companies engage to deal exclusively with each other and to make no bargains with other companies. A private trader can, of course, if he thinks fit, agree to forward all his traffic by a particular railway to all places to which the railway gives access. But a railway company is not in the position of an ordinary trader. It has duties and services to perform in which the public are interested, and if it binds itself in the way the trader may do, and, during the continuance of the agreement, new lines or routes are opened, and it has not the option of combining with them for the working of traffic, the restriction cannot but operate as a detriment to the public. These considerations compel us to refuse to sanction the continuance of this agreement unless the companies will consent to its being modified either by the omission of the article or by the addition thereto of a proviso to the following effect:-"Provided that nothing in this agreement shall be used or operate to prevent either of the companies parties hereto from agreeing to any through rate, or entering into any agreement with any other company or companies with reference to the conveyance of traffic by any route hereafter to be opened, or which has been opened for the first time any time since October 1, 1860, or to the interchange of running powers in respect of any such route or any part of it," but we do not mean to tie the companies to the words of this proviso if they prefer any other form which will effect, substantially, the same object.

Solicitors for the applicants, Van Sandau, for Batley & Mills, Huddersfield.

Solicitors for the Great Northern Company, Nelson, Barr, & Nelson.

Solicitor for the Manchester, Sheffield, &c., Company, R. B. M. Lingard Monk.

SOCIETIES.

SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.

The usual monthly meeting of the board of directors of this association was held at the Law Institution, Chancery lane, London, on Wednesday, August 10, Mr. F. T. Veley (Chelmsford) in the chair, the other directors present being Messrs. Asker (Norwich), Brook, Hedger, and Mellersh (Godalming)-Mr. Eiffe, secretary. A sum of £205 was distributed in grants of assistance among necessitous solicitors and their widows and families; six new members were added to the association; and other general business transacted.

LAW STUDENTS' JOURNAL.

COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION. MICHAELMAS COURSE OF IECTURES, 1881. Prospectus of the Lectures of the Professors. The professor of jurisprudence will deliver, during the ensuing educational term, a course of four lectures on "General Principles of the Law of Contract," to be followed by a course of eight lectures on "The Law of Contract viewed as a Part of Private International Law.”

There will be twelve lectures during the term. The first lecture of this course will be delivered on Thursday, the 3rd of November, at 3 p.m., and the subsequent lectures at the same hour on Mondays and Thursdays.

Equity.

The professor of equity will deliver, during the ensuing educational term, twelve lectures upon "Equity as Connected with Partnership."

The first lecture will be delivered on Friday, the 4th of November, at 4.15 p.m., and the subsequent lectures at the same hour on Wednesdays and Fridays during the term.

Law of Real and Personal Property. The professor of the law of real and personal property will deliver, during the ensuing educational term, twelve lectures on "The Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Real Estate."

The first lecture on this subject will be delivered on Friday, the 4th of November, at 3.5 p.m.

The subsequent lectures will be delivered on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and on Fridays at 3.5 p.m.

Common Law.

The professor of common law will deliver, during the ensuing educational term, twelve lectures on "The Principles of the Law of Torts."

The first lecture on this subject will be delivered on Thursday, the 3rd of November, at 4.15 p.m. The subsequent lectures will be delivered on Mondays and Thursdays at the same hour.

THE COURT OF APPEAL. "W. B." has addressed the following letter to the editor of the Times:

will fail in the future.

