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Anderson, James, and John Jeremiah Yellowley, Newcastle-uponTyne, Shipbrokers. Feb 28 at 1.30 at offices of Mather and Co, Mos. ley st, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Ascher, Jacob, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, General Dealer. Feb 23 at 2 at offices of Benning. High st, Gateshead-on-Tyne

Auty, John, Dewsbury, York, Confectioner, Mar 1 at 11 at offices of
Carter, Union st, Dewsbury. Stapleton
Baker, James, Steyning, Sussex, Grocer.

Mar 1 at 2 at offices of
Edmonds and Co, Cheapside. Flowers, Steyning
Bartlett, Alfred William Rowsell, Pitney, Somerset, Yeoman.
Feb 26 at 11.330 at offices of Reed and Cook, Paul st, Taunton
Batt, George, Bath, Fishmonger. Feb 25 at 3 at offices of Clark,

Union st, Bath

Barten, George, Stapleton, Gloucester, Grocer. Feb 28 at 2 at offices of Sibley, Exchange West, Bristol

Berry, Henry, Heckmondwike, York, Wheelwright. Feb 25 at 3 at
offices of Sykes, Ings grove, Heckmondwike
Blaxland, Alfred Denne, Canterbury, Dentist. Mar 2 at 12 at Queen's
Head Inn, Canterbury. Davidson and Morriss, Queen Victoria st,
Mansion House

Brailey, Joseph, Huddersfield, York, Coach Builder. Feb 28 at 11 at
offices of Johnson and Crook, Market walk, Huddersfield
Brealey, Henry, Woodville, near Burton-on-Trent, Builder. Feb 28
at 3 st offices of East, Temple st, Birmingham
Brice, Henry, Towcester, Northampton, Shoe Dealer.
at offers of Sheppard, Towcester

Chilten, Jacob, West Bromwich, Stafford, Coal Master.

Feb 28 at 3

Narch 1 at

Il at offices of Jackson and Sharpe, High st, West Bromwich Clarke, Robert, jun, Blackwall, Licensed Victualler. Feb 28 at 3 at offices of Steer and Knight, Basinghall st. Mason, North bldgs, Finsbury

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Clough, Howell Hedd Lloyd, St Lawrence rd, Notting hill, Gentlema!. Feb 28 at 2 at Cannon st Hotel. King, Martin's lane, CanCoe, Arthur, Chilton st, Bethnal Green rd, Carman. Feb 28 at 12 at offices of Beard and Sons, Basinghall st

Cola, Samuel William, Taunton, Somerset, Jeweller.

Feb 23 at 12 at offices of Benson and Carpenter, Bank chambers Corn st, Bristo!

Cooner, Edwin, Warwick, Butcher. Feb 25 at 1 at offices of Sanderson, Church st, Warwick

Comer, Johu, Bath, Oil Merchant. Feb 28 at 12 at offices of Wilton and Sous, Westgate buildings, Bath

Corrigan, James, and Edwin Charleson, Oldham, Tailors. Feb 25 at 3 at Mitre Hotel, Cathedral gates, Manchester. Buckley and Vazineson

Coventry, Henry Aubrey, Fulham rd, Esq. March 9 at 2 at Cannon st Hotel, Cannon st. Sydney, Finsbury circus Dale, John, Burton-on-Trent, Auctioneer.

Feb 28 at 12 at offices

of Jerings and Cc, High st, Burton on Trent Davies, Thomas, Llaufihangelystrad, Cardigan, Draper. Feb 28 at 2 at offices of Lloyd, High st, Lampeter

Densis. Frederick William, Coggeshall, Essex, Licensed Victualler.
Mar 5 at 1 at offices of Davison, Finsbury pavement
Denar, Peter, Upsall, York, Tailor.
Barron, High row, Darlington

Mar 3 at 11 at offices of

Dey, Jalez, Gamlinhay, Cambridge, Farmer. Feb 28 at 11 at offices of Wade Gery, Saint Neots, Hunts

