123. a.). These disabilities of a bastard, it must be observed, are not the consequence of specific rules that a bastard child shall not inherit, or shall not be a villein, &c., but are the consequence of a much broader and more general assumption of the law, which, whether morally or physically absurd or not, is acted upon as a reality, viz. that the blood of a person born out of wedlock is not, in point of law, traceable to his reputed parents. He has no inherited blood; in the eye of the law, he is of no one's blood. Hence, he can have neither brothers nor sisters, nor any other kindred by blood.

If this doctrine, however artificial, is supported, as it clearly is, for all purposes of inheritance, and even for all purposes of purchase, where the description of the person taking by purchase is exclusively confined to terms describing him as of the blood of his ancestor, strange confusion would be occasioned if it were not to be supplied under all circumstances where the legal rights of the parties depend on making the bastard of the blood of his ancestor. It would seem, for example, very absurd to state as propositions of law,—

I. A. shall not inherit from B., his alleged sister, because he is not of her blood.

II. He shall not marry her, because he is of her blood*.

And yet so the propositions must inevitably stand if it be decided that the legitimacy or illegitimacy of one of the two wives in such a case as that now before the Court of Queen's Bench, is immaterial. An argument against applying the doctrine of nullius filius to the case of a marriage with a deceased wife's illegitimate sister would of course be, as it was in Hains v. Jeffel, that, according to this rule, a man might "marry his own bastard, which, doubtless, could not be allowed." There are many answers to this argument: firstly, it may be observed, that to say that "doubtless a man would not be allowed to marry his own bastard," is merely begging the question, and assuming as settled that which is the very subject of dispute, viz. whether the law knows any such relation as parent and illegitimate child; that is, whether it can take cognizance of the existence of a bastard with reference to the blood of his ancestor, or in any other mode than with reference to his isolated identity? secondly, the argument goes, at most, to shew, that, from an admitted rule of law, consequences may flow which, if the law had foreseen them, it would have forbidden; but it does not prove that such consequences are forbidden: thirdly, it may be answered, that such an argument may be a very good reason for the interference of the Legislature, either to alter the original rule, or to except expressly certain things from its operation, but is no reason for denying effect to the corollaries deducible according to the strictest reasoning from the rule itself: fourthly, it may be answered, that the rule is in fact a rule of evi

* It will, perhaps, be objected to this mode of treating the question, that the word "blood" means always, with reference to questions of inheritance, legitimate blood; but that, with reference to marriage, it does not necessarily mean legitimate blood; and, therefore, it may be true that a man is not of his sister's blood for the purpose of inheritance, but is so for the purpose of incapacity to marry. The answer to this objection is, that there is no such distinction in law; that proximity of blood necessarily implies community of descent; that the law knows no descent except through marriage; that the very terms "brother," "sister," nay even "child," have strictly no legal application except to persons claiming them by legitimate consanguinity; and that in the strongest case that can be put, that of a gift to a bastard child, described as the child of A., such child would take not as child, but by description, with reference to its reputation of being the child. "It is not the fact," says Mr. Jarman, " for that the law will not inquire into, but the reputation of the fact that entitles them." (Jarm. Wills, vol. 2, p. 129).

dence, according to which, where it appears that A. and B. were never married, the law will not notice the fact of their cohabitation, or of issue having been born of them, and can receive no evidence to shew that a person alleged to be their issue is anything more than a total stranger in blood.

Again, it may be urged, that to contend for carrying out the doctrine, that a bastard is nullius filius, to the extent of saying that it is not unlawful for a man to marry his own bastard, would be to deduce from the law a sanction to the grossest immorality. But the answer here is again, that the immorality is the consequence of the consanguinity, and, if there be no consanguinity, there can be no immorality; and the question is, not whether society, judging according to its physical knowledge and its moral maxims, would be justified in holding such a marriage immoral, a point on which there cannot be much doubt, but whether the law, which does not notice or admit the consanguinity, can take cognisance of an immorality which has no possibility of existence, except as grounded on an admitted consanguinity. The argument may be put in another form-thus, at least as regards consanguinity through paternal blood: not that the law holds a bastard to be strictly of the blood of no man, which would be absurd, but that it refuses (upon a notion, it is said, of discouraging immorality) to inquire or be informed of whose blood he is; consequently, it cannot notice whether he is collaterally of the blood of any legitimate descendant of a particular person; so that, when it is admitted that one has married a woman bastard, the question, whether she was the sister of his deceased wife, cannot be entertained, because the rule of law prevents the Court from receiving any judicial information on which it can ascertain of whose blood the woman bastard was. It cannot, therefore, judicially know that she was the sister of her husband's deceased wife, and cannot, consequently, on that ground, pronounce the second marriage unlawful. C. S. D.

GENTLEMEN CALLED TO THE BAR.

