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Vacation other than that which is at present allowed to be transacted during the Vacation?

The PRESIDENT: The answer to Mr. Ford's question is that the Council adopted the resolution of the society on the 3rd of December, 1897, to the effect that, in the opinion of this society, the duration of the Long Vacation should be reduced to eight weeks-first Monday in August to last Saturday in September." This resolution they communicated to the General Council of the Bar. The General Council of the Bar passed the following resolution: "Taat it is not desirable that the proposal of the Incorporated Law Society to alter the Loug Vacation by making it extend from the first Monday in August to the last Saturday in September be carried into effect." And that is all that we have been able to do. As regards the transaction of legal business during the Long Vacation, in March, 1893, the Council sent to the Lord Chancellor a statement of the business which they thought ought to go on in the Long Vacation, and that statement appeared in the annual report of 1891. Beyond that the Council up to the present time have not been able to make any further progress. They remain of the same opinion that they were in 1893.

Mr. FORD said that if it had not already been done he would suggest that the society's resolution should be communicated to the Lord Chancellor.

The PRESIDENT: It has been sent to the Lord Chancellor.

ATTENDANCES OF MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.

Mr. FORD moved "That a copy of the record of attendances (for the current year) of members of the Council, at Council and committee meetings, be sent annually to every member of the society, such copy to accompany the notice calling the annual general meeting.' He said he believed the practice was that any member of the society could see the books in the secretary's office, but he need hardly point out that the members really had not time to be searching the books to see whether the members of the Council had been constant in attendance or otherwise. This was so small a suggestion that he was sure the Council would readily adopt it so that instead of the members being put to the trouble of making this troublesome investigation through a number of books, a junior clerk might be set to make the extracts so that the list might be sent to every member.

Mr. GRANTHAM DODD (London) seconded the motion, observing that it was only reasonable that the members should know to what extent they were indebted to the various members of the Council for their attendance at committees and so on. At present the members were perfectly ignorant of the facts.

The PRESIDENT: Before the meeting proceeds to vote upon the motion I should like to mention that not only do the bye-laws prescribe that a list of the Council showing how many times each member attended at Council meetings and committees should be open to inspection, but also that it has been the practice for the last eleven years with only one exception to publish that list in the law newspapers. And we propose to follow that practice before the annual meeting.

Mr. FORD said that if the members of the society could rely upon that practice being followed and that the list should be sent to all the law papers he would wish to withdraw the motion.

The motion was accordingly withdrawn.

MOTIONS IN CHANCERY.

Mr. FORD moved, "That the interests of suitors, and the due administration of justice require that motions in the courts of the Chancery Division ought to be set down in a list, and taken in the order in which they appear in such list, no precedence being given to leaders of the bar." He observed that this was no new matter. On two former occasions during the last thirty years he had brought forward a similar motion, and on each occasion the society had unanimously adopted the motion. Unfortunately the influence of the society as a public body was not as great as one could wish, and the result was that although he had no doubt the Council did all it could to support the society's resolutions, nothing so far had come of the matter. In 1892 he had asked the then president what action had been taken with regard to a resolution he had brought forward on the subject in 1884, and which had been carried unanimously. It was to the effect that the interests of suitors and the convenience of the profession required that the practice in the other divisions, of setting down motions and taking them in the order in which they stood in the list, should be extended to the Chancery Division. No doubt everyone knew that this was the practice which obtained in the Admiralty Division, and it was found to be most useful and to be largely in the interests of suitors and their representatives in the solicitor branch of the profession. But that was not all. He was glad to know that the late Bar Committee had had the matter before them, and in the report of the Bar Committee dated 1893 the practice was set out which still obtains, not only in the Admiralty Division but also in the Palatine Court of Lancaster. In the Palatine Court a list was made out. At the sittings of the court the registrar asked if anyone desired to move ex parte, and the ex parte motions were disposed of. The list was called, and unopposed motions were taken. Then the list was gone through according to the order in which cases were set down. The present practice in the Chancery Division existed solely in the interest of the inner bar, and it was most prejudicial to those who represented country professional clients. They were sick and tired of coming up to motions. Because a leader had got his pockets full of motions, some of the most trumpery kind, they could not get their motion heard. It was no exaggeration to say that months went past, certainly a month or more, before a motion, possibly of much consequence, could be brought up. The present practice compelled suitors to brief two counsel-they must have a leader. He appealed to the meeting to endorse the expression of former meetings,

that there ought to be a system of lists of motions as in the Palatine and Admiralty Courts. Mr. HASELDINE JONES (London) seconded the motion. The PRESIDENT: I think the Council are quite in agreement on this subject. The resolution passed in 1884 was forwarded to the Lord Chancellor, and we got a reply that it would be brought before the Rule Committee. It has also been considered on other occasions in connection with reforms in procedure generally, but there is a difficulty in arriving at the desired end owing to the interest of the inner bar being affected. And when we conferred with the bar they thought that the matter had better wait until the Government appointed some extra judges. That was the answer we got. I do not quite see the logical meaning of it. Mr. ARMITAGE gave his experience of a case in his practice some years ago. He had a motion where juniors were engaged, and it took three months to bring it on. He attended on twelve days and won the motion, and on taxation he was allowed 63. 8d. for each attendance. Of course the moral was "brief your leader." In this case he was the respondent's solicitor, and could not brief a leader. It was a small matter that was in question.

The VICE-PRESIDENT (Mr. C. B. MARGETTS, Huntingdon) thought it a most important thing that the meeting should carry the resolution. It seemed to him highly desirable that the hands of the Council should be strengthened by a resolution of a general meeting in support of this reform. If the motion was rejected it would be assumed that it was not a desirable motion. But it was a most desirable motion, and one of which the Council were very much in favour. There was no doubt that the present system was a great abuse, and he was entirely in accord with Mr. Ford, and hoped the meeting would support him. The motion was carried unanimously.

SEATS ON THE COUNCIL.

Mr FORD moved the following resolution, of which he had given notice: This meeting is of opinion that the members of the Council going out of office every year shall decide between themselves as to which three of them shall not be eligible for re-election for a period of one year; and in the event of non-compliance of such condition, the selection shall be made by the Council, and the result in either case shall be com municated to the members of the society, and the Council is hereby directed to amend the bye-laws accordingly." He said this was a very

delicate matter.

