Equity; Hunter's Elementary View of the Proceedings in a Suit in Equity, part 1 (last edit.) 2. The Cases and Notes contained in the first volume of White and Tudor's Leading Cases. The Act to explain the Operation of an Act passed in the 17th & 18th Years of Her present Majesty, c. 113, intituled, An Act to Amend the Law relating to the Administration of Deceased Persons, 30 & 31 Vict., c. 69. The Act to remove doubts as to the Power of Trustees, Executors, and Administrators to invest Trust Funds in certain Securities, and to declare and amend the Law relating to Sales of Reversions, 31 & 32 Vict. c. 4. The Act to Abolish the Distinction as to Priority of Payment which now exists between the Specialty and Simple Contract Debts of Deceased Persons, 32 & 33 Vict. c. 46; and the Married Women's Property Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict. c. 93. Candidates for certificates of having passed a satisfactory examination will be expected to be well acquainted with the books mentioned in the first of the above classes. Candidates for the studentship, exhibition, or honours, will be examined in all the books mentioned in the two classes. The Reader on the Law of Real Property, &c., proposes to examine in the following books and subjects: 1. Joshua Williams on the Law of Real Property, 9th edit. 2. Lapse: 1 Jarman on Wills, pp. 314-329, 3rd edit. 3. Joint Tenancy and Tenancy in Common : Morley v. Bird, 3 Ves. 629, and the notes to that case in Tudor's Leading Cases in Real Property and Conveyancing, pp. 778-802, 2nd edit. 4. Vested or Contingent Devises and Bequests: Hawkins' Treatise on the Construction of Wills, pp. 221-242. 5. Searches for Incumbrances: Dart's Vendors and Purchasers, Vol. 1, chap. xi., pp. 413-459, 4th edit. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE PROFESSION. NOTE.-This Department of the LAW TIMES being open to free discuss on on all professional topics, the Editor is not responsible for any opinions or stateinents contained in it. ACCOUNTANTS AND THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1871.-Bankruptcy practice would seem to be threatened by accountants. After their usual fashion, they seem to know how indifferent the legal profession is as to what they do. In two recent cases my clients wishing to arrange with their creditors amicably, desired me to convene a meeting of their creditors. Day fixed-circulars sent. One of the creditors who belonged to some "association for invading the province of attorneys" went to the secretary; down went a clerk got a list of creditors from my clients. Creditors were induced to sign a lithographed authority to investigate books and take possession of stock-intrade, which was done. Nothing came of the meeting, and the matter will now doubtless be wound-up by the respectable association attorney who at once gets proxies enough to carry everything his own way. This course was repeated the day before yesterday in this city, in which another attorney had initiated proceedings in liquidation. The thin end of the wedge is assuredly in, and I suppose the "nobody cares principle will prevail as usual. F. W. F. ATTORNEYS AND THE BAR.-As your columns are always open to the discussion of any sugges tion likely to advance the interests of the legal profession, will you permit me to say a few words upon a subject alluded to by Mr. Gregory in the House of Commons, during the debate upon Sir Roundell Palmer's resolutions, and more recently by "One of Them" in your impression of Saturday last. I refer to the curriculum necessary for an attorney to pass through, to render him eligible for a call to the Bar. Under the present regulations of the Inns of Court no difference is made between the course of study, dinners, number of terms, &c., required from students fresh from school or college, strangers to law, and those who during three, four, or five years (as the case may Candidates for the studentship, exhibition, or honours, will be examined in all the above-mentioned books and subjects; candidates for a pass certificate, in those under heads 1, 2, and 3. The Reader on Jurisprudence, Civil and Inter. national Law, proposes to examine in the follow-be) ing books and subjects: 1. Justinian Institutes, book 3, from tit. 13 to end of book 3. 2. Lord Mackenzie's Studies on Roman Law, part 3; On the Law of Obligation. 3. Maine Ancient Law, chap. ix. 4. Code Civil, Arts. 1582-1831. 5. Wheaton's Elements of International Law edit. Dana or Laurence), part 2, chap. 2; Rights of Civil and Criminal Legislation. Candidates for the studentship, exhibition, or honours will be examined in all the above subjects; but candidates for a pass certificate in 1, 3, and 5 only. The Reader on Common Law proposes to examine in the following books and subjects:Candidates for a pass certificates will be examined in 1. The Ordinary Steps and Course of Pleading in an Action. 2. Smith's Lectures on Contracts (last edit.), lectures 2 to 5 inclusive. 3. The undermentioned cases concerning Torts: Smith's Leading Cases, with the Notes thereto; Armory v. Delamirie, Ashby v. White, Chandelor v. Lopus, Scott v. Shepherd, Pasley v. Freeman. 