The Law Times

Contracts; the so-called Consensual Contracts. History of the Specific Contracts. Completion of the so-called Real Contracts. Completion of the so-called Consensual Contracts. Correality. Suceties.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY.

The Professor of Jurisprudence, in his Private Class in Constitutional Law and Legal History, will treat of the subjects of Allegiance, Citizenship, and Naturalisation; of the Legislative and Executive Functions of the Crown; and of the "Prerogatives" of the Crown. The books referred to (among others) will be Hallam's Works; May's Constitutional History; Broome's Constitutional Law; Forsyth's Cases and Opinions in Constitutional Law; Freeman's Growth of the English Constitution; and Allen's Prerogative of the Crown.

EQUITY.

The Professor of Equity proposes to deliver, during the ensuing Educational Term, Two Courses (elementary and advanced respectively) of Public Lectures (there being Six Lectures in each course), on the following subjects, including the most important statutory provisions and the principles of pleading and the practice of the Court of Chancery applicable thereto respectively:

1. The Doctrines of the Court of Chancery in relation to the Property of Married Women (so as those Doctrines were not fully treated of during Michaelmas Term, 1873).

2. Conversion, Election, and Reconversion. 3. Election and Satisfaction (if time permit). The Professor hopes that gentlemen attending the Public Lectures on Equity will, in addition to their ordinary reading, pay special attention to the above-mentioned subjects, and that for such purpose they will read the following cases with the notes thereto, respectively, in White and Tudor's Leading Cases in Equity, and in the following order, viz., on the Doctrines of the Court relating to the Property of Married Women, Hulme v. Tenant, vol. 1, p. 481; Lady Elibank v. Montolieu, and Murray v. Lord Elibank, vol. 1, p. 424; on Conversion, Election, and Reconver. sion, Fletcher v. Ashburner. vol. 1, p. 826; on Election, Noys v. Mordaunt, and Streatfield v. Streatfield, vol. 1, p. 331; and on Satisfaction, Ex parte Pye and Chancy's Case, vol. 2, p. 365. The Tutors in Equity propose to take the following Subjects:

The Tutor in the Law of Real and Personal Property will, in his Private Classes, treat in detail of some of the Subjects of the Professor's Public Lectures.

In the Elementary Class he will discuss the Law relating to Mortgages of Real Estate, including the Doctrine of the Priority of several Incumbrancers, and the usual Form, Construction, and Operation of Mortgages of Freeholds, Copyholds, and Leaseholds.

In the Advanced Class he will comment on Settlements of Real and Personal Estate, and the usual Clauses contained in such Settlements. The Text-books to which reference will principally be made are-Williams on the Law of Real Property; Williams on the Law of Personal Property; Smith's Compendium of the Law of Real and Personal Property; the Dissertations, Notes, and Forms in Prideaux and Whitcombe's Precedents in Conveyancing; and the Introductions, Notes, and Forms in Davidson's Precedents.

COMMON LAW.

The Professor on the Common Law proposes to
deliver, during the ensuing Educational Term,
Two Courses of Lectures (there being
Lectures in each Course), as under:
Elementary Course.

The Leading Principles of Law relating to-
1. Contracts.
2. Torts.

3. Crimes.

Advanced Course.

1. Mercantile Contracts.
2. Torts to Mercantile Persons.
3. Bailments.

In connection with the above subjects, the
Professor will advert to the Law of Evidence, and
will explain the Mode of Proving Documents and
Facts.

Courts, and yet no delay of this kind is allowed to take place. The Profession are allowed to transact their business-no matter what kind Six-pending the making up of the annual returns in the Superior Courts of law, while in the County Court at any rate the most important branch of the County Court is entirely closed for business for nearly ten days while the officials make out their returns, and it is clear the County Court returns cannot be near so heavy as those of the Superior Courts, yet the suitors are delayed prosecuting their judgments for about ten days. Surely this delay must often be the cause of allow. ing many defendants to escape, and consequently of plaintiffs losing their debts entirely, without having any redress. In the case of a solicitor neglecting his client's business, the client has his remedy for negligence against the solicitor; but apparently in the County Courts delay such as I have mentioned no redress whatever can be obtained against the County Court authorities. I trust, therefore, that you will consider the matter sufficiently important, and be good enough to give this letter publicity, as I hope it may be the means of removing the delay that now exists, and of compelling the County Court officials to make up their returns upon the same principle as the Superior Courts-viz., without any interference in obtaining that redress which every suitor is entitled to. A SOLICITOR'S CLERK. P.S.-I may mention that pending the prepara. 2. The Leading Rules for the Construction and tion of the returns in the County Court not even a Interpretation of the Statute Law.

Mr. Houston proposes to take the following
subjects:
Elementary Class.

The Law of Torts.

Advanced Class.
1. Torts to Mercantile Persons.
2. The Law of Bailments.

with his classes:
Dr. Lyell will discuss the following subjects

Elementary Class.

1. The Constituent Elements of the Common Law.

3. The Effect of the Judicature Act of 1874 on
the Common Law.

4. The Leading Principles of the Law of Persons
as regards Civil and Criminal Liability.
Advanced Class.

1. The General Principles of the Law of Evi.
dence (continued).

(as far as time will permit).
2. The General Principles of the Criminul Law
Mr. M. Powell will consider the following sub.
jects:
Flementary Class.
Law of Contracts; Statute of Frauds.
Advanced Class.

Mercantile Law.
HINDU AND MAHOMMEDAN LAW AND THE LAWS

IN FORCE IN BRITISH INDIA.

The Professor of Hindu and Mahommedan Law,
and the Laws in force in British India, proposes
to deliver, in the ensuing Educational Term, a
course of Six Public Lectures on the following
subjects, viz.:

Hindu Law.

COUNTY COURT JUSTICE.-Having occasion to

attend at the Bloomsbury County Court on the
6th instant upon some important business, I was
astonished to find that I could not transact the
business I was upon, the only reason given
being that the returns of the past year were being
made up, and until they were completed my
business, or that of any other suitor of a similar
kind, could not be entertained for the next few
days, the office of that particular department
having already been entirely closed for the trans-
action of business for some days past. The busi-
ness I had to transact was to issue an execution,
and it was most important that the execution
should have been issued, as it was feared that
any delay would be the means of the debt being
lost, and as a natural consequence the costs must
then fall upon the suitor. I complained to the
officials of the injustice, but without receiving any
redress whatever; my only appeal therefore is to
make the matter public through your valuable
columns, as to me it is a most shameful and in-
excusable injustice and ought not to exist in any
court of law as defendants have already quite
sufficient advantages held out to them. Another
object I have in addressing this letter to you is to
draw the attention of those in whom rests the
power of removing such difficulties now in the
way of facilitating justice, and to assimilate the
practice between the Superior Courts of law and
that of the County Courts. In the Superior
Courts the officials have to make similar returns
to the Government, the same as the County

common search as to payment of money into court can be made, and what influence that can have upon the result of the returns I am at a loss to conceive.

OUR INVADERS.-Will you permit me to add
one or two to the many suggestions on this subject
which have been lately made in your columns?
First, I would suggest that the office of trustee in
bankruptcy should be held by a solicitor, where-
ever practicable. The present very general practice
of allowing an accountant to be appointed trustee
in these cases, appears to me to be one of the
means by which the legitimate emoluments of the"
legal profession are diverted into other hands.
The sums received by these accountants for their
services as trustees (as distinguished from their
remuneration as accountants) is in the aggregate
very considerable, and may fairly be said to be
gratuitously thrown into their hands through the
unfortunate habit of adhering to routine, so com.
mon in the Profession. There seems no good
reason why the duties of a trustee in bankruptcy
cannot be discharged quite as efficiently by a
solicitor as by an accountant, though perhaps the
position might seem somewhat novel at first. Where
the services of an accountant are really necessary,
or the solicitor engaged has not a clerk competent
to draw up the accounts, the accountant em-
ployed should be confined to his proper sphere of
There is, I
preparing the requisite statements.
think, no doubt that in the great majority of
cases the appointment of trustee is altogether in
the hands of solicitors, but how seldom do we
see one of our own body appointed, though such
appointment is clearly contemplated in the Bank-

ruptcy Act 1869 (see sect. 29), and it would often
be a considerable saving of expense to the estate.
There are no doubt many solicitors who would
be willing to act as trustees, but who at present
hesitate to accept the appointment because it is
so seldom filled by a solicitor, and so, as no one
sets the example, the entire benefit derived from
this office falls into the hands of accountants and
others of a similar class, who are thereby enabled
to further encroach on the Profession by a semi-
legal character they acquired in the public eye
through the prominent position they are allowed
to occupy in bankruptcy proceedings. I venture
to think that an authoritative suggestion on this
point from someone or other of our law societies
would have the effect of checking the evil, and
would lead to the more frequent appointment of
solicitors as trustees. Such a change would hardly
fail to benefit the general body of creditors, and
the Profession at large. Secondly, I would sug-
gest that means be taken for the systematic pro-
secution of all persons bringing themselves under
the stamp law penalties, by illegally acting as
solicitors or attorneys. I think much might be
done in this way if a fund were raised and placed
under the control of some responsible body who
would take proceedings to enforce the penalties in
all suitable cases without regard to the locality
where the offence was committed. At present
very many such cases come under the notice of
solicitors but they seldom or never take action in

