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Hill, William, Saint George, Gloucester, Beer Retailer. June 9, at
3, at offices of Hobbs, Clare st, Bristol
Hindley, William Currie, Garston, Lancaster, Wholesale Grocer.
June's. at 3, at the Law Association Rooms, Cook st, Liverpool.
Oppenheim, St. Helen's

Heckley, Arthur George, Grove road, Hammersmith, Licensed Victualler. June 8, at 3, at the Masons' Hall Tavern, Masons' avenue, Basinghall st. Ives, Walbrook

Howell, Henry Edward, Cheltenham, Assistant to a Music Seller.
June 9, at 11, at the office of Clark, Regent st, Cheltenham
Jackson, Francis, and John William Jackson, Kingston-upon-Hull,
Grocers. June 6. at 11, at offices of Stead and Sibree, Bishop lane,
Kingston-upon-Hull

Jones, Helen Martha, Chester, Draper. June 16, at 3, at offices of
Mawson, Hamilton square, Birkenhed

Keeton, Matthew Owen, Nottingham, Tailor. June 9 at 3 at offices
of Cockayne, Fletcher gate. Nottingham
Kemp, Robert, jun, and George Kemp, Mutford bridge, Suffolk,
Boat Builders. June 9 at 3 at Gt Eastern Hotel, Denmark rd,
Lowestoft. Cowl, Gt Yarmouth

Kyte, Edward, Claverdon, Warwick, Butcher. June 9 at 12 at
Woolpack Hotel, Warwick. Sanderson, Warwick

Land, Eliza, Phoenix st, Somers Town, Fancy Bread Maker. June
4 at 2 at offices of Johnson, Seymour pl, Marylebone
Lewis, John, Oswestry, Salop, Tailor. June 10 at 2 at Public Hall,
Oswestry. Minshalls and Jones, Oswestry

Maclean, John, St Benet pl, Gracechurch st, Wine Merchant. June 11 at 12 at offices of Innes and Son, Billiter house, Billiter st Marsden, Alfred, Bolton, Lancaster, Auctioneer. June 7 at 11 at offices of Balshaw, Bowker's row, Bolton

Mason, Harry Cooper, Cornhill, Tailor. June 16 at 2 at Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Davidson and Morriss, Queen Victoria st McGill, John William, Northwich, Chester, out of business. June 14 at 3.30 at offices of Cheshire and Son, Northwich

Medd, William, Easingwold, York, Cabinet Maker. June 9 at 12 at offices of Mann and Son, New st, York

Morgan, David, Llandovery, Carmaethen, Watchmaker. June 10 at
1 at King's Head Inn, Llandovery. Phillips, Llandovery
Morris, Joseph, Harry hill, Gloucester, Collier. June 9 at 2 at Swan
Hotel, Cinderford. Goldring, Cinderford

Nickels, Richard, Masbro rd, Hammersmith, Builder. June 9 at 3 at offices of Tinkler, Regent st

Orrell, John, Aston-juxta-Birmingham, Butcher. June 4 at 11 at offices of Parry, Colmore row, Birmingham

Parman, Thomas, Saxilby, Lincoln, Grocer. June 9 at 11 at offices of Durance, Mint lane

Parry, William Robert, Tudhoe grange, nr Spennymoor, Durham,
Clothier. June 10 at 12 at offices of Maw, jun, Market pl, Bishop
Auckland

Perkins, James, North Tawton, Devon, Builder. June 9 at 2 at Half
Moon Hotel, High st, Exeter. Thorne, Barnstaple
Pilling, John, Millwood, nr Todmorden, York, Plasterer. White
Hart Hotel, Todmorden. June 9 at 3 at offices of Sager, Todmorden
Priestley, William. Bingley, York, General Dealer. June 8 at 11 at
offices of Neill, Kirkgate, Bradford

Raynes, Charles, Heeley, Sheffield, Cutlery Manufacturer. June 13 at 11 at offices of Porrett, Bank st, Sheffield

Reeve, Joseph, Leadenhall st, Eating house keeper. June 14 at 2 at offices of Emerson, Leadenhall st

Riley, William, Wrexham, Denbigh, Fishmonger. June 13 at 11.30
at offices of Sherratt and Son, Hamilton sq, Birkenhead
Rinder, William, Leeds, Tailor. June 7 at 11 at offices of Billington,
Gt George st, Leeds

Salisbury, George, Clevedon, Somerset, Butcher. June 10 at 11 at
offices Parsons, High st, Bristol. Smith, Weston-super-Mare
Salt, Thomas Arthur, Gainsborough, Lincoln, Joiner. June 10 at 11
at offices of Bescoby, Grove st, East Retford

Scaling, William, Old Basford, Nottingham, Chemical Manufacturer. June 10 at 3 at offices of Maples and McCraith, Low pavement, Nottingham