If they

"Her Majesty's Government are of opinion that it is expedient to alter the constitution of the Court of Appeal. The meaning must be that it is expedient to strengthen that court, in order that it may efficiently fulfil the duties imposed on it. I do not think that the Government are of opinion that up to this time the court has failed. are of that opinion they are wrong. Their opinion, more probably, is that the court, unless its constitution is altered, Intimately acquainted with the working of the court, I agree with the Government in this view. But, in order to determine rightly what is the proper alteration, one should understand correctly why the court has not hitherto failed, and why it is probable that it will fail in the future unless its constitution is altered. The court has succeeded because the members of it have in fact been, and have been admitted to be, lawyers of more than usual knowledge, experience, and authority. The court has gained the respect of suitors, the profession, and the public, because its decisions have been mainly right, and because its members have conducted its arduous business with calmness and firmness. The court has not hitherto failed to gain the acquiescence of the judges of the High Court, because the majority of those judges have not unwillingly yielded to the personal authority of most, if not all, of the judges of the Court of Appeal, and because the judges of the Court of Appeal have understood the feelings of the judges of the High Court. But there has been no inconsiderable difficulty in the way of the Court of Appeal in respect of their relation to the High Court. If ever the business of the Court of Appeal is conducted intemperately, or without a careful abstinence from harsh expression, it will fail. The judges of the High Court are men of eminent talent, of great reputation, of high spirit; it is inevitable, because it is natural, that they should feel considerable tenderness when other judges differ from and alter their mature decisions. They will not submit to, they are far too able not to find means to avoid, the consequences of a dillerence of opinion as to the law on any point, unless they willingly submit to the authority of those who differ from them. This friction has existed between the Court of Appeal and some of the judges of the High Court, notwithstanding the age, experience, and admitted personal talent of most of those who have been members of the Court of Appeal. This has been, and is, and will always be, the chief difficulty of the Court of Appeal. Lord Coleridge expresses

the feeling which causes the diff culty when he speaks of the decision of three judges sitting in one room being overruled by the decision of three judges sitting in another room. Tuis feeling must be soothed. The feeling which is required is that the decision of three judges of the High Court may sometimes be properly overruled by three judges of recognized weight sitting in a Court of Appeal. This feeling of unwounded acquiescence en only be created and maintained by so constituting the Court of Appeal as to make it always consist, not only, in fact, of the greatest lawyers of the day, but of those who are recognized and admitted to be so. It is essential that the judges of the Court of Appeal should, in fact, be the greatest lawyers; it is equally essential that they should be so recognized to be such as to make it unbecoming and useless to dispute their authority. presence of such lawyers in the court can only be secured at this time in this country by a greater and more visible difference being made between the position of the judges of the Court of Appeal and of the judges of the High Court.

The

I speak with an absolute and most earnest conviction when I say that such lawyers can only be obtained, that such recognition can only be secured, by restoring the salary of the judges of the Court of Appeal to what it was when all its earlier judges were induced to join it, and by relieving the judges of the Court of Appeal from the necessity of going circuit or otherwise fulfilling the duties of judges of the High Court, unless in cases of emergency. The sooner this fact is recognized, and objections to a sufficient expenditure to secure this end are overcome, the better for the proper administration of the law. This is the alteration in the constitution of the Court of Appeal which is necessary, because it is the only one which will be effective. The lawyers of highest repute practising in the Chancery Division must be recruited as well as those practising in the Common Law Division. I say advisedly that the highest cannot be procured from either side unless this alteration is made. And let those who are responsible clearly understand that the necessity of recruiting jargely for the Court of Appeal is imminent."

LEGAL APPOINTMENTS.

Mr. ALEXANDER ASHER, advocate, M.P., succeeds Mr. Balfour as Solicitor-General for Scotland. Mr. Asher is the second son of the Rev. William Asher, and was born in 1835. He was educated at the Elgin Academy and at the University of Edinburgh, and he was called to the bar in Scotland in 1861. He was an advocate depute from 1870 till 1874, and a few weeks ago he was elected M.P. for the Elgin Boroughs in the Liberal interest.

Mr. JOHN BLAIR BALFOUR, Q.C., M.P., Solicitor-General for Scotland, succeeds Mr. Maclaren as Lord Advocate. Mr. Balfour is the son of the Rev. Peter Balfour, and was born in 1837. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at the University of Edinburgh, and he was called to the bar in Scotland in 1861. On the formation of the present Government he was appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland and a Queen's Counsel. Mr. Balfour was elected M.P. for Clackmannanshire in the Liberal interest in November, 1880.

Mr. WILLIAM BURD, solicitor, of Okehampton, has been appointed a Perpetual Commissioner for Devonshire for taking the Acknowledgments of Deeds by Married Women.

Mr. FREDERICK DUTTON, solicitor, of 3, Drapersgardens, Throgmorton-street, E.C., has been appointed a Commissioner for taking Affidavits and Acknowledgments of Married Women for Western Australia; also a Commissioner for taking Affidavits in South Australia.

Mr. CHARLES ROBERT WADE GERY, solicitor, of St. Neots and Kimbolton, has been appointed Coroner for the Toseland Division of Huntingdonshire. Mr. Gery was admitted a solicitor in 1864.