(Q. 56.) COPYHOLD PRACTICE.-If B., the testatrix, was not admitted or did not surrender to the use of her will, fees and fines must be paid as if she had been admitted and had surrendered. See 1 Vict. c. 26 s. 4. Such fees and fines would prima facie be borne by the vendor. The purchaser will only pay oue fine and one set of fees. The lord of the manor cannot compel the trustee to be admitted: (Glass v. Richardson, 9 Hare 698; Reg. v. Wilson, 7 L. T. Rep. N. S. 326). Z. Y.

-If B. was admitted, her trustee (as donee of the power of appointment), could appoint the copyholds to the purchaser without being admitted, and therefore without incurring the costs of the fines and fees for admission. The appointee is considered as coming in immediately under the will: (Flack v. Downing College, 17 Jur. 697; Holder v. Preston, 2 Wills 400; Beal v. Shepherd, Cro. Jac. 199; Ree v. Lord of the Manor of Oundle, 1 A. & E. 283; Glass v. Richardson, 2 D. M. & G. 660; Reg. v. Sir T. Wilson, 3 B. & S. 201.) If B. was not admitted, her trustee or donee still does not require to be admitted, but the purchaser is not entitled to be admitted until after payment of the fine and fees due on his admission, as well as of the fine and fees which would have been paid if B. had taken admission, which last will be paid by the vendor in absence of express stipulation: (1 Vict. c. 26, s. 4; also Hayes and Jarman's Forms of Wills, 6th edit., pages 6 and 121.) G.

LEGAL OBITUARY.

NOTE. This department of the LAW TIMES, is contributed by EDWARD WALFORD, M.A., and late scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and Fellow of the Genealogical and Historical Society of Great Britain; and, as it is desired to make it as perfect a record as possible, the families and friends of deceased members of the Profession will oblige by forwarding to the Law TIMES Office any dates and materials required for a biographical notice.

R. H. RICKARDS, ESQ. THE late Robert Hillier Rickards, Esq., barristerat-law, formerly of Llantrissant, Glamorganshire, who died on the 29th ult., at his residence in Caledonia-place, Clifton, Bristol, in the seventieth year of his age, was the eldest son of the late Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., of Llantrissant (who died in 1848), by Charlotte, daughter of Isaac Hillier, Esq., of Holt, in the county of Wiltshire. He was born in the year 1804, and was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, in Hilary Term, 1835. Mr. Rickards, who was a magistrate and deputylieutenant for the county of Glamorgan, married in 1831 Caroline Octavia, daughter of Andrew Knox, Esq., of Prehen, county Londonderry, Ireland, by whom he has left a family to lament his loss.

G. C. OKE, ESQ. THE late George Colwell Oke, Esq., chief clerk to the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, who died on the 9th inst., after only three days' illness, at his residence, Rosedale, St. Mary's-road, Peckham, in the fifty-second year of his age, was born in 1822, and for some time acted as clerk to the Newmarket bench of justices. In 1855 he was appointed assistant clerk to the Lord Mayor; and upon the retirement of Mr. Goodman, in 1865, he succeeded that gentleman in the chief clerkship. Mr. Oke had a high reputation for his intimate knowledge of criminal law, and its practical application, and was well known and highly esteemed, not only among members of the corporation and

of the legal profession, but throughout the City
generally; and the able manner in which he con-
ducted the protracted proceedings in the justice
room of the Mansion House in the Bank forgery
case, and the prosecution in the Overend-Gurney
affair, besides other important commercial cases,
will be fresh in the recollection of our readers.
Mr. Oke was the author of many standard legal
works, including The Magisterial Synopsis (which
has passed through several editions), The Magis.
terial Formalist, The Law of Turnpike Roads, a
Handy-book of the Game and Fishery Laws, and
The Licensing Laws.

J. HARGREAVES, ESQ.

THE GAZETTES.

Professional Partnerships Dissolbed.

Gazette, Jan. 2.

CLARKE, ROTHERA, and CARTER, attorneys and solicitors,
Nottingham. Dec. 31. corge Bell Rothera and Hanwell
Holmes Carter)

GREEN HALGH and FINNEY, attorneys and solicitors, Acresfield,
Great Belton. Dec. 31. (James Greenhalgh and James Fin-
ney)
GUSTAVUS EDWARD: HILLEARY, FREDERIC
EDWARD, and TUNSTALL, CHARLES WILLIAM, solicitors and
attorneys, Fenchurch-bldgs, Fenchurch-st. Dec. 31. Debts by
G. E. Hilleary and F. E. Hilleary

HILLEARY,

KIMBER and ELLIS, attornoys and solicitors, Lombard-st. Dec.
31. (Henry Kimber and Charles Cydwelyn Ellis)
RICHARDSON and DOWLING, attorneys and solicitors, Bolton.
Dec. 31. (Henry Marriott Richardson and William Dowling)
Gazette, Jan. 6.
BUCKLEY, WM. and SON, attorneys and solicitors, Ashton-under-
Lyne, and Manchester. Dec. 31. (William Buckley and Arthur
Buckley) Debts by A. Buckley and S. A. Newall
COULTON, JOHN JAMES, and BELOE, EDWARD MILLIGEN, attor
neys and solicitors, Lynn. Jan. 31

solicitors, Hull. Dec. 31. Debts by T. Holden

Bankrupts.

Gazette, Jan. 9.

To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. ARTHUR, THOMAS, gentleman, Asylum rd, Old Kent-id. Pet. Jan. 7. Reg. Pepys. Sola. Messrs. Anderson, Ironmonger-la. Sur. Jan. 20

farmer, Hyde, Hendon. Pet. Jan. 7. Reg. Spring-Rice. Sol.
Scaife, Edgeware-rd. Sur. Jan. 22

BUXTON, JOSEPH HOLMES, surgeon Compton-ter, Upper-street,
Islington. Pet. Jan. 5. Reg. Hazlitt. Sols. Messrs. Miller,
Sherbourne-la. Sur. Jan. 28

HARRIS, HENRY LEWIS, parking case maker, Mansell-st, Ald-
gate. Pet. Jan. 7. Reg. Spring Rice. Sol, Barnett, Old Broad-
st. Sur. Jan. 22

To surrender in the Country.

BENT, JANE, milliner, Choriton-upon-Medlock. Pet. Jan. 6.
Reg. Kay. Sur. Jan. 29

CRAWFORD, JOHN, sailmaker, Sunderland. Pet. Jan. 5. Reg.
Ellis. Sur. Jan. 27

JENKINS, JOHN, builder, Swansea. Pet. Jan. 3. Reg. Jones.
Sur. Jan. 21

OWENS, WILLIAM, grocer, Pontprenllwyd. Pet. Jan. 5. Reg.
Rees. Sur. Jan. 22

TALL, GEORGE, oil refiner, Hull. Pet. Jan. 7. Reg. Phillips..
Sur. Jan. 27

Gazette, Jan. 13.

