BENNETT, ARTHUR GITTENS, Eastcheap, commercial clerk. Ct High Court. BROWETT, ALBERT HENRY, and BROWETT, SYDNEY EDWARD (trading as Browett BROOKSHAW, WILLIAM, late Shavington-cum-Gresty, corn miller. Ct. Nantwich and Crewe. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 10.30, at Royal hotel, Crewe. Exam. Dec. 18, at 11.30, at Court-room, Crewe. BOYNTON, HENRY THOMAS, Ventnor, pork butcher. Ct. Newport and Ryde. Meeting, Dec. 21, at 11, at 19, Quay-st, Newport. Exam. Dec. 21, at noon, at Court-house, Newport. BURNHAM, THOMAS, Nottingham, late boxmaker. Ct. Nottingham. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Nottingham. Exam. Jan. 8, at 10, at County Court. house, Nottingham. BAKER, RICHARD WESTBROOK, Barholm, farmer. Ct. Peterborough. Meeting, DAVIES, OWEN ELLIS, Llanberis, farmer. Ct. Bangor. DANBY, CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS, Hunmanby, farmer. Meeting, Dec. 19, at 1, at 12.15, at Magistrates'-room, Ct. Scarborough. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 3, at office of Off. Rec. Scarborough. Exam. Jan. 19, at noon, at Court-house, Scarborough. DODD, ANTHONY, Wrexham, grocer. Ct. Wrexham. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 2.30, at the Priory, Wrexham. Exam. Jan. 12. at noon, at County-hall, Wrexham. EATON, ARTHUR, and EATON, PERCY, Bread-st, mantle manufacturers. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 22, at noon, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 21, at noon, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. ELLISON, WILLIAM THOMAS, Skipton, innkeeper. Ct. Bradford, Yorks. Meeting, Dec. 18, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Bradford. Exam. Jan. 7, at 10, at County Court, Bradford. FOORD, FRANCIS DAVID, Hastings, builder. Ct. Hastings. Meeting, Dec. 21, at 12.30, at Young and Sons' offices, Bank-bldgs, Hastings. at Townhall, Hastings. Exam. Jan. 12, at noon, Ct. Nottingham. MeetExam. Jan. 8, at 10, at FOUNTAINE, CHARLES BROOKE. Newark-upon-Trent, hatter. GRAHAM, EDWARD IRVING, Sebergham. farmer. Ct. Carlisle. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 1, HOLMES, JAMES, Newcastle-on-Tyne, cab proprietor. Ct. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Meeting, Dec. 21, at 11.30, at office of Off. Kec. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Exam. Dec. 22, at 11.30, at County Court, Newcastle-on-Tyne. HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM, Filey, tailor. Ct. Scarborough. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Scarborough. Exam. Jan. 19, at noon, at Court-house, Scarborough, INGHAM, W. H., Devonshire-st, Great Portland-st, company promoter. Ct. High Meeting. Dec. 18, at 3, at the Priory, Wrexham. Exam. Jan. 12, at noon, at County-hall, Wrexham. LINTON, ROBERT, Lymm, late corn dealer. Ct. Warrington. Meeting, Jan. 8, at 10.45, at Court-house, Warrington. Exam. Jan. 8, at 11, at Court-house, Warrington. MCIVER, DONALD, Leeds, photographer. Ct. Leeds. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Leeds. Exam. Jan. 12, at 11, at County Court-house, Leeds. MORRIS, RICHARD, Ryde, grocer. Ct. Newport and Ryde. Meeting, Dec. 21, at 11.80, at 19, Quay-st, Newport. Exam. Dec. 21, at noon, at Court-house, Newport. MITCHELL, JAMES ANTHONY, Stamford, watchmaker. Ct. Peterborough. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 3.30, at Law Courts, Peterborough. Exam. Dec. 18, at 12.30, at Law Courts, Peterborough. Ct. OVERINGTON, HENRY (trading as H. Overington and Co), Worthing, draper. Brighton. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 12.30, at office of Off. Rec. Brighton. Exam Jan. 7, at 11, at Court-house, Brighton. OWEN, EVAN PROBERT (trading as Owen Brothers). Bristol, corn merchant. Ct. Bristol. Meeting, Dec. 30, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Bristol. Exam. Jan. 15, at noon, at Guildhall, Bristol. OWEN, ROBERT, Abercynon, builder. Ct. Pontypridd. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 3, at 65, High-st, Merthyr Tydfill. Exam. Jan. 5, at 11, at Court-house, Pontypridd. PALLISER, JOHN WILLIAM, Bradford, Yorks, late greengrocer. Ct. Bradford. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 12.30, at office of Off. Rec. Bradford. Exam. Jan. 7, at 10, at County Court, Bradford. REANEY, DAVID LEWIS (late trading as the Bradford Wheel and Tyre Company), Manningham, cycle manufacturer). Ct. Bradford, Yorks. Meeting, Dec, 21. at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Bradford. Exam. Jan 7, at 10, at County Court, Bradford. REED, HOWARD, Gloucester, theatrical manager. Ct. Gloucester. Meeting, Dec. 19, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Gloucester. Exam. Jan. 5, at noon, at Shirehall, Gloucester. ROSEBY, JACOB JOSEPH, Whitley, commercial traveller. Ct. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Meeting, Dec. 21, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Exam. Dec. 22, at 11.30, at County Court, Newcastle-on-Tyne. SHEPHERDSON, JOHN, and HORSFALL, HARRY, Oldham, ironmongers. Ct. Oldham. Meeting, Dec. 18, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Manchester. Exam. Jan. 15, at 11, at Court-house, Oldham. SMITH, CHARLES, Euston-rd. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 21, at 2.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 19, at 12.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. SIMPSON, FRED. Keighley, coal agent. Ct. Bradford, Yorks. Meeting, Dec. 21, a noon. at office of Off. Rec. Bradford. Exam. Jan. 7, at 10, at County Court Bradford. SPEIGHT, ARTHUR, and SPEIGHT, JOHN (trading as John Speight), Leeds, contractors. Ct. Leeds. Meeting, Dec, 22, at 3, at office of Off. Rec. Leeds. Exam. Jan. 12, at 11, at County Court house, Leeds. SIMMONDS, WILLIAM, Brighton, builder. Ct. Brighton. Meeting, Dec. 18, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Brighton. Exam. Jan. 7, at 11, at Court-house, Brighton. VERTEGANS, JOHN JAMES, late Manchester, accountant. Ct. Manchester. Meeting, Dec. 18, at 3, at office of Off. Rec. Manchester. Exam. Jan. 18, at 11, at Courthouse, Manchester. WHITECHURCH, HENRY, Fort-rd, Bermondsey, tally draper. Ct. High Court. Meet ing, Dec. 21, at noon, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 19, at 12.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. WEST, WILLIAM, Blatchbridge, farmer. Ct. Frome. Meeting. Dec. 22, at 11.30, at George hotel, Frome. Exam. Jan. 19, at 11.30, at Mechanics'-hall, Frome. WILCOCK, JOHN, Leeds, coal merchant. Ct. Leeds. Meeting. Dec. 21, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Leeds. Exam. Jan. 12, at 11, at County Court-house, Leeds. GAZETTE, DEC. 15. BIRTWHISTLE, LEWIS, Halifax, draper. Ct. Halifax. Meeting, Dec. 24, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Halifax. Exam. Jan. 19. at 2, at County Court-house, Halifax. BELL, SAMUEL JOHN, Hargham, farmer. Ct. Norwich. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 3, at office of Off. Rec. Norwich. Exam. Jan. 20, at 11, at Shirehall, Norwich. BURTON, JAMES HALLIBURTON, Stamford Hill, shirt-cutter. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 2.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 27, at 11.30, at Bankruptcybldgs. BEESON, WALTER, Huddersfield, cloth merchant. Ct. Huddersfield. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Huddersfield. Exam. Jan. 11, at 2, at County Court, Huddersfield. BROADHEAD, FREDERICK WILLIAM (trading as F. W. Broadhead and Son). Leicester, photographer. Ct. Leicester. Meeting, Dec. 23, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Leicester. Exam. Jan. 7, at 10, at the Castle, Leicester. BUNTING, ROBERT OBADIAH, Southsea, gentleman. Ct. Portsmouth. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 3, at office of Off. Rec. Portsmouth. Exam. Jan. 4, at noon, at Courthouse, Portsmouth. BULL, FREDERICK, Southampton, late builder. Ct. Southampton. Meeting. Dec. 29, CLARKE, CHARLES, late Newquay, fish curer. Ct. Truro. Meeting, Dec. 22, at noon, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Exeter. Exam. Dec. 31, at 11.90, at the Castle, Exeter. DE FALBE, CARL VIGANT, late Grosvenor-sq. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 11. at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 27, at 11.50, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. EARL, STEPHEN, late London-wall. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 2.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 28, at noon, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. EVANS, EVAN HARRIS, Plasyfelin, draper. Ct. Neath. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 2.15, at office of Off. Rec. Swansea. Exam. Jan. 19, at 11.30, at Townhall, Neath. EVANS, JAMES, Croesgoch, licensed victualler. Ct. Pembroke Dock. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 3, at office of Off. Rec. Carmarthen. Exam. Jan 15, at 11.30, at Temperance-hall, Pembroke Dock. EATON, WILLIAM, and HANCOCK, FRANK, Whaley Bridge, slipper manufacturers. Ct. Stockport. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 11.30, at office of Off. Rec. Stockport. Exam. Jan. 28, at 10.15, at Court-house, Stockport. FURNELL, HENRY, Tisbury, late carrier. Ct. Salisbury. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 1, at office of Off. Rec. Salisbury. Exam. Jan. 21, at 2, at Council-house, Salisbury. FORCE, ARTHUR, Gosport, draper. Ct. Portsmouth. Meeting. Dec. 23, at 12.30, at 145, Cheapside. Exam. Jan. 4, at noon, at Court-house, Portsmouth. GEORGE. CHARLES FREDERICK (trading as C. F. George and Co.), Midhurst, grocer. Ct. Brighton. Meeting. Dec. 22, at 2, at 24, Railway-approach, London Bridge. Exam. Jan. 7, at 11, at Court-house, Brighton. HAYDEN, ANNA, Ledbury-rd, Bayswater, lodging-house keeper, widow. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 11, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 28, at 11.50, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. HYDE, LORENZO (trading as Hyde Brothers), Lugard-rd, Peckham, carriage-builder. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 23, at noon, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 28, at 11.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. HAGENBUCH, CHARLES HENRY, Manningham, drysalter. Ct. Bradford, Yorks. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Bradford. Exam. Jan. 7, at 10, at County Court, Bradford. HELLIWELL, JOSEPH, Keighley, contractor. Ct. Bradford, Yorks. Meeting, Dec. 22, at noon, at office of Off. Kec. Bradford. Exam. Jan. 7, at 10, at County Court, Bradford. HETHERINGTON, ROBERT, Cowpen Quay, grocer. Ct. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 10.30, at office of Off. Rec. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Exam. Dec. 31, at 11.30, at County Court, Newcastle-on-Tyne. JACKSON, W. EVANS, St. Mildred's-ct, Poultry. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 1, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 28, at 11.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. KENRICK, FREDERICK WILLIAM, late Horncastle, chemist. Ct. Lincoln. Meeting, Dec 31, at 12.30, at office of Off. Rec. Lincoln. Exam. Jan. 12, at 3, at Sessionshouse, Lincoln. LOCKYER, CONRAD WILLIAM, St. Julian's Farm-rd, West Norwood, physician. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 22, at noon, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 22, at 12.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. LANGFIELD, EMILY, Rhyl, confectioner, widow. Ct. Bangor. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 11, at Royal hotel, Rhyl. Exam. Jan. 7. at 12-15, at Magistrates'-room, Bangor. LEWIS, JOHN, Pencader, weaver. Ct. Carmarthen. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 12.45, at office of Off. Rec. Carmarthen. Exam. Jan. 13, at 11, at Guildhall, Carmarthen. MORRIS, THOMAS, Scarborough, flsh dealer. Ct. Scarborough. Meeting, Dec. 22, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Scarborough. Exam. Jan. 19, at noon, at Courthouse, Scarborough. MEADOWS, ERNEST, Streatham common, cheesemonger. Ct. Wandsworth. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 12.30, at 24, Railway-approach, London-bridge. Exam. Dec. 31, at noon, at Court-house, Wandsworth. MIDDLETON, BENJAMIN, Topsfield-parade, Crouch End, china dealer. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 1, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 22, at 12.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. NORTHCOTT, ROGER SECCOMBE, Poughill, butcher. Ct. Barnstaple. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 2, at Underhill's Railway hotel, Exeter. Exam. Jan. 19, at 11, at Bridge-hall, Barnstaple. PERRIN, CHARLES, late Plymouth, major in Her Majesty's service. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 11, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 22, at 1, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. PEARSON, WILLIAM HENRY, late Sparkbrook, grocer. Ct. Birmingham. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 11, at 23, Colmore-row, Birmingham. Exam. Jan. 15, at 2, at County Court, Birmingham. ROBERTS, HUGH, Pant Teg, farmer. Ct. Bangor. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 2, at Junction hotel, Llandudno Junction. Exam. Jan. 7, at 12.15, at Magistrates'-room, Bangor. RAMSDEN, WILLIAM, Leeds, commission agent. Ct. Leeds. Meeting, Dec. 29, at 11,. at office of Off. Rec. Leeds. Exam. Jan. 12, at 11. at County Court-house, Leeds. ROBINSON, GEORGE, Liverpool, builder. Ct. Liverpool. Meeting, Dec. 30, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Liverpool. Exam. Dec. 31, at 11, at Court-house, Liverpool. SCHOFIELD, WILLIAM EDMUND (trading as Clegg, Schofield, and Co.). Heywood, wine merchant. Ct. Bolton. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 3, at 16, Wood-st, Bolton. Exam. Jan. 11, at 11, at Court-house, Bolton. SMITH, HERBERT, Uttoxeter, greengrocer. Ct. Burton-on-Trent. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 11, at office of Off. Rec. Derby. Exam. Jan. 13, at noon, at Court-house, Burton-on-Trent. SAVAGE, WALTER GEORGE, late Loughborough, watchmaker. Ct. Leicester. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 2.30, at office of Off. Rec. Birmingham. Exam. Jan. 7, at 10, at the Castle, Leicester. SHARPE, GEORGE THOMAS, Towcester, hairdresser. Ct. Northampton. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 12.30, at County Court-bldgs, Northampton. Exam. Jan. 12, at noon, at County-hall, Northampton. THOMSON, JAMES, Lonsdale-sq, Islington, draper. Ct. High Court. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 2.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 26, at 11.30, at Bankruptcy-bldgs, TAYLOR, TOM, Bridlington, tailor. Ct. Scarborough. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 22, at office of Off. Rec. Scarborough. Exam. Jan. 19, at noon, at Court-house, Scarborough. TILLOTT, CHARLES, Leamington, baker. Ct. Warwick. Meeting. Dec. 29, at 12.30, at office of Off Rec., Coventry. Exam. Jan. 13, at 2, at Shirehall, Warwick. TATCHELL, JOHN, Montacute, innkeeper. Ct. Yeovil. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 12.30, at office of Off Rec. Salisbury. Exam. Jan. 14, at noon, at Townhall, Yeovil. WILLIAMS, JOHN, Llanwrda, farmer. Ct. Carmarthen. Meeting, Dec. 22, at noon, at office of Off. Rec. Carmarthen. Exam. Jan, 13, at 11, at Guildhall, Carmarthen. WYATT, THOMAS WILLIAM, and SMITH, JOHN HERBERT, Desborough, stay manufacturers. Ct. Northampton. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 12.30, at office of Off. Rec. Leicester. Exam. Jan. 12, at noon, at County-hall, Northampton. WINGROVE, JOHN GEORGE, Purfleet, hotel proprietor. Ct. Rochester. Meeting, Dec. 23, at 12.15, at Bankruptcy-bldgs. Exam. Jan. 11, at 2, at Court-house, Rochester. WOOTTON, THOMAS, Kingswinford, grocer. Cr. Stourbridge. Meeting, Dec. 22, at 2, at offices of W. R. Skelding, auctioneer, Stourbridge. Exam. Dec. 22, at 2.30, at Court-house, Stourbridge. BARNETT, GEORGE HENRY (trading as G. H. Barnett and Co.), Stonehouse, tailor. Ct. Gloucester. Order, Dec. 7. BALLS, GEORGE, Great Yarmouth, fishing-boat owner. Ct. Great Yarmouth. Order, Dec. 9. BEWLEY, THOMAS EDWARD, Broxbourne, miller. Ct. Hertford. Order, Dec. 5. BEESON, WALTER, late Huddersfield, cloth merchant. Ct. Huddersfield. Order, Dec. 7. BROOKSHAW, WILLIAM, late Shavington-cum-Gresty, corn miller. Ct. Nantwich and Crewe. Order, Dec. 7. BOYNTON, HARRY THOMAS, Ventnor, pork butcher. Ct. Newport and Byde. Order, Dec. 2. BELL, SAMUEL JOHN, Hargham, farmer. Ct. Norwich. Order, Dec. 7. BLAKE, ARTHUR WILLIAM, Heigham, watchmaker. Ct. Norwich. Order, Dec. 9. BULL, FREDERICK, Southampton, late builder. Ct. Southampton. Order, Dec. 8. Dec. 4. Ct. Leeds. Order, HYDE, LORENZO (trading as Hyde Brothers), Lugard-rd, Peckham, carriage builder. Ct. High Court. Order, Dec. 7. HOLMES, WILLIAM REEVE, Old Normanton, market gardener. Ct. Derby. Order, Dec. 7. HOLMES, JAMES, Newcastle-on-Tyne, cab proprietor. Ct. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Order, Dec. 8. LOCKYER, CONRAD WILLIAM, St. Julian's Farm-rd, West Norwood, physician. Ct. High Court. Order, Dec. 8. MELLING, EDWARD, Aighton Bailey and Chaigley, farmer. Ct. Blackburn. Order, MORRIS, RICHARD, Ryde, grocer. Newport and Ryde. Order. Dec. 8. OWEN, EVAN PROBERT (trading as Owen Brothers), Bristol, corn merchant. Ct. PARRY, EDWIN DAVID, late Caerphilly, publican. Ct. Cardiff. Order, Dec. 8. PHILLIPS, F. C., late Hogarth-rd, South Kensington, playwright. Ct. High Court. REED, HOWARD, Gloucester, theatrical manager. Ct. Gloucester. Order, Dec. 9. SIMPSON, FRED, Keighley, coal agent. Ct. Bradford, Yorks. Order, Dec. 7. TRAWFORD, JOHN, Bloxwich, brushmaker. Walsall. Order, Dec. 8. LAMBERT, ROBERT WILLIAM, Redbourne, blacksmith. Ct. Great Grimsby. Order, Dec. 10. LUCOP. FRANCIS CHARLES, Kingston-upon-Hull, ferryman. Ct. Kingston-upon-Hull. MYERS, WILLIAM, Middlesbrough, glass merchant. Ct. Stockton-on-Tees and OSBORNE, RICHARD FREDERICK, Southampton, hosier. Ct. Southampton. Order, Dec. 12. PEARSON, WILLIAM HENRY, late Birmingham, grocer. Ct. Birmingham. Order, Dec. 4. PEARSON, CHARLES HARRY, Tunstall, joiner. Ct. Hanley, Burslem, and Tunstall. ROBINSON, GEORGE, Liverpool, builder. Ct. Liverpool. Order, Dec. 12. SHAND, EDGAR, Laurence Pountney-hill, steamboat owner. Ct. High Court. Order, SMITH, HERBERT, Uttoxeter, greengrocer. Ct. Burton-on-Trent. Order, Dec. 11. TILLOTT, CHARLES, Leamington, baker. Ct. Warwick. Order, Dec. 11. ADJUDICATION ANNULLED. GAZETTE, DEC. 11. WRIGHT, JOHN, Chatteris, miller. Ct. Peterborough. Adjudication, May 8, 1895. SPENCE, JOHN KIRKMAM, Spilsby, ironmonger. Ct. Boston. Adjudication, Aug. 31. SMITH, CHARLES HENRY, Allerton, mill manager. Ct. Bradford, Yorks. Adjudication, Aug. 3, 1894. Annulment, Dec. 3, 1896. Winding-up of Companies. THE COMPANIES ACTS 1862 TO 1890. WINDING-UP ORDERS. PETROLEUM PROPRIETARY LIMITED, Cornhill. Ct. High Court. Order, Dec. 2. Pet. GAZETEE, DEC. 15. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS, Chancery-la. Ct. High Court. Order, Dec. 7. Pet. Nov. 24. INMAN'S YACHT AND SHIPYARD LIMITED, Lymington. Ct. Southampton. Order, Dec. 1. Pet. Nov. 9. FIRST MEETING. GAZETTE, DEC. 11. THOMAS EDWARD BRINSMEAD AND SONS LIMITED, Cannon-st. Ct. High Court. Meeting, creditors. Dec. 18, at 11, at 33, Carey-st; contributories, at noon, at the Inns of Court hotel, Lincoln's-inn-flds. NOTICES OF INTENDED DIVIDENDS. BRYAN BROTHERS LIMITED, Wright's-bldgs, Grange-rd, Bermondsey. Ct. High Court. SOUTH AMERICAN AND MEXICAN COMPANY LIMITED. Winchester House, Old Broad-st, WILLIAM LEVETT AND CO. LIMITED, Eastcheap Ct. High Court. Last day for proofs, Dec. 29. Liquidator, George Stapylton Barnes, 33, Carey-st. GAZETTE, DEC. 15. ALLIANCE FINANCIAL CORPORATION LIMITED, Queen Victoria-st. Ct. High Court. Last day for proofs, Dec. 29. Liquidator, George Stapylton Barnes, 38, Carey-st. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. GAZETTE, DEC. 11. EFFECTIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED, Ludgate-hill. 'Ct. High Court. Amount per pound, d. Supplemental. Payable, any day (except Saturday) between 11 and 2, at 33, Carey-st. East Stonehouse. Order, Dec. 11. CLARKE, CHARLES, Newquay, late fishmonger. Ct. Truro. Order, Dec. 10. DODDS, ARTHUR PATRICK (trading as Dodds Brother and Co.), iron merchant. Ct. EARL, STEPHEN, late London-wall. Ct. High Court. Order. Dec. 11. EVANS, DAVID, Maesycwmmer, journeyman carpenter. Ct. Newport, Mon. Order, Dec. 11. FURNELL, HENRY, Tisbury, late carrier. Ct. Salisbury. Order, Dec. 10. HILL, ROTHERAY, Clapham-road. Ct. High Court, Order. Dec. 12. INGHAM. W. H., Devonshire-st, Great Portland-street, company promoter. 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LAW SOCIETIES.-Incorporated Law Society Special General MeetingHardwicke 390 Society Solicitors' Managing Clerks' Association LAW STUDENTS' JOURNAL.-Students' Societies 188 190 391 191 Now ready, Part 4 of Vol. XVIII., price 5s. 6d., of COX'S CRIMINAL LAW CASES: In the Court of Criminal Appeal, the Superior Courts, the Central Criminal Court, at the Assizes, and in Ireland (published quarterly). Edited by R. CUNNINGHAM GLEN, M.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law. The Parts and Volumes may still be had to complete sets. It is the only complete series of Criminal Cases published in England. An Appendix contains a valuable collection of Precedents of Indictments. Complete Vols. from the commencement (1844) of this work can be had. Price can be obtained on application. HORACE COX, "Law Times" Office, Windsor House, Bream's-buildings, E.C. OUR ALMANAC SUPPLEMENT. With this Number of the LAW TIMES we present to our Subscribers THE LAWYER'S ALMANAC FOR 1897. The Law and the Lawyers. A CONTRIBUTOR says that the past sittings has seen the full development of the "Legal Radical." He explains what he means in another column. THE remarkable answer of Mr. LABOUCHERE to a question put to him in the witness-box by his counsel Sir FRANK LOCKWOOD in the trial of an action for libel brought against him for exposing an impostor named BROOKS, the jury finding for the defendant on a plea of justification-that he had expended the sum of £40,000 in law costs in the defence of actions for libel in which he had succeeded, might alone lay the foundation for legislation limiting the right to bring actions for libel to cases of whose bona fides the court was satisfied, except security for costs were first given. Mr. LABOUCHERE is fortunately a wealthy man, but his experience as a successful litigant adds a fresh emphasis to the bitter humour of Dean SWIFT who makes Gulliver relate that his father having been involved in litigation in which he triumphantly succeeded with costs in each instance, found himself of course hopelessly beggared. MR. SWIFT MACNEILL, of the Irish Bar and the House of Commons, in a letter to the Times, slays the slain in a criticism of Mr. Justice GRANTHAM'S device for employing the Irish judges. Here is a pastime for Christmas-take this passage and find the satire : I shall not, I am sure, be misunderstood in remarking that Mr. Justice Grantham's patronage (no doubt unconscious) of that body [i.e., the Irish Judiciary], whom he describes as equally as able as ourselves," having regard to the intellectual eminence of the Irish judiciary, taken as a whole, and numbering among its members such names as Palles, Walker, Porter, and FitzGibbon, is somewhat inapplicable. A puisne judgeship, which is in England an office in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, has, since 1834, been regarded in Ireland as a first-class professional prize which it is the practice for the law officers of the Crown to accept. Ir is desirable to gather together in a legal journal lay opinion upon questions affecting the administration of the law. There is a growing concurrence on all hands in favour of compelling the retirement of judges who have earned their pensions. From this view there is no dissentient voice in the Press, whilst it is supported strongly by the Morning Post, which, although Conservative in politics, has always been progressive and enlightened on legal matters. On Tuesday it said: The Michaelmas Law Sittings came to an end yesterday under circumstances not so favourable to the condition of business in the Queen's Bench Division as those which characterised the commencement of the sittings. The prolonged illness of Lord Justice Kay necessitated the attendance of the Lord Chief Justice in the second Court of Appeal, in order that the final appeals in Chancery might be heard before a fullyconstituted court. The absence of the head of