lawyer in the Merchant of Venice, "it is twice blessed. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." But, gentlemen, as you might naturally expect the direct claims of this society upon you are much stronger still. You are doing as I understand a great and useful work, and you are at present flourishing and rich. Most of the items of your account will be found very clearly set forth in the report which either is, or very soon will be, in your hands-a report which I have read with very great satisfaction, and which amply justifies the statement which I am now making. But I pray you to remember that you are still, comparatively speaking, a young institution. You are barely now forty years old. It is in the nature of things that the call upon your funds will increase from year to year, and it takes, as I am told, the interest of nearly £1000 to pay a single pension. Now, when you come to put all these things together, your own good sense will show you that you must not rest upon your oars. You must not be satisfied with the present state of things. You must not relax your efforts, nor diminish your watchfulness over expenditure by one single jot, if, that is, you mean to be secure as to the future, or if you mean even to be perfetly safe as to the present rate of your expenditure. And remember one thing more, that this work must be done by you. It is very well for the Bench and for the Bar to sympathise with you and to help you as they do, and as I trust they always will; but the work is yours, and yours alone. It is not right that you should depend upon the alms of others. It is not fit that this society should become the mere channel of almsgiving. It is not right, or proper, or becoming that a society of this kind should become a pensionary upon other people. You must support the society yourselves, and you will have this satisfaction in doing so, that if in time to come any of you should need that support which all of us, in time to come, may need, you are sure that if it continues as it is at present, that you will have it as you need it, and when you need it most. And if you are fortunate enough never in your life to need it, you will at least have this satisfaction-you will have contributed something to alleviate the wants of others who have not been so fortunate. You will have done something for men who are bound together with you by the ties of common, or at least of like pursuits; you will have done something for the credit, and the honour, and the welfare, of that great Profession of which we all ought to be proud, of which we are all members, and which you have selected for your calling in life. Gentlemen, there are other and higher considerations upon which I forbear to touch. This is not the occasion, and I am not the person to deal with them to you; but although they are not expressed they may be felt, and I believe if I know any. thing of you, I believe that they will be felt and acted upon the more constantly and the more surely, because they are felt in silence, and because they have to be acted upon not as a matter of profession but as a matter of conscience and of practice. Gentlemen, I give you Prosperity to the United Law Clerks' Society." The Secretary here announced that the donations amounted to £381 7s. Mr. H. T. Cole, Q.C., proposed the toast of "The Patrons of the Society," for which Mr. R. A. Bayford, returned thanks, observing that it had been stated on the highest authority, that in this country anyone might hope to rise to be a judge. The moral he would draw from the support hitherto given by the judges was that, if any of those present came to be judges, they were also to be patrons of the society. The Hon. G. Denman, Q.C., M.P., proposed "The Health of the Chairman.' Mr. Horace Lloyd, Q. C. proposed "The Bench, the Bar, and the Profession," observing that it was a toast which would receive exceptional honour, as so many members of the Bench had given their influence as chairmen on these occasions; and patronised and supported the society as vice-patrons and stewards, and had most liberally and even magnificently contributed to its funds. But beyond this there was another reason why the toast should be received with honour, and that was that there was no branch of the Profession which more appreciated the law clerks than the Bench of England. He well remembered the occasion when the father of the chairman took his public leave of the Bench which he had so long adorned, that with an emotion which was visible to all, after speaking of his brethren the Bench, and of those practising before him at the Bar, that he spoke in terms of the highest eulogy and the kindest feeling of the great body of the law clerks, of their industry, of their integrity, of their intelligence, and of their zeal, and, in language of which they might well be proud. Although there were many different branches in the Profession, yet there were many ties which united them in common, and none he was sure was more constant than that of a com mon interest in the sufferings and sorrow of the rank and file of the Profession. Mr. Bovill, Q. C. responded. Mr. F. O. Crump, in proposing the toast of "The Honorary Stewards," alluded in graceful terms to the generous support they had always given to the society. He should have shrunk from proposing a toast which included such eminent