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Reg. &

ABBOTT, LEWIS BRADLEY, formerly victualler. Leicester. Pet. Dec.
28. Reg. & O. A Ingram. Sol. Owston, Leicester. Sur. Jan. 26
ALLAN, JOHN, ironstone m'ner and contractor, Whittington-moor,
near Chesterfield. Pet. Jan. 2. Reg. & O. A. Wake and Waller.
Sols. Messrs. Binney. Sheffield. Sur. Jan 15
BANNISTER, WILLIAM, retail brewer, Hockley. Pet. Dec. 31.
O. A. Guest. Sol. Sargent. Birmingham. Sur. Jan. 25
BEAUMONT, BENJAMIN, journeyman painter, Leeds,
Reg. & O. A. Marshall. Sol. Harle, Leeds. Sur. Jan 17
BEECH, WILLIAM, beerhouse-keeper, Tunstall. Pet. Dec. 31.
O. A. Challinor. Sol. Lees, Burslem. Sur. Jan. 19
BILLING, GEORGE, late shipown r, Kings' Lynn. Pet. Dec. 31.
Partridge. Sol. Wilkin, King's Lynn. Sur. Jan. 15
BOOTH, WILLIAM, auctioneer. Everton. Pet. Dec. 29.
Hime. Sol. Henry, Liverpool. Sur, Jan. 16
BRETHERICK, GEORGE HENRY, journeyman mechanic, Over Darwen.
Pet. Dec. 28. Reg. & O. A. Bolton. So's Wheeler, Dean, and
Kendall, Blackburn and Darwen. Sur. Jan. 21

Pet. Jan. 3. Reg. & O. A Reg. & O. A.

BRIERLEY, HENRY, brewer's traveller, flyde. Pet. Jan. 2. Reg. & O.A. Brooks. Sols. Messrs. Drinkwater, Hyde. 8ur. Jan. 16

BURCHER, HENRY, timber dealer, Woolhope. Pet. Dec. 29. Reg. & O. A. Piper. Sol. Averill, Hereford. Sur. Jan. 19

COHEN, MARKS, jeweller, Hull. Pet. Dec. 31. Reg. & O. A. Phillips. Sol. Reed, Hall. Sur. Jan. 16

Reg. & O. A.

Reg. Harris.

CROOM, JOHN, butcher, Branscombe. Pet. Jan. 1.
Stamp. Sol. Tweed. Honiton. Sur. Jan. 15
FALKNER, JOSEPH, baker, Manchester. Pet. Jan. 2.
O. A. Morgan Sol. Storer, Manchester. Sur. Jan. 15
GALTRESS, GEORGE, victualler, Stockton. Pet. Dec. 31.
Gibson. O. A. Laidman, Sols. Dodds and Trotter, Stockton.
Jan. 16

Reg. Sur.

GLEDHILL, ROBERT, bootmaker, Rochdale. Pet. Dec. 31. Reg. & O. A.
Woods. Sol. Holland, Rochdale. Sur. Jan. 18
GREATREX, GEORGE WILLIAM, photographer, Southampton. Pet.
Dec. 31. Reg. & O. A. Thorndike. Sol. Mackey, Southampton.

Sur. Jan. 16

GREGORY, THOMAS JAMES, Innkeeper, Newport. Pet, Jan. 2. Reg.
Wilde. O. A. Acraman. Sols. Bradgate, Newport; and Messrs.
Brittan, Bristol. Sur. Jan. 16

HARDHAM, FREDERICK, victualler, Landport. Pet. Dec. 31. Reg. &
O. A. Howard. Sol White, Portsea. Sur. Jan. 15
HAYLOCK, ROBERT, chemist, Boston. Pet. Jan. 1. Reg. Tudor. O. A.
Harris, Sols. Messrs. Brown, Lincoln. Sur. Jan. 15
HEAVYSIDE, ROBERT, and HEAVYSIDE, GEORGE JOHN, slaters, Leeds.
Pet. Jan. 2. O. A. Young. Sol, Rider, Leeds. Sur. Jan. 17
HOLDWAY, SIMEON, victualler. Blackwood. Pet. Jan. 1. Reg. & O. A.
Shepard. Sols. Simons and Plews, Merthyr. Sur. Jan. 25
HOOTON, PHILIP, journeyman joiner, Waterloo. Pet. Dec. 29. Reg.
& O. A. Hime. Sol. Parker, Liverpool. Sur. Jan. 17
INGRAM, ROBERT, beerhouse-keeper. Merthyr Tydfil. Pet. Dec. 31.
Reg. & O. A. Russell. Sol. Plews Merthyr Tydal. Sur. Jan. 17
JACKSON, RICHARD, joiner, Hull. Pet. Dec. 31. 0. A. Young. Sol.
Summers, Hull. Sur. Jan. 23

LUNT, WILLIAM, grocer, Birmingham. Pet. Dec. 31. Reg. & O. A.
Guest. Sol. Beaton, Birmingham. Sur. Jan. 25
MINGOLI, SPIRIDON DUCA, tanner, Penffordd-y-Bedw, near Holy-
well. Pet. Jan. 2. O. A. Turner. Sol. Tyndall, Liverpool. Sur.
Jan. 14

MOORE, THOMAS, shipwright, Portsea. Pet. Dec. 29. Reg. & O. A.
Howard. Sol. White, Portsea. Sur. Jan. 15

NIXON, JOHN, Newcastle. Pet. Dec. 29. Reg. & O. A. Clayton. Sol. Foster, Newcastle. Sur. Jan. 14

OUGHTON, WILLIAM, market gardener, Easenhall. Per. Jan. 1. Reg. & O. A. Hubbard. 8ol. Holt. Coventry. Sur. Jan. 15

PARRY, JAMES, porter, Salford. Pet. Dec. 19. Reg. & O. A. Hulton.
Sur. Jan. 19

QUELCH, JAMES, currier, Birmingham. Pet. Jan. 2. Reg. Hill, O. A.
Kinnear. Sols. Messrs. Brown, Birmingham. Sur. Jan. 15
SEWARD, FRANCIS, victualler, St. Thomas-the-Apostle. Pet. Dec. 31.
O. A. Carrick. Sol. Floud, Exeter. Sur. Jan. 15
SMITH, MATTHEW. mayor's officer, King's Lynn. Pet. Dec. 31. O. A.
Partridge. Sol. Ward, King's Lynn. Sur. Jan. 15
SMITH, WILLIAM, bootmaker, Ystalyfera, near Swansea. Pet. Jan. 2.
Reg. Wilde. O. A. Acraman Sols. Kempthorne, Neath; and Press
and Inskip, Bristol. Sur. Jan. 16

TAYLOR, JAMES, journeyman butcher, Leeds. Pet. Jan. 1. Reg. &
O. A. Marshall. Sol. Harle, Leeds. Sur. Jan. 17
WALLER, THOMAS, worstedspinning overseer, Keighley. Pet. Dec. 27.
O. A. Busfield. Sol. Hutchinson, Bradford. Sur. Jan. 17
WHITCHER, JESSE, hosier, Isle of Wight. Pet. Dec. 31. Reg. & O. A.
Blake. Sol. Joyce, Newport. Sur. Jan. 16

