sorry for troubling you, sir, but I just wished to say that, as the court has been turned into a bear-garden for some hours during the past three days, I intend to hold you responsible for the maintenance of perfect order to-day. Your duty is to arrest every man, woman, or child that makes any demonstration of satisfaction or dissatisfaction at the result of the hearing of a case, and to put them in the dock and give evidence as to their contempt of court. I'll deal with them after that." The officer went down, and orders were given to his men, of whom there were about fifty in the court, to arrest everyone expressing his feelings. The first prisoner to be tried was a man named O'Halloran, and his case excited a great deal of interest. The court was crowded to a point of suffocation while the judge was summing up, which he did with a directness that left nothing to be desired. In five minutes the jury had returned a verdict of "Not guilty." At that instant a wild "Hurroo " rang through the court. It came from a youth who had climbed a pillar at a distance of about a yard from the Bench. In a moment the judge had put out his hand and grasped the fellow by the collar, and then, of course, the policemen crushed through the crowd, and about a dozen of them seized the prehensible legs of the prisoner Stylites. "One of you will be ample," said the judge. "Don't pull the boy to pieces, let him down gently." This operation was carried out, and the excitable youth was placed in the dock, whence the prisoner just tried had stepped. "Now," said the judge, "I'm going to make an example of you. You heard what I said to the Inspector of Constabulary, and yet I arrested you with my own hand in the very act of committing a gross contempt of court. I'll make an example of you for the benefit of others. What's your name?" "O'Halloran, yer Honour," said the trembling youth. "Isn't that the name of the prisoner who has just been tried?" said the judge. "It is, my Lord," replied the registrar. "Is the last prisoner any relation of your's?" the judge asked of the youth in the dock. "He's me brother, yer Honour," was the reply. "Release the boy, and go on with the business of the court," said the judge. (A Journalist's Note Book, pp. 214-220.) STORIES FROM THE LAW REPORTS. (From Rex v. Hempstead and Hudson, Russ. & Ry, 345.) IT was a dark cold evening in the month of January in the year of grace 1818, and the warehouse of Newell and Burch, the wholesale stationers in Jewry-street, Saint Catharine Cree Church, was closing for the night. A faint light glimmered on the staircase; all else was absolutely black. Almost the whole of the establishment of Newell and Burch were gone, but the great doors at the bottom of the staircase were not yet shut. Someone was still expected to descend, and for this someone there were waiting two officers of justice. One or two passers by stared curiously at them, and wondered what their business might be. For there was not in those days a whole army of police walking their beats in the metropolis. A small foot patrol, whose full strength was 100 men, sufficed to guard the city, with such assistance as might be afforded them by the not overzealous parish constables by day, and the notorious old "watch" by night. There were, however, as we have said, on the night in question two officers standing by the doors of this business house in Jewry-street, and their prey was not far to seek. Soon a youth came rushing down the stairs, quickly followed by another, scarcely more than a lad, both in evident haste to leave the warehouse for the street. The officers quickly tackled them, and each found a grip upon his collar before he could look round to see who his assailant was. The prisoners, who proved to be two parties employed in the warehouse, were searched. On one, whose name was Hempstead, twenty-five penknives were discovered, each neatly packed in its own case and never used before-only too obviously his master's property-which were ready for sale to the retail trade. On the other, who was called Hudson, stolen property was also found; here also similar neatly packed penknives were produced from the offender's pocket; but in his case only two of them. Mr. Burch, one of the partners of the firm, came down just as the search was concluded, to lock the doors. The officers asked him to identify and put a value on the property. He looked at it casually. "Oh!" said he, "Hempstead's lot we'll call six pounds worth, and Hudson's ten shillings worth." Hempstead turned pale as death and a tremor passed over him, while the colour of Hudson began to return to his face. And no wonder! Indeed, that valuation in either case was a most serious matter to them; for the difference between being found guilty of stealing to the value of ten shillings and being found guilty of stealing to the value of six pounds was in those days the difference between life and death! Hempstead and Hudson were now carried away and locked up. Hempstead felt almost certain of the worst; Hudson thought that he would be transported, but nothing more. They seldom saw each other in the month which passed before the trial; but one day they passed each other, and Hempstead contrived to speak a few words to his comrade. "Joe," said he, "I'm sorry you were nabbed, for it was me who brought you to this job. I'm a deader; but you won't be. You can't be made to swing for ten shillings!" Joe smiled hopefully. At last the weary month of waiting passed by and the prisoners were to be put upon their trial at the Old Bailey. The judges-Mr. Justice Bayley and Mr. Baron Garrow-came to deliver the gaol; and took their seats; and the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. Christopher Smith, and the different Aldermen filed in and occupied their several places upon the bench. All the prisoners were in attendance. But many another case was tried before the case of Hempstead and Hudson, and