TAYLOR, ARTHUR WILLIS, Sheffield, beerhouse keeper, Ct. Sheffield.

July 22.
WEBB, 'THOMAS, Bury, chartered accountant. Ct. Bolton July 19.
WAINWRIGHT, FRANK, Nelson, cabinet maker. Ct. Burnley. July 21.
WILLIAMS, DAVID, Five Roads, quarry proprietor. Ct. Carmarthen.

July 21.
WEEKS, CHARLES, Palmers Green, builder. Ct. Edmonton. July 21.
WHITAKER, SAMUEL, Leeds, glass merchant, Ct. Leeds, July 19.

Amended notice substituted for that published in Gazette, July 14. BARTON, JAMES (practising as Barton, Lees, and Co., and Lees and Co.),

late Wigan, solicitor. Ct. Liverpool. July 10.

RUSSELL, BARTHOLOMEW FARROW, Carlin How, grocer. Ct. Stockton-on

Tees. July 21. Rice, Thomas GEORGE, Sketty, boot repairer. Ct. Swansea. July 20. REES, JOHN, Kidderminster, grocer. Ct. Kidderminster. July 22. SMITH, WILLIAM, Pyle, publican. Ct. Cardiff, July 21. SMITH, ARCHIBALD HENRY, Sutton, auctioneer. Ct. Croydon. July 19. TIERNEY, WILLIAM (late trading as Tierney and Co.), late Arthur-st

West, retired merchant. Ct. High Court, July 20. TAYLOR, ARTHUR WILLIS, Sheffield, beerhouse keeper. Ct. Sheffield.

July 22. WEBB, THOMAS, Bury, chartered accountant. Ct. Bolton, July 20. WAINWRIGHT, FRANK, Nelson, cabinet maker. Ct. Burnley. July 21. WILLIAMS, DAVID, Five Roads, quarry proprietor. Ct. Carmarthen.

July 22. WHITAKER, SAMUEL, Leeds, glass merchant. Ct. Leeds.. July 19. Wilson, MABEL EDEN, Scarborough, spinster. Ct. Scarborough. July 20. Wilson, John, late Fryston, colliery deputy. Ct. Wakefield. July 20.

ADJUDICATIONS ANNULLED.

GAZETTE, JULY 25. PEARSON, JOHN THOMAS, Sheffield, licensed victualler, Ct. Sheffield.

July 19. WARREN, Henry, Coldharbour-la, Brixton. Ct. High Court. July 20.

ADJUDICATION ANNULLED AND RECEIVING ORDER

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GAZETTE, JULY 21. Hamlyn, GEORGE MORISON, Twickenham, master mariner. Ct. Brentford.

July 7.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTH. LLOYD.-On the 19th inst., at Pilsden Pen, Compton-rd, Winchmore Hill,

the wife of E. A. C. Lloyd, Barrister-at-law, of a son.

MARRIAGES. AITKEN-PIPON-SCHOOLES.-On the 20th inst., at Holy Trinity Church,

Brompton, Nigel Woodford Aitken, Royal Garrison Artillery, to Enid Mervyn, younger daughter of Sir Henry Pipon-Schooles, Chief

Justice of Gibraltar. SMITH-LITTLETON.-On the 18th inst., at St. Margaret's, Westminster,

Gordon Smith, Barrister-at-law, to Olga, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Littleton, of Woodlands, Great Missenden.

DEATH. STAPLETON.-On the 16th inst., at Market Deeping, Valentine Stapleton,

of Stamford and Market Deeping, Solicitor, aged 72.

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GAZETTE, JULY 21. BUEGHES, A. M., Paternoster-row, literary agent. Ct. High Court.

July 17. BOURN, WALTER, Richmond, stationer. Ct. Wandsworth. July 18. BARGERY, FREDERICK HENRY, Coed Ely, collier. Ct. Pontypridd, Ystrady

fodwg, and Porth. July 18. BURROWS, EDWIN JOHN, Northampton, shoe operative. Ct. Northampton.

July 17. BAKER, ALFRED HARDING, Westcliff-on-Sea, commercial traveller. Ct.

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July 17. COLBOURN, ALBERT EDWARD, Hessle Common, fish merchant. Ct.

Kingston-upon-Hull. July 18. CRITCHLEY, JOHN ALFRED, Moreton, licensed victualler. Ct. Birkenhead.