BESCOBY, EDWARD, out of business, Ashchurch-ter, New-rd
Hammersmith. Pet. Jan. 8. Reg. Pepys. Sur. Jan. 27
CONDON, JOHN, coal merchant, Kingsbridge-pl, Westferry-rd,
Millwall. Pet. Jan. 10. Reg. Roche. Sur. Jan. 20
BETTLE, WILLIAM, licensed victualler, Ramsgate. Pet. Jan. 9.
Reg. Callaway. Sur. Jan. 23

THE late John Hargreaves, Esq., solicitor, and
ex-coroner for the borough of Blackburn, who
died on the 21st ult., at his residence in that town,
in the ninety-first year of his age, was the eldest HOLDEN, THOMAS, and HOLDEN, JAMES HENRY, attorneys and
son of the late Mr. Henry Hargreaves, of New-
church-in-Rossendale, Lancashire, where he was
born in October 1783. He was educated at
Clitheroe Grammar School, and was articled to
Mr. Shuttleworth, solicitor, of Preston. He was
admitted an attorney and solicitor in 1806, and
commenced the practice of his profession imme-
diately afterwards at Colne, in Lancashire, being BUNCE, WILLIAM, wharfinger, Irongate wharf, Paddington; also
taken into partnership by Mr. John Bolton, of
that place; and on the death of that gentleman a
few months afterwards, Mr. Hargreaves was left
in charge of a very widely extended practice. In
1810, on the office of Coroner for the Hundred of
Blackburn becoming vacant, Mr. Hargreaves
became a candidate and was duly elected, the con-
dition being attached to the appointment that he
should remove his residence to Blackburn, which
is situate in a more central part of the Hundred.
The duties of this important office Mr. Hargreaves
fulfilled for a period of upwards half a century,
resigning in 1854, upon which his son, Mr. Henry
Unsworth Hargreaves, the present coroner, was
elected in his place. Besides filling the office of
coroner, Mr. Hargreaves took a leading and
accountable part in the local government of the
town of Blackburn for many years: first, as clerk
to the Police Commissioners; then, on the super-
cession by the Improvement Commissioners, under
the Local Act of 1847 (which Mr. Hargreaves took
the means to procure), as clerk and legal adviser
to the latter commissioners; and, eventualiy as
first town clerk of B'ackburn on the incorpora.
tion of the borough in 1851. During the course
of his extended practice in the law, says the
Blackburn Times, Mr. Hargreaves had numerous
private presentations of plate and other memorials
made to him by his clients and other friends; and
it may be added that he was always foremost in
lending his services to the formation of the
numerous voluntary institutions and charitable
movements set on foot in Blackburn during the
last sixty years. Mr. Hargreaves married, in
1812, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Robert Har-
greaves, of Bury, by whom (who died in 1862), he
had eight children, one son, Henry Unsworth, AMOS, JOSIAH, beerhouse keeper, Smethwick. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan.
The
above mentioned, and seven daughters.
remains of the deceased gentleman, which were
honoured with a public funeral, were interred in
the family vault at Newchurch-in-Rossendale, the
mayor and corporation of Blackburn, together
with the borough and county justices, and many
others, being present.

LAW SOCIETIES.

LAW STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY. AT the usual weekly meeting, held at the Law Institution, on Tuesday evening last, the following was the question for debate: "Is the sale of the property the remedy of an equitable mortgagee by deposit of title deeds?' The question was decided in the affirmative. The secretary's adjourned motion was carried.

ARTICLED CLERKS' SOCIETY.

SOCIETY.

A MEETING of this society was held at Clement's
Inn Hall on Wednesday, the 14th Jan., Mr. E. F.
Stanway in the chair. Mr. G. Whale opened the
subject for the evening's debate-viz., That
the policy of the present Government is worthy of
support.' The motion was carried by a majority
of four.
BRISTOL ARTICLED CLERKS' DEBATING
A MEETING of this society was held in the Law
Library, Small-street, on Tuesday evening, the
13th inst., J. Miller, Esq., solicitor, in the chair.
The following was the subject for discussion :
"In a case of manslaughter and assault, should
conviction for the latter be a bar to prosecution
for the former? Mr. Thomas opened in the
affirmative, and was followed by Mr. Fenwick in
the negative. All the members present joined in
the debate, and the negative was ultimately
carried by a large majority.

BOULD, THOMAS EDWARD, and BOULD, ALFRED JAMES grocers,
Longton. Pet. Jan. 9. Reg. Keary. Sur, Jan. 26
BUTCHER, JAMES, gentleman, Brighton. Pet. Jan. 7. Reg.
Evershed. Sur. Jan. 28

EAST, EDWARD, gunmaker, Birmingham. Pet. Jan. 9. Reg.
Chauntler. Sur. Jan, 26

GILPIN, THOMAS, tailor, Norton, near Doncaster. Pet. Jan. 10.
Rex. Rodgers. Sur. Jan. 23

GREEN, JOSEPH, jun., grocer, Great Yarmouth. Pet. Jan. 8. Reg.
Walker. Sur. Jan. 26

KELHAM, GEORGE, builder, Clifton-villas, Herne-hill. Pet. Jan.
9. Reg. Murray.

Sur. Jan. 27

20, at two, at offices of Sol. Burton, Birmingham ASPDEN, JOHN, grocer, Burnley. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 23, at three, at office of Gill, accountant, Burnley. Sol. Read, Burnley BACON, JOSEPH, shoe manufacturer, Desford. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 23, at three, at Cook's Temperance hotel, Leicester. Sol. Rees, Chancery la

BARON, EDWARD HOWARTH, accountant, Manchester. Pet. Jan.
7. Jan. 26, at three, at office of Sol. Hampson, Manchester
BEECH, JAMES BARRINGTON, chemist, Wharton. Pet. Jan. 5.
Jan. 21, at eleven, at office of Sols. Messrs. Cooke, Middlewich
BELL, GEORGE, grocer, Wickford. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 23, at two,
at the Saracen's hotel, Chelmsford. Sol. Woodward, Ingram.ct,
Fenchurch-st

BELL, JOHN CAMBRIDGE, brewer, Bathford. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan.
19, at eleven, at the Castle hotel, Bath. Sol. Dyer
BLOMLEY, THOMAS, stationer, Bury. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 21 at
three, at office of So. Anderton, Bury
BRADLY, WILLIAM, victualler, Little Essex-st, Strand. Pet. Jan.
2. Jan. 20, at two, at offices of Sol. Poole, Bartholomew.close
BROOM, EDWARD, schoolmaster, Ramsgate. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan.
26, at three, at 108, High-street, Ramsgate. Sol. Walford, Rams-
gate
BROOM, GEORGE JOSEPH, oilman, Coburg-rd, Camberwell. Pet.
Jan. 7. Jan. 23, at three, at the Chamber of Commerce, 145,
Cheapside. Sol. Robinson

BURDETT, WILLIAM, builder, Guildford. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 26, at
two, at office of Sol. Curtis, Guildford
CALLIGAN, CHARLS joiner, Manchester. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 26.
at three, at thees o Sol. Ambler, Manchester
CARVER, THOMAS, Lacksmith, Gotham. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 26, at
eleven, at offices of Rogers, accountant, Nottingham. Sol.
Mack

CASTLE, JOHN THOMAS, master mariner, Lovegrove-pl, East
Greenwich. Pet. Dec. 30. Jan. 19, at three, at the Unicorn
tavern, Horseferry-rd, Greenwich. Sols. Chipperfield and
Sturt, Trinity-st, Southwark
COHEN, ISAAC, general dealer, Sunderland. Pet. Jan. 16. Jan.
26, at twelve, at office of Sol. Longden, Sunderland
COHEN, MICHAEL COLEMAN, east india merchant, King-st, Fins-
bury. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 27, at two, at office of Sol. Christmas,
St. John's-chmbs, Walbrook

COOKE, HENRY, and COMPTON, ROBERT ANDREWS, yarn
Pet. Jan. 6. Feb. 6. at
polishers, Chorlton-upon- Medlock.

three, at offices of Sols. Sale, Shipman, Seddon, and Sale, Manchester COPEMAN, WILLIAM, boot manufacturer, Norwich. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan 29, at four, at office of Sol. Sadd, Norwich CREDLAND, WILLIAM, varnish manufacturer, Sheffield. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 19, at twelve, at offices of Sol. Porrett, Sheffield DAVISON, JOHN, coach builder, Bradford. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 24, at eleven, at office of Sols. Berry and Robinson, Bradford DEWDNEY, THOMAS WORTHY, and DEWDNEY, WILLIAM RICHARD, paper makers, Stoke Canon. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 26, at one, at the Bude Haven hotel, Exeter. Sol. Ford, Exeter DOBSON, WILLIAM, car proprietor, Liverpool. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 26, at two, at office of Gibson and Bolland, accountants, Liverpool. Sols. Woodburn, Pemberton, aud Sampson, Liverpool DODD, JOHN, painter, Manchester. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 31, at three, at the Bird in Hand, Hulme. Sol. Whitlow, Manchester DOWNES, JOHN, out of business, Durham. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 23, at eleven, at office of 801. Salkeld, Durham EAGLE, VINCENT, and FRASER, JOHN HENRY, white lead manufacturers, St. George's Wharf, Grand Surrey Canal, Albany-rd, Camberwell, under firm of Jenkins, Eagle, and Fraser. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 28, at one, at office of Sols. Dixon, Ward, and Letchworth, Bedford-row, Holborn

