determined in the case is concerned. It is true that an attempt was made in the course of the trial on the part of the defendant of a serious character, to show that the medicine produced in court had not been obtained from his shop, and that the young woman, indeed, had not been to his shop at all, but as this attempt was abandoned and the charge against the young woman withdrawn very soon after it was made, it is unnecessary to refer to it again, except for the purpose of expressing the court's regret that it should ever have been made, as there was not the least ground for it. By the 20th section of the 55 Geo. 3, c. 194, under which this action is brought, it is enacted that if any person shall, after the 1st Aug. 1815, act or practise as an apothecary in any part of England or Wales without having obtained a certificate as mentioned in the preceding section of the Act, "he shall be liable to forfeit and pay the sum of £20." The 28th section of the same Act, the one on which defendant grounds his defence, enacts " by way of proviso" that nothing in this Act contained "shall extend or be construed to extend to prejudice or in any way to affect the trade or business of a chemist and druggist in the buying, preparing, compounding, dispensing, or vending drugs, medicines, or medicinable compounds, wholesale and retail; but all persons using or exercising the said trade or business, or who shall or may hereafter use or exercise the same, shall and may use, exercise, and carry on the same trade or business in such manner and as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as the same trade or business was used, exercised, or carried on by chemists and druggists before the passing of this Act." The first point in this case to be considered is, has the defendant, in the instance, proved by the evidence acted as an apothecary? If he has and is not protected by the proviso (it being admitted he has not obtained a certificate from the Society of Apothecaries), he is undoubtedly liable to pay the penalty sued for, and the verdict must be for the plaintiffs. The defendant, however, raises two questions by way of defence-first, he says in what he did he did not act as an apothecary; and, secondly, that if in strictness it should be held that he did then, inasmuch as he was only carrying on his business as a chemist as chemists carried on their business before the passing of the Act in 1815, he is protected by the proviso referred to, which, he contends, permits chemists and druggists to carry on their business in the same manner as they did before the passing of the Act, and that chemists (so he says), the evidence proves, were in the habit of advising patients in trifling Cases as well as supplying them with medicines; and he argues that the present is a case of that character which a chemist would have treated before the passing of the Act, as the defendant has done since. Now with reference to the question raised by the first part of the defence whether in what the defendant did he acted as an apothecary the case of The Apothecaries Company v. Lotingá (2 M. & R. p. 500), decided in 1843, goes perhaps more fully into the question than any other, and in that case Mr. Justice Cresswell told the jury that an apothecary is a person who professes to judge of internal disease by its symptoms, and applies himself to cure that disease by medicine;" and in the same case he tells them that " a chemist is one who sells medicines which are asked for," and in effect states that, if the chemist himself selected the medicines, and determined on what he ought to give, he is stepping out of his lawful province as a chemist, and entering upon that of an apothecary. The definition of a chemist, as given by Mr. Justice Cresswell in Lotinga's case, would appear not to be large enough, because the 28th section of the Apothecaries Act referred to clearly shows that the trade of a chemist was not confined "to selling medicines which were asked for" merely, but extended to the preparing, componnding, and dispensing them. His Lordship's definition of an apothecary is, however, doubt less perfectly correct; if, as recently observed by Mr. Baron Pollock in Shepperley's case, it is to be presumed that Mr. Justice Cresswell "did not mean internal as opposed to external disease, in the sense of a man having an eruption produced by some diseased condition of the body, which, the learned Baron observes, would not be any less an internal disease, and if anyone proceeded to judge of it by the symptoms, and apply medicine for its cure, the law would equally apply to him as it would to the man who attempted to cure a persistent difficulty of indigestion, a diseased condition of the lungs, or any of the other evils to which flesh is heir, and which affect mankind internally. There is another case, The Apothecaries Company v. Nottingham (34 L. T. Rep. N. S. 76), tried before Lord Justice (then Baron) Bramwell, in 1876. In that case it was proved that the defendant, who was a certified chemist, but not an apothecary, had been in partnership with a duly qualified medical practitioner, but it was also shown that this medical man was not always on the spot." It 66 66 also appeared in evidence that the defendant had of a chemist does not say a word about advising LEEDS COUNTY COURT. remedy it. In such cases an individual would be In my (Before Mr. Serjt. TINDAL ATKINSON, Judge.) HAINSWORTH AND ANOTHER v. WADE. Trespass on land-Ancient well-Public Health Act 1875, s. 64-Leeds Improvement Act 1866. HIS HONOUR in giving judgment in this case said: -This is an action of trespass brought by the plain-right to do, in his own land, 15ft. deep, the effect tiffs to recover from the defendant the sum of £10 of which was to deprive the public well of its water, leaving only the flood waters, which in a for damage done by the defendant by breaking short time became polluted, while the well itself down a wall belonging to the plaintiffs, and cast- was in fact becoming a dangerous nuisance. It is ing a number of stones and other rubbish upon difficult, therefore, to see what special injury was their land and into their reservoirs, and blocking diate danger which alone would justify the defendone to the defendant, or where was the immeup and rendering useless a watercourse. To this dant in removing the plaintiffs' wall. action the defendant has set up a counter-claim, view, therefore, the justification fails upon two demanding the sum of £50 as damages for the grounds: first, that if the plaintiffs had created plaintiffs' obstructing his right to obtain water a nuisance by closing the well and building the from a public well, and, further, asking for an in- wall, and by that means preventing the defendant junction restraining the plaintiffs from continuing from having free access as one of the public to the to obstruct the defendant's right of access to and well, still the nuisance was not of that character drawing water from the said well. The facts which would justify its removal by a strong hand, proved at the trial were that the land occupied by but that the proper and legal course was by an the plaintiffs is separated by a road or lane which application to a court of law; and, secondly, that is a public thoroughfare or highway. Up