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value, but it may be increased to one-fourth under special circumstances of danger attaching to the enterprize. One-eighth is awarded in the case of recapture from pirates. Capture may be actual or constructive. Constructive, or joint captors, are those who have assisted the actual captors by conveying encouragement to them or intimidation to the enemy. All public ships within signalling distance are usually beld entitled to participate in the proceeds of the capture. Prize captured in breach of the neutrality of Great Britain may be restored by the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice under powers conferred by the Foreign, Eulistment Act, 1870. By the Naval Prize Act, 1864, what is now the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice has jurisdiction as a prize court throughout the British dominions, and by this Act the procedure of prize courts in the British dominions may be regulated by an Order in Council. Questions of booty may be referred to the present Admiralty Division of the High Court as a prize court under 3 & 4 Vict. c. 65, s. 22. Where the captor is a public ship of war, the officers and crew have only such an interest in the proceeds of a prize as the Crown may from time to time grant them. Besides a share in the prize, prize bounty is usually granted under the provisions of the Naval Prize Act, 1864, at the rate of £5 for each person on board an enemy's ship of war. As an incident to the right of maritime capture, there still exists the right of visit and search, or the privilege attaching to any belligerent of boarding any merchant vessel on the high seas to ascertain its nationality and the nature of its cargo, with all its possibilities for international complications, as witness the notorious Trent affair.

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for his vacation on the 13th of August, and will not be back until the 22nd of October, when the Long Vacation ends. When he returns another week or two will probably be occupied in completing the order, which may be ready to be acted upon by the beginning of November. Several of the parties interested in the money have been obliged to mortgage their shares of it. This is only one of numerous cases where the Long Vacation works a serious injury to suitors and the delay to whom seems intolerable. Do you not think it time the vacation was shortened?

Division after motions on each Monday during the sittings; and on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 20th and 21st December. Special jury causes will be taken on and after Tuesday, the 25th October. Probate and defended matrimonial causes, for hearing before the court itself, will be taken after the special juries are disposed of; and may also be taken in Court II. between October the 25th and November the 11th, when Admiralty cases are not appointed to be heard. Common jury causes will be taken on and after Tuesday, November the 29th. Divisional Court, Tuesdays, November the 1st and December the 6th. Motions will be heard in court at 11 a.m. on each Monday during the sittings. Summonses before the judge will before the Registrars will be heard at the Probate Registry, Somerset be heard at 10.30 a.m. on each Saturday during the sittings. Summonses House, at 11.30 a.m. on each Tuesday and Friday during the sittings. All papers for motions must be left in the Contentious Department of the Principal Probate Registry at Somerset House before 2 p.m. on the preceding Wednesday.

Undefended matrimonial causes will be taken in the Probate and Divorce

Maître Labori, M. Zola's counsel, is, says the World, still a young man, being only in his thirty-eighth year; indeed, by many he would be scarcely considered to have reached his prime; yet by dint of ability and hard work, combined, it must be admitted, with good fortune, he stands to-day in the front rank of his profession in France, and his name is a synonym in every civilized country for fearless and skilful advocacy He was born at Rheims in 1860, and was educated at the Lycée there. Choosing the law as his profession, he enrolled himself as a student at the Ecole de Droit. In 1884 he proceeded to the degree of avocat, having previously served in the army for the statutory term, which inspired him, as it does most Frenchman, with a deep interest in the Republic's first line of defence. In France the profession of the law is as proverbially slow as in this country, and consequently young Labori had to wait. His first important case was in 1894, when he defended the miscreant Vaillant, who threw the bomb into the Chambre des Députés. In that case the prisoner's guilt was too clear to admit of being obscured by any art of advocacy, but Labor left nothing unsaid that could possibly benefit his client. From this point M. Labori's rise in his profession was rapid, and it was his conduct of the case for his client in the Zola trial which gave him his place in the front rank of advocates.

To finally summarize the existing law. Upon the outbreak of hostilities, so far as nations who have not signed the Declaration of Paris are concerned, any neutral vessels carrying cargo belonging to a belligerent can be seized and taken to port for condemnation, though under these circumstances the usage is for the captor to pay freight to the owner of the vessel. In any case, goods constituting contraband of war destined for delivery to a belligerent are liable to capture and confiscation, and the carrier cannot claim freight. There are dicta in some English cases that when the shipowner is privy to the carriage of contraband the ship is liable to condemnation, but there exists no actual decision to that effect. A vessel attempting to violate an effective blockade is, with its freight, liable to capture, and opposition constitutes piracy. Some authorities, however, consider that if the owner of the vessel was ignorant of the destiny of the cargo, the former will escape confiscation. A charter made by an English shipowner to run a blockade cannot be repudiated by him. Performance of a contract is excused where, before loading, the port of destination becomes blockaded, and the charter includes an exception of restraints of princes. Where, however, the blockade occurs subsequent to the actual sailing, the question is more involved, but the captor would in all probability release his prize. Insurance of a belligerent property is valid unless the policy includes a guarantee of neutrality. Of course, unless the character of the property be disclosed, a policy could be avoided on the ground of concealment of a material fact. That the possible acquisition of prize money is of material service as an incentive to effort to our seamen is considered by some authorities as very doubtful, for it is counterbalanced by many grave objections, and has proved on numerous occasions to have operated or resulted very disadvantageously. For instances of the truth of this contention, the feud between Rodney and Arbuthnot, on the coast of North America; the disruption of the friendly relations between Nelson and St. Vincent, terminating in a law suit; and the hostile criticism of Lord Howe's conduct on the 1st of June, on the ground that his anxiety to secure the prizes prevented him following up his advantage to the full, may be cited. In considering what the effect of the abolition of the maritime capture would be upon the legal profession, one's mind at once reverts to the somewhat grotesque experiences of the famous Lord Cochrane in connection with the Maltese prize courts in 1811, and the incident in relation thereto in the House of Commons on the 11th of June of the same year, when he produced his proctor's bill, stating that it measured six fathoms and a quarter, and contained (as it did) many curious charges. This, of course, is an exceptional case, and could not occur to-day, and the profession may be excused if they express the same opinion at his lordship, which he maintained to his death, in spite of his unfortunate experiences in the matter of condemned prizes-that if this right were abolished, certain II do not entertain that view; on the contrary, I believe the evidence of the am that the prestige of our Navy is gone till the old system is restored."

