rate, and two per cent. the home market rate. The backwardations were in Continental stocks. Paris selling, as the result of transient pressure, has led to the fractional break in Continental prices, which break has had to be made good in backwardation before incomplete transactions could be carried over to the next account. The ease in home market rates has been against traffics, the general trade of the provinces being well maintained. Scarcity of stock in the Consols market has led to a fractional improvement in quotations, notably in Goschens.

English Rails.-Hull and Barnsleys are expected to improve, but only fractionally, the "bears" getting back the stock, and the market thereby becoming stronger. On the other hand Great Westerns are weaker, and are likely to continue so until after the announcement of the dividend. Caledonians have still an upward tendency, although quotations are really higher than they ought to be: the mere want of go in the markets checking a further rise. Sheffield A's, like Caledonians, are also overquoted, and Sheffield Deferred not offering a dividend may be expected to climb down. Brighton A's, on the contrary, are likely to recover from the recent drop, the dividend being quite equal to expectation, and strong buyers having come forward.

Foreign and Colonial Railways.-Nitrate rails, in common. with Nitrate things, are likely to be better and to touch a higher level, although in such fractional leaps and bounds as there may be, the concurrent realisations may involve reactions. Mr. Vizetelly does not return with Col. North and his party, but remains behind for a period of three months for the gathering up of the material which is said to abound for new sensations in Nitrates. In Mexican Rails the Ordinary presents a margin for a rise, and the Second Preference is cheap as a six per cent. Mexico is really an improving country, as the recent treaty with Japan more than shows; and before long we shall have cast off the many prejudices entertained by us against it. Trunks are a good and safe market, and next month's dividends are hopefully looked forward to.

American Rails.-This market, if not woak, is not strong the disturbing influences being the rate-cutting and our, own excellent harvest prospects. With cheap wheat here, and plenty of it, there will be a Western disposition to storage in the elevators rather than to sending forward to Montreal or New York, such storage admitting of finance transactions either for the relief of farmers or speculators. And should storage be resorted to, the traffic may be wholly lost to the railways, as in the spring grain would seek and find cheaper transportation to the seaboard by lake and canal.

Miscellaneous Shares.-Primitivas in Nitrate are again in demand, and although they have advanced several points, they are still likely to improve. The same may be said of San Pablo. On the other hand, Leeds Forge has been overdone, outside confidence having weakened considerably in Water-gas and its products. Water-gas was an important new discovery, and has had so much attention given to it that the earlier claims of patentees no longer hold the field, the latest improvement emanating from so unlikely a quarter as a Yankee pulpit. Bell's Asbestos dividend is expected to be disappointing, and otherwise the market has weakened through selling extensive and costly advertising bringing in buyers and advancing quotations, while realisations to taking profits have brought about reactions. The investment, however, has solid points.

Mines. There is nothing doing in mines, and little business is now expected until September, and not even then in well-informed quarters. Mining is for the moment over-done, but it may be only until the mechanical agencies of recent invention are fully at work. A fresh boom is then promised, also in well-informed quarters, which certainly would be a godsend to weak holders. Messrs. Campbell and Evans, of Johannesburg, have forwarded particulars of the May output of the Witwatersrandt

goldfields; it is 36,082 ounces. The Robinson, working forty stamps from the south reef and_the_main reef leader has a yield of 7,096 ounces. The Langlaagte estate, working seventy stamps from the main reef, the main reef leader, and the south reef has a yield of 6,967 ounces. The City and Suburban working twenty stamps, the Crown the Crown working twenty stamps, the DurbanRoodepoort working twenty stamps, and the Jumpers working thirty stamps, have each a yield in excess of 1,000 ounces. All the other mines fall short of 1,000 ounces each.

LEEDS Forge better at 6, the market being held up, American Rails are lower. Nitrates are steady but without improvement. Argentine Dollars are better, at 88 to 9; and there is a fractional recovery in Perus. No change in money, and all business quiet.

