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must come before Parliament, and did not take effect until it was laid upon sum of money into a conveyance and sold it for double the amount, the table of the House for a certain number of days. If, therefore, anyone and so on, that was a simple, gross, impalpable fraud; but that could thought the House of Commons had misconceived the position, the House of be done, and he knew one instance of its having been done in this country. Commons and House of Lords would have opportunities enough of pointing Where there were two men who were themselves fraudulent, the purchaser that out, and moving in one or other of the Houses of Parliament. It was and vendor, and a solicitor was found to help them in the fraud, it could impossible to conceive an experiment which, even if it were the only precau- readily be carried out under the present system of conveyancing. It would tion, could be more fair. But it went further than that. The district be rather easier, indeed, because the purchase money was written out in itself was limited, and the time was limited. The order which took effect letters and words which a man might be pardoned for not being able to read, was the first order-whether in London, or, if refused, whether anywhere whereas it appeared on the certificate in the left hand margin in plain else, it was the first order-and no further order could be made for a period figures. He was not inclined to think that there was such an enormous of three years, giving a very sufficient time for seeing how the system worked, proportion of fraudulent people as Mr. Rubinstein would appear to suppose. and whether the difficulties and delays, made so much of by the opener, really He thought they would be very rare. Then Mr. Rubinstein had took effect or not. And those also were not the only precautions, because taken objection to the Act because, under present conditions, one had by this Act, differing in that respect from every previous Act passed on the a number of deeds which the banker turned over to see what was the subject, all the rights of the legal profession of both branches were in them. But that was provided for. He thought Mr. Rubinstein was effectually protected, much more than under the ordinary system of convey- in error in his interpretation. As he (Mr. Lake) read the section, the ance at present. Because now, although it was provided that no other than price would appear on every certificate, it was to appear on the first a barrister or solicitor, or equally qualified person could prepare a deed, there certificate, and on all transfers and charges, and he could not conceive were no means of enforcing that prohibition. All one could do was to go to any words much wider than the words used in that section. He thought Somerset House and endeavour to get the officials to take action. This that in practice it would be found that a man would take his one certificate, clause was a repetition of the clause in the Stamp Act, under which alone and be very glad to surrender all the others and have no trouble about the protection of the profession rested. By the Act that was made an keeping his deeds or anything else. But if he thought it to his advantage offence punishable under the Summary Jurisdiction Act, and consequently to have a series of certificates he could have them. There was in the Act, any organised society, barristers or solicitors, in London or the country, had which there had never been before, a clause making it compulsory upon the the thing in their own hands to enforce; and certainly the Incorporated Registrar to have no dealings with the land without the production of the Law Society had never shewn themselves behindhand in enforcing such certificate. Mr. Rubinstein had compared the system with the Torrens Aot, measure whenever they had had the opportunity. But that, again but he was comparing two things which were esssentially different. The was not the only precaution. In this Act, as in none other on the Torrens Act knew nothing but the indefeasible title, and there must therefore subject, the rule-making committee, or at all events the committee be complete investigation and the boundaries made conclusive; and, therefore, by whose advise and sanction the rule is to be made, is to be a legal com- in every case the property had to be re-surveyed, which of course meant mittee, the majority being legal members. Out of five one was a judge, one considerable expense. The only other objection was upon one or two questions was nominated by the Bar, one was nominated by the Incorporated Law of construction; but he had never yet found an Act of Parliament upon Society, the other two being the Registrar and some one nominated by the which there was not an opportunity for dispute until the courts had Board of Agriculture, presumably a landowner. Even that was not all. decided the conflicting construction. Mr. Rubinstein had complained that The fees had been so reduced as to be practically nominal. Let them take the Act was not a consolidating Act. He was afraid they had all the County of London, supposing the Act to come into operation there. to make that complaint not only of the Land Transfer Act, but of all He would undertake to say that no one but a lawyer would know the Acts. It arose from the exigencies of Parliamentary discussion. As a difference either in cost or in time or in trouble between registering a matter of fact, the consolidation of these two Acts was actually in draft now. possessory title at the registry and registering the same deed as he Whether it would be brought in during the next or the following session he would have to do in Middlesex. It would cost him less, and it would not did not know, but no one was more alive to the defect of having to refer back take him more time. Under the rules, which would no doubt be shortly than those who framed the Bill which became the Act of 1897. The whole issued, it would be hardly possible for more than forty-eight hours' delay to of the law societies acquiesced in the view that it had come to the point that take place in registering a posse ssory title, and very rarely more than a compromise was necessary. The principal other point was, it was sugtwenty-four hours. One could not get one's deeds in the Middlesex Regis-gested, that because Lord Cairns had been against compulsion of title, try in so short a time. He believed it was a fact that it used to take in therefore we ought not now to have compulsion, because he was a great the Middlesex Registry two clear days unless an expedition fee was paid, conveyancer, whereas the Lord Chancellors responsible had neither of them when the deed could be got on the second day. had practice in conveyancing. But it must be borne in mind that when Lord Cairns was asked to make titles compulsory, titles were in a very different state from now. There were now no end of things in shortened Acts, and others which had greatly simplified titles, and made that possible which Lord Cairns was then satisfied was not either possible or desirable. His own view of the Act came to this, not arguing it on the question of registration of titles as against deeds, or the present system-the reason, principally, that he opposed the motion was that they had come rather to a parting of the ways, and it had come to be absolutely essential to have some sort of experiment. All he hoped was that they should all take care that that experiment was full and fair; that the area should be sufficient, and the business also. But why should it be made compulsory at all? He would tell them why he at least was satisfied that compulsion was absolutely essential. It was urged very strongly that a certain, steady flow of business should be insured, to see what the office couli do under pressure, because it had been argued against the Bill that there would be a block, and that it would be impossible to transact the business, and that there would be great delays, and so on. It was said that if a district were given where the registry could estimate on fifty or sixty or two hundred dealings daily, a staff could be got together accordingly, and fees could be reduced almost to a nominal amount. That was what had been done. The authorities knew within a very little the number of deeds that were dealt with in the Middlesex Registry day by day. They knew also that the 30 deeds came from the area which they were able to put under the compulsory system, and they could very easily, by separating from these settlements wills and mortgages, arrive at the number of dealings they would have, and from that they were able to deduce the cost and to reckon the fee, and no one could complain that the fees were not exceedingly reasonable, and very little more than nominal. He thought it was too late to oppose the system simply on the ground of its novelty. After all, to whichever branch of the profession they belonged, they were the servants, not the masters of the public. And if the public chose to be unreasonable, and were determined to have a trial of a certain system, it was the duty of lawyers-and he believed it would also be to their interest—that they should have that trial, and that lawyers did take care that what the public really wanted they should do their best to carry out. It might be that in the carrying of it out it would be shown that the system was unworkable. Personally, he believed it would be found to be successful. But the alternative would be far more serious. Suppose the Bill of 1895 had passed, under which the whole of England would have been put under the compulsory system at once, without any precautions, without local option, without precaution that what was done should be don by a trained body of men, without any opportunity of Parliament being again consulted, without any reduction of the fees, would not they have been in a very much worse position than now, when, by accepting the principle in the limited form in which the Act put it, they had secured by actual test and practice that the validity or invalidity of objections to the system should be tested, and that the public might have what they certainly

Mr. RUBINSTEIN: It is the same now.