EDMUNDS, JOHN, grocer, Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 22, at twelve, at office of Sol. Morgan, Pontypridd

EDWARDS, RICHARD BUTCHERS, shopkeeper, Lidford. Pet.
Jan. 6. Jan. 23, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Bridgman and
Johnstone, Tavistock

ELLIOTT, THOMAS, wheelwright, Deenethorpe. Pet. Jan. 6. Feb.
3, at eleven, at office of Sols, Messrs. Richardson, Oundle
EVANS, GEORGE, grocer, Birmingham, and King's Norton. Pet.
Jan. 6. Jan. 23, at eleven, at offices of Sol. Free, Birmingham
EVANS, LEWIS, haulier Brynmawr. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 27, at
twelve, at office of Sols. Cox, Davies, and Browne, Brynmawr
FIELDEN, JAMES WILLIAM, out of business, Southport. Pet.
Jan. 7. Jan. 22, at two,at office of Ford, 31, The Temple, Dale-
st, Livepool. Sol. Ponton, Liverpool
FISHER, CHARLES ALLEN, doffin plate maker, Gomersal. Pet.
Jan. 5. Jan. 27, at three at office of Sols. Fawcett, Leeds
FLETCHER, ROBERT JOHN, barman, Strand. Pet. Jan. 7.
Jan. 20, at eleven, at office of Sol. Spaull, Verulam-buildings,
Gray's inn

FORD, JOHN POINTON, wine merchant, Manchester. Pet. Jan 5. Jan. 23, at three, at the Clarence hotel, Manchester. Sol Stead, Manchester

FRASER, ROBERT, innkeeper, Barrow-in-Furness. Pet. Jan. 6.
Jan. 23, at ten, at the Ship hotel, Barrow-in-Furness. Sol
Bradshaw, Birmingham

FRETWELL, JANE, widow, milliner, Huddersfield. Pet. Jan. 2.
Jan. 21, at eleven, at office of Sol. Bottomley, Huddersfield
GOODHALL, EDWIN, ale merchant, Ventnor. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan.
21, at twelve, at 69, George-st, Ryde. Sol. Urry
GOODWIN, JOSEPH, fustian dealer, Manchester.

Pet Jan. 5. Jan. 23, at three, at office of Sol. Sampson, Manchester GREAVES, WALLACE MCGUFFON, general drysalter, Blackburn. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 26, at half-past ten, at offices of Sol. Jones, Manchester

HALL, JAMES, cabinet maker, Wellington. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 23, at one, at the Squirrel inn, Wellington. Sol. Ransom, Wellington

HARRIS, GEORGE ALBERT, lodging-house, keeper, Teignmouth. Pet. Jan. 5. Jun. 23, at three, at the. Royal hotel, Teignmouth. Sols Pearson and Whidborne, Dawlish

HENCKEL, CHARLES FREDERICK, merchants, Manchester, also manufacturer, Mechterstedt in Saxe Coburg Gotha, under firm of Carl Benckel. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 26, at three, at offices of Sols. Grundy and Kershaw, Manchester

HENNINGS, HENRY, ironmonger, Berwick-st, Soho. Pet. Dec. 31. Jan. 17, at eleven, at office of Sol. Willis, St. Martin's-ct, Leicester-sq

HILBERT, FREDERICK BRITT, cheesemonger, Pimlico-rd, and Lower Wandsworth-rd. Pet. Jan. 3. Jan. 22, at two, at offices of Sols. Messrs. Russell and Scott, Old Jewry-chmbs HOYLE, WILLIAM, innkeeper, Oldham. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 23, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Messrs. Ascroft, Oldham HURST, JOHN, builder, Waldegrave rd, Teddington. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 23, at two, at offices of Sols. Wilkinson and Howlett, Bedford-st, Covent-gdn

IRVING, GEORGE, out of business, Kirkdale. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan 23, at three, at P. Vine, Imperial-chmbs, 52, Dale-st, Liverpool Sol. Blackhurst, Liverpool

ISAACS, ABRAHAM, tailor, Bristol. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 26, at three, at office of Sol. Emanuel, Walbrook

JAGGER, JOHN, victualler, Hindley, near Wigan. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 12, at three, at J. Davies and Co., Bewsey-chmbs, Bewseyst, Warrington. Sols. Davies and Brook, Warrington JEWERS, FREDERICK, riveter, Northampton. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 20, at eleven, at office of Sol. Jeffery, Northampton JONES, DAVID, grocer, St. Asaph. Pet. Jan. 3. Jan. 30, at one, at the Queen's hotel, near Railway Station, Chester. Sol. Roberts, St. Asaph

JONES, JOHN, general draper, St. Neots. Pet. Jan. 3. Jan. 22, at two, at the Inns of Court hotel, Holborn, London. Stimson, Bedford

born

Sol.

LAMMING, CHARLES JAMES, hosier, High-st, and Gloucester-rdt
Croydon, trading as White and Co. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 28, a-
two, at 99, Cheapside. Sols. Lewis and Lewis, Ely-place, Hol.
LANZ, CHARLES, baker, Murray-st, Hoxton. Pet. Jan. 7. Feb.
5, at three, at office of Sol. Heathfield, Lincoln's-inn-fields
LAYCOCK, HENRY JOHN, clock maker, Eastbourne. Pet. Jan. 6.
Jan. 23, at eleven, at office of Sol. Wheatcroft, Eastbourne
LAZARUS, MORRIS, and LAZARUS, SAMUEL, butcher, York-st,
London-rd, and West-st, Upper St. Martin's-la. Pet. Dec. 31.
Jan. 19, at ten, at office of Sol. Lind, Beaufort-bldgs, Strand
LEY, JOHN CHAUNTER, hairdresser, Nottingham, and Sneinton.
Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 27, at twelve, at office of Sol. Heath, Not-
tingham

LING, TOM THEOPHILUS, boot dealer, Scarborough. Pet. Jan. 7.
Jan. 22, at three, at office of Hart, auctioneer, Huntress-row,
Scarborough. Sol. Watts
LORD, GEORGE, grocer, Church, near Accrington. Pet. Jan. 6.
Jan. 22, at three, at 7, St. John's-pl, Blackburn. Sols. Back-
house and Whitham, Burnley

LUCK, JOHN WILLIAM, coal merchant, Ealing Dean and Castle-
hill. Pet. Dec. 22. Jan. 19, st three, at office of Sols. Button
and Co. Henrietta-st, Covent-gdn
MCARTHUR, PETER, victualler, East Ham. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan
27, at two, at office of Sol. Rawlings, Bishopsgate-st-within
MADEN. RICHARD, mason, Brittania, near Bacup. Pet. Jan. 7.
Jan. 27, at three, at office of Sol. Sykes, Bacup
MARCHANT, WILLIAM, corn merchant, Mark-la.

Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 29, at three, at office of Challis, accountant, Clement's-la. Sol. Euston MARTIN, ADAM, grocer, Liverpool. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 24, at two, at office of Sol. Lowe, Liverpool MESSENGER, JAMES HENRY, artists' colourman, High-st, Hampstead, and Stanhope-st, Euston-rd. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 19, at three, at Masons' hall tavern, Masons' avenue, Basinghall-st. Sol. Downing, Basinghall-st

MILLS, JOHN, timber merchant, Birmingham. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 30, at three, at offices of Sols. Rowlands, Bagnall, and Rowlands, Birmingham

NEWTON, ISAAC, clothier, Blackburn. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 22, at two, at the White Bear hotel, Manchester. Sols. Hall and Holland, Blackburn

NICHOLSON, GEORGE HENRY, commission agent, Manchester.
Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 17, at office of Sols. Atkinson, Saunders, and
Co Manchester, in lieu of the place originally named
PAYN, JAMES, baker, Girtford in Sandy. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 22, at
twelve, at the Greyhound hotel, Sandy. Sol. Tebbs, Bedford
PETCHELL, GEORGE THOMAS, shoe manufacturer, Kettering.
Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 20, at twelve, at office of Sol. Walker, North-
ampton
PORTER, WILLIAM, auctioneer, Oxford-st, and Richmond-place,
Russell-rd, Finsbury-pk. Pet. Jan. 1. Jan. 21, at two, at the
London Warehousemen's Association, 33, Gutter-la, Cheapside.
Sol Lindus
PRICHABD, DAVID, 'victualler, Menai Bridge. Pet Jan. 2. Jan.
23, at two, at the Railway hotel, Bangor. Sol. Jones, Menai
Bridge

ROSENTHAL, SAMUEL, furniture dealer, Sunderland. Pet. Jan.
5. Jan. 21, at two, at office of Sols. Messrs. Joel, Newcastle
SANDERS JOSEPH, cowkeeper, Everton. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 31
at three, at office of Sol. Lowe, Liverpool
SLOCOCK, THOMAS SAMUEL WILLIAM, clerk in holy orders'
Snape, near Saxmundham. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan 24, at three, at
office of Pearce, accountant, Ipswich. Sol. Hill, Ipswich
SMITH, WILLIAM, ironmonger, Landport. Pet. Jan. 1. Jan. 20.
at two, at the Chamber of Commerce, 145, Cheapside, London.
Sol. King, Portsea

STEEL, RICHARD GEORGE, carpenter, Marlborough-sq. Pet. Jan. 1. Jan. 19, at three, at office of Sol. Cooper, Charing cross SWALLOW, WILLIAM, manager to a painter, Oldham. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 92, at eleven, at office of Sol. Sampson, Manchester TAYLOR, THOMAS, potato dealer, Barrow-in-Furness.

Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Ship hotel, Barrow-in-Furness. Sol. Bradshaw, Barrow-in-Furness

TEMPEST, JAMES, woolstapler, Bradford. Pet. Jan. 5. Jan. 27, at eleven, at office of Sol. Harris, Bradford UTTON, CHARLES RICHARD, baker, Rye-la, Peckham.

Pet. Dec. 31. Jan. 26, at one, at 5, Tavistock-st, Covent-garden. Sol. Jenkins WAKEFIELD, FRANK, fancy goods dealer, Mare-st, Hackney. Pet. Jan. 3. Jan. 20, at twelve, at office of Sol. Sydney, Finsbury-circus WHITAKER, JOHN, bread baker, Halifax. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 23, at four, at office of Sol. Storey, Halifax

WILLIAMS, JOHN, cheesemonger, Dudley-grove, Paddington. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 23, at two, at offices of Sols. Jones and Hall, King's Arms-yd, Moorgate-st

WRIGHT, ROBERT HODGSON, commercial traveller, Stretford. Pet. Jan. 5 Jan. 20, at three, at office of Sols. Messrs. Fox, Manchester

YOUNG, ROBERT JOHN, carpenter, Redcross-st, and Bridgwater. sq. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 24, at twelve, at offices of Sol. Wells

Gazette, Jan. 13.

ALCOCK, JANE, spinster, out of business, Stow-on-the-Wold. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 24, at eleven, at the Talbot Inn, Stow-on-theWold. Sol. Mace, Chipping Norton

ASHWORTH, JAMES, chemist, Accrington. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 27, at three, at offices of H. Bannister, solicitor, Accrington. Sols. Messrs. Radcliffe, Blackburn

AVERY, EDWIN, hair dresser, Birmingham. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 23, at eleven, at office of Sol. Eaden, Birmingham BANGER, SAMUEL, jun., St. Lawrence. Pet. Jan. 9. Feb. 2, at three, at the Bull and George hotel, Ramsgate. Sol. Edwards, Ramsgate Jan. 23,

BAXTER, BENJAMIN, grocer, Colchester. Pet. Jan, 8.
at two, at the Red Lion hotel, Colchester
BEDDOE, ALFRED Handsworth, and COOPER, HENRY WEST-
WOOD, printers, Smallheath, near Birmingham. Pet. Jan. 10.
Jan. 23, at twelve, at office of Sol. East, Birmingham
BEDWELL, CHARLES, licensed victualler, Hastings. Pet. Jan. 7.
Jan. 27, at three, at offices of Sol. Jones, Hastings
BISCOMBE, WILLIAM, jun., surveyor's clerk, Station-rd, Can-
bridge-ter, Woolwich. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 28, at two, at offices
of Slater and Pannell, accountants, 1, Guildhall-chmbs, Basing-
hall-st. Sol. Burt, Argyll-st

BRUSHWOOD, JOHN PEARCE, baker, Landport. Pet. Jan. 8.
Jan. 24, at eleven, at office of Sol. Walker, Landport
BYRNE, JULIUS WILSON HETHERINGTON, paper agent, Upper
Thames-st. Pet. Jun. 10. Jan. 26, at twelve, at offices of Sol.
Tatham, Queen Victoria-st

inn

CLEAVER, JAMES, wholesale jeweller, Birmingham. Pet. Jan. 10. Jan. 26, at eleven, at offices of Sol. Hodgson, Birmingham CONSTABLE, HENRY, assistant to licensed victualler, Anerley-rd. Pet. Jan. 8. Feb. 7, at eleven, at office of Sol. Wade, Clifford'sCOOPER, ARCHAMBO, and COOPER, CHARLES ION, brewers, Eastbourne, Rye, and Brighton. Pet. Jan. 10. Feb. 6, at eleven, at Spencers Bridge House hotel, London-bridge, Southwark. Sol. Perry, Guildhall-chmbs, Basinghall-st

COTT, WILLIAM HENRY, boot manufacturer, Derby. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 26, at three, at office of Sol. Harvey, Leicester DAY, THOMAS, builder, Landport. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 27, at eleven, at office of Sol. Walker, Landport

DUGAY, THOMAS, builder, Winchester. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 26, at one, at the Eagle hotel, Winchester. Sols. Lee and Best, Winchester

10.

EDWARDS, EDWARD, innkeeper, Hereford. Pet. Jan. 10. Jan. 27, at eleven, at office of Sol. Bodenham, Hereford ELLIS, DAVID HARBRIDGE, tobacconist, Liverpool. Pet. Jan. Feb. 9, at three, at office of Vine, public accountant, Liverpool. Sol. Ritson, Liverpool FLOYD, HENRY, innkeeper, Goodrich, Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 27, at twelve, at offices of Innell, auctioneer, Ross. Sol. Williams, Ross FRASER, GEORGE, landscape gardener, Rosher-st, Stratford. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 26, at two, at office of Sols. Walker and Battiscom be, Beaufort-bldgs, Strand

HALL, HENRY JOHN, and DYER, JAMES, dye wood manufacturers,
Monekton Combe, and Bristol. Pet. Jan. 10. Jan. 22, at
twelve, at 5, Westgate-bldgs, Bath. Sol. Wilton
HANDLEY, SAMUEL, greengrocer, Nottingham. Pet. Jan 6.
Jan. 27, at three, at the Assembly-rooms, Low-pavement,
Nottingham. Sols. Cranch, Rowe, and Stroud
HENLEY, JOHN, farmer, Udimore. Pet. Jan. 10. Jan. 31, at
twelve, at the George hotel, Rye. Sol. Butler, Rye
HEWITT, JOHN, hosier, Gloucester. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 26, at
twelve, at the Bull hotel, Gloucester. Sols. Messrs. Corbett,
Gloucester

HOLMES, PETER GEORGE, leatherseller, West-st, Hackney. Pet.
Jan. 9. Feb. 6, at twelve, at offices of Sol. Buchanan, Basing-
hall-st
HOLT, DAN, joiner, Thornhill. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 27, at ten, at
the house of Goodall, the King's Arms Inn, Dewsbury. Sol.
Walker
JEWERS, FREDERICK, riveter, Northampton. Pet. Jan. 8.
Jan. 20, at eleven, at office of Sol. Jeffery, Northampton
JOHNSON, WILLIAM JAHROT, farmer, Wootton Waven. Pet
Jan. 6. Jan. 22, at twelve, at offices of Sol. Jones, Alcester
JONES, JOHN, fi-hmonger, Birmingham. Pet. Jan. 1. Jan. 19,
at twelve, at office of Sol. Fallows, Birmingham
KING, SAMUEL RICHARD, draper, Stockenchurch. Pet. Jan. 9.
Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Falcon hotel, High Wycombe. Sol.
Batting, Great Marlow