THE perfected Linotype composing machine-a marvel in letterpress mechanism-will be welcomed wherever prejudice and obstruction are absent, and wherever intelligence and go hold the field. To Perfection is always a hard road to travel, but mountain-top-like, when once reached, it affords as pleasant an experience as any in a lifetime. What has not mechanics done for the humble cobbler? It has made him a man; built him in Leicester and Northampton, in Norwich and in Bristol, factories for his art, rivalling those for spinning in Lancashire, and those for weaving in Yorkshire. What the Linotype will accomplish for the printer's art may be estimated by the relatively wider area than that for which the intellect covers. The shoe is of the foot; letterpress is of the soul. The one is much dispensed with in Scotland, and even more so in Belgium, while the Italian contents himself with a shoe makeshifts of straps of skin. The other experiences and acknowledges no restraint, but with the years ever widens its horizon, until at length there will come within its purview the solitudes of Central Africa.

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ALL praise and honour and encouragement to the Linotype. Its enemy-in-chief, but for a season only, will be trades unionism. That praiseworthy form of organisation in its many developments is huge and unwieldy slow and conservative, hostile to innovation, and even rancorous to invention. But it is also human. Especially is the letterpress trades unionist a man of thought; a man in whom a conflict is not difficult to set up between a merely sordid feeling and an intellectual adaptation to forward pressing change. Gradually it will dawn upon him that resistance is futile, that it is unmanly, and that it does not pay. Adapting himself then to the Linotype, the work of his hands will be augmented sevenfold, aye, even tenfold; and is the wage of such an increase to be the payment of the present? Not at all. No oracle is needed to tell him that. With trades union acceptation not an opponent would remain. Without that acceptation the non-unionist will at once take hold and increase his present earnings until he at least doubles them; and his better state under his doubled wages will not long address itself in vain to his trades union brother.

THE following was composed and stereotyped in a flash by this wonderful machine: :

PUMP COURT.

The Temple Newspaper and Solicitors' Review.

The Aboukir Bay Treasure Company.-It was Solomon who said there is nothing new under the sun; and Solomon knew, having played different roles. He was a great man, was Solomon, and were the prospectus of this company to be now laid before him, he would ask: What was the end of the last treasure-raising craze? Very likely few would befound left to tell him, the treasure-raising promoter being limp in means and person, although robust and well knit in imagination. He soon disappears from this troubled scene. The last treasure-raising scheme for

Aboukir Bay on the London market was that of the American Colonel Gowan, the same who raised the Russian ships of war which were sunk in the harbour of Sebastopol during the Russian war. Having performed that important public service for the Czar, a little bird one day whispered in his ear that there was sunken treasure in Aboukir Bay, also along the Spanish main and the French and Spanish coasts. So circumstantial was the communication thus addressed to him that he could lay his finger on the spot where such wreck of treasure lay, and he and his credentials from St. Petersburg took Threadneedle Street and Capel Court by storm. Never before had the City presented to it a more catching and toothsome bill of fare, and the names, it should be mentioned, were specially endorsed by no less a person than the late Mr. Elsey, then the chief of the discount department of the Bank of England. Some of the gentlemen of the Mint, one of whom like a shadow still wanders about Threedneedle Street in a velveteen jacket and a Scotch plaid across his shoulder, also with pleasure backed up the Colonel. Money, it is needless to add, poured in 24 feet deep, as if foreshadowing the depth of the fatal flood at Jamestown; vessels were chartered and despatched, as the saying is, regardless of expense; and strange to add, none of them have since returned. Still there are records of the investment. Mr. George McHenry, the friend of Mr. Elsey, and of the Mint, were with the Scotch plaid dropped down dead in Pennsylvania. Mr. Valentine, the President of the Open Stock Exchange, died in London. Last, it being unncessary to go into more detail, the Atlantic and Great Western came to grief.

Moral: No life assurance office should touch a man who goes in for lost treasure.

The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company.This concern may be best described as a well-sucked orange. The Fairfield yard was established by the late John Elder, who, while still a young man, killed himself by over-work. What was his wife to do? At that time there was in Glasgow a heavy swell, who afterwards became Sir William Pearce. Pearce at that time was in the relatively small position of Lloyd's agent, but he was a handsome man, and that especially with ladies is enough for them. Could Mr. Pearce do anything? No; he had no money. But if Mrs. Elder found the money? Why, yes. He should first like to consult Mr. Bryce Douglas, the marine engineer. No; Mr. Bryce Douglas would not go shares with him. Pearce then hired him at the handsome salary of £800 per annum. Fairfield at once became Fairfield, Pearce proving the prince of shipwrights, and Douglas the prince of engineers. Pearce (latterly Sir William Pearce) is now dead. Mr. Bryce Douglas is now in the service of Lord Hartington's Naval Construction Company at Barrow-in-Furness, and when he left Fairfield he took Macgregor and the others of that stamp along with him. Thus Fairfield has got left, and the worthy gentlemen who have their money there now wish quite naturally to get it back. Not to frighten people, they for the present will take £250,000 in one form and £250,000 in another. The lovers of sucked oranges will, of course, step forward promptly, and give it them. MERCATOR.

