that, in quashing the conviction, it was competent to them to visit the costs upon the prosecutor, who probably may have misled the justices, and who may have been guilty of oppression or deception, they would no doubt often have exercised

their powers in this way to the great advantage sureties to prosecute the appeal at the next general &c. Railway Company, 2 L. T. Rep. N.S. 550.)

of public justice. This power it is now clearly established they possess, and they will no doubt exercise it in all cases where the prosecutor is really defending the appeal, and where they can see that his conduct in the prosecution has been unjust and censurable.

Answers to Queries.

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minister. He fined the defendant 31. If he (Mr. | general meeting of the company. It was held
Elliott) was wrong in his opinion, he could be set that such a proceeding could not be maintained,
right, as there was a court of appeal.
on the ground that it was the duty of com
Mr. Rosier.-I shall appeal, sir, on several grounds.
plaining shareholders first to seek redress from
Mr. ELLIOTT.-Very well. You must put in
the company at a meeting: (Orr v. The Glage
or quarter sessions.
JOINT PROPRIETORS OF STOCK
TRANSFER BY ONE.-B. and C. were joint owen
of stock in the D. railway. B. sold the stock.
and forged the name of C. to the transfer, which
was registered. Afterwards C. died; and in a
suit by his administrator, the company was held
Midland Railway Company, 2 L.T. Rep. N.S.558.)
to be bound to replace the stock: (Taylor v. The

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.-A return was published
on Thursday morning of all cases in which corporal
punishment had been inflicted in gaols during the
last three years. The number has been has follows:
Bedford, 2; Berks, 5; Bucks, 2; Cambridge, 1;
Chester, 48; Cornwall, 12; Derby, 5; Devon, 41;
Dorset,5; Durham, 4; Essex, 4; Gloucester, 4; Here-
ford, 1; Hertford, 28; Kent, 30; Lancaster, 190;
Leicester, 18; Lincoln, 18; Middlesex, 51; Norfolk,
10; Northampton, 3; Northumberland, 99; Notting-
ham, 4; Oxford, 15; Salop, 32; Somerset, 28; South-
ampton, 2; Stafford, 78; Suffolk, 5; Surrey, 7;
Sussex, 11; Warwick, 4; Westmoreland, 2; Wilts, 6;
Worcester, 5; York, 13. The only returns from
Wales are 10 cases at Denbigh. In the county prison
at Dorset 72 lashes were inflicted on one prisoner and
60 on another. 48 lashes were inflicted on a man 53
years of age.

STAMP-CORPORATION.-In answer to the query of "Sig.," in your paper of the 14th inst., I beg to refer him to Diggles v. The London Railway, 15 L. T. Rep. 208; The London Docks Company v. Linnott, 30 L. T. Rep. 164. A corporation has no power to contract except by deed under seal, which requires a 358. stamp (see Greenwood's Practice of Conveyancing); and a corporation aggregate cannot be bound to the conditions of any contract entered into by them, unless it is under their seal, on the general principle that a corporation cannot be sued upon a contract not under seal; but it is doubtful how far a corporation is bound by an executed contract not under seal, but of which the corporation has received the benefit. The Court of Queen's Bench holds that the corporation is bound, and the Court of Exchequer and Common Pleas hold apparently that it is not bound: (see REAL PROPERTY LAWYER AND Powell on Evidence, 315.)

Over, near Winsford, Cheshire, July 17.

THAMES POLICE COURT.
Thursday, July 17.

WM. POOLE.

CONVEYANCER.

NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. CHARITY-MORTMAIN.-A devise of a house "unto the trustees for the time being of the Penzance Public Library for ever, for the use, benefit, maintenance and support of the said library," was held to be void, on the ground of perpetuity: (Carne v. Long, 2 L. T. Rep. N.S. 552.) EQUITABLE MORTGAGE.-An equitable mort

ST. GEORGE'S IN-THE-EAST. Brawling in a church-The new Act. Mr. R. Rosier, of Ratcliffe-highway, alias St. George's-street, appeared before Mr. Elliott at the Thames Police-court, charged on a summons taken out by the Rev. Thomas Dove Dove, assistant curate of the parish of St. George's-in-the-East, with hav-gagee, by deposit of title-deeds without a written ing, on Sunday morning last, in the parish church, and during the celebration of divine service, made a disturbance. The summons expressed that the defendant did unlawfully molest, let, disturb, vex, and trouble the said Thomas Dove Dove, a clergyman in holy orders, ministering in the parish church of St. George, during the celebration of divine service.

The summons was issued under the second clause of the new Act, the 23 & 24 Vict. c. 32, which imposes a penalty not exceeding 5l., or imprisonment, without the option of paying a fine, not exceeding two months.

memorandum of deposit, is entitled to principal,
interest and costs, on realising the security; and
his costs are to take precedence of those of the
administrators of the deceased mortgagor's estate:
(Tuckley v. Thompson, 2 L. T. Rep. Ñ.S. 565.)

Answers to Queries.

NECESSITY OF REVIVING JUDGMENT.-Although undeserv-
ing the potent epithet of a "common law expert," I do not
hesitate venturing a reply to the query of Vigilans" in
last Saturday's LAW TIMES. By reference to the case of
Boodle v. Davis, 8 Ex. 351, it will be found that sect.
128 of the C. L. P. A. 1852 (exteading the time
of issuing execution from one year and a day to
six years after date of judgment) applied to judg-
ments existing at the date thereof. By sect. 129, the
mode of reviving judgment by suing out a scire facias was
superseded by the issuing for that purpose a writ of revivor,
or by entering a suggestion on the roll after leave for that
purpose obtained of the court or a judge, upon a rule to
show cause on a summons in the form in schedule A. to the
said Act annexed. This section, I apprehend, applies to the
judgment which is the subject of "Vigilans' query; to re-
vive which, according to that section, it will be necessary
before execution thereon can be issued.
W. W.

St. Swithin's-lane, July 18.

1. Judges of Central Criminal Court and its diction. The judges of the Central Criminal r are the Lord Mayor, the Lord Chancellor, the jus of the courts at Westminster, the judges in talruptcy, the judge of the Admiralty, the aldermen of London, the recorder and common serjeant, the judges of the Sheriffs' Court there, any person we has been Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper or a jada of any of the courts at Westminster, and such ces as the Crown shall from time to time appoint. is jurisdiction extends over London, Middlesex st certain surburban parts of Essex, Kent and Surrey, (4 Steph. Com. 334.)