The PRESIDENT: It is not a new one, Mr. Ford. Mr. FORD said that really after the courtesy which the President had displayed in dealing with the previous resolution, and the encouraging remarks of the Vice-President, he felt some little difficulty in bringing this resolution forward. Here again, his friend in one sense, Mr. Keen, would agree with him to this extent, that it was not a new proposal. It had been made in this hall before, and he thought on one occasion if it was not passed

The SECRETARY: No.

Mr. FORD said that at any rate there was a great division of opinion with regard to it. It was an easy thing for anyone elected on the Council to say, "Now, I shall not bother my head any more. I am elected for the period of my natural life. I have worked very hard in the profession, and this is a distinction I have earned long ago; I am going to take it easy." It should be remembered that new brooms sweep clean, and a little new blood was an excellent thing. Since one of the gentlemen who used to be a severe critic-[indicating Mr. Munton] -had been elected on the Council, and thereby new blood had been introduced, things had gone on much better. He (Mr. Ford) urged that this progressive feeling should be developed. There were some members who had been on the Council a very long time, and probably they would like to enjoy a vacation. He felt that he would like to leave the matter with the Council. It was a very delicate question and he hardly liked to take a vote with regard to it. He would prefer to leave it to the Council whether they could not bring up something on their own initiative. It might be that some of the members of the Council were longing for a proposal of this kind, but they had felt a delicacy in introducing it themselves. In that spirit he would leave it, and he hoped the suggestion would be adopted. There would not be the slightest difficulty in their agreeing on the matter.

The PRESIDENT: As you have referred to the previous motion, you may like to know what appears on the official minutes. It is true that in 1881 Mr. Dalton T. Miller moved and Mr. J. R. MacArthur seconded: "That bye-law 27 be altered by inserting at the end the following words in italics, and the five of such ten who have been longest in office shall not be eligible for re-election for twelve months."" The motion was negatived by a large majority, only a few members voting in favour of it.

Mr. FORD said that could be explained by the fact that the Council were against it and that there was a large attendance of the members of the club who voted against it. They did not like the innovation.

The PRESIDENT: I may also mention that there is a very great deal of work done by members of the Council apart from meetings of the Council and of committees. Mattera constantly arise in the course of the year where heavy documents and papers are concerned, and a great deal of work is done outside the committees and the Council meetings. And further, some of the most able members give us most valuable assistance although they may not be with us on every occasion.

Mr. FORD: After that statement I think I ought to withdraw the motion.

The PRESIDENT: We think that if the motion were carried into effect it would be of great benefit to the members of the Council. I think that a rest such as proposed would be charming. But we think it would not be

beneficial to the society. He then put it to the meeting whether Mr. Ford should be allowed to withdraw the motion, but the decision was in the negative. Mr. MELVILL GREEN (Worthing) seconded the motion pro forma, because, he said, he agreed entirely with its object, though not with the form in which it was put. The motion would have the effect that the three members of the Counc.1 who were not to be re-elected would practically be selected by ballot. The Council in all probability would not say amongst themselves that so-and-so of their friends sitting next to them once a week all through the year should be left out, so it would fall into a practice of selection by ballot. It was, at all events, an invidious and disagreeable task to cast upon fifty gentlemen the duty of saying that three out of their number were not wanted any more. It should be left to the society at large and not to the Council or any individual members to say whom they wanted re-elected. The motion that was proposed some ten years ago fell into the same error, providing, as it did, that the five members who had served longest should be excluded. What he should like to see carried would be that of the ten members going out of office by rotation only seven who had served in the next preceding year should be re-elected. Then the whole ten could be candidates and the three who happened to be at the bottom of the ten would not be elected but the three next outsiders would come in. It would not, in his opinion, make the Council one whit better. He did rot care one iota for what Mr. Ford had said, that there were members who were lazy and said when they got elected, "We are here for life, let us be comfortable here for life." There was no more hardworking com. mittee on any public body in the kingdom-(Mr. FORD: Hear, hear.) than the Council of this institution. He had been on the committee of the society a little time and spoke from knowledge. He did not in the least expect that the change would improve the Council. But what would result would be that instead of having so many past presidents there would be a smaller number. The society would lose the benefit of their experience, and would lose something in so doing; but they would get a larger number of younger men, who would, as had been said, introduce younger thought and younger habits. But the real advantage would be that the profession at large all over the country who did not know the Council as well as those did who attended these meetings would get such knowledge and there would be greater confidence in the Council throughout the profession at large if it were not necessarily a position for life. It would, of course, happen that after a year a good man who had fallen out would come on to the Council again. There would be nothing to prevent him. But it would also happen that those who fell out would not be the most active and generally popular in the profession, and some of them would not come in again, and a very real benefit would be effected in the view that would be taken of the Council at large. He had seconded the motion pro forma because he quite understood it was not going to be carried, because he did not think the form in which it was put a satisfactory way of carrying out the object desired, but he thought that object an exceedingly good one. Mr. GRINHAM KEEN thought it would be most mischievous to pass a resolution of this kind. He had been a member of the Council for twenty years, and he had the privilege of taking part in many measures which had been brought forward, some of which were carried into effect, whilst the Council were still endeavouring to get others put into practice. His experience was that given a man anxious to do something, and who worked hard at a particular subject, it was not to be supposed for a moment that he could carry the thing through in three years. It required just about three years before there was a chance of getting the authorities to listen, and it was more likely to be five years or even eight years before such things were brought about as getting the president upon the Rule Committee or the call to the bar after three years' probation-that took feven years. If it was proposed to take away a man who was anxious to work on committees after his third year it would be getting rid of him just at the time when probably he was most useful to the society. All the societies which had had a similar rule in existence had bitterly repented, and, with the exception of the Bank of England, they had all done away with it. They had been very sorry they ever got it, because how could a man take up continuous work with such a rule? It required five, six, or seven years to master the subject, and if a man was to be taken away for a year when he was working very hard he naturally would not take the necessary interest in his work. He did not speak from any selfish motive, but he trusted that the meeting would never dream of passing a resolution Eo as to take away a member of the Council who had been working hard at a given subject in his third year.

Mr. FORD again expressed a hope that the meeting would allow him to withdraw the motion, but

The PRESIDENT said it was too late, the meeting having already decided

that the motion should not be withdrawn.