LEGAL NEWS.

INFORMATION REQUIRED.

JOHN MARSHALL, of Bombay, merchant, who died on the 24th of August, 1898. Any person having the custody of a will of the above is requested to communicate with Weightman, Pedder, & Weightman, solicitors, 18, Water-street, Liverpool.

Lord Ludlow referred to the Criminal Evidence Act. He said: I cannot
In charging the grand jury at the Wiltshire Sessions at Marlborough,
disguise from my mind that there are serious questions which will arise
with regard to the procedure to be adopted in carrying into effect some of
its provisions, questions as to which legal minds may reasonably differ.
I am in hopes, therefore, that a council of judges will meet, who will lay
down and promulgate some settled rules of procedure for the guidance of
those who have to administer the Act." The old aud fundamental
rule of our criminal law--that the complaining party must make
out his case beyond reasonable doubt without any assistance from
the person charged remains absolutely untouched by the Act.
Unless a strong prima facie case was made out, I should not myself
allow the person charged to give evidence, but should dismiss the
case. Criminal cases must not be decided on the preponderance
of probabilities, but on the proof of guilt. If the person charged is the
only witness to the facts of the case called for the defence when is he to
give his evidence? Section 2 of the Act says, "immediately after the close
of the evidence for the prosecution." The object of this, I believe, is to
give the prosecution in cases defended by counsel, in summing up the
evidence, an opportunity of commenting on the evidence so given.
doubts have been expressed when the person charged is the only witness
called as to whether the right to sum up the evidence has not been lost.

Some

person charged was interposed at this particular point to enable the prosecution to deal with it. The person charged has the right of the general reply or last word. Section 1 (a) says the person charged is not to be called as a witness except on his own application. What is the duty of the judge? The person charged, if undefended by counsel or solicitor, probably does not know that he may ak to be called. Is he to be told? I answer in the affirmative, and I shall, at the close of the evidence for the prosecution, ask him if he would like to tell his story where he is, or to tell it on oath in the witnessbox. I have been fearful that the mere failure of the person charged or his wife or husband to give evidence might be regarded as corroboration of guilt, and I tried to introduce into the Bill, when in the House of Lords, the provision contained in section 1 (b), which is, "The failure of any shall not be made the subject of any comment by the prosecution." I was unable to do so there, but it was carried in the House of Commons, and to my mind will, to a considerable extent, protect the person charged, and to some extent help to preserve the fundamental rule, that the prosecution must make out their case without any assistance from the party charged, a rule which the court should forcibly impress on the minds of the jury. Section 1 says that the person charged should be a competent witness at every stage of the proceedings." Some doubts have been expressed as to whether this includes proceedings before the grand jury. I am quite clear that it does not. Such proceedings are ex parte, und the inquiry is one to

BOUVERIE DEEDES, deceased.-Any person holding a will made by, or any document belonging to the late Mr. Bouverie Deedes, of 10, Lancaster-person charged with an offence or of his wife or husband to give evidence place, W.C., and Downside, Epsom, is requested to communicate with Messrs. Mullens & Bosanquet, of 11, Queen Victoria-street, E.C.

GENERAL.

"City Solicitors" write to the Times as follows: On the 4th of August last an order was made by Mr. Justice Kekewich in a Chancery action dealing with the interests of parties, for one of whom we are concerned, in large funds in which they are interested, amounting to several thousand pounds. The officer having the drawing up of this order left it unfinished

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determine only whether there is a prima facie case meriting further investi- Tuesday Wednesday 23 gation. But these words apply to trials by jury, summary proceedings before magistrates, and examinations of persons charged by magistrates before commitment for trial. Magistrates' clerks, in cases for commitment for trial, must be very careful to recollect sub-section (h) of the Act which says: Nothing in the Act shall affect the provisions of section 18 of the Indictable Offences Act, 1842, or any right of the persons charged to make a statement without being sworn.' This section and section 3 of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 35 (1867) must be strictly followed.

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COURT PAPERS.

SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE.

ROTA OF REGISTRARS IN ATTENDANCE ON

APPEAL COURT

Mr. Jackson

Pemberton
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Mr. Justice
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Friday...16...Mots, adj sums, and gen pa Sht caus, pets, adj sums and gen pa Monday.. .19...Sitting in chambers Tuesday...20...General paper Wednesday 21...Motions and general paper Any cause intended to be heard as a short cause must be so marked in the cause book at least one clear day before the same can be put in the paper to be so heard, and the necessary papers, including minutes of the proposed judgment or order, must be left with the judge's clerk one clear day before the cause is to be put into the paper.

