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HART, JOHN, Gt Driffield, Upholsterer

March 11 at 11

Off Rec, Trinity House In, Hull HEAPS, JAMES, Liverpool, Master Mariner March 17 at 10.30 Off Rec, 35, Victoria st, Liverpool HENRY, JOSEPH, Manchester, Painter March 11 at 230 Off Rec, Byrom st, Manchester

HUDSON, HERBERT, Leeds, Warehouseman

March 15 at March 11 at 11.30 24, Railway app, London Bridge HITCHINS, HENRY, Tarrant, Hants, Butcher March 11 at 1 Off Rec, Endless st, Salisbury ISAACS, SIMON, Shoreditch, Cook March 11 at 2.30 Bankruptcy bldgs, Carey st

11 Off Rec, 22, Park row, Leeds HUGHES, JOHN, jun, Ashtead, Surrey, Builder

KEELING, WILLIAM, Bilston, Stafford, Blacksmith

March

14 at 11.30 Off Rec, Wolverhampton LUMLEY, CHRISTOPHER, Quebec, Durham, Joiner March 11 at 12.30 Off Rec, 25, John st, Sunderland MONEY, ROBERT, Ropsley, Lincs March 11 at 12 Off Rec, 4, Castle st, Park st, Nottingham

NORTH, WILLIAM, Pudsey, Yorks, Solicitor March 11 at
11 Off Rec, 31, Manor row, Bradford
NORWOOD, WILLIAM, Stockton on Tees, Builder Mar 23 at
3 Off Rec, 8, Albert rd, Middlesborough
PATTERSON, HENRY FOOTE, Whitehall ct, Newspaper Pro-
prietor Mar 11 at 11 Imperial Hotel, Darlington
PRIOR and HAWKINS, Finsbury pavemt, Solicitors Mar 16
at 12 Bankruptcy bldgs, Carey st
SALTER, WILLIAM, Leighton Buzzard, Tailor Mar 11 at
12 Off Rec, St Paul's sq, Bedford
SIXSMITH, MOSES, Ashington, Northumberland, Boot
Dealer Mar 14 at 11.30 Off Rec, 30, Mosley st,
Newcastle on Tyng

STONE, ROBERT, Cradley, Herefords, Stores Manager Mar
16 at 2 Off Rec, 45, Copenhagen st, Worcester
STRAHAN, ROBERT ELLISON, Southport, Commission Broker
Mar 14 at 12 Off Rec, 35, Victoria st, Liverpool
VARLEY, JOSEPH, Long Hill, nr Buxton, Farmer Mar 15
at 10.15 Off Rec, County chmbrs, Market pl, Stock-
port
WATERS, ALFRED SAMUEL, Cardiff, Picture Frame Dealer
Mar 15 at 11 Off Rec, 29, Queen st, Cardiff
Amended notice substituted for that published in the
London Gazette of Feb. 25:
CARBUTT, GEORGE, Birstall, Yorks, Petroleum Oil Dealer
Mar 11 at 3.30 Off Rec, Bank chmbrs, Batley
ADJUDICATIONS.

ASHKINAZE, MORRIS, Liverpool, Confectioner Liverpool
Pet March 1 Ord March 2

BAKER, HERBERT, Leeds, Plumber Leeds Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

BELL, WILLIAM HENRY, Marygate, York, Clerk York Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

BLAKELEY, JAMES, Ardwick,! Manchester, Underclothing Manufacturer Manchester Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28 BOWDEN, WILLIAM, Exeter, Home Missionary Exeter Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

BROWN, CHABLES HENRY, Bradford, Printer Bradford Pet Feb 26 Ord Feb 26

BURRELL, ROBERT, Gt Yarmouth, General Cooper Gt Yarmouth Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

BUTLER, JOHN HENRY, Pontefract, Painter Wakefield Pet Jan 21 Ord March 1

CARLTON, EDWARD, Leeds, Butcher

Ord Feb 28

Leeds Pet Feb 28

COX, WILLIAM HENRY, Bristol, Plumber Bristol Pet Feb 19 Ord March 1

CROCKER, JAMES JOSEPH, Swansea, Yeast Dealer Swansea Pet Mar 2 Ord Mar 2

CUTLER, EDMUND, Boscombe, Butcher Poole Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

DAVIES, WILLIAM, Tonypandy, Glam, Ironmonger Pontypridd Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

DUERRE, ERNEST FREDERICK, Chelsea, Cycle Maker High
Court Pet Jan 27 Ord Feb 28
GARDNER, HENRY, Manchester, Furniture Dealer Man-
chester Pet Mar 2 Ord Mar 2
GASKIN, FRANK, Burton on Trent, Grocer Burton on Trent
Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

GREEN, CHARLES HORACE, Leeds, Commission Agent
Leeds Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28
HARRISON, WILLIAM HENRY, Fearnhead, nr Warrington,
Miller Warrington Pet Mar 2 Ord Mar 2
HAWKE, HARRY, St Blazey, Cornwall, Farmer Truro Pet
Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