WHITCOMB, JOHN WILLIAM, concert-hall proprietor, Leeds. Pet.
Jan. 3. Reg. & O. A. Marshall. Sol. Hopps, Leeds. Sur. Jan. 17
WILLIAMS. JOHN EDWARD, grocer, Blaenavon. Pet. Nov. 22. Reg.
Wilde. O. A. Acraman. Sols. Bannister, Basinghall-st; and Press
and Inskip, Bristol. Sur. Jan, 16

WILTSHIRE, JAMES, greengrocer, Aberdare. Pet. Dec. 31. Reg. &
O. A. Rees. Sol. Rosser, Aberdare, Sur. Jan. 17
WYATT, WILLIAM, baker, Rotherfield Grays. Pet. Dec. 31.
O. A. Mercer. Sol. Spicer, Great Marlow. Sur. Jan. 19.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Gazette, Jan. 1.

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BRUCE, CHARLES, professor of Sanscrit, Holles-st, Cavendish-sq
Dec. 23, 1866
Gazette, Jan. 4.

BACON, FREDERICK, gasfitter, Ebury-st, Pimlico. Aug. 16, 1866

Dibidends.

BANKRUPTS' ESTATES.

The Official Assignees are given, to whom apply for the Dividends.

Clare, J. A. watch manufacturer, first, 21. 73d. Kinnear, Birmingham.-Corder, M. lighterman, first, 1s. Parkyns, London.-French, R. V. no occupation, first, s. 31d. Parkyns, London. - Hayley, T. D. tailor, second, la 4d. Parkyns, London.-Hollingsworth and Jacobs, opticians, first. 25. 31d. Parkyns, London.-Jewell, T. W. surgeon, third, 21. 8d. Parkyns, London,-Munro, D. J. haberdasher, first, 18. 1d. Parkyns, London.-Oelrichs, W. importer of trimmings, second, 28. 6413-16ths. Parkyns, London.-Sheppard, W. currier, first, 2. 61d. Parkyns, London.-Towers, H. R. cowkeeper, first, 2s. 6d. Parkyns, London.-Tranter, J. D. printer, first, 8. 10d. Eaden, County Court, Cambridge-Ward, J. wine merchant, first, 3s. 7d. Parkyns, London. -Woodward, W. jun., printer, first, 45. Parkyns, London,-Yeats, A. M. lodging-house keeper, first, 16s, 7d. Parkyns, London.

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COCHRANE, SAMUEL AYRE, Ironmonger-la, London, and Dublin.
Dec. 3. 128. by bills of exchange at 3, 6, and 9 mos
COOKE, JAMES, leather dresser, Kidderminster. Dec. 5. 2s. 6d. in
7 days

CROOK, THOMAS, provision dealer, Bolton. Dec. 5. Trusts. W.
Bleakley, innkeeper, and J. Lowe grocer, both Bolton
DAVIES, THOMAS, victualler, Llandudno. Dec. 18. Trusts. J. Davies,
farmer, Llandudno, and J. Parry, innkeeper, Glan Conway
DEAN, JAMES, and MAC HALE, FREDERICK, warehousemen, Liver-
pool. Nov. 30. Trust. H. Shimmin, accountant, Liverpool
DIXON, GEORGE, fringe manufacturer, Sun-ct. Chiswell-st. Dec. 29,
73. 6d. 2s., on 10th April, 10th Aug, and 10th Dec. 1867. Trust.
J. R. Macarthur gentleman, Brunswick-sq, St. Pancras
DOCKRAY, RICHARD, farmer, Botcherly, near Carlisle. Dec. 12.
Trusts. G. Robinson, miller, and R. Thorpe, bank cashier, both
Carlisle

DUNSTAN, JOпx, grocer, Camborne. Dec. 15. Trusts. J. R. Rowe, Penryn, C. Trevithick, Hayle, merchants, and B. Matthews, jun., bank manager, Camborne

FEATHER. JAMES, worstedspinner, Hewenden, near Bingley. Dec. 6. 71. 6d. after 10th Jan. 187. Trust J. Feather, woolstapler, Brad

ford

FIELDING, CHARLES, hosier, Oxford-st. Dec. 28. 2s. 6d. on 7th
Jan, 1857

FORD, CHARLES, contractor, Batley. Dec. 19. 2s. 6d. in 1 mo.
Trusts. J. Oldroyd, shopkeeper, and G. Farnhill, butcher, both
Carlington
FOWLER, WILLIAM RICHARD, builder, New Cross-rd. Dec. 13. ls.
in 3 mos

GREAVES, ELIZABETII, innkeeper, Heaton Norris. Dec. 6. 2s. 6d.
Trust. J. D. Wilkinson, gentleman, Ollerton, near Knutsford
GREEN, THOMAS, jun., oil manufacturer, Mold. Dec. 31. Trust. H.
Griffiths, colliery proprietor, Birmingham

GROVE, THOMAS, grocer, Rrierley-bill. Dec. 19. 78. 6d.-4. on 10th
Jan. and 3s. 6d, in 2 mos, from 10th Jan.-secured

GUY. WILLIAM, doctor of medicine, Norwich. Dec. 6. Trust. J. De C. Smith, chemist, Norwich

HALL, EDWARD, cottonspinner, Oldham. Dec. 17. Trusts. J. B. Buckley, Oldham, G. Whittaker, Bolton, and H. Higgins, Oldham,

cottondealers

HARRIS, CHARLES, agriculturist, Westerleigh. Dec. 24. 54. on 3rd Jan. Trust. W. Lawrence, agriculturist. Westerleigh HICKS, RICHARD GEORGE MONTAGUE BEACH, gentleman, Southwick-house, Hyde-park. Dec. 27. 25.-1s. at 12 mos. and Is. at 24 mos. Trust. H. A. Dubois, accountant, Weavers'-hall JOHNSON, JOHN, coffee dealer, Pudding-la. Dec. 28. Trust. J. Ivimy, wholesale teadealer, Suffolk-la, Cannon-st

JONES, FRANCIS THOMAS, boot manufacturer, Pentonville-rd. Dec. 29. 2s. 6d. in 14 days

KING, ALFRED, tailor, Swansea. Dec. 17. To pay in full-6s. 8d. in 3, 6, and 9 mos. from 1st Nov

LANE, JAMES, outfitter, Landport. Dec. 4. Trusts. J. W. Langdon, wholesale woollen warehouseman, Bristol, and J. W. Penrose, manchester warehouseman, Manchester

LERESCHE, CHARLES SAMUEL, Fenchurch-st, and SCHMIDT, ChrisTIAN KARL, merchants. Dec. 5. Trust. G. Duncan, merchant, London