The following Gentlemen have been admitted to the degree of Barrister at Law in Easter Term:

LINCOLN'S INN.-Edward Leigh Pemberton, jun., Esq.; Alfred Coope, Esq.; Richard Bawtree Turner, Esq.; Thomas A. Lister Marsden, Esq.; S. Brownlow Gray, Esq.; William Newton Warren, Esq.; Ebenezer Kay, Esq.

MIDDLE TEMPLE.-John Thadeus Delane, Esq., M.A., Magdalen Hall, Oxford; George Edward Engleheart, Esq.; Charles Octavius Boys, Esq.; Robert John Wallcott, Esq.; Alfred Erasmus Dryden, Esq., M.A., Trin. Coll., Oxford; George, Loch, Esq.; Alexander Fitzjames, Esq.; Thomas Rawlinson, Esq,; James Brotherton, Esq.; Charles Hill, Esq.; William James Hall, Esq.; Henry Fox Bristowe, Esq.; Isaac John Walker, Esq., Brazenose Coll., Oxford; Albert Mott, Esq., B.A., Univ. of London; Frederic Smith, Esq., B.A., St. John's Coll., Oxford; John Clarke Searle, Esq.; Peter Henry Edlin, Esq.; Thomas Steele, Esq., Trinity Coll., Dublin; Archibald Campbell Barclay, Esq.; John Towne Danson, Esq.; William Frederick Palmer Morewood, Esq., B.A., Ch. Ch., Oxford; George Lawson, Esq., B.A., St. John's Coll., Cambridge; John Henry Dillon, Esq.; Benjamin Richard Aston, Esq.; Francis Prix Fortier, Esq.

INNER TEMPLE.-Springall Thompson, Esq.; Edward Hoare Sirr, Esq.; Charles Frith, Esq.; F. W. Cadogan, Esq.; Elliott Grassett, Esq.; William Henry Leathley, Esq.; Samuel Stephen Bateson, Esq.

GRAY'S INN, June 9.-Richard Edward Arden, Esq.; Matthew Combe, Esq.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

TRINITY TERM.-10 VICTORIA.-June 11. This Court will, on Saturday the 3rd July next, hold a sitting, and will proceed to give judgment in certain of the matters standing over for the consideration of the Court. THOMAS WILDE.

Emperial Parliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Thursday, June 17.

The Masters in Chancery Bill and Masters in Chancery Affidavits Office Bill severally went through Committee.

London Gazettes.

TUESDAY, JUNE 15.

BANKRUPTS.

CHARLES GILMAN, Oxford-street, Middlesex, oilman and grocer, June 22 at 1, and July 27 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Whitmore; Sols. Lacy & Co., New Bridge-street.-Fiat dated June 11. JOHN EVANS, Pump-row, Old-street-road, St. Luke's, Middlesex, paper stainer, paper hanger, dealer and chapman, June 22 at half-past 12, and July 27 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Cannan; Sol. Weeks, 10, Tokenhouse-yard.-Fiat dated June 10. EDWARD EDMUNDS, Lowndes-st., Knightsbridge, and St. George's-place, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, hosier and glover, June 25 at 1, and July 28 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Belcher; Sols. Reed & Co., Friday-street, Cheapside.-Fiat dated June 11. JOHN FOX KEMP, Uxbridge, Middlesex, grocer, cheesemonger, dealer and chapman, June 24 at 1, and July 28 at half-past 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Turquand; Sols. Bell & Co., Bow Church-yard, Cheapside. -Fiat dated May 28.

HENRY DIRCKS, Winsley-street, Oxford-street, Middlesex, and Nicholas-lane, London, manufacturer of malt and hop extract, dealer and chapman, June 24 at half-past 1, and July 28 at half-past 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Graham; Sols. J. and C. Robinson, Queen-st.place.-Fiat dated June 15.

JAMES ROLLINGS, Landport, Portsmouth, Hampshire, stay manufacturer, June 25 at 11, and July 28 at 2, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Follett; Sols. Lofty & Co., King-street, Cheapside.-Fiat dated June 2. GEORGE GILBERT, Folkestone, Kent, leather cutter, shoemaker, dealer and chapman, June 22 at 2, and July 21 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Bell; Sol. Stenning, 50 A, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London.-Fiat dated May 28. ARCHIBALD DUNLOP, Lower Belgrave-place, Chestersquare, Middlesex, land agent, scrivener, dealer and chapman, June 24 at 11, and July 21 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Johnson; Sols. Wathen & Phillips, Basinghall-street.-Fiat dated June 8. WILLIAM GIDEON CHURCHES, Basinghall-street, London, Blackwell Hall factor and warehouseman, dealer and chapman, June 23 at 2, and July 21 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Bell; Sols. Dickson & Overbury, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Fiat dated JOHN LONGMAN SHEPHERD, Basinghall-street, London, tavern keeper, victualler, dealer and chapman, June 29 at half-past 11, and July 27 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Edwards; Sol. Buchanan, 8, Basinghall-street, London.-Fiat dated June 8. JAMES ROBINSON, Manchester, (trading in or under the name of Edward Robinson), perfumer and dealer in fancy goods, and a partner in the Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Newcastle Coal Company, July 1 and 16 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Hobson; Sols. Atkinson & Co., Manchester; Abbott, Charlotte. Bedford-square, London.-Fiat dated June 11.