HUMPHREYS, WILLIAM HARDINGE, Maddox st, Solicitor
High Court Pet Jan 7 Ord Mar 1
JONES, ARTHUR, GEORGE, Oxton, Birkenhead, Greengrocer
Birkenhead Pet Mar 2 Ord Mar 2
JONES, ARTHUR JAMES, Worcester, Pawnbroker
Bromwich Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28
LEWIS, WILLIAM, Aberkenfig, Glam, Grocer Cardiff Pet
Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

West

MARTIN, MAURICE WILLIAM, Norwich, Boot Manufacturer Norwich Pet Feb 25 Ord March 1

MILLS, WILLIAM, Tivertor, Devon, Haulier Exeter Pet March 2 Ord March 2

Moss, GEORGE ALFRED, New Cleethorpes, Baker Great Grimsby Pet March 1 Ord March 1

MOULD, TOM, Leicester, Cake Manufacturer Leicester Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

PATTERSON, HUGH, Thornaby, York, Fish Hawker Stockton on Tees Pet Feb 26 Ord Feb 26

PEARMAN, HENRY, Exmouth, Cycle Agent Exeter Pet
Feb 10 Ord Feb 28

RAY, LOUIS, Miles Platting, Lancs
March 2

Manchester Ord

REED, JOHN WILLIAM, Sunderland, Butcher Sunderland
Pet Feb 25 Ord Feb 25

ROBERTS, RICHARD, Mortlake, Surrey, Coffee house Keeper
Wandsworth Pet Feb 28 Ord March 1
ROBERTSON, JOHN JAMES, Goole, Yorks, Plumber Wake-
field Pet March 1 Ord March 1
SCUDAMORE, MINNIE, Bristol, Shopkeeper Bristol
Feb 22 Ord March 2
SMITH, WILLIAM JOSEPH, and HERBERT SMITH, Headingley,
Leeds, Milk Dealers Leeds Pet Feb 28 Ord Feb 28
SOWDEN, JAMES, Bradford, Nurseryman Bradford Pet

Feb 28 Ord Feb 28

Pet

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COLEBY, WILLIAM, Thornton Heath, Surrey, Builder Croydon Pet Feb 26 Ord Mar 3

ELLIOT, GEORGE STOKOE, Southwell, Notts, Physician
Notttingham Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5
FEATHERSTONE, ROBERT HENRY, Hutton Bushell, Yorks,
Farmer Scarborough Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5
FILE, EDWARD, Faversham, Kent, Grocer Canterbury
Pet Feb 15 Ord March 3
FUNNELL, WILLIAM, Gt Grimsby, Master Fisherman Gt
Grimsby Pet March 3 Ord March 3
GOODALL, GEORGE WILLIAM, Birmingham, Artist
mingham Pet March 4 Ord March 4
GUMMER, HARRY, Rotherham, Labourer Sheffield
March 4 Ord March 4

Bir

Pet

HARTLEY, ROBERT, Rochdale, Pork Butcher Rochdale Pet Feb 22 Ord March 5

HAYES, TOM ROWLES, Atherton, Lancs, Grocer Bolton Pet March 4 Ord March 4

HUDSON, WILLIAM, Red Lion st, Holborn, Letterpress Printer High Court Pet March 5 Ord March 5 HUNTON, NEWORK, Rotherham, Saddler Sheffield Pet Feb 18 Ord March 3

INGLEFIELD, JAMES THOMAS, Moss Side, nr Manchester Salford Pet Feb 18 Ord March 3

JONES, JOHN WALTER, Ystrad House, nr Llandovery, Barrister Carmarthen Pet March 4 Ord March 4 KERSHAW, ROBERT MITCHELL, Batley, York, Journeyman Currier Dewsbury Pet March 4 Ord March 4 KITCHEN, JAMES, Halifax, Quarryman Halifax Pet March 2 Ord March 2

LYNN, FRED, Kingston upon Hull, Grocer Kingston upon
Hull Pet Feb 17 Ord Mar 4

MITCHELL, JOHN EDWARD, Tenterden, Kent,
Hastings Pet Mar 3 Ord Mar 3

Butcher

NICHOLS, ELIZABETH, Aylsham, Norfolk, Dressmaker Norwich Pet Mar 4 Ord Mar 4

NICHOLSON, GEORGE ROBERT, Shildon, Durham, Ironmonger Durham Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM, Shanklin, I of W, Photographer Newport Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5

PEEL, ARTHUR, Lincoln, Butcher Lincoln Pet Mar 2

Ord Mar 2

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DOWNING, HENRY, Thornaby on Tees March 28 at 3 Off
Rec, 8, Albert rd, Middlesborough
ELLIOTT, ALFRED, Coventry, Saddler Mar 15 at 12 Off
Rec, 17, Hertford st, Coventry