dignitaries as an ex-Lord Chancellor, two ViceChancellors, several Judges, and innumerable Queen's Counsel, had he not been honoured with the confidence of the society by being appointed one of their arbitrators, for they had thus made him a judge. He had adjudicated on the claims of one of the members, and could thus feel a truer sympathy with them. In alluding to the proposal of Mr. Fawcett to withdraw the law officers from practice, he condemned it in strong terms, as it would deprive the general public of the brilliant talents of the Attorney-General, and the Profession of a man whom they all might seek to honour, and whose example they all desired to emulate. The Government itself would suffer if the Attorney-General were confined to being simply the adviser of the Foreign Office, and of the Home Secretary, whether in the matter of cab fares or even indirect claims. Mr. W. Melmoth Walters responded, and said his experience was that if the Profession wanted men of zeal, intelligence, energy, prudence, and judgment as clerks, they would find them amongst the men enrolled as members of this society. Mr. Locock Webb proposed "The Trustees." The Chairman proposed "The Ladies," and the meeting separated. HULL LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. A SPECIAL meeting of this society was held at the Law Library on Tuesday evening last. The president, H. Cook, Esq., occupied the chair. After and Jacobs, the delegates who attended the recent some preliminary business, Messrs. Woodhouse presented their reports of the proceedings, which, Law Students' Societies' Congress at Birmingham, on the motion of the president, were received and ordered to be entered on the minutes. Some discussion ensued on the subject of law lectures, but it was resolved not to take any steps in the matter till after the consideration by the local law society of the resolutions communicated to them by the The president moved secretaries of the congress. services, which was carried unanimously. a hearty vote of thanks to the delegates for their draft of the new rules was partly discussed, but the further consideration adjourned till Tuesday next. The the formation and conduct of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and he was one of its most efficient members. His practice as a barrister, although not very extensive, was always of a very respectable kind. In the Court of Ex. chequer, and the other courts of lay, a large proportion of the cases in which he was retained were of a class which involved the principles of civil liberty. He was elected in the Liberal interest as one of the members for the borough of Hull after the passing of the Reform Bill in Dec. 1832, but retained his seat for only two years, being defeated at the general election in Jan. 1835. The more profitable part of the learned gentleman's practice, says the author of "The Bench and the Bar," was before committees of the House of Commons sitting on dis. puted elections. In the courts of law he acquired for himself the reputation of being a good lawyer and an excellent advocate, but he perhaps distinguished himself in a special manner before committees of the House of Commons. In 1834. Mr. Hill received the honour of a silk gown, with a patent of precedence, and his name stands at the head of the list of Queen's Counsel. He was employed as counsel for Messrs. Morrison and Wason in the memorable Ipswich election of 1835, when that election came before a select committee of the House, and the manner in which he acquitted himself on that occasion, says the above authority, would have done credit to the most distinguished man at the Bar. Mr. Hill's extraordinary and masterly efforts on the occasion were crowned with success, the decision of the select committee being in favour of the claims of his client. Soon after entering the House of Commons, he took up the question of municipal reform, and presented the first petition to Parliament on that subject. His labours, however, in this cause may have had an effect in depriving him afterwards of his seat; for at the next election, by the votes of the "freemen of Hull, as distinguished from those of ordinary voters under the Reform Act, another candidate was elected in his stead. Mr. Hill strongly supported the bill for allowing persons charged with felony to employ counsel in their defence, and other amendments of the criminal law; and he also took an active part in obtaining the Bill for the establishment of the now flourishing colony of South Australia. On the erection of Birmingham into a municipal corporation, Mr. Hill was appointed its first recorder, and in 1851 he was nominated commissioner of bankruptcy for the Bristol district. From the time of his acceptance of this appoint ment, Mr. Hill of necessity withdrew from the private practice of his profession as a barrister, devoting himself entirely to the discharge of his duties, and to the general amendment of the law, particularly as regards the treatment of young offenders. In a biographical notice of Mr. Hill in the English Cyclopædia, the writer says "his charges to the grand jury as recorder of Birming ham, contain comprehensive and philosophical views, not only of the subject of juvenile crime, but of many questions relating to adult offenders, to the general principles and practice of criminal law, and to other