Mr. LAKE said that then his point was perfectly good. It would take less time to register a possessory title, all one was compelled to do, than to register the same in Middlesex. It would cost less unless the property was of considerable size. The fee, inclusive of registration, the new certificate, plans, and entry made on the register, would not exceed 1s. 6d. per cent. up to £1,000, and then it dropped to 1s. per cent. All these precautions surely were sufficient to justify those who thought, as he individually did, that registration of title was of itself a good thing, or that when Parliament came up to that state that, rightly or wrongly, it had determined to have some measure of this kind, surely with the precautions which have been taken in the Act, it was not an unreasonable thing to say, "With these conditions let this system, about which there is such diversity of opinion, have a fair and impartial and proper trial." All precautions had been taken to protect all interests, and the Act should be supported, if only on the grounds of its being an experimental Act and calculated to enable them to decide whether those who opposed the system of registration of title-and no one did so more than he had-or those who supported it were in the right. Mr. Rubinstein had spoken of the certificate of title, but he was under a misconception as to what that was. He said there would be absolutely no gain whatever; but there would be a good deal of gain. As a few years passed by there would be no inconsiderable gain-there would be no necessity for abstracts. They would not be required at all after a few years. No one asserted that they would be done away with at once, but so soon as the Statute of Limitations, in the sense solicitors habitually adopted it in practice, had operated (a title of twenty years) there would be no necessity whatever for going behind the certificate at all. Until that time, everyone who was not satisfied to start with a more recent certificate would have to inquire into the title as he did now, except that the time would be shortened. Because in practice twenty years was almost the extreme of title they were now in the habit of taking. But there was one more advantage. The registration of title did prevent one class of fraud which was very far from being rare. He meant the frauds which were brought about by the concealment of deeds. He had, perhaps, special opportunities of seeing that class of fraud, and it was the case, he was very sorry to say, for his own branch of the profession-but of course it was because solicitors had peculiar facilities for dealing with land of their clients, who very properly put confidence in them-it was the case that it did fall into their hands to have the opportunity of creating such frauds. He instanced a case where a solicitor had a lease which he mortgaged; he then forged a similar lease and mortgaged it, and so on four times. Each mortgagee thought he had a good security. That class of fraud would be wholly impossible in the case of a registered title. He did not suggest that there might not be other frauds that might arise on a registered title. He thought he put that as strongly as possible in his evidence before the Commission in 1895, but no system could be invented which was wholly free from the possibility of fraud. As for the fraud by which a purchaser put a large

considered very desirable at present-namely, some sort of reform in the conduct of land conveyancing in England?

Mr. NEVILLE TEBBUTT thought it would be a comparatively costly and expensive matter to have a title registered, and therefore the system ought not to be forced upon any unfortunate set of landowners, even as an experiment. Mr. W. J. BULL said he was a member of the sub-committee appointed by the London County Council to consider the matter. He could not help thinking that the Incorporated Law Society had not done their best for solicitors. Solicitors could not think otherwise than that this was a very large and dangerous experiment indeed. The County Council were dealers in property to the extent of about £2,000,000, but the conveyancing solicitor to the Council, who had been in his seat for thirty years, had only had one registered title through the office. He was not aware that the public had asked for this Act. The majority of the public did not understand the matter at all. A firm of solicitors at Brighton had sent to the London County Council a most appalling list of cases of difficulty which occurred in their practice, and asked what was to be done in these cases when the Act was in operation? The solicitor for the County Council had told him he should not bother about registering the land held by the Council unless he was compelled; they were not going to sell it. It seemed to him (Mr. Bull) that that would be the case with a great many landowners in London. Already the sub-committee of the Council had discovered a great many defects in the Act. They were considering whether it should be applied to the north-west part of the County of Middlesex in the County of London for the first part, to the east side of the county; secondly and thirdly, to the County of Surrey. It seemed to him it would be a source of difficulty if the Act was compulsory in one part of the county and not in another, and he could not help thinking that it would have been better if, instead of putting it before the wealthy County of London, where property of such enormous value was at stake, it had been tried on a smaller scale to start with.

Mr. S. E. HUBBARD spoke in opposition to the Act.

Mr. RUBINSTEIN, in reply, said the grounds of opposition were plain. Solicitors said the present system was workable and not extravagant, and satisfied the clients; and why they should try and compromise with people who did not understand anything about it, he could not tell. The Act had been brought into existence to a large extent by the agitation of people who knew absolutely nothing about the subject. It had been stated by one of these that the expenses of a sale of land for £10,000 amounted to £1,000. Under the scale the remuneration would be £7. These were the kind of agitators who were going about talking of long deeds and heavy expenses. Then it was suggested that solicitors were placing themselves in a strong position by allowing the compromise to come into operation, but it was not stated what was to be done with the registry office after the three years. There would have to be a big office and a large staff, in fact Mr. Lake had said it must be adequate to the work. It would be to the interest of the officials to fight for their existence, and no Government will then be able to dislodge them. They knew that Mr. Lake spoke with authority. He was accredited, with being a part author of the Act. He (Mr. Rubinstein) had been exceedingly pleased to be put right by Mr. Lake. It might be that the Act was one which required such an intimate knowledge as Mr. Lake possessed to understand it. He (Mr. Rubinstein) had misread it, and other people might misread it. Mr. Lake told them they were all wrong about this indefeasible title that practically they would not get.

Mr. LAKE: Not unless they ask for it.

Mr. RUBINSTEIN: But you won't get it if you ask for it, unless the Registrar goes through a forty years' title.

Mr. LAKE: I have got it in all my property, which is rather large. I got it at less expense than I should otherwise.

