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Alcock, William, Tunstall, Stafford, Beerseller. Aug 18 at 3 at offices of Alcock, Market st, Tunstall

Aliband, William, Kingswinford, Stafford, Painter. Aug 18 at 3 at offices of Homfray and Holberton, High st, Brierley hill Allison, Henry, Falsgrave, Scarborough, York, Boot Maker. Aug 22 at 12 at offices of Shirley and Co, Huntriss row, Scarborough

Anderson, Joseph, Darlington, Durham, Brewer's Traveller, Aug 23 at 11 at offices of Wilkes and Wilkes, Northgate, Darlington

Badger, Joseph, Sheffield, Joiner. Aug 19 at 3 at offices of Webster and Styring, Hartshead, Sheffield

Bailey, William, Burslem, Stafford, Potter's Gilder. Aug 23 at 11 at offices of Tomkinson and Furnival, St John's chmbrs, Queen st, Burslem

Bate, Albert, East Stonehouse, Watchmaker. Aug 19 at 11 at offices of Russell, Bennett's hill, Birmingham. Adams, Ply. mouth Bebbington, John, Wharton, Chester, Beerhouse Keeper. Aug 24 at at 11 at offices of Green and Dixon, High st, Winsford Bedford, William John, Lamberhurst, Kent, Miller, Aug 19 at 3.30 at Swan Hotel, Tunbridge Wells. Aitkens, Ticehurst Blackburne, Gilbert Ireland Montagu, Bristol, Solicitor. Aug 19 at 2 at No. 4 Room, Athenæum, Corn st, Bristol. Bramble Blewitt, Thomas, Gt Bridge, Stafford, Beerhouse Keeper. Aug 22 at 12 at offices of Baker, Bridge st, Walsall

Bowden, Henry, Exeter, Fishing Tackle Manufacturer. Aug 18 at 4 at Castle Hotel, Castle st, Exeter. Friend, Exeter Brittain, Henry, Birmingham, Wire Worker. Aug 19 at 11 at Grand Hotel, Colmore row, Birmingham. Free, Birmingham Brown, Thomas, Thornbury, nr Bradford, York, Grocer. Aug 20 at 10.30 at offices of Berry and Robinson, Charles st, Bradford Chaffe, Robert, Topsfield rd. Crouch End, Builder. Aug 19 at 2 at offices of Norris, Southampton bldgs, Chancery-lane

Clayton, William, Leicester, Licensed Victualler. Aug 23 at 3 at offices of Stone and Co, Welford pl, Leicester

Coates, Henry, Manchester, Licensed Victualler. Aug 22 at 3 at offices of Leigh, Brown st, Manchester

Cocks, Charles, Cardiff, Builder. Aug 22 at 3 at offices of Griffith and Corb tt, Quay st, Cardiff

Coltman. Alfred Henry, High st, Shoreditch, Licensed Victualler. Aug 31 at 3 at offices of Thompson and Co, Cornhill

Crapp, John Charles. Truro, Cornwall, Grocer. Aug 18 at 2 at offices of Cook, Coombe lane, Truro

Crewe, Henry, Ledbury, Hereford, Jeweller. Aug 29 at 12 at Star Hotel, Worcester. Piper, Ledbury

Crump, Thomas William, Grendon Bishop, Hereford, Gardener. Aug 23 at 11 at offices of Scobie, Offa st, Hereford

Dale, Henry William, and Frederick Charles Dale, Hastings, Boot Dealers, Aug 22 at 12 at Law Institution, Chancery lane. Chalinder, Hastings

Dancer, Ellen, Hanley, Baker. Aug 24 at 2 at offices of Bishop and Topham, Bank chbrs, Hanley

Devonald, Evan, High st, Portland Town, Carver. Aug 19 at 2 at offices of Johnson, Seymour pl, Marylebone rd

Dickinson, John William, Sheffield, Cattle Dealer. Aug 22 at 3 at offices of Webster and Styring, Hartshead, Sheffield Dodge, John, West Coker, Somerset, Beerhouse Keeper. Aug 20 at 3 at offices of Watts, Yeovil

Earle, Edward Septimus, Brentford, Surgeon. Aug 22 at 12 at Star and Garter Hotel, Kew Bridge. Peacock and Goddard, South 8q, Gray's inn

Edwards, John Willcox, Stourport, Innkeeper. Aug 30 at 3 at office of Thursfield, Swan st, Kidderminster

Elliot, Michael Henry, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Ship Broker. Aug 23 at 11 at offices of Gillespie and Co, Cross House chbrs, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Lynn, Blyth

Elliott, Henry Ley, Exeter, Ironmonger. Aug 24 at 1 at Swan
Hotel, Bristol. Campion

