W. Griffith, barrister; F. A. A. Rowland, and (by adjournment) on the 4th ultimo, Mr. solicitor; H. Tomkins, D.C.L., barrister; Francis M. Bateson - Wood in the chair. PresentInce, solicitor; G. S. Vaughan, solititor, hon. The undermentioned law societies, represented as secretary Stockport Law Society, Stockport; follows:-Birmingham Incorporated Law Society, W. G. Wheatcroft, solicitor, Eastbourne ; Mr. C. T. Saunders, of Birmingham; Bristol InG. F. Deacon, solicitor, Southampton; Thos. corporated Law Society, Mr. J. Press, of Bristol; Hewitt, solicitor; W. E. Baxter, solicitor; Gloucestershire Law Society, Mr. C. W. LawLewis Emanuel, solicitor ; J. P. Godfrey, rence, of Cirencester; Leeds Incorporated Law solicitor; W. Osborn Boyes, LL.B., solicitor, Society, Messrs. J. Rider and T. Marshall, both Barnet, Herts; W. B. Brook, solicitor. of Leeds; Liverpool Incorporated Law Society, Regretting, said Mr. Emanuel, the loss of the Messrs. J. D. Lowndes and C. H. Morton, both of valuable services of their late president, he pro- Liverpool; Manchester Incorporated Law Assoposed Mr. Edwin Low as his successor, and ciation, Mr. M. Bateson-Wood, of Manchester; spoke of the indefatiguable attention which that Newcastle-upon-Tyne Incorporated Law Associa gentleman had given to the work of the society, tion, Messrs. R. R. Dees and R. Pybus, both of and in attending the meetings of the council. Newcastle; Nottingham Incorporated Law SoWith regard to the honorary treasurer, his posi-ciety, Mr. H. Wing, of Nottingham: Sheffield tion as a legislator and as common serjeant of Incorporated Law Society, Mr. H. Bramley, of the City of London, gave him great opportunities Sheffield; Somersetshire Law Society, Mr. J. H. *for furthering the ends of the society, and he was Biddulph Pinchard; Sussex Law Society, Mr. sure that all members were proud to congratulate J. W. Howlett, of Brighton; Wakefield Law him upon attaining the dignity of the Bench. Society, Mr. C. A. Wilkin, of Wakefield; South Mr. Holroyd Chaplin had kindly consented Yorkshire and North Durham Law Society, Mr. to continue to act as honorary auditor. J. Dodds, M.P., of Stockton. With regard to Mr. Charles Ford, everybody knew that the secretary of a society was its heart, and soul, and brain—(hear, hear)-and he could assure them that in this instance the society was immensely indebted to Mr. Ford, who never ceased to give his time and talents in its service. The report of the committee for the year 1878, altered as printed, was adopted. The accounts for the year 1878 having been submitted were confirmed. Resolved-That the subscriptions of members for the year 1879 be on the same scale as those for the year 1878." Mr. Marshall was elected hon. secretary for the year 1879. It Mr. GRIFFITH, B.A. (barrister-at-law) seconded was moved by Mr. Dees, seconded by Mr. Rider, the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. and resolved-"That in the opinion of this Mr. HOLROYD CHAPLIN, M.A. (solicitor-at-meeting it is not proper that if a solicitor be emlaw), then moved a resolution expressing the ployed by the Treasury solicitor to conduct prosethanks of the society to Mr. Gordon, M.P., for cutions, he should be paid less than the his services to the society, and the regret that full usual charges allowed for the business." was felt at his resignation, especially having It was moved by Mr. Dees, seconded by Mr. regard to the cause of it; with a request to the Marshall, and resolved, "That it is unreasonable secretary that he would forward a copy of the and improper that the rights of mortgagees, or resolution to Mr. Gordon. other persons having a primary interest in proMr. W. OSBORN BOYES, LL.B. (solicitor), in perty insured by them against fire, should be liable seconding the resolution, alluded to the statement to be prejudicially affected by the acts of other in the report as to the Bills of Sale Act. He persons who may effect other insurances on the trusted that solicitors throughout the country same property; and that it would be proper for would carefully consider what was the intention solicitors advising mortgagees to call their clients' of the Legislature and act upon it, otherwise attention to the meaning and effect of the subthere was a danger of the Act becoming a joined condition, which is still maintained and dead letter; because there were some un- insisted upon by many insurance companies, notscrupulous and needy men who for a matter of withstanding that high judicial authority has pro68. 8d. would sign their names to anything. nounced it to be 'not well worded.'" Copy of (Laughter.) Solicitors ought to refuse to attest condition above referred to: "If at the time of these deeds wherever they were not satisfied they any loss or damage by fire happening to any prohad been drawn by a competent person. Other-perty hereby insured there be any other subsisting wise, if they became mere signing machines, the insurance or insurances, whether effected by the Act would be evaded. He could have wished to insured or by any other person, covering the same have seen a more direct reference in the report to property, this society shall not be liable to pay or the question of County Court extension generally. contribute more than its rateable proportion He believed that, of the three Bills before Parlia- of such loss or damage.' Moved by Mr. Wing, ment, that brought in by Mr. Norwood would seconded by Mr. Lawrence, and resolved "That have carried out all that was required, the main it is not desirable that the execution of bills of desiderata being an extension to £200, a reduction sale should be attested by solicitors pursuant to of the period for time for appearance in default sect. 10 of the Bills of Sale Act 1878, unless such summons to eight days, and the reduction in the bills of sale have been prepared by a solicitor fees exacted by the County Courts. The Govern- or by one of the parties thereto." Moved ment Bill of this session was a measure which by Mr. Wing, seconded by Mr. Lawrence, went far beyond the views of the most red-hot and resolved "That in the opinion of this County Court reformers. County Court process meeting it is not desirable that judges' orders up to £10,000 was not wanted; and he believed dispensing with the preliminary examination that the power proposed to be given to a judge of of articled clerks, under the Solicitors Act the Superior Court in any case in which he con- 1877, should be granted without a previous sidered there was no question of difficulty or reference to the Incorporated Law Society, and importance arising, to allow only County Court that the co-operation of the Incorporated Law costs, would be a most mischievous and unfair Society in bringing a representation to this effect measure. He believed that this Bill was practi- under the notice of the judges be requested." It cally shelved, and he trusted that in the future was moved by Mr. Marshall, seconded by Mr. this question of County Court reforms would be Lowndes, and resolved, "That in the opinion of taken up by the Legal Practitioners' Society. It this meeting the practice of employing persons was an extraordinary thing that select committees other than solicitors or proctors to act as agents to whom these Bills were referred always ex- in proceedings in the Probate Court is improper, amined the wrong class of men. Anybody reading and should be discouraged by members." the evidence given by Mr. Burton must come to the conclusion that he had never entered a County Court in his life. He denounced County Court solicitors as men wanting in education, and went so far as to say that the great desideratum of the County Courts was a local Bar. Now he had always understood that one of the great benefits of the County Court was that questions of small amount could be tried without the expense of briefing counsel, and yet this was one of the matters put forward as a reason why some alteration should take place. The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, which was carried unanimously. This concluding the formal business of the meeting, the Chairman said that Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C.,, whom he was happy to see present (cheers), might, perhaps, wish to address the Society. [We are compelled to hold over the rest of this report till our next issue, owing to pressure on our space.] The reports of the Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Sheffield Law Societies on the Government Bill having been read, the following resolutions were passed: 1. "That the admitted defects of the Bankruptcy Act 1869, can be better remedied by amending that Act than by substituting for it a measure in many respects entirely new, and which will have to be applied and interpreted at great additional cost to the public; and that the following resolutions on the Bankruptcy Law Amendment Bill do not imply approval of its principle." 