The facts of the case may be shortly stated as follows:-The Rev. Mr. Dove was celebrating divine service on Sunday morning last, when the defendant, Mr. Rosier, gave the responses in a voice so loud as to excite attention, when Mr. Thompson, the churchwarden, went up to him and requested him not to speak in so loud a tone; but the defendant persisted in doing so, and in consequence Mr. Thompson was compelled to put him out of the church. Mr. Dove then applied at this court for a summons to answer a complaint for disturbing the clergyman in the performance of his duty. Subsequent to this Mr. Rosier applied to the same court for a summons against Mr. Thompson for putting him out of the church; but this the sitting magistrate refused to grant, as the matter of complaint could be gone into when the summons granted to Mr. Dove came on for hearing. Mr. ELLIOTT said this was a summons taken out under an Act of Parliament, 23 & 24 Vict. c. 32, which received the Royal assent only sixteen days ago. It had fallen, unfortunately, upon him to hear and decide upon the first case under the Act. The second clause said that "if any person shall be guilty of riotous, violent, or indecent behaviour in any cathedral, church, parish or district church or chapel of the Church of England and Ireland, or in any chapel of any religious denomination, or in any place of religious worship duly certified, whether during the celebration of divine service or at any other time, or in any churchyard or burial-ground, or who shall molest, let, disturb, vex, or trouble, or by any other shall be obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned, jurisdiction of a coroner in any part of the realm: (

LAND FOR RIFLE PRACTICE.-The following is the chief clause of the Bill for facilitating the acquisition by rifle volunteer corps of grounds for rifle practice:-"Any rifle volunteer corps may purchase tioned any land for rifle practice, and for the erection or acquire by such grants as are hereinafter menof butts and other accommodations for the use of the corps when practising with rifles, subject to the following restrictions: That the assent of her Majesty's for the time being, hereinafter called the said Principal principal Secretary of State for the War Department Secretary, shall be obtained to the purchase of any land under the powers of this Act, or to the grant of any land by any person or body of persons, in pursuance of the powers hereinafter given: That, in addition to such assent, the sanction of Parliament before it shall be lawful for any volunteer corps to put in force such provisions of the Acts hereinafter incorporated as relate to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement."

JOURNAL.

unlawful means disquiet or misuse any preacher duly
authorised to preach therein, or any clergyman in
holy orders ministering or celebrating any sacrament,
or any divine service, rite, or office, in any cathedral,
church, or chapel, or in any churchyard or burial-
ground, shall, on conviction, be liable to a penalty of
not more than 51., or may be committed to prison for JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES' LAW
any time not exceeding two months." Without
going into the wretched differences in the parish of
St. George, so detrimental to religion and so shocking
to every person of well-regulated mind, and without
going into the question of whether singing the service
or saying the service was the best, he begged leave to
state shortly the grounds for convicting the defendant.
He was of opinion that every rector or incumbent of
a church or chapel had a right to prescribe the mode
of celebrating divine service, and whether it should
be a choral service or otherwise. If a clergyman
thought fit to order that the responses should be
sung, and people read the responses in a loud voice,
to prevent the singing of them as directed by the
minister, that was an offence within the meaning of
He was of opinion the defendant and others,
by reading the responses loudly, wished to prevent
the singing, and did disturb, vex, and trouble the

the Act.

2. Offences committed at sea, where cognisable.-A offences alleged to have been committed on the bigh seas and other places within the admiralty of England, Majesty's commissioners by whom any court shad may be inquired of, heard and determined by ta be holden under any of her Majesty's commissieta of oyer and terminer or general gaol delivery, and they shall have severally and jointly all the powe named in any commission of oyer and terminer fut which by any Act are given to the commissions the trying of offences committed within the admiral y of England, and may deliver the gaol in every cont and franchise within the limits of their several con therein for any offence alleged to have been commit missions, of any person committed to or imprisoned ted on the high seas, &c.: (see Arch. Cr. P. by Welsby, 24, 12th edit.)

3. Supreme Coroner.-The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench is the supreme corner in the kingdom, and may, if he thinks fit, exercise the Steph. Com. 614.)

4. Appeal in criminal cases.-The 11 & 12 Vici. c. 78, enacts, that where any person shall have bein convicted of any treason, felony, or misdemeanour, before any court of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery, or court of quarter session, the judge or justices of the peace before whom the case was tried, may, in his or their discretion, reserve any question of law for the consideration of any of the Superior Courts at Westminster, and have for this purpose authority to respite execution of the judgment on such conviction, or postpone the judgment until the question has been decided. In the mean time the justices may send the accused to prison or take bail: (sect. 1.) The question is to be stated in the form of a special case, signed in the usual manner, and transmitted to the court above, who decide the matter as they think right: (sect. 2; Arch. Cr. Pl. & Ev. 156, 12th edit.) So the justices at petty sessions may state a case of a point of law for the opinion of any of the Superior Courts, on application being made to them in writing

NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. REMEDIES OF SHAREHOLDERS - LIABILITIES OF DIRECTORS.-An important case, illustiative of this subject, has been decided by the H. of L. The shareholders in a railway company sought to set aside certain orders for calls, made by the directors on the ground that they were connected with a rival company, and had illegally contrived, by purchasing shares for such rival company, to command a preponderating influence in the plaintiffs' company, and to use it for the purpose of preventing the railway from being made. The plaintiffs had not previously sought of proceedings and directions to be attended to at the redress, by application to the directors, or to a

(a) By Richard Hallilay, Solicitor, author of "A Digest of the Examination Questions and Answers, with the mode examination."

-the party aggrieved, within three days after the cision by the justices. Security must be given by e appellant: (20 & 21 Vict. c. 43.)

12. Description of stolen property in an indictment. If property be stolen out of the possession of a bailee it may be described in the indictment as the property either of the bailor or the bailee (2 Hale, 181); although the goods were never actually in the possession of the real owner, but in the possession of the ostensible owner only: (Arch. Cr. Pl. by Welsby, 33, 12th edit.)