Ellis, Benjamin, Commercial st, Spitalfields, Wholesale Clothier.
Aug 16 at 3 at offices of Cattlin, Wormwood st, Old Broad st
Evans. Williams, Cardiff, Brick Merchant. Aug 20 at 3 at offices of
Westyr-Evans, Church st, Cardiff

Aug 23 at

Sept 3 at 1 Aug 20 at 11 at the Beckingham, Bristol Aug 29 at 3 at offices

Farley, Henry James, Llanwtryd, Brecon, Innkeeper. 11 at offices of Jones, Market st, Llandovery Fay, James Charles, King's rd, Chelsea, Tobacconist. at offices of Smith, Leadenhall st Fedden, Samuel, Bristol, Provision Merchant. Merchants' Association, Broad st, Bristol. Forknall, Thomas, Leicester, Leather Dealer. of Wright, Belvoir st, Leicester Garbaczewski, Adolph, Strand, Hair Dresser. Surrey st, Strand. Lane

Aug 27 at 11 at 22,

Garbutt, Edward Walker, Seaton Carew, Durham, Corn Factor. Aug 21 at 12 at offices of Garbutt, Victoria st, West Hartlepool Garward, James, Leyton, Essex, Blacksmith. Aug 17 at 2 at Woodhouse Tavern, Harrow rd, Leytonstone. Hope, Bell yard, Temple bar

Geall, Ebenezer, Brighton, Butler. Aug 24 at 3 at offices of Nye, North st, Brighton

Gerrard, George Edward, Liverpool, Grocer.

of Quilliam, Elliott st, Liverpool

Aug 24 at 3 at offices

Gill, Samuel, Hastings, Veertinary Surgeon. Aug 23 at 12 at offices of Langham, Robertson st, Hastings

Groutage, John, Birmingham, Glass Quicker. Aug 18 at 11 at offices of East, Temple st, Birmingham

Handby, Joseph, Bolsover, Derby, Joiner. Aug 22 at 1.30 at offices of Jones and Middleton, Glumangate, Chesterfield.

Harland, George, York, Provision Dealer. Aug 22 at 11 at offices of Holiday Smith, Petergate, York

Harrington, John, Leyton, Essex, Butcher's Salesman. Ang 17 at 2
at Mullen's Hotel, Ironmonger lane. Seymour, Copthall bldgs
Hawkes, George, Ardsley, Bedford, Farmer. Aug 24 at 3 at Swan
Inn, Biggleswade. Veasey, Baldock

Hayhurst, Walter Plant, Manchester, Tailor. Aug 18 at 3 at Mitre
Hotel, Cathedral yd, Manchester. Stevenson, Manchester
Hemus, Joseph William, Birmingham, Haberdasher. Aug 22 at 11
at offices of Beale and Co, Newhall st, Birmingham
Henderson, David, Birkenhead, Patent Dry Sauce Manufacturer.
Aug 20 at 11 at offices of Thompson, Hamilton st, Birkenhead
Henthwaite, William, Lee Head, Birkby, Huddersfield, Painter.
Aug 22 at 3 at offices of Heaton, New st, Huddersfield. Grisdalf,
Leeds

Hession, John, Hanley, Stafford, Fishmonger. Aug 17 at 10 at offices of Ashmall, Albion st, Hanley

Holland, Thomas, and Thomas Thompson, Hartshorne, Leicester, Earthenware Manufacturers. Aug 19 at 12 at Wellington Hotel, Leicester. Fisher and Co, Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Hollings, Edmund, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Botanic Chemist. Aug 24 at 12 at offices of Gabb, Essex pl, Cheltenham

Hone, Alfred, Fitchett's ct, Noble st, Trimming Manufacturer.
Aug 29 at 3 at offices of Noone and Clarke, Blomfield st
Horn, Cornelias, Dunstable, Bedford, Straw Plait Dealer. Aug 15
at 3 at Kempson's, Bedford rd, Luton. Wells, St Albans
Hudson, John, Whitby, York, Railway Clerk. Aug 25 at 11 at offices
of Frankland and Co, Grape lane, Whitby
Hughes, James, Liverpool, Tailor. Aug 20 at 1 at offices of Lowe,
Mount pleasant, Liverpool