Mr. RUBINSTEIN ventured to think that the authorities knew Mr. Lake, and that they would have in him a friend. But he was talking of the average man, and he thought the ordinary individual would not be able to get an indefeasible title. Then Mr. Lake said that if they could not get an indefeasible title, they could get a qualified title; that would be worse than useless. Then he said they would get a possessory title, in other words, they must add an extra expense.

less.

Mr. LAKE: Just as he would for registering in Middlesex; no more, rather Mr. RUBINSTEIN said that Mr. Lake asserted that the fees would be nominal.

Mr. LAKE: That is provided by the Act.

Mr. RUBINSTEIN observed that the same office registered deeds in Middlesex. That was mere clerical work; but the time required was from ten days to a fortnight. How would the certificate be got out within twenty-four

hours, as Mr. Lake had said would be the case?

Mr. LAKE: It is a much simpler matter.

Mr. RUBINSTEIN said that Mr. Lake told them the fees were absolutely nominal, less than in the Middlesex Registry, where, at present, five shillings was payable. But the Registrar would have to look at the deed and examine it and make plans and surveys. There was a section of the Act which provided that fees should be raised from time to time so as to produce an annual amount sufficient to discharge the salaries and other expenses, including the annual contribution to the insurance fund. Supposing these nominal fees did not produce sufficient, where was the money to come from? Mr. LAKE: The Treasury. There is a provision for it.

Mr. RUBINSTEIN said that meant that the taxpayers of the country were to be mulcted for the experiment. If that was so, why not be frank and say Then the taxpayers had a right to have a voice in the matter. Mr. LAKE: They have got it.

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Mr. RUBINSTEIN asserted that then they did not know what they had got. He ventured to say the office could not be carried on at the nominal fees

Mr. Lake had spoken of. When a man had obtained the possessory certificate, what had he got? They did not give up their deeds; they had got something additional to put on the title beyond the deed for twenty odd years. That was not generally understood to be the object of the Act. It was to simplify titles, not to increase the documents. He could not see where the advantage of the Act came in, quite the contrary. He said they would have to go to officials at every step and still have to produce their deeds and titles, with the addition that at every step they would have to say, "Has it been duly registered? Have you a possessory title?" And in these circumstances he thought he was justified in asking the meeting to carry the resolution. The motion was then put; when six votes were given in its favour and ten against. It was acccordingly lost by four votes. It should be stated that there was a much larger attendance, but only members of the society were permitted to vote.

THE SOLICITORS' MANAGING CLERKS' ASSOCIATION. The following syllabus of lectures and papers for the session 1897-1898 has been issued. By the kind permission of the benchers of the Honourable Societies of Lincoln's-inn, Inner Temple, Middle Temple, and Gray's-inn, the lectures will be delivered in the lecture rooms of the Inns of which the lecturers are members. The chair will be taken at 7 p.m. precisely. Any questions or observations on the lectures must be reserved until the close, when, if time permits and it is desirable, a short discussion will be invited. The lectures are open to all the members of the association, and each member will be allowed to introduce friends connected with the legal profession. Non-members will be admitted on production of tickets or syllabuses, which can be obtained at the office of the association. The Right Hon. Lord Justice Vaughan Williams will take the chair at the inaugural lecture on the 23rd of November. The Right Hon. Lord Justice Chitty has kindly promised to be present, if possible.

1897.

Nov. 23.--Inaugural Lecture-" Contracts Implied by Law," by T. W. Wheeler, Esq., Q.C. (In Lecture Room A of the Inner Temple.) Dec. 14.-Lecture-Detinue under the Judicature Act," by J. G. Witt, Esq., Q.C. (In the Old Hall, Lincoln's-inn.)

1898.

Jan. 18.-Lecture-"Equitable Charges," by Alfred Hopkinson, Esq, Q.C., M.P. (In the Old Hall, Lincoln's-inn.) Feb. 1.-Lecture-" Legal Cruelty" (Divorce), by J. A. Rentoul, Esq., LL D., Q.C., M.P. (In the Lecture Room of the Inner Temple) Feb. 15.-Paper-Trusts and the Trustee Acts," by R. Bramwell Davis, Esq., Q.C. (In the Lecture Room of the Inner Temple.) March 1.-Lecture- -"Practice of the Commercial Court and its applicability to Queen's Bench procedure generally," by J. A. Hamilton, Esq. (In the Lecture Room of the Inner Temple.)

Nov. 15.-Paper-"Some Doubtful Points on Company Law," by D. Stewart-Smith, Esq., LL.B. Lond. (In the Lecture Room of the Middle Temple.)

March 29.-Paper-"The Finance Acts, 1891-6," by J. AustenCartmell, Esq, M.A. (In the Old Hall, Lincoln's-inu.) April 19.-Lecture-" Bankruptcy," by Alex. H. Carrington, Esq. (In the Lecture Room of the Inner Ten.ple.)

May 3.-Lecture-" Bills of Sale," by Herbert Reed, Esq., Q.C. (In the Lecture Room of Grays'-inn)

LAW STUDENTS' JOURNAL.

CALLS TO THE BAR.

The following gentlemen were called to the Bar on Wednesday: cock, jun., M.A., Trinity Coll., Oxford; Arthur Harold Mather, King's LINCOLN'S-INN.-Called to the Bar this term.-Mark Beauchamp PeaColl., Cambridge; Arthur Melville Champernowne, of Christ Church, OxHenry Herbert Riley-Smith, Toulston-lodge, Tadcaster; and Binod ford; George Dunston Timmis, B.A., Christ Church Coll., Oxford; Chunder Mitter, B.A., B.L., Calcutta University.

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INNER TEMPLE.-Thomas Lane Ormiston, B.A., Oxford; Thomas Woollcombe Barton O'Neal, B.A., Cambridge; Edward Hilliard, B A, Oxford; Edgar George Storey, B.A., Cambridge; Samuel Henry Ramsden, B.A., Oxford; Ardeshir Kaikhoshru Cama, B.A., LL.B., Cambridge; Hon. Hubert George Lyulph Howard, Oxford; Edward Watkins Cave; John Felix Kershaw, B.A, Oxford; Edgar Hazell, B.A., Oxford; George William Heywood; Herbert Incledon Pilcher, B.C.L., Oxford; Frank Shackleford, B.A., Oxford; Allan Stewart B A., Oxford; Robert Ellis ; William Melville Foster, M.A., Ramsay; Wallingford Mendelson, Cambridge; Edward Aubrey Thomas, BA, Oxford; Edward Wilfrid Fordham, B.A., Cambridge; Charles Oxford; and Thomas Clarke Pilling Gibbons. Frederick Rumboll, M.D., B.S., Durham; Henry Alwyn Bros, B.A.,

MIDDLE TEMPLE.-Henry Francis Herford, London University; Alfred Charles Thomas, M.A., B.C.L., Exeter Coll., Oxford; Kashmiri Mull; William Caine, B.A., Oxford University; Sisir Kumar Mullick, B.A., Calcutta University; Baliol Edward Scott, B.A., University Coll., Oxford; Major Albert Farrar Gatliff, London University (J. J. Powell Prizeman); Douglass Horace Boggis-Rolfe; Nut Behari Chatterji; Frank Noel Keen, LL.B.; and Walter Herbert Baxter.