Mr. LEWIS JOHN Kempthorne, solicitor, of Neath, has been appointed Deputy-Coroner for the Western Division of Glamorganshire. Mr. Kempthorne was admitted a soli eitor in 1861.

Mr. JOHN MACLAREN, Q.C., M.P., Lord Advocate of Scotland, has been appointed a Judge of the Court of Session, on the resignation of Lord Gifford. Mr. Maclaren is the eldest son of Mr. Duncan Maclaren, many years M.P. for Edinburgh, and was born in 1831. He is an M. A. of the University of Edinburgh, and he was called to the bar in Scotland in 1856. He was for several years sheriff of chancery in Scotland, and at the general election of 1880 he was elected M. P. for the borough of Wigton in the Liberal interest. On the formation of the present Government he was appointed Lord Advocate and a Queen's Counsel. Mr. Maclaren failed to secure re-election at Wigton, but in January last he was elected M.P. for the city of Edinburgh.

Mr. JOHN MCKEEVER, solicitor, of Wigton, has been ap pointed Clerk to the Wigton Local Board, in succession to his father, the late Mr. James McKeever.

Mr. ETIENNE PELLEREAU, barrister, substitute procureur for Mauritius, has been appointed Procureur and Advocate-General for that colony, in succession to Mr. Edward Morehead Wood, deceased. Mr. Pellereau was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in Trinity Term, 1860.

ALFRETON AERATED WATER COMPANY, LIMITED.-The M.R. has fixed Aug 23 at 11, at his chambers, for the appointment of an official liquidator

AVONSIDE ENGINE COMPANY, LIMITED.-Fry, J, has, by an order dated July 15, appointed Mr Henry Spain, 1 Gresham buildings, Basinghall st, the official liquidator. Creditors are required, on or before Sept 30 to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims to the above. Oct 27 at 12 is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims COMEDY OPERA COMPANY, LIMITED.-The M.R. has fixed Aug 23 at 11, at his chambers, for the appointment of an official liquidator EAST LONDON GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY, LIMITED.-The M.R. has, by an order dated June 23, appointed William Cornish Cooper, 20 King's Arms yd, Coleman st, to be official liquidator. Creditors are required, on or before Oct 1, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims to the above. Nov 1 at 11 is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims

FORTUNE COPPER MINING COMPANY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, LIMITED.-V.C. Bacon has, by an order dated Aug 4, appointed Frederick Barnard Leeming, 10 Coleman st, to be official liquidator, in the place of Frederic Coker, resigned

GAEWERN SLATE QUARRY COMPANY, LIMITED.-V.C. Hall has, by an order dated June 29, appointed Lewis Williams, Dolgelly, to be official liquidator

GREAT WHEAL POLGOOTH, LIMITED.-By an order made by V.C. Bacon, dated Aug 3, it was ordered that the above company be wound up. Snell and Greenip, George st, Mansion House LAGER BEER BREWERY, LIMITED.-Creditors are required, on or before Sept 11, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims, to John Henry Champness, 10 Basinghall st. Nov 1 at 12 is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims

PENARTH IRON AND STEEL COMPANY, LIMITED.-Fry, J, has by an order dated June 24, appointed Graham Dornford, Bute Docks, Cardiff, to be official liquidator

TITUS SOMERFIELD AND SON, LIMITED.-By an order made by the M.R., dated Aug 4, it was ordered that the voluntary winding up of the above company be continued. Bower and Cotton, Chancery lane, agents for Baker, Walsall, solicitors for the petitioner WEARMOUTH CROWN GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up, presented Aug 11, directed to be heard before Cave, J, the Vacation Judge, on Aug 24. Hickin, Serjeants' inn, Fleet st, agent for Moore and Co, Sonderland, solicitors for the petitioner WHITCHURCH AND ELLESMERE BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED.-V.C. Hall has, by an order dated July 8, appointed Samuel Whaley, Chester, to be official liquidator [Gazette, Aug. 12.] LIBERIA COFFEE COMPANY, LIMITED.-Petition for winding up, presented Aug 5, directed to be heard before the Vacation Judge, at Rolls yd, Chancery lane, on Aug 24. Holland, St Swithin's lane, solicitor for the petitioner PETROLEUM STORAGE COMPANY, THAMES HAVEN, LIMITED.-V. C. Bacon has, by an order dated Aug 9, appointed James Ford, 76, Cheapside, to be official liquidator. Creditors are required, on or before Sept 26, to send their names and addresses and the particulars of their debts or claims to the above. Oct 27 at 12 is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the debts and claims ROTHERHAM, MASBRO', AND HOLMES COAL COMPANY, LIMITED.Petition for winding up, presented Aug 11, directed to be heard before the Vacation Judge on Aug 21. Pilgrim and Phillips, Coleman st, agents for Watson and Co, Sheffield, solicitors for the petitioner