Jackson, James, and Ashton Spencer, Bishophill, York, Builders.
Aug 23 at 11 at offices of Shaftoe, Bland's court, Coney st, York
Johnson, John George Ventris Field, Buckingham, Farmer. Aug 2
at 12 at Bletchley park Hotel, Bletchley. Bull, Newport Pag
nell
Johnson, William, Parkgate, Chester, Grocer. Aug 22 at 3 at offices
of Thompson, Hamilton st, Birkenhead
Jones, Evan, Newquay, Cardigan, Draper. Aug 18 at 12 at Black
Lion Hotel, Newquay. Hughes and Sons, Aberystwith
Jones, William Rees, Ystradyfadwg, Glamorgan, Butcher. Aug 3
at 11 at offices of Jones, Philharmonic chbrs, Cardiff
Klein, Charlotte st, Portland pl, Commercial Traveller. Aug 20 at
3 at offices Foster, Brunswick sq, Bloomsbury
Kuenemann. Robert Anthony, Manchester, Calico Printer. Aug 25
at 11 at offices of Salomonson, Fountain st, Manchester
Lashbrook, Benjamin, Great Torrington, Devon, Baker. Aug 19 at
12 at offices of Smale, Bath House, Bideford
Lyon, Henry, Goswell rd, Licensed Victualler.
Cheapside. Peckham and Co, Knight Rider st
McGrane, James, Burton on Trent, Inland Revenue Officer.
31 at 11 at offices of Bright, Burton on Trent
Murphy, James Christopher, Hunter st, Brunswick sq. Aug 20 at
2 at offices of Rogers, West st, Finsbury circus. Lomas, Hay-
market

Aug 21 at 3 at 111,

Ang

Nevill, Edward, Newcastle under Lyme, Licensed Victualler. Aug 20 at 11 at offices of James. Nelson sq, Newcastle under Lyme Nichols, Thomas, Elsing, Norfolk, Farmer. Aug 22 at 4 at offices of Watson, Corn Hall, Fakenham

North, Samuel, High Wycombe, Commercial Traveller. Ang 24 at 3 at offices of Parker and Wilkins, Easton st, High Wycombe Odell, Edward John, Roman rd, North Bow, Baker. Aug 24 at 3.30 at offices of Tatham and Co, Queen Victoria st Patch, Thomas, Stockwood, Dorset, Miller. Aug 20 at 11 at offices of Watts, Yeovil

Patrick, James, Worcester, Butcher. Aug 22 at 3 at offices of Allen and Co, Sansome pl, Worcester

Penna, Samuel Thomas, Truro, Cornwall, Grocer. Aug 22 at 11 at offices of Dobell, jun, Quay st, Truro

Pickford, Caroline Green Fester, and Annie Withecombe, Bristol, Furriers. Aug 16 at 10 at offices of Waterhouse, Broad st Pittaway, Henry, Dudley, Worcester, Builder. Aug 22 at 11 at offices of Stokes, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham Pollard, William Richards, Cleator Moor, Cumberland, Watchmaker. Aug 23 at 3 at offices of Mason, Duke st, Whitehaven Prentice, Samuel, Alpine rd, Rotherhithe, Mercantile Clerk. Aug 20 at 2 at offices of Morris, Aldermanbury Postern Reed, William, Sunderland, Durham, Dealer in Jewellery. Ang 19 at 12 at offices of Alcock and Routledge, Frederick Lodge, St. Thomas st, Sunderland

Renwick, Alfred Andrew, Wootton Bassett, Wilts, Licensed Victualler. Aug 20 at 12 at the Royal Oak Hotel, High st, Wootton Bassett. Mullings and Co, Wootton Bassett

Robertson, William Wybrow, Weybridge, Surrey, Theatrical Manager. Aug 20 at 2 at offices of Davis, Cork st, Burlington gardens

Robson, George, Hartlepool, Durham, Timber Merchant. Aug 16
at 3 at offices of Todd and Harrison, Town-wall, Hartlepool
Rutherford, Thomas, Croydon, Surrey, Builder. Aug 23 at 3 at the
Greyhound Hotel, Croydon. Pullen, Basinghall st
Sear, Thomas, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Licensed Victualler. Ang
19 at 11 at offices of Griffith, Lad lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Seller, Charles, Northleigh, Devon, Carpenter. Aug 22 at 3 at Star
Inn, Honiton. Tweed, Honiton

Sharp, Robert, Manchester, Wholesale Clothier. Ang 30 at 3 at office of Boote and Edgar, Booth st, Manchester

Shaw, Matthew Henry, Prince Edward's rd, Hackney Wick, Hardware Dealer. Aug 23 at 3 at offices of Finch, Borough High Shelley, Thomas, Burslem, Hay Dealer. Aug 17 at 11 at offices of Bennett, Piccadilly bldgs, Hanley

st

Short, William, Bath, Haulier, Aug 17 at 4 at offices of Titley, Orange grove, Bath