GRAY'S-INN.-Leonard William Bangley, B.A., Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Henry De-Soberon, merchant, of Stretford-road, Manchester;

and William Stanley Varenne Cullerne, clerk to the Guardians of the Guildford Union.

LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETIES.

LAW STUDENTS' DEBATING SOCIETY.-Nov. 2.-Mr. Arthur E. Clarke in the chair. The subject for debate was: "That this society disapproves as the 'Forward Policy' in India." Mr. Hamilton Fox opened in the affirmative, and Mr. A. Hildesheimer opened in the negative. The following members also spoke: Messrs. Haseldine Jones, R. H. Armstrong, G. G. Baily, R. A. Cordon, and E. A. Alexander. The chairman summed up. Nov. 9.-Mr. Neville Tebbutt in the chair.-The subject for debate was : "A., the active partner in a firm consisting of himself and B. and C., two dormant partners, instructs D., a solicitor, to conduct an action for the recovery of a debt due to the firm. Whilst action pending the partnership is dissolved, and B. and C. retire from the business. D. then receives indirect notice of the dissolution, and learns for the first time of the existence B. and C., but B. and C. did not do anything to withdraw D.'s retainer. Are B. and C. liable to D. for the costs in the action incurred subsequently to the dissolution?" (see Court v. Berlin, 1897, 2 Q. B. 396). Mr. A. Dixon opened in the affirmative; Mr. F. H. Stevens epened, and Mr. E. W. Hales seconded, in the negative. The following members also spoke: Messrs. C. A. Anderson, C. Herbert-Smith, Hamilton Fox, Archibald Hair, Haseldine Jones, G. G. Baily, D. S. Cornock, and J. H. Bate. B. and C. were declared liable by 10 votes.

was:

Nov. 16.-Mr. Archibald Hair in the chair.-The subject for debate "That this society approves of the minority report of the West India Royal Commission." Mr. A. F. C. Bolton opened in the affirmative; Mr. Charles A. McCurdy opened in the negative. The following members also spoke: Messrs. J. S. Wilkinson, G. W. Powers, John Blair, Hamilton Fox, Dr. Herbert-Smith, P. L. H. Canning, E. A. Alexander, and Neville Tebbutt. The motion was carried by five votes.

LORD ESHER'S FAREWELL.

on the bench, when I was in the position of an officer on the quarterdeck, I had, and was obliged to give, occasionally, words of command; but the moment one leaves the deck one is nothing but a fellow-officer, and I have been nothing but a fellow-barrister with you always. It is in that character, therefore, that I desire to speak to you to-day. Now, next be the tone of sadness, as of a last dying speech and confession, or shall I came to my mind what should be the tone which I should adopt. Shall it say that which I feel that I am as happy as a man can feel under the circumstances in which I now am? I have been a judge assisted by you all, by most of you who are here present, by almost all the profession, for twenty-nine years and some months. I believe myself it is the longest period ever known during which a judge has sat on the bench as a judge. I believe so; but I am not quite sure. I have ceased to be a judge, and the Queen has given me an unusual mark of approval, and that mark and your presence here to-day, and saying what you have said, have made me not only happy, but happy as a man can possibly be. You have mentioned the mode in which, or the circumstances under which, I became a judge. Well, all I will say to all of you is this-I became a judge because I had made up my mind and will from the beginning that I would be a judge. But do not suppose that I had no checks, and that there were not occasionally times when I thought that I was what people call passed over, which never really exists, as there is nothing to pass over, because we are all equals; but what I said to myself was, "Never mind, this is but a check, but I will go on and I will get to the top if it is possible to do so." I recommend that to you all. I may say this as to my own method since I was a judge-I feel confident that never on any one single occasion at any period of my judicial career have I done anything except try, from the beginning of each case until it was ended, to get at the truth of the matter. I have never allowed my attention to be called to anything else in court. I have tried to test them and to consider them as they went on; and my I have listened to witnesses; I have listened to arguments, and great desire was, first of all, to come to a right determination as to what was the truth of the case in respect of which the parties were in dispute. I speak, of course, of civil actions. I have never been an enemy to the preliminary mode of investigation before the case comes into court. I have been a supporter of the means by which the parties can bring themselves to the real issue. I think that those means are sometimes, and not seldom, abused; that people will take objections and ask questions and ON Monday last the Lord Chief Justice's Court was crowded with members insist on rights which are not wanted in the particular case. But, however that may be, when once the case has come into court, my desire and of the profession desirous of shewing respect to Lord Esher. There were effort have been to get at what is the true state of things; and whether there present on the bench, in addition to Lord Esher, the Lord Chief Justice, has been a proper compliance with the preliminary steps at that moment the Master of the Rolls, Sir Francis Jeune, Lord Justice A. L. Smith, Lord Justice Rigby, Lord Justice Chitty, Lord Justice Collins, Lord has become entirely immaterial. I never could bring myself to think that a judicial tribunal ought to allow a person's rights to be overthrown Justice Vaughan Williams, Mr. Justice Mathew, Mr. Justice Barnes, Mr. Justice Kennedy, Mr. Justice Bigham, Mr. Justice Darling, Mr. Justice because there had been some mistakes made in the preliminary steps or North, Mr. Justice Stirling, Mr. Justice Kekewich, Mr. Justice Romer, have tried to get, at the true facts of the case, I then had to consider what investigations by those who were his advisers. Well, having got, as I and Mr. Justice Byrne. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (the Bar standing), after referring to Lord between parties. The duty of the judge is to find out what is the rule was the law. I am speaking, as I have said, of civil actions and disputes Esher's career at the Par, said: When, my lord, in 1868, you relinquished which people of candour and honour and fairness in the position of the the high position of Solicitor-General to become one of the judges of the two parties would apply in respect to the matter in hand. That is the old Court of Common Pleas, there were not a few who thought that you common law of England, and there is no other law. It is not only the had somewhat abruptly terminated what might have been a great Parliamentary or forensic career. But, my lord, a few months were sufficient to England is not a science; it is a practical application of the rules common law, but if we go to equity it is the same thing. The law of satisfy all that in undertaking the great responsibilities of a judge you of right and wrong to the particular case before the court. And were accepting the duties of an office which you were well qualified to the canon of law is that that rule should be adopted and applied to fulfil. Many of us remember the great commercial years of prosperity the case which people of honour and candour and fairness in such a and the Guildball sittings unshorn of any of their ancient glory, and can remember the trial of many causes in which your lordship's business know-transaction would apply each to the other. Now, if that be so, if any ledge and acquaintance with commercial affairs came out in strong relief. being applied, the supposed rule of law must be wrong; and if it ever be supposed rule of law is put forward which would prevent the rule of right Your translation to the Court of Appeal in 1876, and your selection as alleged that the law will prevent the truth being established and oblige Master of the Rolls, following one of the quickest thinkers who the court to say that that is not true which is true-if ever any such rule has ever adorned the English Bench, are steps in your career which met with universal approval and approbation. I pause not to always said so. Now, what the rules of right and wrong in the particular of law is attempted to be put forward it must be wrong, and I have consider whether the twenty-nine years during which your lordship has case are must be determined in each particular case; but nobody can have occupied high judicial position is without precedent, but this I say, with- read the reports of decisions of great judges from the earliest times in out fear of criticism, that from the day when your lordship first sat upon England without trying to find in those reports the mode and manner in the bench until the day of your retirement your career has been one of which those judges have stated the rule of conduct of the court, and that. continuous and increasing success. Your lordship made your court a is what is called authority. But no decision—at least, in my opinion-of any tribunal for business men in which mercantile usages and mercantile customs were grasped and appreciated, and while you endeavoured to bring judge as to the rule of law other than in an Act of Parliament can compel to bear to the case which you had to decide all the legal knowledge at true which was in reality true; there is no such thing in the law as a rule any court now to say that they were prevented from deciding that to be your disposal, you never permitted any legal technicalities to interfere which says that the court shall determine that to be true which the court with what you believed to be substantial justice. We at the Bar have believes and knows to be untrue. Now, those being the rules of conduct which winced at times under the searching criticisms of our arguments I have laid down for myself, I have tried to carry those rules through. criticisms which led us to stand up, as your lordship would have wished us to stand up, against the interlocutory comments, for the moment per- whose aid has been to me inestimable. I have been fortunate enough to I have been assisted, as you must all know, by judges sitting with me, haps adverse to the views which we were expressing on behalf of our retire, as I may say, with a mark, an unusual mark, given to me--a mark clients. But your lordship's comments left no sting behind, and on rewhich I think has never been given to any judge for mere legal conduct flection we felt that your great object was first to ascertain the facts, and since the time of Lord Coke. I have received that mark from the Queen, then to endeavour to see that justice should be done. I have but one and that mark can leave nothing for me to wish. I now have received more word to say. There is one feeling to which expression must be given, from you this kind greeting, and I have only one painful word, as the and that is the conviction which has rested in the hearts of every member Attorney-General has said, to use from beginning to end, and that is to of the Bar of your constant and unswerving loyalty to our profession. Though you were far above us, you still wished to be one of us; you say to all of you, Good-bye. respected our wants and our aspirations; you have shared our joys and our sorrows. It is this feeling which made it impossible that you should be allowed to retire in silence; it is this feeling which will link you with us in the future as it has in the past; it is this feeling which will make you carry with you a wealth of good wishes of far more value than any feeble words in which I have expressed them; it is this feeling which makes it so difficult for me to say the word which can scarcely be uttered by friends-I mean, farewell.