4. The Law as to Simple Larceny, and the Proceedings at a Trial for that offence: (Archbold's Criminal Pleading by Bruce.) Candidates for the studentship, exhibition, or honours, will be examined in the above subjects, and also in have served under articles of clerkship to an attorney, and at the conclusion have passed the Final Examination of the Incorporated Law Society. Now, Sir, is it fair and equitable that these two classes should be treated exactly alike, that men recognised by the Law Society as competent to practise the profession of the law as attorneys and solicitors, should be required to pass through the same routine of study as those utterly ignorant of the fundamental principles of law, indeed without any legal knowledge whatever. The advisability of giving greater facilities to attorneys and solicitors to change into the other branch of the Profession, was made the subject of comment last year in the House of Commons by Sir George Jessel; and on the debate the other day on Sir Roundell Palmer's resolutions, Mr. Gregory remarked that he would "commend to the attention of the Bar a practical grievance of which the other branch of the Profession had to complain. An attorney desirous of becoming a barrister could not be called to the Bar until he had ceased to practise as an attorney for three years. Such a condition, except in the case of a man of property, was obviously tantamount to starvation." Your correspondent "One the existing regulations, and that attorneys and of Them" also advocates a change being made in solicitors should have greater facilities for being called, than having to go through the same course, and spend the same time, as strangers to law have to do. The suggestion that I have to make is, that students who have been articled and passed the Final Examination of the Incorporated Law Society (whether actually admitted attorney or not) should be eligible to be called to the Bar after one year-instead of three-at one of the Inns of Court, provided of course that they pass the same examination as other students. The reason for limiting the one year's system to those actually admitted and sworn attorneys is that many men, when they are best qualified to form an opinion on the subject, i.e., after the expiration of their articles and passing the Final Examination, may deem themselves better suited to the higher branch of the Profession than to practise as attorneys and solicitors, and to insist upon actual admission as a condition precedent to such men taking advantage of the new system, would only be putting them to considerable and needess expense. I hope the few remarks I have made will induce someone interested in law reform to take up the matter. The Inns of Court have lately shown a disposition to alter and adapt their regulations to the exigency of the times; they have Wit-examination before being called, they have instimade it compulsory for Bar students to pass an tuted readerships in the different subjects of legal education; and I think if this matter were properly placed before them and brought under their notice, they would probably accede to the proposal. STUDENS. 5. The undermentioned cases concerning Contracts, from Lord Coke's Reports: Blake's case (part 6, folio 43), in connection with which see Peytoe's case (part 9, folio 77), Higgins's case (part 6, folio 44), Vynior's case (part 8, folio 81), as to which see Russell on Arbitration (4th edit. pp. 141–143), Pigot's case (part 11, folio 26), with which read Aldous v. Cornwell (L. Rep. 3 Q. B. 578). 6. The Criminal Law Consolidation and Amend. ment Acts (edit. by Greaves), so far as they relate to (1) Felonious Homicide (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, ss. 4, 6, 7, 9, 11). (2) Larceny, Embezzlement, and False Pretences (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, ss. 1-3, 6, 67, 68, 72, 88, 89). With notes to the above sections. 7. Forensic Practice and Examination of nesses: (Best on Evidence, 5th edit. book 4). By Order of the Council, WESTBURY, Chairman. Council Chamber, Lincoln's Inn, 8th March, 1872. MAGISTRATES COURTS AND CLERKS.-Whilst on the subject of paying clerks by salary instead of fees let me suggest other abuses for remedy. There should be, first, clerks paid by salary, and not allowed to prosecute; secondly, public prosecutors wholly independent of the former; thirdly, stipendiary magistrates. Before courts of first instance in criminal law are reformed, as they require to be, and put on their proper basis, the three results above set out must be attained. Why not by one Bill? The present Bill in the Commons, though good in its direction, shows great timidity, Clerks have no freehold in their office, they hold at pleasure, and it is wrong to give them the status and consideration the Bill does. But only one clerk in each division should be allowed. In some there are several to the same Bench, and it simply makes the courts bear gardens, for each is trying to be the greatest man. This Bill ought to provide a fixed salary for one clerk alone, not exceeding £600 in any division. The appointment ought not to be with the magis trates in each division, but the Lord Chancellor, as in the case of a County Court registrar. In many divisions the clerks now pocket as much as would pay both a salary to a clerk and to a stipendiary as well. Why not have stipendiaries dis tributed over the country as are County Court judges? Nothing is so truly hateful to a trained lawyer as to advocate before a non-legal magis. trate. Trusting to our Profession being determined on the question to reform thoroughly the whole business of these courts, I am, &c., B. L. Z. 121. PARISH LAW.