Humble, James, and Thomas Robson Humble, Sunderland, Builders. Apr 18 at 11 at offices of McKenzie, John st, Sunderland Husband, Andrew, Moss Side, Lancaster, Builder. Apr 19 at 3 at offices of Crofton, Brazennose st, Manchester Ingle, George, Horbury, York, Provision Dealer. Apr 13 at 3 at offices of Kemp, Barstow sq, Wakefield John, William, and Henry John, Tenby, Pembroke, Grocers. of Lock, Lansdowne House, Tenby Apr 13 at 10.30 at offices Keeton, Frederick William, Pilsley, Derby, Licensed Victualler. Apr 14 at Angel Hotel, Chesterfield, in lieu of the place originally named Kelsey, William, Hartlepool, Puddler. Apr 13 at 11.30 offices of Smith, Church st, West Hartlepool Kilpatrick, Robert Paul, Oldham, Draper. Apr 13 at 3 at offices of Sale and Co, Booth st, Manchester Lay, William Henry, Abingdon, Berks, Grocer. Apr 18 at 3 at Queen's Hotel, Abingdon. Sedgefield and Pryce, Abingdon Leach, John, Chorley, Lancaster, Builder. Apr 13 at 3 at Royal Oak Hotel, Market st, Chorley. Jackson, Chorley Lloyd, John, Hairwain, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Boot and Shoe Maker. Apr 8 at 1 at the Merchants' Association, Broad st, Bristol, in lieu of the place originally named Lucas, William, and Alfred Lucas, Levenshulme, near Manchester, Joiners. Apr 14 at 3 at offices of Sale and Co, Booth st, Manchester Maidstone, John Thompson, Rouel rd, Bermondsey, General Keeper. Apr 8 at 2 at Martin, Frederick Henry, Besson rd, New Cross rd, Baker. Apr 17 at 3 at offices of Marquis, David, Leeds, Grocer. Apr 19 at 3 at offices of Shaw, Commercial st, Leeds Matthews, Rowland, City rd, Auctioneer. Apr 20 at 2 at Cannon st Hotel, Cannon st. Matthews, William, Church pl, Kensal Green, Carman. May, Emily Sophia, North Kensington, Invalid Nurse. May, Henry, Crown rd, West Kensington, Clothier. McMorrin, William, Derby, Draper. Apr 14 at 3 at Apr 17 at 3 at office of Hobbs, Apr 15 at 11 at office of Wood, Apr 17 at 12 at offices of Shear offices of Briggs, Amen alley, Merritt, Adolphus, Stonehouse, Gloucester, Builder. Apr 17 at 11 at New Inn Hotel, Gloucester. Ball and Co Miller, Charles, High Wycombe, Buckingham, Innkeeper Apr 20 at 12 at offices of Reynolds, High st, High Wycombe Moore, William, Bulwell, Shoemaker. Apr 18 at 12 at office of Brittle, St Peters chmbrs, St Petersgate, Nottingham Morgan, John, Hendy Pontardulais, Carmarthen, Butcher. Apr 14 at 11 at office of Howell, Steprey st, Llanelly Nicholson, Thomas, York, Prize Pig Dealer. Apr 14 at 11 at offices of Anderson and Lythe, York Norwood, Rev. Samuel, Blackpool, Clerk in Holy Orders. April 15 at 10.30 at Old Bull Hotel, Blackburn. Eastham, Clitheroe Parsons, William, Norwich, Publican. Apr 6 at 12 at offices of Stanley, Bank plain, Norwich Pendle, George, and Charles Waite, jun., Golden sq, Woollen Merchants. Apr 21 at George Hotel, Huddersfield, in lieu of the place originally named Porter, Thomas William, Putley, Hereford, Farm Bailiff. Apr 19 at 12.15 at offices of Corner, High Town, Hereford Precious, Elizabeth, Filey, York, Boot Dealer. Apr 13 at 2 at Castle Hotel, Queen st, Scarborough. Richardson, Bridlington Raw, William, Bradford, Builder. Apr 13 at 2 at office of Heath, Swan st, Manchester Rider, Thomas Merritt, New Cross rd, Undertaker. Apr 11 at 3 at office of Cooper and Co, Lincoln's-inn-fields Roberts, Mildred, Cleobury Mortimer, Salop, Grocer. Apr 17 at 3 at office of Ivens and Morton, Bank bldgs, Exchange st, Kidderminster Rudkin, Thomas, Central Meat Market, Licensed Victualler. Apr 12 at 2 at Cannon st Hotel. Layton and Co, Budge row Sabin, William Edward, Manchester, Traveller. Apr 11 at 3 at offices of Ellis, Clarence bldgs, Booth st, Mosley st, Manchester Salom, Salom Henry, Regent st, Optician. Apr 18 at 2 at offices of Solomon, King st, Cheapside Savage, Mary Ann, and Emma Bousfield, Bury, Lancaster, Boot Makers. Apr 18 at 3 at the Mitre Hotel, Cathedral gates, Cateaton st, Manchester. Grandy, Bury Sexton, Thomas, Wooburn, Bucks, Builder. Apr 19 at 2 at offices of Durant, Clarence villas, Windsor Sherratt, William Dean, Macclesfield, Provision Dealer. Apr 13 at 2.30 at offices of Froggatt, Chestergate, Macclesfield Smith, Arthur, Leeds, Tailor. Apr 12 at 11 at offices of Close, Park row. Crumbie, York