2. "That there is no reason why the distinction between trader and non-trader should be preserved." 3. "That the proceedings necessary to obtain adjudication in bankruptcy are needlessly complicated." 4. "That the principle of deeds of arrangement without petition under Part II. of the Bill is approved by the meeting." 5. "That the removal or disposal of a tenant's fixtures should not prevent the trustee's right to disclaim, and that the relation back of the disclaimer to the date of the order of adjudication or of the trustee's appointment, should not operate to give the landlord the right to property properly removable by the trustee before or after the date of the disclaimer (Ex parte Stevens; Re Lavies, 37 L. T. Rep. N. S. 613; Ex parte Brooks; Re Roberts, 39 L. T. Rep. N. S. 458)." 6. "That a trustee continuing in possession of the debtor's premises should be bound to pay rent during his occupation; such rent being at the previous rate accruing de die in diem." (But see Ex parte Dressler; Re Solomon, 39 L. T. Rep. N. S. 327). 7. "That a secured credi tor, on valuing his security, should be at liberty to give notice to the trustee requiring him within six calendar months to take the security at the valuation, and in default of the trustee redeeming the creditor at that amount, should be at liberty to apply to the court for an order vesting the security in him, free from all equity or right of redemption of the debtor or his trustee, and to receive dividends on the amount of his proof above the value of his security." 8. "That among the preferential debts mentioned in clause 54 of the Bill, should be included the proportion of rent of a debtor's premises from the date of the last preceding payment up to the date of the filing of the petition.' 9. That it is undesirable that officers of the court should be appointed receivers." 10. "That the provisions as to the discharge of a bankrupt are an improvement on the present law." 11. "That Mr. Marshall be requested to prepare a report embodying the foregoing resolutions, and to compare such report with the report of the committee of counsel of the Incorporated Law Society on the same subject; and that if on such comparison he shall think it necessary, he shall summon the committee to consider the two reports." The following resolutions were passed:-1. "That it is undesirable to extend the jurisdiction of County Courts without at the same time reorganising the judicial as well as the administrative constitution of those Courts.' 2. "That the disallowance of costs in an action or petition in the High Court where the court is of opinion that there is no question of fact or law of sufficient importance or difficulty to warrant the action being brought in the High Court will operate to the disadvantage of suitors, for the reason that where a claim is disputed at all it is practically impossible for a solicitor to advise a client beforehand whether any question of fact or law will arise in the course of the proceedings which the court may consider of sufficient importance to warrant the action being brought in the High Court." 3. "That the court fees in proceedings in the County Courts are excessive, and should be reduced." A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the proceedings of the meeting. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1878. The The association consists at present of twentythree members as against twenty-two at the date of the previous report, the Wolverhampton Society having lately become a member. total number of country law societies is thirtytwo. A list of country law societies for the year 1879, distinguishing those who are members from those who are not, in continuation of former lists, accompanies this report. The Law Society of Bolton-le-Moor has become incorporated during the year, and the Law Society of Hull is about to take the same step. Twelve law societies are now incorporated under the Companies Acts 1862 and 1867; this fact, which points to a growing sense of the importance of such associations, is only one among many other evidences that solicitors in the country are becoming alive to the value of united action. Derby, Durham, Ipswich, Norwich, Oxford, and Yarmouth are now the only considerable towns in England which do not possess a law society. The committee take this opportunity of urging on members the importance of endeavouring to obtain representation on the council of the Incorporated Law Society, under the powers of the supplemental charter granted in 1873. As there is reason to believe that the conditions to be complied with are not universally known they will be quoted in this place. By the provisions in question: "In addition to the ordinary members of council any member of the said incorporated society holding at the time of his appointment or election the office of president of any other law society, established at any place in the United Kingdom (except the Metropolis) for like or kindred purposes, shall be eligible to be appointed or elected by the council an extraordinary member of council, with the same powers and duties, during his term of office as such extraordinary member, as by the last recited charter are given to an ordinary member of council, except that an extraordinary member of council shall not be eligible for president or vice-president of this society; but the number of extraordinary members of council holding office at one time shall not exceed ten, and extraordinary members of council are to be elected at the first meeting of the council after the first of October in any year, and to hold office, unless vacated by death or resignation, until the meeting of council next after the 1st Oct. in the year following." This meeting hopes that the council of the Incorporated Law Society, in exercising the powers vested in them by the supple mental charter, will have special regard to the position of the society, whose president 18 elected an extraordinary member of council; and, for the purpose of a fair representation of professional interests, will make the selection as equally as may be from societies established in large towns and country districts respectively. LAND REGISTRATION. - The proceedings of Mr. Osborne Morgan's committee on this important subject have occupied a large share of attention during the past year. Members will recollect that the Select Committee was moved for on the 15th May 1878. On the 7th June the committee met in London, and, after a full consideration of the subject, decided on calling a general meeting in London on the 21st June. That meeting was held accordingly, and was very fully attended, and resolutions were passed to the following effect: 1. In favour of offering