-If a poll is demanded concern ing the granting or refusing of a voluntary churchrate, can every poor-rate payer vote, whether he bas paid his church-rate or not? Would they vote on the question in accordance with 58 Geo. 3, c. 69, whic' virtually gives each occupier of property rated at £15) six votes ? Is a church-rate or a highway-rate legal which is based on an old poor-rate assessment instead of on the last valuation of the assessment committee? J. B. B. AT a meeting of this society held on Thursday, Feb. 29, I. Inskip, Esq., in the chair, Mr. B. C. Cowen moved that the case of Makin v. Wilkinson was rightly decided. Mr. J. N. C. Pope replied in the negative which was carried, after a very interesting discussion, by a majority of one. At the usual fortnightly meeting held on the 12th inst., H. Britain, Esq., in the chair, Mr. T. U. Jacques moved "That a nurseryman who has erected a greenhouse, without consent, with a substantial foundation, on land held under a lease for years, may remove it on quitting." Mr. C. F. Henderson argued in the negative, but after a long argument and careful summing up by the chairman, the affirmative was carried. HULL LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. THE last sessional meeting of this society was held at the Law Library, on Tuesday evening last, point was "Was the case of Johnson v. Emerson Mr. J. Cook, solicitor, in the chair. The moot and Sparrow rightly decided?" Mr. Woodhouse and Mr. Jacobs argued in the affirmative, and Mr. Spurr and Mr. Mayne supported the negative. The question was decided in the affirmative, and the meeting adjourned. ARTICLED CLERKS' SOCIETY. A MEETING of this society was held at Clement'sinn-hall, on Wednesday, March 20, Mr. F. W. Dendy in the chair. Mr. Mozley opened the subject for the evening's debate, viz.: "That the Ballot Bill (Mr. Foster's) should be rejected by Parliament." The motion was lost by a majority of two. LEGAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. A MEETING of the Executive Committee was held on the 19th inst., at the rooms of the Juridical Society, for the purpose of hearing from the president a report of the recent proceedings in Parliament, and of considering what steps should be taken for carrying out the objects of the associaThe following gentlemen attended the meeting: Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., M.P. (president), Messrs. Amphlett, Q.C., M.P., Campbell, Clabon, Cobb, Curling, Elphinstone, Farrer, Freshfield, Harrison, Holland, Hughes, Q.C., M.P., Jevons, Lake, Longbourne, Osborne Morgan, Q.C., M.P., Rothery, Saunders, Shaen, Tagart, and Wilkins. tion. LEGAL OBITUARY. H. NETHERSOLE, ESQ. THE late Henry Nethersole, Esq., solicitor, who died on the 28th Feb., at his residence, 7, Coleherneroad, West Brompton, after a long and painful illness, in the seventy-first year of his age, was a son of the late William Nethersole, Esq., who was for many years one of the Ancients, and subsequently Treasurer of the Honourable Society of New Inn. Mr. Henry Nethersole, succeeded during the treasurership of his father, to the office of steward of New Inn, on the 23rd May 1827, on the resignation of Mr. R. H. Bartholomew, since which period he had continued to hold the office now rendered vacant by his death. H. S. STANHOPE, ESQ. THE late Hugh Spencer Stanhope Esq., barristerat-law, of Glen Allan, near Alnwick, N.B. (who died on the 24th Dec. last) was the youngest son of the late Walter Spencer Stanhope, Esq., of Cannon Hall, Yorkshire, by Mary Winifred, sole daughter and heiress of the late Thomas Babington Pulleine, Esq., of Carlton Hall, Yorkshire, he was therefore a younger brother of Gen. Philip S. Stanhope, colonel of the 13th Foot. In early life he studied for the Bar, and was admitted a member of the Middle Temple in May 1829. For some years he practised as a special pleader on the Northern Circuit, residing at Sheffield, and attending the West Riding sessions. Mr. Stanhope relinquished his practice many years ago, and had since lived in retirement at Alnwick. He was a widower, but has left no family. His remains were interred on the 30th Dec., in the family mausoleum at Cawthorne, near Barnsley. These Stanhopes are descended from a common ancestor with the Earls of Chesterfield. Tuesday Court of Exchequer. Middlesex. ...April 16 | Tuesday...............April 30 No London sittings this Term. AFTER TERM. London. May 13 married a daughter of the late Samuel Thompson, C. J. ELDRED, ESQ. [N.B.-Announcements of promotions being in the nature of advertisements, are charged 2s. 6d. each, for which postage stamps should be inclosed.] MR. WILLIAM READE, of Bournemouth, and Ringwood, Solicitor, member of the Incorporated Law Society, has been elected Clerk and Registrar to the newly constituted Burial Board at Bournemouth. THE GAZETTES. Gazette, March 15. To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. rd (under firm of C. Van den Bergh and Co.) Pet. March 13. Pet. March 5. THE late Charles Joseph Eldred, Esq., solicitor, W. D. EVANS, ESQ. THE late William David Evans, Esq., barrister- THE COURTS & COURT PAPERS. COOPER ABBS, ESQ. THE death of Cooper Abbs, Esq., solicitor, of Sunderland, and clerk to the justices of that borough, took place on the 19th Feb., after a few days' illness, from constipation of the bowels. The deceased gentleman who was in his seventy-first year, was the second son of the late Bryan Abbs, Esq., of Cleaddon House, near Sunderland, and was educated at Wilton-le-Wear, under the Rev. George Newby. He served his articles of clerkship under the late Thomas Thompson, Esq., solicitor, and was admitted an attorney in Hilary Term 1825. For some years he practised in Sunderland, but afterwards removed to Newcastle-on-Tyne. On the death of Mr. John Adamson, Mr. Abbs received the appointment of solicitor to the late Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart., of Whitburn Hall, when he returned to Sunderland, and resumed his practice there. Mr. Abbs continued to be the legal agent of the late Sir Hedworth Williamson till