July 15. DAVID, DANIEL, Cefn Cribbwr, collier. Ct. Cardiff. July 19. FARDON, FREDERICK, Spoonley, farmer. Ct. Cheltenham. July 18. FLETCHER, ROBERT, Ilkeston, boot repairer. Ct. Derby and Long Eaton.

July 17. GOSLING, ALBERT EDWARD. Sheffield, builder's manager. Ct. Sheffield.

July 18. GOWING. ROBERT, Brundall. blacksmith. Ct. Norwich. July 18. GILL: JOHN HOWARD, late East Twickenham, commercial traveller. Ct.

Kingston, Surrey. July 19. HENRY. JOHN (trading, as John Henry and Sons), Norwich, coal mer

chant. Ct. Norwich. July 17. HAWKES, PERCY VICTOR, Braintree, printer. Ct. Chelmsford. July 17. JAMES, HARRY WATKIN, Saint Dogmells, sculptor. Ct. Carmarthen.

July 18. Lucas, BENJAMIN PEARCE, High-st, Camden Town, music hall proprietor.

Ct. High Court. July 18. LYONS, LAWRENCE NATHANIEL, West End-la, West Hampstead. Ct. High

Court. July 18. LYONS, NATHANIEL LAWRENCE, late Clarence Gate-grdns, Regent's Park.

Ct. High Court. July 18. LONGSON, JAMES, Stockport, painter. Ct. Stockport. July 19. MARSHALLSAY, EDWARD, South-wharf, Paddington, hay salesman, Ct.

High Court. July 18. MAXSTED, TEMPLE, late Hessle, captain in the army. Ct. High Court.

July 19. MONTEFIORE, Louis PHILIPPE, Coburg-pl, Hyde Park. Ct. High Court.

July 18. MORGAN. JENKIN, Llandyssul, carpenter. Ct. Carmarthen. July 18. NETTLESHIP, WILLIAM HERBERT, Market Rasen, coal merchant. Ct.

Lincoln. July 17. PALMER. WILLIAM, Stoke-on-Trent, farmer. Çt. Stoke-upon-Trent and

Longton. July 18. PARKINSON, FREDERICK, jun., Sheffield, beerhouse keeper. Ct. Sheffield.

July 17. PRESTON, JOAN, Liverpool, fellmonger. Ct. Liverpool. July 19. PETTITT, GEORGE, Bromeswell, farmer. Ct. Ipswich. July 18, PRITCHARD, SAMUEL CASSIN (late trading as William Cassin Pritchard and

Co.), late Erdington, iron merchant. Ct. Birmingham. July 17." RISTORI, EMANUEL, Parliament-st, Westminster, civil engineer. Ct, High

Court. July 19. RUSSEIL, CHARLES, Eastbourne, greengrocer. Ct. Eastbourne and Lewes.

July 18. STOKES, WILLIAM EDWARD, Shirley, late wholesale oil merchant. Ct.

Birmingham. July 19. SMITH, THOMAS WILLIAM, and SMITH, WALTER EDWARD (trading as Smith

Brothers), Selby, builders. Ct. York. July 17. WILLIAMS, JOHN Thomas (late trading as J. and M. Williams), late Arnside, boarding-house keeper Ct.

Barrow-in-Furness and Ulverston. July 18. WARWICK, LILAS EDITH BEATRICE, Bournemouth West, boarding-house proprietress. Ct. Poole. July 19.

GAZETTE, JULY 25. ALLEN, FREDERICK STEPHEN Peskett. Manchester, wholesale fish salesman.

Ct. Manchester. July 20. BIRCH, ALBERT GEORGE, Market Deeping, outfitter, Ct. Peterborough.

July 20. BARFORD, JAMES, Daventry, carrier. Ct. Northampton. July 22. Bell, RICHARD FELL (trading as R. F. Bell and Sons), Ambleside, iron.

monger. Ct. Kendal. July 22. Coway, WILLIAM WALLACE, Croydon. Ct. Croydon. July 21. CHARLES, John, Mountain Ash, draper. Ct. Aberdare and Mountain Ash.

July 20. GRUHN FERDINAND PHILIP, late Barkworth-rd, Camberwell, grocer. Ct.

