THE GAZETTES. Professional Partnership Dissolbed. Gazette, Sept. 17. MOSELY, TAYLOR, and MOSELY, attorneys and solicitors, Old Jewry-chambers. Bankrupts. Gazette, Sept. 10. To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. BELLOTT, ABRAHAM, dealer in paperhangings, West-la, Rotherhithe. Pet. Sept. 5. 0. A. Edwards. Sol. Pittman, Guildhallchambers, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 20 BENJAMIN, ROSETTA, spinster, out of business, Keppel-st, Rus. sell-sq. Pet. Sept. 7. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Pittman, Guildhallchambers, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 24 BISHOP, JAMES, stonemason, St. James's-st, Camberwell. Pet. Sept. 3. Reg. Brougham. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Dobie, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 20 CAMROUX, MURRAY OLIVER, gentleman, Sydenham. Pet. Sept. 4. Pet. Sept. 6. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Hope, Ely-pl. Sur. Sept. 20 FISHER, CHARLES MUSTO, journeyman carpenter, Twickenham. Pet. Sept. 3. 0. A. Edwards. Sol. Dobie, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 20 GIFFORD, MICHAEL, saddler, Whitechapel-rd. Pet. Sept. 5. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Padmore, Westminster-bridge-rd. Sur. Sept. 20 JAMES, MORRIS, general dealer, Howard's-hotel, Aldgute. Pet. Sept. 5. O. A. Edwards. Sols. Messrs. Lewis, Ely-pl. Sur. Sept. 20 MITCHELL, WILLIAM, out of business, St. Dunstan's-rd, Stepney. Pet. Sept. 3. Reg. Roche. O. A. Parkyns. Sol. Holmes, Fenchurch-st. Sur. Sept. 20 PANKHURST, DEMETRIUS, cab proprietor, John's-mews, Little James-st, Bedford-row, Holborn. Pet. Sept. 7. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Earle, Bedford-row. Sur. Sept. 20 ROBINSON, THOMAS HOLMES, victualler, Woolwich. Pet. Sept. 3. O. A. Edwards. Sols. Drew and Co., Fore-st. Sur. Sept. 20 SCOFPERN, JOHN, medical practitioner, Beresford-ter, Kensington-pk. Pet. Sept. 4. Reg. Brougham. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Dobie, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 20 SMITH, HENRY CLEMENT, shipbroker's clerk and proprietor of the Hanover Club, Clifton-gons, Maida-hill; Hanover-sq; St. Dunstan's-bldgs, St. Dunstan's-hill; and Chertsey. Pet. Aug. 6. Reg. Pepys. O. A. Graham. Sol. Cooper, Billiter-st. Sur. Sept. 20 SMITH, WILLIAM THOMAS, woolstapler, Lavenham. Pet. Sept. 3. O. A. Edwards. Sols. Harper, Philpot-la; and Newman and Harper, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Sur. Sept. 20 TRUEHERZ, MAX, boot and shoe manufacturer, Little Cambridgest, Hackney-rd. Pet. Sept. 7. 0. A. Edwards. Sol. Beard, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 20 TUTT, EDWIN, assistant to a shoeing smith. Chapel-pl, Turnhamgreen. Pet. Sept. 6. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Pittman, Guildhallchambers, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 20 WEBB, THOMAS, formerly carver, Victoria-pk-rd, Hackney. Pet. Aug. 7. Reg. Roche. O. A. Parkyns. Sols. Nichols and Clark, Cook's-ct, Lincoln's-inn. Sur. Sept. 20 WELLS, WILLIAM HENRY, photographic artist, Teddington. Pet. Sept. 5. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Goatley, Bow-st, Covent-gdn. Sur. Sept. 20 WILES, CHARLES HENRY, and BULL, WILLIAM EBENEZER, brickmakers, Frindsbury. Pet. Sept. 4. O. A. Edwards. Sols. West and King, Charlotte-row. Sur. Sept. 24 To surrender in the Country. BARNES, JOHN RAWSTRON, mechanic, Haslingden and Accring- DARLASTON, JOHN, jun., late commission agent, Aston-juxta-Birmingham. Pet. Aug. 20. Reg. & O. A. Guest. Sol. Parry, Birmingham. Sur. Sept. 20 DIMMOCK, BENJAMIN, horsedealer, Liverpool. Pet. Aug. 31. Reg. & O. A. Dunn. Sols. Johnson and Tilly, Lancaster. Sur. Sept. 20 Pet. DOWNEND, GODFREY, coachman, Ashton-under-Lyne. FEATHERSTONE, HAMLET, woollen merchant, Moss-side and Manchester. Pet. Aug. 31. Reg. & O. A. Dunn. Sols. Johnson and Tilly, Lancaster. Sur. Sept. 20 GALIPOLITI, L., commission agent, Manchester. Pet. Aug. 24. GELL, ELIZABETH, victualler, Derby. Pet. Sept. 3. Reg. & O. A. HAYHURST, MARY, out of business, Accrington. Pet. Sept. 2. STOTT, JAMES, machinist, Rochdale. Pet. Sept. 3. Reg. Murray. STRACHAN, EDWARD, merchant tailor, Morpeth. Pet. Sept. 4. WELCH, ROBERT, brick manufacturer, Stockton-on-Tees. Pet. WHITE, EDWARD, general commission agent, West Derby. Pet. Sept. 4. Reg. & O. A. Hime. Sol. Cobb, Liverpool. Sur. Sept. 20 Gazette, Sept. 13. Pet. To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. BLYTH, WILLIAM, victualler, Munster-st, Regent's-pk. Sept. 9. 0. A. Edwards. Sol. Beard, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 24 CAMPRELL, JAMES, tailor, Cornhill. Pet. Sept. 7. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Reid, Bow-la. Sur. Sept. 24 CLARKE, ROBERT JOSEPH, out of business, Church-rd, Homerton DAVIS, CHARLES, builder, Selhurst. Pet. Sept. 10. O. A. Ed- LEVY, NATHANIEL, butcher, Nile-st, Hoxton, and boot and shoe Pet. MOSES, HENRY, wholesale printseller, Wheeler-st, Commercialst. Shoreditch. Pet. Sept. 10. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Edwards, Bush-la, Cannon-st. Sur. Sept. 27 0. A. Edwards. NICHOLLS, ABRAM, dealer in coals, Waltham Cross. Pet. Sept. 9. SOARE, WILLIAM EDWARD, out of employment, Chertsey. Pet. Sept. 6. Reg. Brougham. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Doble, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 24 SUTTON, SARAH, spinster, general agent, Frideswell-pl, Kentishtown-rd; Elgin-cresc, Notting-hill; and Maddox-st, Regent-st. Pet. Sept. 5. Reg. Brougham. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Dobie, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 24 TOMSON, JAMES SAMUEL, fancy box maker, Golden-la, St. Luke, and Tottenham. Pet. Sept. 9. Reg. Roche. O. A. Purkyns. Sols. Walter and Moojen, Southampton-st, Bloomsbury-sq. Sur. Sept. 24 TOPLEY, JOR PHILIP, pork butcher, Greenwich. Pet. Sept. 6. O. A. Edwards. Sols. Ingle and Gooddy, King William-st. Sur. Sept. 24 TULLY, JOSEPH, gentleman, Albany-st, Regent's-pk. Pet. Sept. 7. O. A. Edwards. Sols. Edmunds and Mayhew, Carey-st. Sur. Sept. 24 To surrender in the Country. ADAMS, HAMLET, journeyman potter, Hanley. Pet. Sept. 9. Reg. BELL, JOHN, engineman, Durham. Pet. Sept. 9. Reg. & O. A. BOWEN, GEORGE, grocer, Swansea. Pet. Sept. 6. Reg. & O. A. CLARKE, DANIEL, grocer, Chilvers Coton. Pet. Sept. 10. Reg. DIBBLE, ABRAHAM, baker, Weston-super-Mare. FORSTER, MARTIN, tailor, Consett. Pet. Sept. 7. Reg. & O. A. HATFIELD, JOSEPH, corn miller, Sutton-upon- Derwent. Pet. JONES, DAVID, mill inspector, Merthyr Tydfil. Pet. Sept. 9. Reg. LLOYD, THOMAS, out of business, Neston. Pet. Sept. 11. O. A. MORRIS, FRANK, baker, West Zoyland. Pet. Sept. 9. Reg. & PARKER, ROBERT, beerseller, Wycombe and Beaconsfield. Pet. Pet. Sept. 7. Reg. & O. A. Jones. Sol. Williams, Dolgelly. Sur. Sept. 27 ROBERTS, EVAN, grocer, late Moss, near Wrexham. Pet. Aug. 15. Reg. & Ó. A. Edgworth. Sur. Sept. 30 Reg. & O. A. ROTT, HENRY, engraver, Swansea. Pet. Sept. 6. Reg. & O. A. WHITE, JAMES, lodging-house keeper, Southampton. Reg. & Gazette, Sept. 17. To surrender at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. ANTHONEY, HENRY, plasterer, Allen-rd, South Hornsey. Pet. Sept. 11. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Hall, Coleman-st. Sur. Sept. 27 BENNETT, JOHN JAMES, outfitter, Blandford Forum. Pet. Sept. 11. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Price, Serjeants'-inn, Fleet-st. Sur. Sept. 27 HOLLOWAY, HENRY, mercantile clerk, Gloucester-st, Pimlico. Pet. Sept. 12. 