FILE, EDWARD, Faversham, Kent, Grocer Mar 17 at 12
Off Rec, 73, Castle st, Canterbury

GARDNER, HENRY, Manchester, Furniture Dealer Mar 16
at 3.30 Off Rec, Byrom st, Manchester
GASKIN, FRANK, Burton on Trent, Grocer Mar 16 at 11.30
Midland Hotel, Station st, Burton on Trent
GREEN, CHARLES HORACE, Leeds, Commission Agent Mar
16 at 11 Off Rec, 22, Park row, Leeds
HAWKE, HARRY, St Blazey, Cornwall, Farmer Mar 15 at
12 Off Rec, Boscawen st, Truro

HAYES, TOM ROWLES, Monton Green, nr Eccles, Grocer
Mar 18 at 11 16, Wood st, Bolton
HUDSON, WILLIAM, Red Lion st, Holborn, Letterpress
Printer Mar 15 at 2.30 Bankruptcy bldgs, Carey st
JONES, TIMOTHY RICHARD, Cardiff, Tailor Mar 18 at 11.30
Off Rec, 29, Queen st, Cardiff

KEYS, WILLIAM ARTHUR DAVID, West Kensington,
Jeweller Mar 15 at 12 Bankruptcy bldgs, Carey st
KITCHEN, JAMES, Halifax, Quarryman March 17 at 11
Off Rec, Townhall chmbrs, Halifax
LEIGH, JOHN, Rotherham, Boiler Welder March 16 at 12
Off Rec, Figtree In, Sheffield
MCDONALD, MARK WILLIAM, Waterloo, Lancs, Surgeon
March 24 at 10.30 Off Rec, 35, Victoria st, Liverpool
MARTIN, MAURICE WILLIAM, Norwich, Boot Manufacturer
March 16 at 2 Bankruptcy bldgs, Carey st
MENSFORTH, EDWARD, Bradford, Commission Agent
March 17 at 11 Off Rec, 21, Manor row, Bradford
MILLS, WILLIAM, Tiverton, Haulier March 17 at 10.30 Off
Rec, 13, Bedford crcs, Exeter

MORRIS, HENRY, Walkden, Lancs, Winder March 16 at 2.30 Off Rec, Byrom st, Manchester

MOULD, TOM, Leicester March 15 at 3 Off Rec, 1, Berridge st, Leicester

NICHOLS, JAMES BULROss, Bolsterstone, Sheffield, Licensed Victualler March 17 at 12 Off Rec, Figtree In, Sheffield

PEARMAN, HENRY, Exmouth, Cycle Agent March 16 at 10.80
Off Rec, 13, Bedford crcs, Exeter

POGSON, FREDERICK, Sheffield, Grocer March 16 at 12.30
Off Rec, Fig Tree In, Sheffield
POMROY, JOHN HOCKING, Ashburton, Devons, Builder
March 17 at 10.30 Off Rec, 13, Bedford circus, Exeter
RAY, LOUIS, Miles Platting, Lancs March 16 at 3

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Off Rec, 31, Manor row, Bradford STUNDEN, FLINT, Harrietsham, Kent, Licensed Victualler March 30 at 11 Off Rec, 9, King st, Maidstone TREHEARNE, SON, & CRUMP, Fenchurch st March 16 at 2.30 Bankruptcy bldgs, Carey st

WHITE, JOHN BOSLEY, and ARTHUR THOMAS WHITE, Radstock, Somerset, General Outfitters March 16 at 12.30 Off Rec, Baldwin st, Bristol

WOOD, JOHN SADLER, Coleman st, Chartered Accountant March 17 at 2 30 Bankruptcy bldgs, Carey st YABSLEY, JOHN SMITH, Bristol, Boot Manufacturer March 16 at 12 Off Rec, Baldwin st, Bristol ADJUDICATIONS.

ATHERTON, WILLIAM, Birmingham, Joiner Birmingham Pet Mar 3 Ord Mar 3

BEST, HENRY JAMES, Narberth, Pembroke, Schoolmaster
Oxford Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5

BOURTON, CHARLES HENRY, Tredegar, Mon, Commission
Agent Tredegar Pet Mar 3 Ord Mar 3
BRATTON, THOMAS JAMES, Welshpool, Licensed Victualler
Newtown Pet Mar 3 Ord Mar 3
COHEN, SAMUEL, Leicester, Painter Leicester Pet Mar 2
Ord Mar 3

COLEBY, WILLIAM, Thornton Heath,

Surrey, Builder
Croydon Pet Feb 26 Ord Mar 3
ELLIOT, GEORGE STOKOE, Southwell, Notts, Physician
Nottingham Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5

FEATHERSTONE, ROBERT HENRY, Hutton Bushell, Yorks,
Farmer Scarborough Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5
FILE, EDWARD, Faversham, Kent, Grocer Canterbury
Pet Feb 14 Ord Mar 3

