Brooks, Christopher Abbott, 10, Park-road-villas, Foresthill; Ripley Cottage, Bexley-heath: and 51, Mortonroad, Islington-F. T. Tasker, 47, Bedford-row Browne, Thos., the younger, Nottingham; Leightonroad, Kentish-town; and 44, Brecknock-road, Camdentown-J. R. Browne, Nottingham Burbury, Thomas Winter, Bewdley; and 9, Old Jewrychambers-T. P. Burbury, Bewdley; F. W. Ponton, Ellesmere; and W. M. Taylor, 9, Old Jewry-chambers Bygott, Edward, Sandbach, Chester; and 33, Devonshire-street, Islington-R. Bygott, Sandbach Catherall, Edward, 5, Canonbury-street, Islington-C. Gammon, 9, Cloak-lane Chamberlain, Reginald S., 23, Oakley-road, Islington; and Leicester-H. J. Davis, Leicester; and H. A. Owston, Leicester Child, Charles Morgan, Andover; and 4, Raymondbuildings-T. Lamb, Andover; and T. Lamb, Andover Childs, Borlase, Liskeard; and 25, Coleman-street, City C. Childs, Liskeard Collins, Alexander, Upper Grange-road, Bermondsey; Crump, James Henry, 76, Blenheim-crescent, Notting- Dennis, Pierce John, Rectory Cottage, Hanwell-J. Parson, Vestry Clerk's Office, St. Luke's, Middlesex; and W. Burchells the Younger, Broad Sanctuary Dransfield, William, Penistone, York; and 106, Northcrescent, Bedford-square-J. Dransfield, Penistone Dunn, John, 12, Dartmouth-terrace, Lewisham; and 15, The Avenue, Blackheath-F. Knight and T. M. Harvey, 6, Old Jewry 18, King's-road, Bedford-row 1 Dupree, Theodore, 20, Tavistock-place-J. J. Maberly, Farquharson, Arthur Theodore, 61 Cumberland-street, Flint, Abraham John, Derby W. Small, Burton-on- Fox, Wilson Lloyd, Falmouth; and 1, Bedford-row-T. Rotherham Guillaume, Frederick, 14, George-street, Mansion House; and 186, Fleet-street-E. Guillaume, 186, Fleet-street Harris. Stanley William, Hammersmith-J. Harris, Hodgson, Robert, Selby; and 19, Charterhouse-square Gloucester Hull Ilbert Willoughby, Mitcheldean; and 29, Lincoln's-inn- *** Lee, Arthur, Balham-A. H. Clarke, 29, Coleman-street Lee, Cecil Radford, West-hill, Putney-heath-J. Rogers, 7, Westminster-chambers Leeming, Charles Henry, Halifax; and 27, Essex-street, Lee-Warner, Edward, 6, Charles-street, Grosvenor Moxon, John, 28, Milton-terrace, Wandsworth-road- Newton, Frederick Hawkin, York G. Brown, Yorkt Oates, Charles Henry, Great Grimsby; and 13, Eustonroad-C. M. B. Veal, Great Grimsby Owen, Francis Arthur, Chelmsford; and 40, Chancerylane-T M. Gepp, Chelmsford Pearless, Reginald Wilson, East Grimstead-J. R. Pear Pease, Charles, Cedars, Holland-villas-road, Kensington Petch, Richard, South Cave, York; and 8, John-street, Bedford-row-T. B. Burland, South Cave Pugh, Oliver Vaughan, Llanfyllin, MontgomeryJ. Pugh, Llanfyllin; and W. J. Bull, Llanfyllin Raven, John, Church-road, Richmond, Surrey-C. Kendall, Over Darwen; G. M. Wetherfield, 54, Colemanstreet; and B. Norton, Gresham-buildings Roberts, Frederick, Stourbridge and Clint, Worcester; and 51, South Molton-street-J. Girdlestone, 18, New-street, Spring-gardens; and J. Harward, Stour bridge Lewis, David Robert, Dowlais, Glamorgan-W. R. Mellor, George James, Sheffield-W. Unwin, Sheffield; Obleim, John, 21, Cannon-street-J. Mackrell, 21, Paine, Edwin Alfred, 1, Wardrobe-place, Doctor's commons-J. Newbon, 1, Wardrobe-place, Doctor'sPennethorne, Frank James, Kingston-upon-ThamesR. H. Few, 2, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden commons Ryler James, Bolton; and 20, Merrick-square, Surrey-Peter, Charles, Launceston, Cornwall; and 25, ColemanR. Winder, Bolton' Sadler, Augustus Charles, 28, Golden-square; and 32, Norland-square, Nottinghill R. R. Sadler, 28, Golden-square, and F. Richardson, 28, Golden-square Shaw, David Allison, Huddersfield; and 30, Pulrossroad, Brixton-C. Mills, Huddersfield" Shorto, Charles Coard, 12, Grauby-street, Hampstead road J. E. G. Hill, Liverpool Siddall, Thomas Mortimer, 3, Grenville-street, Brunswick-square and Manchester-J. G. Wilson, Alfreton; and T. Diggles, Manchester Smith, Middleton, Liverpool; Whitby; and 175, Euston road M Gray, Whitby Smith, Spencer Marsh, Handworth, Yorkshire; and 8, Southampton-street, Strand-T. Smith, Sheffield Smith, Mark Philip, Brackley-A. Weston, Brackley, Smith, Samuel Bilton, Fletton, Hunts-N. Wilkinson, Smith, John Christopher, 22, Cecil-street, Strand; Peterborough 10, Northumberland-street; and Eastbourne-T. D. Calthrop, 8, Whitenall-place. Story, Henry Donald, Newcastle-upon-Tyne H. Story, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and William Cheek Bonsfield, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Summerfield, Kynaston Wedge, 33, Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-square-J. Monckton, Maidstone Tattersall, John Henry, Blackburn; and 14, Gray's-innsquare-J. Pickop, Blackburn Walker, Edward Lake, 8, New-square, Lincoln's-inn; and 71, Oxford-terrace, Hyde park E. Walker, 8, New-square, Lincoln's-inn Whitehead, Joseph, Hulme-F. Smith, Manchester Williams, Arthur, Nottingham; and 92, Great CollegeWilson, Rowland Holt, Bury St. Edmunds; and 25, street, Camden-town-W, Hunt, Nottingham College-hill, City-G. A. Partridge, Bury St. Edmunds Winterbotham, William Howard, 24, Grosvenor Mansions, Victoria street, Westminster-L. W. Winterbotham, Stroud; and T. Waterhouse, 61, Careystreet Wintle, Joseph, the Younger, Bristol; and 35, Lincoln'sinn Fields C. Wintle, Bristol Wood, William, B.A., 27, Queen's-road, Bayswater; and Uttoxeter-D. Dunnett. Uttoxeter t Trinity Term 1869, pursuant to Judges' Harrison, Alexander, the younger, Birchfields, Handsworth-H. Hawkes, Birmingham Henly, Francis, 17, Tavistock-place; and Northleach, Trinity Vacation 1869. Allen, Thomas Lewis, 1, Gray's-inn-square-R. Peckham, 17, Great Knight-rider-street, Doctors'-commons; J. J. Merriman, 28, Queen-street; T. Eaton, 50, Bedford-row; and T. Bowker, 1, Gray's-inn-square Barker, Reginald Hawksworth, Huddersfield; and 26, Battishill, Wiliam John, Exeter; and 15, Lincoln'sBudge-row-H. Barker, Huddersfield inn-fields-J. Pitt, Exeter Brettell, Henry Cartwright, Dudley-J. Neve, Wolverhampton; and J. S. Rutter, Wolverhampton Cheese, Edmund Hall, Kington, Hereford-A. Cheese, Cleverton, Charles Edward, Plymouth; and 1, LinKington coln's-iun-fields-G. F. Jackson, Plymouth Cooke, George Dowlman, 6, Clapham-road-place, Kennington-C. H. Murr, East Temple-chambers, Whitefriars-street; and M. C. Bellamy, 9, Union court, Copinger, Maurice Charles (articled as Coppinger), 22, Essex-street, Strand-E. L. Hooper, 37, Southampton-buildings: R. J. Macarthur, 22, Essex-street, Strand; and G. A. Jamea, 22, Essex-street, Strand Davis, Benn, Tavistock-house, Tavistock-square-J. P. Davis, 15, Clifford-street; and A. A. Pollock, 63, Lincoln's-inn-fields. TOA PRIBOL Douse, Francis, Spilsby; and 12, Chapel-street, W.C.G. Walker, Spilsby Dutton, James, 20, Meyrick-square, Southwark; and 171 Bolton-le-Moors A. Bailey, Bolton-le-Moors Dyer, Joseph Horton, Dalston; and 61, Gracechurchstreet C. Stringer, West Bromwich; and T. G. Woollacott, 61, Gracechurch-street Eggar, Thomas, Bentley, Southampton; and 24, Ends leigh-street, W.C.