LINTHWAITE, JOSEPH, hosier, Royal-rd, Kennington-park. Nov. 30. 2s. 6d-1s. d. on 31st Dec. and 1st March

MARCUS, MARCUS LEVIN, general commission agent, Birmingham. Dec. 5. 41. 6d.-1s. 6d. 1st Jan. 11. 6d. 1st April, and 1s. 6d. 1st July 1867. Trust. F. Eaden, accountant, Birmingham

MCKINNON, NORMAN, draper, Birmingham. Dec. 1. Trust. J. Thornthwaite, merchant, Manchester

MONKS, JACOB, quarryman and contractor, Fishponds. Dec. 4. 61, 8d. on demand

MURDOCH, ALEXANDER, Woollendraper, Hall. Dec. 5. 43.-25. on execution of deed and 28. on 5th March

NUTTALL, JAMES, grocer, Radcliffe. Dec. 4. 28. 101d

PALMER, CHARLES JOHN, and REYNOLDS, WILLIAM COLLETT, attorneys-at-law, Great Yarmouth, Dec. 4. Trusts. J. HI. Pillet, gentleman, Norwich, and J. W. Hollands, Esq., Forest-hill. Sols. Harrison, Lewis, and Co., Old Jewry; Coaks. Norwich

PILCHER, ROBERT, draper, Ramsgate, also Broadstairs and Minster. Dec. 3. 6. 8d.-2s. 3d., 2s. 3d., and 25. 2d. at 3, 6, and 9 mossecured. Trusts. W. B. Pilcher, draper, Canterbury, E. Pilcher, steward, Bifrons, near Canterbury, J. Barnicot, Friday-st, and T. Tree, Wood-st, London, warehousemen

POPE, WILLIAM OLDHAM, auctioneer, Bristol. Dec. 28. Trust. E. Williams, Bristol PROCKTER, BRYAN JOHN, and PROCKTER, BRYAN JOHN, jun., glue manufacturers, Gateshead. Nov. 13, 65,-54. in 7 days and 1s. in 12 mos.secured

PRYOR, JOHN, victualler, Westham. Dec. 29. 1s. on 5th April 1867 REYNOLDS, THOMAS LEETHEM, and REYNOLDS, LEBTHEM, stay manufacturers, Dunning's-alley, Bishopsgate-st. Dec. 5. 61. 6d31. 3d. on 1st March and 29th May 1867. Trust, A. Wilson, wine merchant, Dublin

STUBBS, JOSEPH, grocer, Holyport. Dec. 11. Trust. C. Brown, gentleman, Maidenhead

TAYLOR, ROBERT, builder, Ormskirk. Dec. 4. Trusts T. Wolstenholme. corndealer, and L. Brighouse, accountant, both Ormskirk. Sols. Welaby and Hill, Ormskirk

THOMAS, JOHN, florist, Buckingham. Dec. 5 Trusts. J. Fairhead, Borough-market, and P. J. Perry, Banbury, seedsmen

THYNNE, WILLIAM, professor of music, Gateshead. Dec. 19. Trusts. E. Fletcher, manager of railway works, Gateshead, and F. Lucas, accountant, city London

TUMMON, JOHN, grocer, Sheffield. Dec. 31. 6s, by three instalments at 4, 8, and 12 mos.--secured

WEBLEY, JOSEPH, builder, Bristol. Dec 13. 2. on 13th Nov WILKINS, JOHN, draper, High-st, Camden-town. Dec. 28. 12s. by three equal instalments at 3, 6, and 9 mos. from roth Nov. 1966secured. Trusts. W. Phillips, draper, Seymour-st, Euston-sq, and J. Owens, jeweller, Blackfriars-rd WILMOT, JOHN, farmer, Heage. Dec. 5. Trusts. J. Lee, draper, Crich, and W. Smith, cheesefactor, Derby WINFIELD, ARTHUR, baker, William-st, Notting-hill, and the Potteries, Notting-hill. Dec, 21. 5s-2s. 6d. in mo. and 2s. 6d. in 6 mos. Trust. W. 8. Guttridge, baker and dealer, York-pl, Shepherd's bush WITT, JOHN, innkeeper, Warminster. Dec. 4. Trusts. J. H. Miles, maltster, and J. Bartlett, brewer, both Warminster

Gazette, Jan. 4.

Assignment, Composition, Inspectorship, and BAKER, JANE BLACKMORE, school proprietres, Colchester. Dec. 7.

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tobacco manufacturer, Liverpool BESWICK, ROGER, and SHEPLEY, JAMES, hardwaste spinners, late Bolton. Dec 6. 10s. 8d. in 28 days

BORASTON, HENRY, milliner, Birmingham. Dec. 4. 10.-2s. 6d. in cash in 3 and 6 mos. and 2s. 6d, in 9 mos. Trust. C. J. Leaf, warehouseman, Old Change

BRADING, ROBERT, farmer, Briddiesford and Shorwell, also maltster, Shorwell and Newport, Isle of Wight Dec. 1. Trusts. W. B. Mew, brewer, Newport, J. Bull, miller, Newport, C. Allen. yeoman, Fatting-park-farm, Isle of Wight, and W. Tayler, cattle dealer, Newport

BRITTAIN, WILLIAM, coaldealer, Widnes. Dec. 29. 2s. 6d. on 28th July next

BROWN, ELMER, brewer, Stamford. Dec. 1. Trusts, W. Dawber, maltster, Lincoln, R. Sandall, gentleman, Northampton, and E. Harding, accountant, Basinghall-st

BUTCHARD, GEORGE, engineer, Gravesend. Dec. 22. Trust. J. Elkin,
merchant, Gravesend, Sols, Harrison, Lewis, and Co., Old Jewry;
Southgate and Son, Gravesend
Dec. 21. Trusts. J. B.
Browett, tinplate worker, and A. Bennett, bottle-jack maker, both
Birmingham
CAMPBELL, SINGLETON COOPER, boot dealer, Liverpool. Dec. 4. 41.
by three equal instalments at 3, 6, and 9 moe.-secured

BUTLER, EDWARD, factor, Birmingham.

