CONTENTS OF VOLUME LII. Industrial and Provident Societies, 204 Joint Stock Companies, 218, 235, 251, 339, 353 Administration of Intestates' Estates, 299 Leases and Sales of Settled Estates, 265, 315 Mercantile Law Amendment, 1856, 332 Police (Counties and Boroughs), 362 Exemption of Roman Catholic Charities, 382 Formation of New Parishes, 394 Marriage and Registration, 411 Mercantile Law (Scotland) Amendment, 442 Marriage Law (Scotland) Amending, 444 Reformation of Juvenile Criminals, 459 Metropolis Local Management, 462 Commons Inclosure (No. 2), 493 Court of Chancery (Ireland) Receivers, 493 Court of Appeal in Chancery (Ireland), 508 Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, 145, 496, 512 Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, 305, 401, 527, City of London Small Debts Act, 175 New County Courts Act, 251, 345 Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 361 Bankers' Draft Act, 393, 489, 511 Administration of Intestates' Estate Act, 393 Evidence before Foreign Tribunals Act, 394 Equity Jurisdiction Improvement Act, 417, 446 Ecclesiastical Courts-Testamentary and Matri- monial Jurisdiction, 22, 169, 272, 335 Administration of Criminal Law, 34 Procedure and Evidence, 43, 121 Administration of Real and Personal Property, 486 Common Law Commission of Inquiry, 505, 521 Testamentary Jurisdiction, 539 Judicial Committee of Privy Council:- Alterations in County Court Districts, 172, 446 Bills of Exchange Act-Extension to Local Accountant-General's Office, 175 Leases and Sales of Settled Estates, 494 Business at Judge's Chambers, 495 ANALYTICAL DIGEST, SELECTED AND House of Lords' Appeals, 454, 470 Scotch Appeals to the House of Lords, 311, 328 Chancery Appeals, 359, 374, 389, 406, 550 Common Law Appeals, 423, 439, 534, 550 Judicial and Official Salaries, 173 Bainbridge on the Law of Mines and Minerals, 291 Biggs' Minutes of Parliamentary Proceedings, 559 Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, 571 Dent's Vendor's and Purchasers, 205 Elmer's Practice in Lunacy, 559 Gray's Country Solicitor's Chancery Practice, 558 Hurd's Jurisprudence connected with Freedom and Markham's Common Law Procedure Acts, 496 Oke's Magisterial Synopsis, 445 Robinson's Practices of Courts in England and Scott on Costs in the Superior Courts, 29 Trevor's Taxes on Succession, 66 Woolrych on the Metropolitan Building Act, 140 Lectures and Examination, 12, 97, 307, 323 Education for the Bar, 399, 506 Q. C. attending Equity Courts, 132 Duties of Common Law Masters, 193 Memoir of G. A. A'Beckett, 326 Mr. Warren's Charge to Grand Jury at Hull, 448 Circuits of the Judges, 147, 513 Vacation Bankruptcy Commissioners, 148 15, 16, 31, 33, 36, 49, 51, 68, 84, 88, 96, 97, PROCEEDINGS OF LAW SOCIETIES. Accepting retainers-Following instructions, 245 Privileged communications-Fraud, 278 SELECTIONS FROM CORRESPONDENCE, 36, 55, 95, 133, 165, 308, 405, 418, 451, 486 NOTES OF THE WEEK, 17, 36, 98, 117, 133, 181, 198, 230, 246, 262, 278, 309, 358, 389, 405, 422, 438, 454, 469, 486, 501, 516, 530, 547, 562 BUSINESS OF THE COURTS, 70, 150, 246, 263, 468. And see Notes of the Week, passim. The Legal AND SOLICITORS' JOURNAL. "Still attorneyed at your service."-Shakespeare. wwwwm SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1856. THE TREATY OF PEACE. its result not only increase the prosperity of this great Commercial Country throughout In the former state of the Law relating all its various classes, (depending as they to the contents of Newspapers, we should not do on each other,) but largely tend to the have been permitted to set forth or descant advantage of the Legal Profession, for whaton the great Treaty of Peace which was an- ever promotes the wealth, and increases the nounced to both Houses of Parliament on population of a country, must enhance the Monday last, the 28th April. It must be interests of those whose clients multiply acknowledged, however, that we were libe- both in number and riches. We trust, inrally dealt with by the Government autho- deed, that "a good time is coming," which rities in the construction of the Statutes will re-instate our brethren in that prosagainst the publication of "news or obser- perity which they formerly possessed; and vations on public events." Our humble that, notwithstanding the ravages which Journal, as the first Weekly Law Periodical, have been perpetrated by hasty and illhas often been noticed in Parliament and the Courts of Law on questions relating to publications devoted chiefly to science and literature, but which sometimes animadverted on transactions of a political nature or which affected the community at large. Indeed, it may be admitted that in stating and commenting upon the various measures of Law Reform (for which purpose the Legal Observer was chiefly established) we were frequently dealing with topics not limited to the Profession alone in any of its branches, but importantly affecting the public in general. We believe that there is scarcely any subject in the wide range of newspaper topics so interesting to the majority of Englishmen as the due administration of Justice in all its various departments; and this general feeling proves convincingly the high sense of justice which prevails throughout the kingdom. Hence we see a large and prominent space allotted to "Law Reports and Intelligence" in all our daily advised changes in the rules of Law and the regulations of professional Practice, an honourable, well-educated, energetic, and intelligent body of men must still continue to conduct the practical business of the Courts, and advise, guide, and aid the suitors in their varied, important, and often complicated affairs. Although the Treaty of Peace, and its appendant Conventions, have appeared in all the papers, we think our readers will approve of its being permanently recorded in these pages. Every intelligent lawyer, indeed, ought to be acquainted with the several clauses of these remarkable State documents, which we trust will long continue as a great Chapter in the International Law of the Seven Kingdoms,-the rulers of which are parties thereto. The several articles of the Treaty which more particularly affect the interests of Great Britain are the 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 23rd. In addition to which is the following Convention relating to the important subject of Maritime Law : "That Maritime Law, in time of war, has long been the subject of deplorable disputes; B |