BRISCOE, MARY ANN, grocer, Birmingham; July 5, at three, at BUTCHER, FRANK, brick maker, Epsom: July 3, at twelve, at CARMAN, THOMAS BLYTH, hay merchant, Claremont-ter, Brixton; July 3, at three, at the Angel Hotel, Pentonville rd, Islington CHAPMAN, THOMAS, draper, Northampton; July 6, at twelve, at COLE, HENRY, baker, Brighton; July 12, at two, at office of Sol., COWLEY, JAMES, victualler, Swansea; July 6, at eleven, at office DIMMOCK, HENRY, commercial traveller, Bristol; July 7, at twelve at office of Sol., Beckingham, Bristol DUFF, ROBERT, taller, Oney-st, Walworth; June 30, at twelve, at office of Sol., Downes, Cheapside EMENY, WILLIAM, gentleman, Binfield; July 5, at eleven, at the Hind's Head Inn, Bracknell, Sol, Edwards, Cannon-st EVANS, DAVID, draper, New Tredegar. near Blackwood: July 6, nove, at office of Simons and Plews, Church-st, Merthyr Tydfil FRANCS, ROBERT, linen draper, Worthing; July 6, at one, at FRANKS, WILLIAM, land agent, Shalford; June 12, at three, at GOOCH, WILLIAM PHILIP, chemist, Hamilton-ter East, Highbury; GRAINGER. THOMAS, Darliston; July 11, at two, at office of So!., HAINES, JOSEPH, schoolmaster, Penistone; July 6, at three, at HARRIS, JOSEPH, bookbinder, Broad-st; July 5, at twelve, at HARRIS, MARIA, widow, ironmonger, The Grove, Stratford; July HEALING, THOMAS LYON, wine merchant, Ruthin; July 11, at HOLLAND, JOHN WILLIAMSON, carpenter, Essex-rd, Islington; HOLT, JAMES, licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, HOPKINS, JAMES, and HOPKINS, CHARLES FREDERICK, heavy HORLEY, EDWARD, baker, Whitecross-st, Saint Luke's, and King- HUGHES, JOSEPH, watchmaker, Machynlleth; July 7, at twelve, JONAS, JOHN, furniture broker, Crewe; July 6, at three, at the JONES, ELIAS, victualler. Swansea: July 6, at three, at office of JONES, HENRY, ironmonger, Pentre, in Ystradyfodwg, and KEAN, WALTER THOMAS, tailor, Liverpool: July 8, at twelve, at KIDDLE, JOSEPH, cattle dealer, East Brent; July 5, at twelve, at office of Sol, Hobbs, Wells LAW, ALFRED, farm bailiff, Woodchurch; July 5, at eleven, at LIDDERDALL, CHARLES SILLEM, artist, Abbey-rd-west, Saint MURRAY, ALEXANDER, publisher, Queen-sq, Bloomsbury; July NICE, HANSLIP, ladies' outfitter, Chorlton-on-Medlock; July 13, ORD, RALPH, draper, Annfield-plain; July 5, at two, at offices of PAIN, FREDERICK RICHARD, ship builder, Sandwich; July 7, at PEARCE, RICHARD, baker, Portsmouth; July 6, at three, at office ROGERS, WILLIAM, carman, Tramato-mews, King's cross; July SOMERVILLE, JOHN, travelling draper, Norwich; July 7, at one, STEDMAN, JOHN GARDENER, grocer, Earls Colne; July 7, at four, STRINGER, JESSE, builder, Brighton; July 4, at twelve at office of SWIFT, JOHN, Joiner, Dewsbury; July 6, at three, at office of TAYLOR, WILLIAM, dairyman, Manchester; July 12, at three, at THOMAS, WILLIAM GWYNNE, commission agent, Pensarn, near shot WALL, HESTER ELIZABETH, schoolmistress, Weston-super-Mare; WILLOWS, ROBERT. draper, Aston-juxta Birmingham; July 7, WITCHER, JAMES, butcher, Landport; July 6, at three, at office of Sol., King, Portsea WOOD, WILLIAM RANDALL, sen., brickmaker, Acacia-villas, Surbiton; July 7, at three, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, Guildhall. S.ls., Walter and Moojen WOODS, JAMES HENRY, Corn merchant, Chatswood-rd. Clapton. WYATT, OWEN EDWARD, tea dealer, Idol-la, and Boston villas, ZACHARIAH, AARON JACOB, jeweller, Portsea; July 10, at twelve, Gazette, June 27. BAINES. WILLIAM VINCENT, jun., coal merchant, Great Marlow; BROOKS, HENRY FREDERICK, tailor, Whaplode Drove: July 13, DAINTY, ISAIAH WILLIAM BRIGHT, mine proprietor, Stoke DAVIES, DAVID, grocer, Bunhill-row, Finsbury; July 11, at two, DEAN, EDWARD CHURCHILL, wholesale druggist, Hillsborough, DREW, GEORGE, grocer, Thornage: July 7, at half-past two, at EDWARDS, WILLIAM, waterproof clothing manufacturer, Sunder- FLETCHER. ROBERT, grocer, Rowley Regis; July 10, at eleven, at FORD, WILLIAM HENRY, general outfitter. Cardiff: July 10, at FRANKLIN, EDWARD, corn merchant, Harrington-st, Hampstead. HARRISON, SAMUEL, draper, Halifax; July 10, at four, at office of HETHERINGTON, JOHN HILLMAN, and HETHERINGTON, ROBERT HILL, WILLIAM HENRY, gun manufacturer. Aston-juxta- Birming- HILL, WILLIAM THOMAS, shoemaker, Exeter: July 8, at twelve, HOLBURN, ANNE GALLEY, widow, hosier, Monkwearmouth; July HUDSON, JAMES. greengrocer, Birmingham; July 14, at three, at JACKSON, ROBERT, grocer, Bailey Carr, near Dewsbury; July 11, JOWETT, JOSEPH. timber bender, Liverpool; July 11, at three, JUDD, MARTHA, ladies' outfitter, Cheltenham; July 11, at twelve KEY, GEORGE, grocer, Lincoln; July 15, at eleven, at office of Sol KIERMAN, MARY, clothier, Manchester; July 10, at eleven, at KING, JAMES EDWARD, tailor, Birmingham; July 8, at eleven, at MALLINSON, JAMES, butcher, Halifax; July 10, at three, at office MANSFIELD, JOHN BARTLETT, ship builder, Teignmouth; July MERRYMAN, HENRY, provision dealer, Sheffield; July 4, at