subsequent receiver or trustee, the remuneration shall be apportioned between them in such manner as may be just. The committee of inspection may also allow, if they think fit, for the examination of the debtor's accounts, £5 where the estate realised does not exceed £100, with an addition of £1 per cent. for every sum realised beyond £100. When the trustee or receiver sells the debtor's stock by tender he may further be allowed as follows: Not above £400 After to £1000. After to £2000.. After to £5000. £4 per cent. £3 10s. per cent. £2 10s. per cent. £2 per cent. About £5000 and upwards £1 15s. per cent. Expenses to be allowed, such as advertisements and printing, not exceeding £2, or at discretion of the committee. SCHEDULE III.-LIST OF COUNTY COURTS. The Bloomsbury County Court of Middlesex. The Bow County Court of Middlesex. The Brompton County Court of Middlesex. The Clerkenwell County Court of Middlesex. The Lambeth County Court of Surrey. The Marylebone County Court of Middlesex. The Shoreditch County Court of Middlesex. The Southwark County Court of Surrey. The Westminster County Court of Middlesex. The Whitechapel County Court of Middlesex. The County Court of Surrey holden at Wandsworth. The County Court of Kent holden at Greenwich and Woolwich. The County Court of Middlesex holden at Brentford. SCHEDULE IV.-STATUTES RELATING TO UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS. HOUSE OF LORDS. Tuesday, March 4. BANKRUPTCY LAW AMENDMENT BILL. at the same hour of the day. Surely nothing could be easier than to allot fifty of such summonses to each hour of the day on which judgment summonses are taken. It occasionally happens now that solicitors are required to attend judgment summonses on behalf of clients, but they can hardly be expected to do so with the risk of having to wait about all day. The proposed extension of County Courts jurisdiction is another reason why a matter of this kind should receive a little attention at the hands of the metropolitan County Court judges. IN the course of an appeal in the matter of the Horbury Carriage Company before the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices James and Bramwell, the validity of a resolution passed by a meeting of shareholders of this company, was challenged on the ground that it had been put from the chair without having been seconded. Lord Justice James said that, although there was a common opinion among the public to the contrary, the fact was he knew of no law which required a motion to be seconded. It was simply the practice of the House of Commons which was not binding upon other assemblies. The Master of the Rolls said the practice in the House of Commons in this respect had no doubt been copied everywhere, but it was no part of the common law. Mr. Osborne Morgan (amicus curia) reminded the court that even in the House of Commons it was not every motion that required seconding, and instanced motions to adjourn and amendments as not coming within the rule. In the result their Lordships overruled the objection. A CORRESPONDENT, whose query will be found in another column, makes inquiries which have already been asked in our columns in connection with the duties of solicitors under the new Bills of Sale Act. We do not see how a solicitor can properly refuse to attest the execution of a bill of sale prepared by a money-lender, and in which deed the money-lender is himself the mortgagee. AFTER Some little discussion, this bill was read Every man has an undoubted right to prepare a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tuesday, March 4. On the motion of the Attorney-General it was agreed to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into the law in relation to libels in newspapers. The Libel Amendment Bill was withdrawn. SOLICITORS' JOURNAL. WE regret to notice that the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts Amendment Bill (which is to amalgamate the London Bankruptcy Court with the High Court of Justice), and the Government County Courts Bill (by which the Lord Chancellor proposes to largely increase the jurisdiction of County Courts), are to be referred to a Select Committee of the Commons. This means considerable delay in the passing of these measures, and even possibly their being included in what is called the massacre of the innocents at the end of the session. We cannot help asking ourselves the question whether there is any great and general anxiety in Parliament to secure the passing of these important measures. The duration of the present Parliament is drawing to a close, and the present Government is, of course, anxious to avoid doing anything likely to give offence to many of its supporters, and it must be apparent to every one that there are provisions in each of these Bills upon which many members of the Bar in the House of Commons look with entire disapproval, if not concern, and for reasons which are self-evident. Unless some unexpected pressure is brought to bear upon the Government, we fear the chances are that these Bills will not become law this session. THE way in which business in connection with judgment summonses is disposed of in some of the metropolitan County Courts is about as inconvenient as is possible. In the Bloomsbury County Court, for instance, as many as 180 judgment summonses are at times appointed to be disposed of at eleven o'clock on the same day by the learned judge. This is rather like the old system at the common law judges' chambers, when all summonses were appointed to be disposed of at one and the same time. The result of such a system is that both plaintiffs and defendants get sick and tired of waiting about all day, for it naturally follows that some of the summonses appointed to be heard at eleven o'clock cannot be reached by four o'clock, and with a view to perpetuate, as it were, the evils of such a system, all adjournments of such summonses on a particular day are made to a subsequent and the same day, in all cases of such adjournments, and his own deeds for what they are worth, and because a man happens to be a money-lender he is not less fully entitled to exercise that right. If, on the other hand, a solicitor had reason to believe that the money-lender had prepared a bill of sale for fee or reward, and was not himself a party to the deed, he would, we consider, be at liberty to refuse to attest the execution of the deed by the mortgagor. As to the third query of our correspondent "Inquirer," it is only necessary to point out that a man cannot properly depose to that of which he has no sufficient knowledge. As to the fourth query, a man might be a party to a deed, and yet, having prepared it for fee or reward within the meaning of the Stamp Act, may be liable to penalties under that Act for doing so. As to the fee to be charged by solicitors for attesting the execution of bills of sale under the new Act, the fee usually charged is 68. 8d., but it must depend upon the length and nature of the deed in a measure. On the other hand we have heard of solicitors paying a visit to money-lenders, and offering to attest the execution of any number of bills of sale at 2s. 6d. a piece. But the expression etiquette" is not to be found in the professional vocabulary of such gentleman. WE have received from Mr. Joseph Cowen, M.P., a copy of the Bill to amend and extend the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, and to make provision for the better local administration of justice, which Bill he has already introduced into Parliament. We observe that the Bill is printed in extenso in the County Court Chronicle for the present month. The question for consideration is that of the principle of such a Bill, the details are matter for improvement and alteration at any time. If the Lord Chancellor consulted alone his own views he would, we believe, give a general support to this Bill. But, looking at his Lordship's comments in connection with his County Courts Bill, which is before the House of Lords, we do not see how Mr. Cowen can look for Government support, although for political reasons they are probably disposed to meet him as far as possible. We commend Mr. Cowen's Bill to the careful criticism of those members of the Profession who are ready to consider the wants of suitors before they consider immediate professional interests. The ex fifths of such work was so transferred. pression in the learned gentleman's letter, "It is proposed to drive all this business away,' is a very unhappy one. Local courts are, we say, the proper tribunals for the disposal of some of the work now