Grey took office-pledged to reform-and Lord Lyndhurst became Lord Chief Baron-a remarkable transformation. Greville's Diary lets us behind the scenes: "About three years ago," he writes, "the Chancellor, Lyndhurst, was the man in the world he [Lord Grey] abhorred most; and it was about this time that I well recollect one night at Madame de Lieven's I introduced Lord Grey to Lady Lyndhurst. We had dined together somewhere, and he had been praising her beauty. So when we all met there I presented him, and very soon all his antipathies ceased, and he and Lyndhurst became great friends. This was the cause of Lady Lyndhurst's partiality for the Whigs, which enraged the Tory ladies and some of their lords so much, but which served her turn and enabled her to keep two hot irons in the fire. When the duke went out, Lord Grey was very anxious to keep Lyndhurst as his Chancellor and would have done so if it had not been for Brougham, who, whirling reform in terrorism over his head, announced to him that it must not be. Reluctantly enough Lord Grey was obliged to give way, for he saw that with Brougham in the House of Commons against him he could not stand for five minutes, and that the only alternative was to put Brougham on the Woolsack. As Chief Baron. "Grey, however, was still anxious to serve Lyndhurst, and, to neutralise his opposition, has now proposed to him to be Chief Baron. Altogether he, Lyndhurst, has not done amiss, but he goes on to add-" his example is a lesson to statesmen to be frugal, for if he had been rich he would have had a better game before him.' Lord Grey was not the only one smitten with Lady Lyndhurst's charms. "There is a story," says Greville, "current about the Duke of Cumberland" (George IV.'s brother) "and Lady Lyndhurst which is more true than most stories of the kind. The duke called upon her and grossly insulted her, on which, after a scramble, she rang the bell. He was obliged to desist and go away, but before he did he said: 'By G-, madam, I will be the ruin of you and your husband, and will not rest till I have destroyed you both!"" 66 66 Lyndhurst's most memorable judicial feat as Chief Baron was his judgment in the case of Small v. Attwood. The main question in this celebrated case was whether the sale of certain ironworks in Staffordshire by Mr. Attwood to the British Iron Company should be set aside for what in equity is termed fraud. Lord Lyndhurst was of opinion that it should be. His judgment," says Lord Campbell, was the most wonderful ever heard in Westminster Hall. It was entirely oral, and, without even referring to any notes, he employed a long day in stating complicated facts, in entering into complex calculations, and in correcting the misrepresentations of the counsel on both sides. Never once did he falter or hesitate, and never once was he mistaken in a name or figure or a date." The judgment was afterwards reversed in the House of Lords, but the better opinion now is that the reversal was wrong. When Lord Westbury was once asked at Jowett's table whose was the finest judicial intellect he had ever known, he replied "Lord Lyndhurst's." As Sir Samuel Shepherd, A.-G., once put it, "There was no rubbish in his mind." Asides in Court-" Turn again, Lyndhurst, dear!" His alert mind would often keep up a running comment, uttered in an undertone, on the speeches of counsel. One day a barrister appeared before him whom he had not heard before. The barrister was a man of real ability, but he opened his case in a confused and halting way. "What a fool the man is!" muttered the Chancellor. As the speaker proceeded he got clearer and more to the point. Aha!" was the comment, "not such a fool as I thought!" Warming to his subject, the counsel went on with unmistakable effect. "Egad! was the next exclamation, "It is I that was the fool!" The Test and Corporation Bill, while emancipating Protestant Dissenters and Roman Catholics, imposed a fresh disability upon Jews, for the declaration substituted for the old tests was to be made on the true faith of a Christian." One of the peers in supporting the clause contended that without it a Jew might become Lord Chancellor. Why not?" muttered Lyndhurst; "Daniel would have made a very good one." One evening, Hayward-the famous talker-was giving a dinner at his chambers in King's Bench-walk to a number of celebrities. The beautiful