5. When court of quarter session held-Appeal from.
The court of general quarter session of the peace is
e that must be held in every county once in every
arter of a year, which by stat. 11 Geo. 4 & 1
ill 4, c. 70, s. 85, is appointed to be in the first
ek after the 28th day of December, the first week
er 31st day of March, and the first week after
It is held before two or more 13. Owner or occupier of land expelling trespasser
e 24th day of June.
stices of the peace, one of whom must be of the and taking him before magistrates without warrant.—
orum. By stat. 34, Ed. 3, this court may determine Where a person is found wilfully trespassing on the
felonies and trespasses whatever, but it has never land of another, the owner of the property, his ser-
en used to try any greater offences than small vant, or person authorised by him, may arrest such
onies. And by the 5 & 6 Vict. c. 38, this court person and take before a magistrate without a war-
not try any prisoner for treason under a capital rant: (see Arch. Cr. Pl. by Welsby, 555, 12th edit.)
ny, which, when committed by a person not pre-
14. Witnesses in criminal prosecutions claiming the
Counsel,
usly convicted of felony, is punishable with trans-privilege of confidential communications.
tation for life, nor for any of the particular offences solicitors and attorneys are privileged from giving
this Act enumerated: (see 4 Steph. Com.; Saund. (indeed, they will not be permitted to give) evidence
g. Pr. 162, where the offences are enumerated.) of any matters confided to them by their clients in
to appealing from this court, see next preceding their professional capacity (Gill Ev. 136), either in
the cause respecting which the communication was
1. Court of petty session, and general nature of made or in any other: (Arch. Cr. Pl. by Welsby,
tters transacted there.-Courts of petty session are 228, 12th edit.)
8: local assemblages of justices which are periodi- 15. Compounding or compromising indictable offence
ly held for the transaction of the business arising-Exceptions.-Compounding a felony is illegal
hin such locality. The power of justices in petty because it shows that the prosecution was
individual's own ends,
sion is to try in a summary way such offences as
cern drunkenness, swearing, vagrancy, &c., &c. and not for the public good. Compounding a
misdemeanor
e proceedings of justices at petty session on sum-
too is illegal without leave
But it is not un-
ry convictions are now chiefly regulated by the the courts at Westminster.
11 & 12.Vict. c. 43: (see Saund. Mag. Pr. 2; 4
ph. Com.) The power of justices at petty session
hear charges of offences punishable upon indict-
nt are of the most extensive description, embrac-
with very few exceptions, every kind of indictable
ny and misdemeanor: (Saund. Mag. Pr. 114.)
Appeal from justices at petty sessions.-We have
eady answered this question: (see answer No. 4,
ira.)

swer.

1. Defective indictment Quashing it Court.ere an indictment is so defective that no judgat could be given upon it, even should the defenit be convicted, the court will in general quash it. as they have quashed an indictment for perjury or gery found at sessions, because the sessions have jurisdiction in these cases; also an indictment unst six for exercising a trade, because it was a tinct offence in each. So, if the indictment conas facts which do not amount to an offence punishle at law, they may be quashed; as an indictment contemptuous words spoken to a justice of the see, not stating that they were spoken to him whilst the execution of his office. The application is

de to the court where the bill is found; except in es of indictments at sessions or other inferior courts, which cases the application is usually made to the urt of Queen's Bench, the record being previously ved there by certiorari. But it has been decided at the court of quarter sessions has itself authority quash an indictment found there, before plea aded: (see Arch. Cr. Pl. by Welsby, 79, 12th It.)

9. Burglary defined-Within what hours must be
uted-Burglary is thus defined by Lord Coke:

A burglar is he that breaketh and entereth into a
ansion house with intent to commit a felony." In
is definition there are four things to be considered-
The
e time, the place and the circumstances.
arglary must be in the night, and for the purposes
this offence night is considered to commence at nine
m.and conclude at six a.m. of the next day: (4 Steph.
m.; Arch. Cr. Pl. by Welsby, 338, &c., 12th
dit.)

10. Arson-Punishment for.-Arson (at common w) is the wilful and malicious burning of the use or outhouse of another man. By the 1 Vict. 89, s. 2, whoever shall unlawfully and maliciously ttire to any dwelling-house, any person being therein, shall be guilty of felony and shall suffer eath. In other cases it is felony and punishable with transportation for life or for not less than fifteen ears, or imprisonment not exceeding three years: ect. 2; see also 7 & 8 Vict. c. 62.) If any servant gigently or carelessly set fire to any dwellinghouse or out-house or other buildings, and be thereof convicted on the oath of one witness before two or more justices, he forfeits 1007. to be distributed among the sufferers, or in default shall be committed to prison freighteen months to be kept to hard labour: (4 Steph. Com.)

11. Forgery what-Alteration of a genuine instruest-Forgery is defined at common law to be the fraudulent making or altering of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right, and so that the instrument shall purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created. The 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4, c. 66, makes the offence of forging the Great Seal, the Privy Seal, &c., Exchequer-bills, Bank of England notes, &c., with intent to defraud, felony. It also attaches the same penalty to the offence even of having in possession without excuse any forged bank-note or the like, knowing it to be forged, or having in possession without excuse, any frames, moulds, &c., for paper, with the name of any banker visible in the substance of the paper. The fraudulent alteration of a genuine instrument

menced to

serve un

com

of

common when a person is convicted of a misde-
meanor more immediately affecting an individual,
as battery or imprisonment or the like, for the court
to permit the defendant to speak with the prosecutor
before any judgment is pronounced, and if the prosecu-
tor declares himself satisfied, to inflict but a trivial
punishment: (see 4 Steph. Com. 294 to 296, 3rd edit.)

MERCANTILE LAWYER.

NOTES OF NEW DECISIONS. PRINCIPAL AND Surety.-B. brought an action against C. as the maker of a promissory note. C. pleaded, by way of equitable defence, that the note was the joint and several note of himself and D., and made by himself only as surety for D., and was delivered to B. on the terms that C. should be liable only as surety, and that B. gave time to D. without his (C.'s) consent. The jury found that B. knew that C. was surety for D., but that D. did not agree, nor did C. stipulate, that he should be treated by B. as a surety, or otherwise than as a maker. It was held by the court of error, that an equity arises from the relationship of principal and surety, so that if the fact is known to the creditor, and he gives time to the principal without the consent of the surety, the surety is relieved from his obligation; and that, to produce this result, there is no need of a stipulation at the time of the delivery of the security: (Greenhough v. M'Clelland, 2 L. T. Rep. N.S. 571.)