means for the prevention of crime." Mr. Hill, it need scarcely be said, took a leading part in the movement for the establish. ment of juvenile reformatories, in 1843, in con junction with Lord Brougham, Mr. Commissioner THE late Matthew Davenport Hill, Esq., Q.C., Fane, Mr. Pitt Taylor, and several other friends commissioner in bankruptcy for the Bristol dis- of law reform. Mr. Hill took part in the forma trict, and formerly M.P. for Hull, who died at his tion of the Society for the Amendment of the residence, Heath House, Stapleton, near Bristol, Law. It is in a great degree owing to Mr. Hill's on the 7th inst., in the eightieth year of his age, unwearied perseverance in his official character, was the eldest son of a family of which the five sons and by various well-timed and able publications, have identified themselves in a remarkable degree that these subjects have become the object of so with the great moral and material improvements much of the attention of statesmen and writers, of our time. His father was the late Mr. Thomas and that juvenile reform has been raised from the Wright Hill, of Bruce Castle, Tottenham, Middlesex, position of a benevolent theory into a great practical and his mother, Sarah, daughter of Mr. William principle, demanding the co-operation of men of Lea, of Birmingham; and he was a brother of Sir all parties to carry it through its incipient diffi Rowland Hill, K.C.B., the author of our penny culties. To quote the words of the Daily News, postage system. He was born at Birmingham in we may add that, "in pursuing objects which the year 1792, his father, who was a native of Kid- many take up to indulge a sentiment, or humour a derminster, having settled in the neighbourhood theory, Mr. Hill uniformly displayed the high of Birmingham as the head of a school, which in qualities of moderation, discernment, and calm later years became celebrated for the original practical common sense, united with untiring inviews of education which were there carried into dustry, and a perseverance which was never repractice as "the Hazelwood system." Mr. Matthew laxed." Mr. Hill was the author of various Hill assisted his father for some years in the pamphlets, among which may be mentioned management of the school, which was subse- "Practical Suggestions to the Founders of Requently removed to Hazelwood, and afterwards to formatory Schools," Mettray," "Tuscan Juris Tottenham, during which time he attended his prudence," and "Hints on the Suppression of terms at Lincoln's-inn. He was called to the Bar Crime," in a letter to the Right Hon. Sir C. B. in Michaelmas term 1819, and one of the first Adderley, &c.; and besides these, and a large cases upon which he was engaged was in an im- number of charges addressed by him to grand portant state trial, the defence of Major Cart-juries in his capacity of recorder of Birmingham, wright on a charge of political conspiracy. The which he published in a collected form under the talent and independence which Mr. Hill exhibited title of Suggestions for the Repression of on behalf of his client, although, perhaps, not con- Crime," he edited biographies of men and women ducive to much profitable employment, at once who have become benefactors of their country. brought him prominently before the public, and Mr. Hill married, in 1819, Margaret, daughter of secured for him the friendship of many eminent Mr. William Bucknall, by whom he has left issue. legal and political personages, among whom were His son, Mr. Alfred Hill, who was called to the Brougham, Wilde, Denman, and Bentham. In Bar at Lincoln's-inn, in 1848, is Registrar of the 1827 he was associated with Mr. Brougham in Court of Bankruptcy, at Birmingham. LEICESTER LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY. A LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY has recently been formed in Leicester, of which W. Napier Reeve, Esq., is the president and Mr. J. S. Dickinson honorary secretary. The first meeting of the society was held on Wednesday evening, the 5th instant, when the subject discussed was, Ought the law relating to real property in cases of intestacy to be assimilated in its general principles to that relating to personal property p" LEGAL OBITUARY. MR. COMMISSIONER HILL. 66 POWELL, POWELL, and ROBERTS, attorneys and solicitors, Car(Edward Griffith Powell and John Hugh narvon. May 18. Roberts.) Debts by Roberts. Gazette, June 4. ABELL and COLEMAN, attorneys and solicitors, Gloucester. April 12. (George Mutlow Abell and John Hall Coleman.) Bankrupts. Gazette, June 7. To surrender in the Country. CHALLONER, THOMAS, bookkeeper, Halifax. Pet. June 3. Reg. EVANS, THOMAS, grocer, Liverpool. GEMSON, LAWRENCE, bootmaker, Liverpool. Pet. June 5. Reg. Watson. Pet. June 4. Reg. HUINS, CHARLES GLOVER, builder, Redditch. Chaunler. Sur. June 19 Pet. June 5. Reg. SUMMERSCALES, THOMAS, Victualler, Halifax. Rankin. Sur. June 21 Pet. June 5. Reg. WILKINS, CHARLES FREDERICK, tavern keeper, Trowbridge. Pet. June 4. Reg. Smith. Sur. June 18 Gazette, June 11. To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-st. BINGHAM, WILLIAM HENRY, auctioneer, City-rd. Pet. June 8. Reg. Roche. Sur. July 4 HENRY, WILLEM LOUIS, Baron de Lavenant, and CAMILLE, his wife, of no occupation, Camberwell New-rd. Pet. June 7. Reg. Murray. Sur. June 25 SEYMOUR, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, job