赞 # 1 1991 Secretary. Mr. Wm. Andrew, Lincoln, In placing the PROSPECTES of the MIDLAND COUNTIES INSURANCE COMPANY before the Public, it may be well first briefly to glance at the Insurance Companies at present existing in those counties! War wickshire has two the Birmingham Fire and District Fire Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire one-the NottingHamshire and Derbyshire Fire and Life Office; and Lincolnshire one the Lincolnshire Fire Omice. It will be noticed thee of these are Fire Offices only. The Two Warwickshire Companies are both of them highly respectable and wellestablished Companies, but limited in their operations to Fire Insurances, and doing the bulk of their business in their own leeslities The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire has maintained, for many years, a most respectable position; but it may be fairly asseted, without any intention of underrating the Office, that it does not hold that rank amongst Insurance Companies winch as necessary to render it so profitable to the Shareholders, or extensively useful to the Public, as it mit be Leicestershire formerly possessed a local Insurance Office, but it was abandoned and sold to the Sun Fire Office some years ago, although parties, well acquainted with the Leicestershire Office, have asserted that it only required energy and perseverance to have maintained its grund sne, ssfully. Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire never possessed any Insurance Company of their own. The Lincolnshire Fire Office Is one of more recent origin, bat connected with one of the largest counties in the kingdom. It was established in 1854; it is composed of 495 Shareholders, resident in Lincoln or Lincolnshire; and although the business of the Company has been almost exdus valy confined to the City and County of Lincoln, it has, in three years, insured nearly Two Millions of Property. The whole of the paid-up Capital of the Company is entire, and invested upon Securites; and out of actually realised Fronts, during the last three years, all Fire Losses have been t'd all man fement expenses, 5 per cent, each year to the Shurch Iders upon the paid-up Capital, all the charges connected with the formation of the Company, and still there is a sarplus of nearly 1,0001. us a reserve fund. This, in so limited a sphere of business operations, and in so short a time, shows. what might be done up in the same principle, by combinations throughout the whole of the Midland Counties, taking, traints acusunt, that by such a combination the per centage working expenses would be considerably reduced, and the mount of local interest brought to bear, render success cerThe Shares in the Lincolnshire Five Office have attained a premium of cent per cent, upon the paid-up Capital. The Office was originally intended to have been a Life, as well as Fim Office; but it was decided first to try its working 48 a Fir Office di forej widertaking Life risks The success of the Office has now, however, been so great, that it is determined by the Sharehollers to undertake Life, and also Hail Storm Insuranees, in addition to the Fire business, and to extend the business to the whole of the Midland Counties, with a body of Shareholders in each county. This is proposed to be done by the dissolution of the Lincolnshire Fire trite, and the formation of an entirely new Company, to be called THE MIDEAND COUNTIES FIRE AND LIFE AND HAIL STORM INSURANCE COMPANY." The Books, Pavers, nd Business of the Lincolnshire Office to be Jañiled over to the new Company upon the following terms: The Shareholders in the Lincolnshire Office to receive in hans (niin money) 30. per Share premium, as the market alne of their interest in the Company. To raise a fund for his purpose, so as to keep the Capital of the new Company cuched, the new shares are to be allotted at a premium tis. Bet per Share, which will raise a fund amply sufficient or the purposmy This 2s. 8, Premium will, of course, not chergent upon the shares allotted to the Lincolnshire Fire Shareholders in lieu of their present Shares, To ensure te per mest fesident Proprietary, the Shares of # MIDLAND COUNTIES are proposed to be divided into rate Stacks for each County, the Shares in such several unty Stocks not being capable of being held other than by tics resident in such several counties; and to ensure a o rietary having an undivided interest in the prosperity the Company. no person, whilst holding Shares in this pany, is to be allowed to hold Shares in any other Inante Company. These restrictions may at first sight Per stringent, but they must and will ultimately tend to note the interests of the Company infinitely more than indiserjiminute hokling of Shares by parties not resident in = Midlan ! district, and possessing such shares merely as an estinent; or who, fruin conflicting interests in other Comnies, cannot give an undivided support to the Company, of which as Shareholders, they profess, and ought to be the supporters. As to the LIFE BUSINESS, the district of the Midland Counties comprises a population of between two and three millions, entirely destitute, except as to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Office, of any local Life Office, and offering to the Midland Countles Company ample scope for a most profitable business in that department of Insurance, and stil in so doing to promote a great public benefit, as every well conducted Life Office undoubtedly is. As to the FIRE BUSINESS, the district of the Midland Counties is most favourable, as the experience of all the existing Companies in those Conmties shows. As to the HAIL STORM INSURANCE, this has not been added to the Life and Fire business without careful consideration, and upon details obtained from sources which may be relied upon; and the union of these three branches of Insurance in a district so good as the Midland Counties, combined with careful and energetic management, may well be expected, ere many years pass, to enable the Midland Counties Company to take its stand as one of the most influential Insurance Companies in the Kingdom. According to the arrangement entered into with the Shareholders of the Lincolnshire Fire Office, they will take 12.000 of the 17,000 shares forming the Stock of the Midland Counties Company, in Lincolnshire, therefore, there will be only 5,000 new Shares to allot, at the 28. 8, premium, and, although, many of the Lincolnshire Fire Office Shareholders have a claim to be allowed to increase their amount of shares, yet the Provisional Committe will view with great pleasure, and carefully applications for Shares from parties of influence and standing, who are not at present Shareholders in the Lincolnshire Office. No person can hold more than 300 shares in the new Company. The Head Office is proposed to be holden at Lincoln, with local boards at Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Northampton.