MARITIME LAW.-The master of a ship chartered by the owner to another person, by a charter-party, containing a stipulation that the stevedore should be appointed by the charterer, and used by the charterers as a general ship, is not, in the absence of personal contract or negligence, liable to a person delivering goods on board to be carried, for injury done to the goods by the negligence of the stevedore: (Blakie v. Stembridge, 2 L. T. Rep. N.S. 570.)

LEGAL OBITUARY.

225

NOTE.-This department of the LAW TIMES is contributed by EDWARD

WALFORD, Esq., M.A., and late scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and Fellow of the Genealogical and Historical Society of Great Britain, and as it is desired to make it as perfect a record as possible, the families and friends of deceased members of the Profession will oblige by forwarding to the LAW TIMES Office any dates and materials required for a biographical notice.

SIR WILLIAM HORNE. WE have to chronicle this week the decease of a gentleman whose name, though now comparatively forgotten, was once familiar to the ear of the public, as well as to the legal profession, when he was Attorney-General and M.P. for Marylebone-Sir William Horne, who died at his residence in Harleystreet, on Friday, the 13th inst., at the age of 87. The deceased gentleman was the son of humble but respectable parents, and was born in 1773 or 1774. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's-inn in 1798, became a King's Counsel in 1818, and was AttorneyGeneral to Queen Adelaide for a short time in 1830, In 1831 he entered Parliament as M.P. for the borough of Newton, and was one of the first representatives chosen by the electors of Marylebone, upon the erection of that parish into an electoral constituency, after the passing of the Reform Bill. He was Solicitor-General under Earl Grey's ministry, and succeeded Lord Denman as Attorney-General in 1832. This office he resigned in 1834, at first accepting, but eventually (under circumstances which were never quite explained) declining a seat on the bench as one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and gave Eventually he was appointed to a the ascendant. place to "plaiu John Campbell," whose star was in mastership in Chancery, but resigned that office in The deceased knight, who was a member of Lincoln's-inn, married in 1800 Miss Hesse, by whom (who died in 1849) he has left a numerous family. Sir William Horne was a man of high professional an equity standing in his day, more especially as lawyer, and he never attained the legal position to which his talents entitled him. We find the following sketch of his character, while comparatively a young man, in an interesting work entitled "Criti cisms on the Bar," reprinted from the Examiner by "Amicus Curiæ " in 1819:-" Of Mr. Horne I feel

1853.

an

competent to say but little, because from various
i
and certainly not very necessary to explain,
accidents, which it would not perhaps be very easy,
have seldom had
listening
opportunity of
to him while he has been employed in addressing
either the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, or
the Master of the Rolls: all that I have heard and
seen, however, has pleased me, and, if I have not heard
more, it did not arise from the circumstance that he
enjoys but little business, for the fact is directly the
He seems a man of a sound understanding,
and of a clear head, and conducts himself without
He is esteemed a good equity
pretence of any kind.
chancery advocate. His countenance is rather
lawyer, and his appearance gives just the idea of a
thoughtful than bright. Some men make their faces
mere mirrors, reflecting external impressions, ope-
rated upon by the cloudiness or clearness of the
weather, by the presence of particular individuals,
and a thousand other circumstances; but the face of

reverse.

thoughtful man is always much the same, and he is not particularly excited by what is passing within or without. This is the case with Mr. Horne, who has gained the character with some on this account of being a heavy man. In his practice I have remarked nothing to warrant this opinion, unless a tranquil sobriety of deportment be mistaken for drowsy dulness. The tone of his voice is something too deep, and may have a lulling sort of murmur 10 those who attend the court for the mere purpose of gratifying useless curiosity. I think his manner at times peculiarly forcible, and he has often, when I have seen him, an earnestness about his delivery that secured my attention."

SALVAGE.-On application to the court under sect. 498 of the Merchant Shipping Act, for an apportionment of salvage, the court will make PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, a decree for it, unless an equitable agreement be proved, or tender made: (The Enchantress, 2 L.T. Rep. N.S. 574.)

Answers to Queries,

PROMISSORY NOTE?-IF SO, WHAT STAMP?-"Ebor's

query." A promissory note," says Mr. Justice Byles, in his
treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange (7th edit. p. 81),
"payable with interest twelve months after notice, is not to

be considered as payable on a contingency, and is, conse-
quently, valid;" in confirmation whereof, he cites Clayton v.
Gosling, 5 B. & C. 360, the remarks of Mr. Justice Bayley in
which case are equally applicable to that of "Ebor's." The
the stamp duty on bills and notes till the 10th Oct. 1854.

General Stamp Act, 55 Geo. 3, c. 184, continued to regulate

From that date the statute 17 & 18 Vict. c. 83, substituted
other duties. By the foregoing, and by reference to the
authorities cited, I conceive it will be found to be tolerably
clear that the note in question is a promissory note, and that
the stamp for the same in the year 1853 should have been
W. W.
4s. 6d.
St. Swithin's-lane, 19th July 1860.

LONDON CORPORATION BILL.-In reply to Mr.
Crawford, Sir G. C. Lewis stated that the discussion
of the Bill would occupy considerable time, and he
should therefore be prepared to discharge the order
for going into committee.

ETC.

[Clerks of the Peace for Counties, Cities and Boroughs, will oblige ly 1egularly forwarding the names and addresses of all new Magistrates that may qualify.]

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Richard Sheppard, Esq., and William Inman Welsh, Esq., of Wells, Somersetshire, to be London Commissioners to administer oaths in the High Court of Chancery.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Archibald Paul Burt, Esq., to be Civil Commissioner and Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the colony of Western Australia; Francis Spencer Wilgey, Esq., to be Attorney-General for the island of Saint Christopher. The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas have appointed John Hovell Triston, Esq., of Fortessterrace, Kentish-town, to be a London Commissioner for administering oaths in common law in the said

terrace, Kentish-town, and (George Brown, Esq., of Paddington-green, to be London Commissioners for administering oaths in common law in the said

court.

The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to approve and confirm the appointment by R. D. Newill, Esq., of Mr. John Bidlake, of Wellington, solicitor, as Deputy Coroner for the No. 4, or Bradford South and Brimtree Shifforal coroner's district of the county of Salop.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Reported by JOHN THOMPSON, T. W. SAUNDERS, and C. J. B. HERTSLET, Esqra., Barristers-at-Law.