master, New Bond-st. Pet. To surrender in the Country. GREENSLADE, WILLIAM, bootmaker, Wellington. Pet. June 6. Beg. Meyler. Sur. June 22 HATTON, WILLIAM, grocer, Drybrook, near Mitcheldean. Pet. June 8. Reg. Wilton. Sur. June 26 HILLARY, CHARLES, ironmonger, Fordingbridge. Pet. June 8. Dep-Reg. Nodder. Sur. June 27 OWENS, GEORGE HASSALL, poulterer, Tranmere. Reg. Wason. Sur. June 26 PLEWS, GEORGE, innkeeper, Middleham. Jefferson. Sur. June 21 ADAMS, SAMUEL, music hall inanager, Great James-st, Bedford- BRODBRIDGE, WILLIAM HARROLD, bookseller, Camden-rd, St. CLARKE, CHARLES, out of business, Birmingham; June 25, at CORTE, JOHN, pork butcher, Birmingham; June 21, at three, at DADY, CHARLES, bootmaker, Nettleham; June 19, at eleven, at DEAN, GEORGE, draper, Nottingham; June 20, at three, at the Home Trade Association Booms, Manchester, Sols., Sale, Shipman, and Seddon, Manchester DIXON, JOHN, newspaper, proprietor, Luton; June 17, and not 10, at eleven, at office of Sol., Shepherd, Luton DOBSON, EDWIN, confectioner, Dewsbury; June 21, at three, at office of Sols., Messrs, Chadwick and Son, Dewsbury FARRANT, THOMAS BATSON, cheesemonger, Aylesbury-st, Clerkenwell; June 17, at three, at office of Sol., Marshall, Lincoln'sinn-fields FITZGIBBON, GERALD, merchant, Mincing-la, and Rye-la, Peckham: June 17, at three, at office of Thwaites, accountant, Basinghall-st. Sol., Dobie, Basinghell-st FOSKET, GEORGE, meat salesman, Metropolitan Meat market; June 21, at twelve, at office of S 1., Mason, Newgate-st GIDEON, SAMUEL BEAVER, wine merchant, Portman-chmbs, Portman-st, Portman-sq, and Welbeck-st, Cavendish-sq; June 27, at three, at 23, Great Marlborough-st. Sol., Alsop GILKES, EDWIN JONES, tutor, Montpellier-villas, Cheltenham; June 25, at one, at office of Sol., Marshall, Cheltenham GODWIN, JOHN, out of business, Birmingham; June 15, at twelve, at the Crown tavern, Birmingham. Sol., Cheston, Birmingham GREEN, EDWARD, grocer, Wrockwardine, and Ludlow; June 21, at half-past eleven, at office of Sol., Leake, Shifnal GUNSTON, THOMAS DANIEL EDWARD, cheesemonger, Holloway. rd, Islington; June 25, at three, at office of Sol., Heathfield, Lincoln's-inn-fields HAMMOND, ABRAHAM, builder, Lee, and Eltham, also under firm of Hammond and Everard, Lewisham; June 19, at three, at office of Sol., Pittman, Guildhall-chimbs, Basinghall-st HAWKES, JOHN JOSEPH, draper, Exeter, June 22, at one, at the White Lion hotel, Bristol. Sol., Fowler. Teignmouth HOWARD, JOSEPH GROOM, butcher, New-st, Dorset-sq: June 28, at three, at office of Sols., Messrs. Gresham, Basinghall-st INNES, JAMES, provision dealer, Stockbridge; June 2), at two, at office of Sols., J. G. and J. E. Joel, Newcastle LATCH, WILLIAM HENRY, jeweller, Newport; June 21, at twelve, at the Hen and Chickens hotel, Birmingham. Sol., Morgan, Newport LEWIS, SAMUEL, builder, Gloucester; June 15, at eleven, at office of Sol., Essery, Bristol MCCALLUM, THOMAS WHITTAKER, paper dealer, Nottingham; MERRY, ALFRED JOHN, draper, Ipswich: June 21, at twelve, at office of Edwards and Co., King-st, Cheapside. Sols., Sole, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbury NICHOLS, WILLIAM, shoe dealer, Leicester; June 21, at one, at the Wentworth hotel, Peterborough. Sol., Harvey, Leicester OVER ND. AMELIA, milliner, Pontefract; June 20, at twelve, at the Strafford Arms hotel, Wakefield. Sol., Arundel, Pontefract PAYNE, JOHN, joiner, Manchester; June 20, at three, at office of Sols., Smith and Boyer, Manchester PERKS, FRANCIS, japanner, Wolverhampton; June 25, at eleven, at office of Sol., Walker, Wolverhampton PHILLIPS, THOMAS, packing case maker, Manchester; June 23, ROBSON, JOHN RENNER, linen draper, Hexham; June 20, at SHOWELL, JOSHUA SMITH, builder, Sparkbrook; June24.ateleven, at office of Sol., Stubbs, Birmingham SMERDON, MARY, widow, butcher, Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath; June 20, at twelve, at office of Sols., Jones and Curtis, Neath SMITH, SAMUEL. grocer, Winterton: June 21, at twelve, at the George hotel. Huli. Sol, Mason, Barton-upon-Humber SWALES, JAMES, working jeweller, Great Sutton-st. Clerkenwell, and Leyton: June 18, at three, at office of Sol., Parker, Pavement, Finsbury TITTERTON, CHARLES RICHARD, oil manufacturer, Birmingham; June 21, at twelve, at offices of Sols., Beale, Marigold, and Beale, Birmingham TRIM, FREDERICK, victualler, Cricklewood, Hendon; June 21, at four, at office of Sol., Lomax, Old Bond-st, Picadilly WALFORD, FREDERICK WILLIAM, estate agent. Cornwall-rd, Westbourne-pk, Bayswater; June 19, at two, at offices of Slater and Pannell, Guildhall-chimbs, Basinghall-st. Sol., Pittman, Guildhall chmbs, Basinghall-st WALKER, MARY ANN, milliner, Nottingham: June 14, at three, at office of Sols., Cranch and Rowe, Nottingham Gazette, June 31. ATKINSON, ROBERT, slate merchant, Great Grimsby; June 27, BEYNON, THOMAS, coachbuilder, Narberth; June 22, at a quarter- BOOKER, GEORGE, builder, Wickham; June 20, at three, at office of Sol., Ford, Portsea BOLTON, GEORGE, corn dealer, Rhyl-st, Maldon-rd, Kentish- BROOKS, ADAM, licensed victualler, Borough-rd; ; June 24, at BROWNRIGG, MARION, milliner, Mount-st, Grosvenor-sq; June DARBYSHIRE, THOMAS, bricksetter, Pemberton; June 24, at sea ELLIS, GEORGE, grocer, Gateshead; June 20, at twelve, at office of Sols., Messrs. Kidd, Britton, and