Smith, Henry, Eastville, nr Bristol, Hardwareman. Apr 12 at 11 at offices of Clifton and Carter, Broad st, Bristol Smith, William, Glossop, Derby, Shoe Dealer. Apr 18 at 3 at offices of Entwisle and Cole, Princess st, Manchester Smith, William, Burton-on-Trent, Commission Agent. Apr 19 at 2 at the White Hart Hotel, High st, Burton-on-Trent. Drewry, Burton-on-Trent Starling, William, Radwinter, Essex, Farmer. Apr 20 at 1 at offices of Baker and Thorneycroft, Bishop's Stortford Sutcliffe, Francis Rowland, Leeds, Butcher. April 12 at 2 at offices of Lake and Lake, Southgate, Wakefield Tafft, John, Lombard ct, Clement's lane, Wine Merchant. April 18 at 2 at offices of Cooper, King's Arms yd. Solomon, Finsbury pavement Thomas, Thomas, Saint Issells, Pembroke, Mason. April 21 at 11.30 at 2, Water st, Pembroke Dock. Thomas, Tenby Tibbetts, Elizabeth, Cradley, Worcester, Licensed Victualler. April 12 at 11 at offices of Wright, High st, Cradley Heath, near Brierley hill Tilley, Richard Wallington, Talbot rd, Bayswater, of no occupation. April 11 at 11 at offices of Browne, Lower James st, Golden sq. Tilsley, St Benet's pl, Gracechurch st Turner, William, Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Draper. April 14 at 2 at offices of Bright, High st, Burton-on-Trent Valler, William, Trafalgar sq, Chelsea, Lodging House Keeper. April 14 at 3 at offices of Cooper and Co, Lincoln's inn fields Walter, William John, Redhill, Surrey, Grocer. April 13 at 11.30 at offices of Hubbard and Gant, Station rd, Redhill Ward, Henry, Preston, Lancaster, Builder. April 13 at 3 at offices of Edelston and Son, Winckley st, Preston Webb, George, Leicester, Grocer. April 14 at 3 at offices of Hollier and Battiscombe, Market pl, Leicester Whitney, George James, Manchester, Draper. April 13 at 3 at offices of Burton, Cross st, Manchester. Watson, Oldham Wilkinson, John, Shipley, York, Yarn Salesman. Apr 5 at 3 at offices of Peel and Co, Wilson, Joseph, Pontefract, Innkeeper. Apr 14 at 2 at office of Spink, Pontefract Andrews, Joseph, St John st, West Smithfield, Wholesale Stationer. April 19 at 3 at offices of Cotton, St Martin's le Grand Baker, Frank, Cardiff, Accountant. April 13 at 11 at offices of Morris, High st, Cardiff Bakker, Bastianus Joannes, Exmouth st, Clerkenwell, Cheesemonger. April 21 at 3 at offices of Croft, Union ct, Old Broad st Barrans, Marmaduke Davis, Manchester, Solicitor's Clerk. Agril 21 at 2 at B Com mittee room, Old Townhall, King st, Manchester. Cobbett and Co, Manchester. Bartlett, George Cresser, Neath, Glamorgan, Fruiterer. April 14 at 11 at offices of Cuthbertson, Water st, Neath Billcliff, William, Batley, York, Carrier. April 19 at 10.30 at offices of Law, Crown Commercial st, Batley Bird, Edward Ransford, and Thomas Gibbs Bird, Bristol, Carpet Warehousemen. April 26 at 3 at offices of Curtis and Co, Exchange buildings, Bristol. Brittans and Co, Bristol Blatchley, Edwin, Princes st, Westminster, Licensed Victualler. April 20 at 2 at offices of Robinson and Leslie, Coleman st Bloomfield, George, Edgware rd, Licensed Victualler. April 24 at 3 at offices of Nevett, Warwick ct, Gray's inn Bowers, George Henry, Whaley Bridge, Derby, Licensed Victualler. Apr 20 at 3 at office of Sutton and Elliott, Fountain st, Manchester Bradshaw, Thomas, Prees, Salop, Pig Dealer. Apr 15 at 11 at office of Etches, Brownlow st, Whitchurch Bunn, John, Gt Yarmouth, Shoemaker. Apr 17 at 12 at office of Bavin and Daynes, Exchange st, Norwich Burn, Joseph, North Shields, out of business. Apr 12 at 3 at office of Sewell, Grey st, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Burnand, Walter, Chichester, Outfitter. Apr 21 at 12 at office of Edmonds and Co, Cheapside. Janman, Chichester Bush, Henry, Liverpool, Fish Dealer. Apr 17 at 2.30 at office of Bremner and Co, Crosshall st, Liverpool Butterworth, Edmund, Bury, Lancaster, Clogger. Apr 17 at 3 at office of Grundy, Union Coles, Thomas Henry, Well st, Oxford st, Butcher. Apr 13 at 3 at office of Collens, Collinson, Walter, Manchester, out of business, Apr 18 at 12 at office of Stringer, Byrom st, Manchester Cornes, George, Baddily, Chester, Wheelwright. Apr 17 at 2 at offices of Lisle, Nantwich Coslett, John Levi, Liverpool, Butcher. Apr 14 at 3 at offices of Gibson