evidence on behalf of the country law societies before the committee; 2. Affirming the failure of the Real Property Acts of 1862 and 1875; 3. Suggesting, by way of remedy of some of the objections to the above Acts, a provision enabling landowners to remove their land from the registrar, retaining nevertheless the benefit of a declaration of title; 4. Pointing out the direction which further legislation ought to take; 5. Stating that no hitherto devised scheme of registration can be relied on to prevent fraud, and that any system will occasion delay and expense. deputation from the meeting met Mr. Osborne Morgan by appointment shortly after the meeting, and arranged with him that Mr. Dees of Newcastle, Mr. Johnson of Birmingham, Mr. Winterbotham of Stroud, and, if possible, Mr. BatesonWood of Manchester, should be called as witnesses before the committee on behalf of the country law societies. The committee may be expected shortly to report, and their report and the minutes of evidence will be awaited with interest. A ingly objectionable. It becomes of more importance | barristers will be thinned to fill the gaps in our CORRESPONDENCE OF THE Does it want doing? Then do it. So he will PROFESSION. NOTE.-This Department of the LAW TIMES being open to DUTY OF SOLICITOR TO HIS ARTICLED CLERK.-One or two points must be kept in view. Every solicitor will make the transaction of the business of the office his primary aim, and the benefit of his articled clerk secondary. It is useless to argue as if he ought not to do this. He will do it. The improvement of the articled clerk is a vague thing, and has years for its accomplishment. The business of the day is a definite thing, and must be done now. This fact always will secure primary attention to business. The improvement of articled clerks must be subordinate to this. Let no articled clerk, therefore, expect any other treatment. If he wishes to learn let him fall in with this. Let him make the transaction of the business of the day his great object. Let him cast aside all silly notions that this is unworthy of his distinguished ability, and that altogether beneath his exalted dignity. qualify himself for the highest work, and so only. The youngsters, who have posted the letters, worked the copying press, made draft copies to keep, and shrunk from nothing, using all the while their observation guided by reading, and aided by their general culture, are the very men who be come so well qualified for every task the profession may involve, that in their later career they need shrink from nothing in the opposite sense. only way to read usefully is to be thorough in practice, and the only way to be thorough in practice is to have plenty to do. Do these lads suppose they will have work given them to do if they won't do it? Let them make themselves useful if they wish to be used. A solicitor's treatment of his articled clerk rests almost entirely with the clerk. A thoroughly willing fellow, without any hindrances from dignity, is sure to be used for the best work he can do. Nobody is always employed on the highest work he is fit for. Why does he expect to be? Just as a solicitor gets a large practice, and its rewards fall into his lap, by always seeking his clients' interest and forgetting his own, so an articled clerk will improve himself most by throwing himself heartily into his master's interest. One illustration of illtreatment that has been given, that of having to index the letters, is so far from being uninstruc tive, that to a brained person it is one of the most useful things an articled clerk can possibly do for his own instruction. He sees more of the reasons which govern business so, than in any other part of office routine. The ANOTHER CLIFFORD'S INN PRIZEMAN. THE STATUS OF A SOLICITOR.-The question opened by "Sedens in Antro," and discussed with such ability by your correspondents of the 12th ult., is of such importance to all who are, like myself, on the threshold of the Profession, that I doubt not you will give us facility for fully ventilating it. It is natural for solicitors to refuse to admit that their profession is ranked low in the social scale. Messrs. H. Symonds and H. R. Meredith are indignant at the status assigned to them as solicitors, but their indignation is raised by prejudice, not by an estimation of facts. The BANKRUPTCY LAW AMENDMENT.-The Go- letter of H." is most admirable in its advice, vernment Bill of last year has been re-introduced but it takes a long tuition to enable a man to rein the House of Lords. Referring to the resolu- echo, without a quiver in his tone, the grand tions passed at the last annual meeting on the sub-word "Scorn! To be scorned by one that I scorn; ject, it will be observed that in the present Bill is that a matter hard to be borne? Is that a 1. The distinction between trader and non-trader matter to make me fret?" Each young solicitor is preserved; 2. The proportion of rent of a cannot help asking in bitter accents why it is that debtor's premises from the date of last preceding the very names barrister, clergyman, officer, payment up to the date of the filing of the peti- doctor, open doors which are shut to the name tion is not included among the preferential debts solicitor till the individual has won an entrance mentioned in clause 53; 3. A trustee continuing for himself. Sedens in Antro" replies that it is in possession is not bound to pay rent during his defective education." As Mr. Symonds points occupation (but see Ex parte Dressler, Re Solo- out this is absurd, unless is added coupled with mon, 39 L. T. Rep. N. S. 377); 4. The rights of a scanty means." Education without wealth gives secured creditor remain the same as under the way to wealth without education. The old world existing law. fable of Danæ is still very true, "Fore enim tutum iter et patens converso in pretium deo." The reasons alleged by Mr. Symonds: "His temptations, the low standard of morality with which he SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE CANON comes into contact," &c., seem rather feeble. These LAW IN ENGLAND.-I must join issue with your are the accidents of a lawyer's life, and have little, contributor, Mr. Lawrence Biale, as to the acif any, effect on the position assigned him by curacy of the statement with which he opens his public opinion. With all diffidence I venture to interesting dissertation upon this subject. Chrispoint out the disease, the cause, and the remedy. tianity was introduced into England centuries The disease-the existence of a large number (I before the mission of Augustine. The date of its use the word large advisedly) of solicitors who are introduction cannot be precisely predicated, but pre-eminently worthy of being tabooed, not only by the consensus of opinion seems to point at some country," but by all gentlemanly society. These time in the first century, during the lives of the jackals" have been so admirably described by Apostles, as the probable period. Let me cite "Duronovaria," that I refer readers to his letter. Ab two authorities. Tertullian, writing in the middle uno disce omnes. "A little leaven leaveneth the of the second century, after enumerating the whole lump." What guarantee has society that several countries through which the Gospel had "solicitor" means anything higher than the picture been spread, says, But also through all the drawn above? The Cause: 1. The system of allow- boundaries of the Spaniards, all the different ing ten years' clerks to become solicitors without nations of Gaul, and those parts of Britain inpreliminary examination-with no guarantee of accessible to the Romans. Eusebius, writing their possessing any education or knowledge beyond A.D. 320, when speaking of the countries in which that of the routine of a clerk's life. 2. The too the Apostles had laboured, says: "And some limited sphere of the intermediate examination. passed over the ocean to those which are called 3. The class of solicitors allowed to take articled the British islands." Did space permit I might clerks; and here I fancy I have hit on a great enumerate confirmatory passages from the writings evil. A solicitor with no education, no means of Theodoret, St. Jerome, Augustine (Bishop of of teaching, no business, can take an articled Hippo), and St. Chrysostum. The British historian, clerk with little or no premium to do the small Gildas, who was born A.D. 520, makes the introdrudgery of the office. "Mox daturum pro- duction of the Gospel into Britain to precede the geniem vitiosiorem." The Remedy: 1. Abolition insurrection under Boadicea in A.D. 61. That of canse. 