0. A. Edwards. Sol. Dobie, Basinghall-st. Sur. Sept. 27 LENO, JOHN BEDFORD, manager of working men's excursions to Paris, Drury-la. Pet. Sept. 11. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Pittman, Guildhall-chambers. Sur. Sept. 27 MIELL, JOHN, turner, Wimborne Minster. Pet. Sept. 12. O. A. MULLINS, JAMES, brass gauger, Woolwich. Pet. Sept. 14. O. A. Pet. Sept. 14. O. A. Edwards. Sol. Steadman, London-wall. Sur. Oct. 3 Pet. RAPLEY, FRANCES MARY ANNE, Bedford-rd, Clapham. SNOW, SUSANNAH ANN, Heath-villas, Hampstead. Pet. Sept. 11. To surrender in the Country. ALDRICH, FREDERICK HARVEY, accountant, Corfe Castle. Pet. Sept. 12. O. A. Carrick. Sol. Willesford, Exeter. Sur. Oct. 1 BAILEY, GEORGE, and BAILEY, MANASSEH, out of business. Batley. Pet. Sept. 9. O. A. Young. Sol. Messrs. Blackburn, Leeds. Sur. Sept. 30 BATES, JOHN, shoemaker, Aldridge. Pet. Sept. 9. O. A. Clarke. BEARD, THOMAS, beerseller, Tunstall. Pet. Sept. 12. Reg. & O. A. Pet. Sept. 12. Reg. & O. A. Hime. Sol. Blackhurst, Liverpool. Sur. Sept. 30 EDWARDES, JOHN BRITTLES, cottonspinner, Belmont, near Bolton. Pet. Sept. 14. Reg. Macrae. O. A. Morgan. Sols. Messrs. Higson, Manchester. Sur. Sept. 30 GRIFFITHS, THOMAS LOCKLEY, boot and shoe maker, Liverpool. HADEN, JOHN, lamp manufacturer, Birmingham. Pet. Sept. 5 HONSON, EDWIN, dyer, Leominster. Pet. Sept. 7. Reg. & O. A. SHAW, WILLIAM, out of business, Tranmere. Pet. Sept. 12. Reg. Assignment, Composition, Inspectorship, and Gazette, Sept. 10. ALLAN, THOMAS, civil engineer, Adelphi ter, Strand. Aug. 26. BENNETTO, WALTER, builder, Falmouth. Aug. 14. Trusts. J. CARPENTER, JAMES, coachbuilder, Southampton. Aug. 23. 68. 8d. in 1 mo. from registration CARTER, EDWARD, provision merchant and confectioner, Leeds. Aug. 19. 58. on Oct. 1 CASTREE, GEORGE HENRY, silk manufacturer, Manchester. Aug. 17. 158. in the pound guaranteed. Trust. S. Kershaw, estate agent, Manchester CORBY, THOMAS JOSEPH, builder, Broadway, Stratford. Aug. 30. 28. in 6 mos. after registration COWHAM, WILLIAM, bootmaker, East Ville. Aug. 23. 58. in 1 mo. from date of deed--secured DEAN, NICHOLAS, builder, Stockton. Aug. 10. Trusts. J. Robinson, wharfinger, and G. Craggs, timber merchant, both Stockton DENNESS, JAMES, carman, Torquay. Aug. 27. 58. in 3 mos. from registration ELLIS, JOHN, architect, Addison-rd, Kensington, and Austin- FOXALL, FRANCIS JEROME, hammer and edge tool manufacturer, GEE, THOMAS, straw bonnet manufacturer. New Kent-rd. Aug. 15. 4.-28, at 1 mo., ls. at 3 mos., and 1s. at 4 inos GOSDEN, GEORGE, builder, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Sept. 4. 2. on Jan. 1. Trust. W. Gosden, builder, Freshwater, Isle of Wight GRIFFITH, RICHARD, potter, Penmachno. Aug. 20. Trusts. O. GRIFFITHS, JOHN, victualler, Tranmere. Aug. 23. Trust. G. HANDS, HENRY, grocer and provision dealer, Cheltenham. Aug. HAWKINS, JAMES, blacksmith, Wye. Aug. 12. Trust. J. U. Bugler, ironmonger, Ashford HAY, GEORGE, traveller, Elizabeth-st, Bethnal-green. Aug. 16. 6d. in 6 mos HENLEY, LOUISA MARY, draper, Torquay. Aug. 13. Trust. F. Moore, warehouseman, Plymouth HOWSE, WILLIAM HENRY, tobacconist, Aldgate High-st. Aug. 20. 58.-28. 6d, in 14 days and 2s. 6d, in 3 mos. after registration JONES, GEORGE, out of business, Birmingham. Sept. 2. 28. 6d. forthwith KERR, COCHRANE, travelling draper, Manchester. Aug. 13. Trusts. T. M. Hunter, J. Anderson, and W. Mackie, merchants, Manchester KNAPP, JAMES, coachbuilder, Manor-st, Clapham. Sept. 6. 28. by two equal instalments at 3 and 6 mos. from date of deed. Trust. G. Kirby, barge-owner, Surrey-st, Strand LIEBERMAN, MOSES, dealer in jewellery, Aberdare. Sept. 6. 2s. on registration-secured LOW, JOSEPH, builder, Cornwallis-rd, Upper Holloway. Sept. 2. 10%. by two equal instalments on Nov. I next and Feb. 1, 1868 MCCABE, JOHN, marble mason, Euston rd, and Grove-ter, Lewisham. Sept. 3. 1s. by two equal instalments on Oct. 1, 1867, and Jan. 1, 1868 MIDDLETON, JOSEPH, stove grate fitter, Sheffield. Aug. 22. 3s. on Feb. 1 next. Trust. F. Twigg, table knife manufacturer, Sheffield NUTTALL, JOHN, stonemason, Southport. Aug. 26. Trusts. W. Barron, auctioneer, and D. Wilkinson, contractor, both Southport ROE, THOMAS, tobacconist, York. Aug. 19. 5. on Sept. 19 SKRIMSHIRE, EDMUND BROWN, draper, Kingsland d. Aug. 27. 10s. by three equal instalments at 3, 6, and 9 inos. from Aug. 15, 1867-secured. Trust. W. Osborne, warehouseman, Bow-churchyard SOLOMON, JULIEN DAVIS, merchant, Punderson-house, Bethnalgreen-rd. Aug. 14. 5s, in 1 mo. from date of deed STEAD, FRANCIS, engraver. Frith-st, Soho. Ang. 29. 58. by four equal instalments at 6, 12, 18, and 24 mos. from date of deed. Trust. W. J. Fryer, jeweller, Owen's-row, Clerkenwell STRIPP, ELIZA LAMBRICK, confectioner, Penzance. Aug. 28. Trusts. W. D. Chellew, chemist, Liverpool, and G. Richards, brewer, St. Ives TIFFIN, SPENCER, milliner, Norton Folgate. Sept. 6. 6s. by three equal instalments-first in 7 days from registration, and second and third in 3 and 6 mos VIVIAN, CYRUS ABEL, cab proprietor, Thorne-rd, South Lambeth. Sept. 5. 7x, 64, by three equal instalments at 4, 8, and 12 mos. from date of deed. Trust. R. Jones, commission agent, Clarendon-pl, Camberwell New-rd WALKINSHAW, HUGH SCOTT, draper, East Stonehouse. Aug. 15. Trust. H. Scott, draper, East Stonehouse WATKINS, EDWIN, accountant, Bristol. Sept. 3. Trust. J. Derges, sergeant-at-mace, Bristol YOUNG, HOWELL GWYNNE, saddler, Swansea. Aug. 15. Trusts. J. M. Voss, tinplate manufacturer, Swansea, and J. M. Shattock, saddler, Bristol Gazette, Sept. 13. ADAMS, ALFRED EDWARD, out of business, Blakesley-st, Commercial-rd. Sept. 9. 64, on Sept. 6, 1968. Trust. S. J. Brestow, provision dealer, Brown's-la, Spitalfields ALBU, ADOLPH, merchant, Houndsditch. Sept. 12. 2s. 6d. in 3 mos.-secured ALDERSON, GEORGE, builder, West Hartlepool. Sept. 6. 6s. 6d. by three equal instalments at 3, 6, and 9 mos.-secured. Trust. J. Greener, accountant, West Hartlepool ALLEN, JOSEPH, shopkeeper, Horbury. Aug. 14. Trusts. B. Watson, grocer, and G. D. L. Fernandes, common brewer, both Wakefield BARRON, JOHN, commission agent, Manchester. Sept. 6. Trust. W. Barron, auctioneer, Southport BONNER, FREDERICK BENJAMIN, out of business, High-st, Borough. Aug. 17. 2. by two equal instalments in 1 week and 1 mo. after registration. Trust. J. W. Smith, victualler, New Bond-st BRITTEN, JOHN, tailor and draper, Midsomer Norton. Sept. 2. Trusts. W. Hathway, woollen merchant, and W. M. Baker, warehouseman, both Bristol CALEY, MINKIN LAWRENCE, builder, Windsor. Aug. 30. Trusts. CHOWN, HENRY CHARLES, boot and shoe dealer, Liverpool. COOPER, ARTHUR, merchant, Bishopsgate-st without. Sept. 12. DAVY, WILLIAM, auctioneer, High-st, Borough, and Addingtonst, Camberwell. Sept. 2. 208.-58. on Feb. 1, 5s. on Aug. 1, 1868, and 10s. on Feb. 1, 1869 EASBY, RICHARD, farmer, Nun Monckton. Aug. 17. Trust. J. T. Pearson, agricultural chemist, Leeds EDSON, ANTHONY, straw hat manufacturer, Barnsley. Aug. 22. Trust. W. Fielding, innkeeper, Norton ESCUDIER, JAMES LOUIS, surgeon dentist, the Terrace, Kensington. Aug. 24, 20s, on Aug. 24, 1860 FELLOWS, JOSEPH, maltster, Smethwick. Aug. 17. 28.-18. in a week and 1. in 3 mos, after registration FRASER, CHARLES, captain in 64th regiment, Seymour-pl, Wandsworth-rd. Sept. 4. 31, on March 10 GITTOES, JOHN, coke merchant, Handsworth. Sept. 11. 18. in 3 GREAVES, EDWIN TRACY, chemist, Cardiff. Sept. 9. 