The motion was then put and negatived, there being not a single vote in

its favour.

On the motion of Mr. FORD, Seconded by Mr. F. T. WOOLBERT (London) a vote of thanks was accorded to the president for his conduct in the chair, Mr. Woolbert observing that the motion ought also to include the tharks of the members to the Council for the Scale Digest, which had been promised by the president.

LAW FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The Fifty-Second Annual General Meeting of the shareholders of the Law Fire Insurance Society was held at the Society's House, Chancery-lane, on Tuesday, Sir RICHARD NICHOLSON taking the chair.

The report stated that the directors had much pleasure in calling attention to the fact that the accounts showed a balance of £46,660 17s. 9d., after

payment of the sum of £12,500 as an interim dividend in November last. The total amount insured was estimated as 125 millions. The claims for losses paid in the past year amounted to £63,887 17s. 9d., showing a decrease of £510 as compared with 1896. The year, however, closed with a large amount of estimated outstanding claims, arising principally from the excep tionally large fire on the Goldsmiths' Company's extensive property in Cripplegate and Jewin-street, the claims in respect of which had been satisfactorily adjusted. The proportion of losses paid to the amount of premium income was 43 per cent.; the expenses of management were 15 per cent., and the commission 13 per cent. The shareholders were greatly indebted to the numerous agents of the society in the provinces, as well as the metropolis, for their continued exertions on behalf of the office, and the directors were glad to be able to state that the members of the staff at the head office had given general satisfaction by their zeal and assiduity.

Mr. G. W. BELL (Secretary) having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report. He said he thought he might congratulate the meeting upon another prosperous year, in spit of circumstances in the shape of abnormally large fires which might have brought about a very different result. The report showed that the balance at the disposal of the meeting was £46,660 17s. 9., after payment of £12,500 as an interim dividend. That was the first payment of that kind which the directors had had the pleasure of making. The balance on the accounts for 1896 was £54,901, and that after payment of the Jubilee dividend and the Jubilee bonus, amounting to £50,000. The balance for 1897 was arrived at af er payment of the dividend for 1896, £43,750, and the interim dividend of £12,500, making together £56,250. The difference between the balance in the 1896 account and that in the account for 1897, £46,660 17s. 91, was £8,240 3s. 11d., but then there had been paid the dividend for 1896 and the interim dividend for 1897, so that £6,250 more was brought into the account than in 1896. The actual difference of these figures was £1,990. The premium income remained somewhat in a stationary condition. It was true that there was a small increase, but not sufficient to call for observation. He could have desired that it had been more. That the increase was a small one might no doubt be attributed to the fact that the directors had been en leavouring to be extremely careful in the selection of risks, avoiding those which on the face appeared to be more than usually hazardous. The total sum insured had increased by about £250,000. The claims for losses showed a decrease, a small one of £510, in 1897, as compared with 1896, and this in the face of the fact that like most of the London offices, this office had to pay to a considerable extent for the Cripplegate fire and for that at Maple & Co.'s depository at Camden Town. Both of these fires were of very considerable extent. The Cripplegate fire happened on the 17th November, and he believed that it exceeded anything that had occurred since the Great Fire of London. The statistics were somewhat interesting. The fire devoured property covering some twoand-a-half acres of land. It raged in a terrific way for something like four hours only, but in that time did all its work. It required all the efforts of fifty of the most powerful engines of the Fire Brigade, and the services of 298 or 290 officers and men, and an expenditure of something like 15,000,000 gallons or 67,000 tons of water before it was subdued. It destroyed fifty-four houses, seriously damaged 115, and burned out nineteen, making a total of 188. The actual loss had been, he believed, carefully estimated at something ranging between a million-and-a-quarter and a million-and-a-half sterling, and of this something like £558,000 was distributed amongst the principal buried, and in which Oliver Cromwell was married. offices of London. Happily the fire spared the church in which Milton was The fire at Maple's Depository was also a very serious one, notwithstanding the fact that the buildings were described, more euphoniously than truthfully, as fireproof. They knew that an inquest was held in connection with the fire in the City. He believed that it had been long felt, on the part of insurance offices at least, that it was desirable that some inquiry of this sort should be instituted But when they recognised the fact that the fires in into the origin of fires. London last year amounted to 3,500, he thought the problem became rather difficult. He did not quite see how inquiry was very readily to be made into so large a number of fires yearly. Returning to the report, the proportion of losses to premium income in 1897 stood at 43 per cent., as compared with 43 in 1896. The commission stood at 15 per cent. for each year, and he might here refer to the fact that a very experienced fire assurance manager had stated as the result of his many years' dealing with fire affairs, that an office might be considered in a satisfactory position if its losses fell short of 50 pr cent. before him a newspaper cutting dealing with the affairs of an office in a very satisfactory position in London, and there they congratulated themselves that the fire losses did not exceed 49 per cent. Those of the Law Fire were 43 per cent. They also congratulated themselves on the fact that the expenses were 35 per cent. of the premium income. Those of the Law Fire were 28 per cent. Turning to the receipts and payments account, the receipts brought forward in 1897 were £2,096 0s. 10d. less than in 1896. premiums were about the same, there was a slight increase. He had already called attention to the small diminution of fire losses. The charges for commissions, stamps, income tax, were practically the same, but expenses of management showed an increase of £512. Still these expenses bore the same ratio as before, 15 per cent. to the premiums. Before referring to the balancesheet he ought perhaps to mention the notice at the foot of the receipts and disbursements account, which cal'ed attention to the fact that the outstanding claims on the 31st December, 1897, were estimated at £31,260. That was the largest figure to that account which had ever appeared upon any one of the society's reports. But they would be glad to know that it was very rapidly disposed of by the fact that it had run off. It had been dealt with in the accounts they had before them, and the dividend had been fixed, as the directors were required to fix it, in accordance with the terms of the society's deed and settlement-that it should be made with