2. Insistance by the examiners of some Christianity was the religion of Britain long before knowledge of Roman law and jurisprudence. the mission of Augustine (A.D. 595) is, I think, The theory of law cannot be understood further abundantly testified by the following by those who neglect these studies. As facts, which are incontrovertible: Alban, the well teach a physician to prescribe without first recorded English martyr, suffered at Verufirst teaching him the elements of chemistry. lam, and Julius and Aaron at Caerleon, for their 3. (a) No solicitor under ten years standing to adhesion to Christianity, in the Diocletian pertake articled clerks (unless one of a firm whose secution, about A.D. 303. Three British metromembers or member fulfil this condition); (b) Nopolitan bishops (London, York, and Caerleon), premium to be less than £50 a year; (c) A special licence to be obtained from the Incorporated Law Society or one of the judges specially appointed, enabling a solicitor to take articled clerks. Such licence to be only attainable on evidence of sufficiency of business for the clerks to have a fair chance of learning their profession. 4. Throw open judgeships, more especially County Court judgeships, to solicitors. If these reforms are carried out, I venture to predict that the next generation will have no cause to complain of their social status, and that the ranks of briefless COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BILL.-A very extensive measure of County Court legislation was introduced by the Lord Chancellor on the 18th Feb. last. The Lord Chancellor, on moving the first reading of the Bill, drew attention to the state of business in the higher courts, which, as he remarked, is closely connected with the subject, He accounted for the temporary delay which had recently occurred in the transaction of legal business, and suggested some remedies, amongst which was the County Courts Bill, the effect of which he anticipated to be "to withdraw some of the more trifling cases from the Superior Courts.” On the second reading the Bill was referred to a select committee. Your committee are of opinion that some further legislation for County Courts is needed, and is inevitable, and the choice seems to lie between settling the matter by a Bill introduced on the responsibility of the Government and efforts at legislation by private members, which, while they have little chance of becoming law, keep the question in a continual state of uncertainty and agitation. The committee think that the matter should be comprehensively dealt with by the Government, and that a Bill consolidating the numerous County Courts Acts should form part of any scheme for extending or altering the jurisdiction of those courts, and should follow the recommendation of the Judicature Commission in constituting the County Courts branches of the High Court. PROFESSIONAL REMUNERATION. - Referring to the resolution passed at the last annual meeting on this subject, your committee report that a special committee of the council of the Incorporated Law Society has been appointed, on which several country members sit, and that a draft scale has been prepared and is now being considered by that committee. Your committee recommend that an effort be made to induce Sir Henry Jackson to re-introduce his "High Court of Justice (Costs) Bill, or that other means be taken to obtain legislative sanction to the principle of such a Bill. TREASURY ProSECUTIONS-AGENCY.-Attention has been called by the Bristol and Leeds Law Societies to a practice growing on the part of the Solicitor to the Treasury of requiring solicitors employed by him to conduct prosecutions on agency terms The committee consider the practice exceed and a representative priest and deacon, were present at the council of Arles, A.D. 314, and subscribed their names to the records of such council. The Venerable Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History (edited by Dr. Giles Bohn, series 1859, p. 68), describes at length the conference between seven bishops of the British Church and Augustine, at a spot believed to have been near the old Aust Ferry, in Gloucestershire, and states how Augustine attempted to get the British bishops to conform to the Roman use in several particulars which they declined. The value of this testimony an is enhanced by the fact that Bede was a distinguished dignitary of the Roman communion. Clearly therefore, there must have been organised Christian Church in Britain, when Augustine's mission came to our shores. Whilst I earnestly contend for the existence of Christianity ir Britain prior to A.D. 596, I do not in the least wish to throw discredit upon Augustine and the roble work he did in converting the pagan Saxons, who had at that time overrun the greater part of Eritain, and driven British Churchmen into the fastnesses of Wales and Cornwell. Those who feel an interest in delving into the subject are driven to the conclusion that the savage condition of our progenitors usually depicted by the writers of school histories is simply the product of a fanciful imagination, and it is with the object of controverting the opinion of late sometimes expressed, and adopted by Mr. Biale, that the inhabitants of the British Isles were not only uncivilised, but also heathen, up to A.D. 596, that I ask you to find room for these few remarks. JOHN GRAY MORGAN. Manchester, April 23, 1879. 4. CONTRACT-NON-DELIVERY OF GOODS BY CARRIER. -A., a retail shopkeeper, ordered goods which were only saleable at a particular time of the year from a London house. The London house left the goods at a railway station, with instructions to forward them by van train, carriage unpaid. The goods have never been received by A., or any of his servants or agents. A. made inquiries of the London house, who in their turn made inquiries of the railway company, and the latter say they have A's receipt for the goods, although he has never received them or signed any such receipt. Has A. any remedy for damages for the loss of sale of the goods, which are only saleable at a certain time of the year, and are not saleable now even if delivered; and if so, who should A. sue. the railway company. or the London house? Cases will oblige. T. 5. CANCELLING ARTICLES.-Will any reader inform me the usual way in which articles of clerkship are cancelled? Is it necessary to indorse a memorandum on the articles stating that they are cancelled by matual consent, or as the case may be, to be signed by all parties; or should it be recited in the fresh articles that the original were cancelled by mutual consent, or as the case may be; and, in the latter case, should the parties to the original articles be made parties to the new articles in order to testify to their cancellation? ARTICLED CLERK. 6. REGISTRATION.-A. is the owner of property, leasehold, for the term of 999 years, situate in a register county, and by his will devises the same to B., who sells it to C. The lease being entered on the register. can C. compel B. to register the will? If so, give authorities. DERFLA. 