-W. J. Hollest, Farnham; and C. E. Lewis, 8, Old Jewry Gilbert, Edwin Philip, Plymouth; and 1, Lincoln's-innfields-F. W. P. Cleverton, Plymouth... ́↓ Godfrey, Hugh Charles, Cambridge and 8, Angellcourt-EoFoster, Cambridge; and P. S. Knowles, Cambridge Grundy, Frederick, 26, Budge-row; and 21, Abchurchlane-C. Grundy, 26, Budge-row Hardwicke, Walter, Edwin Perrin, Birmingham; and 1, Lincoln's-inn-fields S. Danks, Birmingham Hearsey, Richard, 2, Oxford-terrace, Clapham-road; and 114, Cambridge-road, Kilburn-IR. A. Ward, Maidenhead; and A. St. Paul, Staple-inn Hope, Herford Edwin (articled as Hopps), Prestbury; 24, Hugh-street; and 40, Fitzroy-square-W. Orford, Manchester street-R. Peter, Launceston Read, John Alexander, Manchester-J. E. Varey, Manchester Russell, Arthur, Brighton; and 12, Langford-place, St. John's-wood-E. Davies, 59, Coleman-street Sherrard, George Clifton, 8, Clifford's-inn-S. Woodbridge, 8, Clifford's-inn Sweeting Thomas Luther, 20, Prior-road, Kilburn, Middlesex Warburton, William, Manchester-F. Marriott, Manchester Warriner, Edmund, Dudley; and 31, Lincoln's-inn-fields -R. F. Thompson, Kendal; T. Wright, Dudley; and A. S. Lawson, 31, Lincoln's-inn-fields CREDITORS UNDER ESTATES IN CHANCERY, LAST DAY OF PROOF. ADAMS (Mary), 5, Albert-terrace, St. Leonard, near Exeter. May 14: Hird and Son, solicitors, Portland-chambers, Great Tichfield-street. May 25; V.C. M., at twelve. CARTER (Cha les), Pleystow-house, Capel Dorking, Surrey. May 10; Pawle, Lovesey, and Co., solicitors, 7, New-inn, Strand. May 24; M. R., at eleven. JONES (H. S.), 11, Neville-terrace, Brompton. May 2; C. Stevens, solicitor, 35, Bucklersbury. June 8; V.C. S., at twelve. MOORE (Joseph), Whatborough, Leicester. May 10; W. F. Law, solicitor, Stamford. May 24; V.C. M., at twelve. PULLEN (William), York, innkeeper. May 10; Middleton and Sons, solicitors, Leeds. May 24: M. R., at eleven. READING (Wm.), Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square. May 31; W. H. Lammin, solicitor, 5, John-street, Adelphi, W.C. June 12; V.C. S., at twelve. SIMMONS (Abraham), Chase-side, Southgate. May 17; Phillips and Willicombe, solicitors, 16, Mark-lane. May si; M. R., at eleven. WOODS (Mary), Rainford, Lancaster. May 3: H. G. Taylor, solicitor, St. Helens, Lancaster. May 21; V.C. M., a twelve. CREDITORS UNDER 22 & 23 VICT, c. 35. Last day of Claim, and to whom Particulars to be sent. HALFHEAD (Richard), 29, Blake-street, York. May 17 Whyley and Piper, solicitors, Dame Alice-street, Bedford. HARVEY (G. R.), Windmill House, Windmill-lane, Camberwell. May 28 Lowless and Nelson, solicitors, 34, Grace. church-street, E.C. HODGSON (Joseph), 60, Westbourne-terrace, Paddington. July 1; Walker and Martineau, solicitors, 13, King's-road, Gray's-inn, HOOLE (Charlotte), Kilburn, York. July 1; G. Bradley, solicitor, Castleford, York. HUNTER (Capt. Geo. J.), Worcester. May 24; A. C. Hooper, solicitor, 1, College-yard, Worcester. JAMES (Thos.), Manches er, merchant. July 1; J. Street, solicitor, Carlton-buildings. Manchester. MACLEAN (Lieut. gen. Allan T.), 3, Oxford-square, Hyde park. May 31; Talbot and Tasker, solicitors, 47, Bedfordrow, London. ROBERTSON (John), Emmett-street, Poplar. May 29; Tanqueray-Williaume and Co., solicitors, 34, New Broad-street. TAYLOR (G T.), Castleford. York. July 1; G. Bradley, solicitor, Castleford, York. UNCLAIMED STOCK AND DIVIDENDS IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and which will be paid to the persons respectively whose names are prefixed to each, in three months, unless other claimants sooner appear.] WILD (James), Shrewsbury Hospital, Sheffield, gentleman. Dividend on 2727. 158. 5d. Three per Cent. Annuities. Claimant, Sarah Roberts. Mr. Poland Adcock, of Jesus College, Cambridge, solicitor, had the degree of LL.D. conferred upon him on Thursday, the 15th inst. THE BENCH AND THE BAR. THE JUDGES AND SERJEANTS AT ST. PAUL'S. The customary"churching" of the legal dignitaries took place on Sunday at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Judges and Serjeants assembled at to the church, where they were received by the Serjeants'-inn, and thence proceeded in procession Lord Mayor and City Magistrates, and the Dignitaries of the Cathedral. A bunch of flowers having been presented to each, they were con ducted in state to their seats. The choral service was performed with the very fine anthem "Ascribe unto the Lord." The sermon was preached by Canon Gregory, who delivered an energetic and eloquent discourse of more than an hour upon the condition of the London poor and the duties incumbent upon the rich, illustrating it by his own experiences in his parish. The judges present were Mr. Justice Lush, Mr. Justice Hannen, Baron Cleasby, and Mr. Justice Brett. The Serjeants who accompanied them were Mr. Serjeant Payne, Mr. Serjeant Robinson, Mr. Senior Optime's rank, a Fellowship, legal know- THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S RECEPTION. The reception by the Lord Chancellor of Her Majesty's judges, Queen's counsel, serjeants-atlaw, and other legal officials, on the first day of Term, was in many respects a peculiar one. It has seldom happened that a reception has taken place so close to the courts of law as Great Georgestreet, which is only a few yards away. Lord Westbury held one of his receptions in the Middle Temple Hall, and in almost all other cases the Chancellors have lived westward of St. James'spark, and thus afforded opportunities for long processions to Westminster. The fact of the present reception being in Great George-street induced the large mass of persons who usually congregate in Westminster-hall to see the judges enter their courts to go first and see them proceed at irregular intervals to the Lord Chancellor's house, and consequently there was a great crowd, which the police had some difficulty in dealing with. Many changes, too, have taken place since a Lord Chancellor gave a breakfast. The last was given by Lord Cairns, and since that time Lord Hatherley has become Lord Chan cellor; three new judges, Cleasby, Brett, and Chancellor, and Sir R. P. Collier and Sir J. D. the Court of Probate and Divorce, has become &c. THE LATE MR. DRUCE, Q.C.” Dr. Kennedy writes to the Times.-Will you permit me to record in your columns an earnest tribute of affectionate regret to the memory of my former pupil and constant friend, Mr. George Druce, Q.C., who by a lamentable accident has been cut off in the prime of a prosperous and useful life? A short notice of him from me will, I hope, be grateful to the afflicted parents who survive him, to his numerous relatives, and to his large circle of friends. When I became Head Master of Shrewsbury School, in 1836, I found George Druce in the first remove of the fifth form, with the present Archbishop of York, Colonel R. Phayre, and others who have taken distinguished rank in public life. At the examination he did not succeed in filling one of the vacancies in the sixth form. On the next occasion he came in at the head of the candidates, and from that time rose without any drawback to the second place in the school, the first being held by the late Head Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham, Dr. E. H. Giffard. Mr. G. Druce proceeded in 1839 to St. Peter's College, Cambridge, where he was most fortunate in having the tuition and friendship of two excellent and able men-Dr. Cookson, now Master of the College, and Archdeacon Freeman, then its classical tutor. To the former gentleman he owed the valuable advice and assistance which enabled him to take the mathematical rank of Senior Optime; while the latter generously resigned his own Fellowship before the necessary time that the college might not, by its rule of superannuation, lose the advantages of having Mr. Druce among its Fellows. Mr. George Druce, besides two Porson prizes, gained a place as the senior bracket of the Classical Tripos with his schoolfellow Mr. Gifford, as well as the second Chan cellor's medal. I wish to state, for the example and encouragement of young men, what I believe and have often declared to be the cause of Mr. G. Druce's rapid and decided success. He always had a clear and full conception of his immediate purpose; to that purpose he directed all the powers of a strong will and a strong mind. Thus, he knew what he wanted and he achieved it. He was a capital batter at cricket and a capital fives player. These games gave him all the exercise and recreation he wanted, so he left boating alone. It was the same in more important matters. A place in the sixth form, a place near the head of the school, school prizes, University distinction, a ledge, skill, and practice-all these were in their held by Mr. W. Carter, at the deceased gentle- dict of accidental death." Manchester, has forwarded his resignation to the " MAGISTRATE AND PARISH LAWYER. THE RECORDER OF PORTSMOUTH ON THE HABITUAL CRIMINALS BILL. These sessions opened before Mr. Serjt. Cox, the Borough Recorder, in the court-house, in Penny-street, Portsmouth, when there were twentythree prisoners for trial. The learned Recorder, in his charge tothe grand jury, said, that although the calendar was somewhat long, still there was no case in it which required any particular instruction from him. He must now direct their attention--and he did so because the subject was most important to every one of them, and because it was also most desirable that