Lord ESHER, in reply, after a few jocular remarks, said: It is true that

Lord ESHER then bowed to the Bar, and, having shaken hands with some of the judges, retired.

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NEW ORDERS, &c.

TRANSFER OF ACTIONS.

ORDER OF COURT.

Thursday, the 11th day of November, 1897.

I, Hardinge Stanley, Baron Halsbury, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, do hereby Order that the Actions mentioned in the Schedule hereto be transferred to the Honourable Mr. Justice Wright.

SCHEDULE.

Mr. Justice Kekewich (1897-G.-No. 1,530).

In re Galloway, Matthews and Company Limited

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There have been a host of corrections of Lord Esher's notion that he had served longer than any judge. Correspondents of the Times point out that Lord Mansfield surpassed him by four years, having presided over the Court of King's Bench for upwards of thirty-two years, 1756-1788, and continuing to exercise the office of Lord Chief Justice until the age of eighty-four; that Mr. Justice Heath (known as Plain John Heath," because he refused knighthood) was appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas on the 19th of July, 1780, and sat till his death on the 16th of January, 1816, over thirty-five years; that Robert Price, appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in 1702, died a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1733; and Sir Thomas Parker, who was made a Baron of the Exchequer in 1738, resigned the Chief Baronship in 1772.

On the 16th of November, being the grand day of Michaelmas Term, the treasurer (Mr. Mattinson, Q.C.) and benchers of Gray's-inn enter

Charles Lyon Markham Pearson v Galloway, Matthews and Company tained at dinner the following guests-viz., His Royal Highness Prince

Limited.

Mr. Justice Kekewich (1897-G.-No. 1,552).

In re Galloway, Matthews and Company Limited.

Christian, K.G., the Master of the Rolls (the Right Hon. Sir Nathaniel Lindley), Colonel the Hon. Charles Eliot, Lord Justice Henn Collins, Mr. Justice Bigham, Mr. Justice Darling, the Attorney-General, Sir Henry H. Howorth, K.C I.E., M.P., the President of the Incorporated

Henry Frederick George Weber v Galloway, Matthews and Company Law Society (Mr. William Godden), His Honour Judge Snagge, the Limited.

Mr. Justice Kekewich (1897-G.-No. 735).

In re Galloway, Matthews aud Company Limited.

Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Verey, and Mr. Crackanthorpe, Q.C. The benchers present in addition to the treasurer were Master the Right Hon. Lord Ashbourne (Lord Chancellor of Ireland), Master the Rowlands, Q.C., Master James Sheil, Master Beetham, Master Rose, Master His Honour Judge Paterson, Master Mulligan, Q.C., Master Lewis Coward, Master Macaskie, Master Lush, Master Dicey, C.B., Master Barnard, and the Preacher (the Rev. J. H. Lupton, D.D.).

Henry Frederick George Weber v Charles Lyon Markham Pearson and Right Hon. Lord Shand, Master Hugh Shield, Q.C., Master Bowen another, and Galloway, Matthews and Company Limited.