7. BASTARDY APPLICATION-PERJURY.-A., the mother of a bastard child, made an application againt B., the parative father. At the hearing of the case B. and C., his witness, committed periury, and were afterwards convicted thereof. What effect has the conviction on the bastardy proceedings? Can A. proceed upon the original application, or would it be necessary to commence de novo? In the latter event she can only obtain payment from the date of order, whereas in the former she can obtain payment from the date of the birth. A SUBSCRIBER. 8. COSTS OF LEASE.—In an agreement for a lease the following clause was inserted: "The expenses of the lease and counterpart shall be borne by the lessor and le see equally." The lessee employed his own solicitor to peruse the draft lease and to act generally for him in the matter. The lessor's solicitor drew the draft lease and engrossed both lease and counterpart. Query, is the lessor liable to pay half of the lessee's solicitor's costs? i. e., should both bills be added together, and a moiety of the two paid by each party? W. V. ST. J. Answers. (Q. 89.) CROSSED CHEQUES.-In Smith's Handy Book of Cheques the following appears: "The effect of crossing a cheque will be that the banker on whom i is drawn will not be justified in paying it except to another banker; and if he does so he not only cannot take credit for it, but is liable to an action by his cuscheque is crossed with the name of a particular tomer if the wrong person gets the money. banker, it can only be paid to or through that banker and this I take to be a proper reading of the Act cited. CHARLES G. BARNES. If the (Q. 93.) ANNUITY-DECEASE OF ANNUITANT-RETURN OF DUTY.-This is not a case for the return of any duty. The annuity to A. has ceased by his death, and of course the further payment of duty ceases also; but that which has been already paid will not be refunded. If, however, the annuity had been left to A., liable to be determined by some contingency besides that of death, it would in the first instance be valued without regard to the contingency. If the annuity should be subsequently divested from A. by the happening of the contingency, the duty would be recalculated upon the value of the annuity, according to its actual duration, and any overpaid duty returned: (see Hanson on the Probate, Legacy, and Succession Duties Acts, 3rd edit. p. 27. J. J. W. LEGAL NEWS. THE degree of doctor of laws has been conferred upon the Right Hon. W. Watson, M.P., Lord Advocate of Scotland, by the University of Glasgow. AT the North Wales Assizes, a presentment was made by the grand jury relative to the unnecessary cost and trouble of holding an additional assize for that district. IT was incorrectly stated last week that Mr. Finlay Knight had applied for silk. THE salary of the clerk to the assessment committee of the Doncaster Board of Guardians was on Saturday fixed at £80 per annum. THERE are 218 members of the Legal Profession, including twenty-eight Doctors of Law, in the present Italian Parliament. Clerks to Justices in Middlessex were paid fees amounted to £3265 3s. Sd. £1706 10s. during the past quarter, and their Mr. J. NEWBON, of the firm of Newbon, Harrison, and Co., solicitors, 1, Wardrobe-place, Doctors' Commons, intimated to the Vestry of St. Ann, Blackfriars, that he did not desire reelection as vestry clerk, owing to his holding other official positions in a parish considered to have antagonistic interests. Mr. Baron Huddleston, in opening the assizes at Exeter, referred to the simplicity of most of the cases for trial, and said it was a question whether the jurisdiction of quarter sessions might not be extended so as to include charges very little removed from the more serious cases of larceny. MR. WILLIAM HOWARD, of the firm of Howard, Inglis, and Keeling, solicitors, Colchester, has resigned the clerkship of the Lexden Union, which he had held for the long period of forty-three years, also the appointment of superintendent registrar for the Lexden and Winstree district. Mr. Howard was admitted as far back as 1830. A BILL providing for the appointment of a fifth judge, which was laid before the Legislative Assembly by the Government of New South Wales, has been carried, and the Assembly, owing to the increase of legal business, has enlarged the scope of selection, by which attorneys of ten years' standing are rendered eligible for promotion to the judicial bench. AT the last Brentford County Court it was stated by Mr. Woodbridge, for plaintiff, that he had seen defendant, who had promised to pay in two months, subject to a committal, whereupon Mr. J. Scott, the deputy judge, remarked that it was not allowed by law for solicitors to come to arrangements with debtors with regard to imprisonment, and Mr. Woodbridge replied that he knew it was not, but it was done there and almost everywhere else. THE LAND TITLES TRANSFER BILL.-The Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to consider this Bill sat on Monday; Mr. Osborne Morgan taking the chair. The Lord Chancellor, examined as a witness, gave several reasons for thinking that the Act relating to the subject had not been resorted to as much as he should have desired. There would be almost insuperable difficulties in the way of putting land on the register by compulsion. He did not approve of Lord Westbury's Bill, which appeared to him to have all the elements of evil, and none of the advantages attendant on a registry of deeds. He always regretted that the working of a system of this kind had been put into the hands of a registry office instead of being placed in the hands of a court analogous to the Irish Landed Estates Court. The public confidence in the system would have been very much greater if it had been established on the Irish precedent. The Committee again adjourned. THE IRISH BAR.-Our Dublin correspondent writes under date April 25: "The prospects of the Irish Bar must be thought to be less clouded than they have been for the last few days, for the number of law students admitted on call day was unusually large. The list contains fifteen names more than has been the average number called in any term for a very long time. With two exceptions all the new barristers are graduates of a University. Dublin contributes, as usual, the largest share, no fewer than eleven of the whole, Owing to the number of promotions to judicial the Queen's University one, and Oxford one. and other offices made by the present Government, and the retirement of chairmen of counties from practice, there is a demand for able juniors, and young men probably see a better opening in the legal than in other professions.-Times. THE LAWS OF NATIONS.-The seventh annual conference of the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Laws of Nations will be held on the 11th Aug. and four following days at the Guildhall. The Lord Chief Baron is the president of the association; the Lord Mayor the honorary president of the London conference; Sir Travers Twiss, Q.C., the chairman of the executive council; and Mr. Alderman Hadley, the chairman of the reception committee. There will be a large gathering of jurists, publicists, and eminent commercial men from both European and transoceanic states. The subjects selected for discussion are (1) Public International Law, includ ing the international protectorate of telegraphic communications, consular juri diction in Oriental countries: collisions at sea: international maintenance of lighthouses; mixed tribunals of Egypt, and international rules of quarantine; (2) International Commercial Law, including bills of ex-change, negotiable securities, foreign judgments, evidence for foreign tribunals; uniform standards of weights and measures, patents for inventions, and bankruptcy; and (3) International Maritime Law, including general average, bills of lading, sea protests, and ships' logs and the law of affreightment. GOVERNMENT SOLICITORS' OFFICES. An open competition for one situation of supplementary clerk in the Solicitor's Office of the Treasury will be held in London, on Tuesday, the 27th May, 1879. Supplementary clerks in the Treasury receive salary commencing at £100, and rising by an annual increments of £10 to £200. The increase, however, will depend upon the satisfactory discharge of the duties. WHITEHALL, April 26, 1879.