13th April, 1889.

The Outer Temple, London, W.C.

CHAS. G. FOTHERGILL, Manager. J. B. MOFFAT, Sub-Manager.

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and, no doubt, stirred to smash at his political opponents with as much goodwill as he whirls the golf club in his hours of hardly-earned recreation.

AT 8.15 the Marchioness of Salisbury will be received by the leading spirits of the League, and will be conducted to a daïs in the great central transept, along which will then defile a long procession of banners of the various habitations, after which various presentations, both of addresses and individuals, will be made to the Marchioness, for whom Mr. Balfour will reply in a speech in which he is expected to "say something." The political importance of the League is now so unanimously recognised that it is understood that no fitter occasion could be found for a definite statement to be made by one in authority, and Mr. Balfour's speech is anticipated with lively interest.

It is expected that the Dames and Chevaliers will flock to Sydenham in their thousands, and will make a brave show, and elaborate arrangements are being made to ensure their comfort. All parts of the kingdom will add

De Lege; de Omnibus Rebus et Quibusdam Aliis.

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TO-NIGHT (Wednesday) will be for long memorable in the annals of the Primrose League, for a grand evening fete and reception, "to meet the Marchioness of Salisbury," is to be held within the glittering walls of the Crystal Palace. The Palace will be dedicated to the services of the Dames and Chevaliers from the hour of 6.45 p.m., after which, for the modest entrance fee of half-a-crown, the ceremonials can be enjoyed to the full by everybody. The Marchioness will be accompanied by her nephew, the Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, M.P., who will make the political pronunciamento of the evening; and Colonel Kenyon Slaney, M.P., and the massive and vigorous Colonel Saunderson will also speak.

LADY SALISBURY, who, with the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, is one of the presidents of the Executive Committee of the League, is a peculiarly-interesting personage to the readers of PUMP COURT, as her ladyship is the eldest daughter of a lawyer of lawyers-Baron Alderson-and is reputed herself to have no mean knowledge of the law. Married to Lord Robert Cecil more than thirty years ago, this clever and kindly lady has been a worthy helpmate to the man whom Destiny had marked for a brilliant and distinguished career, although at the distant date of that happy love-match the great burden and honours of the House of Cecil seemed but little likely to fall upon the broad shoulders of the busy journalist and brilliant pamphleteer. By her unaffected simplicity of bearing, her kindly heart, and her sound common sense, Lady Salisbury has won universal esteem; and when the time came for the great political League to be formed, no worthier woman could have been selected as pioneer of the movement than the daughter of Baron Alderson.

MR. BALFOUR is sure of an enthusiastic reception. Englishmen like to see a man take vulgar bullying and malicious misrepresentation with cool contempt. It reminds them of the calm indifference of the lion for the curs yapping and snapping about his heels; and the Chief Secretary for Ireland, who has left his beloved golf-links at pretty Felixstowe in order to be present at this demonstration, will be more than repaid for his self-denial,

with its thickly-populated suburbs, will assuredly make an imposing show. As many visitors are expected from distant districts, it is considerately notified that morning dress will be de rigueur for ladies, and that even in the case of gentlemen evening dress will be optional. The illuminations at the Palace will be appropriately brilliant, a host of charming entertainments will be at the disposal of those who wish to lend their presence to the great Demonstration, but are not in a mood for "speeches," and no pains will be spared to make the function quite the fête of the season.

LAUGHED at in the beginning, and for a time treated as a whim, the Primrose League has long since grown into a great political institution, an important factor to be reckoned with in the great electoral problem, and it looks very much as if the Demonstration to be held to-night may possibly have a claim to rank not merely as a pleasant social event, but also as a link in the chain of those political incidents which go to make up contemporary history.