eleven, MICHAEL, WILLIAM, cabinet maker, Swansea; July 11, at three, MUNRO, DAVID, upholsterer, Bradford; July 5, at eleven, at the O KEEFE, THOMAS, shoemaker, Aberdare; July 7, at one, at office PICKARD, CHARLES EDWARD, grocer, Bradford; June 28, at four, RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, shoemaker, Sheffield; July 10, at four, WIGLEY, ROBERT WALPOLE, boot manufacturer, Liverpool; July WOOD, JOSEPH, tailor, Durham; July 14, at two, at the Talbot Orders of Discharge. Gazette, June 20. CHAMBERS, THOMAS HODGSON, coal merchant, Grenville-st CLEGG, ROBERT, and CLEGG, ABRAHAM, cotton manufacturers, MORTON, GEORGE, victualler, Ossulston-st, Somer's-town, and THOMAS, MATTHEW, commission merchant, Manchester Gazette, June 23. BARKER, JAMES, perambulator maker, Dalston-pl, Hackney Dibidends. BANKRUPTS' ESTATES. The Official Assignees, &c., are given, to whom apply for the Bamford, R farmer, Deene, 1s. ld. At office of Trust. J. P. Arnold, Cathedral-gateway, Peterborough.-Blackbura, T., sebage't, R. H, and Schofield, M. cotton brokers, Liverpool, first, 1s. land first sep. of Blackburn, 4, 64.) At offices of Gibson and Bolland, accountants, 10. South John-st, Liverpon'-Cotton, W. ale mer. chant, Jarrow, first. 3s. At offices of Registrar of County Court, Westgate-st, Newcastle.-Curtler, J. land agent, Wychbold, near Droitwich, first and final, 5s. At offices of W. C. Quarrell, Avenuechmbs, Cross, Worcester.-Higgins, J. W. cheese dealer, Exeter, first. 15. At office of Trust. G. Wreford, Gandy-st-ehmbs, Exeter. -Lion, H. S boot manufacturer. Liverpool, first and final, 64. At office of Trust. J. Price, 53, North John-st, Liverpool-Varra coff, S. lodging-house keeper, Torquay, first and final, 2. 27. At office of Trust. H. Crockwell, 1 and 2, Fleet-st, Torquay-Pasts, T. W. and H. ironfounders, Monkwearmonth, first, 94. At County Court Office, Westgute-st, Newcastle.-Wheeler, G. builder, West Cowes, 18. G. At office of Trust. T. Halliday, Sun-hill, West Cowes-Wilmot, C. S. irenmonger, Upper Thames st, second, 21 At 16, Pinner's-hall, Old Broad-s. Trust. J. M, Pinwell. Bick, F. hotel keeper, second, 144 Harley, Bristol-Cullick W. in no business, first. d. Kinnear, Birmingham.-Elmeli, A. W of Clifton, first, 1. 34. Harley, Bristol.-Edzards, R. farmer third, 18. Stone, Liverpool.--Evans, W. plumber, first, 2 s Harley. Bristol.-Gadsby, E. machine fitter, first, 3s. 1d. Paret Basinghall-st.-Greeusill, J. S. clerk in Woolwich Arsenal, 20 Paget, Basinghall-st.-Harrison, J. eating-house keeper, first. 30, Stone, Liverpool.-Hunt, T. O. surgeon, 2. 10d. Harley, BristolHurley, T. tailor, 2. Kinnear, Birmingham.-Inglis, R. cooper, first, 54. Kinnear, Birmingharn.-Jordan, W. grocer, first, a Kinnear. Birmingham.-Kuupp, H. banker, third, . Parer, Basinghall-st.-Pickering, E. victualler, second, of. 15-16ths. Kirnear, Birmingham.-Reynolds, T. H. cowkeeper, first, 5. Harley. Bristol-Shar, H. printer, arst, 84. Paget, Basinghall-stSmith, J. baker, first. 78. 6. Paget, Basinghall-st-Stett dad Nelson, coal merchants, first, 18. Stone, Liverpool.-Tarka, J. wholesale fruiterer. 7d. Kinnear, Birmingham.-West, E. F. artist, fir-t, Is. 3d. Pazet, Basin ghall-st.-Windover, W. victualler, first, 344. Paget, Basinghall-st. Band, E. draper, Northampton, prove debts for comp, of 10. At offices of Honey, Humphrys, Parys, and Co., 2, King-st. Chear side.-Brissenden, T corndealer. Ticehurst, 1s. At office of Trust T. F. Simpson, 23, Church-rd. Tunbridge Wells.-Essery, R. talt, Northampton, 5. 21. At office of Trust. C. C. Becke, 20, Market. sq. Northampton.-Selby, T. W. and Drummond, G. stuff manufac turers, Laisterdyke, near Bradford, prove debts for second junt div. of 18. 6. At office of Trust. A B. Kemp. accountant, Bradford -T, FT. builder, Subitom-hill, Kingston, prove debts for final div. of 18. 94. At Trust. T. Guilford, Victoria-rd, SurbitonWarrill, W. farmer, St. Albans, 18. 1d. and half farthing. Trust J. Parkhouse.. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. PALMER.-On the 20th ult., at Westholme, Worcestershire, the wife of W. W. Palmer, of Birmingham, solicitor, of a daughter. SMALE. On the 23rd ult., at Heinsberg, near Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, the wife of J. Jackson Smale, Esq., of Lincoln's-ing, barrister-at-law, of a son. MARRIAGES. KINGLAKE-CUTHELL.