Schonhardt, Charles, Blackheath village, Kent, Watchmaker. June Sat 3 at Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Tucker, High rd, Lee Smith, David, Chesham, Buckingham, Grocer. June 14 at 2 at offices of Francis and How, Chesham

Stephens, Frederick, Evesham, Worcester, Grocer. June 9 at 12 at offices of New and Co, Bridge st, Evesham

Stephens, William Henry, Ryde, Isle of Wight, Tailor. June 10 at 2 at Inns of Court Hotel, High Holborn. Wooldridge, Ryde Swan, Alexander Hannay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Fishmonger. June 4 at 2 at offices of Mallett, Collingwood st, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Benning, Gateshead

Taylor, William Henry, Worcester, Stationer. June 18 at 11 at Ridler's Hotel, Holborn hill. Tree and Son, Worcester

Teal, Ralph, Gt Driffield, York, Earthenware Dealer. June 14 at 2.30 at Paragon Hotel, Paragon st, Kingston-upon-Hull. Dunn, Gt

Driffield

Thompson, Alfred James, Reading, Provision Merchant. June 13 at 2.30 at offices of Skinner, Strand

Thompson, Julius Henry, and Cecil Thompson, Leadenhall st, Ship and Insurance Brokers. June 10 at 2 at offices of Lovelock and Whiffin, Coleman st. Harwood and Stephenson, Lombard st Tranter, Henry, Evesham, Worcester, Grocer. June 10 a 11 at offices of Byrch and Cox, North ter, Evesham Tumbridge, Henry, Wood st, Cheapside, Umbrella Manufacturer. June 9 at 2 at Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Bird, Gt St Helen's Turner, Thomas William, Newport, Monmouth, Auctioneer. June 10 at 11 at offices of Young, Tredegar chmbrs, Tradegar pl, Newport Tomlinson, Newport

Walton, John, South Shields, Chemical Engineer. June 8 at 3 at offices of Rennoldson, King st, South Shields Wheeler, John, Northampton, Builder. June 13 at 4 at Talbot Hotel, Worcester. Whitton, Towcester Whitehead, Edward Simpson, Hare st, Bethnal Green, Corn Dealer. June 9 at 3 at offices of Taylor and Jacquet, South st, Finsbury sq Whitehead, Michael Buckley, Bolton, Lancaster, Grocer. June 16 at 11 at Creditor's Association, Hangingditch, Manchester. Grundy and Whowell, Bolton

Whitaker, Samuel Willey, Bradford, York, Plumber. June 7 at 11
at office of Rawson and Co, Piccadilly
Whittaker, James, and John Whittaker, Middleton, Lancaster,
Builders, June 9 at 4 at offices of Ascroft, Clegg st, Oldham
Woitowitsch, Gottlieb, Greenwich, Watchmaker. June 9 at 2 at
Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Howard and Shelton, Thread.
needle st
Worthington, Arthur Bayley, and William Julius Marshall, Beccles,
Suffolk, Brewers. June 14 at 2 at 41, Coleman st. Webb, Queen
Victoria st

TUESDAY, May 31, 1881.

June 10 at 3

June 14 at 2

Alcock, John, Hulme, nr Longton, Stafford, Butcher. at offices of Hollinshead, Tunstall Aldridge, Arthur William, Golborne rd, Notting Hill. at offices of Russell and Co, Old Jewry chambers Allison, John, York, Saddler. June 10 at 11 at cffices of Newton and Co, Lendal, York

Ball, George, Camden villas, Tottenham, Builder. June 13 at 3 at at offices of Harber, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall st. Holmes, Cheapside

Barnes, John, Rushall, Stafford, Clerk. June 15 at 11 at offices of Crump, Bridge st, Walsall

Barrett, George, sen, Fakenham, Norfolk, Dealer. June 15 at 3 at offices of Cates and Bates, Swan st, Fakenham Basham, William Isaac, Cambridge, Woollen Draper. June 11 at 2 at the Lion Hotel, Cambridge. Whitehead, Cambridge Beever, John, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester, Stone Mason. June 7 at 3 at offices of Sampson and Hockin, Mount st, Albert sq, Manchester.