8. secured by promissory notes at 3, 6, 9, and 12 mos. from Aug. 29-first, second, third, and fourth payments payable on Nov. 29, Feb. 29, May 29, and Aug. 20 HALL, GEORGE; HALL, JOHN; and HALL, FREDERICK, boot and shoe makers, North Shields and Jarrow. Aug. 30. 14s, by three equal instalments at 4, 8, and 12 mos.-secured. Trust. T. Rutherford, currier, Newcastle HARRIS, BENJAMIN COLEMAN, and GROUT, GEORGE, drapers, Upper-st, Islington. Aug. 14. Trusts. M. Tester, Cannon-st, and T. Spreckley, Wood-st HARRISON, RICHARD, saddler, Walsall. Aug. 23. 148. by four instalments of 4s, on Dec. 23, March 23, and June 23, and 24, on Aug. 23 next. Trusts. E. T. Holden, currier, and T. Gameson, turner, both Walsall HOLTON, JOHN PHILIP STEEDS, and PILDITCH, ALFRED, coal merchants, Southampton. Aug. 20. Trusts. R. Legg, Esq., and J. J. Burnett, accountant, both Southampton HOPKINSON, JAMES, millwright, Goole. Aug. 13. Trusts. W. Porter, bank agent, and R. Cooper, ironmonger and ironfounder, both Goole HOPPER, AUNGIER ALFRED, victualler, Victoria-docks. Sept. 10. 2. in 1 mo HUTCHINSON, JOSEPH, builder, Maesteg. Aug. 30. 58. on May 30. Trust. W. B. Popkin, Maesteg JONES, STEPHEN THOMAS, packingcase-maker, Milton-st. Aug. 27. To pay debts in full by four equil half-yearly instalments at 6, 12, 18, and 24 mos. from registration JOWETT, JOSEPH, worated top maker, Bradford. Aug. 27. Trusts. J. Pholes, woolstapler, and B. Reed, timmer, both Bradford KEMPTON, ALFRED, carpenter, Park-st, Victoria-park, and Ley. tonstone.rd. Sept. 5. 1. in 3 mos KING, JOHN, bootinaker, Mayfield. Aug. 17. Trusts. H. Bonnick, farmer, and C. Arkott, wholesale grocer, Maidstone LEVY, MYER, general dealer, London-rd. Sept. 11. 1s, in a fortnight LOZEY, EDWARD, wine importer, Hetton-cottage, Peckham. Sept. 2. 2s. 6', in 6 mos. from registration MANNHEIM, MARK, travelling jeweller, Liverpool, Ang. 17. 3. by three equal instalments in 14 days and at 3 and 6 mos. from registration MASON, ROBERT HINDRY, photographer, Old Bond-st, co, Middlesex, and Norwich. Aug. 13. 1. 6d. in 3 mos. after registration MCKLAND, JOHN, draper, Eolton. Sept. 4. Trust. P. McKelvie, draper, Bolton MILLS, SAMUEL, grocer, Leeds. Sept. 7. 10s, by four equal instalments on Sept. 13, Oct. 13, Nov. 15, and Jun. 13-secured MORLE, JOHN SAMUEL, florist, Bath. Aug. 15. Assignment, with proviso for reconveyance upon paying a composition. Trust. W. Smith, bank manager, Bath MORPHEW, JOHN, draper, Hull. Aug. 14. 7. G. by three equal NAYLOR, ANN, widow, TAYLOR, JOHN WESTON, and TAYLOR, WILLIAM, both merchants, all Sheffield. Aug. 22. 10. by four equal instalments at 6, 9, 12, and 18 mos.-secured. Trusts. A. Naylor, W. Taylor, and J. W. Taylor, Spanish and American merchants, Sheffield PASS, THOMAS, cabinet-maker, Congleton. Aug. 31. 58. Trust. E. Pass, widow, Congleton RAE, FRANCIS, draper, Blackburn. Aug. 17. Trusts. W. Jardine, R. Graham, drapers, Blackburn, J. Shaw, Manchester, and A. Sykes, Huddersfield, merchants RUDGE, GEORGE, bootinaker, Coleford. Aug. 31. 48. in 3 mos. from registration RUSSELL, SAMUEL, Britannia metal manufacturer, Sheffield. SMITH, JOHN, draper and farmer, Glusburn, and SHIELDS, RICHARD GRIFFITH, and MAY, JOHN CHARLES, builders and decorators, Circus-rd, St. John's-wcod. Aug. 14. To pay debts by three equal instalments of 6s. 8d. at 4, 8, and 12 mos. from registration. Trust. H. Croysdill, accountant, Old Jewry-chambers THOMPSON, JOHN, rope manufacturer, Sunderland. 2. 6d. in 4 mos. after registration secured Aug. 26. TILL, JAMES, draper, Leeds. Aug. 16. Trust. A. Morris, accountant, Manchester WALTER, EDWIN, wholesale milliner, Church-rd, Islington. Aug. 19. ., 87, by three instalments on Oct. 12, Dec. 12, and Feb. 12-secured. Trust. H. Honey, accountant, Ironmonger-la WARREN, EDWARD, furniture dealer, Old Kent-rd. Aug. 29. 78. G. by three equal instalments-first forthwith and second and third on Feb. 29 and May 29 WIGGLESWORTH, JABEZ, confectioner, Leeds. Sept. 2. Trust. G. Noble, agent, Leeds WILLIAMS, CHARLES HENRY, clerk, Poultry. Sept. 11. 15. by two equal instalments at 6 and 12 mos WOODS, JAMES, draper and grocer, Haslingden. Aug. 21. Trusts. J. Holden, wholesale grocer, Rochdale, and J. Barnes, grocer, Haslingden WORSLEY, JOHN, publican, Luton. Aug. 19. 7s. Gl. in a fortnight after registration. Trust. C. Mees, straw hat and bonnet manufacturer, Luton YOUNG, SEPTIMUS, shipbroker, North Shields. Sept. 2. 58. by two instalments on Feb. 1 and Aug, 1 Gazette, Sept. 17. BARNSLEY, ABRAHAM, and BARNSLEY, JOSEPH, gas tube manufacturers, Halesowen, co. Worcester. Sept. 12. Trusts. N. Hingley, J. Hingley, and B. Hingley, ironmasters, all Netherton BENJAMIN, Moss, general dealer, Eagle-st, Holborn. Sept. 14. 16. in 1 mo. from registration at the offices of Mr. William Henry Orchard, John-st, Bedford-row BOAKES, WILLIAM GEORGE, painter, Deal. Sept. 12. To pay in full by six equal instalments every 4 mos BRIGGS, JAMES ASTON, chemist, Wolverhampton. Sept. 6. 58, by two equal instalments-the first on Sept. 19, and the other in 3 mos. following BRITTON, CATHERINE, out of business, Liverpool. Aug. 27. 2s. 6d. in 10 days BROOK, EDWARD, share and mining broker, Leeds. Sept. 9. G. in 1 mo. after registration CLARK, SAMUEL, music publisher, Amen-corner, Paternosterrow. Aug. 19. 50, on Nov. 19, Jan. 19, May 19, and Aug. 19 in every year first Nov. 19 next. Trusts. N. White and F. Renard, Bargeyard-chambers, gentlemen CLARKE, THOMAS TAUNTON, chemist, Bodmin. Sept. 4. 68. 8d. in 28 days from registration CLAYTON, FRANCES MARY, widow, out of business, Manchester. DELANY, JOHN, grocer and provision dealer, Liverpool. Sept. 10. 2s. 6d. on Jan. 1 next. Trust. W. Baker, pork butcher, Liverpool DERHAM, RICHARD, grocer, Bristol. Aug. 23. Trust. J. Lewis, provision curer, Bristol EDMUNDS, ISAAC, grocer, Cardiff. Aug. 31. 1s. in 1 mo EMPSALL, CHARLES, Wool and waste dealer, Halifax. Aug. 23. 4s, by two equal instalments on Nov. 1 and Jan. 1 next-guaranteed. Trust. J. Brook, pawnbroker, Halifax EVANS, WILLIAM, silk smallware manufacturer, Manchester. Aug. 22. GREENHILL, THOMAS, furniture dealer, Pickering-ter, Bayswater. Aug. 31. 10s. by four equal quarterly payments-first in 3 mos SHARLAND, ISAAC, general dealer, Falmouth. Sept. 4. 6. two equal instalments-the first in 14 days and the second in from Sept. 2, 1867-guaranteed. Trusts. M. Price, bazaar-keeper, St. Ives, and B. Kelsey, merchant, Wilson-st STEPHENSON, JOHN DIXON, grocer, Lofthouse, co. York. Sepa Trusts. W. Barker, draper, Stokesley, and J. Corner, gri, Whitby SWISS, JOSEPH, grocer, Golborne, Lancaster. Aug. 21. Troval Barlow, flourdealer, and T. Banks, grocer, both Wartaga Lancaster TIBBITS, HERBERT SAMUEL, surgeon, High-st, Poplar. Aug. 2 1. on Feb. 21 next WARREN, CHARLES HENRY CHAMBERS, stonemason, TarvENT, AL WINTER, EDWARD, furniture dealer, New Oxford-st. Sept ERRATA. Gazette, Sept. 3. LONGSTAFFE, EDWIN (and not Edward, as before adre-bed confectioner, Rotherham Gazette, Sept. 6. LANGENSCHEID (and not Langensheid, as before advertised, CARL WILHELM, publican, High-st, Whitechapel. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. BESLEY.