Smith, Joseph, Eastbourne, Fruiterer. Aug 19 at 3 at 42, Terminus rd, Eastbourne. Champion and Co, Ironmonger lane Solomons, Morris, Quaker st, Spitalfields, Grocer. Aug 17 at 3 at offices of Morris, Aldermanbury Postern

Spiers, James Thomas, Liverpool, Boatman. Aug 22 at 3 al offices of Bartlett, Dale st, Liverpool

Taylor, Edward, Huddersfield, Travelling Draper. Aug 18 at 3 at offices of Ainley and Hall, New st, Huddersfield

Thistlethwaite, William, Frizinghall, Bradford, Wool Broker. Aug
19 at 11 at offices of Terry and Co, Market st, Bradford
Timson, Joseph, Leicester, Confectioner. Aug 30 (at 12 at County
Court Office, Friar lane, Leicester. Burgess and Williams,
Leicester

Thompson, Samuel, Campton, Bedford, Gardener. Aug 25 at 4 at White Hart Hotel, Shefford. Hooper and Co, Biggleswade Timms, John, Woking, Surrey, Dairyman. Aug 22 at 3 at County and Borough Halls, North st, Guildford. Knight White, Guildford

Townsend, Daniel, Butlers Marston, Warwick, Farmer. Aug 25 at
1 at White Lion Hotel, Banbury. Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon
Vann, George Edward Frederick, Leicester, Fishmonger. Aug 26
at 3 at offices of Wright, Belvoir st, Leicester
Waterhouse, Edwin, Hanley, Stafford, Grocer. Aug 19 at 10 at
offices of Ashmall, Albion st, Hanley

Wheeler, William, Crediton, Devon, Innkeeper. Aug 26 at 11 at
offices of Fewings, Queen st, Exeter. Searle, Crediton
Whitaker, Benjamin, Kingswinford, Stafford, Cab Proprietor.
Aug 17 at 3 at offices of Homfray and Holberton, High st,
Brierley Hill

White, Thomas Augustus, Leeds, Mortgage Broker. Aug 22 at 3 at
offices of Pullan, Albion st, Leeds
Williams, Samuel, Northwood,

Hanley, Stafford, Beerseller. Aug 19 at 11 at offices of Ashmall, Albion st, Hanley Wood, Henry, Roath, Cardiff, Carrier. Aug 23 at 3 at Duke st, Cardiff. Stephens, Cardiff

Wilton, Henry, Meyrick rd, Battersea, Oil and Colour Man. Aug 26 at 11 at High st, Wandsworth. Jones

Wood, James, jun, Clark st, Stepney, Mineral Water Manufacturer. Aug 20 at 3 at offices of Wharton Nind, Arbour street, East Stepney

Woods, John, Luton, Nurseryman. Aug 17 at 12 at Red Lion Hotel, Luton. Willis, Leighton Buzzard

Wragg, Charles, Tunstall, Stafford, out of business.

3 at offices of Alcock, Market st, Tunstall

August 22 at

Wright, Edward, West Bromwich, Stafford, Publican. August 22 at 3 at offices of Fallows, Cherry st, Birmingham

Yates, Froderick John, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Estate Agent. Aug 31 at 3 at offices of Corbett, Avenue House, the Cross, Worcester Yates, Samuel, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Auctioneer. Aug 31 at 11 at offices of Corbett, Avenue House, the Cross, Worcester

SCHWEITZER'S COCOATINA,

Anti-Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chocolate Powder.

Guaranteed Pure Soluble Cocoa of the Finest Quality, with the excess of fat extracted.

The Faculty pronounce it "the most nutritious, perfectly digestible beverage for Breakfast, Luncheon, or Supper, and invaluable for Invalids and Children."

Highly commended by the entire Medica 1Press.

Being without sugar, spice, or other admixture, it suits all palates, Jeeps better in all climates, and is four times the strength of cocoas TRICKENED yet WEAKENED with starch, &c., and IN REALITY CHEAPER than such Mixtures.

Made instantaneously with boiling water, a teaspoonful to a Breakfast Cup, costing less than a halfpenny.

COCOATINA A LA VANILLE is the most delicate, digestible, cheapest Manilla Chocolate, and may be taken when richer chocolate is prohibited.

In tin packets at 1s. 6d., 3s., 5s. 6d., &c., by Chemists and Grocers, Charities on Special Terms by the Sole Proprietors,

Я. SCHWEITZER & CO., 10, Adam-street, London, W.C.

HEDOZONE.

THE ORIGINAL (1876) NON-ALCOHOLIC SPARKLING

BEVERAGE.

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Specially for the Sale of Literary Property, Music, and Works of Art, 47, LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON, W.C.