to 1876 even if the defendant were justified in the course an ancient well supplied from a spring existed on he adopted, he committed a trespass by doing the plaintiffs' side of the road, from which well the more damage than was necessary; and in abating inhabitants of the district had the right to draw a private nuisance, a party is bound to use water. The overflow and surface water of the reasonable care that no more damage be done well extended over a portion of the road, and for than is necessary for effecting his a short distance into the plaintiffs' land. The (Comyn's Digest; Action on the Case for Nuisance, purpose: surface water from the well was separated from that part of the road used for traffic by a wall, Davis v. Williams, 16 Q. B. 556.) The unnecesD 4; Perry v. Fitzgibbon, 8 Q. B. Rep. 775; there being open spaces at each end for access to sary damage in the present case done by the defenthe well, the surface water forming a sort of semi- dant consists in his demolishing a portion of the circle, the curved part of which was on the plain- plaintiffs' old wall, breaking water pipes and filling tiffs' land. The defendant had, some time before the ends with clay, and permitting the rubble and the trespass complained of, dug a trench in his stones of the wall that was pulled down to roll land fifteen feet deep, and the effect of this was to into the plaintiffs' reservoir. The defendant's take away the water which formerly used to supply counter-claim now only remains to be disposed of. the well, and except at flood-times, arising from It is framed to recover damages assessed at £50 heavy rains, there was no water for public use. for the obstruction by the plaintiffs of the defenWhat water there was had become polluted, and dant's right to obtain water from the well in the place itself became dangerous. The plaintiffs, question. For the purpose of this inquiry, the on this state of things, communicated with the fact of the obstruction may be assumed to be corporation of Leeds, who are the local authority proved, and, in fact, the well itself, as far as its for sanitary purposes, and, acting under their public use is concerned, has been extinguished. orders and the superintendence of the borough But the facts of the case show that this has not surveyor, took down the old wall in the road, been the act of the plaintiffs. By the 64th arched over the well with brickwork, placing pipes section of the Public Health Act 1875, "All beneath to carry off any water that might accumu- existing pumps, wells, and reservoirs used for the late, levelled the road, and built a wall in con- gratuitous supply of water to the inhabitants of tinuation of that which had always divided their the district of a local authority-and for the land from the highway. In Jan. 1878 the plain- purposes of this section the Leeds Corporation is tiffs found that from two to three yards of the new such local authority-vest and are placed under wall had been pulled down. This was restored in the control of such authority, who may substitute March of this year, and shortly after the defendant and construct other such works equally conwas seen to level with a crowbar and a pick not venient for supplying the inhabitants of the disonly the new wall, but also two or three yards of trict gratuitously with pure and wholesome water;" the old wall, of which the new part was the con- and by the Leeds Improvement Act 1866, sect. tinuation. The fall of the land being on the plain-29, any land taken by the corporation and laid into tiffs' side, some of the stones, by the force of any street, shall for ever thereafter form part of gravitation, rolled into the plaintiffs' reservoir, such street; and the corporation are, by the 32nd and the pipes which had been used for carrying off section, made surveyors of highways, with all the from the well any surplus water were filled up by statutory powers of such surveyors. Acting the defendant with clay and stones. This is the under these provisions the corporation, upon the trespass complained of, and in substance admitted application of the plaintiffs, directed the well to by the defendant; but he contends through his be arched over, the land it formerly occupied to be counsel that the wall in question was illegally thrown into the road, the road to be levelled, and placed on land which belonged to the public; that whether the plaintiffs put up the wall by order of the corporation of Leeds, or on their own account, it constituted a breach of the defendant's right of free access to a well which the public had used from time immemorial; and that in addition the plaintiffs have no exclusive right to the land, and therefore cannot support an action of trespass. With regard to that part of the defendant's justification of the trespass in which he claims the right to abate by his own hand a nuisance which interferes with his enjoyment, as one of the public, of the water of this particular well, it rests upon an old authority cited in 2 Rolle's Abridgment (Nuisance): "That s, if a man stops my road to my common and ncloses the common, I can justify the levelling of he inclosure of the common and the road;" but n later times this doctrine has been much qualified, and the rule now is, that where a person attempts to justify an interference with the property of another in order to abate a nuisance he may justify himself against a wrong-doer, only so far as his interference is positively necessary, and in abating a nuisance, if there be two ways of doing it, he must choose the least mischievous of the two (Roberts v. Rose, L. Rep. 1 Exch. 89); and it is further held that a private individual cannot of his own authority abate an obstruction on a public highway unless it does him a special injury: (Simes v. Petley, 15 Q. B. Rep. 283.) It was said by Mr. Justice Best, in giving judgment in the case of the Earl of Lonsdale v. Nelson (2 Barn. & Cress. 311): "The security of law and property may sometimes require so speedy a remedy as not to allow time to call on the person n whose property the mischief has arisen to a wall to be built so as to form a continuous line separating the plaintiffs' land from the highway. Lawrence Gane (instructed by North and Sons) for the defendant. SOUTHWARK COUNTY COURT. Friday, July 18. (Before H. J. STONOE, ESQ., Judge.) HICKS v. FARRINGTON. Specific performance-Damages. Reed was counsel for plaintiff. Rew (solicitor) was for defendant. THIS was an action remitted from the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, and was brought for the specific performance of an agreement dated 9th Nov. 1878 for the sale by the defendant to the plaintiff of certain leasehold premises, 105, Lower Lambeth Marsh, at the price of The defence set up was that the said agreement £350, and damages for breach of the agreement had been fraudulently obtained, the defendant having signed it while in a state of intoxication. It appeared that subsequently to the agreement the defendant had sold and assigned the premises to a purchaser without notice, and the claim for specific performance was consequently abandoned. A jury had been summoned by the plaintiff, but was withdrawn. The COURT awarded £50 damages, and a return of the deposit of £10 with costs. Judgment