and Bolland, South John st, Liverpool Blackhurst and Fretson, Liverpool Crisp, James, Wisbech, Cambridge, Boot Maker. Apr 22 at 2.30 at offices of Cranfield, the Quay, Saint Ives, Hunts Crouch, Thomas, Hastings, Sussex, Market Gardener. Apr 13 at 3 at 30, Norman rd, St Leonard's on Sea. Neve Davies, Edmund, Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Draper. Apr 19 at 11 at office of Rees, Cowbridge Dendy, John, and John Russell Beard, Manchester, Silk Manufacturers. Apr 21 at 3 in No. 4 Committee Room, New Townhall, Lloyd st, Manchester. Sale and Co, Man. chester Discombe, Thomas Walter, Washfield, Devon, Farmer. Apr 12 at 11 at Corn Exchange Hotel, Market st, Exeter. Fryer, Exeter Dunn, John, Penge, Boot and Shoe Maker. Apr 20 at 3 at 27, Chancery lane. Carter, Budge row East, Frank, Salford, out of business. Apr 18 at 3 at offices of Blakeway, Deansgate, Manchester Evans, Eliza Jane, Wolverhampton, Grocer. Apr 20 at 11 at offices of Willcock, Queen st, Wolverhampton Eves, Thomas Henry, Birmingham, Last Manufacturer. Apr 14 at 12 at office of Cottrell, Temple row, Birmingham Fasey, William, and Richard Fasey, Kingswinford, Stafford, Girder Manufacturers. Apr 14 at 11 at office of Homfray and Holberton, High st, Brierly Hill Fenner, John, Sabbarton st, Poplar, Baker. Apr 14 at 3 at office of Sydney, Guildhall chmbrs, Basinghall st Fitt, Robert, Derby, Printer. Apr 18 at 3 at offices of Flint, Full st, Derby Fletcher, Thomas Frame, Wilton Lodge, Bellvue, Staines, Commercial Clerk. Apr 20 at 2 at office of Chapman, Pancras lane Gowlland, Stephen, Guildford, Grocer. Apr 14 at 3 at 6, Arthur st East, London bridge. May and Co, Adelaide pl Green, John, Liverpool, Corn Dealer. Apr 19 at 2 at office of Davis, the Temple, Dale st, Liverpool Griffiths, James Henry, Pendleton, Salford, Joiner. Apr 12 at 3 at office of Simpson and Hockin, Mount st, Albert sq, Manchester Hague, Daniel, Ashton under Lyne, Lancaster, Poultry Dealer. Apr 14 at 3 at the Dol Hall, John, York, Tea and Coffee Dealer. Apr 17 at 11 at offices of Crumbie, Stonegate phin Hotel, Shudehill, Manchester. Sherratt, Manchester Hanker, William, Tamworth, Warwick, out of business. Apr 14 at 2 at offices of Jagger, Cherry st, Birmingham Hardwicke, William, Bath, Printer. Apr 15 at 11 at offices of Titley, Orange grove, Bath Harper, Thomas William, and James Bloom Harper, Southampton, Grocers. Apr 17 at 12 at Inns of Court Hotel, Holborn. Savidge and Steward, Eastcheap Hawkins, John, Golden lane, Builder. Apr 28 at 3 at offices of Hulbert, Coleman st Hibbert, John, Hulme, Lancaster, Sawyer. Apr 17 at 3 at Old Townhall, King st, Manchester. Welsh, Manchester Hinves, Joseph, and Joseph Hinves, jun, Upper Tooting, Surrey, Builders. Apr 13 at 2 at offices of Nazer, Chancery lane Hobman, George William, Leeds, Grocer. Apr 14 at 3 at offices of Dunn and French, East parade, Leeds Holder, George, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, Gas Fitter. Apr 18 at 1 at Tapper's Railway Hotel, Wimborne Minster. Wade, Bournemouth Honeywill, John, Johnson pl, Harrow rd, Grocer. Apr 18 at 2 at offices of Carter and Bell, Eastcheap Horswell, John, St Thomas the Apostle, Devon, Miller. Apr 17 at 3 at office of Burch, Palace gate, Exeter Horton, James, Leeds, General Warehouseman. Apr 19 at 3 at offices of Laycock and Co, St. George's sq, Huddersfield Israel, David, Sandy's row, Bishopsgate, Butcher. Apr 17 at 3 at offices of Wright and Co, Queen Victoria st Janion, Thomas, Liverpool, Bag and Sack Merchant. Apr 17 at 2 at offices of Etty, Lord st, Liverpool Johnson, William Hick, Dewsbury, Rag Dealer. Apr 17 at 10 at offices of Ridgway and Ridgway, Union st, Dewsbury Jones, Robert Isaac, Tremadoc, Carnarvon, Chemist. Apr 19 at 2 at British Hotel, Kent, James, Stoke-upon-Trent, Licensed Victualler. Apr 17 at 2 at offices of Bishop and Topham, Bank chmbrs, Hanley Lodge, Dyson Shaw, Leeds, Carver. Apr 17 at 11 at offices of Jenkinson, Albion st, Leeds Lown, John, Weymouth ter, Hackney rd, Boot Maker. Apr 11 at 3 at 262, High Holborn. Staniland, King st, Cheapside Lussi, Bassilio, Hastings, Sussex, Restaurant Proprietor. Apr 20 at 12 at office of Phillips, Cambridge rd, Hastings Maile, William Robert, St Ikes, Huntingden, Innkeeper. Apr 19 at 3 at