Kewney, Newcastle-uponTyne FELL, BENJAMIN, out of business, Manchester; June 26, at three, at office of Sol., Leigh, Manchester GALE, SAMUEL ARTHUR PERKS, coach builder, Colchester; June 22, at half-past ten, at offices of Sols, Smythies Goody, and Son, Colchester GALE, WILLIAM ALFRED, gentleman, Vivian-rd, Old Ford; June eleven, at office of Sol., Lind, New-inn, Strand' GOLLEGE, BENJAMIN, dairyman, Batcombe; June 19, at two, at office of Sol., McCarthy, Frome GOULDSMITH, MARY ELIZABETH, and GOULDSMITH, FREDE. RICK SAMUEL, dyers, Pont-st, Belgrave-sq; June 20, at one, at office of Sol., Starling, Lincoln's-inn-fields GOULTON, RICHARD, fish dealer, Great Grimsby; June 20. at eleven, at the Crowther's Temperance hotel, Great Grimsby. Sol., Jacobs GRABHAM, GEORGE SAWTELL, yeoman, Ilton; July 4, at three, HARRISON, GEORGE WOODS WILLSHER ROGERS, attorney-at-law, HIND, CHARLOTTE CEALIA, milliner, Vowler-st, Walworth; June HUBBE, EDUARD SIMEON, merchant, Mincing-la June 21, at Paddington-st Marylebone; June 27, at three, at the Inns of Court and Great Central hotel, High Holborn. Sol, Goren JONES, ELIZABETH, licensed victuller, Lower Broughton, Lancaster; Jure, 27, three. at office of Sol., Ritson, Manchester MARSDEN, HENRY, cattle dealer, Aberystwith; June 22, at eleven, at 1, Baker-st, Aberystwith. Sol., Atwood MARSHALL. ROBERT, steel merchant. Manchester; June 26, at three, at office of Sol., Addleshaw, Manchester MCINTOSH, WALTER, beerseller,, Salford; June 21, at three, at office of Sol., Ellithorne, Manchester MORGAN, JOHN, oilinan, Bishopsgate-st, without; June 24, at two, at office of Sol, Hutson, Clifton-st, Finsbury PEARSON, ALLAN, pawnbroker's assistant, Stourbridge; June 24, at eleven, at office of Sols., Goud, and Elcock, Stourbridge PERRY, WILLIAM, timber merchant, Acton-st, and Turnmill-st, Clerkenwell; July 4, at three, at office of Sols., Lawrance, Plews, Boyer, and Baker, Old Jewry-chmbs RICHTER, FREDERICK, clerk, De Beauvoir-rd, Kingsland June 25, at office of Sol., Salman, King-st, Cheapside RIGBY, WILLIAM, licensed victualler, Manchester; July 1, at half-past three, at office of Sols., Sale, Shipman, and Seddon, Manchester RUXTON, GEORGE, baker, Liverpool; June 21, at three, at office of Sols., Fowler and Carruthers, Liverpool SCOTT, JOHN, glass stainer, Manchester; June 26, at three, at office of Sol., Bent, Manchester SHIPMAN, HENRY, cutlery caster, Sheffield; June 25, at four, at office of Sol., Clegg, Sheffield SPELLER, RICHARD, grocer, Langton-rd, North Brixton: June 19, at three, at offices of Sols., Chipperfield and Scurt, Trinityst, Southwark SPURR, ROBERT PURCHON, bookkeeper. Huddersfield: June 24, at three, at office of Sols, Messrs. Sykes, Huddersfield STAINS, ALFRED, grocer, Brighton; June 21, at twelve, at Moorgate-st-chmbs STARLING, ANNABELLA SUSANNA, outfitter, Newport; June 27, at two, at office of Sol., Hooper, Newport STEPHENSON, ROBERT, out of business, West Kirby: June 25, at WANGLER, JOSEPH, licensed victualler, Birmingham; June 22, WHITE, GEORGE, bootmaker, Workington; June 26, at twelve, at the Savings Bank, Workington. Sols., Hayton and Simpson, Cockermouth WILLIS, JOHN WILSON, draper, Silloth; June 21, at two, at office of Sol., Wright, Carlisle WINBY, FREDERICK CHARLES, and WINBY, CLIFFORD ETCHES, engineer, Canton, near Cardiff; June 22, at two, at the Royal hotel, Cardiff. Sols, Ingledew and Ince WYLDE, CHARLES, licensed victualler, Canterbury-pl, Lambethrd; June 21, at two, ut office of Sol., Beard, Baslughall-st HORNE.-On the 11th inst., at 19, Grosvenor-street, Edinburgh, the wife of T. E. O. Horne, writer to the signet, of a son. LINDLEY. On the 12th inst, at 8, Craven-hill-gardens, the wife of Nathaniel Lindley, Esq., Q.C., of a son. SKINNER-On the 9th inst, at Richmond, Surrey, the wife of Fitz Owen John Skinner, of Lincoln's-inn, Esq., barrister-atlaw, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BAINES-BROWNING.-On the 6th inst., at St. Giles's Church, Oxford, Henry Raines, Solicitor, Oxford, to Alice, youngest daughter of J. S. Browning, Esq., Oxford. BAYLIFFE-WAGER.-On the 6th inst.. at St. John's Church, Lewisham-rd, Kent, Alfred Bayliffe, Esq., of Gray's-inn, and Highgate, solicitor, to Bessie, second daughter of the late Charles Wager, Esq., of Exeter, Devon. COOPER-FURLEY.-On the 5th inst., at St. Stephen's Church, Hull, John Spyvee Cooper, solicitor, to Alice, eldest daughter of Richard Lee Furley, Esq., of Hull. LYON-CLAYTON.-On the 4th inst., at St. Chrysostom's Church, Liverpool, Thomas Porter Lyon, solicitor, Liverpool, to Frances Mary, daughter of the late Edward William Clayton, ManchesMAITLAND-WARREN.-On the 4th inst., at St Thomas', Orchardstreet, the Rev. Brownlow Maitland, of 41. Montague-square, to Emily, only daughter of Samuel Warren, Q.C. PARR-LONG.-On the 11th inst., at Lenton, near Nottingham, George Parr, solicitor, to Mary Innocent (Minnie), only daughter to James Long, Esq., of Park Hill, Nottingham. ter. DEATHS. GOODMAN.-On the 8th inst., at Brighton, aged 32, Thomas Good- HILL. On the 7th inst., at Heath House, Stapleton, Gloucestershire, aged 79, Matthew Davenport Hill, Q.C.. M.P. for Hull, in the first Reformed Parliament, late Recorder of Birmingham, and Commissioner in Bankruptcy for the Bristol District. MANNING. On the 3rd April, at Hunter's-hill, near Sydney N.S.W., aged 25 years, Clara Isabella, wife of Charles J. Man ning, Esq., (C.C.C., Oxon), barrister-at-law. 