every one connected with the administration of justice should have the opportunity of liament for the better suppression of crime. He expressing an opinion on it-to a Bill before Parreferred to the Bill known as the Habitual Criminals Bill. That Bill would much affect the duties of criminal judges; and yet, strange to say, no opinion of a judge-as he had gathered in the course of the assizes--had been invited upon it, and, therefore, Parliament was asked to pass a measure on which no opinion had, as yet, been obtained from those whose practical duty it and who, naturally, were in a position, from was to administer justice in the criminal courts, the measure could be best attained. The object of experience, to suggest in what way the objects of this Bill was to suppress systematic crime by increased severity, by giving the police greater power to watch the thief, and the judge greater class of criminals upon whom the new law should power in the award of punishment. The difficulty appeared to consist in the definition of the operate, and in the Bill to which he referred, it was IRELAND. Eastor Term was opened on April proposed that it should apply to the "habitual," 15, with inore than the usual ceremony, under cir- although it was intended to apply to the " procumstances of peculiar interest. It was the first fessional" criminal. In this the judges, with occasion since his elevation to the head of the whom he entirely concurred, thought that the Irish Bench that the Lord Chancellor O'Hagan promoters of the Bill made a great mistake, had an opportunity of receiving at a levée the because, contrary to the experience of those whose homage of his judicial colleagues and the Bar. duty it was to administer the law, it assumed that He might have held a special reception last Term, the habitual was necessarily a professional thief. but, with a delicacy of feeling which all respect, He was sure that such was not the case, because he declined to have a ceremonial in his own honour he took the trouble, when he presided at the which would have been a departure, from estab- Middlesex sessions, to make inquiries, and he lished precedent. The season, however, came found that of those tried, only one-fifth could be round when he was bound to observe the formali- classed as professional criminals, although many ties with which usage has properly invested the might be regarded as habitual criminals; and opening of Easter Term, and never has the anni- he had since gone through the records of those versary been signalised by so remarkable a demon- whom he had tried in this court-where the class stration. The first levée of the first Roman of prisoners was very similar-and he found that Catholic Lord Chancellor of Ireland was the there was about the same proportion of persons largest ever witnessed by the oldest member of who had been previously convicted and who would the Bar. All the judges, with the exception of be classed as habitual, although if this Act became Chief Justice Monahan, who was prevented by a law the judge before whom they were tried would domestic bereavment, hastened with alacrity to have to treat them as professional criminals. There offer their respectful congratulations. The was a class of persons, as would be apparent to Benchers, the Chairmen of County Courts, and the court and to all who have heard the trials, who, the law officers of the Crown, joined in paying the having been convicted of an offence, were again same cordial tribute-all ranks of the Profession, led to the commission of crime-perhaps from from the veteran champion who may any day be want or some other canses, who would be classed called away from the scene of his forensic vic- amongst those who were to be regarded as profestories to receive judicial honour, to the youngest sional thieves; and if this Act became law, and two stripling who has not yet tried the temper previous convictions were proved, he (the learned of this virgin sword. The levée which was recorder) would be compelled to send them to held at his Lordship's private house commenced at seven years' penal servitude, and to no shorter ten o'clock, and lasted nearly two hours. The con- term. They could very easily understand what stant arrival of vehicles was watched with great the consequences of such a law would be. If a curiosity by a crowd of people outside the Chan- person was brought before them-whether man, cellor's house, who instictively appreciated the woman, or child-who could not be regarded as a significance of the ceremonial. The Lord Chief professional thief, but who, it turned out, had Justice and the Lord Chief Baron also had recep. been thrice previously convicted, he was quite tions at their houses, which were well attended. sure that when it was known that a less punishAt twelve o'clock the scene was changed to the ment than seven years' penal servitude could not Hall of the Four Courts, which was crowded with be awarded, there would be a great objection to spectators, among whom were several ladies, who prosecute, there would be a greater reluctance on came to see the procession headed by the Chan- the part of juries to convict, and there would be a cellor. At half-past twelve o'clock his Lordship, still greater reluctance on the part of a judge to who was attired in full official costume, and im- pass a sentence which was altogether uncalled pressed every obserevr by the dignity of his bear for by the nature and circumstances of the case. ing, took his place, with his secretary, purse- He thought this measure must in the end prove as bearer, and train-bearer,near the statue of Lord much a failure as that which was passed some Plunket, and was soon joined by the other Judges time since regulating the terms of penal servitude. in the order of precedence. Their Lordships, They would remember that the law to which he headed by the Chancellor, then proceeded to the referred prohibited judges from sentencing a person Benchers' Chamber, where some formal business to a less term of penal servitude than five years, was transacted. The Lord Chancellor afterwards and upon the proof of a previous conviction, took his seat in his own court, accompanied by to less than seven years of penal servitude. the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor, the The effect of this was that the judges, knowing Lords Justices of Appeal, and Master Fitzgibbon, the extent of the term to which they would have and attended by his official retinue. It was, how to send prisoners, without the option of giving ever, only a formal sitting. The public, largely three years for the first and five years for the reinforced by ladies who thronged the Bar seats, second, which, in their opinion, might be the had obtained full possession of the court, to the punishment which the crime deserved, were exclusion of professional gentlemen who had to induced to give less than the circumstances appear in the several cases in the list, but could of the case merited, and to substitute imnot "move" in any sense. There was an adjourn-prisonment. He believed that the effect of ment for half an hour in order to clear the court, the new bill would be to paralyze the adminisand the usual business was then proceeded with. tration of justice, to prevent, as he said, prosecuThe Lord Chancellor seemed to feel with a grate- tors from prosecuting, and juries from convicting, ful sense the generous feelings entertained towards a result which all would admit would be much to him by all classes of the Profession and the be deplored. The great question to solve was, public. how it could be ascertained whether a man was or JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES' LAW defendant recommenced business in or about July JOURNAL. NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS PROMOTION MONEY-ULTRA VIRES.