Mr. Justice Kekewich (1897-S.-No. 366).

In the Matter of The Victory Cycle Manufacturing Syndicate Limited. Harry Lindsay Savory v The Victory Cycle Manufacturing Syndicate Limited. HALSBURY, C.

LEGAL NEWS.

OBITUARY.

The death is announced on the 10th inst. of Mr. JOHN WRIGHT, the Registrar of the Bloomsbury County Court, at the age of sixty-three years. Mr. Wright was admitted in 1859, and had been Registrar at Bloomsbury for nearly thirty-two years. His ability in the discharge of his duties gained for him well-deserved popularity.

APPOINTMENTS.

Mr. Justice RIDLEY, Mr. BOUSFIELD, Q.C., M.P., and Mr. BOYDELL HOUGHTON have been elected Benchers of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

The Honourable JOHN AUGUSTUS DE GREY, barrister, has been appointed Recorder of King's Lynn, in the place of Mr. Carlos Cooper, deceased. Mr. MORTON WILLIAM SMITH, barrister, has been appointed Recorder of Rochester, in the place of Mr. Justice Channell.

Mr. JOSEPH WALTON, Q.C., has been elected Vice-Chairman of the Bar Council, in the place of Mr. Justice Channell.

Sir HOWARD ELPHINSTONE, Bart., has been appointed to represent the Bar Council upon the Rule Committee under section 22 (2) of the Land Transfer Act, 1897.

Mr. JOHN ELDON BANKES, barrister, has been appointed Junior Common Law Counsel to the Office of Woods.

GENERAL.

At the opening of the Manx High Court on Monday the Clerk of the Rolls made a sympathetic allusion to the resignation of Sir W. L. Drinkwater, the First Deemster. He had occupied a seat on the Bench for a period of time unexampled in the annals of the country, and they all knew how he had fulfilled the arduous duties connected with it. His retirement had called forth expressions of regret from the Legislature, from the bench, from the bar, and from the general public such as no other event in our time had called forth. The cause was not far to seek. Mr. Ring, on behalf of the Bar, said that they were all of one mind with his Honour and reciprocated the sentiments which he had expressed.

A correspondent of the St. James's Gazette says that O'Connell was counsel in a case before Lord Norbury, who, it will be remembered, had been one of the old school of fire-eating barristers in Ireland, and when raised to the Bench reminded his Bar of this by observing that he hoped to give satisfaction to them on the bench, and off if necessary. In the course of O'Connell's argument, Lord Norbury, who evidently was not in best of humours, interrupted him several times somewhat unnecessarily, and at last O'Connell paused in his argument and said, "I am afraid that your lordship does not apprehend me"; whereupon Lord Norbury retorted, "Then the fault must be mine, for there is no one in Ireland who can be so easily apprehended when he wishes it as Mr. O'Connell."

The Council of Legal Education will shortly consider the appointments of the readers in the law of real and personal property and conveyancing, common law, equity, evidence, procedure and criminal law, constitutional law and legal history, Roman law, jurisprudence, and international law; and the assistant readers in the law of real and personal property and conveyancing, common law, equity, Roman law, jurisprudence, and international law. The council will be glad to receive, not later than Monday, the 22nd of November, at the office of the council, Lincoln's-inn Hall, the names of any gentiemen who are desirous of being appointed, together with any testimonials they may wish to submit to the council.

On the 11th inst. the University of Cambridge conferred the degree of LL.D. (honoris causa) upon the Lord Chief Justice of England. Subsequently the Vice-Chancellor entertained a distinguished party of the legal profession in the hall of Downing College. The Lord Chief Justice, in replying to the toast of his health, said that the gathering of that night between the University and the profession of the law was, to his mind, most appropriate. He referred principally to the part of the curriculum which had to do with the teaching of the law itself. He did not say for one moment with regard to the University that it had not done a great and useful work in the teaching of the law from its scientific aspects, but he must say, and he was old enough to say, that the state of legal education in this country was not what it ought to be. He spoke for himself, and he still cherished the hope that it would be in their time that there would be a great school of law established in London, not in conflict but running harmoniously with the sister Universities, so that the study of the law might be scientifically treated for the benefit of those who desired to take up the profession. Until something like that was arrived at he maintained that they would never have that class of jurists which other countries could boast of. The profession of a barrister was one which had many privileges, and one to which there were many offices open. In fact, a barrister of seven years' standing was eligible for the highest position in the country. Having regard to that, could they conthat the men who claimed to possess those privileges had a just right to tinue to claim those exceptional privileges except by showing to the world possess them by the means of their superior attainments ?

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Nov. 23.-Messrs. DEBENHAM, TEWSON, FARMER, & BRIDGEWATER, at the Mart, at 2 p.m., Freehold Estates at Brentwood, Essex; to be sold in 16 Lots, embracing in all 450 acres, with old Mansion House and Cottage Property. Solicitors, Messra. Hawks, Stokes, & McKewan, London. £18,700 Four-and-a-half per Cent. Debenture Stock of the Kingsbury Brewery Co.; also Short Leasehold Investment in the City of London. Solicitors, Messrs. FitzHugh, Woolley, Baines, & Woolley, of Brighton. (See advertisements, Nov. 6, p. 23.) Nov 26.-Messrs. BAKER & SONS, at the Mart, at 2 p.m., Investments producing £650 per annum, secured upon Properties at Sidcup, &c. Solicitors, Messrs. Lumley & Lumley, London. (See advertisement, Nov. 6, p. 22.)

RESULTS OF SALES.

At Messrs. H. E. FOSTER & CRANFIELD'S Monthly Property Auction, held at the Mart, on Wednesday last, a Freehold Ground-rent of £30 16s. 8d. per annum, being one

twelfth of a sum of £370 per annum, secured on 81 shops and houses at Chelsea, was sold for £1,820, which works out at a little under 60 years' purchase. At the same time they also disposed of a Profit Rental of £50 per annum for five years on the business premises, No. 18, Tottenham Court-road, for £150.

The above firm also held their 607th Periodical Sale of Reversions, Life Policies, &c., on Thursday last, at the Mart, E.C., when the following were the Lots Sold :REVERSIONS:

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RENT-CHARGE IN POSSESSION:

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POLICIES OF ASSURANCE:

For £1,500; life 72

For £500; life 69

For £600; life 72

The total of the sale amounted to £18,885.

WINDING UP NOTICES.

London Gazette.-FRIDAY, Nov. 12.

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.
LIMITED IN CHANCEBY.