High Court. July 20. HANDFORD, JOE (trading as Handford and Handford). Buckingham Palace

rd, auctioneer. Ct. High Court. July 20. HATCHER, FREDERICK RICHARD (described in the receiving order as

Frederick Hatcher), Union-st, Borough, licensed victualler. Ct. High

Court. July 21. HAZLEHURST, JOHN WILLIAM, Burnley, grocer. Ct. Burnley. July_21. HARDING, ALFRED SIDNEY COWELL, Torquay, painter. Ct. Exeter.

July 21. HARRIS, ALFRED JAMES, Shoeburyness, builder. Ct. Chelmsford. July 19. JONES, SEPTIMUS, and GRIGGS, BENJAMIN, Wollaston, shoe manufacturers.

Ct. Northampton. July 21. JAMES, JAMES PREECE, Tenby, architect. Ct. Pembroke Dock. July 20. Jones, John, Swansea, licensed victualler. Ct. Swansea. July 21. KITCHEN, CHARLES JOSEPH, Great Grimsby, labourer. Ct. Great Grimsby.

July 18. LILLEY, WILLIAM (trading as Hayhurst, Taylor, and Lilley, and as the

Express Removing Company), late Bolton, auctioneer. Ct. Liver

pool. July 22. LEDGARD, ALFRED, Leeds, general dealer. Ct. Leeds. July 19. Mills, WILLIAM.

Royton, carrier. Ct. Oldham. July 20. Nix. WILLIAM Hill, Southminster, motor engineer. Ct. Chelmsford.

July 19. OVERBURY JAMES WILLIAM, Gloucester, butcher, Ct. Gloucester.

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The Appellate Jurisdiction Bill, introduced by Lord Haldane, which was read a second time in the House of Lords this week, is the patural outcome of the discussion and the resolution passed at the Imperial Conference in June last. It was then made clear that the time was not ripe for the creation of a single Supreme Court of Appeal for the Empire; but the present measure will lay the foundations for such a tribunal, and will virtually and in substance create an improved single court, although it will still exist in two forms.

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The Bill provides that the sittings of the House of Lords and the sittings of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council are, so far as practicable, to be arranged in such a manner as not to take place simultaneously, while two additional Lords of Appeal in Ordinary are to be appointed, but the salary of any Lord of Appeal appointed after the passing of the measure is to be £5000 per annum instead of £6000. A was truly stated in the course of the debate, the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee have had to rely upon the nucleus of the Lord Chancellor and the four Lords of Appeal, and, had it not been for the voluntary services and excellent work freely given and done by Lord HALSBURY and other peers who have held high judicial office, it would have been impossible to form even such courts as have been available in the past. The addition of two extra permanent judges and a careful adjustment of the sittings will doubtless facilitate the formation of an Appellate Court strong in numbers, for, as Lord HALDANE pointed out, it was sometimes impossible to secure that the decision of five judges, sitting in a Dominion Court of Appeal, should not he reversed by three or four judges sitting here, and the result has been a good deal of misunderstanding.

We do not for one moment suggest that Lord LOREBURN does not work hard and does not fully earn the remuneration which he receives ; but an analysis of the hours of work performed by him on the Woolsack in the House of Lords and in presiding over that body in a judicial capacity and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, even adding bis Ministerial duties, would show that they are not much in excess, if at all, of those of the average County Court judge, while they are undoubtedly performed in more pleasant surroundings and with far greater facilities for lightening the work. Our judges, both in the High Court and in the County Court, have discharged and still discharge their duties to the best of their ability and physical power, and we emphatically protest against the suggestions which have been made against them, which have no foundation whatever in fact.

We are sorry to see the proposal to reduce the salaries of future Lords of Appeal, for it cannot be said that £6000 per annum is in any way excessive for a judge who is worthy to sit as a member of the Court of Final Appeal. Further, as we have stated before, we are strongly in favour of only one judgment in a final Court of Appeal, but, at the same time, as the representatives of the Dominions take a different view -and as naturally the matter is for them—the alteration of the practice of the Judicial Committee of only delivering one judgment is a matter of but small moment.

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ACCORDING to the sixty-fifth report of the Commissioners in Lunacy on the 1st Jan. this year the number of certified insane persons under care in England and Wales was 133,157, a number exceeding that recorded at the beginning of 1910 by 2604. That known insanity of recent years has been on the increase is shown by the fact that the increases for the preceding three years—1907-1909—were 2096, 2703, and 1766, the average annual increase for the ten years ending Dec. 1910 being 2521, and that for the five years ending on the same date 2236. The matter, however, is perhaps not as serious as would seem from these figures at first sight, and there is no doubt that the figures given are to a large extent due to better diagnosis and the steps taken under the existing lunacy laws.