June 9.

EDMUND LORD, Rochdale, Lancashire, flannel manufacturer, June 29 and July 20 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester: Off. Ass. Fraser; Sols. Hunt, Roch. dale; Cragg & Jeyes, Bedford-row, London.-Fiat dated

June 4.

THOMAS JAGGER, Birkenhead, Cheshire, victualler, June 25 and July 16 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Turner; Sols. Fletcher & Hull, Liverpool; Gregory & Co., Bedford-row. - Fiat dated June 7. WILLIAM BROSTER, Tranmere, Cheshire, joiner and builder, June 25 and July 16 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Bird; Sols. Fletcher & Hull, Liverpool; Gregory & Co., Bedford-row, London. -Fiat dated June 9. ABRAHAM THOMAS, Liverpool, cart owner, dealer and chapman, June 25 and July 23 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Turner; Sols. Pember ton, Liverpool; Cornthwaite & Co., Old Jewry-chambers, London.-Fiat dated June 12. THOMAS SHIPMAN the younger, WILLIAM BIRKS, and BENJAMIN SHIPMAN, Nottingham, lace manufacturers, June 18 and July 16 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham: Off. Ass. Bittleston; Sol. Wells, Nottingham.-Fiat dated May 29.. WILLIAM WORSEY, Forebridge, Castle Church, Staffordshire, dealer in stone, road contractor, dealer and chapman, June 23 at 11, and July 15 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham: Off. Ass. Christie; Sol. Bowen, Stafford.-Fiat dated June 5. ANTHONY ATKINSON, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, share broker, dealer and chapman, June 18 at half-past 10, and July 23 at half-past 1, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Off. Ass. Baker; Sols. Hoyle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Crosby & Co., Church-court, Old Jewry, London.-Fiat dated May 28. WILLIAM FREDERICK ATKINSON, Wakefield, Yorkshire, woolstapler, dealer and chapman, June 29 and Aug. 5 at 10, District Court of Bankruptey, Leeds: Off. Ass. Young; Sols. Greaves, Leeds; Jacques & Co., Ely-place, London.-Fiat dated June 8.

JOHN WALFORD, Stamford, Lincolnshire, innkeeper and victualler, dealer and chapman, June 25 and July 23 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Nottingham: Off. Ass. Bittleston; Sols. Thompson & Co., Stamford.-Fiat dated May 19.

JOSEPH NAYLOR, Cleckheaton, Birstal, Yorkshire, clock and watch maker, dealer and chapman, July 1 and Aug. 3 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds: Off. Ass. Hope; Sols. Harle & Clarke, Leeds; Jones & Co., Johnstreet, Bedford-row, London.-Fiat dated June 7.

MEETINGS.

Angus Macdonald and Archibald Campbell, Regent-street, Westminster, Middlesex, army agents, July 1 at I, Court of Bankruptcy, London, pr. d. sep. est. of A. Campbell.-Alexander Rainy, Regent-street, Piccadilly, Middlesex, estate agent, June 25 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last ex. -Wm. Jennings, Bungay, Suffolk, maltster, June 25 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last ex.-Henry Chas. Broom, Lawrence Pountney-hill, London, grocer, June 25 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London, last ex-Thomas Denman, Quadrant, Regent-street, and Buckingham-street, Fitzroy-sq., Middlesex, stonemason, July 5. at 1, Court of Bankruptcy London, aud. ac.-Charles Brooks, Vine-yard, Lant-street, Surrey, carman, July 7 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Francis Kesteven, Camden-street, Camden-town, Middlesex, builder, July 9 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London, aud. ac.-Robert Jenkinson, Manches at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, and. ac. er, baker, July 6 James Ogden, Reddish, Lancashire, cotton spinner, July 6 at 11, District Court of Bankrupt 7 at 11, div.-Richard Gi y, Manchester, aud. ac.; July son, Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, grazier, July 6 Birmingham, aud at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, tershire, buil ac.-Henry Bartleet, Redditch, Worces Bankrun uer, July 6 at half-past 11, District Court of Leacy, Birmingham, aud. ac.-Richard Hodgkinson, nington Priors, Warwickshire, builder, July 6 at 11, Disrict Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham, aud. ac.—William Smith, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, mercer, July 6 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Birmingham, aud. ac.; July 13 at II,