Mrs. Norton was there, James Smith, the author of the Rejected Addresses, Theodore Hook the wag, Lord Lyndhurst, and others, and the host, by way of illustrating Madame de Genlis' prudery, was saying that she kept her books in detached cases the male authors in one, and the female authors in another. "I suppose," said Lyndhurst, "she did not wish to add to her books." Dinner was over-on the same. evening-and he was standing at an open window, looking over the Temple Gardens, in a meditative mood. A lady asked him what he was thinking about. "I was listening to those bells," he answered-he very Bow Bells that called back Whittington were ring ng at the time-" they seem to be calling me: "Turn again, Lyndhurst, dear, Three times Lord Chancellere!" And again the voice of the bells proved prophetic. On the 3rd Sept. 1841 he was offered the Great Seal for the third time by Lord Palmerston. As Statesman and Orator-Lord Campbell's Detractions. It would be impossible here to follow the political career of Lord Lyndhurst through all its vicisssitudes-the struggles over the Reform Bill of 1832, the Catholics Disabilities Bill, the Test and Corporation Bill, Law Reform, National Defence. But, whatever the controversy, Lyndhurst was always in the forefront of the battle, a trusted leader, a commanding personality; clear, vigorous, impressive; eloquent with that best kind of oratory, which Cicero calls temporatum genus dicendi; his bearing always erect, his eye sparkling, and his smile proclaiming his readiness for a jest. He never prepared his speeches in the conventional sense. His way was to think out his subject beforehand, but to leave the wording of his argument to the moment of delivery. Re bene meditata verba sequentur. Yet with all his readiness, he told Sir Henry Holland, he never rose to speak in Parliament without some degree of nervous trepidation-which may be a consolation to less practised speakers. Age never dimmed his faculties. In all his wide professional experience, Sir Henry Holland says, he had never known a case in which the mental powers-memory included-were so little touched by years as in Lord Lyndhurst's case. What Mr. Gladstone noted, when he met him shortly before his death, was his ". astonishing freshness of mind." Lord Campbell describes him, when close on eighty, as still as "brisk as a bee." The occasion was a dinner given by Mr. Justice Patteson to celebrate his twenty-first year on the Bench. Lyndhurst to whom he owed his appointment-was present with six other judges whom he had also made-all excellent ones. "I told him," says Campbell," that his appoint ment of good judges would cover the multitude of his sins." He said he had some thoughts of dying a Whig that I might deal mercifully with him "(Campbell had just added a new terror to death by bringing out his Chancellors)," and, asking me to drink wine with him, he declared that all enmities between us down to that moment were to be considered as buried and forgotten in the champagne." Pity that they were not "buried and forgotten" by Lord Campbell also. It is sad to see the spite which animates his Life of Lord Lyndhurst. He cannot deny his splendid powers, but detraction dogs every admission. Thus, "He might have risen to celebrity as a 'diner. out.' He never condescended to anything like direct flattery, but he felicitously hit upon the topic which he knew would tickle the amour propre of those he wished to dulcify. His grand resource was to abuse or ridicule the absent. He relied with undoubting faith upon the implied confidence among gentlemen that conversational sallies are sacred, and he would without scruple or apprehension say things which if repeated must immediately bring about a quarrel, if not a duel." Or again: "In his person he was tall, erect, and gracefully proportioned. His features were strongly marked, and his whole countenance well chiselled, with some fine lines of thought in it-nevertheless, occasionally, with a sinister smile of great cunning and some malignity which obtained for him the sobriquet of Mephistopheles." "Lord Lyndhurst was fond of Paris and often took a trip there," says Lord Campbell. "He used to affect to be a roué, and after he was married he would say what a charming thing it was to visit Paris en garçon." No such thing. While he was married his wife always went with him. But the best refutation