--The Board of Directors to be composed of 25 Gentlemen, chosen as follows Three of the directors to be paid by salary, and expected regularly if possible, to attend the Board Meetings, so as always to form a quorum for business, the remainder of the directors to be unpaid, but to be allowed their travelling expenses, when they choose to attend Board Meetings, at the Head Office. The Chairman of the Board of Directors to be er officio a member of all the local boards.-The Annual Meeting of the Company to be held alternately at Lincoln, Birmingham, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, and Northampton. The Provisional Committee will proceed to allot the shares comprising the Lincoln Stock. but do not propose to allot shares in any of the other counties until some influential shares, and whose advice and direction in local Committees gentlemen connected with those counties have applied for may be rendered availabie in the selection of proper parties as Shareholders, as it is not intended to allot the shares at random, to any one applying, but only to such parties as, by their position, are likely, not only to advance the interests of the Company by their Insurances, but by their association with it to give the public full confidence on the soundness of its foundation. It should also be stated that no deposit will be required upon the allotment of shares, as is generally the case, for all applicants for shares will be held perfectly clear of all individual liability or expense, as when the Company is actually and legally formed (which it is sure to be), then the expense of its formation will be paid cut of the funds of the Company. This is a brief sketch of the proposed Company, but influential agents will shortly be appointed in every county town in the Midland district, who will represent the Midland Company for that county as regards its foundation, and publie meetings will be held in all the principal towns in the several counties to explain more fully the principles and details of the Company, but it is confidently believed that a Company formed as this is proposed to be, and comprising probably between 2,000 and 3.000 influentid shareholders, cannot fail to prove most creditable, and a profitable investment to all connected with it, Whilst thus advocating the formation of a new Company it ought not in fairness to be forgotten that half a century. ago, the enterprise, intelligence, and capital of the Metropolis, promoted and formed Insurance Institutions, which have been, for years, and are still, amongst the proudest and wealthiest of our National Institutions, and supplied for the provinces of the Kingdeen, at that time, what they were not then in a position to supply for themselves. But this enterprise has been amply rewarded long ago by profits almost beyond belief; in many cases until the paid-up capital has increased to ten and twelve times its original amonut, and now by the development of various national improvements, the Provincial Counties are as well able to found these Institutions for themselves, as the Capitalists of the Metropolis were in former years; and in confirmation of this, reference need only be made to such offices as the Norwich Union, the West of England, the Yorkshire, and other local offices. It has, for many years, been admitted that investments in wellestablished Insurance Companies are the most profitable. permanent, and least hazarious, that are ever offered to the public; and it is believed that many will read this prospectus with doubt and hesitation, who, in after years, will reret for themselves and families, that they did not throw a small amount of their capital, and the whole of their influence, into the promotion of this Company. Power will be taken by the Deed of Settlement to increase the capital of the Company to two midious by the issue of 80,000 fre-h shares, upon such terms as the existing shareholders of the Midland Counties Company shall determine. This is provided for the purpose of meeting any arrangement which may hereafter be thought advisable for the junction with the Midland Counties Company of any of the Insurance Companies which at present exist in those counties, Printed Prospectuses, and forms of applications for Shares, will be out in a few days, and may be had upon application to me at the Lincolnshire Fire Office, Lincoln; or of any of the Agents of that company; or of any of the Agents of the Midland Counties Company; who will shortly be appointed in Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Northampton, and Oakham, and of whose appointment notices will from time to time appear in the provincial papers. By order of the Provisional Committee, WM. ANDREW, Secretary. Lincoln, 7th June, 1854. : The Right Hon. the Earl of Devon. The Right Hon. Lord Truro. The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron. The Right Hon. the Lord Justice Knight Bruce. The Right Hon. Sir John Dodson (Dean of the Arches, &c.) Insurances expiring at Midsummer should be renewed within fifteen days thereafter, at the offices of the Society, or with any of its Agents throughout the country. E. BLAKE DEAL, Secretary. ALBERT SANITARY VILLAGE BUILDING ASSOCIATION. Offices, 79, King William-street, City. Objects -The Erection of Villa Residences upon Sanitary Principles around London and in the Provinces. Enabling Members to Purchase the Property at Prime Cost by easy Monthly Payments; the Subscriptions taken as Rental. Estates near the Crystal Palace at Forest-hill, Hornsey, Hackney, and Clapham, will speedily be ready for Allotment. Members are now being enrolled to participate in the first Ballot on the Sydenham Estate. By order of the Board, THE YORKSHIRE EDWIN REYNOLDS, Secretary. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. AND LIFE assortment of BED-ROOM FURNITURE, comprising Wardrobes, both in japanned wood and mahogany, from 4ft. to 8ft. long, fitted with every variety of arrangement; Dressing Tables and Glasses, Washstands, Drawers, and every article for the complete furnishing of a bed-room. HEAL and SON'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of BEDSTEADS and priced List of Bedding, containing designs and prices of upwards of 100 bedsteads (representing a stock of upwards of 1000), sent free by post-HEAL and SON, 196, Tottenham court-road. WATERPROOF LIGHT OVERCOATS resist any amount of rain, without confining perspiration-the fatal objection to all other waterproofs, air-tight materials being unfit and dangerous for clothing -and, being free from vulgar singularity, are adapted for general use equally as for rainy weather. Price, 45s. and 50s. A large stock for selection also, of Capes, Shooting-jackets, Ladies' Mantles, Habits, &c. W. BERDOE, Tailor, &c. 96, New Bond-street, and 69, Cornhill (only. ESSRS. POULSON ΜΙ Shares in the Provident Life Office. MESSRS. WINSTANLEY are directed by the Executors of the late Mrs. Dacre to SELL by AUCTION, at the Particulars may be obtained of Mr. WOOTTON, Solicitor, Tokenhouse- row. Quarterly Sale of Books. Paintings, and Musical Instruments. MESSRS. DEBENHAM and STORR beg to announce that their next QUARTERLY SALE of BOOKS, Freehold Properties, &c. at Highbury Vale and Upper Clapton. MESSRS. DEBENHAM and received instructions from the executors of the late Thomas Ince, Particulars may now be obtained of Messrs. TURNLEY and Lrs- AND COMPANY, GENUINE SNUFF, Merchant Tailors, 94, Regent-street, still preserve their usual moderate prices for DRESS of the very best description; this is more fully exemplified in the material, style, and workmanship of their REGISTERED PARDESSUS, a spring and summer over or under Frock Coat, which is charged, inclusive of silk sleeve linings, Two GUINEAS. Also, the improved clastic TROWSERS, from 16. to One Guinea. Only in London, of the sole patentees, B. POULSON and COMPANY, Merchant Tailors, and Patent Undyed Wool Cloth Manufacturers, 94, Regent street. at ALFRED B. G OFFICE FURNITURE. The largest Stock GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH (used in and Cheapest House in London is at PRIEST'S, 1 and 2, Tudorstreet, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, where may be had every article requisite for the office, counting-house, board-room, and chambers, new and second-hand, iron doors, safes, and bookcases. Also an immense Stock of First-class Furniture, for the mansion or the cottage; pianofortes, harps, billiard tables, with every article of general use, may be had at this establishment.-Houses and Offices of Furniture bought to any amount. WATHERSTON and BROGDEN beg to Caution the Public against the Electro-Gold Chains and Polished Zine Gold so extensively put forth in the present day under the title of "Pure Gold" and "Fine Gold," and to call attention to the GENUINE GOLD CHAINS made from their own ingots, and sold by troy weight at its bullion or realisable value, with the workmanship at Wholesale Manufacturers' Prices. The gold guaranteed and repurchased at the price charged; the workmanship according to the simplicity or intricacy of the pattern. An extensive assortment of JEWELLERY of the first quality, all made at their MANUFACTORY, 16, HENRIETTA-STREET, ČOVENT-GARDEN. Established A.D. 1798. N.B.-Australian and Californian Gold made into Articles of Jewellery at a moderate charge for the workmanship. Majesty's Laundry), and WOTHERSPOON'S machine-made CONFECTIONERY, MARMALADE, JAMS, JELLIES, &c. (which gained the Prize Medal of 1851), may be had of all grocers; wholesale of WOTHERSPOON, MACKAY, and Co., 66, Queen-street, Cheapside, London WROUGHT IRON AND FIRE-PROOF DOORS and FRAMES, and VENTILATING GATES for Strong Rooms. Wrought Iron and Fire-proof Safes and Boxes. Warranted of the best quality made. Fitted with the new Patent Receding Tumbler Lock, which cannot be picked. Made by J. LEADBEATER and Co., 125, Aldersgate-street, London. Lost Keys sure to be returned by using J. L. and Co.'s Registered Key-ring Labels. ALLEN'S ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. WREN, BROTHERS, have the largest and Containing size, price, and description of upwards of 100 articles, consisting of portmanteaus, travelling bags, ladies' portmanteaus dispatch-boxes, writing-desks, dressing-cases, and other travelling requisites, forwarded on receipt of two stamps. ALLEN'S registered dispatch-box and writing-desk, their travellingbag (with the opening as large as the bag), and the new portmanteau, containing four compartments, are the best articles of the kind ever produced. J. W. and T. ALLEN, Manufacturers of Portable Furniture, and most choice ASSORTMENT of plain and ornamental Iron and Brass BEDSTEADS (with suitable bedding and hangings) of any house in London, and all their own manufacture. May be seen at their Establishments, 232. Tottenham-court-road, and 9, Sloane-street, Knightsbridge. An Illustrated Catalogue may be had (free) by post. -Manufactory, 11, 12, and 13, Charlotte-mews. Tottenham-court-road. will find the BEDFORD PANTECHNICON, 194, Tottenham-court-road, the most extensive, best ventilated, and cheapest establishment for Warehousing Furniture, Luggage, Pianos, and every description of property. Estimates, for Removals or Warehousing within ten miles, spectuses on premises; or of Mr. TINGEY, 312, Regent-street. If you desire really well-polished Boots, use NOVELTY in BEDSTEADS.-HAMMOND'S free of expense. Advances, when required, on moderate terms. Pro OTTOMAN is a handsome ornament in a room, forms a full-sized Bedstead for one or two persons at a moment's notice. Price, mattressed complete, 35s. The most complete article ever introduced for the comfort of Families.-To be obtained only at HAMMOND'S BEDDING FACTORY, 14, HIGH HOLBORN. BEDDING. - ECONOMY, DURABILITY, and COMFORT.-J. and S. STEER'S SPRING and FRENCH MATTRESSES make the most elastic and softest bed. A price list of every description of bedding, blankets, and quilts, sent free. Bedsteads: Arabian, four-post, French, and other styles, in birch, mahogany, &c.; patent iron and brass bedsteads on the most improved principles. Cribs, cots, &c.; bedroom furniture of every description.--J. and S. STEER, Bedding, Bedstead, and Bedroom Furniture Manufacturers, 13, Oxford-street, London. RIENTAL WATERPROOF 48, Piccadilly, opposite Fortnum and Mason's.-Take notice, that all persons wishing to avoid getting wet, and thereby becoming a martyr to rheumatism, should provide themselves with THEIR's PATENTED ORIENTAL SILK WATERPROOF COAT, weight under 10 oz. Price 50s., and Leggings 15s. Be careful to copy the address48, Piccadilly, opposite Fortnum and Mason's-as some unprincipled persons have been selling a spurious article, and representing it as Their's. By sending your height and size round the breast, accompanied by a Post-office order for the amount, the above articles will be forwarded by return of post. Air Cushions and every description of Waterproof Articles kept ready made. A liberal allowance to the trade. Observe-no agents in town or country. GENERAL FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT. - To the NOBILITY, GENTRY, and the PUBLIC. - HAMPTON and RUSSELL beg to inform them that they have now completed the REBUILDING f their NEW PREMISES, one of the largest and most commodious buildings in London; has Ware-rooms and Galleries built for the express convenience of their numerous customers. H. and R. now particularly invite all parties furnishing, or requiring CABINET FURNITURE, or CARPETS and RUGS, to visit this Establishment, and inspect the different articles, which will be found, upon inspection, for style, quality, and prices, the best House for economy in the Metropolis; and the largest stock in England to select from, as a General Furnishing Warehouse. N.B.