FUNNELL, WILLIAM, Great Grimsby, Master Fisherman
Great Grimsby Pet Mar 3 Ord Mar 3
GUMMER, HARRY, Rotherham, Labourer

Mar 4 Ord Mar 4

Sheffield Pet

HARTLEY, ROBERT, Rochdale, Pork Butcher Rochdale
Pet Feb 22 Ord March 5

HAYES, TOM ROWLES, Atherton, Lancs, Grocer Bolton
Pet March 4 Ord March 4
HIPWELL, SOLDEN, Wisbech, Cambs, Builder King's Lynn
Pet Dec 4 Ord Feb 17

ISAACS, SIMON, Whitechapel, Cook High Court Pet Feb 12 Ord March 4

JONES, JOHN WALTER, Ystrad House, nr Llandovery, Barrister Carmarthen Pet March 3 Ord March 4 KERSHAW, ROBERT MITCHELL, Batley, York, Journeyman Currier Dewsbury Pet March 4 Ord March 4 KITCHEN, JAMES, Halifax, Quarryman Halifax Pet March 2 Ord March 2

BENTOTE, REGINALD JOSEPH, Acton, Financial Agent LUBBOCK, JOHN, Cadoxton, Glam, Builder Cardiff Pet Brentford Pet Dec 20 Ord Feb 11

FIRST MEETINGS.

BENTOTE, REGINALD JOSEPH, Acton, Financial Agent March 16 at 3 Off Rec, 95, Temple chmbrs, Temple BOWDEN, WILLIAM, Exeter, Home Missionary March 24

at 10.30 Off Rec, 13, Bedford circus, Exeter BRATTON, THOMAS JAMES, Welshpool, Licensed Victualler March 17 at 12.30 1, High st, Newtown CARTER, CHRISTOPHER, Pudsey Townend, nr Leeds, Greengrocer March 16 at 12 Off Rec, 22, Park row, Leéds CоHEN, SAMUEL, Leicester, Painter March 15 at 12.30 Off Rec, 1, Berridge st, Leicester CROCKER, JAMES JOSEPH, Swansea, Yeast Dealer March 16 at 12 Off Rec, 31, Alexandra rd, Swansea CROSLAND, JAMES WALKER, Huddersfield, Draper March 16 at 12 Off Rec, 19, John William st, Huddersfield

Feb 4 Ord March 3

LYNN, FRED, Kingston upon Hull, Grocer Kingston upon Hull Pet Feb 17 Ord March 5

MCDONALD, MARK WILLIAM, Waterloo, Surgeon Liverpool Pet Jan 13 Ord March 4

MRREDITH, JOSEPH EDWIN, Aberdare, Chemist's Assistant Aberdare Pet Feb 21 Ord March 3

MILLS, JOHNSON, Blackpool, Mechanical Engineer Salford Pet Feb 5 Ord Mar 4

MORRIS, HENRY, Walkden, Lancs, Winder Salford Pet Feb 28 Ord Mar 4

NICHOLS, ELIZABETH, Aylsham, Norfolk, Dressmaker Norwich Pet Mar 3 Ord Mar 4

NICHOLS, JAMES BULLOSS, Bolsterstone, Sheffield, Licensed Victualler Sheffield Pet Mar 1 Ord Mar 4 NICHOLSON, GEORGE ROBERT, Shildon, Durham, Ironmonger Durham Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM,

W, Photographer INCOLN'S INN.-Offices to Let; first SAVE

Shanklin, I W, Photographer Newport Pet Mar 5 Ord Mar 5 PEEL, ARTHUR, Lincoln, Butcher Lincoln Pet Mar 2 Ord Mar 2

PHILLIPS, JOHN, Cadoxton, Ironmonger Cardiff Pet Mar 3 Ord Mar 3

POMROY, JOHN HOCKING, Ashburton, Devons, Builder Exeter Pet Mar 2 Ord Mar 2

ROTHERAY, SHARP, Bradford Bradford Pet Mar 3 Ord

Mar 3

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floor.-Apply, G. GILLIAM, 6, Serle-street.

50 TO 75 PER CENT.

By Buying Direct from the Manufacturers,

ASPATRIA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
(via Carlisle), situated in one of the finest Stock-THE

raising districts of the country. Practical and scientific
instruction. Success in Examinations of Surveyors' Insti-
workshops.
tution. Preparation for colonies. Six farms, creamery
J. SMITH HILL, B.A., B.Sc., Principal.

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MAKERS.

STOKELL, THOMAS, Stockton on Tees Stockton on Tees To Her Majesty, the Lord Chancellor, the Whole of the
Pet March 2 Ord March 2

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Judicial Benca, Corporation of London, &c. ROBES FOR QUEEN'S COUNSEL AND BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS' GOWNS.