WITNESS ACTIONS.-Witness actions may be taken on days other than those above stated, of these due notice will be given.

CHANCERY COURT IV.

MR. JUSTICE KEKEWICH.

The following will be the Order of Business
according to the days of the week :-
Monday-Sitting in chambers
Tuesday,

Wednesday General paper
Thursday

Friday (except November 4 and 11)--
Motions and Adjourned Summonses.
The first day of the Sittings, Monday,
Oct. 24, will also be a Motion day. N. B.-
Friday, Dec. 16, will be the last day of
which Notice of Motion can be given
without special leave.

Saturday-Short Causes and Petitions will be taken on Saturdays, Oct. 29, Nov 19, and Dec. 3 and 17.

The Business for the other Saturdays will be from time to time announced in the Daily Cause List.

Actions for Trial with Witnesses will be taken on Tuesday, Nov. 1, and continued until the end of the following week. Motions will be heard during that period by Mr. Justice Stirling. Actions for Trial with Witnesses will also be taken at other times. Notice will be given in the Daily Cause List. Mr. Justice Stirling's Motions will be taken in this Court while he is hearing Witness Actions-viz., on Thursdays, Nov. 17 and

24.

CHANCERY COURT III.

MR. JUSTICE BYRNE.
Actions transferred for Trial or Hearing
only will be taken in the order in the
Cause List on every day of the Sittings,
from Oct. 24 to Dec. 21, both inclusive.
Business in the Liverpool and Manchester
District Registries will be taken as
follows:-

Motions, Short Causes, Petitions, and
Adjourned Summonses on every other
Friday, commencing with Friday, Nov. 4.
Summonses in Chambers on every other
Saturday commencing with Saturday,
Nov. 5.

CHANCERY COURT II.
MR. JUSTICE ROMER,

Mon., Oct. 24...Motions

Tuesday 25

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Pets, sht caus, procedure
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Monday......19...Sitting in chambers
Tuesday ...20...Non wit list
Wednesday 21...Motions

Any cause intended to be heard as a short
cause must be so marked in the cause
book at least one clear day before the
same can be put in the paper to be so
heard. Two copies of minutes of the
proposed judgment or order must be left
in court with the judge's clerk one clear
day before the cause is to be put in the
paper.

N.B. The following Papers on Further
Consideration are required for the use of
the Judge, viz. :-Two Copies of Minutes
of the proposed Judgment or Order, 1
Copy Pleadings, and 1 Copy Chief Clerk's
Certificate, which must be left in Court
with the Judge's Clerk one clear day
before the Further Consideration is ready
to come into the paper.

COURT OF APPEAL.
MICHAELMAS SITTINGS, 1898.

APPEAL COURT I.-NOTICES.

Queen's Bench interlocutory appeals will be taken in Court I. on Monday, Oct 24, and afterwards on every Monday in Michaelmas Sittings.

Queen's Bench final appeals and new trial motions will be taken in Court I. in alternate weeks during the Sittings. New trial motions will be taken in Court I. on Tuesday, Oct 25, and following days in that week. Final appeals in the second week.

On Mondays final appeals or new trial motions will be taken if there

are not enough interlocutory appeals for a day's paper.

Admiralty appeals (with assessors) will be taken in Court I. on days specially appointed by the Court, notice of which will appear in the Daily

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N.B.-When the interlocutory appeals are not enough for a day's
paper, Chancery final appeals will be added on interlocutory days.
N.B.-Probate and Divorce final appeals will be taken in the Chancery
Appeal List as reached.

Appeals from the Lancaster and Durham Palatine Courts (if any) will be taken in Court II. on Thursday, Nov 3, and Thursday, Dec 1.

FROM THE CHANCERY DIVISION, THE PROBATE, DIVORCE,
AND ADMIRALTY DIVISION (PROBATE AND DIVORCE), AND
THE COUNTY PALATINE AND STANNARIES COURTS.

(Final List.)
1898.

In re Gyde Ward v Little appl of H M Attorney-Gen from order of
Mr Justice North, dated April 5, 1898 (day to be fixed) April 22
In re Perry Almshouses Charity, Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, and In re
Charitable Trusts Act, 1853 to 1894, and Local Government Act, 1894,
app of Charity Commissioners for England and Wales from order of
Mr. Justice Stirling, dated Feb 2, 1898 April 26

In re Mary Ross Charity & Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1894 app of
the Churchwardens of the Parish of Hatfield from order of Mr. Justice
North, dated July 10, 1897 (restored by order)

The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co, ld v New Ixion Tyre and Cycle Co, ld
app of plts from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated May 4, 1898 (Oct
24 by order) May 7

Ecclesiastical Comurs, &c v Pinney app of plts from order of Mr Justice
Bigham (sitting, &c), dated May 13, 1898 May 20

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In re Rubbins Gill v Worrall appl of deft SA K Henry from order of
Mr Justice Stirling, dated March 22, 1898 June 7

Allen v Oates & Green, ld appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice Kekewich,
dated April 29, 1898 June 9

In re Mundy and Roper and In re The Vendor and Purchasers Act, 1874
appl of C F Massingberd Mundy from order of Mr Justice Kekewich,
dated May 14, 1898 June 11