-It was agreed between the directors of the two companies that the Ottoman Company should introduce to the public the Bank of Turkey on condition, inter alia, that in addition to certain preliminary expenses the Bank Company should pay to the other a net sum of 5000l. by way of commission within ten days after the allotment of shares. This was held not to be a breach of trust by the directors: (Bank of Turkey v. The Ottoman Company, 20 L. T. Rep. N. S. 220. V.C. J.) was not a professional criminal. The learned serjeant then pointed out the class whom he would recognise as professional in contradistinction to habitual criminals, stating that the experience of the police in this respect would remove all doubt as to which of the two classes any particular offender belonged. The professional criminal was one who was born in crime, who lived and associated with those of the same class, and whose faces and haunts were so well-known that in London, and doubtless in this town, as elsewhere, nearly the whole of them could be arrested in less than twenty-four hours. The question then arose as to what should be done in order to prove that crime was their profession. It was now the practice to keep from a jury the fact of a previous conviction until the prisoner was first found guilty of the offence charged, when his antecedents were communicated, and the jury were called upon to ALLOTTEE OF SHARES-ACQUIESCENCE-RECsay, as a matter of fact, whether there had been a previous conviction or not. In order to establishing director of a company, caused L.'s name to TIFYING REGISTER.-In May 1866, S., the managwhether a person was a professional criminal or not, he (the learned recorder) would have it so be signed to an application for 300 shares in the charged in the indictment; that is, he would have company. L. heard nothing about this till Sept. a separate count in the same indictment that the 1866, when he was applied to for a call on these said A. or B. was a professional criminal, and that shares, which had been allotted to him and question should be further considered by the registered in his name. On asking for an exjury, who would have to try the question, hear planation, he was informed by S. that it was all evidence upon it, and require it to be proved in a mistake, and that if he would execute a the same way as any other question; he would transfer, he would be freed from all liability. allow the prisoner himself to be a witness on his L. accordingly executed a transfer in blank, own account, if willing to be sworn, and then he which was sent to S., who filled it up with could, if he chose, call witnessess and rebut the only 200 of the shares. In March 1867, L. was charge if it were unfounded. Upon proof and applied to for a call on the remaining 100 shares, verdict that he was a professional criminal, the convict should not only be sentenced to the and he then wrote to the secretary of the comfull term of seven years' penal servitude, but pany, stating that he had never applied for the should be watched by the police for a certain shares, and requesting that his name might be number of years afterwards, or even for life, and removed from the register. This request and a in this way he believed that not only would the subsequent one having been disregarded, L. now present difficulty be overcome, but that it would made an application to the court, under the 35th prove in the end beneficial in the suppression of section of the Companies Act 1862, that the crime. The learned recorder then dismissed the register of members might be rectified by jury.-Hampshire Telegraph. omitting his name: Held, that the execution of the transfer was not an act of acquiescence on L.'s part, and that he was entitled to have his name removed. Usual order to rectify the register accordingly: (Little's case, 20 L. T. Rep. N. S. 162. M. R.) Sir M. Shaw Stewart has been appointed Lord. Lieutenant of Renfrewshire, vice Lord Glasgow, deceased. RESIGNATION OF THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF CONSTABULARY FOR THE EASTERN COUNTIES. -Lieut.-General Cartwright, inspector-general of the police and constabulary forces in the eastern counties and midland district, has sent in his resignation to the Home Office. General Cartwright, who has held the appointment since the WINDING-UP PRACTICE LIQUIDATORS. Where there is more than one liquidator, the court will not, in the absence of any arrangement between them, decide the remuneration in proportion to the number of hours they have devoted to the work: (Re Langham Hotel Company, 20 L. T. Rep. N. S. 163. M. R.) formation of the force, has done much towards the efficiency of the police under his inspection, and CONTRIBUTORY-ALLOTMENT.-P. applied, by his retirement will be received with much regret. filling up the usual printed forms, for shares in CONVICTS. A Parliamentary return has been a company, and paid a deposit of 17. per share, moved for, ordered, and issued, stating the agreeing to pay 47. per share upon allotment. number of convicts discharged from or retained in conviet prisons in or to this country" in the By letter, dated the 7th Sept., P. was informed years 1865, 1866, 1867, and 1868; and the totals that shares had been allotted to him, and that for the four years are given as follows:-On the money due in respect of such shares must Royal pardon, 28; on commutation of sentence, be paid on or before the 15th Sept. On the 11 on medical grounds, 9; on completion of sen- 10th Sept. P. wrote to repudiate the allotment, tence, 676; on licence, 5317. In the four years one and declined to take the shares, on the ground life sentence was remitted within five years from of variations between the original prospectus, on its commencement, and one within ten years; 28 the faith of which he applied for the shares, and within 15 years, seven within 20 years, none an amended prospectus, which was subsequently above 20 years from the commencement of a life issued: Held, that the fact that the company sentence. The four years supply 25 "life sentences in convict prisons now of five years' stand-allotment did not introduce a new term into the allowed P. a week for payment of the money on ing," 17 ditto of ten years, two ditto of 15 years, and one (1868) of 20 years' standing. The discharges on licence are distinguished in the return as those before and those after the periods fixed by the circulars of June 1857 and Aug. 1864. Military convicts are not included. ELOPEMENT OF A MANCHESTER MAGISTRATE. -For some days past rumours of an extraordinary character have been prevalent in Manchester, to the effect that a well-known city magistrate had eloped with the wife of a brother magistrate, and there is no doubt that the rumour was too well founded. The case is a most painful one, and has plunged several families of the highest position in the neighbourhood of Manchester into the deepest grief. The lady, who is a member of one of the wealthiest families in the county, has, it is said, an income of 50001. per annum in her own right, and she is the mother of four or five young children. Recently she, it is alleged, has been in the habit of attending the City police-court, frequently going down in a cab about the time that the business was over, and remaining for some time. The circumstance, however, attracted no attention, as it was known that the two families were on very intimate terms. The time selected for the elope ment was when the husband of the lady was en, gaged at the Salford Hundred Quarter Sessions, which have been held during the present week. It is said that the parties have gone to the Continent, whither they were followed by the lady's husband, his brother, and other gentlemen, of whom the fugitives have had a start of three clear days.-Liverpool Courier. contract, and that P.'s name must be placed upon the list of contributories: (Ex parte Peek, 20 L. T. Rep. N. S. 165. V.C. M.) COUNTY COURTS. BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT. HODGSON AND SON v. MATTHEWS. The plaintiffs are solicitors, and the defendant is a haberdasher. The action was brought to recover 13l. 13s. 9d., due upon a bill of exchange given for balance of bill of costs. Rowlands was for plaintiff's. The facts are fully stated in his Honour's decision, as follows; His HONOUR. The plaintiffs in this case sue the defendant as the acceptor of a bill of exchange for 134. 