21. in 28 days

BATTEN, JOHN, machinist, Chester. Dec 17. 5s

BEAVEN, THOMAS WILLIAM, wheelwright, Bristol. Dec. 28. 5.2s. 6d. in 7 days and in 1 mo

BEISNER, JOHN, bootmaker, Leman-st, Whitechapel. Dec. 27. Trust.
J. Tellig, hat manufacturer, Leman-st, Whitechapel
BLACKMAN, GEORGE, bonnet shape dealer, Birmingham. Dec. 7.
2s. 6d. in 1 week

BRACHER, FREDERICK, tailor, Jermyn-st. Dec. 21. To pay debts in
full-6s. 8d. on 21st April, 21st Aug.. and 21st Dec
BRETT, GORDON STUART, shipping merchant, Beaufort-bldgs, Strand,
and Portslade, Dec. 6. Trust. C. F. Brett, gentleman, Caroline-st,
St. Giles

BROWN, EMILY RACHAEL, draper, East Stonehouse. Dec. 15. 10. by acceptances at 2 mos. Trusts. R. Rowe and E. A. Northey, auctioneers, Plymouth

CARSON, ANNE, widow, St. George's-ter, Kensington. Dec. 13. 1s. on 12th Dec

CLARK, CHARLES, hosier, Lower Belgrave-pl, Pimlico. Dec, 28. 5s.2s. 6d. at 3 and 6 mos

CLARK, JAMES, hosier and warehouseman, Leeds. Dec. 10. 10.3s. 4d. on 11th Dec. 1966, 1st March and 1st June 1867. Trust. W. Gibbs, haberdasher, Leeds CLEGG, MATTHEW, and LONGFRANCIS, rag merchants, Dewsbury. Dec. 10. Trust. G. Greaves. rag dealer, Dewsbury COPELAND, MARGARET MORGAN, juvenile clothier, Soho-sq, Westminster. Dec. 6. Trusts W. H. Bernand, Esq, Soho-sq, and R. Langton, Birmingham and Sheffield factor, Little Britain COWBAN, JOHN, out of business, Burnley. Dec. 21. 2s. 6d. in cash. Trust. J. Powell, cashier, Manchester COWBAN, JAMES, and COWBAN, BERNARD, manufacturers, Burnley. Dec. 21. 2. Ed, in cash. Trust. J. Powell, cashier, Manchester DALLIMORE, JOHN WILLIAM, builder. Fareham, Jan. 1. To pay in full by 29th Dec. 1868, and 5 per cent. interest. Inspector, W. Edmonds, accountant, Portsea

DAWSON, WILLIAM HENRY, sen., hosier, Arthur-ter, Islington. Dec. 11. 5 n4 mo

DAY, WILLIAM, draper, Mexborough. Dec. 5. 41. 6d.-28. 3d. in 2 mos. and 28. 3d. in 4 mos. Trust E. Allcock, builder. Eastwood DEXTER, GEORGE, grocer and draper, Tuxford. Dec. 17. Trusts. P. Platts, draper, Gainsborough, and J. Galloway, warehouseman, Manchester

DYER, JOHN MARTIN, baker, Tavistock. Dec. 15. 5s.-13. 8d. on 25th March, 24th June, and 29th Sept. Trusts. T. Brooks, Tavistock, and R. Harris, Horrabridge, millers ELTON, JOHN, Jun., carpenter, Stockbridge. Dec. 7. Trusts. G. Breadmore, maltster. and T. Attwood, farmer, both Stockbridge ENTHOVEN, HENRY JOHN; ENTHOVEN, JAMES HENRY; ENTHOVEN, JOHN; and ENTHOVEN, FREDERICK, merchants, Moorgate st Dec. 27. Inspectors, S Howard, Esq., King's Arms-yard, and H. J. Bath, merchant, Gresham-house and Swansea GILBERT, THOMAS FIELD, jun., accountant, Charles-st. St. John'swood. Dec. 11. To pay 1001. every year, by half-yearly instalments on 1st March and 1st Sept., until debts with interest at 5 per cent. are paid. Trusts. H. T. Beaven, Bristol, and W. Banner, Cathay, builders

GROSSMANN, SIMON, hat manufacturer, Birmingham. Dec. 28. 1s. in 1 mo

3 mos

HALL, GEORGE, plumber, Bridge-pl, Hackney-wick. Dec. 24. 1s. in HARRIS, WILLIAM, journalist, Liverpool. Dec. 22. Trust. W. S. Harris, wholesale stationer, Liverpool

HODGSON, SAMUEL, ironfounder and machine maker, Bradford. Dec. 7. Trusts G. Ackroyd, bank manager, and T. Stephenson, oil merchant, both Bradford

KOENIG, CHARLES, jeweller. President st west, Goswell-rd. Dec. 31.
58.-2s. 6d. on 15th July 1967 and 2s. 6d. on 15th Jan. 1868
LAFONE, HENRY, merchant, Liverpool. Dec. 20. Letter of licence for
12 mos

LEE, CALEB, gunmaker, Handsworth and Birmingham. Jan. 1. 2s. 6d.
in 6 mos. Trust C. Bakewell, painter. Birmingham
LEONARD, WILLIAM, timber merchant, Hawthorne-cottages, Kilburn
Jan. 3 2s. 6d. by 1st April

LEVY, LEWIS, general dealer, Bedford. Dec. 12. 5.-2s. Ed. on 6th
March and 6th June

MAAS, JOHN, music-seller, Eastbourne. Dec. 13. Trust. F. Lucas,
accountant, George-st, Mansion-house
MAYOR, THOMAS, shopkeeper, Fleetwood. Dec. 10. Trusts. T.
Dawson, corn merchant, and T. Rimmer, wholesale teadealer, both
Preston

MCQUIE, ALEXANDER, draper. Torquay. Dec. 5. Trusts. J. P.
Savery, Exeter, and R. Clark, Plymouth, warehouseman
MILNE, BENJAMIN, milliner, Gainsborough. Dec. 19. 7s. 6d.—2s. 6d.
at 3, 6, and 9 mos

MILNER, GEORGE, and MILNER, WILLIAM RICHARD, provision merchants, Bristol Dec. 13. 8-2s. 8d, 2s., la, 4d., and 25. at 2, 4, and 6 mos., and on 28th Deo

MORTON, BENJAMIN, file manufacturer, Sheffield. Dec. 7. 5.—2s. 6d. on 7th Jan. and at 4 mos

NIELD, EDWARD, commission agent, Manchester. Dec. 2. 78. 6d, in 7 days

O'DONNELL, CON TANTINE, and WALLACE, SAMUEL, coop rs, Liverpool. Dec. 8. 10s, on execution of deed

PALMER, JAMES, and GREEN, WILLIAM, builders and 1 dging-house keepers, Clevedon. Dec. 4. Trusts. W. Lee, builder, and J. Heaven, timber merchant, both Bristol

PAUTLIN, ROBERT, baker and flour dealer, Liverpool. Dec, 11. 7. 6d. in 7 days

PHIPP, SAMUEL, and PHIPP. ALBERT, grocers, Devizes. April 19.
Trusts. S. Budgett, merchant, Bristol, and J. Phipp, gentleman,
Devizes

RICHARDSON, GEORGE, ironmonger, Waltham Abbey. Dec. 12
Trusts. M. E. Wesley, gentleman, Upper Thames-st, and E. G.
Gyles. St. John's-la. Clerkenwell
RICHARDSON, JOHN, accountant, Newcastle Sept 25, Trust. R.
Bridgford, accountant, Manchester
ROBERTS, THOMAS, grocer, Wrexham. Dec 3 1's.-2. on 14th
Dec. 1866, 3s 15th Jan., 2s.. 1st March, 3s. 1st May, and 23. ist July
1867