ST. JOHN'S STREET (BRADFORD) THEATRE AND CONCERT HALL COMPANY, LIMITED,-Petition for winding up, presented Aug 13, directed to be heard before the Vacation Judge on Aug 31. Layton and Jaques, Ely pl, agents for Neill, Bradford, solicitor for the petitioners

SUTTON PARK CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY, LIMITED.-By an order made by the M. R, dated Aug 6, it was ordered that the above company be wound up. Robinson and Co, Lincoln's inn fields, agents for Rowlands, Bagnall, and Co, Birmingham, solicitors for petitioners

[Gazette, Aug. 16.] UNLIMITED IN CHANCERY. MIDDLESBOROUGH, REDCAR, SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA, AND CLEVELAND DISTRICT PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY.-Petition for winding up, presented Aug 8, directed to be heard before Cave, J, at the Rolls Court, Chancery lane, on Aug 24. and Co, Lincoln's inn fields, agents for Bainbridge and Darnley, Middlesborough, solicitors for the petitioners

Paterson

[Gazette, Aug. 12.]

OBITUARY.

MR. FRANCIS JUBB.

Mr. Francis Jubb, solicitor, of Halifax, died suddenly on the 10th inst. Mr. Jubb was born in 1824. He was in early life a clerk in the West Riding Registry Office at Wakefield. He afterwards entered the office of the late Mr. Herbert Mitchell, of Halifax, to whom he was afterwards articled, and to whose business he ultimately succeeded. 113 was admitted a solicitor in 1859, and he had practised for more than twenty years at Halifax. He had a good general business, and he also practised extensively in the Halifax County Court and before the local magistrates, where his advocacy was most able and successful. Mr. Jubb was for several years clerk and solicitor to the Sowerby and Hebden Bridge Local Boards, and solicitor to the Halifax Wine and Beer Sellers' Association. He also acted locally for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, and he was the registration and election agent for the Conservative party. Mr. Jubb's death was painfully sudden. He had been engaged in the morning at the Halifax County Court, when he was apparently in his usual health, and he afterwards attended a sale by auction. While walking home he fell down and became insensible. He was carried into a chemist's shop, where he died almost immediately. Mr. Jubb is universally regretted at Halifax. He was buried at Sowerby on the -15th inst.

MR. ROBERT LAYCOCK.

Mr. Robert Laycock, barrister, M.P., died at Eastbourne, on the 14th inst., after a short illness. Mr. Laycock was the son of Mr. Thomas Laycock, of Low Gosforth, Northumberland (who died only a few years ago), and he was born in 1834. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1856, and he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in Michaelmas Term, 1857. He was formerly a member of the Northern Circuit, but he had ceased to practise. In 1874 be unsuccessfully contested the borough of Nottingham in the . Liberal interest. At the general election of 1880 he stood for the Northern Division of Lincolnshire, and was returned at the head of the poll. Mr. Laycock regularly attended the debates on the Irish measures of the session, and last week, feeling unwell, he went for a change of air to Eastbourne, where he died very suddenly on the morning of the 14th. Mr. Laycock was married to the daughter of Mr. Christian Allbusen, of Hoke Court, Buckinghamshire. He was a deputy-lieutenant for Nottinghamshire (having been high sheriff in 1878), and he was a magistrate for that county and for Northumberland.

CREDITORS' CLAIMS.

CREDITORS UNDER ESTATES IN CHANCERY LAST DAY OF PROOF.