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reference to the state of the society's affairs for the time being. Coming to the balance-sheet, he observed that the reserve fund stood at the same sum as it did in 1896, namely £145,000. He personally should be very glad indeed to see that reserve fund considerably increased, because while they were prosperous it was their duty to make some provision for a possible rainy day, and insurers nowadays looked for absolute security on the part of offices with which they effected their insurances. That absolute security could only result from two causes, first from the unpaid-up capital, with regard to which the office stood pre-eminently safe, and secondly, that the office could present a very large reserve fund, as a sort of bulwark against any possible call, to meet a state of things such as the society for fifty years had not been called upon to meet. On the credit side some changes would be observed. Bank stock was less by £16,613 than in 1896, Holborn Viaduct debentures had been paid off to the extent of £10,171, mortgages were less by £1,705, the amount due from agents was £35 less, and the cash in hand £4,643 less. But as against this we have a very satisfactory item of £30,000 on the deposit account. The whole difference of the total in these figures was £8,167, and that had been absorbed by the interim dividend, £12,500. But for this the total assets would have been £330,504 as against £326,171. The society had been enjoying during 1897, as during the whole of its career, a very exceptional success, but he would remind the shareholders, as they had always been reminded on occasions of this sort, that insurance business to-day was conducted on altogether different circumstances from what it was fifty years agc. There was in the first place very fierce competition, not always conducted on the most amiable lines, to meet. It was necessary to exerc'se extreme caution about this competition. And there was also a serious increase in the number of fires. In the 10 years ending in 1877 the number of fires in London was 1,533; in the 10 years ending in 1887 it was 2,363; and in the 10 years ending in 1897 it was 3,500, and many of the fires last year were of a very serious character. Then, again, the causes of fire had grown very much. Fire offices had to deal with the reckless use of lucifer matches, fusees, and so on, and with mineral oils and new inventions for lighting which were more or less dangerous, and they had also the moral danger necessarily attending upon the facility with which it was possible to effect insurances. He had the pleasurable duty to announce as the result of the year's working that the directors felt at liberty to declare a dividend of 17s. 6d. per share, equal to 35 per cent. on the paid up capital, and equal to the dividend which had been paid for several years past. That included the 10 per cent. already paid. It left also in the society's coffers £31,250 still to be divided among the shareholders. This would leave the society with a handsome balance, a good deal of which he hoped would go to increase the reserve fund. But if they were to continue in their course of prosperity the Board must look to their supporters to help them. Everyone of the shareholders could bring some amount of business, and he thought that if everyone would exert himself a little more he could bring new business. The directors did what they could in that direction, and they were fairly successful, but beyond that they did what they could to bring a result such as it had been his pleasure to announce to that meeting. It only remained for him to discharge a very pleasant duty, namely, on behalf of his brother directors and himself, to thank Mr. Bell personally for the very valuable assistance he had given them throughout the year's operations. But for Mr. Bell's very cautious and careful way of accepting and advising risks, the accounts might have been very different from what they were. The directors were also indebted to the staff for their generous support and co-operation, and also to the agents. The Board hoped that the shareholders would be satisfied with the dividend they were able to declare, and that it would be satisfactory to them to know that that dividend had been declared with reference to the condition of affairs at the time at which they arrived at it. He would be glad to answer any questions which any shareholder might desire to ask.

Lord HовHOUSE S conded the motion. The only item about which it occurred to him to make any remark, was the entirely new item on the disbursement side, the interim dividend in November, 1897, of £12,500. He hoped it would be a regular item in future. He remembered when it was proposed reminding the shareholders that the ups and downs incident to fire business were such, that although the directors might take power to declare an interim dividend, it by no means followed that they would do so. And just as the Board were considering it they were face to face with that tremendous disaster, the Cripplegate fire. But looking all round they found the society in so stable and prosperous a position, that there was no reason why they should not count upon the annual dividend being no less than they were now accustomed to, and why they should not pay out of the assets in hand a portion as interim dividend. He had great hopes that this would be a regular practice, and that the affairs of the society would always admit of paying an interim dividend in the month of November. There was no reason to believe that it would not be a regular thing.

Mr. DAVID PITCAIRN observed that at the bottom of the balance-sheet there was a note, "The claims for fire losses outstanding on the 31st December, 1897, were estimated at £31,260." He assumed that that was included in the £63,000.

The CHAIRMAN said that was not included in the £63,000, but, as he had explained, that had been practically met. It had run off.

Mr. W. MELMOTH WALTERS, a director, said that the society had now in the debit £9,700, instead of £3,000.

Mr. HUMPHRY asked what was the amount of the society's loss by the Cripplegate fire?

The CHAIRMAN said there was no objection to state it. The office had borne its burden cheerfully. It amounted to about £20,000.

The report and accounts were adopted, and

On the motion of Mr. R. C. GROSVENOR, Seconded by Mr. J. M. CLABON, the retiring directors were re-elected as follows:

Sir William James Farrer, Mr. William Dawes Freshfield, Mr. William Alexander Tooke Hallowes, Lord Hobhouse, Mr. Charles Plumptre Johnson, Mr. Harry Wilmot Lee, Sir Richard Nicholson, Mr. Richard Pennington, Mr. George Ernest Steward and Mr. Edward Hugh Whitehead. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. WALTERS, the retiring auditors, Mr. James Frederick Burton, Mr. John Henry Hortin, Mr. William Tanner Neve, and Mr. Charles Robert Roberts West, were re-elected. On the the motion of Mr. F. LEE, seconded by Mr. GROSVENOR, a vote of thanks was accorded to the Chairman and directors, who briefly acknowledged the compliment, and the proceedings terminated.

SOLICITORS' MANAGING CLERKS' ASSOCIATION. Mr. Herbert Reed, Q.C., delivered, on Tuesday last, the tenth and concluding lecture of the present series in the Gray's-inn Lecture Room, which was crowded with members of the association, the subject being "The Operation of the Bills of Sale Acts." The chair was occupied by Mr. Justice Wright, who, in complimenting the association on shewing such interest in legal study that it led them to give up their evenings to its pursuit, said he learned much of the law he knew by talking to some of their predecessors twenty years ago in the rooms of the Incorporated Law Society. He thought these lectures must prove very valuable to them. Mr. Herbert Reed, Q.C., then proceeded to deal with the origin of the Bills of Sale Acts and their objects and results, and indicated several important points on which be considered amendments might be made, and also gave some useful practical suggestions and the cases dealing with the law as now administered. At the conclusion Mr. J. W. Hobbs proposed and Mr. G. H. D. Edwards seconded, that a hearty vote of thanks be given to Mr. Herbert Reed, Q.C., for his valuable lecture, which was cordially passed. The president, Mr. M. Kelleher, in proposing that the best thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. Justice Wright for presiding, remarked that the success of the lectures had no doubt been mainly due to the support which they had received from the judges. Mr. T. C. Tunstall, the organizer and secretary of the lectures, in seconding the same, said there could have been no more brilliant conclusion to the series of valuable lectures they had had, than that it should have been honoured as it was by so distinguished a judge as Mr. Justice Wright filling the chair, that in him the cause of legal education had no warmer or more ardent supporter, and that the lectures had been an unqualified success. as was proved by the fact that they had been attended by between 1,500 and 2,000. The vote of thanks was then enthusiastically accorded.