-On the 12th inst., at 4, Belgrave-villaa, Brixton, the wh of Edwd. T. E. Besley, Esq., barrister, of a daughter. BRAMBLE. On the 10th inst., at Eglesfield-house, Yatton, Some set, the wife of J. R. Bramble, Esq., of a daughter. CLIFFORD. On the 11th inst., at 9, St. John's-road, Brit, the wife of Fredk. Clifford, Esq., barrister-at-Law, of a doughter. COLLINS. On the 14th inst., at Satis-house, Yoxford, Sutola, the wife of W. A. Collins, Esq., Q. C., of a son. MORGAN. Recently, at Agra, India, the wife of Sir Walter Mera, Chief Justice, of a son. PAIN. On the 13th inst., at No. 1, Argyll road, Kensate, the wife of Thomas Pain, of Lincoln's-inn, barrister, of a Capt. PALMER. On the 13th inst., at Sunbury, Middlesex, the wides J. E. Palmer, barrister-at-law, of a daughter. PERKINS.-On the 19th inst., at Thriplow-place, Cambria, the wife of Henry Perkins, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a diape MARRIAGES. CAPES JACKSON.-On the 12th inst., at the Parish k Kingston-on-Thames, S. C. Capes, Esq., of Bedford-row La and St. Leonard's, East Sheen, Surrey, to Emma, the younges daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Jackson, of Kingst Thames. CHAMBERS-NEWBOLT.-On the 12th inst., at Barringtram F. J. Chambers, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Henrietta C youngest daughter of the late Rev. William Robert Nerd, vicar of Somerton, Somerset. JELF KING. On the 12th inst., at Norham, Northumberland, ROFFEY RODICK. On the 11th inst, at the parish church of TAYLOR-RODICK.-At the same time and place, George Whitfed Taylor, of Blackheath, solicitor, to Jane, second danger the said Edward Loudon Rodick. DEATHS. ALLEN.--On the 7th inst., at 15, Leighton-grove, N.W., aged 17, GREEN. 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WE remind our readers that the new Act for the Amendment of the Criminal Law comes into operation on Tuesday next, Oct. 1. Its provisions have been already fully described in these columns. They are neither numerous nor important. All the most valuable features of the measure were one by one removed in the course of its progress through Parliament. For instance, no such jurisdiction exists in the case of domestic servants, but it is given in the case of agricultural labourers, and so with certain other specified employments. But unless some statute has specially given jurisdiction to magistrates, wages can only be recovered in the County Court; but breaches of contract of service are by these statutes in a multitude of cases made punishable by magistrates, the new Act neither adding to nor diminishing this jurisdiction, but merely extending the power of dealing with them, regulating the procedure, and imposing the same penalty upon the defaulting master as upon the defaulting servant-which was not so before, the old law having punished the master by fine and the servant by imprison ment. Any case, therefore, hitherto cognisable by magistrates is still so, and no case not formerly within their jurisdiction is so now. THE NEW BOROUGH FRANCHISE. THIS paragraph appears in the Times : A SPECIAL Commission is to be issued for trial the Parliamentary boroughs of Newcastle, Gatesof the Fenian outrages at Manchester. THE MARQUIS of EXETER has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, in place of Lord AVELAND, deceased. LEGAL rumours have hitherto proved very unreliable, and they are not likely to be more trustworthy when indorsed by a "London Correspondent." Nevertheless our readers may like to know that, according to that member of the staff of the Irish Times, Barons MARTIN and CHANNELL will retire from the Court of Exchequer, and that Mr. BRETT and Mr. MELLISH are to be the new Judges. During last term we authoritatively contradicted the rumoured retirement of Baron CHANNELL, and we are not aware that Baron MARTIN has given any ground for suspecting his intention to retire, save that he appeared fatigued at the conclusion of the assizes. Mr. MELLISH's name has been in the mouths of the Profession for many a day with reference to vacancies on the Bench, but it has been generally understood that he himself is disinclined to accept such an appointment. A CONTEMPORARY understands that a searching investigation will shortly be made, in order to ascertain the actual contents of the "Lumber Room" in the Solicitors' Department of the Treasury. Besides title-deeds, which have been smouldering there for years, a large quantity of valuable property found upon persons who have lied in the streets, or whose bodies have not been identified, is also stowed away in this "depository." It is proposed that the various articles should be advertised, and that then, after a certain time, they should be dealt with in the same manner as unclaimed goods are now disposed of by the Commissioners of Police namely, by a sale by auction. It is thought that publicity will lead to identification in many cases. VOL. XLIII.-No. 1278. A great deal of discussion has taken place before the Boundary Commission in the north with regard to compound rating. In the first place, inhabitants of the large manufacuring villages on Tyneside which are at present under the management of the Local Government Act, object to be incorporated in head, Tynemouth, or Shields, inasmuch as they expect that the Parliamentary and the municipal boundaries of these boroughs would be conterminous, and they do not want to give up compounding in connection with their local rates. In the next, a very large amount of property in the northern boroughs is let out in tenements--that is, one house is often occupied by seven or eight families, and it had been taken for granted that each of these tenements would be separately rated to the poor, and would confer the Parliamentary vote on the holders. But Mr. Bathurst gave it as his opinion at Tynemouth that tenants so situated could not be considered as occupiers, but lodgers, and that the landlords, and not they, would have to controverted. be rated, and might compound. This opinion is But if Mr. Bathurst's interpretation is the correct one, many hundreds of workmen who expected to be put upon the Parliamentary register will be excluded, and in some of the boroughs the increase in the number of voters will be comparatively small. Mr. Bathurst's new reading of the enfranchising clauses of the Reform Act has caused quite a sensation in the north, and it has been determined to take an eminent legal opinion on the subject. "One house is occupied by seven or eight families." Are these householders or lodgers? To determine this question we must turn to the definition of a dwelling-house in the Reform Act, viz.: "A dwelling-house shall include any part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling, and separately rated to the relief of the poor.” If, therefore, they occupy as tenants separate and detached portions of a house not in communication with other parts of the house except by a common staircase-that is, the species of abodes commonly known by the name of Chambers-they will be entitled to vote as householders, and may demand to be separately rated. But if they are in fact lodgers only, that is to say, occupiers of apartments in a house, and not of a tenement distinct from the house, they will be entitled to vote as lodgers; and it was for the express purpose of meeting their case that the "fancy" lodger franchise was introduced. How this is to operate as disfranchisement, or why any disappointment should be felt, seeing that if they are not householders they are lodgers, and equally entitled to vote in either capacity, or why they should desire to be counted as householders rather than lodgers, seeing that the former involves payment of rates, which the latter does not, is a problem we confess our inability to solve. We are not surprised at the objection made to purchase