-On the 22nd ult., at St. Gabriel's Church, Warwick-square, Robert Alexander Kinglake, barrister-at-law, son of the late Mr. Serjeant Kinglake, M.P., to Mary Sybil, only daughter of Andrew Cuthell, Esq., of Warwick-square, Pimlico. MOIR-MITCHELL-On the 27th ult., at Ashburne, Allon, James Moir. Esq., solicitor, Alloa. to Jane William Mitchell, younger daughter of the late William Mitchell, jun., Esq., Alloa. DEATHS. COTTRELL. On the 24th ult., at Harrow, aged 18, George Clement CRIPPS. On the 24th ult., at Haileybury College, aged 16, Frede- NICHOLSON-On the 21st ult.. aged 56, John Wilson Nicholson, of SCOTT. On the 19th ult., at Brighton, aged 52, James John ROBERTS, COLIN RUSSELL, accountant, Chancery-la, and Lewis- PARTRIDGE AND COOPER ham: July 14, at three, at office of Sols., Jenkins and Button, ROSSER, THOMAS, collier, Ystradyfodwg; July 10, at eleven, at SAUNDERS, HENRY, builder, Isleworth: July 12, at eleven, at SMITH, GEORGE WILLIAM, builder. St. Mary's-rd, Hornsey; July SHAW, ELIZABETH, and SHAW, FLORINDA, Smallware dealers, SMITH, ISAAC HUTCHINSON, provision dealer, Bootle, near Liver- SOARES, JULIO, wine merchant, Canterbury-ter, Croydon; July TERRY, GEORGE WALTER, Coachbuilder, Redhill; July 10, at WALLBANK, CHARLES, tea dealer, Stockport; July 15, at two, at water WALKER, JOHN, draper, Llevedon; July 10, at one, at the White Barton WHOLESALE & RETAIL STATIONERS, ream. "We should direct particular attention to their New Clubhouse Paper: in our opinion it is the very best paper we ever wrote upon."-London Mirror. INDENTURE SKINS, Printed and Machine-ruled, to hold twenty ON FRIDAY NEXT. orth Staffordshire.-The Biddulph Grange and Knypersley Domain-A beautiful Freehold, Tithe-free, Manorial Property of 1750 acres, 1600 of which are in a ring fence, with the luxuriously-fitted Mansion of Biddulph Grange, stone built in the semi-Italian style, on an elevation of terraces, commanding excellent views, and with gardens, which may, without any exaggeration, be considered unmatched. The limits of an advertisement preclude a free description, but intending purchasers are referred to the detailed printed particulars of sale or to the gardens themselves, where will be found a happy combination of the highest scientific and instructive characteristics, with all that is pleasing and delightful in garden culture, and yet being fully matured and originally laid out to require a small expenditure in their maintenance are now inexpensive to keep up. Among the ornamental and interesting features of this fine property are the deer park of 180 acres, with the adjoining pools, the sources of the River Trent, providing excellent boating, wild duck shooting, and bottom fishing; the Warder's Tower, a building in the Norman style, on a rocky eminence in the deer park; the his orical ruins of Biddulph Hall (temp. Eizabeth, a fine specimen of the semi-fortified family mansion of that period, and the ancient home of the Biddulphs, destroyed by the Parliamentary army in Cromwell's time. In the deer park is the Druidical Cromlech, known as the Gawton Stone, of high archæological interest. The lands are of good quality, and are held by old tenants by the year, at ancient rents. The present rent-roll is 26:07. per annum, but which may be considerably increased without undue pressure. The woods and coppices are in hand, and the sporting and partridge shooting excellent. Capital roads intersect the estate, which is well supplied with water; the subsoil is sandstone. The manor of Knypersley and the joint lo dship in Overton (or Over Biddulph) and the advowson of St. Lawrence, Biddulph, with an income attached of 187. per annum and thirty-seven acres of glebe will also be included in the present sale. This domain is Specially recommended to anyone seeking a complete and established footing in the county, carrying with it a weighty political and general influence. MESSRS. E. and H. LUMLEY are favoured with instructions from the owner to SELL by AUCTION, at the MART, Tokenhouse-yard, London, on RIDAY next, the 14th JULY, at Two o'clock, the 31DDULPH GRANGE and KNYPERSLEY DOMAIN, North Staffordshire, which will first be offered as a whole in ne lot, and if not thus sold, will be offered in four portions. Biddulph Grange is within two and a half miles of Congleon railway station, twelve from Crewe, twenty-eight from Ianchester, and 159 from London. May be viewed by cards. Printed illustrated particulars of sale (price 2s. 6d.) of the Auctioneers. G. W. and H. L. READE, Solicitors, Congleton. 2. and H. LUMLEY, Land Agents and Auctioneers, 67, Chancery lane, and 31, St. James's-street, Piccadilly London. North Riding of Yorkshire. To By 10 be SOLD, by PUBLIC AUCTION, by he 1st day of AUGUST next, at the THREE TUNS HOTEL, in THIRSK, in the North Riding of the county f York, at Three o'clock in the afternoon, in Two Lots, and ubject to conditions of sale. The KEPWICK ESTATE, omprising the Manor or Lordship or reputed Manor or ordship of Kepwick, the whole of the Township of Keprick, and Lands in the several Townships of Nether Silton, Borrowby, and Gueldable, and containing an area of 3023 cres, or thereabonts, of arable, meadow, pasture, moor, and Toodland. About fifteen acres of the estate are copyhold of Je Manor of Northallerton, and subject to a small and cerin annual fine, the remainder is freehold of inheritance. The estate is divided into about forty holdings, and comrises the whole of the village of Kepwick, containing about irty houses and an inn. The farms are let at moderate ents