ROOTS, GEORGE, brickmaker, Luton. Jan. 3. s. 64, by 7th day after 4 mos

SAYER, JAMES, bootmaker, Canterbury. Jan. 2. 5r.-2s 6d. in 1 week, 1s 2d. in 3 mos., and Is. 3d, in 6 mos.-secured SHAW, FRANCIS, builder, Silverdale. Dec. 15. Trust. H. Shaw, plumber, Day hills

SLEIGH, PETER, coal merchant, Upper-st, Islington. Dec. 31. 1s. in 4 mos

SMITH, EDWARD, printer, Birmingham. Dec. 19. Trusts J. Goodman, printer. and F E. Williams. accountant, both Ri-mingham SMITH, JAMES, worstedspinner. Leicester. Dec. 1. Trusts, J. Clarke gentleman, W. Thompson, worstedspinner, and T. Bottrill, woolstapler, all of I eicester

SPECK, JOSEPH WHISKER, farmer, Ho'derness. Dec 11. Trusts. J. Easten, furnishing upholsterer, Hull, and J. Hutchinson, farmer, Aldbrough

SYDENHAM, RICHARD, stationer. Poole, Dec. 6. Trusts, J. Pointing, wholesale stationer, Joiners' hall-buildings, Upper Thames-st, and G. R. Gu'ch, shipowner, Poole

VARNELL, JOHN, fruiterer, Clare-market. Dec. 28. 1. in 1 mo WALTON. HENRY, general dealer, Rhyl. Dec. 15. 2s. in 7 days. Trust J. H. Rhodes, accountant, Hanley

WILLIAMS, DAVID, druggist, Newtown. Dec. 7. Trusts. R. Morgan, druggist and grocer, and R. Goodwin, mercer and draper, both Newtown

WOODVILLE, THOMAS, hosier, Wrexham. Dec. 11. Trust. J. Chadwick, manufacturer, Manchester.

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BIRTHS. CHARLES-On the 6th inst., at 8. Elgin-crescent, Kensington-park, the wife of Arthur Charles, Esq., of the Inner Temple, of a son.

HODGSON-On the 8th inst., at 1. Maismore-place. Park-road, New Peckham, the wife of Richard F. Hodgson, Esq., of a daughter.

PARKER. On the 7th inst., at Watergate-street, Chester, the wife of Francis Parker, Esq., solicitor, of a son. WILLIAMS-On the 7th inst, at 97. St. George's-road, Pimlico, London, the wife of Watkin Williams, Esq, barristerat-law, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

BIGG-SALE-On the 2nd inst, at St. Paul's, Kersal, the Rev. C. Bigg, M A., Senior Student of Christ Church, Oxford, to Millicent M., eldest daughter of Mr. W. Sale, solicitor Manchester.

DURY-SMITH.-On the 3rd inst., at St. John's, Bilton-withHarrogate, Mr. W. F. Dury, of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-atlaw, to Clara A., eldest daughter of the late Mr. J. Smith, of Burley, near Leeds.

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THE business in the Probate and Divorce Court promises to emulate the growth of business in the common law courts. We stated last week that there were 120 causes entered for hearing in the present term. The Probate causes were finished on Wednesday last. In the Divorce list up to that day three causes had been struck out, the parties not appearing, and one was tried. In order to get through the causes marked for trial by the Judge Ordinary sitting alone, it will be necessary that on an average eight cases a day should be disposed of-which average would be a high one. There are thirty-five jury causes, for the trial of which the Court has twenty-eight days at its disposal, which, if all the causes were tried out, would obviously be insufficient. It is anticipated, however, that from twenty to thirty causes will remain undisposed of. Apart therefore from the question of appointing another judge to this court for the relief of the Common Law Judges on circuit, and in other ways, as suggested in a scheme which we noticed last week, it does not seem improbable that the increase in the business of the court will call for an addition to its own judicial power.

VICE-CHANCELLOR MALINS appears determined, as much as possible, to improve and amend the practice and condition of the Court of Chancery. He recently adverted to the extreme inconvenience arising from the circumstance that there VOL, XLII.-No. 1242.

Act of 1844, as to discuss certain amendments that are deemed necessary for its improvement. Amongst these will be a proposition to relieve the Bank of its present power of issue, and place it in the hands of the Government.

We understand that Mr. WATKIN, M.P., has taken the opinion of counsel upon the rights which he has at law against the originators of the libel which created so much consternation recently. We are also informed that there is some doubt in the minds of counsel whether there was a "publication;" and whether the telegram was not privileged. In any event Mr. WATKIN is understood to be determined to bring the matter before the Courts.

AN important paper on prison discipline in Bengal was read before the Statistical Society on Tuesday. The main features of the paper are these the prisons in Bengal are self-suporting; whipping has a decidedly deterrent effect. The reader of the paper was of opinion that this punishment was peculiarly fitted for offenders of low moral susceptibility. But, he observes, it should never in any circumstances be applied to any one to whom it could justly be considered a moral degradation. He added, that such are not garotters, thieves, and the like.

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Comment upon the state of things which the above figures disclose is almost unnecessary. But it is well that we should remark that the large number of cases said to have been withdrawn were not withdrawn because the plaintiffs doubted the policy of proceeding. Six instances occurred within our own knowledge where briefs were ready for delivery to counsel, but there being no chance that the cases would be reached, the briefs were not delivered, and the cases were withdrawn from the list. Thus it will be seen

that the Profession as well as the public suffers; barristers lose their briefs, and attorneys find that their clients are disgusted at having to pay preliminary costs to no purpose.

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THE PLAINT OF THE LAW WRITERS. THE following complaint has been addressed to one of the daily papers:

to do good, I have taken the liberty of asking you to Knowing that your columns are at all times open insert a few lines on behalf of an intelligent, overworked, and much oppressed class-viz., law writers. It is in the power of solicitors to ameliorate their condition to a considerable extent by simply sending their work to be done in the daytime, instead of leaving it until night. Hundreds of deserving men are sitting idle all day, and when they should be thinking of spending a few hours in rational amusement the work comes in. The consequence is, the poor writer must sit up all night to complete it; hence he is too frequently flying to a delusive stimulant. It may be asked why the writers do not go to rest in the daytime, but the fact is, there is so much irregularity in receiving the work that they are obliged to be continually on the alert. This could in the matter. I am aware that some writing must easily be obviated by the kind assistance of solicitors of necessity be sent out late, but more than threefourths might be sent to the stationers before midday. Solicitors would have their work much better done, and they would be conferring a great blessing I could enlarge upon a very useful class of men. upon the su ject, but am afraid I have already occupied too much of your valuable space.-I am, sir, your very obedient servant,

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LIABILITIES OF CONTRIBUTORIES. THE Lords Justices have happily overruled the decision of the MASTER of the ROLLS, in Ex parte Thornton, that a petition to wind-up a company could be registered as a lis pendens against the alleged contributories, so as to prevent them from dealing with their lands. The effect of this decision was most formidable in such a case as OVEREND and Co., or wherever shareholders are numerous. In the present ruin of companies, with half the propertied classes contributories in some of them, a large portion of the land of the country would have been rendered unmarketable had the view of the MASTER of the ROLLS been supported. As it is, the Lords Justices have averted the calamity, for such it would have been.