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A great portion of Part II. of the Act of 1854 appears in the schedule to the Bill of 1870, and several of the sections in Part III. are also transferred to the schedules. This process does not reduce the bulk of the statute law, and it is hard to see for what possible reason it has been adopted. THERE are two Irish judges at present out of their element in Ireland. Somebody or something has disturbed, we fear permanently, the serenity of LORD JUSTICE CHRISTIAN. From measures he has come to men. His recent criticisms were levelled at the Irish Land Act, and we commended his courage for adhering to his opinions, Mr. GLADSTONE'S menaces notwithstanding. Now, however, he has made a personal attack on the LORD CHANCELLOR in the court in which they both sit to administer equity, and he is reported to have declared that "when dealing with abuses and criticising institutions, if individuals stood in his way, he would not be a respecter of persons." We unhesitatingly say that when a Judge ceases to be a respecter of persons, when the public character and personal feelings of his brethren on the bench are no longer objects of his careful regard, his own usefulness is impaired, his dignity degraded, and his patriotism suspected. This absence of respect for persons has apparently brought the other Irish judge to whom we refer into difficulty; but the question as regards Mr. JUSTICE KEOGH is altogether different, being simply whether his denunciations were called for by the necessities of the case, and whether in those denunciations he used immoderate language. Whatever the result of the impending discussion, it is much to be desired that Irish judges would emulate the courtesy and dignity of their brethren of the English Bench. Ar the dinner of the Solicitors' Benevolent Association on Thursday in last week, one or two observations were made in the course of the speeches connected with the several toasts, which attracted attention. As a purely professional matter, it is to be noticed that Lord CAIRNS availed himself of the opportunity to place on record his belief that the statement commonly made that solicitors give their business to their friends and relations at the Bar, and in order to do so sacrifice the interests of their clients, is absolutely without foundation. Taking his own case, his Lordship said that he believed solicitors entrusted him with business because they knew that he gave his very best attention to it. This testimony - although received with cries of "Oh!" is valuable, and solicitors are indebted to Lord CAIRNS for having voluntarily expressed his good opinion. Another noteworthy feature of the proceedings was the speech of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the COMMON PLEAS. In responding to the toast of the Judges, his Lordship again dilated upon the enormous and neverending labours of English judges. Hour by hour, day by day, and month by month, said Sir WILLIAM BOVILL, her Majesty's Judges are engaged in the business of the courts. No sooner have their extraordinary energies been exhausted by London business, than they are called upon to go upon circuit to the extremities of the country. The service is honourable and not ill-paid, but this would appear to be no proper compensation. It is impossible not to feel pained by the contemplation of so much judicial misery; but this is not all. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, whilst ridiculing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for their judgment in Mr. BENNETT's case, looked forward to the time when Judges would not be called upon to decide against either party to a cause when, by the happy fusion of law and equity, the courts might be able to give judgments satisfactory to both sides. We had rather not comment upon these observations; but considering how infelicitous the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE can be when he tries, we would suggest whether it would not be advisable to avoid public dinners and assemblies which invite to the expression of extra-judicial opinions. THE Madras Bar has lately been thrown into a state of agitation by an appointment which really seems hardly defensible. The appointment in question was that of Clerk of the Crown and Crown Prosecutor, for which Sir WALTER MORGAN, the Chief Justice of Madras, selected Mr. H. J. TARRANT, Barrister-at-Law. The office was to be held during the absence of Mr. MAYNE on leave. Mr. TARRANT it seems was admitted an advocate of the High Court of Madras, so recently as the 3rd of last April, having previously practised in the High Court of the North West Provinces which exercises, in regard to civil cases, an appellate jurisdiction only. Now it appears that at the time of Mr. TARRANT's appoinment, there were several members of the Madras Bar reasonably competent to perform the duties of Clerk of the Crown and Crown Prosecutor, who would have been willing to take upon themselves the performance of those duties. Two members of the Bar had already discharged the duties of the two offices, and had given general satisfaction; and other members had held offices of equal importance and responsibility, and acquitted themselves in such offices to the satisfaction of the heads of their