ANDERTON, WILLIAM, Bankhead, Higher Walton, near Preston, Farmer. Oct 3. Western District Bank, Limited, v Anderton, M. R. Houghton, Preston

AVERY, THOMAS PORTER, Ladbroke grove rd, Notting Hill, Photographer. Oct 1. Tuckwell v Avery, V.C. Hall. Hicks and Arnold, Wellington st, Strand

CLARK, JOHN, Wrose Hill, nr Shipley, York, Mason. Oct 3. Patchett v Sutcliffe, M.R. Robinson, Bradford

COWLAND, JOHN DEWDNEY, Lansdowne rd, Notting Hill, Builder.
Sept 10. Wheeler v Cowland, V.C. Bacon. Cartwright, Lothbury
GREGORY, EDWARD, Britannia row, Islington, Carpenter. Oct 1.
Lulham v Gregory, V.C. Hall. Little and Mills, Stroud
MITFORD, ROBERT BERTRAM, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Esq. Sept 26.
Mitford v Mitford, V.C. Bacon. Jones, Cheltenham
[Gazette, Aug 5.]

BINGLEY, WILLIAM, Rotherham, York, Gent. Sept 12. Coward, Rotherham

Oxley and

BOWYER, HENRY ATKINS, Great Malvern, Worcester, Esq. Aug 31. Paterson and Co, Lincoln's inn fields

EDWARDS, JOSEPH, Great Garden st, Whitechapel, Livery Stable Keeper. Sept 1. Tatham and Co, Queen Victoria st

FLINT, HARRY, HITCHIN, Herts, Bank Manager. Sept 1. Chad William st, Albert Gate

HAND, LEWIS, Wellington rd, St John's Wood, Solicitor. Aug 31. Paterson and Co, Lincoln's inn fields

HASLAM, JOHN, Biggar, Barrow in Furness, Farmer. Aug 10. Tyson
Dalton in Furness

Lowcock, JOSEPH, Hartwith, York, Farmer.
Knaresborough

MURPHY, ELIZABETH JANE, Upper st, Islington.
High st, Borough

Sept 1. Powell,

Sept 30.

Rice,

PARSONS, JOHN, Barling, Essex, Farmer. Aug 31. Gregson, Roch

ford

POSTLETHWAITE, WILLIAM, Barrow in Furness, Farmer. Tyson, Dalton in Furness

Sept 1.

ROBINSON, AMELIA, Stockton on Tees. Sept 30. Newby and Co, Stockton on Tees

SHARP, WILLIAM, Higher Broughton, nr Manchester, Gent. Ang 31. Slater and Co, Manchester

SHEARCROFT, WILLIAM, Long Sutton, Lincoln, Surveyor of Highways. Sept 8. Mossop and Mossop, Long Sutton

SIMON, OTTO, Chorlton upon Medlock, Commercial Clerk. Sept 16. Payne and Galloway, Manchester

[Gazette, Aug 2.1

BESANT, HANNAH, Hillmarton villas, Holloway. Nov 1. Cattell, Gt James st, Bedford row

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM GEORGE, Ennismore gdns, Es7. Sept 15. Johnson and Master, Southampton bldgs

DICCONSON, THOMAS CLIFTON, Wrightington, Lancaster, Es]. Oct 20. Ward and Co, Gray's inn sq

EVANS, ROBERT, Liverpool, Draper. Oct 1. Wright and Co, Liver. pool

JENNINGS, CHARLES DICKINSON, Spalding, Lincoln, Ironmonger. Sept 6. Bonner and Calthrop, Spalding

JONES, EDWIN, Brighton, M.D. Oct 30. Nye and Greenwood, Serjeants' inn, Fleet st

LUCAS, ELEANOR, Crosthwaite, Westmoreland. Sept 8. BowLass,

Windermere

OSBORNE, ELIZABETH, Eastbourne Grove, South Shields. Aug 19. Thomson, South Shields

PEARSON. JOSHUA, Compton st, Clerkenwell, Gent. Sept 1. Grover and Humphreys, Temple

POLLEN, Sir RICHARD HUNGERFORD, Rodbourne, Wilts, Bart. Sept 12. Lamb, Andover

REYNALD, WILLIAM, Bolton Wilberfoss, nr York, Gent. Oct L Terry and Co, Bradford

RICHARDSON, JOSEPH, Penrith, Gent. Sept 15. Cant and Farer,

Penrith

SAYERS, ROBERT SMITH, St John's common, Sussex, Gent. Sept 3. Stevens and Son, Brighton

SCOTT, JOHN, Upper Thames st, Tea Dealer. Sept 30. Mya, Abchurch yd, Cannon st

SEAMER, THOMAS, Milk st, Silk Manufacturer. Sept 30. Stevens and Son, Brighton

TERRY, MICHAEL, Osborne rd, South Acton, Pig Dealer. Sept 15. Bohm, Old Jewry

TURLEY, JOHN, Harrington rd, South Norwood, Farmer. Sept 4. Brooks and Co, Doctors' commons

Aug 26.