that gentleman's death in 1861, and held the same position till lately under the present baronet. In 1836, on the incorporation of Sunderland as a municipal borough, he was one of the first batch of aldermen elected for that town, and was the last survivor but one of the original body. Mr. Abbs was one of the solicitors of what is locally known as the " North Dock scheme," and had lately Tuesday been actively engaged as one of the legal agents of the Hylton, Southwick, and Monkwearmouth Railway Company, which body obtained Parlia mentary powers during the session of 1871, and are just about to commence operations. He had also for some years been clerk to the Monkwearmouth Local Board, which office he resigned about two years ago. In 1865 he was appointed clerk to the borough magistrates of Sunderland, on the resignation of Mr. W. J. Young. In polities Mr. Abbs was a Liberal, and for many years past he took a leading part in nearly all the election contests for the borough of Sunderland, and for the northern division of the county of Durham. He' Thursday JOHNSON, GEORGE, firmer, Pensax and Rock. Pet. March 12. KIRKMAN, JOSEPH, joiner, Derby. Pet. March 13. Reg. Weller. LUCKINGS, JOHN, innkeeper, Lewes. Pet. March 11. Reg. MILES, WILLIAM, jun, and MILES, THOMAS, carriers, Kingston- Gazette, March 19. To surrender at the Bankrapts' Court, Basinghall-street. April 11 ANDREWS, FRANCIS KEEN, brightsmith, Hill st. Newport: ASH, JOHN, wholesale confectioner, Northampton; March 28, at ASHFORD, ADRIAN BIRON, gentleman, Odiham; April 8 at twelve, at the Auction Mart, Tokenhouse-yd. Sol., Potter, Farnham BARNES, HENRY, fronmonger, Over, near Winsford; April 2, at two, at the Angel Hotel, Market-st, Manchester. Sol., Bent, Winsford BATCHELOR, JOHN, shipbuilder, Cardiff, and Newarth; March 27, BIRD, ALFRED, builder, Leamington Priors; April 5, at three, at BROWNE, RICHARD, out of business, Birmingham; March 28, at COCKETT, HENRY, printer, Chelmsford; April 3, at eleven, at COLLINS, THOMAS, ironmonger, Hemel Hempstead; March 25, Cox, CHARLES JOHN, wine merchant, Manchester: April 2, at D'HOOGHE, HENRY ADOLPHUS, auctioneer, Harmby: March 28. EDDOLLS, JOSEPH THOMAS, grocer, Bristol; March 25, at twelve, ETHERIDGE, THOMAS, farmer, Ringwood; March 28, at twelve, at FERRALL, WILLIAM, house agent, Thurloe-pl, Brompton: April FROST, JAMES, tobacconist, High-st, Wimbledon: March 23, at twelve, at office of Sol., Biddles, Southampton bldgs, Chancery-la GARDNER, ALEXANDER, boot dealer, Sheffield; March 25, at twelve, at offices of Messrs. Edey, accountants, Sheffield. Sols., Webster and Picard GARLAND, WILLIAM FRANCIS, jeweller. Bitton; March 26, at twelve, at the Queen's hotel, Birmingham. Sol., Alman, Bristol GILDERSON, ROBERT, coach builder, Romford; March 28, at two, at office of Sol, Brown, Basinghall-st GOLDSMITH, THOMAS, wheelwright, Lewes; March 27, at GOODACRE, JOSEPH, wine merchant, Liverpool and Fairfield; GOW, HOWARD, merchant, Liverpool; March 27, at four, at office GREATOREX, JOHN, grocer, Wrexham: March 27, at eleven, at GRIFFITHS, EDWARD THOMAS, pitwood dealer, Tredegarville; Holborn HEBDEN, JAMES, linendraper, Walengale; March 22, at twelve, HILTON, JOHN, ten dealer, Frederick pl, Caledonian-rd: April 2, Hanley INGER, ELIZABETH, glass dealer, Nottingham; April 5, at three, IVES, JOHN, grease refiner, Alverthorpe; March 28, at eleven, at JONES, WILLIAM, fruiterer, Newcastle; March 29, at twelve, at KEEL, HENRY JOHN, hat manufacturer. Birmingham; April 3, LEWIS, JAMES, builder, Bedminster; March 26, at eleven, at LOCKYER, FREDERICK, cotton spinner, Manchester; March 28, at two, at office of Sols., Messrs. Fox, Manchester LONG, JOHN GEORGE BROWN, linen draper, Stockton: March 30, at eleven at the Home Trade Association-rooms, Manchester. Sol., Draper, Stockton MACHIN, GEORGE, hay dealer, New Radford; March 27, at twelve, MCNICOL, PETER STEWART, metal agent, Leadenhall-st; April MEDLEY, SAMUEL, boot maker, Wickenby: March 23, at eleven, MESSER, FREDERIC, chemist, Holborn; March 27, at half-past MOODIE, HUGH OLIVER, draper, Brighton; April 3, at three, at OAKLEY, JOHN, in lodgings, Birmingham; March 26, at eleven, at PEARSON, GEORGE, commercial traveller, York; March 22, at PRYCE, RICHARD, shoemaker, Ann's-croft, near Shrewsbury; ROBINSON, GEORGE, professor of music, Gainsborough; March 30, at three, at offices of Sols., Oldham and Iveson, Gainsborough ROYAL, GEORGE, fish curer, Great Yarmouth; April 2, at twelve, RUDGE, CHARLES, farmer, Penn, and Wolverhampton; March 30, SQUIRE, THOMAS, house decorator, Dunstable; April 2, at eleven, ST ONG, ABSALOM, butcher, Brighton; March 28, at two, at office of Sols., Woods and Dempster, Brighton STUBBS, FRANCIS, commission agent, Percy-st, Tottenham-etrd, and Burelem; March 23, at cleven, at the Leopard Hotel, Burslem THOMAS, THOMAS, out of business, Alpha-sq, Walworth: March 30, at eleven, at offices of Lewis and Lewis, Coleman-st. Sol., Padmore, Coleman-st THOMPSON, THOMAS, baker, Gosport; March 26, at three, at office of Sol., Blake, Portsea TOYE, REUBEN JEREMIAH, leather seller. Green-st, Bethnalgreen-rd March 24, at eleven, at office of Sol., Parsons, Railway approach, London-bridge WELLS, GEORGE, rusper, Brighton, and Rottingdean; March 30, WHITE, JANE. livery stable keeper, Newcastle: March 27, at two, WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, builder, Stafford; March 25, at three, at WILSON, DIXON, innkeeper, Kirkby Malzeard; March 30, at one, Gazette, March 17. ADAMS, ALFRED, out of business, Liverpool; April 3, at three, at office of Sol., Ponton, Liverpool ADAMS, HENRY, leather seller, High-st, Marylebone; April 