THE judgment of the Court of Appeal in the great case of the Mogul Steamship Co. v. M'Gregor, Gow, and Co. cannot but be regarded as the most important decision since that of Vagliano v. Bank of England, though, like that case, the matter is to be carried to the House of Lords. In the result, so far as the Court of Appeal was concerned, the judgment of Lord Coleridge, L.C.J., in favour of the defendants, has been upheld by Bowen and Fry, L.JJ., Lord Esher, M R., dissenting. In his judgment the M.R. laid down amongst a series of propositions that an agreement among two or more traders who are not, and do not intend to be, partners, but where each is to carry on his trade according to his own will, except as regards the agreed act, that agreed act being one to be done for the purpose of interfering-i.e., with intent to interfere with the trade of another-is a thing done not in the due course of trade, and is, therefore, an act wrongful against that other trader, and is also wrongful against the right of the public to have free competition among traders, and is, therefore, therefore, a wrongful act against such trader, and, if it is carried out and injury ensues, is actionable. On the other hand, Bowen, L.J., saying that it must be taken that the defendants had no personal illwill to the plaintiffs, nor any desire to harm them, except

such as was involved in the wish and intention to discourage, by the measures they took, the plaintiffs from sending rival vessels to certain Chinese ports, laid down that competition, however severe and egotistical, if unattended by circumstances of dishonesty, intimidation, molestation, or such illegalities as fraud, misrepresentation, or the intentional procurement, without just cause, of a violation of individual rights, contractual or otherwise, gives rise to no cause of action at common law; and the Lord Justice pointed out that in fact the combination of capital for purposes of trade and competition was a very different thing from such a combination of several persons against one, with a view to harm him, as falls under the head of an indictable conspiracy.

A CURIOUS point was recently raised before North, J., in Procter v. Moir, in which the lessee of a suite of rooms high up in a block of buildings moved for an interlocutory injunction restraining the landlord from refusing to permit the plaintiffs' servants to have the use of the lift. Plaintiff held the premises in question under a lease for twentyone years from the defendant to himself, whereby they were demised "together with the use and enjoyment of the coal cellar and wine cellar in the basement of the said mansion, and together also with the use in common with the lessor and the other tenants at all times of the entrance hall, staircases, passages, and lifts leading to the suite of rooms hereby demised, and to the said cellars." The lease contained covenants by the lessor to keep the hall, staircases, and outside of the premises in repair, to light the hall and staircases, and keep a hall porter, but no covenant as to the lift, or rather-for there was a passenger lift and a tradesmen's lift for hauling coal and other goods to the various floors-either lift. Some of the other tenants had objected to the plaintiff having, as he had, until recently, had from 5th March last, the use of the passenger lift, not only for himself, his wife, and guests, but also for his three servants, and the lessor interfered and prevented the use of the lift by plaintiffs' servants. North, J., considered on the construction of the lease that the use of the lift demised was not a mere personal right to use it, but a right for the wife, guests, and servants of the lessee to use it, and he pointed out that there was no difference in the language of the demise in respect of the use of the staircases and the use of the lifts, and if they were excluded from the use of the lift they were equally excluded from the use of the staircases-in fact, from all

Ar the quarterly general meeting of the Bar Mess of the London and Middlesex Sessions on the 15th inst., the following resolution was passed unanimously :-"That the acting junior be requested to communicate the following to Sir Peter Edlin, chairman of the London County Sessions:-That the London and Middlesex Sessions Bar, learning with much regret that unfounded statements have been publicly made at the London County Council as to the relations between Sir Peter Edlin and the Bar, desires unanimously to express to Sir Peter Edlin the unvaried regard and respect which the members of this Bar have felt for him during the whole time he has filled the office of judge.'"

A NON-LEGAL Contemporary, referring to the marriage of Lord Dunlo with Miss Belle Bilton, of music-hall fame, after mentioning that his lordship would not attain his majority until December, says that" some few weeks back there were rumours of an impending action for 'breach,'

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in consequence of a letter written by the young gentleman, but matters were adjusted by the intervention of a friend." Rumour was long ago described by Virgil in glowing terms, which most schoolboys would epitomise by the vulgar epithet "lying," but let us hope this particular report was specially mendacious. Any lawyer who would talk of bringing an action for breach of promise of marriage against a minor must be grossly ignorant, or worse. worth while, however, to consider the law with reference to the liability of a minor after attaining majority, for breach of a promise made during infancy. In Coxhead v. Mullis, 3 C.P.D. 439, it was held that a contract to marry came within sec. 2 of the Infants' Relief Act, 1874 (37 and 38 Vict. c. 62), and that no action could be maintained on any ratification, after attaining majority, of such a contract made during minority. Coxhead v. Mullis (ubi supra) was not a little criticised at the time, but it has never been overruled. Then subtlety suggested a device whereby the difficulty of non-liability for a mere ratification of such a promise after attaining majority might be got over.