accordingly. WALSALL COUNTY COURT. Wednesday, July 3 and 8. (Before W. D. GRIFFITHS, Esq., Judge.) PARTRIDGE v. FOSTER. The legality of money clubs-Non-registration. His HONOUR, in this case which was heard on the 3rd inst. said :-Cases of this kind very often have, I am sorry to say, come before me. But though this causes me, as I have said, sorrow, I am not sorry that this case has been presented to me in this shape, carefully and well argued, and of magnitude sufficient to be brought to the Court of Appeal; for it is a matter of considerable interest to this part of the country, where these money clubs, as they are called, exist in enormous numbers, that it should be known as widely and publicly as it may be possible whether these money clubs are or are not legal associations, for in their present condition, while a doubt as to their character exists, they are fraught with danger and mischief to vast numbers of poor people. Having described the nature of the associations, which, he remarked, seemed to be so popular amongst the publicans because a certain proportion of the subscriptions was at once con sumed in beer, His Honour continued:-The plaintiff became a member of the club in question in March 1877, for eighteen shares of £5 each. After he joined in 1877, he duly paid, according to the arrangements of the society, all his instalments up to 23rd March 1878. There is a rule of this club which provides substantially that if any member becomes unable to continue his subscriptions, he may, on signifying his desire to withdraw from the society, draw all the money he shall actually have subscribed and paid, giving up all dividends and interest; and under this rule the plaintiff gave to Smith, who was then secretary of the society, notice that he desired to withdraw, and ceased paying in on the 23rd March 1878, having at that time paid in the sum of £52 10s. 2d, or, at least a sum in excess of £50. From that time to this he has never received a penny in respect of his withdrawal, and has at length brought this action for the sum of £50, abandoning his claim for the excess. It was proved to me that since the date of his notice sums to about the amount of £240 have in fact come to the hands of the treasurer, which might have been applied in satisfaction of his demand, so far as any evidence has been given to me. There are two main questions of difficulty for determination, and perhaps some others there are by no means clear. The first is-Is this society illegal or not within the 4th section of the Joint Stock Companies Act 1862? Upon this question I have examined, with great care, a case which certainly deserves careful attention. The case is Re The Arthur Average Association for British, Foreign, and Colonial Ships, Ex parte Hargrove, and in the course of it much argument was urged on the question whether the company was illegal or not for default of registration or incorporation; and on this head the Master of the Rolls says, "The 4th section applies to companies or associations having for their object the acquisi tion of gain, either by the company or association or the individual members thereof. Now, if you acquisition. It has no other meaning that I am come to the meaning of the word 'gain,' it means It is not limited to pecuniary gain." So, in the aware of. Gain is something obtained or acquired. present case, the association acquires the interest and premium paid on loans. It contemplates the quiring, first of all, the sums wanted for the acquiring it-it is formed for the purpose of se expense of carrying it on, supplying beer, &c., &c.; secondly, the sums available to pay dividends. It is quite true that these dividends are to LEGAL NEWS. MR. J. COMPTON LAWRANCE, Q.C., was on Saturday adopted as one of the Conservative candidates for South Lincolnshire. THE salary of the town clerk of Stoke-uponTrent (Mr. William Bagnall, solicitor) has been fixed at £150 per annum, a proposition that it be £120 only meeting with a negative. THE next sittings of the court of the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries will commence at Truro on the 14th Aug. next, when actions before juries will first be tried. IF a system of efficient salaried legal coroners were established throughout the country (remark the Select Parliamentary Committee in their report on the Coroners Bill), it might be possible to confer upon them the powers of a stipendiary magistrate, and thus obviate the evils of the double investigation which now takes place before the magistrate in cases in which a person is accused of a crime in relation to a death necessitating an inquest. coroner and Sir JOSEPH HERON, town clerk of Manchester, in giving evidence at the Assizes on Saturday relative to a disputed account sent in by a firm of land surveyors, said it was the first time he had seen so curious a document; no lawyer would make out such a bill. Where a lawyer charged 68. 8d. it appeared to be the practice of surveyors to charge a guinea. be divided; but not divided and given back to the people who have contributed them in the proportions of their contributions-viz., the borrowers, but to another class, the shareholders, in proportion of their shares. The result, therefore, is that there is, as between the association and its members, a gain. The association acquires something. The whole of the judgment referred to, in my mind, applies closely to an association of this kind, and I therefore decide that such an association is formed for the purpose of gain, and, if of more than twenty members, requires registration. It was urged on me that clubs like the Reform or Carlton, must then require registration, and it was fairly answered that they are not formed for the purpose of gain, though it may happen that some members may gain by them and others lose, and that the purpose of their formation is something altogether different from the gain of the members, I think this is a sound answer, but it is not necessary for me to determine that social clubs are exempt from the 4th section of the Act of 1862. All I have to say is that money clubs of the cha-the acter I have described are not so exempt. The next question is whether this society being illegal, this action may not lie nevertheless? and this involves the question, does the illegality affect the contract on which the plaintiff is compelled to rely in order to make out his right to what he asks? To this I answer, it is not necessary to show the illegal nature of the contract in order for the plaintiff to show his claim to his money at all; he must show money had and received by the defendant; but not this only, he must show it had and received to his use, and how does he show this? Only by showing the 7th rule, which I have described. Otherwise showing that he had paid subscriptions, which had been used for the purpose of lending to members, according to the conditions of his subscription, would give him no right to recover them from the agent to whom he had paid them for that purpose. If then, as seems to me plain, the illegal contract must form part of the plaintiff's case to enable him to establish any claim at all, then it seems to me clear, under the authority of Sykes v. Beadon, and many other cases. But supposing I may be wrong on the matter of