of these calumnies is the tribute of Brougham, his lifelong rival and opponent. After speaking of him as "immeasurably superior to his contemporaries," he goes on: I do not think his manners were ever offensive to anybody, for he was kind and genial. His good nature was perfect, and he had neither nonsense nor cant any more than he had littleness or spite in his composition.' would give you," he jocosely said to Lyndhurst, of my walking powers, if you would give me some of your brains." This from Brougham! Last Years. some The evening of Lyndhurst's life was spent much at his country seat-Turville Park-where he was thoroughly happy in his family circle, amusing himself with farming, reading, or being read to by his sister or daughter-for he had had much trouble with his eyes-and playing backgammon or whist after dinner. But almost to the last he was a potent voice in Parliament," and no more brilliant contributions than his were made to the deliberations of the House of Lords on the Bridgwater case the Life Peerages controversy-which centred round Lord Wensley dale, and the tangled subject of divorce. He might have been Chancellor a fourth time. Lord Derby in forming his Administration earnestly pressed the Great Seal upon him, coupled with the offer of an earldom; but he would not. Satis naturæ vixerat et gloriæ. He died in October 1863, in his ninety-second year. Perhaps the best epitaph on him would be: Here lies a great statesman, a great judge, a great orator whom greatness never spoiled. E. M. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE JOINT STOCK NOTICES OF APPEARANCE AT HEARING MUST REACH THE SOLICITORS BY 6 P.M ANGLO-CANADIAN LANDS LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Sept. 14, to W. Winder, 1, St. Swithin's-la, E.C. A. BOOTH AND SON LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Sept. 14, to B. 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On p. 413 of vol. 9 of the Encyclopædia of Forms and Precedents the description is as follows: "The Parish Meeting of the Parish of in the County of By sub sect. 6 of sect. 9 of the Local Government Act 1894 it is declared "that the chairman of the parish meeting and the overseers of the parish shall be a body corporate by the name of the chairman and overseers of the parish, and shall have perpetual succession, and may hold land for the purposes of the parish without licence in mortmain." From this sub-section it would appear that the proper description would be "The Chairman and Overseers of the Parish of in the County of وو and not the description as given in the encyclopædia. The deed in question is a lease to a parish meeting of land to be used for allotments. Can any of your correspondents assist me ? CORRESPONDENCE. LEASE. This department being open to free discussion on all Professional topics, the Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions or statements contained in it. DEFACING ENGROSSMENTS.-May I call attention to the untidy way in which documents are dealt with in some of the numerous public offices through which they have to pass nowadays? Most solicitors, I am sure, take a pride in turning out their work in a neat fashion, but this is quite neutralised by the treatment which it subsequently receives from official departments. I have before me a deed (of quite an ordinary transaction) which has passed through various official departments and is besmeared with the stamps and hieroglyphics of the various officials who have had something to do with it. The first thing that happened was that someone scribbled in the margin with coloured chalk to indicate the amount of stamp duty, adding his initials and various other details concerning himself. Then followed some not very artistic red daubs, being the Inland Revenue stamps. The deed had further to be lodged for increment duty, and this involved the usual large rubber stamp impression recording lodgment, to say nothing of the smaller "P.D.S." voucher stamp, and the large red particulars delivered stamp. It was further necessary to have the deed adjudicated, and upon this occasion it received fresh decoration from a large rubber stamp with a reference number in ink figures, followed by another blaze of red in the shape of the adjudication stamp. The deed will now have to go to the Land Registry, where it will receive a further benediction from a large red stamp, with certain further official markings. All this certainly brings home to us how multitudinous officials have become; and also that, whilst the Profession is constantly abridging the work necessary before completion, bureaucracy is steadily increasing that which has to be attended to afterwards. But I think we have a right to ask that our craftmanship be treated with a certain amount of respect. LONDON SOLICITOR. CRIMINAL APPEAL ACT 1907.