the small privilege of the twentythousandth part of an election of a member of Parliament at the price of payment of rates. But it shows how much they value the boon that has been conferred upon them. A few such facts as these sweep away a shoal of silly sentimentalisms in which maudlin politicians are wont to indulge when they talk of the people being eager for enfranchisement. THE ALTON MURDERER. A HIGHLY respectable and responsible solicitor. residing at Alton, wrote us a letter a short time since giving expression to a popular suspicion that the perpetrator of the recent atrocity also committed a crime for which a boy named LONGHURST was hanged. In a short editorial note we referred to this letter, but in no way indorsed its contents. We simply agreed in the hope of our correspondent, that if the law had erred, reparation might be made to the memory of LONGhurst. Investigation has shown that the popular suspicion was groundless, whereupon a paragraphist has fathered upon this journal a "random supposition" and an unjustifiable assumption." This is scarcely fair. The name and address of our correspondent were both published, and we placed entire reliance upon his knowledge of the facts. Moreover it is perfectly certain, as we learn upon further communication with the writer of the letter, that the popular suspicion was very strong in the neighbourhood; and the remark which we published having served to remove that suspicion, we can scarcely regret that we placed them before the public. RAILWAY CROSSINGS. THE terrible death of the three children on the Great Northern Railway raises an old question which we perceive has received a final settlement by judicial decision in America. Level crossings are always avoided by companies in submitting a Bill to a Parliamentary Committee, if it be possible to avoid them; but too frequently they are inevitable evils, more particularly in the vicinity of large towns. This being so, the only mode of mitigating the evil is to compel the railway companies to exercise extraordinary caution. The Court of Appeals in the United States says that if a signal be not given when a train of cars approaches a crossing, and an accident ensue, the company shall be deemed guilty of negligence, and liable to the legal consequences of negligence. And this decision is to be taken. moreover, as applying to all places where persons are entitled to cross the line, whether there be gates and gatemen or not. Railway companies are This is a thoroughly equitable principle. which no other corporations obtain. They are granted privileges allowed to bisect districts, cross thoroughfares. and intersect the course of footpaths. No amount of personal vigilance can at all times protect a foot passenger from accident. The jury at the inquest held upon the bodies of the three unfortunate children before alluded tc, expressed an opinion "that all public crossings and roads on railway lines should have proper superintendence and protection for the prevention of such accidents in future." In this particular instance they considered that the crossing was unsafe. Had the jury acted in accordance with the principle laid down in America, they would have recommended that the attention of Parliament should be called to the question with a view to legislation. All companies should be compelled to signal the approach of trains to level crossings. If it be found necessary to signal their approach to a station for the safety of the company's chattels, surely it is equally necessary to signal their approach to a level crossing for the preservation of the public from accident. Unfortunately the mother of the poor children has no legal claim against the railway company. Had she any such right we should recommend her to enforce it by action, not only with the view to obtaining compensation for her cruel bereavement, but for the benefit of the public. If the courts were given jurisdiction over such a case they would probably lay down a law similar to that which we have mentioned as being established in America, and railway companies would allow their trains to pass crossings without signalling effectually at their peril. MOB LAW. No thinking man can fail to have noted the recent rapid growth of lawlessness among our once law-abiding people. The outrage in Manchester, the Trades. Union atrocities, the mid-day saturnalia of the London thieves during the militia march through the most crowded thoroughfares, the Hyde-park riots, the open and successful defiance of the law and the authorities by BEALES and BRADLAUGH, the raid upon Chester, and the insurrection in Ireland, occurring within a few months, and all of them offences against society itself which could have been committed with impunity in no other civilised community in the world, are incidents not merely disgraceful to our civilisation, our age, and our country, but are indications of an ingrained spirit of lawlessness threatening far more formidable consequences in the future. And not less alarming than this supremacy of mob law among the lower classes, is the strange lack of moral courage manifested by the upper and middle classes. This it is that has paralysed the arm of authority. It must be confessed that throughout the long series of defiances to which the Government and the law have been subjected, there has been exhibited on the part of those whose duty it was to vindicate the authority of the law at all risks, and equally among those who have an interest in social order, a cowardice for which no parallel can be found in the history of this country, and, indeed, in that of no other save in the times that immediately preceded the outbreak of the French Revolution. Instead of uniting as one man in defence of law and order, we have seen our public men striving to make political capital sometimes by open, but more often by tacit, approval of the disturbers of the public peace. But for the encouragement thus given by partisans in the press and on the platform to the first whispers of sedition, the series of outrages which the year has witnessed would never have taken place. Submission of the law to threat, insult, and defiance was never yet successful. The lawless invariably put it to the account of fear, and are encouraged by it to yet further defiance. If, when the challenge to try the right to the possession of the parks was thrown out, it had been accepted, and the Government had said, "We will do our duty and enforce the law, come what come may," and the entire body of the upper and middle class, without distinction of party, had said, as it was their interest no less than their duty to say, will support the Government in this resolve," BEALES and BRADLAUGH would not have dared the conflict they had provoked, and if they had failed then, mob law would have been suppressed for a generation; we should have been spared all that we have since witnessed, and the worse that is yet to come. "We political capital by approving mob law, or refraining from denunciation, or withholding open aid to measures required for its suppression. We trust that the Manchester atrocity will clear the eyes of all classes to the imminent peril of that course of tampering with lawlessness which has been witnessed for so long a time, and that the proof thus given of the existence of the volcano beneath their feet will induce the friends of law and order, without difference of party or class, to call upon the Government to save society by an inflexible