office of Cranfield, the Quay, St Ives Massey, Thomas, Manchester, Boot Maker. Apr 14 at 3 at office of Knowles, Tib lane, Manchester May, Arthur, Nottingham, Grocer. Apr 18 at 4 at office of Cockayne, Fletcher-gate, Nottingham Milburn, William, Hollingsworth, Chester, Millwright. Apr 17 at 3 at office of Smith and Brother, Hyde lane, Hyde Millard, Edward, Cholsey, Berks, Farmer. Apr 17 at 3 at office of Slade, St Martin's Moore, William, Leicester, Boot Maker. Apr 17 at 12 at office of Harvey, Selborne Mountford, Jaces Seba, Silk st, Milton st, Lamp Dealer. Munden, Ann, Handsworth, Stafford, Licensed Victualler. Nicholls, John, Stourbridge, Worcester, Coachbuilder. Apr 18 at 11 at office of Apr 17 at 12 at offices of Wall, Noble, James, Whitwood Mere, nr Castleford, Grocer. Apr 24 at 11 at North Eastern Orme, Thomas John, Cheadle, Stafford, Grocer. Apr 18 at 3 at Railway Hotel, Stoke- Osbaldeston, William, Harrogate, York, Herbalist. Apr 18 at 10 at office of Black. Palliser, William, York, Hairdresser. Apr 18 at 11 at offices of Smith, Petergate, Parsons, John, Birmingham, out of business. Apr 20 at 12 at offices of Burman and Peregrine, James, Llanelly, Carmarthen, Stationer. Apr 17 at 11 at offices of Randell, Pickering, Robert, Aston, Warwick, Grocer. Apr 17 at 3 at office of Wright and Mar- Pindar, Elizabeth, York, Wire Weaver. Apr 17 at 2.30 at Abbott's Gt Northern Hotel, Read, Joseph, Norton Canes, Stafford, Victualler. Apr 18 at 11 at office of Loxton, The Rigg, Joseph, Coventry, Farmer. Apr 12 at 12 at King's Head Hotel, Coventry. Twist Rogers, Robert, Pitfield st, Hoxton, Cabinet Maker. Apr 18 at 3 at office of Mason, Ryman, Henry, Bath, Publican. Apr 8 at 12 at office of Tyzack, York st, Bath Sanderson, John, Guisboro', York, out of business. Apr 13 at 11 at office of Draper, Saul, Thomas, Oldbury, Worcester, Licensed Victualler. Apr 15 at 12 at office of Wright Savery, William, Hastings, Sussex, Solicitor. Apr 13 at 2 at offices of Mann, Claremont, Sharpe, Fred, Coningsby, Lincoln, Grocer. Apr 19 at 1 at Queen's Hotel, High st, Shearing, Samuel William, Bristol, Watchmaker. Apr 18 at 12 at offices of Selmon, Sheen, Henry, Camden st, Walworth, Flour Factor. Apr 15 at 11 at Hare chambers, Sheppard, James, Sundridge, Kent, Builder. Apr 12 at 12 at office of Knocker, London Slee, William Henry and Daniel Wilson, Carlisle, Joiners. Apr 20 at 2 at Lion and Smith, Charles Septimus, Houndsditch, General Sheffield Merchant. Apr 20 at 3 at Stanley, John, Bradford, Beerhouse Keeper. Apr 17 at 3 at office of Rhodes, Parkinson's chmbrs, Market st, Bradford Stott, George, St Helens, Lancaster, Grocer. Apr 17 at 3 at office of Riley, Hardshaw Symons, James, Plymouth. Dairyman. Apr 14 at 12 at office of Bray, Courtenay st, Thomas, Owen, Llandebie, Carmarthen, Coal Merchant. Apr 18 at 2 at Royal Hotel, SCHWEITZER'S COCOATINA, Arti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chocolate Powder. Topham, John, Brighton-le-Sands, Lancaster, Baker. Apr 18 at 3 at office of Harris Tranter, Edward, Kingswinford, Stafford, Licensed Victualler. Apr 15 at 11 at office of Tyler, George, Stone, Worcester, Farmer. Apr 14 at 3 at office of Bagster, Commercial Urwin, Thomas, Gateshead, Durham, Provision Dealer. Apr 14 at 3 at office of Sewell, Viccars, Richard, Padbury, Buckingham, Commission Agent. Wain, Philip, jun, Little Eaton, Derby, Licensed Victualler. 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LONDON GAZETTE (published by authority) and HE ENRY GREEN, Advertisement Agent, begs to direct the attention of the Legal Profession to the advantages of his long experience of upwards of notices, &c., and hereby solicits their continued support.N.B. One copy of advertisement only required, and the strictest care and promptitude assured. Official stamped forms for advertisement and file of "London Gazette" kept. By appointment. thirty years, in the special insertion of all pro forma 1 1 CURRENT TOPICS. LONDON, APRIL 15, 1882. THE COURT OF APPEAL will take ex parte motions and appeals from orders made on interlocutory motions on Tuesday, the 18th, and Wednesday, the 19th of April. WE PRINT in another column the order of transfer of seventy causes from the list of Mr. Justice CHITTY to that of Mr. Justice