Law Wigs and Gowns for Registrars, Town Clerks, and Clerke of the Peace,

SAFE & DEED BOX
SUPPLY CO.,

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Radstock, Somerset, General Outfitters Frome Pet Corporation Robes, University and Clergy Gowns. Wrought iron and steel Fire and Burglar Resisting, Un

94, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

TREATMENT OF INEBRIETY.

DALRYMPLE

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RICKMANSWORTH, HERTS.

For Gentlemen, under the Act and privately. For Terms, &c., apply to

R. WELSH BRANTHWAITE, Medical Superintendent. TREATMENT of INEBRIETY and ABUSE of DRUGS. HIGH

pickable, Wedgeproof Cash and Jewellery Safe.
High. Wide, Deep.
No. B54.-20 by 14 by 14 in. £2 10
B55.-22 by 15 by 15 in. £2 15
B56.-24 by 17 by 16 in £3 0
B57.-26 by 18 by 17 in. £3 5
B58.-28 by 19 by 19 in *£3 10
B59.-30 by 20 by 20 in. +£4 0
B60.-32 by 22 by 21 in. +£15
B61.-34 by 23 by 22 in. +£4 10
B62.-36 by 24 by 23 in. #5 0
*With 1 drawer. + With 2 drawers
+ With 2 drawers and shelf.
These are 5 to 6 inches less nside
measurement.

2 in. Fire resisting chambers, best lever lock, duplicate keys
Fitted with Chubb's Lock, 7s. 6d. each extra.

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For Gentlemen under the Acts and privately. Terms, 2 to 4 Guineas. Apply to Medical Superintendent,

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LEGAL PROFERSION OF PURCHASE the SAME for cash if desired. Established 1772.

Under the patronage of H.M. The Queen and H.S.H. Prince Louis Battenberg, K.C.B.

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B960. 32 by 22 by 21 in. +7 17.6 B961. 34 by 23 by 22 in. #8 50 B962. 36 by 24 by 23 in. #8 16.0 B963. 38 by 24 by 21 in. 19 10 0 B961. 40 by 25 by 24 in. 10 26 *With 1 drawer. + With 2 drawers, With 2 drawers and shelf. 2 in. Fire resisting chambers, handles, throw bolts in front, top, and bottom of door, very best lever look, duplicate keys Fitted with Chubb's Lock, 7s. 6d. each extra.

Any size safe and strong-room doors quoted for on application,

Packed in cage and sent carriage paid as drawing for

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The Right Hon. Lord HALSBURY (Lord High Chancellor of England).

The Hon. Mr. Justice KEKEWICH.

The Right Hon. Sir JAMES PARKER DEANE, Q.C., D.C.L.

WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Esq.

RICHARD PENNINGTON, Esq.

Bacon, His Honour Judge.

Davey, The Right Hon. Lord.

DIRECTORS.

Deane, The Right Hon. Sir James Parker,
Q.C., D.C.L.

Eilis-Danvers, Edmund Henry, Esq.
Finch, Arthur J., Esq.

Frere, Geo. Edgar, Esq.

Garth, The Right Hon. Sir Richard, Q.c.

Healey, C. E. H. Chadwyck, Esq., Q.C.

Johnson, Charles P., Esq.

Kekewich, The Hon. Mr. Justice.

Lawrence, N. T., Esq.

Ludlow, The Right Hon. Lord.

Masterman, Henry Chauncy, Esq.

Mathew, The Hon. Mr. Justice.

Meek, A. Grant, Esq. (Devizes).

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THE SUGGESTION put forward a fortnight ago in these columns, Society to watch the progress of the Land Transfer Act, 1897, that a committee should be appointed by the Incorporated Law in its application to London, has, we have reason to believe, met with strong approval, not merely in London, but also elsewhere. Country solicitors, who know that if the experiment in London succeeds, they will come under the harrow, are naturally anxious to learn from an authoritative and independent source what are the practical results of the working of the system, both as regards the public and the profession. They feel that unless an active London committee is appointed with the specific object of collecting and circulating information on the subject, they will be unable, in case the question of the adoption of the Act comes before their own local authority, to adduce any evidence or form any accurate opinion as to the results of the experiment in London. To London solicitors the existence of such a body will be of the greatest value, in furnishing them both with information as to the practical procedure to be adopted, and with suggestions as to the best mode of meeting the various difficulties which are likely to arise from time to time. We do not think that the Incorporated Law Society are likely to let slip so obvious a means of proving to the profession at large the value of a central law society.

THE REJECTION by the House of Commons of Mr. PICKERSGILL'S Criminal Appeal Bill does no more than reserve the discussion of the proposed change till next year; though, after the acceptance of last year's Bill, it would have been more useful to have given the measure a second reading and to have left it to be dealt with in Committee. The project has been too long before the public and has met with too much favour for there to be any chance of its being abandoned. The real question at issue is whether the Court of Criminal Appeal shall have only the

Mellor, The Right Hon. John W., Q.C., right of revising sentences (except in capital cases), or shall

Mills, Richard, Esq.