the sessions were adjourned from day to day prolonging the suspense. At last the expected moment came; and Hempstead and Hudson were called upon to plead before Sir John Silvester, Bart., the recorder, in another court to that in which they had been previously brought. And now, when the indictment was read, a new horror burst over Hudson of an overwhelming (description. The charge was put in a way which he had not anticipated. The prisoners were jointly charged with stealing twentyseven penknives-value six pounds ten shillings-from the dwelling of their masters' Newell and Burch; and if the jury found them jointly guilty of this charge both would be sentenced to be hanged! Hudson had hardly realised this terrible view of the matter when the counsel for the prosecution began his opening speech. When, he said, two men are jointly concerned in one act of stealing it does not matter whose hand did the deed. Here both had evidently conspired together to rob their masters; and the fact that only two knives were found on one did not prevent the two prisoners from being guilty of the capital offence. Mr. Burch was called as a witness. He said that the two prisoners were in his employ as porters, but that they did not live in the house. The prisoners worked in the same room together, but there was nothing to show that the articles were not taken by the prisoners at separate times and unknown to each other. They had both been home, he said, during the course of the day, but the property was found upon them all at one time. The case did not last long. Hempstead and Hudson were both allowed to explain their defence to the jury, but Hempstead only said he was "entirely innocent of this offence," and Hudson only said, "I ask for your mercy, gentlemen!" The jury consulted for some little while, and then returned this verdict: "The jury are of opinion that there is not sufficient evidence to prove that the prisoners acted together. They therefore find Hempstead guilty of stealing his master's property to the value of six pounds, and Hudson guilty of stealing his master's property to the value of ten shillings." Hudson breathed again; while Hempstead prepared to hear the sentence of death. But the learned Recorder's forehead was wrinkled with perplexity: he looked in books; he asked the counsel for the prosecution a number of questions which the prisoners did not understand; to which that gentleman gave answers still more difficult for them to follow. The Recorder said he did not think that he could sentence Hempstead to death and Hudson to transportation. The counsel for the prosecution said he could, and he argued persuasively to impress upon the court that this ought to be done. The Recorder looked at more books. Then he discussed the matter with the clerk of arraigns. Then he departed to consult the judges in the other court; and finally, having said nothing more upon the subject of such fatal interest to these prisoners, he began to try another case. Hempstead and Hudson were removed-in great and terrible suspense. For a long time they heard never a word more of their probable fate. But at last a rumour reached them in gaol that their case was going to be heard by all the judges in the Court for Crown Cases Reserved. At length the day arrived for that court to sit and adjudicate upon this matter. They decided that the two prisoners could not both be sentenced to different punishments. Hudson could be transported, if Hempstead were pardoned; if Hudson were pardoned, Hempstead could be hanged. It seemed a cruel thing when the latter alternative was finally decided upon. The law of England loosed its hand on Hudson, as a man who has shot two birds, but can only pick up one, lets the less valuable go. Hempstead was accordingly sentenced to death without further demur. Soon afterwards Hudson was arrested on another charge, and transportation was his ultimate destiny. Legal Proposition.-Upon an indictment against two persons charging them with a joint and single offence, as stealing in the dwelling-house, both or either may be found guilty; but they cannot be found guilty of separate parts of the charge; and if they be found guilty separately of separate parts of the charge, judgment cannot be passed upon one unless a pardon be obtained for the other or a nolle prosequi be entered regarding him : (see Archbold's Criminal Pleadings, p. 77). But cf. Rex v. Butterworth, Braithwaite, and Moss (Russ. & Ry. 520) and Le Roy v. Turner et sa feme et deux de ses fils at Old Bailey (1 Siderfin, 171). E. A. J. LAW LIBRARY. A Complete Manual of Canon Law. By OsWALD J. REICHEL, THAT the religious life should require to be disciplined as it is decreed in the authorities so learnedly and carefully set out in this manual is a painful reflection. This most comprehensive manual deals not only with the discipline of the clergy, but of the religious life generally, and, whilst expounding the law and practice of the Spiritual Courts, embraces also the religious life of the laity, and defines its rules and penances. The volume is rich in interesting historical learning, whilst being extremely accurate as to canonical procedure. We live in hope that the subject is one which, with the advance of toleration, will become daily of less practical importance; but while the canon law remains, and whilst the Church is governed and controlled by spiritual courts, so long must Mr. Reichel's manual remain a work of accepted authority. The Preservation of Open Spaces and of Footpaths and other Rights of Way. By Sir ROBERT HUNTER, M.A., Solicitor to the Post Office. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. THE author of this work candidly acknowledges that there are textbooks enough and to spare upon rights of way and what he terms the law in the abstract concerning the public rights upon land. He believes, however, that there is scope for his researches in the rural districts, particularly in obscure districts and in respect of ways likely to excite less attention than highways, &c. His long experience in connection with the preservation of commons has given him an almost paternal interest in the subject, and he devotes himself to it with thoroughness and ability. Here will be found minutely examined the precise position of the public with regard to roadside wastes, the cliffs and foreshore of the sea, allotments and recreation grounds, rivers, and lakes. We cannot say that Sir Robert's work adds much to the knowledge which the Profession already has on the general law; he does not pretend that it does. But for careful exposition, full and authoritative treatment from more or less a popular view, the book stands alone. The last statutes and cases will be found set out and explained, and a capital index completes a most creditable piece of work by one who has nothing to gain by his labour. THIS weighty volume, which comes to us from the Law School of Yale University, consists of 111 essays dealing with the growth of political institutions in America. The author discusses in a lucid manner the constitutional problems which the citizens of the States have had to face, both in their external and internal relations. The scope even of this one volume is immense, and yet the historical detail of documents is at times bewildering. The first appendix contains an account of the life of John Lilburne, apostle and martyr of civil liberty, and although it is only distantly connected with the author's subject, it will be considered by many as the most interesting thing in the book. We took the liberty of reproducing it in Our Literary Column. The imposing volume prepared by Mr. Gerald John Wheeler, barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's-inn, entitled Confederation Law of Canada, published by Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, is not the ordinary type of law book-certainly not one with which English lawyers have much concern. Its chief interest for us lies in the portion devoted to the right of appeal to the Privy Council. Appendix B. contains the "Judicial Committee Acts," with notes on the right of appeal from every colony. "The yearning for confederation," which Mr. Wheeler perceives, will find a vast amount of pabulum in this volume, which is a marvel of accumulated knowledge with regard to the laws and constitution of Canada. BOOKS RECEIVED. Index to the Revised Reports. Vols. I.-XXV. (1785-1826). Sweet and Maxwell Limited, 3, Chancery-lane; and Little, Brown, and Co., Boston. The Revised Reports. Vol. XXVI. (1823-1826). 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The following is a list of Mercantile Assessors appointed under The County Courts' Admiralty Jurisdiction Acts 1868 and 1869 for the County Court of Somersetshire, holden at Bridgwater --George Bryant Sully, Bridgwater, Merchant and Ship Broker: Alfred Peace, Bridgwater, Merchant Francis James Carver, Bridgwater, Ship Builder; John Charles Hunt, Bridgwater, Merchant and Ship Broker; and Robert Yarde Foley, Bridgwater, Merchant. The following is a list of Nautical Assessors appointed under The County Courts' Admiralty Jurisdiction Acts 1868 and 1869 for the County Court of Somersetshire, holden at Bridgwater; James Jobson, Bridgwater, retired Master Mariner; William Melancthon Sanctuary, Burnham, retired Captain, Royal Navy; and Edward Hamblin, Bridgwater, retired Master Mariner. NOTICE TO SOLICITORS.-The Provincial Solicitors' Union Limited (93, Chancery-lane, W.C.) undertakes only such lay agency as is usually transacted by Law Stationers, and accepts the same scale of charges. The Union does not undertake any agency which legally requires the services of a London solicitor. All the members of the Union are solicitors. Established 1894.-[ADVT.] PROCEEDINGS AFFECTING THE PROFESSION. In the Queen's Bench Division, on the 5th inst., before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury, Mr. Eugene Leconte, a French merchant and manufacturer of malt extract, formerly in business in Southwark, sued Mr. George Saunders Jacobs and Mr. Ernest Bruce Millar, solicitors, carrying on business as G. R. Browne and Co., in Ironmonger-lane, to recover damages for alleged malicious prosecution of a bankruptcy petition and for libel. The defence was that the petition was presented bona fide, and the words complained of, which were to the effect that the petition had been filed, were justified. Murphy, Q.C. and Ernest Pollock appeared for the plaintiff; and Carson, Q C. and Muir Mackenzie for the defendants. It appeared that the defendants had acted as solicitors for the plaintiff, and there had been some dispute as to the defendants' charges. The matter of one account was referred to an arbitrator, and it was agreed that the plaintiff should pay £250 on this account. The plaintiff was at this time engaged in disposing of his business in Southwark, the goodwill being sold for £1750, and the stock for £4701. Owing to a delay in the completion of this transaction a cheque which the plaintiff gave for the £250 was dishonoured, and on the 31st Dec. last the defendants signed judgment in an action for £325 and costs. On that day an interview took place between the parties, as to which conflicting accounts were given. The plaintiff wished, he said, to for delay payment a few days until the purchase of the business was settled, and then he promised to pay, offering to give a bill he had as security, but this was declined. According to the defendants, the plaintiff promised to pay cash next day. The plaintiff moreover said that the defendants did not tell him they had signed judgment, but, on the other hand, it was said he was told. At any rate, on the 2nd Jan. this year the plaintiff desired to go to France for a few days, and he wrote stating that it had been found impossible to complete the book-debts and stock-taking till the