Thomas v Penley appl of deft from order of Mr Justice Romer, dated
May 17, 1898 June 13

In re The Middlesex Gold Mines (W A), ld & the Co's Acts, 1862 to 1890
appl of HT Foster from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated June 9,
1898 June 13

Jackson v Normanby Brick Co, ld
Kekewich, dated April 27, 1898
Levy v Stogdon appl of J M Birch from order of Mr Justice Stirling,
dated March 3, 1898 June 16

appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice
June 13

Holt v May appl of deft from order of Mr Justice Bigham (sitting, &c),
dated May 24, 1898 June 16

United Empire Trading Co, ld v Smith appl of deft from order of Mr
Justice Wright, dated June 9, 1898 June 17

Sinclair v Melia appl of deft from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated
June 14, 1898 June 18

In re The Railway Time Tables Publishing Co, ld, and Co's Acts appl of
T A Welton from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated May 25, 1898
June 21

Lever Bros, ld v Bedingfield appl of deft from order of Mr Justice Keke.
wich, dated June 9, 1898 June 22

Lennox v. Peters appl of pltff and deft EJ Lennox from order of Mr
Justice Bigham (sitting, &c), dated May 17, 1898 June 25

Hill v Kirby appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated
June 21, 1898 June 25

Newbury v Gibbon appl of deft H Gibbon from order of Mr Justice
Romer, dated March 17, 1898 June 27

In re Heath Parker & Brett, Solicitors, &c appl of AA Marks from
order of Mr Justice North, dated May 25, 1898 June 27

West v Williams appl of pltff and deft F. Temple from order of Mr
Justice Kekewich, dated Feb 15, 1898 June 28

In re Halifax Commercial Bank, ld v Wood & V & P Act, 1874 appl of
the Halifax Commercial Bank, ld, from order of Mr Justice Stirling,
dated June 15, 1898 June 28

In re Ritson Ritson v Ritson appl of defts M Ritson & ors from order of
Mr Justice Romer, dated April 22, 1898 June 29

Hoe v Foster & Sons appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice Kekewich,
dated June 17, 1898 (order not perfected) June 30

Lyon & Sons ▾ Wilkins appl of deft from order of Mr Justice Byrne,

dated Feb 3, 1898 June 30

Smith v Warde appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated Bramston v Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Ry Co appl of pltffs from order of Mr Justice Romer, dated May 4, 1898 July 4

July 1, 1898 (order not perfected) July 2

In re Preston Preston v Bonney appl of deft from order of Mr Justice
Romer, dated May 4, 1898, and notice of contention of pltff, dated July
28, 1898 July 5

In re Buckett Aldridge v Buckett appl of pltff from order of Mr
Justice Bigham (sitting, &c), dated May 27, 1898 July 6

In re Morris James v London & County Banking Co ld appl of defts
from order of Mr Justice Romer, dated June 25, 1898 July 6
Hodgson v House appl of deft from order of Mr Justice North, dated
May 18, 1898 July 7

Vestry of Parish of St Mary, Battersea v Company of London and Brush
Electric Lighting Co ld appl of defts from order of The President of
P, D & A Division (sitting, &c), dated April 21, 1898 July 8
Allen v Pyatt & Co appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice Bigham
(sitting, &c), dated July 6, 1898 July 9

In re Carl Haggenmacher's Patents, No 10,644 of 1887 and No 13,443 of
1889 appl of respt from order of Justice Romer, dated June 14, 1898
July 11

In re Prince Goodwin v Prince appl of deft E Prince (widow) from order of Mr Justice Stirling, dated May 24, 1898 (order not perfected) July 11

Bennett v Hudson appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated June 22, 1898 July 12

In re Millais Millais v. Millais appl of deft Sir J E Millais from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated June 28, 1898 July 13

Peters v Owen appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice Bigham (sitting, &c), dated June 28, 1898 July 14

Pemberton v Hughes appl of pltff from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated July 12, 1898 (order not perfected) July 14

Royal Baking Powder Co v Wright, Crossley & Co appl of defts from order of Mr Justice Romer, dated July 2, 1898 July 16

Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co, ld v New Ixion Tyre and Cycle Co appl of
defts from order of Mr Justice Kekewich, dated May 4, 1898 (Oct 24,
by order) July 18

In re Baker Thomson v Baker appl of plt ffs from order of Mr Justice
Kekewich, dated July 4, 1898 (order not perfected) July 18

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LEGAL NEWS.

APPOINTMENT.

Mr. JAMES WILLIS MILLS, of the firm of Crust, Todd, Mills, & Sons, of Beverley, has been appointed a Commissioner for taking Affidavits to be used in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, Canada.

there he immediately detailed two stalwart policemen to clear the court of all intruders. This they attempted to do with the aid of towels and coats and any available weapon, which they swung vigorously about them. But the wily insects merely flitted from place to place, buzzing awhile around the unkempt heads of the early morning drunks and disorderlies, now and then seeking shelter up the sleeves or on the expansive necks of the policemen themselves, only to return again and circle gaily around the attractive scalp of the presiding magistrate. Huge palm-leaf fans were procured, and two athletic policemen were stationed on either side of the judge with orders to keep them in perpetual motion. Still the ubiquitous insects sang their song of victory in the ears of justice. Candles were lighted RALPH CECIL LEACH and THOMAS WILLIAM OGLE WHEELER, solicitors around the altar of the blind goddess and cheerful invitation was extended (Leach & Wheeler), 10, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street, London, and 21, to the insects to singe their wings in the fascinating flame, but they didn't Lower Phillimore-place, Kensington. Dec. 31. The said Ralph see it in that light. Eventually when the court and attendants realized Cecil Leach will continue to practise at No. 10, Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-together, and after the prisoners had been returned to their peaceful cells that there was no escape but flight, books and papers were hastily piled street, aforesaid, and the said Thomas William Ogle Wheeler will continue to practise at 21, Lower Phillimore-place, Kensington, aforesaid. [Gazette, Oct. 11.