-Several large Winged WardTobes; Pier, Chimney, and Toilet Glasses, in great variety. Telescope, Dining, Circular, and Oval Drawing-room Tables, decided bargains. OBSERVE, 14 and 15, LEICESTER-SQUARE, (Next Door to Burford's Panorama). BROWN'S ROYAL MELTONIAN BLACKING. It renders them beautifully soft, durable, and waterproof, while its lustre equals the most brilliant Patent Leather. Price the same as common Blacking. Made only by E. BROWN, the Inventor and sole Manufacturer of the De Guiche Parisian Polish for Dress Boots and Shoes, and Waterproof Varnish for Hunting Boots.Manufactory, 25, Broad-street, Golden-square, London. Patronised by the Court and Nobility, and to be had of all the principal Bootmakers and Shopkeepers throughout the Kingdom. Thirty Law Life Shares, by order of the Executors, TO be SOLD by AUCTION in Lots of Two and Three each, by Messrs. HAMMOND and EILOART at the next Quarterly Sale of Shares, at their GREAT ROOM, No. 25, Chan cery-lane, on MONDAY, JULY 3, at TWELVE for ONE o'clock. Shares in the Law Life, Law Fire, Equity and Law, Legal and bemuta and other Offices connected with the Legal Profession MESSRS. HAMMOND and EILOART beg to announce that the NEXT QUARTERLY SALE of SHARES in the above and other Companies will TAKE PLACE at the GREAT ROOMS, 28, CHANCERY-LANE, ou MONDAY, JULY 3. 8: TWELVE for ONE o'clock. Gentlemen desirous of purchasing or selling a invited to send to Messrs. HAMMOND and EILOART any time per the morning of sale. Law Reports, Books of Reference and Practice, Library Farina 6. MR at his GREAT ROOM, 192, Fleet-street, on FRIDAY, JUNES at HALF-PAST TWELVE, the LAW LIBRARIES of Two Barnsting retiring; among which are Jarman's Conveyancing by Geo. Hoe, 9 vols.; Bacon's Abridgment, by Gwillim and Dis vols Taxire Evidence, 2 vols.; Evans's Statutes, 10 vols.; Statutes at Large United Kingdom, 6 William IV. to 17 Victoria, 18 vols. : Causes C par Mejan, 20 vols.; Smith's Leading Cases, by Keating and Work 2 vols. Also, a complete series of the Chancery Reports to the pro time; Reports in the House of Lords, Courts of King's Bench, Cetumun Pleas, Nisi Prius, &c. The whole in excellent condition. To be viewed, and catalogues ha! Valuable and improving Leaseholds. Nos. 5, 30, 32, 34, and 36, Adplace West, Thurloe-square, Brompton MR. FRED. GODWIN will SELL by AUCTION, at GARRAWAY'S, on FRIDAY, JULY. L TWELVE for ONE, in Five Lots, by order of the executers tha Mortgagee, with power of sale, Five Villa-style RESIDENCES pleasing exterior, and inclosed fore-courts. All let, and yaliz per annum. Term from the freeholder 75 years. Ground-rat 1 per house. The houses may be viewed by permission of the tenants; and perticulars had of Messrs. ROBINSON and TOMLIN, Solicitors, 48, CA street, Hanover-square; at Garraway's; and of Mr. Gobw15, 3, has kin-terrace, Belgrave-square. Improved Ground and Rack Rents, and Stabling (three sets-f with possession), Alfred-mews, Thurloo-square, Bryantr MR. FRED. GODWIN will SELL by AUCTION, at GARRAWAY'S, on FRIDAY, JULY 1 TWELVE for ONE, by order of the Executors of the Mortgage power of sale, in Five Lots, IMPROVED GROUND Í KAT RENTS, amounting to 1424. per annum, amply secured on 13 Ma buildings, Nos. 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, Alfi also, Nos. 5, 9, and 18, with possession: held from the fredr nominal ground-rents. The property may be viewed, and particulars had of Messrs. "I JP YR Y and TOMLIN, Solicitors, 48, Conduit-street, Hanover-re. Garraway's; and at Mr. GODWIN'S Offices, 3, Halkin-ter", Belgrave-square. Valuable Church Property at Hevingham, in Norfolk MR. BUTCHER is instructed to offer f SALE, at the AUCTION MART, London, on FRIDAY 7th JULY, 1854, at TWELVE o'clock at Noon, the vaca ADVOWSON of the RECTORY of HEVINGHAM, in Norfolk, the next and all future Presentations to the same. There is substantially built and comfortable rectory-house, containing and drawing-rooms, with seven bed-rooms, besides servants-0018 two water-closets, a capital kitchen, and offices, replete wit convenience, and all in perfect repair. The house stands (4 Ga nence, commanding a delightful prospect, and is cheerfily an veniently situated near the turnpike-road leading from Norwtha Cromer, and is eight miles distant from the former place, and two tra Aylsham. In the rear of the parsonage are capital stabies, caf house, farming premises, nearly new, and a garleuer's outtama, via other requisite offices. The glebe lands are of excellent quality, a J round the house, and, with the gardens and pleasure-ground, mas about 35 acres. The population of Hevingham, which is quite age te tural, is about 900; and the parish contains 2880 acres. The int charge is commuted at 3504, and the glebe land, exclusive of the b and gardens, is of the estimated annual value of 30%; the pacebis are very low, and the other outgoings small. The present incumbent a 54 years of age. Further particulars and conditions of sale may be obtain Am plication to Mr. A. MARCON, Solicitor, Swaffham and Watten, Norhak to Messrs. CHURCH and LANGDALE, Solicitors, 38, S buildings, London; or to the Auctioneer, Norwich. Norfolk. The important Manorial Estate of Middleton, coraprisly de Manors of Middleton and Blackborough, and a beautiful dome24 2824 acres of superior land, in a fine sporting part of the county, w dia three miles of the seaport town of King's Lynn. MR. BUTCHER is commissioned to SELL by AUCTION, at the MART, London, under the direction of the High Court of Chancery, on FRIDAY, the 7th day of JULY, 2 TWELVE o'clock, in One Lot (unless an acceptable offer be prev.255 made), this highly valuable and well-known Estate, chic dy Fro comprising the MANORS or LORDSHIPS of MIDDLETON ! BLACKBOROUGH. The much admired and picturesque ra Middleton Castle, and near is a remarkable mound of great and a′′ TEETH.