MESSKS. PUTTICK & to

that the above rooms are open daily for the reception of all kinds of Literary and Art Property, Musical Collections, &c., intended for Sale by Auction. Messrs. P. & S. feel assured that the necessary knowledge (gained only by long experience) and the extensive connection enjoyed by their firm will be a sufficient guarantee to solicitors and others that such property entrusted to their care will be arranged for sale in the most advantageous manner. Valuations for Probate or Legacy Duty, or for Public or Private ESTABLISHED (IN PICCADILLY) 1791.

Sale.

WARBURTON ROAD and MARE STREET, HACKNEY. WARBURTON ARMS WINE and SPIRIT ESTABLISHMENT

MR WALTER KNIGHT is instructed

Mortgagees to SELL the above VALUABLE PROPERTY at MASONS' HALL TAVERN, Masons' Avenue, Basinghall-street, on TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, at ONE o'clock p.m. Auction Offices, 104, Great Russell-street, W.C.

PECKHAM PARK ROAD, OLD KENT ROAD. Valuable Leasehold Premises, being the MAISMORE ARMS, situate at the junction of five thoroughfares; also the House adjoining the

same.

MR.

R. WALTER KNIGHT will SELL the above Avenue, Basinghall-street, on TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, at ONE p.m. Auction Offices, 101, Great Russell-street, W.C.

[OTTING HILL GATE.-Upper Part of House.

situation and well-adapted for offices for a legal gentleman. Two minutes from railway.-Apply to GEO. L. DIXON, 168, High-street, Notting Hill, W.

O SOLICITORS and Others.-A Fine Block value. Apply to Messrs. PRIOR & NEWSON, 57, Lincoln's-inn-fields,. W.C.

WANTED, after the Long Vacation, an Experi

enced Unadmitted Managing Clerk in Chancery Division Practice.-Apply to A. B., care of Mr. Eyre, Law Stationer, 14, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, W.C., stating full particulars of former employment, salary required, &c.

NEXPENSIVE EDUCATION for Sons of Gen

at twenty-four guineas per annum each. Everything good and thorough, education, diet, care, &c.-Address, Rev. WARDEN, care of Mr. Berry, 29, Paternoster-square, E.C.

LONDON GAZETTE (published by authority) and LONDON and COUNTRY ADVERTISEMENT OFFICE.

No. 117, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET.

GREEN, Advertisement Agent, begs

direct the attention of the Legal Profession to the advantages. of his long experience of upwards of thirty years, in the special insertion of all pro forma notices, &c., and hereby solicits their continued support.-N.B. One copy of advertisement only required, and the strictest care and promptitude assured. Official stamped forms fo advertisement and file of "London Gazette" kept. By appointmen

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THE PRELIMINARY, INTERMEDIATE, AND FINAL EXAMINATIONS OF THE LAW SOCIETY.

MR. ALBERT GIBSON, Solicitor (Honours);

Author of "Aids to the Final," "Aids to the Intermediate," Complete Guide to Stephen's Commentaries," &c., &c., holds classes for these Examinations throughout the year, except during a few weeks in Summer. Students should join three months before their Examination. Fee 12 guineas. Students are also carefully prepared by means of correspondence through the post. For full particulars apply to 35, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. [N.B.-At the last Final (June, 1881) out of 26 pupils 24 passed, and at the Honours Examination 2 of the 6 Prizemen were pupils of Mr. Gibson, and 2 other pupils were in the list. This makes 62 successful out of 67 sent up this year, and 17 successful in Honours, including a 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 7th Prizeman.]

THE LAW STATIONERY,

Early application is invited for Shares in the following.

LITHOGRAPHIC & GENERAL PRINTING COMPANY, LIMITED.

Capital £25,000 in 25,000 Shares of £1 each.-29. 6d. on Application, 28. 6d. on Allotment.

in Calls of 28. 6d. each, if required, at intervals of not less than one month.

DIRECTORS.

The remainder

SIR EDWARD LEE, F.S.A., 157, New Bond-street, London, W. T. S. MORRELL, Esq., 2, Tavistock-place, Russell-square, W C. JENKIN JONES, Esq., 2, Storey's-gate, Westminster, S.W. E. MATTHEWS, Esq., 57, Chancery-lane, W.C.

With power to add to their number.

BANKERS -THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND, Lincoln's Inn Branch.
AUDITOR.-TANSLEY WITT, Esq., Lincoln's-inn-chambers, 40, Chancery-lane, W.C.
SECRETARY (PRO TEM).-Mr. J. F. WINGRAVE.

OFFICES.-NEW COURTS CHAMBERS, 57 and 58, Chancery-lane, W.C.

PROSPECTUS.