-The Queen has barrister-at-law, to be Her Majesty's Solicitorbeen pleased to appoint GAINSFORD BRUCE, Esq., by the death of Joseph Kay, Esq. General of the County Palatine of Durham, vacant THE LORD CHANCELLOR has appointed THOMAS INGLE, of 458, Old Kent-road, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, to be a commissioner to administer oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature in England. W. FFOOKS WOODFORDE, Esq., judge of County Courts (District 19), has appointed Mr. RICHARD BROWN, solicitor, Stockport, registrar of the Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith courts. MR. HORATIO LLOYD, judge of County Courts (District 29), has appointed Mr. ROBERT FREDERICK SISSON, of St. Asaph. solicitor, and Mr. OLIVER GEORGE, of Rhyl, solicitor (firm Sisson and George) to be joint registras of the County Courts holden at St. Asaph and Rhyl, in succession to Mr. Robert James Sisson, of St. Asaph, resigned. MR. G. A. FLOWERS, Solicitor, of Steyning, Sussex, has been appointed clerk to the trustees of the river Adur Navigation, also to the Commissioners of Sewers for the Rape of Bramber; also to the Horsham and Steyning Turnpike Trust, and to the Beeding Turnpike Trust. MR. RICHARD EDWARD CLARKE, solicitor, and coroner for the Ford division of the county of Salop (of the firm of Clarke and Sons, Shrewsbury), was on Monday last unanimously elected coroner for the borough of Shrewsbury. MR. GAINSFORD BRUCE, who was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1859, has been appointed Her Majesty's Solicitor-General for the County Palatine of Durham, in succession to the late Mr. Joseph Kay, Q.C. MR. FREDERICK MEAD, who was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1869, has been appointed counsel to the Treasury at the Middlesex Sessions, in succession to Mr. Montagu Williams, resigned, on appointment to an official position at the Central Criminal Court. LEGAL OBITUARY. NOTE.-This department of the LAW TIMES, is contributed by EDWARD WALFORD, M.A., and late scholar of Ballio College, Oxford, and Fellow of the Genealogical and Historical Society of Great Britain; and, as it is desired to make it as perfect a record as possible, the families and friends of deceased members of the Profession will oblige by forwarding to the LAW TIMES Office any dates and materials required for a biographical notice. W. P. M'DONALD, ESQ. THE late William Patrick M'Donald, Esq., barrister-at-law, who died on the 4th ult., at his mother's residence, in Haverstock-terrace, Hampstead, was the eldest son of the late Simon M'Donald, Esq., of Contin, Ross-shire, and was born about the year 1840. He was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in Michaelmas Term 1864, and joined the Northern Circuit; he also practised as a special pleader, and attended the Liverpool Sessions. T. WRIGHT, ESQ. H. W. F. HARRISON, ESQ. T. RHODES, ESQ. W. H. DORMAN, ESQ. THE late William Henry Dorman, Esq., solicitor, of Ramsgate, who died on the 10th March, at his residence in that town, in the forty-second year of THE late Thomas Wright, Esq., solicitor, of Car- his age, was the only brother of Mr. Charles Dorlisle, senior member of the firm of Messrs. Wright man, of the Firs, Laurie Park, Sydenham. He and Brown of that city, who died somewhat unwas born in the year 1837; was admitted a solicitor expectedly at York, on the 30th March, in the fifty-in Hilary Term 1860, and was a commissioner for second year of his age, was the only son of John taking oaths. The deceased gentleman was a Wright, Esq., of Stanwix, Cumberland, by his member of the firm of Messrs Kingsford, Dorman, marriage with Miss Dalton, a daughter of John and Kingsford, of Ramsgate and Margate. Dalton, Esq., of Cummersdale, and was born in the year 1827. He was educated at Croft House School, Cumberland, under Mr. Coulthard, and served his articles with the late Mr. Bendle, of Carlisle. After passing the usual examination, he was duly admitted a solicitor in Trinity Term 1849, and at once entered into partnership with that gentleman and his son, under the firm of Bendle, Son, and Wright. This arrangement, however, did not last very long, and on a dissolution of the partnership_taking place the election eering agency for the Liberal party of Carlisle was separated from the county agency and placed in his hands, and, as we learn from the local journals, he continued to discharge the duties of this appointment with remarkable energy and zeal until after the last general election, when failing health compelled him to ask his political friends to elect a successor. As a solicitor, Mr. Wright enjoyed an extensive practice; he was a commissioner for oaths in the English and Irish courts, and he was highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. A few years ago he was elected to a seat in the Town Council of Carlisle, and he was also a director of the Carlisle and Cumberland Bank. He lived and died unmarried. The remains of the deceased gentleman were interred in the cemetery at Carlisle. THE late Thomas Rhodes, Esq., solicitor, who W. A. KEIR, ESQ. THE late William Augustus Keir, Esq., barrister. at-law, who died recently, at Valparaiso, South America, in the thirty-seventh year of his age, was the only son of Patrick Small Keir, Esq., of Kin-year 1841) were owing, in a very important mouth and Kindrogan, Perthshire, by his marriage with Amelia Frances Balfour, second daughter of the late Sir Niel Menzies, Bart., of Menzies, and was born in the year 1842. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his Bachelor's degree in 1865, and he was a member of the Scottish Bar. W. R. WILLS, ESQ. THE late William Ridout Wills, Esq., solicitor, of Birmingham, who died at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, on the 1st April, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, was the eldest son of the late William Wills, Esq., of Edgbaston, near Birmingham, who was formerly himself in the same profession; his mother was Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah Ridout, Esq., of Birmingham, and he was born at Edgbaston in the year 1824. He received the rudiments of his education under the Rev. J. Craven, and afterwards at the Proprietary School at Edgbaston, whence he proceeded to University College, London, where he obtained the first prize in the late Mr. De Morgan's higher senior mathematical class, as well as in natural philosophy. He graduated in 1843, and obtained the second place in mathematical honours, the scholarship and first place being awarded to the present Master of the Rolls, Sir George Jessel. Mr. Wills was admitted a solicitor in Michaelmas Term 1846, and at the time of his decease had been for some years in partnership with Mr. Edwin C. Newey. The deceased gentleman held no public appointment, but had the reputation of being an excellent conveyancer, otherwise his life was marked by no incidents of any but a private and personal nature. He married, in 1850, Emma, daughter of Mr. James Kimberley, of Birmingham, by whom he has left a family of six sons and two daughters. His eldest son is at the bar, having taken high honours at Cambridge, both in the classical tripos and the moral science tripos; his second son is a solicitor, and is living at Madras, under an engagement with Messrs. Barclay and Morgan. The remains of the deceased gentleman were interred in the general cemetery at Birmingham. degree, to his exertions. As the head of the firm J. NICHOLSON, ESQ. J. P. GUBBINS, ESQ. four sons and a daughter. To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Pet. Pet. April 22. Reg. Murray. Sur. May 9. Sol. Preston, ARTHUR, JAMES, maltster, Bristol. Pet. April 23. Reg. Spilsbury, Sur. May 12 COTTON, WILLIAM, farmer, Eccleshall. Pet. April 21. Reg. makers, Hull. Pet. April 22. Dep.