-With reference to the paragraph in your issue of the 31st Aug. last, relating to a recent case before the Court of Criminal Appeal where the shorthand notes taken at the trial (I think eighteen months previously) were not forthcoming, perhaps, as one of the official shorthand writers appointed under the Act, with thirty years' previous experience in the criminal courts, you will accord to me the privilege of making the following observations in the common interest. I duly received the circular of the 22nd Aug. last issued by the Home Office to officers of the circuits, setting forth the difficulties that have arisen on circuit, either through the illness of the shorthand writer or the unexpected constitution of a second Criminal Court where the shorthand writer has been unable to provide an assistant. That contingency I provided against, so far as I am concerned, in the early days of my appointment, when a second court was started at a certain circuit town at too short a notice for me to get my usual London assistant. A newspaper reporter was requisitioned, without consulting me, and to his lot fell a considerable transcript in a murder case. I protested against this, as I did not consider it fair for work to be taken from my circuit by an outsider. I communicated that objection to the late Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice, by whom I am appointed, and they concurred, leaving it to me to arrange in future. Of course, where it is impossible to get an assistant from London in time, I have to avail myself of the best local help I can get. I see by the circular that this provision is now made a condition of the appointment. The instance cited in the circular of the loss of the shorthand notes required for appeal, of course should not have occurred even after eighteen years. Professional shorthand writers are very jealous of the safe custody of their books, for we are sometimes called upon, many years after, for a transcript. Your paragraph, I see, refers to sect. 16 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907, wherein it states that shorthand notes shall be taken of the proceedings at the trial of any person on indictment, which was held in Rex v. Rutter (73 J. P. 12) to be merely directory. I venture to think that a prisoner, who had substantial grounds for appeal on the evidence or summing up, or both, would have ample cause for complaint if, on appeal, no official notes were forthcoming and his appeal were dismissed, for, I take it, the object of the Act was to put the Court of Criminal Appeal in possession, not of a synopsis, but of every word of the evidence and summing up. I have written fully to the Home Office on the subject of the circular. ARTHUR F. CHAPPLE. LEGAL OBITUARY. Mr. CHARLES GABRIEL BEALE, solicitor, of the firm of Beale and Co., of London and Birmingham, thrice Lord Mayor of Birmingham, died at his residence in Birmingham on Sunday, aged sixty-nine. Mr. Beale will be principally remembered outside Birmingham as having been a member of the Royal Com mission of Inquiry into the Working of the Railway Conciliation Scheme which the Government decided to appoint in August last year in order to put an end to the national railway strike. Mr. Beale was the son of Mr. W. J. Beale of Bryntyrion, who belonged to an old Nonconformist family which had resided in Birmingham for many generations. After receiving his early training in the city he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was then articled to his father as a solicitor and became a partner, and at the time of his death was the head of the firm. His municipal services began in 1885 and continued until early this year, when he had to relinquish them on account of ill-health. He was elected Lord Mayor in 1897 and the two following years, and on the sudden death of Lord Mayor Berkeley he took the position for another half-year. With Mr. Chamberlain, he