This Company is started to extend to Professional and Business Men in the several branches of its undertaking the advantages of -excellence and economy now generally offered to the public in most other commodities. It offers to Solicitors, Bankers, Accountants, Engineers, Architects, Public Companies, and Mercantile Houses a means, not only of acquiring at the lowest rates all the various articles included in the term "Stationery," but also of obtaining through its channel economically and expeditiously, because at first hand, Printing, Lithographing, Engraving, Copying, Draughting, and other works required.

The Company is prepared, as the subjoined particulars show, to enable its customers to effect a considerable economy, and is able with confidence to offer to Investors a safe and satisfactory return for their capital. It is estimated that for Printing the prices will be 15 to 25 per cent. less than those usually charged; for Copying 25 per cent. less; for Draughting and Engineers' work 25 per cent.; and for Law and general Manufactured Stationery from 15 to 25 per cent. The following list shows the various departments into which the work of the Company is classed:

1. Law Stationery, Copying and Engrossing, Special Bankruptcy and Judicature Forms.

2. Drawing Materials and all requisites for the offices of Architects, Engineers, and Surveyors.

3. General Banking and Commercial Stationery, including all Stationery Forms for Companies.

4. Letterpress Printing.

5. Lithographic Printing.

6 Author's Copying, Publishing, and Advertising.

Solicitors may rest assured that punctuality, secrecy, and dispatch will be the invariable rule in the Law Stationery Department, which will include a large assortment of original and revised Legal Forms printed in new and specially selected type.

SUN FIRE OFFICE.

THREADNEEDLE STREET, E.C.

CHARING CROSS, S.W.
OXFORD STREET (Corner of Vere-street), W.
ESTABLISHED 1710.

Home and Foreign Insurances Effected.
Sum insured in 1880, £262,745,653.

Authors and other engaged in literary pursuits will find in th working of the Company every advantage.

The Material used by the company is procured at first hand, and upon special terms from the Manufacturers, and of this arrangement the Shareholders have the full benefit.

The Founder, a gentleman of large experience in every branch of the Stationery, Printing, and Publishing Businesses, whose services have been secured as Manager, transfers to the company the suitable premises now occupied by him, and agrees to find all legal and other expenses up to allotment in consideration of receiving £500 in cash and one thousand fully paid-up shares of the Company. Save as above no promotion money has or will be paid.

In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will be returned in full without deduction.

Shareholders desiring to discharge their whole liability at once can pay up their shares in full, and will receive interest at 6 per cent. per annum on the uncalled capital.

The only agreement is one dated the 3rd day of June, 1881, carrying out the above-mentioned arrangement, which can be seen together with the Memorandum and Articles of Association at the Offices of the Company.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors. Gentlemen,-Having paid to your Bankers the sum of £ being the deposit upon application for request you to allot me that number.

Date ......

shares, I hereby

Name Address

Profession or occupation ... Usual Signature

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LIGHTNING LOSSES, whether by Fire or Concussion, admitted. THE

FRANCIS B. RELTON, Secretary.

ROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE.

PROVIDENT

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HE CITY OF LONDON FIRE INSURANCF
COMPANY (LIMITED).

HEAD OFFICE: 101, CHEAPSIDE, E.C.
Capital, £1,000,000. Paid up, £100,000.

Claims promptly settled.

Alderman HENRY E. KNIGHT, Chairman.
L. C. PHILLIPS, General Manager.

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Current Accounts opened according to the usual practice of other Bankers, and Interest allowed on the minimum monthly balances when not drawn below £25. No commission charged for keeping Accounts. The Bank also receivesmoney on Deposit at Three per cent. Interest, repayable on demand. The Bank undertakes for its Customers, free of charge, the custody of Deeds, Writings, and other Securities and Valuables; the collection of Bills of Exchange, Dividends, and Coupons; and the purchase and sale of Stocks and Shares. Letters of Credit and Circular Notes issued.

A Pamphlet, with full particulars, on application.

31st March, 1880.

ST.

FRANCIS RAVENSCROFT, Manager.

T. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL. HYDE PARK CORNER, W.

The Winter Session will commence on Monday, October 3rd, with an Introductory Address by Mr. J. Warrington Haward, at 4 pm. The William Brown £100 and £40 Exhibitions are open to al Perpetual Students.

The Two Brackenbury Prizes of £30 each, Sir Charles Clarke's Prize, The Thompson Medal, The Treasurer's, Brodie, Acland, Johnson, and General Proficiency Prizes are open to all Students. The appointments of House Physician and House Surgeon, of which there are four tenable each for one year, are awarded by competition, and no charge is made by the Governors of the Hospital for Board or Residence.

Clerkships and Dresserships and all the minor appointments are given without extra fees.