CHANGES IN PARTNERSHIPS, &c.

DISSOLUTIONS.

GENERAL.

It is stated that Mr. Henry Hall, of the Solicitors' Department of the Treasury, has resigned his appointment there after a considerable term of service. He was formerly in the Public Prosecutor's Office, when that post was held by Sir John Maule, Q.C.

The Globe refers to the threefold defence successfully put forward against a claim for damages for dog-bite: "Firstly, defendant denies that plaintiff was bitten; secondly, defendant denies that it was his dog which bit the plaintiff; and, thirdly, defendant never had any dog." The Times says it is understood that Sir Francis Jeune's Load Line Committee is nearing the end of its labours, and that, unless some unforeseen hitch occurs, its report will be in the hands of ministers in time for a Bill embodying such of its recommendations as may need legislative sanction to be introduced early next Session. The Exchange Telegraph Company states that two or three members of the Money-lending Committee, who took a specially active part in the inquiry of last session, are preparing a Bill on the lines of the committee's report, which they intend to introduce in the event of the Queen's Speech of next session containing no specific promise that the Government will bring forward a Bill dealing with the evils of the usury system.

The judges (Bigham and Phillimore, JJ.) have fixed the following commission days for the Autumn Assizes on the Northern Circuit: Carlisle, Tuesday, November 1; Lancaster, Friday, November 4; Manchester, Tuesday, November 8; Liverpool, Monday, November 28. There will be no civil business at Carlisle or Lancaster, but at Manchester and Liverpool both civil and criminal business will be taken.

Mr. Justice Kennedy has fixed the following dates for the Autumn Assizes on the Western Circuit: Salisbury, Tuesday, October 25; Dorchester, Saturday, October 29; Taunton, Wednesday, November 2; Bodmin, Tuesday, November 8; Exeter, Friday, November 11; Winchester, Thursday, November 17; Bristol, Thursday, November 24. Criminal business only will be taken, and the court will sit at each place at 11 a.m. on the morning following the above dates.

The Chicago Legal News says that there are several hundred persons engaged in the practice of the law in Chicago whose names do not appear upon the roll in the Supreme Court as having been admitted. They are advised to take the next examination before the State board of law examiners, the 4th of October, 1898, and in the meantime cease practising law or go into some other business. The Grievance Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, it is understood, has the names of all such persons, and is taking steps to proceed against them.

On the occasion of the re-opening of the Law Courts, a special service will be held at Westminster Abbey, at 11.45 a.m., which the Lord Chancellor and Her Majesty's judges will attend. Members of the bar wishing to be present are requested to send their names on or before Wednesday, the 19th of October, to the Secretary of the General Council of the Bar, 2, Hare-court, Temple, E.C. Barristers attending the service must wear robes, and should be at the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey (Dean's-yard entrance), where robing accommodation will be provided, not later than 11.30 a.m.

The Daily News says that Mr. Dane, Q.C., who has lately been appointed county court judge of Mayo, one day (according to a friend of his) took a short drive on an outside car to the Four Courts in Dublin, and, on getting down, paid the exact fare to the driver, who was evidently about to demand more when a comrade, who had just put down another fare, stopped him with a loud whisper: "Be aisy, Mike; don't you see it's Mr. Dane?" "Oh," answered the other in a tone of perfect enlightenment, "it's one o' thim Danes, is it? Well, annyhow, this is a mighty poor way of takin' revenge for Clontarf; an' me wid a family of seven small childer." Mr. Dane heard this allusion to Brian Boru's victory over the Danes, as its author intended, and he so much appreciated its wit that he gave the man an extra shilling.

A New York paper says that an army of mosquitoes recently laid siege to the Flatbush police-court and succeeded in utterly routing judge, clerks, prisoners, and big policemen, so that administration of justice had to be suspended until such time as the victorious hosts chose to vacate the stronghold they had won. The moment that Judge Bristow took his seat it was seen that there was trouble in the air. The atmosphere was so thick with it that he had to fight his way to the bench, and on arriving

the session was adjourned until such time as the mosquitoes should decide to seek fresh fields and pastures new.