the illegality of the contract, another question lies before me can the plaintiff's remedy be obtained in the way he seeks it by a mere action at law? Here also grave difficulties intervene. It is true that Rule 7, to which I have referred, seems to promise an absurdity, and to be a mere fraud if an action at law will not lie, to enforce the power which it pretends to give, viz., to enable a member wishing to withdraw to "Draw the moneys he shall have actually subscribed foregoing his dividends and interest." But though this is so, I think on looking into the whole nature of the contract, that such a power is not really given, and that the rule practically is a mere fraud. The society is undoubtedly a joint-stock company or partnership between all the subscribers, and the treasurer, as long as he acts honestly according to the intentions of the subscribers and under their directions, should not be, and is not intended to be a loser by so doing to any greater extent than he may himself be involved as a shareholder. If then, by the beer consumed and bad debts, the moneys subscribed or any considerable share of them may have become lost before a member gives notice of his withdrawal, surely only such rateable share of his demand as the assets of the society will afford is intended to be paid to the withdrawing share. holder. He must himself be one of the parties contributing to make good his own demand, and as such must abate it pro tanto. If this be once conceded, and I do not think it can be denied, then at once it follows that the remedy must be, if there be any, by a suit in equity, or, I suppose I ought to say, an action in equity involving an account, and not an action at law. Now, though in the High Court the machinery in both sorts of action is now almost the same, in this Court a plaint in equity varies from a summons at law. This remedy has not been pursued, and on this ground also, even if I were mistaken as to the question of illegality, I must refuse the plaintiff's demand, though as I have said, on the facts, if these arguments were not too strong for me, and if I thought the action would lie as brought, I should have given judgment for the full amount with costs. As it is, though for the grounds I have stated I dismiss the plaintiff's demand, I make no order for costs against him. C. W. Williams (Duignan and Co., Walsall) appeared for the plaintiff, and Plumptre (instructed by Joseph E. Sheldon, Wednesbury) for the defendant. Mr. ROBERT MERRYWEATHER, solicitor, Liverpool, was discovered dead in his office, Gale-street, on Saturday morning last, having been missing from his private residence since the Wednesday previous. The clerks, on breaking open the door, found Mr. Morris with his arms under his head, as if sleeping. At the inquest on Monday, a medical man, who had attended deceased for twenty years, gave evidence that Mr. Morris had complained of being apprehensive of an apoplectic seizure, having had a fall, and a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. Mr. BARON HUDDLESTON, in opening the Flintshire Assizes on Monday, remarked that for Flintshire there would still only be assizes twice a year, but he thought that for the future they would be held in the winter and summer instead of the spring and summer. There would, however, question, and in the spring and autumn; in which be four gaol deliveries, namely, at the assizes in latter case prisoners would be tried in the neighbouring county of Chester, and thus give effect to the current feeling that no person should be in custody for more than three months before trial. CORRESPONDENCE PROFESSION. NOTE.-This Department of the LAW TIMEs being open to free discussion on all professional topics,the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for any opinions or statements contained in it. LANGUAGE CRIMINAL LAW - INSULTING REMEDY AT LAW FOR USE OF. The case of what in most magisterial divisions is well known, Phillips v. Justices of Gateshead only confirms that for mere insults and the most gross language there is really no law by which the offender can be punished. From the period when Miss Burdett Coutts was so annoyed by a Mr. Dunn the law on these points has been found to be in a most unsatisfactory state, and no attempt has since then been made to remedy the defect excepting by one or two Bills brought into the House of Commons, but, as they did not happen to be Government Bills, they dropped into oblivion. Our laws are sadly defective in many respects. Take the Towns Police Clauses Act: there are offences therein provided for only where a town or local authority is enabled to have such clauses incorporated, but outside the boundary (and notwithstanding a well-populated suburb) the law is powerless. Take, for example, using obscene language in the streets of a town: the offender can be punished; but let the offender go into some bye place or into the private garden or grounds of a person, there he might use the most abusive (short of threats), foul, and obscene language to females and others without fear of punishment. In like manner he might expose his person to females in the most revolting way without fear of punishment, unless perhaps by an indictment which few persons would resort to. There are many other similar defects which must be known to those in authority, as they have been repeatedly urged in order to have some amendment in the law; but I am afraid, until we can get our municipal laws codified and improved, there will be but slight chance of getting any amend ment of the most well-known defects. W. F. mons JUDGMENT SUMMONSES.-I beg to call your attention and that of your readers to the practice now pursued at Judges' Chambers by Mr. Justice Field, with respect to judgment summonses, if a plaintiff fails to prove the means of a defendant. His Lordship unhesitatingly dismisses the sum"with costs to be paid by the judgment creditor to the judgment debtor;" the costs invariably amount to between £3 and £4. This order has been made frequently on a first summons, so that a judgment debtor is regarded as a successful OF THE litigant, and costs are awarded in his favour. Now, it does seem most inequitable that a plaintiff, after losing his money and being compelled to resort to legal proceedings, should be made to pay the costs of endeavouring to show a defendant's means of payment. If a plaintiff wilfully and vexatiously persisted in summoning a defendant, it would be reasonable to make the plaintiff pay the penalty. In a similar case, a short time since, an order was made by the same judge against a plaintiff; the latter was represented by a well-known city firm, and they very reasonably issued a against the plaintiff should not be applied summons to show cause why the costs allowed in reduction of the debt, but his Lordship peremptorily dismissed that summons with costs. It is clear that the Imprisonment for Debt Act of 1869 never contemplated this course, and it would be interesting to know upon what precedent the learned judge proceeds, as I think I am correct in saying that Mr. Justice Field is the only judge that makes these extraordinary orders. In other respects his Lordship is all that could be desired, and the amazing celerity with which he disposes of the business at chambers and restrains the eloquence of talkative persons is quite refreshing. Sometimes, however, they appear dissatisfied; but a judge at chambers has anything but a pleasant duty to perform, and possibly judgment summonses are regarded by his Lordship as the béte noir of the business, and that therefore they must be put an end to before an Act comes into force for that purpose. G. B. H. As to CALL OF SOLICITORS TO THE BAR.