enforcement of the law, and by an unanimous pledge to support them morally, and, if need be, physically, in the performance of the first duty of its existence. If this be done, good will have come out of evil. ASSAULTS ON THE POLICE. THE magistrates have rightly resolved to protect the police against the brutal treatment to which they have been subjected during the recent reign of mob law. Not before it was urgently required has this course been adopted. The foolish-nay, the wicked fashion of abusing and defying the guardians of peace and property, which has too much prevailed among those who ought to know better, encouraged by newspapers whose object is the destruction of authority of all kinds, has led to its natural results with the classes whom the police are employed to repress. It was, therefore, with the greatest pleasure that Mr. PAGET for his decision, and we trust that we read the following paragraph. We thank his example will be everywhere followed: At the Thames police-court Francis William Matthews, waiter at a foreign house of public entertainment, was sentenced to one month's imprisonthe execution of his duty; and Francis Ewins and ment and hard labour for assaulting Ayres, 96 H, in George White, described as labourers, were each sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment and hard labour for assaulting policemen. All the prisoners were intoxicated, and the assaults were committed on Sunday. Each offender asked the magistrate to inflict fines and not send them to prison, to which Mr. Paget replied, "No, I shall not inflict fines;" and to their friends made the same reply to their applications. In the case of White, his brother, a gentleman of high respectability, said he would degradation of a gaol. Mr. Paget said he would not pay any penalty if his brother was saved from the inflict pecuniary penalties for assaults on police constables. It was very rare indeed that he had done so since he had been a magistrate, and he should continue in the same course whatever the rank, poverty, or wealth of the offenders. Policemen had difficult, and in many instances dangerous duties to perform, and while they performed those duties protection from the magistracy. He was responsible firmly and temperately they deserved every possible for the good order and peace of the district. Could anything be more disgraceful than the drunkenness and rioting which prevailed on Sundays, followed, in too many cases, by assaults on the police? Fines would not stop the evil, and he would not impose them. The applicant was no doubt by his appearance and demeanour a person of respectability, but he could only treat him as he would the commonest person, and his brother who was drunk and riotous, and kicked a police constable, would be imprisoned twenty-one days and kept to hard labour. His experience had taught him that money penalties in such cases were of no use. THE NEW COURTS OF JUSTICE. It is convenient to set the recent outrage at Ir has, doubtless, occasioned some surprise that Manchester to the account of Fenianism; that our concluding notice of the architectural comis the immediate occasion, it is true, but Fenian-petition for the new Courts of Justice has been ism would not have dared what it has done but for the encouragement it received from the submission of the authorities to mob law in London. BEALES said the League would go to the park where he had no right to go, even though they must fight for it. Authority yielded to the threat, and the League went, and won a victory over the law. The Fenians, seeing this, naturally say, "May we not likewise set the law at defiance and do what the Reform League threatened, and will not authority yield to us as it did to them ?" The moral is plain. The law must be enforced. If a bad law, change it; but so long as it is law let its observance be compelled. Resist the first attempt at lawlessness. Let there be no submission to threats. The Government has a clear duty to perform, and it should be done at all risks. And the duty of the law-abiding public is no less plain. It is to assist the Government by its countenance, its approval, its support by word and deed in the performance of that duty. In this there should be no distinction of party, no paltry endeavour to make some of the designs submitted are so inexplicable that to unriddle their mysteries, even with all the aid that can be obtained, is enough to scare any honest man from the attempt; and granted, that without accomplishing an analysis of all the plans, it is impossible to perform the synthesis of a judgment on their merits. Nevertheless, it might have been expected that the Commissioners would have discharged the duties of their office, or come forward in a manly spirit and confessed that they were unable to do so. Unfortunately, however, the work has not been done, and the only honourable alternative has not been taken. The Commission has evaded its task, and sought-in vain as it happily chanced-to satisfy the Government and the country with an opinion which was never asked, and is entirely unimportant. If it had been thought desirable to large public work, we must take leave to doubt select an architect, or rather two architects, for this whether any Parliament would have consented to refer the matter to a Commission in which a minority of one. So great a piece of patronage great political party was represented by a would surely have fallen into hands less likely to look at the question from a particular point of view. Under these circumstances we felt that it was useless to pursue the plan we had sketched out for our criticisms. Before long the extraordinary proceedings of the Commission tranpapers, and of course excited no little astonishspired, reports found their way into the newsment, and gave rise to some extremely pertinent remarks. The matter now stands thus. A variety of opinions have been expressed by various writers on the subject of the Law the judgments they have expressed we cannot Courts. How these gentlemen have arrived at conjecture. One thing is certain, the time at their disposal has not, in most cases, been sufficient to enable them to investigate the matter in such a manner as to construct a fair basis for their reasoning. The natural inference is that their opinions are proportionately empirical. It is a very easy matter to walk round an exhibition of designs and determine which is the prettiest; but it is not so easy to bility for the purpose with reference to which it examine each with a view to determine its suitahas been projected. The only safe method of procedure is that we have adopted, and while it is not worth while (as matters now stand) to incumber our columns with further details, those which we have published will afford the only key to the designs. Taking the situation of any particular department, and noting its block and floor, with the height from the ground in each plan, it is possible from the summaries that have ap peared in this journal to ascertain which offers the greatest advantages. Had it been worth while to follow out the scheme, other matters might have been developed in a similar manner, and the whole rendered available for the purposes of criticism. But this is out of the question. It is not worth while to waste words over a competition which must inevitably be superseded by one planned on better principles, and not restricted to a few favoured architects. The instructions issued to the competitors are now proved