The following is the rota of arrangements fixed by the judges of the Queen's Bench Division for the ensuing Michaelmas sittings-viz.: The Lord Chief Justice will sit with a Divisional Court during the sittings (the hearing of commercial causes intervening from the 10th to about the 30th of November); Mr. Justice Hawkins will be absent on the SouthEastern Circuit until the beginning of December, and on his return will try actions; Mr. Justice Mathew will proceed with the commercial list Justice Day will be away on the North and South Wales Circuit until until his departure for the Midland Circuit on the 10th of November; Mr. about the end of November, and on his return will try actions; Mr. Justice Wills will sit with a Divisional Court during the sittings, and Mr. Justice Grantham, Mr. Justice Lawrance, and Mr. Justice Bruce are expected to try actions during the whole of the sittings; Mr. Justice Wright will be engaged on companies work and bankruptcy business (sittings with the Railway and Canal Commission intervening); Mr. Justice Kennedy will be away on the Western Circuit until about the end of November, and on his return will proceed with the commercial list; Mr. Justice Ridley will be in attendance at judge's chambers until his departure for the Oxford Circuit on the 7th of November; Mr. Justice Bigham will try actions (a sitting at the Central Criminal Court intervening) until he leaves for the Northern Circuit on the 1st of November; Mr. Justice Darling will try actions until he goes on the North-Eastern Circuit on the 16th of November, as also will Mr. Justice Channell until he joins the same circuit on the 2nd of December; and Mr. Justice Phillimore will try actions until he goes on the Northern Circuit on the 8th of November.

The Paris correspondent of the Westminster Gazette, in an interesting letter on the French Court of Cassation,__ says: "The Court of Cassation, which is the supreme Court of France, is held in Paris, the Chambre Civile, and the Chambre Criminelle. and is composed of three chambers: the Chambre des Requêtes, It is the lastnamed chamber which has charge of the Dreyfus dossier, which M. Loew, the President, upon whom the decision of the Court entirely depends, has already examined in conjunction with the charge of M. Manau, the Procurator-General of the Republic, who sent the case before the court for revision. M. Loew has appointed M. Bard, the well-known Councillor of the Court of Cassation-who, by the bye, was the 'Reporter' in the appeal which Lieutenant-Colonel Picquart made against the decision of the Indictment Court in regard to the charge against Major Esterhazy and his mistress, Marguerite Pays-as' Reporter' in the Dreyfus case, and that lawyer is engaged at the present time upon the examination of documents which constitute the Dreyfus dossier, an undertaking which one may not expect him to conclude before three weeks have elapsed. Upon the report of M. Bard_the_court will act, and one of three courses is open to it to follow. The President of the Criminal Chamber which case M. Bard, the 'Reporter,' would make a deeper and still more of the Court of Cassation may either order an inquiry to be made, in detailed examination of the dossier, or decide that no new fact' had Justice, simply annul the judgment of the Dreyfus court-martial. But come to light, or, having obtained fresh instructions from the Minister of whatever the Court of Cassation may decide there can be no doubt that its decision will be held in great respect, the court having the entire confidence of all parties."

THE PROPERTY MART. SALES OF THE ENSUING WEEK.

Oct. 18. Mr. ALFRED RICHARDS, at the Mart, at 2, £22,000 Four per Cent. Ferpetual

Debenture Stock of Alliance and Dublin Consumers Gas Co. (See advertisement, this week, p. 3.)

Oct 19.-Messrs. EDWIN Fox & BOUSFIELD, at the Mart, at 2, Long Leasehold Investment in the City of London, known as St. Andrew's chambers, Nos. 37, 39, and 41. St. Mary-axe, of the rental value of about £1,220 per annum ; held for a long tem at a ground-rent of £500 per annum. Solicitors, Messrs. Samuel Price & Sons, London. (See advertisement, Oct. 8, p. 4.)

Oct. 19.-Messrs. DOUGLAS YOUNG & Co., at the Mart:-Freeholds: Semi-detached double-fronted Residence at Balham; rental value, £65. Seven Houses at Thorntonheath, all let at rentals producing £185 per annum. Leaseholds: Eight Weekly Houses at South Norwood; rental, £193 14s. Solicitor, W. M. Willcocks, Esq., London.Semi-detached Residence at Streatham; rental, £60. Solicitors, Messrs. Caldecott & Bowden, and Messrs. Shaen, Roscoe, Massey, & Co., of London.-Leasehold Residence at Camden-Town; rental, £55. Stoke Newington: Shop and Dwelling-house; rental, £50. Two Weekly Houses; rental, £78. And 48, Palatine-road; rental, £30. Dalston; Two Residences; rentals, £40 each. Nos. 96 and 98, Greenwood-road; producing £81. Solicitors, Messrs. Pettiver & Pearkes, London.

Oct. 19.-Messrs. H. E. FOSTER & CRANFIELD, at the Mart, at 2 p.m., Detached Residence at Enfield; lease 83 years Solicitor, Geo. J. Dowse, Esq., London. Freehold

Residence at Gravesend; value £60 per annum. Solicitors, Messrs. Hatchett-Jones & Co., London. Freehold Shop and Premises in Walworth-road; let at £60 per annum. Solicitor, E. Elvy Robb, Esq., Tunbridge Wells.

Oct. 20.-Messrs. H. E. FOSTER & CRANFIELD, at the Mart, at 2 p.m. :

REVERSIONS:

To the Moiety of 3 Houses in Essex-road, Islington, producing £135 per annum ; lady aged 84. Solicitors, Messrs. Crosse & Sons, London. To One-fourteenth of a Trust Estate, value £15,390; lady aged 68, provided lady aged 37 survive her; also a Legacy of £500 on same conditions, with covering policies. Solicitor, Grantham R. Dodd, Esq., London.

To One-eighth of a Residuary Estate represented by Railway and other Stock value £20,752; lady aged 59. Solicitors, Messrs. Radcliffe, Cator, & Hood, London.