-In the necessarily compressed report of my remarks at the annual meeting of the Incorporated Law Society, I am made to say, without explanation, that I consider five years too short a probation in the one branch to entitle a man to be called, as of right, to the other. What I suggested was that that period was too short to insure the acceptance of the clause by the House of Commons; in other words, that it might be thought to open the door to mere experimental admission, to create a connection for a subsequent call. I take the real complaint to be, that after a long and tried experience we solicitors are placed on a footing with mere students-an obvious injustice in which I feel a deep personal interest. five years being named because such limit is fixed in that unreciprocal Act facilitating the admission of barristers to our branch, I have been unable at present to find anybody who has availed himself of it; indeed, the language of the section is so obscure that I cannot make out whether a barrister's call for five years dispenses with articles altogether, or only our final examination. Perhaps some of your readers can enlighten me on this. Let me add that I am opposed to solicitors escaping the educational test for the Bar (unless they have passed the articled clerks' preliminary examination), for any man who aspires to public advocacy ought to at least have what has been appropriately termed a polite knowledge; indeed, as I have many a time argued in your columns, I am for asking no favour whatever beyond a mere short cut as regards loss of time. To ask a solicitor to relinquish a possibly flourishing business and submit to three years' enforced idleness (even though he may be able to sell to a partner for an annuity), is a practical exclusion from the Bar, but I shall be agreeably THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY AND THE LAW CLUB. I agree with most of your readers that better facilities ought to be given to the country members of the Incorporated Law Society to join the club. It would be a great privilege to myself, as I reside 200 miles from town, and yet am there six or eight times a year and want some plan of that sort, as I belong to no club. I hope some one of influence in the society can be induced to assist us. A rule might provide that distant members pay less. That would suit my A MEMBER OF THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY. case. By (Q. 44.) INSOLVENT ESTATE OF TESTATOR-DUTY OF EXECUTOR.-An executor must pay the testator's debts in the following order: (1) his funeral expenses; (2) expenses of probate; (3) debts due to the Crown as taxes, or those due to the same by record or specialty; (4) poor and local rates; (5) debts of record, i. ., those due to creditors who have obtained judgment. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 46, the priority of debts by specialty has been abolished. Among creditors of equal degree, the executor may pay one in preference to the other; but this power will be lost when a decree for an account and a distribution bas been obtained. He may, also, before paying creditors in the same degree as himself, retain debts due to himself as an individual, costui que trust, or trustee (see Williams on Executors, 1040, 8th edit.; and Flood on Wills, 466.) PROMOTIONS AND MENTS. J. J. W. of the late James Warren, Esq., of Monaghan, APPOINT- Saturday... NOTA BENE.-Information intended for publication under the above heading should reach us not later than Thurs day morning in each week, as publication is otherwise delayed. INDIA OFFICE, July 21, 1879.-The QUEEN has been graciously pleased to appoint LOFTUS RICHARD TOTTENHAM, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, to be a judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal, in the room of Ernest George Birch, Esq. MR. WILLIAM PAGET, solicitor, Skipton and Keighley, and Mr. Newstead, solicitor, Otley, have, with the sanction of the Treasury, been appointed by Mr. W. T.S. Daniel, Q.C., to jointly discharge the duties of high bailiff of the Otley and Skipton County Courts in succession to Mr. John Cragg, deceased. The two gentlemen in question have for some time acted as deputy registrars, the registrar, Mr. Charles Carr, solicitor, Gomersal, being in ill-health. MR. EDMUND CAMMACK, solicitor, has been appointed clerk to the Board of Governors of the Spalding Grammar School. Mr. Cammack, who also practises at Gosberton, was admitted in 1865. MR. JOHN FORSHAW, of the firm of Forshaw and Parker, solicitors, of Preston, has been appointed clerk the magistrates of the Garstang Petty Sessional Divisional, at a salary of £100 per annum. Mr. Forshaw, who was chosen from nine candidates, all solicitors of Preston, in succession to the late Mr. R. G. Watson, solicitor, was admitted in 1860. MR. WILLIAM JOHNSON EVANS, solicitor, Ely, has been appointed by the Bishop to be registrar of the diocese of Ely, in succession to Canon Sparke, deceased. Mr. Evans, who was admitted in 1864, has for some time filled the position of deputy-registrar. Mr. JOHN HANDS, solicitor, of 60, Queen Victoria-street, London, has been appointed a Commissioner to administer oaths, and for taking the acknowledgments of married women, and examining witnesses for all courts in the Province of Nova Scotia. Mr. CHARLES HENRY HOLDEN, of the firm of Holden and Holden, solicitors, Bolton, has been appointed a Registrar of the County Court of Lancashire, holden at Bolton, jointly with Mr. Thomas Holden, the senior member of the firm, and the present registrar of the court. Mr. JAMES S. COLE, of Salisbury-street, Strand, W.C., has been appointed a Commissioner to administer oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature. Mr. RANDOLPH CHAMBERLAIN, solicitor, of Longton, Staffordshire, who was admitted on the roll in Trinity Term 1873, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor a Commissioner to administer oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature in England. 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. H. H. WARREN, ESQ. THE late Henry Hatchell Warren, Esq., barristerat-law, of the Inner Temple, who died at his residense at Hampstead, on the 29th June, in the twenty-eighth year of his age, was the second son ...... 2 Saturday, July 26 28 29 Wednesday 30 ......... 28 29 Saturday, July 26 2 V.C. Malins. Clowes Jackson Cobby V.C. Hall. Master of the Rolls. Merivale Teesdale Farrer V.C. Bacon. Mr. Justice Fry. Ward Koe Clowes Кое Clowes Koe Clowes Certificates of Sale and Transfer.-Saturday, July 26, HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. PROBATE AND DIVORCE REGISTRIES. NOTICE.-VACATION 1879. TAXATION OF COSTS.-The Registrars of the Probate and Divorce Registries of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice will not tax any bill of costs after Friday 8th Aug. until Monday the 3rd Nov., except under special circumstances to be stated in a written application addressed to them. SUMMONSES.