led the movement for converting Mason College into a university, and was appointed Vice-Chancellor during the illness of Mr. Chamberlain. In 1901 his services to the city were recognised by the presentation of his portrait by Mr. Ouless, R.A. Last July the city council conferred on him the freedom of the city. He served the office of High Sheriff for Merionethshire in 1907. Mr. Beale was a brother of Mr. James Samuel Beale, the head of his firm, who died on the 28th ult., and of Sir William Phipson Beale, K.C., M.P. He was admitted in 1868, and was a member of the Law Society and of the Solicitors' Benevolent Association. Mr. HUGH ROBERT EARDLEY CHILDERS, sixth son of the late Right Hon. Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, died on the 30th ult. at 42, Onslow-gardens, S.W. Mr. Childers, who was born in London in 1862, was educated at Cheam School and Eton, where he won the Tomline prize in 1881. He took a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, and was a Wrangler. Mr. Childers was called by the Inner Temple in 1887, and practised at the Melbourne Bar from 1891 to 1896. He had been actuary of the Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury from 1903. Sir GEORGE BARRINGTON BAKER-WILBRAHAM, the fifth baronet, died at his seat, Rode Hall, Scholar Green, Cheshire, on the 28th ult, aged sixty-seven. Sir George succeeded to the baronetcy last year on the death of his brother, Sir Frederick Baker. He was the second son of the third baronet by Mary Isabella, second daughter of Mr. Robert Nassau Sutton, younger son of Sir Richard Sutton, first baronet. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he graduated in arts, and was called by Lincoln's-inn in 1870. He married in 1872 Katharine Frances, only child of the late General Sir Richard Wilbraham, of Rode Hall, son of Mr. Randle Wilbraham, younger brother of the first Lord Skelmersdale, a barony now merged in the earldom of Lathom. By her he had two sons and three daughters. Sir George assumed the name of Wilbraham in 1900 by Royal licence. Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, solicitor, of the firm of W. Shakespeare and Co., Birmingham, died on Tuesday, aged seventynine. Mr. Shakespeare was admitted in 1860. He was the legal adviser of a number of Midland local authorities. He had a great knowledge of mining matters, and was frequently concerned in arbitration cases in the district. In addition to an extensive conveyancing, Poor Law, and bankruptcy practice, he held many public offices. He was Town Clerk of Smethwick, clerk to the Oldbury District Council, clerk to the West Bromwich County Justices, clerk to the Oldbury magistrates, and joint clerk, with his son, to the Smethwick borough justices. Mr. Shakespeare was a member of the Law Society, of the Solicitors' Benevolent Association, and of the Justices' Clerks' Society. and 25th Sept., at the Principal Probate Registry, at 12.30 Decrees will be made absolute on Wednesdays, the 18th Sept. and the 2nd Oct. All papers for motions and for making decrees absolute are to be left at the Contentious Department, Somerset House, before two o'clock on the preceding Friday. The offices of the Probate and Divorce Registries will be opened at eleven and closed at three o'clock, except on Saturdays, when the offices will be opened at ten and closed at one o'clock. JUDGE'S PAPERS FOR USE IN COURT.-CHANCERY DIVISION The following papers for the Vacation judge are required to be left with the cause clerk in attendance at the Chancery Registrars' Office, Room 136, Royal Courts of Justice, on or before one o'clock, two days previous to the day on which the application to the judge is intended to be made: 1. Counsel's certificate of urgency or note of special leave granted by the judge. 2. Two copies of writ and two copies of pleadings (if any), and any other documents showing the nature of the application. 3. Two copies of notice of motion. 4. Office copy affidavits in support, and also affidavits in answer (if any). N.B.-Solicitors are requested, when the application has been disposed of, to apply at once to the judge's clerk in court for the return of their papers. Chancery Registrars' Office, Royal Courts of Justice, eighte of lled up I see THE COURTS AND COURT PAPERS. in it s s at the to think on the e for c and Act t of a ing up f the ci F. CELE he firm d Lord V member he Bo ay Cond in Ar ay str yntyn ing had! mbri ey he ti berlain a te Wness re rea u of th shire eale th liam F 25 3 Assa on of t the t Ex HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.