following Tuesday, the 7th Jan., and asking the defendant to wait till then for the £250. He mentioned that he was leaving for France, and would return on the Tuesday. The defendants wrote in reply that they were astonished to receive a letter stating that the plaintiff was leaving without paying their accounts, and said they had no doubt it was done to defeat their claim and avoid payment. They must, they said, proceed strictly upon their judgment for £331. The plaintiff's action, they added, by the law of England entitled them to make him bankrupt, and they should do so unless the whole amount due to them as by the accounts which they inclosed was paid in Bank of England notes or gold upon the Wednesday following. The accounts inclosed were £331, the amount of the judgment, and other accounts, making a total of about £1130. The defendants proceeded with their petition, which was dismissed by the registrar on the ground that the plaintiff, who returned from France a day earlier than he had mentioned, was not absconding to avoid payment of the claim, and that therefore there was no act of bankruptcy as alleged. As to the bills of costs delivered, it was stated that, in all, the defendants had delivered bills amounting to £1331 10s. 10d., and that from that amount £614 had been taxed off, reducing the amount to £717 10s. 10d. Lord RUSSELL, C.J., in summing up, left it to the jury to say whether the defendants honestly believed when they filed the petition that the plaintiff had absconded in order to defeat the claim, and whether the defendants had acted maliciously. He said that the plaintiff no doubt in regard to the cheque acted in an entirely unbusinesslike and unsatisfactory manner, and made a number of promises to pay which he did not keep, and no one could doubt that the defendants would have been perfectly justified in pressing any legitimate legal proceedings; but the question was whether they were justified in resorting to the very serious proceeding of presenting a bankruptcy petition. He expressed surprise at the character of the bills of costs, which he said it was not unimportant to consider; and he added that he hoped for the credit of an honourable profession the revelations in that case were of an unusual nature. The jury found for the plaintiff, and assessed the damages at £300. Lord RUSSELL, C.J. said that upon the finding of fact by the jury he ruled that there was no reasonable and probable cause for filing the petition, and he gave judgment accordingly for the plaintiff. IN the Queen's Bench Division, on the 5th inst., before Cave, J. the case of Paterson v. Thomson was heard. In this case the plaintiff was Mr. Duncan Wilkie Paterson, a solicitor practising in Edinburgh, and the defendant was Mr. W. M. Thomson, a bookseller and publisher, carrying on business in Holywell-street, London, under the name of the Temple Publishing Company. The plaintiff claimed the sum of £65 13s. 3d. as the balance due to him for services rendered and expenses incurred in connection with an action-Thomson v. Simmons and Bodden Limitedbrought in the High Court by the present defendant in January last, at which he was subpoenaed by Mr. Thomson to attend and give evidence. The defence set up was peculiar. The defendant admitted having written a letter in December to the plaintiff asking him to come up to London and give evidence on his behalf, in which he said, "If you have to come to town specially for my case, I will pay you your expenses." He denied, however, that he was liable for the amount claimed, alleging that the plaintiff, whom he had known for many years, had voluntarily offered previously to the date of the letter to assist him as a friend, and that all his offer "to pay his expenses amounted to was a promise to pay his railway fare if he came up from Edinburgh specially to give evidence. Moreover, he had given the plaintiff while in town various sums amounting to £10, and, under the circumstances, that amount covered all that the plaintiff could reasonably claim. The defendant entered a counter-claim. In it he alleged that the plaintiff had at different times recovered various sums of money due to him in Scotland which he had not paid ever, and that there was, in fact, a balance due from the plaintiff to him, which, however, the plaintiff denied. M'Carthy appeared for the plaintiff; H. Kisch for the defendant. Mr. Paterson, in support of his counsel's opening statement, said that he had known the defendant some thirty years, and that when he was in business in Edinburgh his firm had acted as his solicitors on several occasions. It was on account of his knowledge of Mr. Thomson's affairs that the latter desired, when the action in question was pending, that he should come to town and give evidence if required. He left Edinburgh on the afternoon of the 11th Jan.-a Saturday-had a consultation with Mr. Thomson on the Sunday, and was in court when the case was called on for hearing on the Monday before Collins, J. His Lordship declined to hear the case as it could not be finished that day, and it was subsequently tried by Mathew, J. On the 13th he was also present at a consultation with Mr. Thomson's counsel, Dr. Wallace, and Mr. James Todd, who said that in their opinion the evidence the defendant desired him to give was irrelevant or immaterial. It was not true that the defendant told him he was, therefore, free to go back to Scotland. At his suggestion, after this consultation, Mr. F. O. Crump, Q.C. was briefed to lead when the case came on before Mathew, J. on the 17th, and a proof of his evidence was attached to his brief. When the court rose on the 17th the learned judge suggested a settlement, and the hearing of the case was adjourned until the 24th, when terms were agreed to, one of which was that each party were to pay their own costs. Even then the defendant made use of his services, and it was not until the 28th Jan. that he started for Edinburgh. He had charged a guinea a day for the nineteen days he was in town, and £3 3s. a day for sixteen days' attendance under his subpoena, in addition to which he had charged out-of-pocket expenses.Mr. Thomson's evidence was to the effect that after the consultation on the 13th, when his counsel had told Mr. Paterson that his evidence would not assist the case, he considered that Mr. Paterson had remained on in London to suit his own convenience. As a matter of fact that gentleman was not called as a witness, and his continuing to meddle with the evidence he was getting up in support of his case caused him no small annoyance. Mr. James Todd, the junior counsel retained by Mr. Thomson, was called and corroborated the defendant's statement of what took place at the consultation on the 13th.