To a Trust Fund of £776 New Zealand 4 per Cent. Stock; lady aged 83. Solicitors, Messrs. Devonshire & Co., London

To One-fifth of a Trust Estate, Gas Stocks, Freeholds, and Mortgages value £17,720; lady aged 64. Solicitors, Messrs. Ley Wood & Rickerby, of Cheltenham.

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Oct. 20.-Messrs. BEADEL, WOOD, & Co., at the Mart, at 12 precisely, in 92 Lots, the First Portion of the Estates of the late William Angerstein, Esq., comprising highly-important and valuable Freehold Ground-rents, amounting to £1,460 178. per annum, upon about 140 high-class Residences and Villas situate on and near Blackheath, the rackrents amounting to an estimated gross annual value of over £11,000. Solicitor, W. T. Hartcup, Esq., Norwich.-Greenwich and Westcombe-hill, Kent, close to the Westcombe-park Station on the Woolwich branch of the South-Eastern Railway: Freehold Wharf Premises and Building Land, having extensive frontages to the River Thames, let at a rent of £120, also 14 acres of land; a Block of Freehold Building Land of about six acres, with frontage of 1,100 feet, near the Woolwich-road, forming excellent sites for manufacturing premises; a Plot of Valuable Freehold Land, situate near Westcombe-park Station, containing about half an acre frontage. (See advertisements, Sept. 17, p. 3.)

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 particulars. (Established 21 years.)—[ADVт.]

WINDING UP NOTICES.

London Gazette.-FRIDAY, Oct. 7. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.

LIMITED IN CHANCERY.

ANGLO-AFRICAN GOLD PROPERTIES, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented Sept 22, directed to be heard on Oct 12 instead of Oct 26. Peal & Payne, Budge row, petner's Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of Oct 11

COBAR GOLD MINES, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION)- Creditors are required, on or before Feb 10, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Wm. B. Peat, 3, Lothbury

DOCK SOAP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 18, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to E. W. Helps, Bank chmbrs, Bridgwater. Reed & Co, Bridgwater, solors

GOLD FIELDS OF MYSORE, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION)-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 15, to send their names and addresses, and particulars of their debts or claims, to William Frederick Garland, 6, Queen st place. Ashurst & Co, Throgmorton avenue, solors for liquidator

HOME INDUSTRIES CO, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented Sept 29, directed to be be heard on Oct 26. Trass & Enever, Coleman st, solors for petners. Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of Oct 25 INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES TRUST CORPORATION, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented Aug 3, directed to be heard on Oct 26. Thomas, Finsbury pavement, solor for petner. Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the

afternoon of Oct 25

MEITER SYNDICATE, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented Oct 3, directed to be heard on Oct 26. Allen & Son, Carlisle st, Soho sq, solors for petners. Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of Oct 25 REALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT CO, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented Sept 30, directed to be heard on Oct 26. Learoyd & Co, Coleman st, solors for petner SUFFOLK BREAD, LIMITED-Petn for winding up, presented Oct 3, directed to be heard on Oct 26. Ralph Raphael & Co, Moorgate st, solors for petner. Notice of appearing must reach the above-named not later than 6 o'clock in the afternoon of Oct 25° "SUPERB" SHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 12, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to R. Hughes-Jones SWANSEA OLD BREWERY CO, LIMITED (OLD COMPANY) (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) Creditors are required, on or before Nov 7, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Richard Garnaut Cawker, 11, Temple st, Swansea. Hartland & Co. Swansea, solors to liquidator THOMAS TAYLOR & SONS, LIMITED-Creditors are requested, on or before Nov 19, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to William Kevan, 12, Acresfield, Bolton Holden & Holden, Bolton, solors for liquidator WALKERS' AIRE ROLIER MILLING CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 17, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to John Edwin Whitham, Barum House, Halifax

FRIENDLY SOCIETY DISSOLVED.

"CLANDEBOYE" STEAMSHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required to send in particulars of claims to G M Allan, 4, St Mary Axe CROSLAND COAL CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 30, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Richard Naylor & Co, at the office of the company at Scholes, Cleckheaton Wavell & Co, Halifax, solors for the liquidators

HALSALL & HAMPTON, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 25, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to Frederick Arthur Fitton, 26, Brown st, Manchester

"JOSEPH JOHN STEAMSHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required to send in particulars of claims to G M Allan, 4, St Mary Axe

KING OF THE WEST GOLD MINING CO, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION)-Creditors are required. on or before Nov 19, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to H St John Hodges, Finsbury House, Blomfield st

"LENY" STEAMSHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required to send in particulars of claims to G. M. Allan, 4, St Mary Axe

STEAMSHIP" CITY OF BELFAST," LIMITED-Creditors are required to send in particulars of claims to G. M. Allan, 4, Et Mary Axe

TUNBRIDGE WELLS MARKET CO, LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION)-Creditors are required, on or before Oct 25, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to William Henry Delves & Co, 44, High st, Tunbridge Wells. Martin, Tunbridge Wells, solor to liquidators

WELL-STREET OIL WORKS, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 23, to send their names and addresses, and particulars of their debts or claims, to Lionel Henry Lemon, 4, King st, Cheapside

WHEELDONS, LIMITED-Creditors are required, on or before Nov 20, to send their names and addresses, and particulars of their debts or claims, to Mr John William Withnell, 20, Booth st, Manchester Tucker & Co, Manchester, solors