to respectable tenants, and are in a good state of cultiation. The estate lies in a ring fence and extends from east > west for about three miles, the eastern boundary being e summit of the range of the Hambleton Hills. The moor ontains about 1300 acres of excellent grouse ground, and is ell stocked, and the whole of the estate abounds with game, End is considered for sporting purposes one of the finest anors in Yorkshire. The rabbits on the open moor are bundant, and a great source of revenue. The estate conins valuable quarries of lime, free, and sandstone; also jet nd coal, and a highly valuable seam of ironstone 8ft. in. hick, and containing an average per centage of 32 of iron. The seam is near the surface, easily worked, and the owner as had a drift driven in for about twenty or thirty yards, which is open to inspection. The limestone is of oolite ormation, and most valuable for agricultural purposes. The quarry is connected with the lime kilns by an incline ramroad or railway, and a considerable trade has been arried on with the surrounding neighbourhood. The kilns re within 100yds. of the turnpike-road leading from Thirsk o Yarm and Stockton. The plantations are full of firstlass oak and larch, and the hedge-rows abound with timber of large growth. The estate is most conveniently and well oaded, and is within about six miles of the market towns of Thirsk and Northallerton. To capitalists this estate affords n opportunity of investment seldoin met with, and to sportsnen it should possess a peculiar attraction from the varied nature of the shooting to be obtained. Kepwick Beck Donnding and running partially through the estate abounds with trout. The old manor house called Stay House is admirably adapted for a shooting box, and with a small outay upon it a most perfect country residence could be made. It has an excellent garden, with stables, harness room, and other requisite outbuildings attached. Plans and particulars can be obtained on application to he Auctioneers, Thirsk; Kent. Staplehurst and Marden.--The Freehold Estates and Wood Lands of the late Robert Tooth, Esq., including Great Pagehurst and Widehurst Farms, altogether about 540 acres. The rentals and estimated value being about 7207. per annum. MESSES. WINSTANLEY and HORWOOD are instructed to OFFER for SALE by AUCTION, at the MART, Tokenhouse-yard, London, E.C., on THURS DAY, 20th JULY, in Five Lots, the above-mentioned FREEHOLD PROPERTIES, situate within a short dis tance of the Staplehurst Station on the S. E. Railway, and within four miles of the market-town of Cranbrook, viz. :Great Pagehurst Farm, containing about 272 acres of sound and fertile arable, hop, and pasture lands, in a high state of cultivation, with a superior frm residence, excellent homestead, with oast-houses and kilns, and large drying-house upwards of 10 feet in length, several cottages, wood-land, &c., let on lease to Mr. G. W. Chambers, at a moderate apportioned rent of 3951. per annum; several outlying pieces of fertile arable land, and a portion of Cockle-wood; also Widehurst Farm, near to the preceding, and about four miles from Cranbrook, comprising a convenient farmhouse and all necessary agricultural buildings, and about 175 acres of sound and produc tive arable, pasture, and wood lands, in the occupation of Mr. Fauchon, a yearly tenant, at a very low rent; also the Manor of Widehurst, and with possession, Widehurst-wood, containing about 354 acres, in the parish of Marden, bounded on two sides by the strictly preserved estates of Lord Holmesdale. Printed particulars, with plans and conditions of sale, may be obtained of Messrs. COWDELL and GRUNDY, Solicitors. St. Messrs. WILSON, FARRAR, and PHILLPOTT, Soli- Messrs. KINGSFORD and DORMAN, Solicitors, No. 23, Essex-street, Strand, W.C.; of Messrs. WINCH and SON, Surveyors, Cranbrook; and of Messrs. WINSTANLEY and HORWOOD, Auctioneers and Surveyors, 10, Paternoster-row, St. Paul's, E.C. Cranbrook, Kent.-The Swift's Park Estate, a charming Freehold Residential Estate, and a small property near to the same, both with possession, comprising altogether about 391 acres; Camden-villa, near Swift's, and several Houses in the town of Cranbrook. MESSRS. WINSTANLEY and HORWOOD have received instructions to OFFER for SALE by AUCTION, at the MART, Tokenhouse-yard. London, on THURSDAY, JULY 20, in Five Lots, the following FREEHOLD ESTATES, belonging to the late Robert Tooth, Esq., in the parish of Cranbrook, about five miles from Staplehurst, a first-class station on the South-Eastern Railway, and 48 miles from London, viz :- Lot 1. Swift's, including a Family Mansion approached by two lodge entrances, placed in the midst of charming pleasure grounds, overlooking a handsomely timbered ancient park, belted with luxuriant shrubberies. The mansion affords ample accommodation for a numerous family, the reception rooms are of noble proportions; par example, the dining room is 36ft. by 