A Prospectus of the School and further information may be ob tained by personal application between 1 and 3 p.m, or by letter addres el to THE DEAN, at the Hospital.

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THE FRAUDS perpetrated by COLCLOUGH at Dublin bring home to solicitors in this country the fact that forged stamps may be in circulation, and that even impressed stamps, and all the elaborate machinery of telltales attached to the stamping machines, are no security against forgery. COLCLOUGH forged impressed stamps, but purchased genuine adhesive stamps to the extent of £3,600 in one year. The reason for this was, doubtless, that the majority of the higher denominations of Judicature stamps are required to be impressed. He was stamp distributor to the Queen's Bench Division of the Irish High Court; hence even the purchase of stamps at the offices of the court is no security. It is, we believe, understood that a measure will be passed this session to indemnify the purchasers of the stamps forged by COLCLOUGH.

CREDITORS' CLAIMS.

LEGISLATION OF THE WEEK...........

LEGAL NEWS

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LONDON GAZETTES, &C., &o...

PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES.

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A LETTER on the subject of the Court of Appeal appearing in the Times of Thursday (whatever may be the true significance of the not very doubtful signature) calls for attention, from the importance of its subject, the cogency of its reasoning, and the force with which the writer's meaning is expressed. Yet it hardly says the last word on the subject. The difficulty in the future administration of appeal business which the writer foresees is the cordial acceptance by the judges of the High Court of the distinction (a distinction which must now be considered as finally settled) between their own position and powers, and the position and powers of the judges of the Court of Appeal. The first point of importance is that the business should be so administered as to avoid wounding the susceptibilities of the judges of the High Court. No one would hesitate to agree to this; but it should be added that the point may be easily overstrained, and that if the Court of Appeal were actuated by a stronger desire than at present to uphold the judgments appealed against, instead of giving to each appeal its fair chance, the confidence which the public is now justly said to repose in it would quickly vanish. But a more important point is the maintenance of the quality of the court at a standard proportioned to its rank; a point which can only be secured by making the position of a judge of the Court of Appeal such as to tempt the best and strongest lawyers to accept it. To this end it is proposed that the judges should be exempted from the duty of travelling circuit, except on emergencies, and that the salary should be increased. Upon the second branch of this proposition we believe there will be a very general concurrence of opinion, and it will be harder to show why the present Lords Justices should receive less than was paid to their predecessors in name and rank, than to show why they should not receive as much as was paid to the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. As to the first point there is room for much greater difference of opinion-as things now stand. It would be in the highest degree inconvenient if the Court of Appeal from cases in the Queen's Bench Division continued to sit and hear appeals while the counsel engaged upon them were absent on circuit; and if these appeals stand over, there remains no work in town for one-half of the Court of Appeal to do. But, further, the whole circuit system is in a transitional stage. The process of centralization has but just commenced; it must be fol

lowed inevitably by some kind of localization. This must materially affect the present practice; but it will develop and determine its own shape in the progress of the change; and it would be premature to make at present alterations which might, and probably would, have to be

again altered, and to discuss and determine questions and difficulties which will probably settle themselves. Lastly, there is a point in the letter which calls for distinct notice. It seems the design of the writer to bring it about that a court of three judges of the High Court should acquiesce in having their decisions overruled by a court of three judges of the Court of Appeal. We have no desire that a court of three judges should any longer have the opportunity of exercising this act of patience. The judges will have much less difficulty in seeing their single and separate decisions so overruled; and we trust that the day is not very far distant when the shadowy remnants of divisional courts will (together with their ugly name) be no longer known except to history.