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BAKER, ALEXANDER, San Salvador, Central America, Bank Manager Nov 1 Preston, Old Broad st

BERLEY, JOSEPH, Sheffield Nov 30 Taylor & Co, Sheffield

BOOTH, EMMA JANE, Oldham Nov 30 Knott, Oldham

BOYD, HUGH FENWICK, South Kensington Oct 31 Tarry & Co, Serjeant's inn, Fleet st
BRASSEY, ANNA HARRIET, Grosvenor sq Nov 1 Norton & Co, Victoria st
BRIDGES, JOHN GEORGE, Farnham, Surrey, Oct 27 Bliss, Regent st
BROOKER, LOUISA, Shirland rd, St Peter's Park Oct 27 Bliss, Regent st
BROWNING, CHARLES, South Dulwich Nov 1 Fishers, Essex st, Strand

CORNISH, WILLIAM, Baddow, Essex, Farm Labourer Oct 22 Gray, Chelmsford
DAVIES, DAVID, Sheffield Nov 30 Taylor & Co, Sheffield

DOUGLAS, EDWARD, Newcastle on Tyne, Bootmaker Nov 11 Brown & Son, Newcastle on
Tyne
EVANS, JOHN, Shrewsbury, Salop Oct 12 Bowdler, Shrewsbury
FIRTH, ANNIE HARRIET, Harrogate Nov 5 Nelson & Co, Leeds
FLOWER, FRANCIS, Cheddar, Somerset, Innkeeper Oct 31 March, Axbridge
FOUNTAIN, RICHARD COCKAYNE, Sheffield Oct 31 Kesteven, Sheffield
GARLAND, WALTER HERBERT, Horfield, Bristol, Teacher of Music Nov 14 Tarr &
Arkell, Bristol
HARTLEY, BETHEL, Littleborough, Lancs Nov 1 Worth & Co, Rochdale

HEMMING, HENRY, Wisborough Green, Sussex, Auctioneer and Land Valuer Oct 22 Holmes
& Co, Arundel
HODGKINSON, JOB, Rushley Farm, ar Mansfield, Nottingham, Farmer Nov 7 Alcock,
Mansfield

HOLLAND, MATTHEW HENRY, Chorlton cum Hardy, Lancs, Licensed Victualler Oct 15
Barrow & Smith, Manchester

HOLMES, ESTHER, Walworth Oct 31 Lardner, Hosier lane

JOHNSON, William George, Brighton Oct 21 W J & E H Tremellen, Chancery lane
KEELY, THOMAS PHILIPPS, Leicester, Yarn Merchant Nov 1 Wells & Hind, Nottingham
KING, THOMAS, Cheddar, Somerset Oct 31 March, Axbridge
LUND, MARY WINIFRIDE, Hastings Oct 22 Meynell, Furnival st
MARSH, RICHARD, Little Offley, Hertford Oct 24 Wright, Hitchin
MATTHEWS, William George, Wimbledon Nov 5 Bird & Son, Uxbridge

MEAU, THOMAS SEYMOUR, Brooklands, Chester Oct 15 Payne & Co, Manchester
MORPHEW, JEFFERY, Richmond Nov 24 Mead & Sons, Arundell st, Piccadilly circus
NEEDHAM, BEN, Oldham Oct 29 Lees, Oldham

NORRINGTON, CHARLES, Epsom, Surrey Oct 24 Courtney Lewis, Adelaide pl, London Bridge

RICH, JOHN EDWARD, Biddisham, Somerset, Yeoman Oct 31 March, Axbridge

SHARP, BENJAMIN ALLISON, Marsden, nr Huddersfield, Shoemaker Oct 31 Wilmshurst & Stones, Huddersfield

SINGLEHURST, CHARLES REURES, Litherland, nr Liverpool, Commission Agent Oct 27 Rodway & Co, Liverpool

SINGLEHURST, MARY CATHERINE, Litherland, nr Liverpool Oct 27 Rodway & Co, Liverpool

SKENE, ELIZABETH ANN, Seghill, Northumberland Oct 31 J D & D M Macdonald, Newcastle upon Tyne

SMITH, JAMES BARKELEY, Liverpool Nov 15 Alsop & Co, Liverpool

SNOWDEN, GEORGE, Dukinfield, Chester Nov 9 Ellison, Ashton under Lyne

BUILDERS' LABOURERS' ROCHDALE GOOD INTENT ACCIDENT AND BURIAL SOCIETY, THORNTON, HENRY, Huddersfield Oct 31 Wilmshurst & Stones, Huddersfield Northern Star, Rope st, Rochdale, Lancaster Sept 28

London Gazette.- TUESDAY, Oct. 11. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.

LIMITED IN CHANCERY.

"BLUE STAR" STEAMSHIP CO, LIMITED-Creditors are required to send in particulars of claims to G M Allan, 4, St Mary Axe

WALKER, GEORGE, Sheffield Nov 30 Taylor & Co, Sheffield

WARD, FRANCES MARY, Hampstead Oct 31 Few & Co, Surrey st, Strand
WATKINS, ANN, Reading Oct 24 Beale & Martin, Reading

WATKINS, WILLIAM, Reading Oct 24 Beale & Martin, Reading
WHITEHEAD, Joнs, Buxton Nov 9 Addleshaw & Co, Manchester

WILSON, WILLIAM, Huddersfield, Tailor Oct 31 Wilmshurst & Stones, Huddersfield

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