MIGHT there not be evidence of a new promise, a fresh contract, made after attaining twenty-one? Ditcham v. Worrall, 5 C.P.D. 410, and Northcote v. Doughty, 4 C.P.D. 385, turn on this question, and in Holmes v. Brierley, PUMP COURT, vol. vii., p. 194, the Court of Appeal (consisting of Lord Esher, M.R., Lindley and Lopes, L.JJ.) formulated the question to be put to the jury in such cases. The question for the jury, they held, was whether what had been said or done was intended to be a new promise, or merely to ratify the old one. Probably the jury's inclination to find a new promise made after majority would be strong in cases where the plaintiff was possessed of charms of person; but this, at any rate, is clear-that if promise and breach are both made during minority, so that there can be no evidence whatever of a new promise made after attaining twenty-one, no action whatever can possibly be maintained.

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IN Hamilton and Co. v. Mackie and Sons, the Court of Appeal, consisting of Lord Esher, M.R., Cotton and Lindley, L.JJ., had an interesting question to decide. The plaintiffs were the owners of a steamer, and the action was brought for the balance of freight claimed to be due under a bill of lading, of which the defendants were the endorsees. charter party provided that any dispute which might arise under the charter was to be settled by arbitration at the port where the dispute arose. On the bill of lading the words were stamped, "All other terms and conditions as per charter party." The Judge at Chambers had stayed the action on the ground that the matter ought to have gone to arbitration, and a Divisional Court, consisting of Lord Coleridge, L.C.J., and Hawkins, J., affirmed his ruling, which, however, the Court of Appeal reversed. Lord Esher, M.R., in giving judgment, said the effect of the words stamped across the bill of lading was that the conditions of the charter party must be read verbatim into the bill of lading as though they were there printed in extenso, and then if it was found that any of the conditions of the charter party on being so read were inconsistent with the bill of lading, they were insensible, and must be disregarded. In the present case the provisions for referring disputes to arbitration applied to disputes arising under the charter, and this provision was insensible when read into the bill of lading, and could not be interpreted as meaning that disputes arising under the bill of lading were to be referred to arbitration.

An important question as to right to commission was recently decided by Lopes, LJ., in Bilbee v. Hasse and Co. Plaintiff and defendants had both been butter and

margarine merchants. Plaintiff had been thirty-five years in the trade, and had a very large connection, and in 1879, in which year defendants had been but a short time in the business, and consequently had little connection, they entered into a contract with plaintiff, containing, amongst other provisions, the following: "As regards your commission, do hereby agree to allow you 1 per cent. upon all orders executed by us and paid for by the customers arising from your introduction." Plaintiff introduced customers under the agreement down to 1st February, 1888, and a considerable trade resulted to the defendants. At that date, however, plaintiff was, as he

alleged, summarily dismissed, the defendants continuing to do business with his customers, and at the same time declining to give him any commission. Plaintiff contended that whether the defendants were justified in discharging him, and so preventing his earning commission by the introduction of new customers or not, he was entitled to commission on all orders which might thereafter be executed on behalf of customers previously introduced by him. Lopes, L.J., held that this was the true construction of the agreement, viz., that plaintiff was to receive commission in respect of all orders executed by the defendants, and paid for by their customers arising from his introduction, not only during the time he was in their employment, but afterwards. The seeming hardship of such a construction disappeared, because the defendants were not obliged to execute those orders which arose from the plaintiff's introduction.

SINCE the passing of the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, is the husband liable for the debts of his wifecontracted before their marriage-and if so, to what extent? This question was raised before Grantham, J., at the Liverpool Assizes, and subsequently before the Court of Appeal, in Beck v. Pierce, on facts which involved the consideration of other defences also the other questions, however, we leave out of consideration. The Court of Appeal held that the husband was liable, not jointly with his wife, but separately, and that the Statute of Limitations ran as against him from the time the cause of action arose against her. But that although the husband can now be sued alone for such debts, his liability is limited to the value of any property he may have acquired by his marriage.