Sept 29.

WAILES, WILLIAM, Gateshead, Durham, Glass Stainer.
Chartres and Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne
WORTHINGTON, GEORGE SAMUEL, Cardiff, Esq. Sept 1. Keele, Old
Jewry

Oct 1.

[Gazette, Aug 5.]

Furness Railway; Oxted and Groombridge Railway; Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway; Stalybridge Extension and Improvement; Metropolitan Bridges; Southport and Cheshire Lines Extension Railway; Cork and Kenmare Railway; South-Eastern Railways; Rosebush and Fishguard Railway; London City Tithes (St. Botolph Without Aldgate); Greenwich Dock and Railway; Lynn and Fakenham Railway; Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway; Great North of Scotland Railway; Teign Valley Railway; Manufacturers and Millowners' Mutual Aid Association; Cork Improvement (Extension of Time); Redcastle and Tarradale Estates; Earl of Hardwicke's Estate; Ellon Trust Estates; Bagot Estate; Croker Estates; and St. John's Hospital, Bedford.

BILLS READ A SECOND TIME.

East Indian Railway (Redemption of Annuities), Ex

Mold

BILLS IN COMMITTEE. Ecolesiastical Courts Regulation, Metropolitan Board of Works (Money), National Debt.

BILL READ A THIRD TIME.

Patriotic Fund.

AUG. 12.-BILLS READ A THIRD TIME. Metropolitan Board of Works (Money), Superannuation (Post Office and Works), Central Criminal Court, Corrupt Practices (Suspension of Elections), Ecclesiastical Courts Regulation.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

AUG. 11.-BILL READ A THIRD TIME. PRIVATE BILL.-Severn Navigation.

BILLS WITHDRAWN.

Bills of Sale Act, 1878, Amendment, Churchwardens Admission.

AUG. 12.-BILL IN COMMITTEE. Pedlars' Certificates.

BILL READ A THIRD TIME. National Debt.

Nov 1. Stiles

THOMSON, JAMES, Windermere, Westmoreland, Gent. Gatey, Windermere

Aug 31.

AUG. 17.-BILL IN COMMITTEE. Expiring Laws Continuance.

THORNETT, JOHN, Bournemouth, Southampton, Gent. Houghtons and Byfield, Gracechurch st

Sept 14.

BILL WITHDRAWN. London City (Parochial Charities).

HOUSE OF LORDS.

AUG. 11.-ROYAL COMMISSION.

The Royal assent was given by Commission to the following Bills :-Incumbents of Benefices Loans Extension; Burial Grounds (Scotland) Act, 1855, Amendment; Reformatory Institutions (Ireland); Stratified Ironstone Mines (Gunpowder); Local Government Board (Ireland) Amendment; Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance; Customs (Officers); Public Loans (Ireland); Remission; Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland); Coroners (Ireland); Metropolitan Open Spaces; British Honduras (Court of Appeal); Alkali, &c., Works Regulation; Commons Regulation (Shenfield) Provisional Order Confirmation; Local Government Boards Provisional Orders Confirmation (Acton, &c.); Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2); Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 3); Water Orders Confirmation; Alsager Chapel Marriages; Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (London); Bristol Dock; Caledonian Railway (Partick Siding); Lea-bridge, Leyton, and Waltham stow Tramways; Reading Corporation; South Metropolitan Gas; Southwark and Deptford Tramways; Medway Conservancy; Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway; Edinburgh-street Tramways; Staines and West Drayton Railway; Oban Burgh; Nar Valley Drainage; Oldbury Railway; Great Southern and Western Railway (Killorglin Railway Transfer); Chambers and Offices; North British Railway (General Powers); South London Tramways; Whitland and Cardigan Railway; Annan Waterfoot Dock and Railway; Coplands Patent;

LEGAL NEWS.

It appears that two half-penny postage stamps cannot be used in place of a penny receipt stamp ; and that an order has been issued making it imperative on the postmaster at the time of issuing a postal order to fill in the name of the post office at which it is to be cashed.