the Queen's Bench Division from his own court, and the withdrawal of the greater number of the common law judges to discharge the duties of the assizes for a considerable portion of the sittings, have tended to reintroduce that delay on the common law side of the courts in London which has done so much to disgust and dishearten suitors with our system of legal procedure. It is announced that Lord Justice Kay will, in all probability, be enabled to resume his place in the Court of Appeal next sittings, but if he should not be able to do so it would be well for him to consider whether he ought not to retire with the pension to which his eminent services have for some time entitled him. He has been compelled on a former occasion to absent himself from bis duties for a considerable time, and the interests of public economy in no way demand that judges should incapacitate themselves from enjoying the evening of their lives in healthful repose by an honourable but ineffectual effort to continue their services beyond the period which entitles them to their pensions. It is highly commendable for judges who are hale and strong in mind and body to give the public the benefit of their ripe experience, even when they might enjoy the luxury of pensioned ease, but it is no public economy to save a judge's pension by continuing his full salary in the case of protracted illness, and by either paying a substitute, as in the case of the appointment of a commissioner of assize, or by depriving the public of the services of the full staff of the judicial bench when one judge is called away from his own duties to perform the duties of another. The delay of justice and the procrastination of the trial of suits which are ready for hearing costs the general community far more in pounds, shillings, and pence, than the salary of an extra judge, even if he has not quite enough work to occupy him all the year round. The courts exist, or ought to exist, for the purpose of promptly determining all matters requiring a judicial decision for their settlement, and the idea that the number of judges should be proportioned to the minimum rather than the maximum amount of work for them to do is as erroneous as it is unworthy of a highly civilised and wealthy nation. We believe it was the late Lord Blackburn who maintained that a judge who was physically and mentally efficient would always pay for his own salary and that of his staff through the fees payable in respect of the business he would attract to his court. Economy is most desirable in every branch of the public service, but economy without efficiency is a thoroughly false ideal. The flow of pro motion which it is deemed so essential to secure in our naval, military, and civil services by compulsory retirement at fixed ages, is no less desirable in the episcopal and judicial benches and the ranks from which they are recruited. THE tragic incident of the death of the man KAST in prison before his trial had concluded has a parallel in the Irish State trials. A clergyman of the Church of England, named JACKSON, a person of revolutionary principles, was sent over to Ireland in 1796 from France, for the purpose of planning an invasion of that country by the French. He was betrayed by an informer to the English Government, tried for high treason, and convicted, but not sentenced, to be executed. Lord Chief Justice WHITESIDE thus relates the sequel: "JACKSON'S wife, on the morning that he was brought down to court to receive sentence, visited him in prison and gave him some tea. While proceeding in a carriage, he was observed to put his head out of the window, to be ghastly pale and very sick. Arrived in court and in the dock, he beckoned to his counsel CURRAN to whom he whispered, "We have deceived the Senate." When required by the officer of the court he held up his hand, but it fell feebly in a moment. The doctor was sent for, and the judge inquired, "Is the prisoner competent to hear the judgment of the court?' The doctor replied, "My Lord, he is dead!" JACKSON had swallowed poison in his tea. The judge would not sentence him, so his property (forfeitures had not of course then been abolished) was saved for his family. The Sheriff did not know what to do with the body of JACKSON and asked the distinguished judge what he would do with it; but the judge did not know more than the sheriff, and therefore said with infinite gravity, "Mr. Sheriff, you will do as in such cases is usual"; (Whiteside's Life and Death of the Irish Parliament, p. 192). "The really A WRITER in the Westminster Gazette says lamentable thing is that a court with such noble traditions as the Arches Court of Canterbury should have fallen upon such evil times in these latter days. In the palmy days of Sir JOHN NICHOL, Dr. LUSHINGTON, and Sir ROBERT PHILLIMORE, its reputation stood deservedly high, and it ranked with any court in the kingdom. For the last dozen years the difficulty has