undertaken by the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. If County Court judges sat as often as do judges of the High Court they would not have half enough to do. Much of their time, too, is wasted in travelling about the country. IT is only fair to assume that Bristol solicitors are as anxious to show a due regard for professional etiquette, as are their professional brethren in other parts of the country. They have, therefore, perhaps reason to complain that one of their body should have adopted a course which strikes us as involving a departure from such etiquette. The following announcement, printed on a half sheet of note paper, has, we understand, been circulated in the city of Bristol. MR. HOMMISSIONER, &c., begs respectfully to H. G. WILLMOTT, B.A., SOLICITOR, state that he attends at his Office, 39, NICHOLAS STREET, (nearly opposite Stuckey's Bank side premises), specially from 2 to 5.30, and commonly at the other business hours also, to administer Oaths, Declarations, and Affirmations, thereby saving professional men and their clients, accountants, and clerks, loss of time in searching for, or waiting about for a Commissioner. Attendance given at any offices in the City, by appointment, without extra fee. Bristol, February, 1879. We must not conclude, however, that Mr. Willmott sanctions the distribution of his circular, and we hope to hear that it is the result of some misunderstanding. We prefer to make no comment on the circular, except to say that we are quite sure that if there is a scarcity of commissioners for oaths in Bristol, it is only necessary to represent the matter to the Lord Chancellor, who would at once appoint additional commissioners, and if this is really the case advantage will arise from the publication of Mr. Willmott's circular. QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION. IN THE MATTER OF TEANBY, A SOLICITOR. IN this case a rule had been obtained calling upon a solicitor to answer the matters of an affidavit, and when the time had come for its being made absolute the whole matter had been referred to Master Francis, before whom the facts had been gone into, and whose report was now read. Francis Turner appeared for the applicant, Mr. Rome; Webster, Q.C., for the solicitor. The facts were briefly these: In May 1877, the applicant had employed Mr. Teanby to act as his solicitor, in connection with the purchase of some property at Hendon, as to which he represented to Mr. Rome that £860 was the lowest price at which it could be purchased. Relying upon this representation the client paid a deposit of £43, and subsequently £817, making together the entire sum named by the solicitor. Some time afterwards it came to the knowledge of Mr. Rome that £815 was the price actually paid by Mr. Teanby. On his being applied to to refund the difference, £45, the solicitor refused to do so, justifying his retention of the money on the ground that as he had received no commission from the vendor, he was at liberty to retain it from his client, the purchaser. A report from the Master embodying the facts having been read, Webster, Q.C., addressed the court on behalf of Mr. Teanby, and in admitting that he had undoubtedly made false representations to his client, and that he had no sort of right to make any profit out of him in a transaction of the kind, dwelt upon the fact that Mr. Teanby was entirely dependent for a livelihood on his profession. The learned counsel further urged the youth of the solicitor, who was only admitted in 1871, and that he had been tempted to do wrong under pressure of pecuniary difficulties. The Court was of opinion that the case was a very bad one of the kind, but as there had been the decision would be that he should be suspended no application to strike the solicitor off the rolls, costs; upon doing this he might have his certififor a year and ordered to repay the money and all cate again at the end of twelve months. COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. SITTINGS IN BANCO. Tuesday, March 4. WE publish another letter from our correspondent IN THE MATTER of Robert BrandretH, A SOLICITOR. In this case a rule had been obtained on behalf of the Law Society to show cause why Mr. Brandreth, who had been convicted at the Brighton Sessions for obtaining money by false pretences, should not be struck off the roll. Houghton, on behalf of the prisoner, now ap plied for further time to show cause, on the ground that unavoidable delay had occurred in preparing his affidavit. DENMAN, J. asked what was the date of the conviction. It appeared, in answer to this, that the date was the 12th Feb., and there were two convictions; but it was urged by Mr. Houghton that under the new prison regulations the governor had refused to admit the prisoner's solicitor without an order from the Prison Commissioners, and this had produced the delay. Murray, for the Law Society, said there was no wish ever to press these cases unduly; but it was difficult to see what affidavit could be of use in such a matter as this. The COURT inquired what it was proposed to set out in the affidavit. Houghton, in reply, said the trial had come on a day sooner than was expected, and the prisoner had defended himself without instructing counsel. There was no evidence against him except that of the prosecutor, and a petition had been drawn up since for the Home Secretary's consideration. The COURT were of opinion that no grounds had been made out for discharging the rule. If the petition to the Home Secretary was successful, there would be no difficulty in applying to the Court to reinstate the prisoner in his profession; but, in the meantime, it was impossible that the name of a convicted solicitor should appear on the rolls. Rule absolute. SECOND COURT. (Before GROVE, J., and a Special Jury.) WHITEHALL COLLIERY COMPANY V. THIS was an action commenced in the Chancery Division of the court before the Master of the Rolls, in which the parties desired to have the issues tried before a jury, and the case was accordingly set down for trial in the list of jury cases at Westminster. Shortly after the opening of the plaintiff's case by Henry Matthews, Q.C., upon its appearing that the case was in the Chancery Division, GROVE, J., inquired how the case came to be in the list at Westminster, instead of being tried before a jury in the Chancery Division. Henry Matthews said that since the Judicature Act had come into force it had been held more than once in the Chancery Division that the judges there could not try cases in which juries were required. GROVE, J. said he was aware that the Chancery judges had so held, but desired to know whether the common law judges had acquiesced in that view. His Lordship observed that before the Judicature Act he had frequently addressed juries in Chancery Courts, and that it appeared to him that the ruling in the Chancery Division referred to did not carry out the fusion of the two systems which the Judicature Act was designed to effect. Matthews read from a recent judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of Krehl v. Burrell, delivered by Thesiger, L.J., to the following effect: "Where an action in the Chancery Division has to be tried by a judge with a jury, it cannot be tried by a judge of the Chancery Division, but must be set down in the generel list of actions for trial by jury, and is tried before a judge of the Common Law Divisions" (27 W. R. 235). The trial of the case then proceeded, being a dispute between two adjoining mineowners in Staffordshire. The facts were very complicated, but devoid of any general interest. Henry Matthews, Q.C., Jelf, and Begg (of the Equity Bar) were for the plaintiffs; Stavely Hill, Q.C., M.P., and Bosanquet for the defendants. 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 some other claimants sooner appear.] BUNN (Edwd. Thos.), of Peak-hill, Sydenham, Esq.; £800 Three per Cent. Annuities. Claimants Emily Bunn, spinster, and Harriet Bunn, wife of Henry Bunn, formerly Harriet Bunn, spinster, executrix of Edwd. Thos. Bunn, deceased. BOSWELL (Elizabeth), of Sherborne. Dorset, widow. £529168. Three per Cent. Annuities. Claimant said Elizabeth Boswell. DE JERSEY (Fredk.), of Guernsey, Esq., and GRAEME (Fredk. Jas.), a minor, £200 Three per Cent. Annuities; Claimant said Fredk. J. Graeme, formerly a minor, now of age, the survivor. NEAVE (Rev. Henry Lyttelton), of Old Burlington-street; one dividend on the sum of £2600 Three per Cent. Annuities. Claimant Rev. John Whitaker Maitland, sole executor of Rev, Henry L. Neave, deceased. TIMMS (Ann), of Crown Hotel, Slough, spinster; £13418. 