Deker, Henry Philip, and Henry John Dicker, Exeter, Organ
Balders. Mar 2 at11 at offices of Campion, Bedford circus, Exeter |
Dr. Tomas, Richmond, Surrey, Draper. Mar 10 at 2 at Law
Settalion, Chancery lane. Thomson and Ward, Bedford row
Denning, George Tom, and Joseph Merifield, Howey st, Battersea,
Timer Merchants. Mar 1 at 3 at Guildhall Coffee Tavern,
Gresham St. Young, Newgate st

E.wards, William Alfred, Goldington, Bedford, Coal Merchant.
Mar 2 at 3 at offices of Conquest and Clare, Duke st, Bedford
Emerton, Joseph Wright, Boston, Lincoln. Boot and Shoe Maker,
Feb 28 at 12.30 at offices of Dyer, Church lane, Boston
Evans, John Thomas, Pwllheli, Carnarvon, Bookseller. Feb 26 at
115 at British Hotel, Baugor. Breese and Co, Pwllheli
Farmer, Willi: n, Bewdley. Worcester, out of business. Mar 7 at 3
ates of Thursfield, Swan st, Kidderminster

Firth, Joan, Halfax, Plumber. Feb 28 at 3 at offices of Learoyd ed Co, Buxton rd, Huddersfield

Fatcher, Joseph Edward, Dover, Merchant's Clerk. Feb 28 at 3 at The Raval Oak Hotel, Dov-r. Ward, Folkstone

Foster, John, Birkenhead, Boot and Shoe Maker. March 7 at 3 at offices of Hazman and Pugh, Birkenhead

Foster, Thomas Martin, Sheffeld, York, Chair Maker. March 1 at 11 at others of Porrett, Bank st, Sheffleld

F, Edward. St Margarets, ur Dover, Baker. Feb 28 at 2 at the Boys) Oak Hotel, Dover. Ward, Folkstone

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Charles, Stanford Dingley, Berks, Farmer. Feb 23 at 11 at offlees of Beale and Martin, London st, Reading er, Edwin, St Paul's, Bristol, Plumber. decs of Sibly, Exchange West, Bristol

Feb 28 at 12 at offices

Gore, Edwin, Broadstairs, Kent, Upholsterer. Feb 28 at 2 at
the Gapdball Coffee house, Guildhall. Sparkes, Ramsgate
Gerry, S'amuel, Satcombe, Devon, Draper. Feb 25 at 12 at offices of
Torte, Castest, Barnstaple

Jan, Sherburn, ur South Milford, York, out of business. Feb 25 at 1 at the Railway Station Hotel. Rhodes, Sherburn, South Milfor

Gerler, Frederick Christopher, Harpley, Norfolk, out of business. Feb 25 at 11 at offices of Bircham, Fakenham

Green, Joseph, Kendal, Westmorland, Joiner. March 4 at 11.30 at the Board Room, Market pl, Kendal. Thompson and Wilson,

Kemal

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coln, Wholesale Grocers. Mar 3 at 3 at offices of Falkner and Owen, Eastgate, Lonth Feb 28 at 2 at

Humphreys, Robert, Walton, nr Liverpool, Saddler. offices of Williams, James st, Liverpool

Ives, John Parker, Gorleston, Suffolk, Fish Merchant. Feb 28 at 12 at offices of Blake, Hall Quay chmbrs, Gt Yarmouth. Palmer, Gt Yarmonth Jackson, Samuel, Liversedge, York, Foreman Quarryman. Feb 23 at 3 at Swan Hotel, Mill bridge, Liversedge. Mitcheson, Heckmondwike. Jeffries, William Richard, Romilly ter, Paddington, Oil and Colour Man. Mar 2 at 3 at offices of Knight, Basinghall st. Mason, North bldgs, Finsbury

Jennings, London wall, Commission Agent. Mar 1 at 11 at offices of Godden, Queen st pl, Cannon st

Jones, Edwin, Chorlton-upon-Medlock,

Manchester, Plumber.