-LONG VACATION NOTICE. DURING the remainder of the Vacation, all applications "which may require to be immediately or promptly heard," are to be made to the Hon. Mr. Justice Avory. COURT BUSINESS.-The Hon. Mr. Justice Avory will, until further notice, sit in the Lord Chief Justice's Court, Royal Courts of Justice, at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday in every week, commencing on Wednesday, the 11th Sept., for the purpose of hearing such applications of the above nature as, according to the practice in the Chancery Division, are usually heard in court. No case will be placed in the judge's paper unless leave has been previously obtained, or a certificate of counsel that the case requires to be immediately or promptly heard, and stating concisely the reasons, is left with the papers. The necessary papers, relating to every application made to the Vacation judges (see notice below as to judges' papers), are to be left with the cause clerk in attendance, Chancery Registrars' Office, Room 136, Royal Courts of Justice, before one o'clock two days previous to the day on which the application is intended to be made. When the cause clerk is not in attendance they may be left at Room 136, under cover, addressed to him, and marked outside Chancery Vacation papers, or they may be sent by post, but in either case so as to be received by the time aforesaid. URGENT MATTERS WHEN JUDGE NOT PRESENT IN COURT OR CHAMBERS.-Application may be made in any case of urgency to the judge, personally (if necessary), or by post or rail, prepaid, accompanied by the brief of counsel, office copies of the affidavits in support of the application, and also by a minute, on a separate sheet of paper, signed by counsel, of the order he may consider the applicant entitled to, and also an envelope, sufficiently stamped, capable of receiving the papers, addressed as follows: " Chancery Official Letter: To the Registrar in Vacation, Chancery Registrars' Office, Royal Courts of Justice, London, W.C." On applications for injunctions, in addition to the above, a copy of the writ and a certificate of writ issued must also be sent. The papers sent to the judge will be returned to the registrar. The address of the judge for the time being acting as Vacation judge can be obtained on application at Room 136, Royal Courts of Justice.. CHANCERY CHAMBER BUSINESS.-The chambers of Justices Swinfen Eady and Neville will be open for Vacation business on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in each week, from ten to two o'clock. KING'S BENCH CHAMBER BUSINESS.-The Hon. Mr. Justice Avory will, until further notice, sit for the disposal of King's Bench business in Judges' Chambers at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday in every week, commencing on Tuesday, the 10th Sept. PROBATE AND DIVORCE.-Summonses will be heard by the registrar at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, every day during the Vacation at 11.30 (Saturdays excepted). Motions will be heard by the registrar on Wednesdays, the 11th To surrender at their respective District Courts. BOWEN, THOMAS, Ellesmere, draper. Ct. Wrexham and Llangollen. Aug. 28. BISHOP, JOHN HENRY (trading as A. Bishop and Sons), Devonport, grocers. Ct. Plymouth. Aug. 26 BOWEN, ALBERT EDWARD VICTOR, Carlton, bootmaker. Ct. Nottingham. Aug. 27. CONSTABLE, ALBERT, Birmingham, painter. Ct. Birmingham. Aug. 28. CLARKE, H. J., Manchester, baker. Ct. Manchester. Aug. 27. COLE, GEORGE, Withington Station, coal merchant Ct. Hereford. Aug. 26. DAVIES, FRANK WALTER (trading as Walter H. Davies and Sons), Bristol, advertising agent. Ct. Bristol. Aug, 26. DAVIES, EDMUND, Aberdare, colliery roadman. Ct. Aberdare and DAY, ALFRED EDWIN ADAMS, Margate, fishmonger Ct. Canterbury. EVANS, WILLIAM GEORGE, late Blackwood, boot dealer. ELLIS, EDWARD, St. George's, plumber. Ct. Shrewsbury. Aug. 28 HCPKINS, HENRY, Caerphilly, collier. Ct. Pontypridd, Yetradyfodwg, and HAWORTH, HAROLD, Blackpool, journalist. Ct. Preston. Aug. 28. HOLMES, ABEL, Liscard, grocer. Ct. Birkenhead. Aug. 27. PICKEN, WILLIAM, Codsall Wood, general blacksmith. Ct. Wolverhampton. Aug. 