1, at ALLARDYCE, ARCHIBALD DE LACY, baker, Oxford; April 4, at BOALER, BERNARD, maltster, Mansfield Woodhouse: April 2, at BOULTER, JOHN, plumber, East-rd, City-rd; March 27, at four, at CHAMBERS, WILLIAM EDWARD ROUSE BOUGHTON, maltster, CLAYDEN, JAMES, corn chandler, Bingfield-st, Caledonian-ra, COOKE. LEVIT, baker, Peterborough; April 5, at twelve, at office CREBA, JOSEPH WILLIAM, manufacturer of portmanteaux, DAVIS, JOHN, innkeeper, Conwil; April 3, at five minutes past FLETCHER, STEPHEN, builder, Cheetham-hill near Manchester; GENT, FREDERICK, butcher, Bridgwater: March 28, at two, at GRAY, GRIFFIN, JOHN, boot maker, Seaham Harbour; April 4, at HAKES, THOMAS, stockbroker. Liverpool: April 4, at three, at HENDERSON, JOHN, out of business, Russell-gdns, Russell-st- HINCHLIFF, WILLIAM, corn dealer, Southwark-bridge-rd. South- HINCHLIFFE, WILLIAM, draper, Halifax: April 3, at three, at the HODGINS. JOHN, boot manufacturer, Manchester: April 4, at HUSKINSON, CHARLES HENRY, mercer, Middlesborough: March JAQUES, JOHN, carpenter, Deal: April 1, at twelve, at the Royal JENKINS, ALBERT, corn merchant, Worcester; March 28, at half- JONES, JAMES, grocer, Neath: April 5, at twelve, at offices of LEVY, NATHANIEL, meat salesman, Florence-st, Upper-st, Isling LONGWORTH, THOMAS, Collier, Farnworth: April 3, at three, at MAUGHAN, JOHN, tailor, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: March 30, at MUTTER, JOSHUA, boot maker. Newport; March 28, at twelve, OAKDEN, JOSEPH, clerk in holy orders, Congleton: April 12, at OFFER, JOHN, grocer, Bristol; April 4, at twelve, at offices of PAINTER, VERNON JOHN, out of business, Eccleshall; March 30, PEEL, WALTER, butcher. Halifax: April 3, at three, at the Brown KIRK, WILLIAM. TONKIN, JOHN, boot maker, Exeter; April 3, at eleven, at office TOULSON, NICHOLSON, ironmonger, Leeds, and Horsforth; April WAKEFIELD, GEORGE, bootmaker, Kirtlington: April 4, at twelve, WARE, JOHN, builder, Exeter: April 6, at eleven, at the Queen's hotel, Exeter. Sol., Fryer, Exeter WILCOCK, WILLIAM, publican, Prescot; April 2, at twelve, at offices of Forshaw, Hawkins, and Cross, Present. Sol., Cross WOODNORTH, PETER, commission agent, Hednesforth; April 3, at eleven, at offices of Sol., Glover, Walsall The Official Assignees, &c., are given, to whom apply for the Barron, A. West India merchant, fourth. 18. 6d. Pazet, Basing- Burrell, W. jun, butterman, 6s. 6d. At 4, Duke-st, Brighton, Trust.. J. W. Hemming. Culshaw, G. joiner, 1s. At Trust, J. Platt. 31, and 33, London-st, Southport.-Fizica, W. corn miller, first, 1. At office of Trust., J. Kingston, Spalding-Hot, F. Cesler, first and final, 5s. 7d. At Sols., Dunn and Payne. King-st, Frome. Littler, J. hotel keeper, first and final, 28. 7gd. At ce f Trust., J. Pritchard, 3, Plasllwyd-ter, Bangor.-Ickie, E. farmer, 11s. At 14, Ship-st, Brighton. Trust., J. A. Slade.-Mas W provision dealer, first, Is. (d. At Sol., Bache, West BromwichBerve, B Mathers, 1. tailor, first sep., 158. Trust, T. Latch. butcher, first, 45. At Sols., Kent and Clowes Smith, Beccles a son. CLEAVE.-On the 19th inst., at Brandon-house, Buckhurst-hill. Essex, the wife of John Jones Cleave, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. COCKLE.-On the 2nd Jan., 1872, at Oakwal, near Brisbane, Queens land, Australia, the wife of Sir James Cockle, F.R.S., the Chief Justice of Queensland, of a daughter. DYNE. On the 19th inst., at 3, Caen-terrace, Highgate, the wife of John Bradley Dyne, of Lincolns-inn, barrister-at-law, of s daughter. KIRKE. On the 17th inst., at The Hill-house, Cradley, Malvern, the wife of Henry Kirke, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. UNDERHILL.-On the 17th inst., at Newbridge, Wolverhampton, the wife of Joseph Underhill, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daugh ter. DEATHS. BRAY. On the 14th inst., at Bodmin, aged 74. Richard Bray, for FREELAND.-On the 15th inst., at 21, Cambridge-gardens, ared f machinery warners, Blackburn: April 2, at eleven, at office of PARTRIDGE AND COOPER Sols., Boote and Edgar, Manchester PRICE, HENRY WATKINS, grocer, Oundle: April 2, at one, at the ROBERTS, HENRY OXLEY, corn miller, Ferrybridge; March 28, RUDD, THOMAS, draper, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: April 9, at twelve, SIMMONDS, THOMAS HENRY, fancy box manufacturer, Golden-la, SMITH, WILLIAM, out of business, Benfieldside; April 4, at twelve, SMYTH, CHARLES LAUNCELOT, draper. Cheltenham; April 8, at STYAN, JANE LEADLEY, widow, York; April 2, at twelve, at office TAIT, WALTER, boot dealer, Sunderland; March 23, at eleven, at TARLING, JAMES HARVEY, out of business, Tottenham-rd, Kings- TAYLOR, RICHARD, upholsterer, Wrexham; April 6, at two, at WHOLESALE & RETAIL STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET, AND 1 & 2, CHANCERY-LANE, LONDON, E. Carriage paid to the Country on Orders exceeding DRAFT PAPER, 4s. 6d., 6s., 7s., 7s. 9d., and 9s. per ream. LEDGERS, DAY-BOOKS, CASH-BOOKS, LETTER OF MINUTE-BOOK CIENTIFIC PRESENTS.