7d. Three per Cent. Annuities. Claimant said Ann Timms, spinster. HEIRS AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN. BAYLEY (Thomas), Little Pipe, St. Chad, otherwise Sterno Lichfield, Stafford, miller and farmer. Next of kin to come in by March 31, at the chambers of V.C. H. April 9, at the said chambers, at three o'clock is the time COOPER (Wm.), Southampton, serjeant-at-mace. appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims Heir at law or next of kin to come in by June 19, at the chambers of V.C. H, July 4, at the said chambers, at twelve o'clock is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims LAMBERT (Dr Edmund, M. D.), Lower Swainswick, Bath. Next of kin to come in by March 13, at the chambers of V.C. H. April 4, at the said chambers, at two o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims MASSEY (Jno.), Cambridge, curator of the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge. Next of kin to come in by March 31, at the chambers of V.C. M. April 2, at the said chambers, at two o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE JOINT-STOCK WINDING-UP ACTS. BOOKER (Thos. W.) AND COMPANY (LIMITED).-Creditors to send in, by April 7, their names and addresses, and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Young and Jefferies, solicitors, 16, Tokenhouse-yard, London, the joint official liquidators of the said company. April 24, at the chambers of V.C. M., at twelve o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims. DIAMOND FUEL COMPANY (LIMITED).-Creditors to send in by March 31, their names and addresses, and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to J. Waddell, 11, Queen Victoria-street, London, the official liquidator of the said company. April 25, at the chambers of V.C. M., at twelve o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims. MIDDLESEX BREWERY COMPANY (LIMITED).-Creditors to send in by April 2, their names and addresses, and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to F. F. Buffen, Wool Exchange. Coleman-street, London, the official liquidator of the said company. April 8, at the chambers of the M.R., at twelve o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claim. THERESE (Madame) COMPANY (LIMITED). Creditors to send in, by April 2, their names and addresses, and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to W. Brooks, 574, Colemanstreet, London, the official liquidator of the said company. April 8, at the chambers of the M. R., at twelve o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims. WEST OF ENGLAND AND SOUTH WALES DISTRICT BANK Creditors to send in, by March 15, their names and addresses, and the particulars of their claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any), to Turquand and Clarke, at the head office of the said bank, at Bristol, the official liquidator of the said bank. March 21, at the chambers of V.C. M., at two o'clock, is the time appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon such claims. CREDITORS UNDER ESTATES IN CHANCERY. LAST DAY OF PROOF. AGAR (Geo. C. B.), Stoneboro' Cottage, Budleigh Salterton Devon. April 1; T. Guscotte, solicitor, 26, Villiers-street, Strand, Middlesex. April 23; V.C. H., at one o'clock. ALDERSON (Edwd. P.), 97, Eaton-square, Middlesex, Esq., April 5; Austen de Gex and Harding, solicitors, 4, Raymond-buildings, Gray's-inn, Middlesex. May 1; V.C. H., at one o'clock. BURTON (Carr), 41, Brunswick road, Hove, Brighton, Esq. BENSON (James), West Hale House, Belton, Lincoln. CANTY (Dennis J.), New Gravel-lane, St. Paul, Shadwell, Middlesex, licensed victualler. April 2; W. Archer, solicitor, 440, Commercial-road East, Middlesex. April 28; V.C. H., at one o'clock. DUNLOP (Jno. M.), Helehird, Windermere, Westmoreland, Esq. March 25: Jno. T. Bownass, solicitor, Windermere. April 8; M. R., at eleven o'clock. DURRANS (Paul), Dundle, Northampton, brewer. March 28; Robert B. Pooley, solicitor, Dundle. April 7; M.R., at eleven o'clock. DUDLEY (Paul), Leicester, gentleman. March 25; L. P. GRIFFITHS (Nehemiah), Lee-road, Lee, Kent. March 31; JORDAN (Jas.), formerly of 61, Elgin-crescent, Notting Hill, LOVELL (Thos. J.), Weymouth, Dorset, coachbuilder. March 20; Frederic Talbot, solicitor, Newbury, Berks. March 28 V.C. M., at twelve o'clock. LEES (Fredk. C.), Burslem, Staffs., solicitor. March 20; Daniel S. Sutton, solicitor, Burslem, March 27; V.C. M.. at twelve o'clock. MASON (Jos. J.), late of 31, Eastcheap, London, and Stanmore, Middlesex, afterwards of Kenley, Surrey, and lastly of South Eden Park, Beckenham, Kent, merchant. April 19; C. B. Kandall, solicitor, 9, Tokenhouse-yard, London. April 30; V.C. M. at twelve o'clock. MEDD (Ralph), 7, Saville-street, Kingston-upon-Hull, tailor. March 15; Jas. Watson, solicitor, Kingston-upon-Hull. March 22; V.C. H., at twelve o'clock. OAKELEY (Louisa J.), Twickenham, Middlesex, widow. March 31; B. J. S. Frere, solicitor, 28, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Middlesex. April 8; V.C. M., at twelve o'clock. PROCTOR Wm.), Palace Green, Durham, keeper of the Durham Museum. March 21 Wm Proctor, solicitor, Durham. April 4; M.R, at eleven o'clock. ROBERTSON (Jas. W.), 3, Alwyne-road, Highbury, Middlesex and 100, Aldersgate-street, London, silversmith, and dealer in old gold and silver. March 22; J. R. Reep, solicitor, 9, Bush-lane, Cannon-street, London. April ž; V.C. M., at twelve o'clock. RICHARDS (Geo.), Crown and Cooper's Arms, 15, Goldenlane, London, publican. March 24; Dean, Chubb, and Co., Solicitors, 1, South-square, Gray's-inn, Middlesex. March 31; V.C. H., at twelve o'clock. ROBINSON (Thos., 9, Nelson-street, North Shields, Northumberland, grocer. March 20; Jno. W. Fenwick, solicitor, Saville-street, North Shields. April 3; V.C. M., at twelve o'clock. STONE (Geo.), 24, South-bank, Regent's Park, Middlesex, gentleman. March 18; H. Turner, solicitor, 22, Sackvillestreet, Piccadilly, Middlesex. April 1; M. R,, at eleven o'clock. SIMMONS (Samuel, Sheepshed, Leicester, innkeeper. March 27; Alfred D. Bartlett, solicitor, Loughborough. April 9; M.R., at eleven o'clock. SOLLY (Jno.), 29, Denmark-road, Surrey, clerk. April 19; SMITH (WM., Hatfield Woodhouse, Hatfield, York. March SUTTON (Jno.), Flag and Castle, Newport, Mon., beerhouse keeper. March 18; Williams and Co., solicitors, Newport, Mon. March 28; V.C. H., at twelve o'clock. SMITH (Emma), 30, Corporation-row, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, spinster. March 21; N. Gedge, solicitor, 1, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London. March 24; V.C. H., at twelve o'clock. WILLIAMS (Robt.), 5, Erddig-terrace, and 24, Abbot-street, WEBB (Geo.,3, Crosby-square, London, and London House, CREDITORS UNDER 22 & 23 VICT. c. 35. Last day of Claim, and to whom Particulars to be sent. ASHTON (Jas.), 1, New Wharf-road, King's Cross, 6, Clever land-gardens, Castle Hill, Ealing, Middlesex, corn and salt merchant. April 1; Carter and Bell, solicitors, 3, Eastcheap, London. ARCHER (Elisha T.), formerly of Regent-street, City-road, and of Old-street, St. Luke, Middlesex, late of 1, St. German's-villas, Brockley-road, Forest Hill, Kent, paper stainer. May 1; C. G. Scott, solicitor, 4, College-hill, Cannon-street, London. ARCHER (Griselda), 1, St. German's-villas, Brockley-road, Forest Hill, Kent, widow. May 1; C. G. Scott, solicitor, 4, College Hill, Cannon-street, London. AMBLER (Edwd. H.), Hemel Hempstead, Hertford, surgeon April 12; J. Espinasse, solicitor, Richmond, S.W. ADSHEAD (Tirzah), 754, Rochdale-road, Manchester. March 19; Addleshaw and Warburton, solicitors, 15, Norfolkstreet, Manchester. BRAITHWAITE (Francis H.), formerly of Rothwell, near BRISLEY (WM.,, Wellington Hotel, Mile Town, Sheerness, G. T. Woodrooffe, solicitor, 1, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, BEADLE (Edmund), Moor Park Hall, Winchmore Hill, Edmonton, Middlesex, gentleman. April 23; Parkers, solicitors, 17, Bedford-row, Middlesex. BROWN (Sarah), late of 133, Hertford-road, Kingsland, BUTTERWORTH (Eawd.), Trowbridge, Wilts, gentleman. BOAG (Wm. M.), Morpeth, Northumberland, veterinary surgeon. March 26; T. and R.Nicholson, solicitors, Bridgestreet, Morpeth. BROWN (Jno. W.), formerly of 7, Upper Hyde Park-gardens, Paddington. late of 11, Gloucester-square, both in Middlesex, Esq. March 31; Simpson and Co., solicitors, Moorgate-street, London. BOTTOMS (Wm.), Bramhall, Chester, gentleman. April 18; Wm. Smith, solicitor, Great Underbank, Stockport. BINGE (Jno. B.), Lowther Villa, New Malden, Surrey, gentleman. April 