THE JURIST.

WHEN a journal, after having formally announced its own decease, publishes a posthumous number at an expense of some forty pounds, at the least, for the sole purpose of abusing two of its contemporaries and recommending a third to its readers, at the same time inclosing a prospectus of that clusion could be drawn than that the publication, on whose behalf so much expense and so much needless dirt-throwing was undertaken, was either directly or indirectly concerned in that extraordinary act; for generosity so great is wholly without precedent in the history of journalism. However, it seems that in this instance it is a reality, that the Jurist actually performed this great service from pure philanthropy ; at least, so we are assured by the proprietor of the Law Journal, who has addressed to us the following letter, which we readily publish, regretting that the irresistible inference we drew from the article in the Jurist was incorrect, although the same inference would undoubtedly have been drawn by ninety-nine out of every one hundred

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SIR,-The attention of the editors of the Law Journal and the Law Journal Reports has been directed to a paragraph inserted (no doubt under misapprehension) in your impression of the 12th inst., headed "Jurist Redivivus," in which you express your suspicion-and more than suspicion-that an article in the Jurist of the 5th inst. was written by, or at the inspiration of, the Law Journal You are pleased to say that "such rancour as was shown

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WHITEHEAD v. IZOD.

[Reported 15 L. T. Rep. N. S. 477.]

In this case the plaintiffs, who were brokers on the Stock Exchange, had been employed by the defendant to purchase for him shares in Overend, Gurney, and Company (Limited). The shares were purchased on the 10th May by the plaintiffs of a broker on the Stock Exchange for settlement on the 15th, on which latter day, by the rules of the Stock Exchange, the purchasing broker would have to pay the selling broker for the shares, and the selling broker would have to deliver to the purchasing broker a transfer and certificates for the shares. On the 12th May the petition was presented to the Court of Chancery to wind-up the company. By the combined operation of the 84th and 153rd sections of the Companies Act 1862 all transfers of shares made after the presentation of the petition to wind-up are declared to be void, unless the Court of Chancery shall otherwise order. By a rule of the Stock Exchange, the purchasing broker would have been liable to expulsion if he did not pay for the shares on the settlement day. The plaintiffs accordingly paid for the shares, receiving in exchange a transfer and certificates, aud now sued the defendant for the money so paid, notwithstanding the defendant brought to their notice the above sections of the Act, and desired them not to pay for the shares. It was contended before the court on the part of the defendant that as those sections had rendered

and the taking of one member from all boroughs of more than 10,000 inhabitants now returning two members. This would yield fifty-six members. If it should be preferred to have no disfranchisement, the small boroughs might be extended to large surrounding districts; in which case, the counties in which they lie would not require the addition of more members, and

thus the deficiency would be supplied.

This scheme for a Constitutional Reform Bill

is specially submitted to the judgment of the Legal Profession, because they are of all others the most competent to pronounce upon its practicability, and on the prospects it offers of being a settlement of the question for many years. They know precisely how it would be likely to operate in their own localities, and such knowledge is of more worth than any amount of speculation by those who are ignorant of the actual working of the political machine. A solicitor, who lives in a borough, manages the elections, and is familiar with the most secret strings by which they are moved, could tell us accurately how the changes proposed would affect his own borough or county, what additions they would make to the constituency, what would be the character of those additions, to increase they would make in the cost of elections. what parties they would give strength, what These are the facts that it is desirable to ascertain, and the men who know them are of all others the most competent to criticise any plan for representative reform. These are the facts which we ask some of our readers experienced in elections to contribute to the common cause by communicating them to the LAW TIMES. They will be occupy Parliament.

(in the article in question) could not be felt by any all transfers made after the presentation of the invaluable in the discussions which are soon to

but a rival conscious of discomfiture," and you identify the Law Journal as the rival you refer to, from the fact that its Reports are commended by the writer of the article, and that an advertisement of the Law Journal accompanies its publication.

I have, perhaps, no right to complain of the aspersion thus thrown upon the honesty of management of the Jurist; but for myself, my fellow editors, and the proprietors of the Law Journal, I write to inform you that your suspicious and insinuations are absolutely groundless. When it became known that the publication of the Jurist was about to cease, a trade advertisement of the Law Journal was sent to the publisher, to be issued with the last number of our late contemporary, but with this exception-no communication of any kind took place between the Jurist and ourselves. The article in the Jurist upon which you comment was in no degree written at our instigation or under our inspiration, and the preference expressed by the writer for our Reports, above all others, though highly gratifying, was unsought for and unknown to us till we saw it upon publication. We may further add that we are unconscious of feeling any rancour or discomfiture, but, on the contrary, are now most desirous-as we always have been-that the Law Journal should be conducted

with perfect good feeling, and in a fair and courteous spirit of rivalry towards our contemporaries. The only colour, in our judgment, discoverable for your suspicions is found in an obscure paragraph at the end of the article in the last number of the Jurist, and this has been explained in a fly-sheet annexed to the supplement of the Jurist, published on the 12th inst.

This explanation (with which, again, we have had nothing to do) has probably been seen by you; but to make assurance doubly sure I append a copy of it. The editors and proprietors of the Law Journal do not, however, greatly care to inquire how much or how little there was to excuse your injurious insinuations, but denying that there was any foundation whatever for them, they make the request, which I now convey to you, that you will completely withdraw them in the next number of your newspaper.-I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant, FRANCIS TOWERS STREETEN. THE "JURIST "-THE "LAW REPORTS "-THE "LAW JOURNAL."

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thus:

"Our remarks in favour of the Law Journal have not sprung from any interest or "inspiration," direct or indirect, but have been suggested by the information casually given to us by one of the proprietors of the Jurist that a gentleman had called on him (of course disclaiming any mission) to state that he believed-indeed, had no doubt-that an offer by the proprietors to sell their influence

with their subscribers to the Council of Law Reporting would be favourably entertained." It may be added that no communication of any kind had been made on behalf of the Law Journal to any person connected with the Jurist when the article in question was written. Permission to have

petition void, the plaintiffs ought not to have paid for the shares to which the transfer under the circumstances gave no title, and that the rules of the Stock Exchange could not be construed so as to override the Act of Parliament, and make it obligatory upon them to pay for shares, the alleged transfer of which was either waste paper, or at most gave the transferee a right to go into equity to perfect his title.

Upon this state of facts the Court held that the plaintiffs having been bound to pay by the rules of the Stock Exchange, they were entitled to be reimbursed by their principal, the sections of the Act notwithstanding.

We understand that there are other cases of a similar nature pending, with this distinction, that the transfers were made before the presentation of the petition, but that before they could be registered the company was in process of liquidation. It will be for the court to say whether these cases fall within the principle upon which they decided the principal case.