Feb 28 at 3 at offices of Tremewen, Ward's bldgs, Deansgate, Manchester

Jones, John Benjamin, Clydach, nr Swansea, Draper. Feb 21 at 2 at White Bear Hotel, Piccadilly, Manchester. Hartland and Co, Swansea

Jones, Richard, Birkenhead, Chester, House and Ship Furnisher, and Catherine Parr Jones, his wife. March 3 at 11 at Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Thompson, Birkenhead Kenyon, James Henry Turnor, Ashborne, Derby, Veterinary Sur geon. March 7 at 3 at Green Man Hotel, Ashborne. Wise and Co, Ashborne

Kiddle, Francis, and Thomas Kiddle, Totterdown, Bristol, Bullders. Feb 23 at 3 at offices of Brown, Corn st, Bristol

King, Frederick, Plaistow, Essex, Potato Salesman. March 1 at 12.30 at Swan Hotel, Biggleswade. Brett, Mincing lane Liddall, William Dyke, Mortlake, Surrey, Grocer. March 1 at 2 at offices of Wyvill, Hill st, Richmond. Philp, Walbrook Littlebury, John, Croydon, Surrey, Grocer. Feb 25 at 3 at offices of Chipperfield, Trinity st, Southwark

Lowe, Thomas, Skelton, Cleveland, York, Shoemaker. Feb 28 at 3 at offices of Bainbridge and Barnley, Albert rd, Middlesborough Mahony, William, Halifax, Woollen Draper. March 1 at 11 at Creditors' Association, Crown st, Halifax

Feb 25 at 3 at

Moody, William, Aston juxta Birmingham, Painter. offices of Duke, Temple row, Birmingham Nicholas, Thomas, Carmarthen, Poultry Dealer. Feb 28 at 10.5 at offices of Morris, Red st, Carmarthen

Norledge, Richard Laycock, Bowness, Westmorland, Fish Dealer. Mar 3 at 3 at Queen's Hotel, Windermere. Dobson, Kendal

Owen, Thomas, Nantddu, Rhydyfen, Bala, Merioneth, Beer Dealer. Feb 21 at Wynnstay Arms Hotel, Wrexham, in lieu of the place originally named

Palmer, George Robson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Clerk. Feb 26 at 11 at offlees of Fenwick, Jarrow-on-Tyne

Gross

Mar 1 at 12 at the

Palmer, Joseph, Wigston Magna, Leicester, Builder. Mar 3 at 12 at offices of Shires, Market st, Leicester Parker, Edward, Bury St Edmunds, Draper. Guildhall Bury St Edmunds. Parker, Richard, Burnley, Lancaster, Wine and Spirit Merchant. Mar 1 at 2 at Stork Hotel, Liverpool. Hodgson, Burnley Payton, Frederick, Saltley, nr Birmingham, out of business. Feb 25 at 11 at offices of Davies, Bennett's hill, Birmingham Pearson, Reuben Gillins, Eckington, Derby, Grocer. Feb 25 at 3 at at offices of Camm and Corbidge, Norfolk st, Sheffield. Stend and Sibree, Kidgston-upon-Hull

Plummer, John, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Grocer. Feb 25 at 12 at 32, Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells. Andrew and Cheale, Tunbridge Wells

Pott, William Henry, Southport, Lancaster, Joiner. Mar 1 at 3 at Palatine Hotel, Victoria st, Manchester. Buck and Dicksons, Southport

Potter, Hezekiah, Stapenhill, Derby, Brickmaker. Feb 25 at 11 at offices of Jennings and Co, High st

Powell, Edwin, and Samuel Trusselle, Wolverhapton, Coach Makers.
March 4 at 11 at offices of Gatis, King st, Wolverhampton
Pratt, Thomas Hayman, Warwick, Maltster. Feb 25 at 11 at offices
of Sanderson, Church lane, Warwick

Preston, James, Old st, Shoreditch, Plane Manufacturer. March
10 at 2 at offices of Lousada and Emmanuel, Austin Friars
Priest, George Thomas, Hill st, Knightsbridge, Tailor. Feb 21 at 3
at offices of Dear, Gresham st

Purkiss, William John, Milford lane, Strand, Licensed Victualler. Feb 21 at 2 at offices of Lynch, Chancery lane Quinton, Thomas, Owthorn, York, Shoemaker. Feb 24 at 2 at offices of Watson and Sou, Parliament st, Kingston-upon-Hull Rainbow, Robert Francis, Stratford-upon-Avon, Coal Dealer, Feb 26 at 3 at Seven Stars Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon. Lane Raymond, Charles, Chipping Norton, Oxford, Baker.