18; H. Bramley, solicitor, 6, Paradisesquare, Sheffield. BARKER (Chas. E.), 71, Kingsdown-parade, Bristol, gentleman. April 23; Gwynn and Co., solicitors, 3, All Saint'scourt, Bristol. BLACKBURN (Wm.), Royd's Green, near Rothwell, York, colliery labourer. April 1; J, G. Turner, solicitor, Rothwell, near Leeds BRANTINGHAM (Ann), Norton, Durham. widow. April 10; Newby and Co, solicitors, 10, Finkle-street, Stockton-on. Tees BALL (Wm. W.), Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, Africa, sea captain. March 10; J. J. Hutchinson, solicitor, 18. King-street, Cheapslde, London. Cox (Jno.), Glenworth, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, Esq. April 15; Win. Smith, solicitor, Weston-super-Mare. CROZIER (Julia E.), late of Gainsborough, York, formerly of Martock, Somerset, and of Notting Hill, London, and Colchester, Essex, spinster. March 15; Wm. C. Trever solicitor, Guisborough. CARR (Sarah), Lazer-de-la-Haye, Essex, widow. March 31; Turner, Deane, and Co., solicitors, Colchester, Essex. COTTRELL (Win.), Oxford House, Stretford, Lancaster, rope and twine manufacturer. J. E. and R. Whitworth, solicitors, 2. St. James's-square, Manchester. CRIT LAND (Jno.) Milverton, Pevensey-road, St. Leonard'sOr-Sea, Esq. April1; Phillips and Cheeseman, solicitors, 23, Havelock-road, Hastings. CLISSOLD (Lavinia), 49. London-road, Reading, Berks, spinster, March 15; W. Slocombe, solicitor, 1, Abbot's Walk, Reading. CHAPMAN (Luke), formerly of Halifax, Woolstapler, late of Croft-street, Bradford, March 27; Wm. H. Boocock, solicitor, Silver-street, Halifax. COOPER (Chas.), Abergavenny, Monmouth, a retired colonel in H.M.'s Indian service. March 15; Layton and Co., solicitors, 2, Budge row, London. CALVERT (Geo.), Hall Bower, near Huddersfield, artist. April 10; Fenton, Owen, and Hall, solicitors, Stationstreet, Huddersfield. COLEBROOK (Sarah), formerly of 19, Wenlock-road. Cityroad, Middlesex, late of Dorking, Surrey, widow. March 25; Jas. D. Down, solicitor, Dorking. CRESWICK (Mary Anne), formerly of the Limes, Lindengrove, Bayswater, Middlesex, late of New Timber, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, spinster. March 25; Hyde and Co., solicitors, 33, Ely-place, Holborn, London. CURE (Robt. Capel), Blake Hall, Bobbingworth, Essex, of Weybridge, Surrey, and of Stone-buildings, Middlesex, Esq. March 25; Geo. T. Woodrooffe, solicitor, 1, Newsquare, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex. CORCORAN (Bryan), Mark-lane, London, citizen and stationer, wire weaver, &c. March 24: Bell and Co., solicitors, 9, Bow Churchyard, Cheapside, London. COWE Thos), 34, Tollington park, Middlesex, leather merchant. June 1; Middlemiss and Pearce, solicitors, 11, Parliament-street, Hull. CRIGHTON (Sarah), Northumberland-square, North Shields, widow. May 1 Shallett J. Dale, solicitor, Dockwray. square, North Shields. CHAUNCY (Win. S., Goulburn, New South Wales, civil engineer. April 7; Western and Sons, solicitors, 35, Essex-street, Strand, Middlesex. CRESWELL (Geo.), Great Marlow, Bucks, farmer. March 20; J. Rawson, solicitor, High-street, Great Marlow. DURRANT (JLO. M. B.), Rockland, Torquay, Esq. April 12; W. G. Stuart, solicitor, 6, Gray's-inn-square, Middlesex. DUNN (Esther), Seymour-terrace, Gateshead, widow. April 21: P. Summerbell, butcher, High-street, Gateshead. DITCHFIELD (Jno.), 170, Moor-lane, Swinton, Lancaster. March 22; J. Hewitt and Sons, solicitors, 33, Bridge-street, Manchester. DAVIES (David), 9, Beaufort-terrace. Seacombe, Chester, DEAN (Henry), Navigation Inn, Altrincham, Chester, inn- FOWLER (Rev. Henry R.), 17, Adelaide-crescent, Brighton. FITZGERALD (Catherine T.), formerly of Bankside, Bourne- FOWLER Wm.), 38, Bridgewater-street, Manchester, beer retailer. April 10; R. W. Stead, solicitor, 6, Essex-street, Manchester. FARMER (Jno.), Cleveland Lodge, Darlington, Durham, gentleman. March 15; Steavenson and Meek, solicitors, Paradise-terrace, Darlington. FIELDUS (Jno.), 131, Queen's-road, Brighton, furniture FIELDUS (Frances), fosmerly of 131, Queen's-road, late of GILLETT (Geo.), Swarthmore-terrace, South Stockton, York, GORTON (Esther), Longfield-terrace, Bury, Lancaster, GOEDICKE (Franz W. E. R.), 4, Westbury-villas, Westbury- GEORGE (Benjamin G.), 4, Hatton Garden, and 14, Montague- GORE (Edmund J.), 48, Oxford-road, Kilburn, Middlesex, GRAVES (Elizabeth), Ivy Gates, Mount Pleasant, Eaton, Norwich, spinster. May 1; S. Hurry Asker, St. Giles. street, Norwich. HUTCHISON (Jno.), formerly of 56, Charrington-street, HATTON (Richard Jas. T.), Yelverton Lodge, Twickenham, IRVINE (Alex.) 7, Berkely-street, Liverpool, merchant. March 29; W. Pierce, solicitor, 26, Castle-street, Liverpool. JOHNSON (Eliza), formerly of 45, Upper George-street, Marylebone, Middlesex, late of 54, Ferndale-road, Clapham, Surrey, spinster. April 17; Shum and Co., solicitors, 16. Theobald's-road, Gray's-inn, Middlesex. JONES (Ebenezer), Orwell-road, Kirkdale, Liverpool, builder. April 1; Dixon and Syers, solicitors, 11, Lordstreet. JOHNSON (Geo. J.), 2, Milk-street, Cheapside, London, and 18, Nelson-place, New-street, City-road, and of the City Basin, Middlesex. licensed carman and carrier. May 1; Kynaston and Gasquett, solicitors, 88, Queen-street, Cheapside. JONES (Sarah), formerly of Clifton, near Bristol, afterwards of Waterloo House, Esplanade, Clevedon, Somerset, and late of Wentworth House, Clevedon, spinster. April 21; Lawrance and Co., solicitors, 14, Old Jewry-chambers, London. KYNASTON (Wm.), Ongar, Essex, and 461, Mile End-road, Middlesex, Esq. May 1; Kynaston and Gasquett, solicitors, 88, Queen-street, Cheapside, London. KERFOOT (Wm.), Marli, St. Asaph, Denbigh, farmer. April 9; Edwd. Roberts, solicitor. Rhyl. KELSALL (Wm.), Wilmslow, Chester, gentleman. April 21; Toy and Broadbent, solicitors, 2, Park-parade, Ashtonunder-Lyne. KNEESHAW (Jno. E.), Upper Parliament-street, and Orangecourt, Castle-street, all in Liverpool, banking agent. April 12; Miller, Peel and Co., solicitors, Percy-buildings, Eberle-street, Dale-street, Liverpool. LITTLEWOOD (Mary Ann), Sandown-lane, Wavertree, Lancaster, widow. March 29; Mason and Grierson, solicitors, 82. Castle-street, Liverpool. LOCKWOOD (Chas.), formerly of Linthwaite, Almondbury, York, late of Marsh, Huddersfield, woollen cloth manufacturer. April 1; Ainley and Hall, solicitors, 55, Newstreet, Huddersfield. LUCAS (Harriet), Penang Cottage, Claremont-road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, widow. March 31; Thos. B. Hemsley, auctioneer, Tunbridge Wells. LAWRENCE (Mary L.), 22, Lee-terrace, Lee, Kent, widow. MACDONALD (Wm. W.), 5, Epworth-place, Hunslet, Leeds, engineer, March 31; H. H. Mawson, solicitor, 9, East Parade, Leeds. MASON (Jno.), Broadholme, near Belper, Derby, farmer. MAUDE (Jno.), Chorley, Lancaster, yeoman. March 31; MAXFIELD (Wm.), Victoria-road. Scarborough, cattle NORBURY (Jno.), late of Heatley, Chester, formerly of Salford, engineer. April 22; Bond and Son, solicitors, 19, Dickinson-street, Manchester. NITTLETON (Wm.) Beaumont-street, Liverpool, gentleman. April 2; Miller, Peel, and Co., solicitors, Percy-buildings, Eberle street, Liverpool. NORRIS (Ellen), Altear, Lancaster, farmer. March 22; Welsby and Co., solicitors, 161A, Lord-street, Southport. PALMER (Emanuel), Kingsdown, Colyton, Devon, yeoman. March 25; W. Higgins, solicitor, Paul-street, Exeter. PEIRCE (Robt. H.), 79, Great Tower-street, London, and of Hurstleigh, Howard-road, South Norwood, Surrey, merchant. April 2; Reed and Lovell, solicitors, 1, Guildhall-chambers, London. PALMER (Jas.), formerly of 24, Bloom-street, Manchester, afterwards of 75. Tipping street, Ardwick, late of 36, Carver-street, Chorlton-upon- Medlock, Manchester, draper and tea dealer. March 25; Needham and Co., solicitors, 10, York-street, Manchester. PAYNE (Geo.), 16, Queen-street, Mayfair, Middlesex, Esq. April 5; Parkers, solicitors, 17, Bedford-row, Middlesex. PLANT (Jas.), Chapel House Inn, Dukinfield, Chester, licensed victualler. May 1; C. H. Booth, solicitor, 107, King-street, Dukinfield. PALEY (Thos. R.), formerly of Heaton Priory, Newcastleupon-Tyne, late of 50, Westmoreland-road, Newcastleupon-Tyne, who carried on business at 12, Grainger-street, under the style of W. H. Hare and Co., 3, Quayside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, commission agent and grocer. April 12; E. J. Aydon, solicitor, St. John's-chambers, Granger-street West, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. PEACE (Jno.), East Ardsley, York, yeoman. March 31; C. B. L. Fernandes, solicitor, Cross-square, Wakefield. PICKUP (Wm. D.), 52, Manchester-street, Manchestersquare. Middlesex, gentleman. April 25; Hollams, Son, and Coward, solicitors, Mincing-lane, London. PEEK (Jno.), formerly of Express Tavern, Old Brentford, Ealing, Middlesex, late of 8, Sutherland-street, Pimlico, Middlesex, gentleman, March 31; Cronin and Rivolta, solicitors, 22, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, Middlesex. PALMER (Clara), 5, Eastern-terrace, Brighton, widow. May 1; Clarke and Howlett, solicitors, 8, Ship-street, Brighton. PAXTON (Henry), West Dean, near Chichester, Sussex, Esq. April 5; W. H. Oliver, solicitor, G. Lincoln's-inn-fields, Middlesex. PARNALL (Henry), 187, Bishopsgate Without, London, also of 86, Marine-parade, Brighton, and Llanstephan, Carmarthen, wholesale clothier. April 5; Clapham and Fitch, solicitors, 181, Bishopgate Without, London. PLATT (Jane), Chapel-street, Hyde, Chester, widow. March 15; J. and J. Hibbert, solicitors, Clarendon-place, Hyde. ROYLE (Mary), 34, Augustus-street, Brook's Bar, near Manchester, widow. April 7; Bond and Sons, solicitors, 19, Dickinson-street, Manchester. RISE (Wm.), Heacham, near Lynn, Norfolk, farmer. April 14; Chittock and Wood, solicitors, Bank-street, Norwich. ROYES (Henry), Elm House, Wavertree, near Liverpool, Esq. April 2: Miller, Peel, and Co., solicitors, Percybuildings, Eberle-street, Liverpool. RIGBY (Jas. M), Chorley, Lancaster, physician and surgeon. April 15: B. A. E. Jackson, solicitor, 6, Highstreet, Chorley, A Challioner, solicitor, Hanley, Staffs REED (Edwd.), 19, Stratford-grove, Putney, Surrey, gentleman, May 1; Clarke and Hewlett, solicitors, 8, Shipstreet, Brighton. REED (Ann), 19. Stratford-grove, Putney, Surrey, widow. May 1: Clarke and Howlett, solicitors, 8, Ship-street, Brighton. RAVENHILL (Jas.), formerly of Ashton Gifford, Codford St. Peter, Wilts, late of 2, Waterloo-place, Weymouth, Dorset, Esq. March 15; Murray and Co., solicitors, 11, Birchinlane, London. RENNELL (Paul W.), 17, Mostyn-road, Brixton, Surrey, gentleman. April 10; R. Pidcock, solicitor, Church-hill, Woolwich. STEWART, otherwise Scorr (Mary Ann), Somerset Villa, 7, Granville-road, South Fields, Wandsworth, Surrey. April 3; Geo. Brown and Sons, solicitors, 21, Finsbury-place, Finsbury-square, Middlesex. SOUTHALL (Edwd. P.), West Lodge, Leominster, gentle man. March 31; Edwin Lloyd, solicitor, Leominster. SEARLE (Thos.), Horsey. Stanground, Hunts, farmer. May 1: G. Wyman, solicitor, Peterboro'. SUTTON (Sir Richd.), Bart., Benham Park, Berks. April 2; R. Bingham, 5, Bolton-st, Piccadilly, Midalesex. SCHNEIDT (Henry C.), 6, Mark-lane. London, and of Saxon Villa, Brockley-road, Lewisham, Kent, merchant. April 20; Stevens and Harries, solicitors, 24, Coleman-street, London. STEPHENSON (Thos.), formerly of 1, Hugh-street, Ecclestonsquare. Pimlico, late of 38, Addison-road north, Nottinghill, Middlesex, gentleman. March 26; H. A. Lovett, solicitor, 48, King William-street, London, E.C. Scorr (Mary), formerly of Ryder's Farm, Walton-onThames, late of Rockwood Cottage, Horsham, Surrey, widow. March 31; Shaen and Co., solicitors, 8, Bedfordrow, Helborn, Middlesex. SELBY (Geo.), 7, Fenchurch street, London, and of Lacklands, Blackheath. Kent, ship and insurance broker. April 1; Weston and Sons, solicitors, 35, Essex-street, Strand, Middlesex. SPURLING (Jeremiah), East Beyholt, Suffolk, gentleman. April 6; W. S. Calvert, solicitor, East Beyholt, Colchester SAUNDERS (THOS.), Brightwell, Oxford, farmer, May 31; Hedges, Lea and Marshall, solicitors, Wallingford, Berks. STILWELL (Geo.) Epsom, Surrey, surgeon. March 15; W. Slocombe, solicitor, 1, Abbot's-walk, Reading, Berks SCAMMELL (Geo.), Coppleridge Farm, Motcombe, Dorset, farmer, March 31; Bell and Freame, solicitors, Gillingham, Dorset. SAUNDERS (Thos.), 164, Drummond-street. Hampsteadroad, Middlesex, timber merchant. March 29; Ridsdale and Co., solicitors, 5, Grays'-inn-square, Middlesex. THOMPSON. (Jno), Kelswick House, Whitehaven, Esq., Apr. 3; T. S. Noble, solicitor, Lendal, York. TAYLOR (Jno.), Raglan Hotel, Embden-street, Hulme, Manchester, innkeeper. April 14; Farrar and Hall, solicitors, 79, Fountain-street. Manchester. THOMPSON (Mary), 35, Packer's-row, Chesterfield. watchmaker and jeweller. April 25; Gratten and Marsden, solicitors. 5, Knifesmith-gate, Chesterfield. TEASDALE (Eliza), 144, Jamaica-level, Bermondsey, Surrey, widow. March 31; J. McMillin, solicitor, 39, Bloomsburysquare, Middlesex. TOWNSEND (Francis), 6, Peel-road, Egremont, Chester, spinster. April 1; Field and Wightman, solicitors, 3, Fenwick-street, Liverpoool TAYLOR (Jas.), West Ferry, Owston, Lincoln, keel owner, March 19; Alfred M. Sharp, solicitor, Epsworth, Lincoln. TAYLOR (Jas.), 170, Westminster-road. Kirkdale. Liverpool, gentleman. May 12; Keightley and Co., solicitors, 20, Castle-street, Liverpool. TABBERER (Wm.), Bordesley-park, Alvechurch, Worcester, Esq. April 14; J. L. Canning and Canning, solicitor, 44, Waterloo-street, Birmingham. TAYLOR (Daniel), Mossley Common, near Tyldesley, provision dealer. April 15; C. Heywood and Sons, solicitors, 3, Mount-street, Manchester. TURNER (Jas.), formerly of the Reindeer Hotel, Mealcheapen-street, late of 13, Cole-hill, St. Peter the Great, both in Worcester, licensed victualler. May 22; G. T. Miller, solicitor, 54 Broad-street, Worcester. ULPH (Edwd. J.), formerly of 2, Florence-villas, Brightonroad, Croydon, Surrey, late of Guildford-villa, Selsdonroad. Croydon. gentleman. March 31; W. H. Rowland, solicitor, 101, High-street, Croydon. WILSON (Jno.). Heapy, Lancaster, farmer and wheelwright. April 5; J. Stanton, solicitor, 14, High-street, Chorley, WHEELHOUSE (Wm.), 144, Shoreham-street, Sheffield, gentleman. April 21; Broomhead and Co., solicitors, Bankchambers, George-street, Sheffield. WHITELEY (Wm.), late of Beeston House, Beeston, formerly of Stapleford, both in Nottingham, lace manufacturer. April 23; Burton and Co., solicitors, Long-row, Marketplace, Nottingham. WARD (Jos.), Hague Hall, South Kirkley, York, Esq. April 21; Brown and Son, solicitors, 1, St. James's street, Sheffield. 1st Nov. and 11th Jan., in November; or, of course, at any subsequent examination. Fortytwo days' notice at least is necessary for these examinations, the same to be calculated up to the first day of the examination. See No. 23 of the new regulations under the Solicitors Act 1877. WHITING (Geo.), Stoneham House, Ryde, Isle of Wight: ARTICLES of clerkship (whether original or sup March 25; T. White, solicitor, 13, Crossstreet, Ryde. WILKINS (Thos.), formerly of 10, Francis-place, Holloway, Middlesex, late of Sedan Villa, Ryde, Isle of Wight, gentleman. June 24; T. White, solicitor, 13, Cross-street, Ryde. WATSON (Richard and Catherine), 6, Albion-street, Lewisham-road, Greenwich, Kent, superannuated shipwright. April 8; Smith and Batchelor, solicitors, Croom's Hill, Greenwich. WILLSWORTH (Henry), 3, St. Jonn's-villas, Upper Holloway, Middlesex, gentleman. April 1; E. C. Foreman, 32, Gresham-street, London. WRIGHT (Jno.), Shelbrook farm, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester, farmer. April 7; Fisher and Cheatle, solici tors, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. WORSEY (Nathaniel), Broxton Gate Farm, near Stafford, farmer. March 31; F. Great-Rex, solicitor, Bank-chambers, Stafford. WORSEY (Margaret), Broxton Gate Farm, near Stafford, widow. March 31; F. Great-Rex, solicitor, Bank-chambers, Stafford. WESTWOOD (Jeremiah), St. John-street, Brierley-hill, Staf ford, builder. April 10; J. Walter, Clulow, solicitor, Brierley-hill. WENTWORTH (Right Hon. Fannie, Baroness), Essex Cottage, Central Hill, Upper Norwood, Surrey, March 25; F. Richardson and Saddler, solicitors, 28, Golden-square, Middlesex. WHITLEY (Ann), formerly of Langdale Villa, Oxton, Chester, late of Devonshire-road. Toxteth Park, Liver pool, widow. April 2; Miller, Peel, and Co., solicitors, Percy-buildings, Eberle-street, Liverpool. WEEKS (Wm.), 6, Greenway Bush-terrace, Bristol, commission agent. April 23; Gwyan aud Co., solicitors, 3, All Saints'-court, Bristol.'" WINDSOR (Thos.), Aylesbury, Bucks, innkeeper. March 10; plemental) dated on any day during March must be enrolled at the Petty Bag Office, Chancery-lane, on or before the same day in the month of September next, and when articles are enrolled and registered on any day during the month of March they must be entered at the Law Institution on or before the same day in the month of June next. See 6 & 7 Vict. c. 73, ss. 8 and 9, and 23 & 24 Vict. c. 127, s. 7. Failure to comply with these statutory requirements often entails a loss of time upon articled students. COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION.— NOTICE TO STUDENTS OF THE INNS OF COURT. THE Professor of Common Law (Mr. Jno. D. Mayne) will deliver, during the present Educational Term, twelve lectures on the Law of Contracts (continued), in the Inner Temple Hall. The lectures are delivered on Thursdays and Mondays, at 4.15 p.m. Council Chamber, Lincoln's Inn Hall. BIRMINGHAM LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. AT the 641st ordinary meeting of this society held on Tuesday evening last, in the library of the Birmingham Law Society, J. H. Barclay, Esq., B.A,, in the chair, after the minutes of the previous meeting had been read by the hon. sec. (Mr. H. W. Soutter) and confirmed, and two honorary and five ordinary members elected, a discussion took place on Moot Point, No. 607, "Is a corporation, not having gain for its object, and not governed by any Act of Parliament, liable on unsealed contracts of which it has had the WHITLEY (Rev. Richd. V.), the Vicarage, Lechlade, Glouces benefit apart from specific performance" (Nichol St. Neots, Hunts. WATSON (Jno.), South-road. Bishop Auckland, Durham, builder. May 13; J. Proud, solicitor, 16, Market-place, Bishop Auckland. WALTERS (Mary), 11, Queen-street, Neath, Glamorgan, widow. March 20; J. T. Davies, solicitor, Alma-place, Neath. ter. March 25; R. N. Hearne, solicitor, Newport, Salop. WIGMORE (Fredk), Bear and Ragged Staff, Upper Groundstreet, Blackfriars, Surrey, licensed victualler. March 19; Bolton and Co., solicitors, 1, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex. WALTHEW (Elizabeth), Newry House, Holyhead, Anglesea, widow. May 1; Joan L. Griffith, solicitor, Stanley House, Holyhead YOUNGMAN (Elizabeth), Saffron Walden, Essex, widow. April 5; Ackland and Son, solicitors, Saffron Walden. LAW STUDENTS' JOURNAL. THE following lectures and classes are appointed to be delivered and held during the ensuing week in the Lecture Hall of the Incorporated Law Society, Chancery-lane: Monday, Common Law Class 4.30 to 6 o'clock p.m.; Tuesday, ditto; Wednesday, ditto; Thursday, Common Law Lecture, 6 to 7 o'clock p.m. Members of the Incorporated Law Society may attend the lectures. INTERMEDIATE Examinations will be held in the hall of the society, Chancery-lane, London, on the following days in 1879, viz.: Thursday, the 24th April, at ten; Thursday, the 19th June, at ten; Thursday, the 6th Nov., at ten. ARTICLED students are required to present them selves for the Intermediate Examination within the six months next succeeding the day on which they shall have completed half of the term of service. Candidates are required to give to the secretary of the Incorporated Law Society thirty days' notice before the date of the examination at which they propose to be examined within the limit above mentioned, and at the same time to leave their articles of clerkship and any assignment thereof, or supplemental articles, duly stamped and regis tered, together with a certificate of their having passed the preliminary examination (unless they shall have been exempted therefrom), and answers to the questions as to due service and conduct up to that time. Prints of these questions can be obtained on application at the office of the Incorporated Law Society. Candidates who apply to be examined under the 4th section of the Solicitors Act 1860, may, on application, obtain copies of the further questions relating to the ten years 'service antecedent to the articles of clerkship; and such questions, duly answered, must be left at the time of giving notice. A renewed notice must be given fourteen days at least before the date of the examination. The fee payable on giving notice of examination is £3, and for a renewed notice £1 10s. WHERE articles expire between 10th Jan. and 15th April, candidates may be examined in January; if between 14th April and 22nd May, candidates may be examined in April; if between 21st May and 2nd Nov., in June; and if between 562.) son v. Bradfield Union, L. Rep. 1 Q. B. 620; Clarke v. Cuckfield Union, 21 L. J. Q. B. 349; Haigh v. North Brierley Union, 28 L. J. Q. B. 62; Mayor of Ludlow v. Charlton, 6 M. & W. 815; Lamprell v. Billericay Union, 3 Ex. 283; Crampton v. Varna Railway Company, L. Rep. 7 Ch. The speakers in the affirmative were Messrs. Edwards, Hayes, F. G. Bayley, and Kemp; on the negative, Messrs. Rogers, Vince, Thompson, Hooper, and Samuel. The voting was, for the affirmative nine, for the negative seven. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the meeting. BOLTON ARTICLED CLERKS' SOCIETY. A GENERAL meeting of this society was held in the Law Library, Wood-street, on Wednesday, Feb. 26. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. T. Cooper. On the motion of Mr. A. S. Pannington, seconded by Mr. E. Gee, it was unanimously carried, "That no person be admitted a member of this society who has obtained an order dispensing with the preliminary examination unless his application for such order has been assented to by the Bolton Incorporated Law Society." Mr. A. S. Pennington then read an able and instructive essay on Executory Interests, after which a debate took place on the following thesis, "That the present law relating to the grant of out-door beer licenses requires material alteration." Messrs. F. Ferguson, H. Whittingham, A. S. Pennington, J. P. Monks and others, supported the motion; the opposition was taken by Mr. J. Whowell, who was also supported by Mr. G. T. French and Mr. Watkins. Mr. Ferguson replied, and the chairman put the question to the meeting, when it was carried by a majority of eight. HUDDERSFIELD LAW STUDENTS' A GENERAL meeting of the members of this society was held on Monday evening last, when the chair was occupied by B. Crook, Esq., solicitor. A vote of thanks was unanimously passed to J. Paterson, Esq., barrister, London, for his kind present to the society of two volumes of his work on "The Liberty of the Subject." The chairman explained the provisions of the Bills of Sale Act 1878. He commented on the different clauses in the Act, and the changes it had made in the pre-existing law. A general discussion ensued thereon, after which Mr. Newton opened in the affirmative a discussion on the following question :-" A. by will gave all his effects to B. Will real estate of the testator pass to B." (Smyth v. Smyth, 8 L. Rep. Ch. Div. 561.) He was supported by Mr. F. Harling. Mr. R. T. Ruddock argued for the negative, and was supported by Mr. J. J. Booth. After some further remarks from Mr. J. T. Masser, the question was decided in the affirmative. HULL LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. THE usual weekly meeting of the above society was held in the Law Library, Parliament-street. Mr. Redfearn was, in the unavoidable absence of the appointed chairman, elected to the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and passed, Mr. Adamson opened in the affirmative the following moot point: "A railway passenger gives his portmanteau to a servant of the company, who asks if he will have it with him in the carriage,' and, on the passenger assenting, places it in a carriage some time before the train starts. The portmanteau is stolen before the passenger enters the carriage. Is the railway company liable for its value?" Mr. Gardam followed in the negative; Mr. Nicholson supported the affirmative, and Messrs. Brown and Whitehead the negative. A very animated discussion took place. During the debate following cases were referred to: (Robinson v. Dunmore, 2 B. & P. 416; Richards v. The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, 18 L. J. Rep. N. S. C. P. 251; Butcher v. The London and South-Western Railway Company, 24 L. J. Rep. N. S. C. P. 137; Talley v. The Great Western Railway Company, L. Rep. 6 C. P. 44; Cohen v. The South-Eastern Railway Company, L. Rep. 1 Ex. Div. 217; Bergheim v. The Great Eastern Railway Company, 26 W. R. 301; Le Conteur v. The London and South-Western Railway Com pany, 35 L. J. Rep. Q. B. 40.) Messrs. Gardam and Adamson having replied, the chairman summed up and put the questiou to the meeting, when it was carried in the negative by a majority of two. The usual vote of thanks terminated the proceedings. LIVERPOOL LAW STUDENTS' ASSOCIA TION. A MEETING of this association was held at the Law Library, on Monday, Feb. 24th, C. A. M. Lightbound, Esq., solicitor, in the chair. Twelve new members were elected, and three gentlemen prepared for election. Mr. W. F. Wilson, in the to J. Paterson, Esq., barrister-at-law, for his gift