KUHN, EMIL, die sinker, Birmingham. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 26.
at eleven, at office of Sol. Cottrell, Birmingham
LAMPORT, CHARLES, ironmonger, Fareham." Pet. Jan. 9. Jan.
27, at four, at office of Sol. King, Portsea

LAW, WILLIAM, charcoal dealer, Compton, near Wolverhamp ton. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 23, at three, at offices of Sol. Dallow, Wolverhampton

LEWIS, DAVID WILLIAM, chemist, Aberdovey. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 30, at eleven, at 1, Baker-st, Aberystwith. Sol. Atwood, Aberystwith

LINCOLN, JOHN ANDREWS, mineral water manufacturer, Parkpl, Caledonian-rd. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 22, at eleven, at office of Sol. Butterfield, Ironmonger-la LOCKWOOD, WILLIAM, druggist, Preston. Pet. Jan. 10. Jan. 26, at two, at Messrs. Watson's Auction Rooms, Preston. Sols. Cunliffe and Watson, Preston

LOFTHOUSE, THOMAS, cotton manufacturer, Lower Darwen, near Blackburn. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 27, at three, at the warehouse of Malcolm, Ross, and Co., Manchester. Sols. Wheeler, Deane, and Fletcher, Blackburn

LORD, JEREMIAH, boot dealer, Bury. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 27, at
four, at office of Sols. Addleshaw and Warburton, Manchester
Moss, JOHN, veterinary surgeon, Loughton. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan.
26, at two, at office of Sol. Maynard, Cliffords-inn
NOBES, WILLIAM CHARLES, miller, Merthyr Tydfill. Pet. Jan.
9. Jan. 31, at one, at offices of Sols Simon and Plews, Merthyr
Tydfill
NUTT, JAMES, retail brewer, Tipton. Pet. Jan. 7. Jan. 22, at
eleven, at offices of Sol. Travis, Tipton
OLIVER, WALTER, tailor, Normanby. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 23, at
three, at offices of Sols. Hutton and Bolsover, Stockton-on-
Tees

ONIONS, GEORGE, schoolmaster, Wyke, par. Birstal. Pet. Jan.
6. Jan. 24, at eleven, at office of Sols. Lancaster and Wright,
Bradford
PALMER FREDERICK JAMES, builder's foreman, Sevington-st,
Sutherland-gardens. Peter's-pk, Paddington. Pet. Jan. 7.
Jan. 22, at ten, at office of Lewis, 123, Chancery-la. Sol. Long,
Blackfriars-rd

PAYNTER, WILLIAM, wine merchant, Mark-la. Pet. Jan. 6.
Jan. 24, at eleven, at office of Sol. Beck, East India-avenue,
Leadenhall-st

PEACOCK, ALBERT JOHN, grocer, East Moulsey. Pet. Jan. 10. Jan. 30, at two, at the Guildhall Coffee house, Gresham-st. Sols. Merriman, Powell, and Co., Queen-st, London PEARSON, JOSEPH, labourer, Nettleham. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 31, at eleven, at office of Sol. Harrison, Lincoln PICARD, JOEL, shopman, Dewsbury. Pet. Jan. 8. Jan. 26, at two, at offices of Sol. Harle, Leeds

PIKE, WILLIAM HENRY, coal merchant, Burbage Wharf, Wilts.
Pet. Jan. 3. Jan. 27, at two, at the Savernake Forest hotel,
Burbage. Sol. Dixon

POLE, EDWARD, commission agent, Edgbaston. Pet. Dec. 29.
Jan. 21, at ten, at offices of Sol. East, Birmingham
POWELL. GEORGE EDWARD, wine merchant, St. Benet-place,
Gracechurch-st. Pet. Jan. 3. Jan. 26, at twelve, at office of
Chandler, public accountant, 15, Coleman-st. Sol. Miller,
King-st, Cheapside
PROVEST, CHARLES, bookseller, New Windsor. Pet. Jan. 10.
Jan. 2. at three, at office of Sol. Phillips, Grays-inn-sq
ROBINSON, JOHN, auctioneer, Carlisle. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 26, at
three, at office of Sol. Wannop, Carlisle
ROSSITER, FREDERICK, plumber, New Town, Bradford-on-Avon.
Pet. Jan. 6. Jan. 22, at two, at offices of Messrs. Pocock,
public accountants, Bath. Sol. Shrapnell, Bradford-on-Avon
RUTHERFORD, THOMAS KIRKLEY, schoolmaster, Blackburn.
Pet. Jan. 10. Jan. 30, at three, at office of Sols. Hall and
Holland, Blackburn

SMITH, WILLIAM, licensed victualler, Hayes.

SANDERSON, WAY WALFORD, brewer, Beaufort-ter, Nunhead-la,
Peckham Rye. Pet. Jan. 9. Jan. 24, at eleven, at offices of
Dormer, accourtant, 23, Moorgate-st. Sol. Pullen
SMITH, HUBERT, engineer, Hereford. Pet. Jan. 10. Jan. 29, at
eleven, at the Green Dragon hotel, Hereford. Sol. Bodenham,
Hereford
Pet. Jan. 8. Jan.
26, at three, at office of Sol. Neave, London-wall
STATHAM, THOMAS ROBERT SMITH, brewer's agent, Trinity-ter,
Tredegar-sq, Bow-rd. Pet. Jan. 6. Jan, 24, at one, at office of
Sol. Cattlin, Basinghall-st

SYKES, FRANCIS WHITWORTH, no occupation, Richmond. Pet. Jan. 2. Jan. 27, at twelve, at office of Sols. Lawrence, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chmbs

WARD, SAMUEL, victualler, Nottingham. Pet, Jan. 8. Jan. 27,
at twelve, at offices of Sols. Messrs. Thorpe, Nottingham
WARD, WILLIAM, provision dealer, Birmingham.
Pet. Jan. 8.
Jan. 24, at eleven, at office of Sol. Davies, Birmingham
WATCHORN, CLIFFORD JOHN, grocer, Church rd, Homerton.
Pet. Dec. 27. Jan. 22, at three, at offices of Sol. Lind, Beau-
fort bldgs
WAYBORN, LEWIS, boot manufacturer, Streatham. Pet. Jan. 6.
Jan. 26, at two, at office of Slater and Pannell, Guildhall-chmbs,
London. Sol. Hewitt
WESTMORELAND, EDWIN, and WESTMORELAND, WILLIAM,
sewing machine manufacturers, Nottingham. Pet. Jan. 8.
Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Assembly-rooms, Low-pavement,
Nottingham So'. Ashwell

YOUNG, WILLIAM, draper, Trevor sq, Knightsbridge. Pet. Dec.
30. Jan. 20, at twelve, at office of Pilkethly, 59, Friday-st,
Cheapside. Sol. Marsden, Gresham-bldgs, Guildhall
ZUCCANI, DAVID WINTER ERNEST, cabinet maker, Hamilton.pl,
Highbury, and Bath-st, Tabernacle-walk, Curtain-rd, Shore.
ditch. Pet. Jan. 12. Jan. 30, at two, at offices of Sols. Prit-
chard, Englefield, and Co. Painter's-hall

Orders of Discharge.

Gazette, Jan. 6.

WILKINS, GEORGE, butcher, Godstone
Gazette, Jan. 9.
HUBBARD, ROBERT, artificial manure manufacturer, Great
Bowden

Dibidends.

BANKRUPTS' ESTATES.

The Official Assignees, &c., are given, to whom apply for the Dividends.