Boote, Benjamin Edward William, and William James Millson, City rd, Lead Merchants. June 16 at 2 at the Guildhall Coffee house. Gresham st. Stopher and Rundle, Coleman st Burnley, Mary, Liversedge, York, Stationer. June 13 at 3 at offices of Carr and Cadman, Crown st, Cleckheaton

Burt, Albert Henry Thomas, Southsea, Hants, Draper. June 14 at 1 at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet st. Steggall and Hooper, Melcombe Regis

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June 11 at 11 at George

Clark, Walter Wright, Bedford, Grocer.
Hotel, Bedford. Conquest and Clare, Bedford
Collinge, Henry, and Joseph Sykes, Glossop, Derby, Cotton Yarn
Doublers. June 17 at 3 at offices of Jones, Kennedy st, Man-
chester

Cook, William Henry, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Butcher. June 11 at
11 at offices of James, Nelson sq, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Cripps, John, Bibury, Gloucester, Farmer. June 20 at 3 at offices of
Cooke, Cirencester

Crossland, Joe, Wakefield, York, Grocer. June 16 at 3 at offices of
Gill and Hall, Barstow sq, Wakefield

Crutchley, Jane, Birmingham, Licensed Victualler. June 10 at 3 at offices of Fallows, Cherry st, Birmingham

Cunniffe, John, Eckington, Derby, Grocer. June 13 at 3 at offices of
Stanton, New sq, Chesterfield

Davidson, Andrew, Liverpool, General Dealer. June 15 at 2 at offices
of Davies, the Temple, Dale st, Liverpool
Davies, Francis German, Peterborough, Northampton, Stationer.
June 10 at 11 at offices of Hart, Priestgate, Peterborough
Davies, Isaac, and Rees Taylor, Llantrissant, Glamorgan, Tin Plate
Manufacturers. June 13 at 3.30 at offices of Tennant and Jones,
Aberavon

Davies, Owen, Cardiff, Glamorgan. Slate Merchant. June 17 at 2 at offices of Tribe and Co, Crockherbtown, Cardiff. Heard, Car. diff

Davis, James, Castlemorton, Worcester, Farm Bailiff. June 10 at 3 at offices of Allen and Beauchamp, Sansome-place, Worces

ter

Derbyshire, Samuel, Crewe, Chester, Baker. June 15 at 3 at Temple chmbrs, Oak st, Crewe. Cooke

Easthaugh, Robert Henry, Mile End rd, Cheesemonger. June 24 at 4 at offices of Frederick Holloway, Ball's Pond rd. Cooper, Lincoln's-inn-fields

Emsley, Matthew, Henry, Heckmondwike, York, Rag Merchant. June 7 at 3 at Railway Hotel, Heckmondwike. Mitcheson, Heckmondwike

Forrest, William, Clerkenwell rd, Jeweller. June 22 at 2 at Inns of
Court Hotel, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Smith, Staple-inn
Foulge, Harry, Windsor, Printer. June 13 at 3 at offices of Durant,
Guildhall chmbrs, Basinghall st

Freeman, Herbert Edward, Birmingham, Grocer. June 10 at 3 at offices of Jacques, Temple row, Birmingham

Gilson, Edwin, Haymarket, Pall Mall, Fishmonger. June 15 at 3 a Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st. Marsh, Fen et

Hadden, Thomas. Chertsey, Surrey, Oil and Colour Man. June 20 at 11 at offices of Haydon and Sloley, Bishopsgate st Within. Goldring, White Lion st, Norton Folgate

Hammond, Michael Sanderson, Hamlet terrace, Upper Norwood,
Furnishing Ironmonger. June 15 at 3 at offices of Foreman and
Co, Gresham st. Curtis, Old Jewry chmbrs
Hardaker, William, Gt Horton, nr Bradford, Jacquard Machine
Maker. June 10 at 11 at offices of Peel and Co, Chapel lane, Brad-
ford
Hardman, Edmund John, Birmingham, Watchmaker. June 14 at 2
at offices of Brown, Waterloo st, Birmingham
Harmer, Henry James, Alexander terrace, Stratford, Milliner.
June 15 at 11 at 51, Broadway, Stratford, Smith, Charles sq,
Hoxton

Harris, Frederick, Loughborough, Grocer. June 14 at 12 at offices
of Deane and Hands, Market pl. Loughborough
Hilton, James, Wigan, Provision Dealer. June 13 at 3 at Minorca
Hotel, Wallgate, Wigan. Wood, Wigan

Hobbs, James, Dawlish, Devon, Butcher. June 11 at 11 at offices of
Toby, Castle st, Exeter

Hopkins, Joshua Joseph Mather, Aston, Birmingham, out of business. June 13 at 11.30 at offices of Baker, Bridge st, Walsall

Howarth, Henry, Leeds, Innkeeper. June 10 at 2 at offices of Simp. son and Burrall, Albion st, Leeds

Hyde, Alfred James, Reading, Berks, Accountant. June 17 at 2 at Wheatsheaf Hotel, Friar st, Reading. Parnell, Fenchurch st Jenkins, Edward, Llansamlet, nr Neath, Grocer. June 11 at 11 at offices of Davies, Alma pl, Neath