CHURCH STREET (SOUTH SHORE) LAND SYNDICATE, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 15, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Thomas Forrester, 15, Withnell rd, South Shore, Blackpool. Hardman, Blackpool, solor to liquidator

COOLGARDIE CENTRAL, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented Nov 10, directed to be heard on Nov 24. Beall & Co, Throgmorton House, Copthall avenue, solors for petners. Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of Nov 23

DEBURGO SPRING WHEEL CO, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented Oct 25, directed directed to be heard on Nov 24. Ward & Co, 85, Gracechurch st, solor for petners. Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of Nov 23

FIRST MORTGAGE DEBENTURE AND SECURITIES CORPORATION, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 16, to send in their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Arthur James Sellars, 48, Copthall avenue

GEO. G. RUTTY, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION)-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 18, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Robert William Bilby, 9, Bucklersbury. Fanshawe, 25, Bucklersbury, solor to liqui

dator

NEW QUEEN GOLD MINING CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Jan 1, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Mr James Durie Pattullo, 71 and 72, King William st. Davidson & Morriss, 40 and 42, Queen Victoria st, solors to liquidator

NORTH OF EUROPE GAS LIGHT AND COKE CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Wednesday, Dec 8, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to William Thomas Hay, 9, Lincoln's inn fields. Tuesday, Jan 11, at 12, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims PEAT INDUSTRIES SYNDICATE, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION)-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 24, to send in their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to H. Underwood, 15, Walbrook

SEINE AND MERSEY STEAM SHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 13, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to William Crossman Spencer, 41, North John st, Liverpool. Collins & Co, Liverpool, solors for liquidator

"ST. DENIS" STEAM SHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 13, to send in their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to William Crossman Spencer, 41, North John st, Liverpool. Collins & Co, Liverpool, solors for liquidator

"ST. GEORGE" STEAM SHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 13, to send in their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to William Crossman Spencer, 41, North John st, Liverpool. Collins & Co, Liverpool, solors for liquidator

TREDEGAR COFFEE TAVERN CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 22, to
send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Thomas
Philip Pugh, J.P., Morgan st, Tredegar. Dauncey, Tredegar, solor to liquidator
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES DISSOLVED.

LOYAL EDWARD LODGE, MERTHYR UNITY PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTION, Windsor Hotel,
Ynysbwl, Pontypridd, Glam. Nov 3
ST. PETER'S PRESBYTERIAN FRIENDLY BENEFIT SOCIETY, Union Presbyterian Church,
Fountain rd, Liverpool. Oct 20

London Gazette.-TUESDAY, Nov. 16.
JOINT 8 T O CK COMPANIES.
LIMITED IN CHANCERY.

BEAUMONT & HEATHCOTE, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Wednesday, Dec 22, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Lonsdale Broderick, 104, King st, Manchester. J. & E. Whitworth, Manchester, solors for liquidator

EDMONSON'S MASHONA CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Monday, March 14, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Mr. Lydstone Joseph Langmead, 23, College hill, London. Monday, March 28, at 12, at the chambers of the Registrar, Companies (Winding up, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims

JOHN WAGSTAFF & CO, LIMITED-Petn for winding up will be heard on Friday, Dec 3. Emmet & Co, 14, Bloomsbury sq, agents for Robert Innes, Manchester. Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of Dec 2

NEW SOUTH WALES ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LIMITED-Creditors are required to send in particulars of their debts or claims, on or before Jan 15, to J. E. Bowes and F. H. Johnson, Equitable Building, George st, Sydney, N.S.W.

NOTTINGHAM OPERATIVE TAILORS' CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY, LIMITED Creditors are required, on or before Dec 15, to send in their names and addresses, and particulars of their debts or claims, to William R. Hamilton, 4, Bridlesmith gate, Nottingham SCOTT'S STANDARD PNEUMATIC TYRE CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Jan 1, to send in their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Ward & Co, 7, King st, Cheapside, solors for liquidators T. B. HARRISON & CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 11, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to William Barclay Peat, 3, Lothbury

1897 JUBILEE SITES SYNDICATE, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Dec 28, to send in their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Henry Charles Wilson, 1, West st, Finsbury circus. Board, 6, King st, Cheapside, solor for liquidator

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES DISSOLVED.

BRAILES LABOURERS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY, Girls' Schoolroom, Upper Brailes, Shipston-on-
Stour, Warwick. Nov 3
MECHANICS' FRIENDLY TONTINE SOCIETY, 172, Richmond row, Liverpool. Nov 10
ROUSE LENCH FRIENDLY SOCIETY, Wheelbarrow and Castle Inn, Radford, Rouse Lench
Worcester. Nov 10

SPITTLEGATE UNITED BROTHERS, White Lion Inn, Spittlegate, Grantham, Lincoln.
Nov 3

ST. PAUL'S LODGE, UNITED FRee Gardeners' FRIENDLY SOCIETY, Crown Hotel, Holmfirth, York. Nov 3

CREDITORS' NOTICES. UNDER 22 & 23 VICT. CAP. 35.

LAST DAY OF CLAIM.

London Gazette.-TUESDAY, Nov. 2.

BECK, CHARLOTTE, South Norwood Nov 26 Leader, St Paul's churchyard
BLAKEMORE, JOSEPH, Wolverhampton Nov 15 Court & Perry, Wolverhampton
CHICK, EDWARD, Sidmouth, Devon Nov 29 Hargrove, Austin Friars
COOPER, GEORGE CHESTER, Addlestone, Surrey Dec 9 Johnson & Master, Theobalds rå
COVERDALE, HENRY, Kingston upon Hull Dec 8 Coverdale, Kingston upon Hull
DAVY, FRANCIS, Riversmeet, Topsham, Devon Nov 30 Ford & Co, Exeter
DICKINSON, SARAH NORTHING, Sutton, Surrey Nov 22 Kerby, Lancaster place, Strand
DUCE, JOHN, Dewsbury, York, Butcher Nov 28 Dwyer, Dewsbury

FREEMAN, FRANCES AUGUSTA WILLIAMS, Whitchurch, nr Pangbourne, Oxford Dec 10
Rooper & Whately, Lincoln's inn fields

GIBSON, Rev ROBERT BOWNESS, Hampstead Dec 13 James & James, Ely pl, Holborn GOLDSCHMIDT, EMIL, Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, Merchant Dec 15 Hollams & Co, Mincing lane