-Reg. Rollit. Sur. NOLDS, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, jun, silversmiths, Wolver. REES, WILLIAM JOHN, builder, Swansea. Pet. April 21. SHALDERS, HARRY, tobacconist, Norwich. Pet. April 21. Gazette, April 29. To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Lincoln's-inn-fields Pet. April 24. Reg. Hazlitt. Sur. May 16 LEIFCHILD, GEORGE, ink manufacturer's clerk, Waltham DOWEY, ISABELLA, innaeeper, Middlesbrough. Pet. April PEARSE, FREDERICK EDWARD, doctor of medicine, Ponty- Bankruptcies Annulled. Gazette, April 25. Liquidations by Arrangement. FIRST MEETINGS. ATKINSON, NATHANIEL, grocer, Middlesbrough. Pet. Apri 17. May 7, at ten, at offices of Catchpole, accountant, BAKER, CHARLES, miller, Atherstone. Pet. April 19. May 7. BALL, NOAH, beerseller. Oaken gates. Pet. April 22. May 16, at eleven, at office of Sol. Taylor, Wellington BARKER, GEORGE, beerhouse-keeper, Greasley. Pet. April May 9, at twelve, at office of Sol. Fraser, Nottingham BARROW, JOSEPH, jun., brewer, Kendal. Pet. April 21. May 18, at eleven, at office of Sol. Watson, Kendal BEESLEY, EDWIN, victualler, Dudley Port. Pet. April 21. May 6, at three, at office of Sol. Sheldon. Wednesbury BERRIDGE, JAMES WILLIAM, butcher, Whittlesey. Pet. April 23. May 9, at twelve, at office of Sols. Graves and Reeve, Whittlescy BERRIMAN, JOHN, wine merchant, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-st. Pet. April 22. May 9, at two, at office of Sol. Sweetland, Moorgate-st BIANCHI, JOHN, and BIANCHI, MARY ANN, furniture dealers, Wolverhampton. Pet. April 23. May 8, at half-past two, at the Peacock hotel. Snow-hill, Wolverhampton. Sols. Mathews and Smith, Birmingham BISHOP, GEORGE, plumber. New Swindon. Pet. April 21. May 6, at twelve, at office of Sol. Ormond, Swindon BOLLAND, THOMAS, livery-stable keeper, Salford. Pet. April 21. May 7, at twelve, at office of Sol. Blakeway, Manchester BOTTOMLEY, THOMAS, greengrocer, Lockwood. Pet. April CLARKE, JOHN WILLIAM, hatter, Nottingham. Pet. April 1. May 8, at eleven, at office of Sol. Stevenson, Notting am CLAUGH, JAMES, drill sergeant, Cheltenham. Pet. April 19. May 10, at eleven, at office of Sol, Clark, Cheltenham COCKITT, THOMAS, printer, Macclesfield. Pet. April 21. May 8, at three, at office of Sol. Frogatt, Macclesfield COSWELL, HENRY DIXON, pawnbroker's manager, Marquister, Camden-sq. Pet. April 22. May 21, at two, at office of George, accountant, Finsbury-pl COOK, JOHN, cabinet maker, Shepton Mallet. Pet. April 23. May 14, at three, at the George hotel, Shepton Mallet. Sol. Nalder, Shepton Mallet COOK, JOSEPH, grocer, Sunderland. Pet. April 22. May 7, at eleven, at office of Sol. Robinson, Sunderland COOP, JOHN, rent collector. Bolton. Pet. April 22. May 15, at three, at the Swan hotel, Bolton. Sols. Dowling and Urry, Bolton COULTHARD, WILLIAM FRANKCORN, haberdasher, Brighton. Pet. April 21. May 10, at eleven, at the Chamber of Commerce, Cheapside. Sol. Goodman, Brighton Cox, STEPHEN FITCHEW, tanner, Yatton. Pet. April 16. April 30, at one, at offices of Sols. Brittian, Press, and Inskip, Bristol CRABBE, GEORGE, teacher of dancing, Manchester. Pet. April 22. May 17, at three, at the Royal Oak inn, Hulme DALY, GEORGE HICKIE, surgeon, Chippenham. Pet. April 3. May 15, at twelve, at the Inns of Court hotel, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Sols. Phillips and Son, Chippenham DAVIES, GEORGE, innkeeper, Abergavenny. Pet. April 22. May 15, at eleven, at 11, Frogmore-st, Abergavenny. Sol. Hodgens, Abergavenny DEANE, FRANCIS WILLIAM, hosier, Birmingham. Pet. April 21. May 6, at eleven, at office of Sol. Rooke, Birmingham DOUTHWAITE, JOHN BRIGHAM, veterinary surgeon, Swine. Pet. April 23. May 5, at three, at office of Sol. Summers, Hull ECCLES, WILLIAM HENRY, Coal agent, Over Darwen. Pet. April 22. May 7, at three, at office of Sol. Polding, Black ELLIS, CHARLES, china dealer, Nottingham. Pet. April 22. May 12, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Heath and Sons, Nottingham. ELLIS, ROBERT, butcher, Buckley. Pet. April 19. May 7, at aree, at office of Sol. Roberts, Mold EVANS, DAVID JENKYN, draper, Penygraig. Pet. April 21. May 8, at two, at offices of Hunt, Son, and Co., Nicholast, Manchester. Sol. Morgan, Pontypridd EVANS, ENOCH, victualler, Burntwood. Pet. April 21. May , at eleven, at office of Sol. Ebsworth, Wednesbury FARROW, CHARLES, out of business, Rosedale. Pet. April 22 May 9, at two, at the Crown hotel, Rosedale, East Side. Sol. Harris, Kirby Moorside FELTAM, THOMAS, draper, Hull. Pet. April 22. May 14, at FUNNELL, Daniel, harness maker, Saxmundham. Pet. April 21. May 9, at two, at Pearce's rooms, Princess-st, Ipswich. sol. Jennings, Ipswich GATTIE, WILLIAM, gentleman, St. Mary's-rd, Peckham, Pet. April 22. May 12, at three, at offices of Sols. Haigh and Agar, Gresham-st GILLUM, ALFRED WILLIAM, machinist, Leominster. Pet. April 21. May 8, at half past one, at offices of Edwards and Weaver, auctioneers, Leominster. Sol. Garrold, Hereford GOVER, WALTER TWISS, and STEPHENSON, GEORGE, hosiers, Manchester. Pet. April 22. May 13, at two, at offices of Col. Addleshaw and Warburton, Manchester GOLD, RICHARD, hinge manufacturer, Birmingham. Pet. April 21. May 8, at eleven, at the Acorn hotel, Birmingham. Sol. East, Birmingham GSEENLEY, ROBERT, innkeeper, Filey. Pet. April 19. May 7. at three, at office of Sol. Richardsen, Bridlington GREGSON, EDWARD, box maker, Bradford (trading under the style of Chapman and Co). Pet. April 21. May 12, at eleven, at office of Sol. Hutchinson, Bradford GRIFFITHS, THOMAS, tin manufacturer, Wolverhampton. Pet. April 28. May 10, at eleven, at office of Sol. Barrow, Wolverhampton GAINDBOD, BENJAMIN ROBERT, organ builder, Rochdale. Pet. April 21. May 6, at half-past two, at office of Sol. Brierley, Rochdale GROENINGS, FRANZ, musicseller, Middlesbrough. Pet. April May 8, at eleven, at offices of Van Sandau and Cumming, King-st, Cheapside. Sols. Belk and Parrington, M.ddlesbrough GLY, FREDERICK CHARLES, house painter. Birmingham. Fet. April 22. May 7, at eleven, at office of Sol. Parr, Bimingham HALL, CHARLES, tobacconist, Liverpool. Pet. April 23. HARRISON, GEORGE, grocer, Nelson. Pet. April 21. May 8, HAWORTH, RICHARD, draper, Blackburn. Pet. April 23 May 8, at three, at office of Sol. Holland, Blackburn HEATHER, THOMAS, schoolmaster, Watford. Pet. April 18. May 6, at four, at the Masonic Hall, Watford. Sols. Seagwick and Turner HESLOP, MARY, ironmonger, Sunderland. Pet. April 21, May 6, at eleven, at office of Sol. Alcock, jun., Sunderland HIRST, GEORGE, dyer, Leeds. Pet. April 23. May 8, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Ford and Warren, Leeds HOGG, CHARLES, jun., farmer. Linton. Pet. April 22. May 8, at four, at the Angel hotel, Wetherby. Sols. Coats and Son. Wetherby HOGG, CHARLES, sen., farmer, Linton. Pet. April 22. May 8, at four, at the Angel hotel, Wetherby. Sols. Coats and Son, Wetherby HOGG, GEORGE, grocer, Low Walker. Pet. April 23. May 8, at three, at office of Sol. Stanford, Newcastle HOLLAND, JOHN, grocer, Stroud. Pet. April 16. May 5, at eleven, at the Ram hotel, Gloucester. Sols. Smith and Stafford, Stroud HOLMES, JANE (widow), woollen manufacturer, Leeds (trad. ing under the style of John Holmes and Co.) Pet April 18. May 6, at