It was not to be supposed that the aspersions cast by Lord LOREBURN upon the Bar in general and the General Council of the Bar in particular would be permitted to pass unnoticed, and at a special meeting of the council held on the 27th ult. the following resolution was adopted unanimously :

That the attention of the General Council of the Bar having been oilled to the observations made by the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords on tbe 12th July 1911 and on the 25th July 1911 upon the discus:ion of the County Courts Bill, the council desires to remind his Lordship that the council is by its constitution the accredited representative of the Bar of England, and that in each year one-half of its members are elected by the Bar so as to ensure that the counci! shall be in close and constant touch with the opinion of the Profession, and that many of its members are specially conversant with the practice in the County Courts.

The council further desires to add that no contradiction or correction of any of the facts set forth in the memorandum re the condition of business in the County Courts prepared by the council bag ever been brought to its notice.

The council desires to place on record its emphatic repudiation of the suggestion that in opposing certain provisions of the abovementioned Bill the council has been actuated by any interested motive, and its regret that euch an imputation should have been ever made,

The private patients under care at the beginning of this year numbered 10,890, of which 4709 were males and 6181 females, being an increase on the figures for the preceding year of 2:5 per cent., the male patients having increased 1:9 per cent. and the female 3.1. Pauper patients at the same date numbered 121,172, males numbering 56,142 and females 65,030, the former having increased by 1:8 per cent, and the females by 1:9 per cent.

In this class the female sex has always markedly predominated, although the difference is not as accentuated as it was fifty years ago. With regard to private patients, in 1859 the males were in excess of the females, but from 1890 the proportion was reversed, and that position has been maintained ever since.

The criminal insane consist of 832 males and 263 females, the net increase for the year being fifty-nine.

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Points of view are always interesting. As is well known, when the proposition was brought forward for the increase of the judges in the King's Bench Division-an increase amply justified—the present Lord Chancellor was of its strenuous opponents, his view being that the judges of that division might well do more work and reduce the arrears that had then accumulated. Lord LOREBURN's opinion with regard to the County Court judges no doubt is still fresh in the minds of our readers, and the inference to be drawn from bis observations

to be that they lead life of well-remu. nerated and comparative indolence. During the debate on the second reading of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill, Lord LOREBURN gave us an insight into his opinion concerning his own labours. He stated that, speaking for himself, he would go on as long as he could doing his best; but he declared that the time was coming and was near at hand when the combination of the duties of Speaker of one of the Houses of Parliament, of a judge of the Court of Appeal, of a member of the Cabinet, to say nothing of the administrative duties relating to lunacy, magistrates, and other matters, might be too much for the strength of anybody unless it was mitigated by the lightening of the burden in some direction.

COMPARING the insane witb the general population as between the lst Jan. 1859 and the lst Jan. 1911, the certified insane have increased 262.2 per cent., and the estimated population only by 858 per cent.

The commissioners point out that they are now in a position to contrast with some accuracy from the year 1869 onwards the growth of the general population, the increase in numbers of the certified insane, and of the numbers annually committed to care; and they can also compare the ratios which these two latter have borne to the population for this period of forty-two years. They state that during this time

the population is estimated to have increased by 64 6 per cent., the insane community (as known to us) by 150:4 per cent. The numbers admitted to care during 1869 were 10,472; in 1910 they were 21,861.

The ratio of insane to population, which on the 1st Jan. 1869 was 23-93 per 10,000, had risen to 36 40 on the 1st Jan. 1911, an increase of 52-1 per cent. The ratio of admissions to population, which in 1869 was 4 71, was 6 04 in 1910, an increase of 28 2 per cent.”

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We note that the commissioners say that “the increase in the number of the insane recorded year by year is no proof

of an actual growth of insanity in the community, although it is often assumed to be such. There are in point of fact no sufficient data for a correct judgment on the latter head, and such facts as are available tend to the conclusion that, if insanity is increasing at all, it is doing so very slowly and by no means proportionately to the increasing numbers of insane persons under care.” They go on to state that “whether insanity be incriasing or not, there can be no question that the increasing numbers for whose care and treatment provi. sion has to be made are due to 'accumulation,' or, in other words, the increase in chronic and irremediable insanity due to survival.” Every year since registration has been in force the numbers admitted have exceeded the losses by discharge and death.