-Collections to the important Study of Mineralogy and Geology, can be had 1 In the press, QUESTIONS. A NEW EDITION (THE SEVENTH OF HALLILAY'S EXAMINATION A DIGEST of the EXAMINATION QUESTIONS in Common Law, Conveyancing, and Equity, from the commencement of the Examinations in 1836 to Hilary Term 1872, with ANSWERS; also the Mode of Proceeding, and Directions to be attended to at the Examination. By RICHARD HALLILAY, Esq., Author of The Articled Clerk's Handbook." By GEORGE BADHAM, Esq., Solicitor. [Will be ready in about two months. London: HORACE Cox, 10, Wellington-street, Strand, W.C. The Law and the Lawyers. MR. JUSTICE WILLES has given the clergy a hint which it is to be hoped they will understand. Clergymen have frequently of late shown themselves to be very mortal, and when a great outcry is raised on the subject of the dulness of sermons, it is easy to appreciate the relish which the weekly discourse derives from a reference to a lis pendens. We heard a very popular clergyman denouncing the miserable Tichborne claimant in terms only equalled by those of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, when almost any scoundrel known to history would have served the same purpose. The spirit of fair play should be sufficient to restrain public reference to causes undecided, for jurymen are, like clergymen, mortal, and very sensitive to influence. VOL. LII.-No. 1513. WE shall not be surprised if the Government determine to abolish the office of Queen's Advocate. It is not an office of any importance, if the ATTORNEY-GENERAL and SOLICITOR-GENERAL are capable men. The holder is a member of the College of Advocates, appointed by letters patent; and his duties are to advise and act as counsel for the Crown in questions of civil, canon, and international law. International law is a subject calling for the exercise of a clear intellect, rather than the possession of any profound knowledge of its rules, and very good advice on civil and canon law can be obtained, when required, by means of an ordinary brief to counsel. The abolition of the office, therefore, is a piece of economy which we shall not grudge the Government. THE licence of counsel is a valuable privilege jealously to be guarded, but as rarely as possible to be strained. At a recent trial at Exeter one of the leaders of the Western Circuit made use of these words: "Mr. MORGAN-Some sneaking detective rascal, whom they would not venture to say was Mr. SOBEY's clerk. Mr. SOBEY was far too respectable to have such a scoundrel in his employ as clerk. But they knew attorneys used those base creatures for certain purposes, and after using them got rid of them." These words were spoken of a subordinate, but as far as it appears, a thoroughly honourable agent of the law. We draw attention to the matter, not only in justice to the individual slandered, but to deprecate the use of strong abuse, which seems to be growing into a habit. Neither abuse nor invective can have weight with Judge or jury, whilst it is always possible that grievous injury may be inflicted. Mr. MORGAN, it seems, simply did his duty in procuring evidence in an action for breach of promise of marriage in which his principal was concerned as solicitor. THE County Court Judgeship of Marylebone is said to have been offered to and to have been accepted by Mr. MACNAMARA. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was quite accurate when he said that the contemplated appointment would give great satisfaction. Mr. MACNAMARA has stood in the front rank of the Junior Bar for many years, and has, probably, as an arbitrator, done more judicial business than any other member of the Profession off the Bench. He was called to the Bar in 1849, and was appointed Recorder of Reading in 1864. A short time since he accepted the position of a metropolitan police magistrate, which, however, he immediately resigned. We believe that he has lately been compelled to limit his professional labours on account of ill-health; and if this be the case, the judgeship of the Marylebone County Court will scarcely prove a retirement from excessive labour. The Government, however, has selected the best man; and if he succeeds in disposing of the heavy business of the court without breaking down after the manner of his predecessors, the arrangement will prove eminently satisfactory. We regret that we are obliged to refuse again and again to expose those members of the Profession who indulge in the disreputable practice of touting for business. The men who do this are far too thick-skinned to care what a legal journal or their brother professionals may think about them. We have before us, however, a peculiar case that of "an Oxford University man, with ample private means." It is very singular that such a person cannot find legitimate occupation, for he is not only an Oxford man of ample means, but of long standing. This, however, is what he does. He circulates a prospectus in which he does not give his own name but that of his clerk, and he states that, "Having recently extended his facilities he is willing to accept some additional appointments as landlord's agent and receiver of rents of estates, houses, ground rents, and general property-both in London and the country." His terms are a commission of two and a half per cent., which will include "not only all the usual routine of an agent and auditor of accounts, but also all incidental legal businessexcept suits-which may arise between landlord and tenant, with correspondence, consultations, journeys, and attendances in connection with the appointment." Special terms may also be arranged. He then proceeds to announce that he has town offices, centrally situated, with competent clerks and messengers. And this is the concluding paragraph of this remarkable production: "Should you wish an interview with him to consider as to giving any appointment of receivership or agency, please address a note to Mr. WILSON, The Grange, Lower Sydenham, S.E. (his clerk), who will arrange with you such interview at a convenient time and place." We are glad to see that the Oxford man of ample means has so sensible an appreciation of his mode of doing business as the withholding of his own name indicates, and we sincerely trust that he will turn