-Mr. ALFRED JONES, of coming extensive and magnificent views of the Gert, an Grosvenor-street, has recently completed a new and important Improvement in the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH. The superiority of their appearance, and the unerring accuracy with which they are fitted to the mouth, without wires, springs, or ligatures, and the lightness of their construction, gives greater facility in mastication and freedom to the speech, and imparts a more youthful appearance to the countenance, than has hitherto been attained; they support any teeth that may be loose, and have been tested by many of the first medical men, the nobility and gentry, from whom he has received the most flattering acknowledgments of success. Supplied only by Mr. ALFRED JONES, Surgeon-Dentist to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, her late Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, and his late Majesty LouisPhilippe, the ex-King of the French, &c.-64, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square.-At home from Eleven until Five. TEETH.-By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent-Newly-invented and Patented application of Chymically-prepared White India-rubber in the Construction of Artificial Teeth, Gums, and Palates. Mr. EPHRAIM MOSELY, Surgeon Dentist, 61, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE, sole Inventor and Patentee-A new, original, and invaluable invention, consisting in the adaptation, with the most absolute perfection and success, of CHYMICALLY-PREPARED WHITE INDIA-RUBBER as a lining to the ordinary gold or bone frame. The extraordinary results of this application may be briefly noted in a few of their most prominent features, as the following:-All sharp edges are avoided; no springs, wires, or fastenings are required; a greatly increased freedom of suction is supplied; a natural elasticity hitherto wholly unattainable, and a fit perfected with the most unerring accuracy, is secured; while, from the softness and flexibility of the agent employed, the greatest support is given to the adjoining teeth when loose, or rendered tender by the absorption of the gums. The acids of the mouth exert no agency on the chymically-prepared white India-rubber, and, as it is a non-conductor, fluids of any temperature may with thorough comfort be imbibed and retained in the mouth, all unpleasantness of smell or taste DOES YOUR TAILOR FIT YOU, and give being at the same time wholly provided against by the peculiar nature Satisfaction? If he does not, SAMUEL BROTHERS, 29, Ludgate-hill, claim your patronage, and they guarantee you satisfaction, their sole aim being to supply superior Gentlemen's DRESS at the lowest possible prices. The Bespoke Department is conducted on S. B's original system, charging for the cloth separately from the making and trimming, thus informing their patrons the value of cloth they have for their money. The known skill and good taste with which every order is executed at 29, LUDGATE-HILL, is a guarantee that satisfaction is certain.-READY-MADE CLOTHES EQUAL to BESPOKE, an advantage not to be obtained at any other establishmeat. Samuel Brothers' Ready-made Department for the present Season contains an elegant Assortment equal to bespoke. Dress Coats........ 21s. to 42. Trousers 10. 6d. to 21s. Frock ditto .25s. to 468, Alpaca Vests 45. Gel 21s. Fancy 58. Od. to 10. Hussar Suits 21s.. Od. to 28. The new Circular Cont, with Belt the town of Lynn, and surrounding country. Also the N Descriptive particulars and conditions of sale, with plans of the estate, may shortly be had of Messrs. FLADGATE, YOU JACKSONS, Solicitors, 12, Essex-street, London; of Meses Ja Solicitors, Lynn: of Messrs. ATTWOOD and RIGDEN, Land Ap the Close, Salisbury; and of Mr. BUTCHER, Norwich, Auesænd w whom cards to view the property may be obtained. IN the COURT of the COMMISSIONERS SALE of INCUMBERED ESTATES IN IRELAND In the matter of the Estate) The Commissioners will, on 1834 METCALFE and CO.'s NEW PATTERN, Manbane, in the barony of Maryborough East, ist TOOTH-BRUSHES, Penetrating Hair-brushes, and Smyrna Sponges. The tooth-brush searches thoroughly between the divisions of the teeth, and cleanses them in the most effectual manner. The hair-brushes are made of genuine unbleached Russian bristles, which do not soften like prepared hair. With every description of brush and comb for the toilet. 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Several correspondents inquire the name of the insurance office We cannot undertake to return rejected communications Postage-stamps can only be accepted at the LAW TIMES Office in payment of sums not exceeding 58. Remittances for all sums above 5s. must be by post-office order. THE LAW AND THE LAWYERS. Friday, June 30. WE directed the attention of our readers last week to a question of great interest and importance which had been raised, but not decided, in the Court of Ex. It arose on the Evidence Act, which renders parties admissible as witnesses, but by the 3rd clause excepts "any person who in any criminal proceeding is charged with the commission of any indictable offence, or any offence punishable on summary conviction." The present case, the Attorney-General v. Radloff, 23 L. T. Rep. 191, was an information for recovery of penalties for smuggling tobacco; and the question was, whether the defendant was a competent witness for or against himself. Was it a criminal proceeding in which he was charged with an indictable offence? Or was it a criminal proceeding in which he was charged with an offence punishable by summary conviction? Of the former there could be no doubt, for it was not an indictable offence; the only point remaining, therefore, was whether the statute was to be so read, as meaning a criminal proceeding wherein the defendant was charged with an offence punishable by summary conviction? It was agreed that this was the right reading of the statute; and then came the material point, is an excise information a criminal proceeding? It will be seen that upon this question the Judges were equally divided, and the arguments by which they supported their diverse views will be found at length in the report. MARTIN, B. thought the proper meaning of crime in law was "an indictable offence," and he therefore was of opinion that the case did not come within the exception. PARKE, B. held the contrary; acceding, how ever, to the proposition that the statute was to be read as applying only to summary convictions in criminal proceedings. But he said "an information by the Attorney-General for an offence against the revenue laws is a criminal proceeding. It is a proceeding instituted by the Crown for the punishment of a crime against the public; for it is a crime and injury to the public to disobey the statute and revenue laws. I think a prosecution or proceeding for any offence against the public is a criminal prosecution." But surely this definition of a crime, pushed to its consequences, would entirely destroy all recognised boundaries between civil and criminal law. POLLOCK, C.B., concurred with him. "I cannot distinguish," he said, "in point of either morals or law, between the cheating the State and the cheating a private individual. I cannot distinguish between endeavouring by concealment and fraud to prevent that from being paid which is necessary for the public service, and by a similar fraud and concealment depriving one of her Majesty's subjects of that which is his lawful right and due." In morals, certainly there is no difference; but the law has, for wise purposes, chosen to distinguish between the withholding of a debt and the obtaining of money by a false pretence. It has thought fit to make it a crime to cheat your neighbour by a lie VOL. XXIII.