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v. Earl of Willon. In Mackie v. Herbertson (9 App. Cas. 303) the House of Lords decided that when the persons who are within the consideration of the marriage take only od terms which admit to a participation with them others who would not otherwise be within the consideration, then not the matrimonial consideration but the consideration of the mutual contract extends to and comprehends them.

In De Mestre and West (64 L. T. Rep. 375; (1891) A, C. 264) it was decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that & limitation in a marriage settlement in favour of the settlor's illegitimate child and his issue, not being within the marriage consideration, may be defeated by a subsequent conveyanoe by the settlor to a purchaser for value, unless that result would involve the defeat of other limitations within the marriage consideration, but neither a special agreement between the parties in favour of the limitation, nor acceptance by one of the parties of different interests in the settled property from those which the law would have given, nor the omission to provide therein for all or some of the issue of the marriage, are sufficient to support suoh a limitation against & purchaser for value. The court considered that Newstead v. Searles and Clayton V. Earl of Willon were deciaed on the ground that the order of the limitations in both those cases was such that the limitations which not within the marriage consideration were covered by those which were, that those which were within the marriage consideration could not take effect in the form and manner provided by the instruments without also giving effect to the others. Clarke v. Wright was dissented from, Lord Selborne in the judgment, referring to the proposition that, although provieions in favour of collaterals in marriage settlements were not within the marriage consideration, yet they might always be brought within it if the parties so intended, said: “It sound, it would go far to destroy the general rule, for it is recited in almost every marriage settlement that all the provisions made in it, whether for the parties themselves and the issue of the marriage, or for anyone else, are made pursuant to agreement." That case was followed in Attorney.General v. Jacobs Smith (72 L. T. Rep. 714; (1895) 2 Q. B. 341), in which it was held by the Court of Appeal that a widow's children by her first marriage, in whose favour she gettled personal property, reserving a life interest, by a settlement made upon her second marriage, are “volunteers" within the meaning of Best. ll of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act_1889, amending sect. 38, sub-sect. 2 (c), of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1881, and are chargeable with duty accordingly. It seems, therefore, now to be settled that only the spouses and issue of the marriage are within the marriage considera. tion, but where the limitations are in favour of collaterals as well as of the issue of the marriage, so that the latter cannot take effect without giving effect to the former, then such collaterals cannot be treated as mere volunteers.

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LIMITATIONS WITHIN THE MARRIAGE

CONSIDERATION. Ever since the case of Newslead v. Searles (1 Atk. 265) there seems to have been a conflict of authority as to what persons are within the valuable consideration of marriage under the limitations of a marriage settlement. In that case the facts were shortly as follows : A widow who had two children by a former husband, and no provision made for them, and each of such children having a child and being in pog. session in her own right of freehold, copybold, and leasehold estates, by articles before her second marriage, to which her husband was a party, and with his consent, conveyed the whole to trustees, in trust to divide the same, if no issue of the marriage, in moieties, one to the plaintiff, her grandson, bis heirs and assigns, and the other to her granddaughter in fee, with a proviso that, “if there should be any child or children of the marriage, tbat child or children should bave an equal share of the said estates with the grandeon and the grand. daughter." There were no issue of the marriage. The husband and wife mortgaged the settled estates to persons who had notice of the settlement, and it was held that the settlement was not voluntary. but a binding one, and tbat there was no instance where such & limitation had been held fraudulent and void against subsequent pur. chasers or creditors, for, if it could, no widow on her second marriage would be able to make any certain provision for the issue of a former marriage. Lord Hardwicke thought it a strong circumstance that there were reciprocal considerations both on tbe part of the husband and wife by the provision under the articles " for the children of tbe second marriage.”

In Clayton v. Earl of Wilton (6 M. & S. 67, note) real estate of the 'husband was settled on marriage on the plaintiff for life with remainder to secure a jointure to his wife, with remainder to the use of the first and other sons of the husband on the body of the wife to be begotten in tail male, “ with remainder to the use of the first son of the husband on the body of any woman he might happen to marry after the decease of the wife in tail male,” with remainders

The wife died without issue, and the husband, before he married again, sold and conveyed part of the said hereditaments to å purchaser for value, and it was held that suoh conveyance was not valid against the iegue of the second marriage.