-The question at issue, therefore, between the parties came down to this: Did the plaintiff remain in London at the request of the defendant for four or for nineteen days, and was the defendant's offer to pay expenses under the circumstances a promise to pay Mr. Paterson only his actual out-of-pocket expenses; or was it, as the plaintiff took it to be, a promise to pay him such a sum as any professional man would be entitled to who had been subpoenaed to give evidence on his behalf. In the result the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and awarded him £50 over and above the £10 he admitted having received when in London, but they allowed the defendant to deduct therefrom £12 10s. alleged in his counter-claim as being due from Mr. Paterson to him. On this finding CAVE, J. entered judgment for the plaintiff for £37 10s. -Costs on the High Court scale refused. IN Bankruptcy, on the 6th inst., before Mr. Registrar Brougham, an adjourned application was made by Mr. Patrick Marcellinus Leonard, formerly County Court judge at Winchester, for an order of discharge. The facts of the case were reported in our issue last week, it having been brought before the learned registrar on the previous day and adjourned to enable the debtor to produce the consent of his daughter, Miss Leonard, to the withdrawal of her claim, and for other reasons.-Mr. G. W. Chapman attended as assistant official receiver, and stated that he had received a letter from Miss Leonard absolutely withdrawing her claim of £19,000 against the estate.-Stanley Attenborough, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the debtor, and said he was instructed that the debtor would consent to judgment being entered up against him for £750, there being every prospect that this sum would be paid within a short time. Mr. Registrar BROUGHAM said that the debtor had lost his appointment because of these proceedings, and it would certainly be to the advantage of the creditors if the order asked for by the debtor was made. There were no circumstances connected with the case which would prevent this course being adopted, and the order of discharge would therefore be granted, subject to the debtor consenting to judgment for £750. IN the Queen's Bench Division, on the 11th inst., before Grantham and Wright, JJ., Hollams submitted the report of the committee of the Incorporated Law Society, which showed that a solicitor had been guilty of misappropriating a sum of £280 12s. 8d., the moneys of a client, and had been guilty of professional misconduct in not informing his client that he was committing a breach of trust. The solicitor did not appear, and the COURT ordered his name to be struck off the rolls. Hollams, at the conclusion, announced that the name of the solicitor was Herbert Edward Lockhart, of Itchin in Bedfordshire. Hollams also applied that the name of Gerald Ellison Collet, a solicitor, be struck off the rolls. The solicitor was convicted of perjury at the Central Criminal Court, and was sentenced to fifteen months' imprison. ment with hard labour. The COURT ordered the name of the solicitor to be struck off the rolls. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, TEMPLE CHURCH. THE order of the morning service for to-morrow will be as follows: First Lesson, Amos iii. Second Lesson, Hebrews ix. Versicles, &c.: Ferial, pp. 1-3. Te Deum Laudamus: Cobb in G. Jubilate Deo : Cobb in G. Apostles' Creed: Harmonised Monotone, E. J. H., pp. 4 and 5. Preces and Responses: Ferial, pp. 6-8. Anthem: "I praise Thee. O Lord my God" (Mendelssohn, No. 304, p. 137). Kyrie Eleison: Hopkins in C No. 11. Doxology (before and after the Gospel): Tallis, p. 89. Nicene Creed: J. H., p. 100. Hymn before Sermon: No. 269. N. B.-Orders to admit to the service can be obtained from any of the Benchers of the Inner or Middle Temple. HEIRS-AT-LAW AND NEXT OF KIN. Cox (John), laty of Sudbury Villa. Mill Hill-rd, Acton, Middlesex. His son Edwin Cox, if alive, or, if dead, his children, or legal personal representatives (if any), to come in, by Dec. 7, and prove their claims at the chambers of Mr. Justice Chitty. Dec. 17, at the said chambers, at eleven o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims. FOSTER (Edward Arthur), formerly of Government-st, late o' Tanfeld-st, both in Leeds, printer. Persons claiming any mortgage, charge, or other incumbrance affecting the share of the said E. A. Foster in the proceeds of real estate bequeathed to him by the will of Mary Foster, which share is now represented by various sums standing in court to the credit of the matter of two actions (Foster O'Brien v. Foster" and "Wright O'Brien v. Foster"). to come in, by Nov. 30, and prove their claims at the chambers of Mr. Justice Kekewich. Dec. 2. at 11.30 o'clock, at the said chambers, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims. MANN (William), late of Halfway-street, Eltham, Kent, who died April 26, 1841, at Newington-causeway, Surrey. Persons claiming, according to the statutes for distribution of intestates' estates, to share in his personal estate, to come in, by Dec. 7, and prove their