his University education and ample means to more legitimate pursuits. A SOMEWHAT extraordinary application was made to Mr. Registrar ROCHE, sitting as Chief Judge, on Tuesday. A single creditor of Sir WILLIAM RUSSELL, M.P. for Norwich, applied to the registrar that he should certify to the SPEAKER the circumstances connected with Sir WILLIAM's liquidation, and particularly that a year has elapsed since the date of the resolution of creditors, without the debts being satisfied. The 121st and 122nd sections of the Bankruptcy Act 1869, taken together, say that if a person, being a member of the Commons House of Parliament is adjudged bankrupt, and the order of adjudication is not annulled within a year, and the debts of the bankrupt are not fully paid or satisfied as provided for by the 121st section, then, the court shall, immediately after the expiration of that time, certify the same to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and thereupon the seat of such member shall be vacant. The court refused the application to make such certificate to the SPEAKER on the ground that a liquidation is not a bankruptcy. The applicant, doubtless, considered that because for the purpose of vesting property in the trustee, under sect. 87, a bankruptcy petition has been held to include a petition for liquidation (Ex parte Key, Re Skinner; L. Rep. 10 Eq. 432; 25 L. T. Rep. N. S. 315); therefore a liquidation is to all practical purposes, and in its consequences, the same hing as a bankruptcy. In this view the learned registrar refused to concur, and he also declined to believe that the Legislature intended that the power to unseat a member of Parliament should be exercised at the suit of a single creditor. THE American courts have recently decided some interesting points of maritime law. One, with reference to the rate of a steamer's speed during a fog, in which a most elaborate judgment, reviewing all the authorities, was delivered by Judge BLATCHFORD, we reproduce. The steamer, of considerable power, was going at nine and a half miles an hour at midnight in a dense fog, which, however, occasionally lifted. She blew her whistle at intervals. A sailing vessel crossed her course with a good look-out, lights up, and blowing a fog-horn, which, however, those on board the steamer said they did not hear. A collision occurred, the steamer cutting into the vessel, and sinking her. The steamer's defence was that the speed was not too great under the circumstances, that with greater pressure it is easier to stop and steer than when going slow, and that if the proper warning had been given by the sailing vessel it would have been heard at such a distance as would have enabled the steamer to stop and avoid collision. But the court condemned the steamer, on the ground that the speed, under the circumstances, was too great. The learned Judge severely remarked upon the practice of heavy steamers plunging through fogs, and said that if they do so they must accept the consequences. In a case in Ohio a vessel ran into an iron swing bridge which had been erected across a river, near its mouth, and injured it. It was held that this was not a marine tort, and that the Admiralty Court had no jurisdiction. The other case, in Michagan, was to the effect that a suit in rem will not lie in Admiralty against a vessel for damages done to a wharf projecting into navigable waters. There is no statute in America analogous to our Admiralty Court Act 1861. a AN interesting point of bankruptcy law came before the CHIEF JUDGE on the 18th inst. by way of appeal against an order of the registrar of the County Court of Huddersfield, under the following circumstances:-Mr. THOMAS STYRING, a wine merchant of Huddersfield, being indebted to Mr. JoHN HOLROYD in £600 as acceptor of a bill for that amount, drawn by Mr. THOMAS CLAPHAM, of the Leeds Royal Park, presented a petition in bankruptcy. Subsequently Mr. HOLROYD proved under the petition, and threatened Mr. CLAPHAM with legal proceedings to recover the money, which he stayed on Mr. CLAPHAM giving him a new bill accepted by Mr. STYRING. This bill was dishonoured, when another bill was given on the same terms, which was also dishonoured. Mr. HOLROYD having brought an action to recover the money, in February last Mr. STYRING applied to the County Court of Huddersfield, through Mr. JACKSON, of Manchester, to restrain the action, which was resisted by Mr. UPTON, of Leeds, on the ground that the bill, which was the subject of the action, was given for a new consideration, namely, a stay of proceedings against Mr. CLAPHAM, and was, therefore, not provable under the petition. The registrar granted an injunction, considering that the bills were given as renewals, and that the action prejudiced the proceedings in bankruptcy. After a long argument, the CHIEF JUDGE reversed the registrar's decision, dissolved the injunction, and ordered the deposit to be returned, considering that the registrar had no power to make the order, as the debt was a new one, not provable under the liquidation. SEVERAL points of procedure on election petitions have been dealt with by Mr. Justice KEOGH, preliminary to the trial of the Galway petition. That learned Judge has held that where intimidation, threats, and undue influence appear to have been used at an election, and to be likely to be continued in order to keep back witnesses, such particulars will not be ordered before the hearing of the petition as would expose witnesses to a probable risk of subjection to further influence or intimidation, in order to prevent their giving evidence. That as regards such particulars, the