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WE MUST CONFESS that we are glad to see that the decision of STEPHEN, J., in Alderson v. Maddison (29 W. R. 556, L. R. 5 Ex. D. 293) has been reversed by the Court of Appeal (L. R. 7 Q. B. D. 174). We took occasion to question that decision at the time when it was pronounced, on grounds which, though somewhat different from those upon which the Court of Appeal proceeded, are nevertheless of a very cognate character. The plaintiff, as heir-at-law of an intestate, claimed the title deeds of the intestate's land of which the defendant had taken possession. The defendant counter-claimed a declaration that she was entitled to a life estate in the land. The case she set up was that the intestate had Induced her to serve him as housekeeper during his life for many years by a verbal promise to leave her a life interest in the land by his will. STEPHEN, J., decided that there had been such a promise in fact, and that though such a promise would be within the Statute of Frauds, there was complete performance on the defendant's part, which took the case out of the statute. He therefore gave judgment for the defendant. question as to part performance was not much discussed in the court below, the main point there argued being the question whether there was anything amounting to a contract to make the devise for life. very much opposed to this notion of a contract to give an estate by will. We cannot conceive a more dangerous doctrine than that a verbal promise of this sort should be valid. It would frequently depend upon the uncorroborated testimony of an extremely interested person, who could not be contradicted because the other party to the supposed bargain was dead. A case of this sort is certainly one which involves, in a most aggravated form, the mischief against which the Statute of Frauds was directed. We are, therefore, glad that the Court of Appeal have seen their way to reversing the decision of STEPHEN, J., on the question of part performance, a question which he dismissed in a few words. The Court of Appeal (BRAMWELL, BAGGALLAY, and BRETT, L.JJ.) have held that the acts of part performance which are sufficient to exclude the operation of the statute must be acts unequivocally referable to the agreement-that, in other words, there must be a necessary connection between the acts of part performance and the interest in the land which is the alleged subjectmatter of the agreement; it is not sufficient that the acts are consistent with the existence of such an agreement, or that they suggest or indicate the existence of some agreement, unless such agreement has reference to the subjectmatter. In the case of Alderson v. Maddison it is obvious that the continued service of the defendant was not necessarily referable to the alleged contract, but might have been the consequence of mere expectation on her part, founded possibly on some representation made by the intestate of his testamentary intentions, not amounting to a contract. The court having decided that there was no part performance, inasmuch as the case was clearly within the Statute of Frauds this decision obviously disposed of the case; but the court made use of expressions which seem to us distinctly to negative the legal validity of a contract to make a particular devise. They

say, "Nor could a court of equity, any more than a court of law, compel a man to make a will in accordance with any promise or agreement previously given or entered into by him. But there is a further objection to the claim of the defendant to have a declaration as against the plaintiff that she is entitled to a life interest in the Manor House Farm. She is claiming to have the same benefit as if Thomas Alderson had made a will in her favour. Mr. Justice STEPHEN pointed out in his judgment that to contend that Alderson's heir-at-law was estopped by Alderson's conduct from disputing the validity of the unattested document would be to repeal the Statute of Wills. It appears to us that to give the same effect to a man's promise or agreement to make a will as to a will made by him in pursuance of such promise or agreement would be in direct contravention of the provisions of the statute." This language seems plainly to indicate that the court would not have agreed with the judgment of STEPHEN, J., quite apart from the question of part performance.

THE REPORT of the Comptroller and Auditor-General on Chancery Funds, to which we shortly referred last week, is accompanied by the account of the Chancery Paymaster of his receipts and expenditure on behalf of the Chancery Division and of the National Debt Commissioners' Chancery Funds. It appears that on the 1st of September, 1879, there were in court, the property of suitors, securities of the value of £69,083,526 6s. 4d., and cash amounting to £5,029,454 19s. 9d. During the year these amounts were increased by £9,282,534 188. in securities of that value, and £12,108,976 68. 4d. in cash, amounting (adding securities and cash together) to a total in value of £95,504,487 9s. 5d., and this is in addition to large amounts of stock expressed in the currency of other countries. In the course of the year succeeding the 1st of September, 1879, the Paymaster transferred out of court £8,491,238 13s. 7d. in securities, and paid out £11,904,410 10s. 9d. in cash, so that, at the end of the year-that is to say, on the 31st of August, 1880—the funds in court amounted to £69,874,822 9s. 9d. in securities, and £5,234,015 15s. 4d. in cash, making a total of £75,108,838 5s. 1d., in addition to the beforementioned amounts expressed in foreign currencies. The increase of the funds of suitors in the Chancery Division during the year was upwards of £995,856. Ten years ago the amount of securities and cash in court was £60,904,959. In addition to the securities and cash in court, of which the amount is known, there is a vast amount of property contained in boxes deposited in the Bank of England, which consists principally of securities. There is little contained in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General which is of more than passing interest. The number of accounts in the books was 35,545; ten years ago there were only 29,253. The number of drafts paid was 52,387, and there were 14,336 transactions occasioned by deposit accounts. Ten years ago there were 49,252 cheques drawn, but at that time there were no deposit accounts.

THE COMPTROLLER, in his report, mentions cases in which, through the failure of solicitors to carry orders into the Paymaster's Office, funds under those orders have been dealt with by subsequent orders which have been brought in, thus causing what was, in fact, a misappropriation of funds, which must be set right at some time, but how this is to be done remains to be solved. He also complains that no progress has been made since last year in carrying over small balances under £5, pursuant to rule 92 of the Chancery Funds Consolidated Rules, 1874, to a separate account. This work should, now that the Paymaster's staff has been increased, be got on with at once, so as to disencumber the books of accounts which are never likely to be drawn on. The Comptroller winds up his report by a complaint of the insufficiency of his

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