The following are the circuits which have been chosen by the judges for the ensuing autumn assizes, viz. :-SouthEastern Circuit-Lord Chief Justice Coleridge; North and South Wales Circuits-Lord Justice Lush; Oxford Circuit -Lord Justice Cotton; Western Circuit-Mr. Justice Williams; Midland Circuit-Mr. Justice Mathew; NorthEastern Circuit-Mr. Justice Cave; Northern Circuit-Mr. Justice Kay.

"A City Solicitor" writes to the Times :-"The following was the state of business at judges' chambers on the 11th inst. before the Vacation Judge:-There were twenty-three summonses for hearing in the eleven o'clock list, and twentyfour in the twelve o'clock list. At half-past twelve there was another list of twenty-eight summonses to be attended by counsel, and in the two o'clock list there were forty-oneordinary summonses. The eleven o'clock list was not disposed of before a quarter to one. At that time there were several solicitors present waiting to attend their summonses in the twelve o'clock list, but counsel summonses were then taken, and had not been disposed of at a quarter to five o'clock, when the learned judge stated that the summonses in the twelve and two o'clock lists would be adjourned."

A more remarkable action of libel than Sullings v. Shakespeare, says the Albany Law Journal, was never waged. Sullings was a doctor; Shakespeare was the publisher of the Kalamazoo Gazette. The action was for a libellous article, describing the plaintiff as having removed a patty tuber" from the "hypogastruam" of one Smith. It appeared that the article was written by the doctor himself, and sent to the defendant with a request for publication; that it was illegibly written, and that the extraordinary terme

above quoted were the result of the printer's struggle with the manuscript, and his rendition of "fatty tumor" and "hypogastrium." On this point the court observed: "The article being written by plaintiff as a gratuitous puff of himself, and published at his request, we do not see how a mistake of the printer's, without wrongful intent, could be held a malicious libel."

A compensation case of The Midland Railway Company v. James Campsill, in which there was more than the usual difference between the surveyors on either side, occupied the attention of Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell and a special jury on the 9th and 10th inst. The claimant, a rag merchant, sought to recover some £2,500 for compulsory removal from his trade premises situate in Southampton-road, Haverstock-bill, which he held on lease for twenty-four years unexpired at £42 per annum, the rental value being now variously estimated by the surveyors called on his behalf at from £100 to £120 a year-Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Weller placing them at the latter amount, and Mr. Scobell and Mr. Edmond F. Fuller (Fuller & Fuller) at the former value. The latter gentleman having prepared the claim, gave evidence that the leasehold interest was worth £797 10s. ; compensation for disturbance, three years' net profits, or £1,590; fixtures and removal of stock, £100-total, £2,487 10s., and Mr. W. G. Harrison, Q.C., instructed by Mr. C. T. Forster, presented these figures in his address to the jury as the sum the claimant was entitled receive at their hands. Mr. Bidder, Q.C., M.P., urged, however, on behalf of the company, that the claim was excessive; that Mr. Campsill would obtain premises immediately the verdict was returned, and that the trade would be injured only to a very little, if any, extent. The witnesses retained on behalf of the company were Mr. Gairdner, Mr. Robert Vigers, Mr. Rex (Salter, Rex, & Co.), Mr. Garrard, and Mr. Alderman Ellis. The last three surveyors put the improved value of the premises at only £33 a year, and, in addition, Mr. Ellis's opinion was that the claimant should receive £500 as compensation to cover any possible loss. The jury, after much deliberation, returned a verdict for £2,100, or £1,250 beyond the offer under seal, which did not transpire till afterwards.