Jenkins, John, Llansawel, Carmarthen, Innkeeper. June 11 at 11 at County Court Office, Lampeter. Price and Lloyd, Lampeter Jones, Evan Humphrey, Towyn, Merioneth, Shoemaker. June 10 at 3 at offices of Griffith and Co, High st, Towyn. Smith, Aberystwith

Juson, Isaac, Church st, St Marylebone, Coffee House Keeper. June 9 at 12 at offices of Preston, Mark lane

June June

Keen, William Henry, Plymouth, Confectioner. June 11 at 11 at offices of Square and Co, Bank of England chbrs, Plymouth Kendall, John Kelson, Charterhouse st, Commission Agent. 13 at 3 at offices of Jenkins, Tavistock st, Covent Garden King, John Bartholomew, Upper st, Islington, Watchmaker. 8 at 2 at offices of Henry, Furnival's inn. Holborn Leech, John, Dudley, Licensed Victualler. June 15 at 12 at offices of Hall, Wolverhampton st, Dudley

White, James, Tue Brook, nr Liverpool, Coal Merchant. June 13 at 3 at offices of Gibson and Bolland. South John st, Liverpool. Paynter, Liverpool

White, Thomas, Bristol, Butcher. June 8 at 11 at offices of Essery Nicholas st, Bristol

White, William Walter, Bristol, Shoe Maker. June 10 at 2 at offices of Clifton and Carter, Broad st, Bristol

Wigfield, John, Hoyland common, nr Barnsley, Grocer. June 15 at
11 at offices of Gray. Eastgate, Barnsley
Wigley, Thomas, Clydach Vale, nr Tonypandy, Glamorgan, Grocer.
June 14 at 12 at offices of Morgan, Mill st, Pontypridd
Wilkinson, William, High st terrace, Lower Addiscombe rd,
Draper. June 8 at 3 at offices of Savidge, Eastcheap
Williams, Alfred, Wookey, Somerset, Schoolmaster. June 11 at 12
at offices of Hobbs, Chamberlain st, Wells

Williams, Robert, Ruthin, Denbigh, Innkeeeper. June 23 at 11.45
at Lion Hotel, Hope st, Wrexham. Lloyd and Roberts, Ruthin
Winfield, James, Coventry, Coal Dealer. June 15 at 12 at offices of
Neale, Hay lane, Coventry

Woodall, John, Barrow-in-Furness, Grocer. June 10 at 11 at 17,
Strand, Barrow-in-Furness. Taylor, Barrow-in-Furness
Young, Tom Carr, Belleau, Lincoln, Farmer. June 9 at 11 at King's
Head Inn, Louth. Walker and Co

Lowrie, Ralph, Lemington-on-Tyne, Northumberland, out of SCHWEITZER'S COCOATINA,

business. June 10 at 3 at offices of Johnston, Mosley st, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Marlow, James Johnson, New Basford, Nottingham, Builder. June 21 at 3 at offices of Fraser, Midland chbrs, Wheeler gate, Nottingham

Marriott, John, Titchmarsh. Northampton, Tailor. June 16 at 1 at 145, Cheapside. Richardson and Son, Oundle

McHugh, Alfred, Paddington st, Marylebone, Bottle Merchant. June 9 at 2 at offices of Preston and Co, Southampton bldgs, Chancery lane

McIntosh, David, Birmingham, Brassfounder. June 10 at 3 at offices
of Parr and Hayes, Colmore row, Birmingham
Mercer, Joseph, Manchester, Stationer.
Lawson, Peter st, Manchester

June 15 at 11 at offices of

Moore, John, Norton, York, Horse Dealer. June 11 at 12 at Talbot Hotel, Scarborough

Murphy, Elizabeth, Penzance, Cornwall, Serpentine Manufacturer. June 14 at 12 at offices of Cornish, Parade st, Penzance

Neale, Walter Frederick, Bedminster, Bristol, Timber Merchant. June 13 at 2 at Grand Hotel, Broad st, Bristol. Moseley, Bristol Palmer, Henry, Purton, Wilts, Coal Merchant. June 9 at 11 at Prince of Wales Hotel, Didcot

Pearson, Henry, Skelmersdale, Lancaster. June 13 at 11 at offices of France, Churchgate, Wigan

June 13 at 3

Peggs, John, Liverpool rd, Islington, Fish Salesman. at Masons' Hall Tavern, Masons' avenue. Scott, Basinghall st Percival, Thomas May, Coventry, Grocer. June 9 at 11 at offices of

Hughes and Masser, Little Park st, Coventry
Pollitt, John Maitland, Manchester, Tailor. June 14 at 3 at offices of
Marlow and Dixon, Cross st, Manchester