Feb 28 at 11

at Crown and Cushion Hotel, Chipping Norton. Kilby and Mace, Chipping Norton

Robinson, Henry, Weybridge, Surrey, Wine Merchant. March 1 at 3 at offices of Cooper, Lincoln's in fields

Robinson, Isaac, Dewsbury, York, Tinner. Feb 28 at 10.15 at offices of scholes and Son, Leeds rd, Dewsbury

Rogers, John, Afonwen, Flint, Butcher. Feb 21 at 3 at the Bull Hotel, Denbigh. Mwyndeg Evans, Holywell

Roper, Adam, Hornchurch, Essex, Farmer. Feb 21 at 12 at offices of Preston, Mark lane

Rowley, David, Tipton, Stafford, Provision Dealer. March 1 at 11 at offices of Travis, Church lane, Tipton

Sage, Henry, Bonsal terrace. Peckham, Baker. March 1 at 12 at offices of Cummins and Co, Union court, Old Broad st Seymour, Robert, Dewsbury, York, Bricklayer. March 2 at 10,30 at offices of Ridgway and Ridgway, Union st, Dewsbury Sharley, William George, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottingham, Innkeeper. March at 3 at offices of Acton, Victoria st, Nottingham Sharp, Thomas, South Shields, out of business. Feb 26 at 10 at offices of Newlands, King st, South Shields Shipley, John, Owston, Lincoln, Potato Merchant. the Red Lion Hotel, Epworth. Parkin and Co Simpson, Robert, Tadcaster, York, Farmer. March 1 at 11 at the Bay Horse Inn, Fickering. Harrison, Kirby Moorside

Feb 21 at 12 at

Smith, Joseph, Worlrby, Lincoln, Blacksmith- March 2 at 12 at offices of Sowter, Bigby st, Brigg

Smith, Richard, Clydach, nr Swansea, Provision Merchant. Feb 28 at 11 at 14, Fisher st, Swansea. Hartland and Co, Swansea Smith, William, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Grocer. Feb 26 at 3 at offices of James, Nelson sq, Newcastle-under-Lyme Stone, Frederick, Douglas st, Deptford, Oilman. March 1 at 3 at the New Exchange buildings, George yd, Lombard st. Marchant and Co

Stevens, Williams, Commercial rd East, Butcher. March 7 at 3 at offices of Shearer, Basinghall st. Procter and Andrews, Princess st, Spitalfields

Straw, Thomas, Hanley, Stafford, Tripe Dresser. Feb 19 at 11 at offices of Stevenson, Cheapside, Hanley

Styles, George, Bewdley, Worcester, Grocer. March 1 at 11 at offices of Whitcombe, Lord st, Bewdley

Sullivan, Patrick, Plymouth, Provision Merchant. Feb 28 at 2 at offices of Cleverton and Son, Princess pl chambers, Plymouth Tacey, Thomas, and George Tacey, Leicester, Wholesale Warehousemen. Feb 25 at 3.30 at offices of Owston and Dickinson, Friar lane, Leicester

Theaker, Martin, South Elmsall, York, Cattle Dealer. Feb 28 at 2 at the Crown and Anchor Hotel, Pontefract. Dryden, Wakefield Thomas, Samuel Frank, Swansea, Coal Merchant. Feb 21 at 12 at offices of Richards, Castle sq, Swansea

Turner, Thomas, Ross, Hereford, Agricultural Implement Merchant. Feb 28 at 11 at Bryant's et, Brookend st, Ross. Adams Vallender, George, Eldersfield, Worcester, Innkeeper. March 7 at 1 at offices of Brookes and Badham, Tewkesbury Vann. Thomas, jun, Small Heath, Birmingham, Sugar Boiler. Feb 25 at 3.30 at offices of Green, Ann st, Birmingham