HAVING regard to the recent order issued requiring the muzzling of all dogs within the Metropolitan Police District from August 1st to December 31st, it is worth while considering the powers conferred by law in that behalf. So far as the Privy Council is concerned, it will be remembered that the case of Bellhouse v. Leighton raised the question whether the provisions of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878, were, by reason of section 8 of the Act of 1886, extended, so that the Privy Council could, under section 32 of the 1878 Act, make an order to prevent the diffusion by dogs of rabies. The Privy Council did make such an order, and the Justices at Petty Sessions convicted Bellhouse of having a dog at large unmuzzled, and suffering from rabies, but stated a case, on the hearing of which Lord Coleridge, L.C.J., and Hawkins, J., decided that such an order was within the competence of the Privy Council under the powers of the Acts.

THEN We have the provisions of the Dogs Act, 1871, which applies to the whole country. Section 1 confers power directly on the police, so that a constable may seize a dog at any time, provided it is savage or dangerous, straying on the highway, and not under the control of any person. There is, however, no personal penalty on the owner under this section, and it will be seen that no order from any local authority is required as a condition precedent to the exercise of these powers.

UNDER section 2 of the same Act, in the case of dogs alleged to be dangerous, and not under proper control, the Court may order the dog to be destroyed, or kept under proper control; but here complaint must be made in respect of some dog alleged to be dangerous, and an owner neglecting is liable to a daily penalty of twenty shillings for his neglect.

SECTION 3 of the same Act enables the local authority to make an order affecting all dogs within their jurisdiction; and under this section a dog mad, or suspected to be mad, must be found within their jurisdiction. before they can make an order. If, however, this condition precedent exists, they may, by the order they are empowered to make, place such restrictions as they think expedient on all dogs not being under control; and any person whose dog is not under control, and who does not comply with the regulations prescribed by the local authority, is liable to a fine, and the dog, whether dangerous or not, to seizure.

As far as the metropolis is concerned, the provisions of the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, have to be considered. They empower the police to seize any dog found in the streets not under control, and the Commissioner of Police has power to issue a notice requiring any dog, while in the streets, and not led, to be muzzled in such a manner as to permit of the animal breathing and drinking, etc.; but there is no power conferred thereby to fine an owner in respect of a contravention of the notice.

A WELL-KNOWN member of the Incorporated Law Society, who was present during the whole time at the annual meeting held on the 12th inst., writes us: "The reports of the proceeding at the meeting are one-sided reports, and furnished, as regards two papers, by the same reporter. Mr. J. A. Rose (who is a personal friend of Mr. B. G. Lake, the ex-president, who proposed what was called an amendment to Mr. Hastie's motion as regards the conduct of the late president) imputed unworthy motives to those who supported the resolution. Upon this Mr. Edmund Kimber rose to order, and considerable confusion followed. There is no reference to this in the

reports. Mr. Charles Ford is represented as supporting the resolution. As a matter of fact, he said that he could not support either the resolution or the amendment, as it was desirable that the retiring president should be allowed to depart in peace. No motion as to Mr. J. R. Macarthur not being heard was put to the meeting. Mr. Ford was quite prepared to move his motion as to the official report of the previous meeting being inaccurate, but the president purposely omitted to call on Mr. Ford to move his resolution, and subsequently ruled that the time for moving it had gone past. Mr. Munton was allowed to make a long statement on a matter before it was reached on the notice paper. Mr. Ford stated at the meeting, as regards his notice of motion for taking a poll, that as it came on when most of the members of the society had left the meeting, it was useless moving it, especially as he had discussed the merits of his proposed motion at a previous period of the meeting when the rules of debate were being discussed. The same gentleman had no opportunity of moving his proposal to bring forward matters for discussion a second time after the expiration of six months, because when the time for moving it came it was five o'clock, and the meeting was breaking up. The statement in the reports to the effect that the meeting would not consent to Mr. Ford's postponing his motion as to the club, is entirely inaccurate; the fact being that Mr. Ford hesitated to move his resolution because, as he stated, it was so late, and most of his supporters had left, he could not bring the subject on again for twelve months, and even if he carried his resolution, to get rid of the club, he feared the president might say as did re the annual certificate duty resolution that the president and council would do nothing to give effect to it. Owing to the large number of clubmen present, and owing to the absence of those opposed to the club, Mr. Ford would not have moved the resolution at all, except that he had promised the president that he would move it. The concluding part of the business of the meeting was disposed of amidst much confusion and disorder, which the chairman took no steps to prevent.'