The case tried with Whitehead v. Izod was distinguishable from it in this respect only. There it was not a new contract; the shares had been carried over from one settlement day to another; but of course the same question arose and fell within the scope of the decision.

A CONSTITUTIONAL

BILL. (a)

REFORM

THE letter then proceeds to show that the members required to supply the seats thus proposed to be created might be provided without adding to the present number of the House of Commons. But the writer can see no good reason for superstitious adherence to a number which has nothing to recommend it but that it exists, and which is in itself purely arbitrary. He contends that the additions might well be made if any desirable object were to be promoted by the change, and he asserts-and of this there can be no doubt-that a far more com

plete and satisfactory measure of Representative Reform could be constructed, if twenty members were to be added to the House, than it is practicable to frame now without a larger measure of disfranchisement than would be just or desirable. The present plan is framed upon the assumption that the Legislature would not consent to the extension of its own numbers; but should it be willing to do so, there would be no difficulty in expanding the scheme in the same proportion by the creation of more new special constituencies, the addition of further new boroughs, and the division of more counties. The letter proposed the disfranchisement of all boroughs having less than 5000 inhabitants,

(a) Proposals for a Constitutional Reform Bill A Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, &c. By Edward W. Cox, Recorder of Helston. London: Law Times Office.

We briefly sum up the plan proposed in this pamphlet:

1. The extension of the Borough Franchise to the Municipal Franchise-i. e., the rated occupier of any dwelling-house having occupied two clear years and paid all rates and taxes.

2. The extension of the County Franchise to long Leaseholders, Copyholders, and Lifeholders of 5 annual value, and to Occupiers rated at 201. per annum.

3. The Disfranchisement of Boroughs having less than 5000 inhabitants (or their extension to large surrounding districts).

4. To take one member from all Boroughs having less than 10,000 inhabitants, now returning two members.

5. To give three members to all Boroughs having more than 100,000 inhabitants, giving to each elector two votes, so as to enable the minority of intelligence and property to return one member out of three, as formerly proposed by Eart RUSSELL.

6. To enfranchise six new Boroughs.

7. To give twenty-two more members to the largest counties by portioning them into three divisions instead of two.

8. To give a representation to the Universities of London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, and to the Medical Profession.

An essential feature of a Reform Bill must be

the re-arrangement of the borough boundaries. Since they were set out many of them have been largely outgrown. The boundaries must be made to accord with the actual limits of the towns, and provision should be made for their periodical revision as they grow, by enacting that, upon the petition of the inhabitants, setting forth that the place had outgrown the limits of the borough, a commission should be forthwith sent to view and to report upon the proper new boundaries, and submit the same for the approval of Parliament.

borough should for three successive years have So it might be prudently provided that if any upon its register less than a certain number (say 500) electors, it should be ipso facto disfranchised, and the members be transferred to the then largest unrepresented town. A self-acting measure would prevent a too speedy demand for changes, the excuses for which would thus be anticipated.

The letter concludes with an exposition of the duties of the country and of the Government in reference to any measure for Constitutional Reform. But of this in our next.

In the meanwhile may we look for such criticism by practical electioneerers among our readers as we have invited above.

LAWYERS AND THE CAM.

A GENTLEMAN who has in his time been equally successful on the Cam, in the Schools, and at the Bar, writes us the following interesting letter with reference to the remarks upon the career of Mr. GRIFFITHS which we make last

week:

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LAW TIMES.

Sir,-As an old Cantab, a Lawyer, and an admirer of the noble exercise of rowing, I am anxious to correct the erroneous impression under which the writer of a short leading article in your last number speaks of "the prejudice which most of the Dons have against boating men, on the score that it is

almost as difficult for oil and water to mix as for a man to combine reading with rowing." There may still be one or two Dons of "the old school," who entertain the prejudice referred to; but I can confidently state that by far the majority of the existing race of Dons fully recognise the compatibility of distinction in the College University Eights with mathematical, classical, and general proficiency in the studies of the University. In fact, there are many reasons why a strong muscular man, who requires exercise, should take to the water:

invaluable services in the successful laying down of
the Atlantic Cable).

Mr. Griffiths, in whose success as head of the Law
came in second for that same prize a few weeks ago,
Tripos you take so kind and legitimate an interest,
and I have no doubt that no one would have rejoiced
more in his success than his college tutor if he had

come in first.

My object in writing is to do justice to the Dons, and also to correct the inference which might be drawn from your article, that there is any reason why a strong and healthy young Cantab should decline to help his University to wipe out her late defeats, on the ground that he will thereby impair his own chances of University distinction or success

in life.

Heartily sympathising in your congratulations to
our excellent stroke of 1866, and (I hope) of 1867,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

CHARON.

MUNICIPALITIES IN LONDON.

may be awarded against him for any breach of contract on his part. The reason why imprisonment is empowered as against a servant breaking exists no other remedy. A servant may sue his his contract is the very obvious one, that there master in the County Court with absolute certainty that the master will not remove out of the jurisdiction, and that if he obtains a verdict he will enjoy the fruits of it, whereas there is almost an equal certainty that if the master were so to sue the servant, before the verdict could be obtained the servant would be "over the hills and far away." Thus, under the show of equal justice, there would be, in fact, for the master no justice at all. Moreover, the breach of a contract by a servant is in its effects vastly more serious than its breach by the master. From the latter there results only the delay in the payment of a few shillings of wages, but the consequences of the former may be the destrucA DEPUTATION has waited upon the Home tion of property many thousand pounds in value, Secretary with a plan for erecting eleven munias where a process of manufacture should be cipalities in the metropolis in lieu of the exist-stopped at a critical point by a workman taking ing multiplied and often conflicting parochial advantage of the situation to demand higher jurisdictions. Everybody will approve the ulti-wages. Again, protection is necessary for his mate design, if only some practicable means fellow-workmen, as well as for the master; can be devised for carrying it out. But there is the difficulty. Unlike other municipal towns, commercial London is separated from residential London. The management of vestries has fallen into the hands of the small tradesmen because the upper and educated classes live apart from their places of business, and therefore will not concern themselves about parochial politics. So it would be if corporations were substituted for vestries. The council would certainly be elected by precisely the same persons, and would come out of the same class, as now possess the vestries, and the whole affair would Is the probable result speedily degenerate. It is on these worth the immense inconvenience of the change? Much as the present system is to be condemned, we doubt if the proposed new one will be such an improvement as to warrant the disturbance it would occasion.

1. It is the cheapest amusement. For 17. or 21. a term the boating man got his daily amusement and exercise, while the hunting man gave five guineas for a day's hunting; the tennis-player thought nothing of 10s. a-day spent on his favourite sport; even the cricketer was put to expenses which many a man could ill afford who is in training for a profession on which his bread is to depend. 2. It is the most compendious exercise. In the two hours of the day devoted to rowing a man could take as much of the superfluous steam out of himself as in a whole day's hunting, cricket, or tennis, and have the other eight or ten hours of the day to read in.