Vickery, Thomas, Bridgwater, Somerset, out of business. March 7 at 12-30 at offices of Brice, York buildings, Bridgwater Wace, John Richard, Baker st, Portman sq, Grocer. March 8 at 3 at the Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Piesse and Son, Old Jewry chambers

Wade, John, Nottingham, Butcher. Feb 28 at 12 at offices of Fraser,
Midland chmbrs, Wheeler gate, Nottingham

Walker, Henry, Barlow, Derby, Colliery Proprietor. Feb 28 at 2 at
Angel Hotel, Chesterfield. Shipton, Chesterfield
Walker, Richard, Tunstall, Stafford, Grocer. Feb 28 at 12 at offices
of Hand and Co, Martin st, Stafford

Warren, George, Saul, Gloucester, Coal Merchant. Feb 28 at 12 at offices of Parker, Newnham

Weare, William Sydney, Birkenhead, Chester, Watchmaker. Mar 8 at 3 at offices of Mawson, Hamilton sq, Birkenhead. Thompson, Birkenhead

Wiggins, Joseph, Ormskirk, Lancaster, Licensed Victualler. Feb 28 at 3 at offices of Mastres and Fletcher, North John st, Liverpool Wilding, Richard, Ross, Hereford, Tailor. Feb 26 at 3.30 at 27 High Town, Hereford. Corner

Williams, Alfred Prosser, Blaina, Monmouth, Builder. Feb 28 at 2 at Queen's Hotel, Newport. Powell, Brynmawr

Wood, Frederic James, Walworth rd, Hosier. Mar 3 at 3 at offices of Andrews and Mason, Ironmonger lane, Cheapside. Dear, Gresham st

Wood, Mary Ann, Southport, Lancaster, Milliner. Feb 28 at 3:30 at offices of Barstow-Jackson, Nevill st, Southport

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BATEMAN NAPIER, LL.B., London, Clifford's-inn, then First Prizeman, Winner of the Incorporated Law Society's only (the Scott) Scholarship for the year 1876, Con. prepares Students, both privately and in class, for the Preliminary, Intermediate, and Final. Students are also carefully prepared through the post. Fifty-three out of sixty of the pupils last sent up have been successful. Classes are now reading for the April Examinations, and will commence for the June on Tuesday, March 8.-For terms, &c., apply, No. 1, Mitre-court-buildings, King's Bench-walk, Temple, E.C.

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IN CONSEQUENCE of the death of the eldest son of Lord Justice COTTON the arrangements for the sittings of the Court of Appeal at Lincoln's-inn this week have been disarranged, and it is now understood that Lord Justice BRETT will sit with the Court of Appeal at Westminster for a fortnight longer at least.

WE UNDERSTAND that the Procedure Committee have resolved to recommend the abolition of pleadings in certain classes of cases. Among other changes which are likely to be recommended are the restriction of the employment of counsel at judges' chambers, and a diminution in the number of assizes from four to three a year, at all of which civil causes shall be taken.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS has during the present session sat on thirty days, yesterday being the thirtieth, and therefore the recent Order in Council which consolidates the common law divisions comes into operation to-day (Saturday). New rules respecting the re-arrangement of the several offices of the abolished divisions will be necessary, but these will be conveniently embodied in the rules which will result from the deliberations of the Procedure Committee and the Committee of Judges.

AN INCIDENT in every way to be deeply regretted has culminated in the publication of the following paragraph in the daily papers :-" We understand that the suggestions on legal procedure, &c., which were published on the 15th of February as having been sent to the Committee now sitting to consider that subject, were sent back immediately on the 17th to the Council of the Incorporated Law Society without being laid before the Committee." The Council of the Incorporated Law Society cannot be congratulated on skill or tact shown in the use of language capable of being construed as conveying a grave imputation on the other branch of the legal profession, when they "had no intention of bringing any accusation against the Bar or any member of it"; nor can the language in which the Procedure Committee have announced their rejection of suggestions, many of which are of great practical value, be said to be dignified or becoming.