to have been too vague to serve any useful purpose, and yet too precise to leave the designers free to exercise their own judgment. The Commission appointed to consider the plans sent in was improperly constituted, and the limitation of the competition to a few architects has had the effect of excluding men who were clearly as competent for the work as those chosen, perhaps even in some respects better qualified. There is, therefore, no remedy for the evil which has resulted from this state of affairs, except a new and free competition, and the sooner this is announced the better will it be for every body concerned in the present unsatisfactory position of matters. however, be very readily explained. When we by the Commission. The report originally sent in has been returned to the judges for reconsideration. Should the matter assume a new aspect when the result of their afterthought is divulged, we may have something to say on the subject, but until then it is impossible not to regard the whole business as a failure, and to express the hope that it will be commenced de novo without unnecessary delay." PAID-UP SHARES. MR. BINNEY has hit upon a blot in the New Companies Act 1867 which had escaped all the other commentators. He thus communicates it to the Times: Sir,-Allow me to call the attention of your readers twenty years. All of them are familiar to the readers of the LAW TIMES, for the abuses and defects of the existing system have been again and again described and commented upon in these pages, and the changes required to adapt the old machinery of justice to modern needs have been frankly asserted and persistently urged. It is, therefore, with more than common pleasure we report that the exertions of our contributors and correspondents are about to bear fruit. The commission just issued embraces of the truth in the premises, and to inquire of the premises by all other lawful ways and means what soever. And we do hereby give and grant unto you, or u cause all or any of the officers and clerks of any of any six or more of you, full power and authority to our said courts to bring and produce before you, or any six or more of you; all rolls, records, orders, books, papers, or other writings belonging to any of our said courts, or to any of the officers within the same. to the effect of the 25th section of the new Act, all they have been writing about, and as the within nine calendar months after the date of this which enacts that "every share in any company shall be deemed and taken to have been issued, and to be held subject to the payment of the whole amount thereof in cash, unless the same shall have been otherwise determined by a contract duly made in writing, and filed with the Registrar of JointStock Companies at or before the issue of such shares." It would appear that the holders of paid-up shares which have been issued gratuitously, or on a consideration other than a cash payment and under any agreement not reduced in writing, or, if in writing, then not registered with the Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies (or, in other words, not contained in the articles of association, for this is practically all that is ever registered), are in future to be liable to pay up the full amount represented by those shares. The Act is not stated to be confined to companies formed after the passing of the new Act, consequently, the 25th section would appear to be retrospective in its operation. This section must lead to endless litigation, and if it is to be taken in its literal meaning, and that meaning is as I have supposed it to be, the result will be great loss and injustice to all holders of "paid-up" shares on which the whole amount thereby represented has not been paid in cash. Of course, new companies are protected by the saving clause in favour of those who hold under an agreement in writing duly registered at or before the issue of such shares; but how are those to protect themselves whose shares are already issued? It would appear that whatever consideration they may have given for their shares, unless it has been an actual cash payment, they are liable to calls for the full value of the shares in case of a winding-up. Yours obediently, F. A. BINNEY. Manchester, Sept. 6. We can put no other construction upon the clause than that which he has done. Precautions will protect against future inconvenience, but what is to be done as to the past? Until the law is judicially otherwise construed, or amended by the Legislature, paid-up shares accrued otherwise than for cash will be almost unavailable. But how are such shares to be known? What is the ear-mark? Nothing on the face of them indicates that they differ from other shares; they acknowledge the receipt of so much money, and are the ostensible evidence that the holder is a shareholder and has contributed so much to the capital. If the company, or its representative, the liquidator, in case of a winding-up were to sue for calls on paid-up shares, may not this receipt in full of the company be pleaded against the demand, sect. 25 notwithstanding? But if this should not be so, an argument might be raised upon the retrospective character of the provision. The courts are reluctant to adopt any interpretation of a law that would involve a retrospective operation because of its essential injustice, and it is probable they would exercise the same discretion here, where the wrong done by a liberal reading of the Act would be very serious and extensive. move doubts that greatly affect the price of Nevertheless, to prevent litigation, and reproperty of considerable value, the Legislature should be invited to amend the Act immediately on the re-assembling of Parliament. THE COMMISSION ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. THE Government has taken the necessary first step for the accomplishment of the greatest law reform as yet adventured-nothing less than the revision, and, if so advised by the commissioners, the reconstruction,of the entire machinery for the administration of justice in the Superior Courts. A royal commission has been issued charged with the duty of inquiring into the whole of the existing system, and suggesting such improvements as may be thought desirable. So large and comprehensive a work has been rarely presented as that which the commissioners are instructed to perform, and the greatest credit is due to the adviser of the Crown-we know not if it be the LORD CHANCELLOR or the ATTORNEY-GENERAL-by whom this document was drawn. It embraces every topic on which law reforms have been discoursing for the last report is by its terms to be made within nine months, they will not have long to wait for information as to the justice of their complaints, and the propriety and practicability of their suggested remedies. The constitution of the commission is altogether unobjectionable. It is framed with a view to capacity alone, and with no perceptible poliLord CAIRNS, Sir W. ERLE, Sir J. P. WILDE, Sir tical or partisan bias. The Commissioners are W. P. WOOD, Mr. Justice BLACKBURN, Mr. Justice SMITH, Sir J. B. KARSLAKE, Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, Mr. W. M. JAMES, Mr. J. R. QUAIN, Mr. H. C. ROTHERY, Mr. AYRTON, M.P., Mr. HUNT, M.P., Mr. CHILDERS, M.P., Mr. J. HOLLAMS, and Mr. T. D. LOWNDES. Their directions are most explicit. present them verbatim :— We Whereas we have deemed it expedient, for divers good causes and considerations, that a commission should forthwith