KAY for the purpose of trial or hearing only, to which we referred last week as in preparation. THE PRACTICE which prevailed while Mr. Justice FRY was the non-chamber judge of the Chancery Division, of transferring to him such cases only as were likely to occupy some time in the hearing or trial, does not seem to be kept up in the case of Mr. Justice KAY. The recent transfer includes several administration actions and other actions which will not take any time to hear. By this practice the list becomes speedily exhausted, and frequent transfers are the result. RAPID PROGRESS is being made with the completion of the various courts in the new building of the Royal Courts of Justice. The panelling of the walls, which is about nine feet high, and is of brown oak, is nearly finished in several courts, and the benches and other fittings are sufficiently advanced to enable a good idea to be formed of the arrangements. These are, so far as we can judge, admirably adapted to suit the convenience of practitioners, being apparently a combination of the best features of existing courts. The arrangements for warming and ventilating have been considered with the utmost care, and are the subject of a special contract. The amount of the power required for these purposes may be understood when we mention that there are placed under the central hall six huge boilers. Engines connected with these will be utilized for the production of the electric light, which is to be adopted in the courts, in the first instance as an experiment. IN CORROBORATION of the remarks we made last week upon the possibility of inducing the House of Lords to make extensive alterations in the doctrine of consolidation of mortgages, as it exists at present in the lower courts, we may cite the case of Harter v. Colman, decided about six weeks ago by Mr. Justice FRY (Weekly Notes, 1882, p. 23). In consequence of the unfavour able criticism, to which we adverted in our article, passed by the Lords in the case of Jennings v. Jordan (30 W. R. 369, L. R. 6 App. Cas. 698), upon the case of Beevor v. Luck (15 W. R. 1221, L. R. 4 Eq. 537), the learned judge declined to follow the latter case's ruling, and held that a mortgagee acquiring a mortgage subsequently to the assignment of the corresponding equity of redemption, cannot consolidate this mortgage with others as against the assignee of the equity of redemption. We may also remark that Beevor v. Luck was questioned by the late Lord Justice JAMES in Cummings v. Fletcher (28 W. R. 272, L. R. 14 Ch. D. 699), but upon quite a different point, which it may be said to have laid down for the first time in addition to that commented upon in Jennings v. Jordan, namely, that a security given by a partner for his own private debt could be consolidated with a security given by him with others jointly for a partnership debt. This point is not identical with the analogous point decided in Tassell v. Smith (6 W. R. 803, 2 De G. & J. 713), because in the latter case the joint assignors were not joint owners, and the debt was not a partnership debt, SOME DISCUSSION has recently taken place in the American legal journals on the subject of legal digesting and indexing, and we think that attention might not unprofitably be turned to this subject in England. As regards Digests, it appears to us that the Law Reports some time ago introduced a completely erroneous principle. The Digests issued from time to time by the other current series of reports have always proceeded on the plan of selecting, wherever it is possible, broad general headings, grouping under sub-headings the cases falling under these general headings, and inserting for the cases falling under these general headings, and for others which do not come within them, cross-references under so many of the titles as are necessary to secure that no one looks in vain for any point in the Digest. The Digest published by the Law Reports in 1870 introduced a new principle of arrangement. There is not a single case given under most of the general headings, but only a series of references to other places. Thus, to take one of the best-known headings, "Landlord and Tenant," there are about a hundred references to other parts of the Digest, including eleven relating