ONE OF THE CHANGES resulting from the consolidation of the common law divisions will be the transfer to the Queen' Bench Division of the Suitors' Funds of the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions. According to the last returns the Suitors' Fund in the Queen's Bench Division amounted to £35,788 2s. 6d., that in the Common Pleas Division to £30,874 4s. 9d., and that in the Exchequer Division to £47,452 16s. 1d. The total amount of the Suitors' Fund in the Queen's Bench Division will, therefore, be £114,105 3s. 4d. It is obvious that the extra duty which the management of this fund will entail when it is ultimately handed over (as it is likely to be) to the Chancery Paymaster, will be but small when compared with the duty of managing the seventy-seven milliors already in his hands.

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are being made whereby the Bank of England shall be accommodated in the Royal Courts of Justice with sufficient space to transact there all its business of receiving and paying suitors' money. For many years

there has existed in connection with the office of the Chancery Paymaster, an office which, in effect, was a branch of the Bank of England, but this was only an office for cashing chancery cheques, and it was not possible at this office to pay money into court. Money paid into court in the Chancery Division has now to be taken into the City; and though the operation is easily transacted through a banker, yet, when time presses, the journey from Lincoln's-inn to the bank causes trouble and delay. It not unfrequently happens that a plaintiff is called upon to give security for costs by paying money into court, which he may do " upon request" without the necessity of carrying in an order for the purpose, and in such a case the journey makes a material difference when three o'clock is near at hand. This is only one of many instances which might be adduced to show how much more convenient it will be for practitioners and suitors when the payment of money into court, and the receipt of money out of court, can be effected in adjoining offices.

WE ARE NOT SURPRISED to learn from the reply of the Attorney-General for Ireland to the question of Mr. MORGAN LLOYD, that Mr. PARNELL's suggestion that an evicted tenant should, before the expiration of his notice to quit, render the land in his occupation useless by ploughing it up, has been under the consideration of the Government. Assuming that the land ploughed up is pasture land, and mainly valuable as such, the act of ploughing seems to fall within section 51 of the Malicious Injuries Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), which provides that "whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously commit any damage, injury, or spoil to or upon any real or personal property, either of a public or private nature, for which no punishment is hereinbefore provided, the damage, injury, or spoil being to an amount exceeding £5, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor," and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, while "in case any such offence shall be committed between the hours of nine of the clock in the evening and six of the clock in the next morning," the sentence may be penal servitude for not less than five years. Again, by section 59,"every provision of this Act not herein before so applied shall apply to every person who, with intent to injure or defraud any other person, shall do any of the acts hereinbefore made penal, although the offender shall be in possession of the property against or in respect of which the act shall be done." Mr. Parnell's recent recantation of his advice is not unwise, since section 8 of the Accessories Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 94) enacts that "whosoever shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of a misdemeanor, shall be liable

to be tried, indicted, and punished as a principal offender."

THE PROPOSAL by the Government to reduce the strength of the Supreme Court in Scotland by two judges has led to an interesting discussion in the Scotsman upon the entire judicial system of that country. Legal business is concentrated at Edinburgh to a far greater extent than at London; but, at the same time, the local courts of the sheriffs possess both a larger and a more independent jurisdiction than our county courts. The sheriff courts, though undoubtedly efficient, are constituted in a manner that is unintelligible to an English observer. They are composed of a sheriff-substitute, who performs nearly all the work, and of a sheriffprincipal, who may practise before the Supreme Court, and whose chief duty consists in hearing appeals from his substitute. The entire abolition of the sheriffs

principal, whose salaries demand £16,000 a year, is a reform that has often been urged. It is now suggested, as a complement to this reform, that appeals should be taken direct from the sheriffs-substitute to the Supreme Court, by which means work would be found, at no increase of cost to the country, for the two judges whom it is proposed to abolish, and the local and central jurisdictions would be brought into closer connection. The Scotch are fond of holding up their judicial system as a model to us; and no doubt we have much to learn from them, especially in matters of procedure. But in this case, as well as in the additional suggestion that the judges of the Supreme Court should hear civil causes on their criminal circuits, England supplies an example which Scotland may well be content to follow.