-On Wednesday 13th Aug., and on every succeeding Wednesday until the 29th Oct. inclusive, one of the registrars will sit at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset-house, to hear summonses at half-past eleven o'clock. MOTIONS.-On Wednesday 13th and 27th Aug., 10th and 24th Sept., and 8th and 22nd Oct., one of the registrars will sit at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, to hear motions at half-past twelve o'clock. All papers for motions are to be left with the clerk of the papers or the chief clerk of the divorce registry, before two o'clock on the preceeing Saturday. OFFICE HOURS.-On and after 10th Aug. and until 24th Oct. inclusive, the offices of the Probate and Divorce Registries of the High Court of Justice will be opened to the public on Saturdays at ten o'clock a.m., and closed at two o'clock p.m., and on every other day of the week these offices will be opened at eleven o'clock a.m., and closed at three o'clock p.m. DEPARTMENT FOR LITERARY INQUIRY.-On and after 11th Aug. and until 20th Sept. inclusive, this department will be entirely closed. PAYMENT OF MONEY OUT OF COURT. - The registrars have fixed Friday in each week during the vacation for the payment of money out of court. THE GAZETTES. YOUNG, ALEXANDER, and YOUNG, THOMAS ROBERT WILSON, ALLEN, ARTHUR, jeweller, Cardiff. Pet. July 14. Dep.-Reg ASKRAM, JOHN UNWIN, and ASKHAM, PHILIP UNWIN, steel BURTENSHAW, EDWARD, grocer, Alton. Pet. July 16. Reg. Cole. Sur. Aug. 6 HAWES, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, musicseller, Northampton. ROBERTS, JOSEPH, and ROBERTS, WILLIAM, coal merchants, UTLEY, WILLIAM, sen, draper, Burnley. Pet. July 15. Reg. Gazette, July 22. To surrender at the Bankruptcy Court, Lincoln's-inn-fields. FFRANCE, ROBERT JOHN BARTON WILSON, Westminster HART, AARON, and HART, JOHN, boot manufacturers, LAIDLAW JAMES, and AMES, ALBERT, riding school proprietors, Bournemouth. Pet. July 17. Reg. Dickinson. Sur. Aug. 2 PAGE, CHARLES, fishing boat owner, Lowestoft. Pet. July 18. Reg. Worlledge. Sur. Aug. 6 RIMMER, THOMAS, grocer, Birkdale. Pet. July 18. Reg. Bellringer. eur. Aug. 6 SHAW, SAMUEL WALTER, merchant, Halifax. Pet. July 19. Reg. Rankin. Sur. Aug. 2. SUMMERVILLE, JOHN, builder, Bristol. Pet. July 17. Reg. Harley. Sur. Aug. 6 Bankruptcies Annulled. Gazette, July 8. Liquidations by Arrangement. FIRST MEETINGS. Gazette, July 18. ABRAHAMS, NATHAN, cabinet maker, Salford. Pet. July 16. Aug. 5, at three, at office of Sol. Leyland, Manchester ARMSTRONG, ADAM RANKINE, ironmonger, New Briggate. Pet. July 15. July 31, at three, at the Leeds Law Institution, Leeds. Bols. Eddison and Eddision, Leeds ATHERTON, JOSEPH, and JONES, DAVID BIBBY, estate agents, Liverpool. Pet. July 14. July 81, at two, at office of Sol. Harris, Liverpool ATKINSON, JAMES, painter, Carlisle. Pet. July 14. Aug. 1, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Donald and Ostell, Carlisle AUSTEN, DAVID, market gardener, Greenwicn. Pet. July 10. Aug. 5, at twelve, at office of Sol. Peake, Woolwich BAINES, WILLIAM BROWN, master mariner, South Shields. Pet. July 15. July 30. at three, at offices of sols. Purvis and Son, South Shields BAKER, HANNAH, and PICK, JOSEPH, confectioners, Redland. Pet. July 16. July 25, at twelve, at twelve, at office of Collins, accountant, 39, Broad-st, Bristol. Sol. Salmon, Bristol BARSBY, WILLIAM, coal merchant, Warwick-rd, Kensing ton. Pet. July 5. July 31, at two, at offices of Morphett and Hanson, accountants, 15, King-st, Cheapside BARTLAM, JOSEPH, builder, Wolverhampton. Pet. July 14. July 30, at eleven, at office of Sol. Stirk, Wolverhampton BATCHELOR, JOSEPH, plait dealer, Lee. Pet. July 16. July 31, at one, at the Royal hotel, Tring. Sol. Clarke, High Wycombe BELL, WILLIAM MONCRIEFF, draper, Liverpool. Pet. July 14. July 30, at twelve, at office of Sol. Carruthers, Liver pool BLAND, FREDERICK, saddler, Bingham. Pet. July 15. July 30, at three, at office of Sol. Belk, Nottingham BOLLAND, GEORGE WHITFIELD, victualler, Newcastle. Pet. Pet. July 14. July 30, at eleven, at office of Sol. Young, Newcastle BOUGHEY, JAMES, contractor, Stoke-on-Trent. Pet. July 16. July 28, at eleven, at office of Sol, Mayer, Burslem BRADY, PHILIP, groc r, Leed Pet. July 15. July 30, at eleven, at office of Sol. Cousins, Leeds BROWNE, WILLIAM EATON, stone worker. Wolverhampton. Pet. July 14. Aug. 5, at eleven, at office of Sol. Gatis, Wolverhampton BROWN, JOSEPH THOMAS, jun, pork butcher, St. George's. Pet. July 12. July 30, at eleven, at office of Sol, Tonkin, Bristol BULL, THOMAS, farmer, Gatcombe. Pet. July 16. July 30, at eleven, at Warburton's hotel, Newport, I.W. Sol. Joyce, Newport CAFFERATA, ARTHUR FREDERICK, and TAYLOR, AMBROSE, bicycle manufacturers, Liverpool. Pet. July 16. Aug. 6, at three, at offices of Sols. Nordon and Levy, Liverpool CARPENTER, JAMES, glass dealer, Birmingham. Pet. July 14. July 29, at three, at office of Sol. Fallos, Birmingham CARR, JESSE, fruiterer, West Hartlepool. Pet. July 15 July 31, at eleven, at office of Sol. Wilson, West Hartle pool CAVANAH, JOHN, hatter, Manchester. Pet. July 15. Aug. 7, at two, at the London Warehousemen's Association, 111, Cheapside. Sol. Clift CHESTER, THOMAS, builder, Nottingham. Pet. July 16. Aug. 8, at twelve, at office of Sol. Fraser, Nottingham CLARKE, THOMAS, cabinet maker, Stockton. Pet. July 16. July 31, at one, at office of Sol. Brayshay, Stockton COLLINS, GEORGE, timber merchant, Landport. Pet. July 16. Aug. 2, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Munns and Longden, Old Jewry COAD, THEOPHILUS, telegraph engineer, Queen's-rd, Upton Park. Pet. July 14. Aug. 5, at two, at office of Ernest, accountant, Queen-at-pl Cannon-st. Sol. Kaye, King-st, Cheapside Cox, THOMAS, wheelwright, Barnack. Pet. July 15. Aug. 1, at twelve, at office of Sol. Chapman, Stamford CRAIG, ANDREW, builder, Newcastle. Pet. July 16. Aug. 5. at two, at office of so!. Elsdon, Newcastle CROWTHER, JOHN PICKUP, mason, Huddersfi ld. Pet. July 1. Aug. 6, at three, at offices of Sols. Ramsden and Sykes, Huddersfield DAVIES, DAVID, grocer, Towyn. Pet. July 14. July 31, at twelve, at office of Sols. Hughes and Sons, Aberystwith DAVIES, EVAN, saddler, Towyn. Pet. July 15. Aug. 2, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Hughes and Sons, Aberystwith DICKSON, ALLAN MCKECHNIE, and DICKSON, ALEXANDER MCKECHNIE, carriage builders, Congleton. Pet. July 15. Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Lion and Swan hotel, West-st, Congleton. Sol. Garside, Congleton DURHAM, ERNEST, teacher of music, Canton-bldgs, Poplar. Pt. July 16. July 29, at three, at office of Sol. Barfield, Moorgate-chmbrs, Finsbury-pl ECCLES, JOHN, grocer, Accrington. Pet. July 11. July 30, at three, at the Mechanics' Institution, St. James's-st, Accrington. Sols. Hawthorn and Broughton, Accrington EDMONDS, EDWIN KIRKWOOD, hotel keeper, Chertsey. Pet. July 14. July 30, at two, at office of Sol. Jenkins, Chertsey EXLEY, WILFRED, milk dealer, Leeds. Pet. July 16. July 31, at three, at offices of Sols. Hopps and Bedford, Leeds FIDDIES, ROBERT, victualler, Wakefield. Pet. July 14, July 3 at three, at the George hotel, Westgate. Sol. Horner, Wakefield FIELD, FRANCIS JOHN, cheesemonger, Wick-rd, South FISK, WILLIAM GEORGE, painter, Ipswich. Pet. July 14. Fox, DAVID WRIGHT, stuff manufacturer, Upperholme. GILL, BARNABAS, innkeeper, Barnsley. Pet. July 15. Aug. 5, at eleven, at the Queen's hotel, Barnsley. Sol. Parker, Barnsley GODWIN, JOHN, general dealer, Birmingham. Pet. July 14. July 30, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Buller and Bickley, Birmingham GOODMAN, JOHN ELLA, confectioner, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Pet. July 16. Aug. 5, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Dewes and Musson, Ashby-de-la-Zouch GREAVES, JAMES HARRISON, baker, Hyde. Pet. July 15. Aug. 7, at three, at offices of Sols. Hibbert and Hibber, Hyde HALL, FREDERICK CHATTERTON. builder, Waterloo. Pet. July 15. July 31, at two, at offices of Sols. Jackson and Tomkies, Liverpool HARDWICK, MARK, woollen manufacturer, Guiseley. Pet. July 9. July 29, at three, at office of Sol. Wells, Leeds HART, HENRY, manufacturer of children's apparel, Jewinat. Pet. July 9. July 28, at three, at 111, Cheapside. Sol. Green, Queen-st HAWKINS, CHARLES, chair manufacturer, Westminster Bridge-rd. Pet. July 8. July 28, at four, at office of Sol. Marshall, Chancery-la HAYNES, FRANCIS, joiner, Hulme. Pet. July 14. Aug. 1, at three, at the Mitre hotel, Cathedral-steps, Manchester. Sols. Whitworth and Whitworth, Manchester HAYWARD, JOHN EDWARD, and HAYWARD, EDWARD POURCH, cloth manufacturers, Trowbridge. Pet. July 14. July 31, at one, at offices of Sols. Rodway, Mann, and Rodway, Trowbridge HAYWOOD, TOM, and MACHIN, JOSEPH HODGSON, cabinet case makers, Birmingham. Pet. July 15. July 30, at three, at offices of Sols. Wright and Marshall, Birming ham HERBERT, JOHN BENBOW, jun, solicitor, Birmingham, Pet. July 15. July 29, at three. at offices of Sols. Johnson, Barclay, and Johnson, Birmingham HITCHCOCK, JEDEDIAH, stonemason, Beeston. Pet. July 14. HOARE, EDMUND, carman, Boston-pl, Dorset-sq. Pet. HOPKINS, GEORGE, bootmaker, Southampton. Pet. July 14. HOUGHTON, EMMA, out of business, St. Helens. Pet. July 16. Aug. 5, at two, at office of Sol. Massey, St. Helens HYAM, ALFRED ISAAC, horse collar manufacturer, King-st, Finsbury. Pet. June 80. July 25, at two, at office of Sol. Collings, Buckingham-st, Strand JAY, JOSEPH PRICE, upholsterer, Mare-street, Hackney. Pet. July 15. July 30, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Blake and Snow, College-hill, Cannon-st JOSES, JAMES, brassfounder, West Bromwich. Pet. July 14. July 30, at eleven at office of Sol. Topham, West Bromwich KAY, WILLLIAM, joiner, Over Darwen. Pet. July 16. Ang. 12, at three, at offices of Sols. Boote and Edgar, Manchester KERSHAW, JOHN, KERSHAW, HENRY WILLIAM, KERSHAW, ARTHUR, and KERSHAW, FREDERICK HOLROYD, Coal merchants, Huddersfield. Pet. July 14. July 30, at a quarter to four, at office of Sol. Armitage, Huddersfield LAKIN, WILLIAM, farmer, Laneham. Pet. July 15. Aug. 1, at eleven, at office of sol. Bescoby. Retford LAMB, JOHN, Commission agent, Burton-on-Trent. July 14. July 31, at eleven, at the Cheese Hall Vaults, Crewe. Sol. Pointon, Crewe Pet. LEACH, SIMON, waggon builder, Chorley, Pet. July 14. Aug. 11, at twelve, at the Board room, Chorley. Sol, Jackson LISTER, RICHARD EASTWOOD, tailor, Burnley. Pet. July 10. July 8, at three, at offices of Sols. Artindale and Artindale, Burnley LONGMAN, JAMES PARTRIDGE, painter, Chumleigh. Pet. Pet. MARLAND, JAMES, engineer, Chippenham. Pet. July 15. MILES, WILLIAM ISAAC, ironmonger, Brentford. Pet. July 5. July 29, at three, at office of Sol. Scott, Aldermanbury MOORE, WILLIAM, jun, provision merchant, Southsea. Pet. July 12. Jaly 29, at three, at 46, St. James's-street, Portsea. Sol. Feltham, Portsea MORT, HARRY LEONARD, farmer, Lydiate, near Ormskirk. NORRIS, JAMES, bootmaker, Birkenhead. Pet. July 14. July 30, at three, at offices of Mawson, accountant, Birkenhead. Sol. Bleakley, Birkenhead OGLE, ANDREW, and PICKARD, ALFRED, cottonspinners, Burnley. Pet. July 14. July 30, at half past four, at offices of Sols. Sale, Seddon, Hilton, and Lord, Manchester ONIONS, EDWARD, builder, Leicester. Pet. July 16. Aug. 1, at three, at the Midland Auction Mart, Leicester. Ssols. Stone, Billson, Wilcox, and Dutton, Leicester PARKER, EDWIN, coal dealer, Ulverston. Pet. July 16. Aug. 1, at two, at the Queen's hotel, Ulverston. Sols. Nalder and Jones, Barrow-in-Furness PARKER, JOHN, farmer, Swanbach. Pet. July 15. Aug. 6, at eleven, at the Lamb hotel, Audlem. Sol. Brooke. Nantwich PASS, SAMUEL, pianoforte dealer, Oldham. Pet, July 16. Aug. 1, at three, at offices of Sols. Ascroft and Sons, Oldham PEMBERTON, GEORGE, general dealer, Penwortham. Pet, PITMAN, WILLIAM, jun, grocer's assistant. Southampton. RAYMONT, GEORGE AUGUSTIN, bootmaker, Newton Abbot. ROGERS, ALFRED RICHARD, draper, Bournemouth, Pet. July 16. Aug. 7, at two, at office of Sol. Wade, Bournemouth ROTHERA, JOSEPH, smith, Halifax. Pet. July 14. July 31, at eleven, at office of Sol. Boocock, Halifax SACRE, GEORGE, builder, Hastings. Pet. July 8. July 23, at twelve,at Green's hotel, Hastings. Sol. Jones, Hastings SAUNDERS, WILLIAM JOSEPH, hatter, Eccles. Pet. July 15. July 30, at three, at offices of Sols. Whitworth and Whitworth, Manchester SCHOFIELD, JAMES GLOVER, draper, Huddersfield. Pet. July 15. July 31, at half-past ten, at office of Sol. Milnes, Huddersfield SEAMAN, LEO, farmer, Gloucester. Pet. July 12. July 29, at eleven, at the White Hart hotel, Moreton-in-Marsh. Sol. Francis, Stow-on-the-Wold SHAW, WILLIAM, rag merchant, Batley. Pet. July 15. July 31, at three, at office of Sol. Wooler, Batley SIMONS, JOHN, boot dealer, Nottingham. Pet. July 9. July $1, at eleven, at Old Moothall-chmbrs, 2, Friar-la, Notting. ham. Sol. Stevenson, Nottingham SMETHURST, WILLIAM, monumental sculptor, Dukinfield. Pet. July 14. July 31, at three, at the Commercial hotel, King-st, Dukinfield. Sol. Garforth, Dukinfield SMITH, JAMES, butcher. South Bank. Pet. July 15. July 31, at ten. at office of So. Ward, Middlesbrough SMITH, WALTER, grocer, Oldham. Pet. July 16. July 31, at three, at office of Sol. Clegg, Oldham SMYTHE, ROBERT DAVID, merchant, St. Mary-axe. Pet. July 16. Aug. 5, at two, at offices of Sols. Bolton and Co, Temple-grdns, Temple SPENCER, LUCY ELIZA, bookbinder, Bridgewater-sq. Barbican. Pet. July 12. Aug. 6, at three, at Fenchurch House, Fenchurch-st. Sol. Neal, Lime-st SUNLEY, JOHN, joiner, Sunderland. Pet. July 15. Aug. 1, at three, at offices of Sols. Bowey and Brewis. Sunderland SYKES, JOSEPH, grocer, Huddersfield. Pet. July 3. July 28, at eleven, at office of Sol. Welsh, Huddersfield TASCH, MARKS, tailor, Park-ter, Dorset-sq, Regent's Park. Pet. July 1. July 30, at half-past ten, at office of Sol. Howard, Southampton-bldngs, Chancery-la TAYLOR, CHARLES HEATON, BRITTAIN, RICHARD, and IMISSON, MAHLON FREDERICK, ironfounders, Ulleskelf. Pet. July 11. July 29, at three, st office of Sol. Thompson, Tadcaster TEASDALE, JOHN, gunsmith, Durham. Pet. July 16. Aug. 1, at eleven, at office of Sol. Chambers. Durham THOMAS, ANN, grocer, Merthyr Tydfil. Pet. July 12. July 29, at twelve, at office of Sols., James and Co, Merthyr Tydfil THOMAS, GEORGE, joiner, Lamphey. Pet. June 30. July 28, at twelve, at office of Sol. Thomas, Tenby