13s. 9d., dated the 6th Jan. 1869, at two months. It appeared upon the trial that in or before May 1868 the defendant was adjudged bankrupt, and that the bankruptcy was stayed by an arrangement for payment to the bankrupt's then creditors of a composition of 6s. in the pound. The assets were of some amount, and it was admitted for the defendant that, after that composition and all expenses had been paid, a sum of not less than 2001. remained, a free sum in the defendant's hands. It also appeared that the 1868, in two houses, one in New-street and the other in Bull-street, and between that time and the 23rd Feb. last, he had incurred debts of above 101. (chiefly for goods purchased), to the aggregate amount of 5561., and below 101. to the amount of 301. 18s. On the 23rd Feb. the defendant executed a deed of composition, under the Bankruptcy Act 1861 and the Bankruptcy Amendment Act 1863, whereby he covenants to pay a composition of 4. in the pound upon his debts, by two instalments. sented to that deed, which has been registered in The requisite number, &c., of the creditors as due form. This action was commenced under the Bills of Exchange Act, and the defendant obtained leave to defend, upon an affidavit stating the composition-deed as his main ground of defence. It was objected that the defendant ought to have pleaded the deed as a special defence, and failing that formal objection, that the deed itself was invalid as against the plainAs to the tiffs, who have not assented to it. objection that the defendant has not pleaded his bankruptcy deed as a special defence according to the ordinary practice of the County Court, I am of opinion that no such notice is necessary to enable the defendant to assert any defence stated in his affidavit whereon leave to defend has been obtained. In this case the deed is stated as the ground of defence, and therefore it need not again be pleaded as a special defence. The more difficult question is, whether by the evidence on the trial such facts are proved, and such circumstances disclosed as show the deed not to have been made bona fide, and therefore to be void as against a nonassenting creditor. Now the facts proved, and on which the plaintiffs rely, for show. ing the invalidity of the deed are these: That the defendant in July last, after his bankruptcy arrange ment, started free from debts with at least 2001, in his pocket; that he has incurred debts for which he stated he had value in goods or the like to the amount of 5561. and 301., and that a few days before the date of his composition-deed he received from a fire insurance office in respect of a fire which occurred at his shop in Bull-street, the sum of 160., while in his statement of property and credits (under the Bankruptcy Amendment Act 1868) his assets consisted only of 101. cash, &c., household effects 401., and stock-in-trade 701, no mention was made of the money received from insurance office, which the defendant stated had been paid away to his landlord and others before the date of the deed. Something was also said about an assurance on the defendant's life, which he admitted had been effected, but he could not say whether it was dropped or not, or if tion was made in the statement of property dropped, when. Of this, however, no menin the defendant's affidavit in support of the deed, and the amount of the composition payable to all his creditors by virtue of such deed is stated to be under the sum of 1201. The defendant, on the trial, deposed he had made large outlay in fitting up his shop and premises in New-street, all of which had been given up to the landlord. That the defendant must have contemplated the carrying on a large trade is plain, for his rent in New-street was 2001, appeared that after the composition-deed had and in Bull-street 400l. a year. It further been completed, the defendant had a series of sales by auction of which no accounts had been estimate, realised about 500l. It appeared, howkept, but which, according to the auctioneer's ever, that during these sales, extending over several weeks, other goods were sent in from London and elsewhere, and were sold at the auctions. There was no definite evidence of how much of the property thus sold consisted of goods possessed by the defendant before the deed, and how much was afterwards sent in to his premises and sold? The first principle of law governing these deeds is, that they must be fairly made for the benefit of all the creditors. Otherwise a few friendly creditors might enable a debtor to commit the grossest frauds upon his nonassenting creditors. In dealing with such deeds, we have two recent decisions of the highest authority to guide us. In Hart v. Smith, L. Rep. 4 Q. B. 61, decided in Nov. last, the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, after referring to Ex parte Cohen, a decision by the Lords Justices said, "As it was known that proceedings in bank. insolvent's assets, it was thought better that the ruptcy ate up a very large proportion of an winding-up of his affairs and the liquidation pro tanto of his debts should be left to the more economical management of his creditors. Whenever this was proposed to be done the majority of the creditors were to have power to bind the minority with the intention that whatever the majority might think advantageous to the whole body of the creditors ought made binding on the minority, so that an obstinate creditor might not stand out and insist upon pay ment of his entire debt, and swallow up, by proceedings at law, the debtor's assets to the disad vantage of the general body of the creditors. But I never could bring myself to think that it was be a intended that the majority of the creditors should be enabled to relieve the debtor of his liability to pay his debts as far as his assets would go at the expense of those creditors who were not disposed to take the same benevolent view of the position of the debtor as the majority of the creditors. I quite concur in thinking that the bona fides of such an arrangement depends upon it being entered into by the majority of creditors, with an honest intention to take into account that which is most beneficial to the common interest of all, and not to the interest of the debtor, as distinguished from that of his creditors." In this view the rest of the court concurred. Again, Re Deacon, L. Rep. 4 Ch. App. 87, Lord Justice Page Wood (now Lord Hatherley, Lord Chancellor), on the 5th Dec. last, after referring with approval in the case of Ex parte Cohen, and commenting on the special circumstances of the case of Deacon, added, "If we look at the conduct of the assenting creditors, it appears clear that they have not exercised fair discretion as to whether the arrangement is for their own pecuniary benefit, they have taken no pains to ascertain whether it is so, and we are obliged to come to the conclusion that for some motive apart from their pecuniary interests they are willing to release the debtor on receiving a certain amount of composition, whether reasonable or not. Such an assent cannot make the deed binding on dissenting creditors." To apply the remarks of these eminent judges to the case before me, I cannot under the circumstances which have been proved in this action believe that the creditors assenting to the defendant's deed have exercised a fair discretion, or taken any pains to ascertain whether the arrangement thereby made is for their own pecudefendant's dealings was laid before the creditors, niary benefit. It is not shown that an account of that any general meeting of the creditors was called, or that any of the fair and proper steps to submit the defendant's affairs to the full consideration of his creditors were taken. It seems incredible that if such a statement of the defendant's transactions since July last as has been disclosed on this trial had been laid before the defendant's creditors, they would have assented to the composition-deed. Certainly, any such assent must have been given from some motive apart from their pecuniary interests, for no man of business could believe the defendant's statement of his property to be either full or fair, or be likely to accept such as this result of his six months' trading without examination and scrutiny of his accounts, receipts, and payments. The assenting creditors may have had their own reasons of benevolence or otherwise for acceding to such a composition; but I should utterly ignore the principle of the cases I have referred to if I held that a composition-deed created under the circumstances of this deed can be binding upon nonassenting creditors. There must be a verdict for the plaintiffs for the amount claimed. ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. THE AMENDMENTS TO THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. THE strategy by which the Opposition conducts the apparently hopeless fight against the com property held by the Church in each parish is the property of the poor in that parish;" and you invite any one of your readers who dissents from that proposition to state his reasons for doing so; but if the proposition be admitted, you ask if there is any, and what, objection to the plan you propose. Now I trust you will excuse me if I say that I think that this proposition is not strictly true without a little modification. I beg, therefore, with great deference, to propose the following amendment, viz.: "That the property held by the Church in each parish is so held in trust to supply spiritual services to the members (especially the poor members) of the Church of England of that parish." If you accept of this amended proposition it will somewhat militate against your proposed plan. I offer this amendment because I think that in giving property to the Church the donors intended to aid in the promulgation of Protestant doctrines only; whereas if your plan should be adopted it would raise up nurseries of Romanism. In confirmation of what I have stated respecting the intentions of the donors, I may, perhaps, be allowed to refer briefly to a few his torical facts. Henry VIII complained that the usurped jurisdiction of the See of Rome was the principal cause of the ruin and decay of Ireland, for the Bishop of Rome commonly preferred to churches persons who wasted and alienated such lands as he (Henry VIII.), his noble progenitors, and his nobles, gave to the augmentation of God's divine service in the churches of that land, and the maintenance of the ministers of the same.' I need not say that Henry VIII.'s proclivities became decidedly Protestant. When King James I. planted a new colony in Ulster, and made grants of land that had been forfeited' in the then late Church to land that had been usurped from it by rebellions, a claim was made by the Protestant the Irish chiefs, who had been so unscrupulous that they had left scarcely enough to support the bishops, while the lower classes of the clergy were totally without sustenance; and a restoration of ecclesiastical property and services was accordingly made. Charles II, granted the Protestant clergy all impropriated and forfeited tithes and glebes at his disposal, and all escheated lands exempt from the payment of ecclesiastical dues were made liable to them. At the Restoration there was an absolute re-establishment of the Protestant Episcopal Church. James II. published a proclamation confirming their Church to the Protestants. All private donations to the Irish Church since the Reformation were also made for the benefit of the Protestants. The above historical facts show that from the time of Henry VIII. the Irish Church property has been held for the support of Protestant worship only. And these facts are also sufficient to show the unimpeachable title of the Irish Church to its possessions, and these possessions cannot be taken away from it without repeating the usurpation and unscrupulous dealings of the Irish chiefs, and leaving its future bishops and elergy in the same destitute condition as beforementioned; but should they be so taken away it is to be hoped that another good King James will arise to make a restoration. After what I have written I need scarcely say that I am compelled to dissent from your proposal to apply part of the Irish Church revenues to the support of schools, "without reference to the denominational character Parliament in the Crown, to be held in trust for that Church-a large part of the property of the Church of Scotland is so vested-and its revenues be in future distributed by a body appointed by the Queen in Council, like the Committee of Council on Education; and which body might be called "The Committee of Council on the Irish Church," and be invested with powers similar to those of the Teind Court in Scotland for the adjustment of parishes and distribution of the Irish Church revenues in an equitable manner, and as best to carry out the presumed intentions of the donors; and where this cannot be done for want of a Protestant population, or other reason, let these revenues be applied to such purposes as would probably be approved by these donors, as, for instance, in increasing inadequate stipends of the clergy, educating the poor children according to the principles of the Church of England, repairing the church fabrics and the like-endeavouring as much as possible to apply the revenues belonging to any particular parish for the benefit of that parish; but where this cannot be done, to apply these revenues for the benefit of the church in any other parish, as the committee shall approve, until such time as they can be applied in the parish to which they properly belong. An appeal should lie to the Queen in Council from the decision of the committee. I have thrown out these few hints, hoping that they may be usefully suggestive to wiser heads than my own. A. THOMPSON. The Cross, Whitehaven, 20th April, 1869. SOLICITOR COUNTY MAGISTRATES. I am glad to find in last week's LAW TIMES that a corbeen more than once agitated in its columns (see respondent has revived this question, which has Vol. xl., pp. 242, 256; Vol. xlii., p. 410), and with him hope that some M. P. will introduce a short Bill repealing sect. 33 of the 6 & 7 Viet. c. 73, and, if thought advisable, with the following clause, which originally formed part of the stat. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 127, viz., Sect. 33 the 6 & 7 Vict. and so much of the 5 Geo. 2 as renders proctors in capable of being Justices of the Peace shall be repealed, and no one shall be disqualified by being an attorney, solicitor, or proctor; but such justice or his partner shall not, directly or indirectly, act professionally in any criminal proceedings before any justice of assize, or gaol delivery of the county of which he is such justice, or in any busiA SUBSCRIBER. ract majority for the disestablishment and of the school." For this would be to cause property ness before any justice of the county." disendowment of the Irish Protestant Church, has perplexed many; but it is skilfully devised. The design is to abandon the defence of Establishment as hopeless, after the emphatic verdict of the country, but to resist disendowment, upon which the verdict of the country was not taken, that not being contained in the famous resolutions, which were alone put in issue at the General Election. The amendments would have the effect of saving to the Church a sufficient property for its maintenance. It is not expected that they will be carried in the Commons; but the discussion will ripen opinion in the country, which is said to be fast setting against the proposed disendowment of Protestantism coincident with the endowment of Romanism by a grant of nearly a million. It is expected that the Lords will adopt the amendments rejected by the Commons, and send back to them a Bill which will disestablish, but not destroy, the Protestant Church, and that then the opinion of the country will be challenged upon the distinct question of disendowment, and taken upon two specific schemes, and not, as before, on indefinite resolutions, the practical effect of which was, it is contended, very improperly understood by the constituencies. Another General Election in June is, therefore, by no means improbable. Correspondence. THE IRISH CHURCH.