BARNARD'S INN, which is stated to have been recently sold, was one of the ancient Inns of Chancery. From the evidence given in 1854 before the Royal Commission on the Inns of Court and Chancery it appears that very little is known of the history of the society. The treasurer and secretary of the Inn then deposed that its books were three hundred years old, and that it held its property under a lease renewable every fourteen years at a fine of £1,400. There were never any students at the Inn, although about two hundred years ago a reader occasionally came from Gray's Inn, to which society Barnard's Inn was originally attached; and the library, which consisted of "a few old books that were of no use" has been sold. In 1854 the rents the payable to society amounted to £1,000 a year, and the society consisted of a Principal, five Ancients, and nine Companions. The Companions appear to be chosen by the Principal and Ancients, and in R. v. The Principal and Ancients of Barnard's Inn (5 A. & E.), the Court of Queen's

Bench discharged a rule for a mandamus to admit Mr. WILLIAM GRESHAM, a solicitor, as a member of the society, on the ground that the court had no authority The advantage of being a over a voluntary society. Companion was stated to be "the dining," and the advantage of being an Ancient, "dinners and some little fees." The dinner in hall was described as 66 a kind of convivial party."

THE CURIOUS CASE of In re Copp, reported in our last week's issue (29 W. R. 336)—in which a Master and a Judge and a Divisional Court successively held that the 36th section of the County Court Act, 1856, which fixes a limit to costs as between solicitor and client in actionswhere not more than £20 is claimed, applies to actions brought in the High Court-was on Friday last reversed by the Court of Appeal. The material words of the section are: "Where in any action the debt claimed does not exceed £20, an attorney shall not be entitled to recover from his client any further costs" than those mentioned in the County Court Act, 1846, s. 91, "unless upon taxation of costs the registrar be satisfied, by writing under the hand of the client, that he has agreed to pay" further costs, in which case the registrar may allow the costs agreed to be paid. An action in which less than £20 had been claimed having been brought in the High Court, and the plaintiff, after judgment recovered but not satisfied, having applied for taxation of costs, the master taxed on the county court scale, allowing the solicitor, as per section 91 of the County Court Act, 1846, one pound three shillings and sixpence for counsel's fee, &c. The point of law was at once taken on behalf of the solicitor that the County Court Acts had no application to the case upon the construction of section 36 of the Act of 1856. The words "any action," of course, grammatically, include an action in the High Court, and it was argued not without force, and before three tribunals with success, that there was not only nothing in the context

to deprive the words of their grammatical meaning, but that the context pointed the other way, inasmuch as in the sections preceding the 36th, "county court " actions were dealt with eo nomine. But the Court of Appeal, unanimously and unhesitatingly, declined to accede to this argument, pointing out that the use of the word "registrar" showed that a county court action, and a county court action only, was intended to be dealt with. Counting the judicial minda which have been exercised upon this question-which has so oddly slumbered for twenty-four years—we have four for the client and three for the solicitor. On the whole, we imagine the three to be in the right, especially as in Re Worth (reported ante, p. 297) JESSEL, M.R., upon a consideration of other enactments in pari materiâ, has come to a similar conclusion. But why should not "if the taxation should be in a county court" be read in after "registrar," with as equal facility as the Court of Appeal has read in "in a county court" after "in any action"?

"HOW DO THESE THINGS get into the papers ?" asked an eminent literary character of a laudatory notice of his dramatic performances. Some of the subjects of notices in a weekly contemporary under the title "Coming Men" may possibly ask the same question. One of the latest of these subjects is a gentleman of the junior bar of whom we would speak with every respect-indeed how could we do otherwise when, according to his biographer, "a pure and forcible literary style" is joined to English diction "notable for its lucidity, elegant simplicity, and idiomatic crispness," and a legal mind which has not merely "a grasp of abstract principles, but a capacity for discerning the principles that are embodied in a case"? When to this it is added that this gentleman's "opinions are never misleading"; that he is "caustic, humorous, and can, when the occasion arises, be florid, and carry the jury by storm"; and that he has a small farm in-shire, we wonder, not that he is, according to the writer, to be the inevitable successor of Mr. C. RUSSELL, Q.C., and Mr. BENJAMIN, Q.C., in commercial cases when those gentlemen retire from the bar, but that they have not yet yielded place to this rising junior, whose merits are dwelt on in terms of hyperbole of which the specimens we have culled give but a faint idea. Of course, as a 66 Coming Man," the gentleman in question must not be looked for yet among the ranks of those who have made their mark as leading juniors, but let them look to their laurels, "a chiel's amang ye," not "taking notes," yet having notes taken of him, and published apparently in all seriousness, and not in burlesque, as one might at first sight suppose. The writer of this panegyric makes the following remark:-"The solicitors, the expert judges of the capacity of counsel, are perfectly aware of the ability of Coming Men." We are tempted to ask why, if the writer believed this, he took the trouble to pen this outrageous puff? And we would suggest to him, in the interests of his "subject," that, in biography, as in causes, there is such a thing as overstating a case, with a result not unfrequently disastrous to the cause advocated.