23ft., two drawing rooms respectively 31ft. by 20ft, and 21ft. by 20ft., library 31ft. by 20ft., and entrance hall and vestibule Soft. by 17ft., and the attached and detached domestic offices are replete with every convenience; also a picturesque, old manorial residence, distinguished as Willsley House, with pleasure grounds and outbuildings; a well-planned model farm homestead, known as Buckhurst Farm, and numerous enclosures of fertile arable, pasture, hop, and wood land, lying within a ring fence, bounded by capital roads and the estates of Lord Holmesdale, Gathorne Hardy, Esq., M.P., W. T. Neve, Esq., and others, including altogether about 385 acres. Lot 2. A small Freehold Estate, known as part of Streamfarm; consisting of a messuage, hopkiln, and about 9 acres of hop and pasture land. Lot 3. A Freehold Residence, known as Camden-villa, with grounds about 1 acre. Lots 4 and 5. Four Messuages, in the town of Cranbrook, in the occupation of Messrs. Pryor, Owlett, and others. The rentals and estimated value of the whole approaching 14007. per annum. Printed particulars, with plans and conditions of sale, may be obtained of Messrs. COWDELL and GRUNDY, Solicitors, St. Antholin's-chambers, 26, Budge-row, Cannon-street, E.C.; of Messrs. WILSON, FARRAR, and PHILPOTT, Soli- Messrs. KINGSFORD and DORMAN, Solicitors, 23, of Messrs. WINCH and Sox, Surveyors, Cranbrook; and of Messrs. WINSTANLEY and HORWOOD, Auctioneers and Surveyors, 10, Paternoster-row, St. Paul's, E.C. Messrs. MILNE. RIDDLE, and MELLOR, Solicitors, I' Temple, London; and, with leave to view, and any further information from Valuable Law Books, including the Library of the late Right MESSRS. Hon. Lord Justice Rolt. HODGSON will SELL by AUCTION, at their Rooms, 115, Chancery-lane, W.Č. (Fleet-street end', on WEDNESDAY, July 12th and following day, at One o'clock, by order of the Executors, the Valuable LAW LIBRARY of the late Sir JOHN ROLT, one of the Lords Justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery; comprising a Capital Series of the Reports in Courts of Common and Equity-Modern Practical Works in the Various Branches of the Law-The Old Reporters, &c.; to which is added the Law Library of the late Hanbury Jones, Esq., and that of an eminent Queen's Counsel, deceased. To be Viewed and Catalogues had. TEWSON, and FARMER'S LIST of ESTATES and HOUSES to be SOLD or LET, including Landed Estates, Town and Country Residences, Hunting and Shooting Quarters, Farms, Ground Rents, Rentcharges, House Property, and Investments generally, is PUBLISHED on the first day of feach month, and may be obtained, free of charge, at their Offices, 80, Cheapside, E. C., or will be sent by post in return for two stamps. 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THE death of Mr. Serjeant WOOLRYCH is reported. He was disnguished in legal literature as the author of works on Sewers, Highways, and Criminal Law that have become text books of the Profession. His latest publication was the Lives of the Serjeantsat-Law, which was not so successful as its more learned predecessors. His Life of Judge Jeffreys is frequently cited by Lord CAMPBELL in his Lives of the Chancellors. He was greatly respected by a large circle of private friends. THE LORD CHANCELLOR has introduced a Bill empowering all courts to appoint sittings and adjournments according to the requirements for the administration of justice. For this long wanted improvement we are indebted to the TICHBORNE case, which, as the law is, could not have been continued in the Long VOL. LI.-No. 1475. Vacation. The Bill, if passed, will enable the court to sit and adjourn from time to time according to its convenience, so that if there should be an objection to continuance throughout the vacation, the trial may be proceeded with after a reasonable interval of rest. THE promised Police Regulation Bill for licensed victuallers has not been produced by the Government, and the session is now too far advanced for entertaining a question that will occasion almost as sturdy a conflict as the larger Bill, of which the intended measure was a section. The signal success that has attended the opposition to all measures of this class during this session will immensely enhance the difficulty of dealing with them in future. It will be long before a Government will feel itself strong enough to brave the unpopularity that will await them. AN opinion given by law officers of the Crown at the request of Mr. CANNING nearly fifty years ago, concerning the question of the liability of the British Government for damages in cases analogous to that of the Alabama, is interesting in connection with the Washington Treaty. It runs thus:- "The strongest suspicion that a vessel building in a port of this country or about to proceed to sea is destined to be armed elsewhere, and to become a vessel of war in the service of a belligerent, the strongest suspicion that a particular cargo of arms, sailing from a port of this country, is destined for the purpose of arming that very vessel in a foreign port, would not justify the Government either in detaining the vessel or in seizing the arms, the vessel herself sailing unarmed, and the cargo of arms being entered at the Custom-house as merchandise. The law applies only to what can be proved, and the attempt to execute it without proof would expose the officers of Government to heavy pecuniary damages.