three, at offices of Sols. Simpson and Burrell, Leeds HOOPER, JAMES HUMPHREY SINGLETON, retired paymaster, R.N., Allison-grove, Dulwich. Pet. April 19. May 7, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Heritage and Co., Nicholas-la HOWELL, EDWARD, victualler, Ogmere Valley. Pet. April 22. May 9, at eleven, at the Castle inn, Bridgend. Sol. Randall, Bridgend HYLAND, JOHN, tea dealer, Birmingham. Pet. April 22. May 9, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Hodgson and Haigh, Birmingham JAMES, EVAN, builder, Heath Town. Pet. April 22. May 8, at eleven, at office of Sol. Stratton, Wolverhampton JONES, DAVID, draper, Machynlleth. Pet. April 19. May 9, at one, at the Townhall, Aberystwith. Sol. Davies, Dolgelley JONES, WILLIAM HENRY, boot manufacturer, Railton-rd, Atlantic-rd, Brixton. Pet. April 21. May 8, at three, at offices of Steer and Knight, Weaver's Hall, Basinghallst. Sol. Mason, Finsbury Pet. KIRRAGE, JOSEPH, builder, Old Windsor. Pet. April 21. KNEE, THOMAS, leather merchant, Stroud. Pet. April 21, LEVINGS, ARTHUR, painter, Brighton. Pet. April 22. May LIMPRICHT, CHARLES LATHEBY, and COULSON, WILLIAM, merchants, Newcastle. Pet. April 28. May 12, at eleven, at offices of the Incorporated Law Society, Royal-arcade, Newcastle. Sol. Ingledew, Newcastle LINDON, JOHN LIDSTONE, farmer, Sherford Down. Pet. April 18. May 6, at half-past three, at the King's Arms hotel, Kingsbridge. Sol. Hurrell, Kingsbridge LUCAS, JOHN, and LUCAS, ROBERT ABNER, fire brick manufacturer, Dunston. Pet. April 22. May 15, at eleven, at the Newcastle-on-Tyne Incorporated Law Society's rooms, Royal Arcade, Newcastle. Sol. Phillipson, Newcastle LUXTON, THOMAS, innkeeper, Yeovil. Pet. April 16. May 6, at twelve, at the Chard-rd Railway hotel, near Chard. Sol. Jeffery, Ottery St. Mary MANNERS, JOHN, builder, Ilkeston. Pet. April 16. May 7, at eleven, at St. John Warren hotel, Ilkeston. Sol. Garthwaite, Manchester MANNERS, JOHN, dealer, Ossett. Pet. April 22. May 12, at three, at office of Sol. Stringer, Ossett MEDCALF, JOHN, and LIVESEY, JOHN, merchants, Manchester. Pet. April 22. May 12, at three, at the Mitre hotel, Manchester. Sols. Cooper and Sons, Manchester MERRIKIN, WM., auctioneer, Louth. Pet. April 22. May 9, at eleven, at office of Sols. Grange and Wintringham, Great Grimsby MOLE, THOMAS HARRY, out of business, Birmingham. Pet. April 22. May 8, at twelve, at office of Sols. Hodgson and Haigh, Birmingham MORGAN, GREGORY, butcher, Caerphilly. Pet. April 22. May 12, at twelve, at office of Sol. Langley, Cardiff NANCARROW, JOHN, and NANCABROW, JOHN LINDLEY, tanners, Grampound. Pet. April 21. May 6, at three, at offices of Sols. Hodge, Hockin, and Marrack. Truro NASH, CHARLES, out of business, Hoarwithy. Pet. April 22. May 6, at half-past twelve, at office of Sol. Garrold, Hereford NEWMAN, JOHN HARDING, sen., grocer, Brixton. Pet. April 16. May 8, at three, at the Old King's Head hotel, Borough High-st, Southwark. Sol. Rashleigh, Southwark NICHOLSON, PETER, tailor, Cleator Moor. Pet. April 21. May 7, at two, at the Globe hotel, Whitehaven. Sol. Whittle, Cleator Moor NORMAN, ALFRED HENRY TUFF, upholsterer, Teal-st, Bethnal-green. Pet. April 22. May 14, at half-past three, at offices of the Creditors' Mercantile Association, Gres ham-bldgs, Basinghall-st. Sols. Miller and Miller, Sherborne-la NORTH, BENJAMIN, sen., farmer, and NORTH, BENJAMIN, jun., coal merchant, Bradford. Pet. April 22. May 9, at eleven, at office of Sol. Fox, Bradford NUTT, MOSES, Saddler, York. Pet. April 22. May 12, at eleven, at office of Sol. Young, York OSBORN, JOSEPH, boot top manufacturer, Bradford. Pet. April 21. May 14, at eleven, at cffice of Sol. Hutchinson, Bradford PASS, JOSEPH, and KNIGHT, FREDERICK, builders, Birming hain. Pet. April 23. May 5, at two,.at office of Sol. Higgs, Birmingham PEARSON, JOHN SWIFT, marine insurance broker, Cornhill. Pet. April 8. April 28, at four, at offices of Sols. Miller and Son, Leadenhali-st PEARSON, THOMAS, linen draper, Halifax. Pet. April 28. May 14, at eleven, at the Old Cock hotel, Halifax. Sol. Eminet and Walker, Halifax PICKETT, DAVID, currier, Stockton. Pet. April 18. May 5, at one, at the Queen's hotel, Leeds. Sols. Hunton and Bolsover, Stockton PITTAWAY, WILLIAM, baker, Gloucester. Pet. April 19. May 7, at three, at office of Sol, Haines, Gloucester PLAYER, THOMAS, and PLAYER, JOHN, wine merchants, Bristol. Pet. April 21. May 6, at one, at offices of Williams and Co, accountants, Bristol. Sol. Miller, Bristol POLE, SAMUEL, victualler, Leicester. Pet. April 22. May 8, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Fowler, Smith, and Warwick, Leicester PRIOR, STEPHEN, silk broker, Union-ct, Old Broad-st. Pet. April 19. May 8, at two, at 4, Union-ct, Old Broadst. Sols. Lowless and Co, Martin's-la, Cannon-st ROBINSON, EDWARD, painter, Sheffield. Pet. April :3. May 10, at eleven, at office of Sol. Porrett, Sheffield RAYNER, JOB SYKES, grocer, Rastrick. Pet. April 21. May 9, at eleven, at the Star inn, Rastrick. Bols. Cravea and Sunderland, Brighouse REDHEAD. PETER, farmer, Lindale-in-Furness. Pet. April 19. May 9, at eleven, at the Temperance hall, Ulverstou. Sol. Atkinson, Uiverston REDDROP, WILLIAM JOSEPH, cloth merchant, Trowbridge. Pet. April 10. May 5, at two, at offices of Pitt, accountant, Bristol, Sol. Rodway, Trowbridge RIDLER, JAMES, printer, High Wycombe. Pet. April 22. May 8, at three, at offices of Sols. Parker and Son, High Wycombe ROBINSON, FREDERICK, oilman, Uxbridge. Pet. April 21. May 7, at four, at offices of Andrews and Mason, Ironmonger-la, Cheapside. Sol. Lay, Brentford ROOK, RICHARD GEORGE, provision dealer, Newcastle. Pet. Pet. April 22. May 9, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Grange and Wintringham, Great Grimsby RUMENS, MOSES, farmer, Ticehurst. Pet. April 21. May 8, at three, at the Queen's hotel, Hawkhurst. Sols. Meadows and Elliott RUSSELL, THOMAS, miller, Ledbury. Pet. April 21. May 9, at twelve, at the Feathers hotel, Ledbury. Sols. Masefield and Sons, Ledbury RUTHERFORD, JOHN, plumber, Hexham. Pet. April 23. SANDWICK, WILLIAM, builder, West Hartlepool. Pet. April Pet. SHACKLETON, STEPHEN, and HUDSON, JOHN, stuff manu- SOAR, WILLIAM HENRY, house painter, Vauxhall Bridge-rd, STACEY, CHARLES, victualler, Sheffield. Pet. April 22. STEPHENSON, JAMES, farmer, Holderness. Pet. April 23. Pet. SWIFT, JOSEPH, clogger, Wigan. Pet. April 22. May 8, at THOMPSON, WILLIAM BESSEY, shoeing smith, Great Yar mouth. Pet. April 21. May 7. at three, at office of Sol. Diver, Great Yarmouth TIMPERLEY, WALTER, hotel keeper, Sheffield. Pet. April 21. May 9, at three, at office of Sol. Machen, Sheffield TITMAS, SAMUEL, baker, Cranfield. Pet. April 21, May 8, at eleven, at office of Sols. Conquest and Clare, Bedford TODDINGTON, ISAAC, victualler, Mardol. Pet. April 23. May 5, at two, at office of Sol. Chandler, Shrewsbury TOOVEY, SAMUEL, chair maker, Amersham. Pet. April 19. May 10, at three, at the King's Arms inn, Amersham. Sols. Green and Cheese, Warwick-st, Charing Cross WAKE TOм, provision dealer, Stockton. Pet. April 22. May 5, at eleven, at office of Sol. Best, Stockton WALE, WILLIAM, butcher, Bath. Pet. April 17. May 7, at eleven, at office of Sol. Bartrum, Bath WALKER, JOHN, draper, Birmingham. Pet. April 22. May 7, at a quarter-past ten, at office of Sol. East, Birmingham WARNER, FRANCIS JOHN, furniture dealer, Leicester, Pet. April 23. May 12, at half-past two, at offices of Sols. Wright and Hincks, Leicester WASHER, JAMES, geueral shopkeeper, Bristol. Pet. April 19. May 15, at twelve, at offices of Shiner, auctioneer, 131, Victoria-st, Bristol. Sol. Woolfryes, Banwell WATSON, ARTHUR, commission agent, Sheffield. Pet. April WELCH, SAMUEL SMITH, engineer, Stockton. Pet. April 21. Gazette, April 29. ASTON, BENJAMIN, glass dealer, Preston. Pet. April 25. |