claims at the chambers of Mr. Justice Chitty. Dec. 17, at the said chambers, at eleven o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims. ORAM (Adolphus), a brother of Jamina Elizabeth Jacot, deceased, who died on Oct. 5, 1881, at Shoreditch Infirmary. Persons claiming to be his children, if any, living at the death of the said J. E. Jacot on Feb. 20, 1896, or the legal personal representatives of any who have since died, to come in by Nov. 28 and prove their claims at the chambers of Mr. Justice North. Dec. 2, at the said chambers, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims. WALKER (George), 15, Overton-street, Liverpool, butcher, who died in or about May 1896. Persons claiming to be entitled by virtue of or according to the statutes of distribution, living at the time of his death or the legal personal representatives of such next of kin as are since dead to come in by Dec. 5, and prove their claims at the chambers of the Registrar of the Liverpool District of the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 9, Cook-st, Liverpool. Dec. 10, at the said chambers, at twelve o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adj udicating upon such claims. WARD (Henrietta Louisa), 1, Eddystone-villas, Ramsgate, Kent, spinster, who died there on Oct. 13, 1896. Her next of kin to apply to the Solicitor for the Treasury, Treasury-chmbrs, Whitehall. APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE JOINT STOCK WINDING-UP ACTS. BALRIS EERSTELING, LIMITED.-Creditors residing or carrying on business in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to send in by Jan. 1, and those in South Africa or elsewhere out of the United Kingdom by March 1, 1897, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any) to Mr. J. H. Brown, 85, Gracechurch-st, the liquidator of the said company. H. J. Hood, registrar, companies winding up. Dale Newman and Hood, 75 and 76, Cornhill, solicitors for the liquidator. BRISTOL SUBLIMED LEAD COMPANY LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 22, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. H. H. Ham, Albion-chmbrs, Bristol, the liquidator of the company. CAPULET STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 15, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. W. B. Bowring, 18. Water-st. Liverpool, the liquidator of the company. Alsop, Stevens, Harvey, and Crooks, 14, Castle-st, Liverpool, solicitors to the liquidator. FISHER AND RANDALL LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Nov. 30, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. S. Pearson, 13, Spring-grdns, Manchester, the liquidator of the company. Cooper and Sons, 94a, King-st, Manchester, solicitors to the liquidator. GLASS TRUST LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 14, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. H. B. Sutcliffe, 13, Trafalgar-sq, Ashton-under-Lyne, the liquidator of the company. Darnley and Bottomley, Ashton-under-Lyne, solicitors to the liquidator. GOODHEW AND SON LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 8, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Messrs. Irvine and Borrowman, St. Olave's Rectory, 8, Hart-st, Mark-la, the solicitors for the liquidator. HERBERT HANDY LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 17, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any) to Mr. C. L. Barfoot, Carlton-chmbrs, Newport, Monmouthshire, the liquidator of the company. Llewellyn and Moore, Newport, Mon., solicitors. LISCARD BOWLING GREEN CLUB COMPANY LIMITED (in liquidation).-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 10, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. J. Bewley, jun., Central-bldgs, North John-st, Liverpool, the liquidator of the company. PENDLEBURY INSTITUTE LIMITED (in liquidation).-Creditors to send in. by Dec. 18, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. T. Walton, Littlewood, Worsley, Lancashire, the liquidator of the company. Bowden and Widdowson, 19, Brazennose-st, Manchester, solicitors for the liquidator. PHOENIX HALL COMPANY LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 7. their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. C. W. Groos, 106, Fenchurch-st, the liquidator of the company. Stanley, Woodhouse, and Hedderwick, Bank-chmbrs, 45, Ludgatehill, solicitors to the liquidator, STANDARD TYRE COMPANY LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Jan. 1, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. J. Baker, Chiswell House, Finsbury-pavement, the liquidator of the company. Harman, Ward, and Collier, 7, King-st, Cheapside, solicitors for the liquidator. WEST RANDT ESTATES AND LAND COMPANY LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 15, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to W. F. Andrewes, Esq., Old Jewry, the liquidator of the company. Julius and Thomas, 15, Finsbury-circus, solicitors to the liquidator. WHITBY JET ASSOCIATION LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by Dec. 23, their names and addresses and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Mr. B. T. Norton, 9, Old Jewry-chmbrs, the liquidator of the said company. Montagu, Mileham and Montagu, 5 and 6, Bucklersbury, solicitors for the liquidator. CREDITORS UNDER ESTATES IN CHANCERY. BROOKS (Archibald Hawthorn). Old Peacock Inn, Ilkestone-rd, Nottingham, licensed victualler. Nov. 30; Watson, Wadsworth and Ward, solicitors, 15, Weekday-cross, Nottingham. Dec. 4; Mr. Justice Kekewich, at two o'clock. BURRY PORT AND GWENDREATH VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY, of Burry_Port. Carmarthenshire, and of 3, and 4, Great Winchester-st. Nov. 19; C. H. Bennett, of the firm of Saunders, Hawksford, and Bennett, solicitors, 68, Coleman-st. Nov. 23; Mr. Justice Stirling, at twelve o'clock. COHEN (Arthur). 3. Park-la, Stoke Newington. and of Froad-st House. Dec. 12; H. Prince, solicitor. 