In Clarke v. Wright (6 H. & N. 849) the facts were as follows : A widow bad a child by her first husband before her marriage with bim. After his death, on the occasion of her eecond marriage, she executed a marriage settlement which recited that

the treaty for the intended marriage it was agreed that oertain lands of hers should be settled as thereinafter mentioned, and then conveyed the land to trustees in trust for her separate use for life, with remainder as to part of the lands to her intended husband for life, with remainder to her child by her former husband, and as to the residue of the lands to that child in fee. The husband and wife afterwards joined in mortgaging the estates and died, and the mortgagees ultimately sold the property, and it was held by the Court of Exchequer Chamber (dissentiente Mr. Justice Williams) that the limitation in favour of the child was valid and was not avoided in favour of purchasers for value by virtue of the statute 27 Eliz. c. 4. Mr. Justice Blackburn in the course of bis judgment suggested that the question was one of contract rather than of consideration, and cited with approval the following observations in the then edition of Dart's Vendors and Purchasers, 578.9, and at p. 923 of the 7th edit. : “ It is submitted that where the limitations over are in favour of collateral relations or connections not of the settlor, but of the other contracting party (whether wife or husband), the settlement itself may be considered prima facie evidence of such other party having stipulated for their insertion. So, where on a settlement of the intended wife's estate the limitations over are in favour of her own collateral relations in derogation from the husband's marital right by survivorship (in the case of personalty) or as tenant by the coortesy (in the case of realty).

Where in any case other than that last referred to, the limitations over are in favour of the collateral relations or connections of the settlor, such presumption cannot so readily ari:e; but it might be proved that the other party stipulated for their insertion. If such & stipulation cannot be presumed or proved, the limitations must, it is conceived, be considered voluntary and void as against & subsequent bonâ fide purchaser.” Chief Justice Cockburn based his judgment principally upon the cases of Newstead v. Starles and Clayton

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THE question has been referred to the town solicitor of Belfast whether the corporation of that city has legal power to provide a mace for the city. It appears that Belfast does not possess a suitable mace, and, on the occasion of the recent visit of His Majesty to Dublin, the city was not able to take advantage of the royal com. mand, on the occasion of the presentation of an address to His Majesty, that the Lord Mayor, the high sheriff, and the town clerk should be accompapjed by the mace-bearer. A resolution has now been adopted that a mace should be provided for the city, but the town solicitor must first report whether the corporation has power to provide one. In the matrimonial suit of Watson v. Watson, which was tried by Mr. Justice Dodd at the Belfast Assizes on the 24th ult., bis Lördship in charging the jury gave an interesting historical account of the different changes with reference to the law of divorce which has taken place in Englald and Ireland during the last sixty years, and he pointed out the reasons why the Irish courts have never been accorded jurisdiction to decree divorce a vinculo, but have been limited in their jurisdiction to divorce a mensa et thoro. An action for damages for criminal conversation (a form of action which still survives in Ireland), arising out of the same transaction (Watson v. Fitzsimon), was heard by the same judge. It was proved that the wife had left her husband (the plaintiff), bad got a divorce in one of the American States, and then had gone through a form of marriage with the defendant. Under those circumstances, it would have been thought that the jury would have awarded comparatively small damages ; but they awarded the somewhat surprisingly large sum of £125.

An additional rule of court has been made by the judges in Ireland for the purpose of carrying out the terms of the Foreigo Tribunals Act 1856. This rule provides that wbere in any civil or criminal matter pending in a foreign country a letter of request from the court in such country for service on any person in Ireland of any procees in such matter is transmitted to the Supreme Court in Ireland by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the procedure which is now laid down must be adopted. The letter of request must be accompanied by a translation thereof in Eoglish. Service of the process or citation is to be effected, in accordance with the practice of the Supreme Court in Ireland, by the eolicitor for the person suing out the process or citation, or, in the event of there being no such Folicitor, by the Treasdıy Solicitor in Ireland. After service bas been effected, a copy of the process must be returned by the process.server to the master of the King's Bench Division, together with evidence of service by affidavit. The costs of service are to be taxed by a taxing master, and the master of the division is to transmit to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs tbe letter of request, together with the evidence of service and a copy of the obarges as certified by the taxing master.

beneficial occupation for the purpose of assessment. The Master of the Rolls, however, considered that it was a fallacy to assert that there could be no such beneficial occupation. He gave as illustrations the right to welle, vaulte, or cellars under the highway, or to grant licences for carrying wires over it. Lord Justice Farwell, on ibe other hand, had many cogent reasons to offer in support of the view which he entertained. And seeing that, by_bis copourredoe in the deoision arrived at by Mr. Justice Swinien Eady, the expression. of judicial opinion has become equally divided, the aesistance of the ultimate tribunal Beemg desirable on so doubtful a point.