absence of the secretary, moved a vote of thanks to the association of a copy of his work entitled "Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject.” The motion was seconded by Mr. Crosfield and the debate in the affirmative on the following carried unanimously. Mr. Crosfield then opened question :-" A., the owner of land through which neighbouring mine, licence to make a cut through a stream passes, grants to B., the owner of a his land from the mine to the stream. Subse quently, by the action of C., the owner of chemical works higher up the stream, the water is polluted, and, flowing through the cut, injures the mining machinery of B. Has B. any right of action against C.P" Mr. Priest followed in support of the negative. The question was further discussed by Mr. Stewart (barrister), Mr. Rogers, and the chair man. After a very instructive debate the ques tion was put to the meeting, and decided in the affirmative by a majority of eleven. There were twenty-three members present. An examination on the subject of Mr. Sparrow's recent lectures on "Principal and Agent was held on Wednesday last. Arrangements have been made for the delivery of a further course of lectures to the members on "The Law of Evidence," by H. H. Bremner, Esq., barrister, to commence on the 19th inst. MANCHESTER LAW STUDENTS' DEBAT ING SOCIETY. THE ninth meeting of the session was held on Tuesday the 25th ult., at the Law Library, when the chair was taken by James Heeles, Esq., solici tor. The following resolutions were, after some discussion, passed by the meeting: "1. That this society views with regret the manner in which the power of the judges to dispense with the preliminary examinations has been exercised in recent years. 2. That no articled clerk shall be eligible for election as a member of this society, who has had his preliminary examination dispensed with by a judges's order unless his application to such judge has been previously approved by the committee of the law society of the district in which he purposes to be articled. Provided, nevertheless that no person to whom a dispensation order has been already granted, or who has been or shall be exempted from passing the preliminary examination by any Act of Parliament, or by any regula tions made by the Incorporated Law Society, or by any of Her Majesty's judges, shall be ineligible to become a member of this society." The attendance was much smaller than usual, only nineteen members being present. The question for the night's debate was, "Is it desirable that capital punishment should be abolished." Mr. Millar opened the discussion in favour of the affirmative, and depended to a considerable extent upon the theological view of the question. He was opposed by Mr. Hodgkinson, who, in the course of a very able speech, showed the disadvantages which would most probably accrue if capital punishment were done away with. Mr. Norton and Mr. W. Slater addressed the meeting on behalf of the affirmative and negative respectively. Mr. Hislop, Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Ryecroft, Mr. Abell, and several other gentlemen subsequently spoke upon the subject which was eventually decided in the negative. A vote of thanks to Mr. Heeli's terminated the proceedings. PLYMOUTH, STONEHOUSE, AND DEVON PORT LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. Ar the last fortnightly meeting of this society, held at the Athenæum, Plymouth, on the 21st ult., the following subject was discussed: "A railway passenger gives his portmanteau to a servant of the company, who asks if he will have it with him in the carriage; and on the passenger assenting, places it in a carriage some time before the train starts. The portmanteau is stolen before the passenger enters the carriage. Is the railway company liable for its value?" Mr. W. Phillips opened the debate in the affirmative, and was followed by Messrs. R. W. Gray and T. H. Geake in the negative. After some of the other members had expressed their opinions, the president (T. Wolferstone, Esq.) proceeded to sum up, and the question was ultimately decided in the negative by a majority of three. SHEFFIELD DISTRICT LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. THE usual weekly meeting of this society took place on Tuesday, the 25th ult., Mr. A. M. Wilson in the chair, the question under discussion was the following:- That free trade without reciprocity is not now advantageous to English commerce. A lively debate ensued. Messrs. Denton and Bennett taking the affirmative, and Messrs. Barber and Burdekin the negative side of the question. The debate being then open, Messrs. Sorby. Russell, Briggs, addressed the meeting. The chairman having ably summed up, the question when put to the meeting was decided in he negative. UNITED LAW CLERKS' SOCIETY. ON Monday evening the usual monthly meeting of the committee of management took place at the Society's Office, 3, Serjeant's-inn. Mr. E. Wildey in the chair. Of the committee there were present: Messrs. J. Allberry, J. Bailey, E. Cox, R. L. Cripps. H. Hall, H. Jepson, G. Lewis, W. Spray, and W. Stewart. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Messrs. A. H. Badger, E. E. Davies and F. S. Greenslade (solicitor's clerks), were unanimously elected members of the society. One member, and one non-member in addition to several widows of non-members were relieved by gifts and loans. Referring to the forthcoming Anniversary Festival which is to take place on May 21, at the Freemason's Tavern, under the Presidency of the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Wildey stated that, judging from the labours of the stewards up to the present, it promised to be the most successful festival they had had for many years. The chairman of the committee of stewards (Mr. Henry Hall) reported that amongst the noblemen and others who had consented to become honorary stewards was the following.-His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, P.C., K.G.; the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, P.C., D.C.L.; the Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G.; the Right Hon. the Earl of Redesdale, D.C.L.; the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice of England, G.C.B.; the Right Hon. the Master of Rolls; the Right Hon. the Lord Penzance, P.C.; and nearly the whole of Her Majesty's Judges. CORRESPONDENCE PROFESSION. OF THE NOTE.-This Department of the LAW TIMES being open to free discussion on all professional topics, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for any opinions or statements contained in it. UNITED LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. A MEETING of the above society was held on Wednesday last at Clement's Inn Hall, Strand, Mr. W. Shirley Shirley in the chair. After disposing of several motions of merely private interest, Mr. C. Kaius-Jackson opened in the PUBLIC PROSECUTOR.-I learn with great affirmative the following subject: "That the satisfaction that there is a Bill before Parliament nomination of candidates by such methods as to provide for the appointment of a solicitor for those lately adopted in the case of Southwark will public prosecutions. Details of the measure will lead to lamentable consequences," and was sup-be awaited with interest by the Profession, and I ported by Messrs. Dowson, Owen and Collyer; trust you will give us an opportunity of making the motion being opposed by Messrs. Ashton ourselves acquainted with them at an early date. Cross, Rubinstein, Bateman, Napier, and Curtis. I fear it is of little use for solicitors to "look to The subject for next Wednesday is, "That the Law Society to assert their rights" in respect England is pursuing an unwise and unjustifiable of this important office. The chief law society policy in relation to the affairs of South Africa." appears sunk in the deepest apathy with regard To be opened by Mr. J. Ashton Cross. On Mon- to the best interests of the Profession. I trust, day next the Agar-Ellis case (48 L. J. Ch.) however, the matter will be taken up with vigour will be discussed at the Law Institution. by the provincial societies, and that every effort will be made both by them and by members of the Profession individually to secure solicitors from any invasion of their rights. The Coroners Bill too is a measure in which solicitors will take a lively interest, and one the progress of which must be watched with the most jealous care. As Mr. Charles Ford, in his "Legal Practitioners Bill," attempted to secure the office of coroner to the Legal Profession, the Legal Practitioners' Society will doubtless do what they can in this direction; but I would urge individual members of the Profession to use every effort to obtain due recognition of the just claims of solicitors. Solicitors will hail the Supreme Court of Judicature Amendment Bill with satisfaction, and I think there can be little doubt it will become law, but it will require watching; and we may depend upon it that, if solicitors will not look after their own interests, no one else will look after them for them. Hoping you will keep these matters before your readers. M. Students' Queries. HONOURS FOR THE INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION.Can honours be obtained in the intermediate examination ? If so, what special subjects are announced for 1880 and 1881 ? J. H. L. Exeter College, Oxford, March 4. We are sorry to say that at present they cannot be Society are to blame for not so providing. - ED. STUD.'S DEPT.] obtained, and we consider that the council of the Law INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION.-B. W. C. A.-[Nov. 1879.-ED. STUD.'S DEPT.] — A. BROWN.-[April 1881.—ED. STUD.'S DEPT.] EMPLOYMENT DURING ARTICLES.-A. B., an articled clerk, has been appointed an executor under the will of a person now deceased. Query, Will it be advisable for A. B. to apply to a judge under sect. 4 of the Solicitors' Act 1874 for an order to permit him to act as such ? ENQUIRER. [We never heard of such an application. It appears to us to be wholly unnecessary. If, however, the duties are of an unusually onerous kind, the point might require consideration.-ED. STUD.'S DEPT.] BOOKS FOR THE FINAL.-I shall feel much obliged if you will inform me what books should be read for the final examination in June next. L. T. [It is not easy to place any particular limit upon the text books, which should be read by a man who wishes to fit himself for the exercise of his Profession. Consult a Student's Guide to the Examination, or men who have passed in honours.-ED. STUD.'S DEPT.] STEPHEN'S COMMENTARIES. With regard to the subjects for intermediate examination next year, I have found on inquiry that the 7th edit. of Stephen's Com. mentaries is out of print, and that the new edition will not be out for another year at least. If you can suggest any way out of this difficulty, I shall be much obliged, as doubtless will others. IGNORAMUS. [The 7th edition can be obtained from Butterworth's, 7, Fleet-street, London, law publishers, at the end of March. See our advertisement columns. The 8th edition will not be ready till March 1880.-ED. STUD.'s DEPT.] DELAYS IN CHAMBERS-SUMMONS.-I beg to call your attention to the great waste of time and cost of attending summonses both in the Chancery and Common Law Divisions. I should have thought that a summons returnable at a particular time and place would be attended by the several parties at the time and place fixed; but this is not so, unless the party taking out the summons particularly wishes it to be attended, and goes to the other party and begs him as a personal favour to attend, and in fact takes him along with him. Where, however, there are three or four solicitors engaged in the transaction, an attendance by all the parties appears to be perfectly hopeless, and it is a case of three-thimble business. A. B. and C. are engaged. A. takes out a summons and duly serves it upon B. and C. On the return of the summons B. does not attend, and as a matter of course it is adjourned for a week, or ten days. On the second return C. omits to attend. Then another adjournment of terr days. On this occasion A. unfortunately is absent, and the summons stands over indefinitely, or until some different arrangement can be made; and so the thimbles go round. The judges' clerks and the chief clerks seem to be powerless in the matter; indeed, it seems to them to be a matter of course. The clients are the parties who suffer by this loss of time, and by the vexation caused by the delay in their business, to say nothing of the enormous extra costs. What is the remedy? Let the summons be peremptory in the first instance; and, if the party taking out the summons do not attend, dismiss his summons with costs to be paid by him personally. I am quite satisfied that three-fourths at least of the time occupied with, and confusion in attending upon summonses arises from non-attendance of one or other of the parties on the first return of the summons; as for instance, when three solicitors are engaged, instead of one attendance of three persons, there are three or four attendances of three persons. Again, the tendency to idle and loose habits caused by a lot of clerks waiting for hours upon summonses ought not to be encouraged. X. THE CORONERS BILL.-This long-promised measure, after repeated shelvings and the lapse of the long vacation, has at length appeared, and, considering that there has been ample time to produce a Bill worthy of its authors, it is surely disappointing, if not discreditable, to find time so badly utilised and a measure so utterly meagre, particularly after the energetic efforts in this direction of Lord Francis Hervey, who I believe more than once has fully and ably brought before the notice of the House of Commons the evils and imperfections of this branch of our law. But one is perhaps not far wrong in predicting that, so long as ministers daily devote so much of the public time to matters connected with every other corner of the globe, so long will home grievances be left to grow worse and increasingly unmanageable, to the sorrow of every true Conservative. The circumstances. therefore, now justifying my so doing, I no longer hesitate to make the following suggestions with the view of rendering the measure more complete: first, the substitution of some more preferable mode of appointment than popular election; secondly, that only solicitors should be eligible for the office (or, as a substituted clause, solicitors and medical practitioners); thirdly, that every local authority shall provide proper buildings and accommodation, as mortuaries and inquest rooms, so as to avoid what is now generally the only course availablethe use of a public-house and its stables for the purpose; fourthly, remuneration from some specified source to police officers and others recovering drowned bodies. The experience of many holding the office of coroner would no doubt enable them also to help; and perhaps all these suggestions might be either embodied in a petition which the Legal Practitioners' Society might get presented, or they might form the main features of an independent measure; the same to consolidate by reenactment so much of the law (statute as well as case) as is still extant and serviceable, and abrogating all else. J. W. WATSON. THE NEW COUNTY COURT BILL.-As the Lord Chancellor has introduced a County Court Bill thus early in the session, there can be little doubt that, in accordance with the provisions of the Bill, a jurisdiction up to £200 will be given to the County Courts, and I believe that, if such increased jurisdiction is coupled with some reforms in practice, the measure will meet with the thorough approval of the commercial and trading classes. Those who are not in the habit of attending the County Courts are not in general conversant with bring their united wisdom to bear upon this Bill, their procedure, and even the legal Lords, who will might possibly learn something from the junior clerks in County Courts, and probably more from the solicitors practising in the courts, and from the suitors having cases. One thing certainly they would learn, viz., that some practical alterations must be made in the procedure of the County Courts before they will provide a popular tribunal where suitors can have their legal disputes speedily heard and determined before a judge either with or without a jury, and where creditors can obtain speedy and inexpensive redress against debtors who wish to shirk payment of their just debtors. Having a large practice in one of the largest County Courts in England, I have some knowledge of what is wanted both on plaintiffs' and defendants' side. Plaintiffs are always apt to complain of the delays which occur between the issuing of a summons and judgment; and louder are the complaints, because greater the delay, as to the length of time before the fruits of a judgment are realised: especially are these complaints heard in towns such as Liverpool, where there is a local court having to a certain extent concurrent jurisdiction with the County Court. I do not intend to argue that legislation can assure to an |