Preece, William, Stourbridge, Worcester, Llcensed Victualler.
June 14 at 11 at offices of Collis, Union chambers, Stourbridge
Preston, William Thomas, Teignmouth, Devon. June 15 at 11 at
Craven Hotel, Craven st, Strand. Ford, Exeter
Pugh, Richard Humphrey, Glanadda, Bangor, Carnarvon, Grocer.
June 16 at 2 at the British Hotel, Bangor. Dew, Llangefni
Randle, Henry, and Edward Jenner, Hastings, Stationers. June 8
at 2 at the Bridge House Hotel, London bridge. Savery, Hast-
ings

Read, Henry Charles, and Frederick George Read, Moorgate st, Mer-
chants. June 13 at 2 at Guildhall Tavern, Gresham st.
Roy and
Cartright
Reeve, John William, Chelmsford, Essex, Clothier. June 11 at 12 at
offices of Blyth, Chelmsford

Roe, James Chambers. Acton, Commercial Clerk. offices of Lay, Townhall, Brentford

June 11 at 2 at

Rudall, Edward, Barnstaple, Devou, Grocer. June 13 at 12 at offices of Bromham, High st, Barnstaple

Sanfield, John, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Woollen Draper. June 14 at 12 at offices of Corbitt, Mosley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Sharpe, Frederick Robert, Grayshot rd, Wandsworth, Gentleman.
June 14 at 3 at offices of Seeley, High Holborn
Shaw, Sampson Jarues, Wolverhampton, Grocer.

offices of Rudland, Queen st, Wolverhampton

June 11 at 11 at

Simpson, George Harper, Aston-juxta-Birmingham, Baker. June 10 3 at offices of Parry, Colmore row, Birmingham

Skinner, John, Beckley, Sussex, Wheelwright. June 14 at 12 at offices of Butler, Watchhell st, Rye

Smith, Enoch, Bristol, General Dealer. June 8 at 12 at offices of Essery, Nicholas st, Bristol

Smith, Joseph, Nottingham, Baker. June 10 at 3 at offices of Whittingham, Middle-pavement, Nottingham

Solomon, Edward Smith, Hanley, Stafford, Grocer. June 8 at 3 at offices of Ashmall, Albion st, Hanley

Stone, Thomas Wil iam, Park st, Southwark, Builder. June 10 at 3 at Guildhall Tavern, Guildhall-yard. Matthews, Trafalgar sq, Peckham

Thwaite, William, Liverpool, Tallow Chandler. June 21 at 11 at offices of Evans and Co, Commerce chambers, Lord st, Liverpool

Vincett, James, Beckley, Sussex, Butcher. June 14 at 2 at offices of Butler, Watchbell st, Rye

Ward, Henry, Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicester, Licensed Victualler. June 14 at 12 at offices of Burgess and Williams, Benridge st, Leicester

Watts, John Edwin, Rock st, Finsbury Park, of no occupation. June 14 at 2 at Swan Hotel, Biggleswade Jessop, Bedford Weatherston, Andrew, South Shields, Boot and Shoe Dealer. June 13 at 3 at offices of Pybus, Post Office chmbrs, St Nicholas sq, Newcastle-on-Tyne

Welberry, Joseph. Butterwick, Lincoln, Farmer. June 14 at 11 at Ram Hotel, Bargate, Boston. Rice and Co, Boston

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AW.-Wanted, by a Gentleman, a Clerkship in London; good experience in Conveyancing, and knows some Chancery. Salary £70. Excellent references.-Address, A., Office of this Journal.

H AMPTON & SONS make NO CHARGE for inserting particulars in their FREE MONTHLY REGISTER of ESTATES, TOWN and COUNTRY HOUSES, Furnished or Unfurnished, or for Sale, to be had GRATIS at their Offices, or post-free for two stamps. Published on the 1st of the month, and particulars for insertion should be sent not later than five days previous to end of preceding month.

Valuations for Probate and Transfer. Surveys.

Estate and Auction Offices, 8, Pall Mall East, S.W.

CHANCERY LANE.-New Courts Chambers, 37

and 59, Chancery-lane.-Offices to be Let in above building at rents varying from £30 to £300 per annum.-Further particulars al Inquiry Office, Nos. 57 and 58, Chancery-lane, W.C.

LAWYER'S AWYER'S PRAYER UNION.-It is proposed Barristers and Solicitors, and their Clerks only, (on Thursday, June 16, 1881. The Right Hon. the Earl Cairns in the Chair. Any gentlemen in the legal profession, or their clerks, who desire to attend, or will assist in inviting others, are requested to apply to Mr. H. C. NISBET, 35, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

THE

CHURCH PREFERMENT GAZETTE (issued Monthly), containing full particulars of Advowsons, Presentations, &c., for Sale, together with useful advice to par chasers, should be referred to by every purchaser. Edited by Mr. W. EMERY STARK (Associate Institute of Actuaries, F.R.G.S., &c).-Address (enclosing six stamps), Messrs. W. EMERY STARK3, Bedford-street, Strand.