Morrell, Frederic P., Esq. (Oxford).

Pennington, Richard, Esq.

Rowcliffe, Edward Lee, Esq.

Saltwell, Wm.Henry, Esq.

Williams, C. Reynolds, Esq.

Williams, Romer, Esq.
Williams, William, Esq.

have power to order a new trial. The Council of Judges, by their resolution of 1892, advised that the court should be one primarily for the revision of sentences, but with the power of quashing or diminishing sentences on reference from the Home Secretary. There was to be no power, however, to order a new

trial. It was upon the lines of this recommendation that Mr. | the requirements of clause 28 of the Bill, without at the same PICKERSGILL'S Bill of last year was drafted. The present Bill went further, and proposed to give a right, under certain conditions, to apply for a new trial, so that the final issue of the matter would be left to a jury. It is probable that this enlargement of the scope of the measure has led to its rejection. The Home Office does not hear matters in public, and its decisions have no effect in securing uniformity of sentences. The want of such uniformity is one of the defects in the admin-known, and they are used exclusively for legitimate business istration of the criminal law, and the establishment of a court of revision would do a good deal to cure it. Moreover, the task now performed by the Home Office of considering the correct ness of convictions might be performed by a court with more satisfaction to the public, though not necessarily more to the benefit of the convicted person. But the allowance of a second trial is a change of a much more serious character.

THE DECISION OF ROMER, J., in Re Woods and Lewis's Contract (reported ante, p. 325) is a noteworthy addition to the collection of cases in which the provision as to payment of interest during delay in completion of a purchase of land has been construed strongly against the purchaser; as to which see the summary in 2 Dart, 6th ed., p. 724. On examination of the title offered to the purchaser, a defect was discovered in the conveyance to the vendor, which purported to be made under the authority of an insurance company's Act of Parliament, the power in this behalf conferred by the Act not having been duly pursued. A deed of confirmation was required by the purchaser, and eventually obtained by the vendor, and though the purchase was not completed until nearly three months after the date fixed by the contract, the court found that there was no undue delay on the part of the vendor in complying with this requisition. There was an interest clause in the contract extending to delay from any cause whatever other than the "default of the vendor." The defect was not actually known to the vendor at the date of the contract, and the learned judge refused to hold that ignorance of such a defect amounted to a "default" on his part, and therefore decided that the purchaser must pay interest from the date named in the contract until completion. His lordship observed: "The imputation of default in this case to the vendor can only be justified by holding that it is reasonable to assume, for the purpose of the clause as to interest, that the vendor is bound, or must be taken to know, every possible defect of his title. It does not appear me to be reasonable to impute to him knowledge of all possible defects of title for the purpose of such a clause." It may be questioned whether the present doctrine is not unduly favourable to vendors. The time fixed for completion is presumably fixed with regard to what the vendor believes to be reasonable, having regard to the state of this title to be investigated, and the purchaser would seldom be in a position to correct, and is therefore generally obliged to accept, the vendor's estimate of what is a reasonable time to allow. It seems open to criticism that a clause intended as a protection against loss to the vendor from the purchaser's unduly protracting his investigation of title, should be construed so as to protect the vendor against the consequences of delay in completion caused by his own ignorance or mistake, however excusable. The argument for the purchaser in Sherwin v. Shakespear that "the contract proceeds on the hypothesis of the vendor performing his part of the contract" may be too wide, but the observations of TURNER, L.J. (5 De G. M. & G., at p. 535), shew that he did not consider it altogether inapplicable to the circumstances of these cases on the application of the interest clause.

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THE HOUSE of Lords Committee have recommenced the inquiry into the Companies Bill which has been slowly proceeding during the last two sessions. On Monday Mr. THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Belfast, and Mr. F. B. PALMER gave evidence. The chief point which the former witness had to enforce was the objection of the persons interested in the numerous private companies in Belfast to publish an annual balance-sheet for the information of their trade rivals. The Board of Trade have, it appears, prepared a hypothetical balance-sheet intended to comply with