respective departments and of the public. So at least we are told by the Madras Bar itself. The conclusion arrived at shows much sinplicity: "The members of the Madras Bar believe that the right to confirm such appointments as the present is reserved to the Governor in Council, to enable him to satisfy himself that the duties of the office will be adequately performed. When offices are conferred upon gentlemen who have for years exercised their professional and official functions under the observation of the Goverment and the public, the task of confirmation is an easy one; but it is difficult to see how the Government can satisfactorily ratify an appointment where the nominee is a stranger, of whose qualifications the Government does not and cannot know anything whatever." Government has quite enough to do in seeing that no gross scandal is caused by the dispensation of patronage in high quarters. It cannot be expected to control a Chief Justice's appointments; and, moreover, where Government interferes, the result is not always satisfactory, the acceptance of a smaller salary, as we at home well know, being considered a stronger element for consideration than the possession of high qualifications. The Madras Bar must not be too exacting. as a SOME time in 1871 we remarked upon the proposition to admit American lawyers to practise in this country in terms which we considered appropriate. Since we wrote, it would appear that an English barrister has visited America, and formed a more favourable estimate of legal education in that country than we, although we were furnished with information by a careful student of character and institutions. The Albany Law Journal is delighted to find that Professor BRYCE comes to the conclusion that 66 matter of fact, the provision for instruction in law, is as good, or better, all things considered, than in England, and is certainly more generally turned to account." What "all things considered" may mean we do not stop to inquire; but we would remind our contemporary that our objection to admit American lawyers to practise in England was double, our words being, "We conceive, therefore, that it would hardly be desirable to admit American attorneys, who exercise in their own country the functions of barrister, to practise at the English Bar. With a lower educational standard than Our own, and a habit of indiscriminate practice, the introduction of American practitioners into England could hardly tend to elevate our Profession." We must venture to retain this opinion, Mr. BRYCE notwithstanding. But Mr. BRYCE gives a very uncertain opinion. Looking through the paper which our contemporary reprints, we find him saying, "Respecting the condition of legal education. . . it is hard to say anything general which shall also be true. One hears very little said about the value of studying it (i. e., the law) theoretically, nor is any proof of such study required from candidates for admission to the profession.' Further on we find this passage: "The right of admitting to practice is in all, or nearly all, the States, vested, or supposed to be vested, in the Judges, who usually either delegate it to the Bar, or appoint on each occasion one, two, or three counsel to examine the candidate. Occasionally, as for instance, in Philadelphia, he is required to have read for a fixed period in some lawyer's office, but more commonly nothing more than an examination is demanded, and the examination, nowhere severe, is often little better than a form. In Massachusetts, applicants may be, but are rarely, plucked; in New York, less scrupulous in this, as in most respects, than other cities, the whole thing is said to be a farce, and people, whose character and whole attainments are equally unsatisfactory, find their way into the profession. Unless the opinion of their fellow citizens does them great injustice, many of the New York Judges are not quite the men to insist on a rigid standard of professional honour and capacity." We add nothing. This THE Pall Mall Gazette appears to have a happy art of hitting upon what it conceives to be solutions of all sorts of problems. The issue of that journal on Tuesday last was remarkable in this respect, containing as it did a letter by Mr. CHARLES READE on DIXBLANC's case, and an article on "legislation by single instances.' Mr. READE's letter is an elaborate apology for DIXBLANC, and a severe attack upon the administration of the criminal law. distinguished author has found out that DIXBLANC is condemned because the legal vocabulary is limited. The picture he draws is not flattering. First we have a "lawyer, in the name of a humane sovereign" drawing a "bloodthirsty, exaggerated indictment." The jury are generally ninnies"; the judge is a "gentleman thatched with horsehair." And the conclusion is that "neither the Crown, nor the private suitor, should be allowed to exaggerate without smarting for it in the verdict." Mr. READE would probaly be offended if we characterized his letter by an expression selected from his own vocabulary, but our readers will be able to appreciate a proposal that a person should not be indicted for a heavier offence than that which he is ultimately 66 proved to have committed-a contingency for which the Legislature has in certain cases made express provision. We wonder also, whether Mr. READE would seriously