-(Signed), CHR. ROBINSON, D.C.L., King's Advocate; J. S. COPLEY, Attorney-General; CHAS. WETHERELL, Solicitor-General." Ir is difficult to understand what suggested to the ATTORNEYGENERAL the possibility of costermongers entering into partnership as an objection to the Bill to provide for the registration of partnerships generally. Even supposing that partnerships existed among the very poor dealers, such a circumstance cannot be taken into consideration as opposed to the interests of the great mercantile community; and it is ridiculous to bring such an argument forward when the principle of registration has long been recognised as most desirable by a considerable section of the mercantile community. The introduction into England of the commandite system, largely prevailing in France, was urged upon Parliament before the adoption of limited liability, and an essential element of that system is the publication of the constitution, and every change in the constitution of a société which the public have an interest in knowing. Undoubtedly, registering the concerns of a partnership would entail some trouble, and if it is desirable to relieve the poor, there might be a limitation to partnerships in which a capital exceeding a given amount is embarked. The principle of the Bill is so wholesome that we should be extremely glad to see it pass into law. Ir appears to us that in considering the question of adjourning the TICHBORNE case the claims of the attorneys have not only been disregarded but treated, notably by Mr. Serjeant BALLANTINE, with a certain amount of unkindness and indifference. We were rather amused to see that the learned Serjeant is reported to have said, with reference to two ponderous boxes of fresh documents which it was proposed to intrust to the officer of the court, that he quite agreed to their being placed in the officer's hands, adding, The attorneys on both sides will have ample opportunities of examining them during the vacation." So that whilst Mr. Serjeant BALLANTINE and the SOLICITOR-GENERAL with their learned but silent following are disporting themselves in quarters of the globe probably the most remote from Westminster Hall and the regions which the ubiquitous claimant has visited in his wanderings, those useful but insignificant gentlemen, "the attorneys on both sides," may profitably avail themselves of the "ample opportunities" of examining documents to which Mr. Serjeant BALLANTINE so kindly directs their attention. The fatigue of sitting in the pit of a crowded court, constantly intent on the intricacies of elaborate documentary evidence, is probably not less than that of which the other parties concerned so bitterly complain. But we believe we may rely upon it that the "attorneys on both sides" will not sacrifice themselves during the vacation in a cause which the Judge and the counsel consider will well keep for four months. THERE are few who know anything of courts of justice who will not agree that to sit in them continuously for even a few hours is extremely fatiguing. The newspaper critics and the public understand very little how exhausting it is to undergo an unrelaxed mental strain in a vitiated atmosphere for the greater part of an entire day. And when the subject upon which the mind is intent remains unchanged, and monotony is added to the other evils, we can believe that to endure it without flinching requires a strong The constitution. But it is also to be remembered that success of the first order in the legal Profession implies that he who attains it possesses not only great mental capacity, but very considerable physical strength also. When these qualifications are transferred to the Bench, and are paid for at a high rate, the country has a right to expect that they may be taxed to any limit within reason without eliciting a protest. We regret that we cannot agree that this expectation has been realised in the Tichborne case. court has sat hitherto five days each week for five hours-sometimes less-each day: that is, twenty-five hours per week, with two days entirely blank. But even supposing that this is enough to exhaust a Judge, the exhaustion cannot indicate a collapse which requires four months of change of work and holiday. For Mr. Serjeant BALLANTINE'S emphatic protests against "breaking through" what was at the most a hasty and ill-considered arrangement, we confess that we entertain very little respect, whilst in deference to the wishes of his clients, the