been to induce the Dean of the Arches to hold a court at all. There are many important points of ecclesiastical law crying out for an authoritative decision by the highest appellate tribunal, but Lord PENZANCE'S Court stops the way. The Privy Council can only be reached through the Arches, and if the Dean refuses to entertain the suit what is to be done? Appeal after appeal from the Consistory Courts of the Chancellors of the various English dioceses has been lodged only to be quietly withdrawn and consigned to limbo. In the Hereford case, not merely was the judgment of the court delivered by a Surrogate, i.e., a deputy, but the Dean of the Arches refused even to hear the arguments of counsel upon the point of jurisdiction-a course which would have provoked an outcry if (per impossibile) it had been adopted by one of HER MAJESTY'S judges of the Queen's Bench or Chancery Divisions. The Dean of the Arches is over eighty years of age, and, according to Whitaker's Almanack, is in receipt of a salary of £5000 a year. Surely, if he is not prepared to perform the duties of his office, the sooner he makes way for younger and stronger men the better." We may inform our contemporary that the Hardwicke Society has decided that there must be an end of this sort of thing. From a judge's point of view eighty is boyhood. The Profession thinks differently. What the Hardwicke thinks to-day England will think in a few weeks. any IT has been stated that the contents of a telegram by HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN to Mrs. BENSON on the occasion of the death of the late ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY were divulged to the representative of the Central News Agency by the Hawarden post-mistress, and it is added that the post-mistress has since been dismissed from her office. In connection with this subject it is material to direct attention to the very stringent provisions of the Telegraph Act 1868, against the disclosure of telegraphic messages by post-office officials. It is enacted by sect. 20 of that Act that " person having official duties connected with the Post-office who shall, contrary to his duty, disclose the contents, or any part of the contents, of any telegraphic message shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall, upon conviction, be subject to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve calendar months," and "the Postmaster General," it is added, "shall make regulations to carry out the intentions of this section, and to prevent the improper use by any person in his employment, or acting on his behalf, of any knowledge he may acquire of the contents of any telegraphic message." It is, perhaps, in pursuance of these regulations that the Hawarden post-mistress has been dismissed, but it may possibly be that the authorities may see their way to carry the matter still further, and inquire into the circumstances under which a "representative of the Central News Agency" got possession of the conten's of the telegram. It is of great importance to the public that the contents of telegrams should be kept secret, and the successful prosecution, as an abettor, of a Central News representative," or anyone else who should be proved to have bribed a Post-office official into a breach of his duty to maintain secrecy, would have a very wholesome effect. 66 SIMONY is not immorality within the meaning of the Clergy Discipline Act 1892. So it has been held by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, reversing the judgment of Dr. TRISTRAM as judge of the Consistory Court of London in the case of A Beneficed Clerk v. Lee, and in the same case it was held that it is not an immoral act falsely to make the declaration against simony prescribed by the Clerical Subscription Act 1865. Surprising as this judgment may be, we cannot see how its correctness in law can on the first point be questioned, although, as the Judicial Committee observed, there is no doubt that "the general councils, whose authority is accepted by the Church of England, the canons, and many judges and writers of recognised position have in all ages condemned simony in most emphatic terms." The words of the Clergy Discipline Act which bear on the point are seemingly precise. They allow of the prosecution under the Act of "any clergyman either convicted by a temporal court of an ecclesiastical offence, or "alleged to have been guilty of any immoral act, immoral conduct, or immoral habit, or of any offence against the laws ecclesiastical, being an offence against morality, and not being a question of doctrine or ritual." That simony is not an immoral act may be readily conceded, but we cannot come to the same conclusion as the Judicial Committee with regard to conscious falsehood, such as that coming within the terms of the Clerical Subscription Act 1865. The declaration prescribed by sect. 2 of that Act is to the effect that the clerk has not made by