BUSINESS OF THE WEEK.

Equity; and Mr. Frederick Meadows White, on
Common Law and Mercantile Law.

The lectures will commence in next Michaelmas
Term, and be continued until the end of the several
courses in March.

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CONGRESS.
The fourth session of the Congress was formally
opened on Monday last. His Royal Highness the
Prince Consort presided and delivered an inaugural
address.

A preliminary meeting of the first section, that of THE COURTS & COURT PAPERS. Judicial Statistics, took place on Wednesday of last week, at Somerset-house, under the presidency of Lord Brougham, who has for years given much attention to this important branch of statistical inquiry. To facilitate the labours of the Congress, a programme has been prepared for each section of the questions to be submitted for discussion, and for the section of Judicial Statistics it consists of two parts-viz., 1. Judicial Statistics, properly so called-i.e. the statistics of civil and criminal justice in different countries; 2. Statistics of real property and its burdens. Professor Leoni Levi, one of the secretaries of the session, who has prepared the first part of the programme, briefly explained the purpose and objects of the inquiry, and recommended the collection and publication of all the facts connected with civil and criminal statistics for all countries in such a methodical and comparative manner as to enable the legislator to study with greater profit the laws and institutions of which they are in some sort the results and exponents.

June 25 and 28, and July 7. ZUILCHENBART v. ALEXANDER.—(Judgment.)—COCKBURN, C.J.: The question in this case was, whether the defendant, a merchant at Bristol, who had acted as broker for the plaintiffs, who are merchants in Liverpool, as purchasers, as well as for the seller, a merchant at Bristol, in the sale of a quantity of serap iron, of a quality specified in the contract, and also as the agent of the plaintifs in shipping the iron for the Continent, was liable to the plaintiffs for acting and shipping such iron, it being an ascertained fact that the iron was so far inferior in quality to the description specified in the contract as that, if the duty of seeing to its quality attached to the defendant, he had been guilty of negligence in accepting it. It appeared that the defendant had written to the plaintiffs advising them to purchase the iron in question, and describing it as of a specified quality: the plaintiffs answered, desiring to have an offer of cost and freight to Rotterdam. To this the defendant replied, stating the price, but also stating his inability to make an offer as to freight, as he had then no ship applicable, but expressing his conviction that he should shortly be able to find a ship. Subsequently, and before the plaintiffs had closed with the offer, the defendant again wrote, advising a ship for the conveyance of the iron, and the plaintiffs in answer accepted the purchase, but objected to the particular ship as too small to take the whole cargo, desiring the defendant to look out for another; thereupon the defendant, as agent for both parties, entered into and accepted the contract of sale, and transmitted the same to the plaintiffs. He afterwards engaged a vessel to convey the iron, received the same, and caused it to be shipped, assuring the plaintiffs in one of his letters that the cargo was considered a first-rate description of scrap iron. As had been stated, the iron turned out to be of very inferior quality to the description specified in the contract, and the plaintiffs having sustained a serious loss in consequence, the present action was brought; and the question is whether, under these circumstances, the verdict is wrong. Now it cannot be contended that, as a broker negotiating a contract for sale between the seller of the iron and the plaintiffs as the buyers, any responsibility attached to the defendant in respect of the quality of the iron sold. Then did any such obligation attach upon his employment by the plaintiffs to ship the iron? It seems clear that an obligation to see to the quality of goods required to be shipped does not necessarily arise on the employment of a shipping agent. Such a duty may exist from usage in a particular department of trade, but in the absence of any such usage, it can only arise from the agreement between the parties. But there was here no evidence whatever of a usage, and the correspondence

between the parties was altogether silent as to any supervision or discretion to be exercised by the defendant in accepting or rejecting the iron. It was urged upon us, indeed, that it was contemplated between the parties from the beginning that the iron, when bought, should be

shipped by the defendant for the plaintiffs; that is, the plaintiffs were not resident at Bristol, and had no opportunity of inspecting the iron themselves, and as the defendant was

cognisant of the terms of the contract, it must be inferred

that the understanding was, that the defendant was to see that the iron was of the quality contracted for before he received it on account of the plaintiffs. This reasoning does not, however, appear to us to be conclusive. Although it may possibly have been contemplated throughout between the parties that the iron should be shipped by the defendant, there was no binding engagement on either side to that effect. The plaintiffs, after accepting the purchase, might have employed another agent to ship. So they might also themselves have proceeded to inspect and accept or reject the iron, or have sent another agent to inspect and accept or reject it. There is nowhere in the correspondence any instructions to the defendant to look to the quality of the iron, or any authority to him to reject it. As we have already pointed out, no such duty or authority ought necessarily to be implied from the nature of the employment as shipping agent, more especially as, in the present instance, the defendant was to receive no remuneration from the plaintiffs, his profits being derived from a commission from the seller on the sale, and from a commission from the shipowner, who was chartering the vessel which was to convey the iron. It may well have been that the plaintiffs looked

only to the liability of the seller, who was then believed to

be solvent, although he afterwards turned out to be otherwise. At all events, we are of opinion that no obligation, express or implied, is made out to render the defendant liable. We agree that the question was properly one for the jury, if there was any evidence of any engagement by the defendant to see to the quality of the iron before accepting and shipping it; but leave having been reserved to set the verdict aside and enter the verdict for the defendant, if the court should be of opinion that there was not evidence to be left to the jury in support of that position, we are of opinion that there was an absence of such evidence, and, consequently, the rule must be made absolute. Rule absolute.

of authentic collections of facts, legislation remained
The president observed that, owing to the absence
open to the reproach of being empiric in its character,
and that it could scarcely be ranked among the
sciences until it should have adopted, like them, the
inductive method of investigation.

section, read his note upon the second subject
Mr. Hill Williams, one of the secretaries of the
confided to this section-viz., the statistics of real
property and its burdens. He explained that at
former meetings the Congress had expressed itself
strongly in favour of the registration of landed pro-
perty and of the systematic collection of facts con-
nected with it, and regretted that, from the absence
of a general national map and book of reference,
England was not in a position to contribute the
materials necessary for a general scheme of statistical
inquiries applicable to this question, as specially re-
commended by the Vienna Congress. He stated the
objects of registration to be to increase the security
of titles and the value of real property by facilitating
its transfer and encouraging its improvement, and
proposed the following general propositions as worthy
of support, viz. :-
:-

in every State is highly expedient.
1. That the establishment of a general land register

2. That it should be based upon a general survey
and map, accompanied by a book of reference, giving
for each parcel or close of land the names of owner
and occupier, the state of cultivation, and contents.
3. That the map and reference should be revised
periodically, so as to represent, as nearly as possible,
the actual state of the land itself.

propositions recommending the registration of all
These three propositions met with approval. Other
transfers of land and mortgages were postponed.
The several sections of the congress met on Tuesday
morning, in the rooms prepared for them at
Somerset-house and King's College. In accordance
with the course pursued at previous meetings of the
congress, the first business of the sections was the elec-
tion of their officers. His Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, accompanied by the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, and attended by the Earl Spencer and Col.
Ponsonby and the secretaries of the congress, visited
and spent some time in each of the sections.