3. It is, in the main, and with proper care and training, a most healthy exercise, especially for strong lads. Health conduces to mental vigour, and

mental vigour to University success.
grounds that, as a rule, wherever men combine a
desire and talent for University distinction with the
physique which requires strenuous exertion to keep
up robust health, they have taken to the "water
as well as to the midnight "oil," and found the two
to be quite reconcilable. It is therefore not as an
exceptional case, but only as an additional testimony
in favour of our cherished hobby that we, old
boating Cantabs, rejoice in the success in the Law
Schools of the accomplished oar who so gallantly
rowed stroke of the University Boat last Easter.

It is now many years since I was well posted up in such matters, but I know many of our existing "Dons," and can vouch for the accuracy of my account of the prevailing opinion amongst them.

The mention of a few names of men distinguished in the boats, and also at the Bar, belonging to my old University, will suffice to dispel the notion that there is anything antagonistic between University and professional eminence and great aquatic prowess:C. J. Selwyn, Q.C., M.P., pulled stroke of the head of the river in 1835; his two brothers, the bishop and the professor, having been greatly distinguished in the boats before his time, and having gained the first and second places in the classical tripos in 1828

and 1831.

Brett, Q.C., M.P. was No. 7 in Stanley's famous crew of 1839, and a Senior Optime in the same year.

Denman, Q.C., M.P., was No. 7 in the University crew of 1841 and 1842, and captain of his boat (head of the river), head of the classical tripos in 1842, and captain of the poll.

Baggallay, Q.C., M.P., was 14th Wrangler in 1839,
Vincent and Wolstenholme, the able editors of

and a good oar in his college boat.

"Jarman on Wills," were University oars of the first water, and one of them was a Wrangler in

1847.

Channell, a son of Channell, B., now at the Bar, was a Wrangler in 1851, and rowed in his boat at the head of the river, and in the University crew. Romer, the Senior Wrangler of 1863, rowed in his college boat.

Macnaghten, of the Chancery Bar, was captain of his boat, head of the river, and in the University crew, and graduated as one of three heads of the

classical tripos in 1852.

Instances from the Bar might be multiplied indefinitely, and in every station of life similar cases abound.

One curious fact may be mentioned as evidence that a man may work hard on the water, and yet have plenty of time left to do a good stroke of work

in the schools.

In 1842, Sir Patrick Colquhoun, the late Ionian Judge (himself a great oarsman) threw open to the University an annual prize for sculling, which represents the championship of the Cam in that branch of the art of rowing. The three first yearly winners of that prize were the Senior Classic of 1842 (the Hon. G. Denman, Q. C., M. P.), the Senior Wrangler of 1844 (Mr. G. W. Hemming, well known at the Chancery Bar), and the Second Wrangler of 1845 (now Sir W. Thomson, lately kuighted for his

It is to be noted that incidentally a question was asked, if they contemplated the election of Judges by the municipalities, which was answered in the affirmative. This alone would suffice to condemn the whole scheme, if a necessary the appointment of judges by popular election. part of it. Nothing can be more noxious than It is the curse of America. How it works at home is illustrated in the one case in which it exists among ourselves. Mr. Commissioner KERR is the elect of the Common Council. They have been sitting in judgment upon him, at the instigation, it is said, of some members against whom he had given judgment. The asserted plan of the deputation was to assimilate their towns; but in them the judges are not elective. proposed municipalities to those in the provincial The Recorder is appointed by the Home-office and the Magistrates by the Lord Chancellor.

for where work is executed by a combination of industries, the nonperformance of his contract by one workman might throw his fellowworkmen out of work by the stoppage of the whole of the process on which they were jointly engaged. To enforce contracts of such serious importance only by civil process, or even by the more speedy interposition of magistrates, would be a farce, if there existed no remedy but by distress.

results from it, but because the law should not Nevertheless, not because any real wrong present even the appearance of inequality or partiality, it is desirable that the existing law should be amended by prescribing precisely the same remedies for breaches of contract for work against both master and servant. That remedy is simple, and we should have thought so obvious as scarcely to have required Mr. POTTER'S caution against rash changes. It might be contained in three or four clauses. Let all questions between master and servant be placed under the jurisdiction of justices, as some are now. Empower the justices to award to either master proved the damages in their judgment caused by or servant against whom a breach of contact is such breach. If the damages so awarded and costs be not paid forthwith, let imprisonment for a limited time, but upon a scale proportioned to the amount of such damages, be imposed, not for the breach of the contract, but for the nonpayment of the damages caused by it. Thus both master and servant would stand equally before the law, with precisely the same rights the fiction that the workman is wronged by an and remedies, and there would be an end of inequality, which is in seeming only.

But though the pretended ground of complaint will be removed, the real object of the THE LAW OF MASTER AND SERVANT. trades unions will not be attained, and therefore THE report of a discussion upon this subject by the their satisfaction must not be hoped for. They desire, not equal, but unequal, law. Give only Law Amendment Society will appear when space permits. We may now mention that there was a civil remedy, and though the master will be much diversity of opinion, one party, comprising bound to the servant, the servant will not be the theorists and the representative of the work-bound to the master. The trades unions object man, claiming that contracts between master and servant should be subjected, like other contracts, to the civil law, with the same civil remedies only; and another party, comprising the practical men, and notably among them Mr. POTTER, the ultra-Radical M.P., who could not forget on this occasion that he is a master as well as a

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backers.

Having some practical knowledge of the subject, from seeing the operation of the existing law, it may, perhaps, be permitted to us to express an opinion derived from actual experience. We agree with all who took part in the discusnot for the reasons assigned by most of those who sion that the existing law is unsatisfactory, but objected to it. Its fault is, that upon the face of it there is a seeming inequality. The servant can be punished for breach of contract by imprisonment; the remedy against the master is purely civil. This has the aspect of injustice, although as a matter of fact no real injustice ever arises from it-for this reason, that the master is always able to pay whatever damages

to the law because it is an obstacle to strikes.

Mr. ODGERS' desire for a civil remedy only would permit of unlimited power to strike at any moment. This cannot be conceded; but it is not the less prudent to remove all reasonable pretences for complaint.

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THE RIOTS IN WALES. THE extraordinary conduct of the Welsh magistrates, upon which we commented last week, in dealing so lightly with so impudent a defiance of the law as that exhibited by the destroyers of

the salmon fisheries, will doubtless be brought under the consideration of the LORD CHANCELLOR. If not dealt with by him as it ought to be, the case will be submitted to Parliament. The following

more detailed statement of the facts will show that the gravity of the offence has not been exaggerated:

The verdicts of Welsh juries have long enjoyed an unenviable notoriety. The decisions of Welsh justices, if we may judge from a recent example, are sometimes equally perplexing. For some time past a determined opposition to the salmon fishery laws has been offered by a large number of persons in the counties of Brecon and Radnor, who claim the right to catch salmon at any season of the year, and have of late destroyed large quantities of fish in the river Wye and its tributaries. In order moro

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