9, Fleet-st. Dec. 18; Mr. Justice Stirling, at twelve o'clock. DAVIES (Ada Wylie), Blew House Farm, Barling, Rochford, Essex. Dec. 4: A. Myers, solicitor, 3, South-sq. Gray's-inn. Dec. 11; Mr. Justice Stirling, at twelve o'clock. HOWELL (John), Pantllyn, Abernaut, Carmarthenshire, farmer. Dec. 4; J. F. Morris, solicitor, Carmarthen. Dec. 18; Mr. Justice Kekewich, at twelve o'clock. JONES (David Evan), 15, Picton-pl, Carmarthen, gentleman. Dec. 8: E. H. Morris, of the firm of Barker, Morris, and Barker, solicitors, 2, Notis-sq, Carmarthen. Jan. 8; Mr. Justice Kekewich, at twelve o'clock. KILLICK (Richard), Hungerford, Berkshire, grocer and druggist. Dec. 5: H. D. O. W. Astley, solicitor, Hungerford, Berkshire. Dec. 18; Mr. Justice North, at one o'clock. REES (John), Coyechurch Tower, Glamorganshire, retired builder. Dec. 7; H. Jessop, solicitor, 47, Chancery-la. Dec. 15; Mr. Justice Kekewich, at half-past twelve o'clock. WHITAKER (Lewis Duncan), Weimar Lodge. Craven-rd, Reading, Berkshire, gentleman. Dec. 4; H. Bullock, solicitor, Winslow, Buckinghamshire. Dec. 9; Mr. Justice Stirling, at twelve o'clock. CREDITORS UNDER 22 & 23 VICT. c. 35. BURNETT (James), Rosemount, Woodhouse-rd, Leytonstone, Essex, locomotive DOODY (Charles), formerly of Mill Fields, Nantwich, Cheshire, clothing manufacturer. DOODY (Charles), formerly of Mill Fields, Nantwich, Cheshire, clothing manufacturer. Nov. 14: T. H. Whiteley, solicitor, Hospital-st, Nantwich. DUNNING (Elizabeth), Winteleigh, Devonshire, spinster. Dec. 1; Burd, Pearse, and Prickman, solicitors, Okehampton, Devon. DUNNING (Mary Arnold), Winteleigh, Devonshire, spinster. Dec. 1; Bard, Pearse, and Prickman, solicitors, Okehampton, Devon. ERICHSEN (Sir John Eric), 6, Cavendish-pl, Cavendish-sq, Baromet. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Dec. 31; Burton, Yeates, and Hart, solicitors, 2, Surrey-st. FARWIG (Julius Augustus), 26, Upper Thames-st, and 5, Lime-st, and of Birdhurst-rd, FITZGERALD (Edward Leonard George), 10, St. Catharines, Littlehampton, Sussex. FREEMAN (John Henry), Camborne House, Wellington-rd, Harborne, Staffordshire, Fox (Mary), Field Cottage, Doncaster, Yorkshire, widow. Dec. 12; Atkinson and Sons, solicitors. Doncaster. GILES (Agnes Joanna Sophia), formerly of Deloraine Court, Lincoln, afterwards of Bushey, Hertfordshire, then of 4, Wetherby-mansions, Earl's Court-sq, late of Ellerslie, Weybridge, Surrey, widow. Dec. 21; Burton, Scorer, and White, solicitors, Stonebow, Lincoln. GODFREY (Jane), 8, Clevedon pl, Eaton-sq. Dec. 1; Yeilding, Piper, and Tallack, solicitors, 13, Vincent-sq, Westminster. GINNER (Alfred Edward), Botolph House. Eastcheap, trading in co-partnership with HARVEY (Dr. John), 12, Holly-rd, Fairfield, Liverpool. Dec. 3; J. F. Read, solicitor, 77A, Lord-st, Liverpool. HARDING (Cina), Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, widow. Dec. 11; J. Morgan, solicitor, 1. Frederick-st, Cardiff. JONES (Owen), 21, Foundry-st, Hirael. Bangor, Carnarvonshire, retired master mariner. Nov. 30; W. Huw Rowland, solicitor, Bangor. KELLY (Rev. Henry Patrick), Dover, Kent, chaplain to the forces. Nov. 28: E. W. and V. Knocker, solicitors, Castle Hill House, Dover. LEES (Anne), 102, Lancaster-gate, widow. Dec. 31; Withers and Withers, solicitors, Howard House, 4, Arundel-st, Strand. LANKESTER (Edward. Framlingham, Suffolk, wine merchant. Dec. 12; F. G. Ling, solicitor, Framlingham, Suffolk. LISTER (Thomas Ingham), Croft-ter. Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, timber merchant and MITCHELL (William Henry), 8, Portland-st, Southampton, architect and surveyor. NORTON (Joseph), Larnaka, Cyprus, telegraph clerk. Dec. 8; J. W. Barton, solicitor, 6, Lombard-st. NOBLE (Matthew) 89. Radnor-st, Hulme, Manchester, tailor. Dec. 25; R. A. Gartside, solicitor, 67, Princess-st. Manchester. NEEDHAM (Mary), wife of Ezra Needham, Birley Farm, Beighton, Derbyshire, farmer. PRITCHARD (George), North We tern Hotel, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, hotelkeeper and coal and lime merchant. Nov. 22; B. E. Hodgens, solicitors, Abergavenny. PATTESON (James Gore), Fernholme, Albert's-rd, Southport, Lancashire, gentleman. RUDD (Anne Elizabeth). 8. Alfred-st, Scarborough, Yorkshire, formerly of Thorne ROBINSON (Hannah Ann), 63, Hartbam-rd, Holloway, widow. Nov. 21; Woulfe and Son, solicitors, 37. Bloomsbury-sq. SELLERS (Ellen Elizabeth Ann), 6, Birmingham-rd, West Bromwich, spinster. Dec. 5: B. Chinn, solicitor, 79, Colmore-row, Birmingham. SAUL (John), Aldershot, Southampton, retired fishmonger. Dec. 1; W. E. Foster, solicitor, Aldershot. STANSFELD (Mary Jane), the Poplars, SWETTENHAM (Susannah), otherwise known as Susannah Pritchard, Bremen House, Milton-pl, Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, widow, Dec. 3; Tolhurst, Lovell, and Clinch, solicitors, New-rd, Gravesend. alifax, Yorkshire, widow. Jan. 1; J. R. Farrar, solicitor, 1 and 3, Harrison-rd, Halifax. TURNER (Emily). 12. Walters-ter, Walters-rd, Swansea, Glamorganshire, spinster. Dec. 18; E. A. Williams, solicitor, 13, Castle-st. Swansea. THOMPSON (Jane) Pooley Bridge, Barton, Westmoreland. Nov. 19; Arnison and Co., solicitors. Penrith. TUCK (Walter Charles), Halesworth, Suffolk, solicitor. Dec. 4; A. W. Tuck, solicitor, TOPHAM (Francis Willowes), Paradise-st. West Bromwich, Staffordshire, gentleman. VESSEY (John), 24, Wolstenholm-rd, Sheffield, steel manufacturer. Dec. 16; Dec. 31; Dec. 8: Jane Whitehead, one of the executrixes, Bedford-villas. J. and J. C. Hayward, solicitors. Dartford. WOODCOCK (John), Northwich, Cheshire, shipbuilder. Nov. 30; Trafford and Cook, solicitors, Northwich, Cheshire. WILSON (Alexander), Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, merchant. Jan. 1; Ashurst, WILKINSON (James Moore), formerly of 4, Malvern-villas, Bury, and of Moorfleld, WOODHALL (Lieut.