UNITED LAW SOCIETY.

April 25.-Mr. A. C. F. Boulton moved "That this society condemns the foreign policy of the Government." Mr. C. Kains-Jackson opposed, and the debate was continued by Messrs. J. R. Yates and Weigall. Mr. A. C. F. Boulton replied, and the motion was lost by five votes. This was the concluding meeting of the session.

LAW STUDENTS' JOURNAL.

CALLS TO THE BAR.

The following gentlemen were called to the bar on Wednesday: LINCOLN'S INN.-Anthony De Freitas, B.A., Clare College, Camb.; Behari Lal Merh, Edin. and Allahabad Univ.; William Victor Grey Willoughby; Devi Dayal; Noshirvan Burjojee Behramjee; Valentine Francis Taubman-Goldie, B A., New Coll., Oxford; Surendra Lal Kastgir, Calcutta Univ.; Krishnaji Waman Bhat: Arthur Philip Braybrooke, M.A., Trinity Coll., Oxford; Jayavant Dinanath Madgavkar, Bombay Univ.; Miguel Francisco Ribeiro; Alfred Lindsay Densham; Samuel Emanuel Kaye; and Syed Ali Karim.

INNER TEMPLE.-Henry William Jephson, B.A., Cambridge; Stuart Downs, B.A., Cambridge; Chapman Frederick Dendy Marshall, B A., Cambridge; Samuel John Forster, B.A., Oxford; Richard Stanislaus Crosbie Nolan, B.A, Dublin; Henry Mark Stebbing, B.A., Oxford; John Henry Layton; Reginald Theodore Harry Milton; James Finlay Anderson, M.A., Oxford; Kenneth Edlmann Chalmers, B.A., Oxford; George Cruddas Jobling, B.A., Oxford; George Frederick Assinder, B.A., Oxford; Bertram Hopkinson, B.A., Cambridge, and B.Sc., London; and Lionel Frank Christopher Darby, B.A, Cambridge.

MIDDLE TEMPLE.-Samuel Joyce Thomas, B.A., London University, Associate and Inglis Scholar, King's College, London; Baron Percy George De Worms; James Bromley Eames, B.A., Worcester College, Oxford, Prof. of Law Imperial University, Tien-tsin, First Class Mathematical Mode., First Class Final Honour, School of Mathematics, Honours in Jurisprudence and B.C.L.; Malcolm Herbert McCraw; James Dewsbury Caorlton, M.Sc., Victoria University, First Class Honours in Physics; Eustace Gordon Woolford; and Frank Brough.

GRAY'S INN.-Walter Millar Thorburn, B.A. (Halifax, N.S.), of the Indian Civil Service; Thomas Chalice Jackson, B.A., LL.B., London University; William Edward Barber; and Laurence Joseph Byrne.

LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETIES.

LAW STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY.-April 5.-Chairman, Mr. Rupert That this society is of opinion that the result of the recent County Council Election is in the best

The CHAIRMAN declared a dividend of 17s. 6d. per share, 5s. of which Blagden.-The subject for debate was, had been paid, leaving 12s. 6d. to be paid.

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April 19.-Chairman, Mr. J. S. Wilkinson.-The subject for debate was the following moot point, "Angelina recovers £500 damages from Edwin in an action for breach of promise of marriage. A year afterwards Angelina marries Edwin, the judgment debt being then unpaid; a month afterwards Edwin becomes bankrupt. Is Angelina entitled to prove in Edwin's bankruptcy (a) in competition with other creditors; (b) at all?" Mr. C. A. Close opened in the affirmative; Mr. E. J. Close opened in the negative. The following members also spoke: Messrs. G. H. Daniell, A. W. Watson, A. E. Clarke, G. G. Baily, Rupert Blagden, D. S. Cornock, E. Melliar Smith, and E. J. Holloway. The motion was carried by seven votes.

April 26.-Chairman, Mr. J. S. Wilkinson.-The subject for debate was, "That this society disapproves of the Criminal Law (Evidence) Bill, 1898." Mr. J. F. Walker opened in the affirmative; Mr. F. J. Thompson opened in the negative. The following members also spoke: Messrs. E. J. Close, Rupert Blagden, Haseldine Jones, Archer White, A. W. Sells, Arthur E. Clarke, Archibald Hair. Mr. Walker having replied, the motion was lost by eight votes.

May 3.-Chairman, Mr. Neville Tebbutt.-The subject for debate was, "That the case of Spooner v. Browning (1898, 1 Q. B. 528) was wrongly decided." Mr. F. J. Berryman opened in the affirmative; Mr. A. W. Watson seconded in the affirmative; Mr. Meliar Smith opened in the negative; Mr. C. A. Anderson seconded in the negative. The following members also spoke: G. H. Daniels and G. G. Bailey. The motion was carried by two votes.

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took the instrument, and under his magic fingers it really sounded like a violin. The maestro laid the instrument down with an evident air of contempt, but he declared it to be playable, and the accused was acquitted.

Mr. Malcolm M'Ilwraith, who has been appointed Sir John Scott's successor as legal adviser to the Khedive, says the St. James's Gazette, studied the law not only in England, but at the Universities of Paris and Berlin. He is a licentiate of the Paris Faculty of the Law. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn in 1890, and practised as a barrister in London for seven years, his practice being mainly in connection with Continental and international questions of law, on which subjects he is regarded as an authority. Since 1890 he has been one of the counsel for the British claimants in the Delagoa Bay arbitration between the Governments of Great Britain, the United States, and Portugal. For some months past he has been in the service of the Egyptian Government as a member of the State Legal Department.