issue to inquire into the operation and effect of the present constitution of our High Court of Chancery of England, our Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, our Central Criminal Court, our High Court of Admiralty of England, the Admiralty Court of our Cinque Ports, our Courts of Probate and of Divorce for England, the Courts of Common Pleas of our Counties Palatine of Lancaster and of Durham, respectively, and the Courts of Error and of Appeal from all the said several courts-now know ye that we, reposing great trust and confidence in your zeal, direction, and integrity, have authorised and appointed you, the said Hugh MacCalmont, Baron Cairns, Sir William Erle, Sir James Plaisted Wilde, Sir William Page Wood, Sir Colin Blackburn, Sir Montague Edward Smith, Sir John Burgess Karslake, Sir Roundell Palmer, William Milbourne James, John Richard Quain, Henry Cadogan Rothery, Acton Smee Ayrton, George Ward Hunt, Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, John Hollams, and Francis Dobson Lowndes, or any six or more of you, to make diligent and full inquiry into the operation and effect of the present constitution of our High Court of Chancery of England, our Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, our Central Criminal Court, our High Court of Admiralty of England, the Admiralty Court of our Cinque Perts, our Courts of Probate and of Divorce for England, the Courts of Common Pleas of our Counties Palatine of Lancaster and of Durham respectively, and the Courts of Error and of Appeal from all the said several courts, and into the operation and effect of the present separation and division of jurisdictions between the said several courts. And also into the operation and effect of the present arrangement for holding the sittings in London and in England and Wales, and of the present division Middlesex, and the holding of sittings and assizes of the legal year into terms and vacations. And generally into the operation and effect of the existing laws and arrangements for distributing and transacting the judicial business of the said courts respectively, as well in court as in chambers, with a view to ascertain whether any and what changes ting the said courts or any of them, or by extending and improvements, either by uniting and consolidaor altering the several jurisdictions, or assigning any matters or causes now within their respective cognisance to any other jurisdiction, or by altering the number of judges in the said courts, or any of them, or empowering one or more judges in any of the said courts, to transact any kind of business now transacted by a greater number, or by altering the mode in which the business of the said courts or any of them, or of the sittings and assizes, is now distributed or conducted, or otherwise, may be advantageously made so as to provide for the more speedy; business now transacted by the same courts and at economical, and satisfactory dispatch of the judicial the sittings and assizes respectively. And further to make inquiry into the laws relating to juries, especially with reference to the qualifications, summoning. nominating, and enforcing the attendance of jurors, with a view to the better, more regular, and more efficient conduct of trials by jury, and the attendance of jurors at such trials. And for the better discovery of the truth in the premises we do by these presents give and grant to you, or any six or more of you, full power and authority to call before you, or any six or more of you, such and so many of the officers and clerks of our said courts, and all such other persons as you shall judge necessary, by whom you may be informed And our further will and pleasure is that you do our commission, or as soon as the same can conveniently be done (using all diligence), certify unto us, in our Court of Chancery, under the hands and shall have done in the premises. seals of you, or any six or more of you, what you And we further will and command that this our commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, our said commissioners, or any six or more of you, shall and may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment. And for your assistance in the due execution of this our commission, we have made choice of our trusty and well-beloved Thomas Joseph Bradshaw, commission, and to attend you, whose services and Esq., barrister-at-law, to be secretary to this our assistance we require you to use from time to time as occasion shall require. Given at our Court at St. James's, the 18th day of September 1867, in the 31st year of our reign. By Her Majesty's command, GATHORNE HARDY. THE HON. SAMUEL BEALEY THE Canada papers bring us intelligence of the death of an old member of the Home Circuit, and at the time of his death Judge of_thel County Court of the county of York-the Hon. SAMUEL BEALEY HARRISON. He died at hist residence in Toronto, on the 23rd July last, ati the age of sixty-six. The learned Judge was the eldest son of JOHN/ HARRISON, Esq., of Foxley Grove, in Berkshire, and was born in Manchester on the 4th March 1802. At the age of seventeen he was admitted to the Middle Temple, and after a period of diligent study he commenced his professional career as a special pleader. In this branch he speedily acquired a large and remunerative business, which he conducted with much ability for several years. During this time he had as his students a number of young men many of whom have since risen to the highest honours in their profession. Among the best known of these were, the Canada Law Journal believes, Lord Chief Justice COCKBURN and Mr. SAMUEL WARREN. Mr. HARRISON subsequently gave up his business to his brother Richard, and on the 15th June 1832 was called to the Bar. He went the Home Circuit, where his brethren were MONTAGUE CHAMBERS, SHEE, CHANNELL, RUSSELL GURNEY, GASELEE, DOWLING, and others. Ill health and a desire for change, however, This he did in the year 1837, and settled at induced him after a few years to go to Canada. Brontè, in the county of Halton, where he went into milling and farming with his accustomed energy. He was called to the Bar of Upper Canada in Michaelmas Term 1839, and was made a Queen's Counsel on the 4th Jan. 1845, ing care of his professional duties, Mr. HARRISON and was elected a Bencher of the Law Society. Even during the time devoted to the engrossfound time to give to the Profession several law works which will hand his name down for many years to come. At an early period in his career he published his well-known Digest, one of the most useful books ever written, and that not only as to the matter of it, but as to the manner、 of arrangement adopted. When he commenced it, the making of digests was somewhat of a new thing, and that he had the art of arrangement is evidenced by the fact that his system has been to a great extent followed in later works of the same nature. He edited a second edition in 1837, in three volumes, comprising nearly three thousand pages of closely printed matter. He also published a new edition of Woodfall's Landlord and Tenant, now in general use, largely altering, and in many places adding to and rein connection with his friend Mr. WOLLASTON, writing the original work. In 1835 he published, a volume of reports of cases in the King's Bench and Bail Court during that year. In 1838, in conjunction with Mr. F. EDWARDS, he wrote a practical abridgment of the law of Nisi Prius, together with the general principles of law |