SOLICITOR-GENERAL is bound to go on if he can. We can only hope, with the rest of the world, that the administration of justice will be saved the gross scandal of a four months' adjournment in the trial of a cause of such magnitude and importance. ..... WHEN the SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied to Lord Chief Justice BOVILL to have the claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy examined by a medical man, and Mr. Serjt. BALLANTINE objected on the ground that his Lordship had no power to make an order, the objection struck us as valid beyond a doubt. The case of a railway accident referred to by his Lordship is provided for by a recent statute. The Railways Regulation Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119), s. 26, says that whenever any person injured by an accident on a railway claims compensation on account of the injury, any Judge of the court in which proceedings to recover such compensation are taken may order that the person injured be examined by some duly-qualified practitioner, named in the order, and not being a witness on either side. The very circumstance that an express enactment was necessary to give power to make an order for a medical examination in actions against railway companies is sufficient proof that there is no general power vested in the Judge by statute or common law. The only other case in which such an order is made is, we believe, in suits for nullity of marriage, and if the order is not submitted to the court may refuse to hear the party thereby guilty of contempt. That such a power should be exercised in a suit of that nature where the medical examination is the only means of establishing the case, is intelligible; but we fail to see that it can be made applicable for the purposes of crossexamination on a question of disputed identity. We have something to learn from the Germans in law as well as in war. We lately received from a Berlin publisher (T. GUTTENTAG) a volume for review on The General German Mercantile Law. The unity of Germany has suggested a universal law, and the way of arriving at this has been by a succession of conferences. These conferences began in 1836, and have been held at intervals since that period. At a conference held in 1857 it was resolved, with reference to mercantile law, to adopt the Prussian design as a basis, and after ninety-eight sittings the first four books were finished, and the whole work was completed in 1860 after 547 conferences. The design of the Mercantile Law Book was completed in 1861 and laid before Parliament, after 589 conferences. many thus possesses a united commercial law based upon the best design, and brought into the best possible form by continuous conferences, attended by men of experience able to assist with effect in the consultations. It is lamentable to contrast these proceedings, extending over thirty years, and carried on carefully and persistently, with our own fitful and abortive efforts after codes and digests. It is only by adopting the German plan that we can hope to accomplish that which the public as well as the lawyers consider one of the greatest wants of our day-an intelligible code of law. Ger CONSIDERABLE and not unnatural irritation has been excited in Wales by the appointment of a gentleman named TALBOT to the registrarship of the Newtown County Court. He is apparently a young practitioner, knowing little or nothing of the Welsh language. Shortly before his appointment to this office he had been elected clerk to two benches of magistrates, and there is doubtless, as his name would import, some strong influence at his back. In matters connected with the administration of justice appointments should be made by merit, and it is deplorable when the main, if not the only, qualification is high connection. A local paper makes some sarcastic observations which are not wholly undeserved. It says: "At first, let us confess, we were inclined to sympathise with the vulgar idea, that a gentleman acquainted with the neighbourhood, and with the Welsh language, and with the practice of police and County Courts, was better fitted to fill the office in question, than a stranger who laboured under the disadvantage of not possessing two, at least, of those qualifications; but we prefer to trust in the sagacity of the magistrates and Serjt. TINDAL ATKINSON. It is unfortunate that general discontent should be occasioned by an apparent arbitrariness of choice which the public either fails to understand or attributes to unworthy motives; but it is most satisfactory to connect Mr. TALBOT's appointment with the exceptional ability of the magistrates in discovering hidden worth. Mr. TALBOT's road to fortune, it is true, lay through his succession to an old firm of high local standing, but that cannot have had anything to do with the appointinent, and is only worth mentioning as another instance of Mr. TALBOT's singularly happy lot." THE