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In the House of Commons, on the 11th inst., Mr. A. O'Connor asked the Attorney-General whether any complaints had reached him as to the charges made at the Middlesex Registry, and as to the officials there compelling parties to attend in Great James-street to be sworn to memorials, thus causing great inconvenience and delay; whether affidavits sworn before a commissioner are not received in the Supreme Court; and whether there was any reason, except one con. nected with fees, why the Middlesex Registry should not do in like manner; and whether he would make arrangements for the scale of fees authorized to be charged at the Middlesex Registry being placed on the backs of the tickets given on deeds left for registry and for their being affixed in the Registry; as well as for the execution of deeds and memorials being deposed to before a commissioner in the the same manner as affidavits are sworn in causes in the Supreme Court of Judicature, and for the lengths of memorials being marked on them when left for registry. The Attorney-General said the Middlesex Registry Office was not one over which he had the slightest control, nor was he officially connected with it. But that question seemed to point to practical inconvenience existing, and he would endeavour to find out its cause. The reason why affidavits sworn before a commissioner could not be received at the Middlesex Registry was because under the Statute of Anne creating the office it was necessary that affidavits should be made in the presence of the registrar or a master in chancery, and any alteration in that respect must be made by Statute. As to the latter part of the question, by the Statute of Anne the Lord Chief Justice had power to make certain regulations, and if the hon. member would communicate to him any matters of practical inconvenience which arose, they would be forwarded to the proper quarter.

On the occasion of the dinner given on the 12th of last month by the Bar Mess of the South-Eastern Circuit to Lord Justice Bramwell and Mr. Justice Denman, the latter informed the mess that amongst some old papers he had found a MS. by the late Lord Chelmsford, being a parody on "Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard.' He then read it, and afterwards offered it to the mess. Mr. Day, Q.C., thereupon moved that it be accepted and entered in the minute-book, and that copies should be

printed and sent to the members of the Bar Mess. The motion was carried unanimously, and the parody was pronounced to be excellent. The following is the "Epitaph":

"Here rests his body in Australia's land,
A youth to naval glory not unknown;
But, ere promotion took him by the hand,

The Palace Court had marked him for its own.
"Large was his practice as his age could reach;
And large his recompense, as well could be;
He gave to juries all he had-a speech;
He gained from clients all he wished-a fee.
"No longer seek his merits to disclose,

Or draw his blunders from their prison dark,
Where cheek by jowl they lovingly repose,

The bosoms of the Attorney and his Clerk!"

The prospectus is issued of the Lydney and Lydbrook Steel and Tinplate Company, formed with a capital of £200,000, in £5 shares, to work the properties named in the title, together with adjacent collieries. The directors are prepared to receive applications for 30,000 shares payable as follows:-£1 on application, £2 on allotment, and the remainder in calls not exceeding £1 each, with three months' notice. Subscribers are at liberty to pay up on allotment the uncalled amount of £2 per share, upon which interest at 5 per cent. per annum will immediately accrue, until such prepayments are absorbed in calls. The works have been established nearly a century, and are in full and active operation. The vendor is willing to take seven-eighths of his purchase-money (£91,600) in folly paid shares after the charges on the works have been paid off.

Bankrupts.

FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 1881.

Under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869.

Creditors must forward their proofs of debts to the Registrar.
To Surrender in London.

Crookhorn, Charles, Bradbury st, Kingsland, Cab Proprietor. Pet
Aug 12. Murray. Aug 23 at 12
To Surrender in the Country.
Creigh, William Benjamin, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Commercial
Traveller. Pet Aug 9. Daggett. Newcastle, Aug 23 at 11
Kettle, George, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford, Joiner. Pet Aug
9. Tennant. Hanley, Aug 30 at 11

Meredith, John Meyrick, Chickward, Hereford, Machinist. Pet Aug 10. Robinson. Leominster, Aug 24 at 12

Smith, William, Birmingham, Coal Merchant. Pet Aug 5. Parry. Birmingham, Aug 29 at 2

Webb, George, New Thornton Heath, Surrey, Builder. Pet Aug 5. Rowland. Croydon, Aug 26 at 2

TUESDAY, August 16, 1881.

Under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869.

Creditors must forward their proofs of debts to the Registrar. To Surrender in London.

Bode, Frederick, sometimes known as Frederick Mathews, Basing hall st, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Pet Aug 13. Brough Sept 1 at 11.30

Bowen, Kirbey, Aldersgate st, Warehouseman. Pet Aug 10.
Murray. Sept 6 at 11
To Surrender in the Country.
Davis, John Bault, Shrewsbury, Tobacconist. Pet Aug 12. Peela.
Shrewsbury, Sept 3 at 11

Carter, Henry, Barnsley, York, Grocer. Pet Aug 11. Bury.
Barnsley, Aug 26 at 12

Edwards, Edward, Manchester, Dining Room Keeper. Pet Ang 11. Lister, Manchester, Sept 5 at 12