to distress-as, for instance, "Distress by opening a window which is shut but not fastened.See Entry by opening window." As there happens to be no such heading in the Digest as "Entry by opening window," this is embarrassing; but, even when such mistakes do not occur, consider the trouble and annoyance which this mode of arrangement occasions to the practitioner who wants to run his eye over all the recent cases relating to distress. Consider, also, the difficulty occasioned to persons who cannot remember or guess the minutiae of a case sufficiently to look for it at once under the word which relates to a small detail. And again, consider the labour thus occasioned to anyone who wants to note up his text-books on particular subjects. We refer to this matter now because in the Consolidated Digest recently issued by the Council of Law Reporting we observe with satisfaction that this absurd principle has been departed from to a considerable extent. We have now, under the heading of "Landlord and Tenant," fifteen sub-headings, comprising the most important branches, and with the cases arranged under each sub-heading. These are followed by cross-references to miscellaneous points relating to the subject. We hope this is an indication that the evil experiment has been abandoned, and that we are now to return to the old and convenient principle. As regards indexes to law books, we have come across many quaint instances illustrating the practice of their preparation without any definite principle. We could point to a work which has a general heading in the index "New," followed by sub-heads such as and to another book in the index to which there is first a general heading "Judge," with a sub-heading "Single"; followed by another general heading "Judges, and see Judge." Hunting and Trespassing," which reminds us of the heading in there is another legal work which has a heading "Vermin-see the index to the North Carolina Statutes, "Stud-horses-see Religious Societies." "Trial"; And THE POINT decided last week by the Court of Appeal in Tucker v. Linger was an interesting one, and, perhaps, deserved more careful consideration than, judging from the report we print in another column, the court seems to have given to it. In districts lying on chalk soil flints are in great demand for the purpose of repairing roads, and the best flints for this purpose are those which are gathered from the surface of lands, where they have been exposed to the air for some considerable time. It appears from the evidence in the case referred to that it is the custom in these districts for tenants of farms to sell these surface flints and pocket the proceeds. The defendant, the tenant, alleged that this custom had been incorporated in his agreement of tenancy. Two of the learned judges of the Court of Appeal held that the custom showed upon its face that the court had exceeded its jurisdiction, WE VENTURED Some time ago to suggest that section 70 of the Conveyancing Act, 1881, might, unless applied in a somewhat guarded spirit, open an easy door to fraud. It seems, however, not to be the policy of the Court of Appeal to make any very strenuous efforts to restrict it. The section enacts that " an order of the court under any statutory or other jurisdiction shall not as against a purchaser be invalidated on the ground of want of jurisdiction, or of want of any concurrence, consent, notice, or service, whether the purchaser has notice of any such want or not ; and the 2nd sub-section applies this rule to the Settled Estates Act, notwithstanding the exception in section 40 of that Act, which provides that an order may be impeached for want of the concurrence or consent of the proper parties. It will be seen from the report of In re Hall Dare's Contract, which we print in another column, that hardly anything could exceed the liberality of the interpretation put upon these enactments by the Court of Appeal. The salient point is, that, while the order FOR BETTING? CERTAINLY the niceties of the law have their ludicrous aspects, By the 16 & 17 Vict. c. 119, s. 3, any person who, being The judges who decided the case expressed themselves as very 3 thereto. We are not surprised at this. The decision seems to us about as is a "place" used