opening speech of counsel, where the petition is heard in a local venue, will be a sufficient notification, in order to prevent surprise and to enable the respondent to procure his witnesses; or if further time be necessary, it will be allowed upon the hearing. That a petitioner to the best of his ability furnishing particulars, will not, on the hearing of the petition, be narrowly confined to those specified. The respondent sought to obtain particulars of paragraphs in the petition which alleged that voters and non-voters had been treated, that supporters of the petitioner had been threatened, intimidated, and unduly influenced by clerical and other means; and that bands, banners, &c., had been provided by the respondent for illegal purposes. The learned Judge said that particulars should not be ordered specifying the names of the respondent's agents; the names of the persons for whom bands, banners, &c., had been provided; the names of the persons who were, or of those by whom they were, treated, threatened, influenced, or intimidated; or specifying the houses where treating took place, or the occasions on which threats, undue influence, or intimidation were used. And he held further that particulars should be given within six days before the hearing, specifying the towns and villages where voters had been treated, between stated periods, not exceeding an interval of ten days. A CASE has been occupying the attention of the Bar and the public in Hong Kong, which raised the very question which we have been recently considering in England with reference to the TICHBORNE case, namely, whether the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who has been privately engaged in a civil suit, should act as counsel for the Government in prosecuting the opposite party. Some foreigners, under the name of "British merchants," have, it appeared, succeeded in fleecing the Chinese to a large extent, but in doing this fraudulent devices were resorted to, and the offenders were caught and found guilty of conspiracy. Attorney-General PAUNCEFOTE had been retained for the parties who subsequently became the prosecutors on the charge of conspiracy, in some civil cases of a complicated character, the object of which was to decide whether ABDOOL MOOSA, one of the alleged conspirators, was entitled to certain opium, the proceeds of which, if the defendants were convicted, would go to the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S clients. Under these circumstances the papers were placed in his hands, and he directed the Crown Solicitor to bring forward the case in the police court as a public prosecution. The then acting Attorney-General, Mr. BALL," (Mr. PAUNCEFOTE having come home) says the Daily Press, “opened the case with a swinging counsel's speech, altogether lacking the temperance which should characterise the address of a Crown Prosecutor, whose bounden duty it is to give at least a fair consideration to what may reasonably be urged on behalf of the prisoner against whom the charge is brought." It is for reasons suggested by these remarks that we hope Mr. Serjeant PARRY will be allowed to lead the TICHBORNE prosecution. THE claimant to the TICHBORNE baronetcy has made an appeal to the public to furnish him with funds for his defence. In deciding whether there shall be any response, the public must consider that there is a much fairer prospect of the whole matter being sifted satisfactorily on the criminal trial than in a civil action at the suit of the claimant. The utmost that can be said now is that he failed to satisfy the jury at Westminster that he was the missing ROGER TICHBORNE. The jury did not find that all the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S statements as to the character and crimes of the man had been proved. This a jury has yet to find, and it is hardly necessary to point out that to induce a jury to do this will be far more difficult than it was to raise such doubts in their minds as to justify them in stopping the civil action. Everyone admits that to call eighty-six witnesses to prove the identity of a person who is an impostor was a marvellous feat, and the claimant will again raise the issue of the tattooing if he has the chance. Should he succeed in showing that ARTHUR ORTON was tattooed he will at once dispel a popular presumption against himself. Further, should the evidence of the fact that the real ROGER was tattooed, be in any degree rebutted, a presumption in favour of the claimant would again arise, however slightly jus tified when the numerous circumstances surrounding the case are considered. We foresee very great difficulties in the path of the prosecution, and for the sake of public justice we trust that the case will be better prepared than Treasury prosecutions have been for a considerable time past. It is also desirable that the prose cution should be met by an adequate defence, and we are therefore by no means disposed to say that the public should withhold their contributions. FRENCH PRIZE LAW. M. HENRI BARBOUX, an avocat of the French Court of Appeal in Paris, has published a small work on the Jurisprudence of the Conseil des Prises during the War of 1870-71, with Notes and Commentaries (London: Henry Sotheran, 136, Strand), which contains some interesting points illustrative of prize law, more particularly as affecting the rights of neutrals. introduction M. BARBOUX remarks that as there has been no decision upon this subject since the declaration of the Congress of Paris of the 16th April 1856, great interest naturally attaches to the labour of the Conseil des Prises of 1870. He has not re In his |