-No. 587. the Middle Ages, it was deemed contrary to but not a crime to cheat your creditors; and so Thus stands this very curious and interesting question. Perhaps it will astonish some of our readers to find that on a point apparently so simple and elementary as "What is a crime?" which stands, as it were, at the very threshold of the law, four learned Judges should be equally divided in opinion. It proves the correctness of an assertion we have often ventured in these columns, that sufficient attention is not given, either by the makers or the administrators of our law, to the province of jurisprudence: by which we mean the proper boundaries of law-what are the rightful subjects of legislation, and what are not-and what acts or neglects belong properly to civil, and what to criminal law. Certainly, before we attempt criminal codification or legislation, we ought to come to some clear understanding of the question "What is a crime?" on which, at present, there is a manifest conflict among the most skilful lawyers. One view of the particular question that has occasioned this curious and interesting discussion does not appear to have presented itself to either of the Judges. Knowingly to disobey a statute, with intent to break or evade the law, is in itself an indictable offence, and therefore "a crime." Might it not be said that a proceeding to punish that offence by information for a penalty is a charge for an indictable offence punishable on summary conviction, and therefore a criminal proceeding? At all events, so serious a doubt should be removed by the Legislature; and the difficulty might be removed by half-a-dozen words in the Common Law Procedure Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has brought in a Bill to repeal that last relic of commercial barbarism-the Usury Laws. Of late years they have been subjected to continual relaxations, and for some time past certain limited loans of money on personal security have been exempted from their operation. Mr. GLADSTONE now proposes to abolish them altogether, and to leave money to find its own price, like all other commodities, without attempting to give it a fixed value by law. It would seem like the utterance of a childish folly to say that two men should not have the right to bargain for the price at which one of them should sell his money to the other, but that the law has actually sanctioned such an interference with the liberty of the purse, and grave men in the Legislature have maintained it as a bulwark of the constitution. That the practical operation of Usury Laws is to make those whom they are designed to protect pay more dearly for the commodity than otherwise they would do is known to our readers; but the prejudice will perhaps still linger in many minds; and we should not be surprised to find even in the House of Commons some persons clinging with tenacity to this last rag of an exploded fallacy. Usury laws had their origin in a religious, not in a social, objection; in The House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. COLLIER, has affirmed the principle of limited liability-and this in the face of the report of the Commissioners appointed to investigate the subject, that such an invasion of the rights of creditors would be inexpedient. With two exceptions, all the speakers were in favour of the proposed change; and they based their arguments upon fallacies and misstatements of fact which show how superficially, if at all, they had studied the question, and how they had looked upon it from the sentimental rather than from the practical point of view. The fallacy upon which all started was this, that the existing law is a violation of the principle of free trade, for it regulates the terms upon which men should enter into partnerships, and the terms upon which men should deal with one another. This assertion, which is the basis of every argument urged in favour of limited liability, is entirely false and unfounded. The existing law does not regulate the terms of a partnership, nor the terms of dealing between debtor and creditor. Partners are quite free now to make any agreement they please among themselves as to what shall be the terms of the partnership-as to sum which each shall contribute-as to the share of profits and the liability for losses, as between themselves. In like manner, the law does not attempt to regulate the contracts of partners with third persons. It is open to a partnership, as to an individual, to make an agreement with those with whom it deals, that its members shall not be individually responsible, and that the creditor shall look only to the funds of the company. Not only is this not prohibited, but it is of daily occurrence. Such a proviso is actually inserted in every policy of assurance. Moreover, it is competent to partners to give notice that they will not be answerable for any orders of their directors or managers, except under such restrictions as they might desire to impose for their own security, and thus to limit their liability as much as they please. Such being the actual state of the law, the whole case for a special law to limit liability falls to the ground; for it is founded upon the false assertion that the present law prohibits partners from making their own terms one with another, or contracting upon any terms they please with third parties. But, although this is the demand preferred, it is only a cover for a very different design. That which is really sought, though few are willing to avow such an object, is not to limit liability by the acts of the parties, but by the act of the law; it is not power to regulate their own contractsfor that they possess but that, after they have made a contract, the law shall enable them to hold to it, or to repudiate