At a meeting of the Queen's Bench Judges, the following circuits were chosen by their lordships for the coming Autumn Assizes-viz.: SouthEastern Circuit, Mr. Justice Hawkins; Midland Circuit, Mr. Justice Mathew; Oxford Circuit, Mr. Justice Ridley, Mr. Justice Mathew and Mr. Justice Ridley joining each other at Birmingham; Western Circuit, Mr. Justice Kennedy; North and South Wales Circuits, Mr. Justice Day; North-Eastern Circuit, Mr. Justice Darling and Mr. Justice Channell, the former not joining the circuit until Leeds is reached; and Northern Circuit, Mr. Justice Bigham and Mr. Justice Phillimore. Prisoners only will be tried at these assizes, except at Manchester and Liverpool on the the Midland Circuit, and either Swansea or Cardiff on the Welsh Circuit, Northern Circuit, Leeds on the North-Eastern Circuit, Birmingham on at which places civil causes will also be taken.

In a case of Robinson v. Robinson, before the Probate, &c, Division, being an appeal under the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895, from a refusal of certain justices to grant her a judicial separation sistent cruelty, counsel for the wife said that he was much hampered by and maintenance order against her husband on the ground of his perthe fact that the magistrates' clerk had refused to give his client a copy of the depositions, and by the fact that apparently the magistrates themselves had taken no note. In giving judgment, the President is reported by the Times to have said: This case comes before us in a most unsatisfactory form, owing to the fact that we have not been supplied with the proper materials for enabling us to hear and determine this appeal. When this Act came into force we stated that the court should in these cases be furnished with proper notes of evidence, and with the justices' reasons for determining the cases. This, I may say, we have been sup

Mr. WYNDHAM NEAVE SLADE, barrister, has been appointed Recorder plied with in every case, and although this necessarily imposes a little of Bridgwater, in place of Sir Peter Edlin, Q.C., resigned.

CHANGES IN PARTNERSHIPS.

DISSOLUTIONS.

FRED VAUGHAN and LOUIS HENRY HORNBY, Solicitors (Vaughan & Hornby), Newport. The practice will be continued by Louis Henry Hornby for his own account.

JOHN STANDRING, EDWARD LYON TAYLOR, and WALTER STANDRING, solicitors (Standring, Taylor, & Standring), Rochdale and Shaw. Nov. 14. The said Edward Lyon Taylor and Walter Standring will continue to practice under the said style or firm. [Gazette, May 3.

GENERAL.

The death is announced of Mr. Camille Felix Desiré Caillard, who was for thirty-eight years judge of county courts circuit 52, from which he retired last year.

The Attorney-General will entertain the law and ex-law officers of the Crown, the various officials connected with his department, and others, at dinner at Lincoln's-inn, on Saturday, the 21st inst., in celebration of Her Majesty's birthday.

Mr. Justice Lawrance, who, it is said, is an ardent golfer, tells (says the Pall Mall Gazette) the following story against himself. A boy recently appeared before him as a witness, and on the learned judge asking him if he was acquainted with the nature of an oath, the youth promptly replied, "Of course I am; ain't I your caddie ?"

The following gentlemen have been selected as candidates for nomination as representives of the Chancery Bar on the Bar Council at the ensuing election-viz.: Mr. Crack anthorpe, Q.C., Mr. Warmington, Q.C., Mr. Swinfen Eady, Q.C., Mr. Vernon Smith, Q C., Mr. Methold, Mr. Leigh Clare, M.P., Mr. Benn, and the Hon. Frank Russell.

extra trouble upon the justices and their clerks, I must remind them that the Legislature has under this Act given justices a very important jurisdiction in matters of such vital moment that it has also felt it necessary to allow a full appeal to this court in both questions of law and fact. In this case we are told that the justices' clerk has declined to supply a note of the evidence. I cannot believe, nay, I decline to believe, that any justices' clerk has refused to supply this court with a note of evidence. I can only regret that the note taken was of such little value that the justices' clerk must have thought it would be of no assistance to this court. Mr. Justice Barnes added that in his opinion it is essential that the notes of evidence and the justices' reasons for their decision should be taken down at the time, as an appeal lies to this court on both questions of fact and law.

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THE PROPERTY MART.

SALES OF THE ENSUING WEEK.

A meeting of solicitors was held in Dublin on Monday, says the Irish correspondent of the Times, to protest against the Government arendments to the Solicitors (Ireland) Bill authorizing the employment of clerks to represent Government departmente in magisterial courts. A resolution was adopted declaring that the meeting entirely disapproved of the amendment, considering it a direct invasion of the rights of the profes- May 9. Mr. GEORGE B. SMALLPEICE, at the Mart, at 2 p.m., the valuable Crown Lease sion, and calling upon Members of Parliament to oppose it strenuously. Those who by chance attended the proceedings at the Court of Justice in Berlin on Wednesday, says the Daily News, had the pleasure of gratuitously bearing Professor Joachim play. A dealer in musical instruments was charged with cheating a customer by representing that a violin which he offered for sale at five shillings was an instrument that could be played. Professor Joachim was brought in as an expert witness. He

of the Lowther Arcade, Nos. 437, 438, 439, and 440, West Strand, and Nos. 5 and 6, Adelaide-street; the gross rentals amount to £4,000; the whole held under one lease, ground-rent of £1,270 per annum, divided into 25 amounts; lease has nearly 31 years unexpired. Also a Leasehold Rental of £455 per annum, secured on the Red House (formerly known as Thornton Lodge), corner of Thornton and Hollandstreets, Campden-hill, Kensington, held on lease expiring 1927. A Leasehold Rental of £475 per annum, increasing to £620 per annum, secured on Niddry Lodge, corner of Campden-hill-road and Holland-street, Kensington, lease expiring 1927. Freehold Ground-rent of £85 per annum, secured on Kenilworth Castle P.H., St Ann'sroad, Notting-hill, with reversion to the rack-rental in 1927. Solicitors, Messrs. Shep

heards & Bird, Young-street, Kensington High-street; and Messrs. Shepheards, Finsbury-circus. (See advertisement April 30, p. 3.)

