMER would sacrifice his practice, worth considerably more than the office of Lord Chancellor, for so precarious a tenure as the Government could offer him as a member of the Cabinet. The Profession would be very sorry to see the fine talents of Sir ROUNDELL PALMER thrown away in an attempt to bolster up a tottering administration.

THE reprieve of Mr. WATSON is announced, and we are glad to see that it is based upon mercy, and not upon the ground of insanity for which, beyond all dispute, there was no pretence whatever. But it would seem that the exercise of the royal prerogative of mercy was considered to be a matter of such importance, that the HOME SECRETARY consulted, not only the learned Judge who tried the prisoner, but also the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of England; and the fact that his Lordship concurred in the recommendation to substitute for capital punishment a sentence of penal servitude for life, is put prominently forward. Although this is an unusual proceeding, we conceive that it might be made a useful precedent, so as to give the only existing tribunal of criminal appeal on matters of fact some judicial weight and character. The general circumstances of the reprieve are beyond our cognizance.

THE United States District Court of Michigan has decided that, for the purposes of admiralty jurisdiction, if the business or employment of vessels appertain to travel, or trade and commerce on the water, it is sufficient, and the jurisdiction attaches. "This test," it is observed, "is based upon principle, while any test based upon size, form, capacity or means of propulsion must, from the nature of the case, be entirely arbitrary. The former is also certain and reasonably well defined, and hence, if generally adopted, must have the same application everywhere, while the latter admits of no well defined line of distinction, and, being arbitrary in its application, would be subject to the mere caprice of the different Judges by whom it should be applied." Consequently, a lighter, having no propelling power of its own, and employed in floating lumber over a bar at the mouth of a river to vessels lying at anchor, was held liable to be proceeded against in admiralty.

THE new County Court Judge of the Northamptonshire Circuit has the advantage of being a member of a Northamptonshire family. He is the eldest son of the late Rev. RICHARD HARINGTON, D.D. (who was for many years rector of Old, in Northamptonshire, and subsequently became principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, and died in Dec. 1853), by his marriage with CECILIA, fourth daughter of the Rev. SAMUEL SMITH, D.D., Prebendary of Durham. Mr. HARINGTON is, therefore, a grandson of the late Sir JOHN EDWARD HARINGTON, Bart, of Ridlington, Rutland, and cousin of the present baronet of the same name, to whose title he is now the heir presumptive. The new Judge was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1857, when he was second in the first-class in Jurisprudence and Modern History. In the following year he held the Vinerian Law Scholarship, and graduated B.C.L. a few years afterwards. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's-inn, in Nov. 1858, having previously gained a certificate of honour at the Bar examination of that term. Soon after being called to the Bar he joined the Oxford Circuit.

A METROPOLITAN magistrate has expressed an opinion that power ought to be given to him to punish habitual drunkards by imprisonment. A woman, forty times convicted, and in a state of hysterical collapse from her excesses, was brought up for the forty-first time, to be fined only in the sum of five shillings. Among the Liverpool magistrates, Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE is distinguishing himself by endeavouring to punish without an Act of Parliament. We noticed recently that he attends at the gaol on Sunday and discharges Saturday's drunkards, furnishing a list of them to the local papers. To this list he now proposes to add the names of the drunkards' employers. We doubt the expediency of this proceeding, having already expressed the opinion that it is no part of a magistrate's duty to communicate judicial proceedings to the newspapers. There is, indeed, possible danger in it, for it is only in the exercise of their judicial functions that magistrates are protected in making defamatory publications. But if Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE is willing to run the risks, we cannot complain.

WE suspect that the Globe and the Examiner will be somewhat alarmed at the doctrine laid down by the Court of Queen's Bench during the week to the effect that a married woman cannot vote as a burgess in a municipal election. Our readers may possibly remember that the journals named applied to us very strong expressions when we ventured to propound the theory that a woman's legal entity is merged in, her husband. It was regarded by them as an ancient doctrine which modern jurists would not recognise. The full Court of Queen's Bench have, however, ratified it as sound modern law, notwithstanding the 9th section of 32 & 33 Vict. c. 55, which enacts that in that and the old Act of Will. 4,