27. RICHARDSON, GEORGE (trading as Richardson and Co.), Harrogate, painter. Ct. York. Aug. 26. STONE, GEORGE, Bath, baker. Ct. Bath. Aug. 27. SIMONS, ARTHUR, Ripple, carpenter. Ct. Cheltenham. Aug. 28. WINE, HARRY, Leeds, leather merchant. Ct. Leeds. Aug. 24. GAZETTE, SEPT. 3. To surrender at the High Court of Justice, in Bankruptcy. ANDERSON. ANDREW, late Copthall-av, director of public companies. Aug. 29. CHURCHILL. ALFRED SPENCER, Grove End-rd, Maida Vale. Aug. 26. HAMILTON, ARTHUR FREDERICK (late trading as the Tokenhouse Wine HESELTINE, ALFRED, Gratton-ter, Cricklewood-broadway, builder. Aug. 30. To surrender at their respective District Courts. ATKINSON, HERBERT RAINE, Windlestone, confectioner. Ct. Durham. Aug. 29. ASH, JAMES HENRY, Devizes, builder. Ct. Bath. Aug. 30. BARFETT, RICHARD FREDERICK CECIL CHING, Falmouth, schoolmaster. Ct. HINDS, SAMUEL JAMES BOYD, Macclesfield, confectioner. Ct. Macclesfield. JEALOUS, NEWTON AUGUSTUS, Houghton-le-Spring, house painter. Ct. KAY, HARRY, Cheltenham, gentleman. Ct. Cheltenham. Aug. 29. RECEIVING ORDER RESCINDED. SANDERS, T. MAKINSON, late Kensington-mansions. ADJUDICATIONS. GAZETTE, AUG. 30. Ct. Ct. High Court. Aug. 26. BAILEY, CAPTAIN F., Buckingham-gate. Ct. High Court BATEMAN, HERBERT HENRY, Powis-sq, Bayswater. Ct. High Court. BERRY, GRACE ISABELLA (spinster), late Bloomsbury-st, Bloomsbury. Ct. High Court. Aug. 27. BOWEN, THOMAS, Ellesmere, draper. Ct. Wrexham and Llangollen. Aug. 28. BOWEN, ALBERT EDWARD VICTOR, Carlton, bootmaker. Ct. Nottingham. Aug. 27. BOSWELL, GREGOR, Enfield, tailor. Ct. Edmonton. Aug. 28. CRESWELL, ARTHUR WILFRED, Leigh-on-Sea, schoolmaster. Ct. Chelmsford. Aug. 28. CUTLACK. NORMAN ROBERT, Margate, wine merchant. Aug. 27. Ct. Canterbury. DAY, ALFRED EDWIN ADAMS, Margate, fishmonger. Ct. Canterbury. Aug. 27. DAVIES, EDMUND, Aberdare, colliery roadman. Mountain Ash. Aug. 28. Ct. Aberdare and DAVIES, FRANK WALTER (trading as Walter W. Davies and Sons), Bristol, advertising agent. Ct. Bristol. Aug. 27. ELLIS, EDWARD, St. George's, plumber. Ct. Shrewsbury. Aug 28. FATHERS, GEORGE EDWARD, and FATHERS, WALTER JOHN (trading as GINSBERG, MAURICE, St. John's-rd, Holloway, financial broker. Ct. High GROVE, ERNEST ALBERT, Birmingham, auctioneer. Ct. Birmingham. Aug. 28. HAWORTH, HAROLD, Blackpool, journalist. Ct. Preston. Aug. 28. HOPKINS, HENRY, Caerphilly, collier. Ct. Pontypridd, Ystradyfodwg, and Porth. Aug. 26. HOUNSELL, WALTER HENRY, Ilkeston, bootmaker. Ct. Derby and Long MARTIN, EDWIN. MCGRATH, Hart-st, Bloomsbury, solicitor. Ct. High MILSOM, SAM, Bristol, dealer in horses. Ct. Bristol. Aug. 26. PICKEN, WILLIAM, Codsall Wood, general blacksmith. hampton. Aug. 27. PROCTER, HARRY CASTLE, Scarborough, plasterer. Aug. 27. Ct. Wolver Ct. Scarborough. PHILLIPS, PERCY HERBERT (trading as Phillips and Co.), Downham Market, brewer. Ct. King's Lynn. Aug. 26. READ, WILLIAM, late Grays, tailor. Ct. Chelmsford. Aug. 28. RICHARDSON, GEORGE (trading as Richardson and Co.), Harrogate, painter. Ct. York. Aug. 26. STONE, GEORGE, Bath, baker. Ct. Bath. Aug. 27. SIMONS, ARTHUR, Ripple, carpenter. Ct. Cheltenham. Aug. 28. Aug. 24. Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, July 30. CALLOW, ALEXANDER CRAWFORD, Tottenham, clerk. Ct. Edmonton. July 24. Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, Aug. 2. RUTTY, WILLIAM JAMES (trading as Frances Rutty), Stafford, ironmonger. Ct. Stafford. July 27. GAZETTE, SEPT. 3. ATKINSON, HERBERT RAINE, Windlestone, confectioner. Ct. Durham. BARFETT, RICHARD FREDERICK CECIL CHING, Falmouth, schoolmaster. Ct. DAVIES, RICHARD EDWARD, Bishop's Castle, tailor. Ct. Leominster. EVANS, WILLIAM GEORGE (late trading as W. G. Evans and Co.), late Blackwood, boot dealer. Ct. Tredegar. Aug. 31. EASTWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY, Manchester, East India merchant. Ct. Manchester. Aug. 29. FLATHERS, JOHN (described in the receiving order and trading as J. Flathers and Co.), Broad-st-pl, merchant. Ct. High Court. Aug. 30. HINDS, SAMUEL JAMES BOYD, Macclesfield, confectioner. Ct. Macclesfield HOLMES, ABEL, Liscard, grocer. Ct. Birkenhead. Aug. 29. JONES, THOMAS, Chatsworth-rd, Clapton, late tailor. Ct. High Court. JEALOUS, NEWTON AUGUSTUS, Houghton-le-Spring. house painter. LEE, JOSIAH JOB (trading as F. J. Thomas and New Coventry Cycle VON GRUNDHERR ZU ALTENTHAN U WEYERHAUS, HUGO ERNST PETER HERMAS |