by him for betting with persons who resort great a stretch of language as it is possible to conceive. A place no doubt, in one sense is a greater or less portion of space. Grove, J., in his judgment, protested against the question London is a place in one sense, and a person who makes a bet in of the magistrates, which asked whether the box was the London uses a place for the purpose of betting, and if he bets" place," saying, as far as we understand him, that it is the box habitually with persons in London he may perhaps be said to use and its site that constitute the place. Of course, as a piece of the place for the purpose of betting with persons resorting thereto; verbal criticism, this is true, but inasmuch as it seems to be but it is obvious that such wide and abstract significations are admitted on all hands that the site without the box or some not contemplated by legal enactments. According to the ordinary equivalent would not have been a place, the substantial question canon of construction some definite place ejusdem generis with is whether the box when occupying the site is a "place." We "house, office, or room must be meant. It is, therefore, clear are afraid that these prodigious exertions to stretch the formula that the Legislature intended to stop short of an enactment sufficiently to include all forms of the mischief supposed to be against the business of betting at large. What may be called aimed at are unavailing, and that, strain as the law will at its ambulatory betting is not within the purview of the enactment. chain of words, the betting confraternity will succeed in just It is quite obvious, indeed, that if it had been, other language keeping out of its reach. Would a pair of high clogs in which a would have been employed. There may have been many reasons man stands at a particular spot be a place? We can hardly see for this. We believe the places known as betting offices were why, according to some of the expressions used by Grove, J., it really what was aimed at, and the Legislature, certainly not being should not be, and yet surely the words cannot be stretched to disposed to make all betting illegal, may have thought it impossible that length. It has been held that where a man stood by a to draw the line between betting pursued as a business and as an particular tree to bet with those resorting to him there, it was amusement. Again, the place in question must be a place capable not sufficient. It seems difficult to think that there can be so of being owned or occupied as a house, office, or room is said to much virtue in a box or three-legged stool. If a man persistbe owned or occupied. I occupy in the course of a morning's ently stands at a particular spot to bet, he does not use a place for walk a good many places, but it is obvious that the mere occupa- betting. If he persistently stands on a stool at a particular place tion of space is not meant. to bet, he does. This seems to us to favour much of what the gravedigger called "good Crowner's Quest law.' We are not sorry that obstacles should be thrown in the way of the bookmaker. To our mind a more pestilent member of society could hardly be found, but we do not believe in stretching the words of penal enactments, however great the apparent advantage to be secured thereby. Starting, therefore, with the limitation that "place" must be something ejusdem generis with "house, office, or room," we should say that, according to the ordinary and reasonable meaning of words, something in the nature of a substantial structure was requisite to satisfy the words. We do not say that it need be permanent or that it need be fixed to the earth. A booth, a tent, a moveable van, occupying a place temporarily for the purpose of betting, would be sufficient. All those things seem to us to do no violence to the words. But of course such structures, though convenient, are not essential to the bookmaker's business. If he selects some fixed spot at a race-meeting, with some sufficient advertisement of his calling and a conspicuous mark for identification, that is all that is essential. Accordingly in the case of Bows v. Fenwick (L. R. 9 C. P. 339) the respondent employed a stool with a large spiked nmbrella fixed in the ground, with his