it, just as it may suit their convenience. They ask that the law shall take away from those with whom they incur debts the right they now have to recover those debts. They ask that the law shall confiscate the property of the creditor, for the benefit of the debtor. They ask that they may be permitted to speculate with the property of their creditors, to pocket all the profit if the speculation succeeds, but not to pay the losses if it fails. They ask that while A., and B., and C., shall be fully liable for their debts in the business which they severally conduct, it shall be permitted to them to conduct together another business, in which they may incur debts or make contracts with impunity, and repudiate them should it serve their purpose. In short, they ask that the law shall enforce them to be honest as individuals, but give them express permission to be dishonest as partners. It was stated by Mr. BROWN, in the course of the debate, that on a poll of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce the proposition for limited liability was negatived by two to one. Surely some means should be taken to explain to the public the true nature of this question, than which we remember none that has been so misunderstood by one portion of its advocates, and so misrepresented by the other. BILLS OF EXCHANGE BILL. THIS Bill lingers in the Committee; and we entertain some hope that it will yet be restored to the original shape in which it was introduced into the Lords. It is a mystery how the Notaries contrived so to steal a march upon the Lawyers; but their success is but too manifest in the result; and the whole affair would have been successfully carried to a conclusion, but for the timely warning we were enabled to give to the Profession of the trick that had been played upon them. Unluckily, in this instance, London interests in the new form of the Bill are more powerful than the general interests of the Profession in preserving a privilege that was to be given to all Lawyers, so that no assistance was to be looked for by the Country Attorneys, who are so seriously affected by the alterations made. Our notice of the affair, however, has served one good purpose; it has produced a pause in the progress of the Bill; it has led to opposition to it, both in and out of Parliament; it has prevented so great a wrong being done to the Attorneys in the provinces and to their clients, as was so snugly contrived by the altered clauses by which the support of the Notaries was purchased for a Bill which they had previously vehemently opposed upon principle. We trust the end will be that the new clauses will be struck out and the old ones restored, and so an important branch of business retained to the Country Practitioner, whose clients are not less interested than himself in being enabled to procure speedy judgment on bills and notes without going to London for it, or paying a Notary to do what an Attorney is surely quite as competent to perform. PART I. THE termination of the current quarter calls upon us to resume our review of the cases recently decided; in doing which we shall endeavour as much as possible to group together and to point out the general principle, effect, and result of those bearing on the same question. Where this is not practical, as in many instances must be the case, we shall only give the substance of the decision as it is reported, leaving the learned reader to draw from it his own inferences. Under the head of POWERS two cases of importance, though very different in their nature, demand a notice. By the first of them it was decided that where a party has a power of appointment "by any deed or deeds, writing or writings," under his "hand and seal," it is not a good execution of the power if the donee makes his will pursuant to the requisition of the 10th section of the Wills Act, 7 Will 4 & 1 Vict. c. 60: (West v. Ray, 23 L. T. Rep. 9.) The main principle deducible from the next case appears to be that a benefit passing to an appointor, although that benefit is not to arise from the fund to be appointed, operates to show such a corrupt motive that the appointment becomes thereby vitiated, and cannot stand. By a settlement (a) By GEORGE HARRIS, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. executed by a father and son, estates were conveyed for the purpose of securing annuities for pin-money and jointure on the son's wife when he should marry, and then to the use of the son for life; then for securing portions for younger children, in such shares as their father should appoint, and in default equally among them; with remainder to the use of the first and other sons in tail. The son married, and, he and his wife disagreeing, they lived separate, the wife taking the youngest of the three children, the only issue of the marriage. There being two younger children, the sum of 30,000l. was raiseable for portions. The husband wanted to raise 80,000l., and applied to the wife to join in obtaining a private Act of Parliament for the purpose, by the postponement of her pin-money and jointure annuities; and she agreed to do so on the condition that the husband should irrevocably appoint at least 5000l. to the youngest child. This was done; and then the husband, unknown to the wife, appointed the remaining 25,000l. to the other younger child, with a power of revocation. The required money was not raised, nor was the Act of Parliament obtained; and the husband died a few months afterwards, without revoking the appointment of the 25,000l. The appointee of the 5000l. filed a bill to have the other appointment set aside, and the whole 30,000l. equally divided; but the court held that the corrupt motive influencing the first transaction did not extend to the second-that the two were separate and distinct transactions; and therefore the bill must be dismissed with costs: (Rowley v. Rowley, 23 L. T. Rep. 56.) the right of the landlord to re-enter, did not pay the premium to keep alive the insurance, within the time limited in the policy, or the days of grace allowed, whereby the policy had expired. He afterwards paid the premium, and the insurance office allowed the payment to have a retrospective operation, and date back to the expiration of the former premium. It was held, in an action by the vendor against the purchaser of the premises for not completing the purchase, that the failure to insure had worked a forfeiture, entitling the landlord to re-enter, notwithstanding that the policy, when the last premium was paid, dated back, with the consent of the insurers, to the expiration of the former policy; and, therefore, that the purchaser was released from his purchase by failure