FIRST SECTION-JUDICIAL STATISTICS.

Dr. Asher proposed Lord Brougham as President
of the section, which was received with acclamation,
and unanimously adopted.

Colonel Dawson proposed Dr. Asher as Foreign
Vice-president, who was unanimously elected.
Mr. Lumley then proposed the Right Hon. William
Napier and Sir W. Page Wood, as Vice-Presidents,
who were unanimously elected.

On the motion of Mr. Commissioner Hill, Mr
Samuel Redgrave, Mr. Leone Levi, and Mr. Hill
Williams, were elected English secretaries, and M. de
Koulomzine, foreign secretary, of the section.
Lord Brougham and Dr. Asher undertook the office
of reporters to the Congress.

After a short but highly interesting address by
Lord Brougham, Mr. Levi made a statement of the
proceedings of the previous congresses in the matter
of judicial statistics; and Dr. Asher made some ob-
servations on the difficulties experienced as to the
nomenclature of crimes, for international com-
parison.

Mr. Levi then submitted to the meeting the resolutions which were embodied in the programme; and delegates took an important part, the resolutions were after a discussion, full of interest, in which the foreign adopted in the following form:

1. That the systematic collection and publication of relating to the operation of the law and the administrations justice by a completo system of judicial statistics would

afford most valuable materials whereby to instit and permanent legal reforms, and would furnish infr of great importance illustrative of the social and wants of the people.

2. That judicial statistics should relate to the organ and procedure of all courts of justice and other le nals, whether civil, commercial, ecclesiastical, naval, criminal, or of whatever nature, and also to i police, crimes and criminals, punishments, prisons t formatories, and the results of legal proceedings. 3. That the statistics relating to the organisation of me of justice, as well general as local, should exhibit t of the courts, with their geographical area, the zet extent of their jurisdiction, the number, the requ fiction, mode of appointment, and the tenure 4 the judges, jurors, if any, and the officers of the o mode and extent of their remuneration, including ing allowances, if any, the fees levied, the costs number of days and hours such courts, judges, jam a officers sat or were employed, with such other inf relating to population, taxation, trading, shipping a may best show the relation of the means afforded for administration of justice to the character of differ tricts and the wants of the people.

4. That the statistics of juries should show the cancel
description of jurors in the book, the number calea ca
the year for one or more times, the number of dopa
jury in civil and criminal cases, distinguishing specia
hours the jurors were employed; the number of was
the remuneration of juries, the number of jurors
pose the jury, the cases where trial by jury is obligatoriu
cases where it is optional, and the cases where, beg
tional, the parties prefer being tried by the juga
number of trials by jury in which the juries were st
larger proportion; the number of juries discharged,
or have given their verdicts by a mere majerity, che
what grounds; the number of verdicts set mide, is
what grounds.

The section adjourned at ten o'clock.
WEDNESDAY.

LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY. The annual meeting was held on Saturday la o'clock. 30th. Lord Brougham took the chair at

Mr. Edgar read the seventeenth annual re the council. The report congratulated the socie reform, but reminded them that vigorous exeta the progress of public opinion in favour o were still necessary for further promoting the

they had in view. In the present session of Pe
had proceeded from the Government were the la
ment, the only measures of law amendment Van
Equity Bill, and the Bankruptcy Bill. With
into law this session, and the progress of the latter
to the former, there was no likelihood of its pass;
that it would have to stand over for another y
hitherto been so slow as to justify the apprebe
the discussions on the French commercial treat
Something of this was, no doubt, to be ascribe
Budget and the Reform Bill; but such fa
would continue to be general until a departme
justice was established to prepare all measures n
their progress. The report then entered into a d
ing to the amendment of the law, and to supers
past year, including the mode of taking so
of the subjects considered by the society during
evidence in courts of law, charitable trusts, bats-
ruptcy and insolvency, the law of lunacy, the in
fer of land, the judicial settlement of issues t
tried, the establishment of a law university, &c. In
report, to which a financial statement is append
will be immediately printed, and a copy sent to every

member.

Sir Francis Goldsmid, M.P., moved that the rep be received and printed. He thought the courch b had to contend in finding sufficient time for the not overstated the difficulty with which Governme

sideration of measures of law amendment. The com

plaint on that head would not, however, be wa
afraid, have been this session avoided, even ha
a department of justice, although no one could do
preparation of the measures of Government with
the importance of such an institution, not only in
care than it was possible for them to be now
pared; for however acute might be the mind,
the case of the present Attorney-General, on wat
that duty devolved, it was impossible that it, ta
by a multiplicity of business, could devote that
clusive attention to the task which would be deve
to it by a minister of justice and his assistants,

Mr. Pulling, in seconding the motion, complained! that Government measures of law reform alway took the people by surprise, which would not be the case if there was a minister of justice specialy charged with their preparation.

Mr. Symonds was of opinion that the society ought to cease dealing with detached questions of reform, and propound one general scheme for the amelioration of the jurisprudence of the country. The general complaint of members of Parliament that they could not understand the legal phraseology of the Bills brought before them.