himself or by any other person any payment, contract, or promise of any kind whatsoever which, to the best of his knowledge or belief, is simoniacal. True, indeed, it is that the Royal Commissioners who reported on Church Patronage in 1879 did not hesitate to assert that clergymen of good character and repute have been parties to transactions which the law considers simoniacal," but of the simoniacal character of which no doubt they themselves are ignorant. It is obvious, however, that cases may arise in which there can be no doubt as to a transaction whether it is simoniacal or not, and the reasonable possibility of any transaction alleged to be simoniacal being in fact so to the knowledge of the incriminated clerk would seem to be enough to lay a foundation for the jurisdiction under the Act of 1892 being exercised, unless it be good law that conscious falsehood is not" immoral." 66 TWO TEMPLE INSCRIPTIONS. On something like a Bencher's staircase. I dream't I dwelt in marble halls, And other things you may think odd-eh? Of palaces for each Term's calls, All gilt with gold and nothing shoddy. And o'er the door the horse with wings-- The Middle thought some coin it drop would ; The Paschal lamb in praise of H THE LEGAL RADICAL. [By a Junior Barrister.] -d. The comments. University or by the Council of Legal Education, or the Incorporated Law Society-has been the object of unnumbered The block on the Bench, caused by the retention of judicial seats by ten judges who have earned their pension, has raised the ire and excited the ridicule of many of the most earnest Conservatives in the Profession. Stagnation on the Bench means stagnation in the Profession; stagnation in the Profession means idleness for the many and overwork for the very few; idleness for the many means that the supply of able, well-trained men will not, in a few years, be sufficient to supply the demand. In this the legal Radical has seen his opportunity, and has not hesitated to use it with a vigour that is likely before long to take full effect. But the Profession itself, how about that? The legal Radical answers: "It is not (or was not till quite recently) a Profession; it was, or is, a herd, each member of which browses for his own benefit without any sense of the advantages of union." Such a statement is, doubtless, exaggerated, but there is certainly evidence to support a modified form of it. Not 25 per cent. of the practising part of the Profession belong to the Benevolent Association, and until the movement that resulted in the Bar Committee and Bar Council, the only bond between the members of the Profession was a vague professional etiquette, the mysterious and rarely exercised superintendence of the four Mother Inns, and the discipline of the Circuits. The legal Radical has recently been inquiring into the historical position of these Inns. He finds that they are now governed by cooptative Benchers, who have an aggregate yearly income of £100,000, concerning the expenditure of which they make no return whatever to the Profession. History shows that these Benchers were trustees for the members of the respective inns, that they were formerly assisted in their deliberations by popularly elected members of the Outer Bar, and that in former days they rendered accounts. Here is the very machinery that we need to organise our Profession, exclaims the legal Radical; if we can only get hold of it the need for diverse bodies such as the Benevolent Association, the Council of Legal Education, the Bar Council will vanish. Let us have one central elective governing body, formed by the amalgamation of the inns, that will direct all the affairs of our little kingdom, and be to law what the General Medical Council is to medicine. With such schemes and ideals, the legal Radical moves along his path, unabashed by rebuffs, and certainly unashamed. His watchwords are: Reform in legal procedure, in legal administration, in legal professional governance, and in legal education. He belongs to no party, but his principles are gradually pervading the entirety of the Profession-from its busy height to its idle depth. LIABILITY OF SOLICITORS FOR LOST TRUST THE Court of Appeal, in the case of Marsh v. Joseph, has overruled the THE past sittings have exhibited in a marked degree the Apart from the doctrine of ratification, there was no ground for fixing the solicitor, whose name had been fraudulently used, with any liability whatever. The question arose whether the receiving costs amounted to such ratification. As the Court said: "At the most it was the ratification of the use of his name in a formal matter for a formal party. Is that enough to fix him with liability for what had been fraudulently done by Hales for his own purpose? I think not." Mr. Justice Kekewich held that, after he became aware of the use of his name, he could be said to be acting as solicitor in the matter, and so was liable. But, in all the cases |