Bradley, T. W. merchant, first, 3d. Paget, Basinghall-st.Middleton and For, paper manufacturers, second and final, 5d. At Sutton and Elliott, solicitors, Manchester.--Schade, F. W. merchant, second, 6 1-32d. (and first and second of 18. 1-32d. to new proofs). Paget, Basinghall-st.-Weeks, W. H. B. bookseller, first, 2d. Paget, Basinghall-st

Church, Summers, and Davis, stay warehousemen, first and final 18. 24d. At Trust. M. Banes, Weavers-hall, 22. Basinghall-st.Douglas, A. P. draper, first and final, 148. 8d. At Trust. S. Hunt, jun., 54, Portland-st, Manchester.-Graves, W. H. late major in the army, first and final, 2s. 6d. At Trust. W. Edmonds, 46, St. James-st, Portsea.-Kinber, R. H. farmer, second and final, 2d. At Trust. T. Griffits, the Priory, Chipping Wycombe.-Page, E. brewer, first, Is. 6d. At Trust. J. F. Lovering, 35, Gresham-st.Roberts, E. of Taunton, first and final, 3s. 104. At W. H. Williams and Co. accountants, Exchange, Bristol.-Ruddick, J. draper, first, 10s. At 53, Standish-gate, Wigan.-Waites, A. E. currier, 75. 6d. At T. T. Fry and Co. 59, Baldwin-st, Bristol.-Watson, J. draper, first, 6s. 8d. At Douglas, Mitchell, and Co. stuff merchants Bradford

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

BEAUMONT-On the 25th ult., at Riverdale House, Richmond, the wife of Joseph Beaumont, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, of a son. HENDERSON-On the 6th inst., at 24, Lancaster-gate, Hyde-park, the wife of John Henderson, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. SMITH.-On the 6th inst., the wife of J. George Smith, barristerat-law, 26, Lansdowne-crescent, Notting-hill, of a son.

MARRIAGES. HAGGARD-SCHALCH.-On the 15th ult., at the Fort Church, Cal cutta, Alfred Hinuber Haggard, Bengal Civil Service and bar rister-at-law of Lincoln's-inn, to Alice Geraldine, eldest daughter of Vernon Hugh Schalch, Esq., Bengal Civil Service. HUGHES-BRIGHT.-On the 31st ult.. at Bluffside,, Yonkers, United States of America, Reginald Hughes, D.C.L., barrister, of Lincoln's-inn, to Matilda Adeline, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Bright, of New York, NEISON-WALTERS.-On the 30th ult, at St. Pancras Church, Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., barrister-at-law, Lincoln's-inn, to Annie, youngest daughter of the late Rev. T. D'Oyley Walters, of Bath and Batheaston. STEELE-ROBINSON.-On the 30th ult., at Mirfield, Adam Rivers Steele, of No. 44, Bloomsbury-square, and No. 9, Cook's-court, Lincoln's inn, solicitor, to Eleanor, second daughter of the late Charles Robinson, of Middleham, Yorkshire. STREETER-WALKER.-On the 31st ult., at Addington, Surrey, John Soper Streeter, solicitor, of Croydon, Surrey, to Marion, youngest daughter of Marmaduke Walker, of Addington Lodge, Addington.

DEATHS.

FINNIS. On the 29th ult.. at his residence, the Terrace, Turn-
ham green, aged 51, Mr. Robert Finnis, solicitor.
HALSWELL.-On the 1st inst., at 26, Kensington-gate, Hyde-park,
aged 83, Edmund S. Halswell, Esq., a Justice of the Peace and
Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Middlesex.
KELLY. On the 1st inst., at 8, Connaught place, Ann, Lady
Kelly, the wife of the Lord Chief Baron Sir Fitz Roy Kelly.
OKE. On the 9th inst,, at Rosedale, St. Mary's-road, Peckham,
aged 51 years, George Oke, of the Mansion House, City.
PERRIN.On the 2nd inst., at Lewisham, Kent, aged 34, Samuel
Henry Perrin, 15, King street, Cheapside, E.C., solicitor.

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FISHER FISHER, FISHER. OAKES-
Petition Railway company-Transfer
to credit of cause
PAGET. MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY; Ez
parte WATKINS-

Apportionment-4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 22, s. 1
-Annuity granted by tenant for life... 721
V.C. MALINS' COURT.
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TION COMPANY. THE SWINDON WATER-
WORKS COMPANY (LIMITED)-

Canal company-Act of Parliament...... 722 PRESCOTT. BARKER

Will-Construction-1 Vict. c. 26, s. 26Leaseholds-Contrary intention........ 727 DORIN . DORIN

Will-Gift to illegitimate children-Con-
struction

V.C. BACON'S COURT.

HATHESING, LAING

Broker's lien Mate's receipt
dorsement-Bill of lading

V.C. HALL'S COURT.

SEMPHILL. THE QUEENSLAND SHEEP
INVESTMENT COMPANY (LIMITED)-
Bankruptcy-Assignment previously to
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SIX hundred guineas have been distributed between four students of the Inns of Court for proficiency in Roman Civil Law and Jurisprudence. By this liberality the study of Roman law is necessarily raised in the estimation of students above the study of other branch of knowledge forming a portion of the education any of an English lawyer. It is not politic, in our opinion, to give special pecuniary advantages to students engaged in one particular study; the large prizes should be given to the candidate who displays an intimate acquaintance with law generally. But it is the characteristic weakness of the government of the Inns of Court to be led into extremes. Either nothing is done or new paths are struck out and pursued with that vigour which novelty is calculated to excite. We do not deprecate high rewards for proficiency in Roman law, but we urge that English law should be placed upon the same footing.

AN important case under the Apportionment Act was before Vice Chancellor MALINS in Capron v. Capron on Wednesday. It was this, viz.: whether in all cases where a testator seised in fee devises a particular estate and dies between the half yearly and quarterly days for the payment of his rents, there should be an apportionment of those rents between his own personal estate and his devisee. The testator in the cause had made his will before the passing of the Act of 1870, but he added a codicil afterwards, and his Honour held that he had a discretion to apply the Act to a will thus executed, and made a declaration that there must be an apportionment of the rents, and that such portion of them as accrued before the death of the testator belonged to his general personal estate. This decision is the more important, as Lord SELBORNE in Jones v. Ogle (L. Rep. 8 Ch. 192; 28 L. T. Rep. N.S. 245) doubted whether the Act could affect the construction of a will previously made.

WE unwittingly did the LORD CHANCELLOR an injustice in our last impression by suggesting that if Mr. AMPHLETT were appointed to the vacancy in the Exchequer a political supporter would be rewarded. Mr. AMPHLETT, according to DoD, was not a Liberal, but a Liberal-Conservative; but although not a political ally, on all professional matters he was a sincere coadjutor of the LORD CHANCELLOR, and quite as eager and liberal a law reformer. The new Judge was born in the year 1809, and was educated at a grammar school in Staffordshire, and subsequently at St. Peter's College, Cambridge, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1831, coming out in the mathematical tripos as sixth Wrangler. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in Trinity Term 1834, and was for some time one of the acknowledged leaders in Lincoln's Inn. He received a silk gown in 1858. He is a magistrate and a deputy-lieutenant for Worcestershire, and has been for several years a deputychairman of the Quarter Sessions for that county. When Sir ROUNDELL PALMER became Lord Chancellor, Mr. AMPHLETT was chosen his successor in the presidency of the Legal Education Association. It is interesting to know what the solicitors think of the appointment, and we have received an expression of opinion which we reproduce. A correspondent writes: "Having in view the jurisdiction in bankruptcy matters which the Judicature Act throws upon the Court of Exchequer, it appears to me that the appointment of an equity counsel was very judicious. I am pleased to know that there is some prospect of law and equity working together in the common law courts, as the trial of a similar working in the courts of equity has proved a success. If the Judicature Act is to be properly worked, common law and equity Judges must sit side by side. The presence of a Judge who has had a training in equity principles, will prove of vast use in duty questions which are practically left solely to the decision of the Court of Exchequer."