GREAVES, EDWARD PATRICK, Teddington Dec 1 Fishers, Essex st, Strand

HANSON, MARY, Camberwell Dec 1 JJ Chapman, Gray's inn sq

HEPWORTH, SOPHIA FORSTER, Hampstead Dec 13 James & James, Ely pl, Holborn circus

HILDITCH, CHARLES, Audley, Stafford Nov 6 Sproston, Newcastle under Lyme
HOUGHTON, EDWARD, Blackburn Dec 11 Needham, Blackburn
JACKSON, ANN, Scarborough Dec 1 Watts & Co, Scarborough
JACKSON, THOMAS, Scarborough Dec 1 Watts & Co, Scarborough
JEFFERIES, EDWIN, East Ham Dec 1 Fussell & Co, Bristol
KNIGHT, WILLIAM, Bagshot, Surrey, Licensed Victualler Dec 4
ton on Thames
MADDOCK, ELIZABETH MARY, Audley, Stafford Nov 6 Sproston, Newcastle under Lyme
MOORE, ELIZABETH ANN, Wimbledon Nov 20 Wm Edwin & Son, Borough High st
NIXON, HENRY, Yarra Bend Asylum, nr Melbourne, Victoria March 31 Brockbank &

Durham & Co, Kinge

Co, Whitehaven
ONSLOW, ARTHUR EDWARD MAINWARING ELLERKER, Old Alresford, Hants Nov 30 Shield
& Mackarness, Alresford
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM GREEN, Manchester Dec 2 Cobbett & Co, Manchester
PICK, WILLIAM, Leeds, Chemist Dec 16 Wilkinson & Garland, Leeds
READING, EDWARD, Priors Marston, Warwick, Farmer Dec 31 Pellatt, Banbury, Oxon
SHARPE, MARCU's, Dover Jan 1 Townsend & Sharpe, Gray's inn sq

STONE, ELIZABETH SIMPSON, Norwich Dec 1 Simpson, Durham villas, Phillimore
gardens
SYKES, THOMAS ELEY, Forest hiil Dec 1 Francis & Crookenden, New sq, Lincoln's inn
SYMS, DORCAS, Surbiton hill, Surrey Nov 26 White & White, Court house, Epsom
TETLEY, JOSEPH, Birmingham Dec 2 Bickley & Lynex, Birmingham
THORN, ALEXANDER, Putney Dec 2 GS & H Brandon, Essex st, Strand
TRAFFORD, TOFT WALKER, Lincoln, Farmer Nov 9 Hayes & Fox, Brigg
WILLIAMS, GEORGE, Birmingham, Clerk Nov 20 Coley & Coley, Birmingham
WILSON, SAMUEL, Warrington Nov 20 Jenkins & Co, Warrington

WISE, MARIA, Grosvenor st, Berkeley sq Dec 11 Fraser & Son, Southampton st,
Bloomsbury
London Gazette.-FRIDAY, Nov. 5.

BOYLE, ROBERT, Buninyong, Victoria Dec 2 St Barbe & Co, Delahay st, Westminster
BRIDDON, ANN, Somercotes, nr Alfreton, Derby Dec 10 Eking & Wyles, Nottingham
BROWNING, THOMAS, Duke st, St James Dec 6 Hy C Lambert, Queen Victoria st
Butler, James ISAAC, Vincent sq, Westminster Dec 3 Yeilding & Co, Vincent sq
CHURTON, ELLEN, Southborough, Kent Dec 13 Baileys & Co, Berners st
COCKBURN, EMMA GEORGIANA ELEANO3, Elvaston pl, Queen's gate Nov 23
Son, Wimpole st

Dim in 1 &

Dimond & Son,

COCKS, MARY ANN, Turnham Green Nov 16 Hinds & Son, Goudhurst
Nov 23
CROMPTON, GEORGE FREDERIC, St George's rd, Eccleston sq
Wimpole st
CROSS, HANNAH ELLEN, Heaton, nr Bolton Dec 11 Broadbent & Heelis, Bolton
DARLINGTON, JOHN, Old Broad st Dec 10 Harries & Co, Nicholas lane
DYER, ROSA, Gravesend Dec 22 Bewley, Gravesend

EASTWOOD, REBECCA, Bury Dec 1 Openshaw, Bury

EKING, WILLIAM GEORGE, Nottingham Dec 10 Eking & Wyles, Nottingham
Fox, HENRY, North Acton Dec 18 W A Brown, Lincoln's inn fields
HAMILTON, ELIZABETH, Welwyn, Hertford Dec 1 Hawkins & Co, Hitchin, Herts
HAMILTON, JAME, Welwyn, Hertford, Valet Dec1 Hawkins & Co, Hitchin, Herts
HAWKINS, The Rev Canon EDWARD, Newport Dec 15 Ward & Co, Newport, Mon
HEINEMANN, Louis, Dresden Jan 14 Hollams & Co, Mincing la
HEYLIN, JOSEPH GEORGE, West Hampstead Dec 14 North, Kensington
HUNT, JOHN, Penketh, Lancs, Nurseyman Dec 13 Robert Davies & Co, Warrington
IRVING, MARIA, Liverpool Jan 6 Harrison & Burton, Liverpool
JEFFES, HENRY, Newport Dec 20 Lloyd & Pratt, Newport, Mon
LITTLEWOOD, CHARLES, Middlestown, nr Wakefield Dec 3 Lister & Co, Wakefield
LIVERSIDGE, WILLIAM GEORGE, Sheffield, Chemist Jan 1 Alderson & Co, Sheffield
LLOYD, ELEANOR, Penge Dec 21 Layton & Co, Budge row
LLOYD, GEORGE, Luce, nr Leorinster Nov 15 Poundley, Bishop's Castle, Salop
LOWTH, FRANCIS, Notting hill Dec 25 William Webb & Co, Essex st, Strand
LYNES, REV JOHN, Weymouth Dec 21 Andrews & Co, Weymouth
MCMAHON, FRANCIS YORKE, King st, St James Dec 14 Worrell & Son, Coleman st
MARTIN, CECIL SEPTIMUS TRICE, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Book-keeper Dec 15
Lincoln, Mark lane
MONTRÉSOR, HENRY EDWARD, Duke st, St James Dec 15 Prior & Co, Lincoln-inn-fields
NICOL, REBECCA, Ennis, Texas Nov 19 Chambers, Denton, nr Manchester
OATES, BEN, Mirfield, York, Boat Owner Dec 6 Wilson, Mirfield
OATES, WILLIAM, Mirfield, York, Boat Owner Dec 6 Wilson, Mirfield
ORD, SARAH, Clifton, Glos Dec 8 Wells & Hind, Nottingham

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