-You have suggested a scheme relative to the Irish Church, and which, you state, rests upon the proposition "that the as a I am very glad your correspondent, "A Solicitor," has re-opened the question of solicitors being excluded from the magistracy. No one who has practised much at petty sessions can deny the good that in many districts would accrue from a practising lawyer, skilled in evidence and criminal law, being on the bench. If practising barristers are allowed to sit as county magistrates, why not practising solicitors as well? No qualification more indefensible than a mere property one without either (though I am a staunch Conservative) is any other. The possession of 1001. a year in land does not make a man a jurist, and many county magistrates, who are young men, are, while very estimable in other respects, not gifted with a legal mind. The enormous variety of magisterial work, which successive statutes have conferred, demands an alteration in the qualification of those who are to do that work. I see Lord Albemarle has given notice of a bill to repeal the law of qualification, and I think, in its stead, some legal training should be insisted on. to be taken from a church to aid the teaching of doctrines antagonistic to its own. But although I dissent from your scheme in this one particular, yet I approve generally of your remarks, and have been much pleased with the conciliatory spirit of your recent articles on this important question, and by the desire manifested therein, to avert by a little concession an impending great catastrophe. If some concession must be made, I think your scheme of treating the Irish Church is a good therefore, as you suggest, that the Irish bishops Suppose, withdraw from the House of Lords, and instead of these bishops being in future appointed by a party prime minister, let them be appointed by the Queen in Council, as the head of the Church, in like manner as the Roman Catholic bishops are appointed by the Pope in the congregation of cardinals, as the head of the Roman Catholic Church; and let the Churches of England and Ireland still continue united under one head, the Queen, in like manner as the Roman Catholic under one head, the Pope. Surely the Roman Churches of England and Ireland are now united Catholics could not object to such an equal measure, MESSRS. LOCKWOOD AND Co.'s LEGAL WORK: whereby the unity of both churches would be pre-Every Lawyer's Own Book."-With reference to served under their respective heads. With respect letters from J. T. S." and "M. E. S." respecting to disendowment, I am glad that it is now icon. the above work, we think it will be sufficient to sidered that this question was not in issue before enclose you a copy of the prospectus alluded to by the country, and that it is therefore still open. I the first-named. You will perceive that the fact hope that without taking away from the Irish of the book having previously been published Church any property that rightfully belongs to it, under a different and popular title is amply and some arrangement for the redistribution of its repeatedly acknowledged. It was not thought revenues may be arrived at that may be satisfac- either advisable or necessary to give the actual tory to all parties. If I might be allowed to make title in this prospectus, since it was one which in suggestions, I would say, suppose that all the certain Professional minds of a narrow calibre was Irish Church property be vested by an Act of likely to create prejudice and dislike; but no W. R. person reading the prospectus can fail to be made aware that the book is published in another form, and under another title, to suit a different portion of the public, and the smallest inquiry would enable him to ascertain such title. Similar care has been taken in the preface and introduction to the volume (a copy of which we have the pleasure of sending herewith for notice in your columns should you think fit) to state most explicitly that it has been, and still is, published under another title; and so also in the advertisements we have issued. We submit, therefore, that we are liable to no imputation whatever of wishing to deceive purchasers; and, so far are we from desiring to profit by any misunderstanding on the part of any purchaser who either would not or could not see what we so plainly put before him, that on receiving proof that any of your readers have purchased both issues of this edition (supposing them to be different works), we shall have pleasure in taking back either of them, if in saleable condition, and returning the price paid "M. E. S." is mistaken in saying the books are absolutely identical with the exception of the title. He should also have excepted the prefaces and introductions, which are both different in the two issues, and where the circumstances are, as stated above, fully explained. We may say that the circular and advertisements have already brought us between 500 and 600 legal purchasers, from whom we have heard none but expressions of satisfaction with the book. Believing it to be a valuable, and, as far as it goes, a thoroughly sound and reliable one, we confiently look to a sale of many times that number. In conclusion, we beg to take this opportunity of saying that the author will be glad to receive through the publishers, any suggestions or indications of errors or important omissions; all of which will be carefully considered in the preparation of the next edition. Trusting you will insert this reply to an unwarrantable attack on us-We are, &c. LOCKWOOD and Co. to us. NOTES AND QUERIES ON POINTS OF PRACTICE. IN.B.-None are inserted unless the name and address of the writers are sent, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee for bona fides.] Queries. 109. TRANSFER OF MORTGAGE.-A mortgagee dies and appoints B. and C. his executors, and also devises all trust estates to them. C., one of the executors and also one of the residuary legatees has consented to take a transfer of the mortgage to save the necessity of a sale, the mortgagor being dead leaving an infant heir. What is the best mode of assigning the debt? H. E., Jun. 110. POWER OF LEASING.-A. being tenant for life with a power of leasing, mortgaged his estate to B. and C., and afterwards A. B. and C. contracted to grant a lease for twenty-one years to D. A. after the contract, and before the granting of the lense, executed an absolute conveyance of the equity of redemption in his life estate to E. and F., with notice of the agreement for the lease. Can A. alone, or A. B. and C., with the concurrence of E. and F., or any of these parties, execute a valid lease to D., so as to bind the remaindermen. What remedy has D., and against whom, to enforce the specific performance of the agreement? JUVENIS. 111. CONVEYANCE-NUISANCE.-A. was seised of two freehold houses (standing together in one block with gardens, and separated from one another by a wall), and called No. 1, and No. 2. He conveyed No. 1 to B., together with all drains, lights, members, easements, and appurtenances. A short time afterwards he covered No. 2 (by a simple conveyance), to C. C. finding an offensive smell on his premises, had the drainage examined, which was found out of repair, and on such examination it was found that the sewerage of both houses was carried someway in C's. garden, and also emptied itself into a cesspool in C's. garden. Surely I must be wrong! But suppose such a presentment, what ought the court to do, remembering that if he may go on plundering and cheating without fear? I John Smith's weights are not interfered with at once, have had such a case as a deputy steward. And it was a disgrace to the inspectors of weights and measures, and a credit to that jury who presented the cheat; but I felt a difficulty in John Smith not being before the court, at the same time that I had no moral doubt but that if would be ruined. his weights were not seized upon his poorer customers I hope some learned reader will kindly answer this. D. 113. TRUSTEES.-I shall feel obliged if any of your numerous readers can answer me the following questions. A. B. and C., are appointed trustees of certain land, for amongst the poor of X. They stand possessed of the the purpose of receiving the rents, to be distributed land, which is part freehold and part copyhold; they are admitted to the copyhold. A. and B. die. leaving C. surviving, D. E. and F., have since been appointed and acted as trustees, but not admitted to the copyhold. Can C. surrender to whom he likes as such surviving trustee (omitting D. E. and F?). Supposing C. to die without having surrendered, can his representatives claim to be admitted, or will the copy hold land revert to thelord of the manor? Answers. DOUBTFUL. (Q. 105.) SOLICITORS AND FARMING.