THURGOOD & CO., Estate and Land Agent, Surveyors and Auctioneers, Lonsdale Chambers, 27, Chancery. lane, W.C., hold PERIODICAL SALES of Property, at the MARL the Second Tuesday in each month. Railway, School Board, Corporation, Board of Works, and other Compensations conducted. Valuations ter Probate, Mortgages, &c. Estates managed.

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IN LORD JUSTICE JAMES the nation has lost a judge who possessed in no ordinary degree that integrity which, as Lord BACON says, is above all things the "portion and proper virtue of judges. He had a passionate loathing for injustice, oppression, and trickery; restrained only by the strong common sense which taught him that settled rules of law must not be displaced to avoid individual bardship. In knowledge of real property law he was

obably unrivalled on the bench, and in force aud clearness of diction he had few equals. His grasp of the facts of the most complicated case was singularly rapid and accurate. Perhaps it was this facility of apprehension which led him sometimes into a rather too early expression of opinion as to the legal bearing of facts. He was not always "swift to hear and slow to decide." He was not always patient with counsel whose sense of duty to their clients led them to combat the view which he had taken up. But with all this he was a judge who inspired great confidence. His opinion, if sometimes prematurely expressed, was seldom wrong; and it was usually supported by a clear enunciation of principle and a careful analysis of cases. His place at Lincoln'sinn will be hard to fill.

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WE REPORT, with much pleasure, the complimentary dinner given by the Incorporated Law Society to the Provincial Law Societies. The speeches were admirable, and the tone and spirit of the proceedings afforded a pleasant contrast to some recent meetings within the walls of the Law Institution. The President, with the genial frankness which makes him so popular, alluded to these recent meetings as being among the difficulties of his year of office. We may, perhaps, be pardoned if we speak with equal frankness, and say that the council have only themselves to blame for the dissatisfaction expressed at these meetings. The members of the council are men for whom individually the highest esteem is felt. They work hard and conscientiously in the interests of the prfoession, but they spoil all by not taking the profession sufficiently into their confidence. They seem to fancy that they are competent to express the general opinion of the solicitors on public questions without taking any pains to ascertain it. They render occasional curt accounts of their proceedings to the general public (who do not care two straws about them) in paragraphs in the Times, and they print a report, which no one reads, once a year, but they seem to forget that they have a large constituency of educated men who want to know in detail from time to time what is being done in the council chamber, and who object to being pledged behind their backs to opinions on important legal measures.

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THE PROMOTION of Mr. CHARLES HALL to the rank of Queen's Counsel vacates the ancient office of "Tubman to which he was appointed by Sir FITZROY KELLY in 1878. Within the old Court of Exchequer the Tubman had precedence of the Solicitor-General in all business except Crown business. His name was said to be derived from the box or "tub" which he occupied on the right extremity of the first row of seats for the outer bar. The privileges of the Tubman were maintained in the Exchequer Division, and after the absorption of the Exchequer in the Queen's Bench Division the judges intimated that, whenever a divisional court might be sitting in the old Court of Exchequer, the Tubman would be permitted to retain his right of precedence.

THE SLOW PROGRESS of the Lower House in legislative business has only been equalled by the slow progress of the Upper House in judicial business. The law lords re-assembled after the Easter recess with a list of fourteen appeals, only one-half of which number have been argued, and of these three are still standing for judg. ment. Only two English appeals were disposed of, Lee Conservancy Board v. Button, and Davis v. Treharne. In the former case the House affirmed a decision of the Court of Appeal which had reversed a judgment of ViceChancellor MALINS on the construction of certain private statutes relating to the River Lee, and in the latter the decision both of the Court of Appeal and of Lord COLERIDGE as to the construction of a mining lease was upheld by the House. The generally uninteresting nature of the cases before the House may have been the reason why the two lords of appeal in ordinary were the only law lords who assisted the Lord Chancellor in the hearing of appeals.

WE COMMENTED recently on the practice adopted by the Urban Sanitary Authority of the city of Bristol of selling their surplus lands under conditions of sale which preclude the purchaser from requiring any title to be shown, or from obtaining any covenants for title, or any covenant for production of deeds. It appears that the Authority persist in this practice, and they were yesterday to sell no fewer than forty lots under these conditions. The Bristol solicitors held a meeting on the 3rd inst., and passed resolutions (which will be found printed in another column), pointing out the results to the purchaser, and suggesting that the Authority ought at least to give absolute covenants for title. They also requested a number of their body to attend the sale, and to draw public attention to these resolutions. It may seem to be surprising that purchasers can be found for property offered under such conditions, but no doubt people rely on the investigation of title by the Authority. They forget, however, to consider that, as the Authority purchase for street improvements, and sell at once all their surplus lands under conditions freeing them from all risk and responsibility, there is not the same inducement to exercise care in the investigation of titles as if they were buying either to hold or to sell again under

sual conditions. Some purchaser will one day come to grief, and then there will be no more bidders at these auctions of surplus lands.