The Departmental Commission which was appointed some time ago to inquire into the effect which the recent changes in the ownersbip of land in Ireland bas or may be expected to have on ibland fisheries is proceeding actively with its inquiries. The commissioners sro taking evidence at present in the north of Ireland, and it is stated tbat the tenants who bad aoquired Gisbery rights had not yet begun to net fisb, but it is stated that that method is in contempletion at present. It is evident that if the tenant purchasers oombine and pool ibeir rights they can convert stretches of rivers flowing through their lands into valuable angling properties. Unless this is done, however, the fishing rights of each small peasant proprietor cannot be of very much value. A considerable amount of evidence has been given as to the poisoning of rivers by flax-water and by deposits from factories. Those who are interested in the subject complain very bitterly ibat when prosecutions are brought the magistrates generally inflict & nominal fine. They were in the habit of inflicting lines of one penny ; but they found that that was illegal, og one-third of the amount could not be awarded to the plaintiff. • Now," said one of i be witnesses, " they make the fine 3d. and order one-third to be paid to the bailiff.” It is suggested that the drift nets that are used along the coast are much too long and prevent the fish baving a chapoe of getting up the rivers. There is a test case on this matter peoding at present before the House of Lords.

The decision of the Court of Appeal in Batt v. Metropolitan Water Board (ooted post, p. 318), reversing that of the Divisional Court (Justices Ridley and Avory), is one of considerable importance. The plaintiff was walking along a bighway and was tripped by a stopcook boz situate therein. Tbo box was in a condition of disrepair. It formed a portion of the apparatus used in connection with the pipe communicating from the main to a house. The lid to the box had disappeared, and there was therefore exposed a hole about 6io. deep and 4in. wide. There seemed po information when or by whom this box had been constructed or laid. The plaintiff sought for compensation for injuries sustained, and the defendaots alleged that they were not liable. They based their defence on the ground that since the Metropolitan Water Board (Charges) Act 1907 passed, sect. 8 of it operated to transfer to the owrer or oocupier of the house any liability which might have existed. The Countg Court judge accepted this argument, deeming that section retrospective and imposing on the owner or occupier an obligation of repairing commuoicatiot pipes, and not only those copetrooted after 1907, but aleo those in existence when the Act was pa gsed. The plaintiff, appealing from this, placed reliance on Chapman v. Fylde Waterworks Company (71 L. T. Rep. 539; (1894) 2 Q. B. 599), wherein it was decided that the owner o: occupier was under po obligation to keep the communication pipe or apparatus in repair, for the reason tbar the water company had the power to break open the ground. This case iteell followed a case before the Court of Appeal, East London Water works Company v. 81. Matthew, Bethnal Green (54 L. T. Rep. 919; 17 Q. B. Dip. 475), io wbich a decision closely corresponding with that was giver. The Divisional Court failed to find anything suggesting a retrospec: tivo o peration as regards the section, and they reversed the judgment of the County Court judge. The Court of Appeal now express them. selves in a sense ad verso to the Divisional Court, and the judgment of the learned County Court judge is restored. A great deal of importance may attach to this case, for it is notorirus that there stop-cock boxes are frequently imperfect, and owners or occupiers are not alive to their responsibility in the matter of repairs. The statute is oertainly far from convincing, and it is somewhat curious to note that, uolens a retrospective operation be given to the section in question, the defendants would not be able to charge for water except when houecs were supplied with water for the first time after the Act passed. It is as well that, one way or another, this question of retrospectiveness ebould be settled, for "Mr. Justijo Phillimore in

unreported is stated to have held that sect. 8 was retrospective.

COMMENTS ON CASES.

case

THE CONVEYANCER.