THOMPSON, JOHN ROBERT, butcher, Hammersmith. Pet. July 8. July 28, at two, at office of Sol. Parke, Islington THOMPSON, WALTER, victualler, Hoxton. Pet. July 15. July 31, at ten, at office of Sol. Biggenden, Hackney TOWNSEND, HENRY, agent, Manchester. Pet. July 15. July 31, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Preston and Young, Man. chester TYSOM, GEORGE, straw hat manufacturer, Luton. Pet. July 15. July 31, at half-past ten, at office of Sol. Neve, Luton VERNON, GEORGE, farmer, near Goldenhill. Pet. July 12. WARREN, FRANCIS, greengrocer, Eastville. Pet. July 17. WILCOCK, JAMES WILLIAM, baker, Hulme. Pet. July 10. WILKINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM, egg merchant, Whitechapelrd. Pet. July 7. July 29, at three, at 62, Chancery-la. Sol. Marshall WILSON, GEORGE FREDERICK, general salesman, Essex-rd, Islington. Pet. July 11. July 26, at ten, at office of Sol. Biggenden, Hackney WOOTTON, EDWARD DAVIS, grocer, Walsall. Pet. July 15. Aug. 1, at eleven, at office of Sol. Stanley, Walsall WURTZBURG, EDWARD, and WURTZBURG, CHARLES EDWARD, merchants, Leeds. Pet. July 15. Aug. 6, at three, at offices of Sols. North and Sons, Leeds YOUNGER, JAMES, draper, Walsall. Pet. July 14. July 31, at eleven, at the Queen's hotel, Stephenson-pl, Birmingham. Sol. Shakespeare, Oldbury Gazette, July 22. ADCOCK, GEORGE WILLIAM, manufacturer, Spurst we-rd, Hackney. Pet. July 5. July 29, at ten, at the offices o Harding and Co, 125, Pentonville-rd. Sol. Staniland, Charterhouse-sq ADAMS, ALBERT, furniture dealer, Bristol. Pet. July 17. Aug. 6, at two, at office of Sol. Salmon, Bristol ADDIN, EDWARD, commission agent, Hereford. Pet. July 17. BARLOW, JOSEPH, coal merchant, Burslem. Pet. July 21. BROADBENT, JOSEPH, and APPLEYARD, JOHN, brickmakers. Armley. Pet. July 18. Aug. 2, at eleven, at office of Lowrey, accountant, South-parade, Leeds. Sols. Hopps and Bedford BULLOCK, FREDERIC, and BULLOCK, EDWIN, poultry breeders, Swavesey. Pet. July 18. Aug. 5, at half-past eleven, at office of Sol. Watts BAKER, ELIAS, draper, Warminster. Pet. July 17. July 31. at twelve, at the Grand hotel, Bristol. Sols. Brittan, Press, and Inskip, Bristol. BrownsWORD, JOHN, butcher, Hanley. Pet. July 16. Aug. 1, at eleven, at Queen's-chmbrs, Liverpool rd, Burslem. Sol. Julian, Burslem BUTCHER, HENRY, cattle dealer, Acton. Pet. July 17, Aug. 1, at twelve, at the Rose and Crown inn, Sudbury. Sol, Jones, Colchester BRADLEY, JAMES, licensed victualler, Congleton. Pet. July 16. Aug. 6. at eleven, at the Lion and Swan inn, Congleton. Sol. Garside, Congleton BROOK, THOMAS, tailor, Exeter. Pet. July 17. Aug. 2, at half-past ten, at the Castle hotel, Exeter. Sol. Floud, Exeter BILLINGTON. JAMES. seedsman, Leicester. Pet. July 16. Aug. 5, at three, at office of Sol. Shires, Leicester BATTY, MANASSEH, and BATTY, HENRY, engineers, Birken. shaw. Pet. July 19. Aug. 6, at ten, at offices of Sols. Peel and Gaunt, Bradford BOTTOMLEY, BENJAMIN, builder, Manningham. Pet. July 16. July 31, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Rawson, George, and Wade, Bradford BELLMAN, HENRY, cabinet maker, Liverpool. Pet. July 17. BECKER, CARL, gasfitter, Chipping Norton. Pet. July 14. BENSUSAN, JACOB SAMUEL LEVY, manufacturer, Wood-st. Cheapside. Pet. July 19. Aug. 6, at two, at the offices of James and Edwards, 110, Cannon-st, Sol. Bowen, Moor. gate-st BUDERUS, GEORGE LOUIS, manufacturers' agent, Cheapside, Pet. July 19. Aug. 11, at three, at the offices of Boyes and Childs, 42, Poultry. Sol. Nichols, Gresham-st BREAREY, PLUMMER THOMAS, and BALDWIN, RICHARD, manufacturers', agents, Aldermanbury. Pet. July 21. Aug. 7, at two, at the Guildhall Coffeehouse, Gresham-st. Sol. Sturt, Ironmonger-la CARTER, JAMES, beer retailer, Sevenoaks. Pet. July 18. Aug. 6, at twelve, at the Sennocke Arms, Sevenoaks. Sol. Gregory, Moorgate-st CANT, HENRY WYMARK, builder, Harwich. Pet. July 18. Aug. 7, at two, at otices of Sols. Cobbold, Sons, and Rouse, Harwich CLARK, JOHN, surveyor, Alresford. Pet. July 18. Aug. 5, at three, at offices of Sols. Bailey and White, Winchester COLLINS, CHARLES, agricultural implement maker, Burbage Pet. July 17. Aug. 5, at eleven, at the George hotel, Hinckley, Sols. Bland and Bland, Hinckley CARTER, HARRY, innkeeper, Pudsey. Pet. July 18. Aug. 4, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Berry and Robinson, Brad ford CRATHORNE, GEORGE, lime merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Pet. July 17. Aug. 6, at twelve, at office of Greener, public accountant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Sol. Raine, Darling ton CUBITT, JOHN CHARLES, music seller, Upper Bangor. Pet. July 16. Aug. 5, at eleven, at the Westminster Palace hotel. Sol. Hughes, Bangor CROSSLEY, JONATHAN, and ALLOTT, WILLIAM, builders, Cleckheaton. Pet. July 18. Aug. 6, at three, at office of Sol. Curry, Cleckheaton CORFE, WILLIAM, tailor, Westow Hill, Upper Norwood. Pet. July 14. Aug. 6, at eleven, at office of Sol, Swan, Camberwell New-road CRANSTONE, ISAAC, bricklayer, Crondall. Pet. July 17. Aug. 8, at twelve, at the Board room of the Townhall Sol. Potter, Farnham CARR, RICHARD, bricklayer, Southport. Pet. July 18. Aug. 7, at two, at offices of Sols. Welsby, Hill, and Smallshaw, Southport CHORLTON, JOHN, joiner, Openshaw. Pet. July 17. Aug. 5, at three, at offices of Sols. Nuttall and son, Manchester CAVANAH, JOHN, hatter, Manchester. Pet. July 18. Aug. 7. at two, at the London Warehousemen's Association, 111. Cheapside. Sol. Clift, Cheapside COTTRELL, ALFRED, butcher, Wallingford. Pet. July 15. Aug. 5, at two, at the Feathers inn, Market-pl, Walling. ford. Sol. Cooper, Chancery-la DELANY, JOHN COLLINS, shipowner, Sussex-rd, Holloway. Pet. July 19. Aug. 7, at three, at offices of Sols. Lawrance, Plews and Baker, Old Jewry-chmbs DAVID, HERMAN, and DAVID, LEON, diamond merchants, Ely-pl. Pet. July 19. Aug. 6, at two, at the Inns of Court hotel, High Holborn. Sol. Leslie, Conduit-st, Bond-st DICKER, THOMAS, shipbroker, Royal Exchange-avenue. Pet. July 11. July 31, at two, at offices of Sols. Kisch, Son, and Hanbury, Chancery-la DICKSON, ALLAN MCKECHNIE, and DICKSON, ALEXANDER MCKECHNIE, Carriage builders, Congleton. Pet. July 18. Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Lion and Swan hotel, Congleton. Sol. Garside, Congleton DARLINGTON, THOMAS, watchmaker, Hanley. Pet. July 16. July 31, at eleven, at the Albion hotel, Albion.pl, Hanley. Sol. Lawrence, Hanley EDGE, HANNAH, Macclesfield. Pet. July 19. Aug. 7. at three, at offices of Sols. Barclay and Henstock, Maccles file:d FERRIS, FRANK, FERRIS, JAMES, and SMITH, JAMES. fancy FREEMAN, FREDERICK GIRLING, land agent, Henham. Pet. July 19. Aug. 7, at two, at the White Hart inn, Saxmundham. Sol. Wiltshire, Great Yarmouth FRANCIS, JOHN, farmer, Spring Hill. Pet. July 17. Aug. 7, at half-past twelve, at Talbot and Woosnam, Newtown. Sol. Talbot FORSTER, JOHN, farmer. Cornworthy. Pet. July 18. Aug. 5, at one, at the Seven Stars hotel, Totnes. Šol. Floud. Exeter FROST, WILLIAM GEORGE, Plympton St. Mary. Pet. July 17. Aug. 2, at eleven, at office of Sol. Square, Plymouth FORRESTER, THOMAS FREDERICK, saddler, Hove. Pet. Ju'y 17. Aug. 5, at half-past three, at offices of Nye and Greenwood, Bridge-chmbrs, 171, Queen Victoria st. Sols. Nye, Brighton |