THE PENDING GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS for corrupt practices committed at the last general election have already given rise to questions as to the certificate to be given by Election Commissioners under 26 & 27 Vict. c. 9, s. 7. In the Macclesfield case (Ex parte Mair), the applicant had, in the expectation of being examined as a witness before the Commissioners, given certain information to their secretary with reference to his own conduct as an agent, but they ultimately decided not to take his evidence. The court refused a rule for a mandamus to the Commissioners to grant him a certificate under the Act, on the ground that his examination, and his giving answers to criminating questions, were conditions precedent to the giving of the certificate. The Sandwich case (R. v. Holl) was a more difficult one, and a rule nisi had been granted. It appeared that the applicant, when first examined before the Commissioners, had not disclosed the whole truth, although on a subsequent examination he had answered fully, and given all the information in his power. In the Bridgewater case (R. v. Hulme, 18 W. R. 831, L. R. 5 Q. B. 377) it was held that a witness was not entitled to a certificate unless the Commissioners were satisfied that all bis evidence was truly given; and this authority was followed in the Sandwich case, in which the court discharged the rule. It will be remembered that the mere

production of such a certificate is to be a ground for staying any proceedings subsequently taken against the witness under any of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Acts.

A CORRESPONDENT of a daily paper has been much exercised in mind by an anticipated difficulty in procuring copies of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, which received the Royal assent on Friday week. Writing before the Bill had received the Royal assent, he stated that "on application at the Queen's printers he was informed that it might be a week or more before the Act could be issued to the public." "I have," he added, "numerous orders for copies of the Act, and in the meantime the public and the profession will have to use their own discretion, and subject themselves to the penalties imposed by the delay of the authorities." Another correspondent complains that he could with difficulty obtain a copy of the Bill. We greatly doubt the right of the public to Bills, which are printed for the use of Parliament alone, but it is clear that, although there may be no locus standi in any of the public to inquire after an Act before it has received the Royal assent, any unreasonable delay in printing one after that event is a great public grievance, to which the attention of Parliament ought immediately to be called. In early times it was common for a statute to end with a direction for its being published by proclamation. The spread of printing soon rendered this unnecessary, but it was the law until 1793 that statutes related back to the first day of the session in which they were passed. This "great and manifest injustice" (see Lakers v. Homes, 4 T. R. 660) was remedied by 33 Geo. 3, c. 13, which provides that "the Clerk of the Parliaments shall indorse (in English) on every Act of Parlia ment the day, month, and year when the same shall have passed, and shall have received the Royal assent, and such indorsement shall be taken to be the date of

its commencement where no other date of commencement shall be therein provided." Other dates of commencement are, as is well known, frequent enough, the usual postponed date being the 1st of January next after an August session. But postponement is the exception, not the rule, and Revenue Acts, which always impose penalties, and are generally (from being hurriedly prepared and passed, and for other reasons) peculiarly difficult to understand, are never postponed. Is not the time come to reverse the order of things, and make postponement the rule, not the exception? A simple statute extending the commencement of all future Acts (unless the contrary should be expressed) to the period of one month after receiving the Royal assent, would be of very great benefit; and the same statute might very reasonably impose upon the Queen's printers a penalty for every day's delay in printing a sufficient number of copies.

WE HAVE BEFORE US at last a copy of the Custoins and Inland Revenue Act, 1881 (44 Vict. c. 12), which received the Royal assent on Friday last, the 3rd of June, and was issued to the public on the Thursday morning following. The first question is, at what date does it come into operation? The answer is that the Act generally comes into operation on the 3rd of June, the date of its receiving the Royal assent, but that certain ssctions of it have a retrospective operation, and came into operation on the 6th of April last, the 24th of May last, and the 1st of June last. The sections which came into operation on the 6th of April and the 24th of May are sections 19 and 22, which impose income-tax, and regulate the assessment of income-tax and house-tax in England and Scotland. This retrospective operation of the Income Tax sections is by no means without precedent. It occurred for instance in 1877 (see 40 Vict. c. 12), in 1878 (see 41 Vict. c. 15), and in 1879 (see 42 & 43 Vict. c. 21), although it did not occur in 1880 (see 43 Vict. c.

14). The principal sections which came into operation on the 1st of June last are the sections which impose the new probate duties. They are sections 27, 28, 33, 38, and 42. The material part of section 27 is as follows:

The duties imposed by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1880 [43 Vict. c. 14], upon probate of wills and letters of administration in England and Ireland shall not be payable upon probates or letters of administration granted on and after the 1st of June, 1881; and on and after that day in substitution for such duties, and in lieu of the duties imposed by the said Act, there shall be charged and paid, &c., &c.