Mr. Lawrance remarked that that was a very good

enactment of them.

reason why they should not be allowed a voice in the It might not be very constitu tional, but he should like to see the making of la left in the hands of those who understood the subje

ord Brougham said that, before he put the questo the meeting, he wished to say a few words on report, and the discussion which had taken place eference to it. He quite agreed with it in lamentthe very small progress which had been made ng the current session in the great cause of law rm, but he thought the causes assigned for that ct had been justly stated in the report. First, e was the great and overwhelming interest of the get, and of the measures springing out of it, and came the discussion on parliamentary reform, other similar discussions, so that in reality no ⚫ had been given to either House of Parliament, especially to the House of Commons, for carrying ny other business. He, however, entirely differed the principle laid down by Mr. Symonds, and ly from the opinion expressed by the equity es in reference to the Law and Equity Bill of his e friend the Lord Chancellor. They had stated, entioned in the report, that until a general and inatic improvement in the whole body of the law place, there was no possibility of introducing the osed measure into practice, which was as much > defer it to the Greek kalends. Mr. Symonds plained that the society had only taken up meas of law reform singly, or, as it were, by snatches, had not introduced any general or systematic of law amendment; but he should consider that was unavoidable in a country like this, where e was in use a great system of jurisprudence, a e portion of which did not require any alteration tever, and ought to be allowed to remain. If, ever, the contrary were the case, and that the blished system of jurisprudence was so faulty that as desirable to overthrow it and bring it to the then, no doubt, the observation of Mr. Symonds ld be justified, and so, to a certain degree, would

taken to the present form of trial by a great number of conscientious persons, and had been petitioned for by 120 gaol chaplains. The Rev. Mr. Osbourne, the chaplain of the Bath prison, especially had written in favour of its adoption. It was intended to substitute for the plea of not guilty, a desire to be tried. The second was a Bill which had passed the House of Lords to improve the jurisdiction of the Divorce Court, by empowering one, instead of three, judges to determine all questions of the dissolution of marriage, and giving the court a greater protection against collusive proceedings. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the manner in which the judge-ordinary, Sir Cresswell Cresswell, exercised his high functions. But the court, as at present constituted, was without that protection against collusion which would be given to it by the present Bill, which he had no doubt would be found a great improvement, and enable the tribunal itself to meet their arrear of business. In conclusion, he had only to say that he hoped that at the termination of the next session, the society would have to report a longer list of amendments in the law.

The motion was then put and unanimously agreed to.

The noble President, the managers, with the addition of Mr. Smale and the auditors, were re-elected.

THE LAW LIBRARY.

Principles of the Law of Scotland. By GEORGE JOSEPH BELL, Professor of Law in the University of Edinburgh. The Fifth Edition, by PATRICK SHAW, Advocate. Edinburgh: Clark and Co.

THE completeness of communication between England and Scotland has obliterated all distinctions save those which nature has stamped upon the face, and habit upon the tongue. For all practical purposes English and Scots are as perfectly one people as the Yorkshireman and the Devonian. Why one law should prevail on one side of an imaginary line and another law on the other side of it, is a mystery not to be solved by reason or common sense, but which must be attributed to that shade of romance which tinges the coarsest nature. It was so, and therefore so it must be.