suggest that a private suitor should "smart in the verdict," whatever that may mean, because his pleader lays the damages in the declaration at £20,000. Leaving Mr. READE and turning to the article, we find it stated to be "a vexatious anomaly that a multitude of cases, perhaps strictly anologous to each other, should each require a separate judicial decision, merely because there is no means of affirming their analogy in any proposition or propositions having the recognised force of law." It is evidently assumed by the writer that what he terms "judicial dicta" have not the force of law in the eyes of lawyers. The practical lawyer knows perfectly well that thousands of cases are annually suppressed because counsel advise that they are governed by existing cases. The difficulty does not lie in the principle, but in the infinite variety of facts which suggest a different application of the principle-a proposition, however, which our contemporary does not accept altogether. We believe the codification adopted in France and America has done little or nothing to curtail litigation of analogous cases, and we certainly cannot agree with our contemporary that whenever a comprehensive principle crops up in our courts we should have a body of eminent jurists ready at hand to pounce upon it and codify it. We have long since conceded the advantages to arise from codification, but it must be pursued upon a system. We have ourselves tested the capabilities of the English law for codification purposes, and thoroughly believe in it if the propositions are not too limited. The danger lies in excessive curtailment and condensation. Far better to be somewhat straggling than rigidly inexact. THE BALLOT BILL IN THE LORDS. It is obviously quite time that the limits within which the House of Lords can do effectual work should be prescribed and that its present anomalous position in the constitution should be altered for one of well-defined authority. Either a legislative body should be able to do legislative work, or the work should not be submitted to it. It is alleged against the peers that in dealing with the Ballot Bill they have been too bold, and that as a consequence their amendments will be summarily rejected by the House of Commons. Past experience proves that this prognostication is quite within the bounds of probability, but that the proceeding on the part of the House of Commons will be singular in more respects than one can be satisfactorily shown. In the first place the career of the Ballot Bill through the lower House was by no means smooth. Enemies rose up behind as well as before the Government. Had Mr. HENRY JAMES been less a slave to party he would most likely have dealt with the measure as roughly as did Mr. VERNON HARCOURT. Liberals of decided hue were found in opposition to several clauses of the bill, and now all that is alleged against the majority in the House of Lords is that it has introduced certain amendments and modifications into the Bill, more than one of which was, on principle, distinctly approved by the Parliamentary Committee of 1869-70, and by the minister having charge of a measure in the latter year in the House of Commons. To this argument in favour of the Duke of RICHMOND's proposals, it was replied by the Marquis of RIPON, that clauses were introduced into Lord HARTINGTON'S Bill to secure secrecy, such as a provision that the voter should enter into a secret compartment. But even if that be so it is open to the Commons, whilst adopting the Duke of RICHMOND'S amend ment, to insert such a clause. The danger of personation under the ballot is admitted to be great, the difficulty of detection enor mous, and the real question is shall secrecy be regarded as the one matter of importance, a violation being punishable by imprisonment, and the offence of personation placed in such a position that offenders will be secured comparative immunity—although, if convicted, they will be punishable as for a felony. The proposal which the Lords have adopted is this that each ballot-paper shall have an official mark on the back, and a number printed on the face, and shall have attached a counterfoil with the same number printed on the face. The condition of things which is likely to exist under the Bill is curious, and was sketched by Lord CAIRNS. According to the provisions of the Bill, he said, "The voter marked the ballot-paper and put it into the ballotbox, when it would be counted and become an absolute vote for the candidate in whose favour it was given. The Bill further provided, indeed, that if the real voter afterwards came forward he might satisfy the returning officer that he was the true person on the register, and demand a second ballot-paper. The ballotpaper was then to be given to him and his vote was to be marked upon it, but it was not to be put into the ballot-box, but into & separate bundle of tendered votes. When the time came for declaring the result of the election those tendered votes were not to be counted; but on any scrutiny or petition they might be brought in question, and if proved to be votes tendered by the proper persons they were to be received. In the mean time, however, the spurious votes given by the personators were to be counted as good votes. True, if it could be brought home to the candidate or his agent that a personated or false vote had |