We have already discussed at some length the provisions of the other sections above mentioned. Section 28 gives power to deduct debts and funeral expenses from the value of the estate and effects in the probate account. Section 33 contains provisions for obtaining probate where the gross value of the estate does not exceed £300 in the case of a person dying on or after June 1. Section 38 describes what property is to be included "in an account" in the case of a person dying on or after that date. And section 42 imposes duty on legacies under £20 under the wills of persons dying on or after that date. The Act contains forty-eight sections in all. The sections of which we have not already made mention regulate customs and excise duties on tea and beer, give an interpretation of "servant" and "other person in section 13 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 15), and amend the Stamp Act, 1870, in certain small particulars. And last, though not least, it is provided as follows by section 47 :

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IT IS WORTH WHILE to observe that the form which is sometimes inserted in provisoes for re-entry in leases, purporting to authorize the lessor to use the proviso as leave and licence to eject the lessee without any process of law, or otherwise authorizing the ejectment of the lessee without legal process, was a few days ago held by Mr. Justice FRY to be invalid (Edwick v. Hawkes, ante, p. 587), as being contrary to public policy, inasmuch as it purported to authorize a forcible entry, an act that is made illegal by the Statute of Richard 2.

It is stated that the Leicester County Court Judge, sitting at Hinckley, has had to decide a curious oaths question. The plaintiff in a money-lending case, a Jew, was sworn on a Church Service for lack of an Old Testament. Defendant's solicitor objected to his evidence being received on a Church Service oath. Plaintiff considered he had taken an oath which was binding upon his conscience, and his Honour is reported to have said that it was no use raising objections to the form of oath. Judgment was given for plaintiff.

CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF A FELONY.

THE question how far the fact that a civil injury amounts to a felony interferes with the action for the civil injury is one involving considerable doubt and difficulty. In the recent case of Midland Insurance Com pany. Smith (L. R. 6 Q. B. D. 561) Mr. Justice Watkin Williams gave an interesting general resumé of the history of the law on this subject, but though he was able to come to a clear conclusion on the point immediately involved, he by no means solved all the difficulties connected with the matter. He is of opinion that the history of the law shows that it has gone through three distinct phases with regard to the point. They are as follows:-The general effect of the earlier authorities seems to be that in such cases the private wrong and injury was considered to be wholly merged in the public wrong, and therefore no cause of action ever arose. At a later period the strictness of this doctrine was tempered, and it seems to have been thought that, though there was no merger of the private wrong, it was a condition precedent tɔ the accruing of the cause of action that the public right should have been vindicated by the prosecution of the felon. The third view mentioned by the learned judge is that there is neither a merger of the civil right, nor that it is a strict condition precedent to such right that there should have been a prosecution of the felon, but that there is a duty imposed upon the injured person not to resort to the prosecution of his private suit to the neglect and exclusion of the vindication of the public law. In the opinion of the learned judge this last is the correct view.

The distinctions between these views, though very substantial, are so far subtle that one can easily understand how one view would, without much difficulty, In early days, when felonies were slide into the other. generally punishable by death, and a forfeiture of land and goods was involved, the right of prosecuting an action after a conviction would not have been of much advantage to the plaintiff, and if the felony had not been prosecuted before the action brought, it is obvious that to allow damages to be recovered would be an interference with the possible rights of the Crown, and therefore it is not very difficult to see how, in early days, when the rights of the individual met with but scant consideration when they might possibly come intɔ collision with those of the Crown, the doctrine of merger might arise, and be handed down to a somewhat later period.

But though this might sound very well as a legal theory in early days, as time went on it was seen to involve a considerable amount of injustice and absurdity. If the last injury were merged, then, though the felon were acquitted, he could not be sued. This is clearly unjust. To convict a man of felony may require, and rightly require, much stronger evidence than would suffice to ensure a verdict for a civil wrong. It seems absurd to say that the felony entirely merges the civil wrong in such wise that if a man happens to be acquitted of the felony he is then assumed to go free in respect of the civil wrong. Moreover when it came to pass, either by the extension of benefit of clergy or reduction of punishments, that a conviction of felony did not necessarily involve sentence of death, it might happen that it was not necessarily unprofitable to prosecute an action after conviction, and then it was obvious that it was a great injustice to the party injured that, because the party doing the injury had been guilty also of a public wrong, he should be deprived of the remedy for his private injury.

So the original doctrine was modified into the view that the prosecution for felony was a condition precedent to the action for the civil injury. This doctrine appears to have prevailed for a considerable time, but in the case

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