"A SOLICITOR" has done good service in calling attention this week to a case of Storey v. The London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, before the Court of Appeal, in which a condition was inserted in a fire-policy that, "if any difference shal at any time arise between the company and the insured, or any claimant under this policy, as to the amount of any loss or damage by fire (and no fraud be alleged), every such difference as and when the same arises shall be referred to arbitration, and this condition shall be deemed and taken to be an agreement to refer as aforesaid, and it is hereby expressly stipulated and

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declared that the obtaining of such an award shall be a condition precedent to the liability or obligation of the company to pay or satisfy any claim under this policy for loss or damage in respect of which any such difference may have arisen, and to the enforcement of any such claim." This condition was held to mean that if the insurance company are liable, and do not dispute the amount claimed, they will pay it; that if the company are liable and do dispute the amount claimed, they will pay an amount to be ascertained by arbitration, but until that amount was ascertained there would be no liability on the part of the company. It is stated that most of the fire insurance companies have of late inserted in their policies a clause requiring claimants to resort to arbitration (each party paying his own costs of the arbitration). The result is that unless the claim is large the cost of the arbitration will probably swallow up the amount claimed, so the insurance company can offer any trifling sum in satisfaction, with a good prospect of its being accepted. There will be need by and by of a Court of Insurance Commissioners, to protect the public from the new conditions which the companies are always inserting in their policies.

THE LONG WRANGLE in Committee over the provisions of the Protection of Person and Property (Ireland) Bill did not result in any material changes in the form of the measure, except the insertion in the 2nd section of a provision, in case of the arrest of a member of Parliament, for the immediate communication of the fact to the House of which he is a member, as is done in the case of a member arrested on a criminal charge. On Tuesday night, however, upon the consideration of the Bill in its amended form, Mr. FORSTER agreed to several modifications. The retrospective operation of the Act is to be limited to the 30th of September last, and in the event of an arrest on suspicion of any crime other than high treason, treason felony, or treasonable practices, the warrant is to state the character of the crime, and a copy of the warrant is to be given to every person arrested. Mr. FORSTER also promised to add a clause providing for the grant of out-door relief to the families of persons arrested under the Act, as well as a provision that, at the end of three months after the arrest of any person, and of every three months during his detention, the Lord-Lieutenant shall consider his case and decide thereon, his decision to be certified by the Lord-Lieutenant or Chief Secretary, and to be indorsed on the copy of the warrant filed in the office.

The President of the Incorporated Law Society, and some other members of the council, last week waited upon the President of the Board of Trade, at his request, to explain the views of the society on various alterations in the law and practice of bankruptcy which he has in contemplation. The interview lasted for upwards of an hour, and numerous points of importance were haustively discussed, and Mr. Chamberlain desired that the council would furnish him with suggestions for his guidance in regard to certain matters as to which he wished to ascertain their views.

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In the Queen's Bench Division, last week, after the jury in the case of Fowke v. Downs had returned a verdict for the defendant, and Lord Coleridge had condemned the plaintiff to pay the costs, the latter, turning to the bench and addressing the Lord Chief Justice, cried out in an excited voice: "I have been swindled and you are the cause. You are not fit to sit on that bench." Amid painful sensation in court Lord Coleridge ordered the man's arrest, Inspector Denning, of the House of Commons, was sent for, a warrant was immediately made out, and the prisoner conveyed in a cab to Newgate.

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