The important, if highly technical, point that was decided by Mr. Justice Swipfen Eady against the plaintiffs in the case of Central London Railway Company v. Commissioners of Land Tax for City of London (104 L. T. Rep. 245), and in respect of wbich they recently appealed to the Court of Appeal (noted ante, p. 292), was said by their counsel to be res nova. Counsel for the defendante, on the other haud, relied on the observations of Lord Watson in delivering his opinion in the case of Metropolitan Railway Company, v. Fowler (69 L. T. Rep. 390; (1893), A. C. 416, at p. 427). His Lordship there stated his view as to whether the underground tunnel of the railway company in tbat case was liable to the incidence of land tar. The plaintiffs' contention was that the redemption of land tax on laod abutting on a highway extended to the middle line of the bigbway. While that proposition was disputed in toto. the argument urged on behalf of the defendants was that, even if the land tax had been redeemed in respect of the land beneath which the plaintiffs' railway bad been constructed, yet that the railway and works were bereditament, and that as no redemption of land tax had been effected jo respect of such now hereditament, the plaintiffs were liable to pay land tax iD respeot thereof. Mr. Justice Swipfen Eady, howover, decided in favour of the plaintiffs on that point, so that the appeal was confined to their main contention. That was based on the long-established presumption that a grant of land adjoining and abutting on a highway pasees, not only the land described by metes and bounds, but also half of tbe soil of the highway : (eee Rex v. Landulph, 1 M. & R. 393; Micklethwait v. Newlay Bridge Company Limited, 55 L. T. Rep. 336; 33 Ch. Div. 133; and Mappin Brothers v. Liberty and Co. Limited, 87 L. T. Rep. 523 ; (1903) i Ch. 118). It is a presumption that is capable of being rebutted ; but if it is not so, the owner of the land is owner of the highway usque ad medium filum. The entire ownership a centro usque ad cælum is vested in the owners of the adjoining land. Thus a house includes a moiety of the street or road in which it is situate. But in Mr. Justico Swinfen Eady's opinion there was no ground for presuming that half of the bighway was included in the assessment to land tax of land abutting thereon, or that, when the tax on the adjoining land was redeemed, such redemption extended to the middle of the bighway. With this conclusion the Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Konnedy-constituting the majority of the learned judges of the Court of Appeal-oould not see their way to agree. Lord Justice Farwell, on the contrary, was of opinion that Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady's decision was right, and that the appeal ought to be dismissed. As to the reliance that was placed upon the observations of Lord Watson, to which we have above alluded, the Master of the Rolls did not think it right to attribute to the dictum of that great judge the weight of a deliberate judgment upon a point pot distinctly raised before him. One of the grounds for the contention of the defendants was tbat, where land tax is redeemed, the redemption only extends to the land on which the land tax redeemed was assessed, and the certificate of the contract is the proper evidenco of what land was assessed and exonerated. But the Master of the Rolls saw no reason for holding ibat the assessment of the land and the certificate of the contract for redemption were documents to which the presumption did not apply, and that they did not, as a matter of construction, include a moiety of the highway, which might be included without being named. Another ground was that land tax was assessed on the occupier of the land, and that a bighway could not be the subject of

MISCELLANEOUS PRECEDENTS (continued).
Conveyance of Land to a Municipal Corporation for Statutory

Purposes.
THS INDENTURE made the

day of

19 BETWEEN À B. of in the county of and C. D. of

in the county of (hereinafter called “the vendors ") of the one part and the

(bereinafter called “the corporation ") of the other part.

WHEREAS E. F. late of duly made his will dated the

day of 19 and thereby appointed the vendors to be the exeoutors thereof. AND WHEREAS the said testator died on the day of

190 without having revoked or altered his said will and on the

day of 190 bis said will was duly proved by the vendors in the Diatrict Probate Registry. AND WAEREAS the said E. F. was at the time of bis death Beised in fee simple in possession free from incumbrances of the heredita mente bereinafter described and hereby assured. AND WHEREAS the said hereditaments are required by the corporation for the purposes autboriged by the X. Corporation Act 19 AND WHEREAS the corporation have under the powers of the said Act and the Acts incorporated there with agreed with the vendors as the personal representatives of the said E. F. deceased to purchase the said hereditaments and the fee simple thereof in possession free from incumbranoes at the price of £ which som it was agreed should include the value of all mines and minerals under the hereditaments hereby ageured and also compensation for severance and damage of all kinde whether temporary or permanent which may be done to nny other the lards or hereditaments of the vendors or of their testator by the company taking or using the said hereditaments for the purpose aforesaid or exercising any of their rights and powers under the said Act or any of the Acts incorporated therewith, Now TRIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH that in pursuance of the said agreement and in consideration of the sum of £

now paid by the corporation to the vendors as such perconal representatives as aforesaid (the receipt of which som

the
vendors

hereby ecknowledge) the vendors