May 10.-Messrs. DEBENHAM, TEWSON, FARMER, & BRIDGEWATER, at the Mart, at 2 p.m., Corner Freehold Premises in the City, comprising Property at the junction of Woodstreet with Little Love-lane, one of the finest positions in the Manchester Market, let on full repairing lease at a net rent of £500 per annum. Solicitors, Messrs. Tippetts & Son, London. (See advertisement, April 23, p. 4.) May 10.-Messrs. ROGERS, CHAPMAN, & THOMAS, at the Mart, at 2 p.m., Valuable Freehold and Leasehold Private Residences, Business Premises, and Building Land, situated at Herne Hill, Stockwell, Gunnersbury, Streatham, South Kensington, and Brentford, of the rental value of over £1,000 per annum. Solicitors, Messrs. Lewin & Co., Southampton-street, Strand, W.C. (See advertisement, April 30, p. 3). May 12.-Messrs. FAREBROTHER, ELLIS, EGERTON, BREACH, GALSWORTHY, & Co., at 2 p.m., Exceedingly valuable Freehold West-end Business Premises, possessing an area of about 1,610 square feet, building of five floors, being No. 11, New Burlingtonstreet; let on repairing lease for a term of 21 years from 25th March, 1893, at £500. Solicitors, Messrs. Currie, Williams, & Williams, London. A choice Professional Residence in the West-end, within a few doors of New Bond-street; let upon a repairing lease for a term of 14 years from 1895, at £350; stabling in rear, having accommodation for five horses, with four living rooms, let for 21 years from 1838, at £100. Solicitors, Messrs. Currie, Williams, & Williams, London. Freehold Investments, comprising numerous Business Premises, Shops, Dwelling-houses, Beer-houses extensive Laundry and Nursery, Ranges of Stabling, Contractors' and Builders' Yards; producing £523 16s. per annum, chiefly from Ground-rents. Solicitors, Messrs. Currie, Wiliams, & Williams, London. (See advertisement, this week, p. 484, and April 23, p. 4.) May 12.-HENBY HENDRIKS, at 43, Waterloo-street, Birmingham, at 2.30, the Valuable Goodwill, and Old-established Connection, including Trade Contracts, Patents, Trade-Mark, Patterns, &c., of the Gas, Water, and Electric Light Fittings and Wrought-Iron Work Trades of Messrs. Winfields (Limited), in the centre of the City of Birmingham; together with the Fixed Plant and Machinery. The Furchaser will have the option to take on lease for a term of 22 years, from March, 1898, at the rental of £650, the portions of the Cambridge-street Works; also the Metallic Bedstead Trade of Winfields (Limited), Goodwill, Connection, Patterns, and Fixed Plant and Machinery. The Purchaser will have the option of taking on lease for a term of 22 years, from March, 1898, at a rent of £300 per annum, portions of the Cambridgestreet Works; also the Stock-in-Trade. Solicitors, Messrs. Nicholson, Patterson, & Freeland, and Messrs. Trinder, Capron, & Co., London; Messrs. Ryland, Martineau, & Co., Birmingham. (See advertisement, April 30, p. 3.) May 13.-Messrs. PROTHEROE & MORRIS, at the Mart, at 2, the Freehold Property known as Ballard's-lane Nursery, Finchley, let at £164; Six blocks of Freehold Building Land at Finchley, ripe for immediate development; Freehold Estate near Finchley Station, about 16 acres; Freehold Ground-rents of £300 per annum, secured on 16 acres of land. Solicitors, Messrs. Peake, Bird, Collins, & Peake, and Messrs. Stevens, Son, & Parkes, all of Lendon. (See advertisement, April 30, p. 3.)

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"Graphic" and "Daily Graphic" Newspapers; £10 Shares (£7 paid) at 52 per Share. Messrs. C. C. & T. MOORE on Thursday last: 137, Bow-road realized £700; 26 and 28, Caroline-street, Stepney, £220; 23, 25, and 28, Wellesley-street, Stepney, £525; a Villa Residence at Willesden, £555; a Freehold House at Peckham, £330; thirteen Dwelling Houses and two Shops in Bermondsey, all Leasehold, £1,990. The result of the day's sale was £7,550.

WARNING TO INTENDING HOUSE PURCHASERS AND LESSEES.-Before purchasing or renting a house, have the Sanitary Arrangements thoroughly Examined, Tested, and Reported Upon by an Expert from Messrs. Carter Bros., 65, Victoria-street, Westminster. Fee quoted on receipt of full articulars. (Established 21 years.)--[ADVT.]

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WINDING UP NOTICES.

London Gazette.-FRIDAY, April 29.
JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.
LIMITED IN CHANCERY.

"AVONA
STEAMSHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required to send in particulars of such
claims or demands to George Macdonald Allan, 4, St Mary Axe
BAKING ESTATE CO, LIMITED (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION)-Creditors are required, on or
before June 1, to send in their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts
or claims, to the Hon. Francis Henry Baring and the Right Hon. John, Lord Revel-
stoke, 8, Bishopsgate st Within. Norton & Co, 57, Old Broad st, solors to liquidators
CROWN POINT GOLD MINE, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before June 13, to send
their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Mr. E. T.
Read. Copthall House, Copthall avenue. Birchalls, 85, Gracechurch st, solors for
liquidator

GEORGE GLOVER & SON, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Wednesday, June 8, to send their names and addresses, and particulars of their debts or claims, to Arthur Henry Gibson, 39, Waterloo st, Birmingham BHI Sanders, solor for liquidator INDUSTRIAL ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT CO, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented April 25, directed to be heard on Wednesday, May 11 Chas T Nicholls, 1, Lincoln's inn fields, solor for petner Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of May 10

METROPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAL STORES, LIMITED-By an order made by Wright, J, dated April 20, it was ordered that the voluntary winding up of the Stores be continued J Robbie Whamond, 3, Crown ct, Old Broad st, liquidator

ROSSER CYCLE AND VEHICLE BRAKE CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Wednesday, June 1, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their d. bts and claims, to Harry Read Smith, 23, College hill. Hands, Angel ct, solor for the liquidator

WINFIELD CYCLE CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before June 4, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to William Barrett Winnicott, Albert chibrs, Albert st, Nottingham. J. T. Masser, color for the liquidator

FRIENDLY SOCIETY DISSOLVED.