was administered as efficiently as where, although the law might be good, the procedure was exceedingly bad. They had lately had a great improvement of the law of evidence, which had introduced a new procedure, and a most beneficial one. The first improvement was made by Lord Denman in 1843, when he brought in his Bill to make an interest in the event of a suit no objection to the competency of a witness, leaving the value of his evidence to the consideration of the court and jury. That was followed by a bill which he himself introduced in 1851, and which, owing in a great measure to the labours of the Law Amendment Society, he succeeded in passing into law, notwithstanding great opposition from the highest judicial authority in the kingdom, and also, although it was not publicly expressed, from the learned judges themselves. That measure, allowing all parties in the suit, the plaintiff and his wife, to give evidence, had been found to be of the greatest possible advantage in the administration of justice; and the report of the Common Law Commissioners proved it to have been of the utmost advantage in securing truth, which was the great object in the administration of justice. He was disposed to carry the principle a step further, and allow a person on trial for a criminal offence to give evidence, subject to cross-examination, on his own behalf; but that was so much objected to, that he yielded so far as to withdraw it last session and the session before. Three days ago, however, he again introduced a similar Bill, but confining it to cases of misdemeanor. It might naturally be supposed that the Bill in question had been suggested by a late case, in which, in consequence of a man and his wife not being allowed to be examined at his trial, he was convicted of an offence, and then in his turn prosecuted the principal witness against him, when, as her mouth e report of the equity judges. But that was not was closed, she was convicted of perjury on his evicase, for we had a system of jurisprudence in dence and the evidence of his wife. Nothing more h there was a vastly greater amount of good than clearly showing the inconsistent and preposterous vil, a vastly greater amount of what was perstate of the law could be conceived than that case; and ought to be retained without alteration than but still it was not owing to it that he had introduced e was of that which was injurious in practice, and his Bill, for last year and the year before he had it to be repealed; a vastly greater body of law before the Legislature a much larger measure, and 4 in itself, and which only required to be amended which he withdrew more on account of the relucrtain particulars, carried further in some points tance than of the arguments which he had to enre it stopped short, and lopped off where it was counter in proceeding with it. Generally speaking, indant, than there was to be found in the juris- he was adverse to legislation on account of particular Elence of any other country whatever. Such being cases. When a new Act was passed under such circase, all that could be safely and judiciously done cumstances, those who framed it were very apt to to find out whatever defects existed, and remedy take a partial view of what the law ought to be, and . When the law failed, alter it; where it stopped make the new Act tally with that particular case. t, carry it further; and where there was a super- There was no doubt it was very fit so to proceed in adance of bad law, lop it off. He apprehended some cases, for the proof of the defect of the law that could only be done in this way, namely, by having arisen in practice, that in itself was a suffiing before the Profession, the public, and Parlia-cient ground for the alteration. For instance, it was it in detail, those defects as they were discovered some time since found, on the prosecution of certain ractice. Some of them were already well known, bankers in the city, that there was a great defect in a vast number of defects were daily coming into the law of trusteeship, and that was made the ground ice; nay, laws before supposed to be perfect, were on which a new law was passed, based on sound y found by experience to be in some points inju- principles, and which was a great amendment of the is in practice. They ought, then, to profit by that criminal law. A great deal had been said of a Zerience; and where the evil was discovered, there department of justice, and nothing was more clear or ly the remedy. That was not only unavoidable, more evident than the absolute necessity of such will doubtless be acceptable to many readers in #onsequence of our system having in it more of an institution. Various reasons had been stated for England, not merely in the mercantile world, at was good than evil, but was also the safer and adopting that course, one of which was the necessity but in the Legal Profession. A better work, were judicious course of proceeding, for legislation which existed for some supervision of the Bills about whence to acquire just so much knowledge of the s emphatically an experimental science, and in the to be introduced into Parliament, and when they law of Scotland as an Englishman desires to secuting it they had to go by experience. They considered how Bills were introduced by one depart-possess, there is not than Professor Bell's volume, st, in making the voyage, have their chart and ment of Government without any communication upon which public opinion has expressed itself' ir log in their hands. When among shoals they with another, they would see how absolutely necesI when on the open sea that they did not proceed This was more particularly the case with respect to revised by the editor, who has introduced the uld take care that they did not make shipwreck, sary it was that there should be some superintendence. in the unquestionable form of a demand for six editions. This latest one has been carefully the wrong direction. It was their duty as private Bills, as had been mentioned by his learned enders of the law, if they wished to call them- friend Sir Francis Goldsmid. He would mention a recent cases and adapted it to the present state ves improvers of the law, never to apply a remedy case or two in point. The late Sir Samuel Romilly, of the law. ere experience had shown that it was not wanted; by accident, once detected in a parish Bill a clause d when they had applied a remedy, or made a new giving the overseers power to flog the paupers. Again, v, never to hesitate to retrace their steps when ex- in a late appeal in the House of Lords, in which the rience had shown that they had proceeded in a Great Western Railway Company was a party, it ong direction, or had gone too far; and that was, was suggested to them that the company's Act gave believed, the real sound philosophy of law amend-great force to the minutes of their proceedings-that, ent. It was practical, and what all men who in fact, they were by law proof conclusive of all pay shed to profit by experience ought to guide them- ments made by the company-not payments made to Ives by. He had always made it his own rule of the company, but payments made by it; and not oceeding, and the society had gone on it from the only that, but that any copy of the minutes should mmencement of its career. In general, the great be proof conclusive of the payment. When he and JOURNAL OF AUCTIONS, ESTATES ject they had aimed at was the substitution of his noble friend Lord Lyndhurst had heard that, they AND INVESTMENTS. Itural for technical procedure. Such, too, had been could not believe it possible, but on sending for the e great object of the late Mr. Bentham's labours, Act of Parliament they found that such was the case. With a minister of justice to supervise all Bills, NOTE.-The Reports of the Estate Exchange are officially supplied to REPORTS OF SALES. ubted if he had ever brought in a Bill that had not such a thing would be impossible. The objection at object; but he was certain that he had never that such a department would supersede the Legiscceeded in carrying a Bill that was not to substi- lature had no force in it, as all that was meant was ite for a technical a natural system of procedure. He that it should be a department auxiliary to Parlia uld mention many instances, but he would confine ment. Another object of the department was, that is observations to that one, which was the greatest the minister of justice might act as assessor to the mprovement of later years; but, before doing so, he Secretary of State in the difficult and always deliould say a word on procedure in the two branches cate question of the exercise of the prerogative of law as established. The form of procedure was so pardon by the Crown. It was unnecessary for him Important in the administration of justice, that to enter into a particular statement of instances which had been often said that a bad law under a had occurred within the last two years, in which it food system of procedure was equally as beneficial would have been expedient that the determination of a good law administered under a bad system; the question of pardon, instead of being confined to dd he could well conceive that there might be one person, had been intrusted to two or more. bad system of jurisprudence in which crimes and There were two measures for amending the law which unishments, rights, and wrongs, were confounded, he had omitted to mention. The first was a small And nothing in a satisfactory state, but owing to the measure, but one of some importance now before procedure being based upon a sound principle, justice Parliament, which was meant to meet the objections

id such was the description of their acts. He

With this dictum the commercial world on both sides of the border are content to endure the cost and inconvenience of a conflict of laws, in itself absurd and needless, but main. tained with only the more obstinacy in practice because of its unreasonableness. But, as an assimilation of the laws of the two countries is not to be permitted, it is the more needful that the people of each should know something of the laws of the other, and therefore a book describing the principles of Scotch law, written in a popu lar manner-a sort of north country Blackstone

Necessarily a considerable portion of the law is the same in both countries, and very nearly the same principles are found under the variations of phraseology and form; and therefore, while learning the foundations of Scottish law, the English reader will learn a great deal about the principles of his own law.

the following list. Auctioneers whose sales are registered there will oblige by forwarding similar reports of their own sales.

IN LONDON.

By Messrs. D. SMITH, SON and OAKLEY.-Freehold estate known as Stock's Farm, in the parish of Guestling, near Hastings, Sussex, comprising farmhouse, numerous farm-buildings and 226a. 3r. 24p. of arable, pasture and wood land, let at 110% per annum-sold for 38601. Copyhold, Ramsdean Farm, Eastmeon, Hants, comprising farmwood and common land, let at 1314 10s. per annum-sold for 3000 cottage, numerous outbuildings and 165a. Ir. 38p. of arable, meadow, Copyhold, Coombe Cross Farm, Eastmeon, comprising farmhouse, outbuildings and 107a. 3r. 24p of arable land, let at 601, per annumsold for 12501. Freehold and copyhold estate, Shitlington, Bedford, consisting of 50a. Or. 35p. of arable and meadow land, with barns, buildings and rickyard, let at 876. 7. 6d. per annum-sold for 22504,

IN THE COUNTRY.
Tuesday, July 17.

By Mr. EDWARD BURTON, at Grasmere:-Lot 2. An estate called Gill Side with farmhouse and suitable outbuildings and several closes containing 5p.-sold for 851. 4. A close of land containing la. 20p. of land, containing altogether 38a. 3r. 22p.-sold for 2000. 3. A barn, sold for 1804. 6. A close of land containing 1r.-sold for 1054 7. A taining 2a. 2r. 10p.-sold for 5601,

close of land containing 1r. 14p.-sold for 105%, 8. A close of land con

Apply at the Provisional Assignee's Office, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, between the hours of eleven and two. Dromtra, G. importer of foreign goods, 97d-Gulson, T. journeyman carpenter and general-shop keeper, 10d.-Hulls, R. cordwainer, 4. 2d.-Morris, J. draper and hosier, 101d.-Sidway, G. accountant's clerk, 10d.-Stanley, W. R. potato salesman, 11fd.

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