name painted in large letters thereon. This was held to be a "place" within the meaning of the Act. We cannot help doubting whether this decision is correct. No doubt it may be said that a spiked umbrella is but a small tent, and if a tent might be a place, then why not a spiked umbrella? But it seems to us that this is going too far as a matter of construction. You have not got to see merely whether the thing was within the mischief of the Act. Admittedly, it must come within the words. Again, you have not got merely to see whether the thing is a place." mittedly, "place," in its broadest abstract meaning, is not what is intended. The question is whether it can fairly be said to be a "place" ejusdem generis with "house, office, or room." It is not, to our mind, enough of a structure to be fairly said to be so. Some absurdity there must be in the process known as drawing the line. It may be, to some extent, absurd that a small tent affixed with ropes and pegs to the ground should be a place, but that a spiked umbrella should not; but, on the other hand, it seems to us that a greater absurdity still is ultimately involved by the line of decisions of which Bows v. Fenwick is one. 66 THE JUDICIAL STATISTICS. CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS. THERE was a decrease in the number of persons for trial in England and Wales in 1880 of 1,618, or 9.8 per cent. This is the smallest number since the year 1875, and with the exception of that year the smallest number during the last twenty years. The decrease shown in the year 1880 is stated to be, to some extent, due to the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, which came into operation on the 1st of January, 1880. The latter number 6,089 were tried at quarter sessions, 1,920 at Middlesex county sessions, 3,144 at borough sessions, 2,497 at assizes, and 1,120 at the Central Criminal Court. Of these 14,770 persons sent for trial, 33 were not prosecuted or were admitted as witnesses; against 586 no bills were found, and 2,897 were found not guilty; 16 were acquitted on the ground of insanity, and 24 were found insane. The remaining 11,214 were conAd-victed, of whom 28 were sentenced to death, 1,523 to penal servitude, and 9,147 to imprisonment; 183 were sent to reformatories, and 333 were the numbers for trial was 75.9 per cent. On liberation from prison fined or discharged on sureties. The proportion of the convictions to 1,433 of the persons committed will become liable to police supervision under the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871. In 1880 it appears that 28 persons, of whom 7 were females, were sentenced to death for murder; 13, who were all males, were executed, and the sentences of the remaining 15 were commuted to terms of penal servitude. numbers for trial in 1879 were 16,388, and in 1880, 14,770. Of this The umbrella being thus determined to be illegal, the bookmakers appear to have dropped it, and in the case under discussion only the box in place of a stool was used. The use of something to elevate the betting-man above the general crowd seems, if not essential, at any rate highly useful in the exercise of his avocation. The advertisement of his calling and the conspicuous mark of identification may be by means of a hat of great altitude and startling colour with a name thereon, or some similar device, without any umbrella or post or other structural expedient. Probably with some such equipment as this, and his light box to be used as a platform for operations, Mr. Maries sallied forth. The law has now knocked his box or stool from under him. But really to any person endowed with some breadth of view and sense of humour it is obvious that the decisions have gone a great way when it is held that a light portable stool which a man carries about with him and puts up when occasion requires CROWN CASES RESERVED. Twelve cases were, during 1880, submitted to the Court of Criminal Appeal, in one of which two persons were concerned. In 1879 there were 7 cases so submitted. In 7 of the cases submitted in 1880 the conviction was affirmed and in 5 reversed. COSTS OF CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS. cost assizes and quarter sessions and at the Central Criminal Court, and for |