WORKMAN'S FRIEND FRIENDLY SOCIETY, Park End, Church st, Bocking, Braintree, Essex April 20

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ANGLO-FRENCH SANITARY ENGINEERING SYNDICATE, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before June 24, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Charles George Morgan, 13, King William st. Wilson & Co, 1, Copthall bldgs, solors to liquidator BULONG MINING, TRAMWAY, AND ORE REDUCTION CO. OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, LIMITEDCreditors are required, on or before Aug 16, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Newman Mayo Ogle, Worcester House Walbrook

COASTING AND CONTINENTAL STEAMSHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before May 30, to send their names and addresses, and particulars of their debts or claims, to William N. Sawer, 4, New London st

HL SYNDICATE, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented April 27, directed to be heard on Wednesday, May 11 Guilford E Lewis, 14, South sq, Gray's inn, solor for petaers Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of May 10

JOSEPH M HEPWORTH & CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before May 31, to send their names and addresses, and particulars of their debts or claims, to A Molesworth, South parade, Rochdale

NORTHLEACH GAS LIGHT AND COKE CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before June 18, to send their names and the particulars of their debts or claims to George Frederick Mace, Fairholme, Chipping Norton Thos & A E Mace, Chipping Norton, solors to liquidator

SYDNEY CYCLE CO, LIMITED (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION)-Creditors are required, on or before June 6, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims to Mr Nelson George Harries, The Bridge, Walsall. Armstrong, Walsall, solor to liquidator

WEST AUSTRALIAN MARKET TRUST, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented May 2, directed to be heard May 11. Spyer & Sons, 53, New Broad st, solors for petuer. Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of May 10

WEST AUSTRALIAN MARKET TRUST, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented April 29, directed to be heard May 11. Maddisons, 1, King's Arms yd, Moorgate st, solors for petners Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of May 10 FRIENDLY SOCIETIES DISSOLVED.

TREE OF LIBERTY LODGE, ANCIENT SHEPHERDS, Bay Horse Hotel, Church st, Accrington, Lancs April 27

UNITED CHRISTIAN BENEFIT SOCIETY, Wesleyan Chapel, Chipping Norton, Oxford April 20

UNITED FRIENDLY BENEFIT SOCIETY, King's Arms. Abbey st, Bethnal Green rd, E. April 27

WESLEYAN BENEFIT SOCIETY, Kidderminster, Worcester. April 27

WILBY FRIENDLY SOCIETY, Schoolroom, Wilby, Wellingborough, Northampton. April 27

CREDITORS' NOTICES.

UNDER ESTATES IN CHANCERY.

LAST DAY OF CLAIM.

London Gazette.-FRIDAY, April 15.

FLETCHER, GEORGE, Field Alvaston, Derby, Engineer May 16 Fletcher v Marsh, Stir-
ling, J Stoneham & Sons, Fenchurch st
HALL, JOHN, Devon, Retired Farmer May 10 Fox & Co v Ellis, R.mer, J Peter,
Launceston

Goldsworthy v Kelsall,

London Gazette.-TUESDAY, April 19. KELSALL, SAMUEL, John Dalton st, Manchester May 17 Registrar, Manchester Watson, Mount st, Manchester London Gazette.-FRIDAY, April 22. ALSTON, EDWARD, Preston, Lancs, Pawnbroker May 23 Alston v Alston, Registrar Preston Jukes, Preston SYKES, MARY, St Helens, Lancs May 25 Thornton v Vernon, Registrar, Liverpool Massey, St Helens

UNDER 22 & 23 VICг. CAP. 35.

LAST DAY OF CLAIM.
London Gazette.-FRIDAY, April 22.

ALLEN, ANN, Shrewsbury May 14 Clarke & Son, Shrewsbury
ASHWORTH, JAMES, St Anne's on the Sea May 23 Marson, Manchester

BARCLAY, JULIANA EL ZABETH, Westcott, ar Dorking, Surrey June 1 Wadeson &
Malleson, Devonshire sq. Bishopsgate

BRETT, JOHN, Belbroughton, Worcester, Farmer May 21 Hinds, Stourbridge
BROWNE, EDWARD, Liverpool, Corn Merchant May 20 Laces & Co, Liverpool
BRYANT, WILLIAM LONDON, Bristol June 1 Jacques & Co, Bristol
BUTCHER, WILLIAM, Bristol, Cement Merchant May 31 John Miller & Son, Bristol
CHAPMAN, WILLIAM, Gt Yarmouth April 30 Burton & Son, Gt Yarmouth
COMPTON, MARIA, Fulham May 20 Lowndes, George st, Mansion Hous
CORNMELL, CHARLES WILLIAM, Cornbill May 31 Wragg, Gt St Helen's
DAY, HENRY, Edgbaston May 9 Page & Flewker, Wolverhampton
DOUGHTY, ALICE CLARA, Kensington Macdonald & Malden, Salisbury
ELLINTHORPE, THOMAS, Scarborough June 6 Hollams & Co, Mincing In
FLACK, SARAH, Nottingham May 28 Shepheards, Finsbury cres
FLETCHER, ROBERT, Pickering, York May 23 EJ & A Peters, York
GRAYSON, WILLIAM, Winsford, Chester, Painter June 19 Cooke, Winsford
HALL, CHARLES, Leicester May 23 G Stevenson & Son, Leicester
HALLMARK, MARY, Oxton, Birkenhead June 4 Rodway & Co, Liverpool
HEIMANN, FANNY, St Lawrence on Sea, Kent May 15 Spyer & Sons, New Broad st
HIRST, JULIA, Sheffield, Licensed Victualler May 31 Bennett, Sheffield
HoWAT, ALEXANDER, Dalston June 10 Yarde & Loader, Raymond bldgs
HUMBER, WILLIAM, Derby May 31 Gadsby & Coxon, Derby

HURD, WILLIAM, Uttoxeter, Chemist June 3 Hankinson & Meakin, Derby
JENKINS, THOMAS, Llanynider, nr Crickhowell May 30 Jones, Cardiff
JOHNSON, EDMUND GEORGE, City rd, Finsbury June 1 Sweetland & Greenhill, Fen-
church st
KEEN, THOMAS, Notting Hill June 1 Slater, Finsbury pavement

KER, ELIZA CATHERINE, Clapham May 25 Clarke & Calkin, John st, Bedford row

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