-Col. Frederic William), Queen Anne's Mansions. Dec. 2; Guscotte, Dec. 17; P. Delmé WRIGHT (William), Evesham-rd, Alcester gentleman. Dec. 31; E. M. Coleman, solicitor, Redditch. WIGNALL (Winifred Isabel). Parkhurst, near Helensville, Auckland, New Zealand. Dec. 1; Arnold and Son, solicitors, 3, Waterloo st, Birmingham. WARNER (Edward Charles), Belle Vue, Ravensden, Bedford, and of the Grosvenor Club, New Boud-st, formerly of 15. Talbot-rd. Bayswater, late a colonel in Her Majesty's army. Jan. 1; Pritchard, Englefield, and Co., solicitors, Painters' Hall, Little Trinity-la. WHEELDON (James), 241, Stockport-rd, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester, chemist. Dec. 31: Tucker, Walley, and Burrows, solicitors, 100, King-st, Manchester. WARD (John Doxon), 10, Upper Chorlton-rd. near Manchester, doctor of medicine. Dec. 31; Tucker, Walley, and Burrows, solicitors, 100, King-st, Manchester. COMMERCIAL FAILURES AND BILLS OF SALE. According to Stubbs' Weekly Gazette, the number of failures in England and Wales gazetted during the week ending the 7th Nov. was 155. The number in the corresponding week of last year was 139, showing a decrease of 16. The number of bills of sale in England and Wales, registered at the Queen's Bench for the week ending the 7th Nov. was 154. The number in the corresponding week of last year was 161. TEMPLE RESTAURANT.- This establishment, situate in Tudor-street, adjoining King's Bench Walk (four minutes from the High Courts of Justice), has been entirely rebuilt and enlarged. The Temple Restaurant is now replete with every convenience and comfort which experience and capital can command. Table d'Hôte daily, consisting of soups, entrées, joints, vegetables. &c., at 23. each. No charge for attendance. Dinners à la Carte quickly served. Choice wines, spirits and malt liquors. Chops, steaks, tea, and coffee. The Legal Profession is respectfully informed that Breakfasts, Dinners, and Teas are supplied in chambers if desired. Menus and tariffs forwarded daily for selection upon application.-[ADVT.] LAW SOCIETIES. UNITED LAW SOCIETY ON Monday the 9th inst., Mr. C. W. Williams in the chair, Messrs. H. G. Mead, W. V. Degazon, H. C. Hamilton, R. Noble, G. Hughes, and W. M. C. Burnett were elected members of the society. Dr. C. Herbert Smith opened a debate on the following motion: "That the policy of Englund should be directed towards inducing the Powers of Europe to depose the Sultan and become jointly responsible for the Government of his Empire." Mr. A. H. Richardson opposed; and the debate was continued by Messrs. S. E. Hubbard, P. H. Edwards, Y. Hughes, R. C. Nesbitt, N. Tebbutt, and C. Kains Jackson. The division which followed was indecisive, the votes on each side being equal. The subject for debate at the next meeting of the Society is "That the decision of Mr. Justice North in Re Harkness. Allsopp's Contract (1896, 2 Ch. 358) is wrong." SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. The usual monthly meeting of the board of Directors was held at the Law Institution, Chancery-lane, London, on Wednesday, the 11th Nov. Mr. Richard Pennington J.P. in the chair. The other directors present being: Messrs. W. Beriah Brook, H. M. Cotton, G. R. Dodd, W. Geare, Samuel, Harris (Leicester) J. H. Kays, R. W. Merriman, (Marlborough) F. Rowley Parker, Henry Roscoe, Sidney Smith, F. W. Stone, (Tonbridge Wells) R. W. Tweedie, E. W. Williamson, F. T. Woolbert and J. T. Scott (secretary). A sum of £580 was distributed in grants of relief, seventeen new members were admitted to the Association and other general business transacted. UNION SOCIETY OF LONDON. The society met at the Inner Temple Lecture Hall on Wednesday evening the 11th inst., Mr. J. Arthur Price, president, in the chair. After the reading of the minutes and the disposal of private business Mr. Stanley A. Latham brought forward the motion on the agenda paper, viz.: "That the best efforts of the House should be used towards the suppressing the abuse of advertising." Speakers: For the motion, Messrs. Latham, Kinipple, Clarke and F. W. Sherwood; Against the motion, Messrs. Copeland. R. Brown, Haythorne, Reed and Willson. The motion was carried. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Information intended for publication under the above heading should reach us not later than Thursday morning in each week, as publication is otherwise delayed. Mr. CHARLES J. DARLING, Q.C., M.P., has been appointed a Commissioner of Assize to go the Oxford Circuit in the place of Lord Russell of Killiowen, who has returned to town to sit in Court of Appeal No. 2. Mr. ALFRED HOPKINSON, Q.C., M.P., has been elected a Bencher of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-inn in succession to the late Mr. Bevir, Q.C. Mr. JOSEPH WALTON, Q.C., of the Northern Circuit, has been elected a Bencher of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-inn, in succession to the late Sir Robert Stuart, Q.C. Sir WALTER WILKIN, ex-Lord Mayor of London, has been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Mr. PHILIP HENRY BAGENAL barrister-at-law has been appointed General Inspector for the Local Government Board in the Easten Counties, in succession to Mr. H. Preston Thomas, who is transferred to the Western Counties, vice Lord Courtenay, retired. Mr. Bagenal was called to the Bar in 1881. Mr. A. V. LUCIE SMITH, President of the District Court of Nicosia, Cyprus, has been appointed a resident magistrate in Jamaica. Mr. DANIEL LOGAN, barrister-at-law (late Solicitor-General) has been appointed an unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements. Mr. J. F. OSWALD Q.C., M.P., has been appointed by the Benchers of Gray's-inn a member of the Council of Law Reporting. Mr. P. J. RUTLAND, of 69, Chancery-lane, and High Wycombe, was on the 9th inst. unanimously appointed Mayor of High Wycombe for the ensuing year; and Mr. R. S. Wood, solicitor, of High Wycombe, was on the 9th inst. appointed Deputy Mayor of High Wycombe for the ensuing |