time disclosing business secrets, but a statement of accounts which is made purposely vague is apt at the same time to be useless. The case might be met by distinguishing between public and private companies, but hitherto no one has suggested a satisfactory method of attaining this result. For the rest Mr. SINCLAIR bore testimony to the utility of the Companies Acts in Belfast. The fraudulent use of the Acts, he said, is there unpurposes. Mr. PALMER's criticisms of the Bill were given more in detail. He objected to the provision of clause 6, under which a company is not to commence business or exercise any borrowing powers until certain conditions as to the allotment of and payment for shares have been complied with. It would, indeed, as he pointed out, be impossible for a company to raise money on debentures in the ordinary way simultaneously with the flotation of the company. This criticism does not interfere with clause 3, under which the directors are not allowed to go to allotment until a prescribed minimum amount of capital has been subscribed. Clause 7, dealing with the returns of allotments to the registrar, is intended to take the place of the unfortunate section 25 of the Companies Act, 1867, but it repeats the difficulty as to the meaning of the expression "paid in cash," to which the Lord Chancellor has on several occasions drawn attention (Re Johannesburg Hotel Co., 39 W. R. 260; 1891, 1 Ch. 129; Ooregum v. Roper, 41 W. R. 90; 1892, A. C. 125), and which, apparently, he still looks forward to considering in the House of Lords. But if a mutual set-off is not to be treated as a payment in cash, the present Bill ought to provide so expressly. Other matters dealt with by Mr. PALMER, whose evidence was not concluded, were underwriting commissions and the liability of directors. To abolish underwriting is recognized as impracticable, but a limitation to a five per cent. rate was suggested. The suggestion was met with the obvious criticism that it is impossible in such a matter to apply a uniform rule to all companies. All initial expenses form a deduction from the capital of the company, and to that extent are analogous to the issue of shares at a discount; but expenses must be incurred, and analogies are not to be pressed too far. On the proposed explicit enactment of the liabilities of a director, Mr. PALMER repeated the current opinion that it does not alter the law, though it may frighten desirable men-or, as Lord FARRER shortly put the point, "it means, so far as directors are concerned, 'Beware!'"''

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A REMARKABLE differenco of judicial opinion as to the applicability of the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, to glasshouses erected upon market gardens has been manifested throughout the proceedings in Smith v. Richmond (reported elsewhere). The Act, by section 1, limits the liability of the occupier of agricultural land" to the payment of one-half only of the rate in the pound payable in respect of buildings and other hereditaments. The definition clause (section 9) defines "agricultural land" to mean "any land used as arable, meadow, pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one-quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards, or allot

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acres of land used by a market gardener for his business, on The property in the present case consisted of four about half of which had been erected glasshouses of various sizes for growing tomatoes, cucumbers, and grapes: these parish returned the whole of the property as agricultural land. were all built upon dwarf brick walls. The overseers of the The assessment committee corrected this return by striking out the glasshouses from the heading "agricultural land," and treating them as buildings, and thus rateable to the full amount. The quarter sessions restored the entries of the overseers, but stated a case for the High Court. On the hearing of the case (77 L. T. 161) COLLINS, J. (as he then was), agreed with the view taken by the quarter sessions, but RIDLEY, J., dissented, holding that the glasshouses were rateable as buildings. This latter view has been upheld by a majority of the Court of Appeal (LINDLEY, M.R., and RIGBY, L.J., VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, LJ., dissenting). The definition of "land" in Acts of Parliament as including buildings, given in the Interpretation Act, 1889, was invoked by the respondents. That definition, however, only applies where no contrary intention appears in the parti

cular Act in which the word occurs. In the Agricultural Rates Act "land" and "buildings" are so clearly contrasted, both in section 1 (to which we have alluded), and in other parts of the Act, that it does not seem possible to apply the definition of land in the general Interpretation Act of 1889 without doing violence to the sense of the Agricultural Rates Act. A stronger argument in favour of the exemption of the glasshouses was found in the case of Purser v. Worthing Local Board (18 Q. B. D. 818), in which it was held that land on which glasshouses stood was a market garden or nursery ground within the meaning of section 211 of the Public Health Act, 1875, and was therefore liable to the reduced assessment provided for by that section. This decision influenced VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, L.J., as also did the decision in London and North-Western Railway Co. v. Llandudno Improvement Commissioners (1897, 1 Q. B. 287), in which land was held to be rateable as a railway although it was covered by the platform and roof of a railway station. But these cases were decided upon other Acts containing no such marked distinction between land and buildings as that which runs through the Agricultural Rates Act. The point, however, is a nice one, and it is probable that the last has not been heard of a case in which the opinions of COLLINS and VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, L.JJ., have been overruled.