THE question which has been in a certain sense decided in the Taunton Election Petition with reference to the production of telegrams, is undoubtedly one of considerable importance. Before noticing the strictly legal aspect of the question, we may observe that an objection to the inspection of post office telegrams has been put forward on very broad general grounds. The Times asks, "ought the department to be considered as standing in any different relation to telegraphic messages than that which it holds in respect to letters. . . . The general principle has in great measure been recognised that in respect to telegrams as well as to letters, the post office is in the mere position of a carrier." The position of the Post-office is doubtless that of a carrier, and its duty to the public in the transmission of letters and telegrams is plainly to deliver them to the persons to whom they are addressed, and to no one else. So soon as letters or telegrams are delivered to the Post-office the property in them is vested in the intended receiver, and the sender has no right of stoppage in transitu. But the receiver's rights with reference to letters transmitted to him are distinctly limited--he cannot publish the contents without the permission of the sender. The case of the carrier is certainly à fortiori. But the receiver may be ordered to produce letters, even at the suit of a stranger. Lord Justice CAIRNS said in Hopkinson v, Lord Burghley, “The writer is supposed to intend

that the receiver may use it for any lawful purpose, and it has been held that publication is not such a lawful purpose. But if there is a lawful purpose for which a letter can be used, it is the production of it in a court of justice for the furtherance of the ends of justice." Moreover, the sender cannot protect letters from production by marking them "private and confidential." If the Post-office were the ultimate receiver of a letter or telegram, therefore, there could be no doubt about its liability, and if telegrams are to be got at, it must be upon the ground that the Postoffice retains copies in its possession, and to a limited extent is a receiver. Supposing, however, that this were allowed to prevail, we do not see how it is possible to compel the office to produce all telegrams addressed to and from a particular town on a particular day. In Lee v. Angus (14 L. T. Rep. N. S. 324) a subpoena duces tecum was served upon a witness, calling upon him in very wide and general terms to produce all deeds, documents, &c. in his possession relating to the dealings and transactions between two firms for a period of thirty-three years. Vice-Chancellor WooD said the terms of the subpoena were much too vague, and did not sufficiently specify the documents to be produced, and that a witness ought not to be asked to ransack a large collection of papers for such a period of time to ascertain the precise documents wanted by the party. This reasoning applies when the papers are numerous, either on account of the long period over which they extend or the nature of the business to which they relate. Nevertheless, the VICECHANCELLOR held, that having got the documents in court, the witness was bound to produce them. On the whole, Mr. Justice GROVE exercised a wise discretion in not ordering the Post-office to submit the telegrams to the proposed examination, but whether under such circumstances the Post-office should be altogether exempted is a question of the first importance upon which we should not like to express any opinion.

ON the 6th inst. judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice FITZGERALD in Re Marshall, which was an application by a prisoner in custody for a writ of habeas corpus, in order that she should be in attendance at an inquest held on the body of a soldier whom it is alleged she murdered by poison. When the prisoner was taken before the magistrate, application to him was made on her behalf that she might be allowed to attend the inquest then being held, but the magistrate decided that he had no power to grant the application. The argument in support of the application for a writ of habeas corpus was that the Court of Queen's Bench had discretionary jurisdiction, and that even though the prisoner might not be required as a witness before the coroner, she was entitled to be present. It was pointed out that a coroner had power to exclude from the inquest both attorney and counsel, and that if the prisoner were not allowed to be present, any irregularities of which she might be entitled to take advantage for the purpose of quashing the inquisition would pass unchallenged; -and further, that the prisoner should be entitled to cross-examine the witnesses, some of whom might die between the inquest and the trial, but whose depositions might possibly still be used, and no cross-examination take place at all. Solicitor-General Law, on behalf of the Crown, urged that uniformity should prevail in the English and Irish practice, and that the settled practice in England is that a writ of habeas corpus will not be issued unless it appears to be substantially necessary to the ends of justice. That may be a general principle, but there is no English decided case which goes the length of saying that a prisoner ought not to get his writ for the purpose of attending the coroner's court. It occurs to us that the argument with reference to the admissibility of the depositions in evidence--the doubt whether they would be admissible at the trial if the accused were not present at the inquest-is of itself sufficient ground for allowing the writ to go. ARCHBOLD in his Criminal Evidence says (p. 232), "Although the former statutes relating to the examination of witnesses against a prisoner before justices and coroners (1 & 2 Ph. & Mc. 13; 2 & 3 Ph. & M. c. 10; 7 Geo. 4, c. 64, ss. 2 and 5) did not contain any express enactment like that contained in 11 & 12 Vict. c. 42, s. 17, it was yet determined in many cases, and recognised as a rule of law, that, where the examination of witnesses in cases of felony under these statutes was taken in the presence of the accused, and he had the opportunity of cross-examining them, the deposition of any such witness might be read in evidence against the accused on his trial, in case the person who made the deposition were dead." We have not looked at the authorities cited by the counsel for the application in Re Marshall, but it is obvious that any judge would hesitate considerably to admit the depositions of a witness before the coroner on the trial of the accused, if the accused had not been present at the examination. Whereas it is equally clear that there could be no objection to the reception of such evidence the accused having been present. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL contended that the writ ought not to go merely to gratify the desire of the accused to be present, but only where the accused wished to give evidence. In this argument we do not for a moment concur, but we entirely agree with Mr. Justice FITZGERALD, who said that he always considered that the more latitude allowed in preliminary courts the better for the course of justice; and again, "Is the coroner's

court to exist? If it is I ought to assist its inquiries in every way." "I know," his Lordship added, " of no case in which the application of an accused person, saying by her attorney that she desires to be present, has been refused.' In delivering his judg ment, Mr. Justice FITZGERALD made some general observations concerning the examination of prisoners on their trial. "I for one," he said, "have long entertained the opinion, and have repeatedly expressed it from the Bench, that, at the final trial before the judge and petty jury, prisoners should be allowed to tender themselves and be received as witnesses, if they so desired it. I believe that there is a great defect in the law as it stands at present, and I think that an alteration in the law to that effect should be made, as it would be most conducive to the due adminis tration of criminal justice. The adviser of the prisoner has sworn that it would be necessary for the prisoner to be present at the inquest before the coroner, in order that she might be tendered as a witness, and I must treat the application with that view, as bonâ fide. That course, if adopted, will be taken at the peril of the party, and if I were sitting as a coroner, although I would not call upon her to be examined, I should be very slow to refuse to receive her evidence, if it were offered,"

MEANS OF KNOWLEDGE AND REPRESENTATIONS AS AFFECTING CONTRACTS.

IT is frequently important that contracting parties should be careful to inform themselves not only of the character of the person with whom they contract, but of all the circumstances existing at the time of the making of the contract. The law of agency in this country has in course of time assumed rather complicated proportions, and it is now abundantly clear that different principles apply to dealings with factors and with brokers, and with agents generally of disclosed and undisclosed principals, When an action is brought by undisclosed principals for goods sold, a question is very likely to arise whether the defendants have any right to set-off against the claim a debt due to them by the agent. And in considering this claim to a right of set-off, it must be asked as a preliminary question, had the defendant means of knowing that the other contracting party was an agent? If he had not, and the principal enabled his agent to hold himself out as owner of the goods, the agent's debt may be set-off against the principal. If, on the other hand, the defendant, with due diligence, could have ascertained that the vendor was an agent, no set-off of the debt of the agent can be pleaded to an action by the principal.

The effect of knowledge upon the defendant's right of set-off was discussed in the case of Borries and others v. The Imperial Ottoman Bank (29 L. T. Rep. N. S. 689), where in an action by the real owners of goods for the price of such goods, the defendants pleaded that they had bought them of certain persons whom they believed to be the owners, and that they did not know that the plaintiffs were interested therein or that the vendors were the plaintiffs' agents. On a demurrer to this plea it was held that the plea was good without any allegation negativing the means of knowledge on the part of the defendants that the vendors were agents. The objection to the plea just escapes being a technicality, and appears to us to have been satisfactorily met by Mr. Justice Keating, who said "what are means of knowledge but evidence of knowledge, and evidence must not be pleaded." We are not, however, interested in discussing here whether technically the averment of want of means of knowledge ought to have been inserted in the plea, but the principle involved is one of importance.

The law of agency in this country has become somewhat complicated by the existence of agents having different functions, such as factors and brokers; but the law is now, we think, tolerably clear. First, a vendee of goods cannot in an action for the price by the true owner, set-off a debt due by the vendor's agent to the vendee unless he dealt with the agent as a principal and had no knowledge that he was an agent. If he can be affected with knowledge that the seller was an agent, then the rule does not apply, and he cannot set-off the debt of the agent against the claim of the owner of the goods. To enable us to understand this doctrine, it is only necessary to look at one or two of the principal cases, and the best illustration is furnished by Baring v. Corrie (2 B. & A. 137). There Coles and Co., who were brokers, and also merchants, sold to Corrie and Co. in their own names sugars belonging to Baring, Brothers, and Co., who brought an action for the price. The true nature of the contract was entered by Coles and Co. in their brokers' book, which the defendants might, if they pleased, have seen. Coles and Co. had not the possession of the sugars which were lying in the West India Docks where, by the usage of the docks, they could not have been taken without the order of the plaintiffs, whose principal clerk signed the delivery order. Under these circumstances the court held that the defendants had no right to set-off against the demand of the plaintiffs for the price of the goods a debt due to them from Coles and Co. The plaintiffs there had not even given to the selling brokers the muniments of title, and with 'ordinary diligence the vendees might have known that Coles and Co. were acting as agents for Baring Brothers. As Mr. Justice Bayley put

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