London Patent Agents have held a meeting to consider the question of patent law reform, and they have come to a series of resolutions. They are of opinion that the chief defects of the patent laws have arisen from a want of appreciation of the natural rights of inventors to the sole use of their inventions, an unreserved recognition of which rights must pervade every equitable patent system, and the true aim of patent legislation is to harmonise these individual rights with the material interest of the state. That the grant of patents to mere "first importers" is an injustice to inventors, an injury to society, as it induces the "pirating" of inventions, and the reason for these grants no longer existing, legislation should confine the issue of patents to actual inventors and their representatives. That, in view of the benefits inventors confer on the public, and the expenses incident to the completion and introduction of new inventions, a patent for fourteen years is an inadequate compensation, and we deem it expedient to grant patents for a term of twenty-one years without the privilege of extension. That the patent laws impose penalties upon inventors in the form of excessive fees, which justice and public policy demand should be reduced to the amount requisite to defray the expenses of an efficient administration of a simple patent system, and fees of 107. for the entire term, now 1751., would yield more than sufficient for the purpose. And they consider that the defects of the present practice should be remedied by the adoption of equitable regulations," and the introduction of the system of granting patents, at the risk of the applicants, without any official supervision of the specification or preliminary investigation of the merits of the invention. And further, that the rights of patentees should be determined by a competent tribunal, excluding all technical objections to the validity of the patent, and that it is expedient to dispense with jurors and "scientific experts" in patent suits. The mode of trying patent suits is a matter which cannot be very much affected by the opinion of the patent agents, and it will have to receive attentive consideration at the hands of lawyers. 66 It seems desirable to follow up our remarks on the subject of the conservatism of English lawyers, or, as we put it in the alternative, their subservience to case law, by referring to the alarming want of unanimity displayed by our Common Law Judges in several recent cases. Perhaps the most remarkable conflict occurs in a case heard before the Exchequer Chamber on the 15th ult. (Gray v. Carr), involving a dispute as to liability for dead freight and demurrage and damages for detention. This is a reporter's record of the state of mind of the Intermediate Court of Appeal: "The Court of Exchequer Chamber affirmed the judgment of the Queen's Bench by a majority of four to two; Chief Baron KELLY and Baron CHANNELL being of opinion that the judgment ought to be affirmed on all points, Justices WILLES and BRETT that the judgment ought to be for the defendants in toto; Baron BRAMWELL that the judgment ought to be for the plaintiffs in toto; and Baron CLEASBY that the judgment ought to be for the plaintiff as to demurrage and dead freight, and for defendants as to damages for detention." Could anything well be more absurd than this? But in such a case the parties may go on to the House of Lords where unanimity is more generally secured, though by no means invari ably. There are cases, however, in which no further step can be taken, of which we have a conspicuous example from the Common Pleas referred to at length in another column. That was an appeal from a revising barrister as to the definition of a dwelling house under the Reform Acts. Two judges were of opinion that the revising barrister was right; two thought that he was wrong. Consequently his decision stands. The Irish Courts seem to get on much better, and our contemporary in that country points with pride to the numerous cases in which their judgments have been affirmed on appeal to the House of Lords. We sincerely wish that if unanimity generally prevails in the courts of Ireland some information as to the means of securing it could be furnished to our judges, for nothing is more unsatisfactory to suitors, and nothing is more calculated to make proceedings in courts of justice ridiculous in the eyes of the public than a frequent conflict of judicial opinion. A CURIOUS question of marriage law affecting the validity of a will, was brought before an Australian Ecclesiastical Court last November. A settler in Victoria went to Scotland on a visit with his deceased wife's niece, and there married her. He had made a will before his second marriage, but died before he could carry out his intention to make another after that marriage. Probate of the first will was taken out in Australia, and this the testator's widow sought to set aside |