education are firmly convinced that compulsory vaccination is necessary, but there is undoubtedly an enormous amount of hostility throughout the country to the law as it now is, and few will deny that there is some ground for this hostility. The Bill provides that a supply of pure calf lymph shall be placed, at the public expense, within the reach of everyone, and that no parent shall be required to submit his child to vaccination except with calf lymph. As discoveries have lately been made which enable lymph to be obtained of the utmost purity, these provisions ought to meet all the objections to vaccination on the ground that it communicates disease. As the law at present stands, a parent must submit to his child being vaccinated with lymph taken from the arm of another child, and the parent of this second child must allow the lymph to be so taken. This, no doubt, saves expense, but it is probably at the bottom of the whole agitation against vaccination, and is obviously a very objectionable arrangement. It is further proposed to put an end to the system by which a parent is required to take the child to the public vaccinator, and to enact that that officer shall visit the child and perform the operation at the child's home. This will be a great boon to the poor woman who has no one to help in her domestic affairs, and ought to remove another cause of friction. The Royal Commission on the vaccination laws recommended that no proceedings should be taken against any parent for refusing to have his child vaccinated if he made a statutory declaration that he had a conscientious objection to the operation. We are glad that the Government have refused to accept this recommendation. If it were accepted, vaccination could never be enforced; for a conscientious objection to vaccination would probably be found in almost all those persons who conscientiously object to being fined in a police-court. Some concession, however, is to be made to the conscientious objectors. As the law stands at present, the parent who refuses to have his child vaccinated may have order after order made against him, requiring him to have the child vaccinated, as long as the child is under fourteen years of age, and may be fined for disobedience to each order. It is now proposed to relieve the parent from repeated penalties in respect of the same child. As the maximum penalty will probably be no very large sum, it remains to be seen whether this is not leaving the door very wide open for escape from the necessity of obeying the law. On the whole, however, it seems not unlikely that the proposed change in the law will put an end to the state of things under which a town like Leicester, of 200,000 persons, can defy the law with impunity.

IN HIS little book, "Prisoners on Oath," noticed in your journal a few weeks ago (says a correspondent), Sir HERBERT STEPHEN makes the startling assertion that upon the Northern Circuit three or four innocent persons are, on the average, convicted every year, because they have given evidence on their own behalf. This statement is made as positively as if it were capable of actual proof, and it must strike anyone reading it as an extremely bold assertion. The Lord Chancellor, a few days ago, in moving the second reading of the Criminal Evidence Bill, commented upon it, and declared that nothing could be discovered which in any way supported it, although inquiry had been made by the Home Office. This inquiry is naturally not conclusive in the eyes of the author of the book; but the fact remains, as far as can be gathered, that his assertion is not capable of any sort of corroboration. All that it comes to is: that this gentleman, sitting in court in the course of his official duties, has listened to a large number of cases being tried, and has taken particular interest in those in which the accused person has given evidence. In a few of these cases his opinion as to the guilt of the prisoner did not agree with that of the jury or of the judge. In his book the author mentions the names of several practising barristers who agree with him, and whose opinions are well worthy of consideration; but all THE ART of buying and selling is one with which the law opinions based on the assumption that innocent persons are interferes as little as possible, and this prudent policy is tersely often convicted of offences under the Criminal Law Amendment summed up in the maxim caveat emptor, a maxim which in spirit Act, 1885, because they give evidence on their own behalf, are applies to each party to the bargain, and protects as much the based on what is mere guess-work. How often has it happened buyer who has bought some precious relic for an old song as that any such person has been proved to have been innocent? the vender who has successfully got an unsound horse off his Against such opinions there is the broad principle stated by the hands. But the vendor or purchaser who relies for his profit Lord Chancellor, that it is impossible to imagine an innocent upon his own knowledge and the ignorance of the other side man charged with a crime who would not be most anxious to must be careful that he has himself done nothing to contribute meet his accuser and to tell his own story upon oath; and the to that ignorance. The purchaser, it has been said, is entitled strong opinion of Lord HERSCHELL that it is not right to deprive to use his own knowledge, and is not bound to give the vendor such a person of the opportunity of telling his story in the only information of the value of his property. He may buy an estate way it will have weight, because some prisoners would benefit with a valuable mine under it from a vendor who is ignorant of by such a proceeding. One argument was put forward by the the existence of the mine without breathing a word of what he Lord Chancellor which has not been made much of hitherto; knows (see Turner v. Harvey, Jac. p. 178). But he is only safe that is, that numbers of persons are convicted of small offences so long as he preserves a strictly passive attitude, and so soon in the police-courts every day on the uncorroborated evidence of as he does anything by which he misleads the vendor he overone constable. The accused certainly may make a statement, steps the limit and is liable to have his purchase set aside. but in most cases he cannot give evidence on oath, and an un- Since a purchaser is under no antecedent obligation to comsworn statement is very properly not considered of much value.municate to his vendor facts which may influence his own judgThis puts too much power in the hands of the police, who, ment, his mere silence does not imply any deceit, even though excellently as they do their duty as a rule, are almost necessarily he is aware of circumstances of vital importance of which the biassed to some extent in favour of getting a conviction when vendor is ignorant. Each party to the transaction makes his they make an accusation. own inquiries and is guided in his decision by what he himself discovers. But the case is completely altered so soon as one party abandons this attitude and takes upon himself to offer information which will influence the other side. He must then be careful that what he says is true, and that he does not create a mistaken impression by the omission of any part of the truth

THE VACCINATION BILL brought in by Mr. CHAPLIN ought, if it becomes law, to remove the greater part of the popular objection to the operation. The vast majority of persons of

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