-If the farm be A.'s own property, I think that his admission will not be prejudiced by his continuing to keep the farm in hand, provided that he employ a bailiff to manage it, and merely exercise the same supervision over it, that he would do if it were let to a tenant. But the safer course would certainly be to let the farm during the term of his articles. If A. be only the tenant of the farm, I am of opinion that his tenancy of it during his articles, whether he employ a bailiff or not, will be a 239, C. P. bar to his admission: (See ex parte Peppercorn, 35 L. J. M. E. S. LEGAL OBITUARY. THE HON. W. C. DOBBS. The late Hon. William Cary Dobbs, Barristerat-Law, one of the judges of the Landed Estates Court (Ireland), who died at 93. Wimpole-street, W., on the 17th inst., in the 63rd year of his age, was the only son of the late Rev. Robert Conway Dobbs, of Ashfield, county Antrim (who died in 1809), by Wilhelmina, daughter of the Rev. William Bristow, D.D., vicar of Belfast. He was born in the year 1806, and having been educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his ceeded M.A. in 1830: was called to the Irish Bar degree of B.A. as a wrangler in 1827, and proin Trinity Term 1833. He was made a Q.C. in 1858. Mr. Dobbs was Crown prosecutor on the North-east Circuit from 1851 till April 1859, when he was appointed a judge of the Landed Estates Court, under the Viceroyalty of Lord Eglinton. In 1857 he was elected M.P. for Carrickfergus, which borough he represented in the Conservative interest until his elevation to the judgeship. The family from which the deceased gentleman descended, settled in Ireland about the end of the sixteenth century; his ancestor, John Dobbssaid to have been a grandson of Sir Richard Dobbs, Lord Mayor of London in 1551-having accom panied Sir Henry Dockwra to that country in 1596, and subsequently acted as his deputy as treasurer for Ulster. His descendants have long been seated at Castle Dobbs, in the county Antrim, and several of them have filled the office of High Sheriff of that county, and likewise represented the neighbouring borough of Carrickfergus in Parliament. The late Mr. Dobbs married in 1834, Elinor (Q. 106.) COUNTY COURTS-RECOVERY OF POSSESSION Jones, eldest daughter of the late Henry Sheares BY LANDLORD.-I assume that there are no circumstances in the case which would render the power of the land-Westropp, Esq., of Richmond-villa, county Limelord to sue, under 19 & 20 Vict., inapplicable, as for rick, by whom he has left issue one son and two instance a question of title between him and his tenant daughters. if there are, and the value or rent does not exceed 201. a year, the proper course would be to bring ejectment under the 30 & 31 Vict. c. 142, but where proceedings to recover possession of a tenement, can be taken under the provisions of 19 & 20 Vict. no action of ejectment can be brought under the County Courts Act, 1867: J. G. (see Rule 255.) Newport, Mon. If A. can sue under 19 & 20 Vict., he must do so: (Rule 255.) M. E. S. (Q. 108.) WILL.-C., D., E., F., and G. are tenants in common of the dwelling-house, and as such two of them Occupying without any agreement, the others would have no remedy at law for the recovery of any rent. The ground-rent, rates, and outgoings are chargeable in respect of the dwelling-house by the occupiers, and they would have no remedy over at law for contribution from the now occupying tenants in common. The devisees are entitled to the dwelling-house from the day of the death, and must from that day pay the outgoings. In the case mentioned the ground-rent, rates, and outgoings should be borne by the occupying tenants in common: (See Coke on Litt. 119b. sid. 49.) - X. Y. It is a general rule that legatees of lease. holds take them cum onere, and the executors cannot be called upon to discharge outgoings after testator's decease. In this case the ground-rent must be paid by all the legatees equally, and as to the rates, taxes, and other outgoings, I think that the house may be said to be in the constructive occupation, at least, of all the legatees, who therefore must also bear these burdens together. LAW LIBRARY. M. E. S. Questions for Law Students on the Sixth Edition of Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England. By JAMES STEPHEN, Esq., LL.D. London: Butterworths. The value of a series of questions upon law LAW SOCIETIES. THE SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. The 22nd half-yearly General Meeting of the Members of this Association was held on Wednesday last, the 21st April, at the Law Institution Chancery-lane, to receive the half-yearly Report of the Directors, and for the transaction of other business. Mr. J. S. TORR, in the chair. The secretary (Mr. EIFFE), having read the notice of meeting and the previous minutesThe report, which was as follows, was taken as read: "The directors in presenting to the genera meeting their 22nd half-yearly report, have much pleasure in offering their congratulations to the members on the steadily continuing upward progress of the association. "Called into existence eleven years ago. it has already enrolled as members nearly 2000 solicitors, who have thus united themselves, under the influ ence of a common sympathy, into a brotherhood for alleviating the pressure of misfortunes and reverses to which the members of their anxious and laborious profession are exposed. "And in this period of eleven years, the association, besides affording timely assistance in money grants to many unfortunate members of the Profession, or their widows and families, has been enabled to accumulate and invest upwards of 15,0001., principally from life subscriptions and donations, the income of which is permanently available for the benevolent objects of the association. Can C. cut B's. sewerage off books with which the student is required to have tunity to acknowledge the obligations of the from his premises? If so, what notice is requisite ? If 112. COURTS LEFT.-I should feel obliged to any reader giving me authorities for the practice at these courts under the following circumstances; I understand the steward of the court leet is the judge, and the jury of not less than twelve, nor over twenty-three, together with the judge constitute the court. Now, if I be right the proceedings appear highly monstrons. Take an example. The jury present, that since the last court the weights of John Smith, grocer, within the precincts of the leet, are light by so many ounces, and that his balance is unjust by three ounces. The steward on this evidence, makes an order that the aforesaid weights and balance be forthwith seized by the bailiff of the court, and that the said John Smith, be amerced in the sum of The directors avail themselves of this oppor association to those members of the Bench and the Bar who have given generous expression to their sympathy and approval by numerous dona tions to its funds. "The directors have especial pleasure in men. tioning that they have received from the late Lincolnshire Law Society the further sum of 6421. 11s. 9d., in completion of their very munifi cent gift of 1010l. 1s. 9d., announced in the last report. "The Honourable Society of Clement's-inn has made a liberal donation of ten uineas, and has become an annual subscriber of two guineas his addition. mastered by a laborious youth who cannot afford the fee for an instructor. Having read the day's portion twice or thrice, he closes the book, turns to "the questions," and answers them in writing from memory alone. Then referring to the text he ascertains if he aim should be to state the answers in lanhas rightly interpreted the law, for guage of his own and in the most condensed form, to be sure that it is not merely a memory of words, but that he has fully comprehended the author's meaning. 40s which on being affeered is thereby set at 20s. Can A student who has thus read Stephen's that the judge makes the order only on his being satis- |