in the vendor to make a good title: (Wilson v. Wilson, 23 L. T. Rep. 158.) On the subject of MORTGAGES, a case of interest has been decided, that of Paynter v. Carec, 23 L. T. Rep. 21, from which the following principles, which are important for the practitioner to be acquainted with, may be deduced. Where a redemption and foreclosure suit is instituted by a mortgagee against a mortgagor and prior subsequent mortgagees, it is the right of any of the defendants before decree to pay off the plaintiff his principal, interest, and costs, and have the bill dismissed. The Court will not stay proceedings in such a suit at the instance of a defendant, without actual tender to the mortgagor of the money due to him for principal and interest. After payment of principal and interest to the mortgagor, and his costs paid or secured, the other defendants have no right to have the suit Connected with the important practical sub-prosecuted for their advantage. A receiver apject of VENDOR and PURCHASER, there are also a pointed in such a suit is functus officii on the disnumber of decisions of interest which demand missal of the bill, and any money in his hands the attention of the professional reader. The belongs to the mortgagor. first of these cases bears on the subject of fraud and misrepresentation. The vendor having put forth a false statement as to the condition of the premises to be sold, the Court decided that it was no set-off to these representations for the vendor to say that the purchaser might have seen the premises and known the whole truth. Specific performance was refused, and the bill dismissed with costs: (Cox v. Middleton, 23 L. T. Rep. 6.) The next case, that of Robinson v. Lowater, 23 L. T. Rep. 17, 85, is also on an important point connected with the law of vendors and purchasers, by which it was determined that the specific mention in a will of a certain debt with other debts of the testator charged by his will upon his property, did not create an exception to the rule that, where there is a general charge of debts created by a will, the purchaser is not bound to see to the application of the purchaseStorry v. Walsh, 23 L. T. Rep. 35.) money. (See also on this subject the case of On the subject of forfeiture of lease by breach of covenant to insure, we may also, as connected with that of vendor and purchaser, refer the reader to the case of Wilson v. Wilson, 23 L. T. Rep. 58. As regards the stoppage in transitu by an unpaid vendor, see Gurney and others v. Behrend and others, 23 L. T. Rep. 89. By the particulars and conditions of sale an estate was described as 1015 acres of meadow, pasture, and arable land; and the purchaser was to pay part of the purchase-money on signing the agreement, and the remainder on the completion of the purchase "on the 11th Oct., from which time the purchaser was to be entitled to the rents and profits;" but if from any cause the purchase should not be completed by Oct. 11, the purchaser should pay interest till the completion of the purchase; the vendor was to deliver an abstract of title within fourteen days of the day of sale, and deduce a good title. The estate was sold by the defendant to the plaintiff on the 9th of July, and an abstract of title delivered on the 14th. It then appeared that the estate was subject to two mortgages, and that the mortgagees had not received the usual six months' notice of redemption; that some of the mortgagees were dead; that letters of administration de bonis non had to be taken out to one of them; and that a deed of declaration of trust by parties beneficially interested in the mortgage had to be produced and executed. These and other matters rendered it impossible for the vendor to convey by Oct. 11; and the purchase was ultimately completed in the following April. It was held that the defendant did deduce an abstract of title, and show good title according to the conditions: (Savory v. Underwood, 23 L. T. Rep. 141.) a The lessee of certain premises being bound to keep the premises insured, on pain of forfeiture and The questions of foreclosure, and the mode of setting aside a mortgage-deed, will be seen to have been dealt with in the case of Jacobs v. Richards, 23 L. T. Rep. 44; and a case relative to costs between mortgagor and mortgagee, is that of Norton v. Cooper, 23 L. T. Rep. 125. The complicated and difficult branch of the law relating to TRUSTEES has received some elucidation from the recent cases on this subject. By the case of Powys v. Blagrove, 23 L. T. Rep. 37, it was decided, that where trustees have the mere legal estate vested in them, and there is a tenant for life, it is not any part of their duty to see that the tenant keeps the buildings in repair; and the Court will not interfere at the suit of a remainderman to make the tenant for life, or after his death to render his estate, liable for permissive waste. Where trustees of a marriage-settlement exe cuted the deed by which they were appointed, but that deed contained no specific covenant by them to perform the trusts of the original settle ment, though the settled property was assigned to them on precisely the same trusts, and they afterwards committed a breach of trust by invest ing the property on a bad security, so that it was lost: it was held, on a bill filed by cestuis que trust for an account, that such loss was not a specialty, but a simple contract-debt: (Wynch v. Grant, 23 L. T. Rep. 153.) A. and B. were trustees under a settlement. part of the trust-funds being, with the consent of A., allowed to remain in the hands of B. unse cured. A. pressing B. for an account, B. induced one of the cestuis que trust, who was his niece, to accept his bond, and to give a receipt for her share of the trust-funds. B., who communicated this transaction to A., subsequently became em barassed; and, the amount secured by his bond not having been paid, the cestui que trust filed ber bill against A. for the recovery of her share. It was held, affirming the decision of the cours below, that A. was liable to make good the amount: (Byass v. Gates, and Coppard v. Gates, 23 L. T. Rep. 165.) On the subject of COVENANTS, more especially those running with the land, where a donee of a power, who was also tenant for life, appointed part of the land under his power, and the ap pointee covenanted with him not to build in a particular manner; and then the donee, as tenant for life, consented to a sale by trustees for sale of another part of the land, and the grantee entered into a similar covenant: it was held that, the ap pointee having committed a breach of the covenant, the grantee was entitled to file a bill for an in junction: (Child v. Douglas, 23 L. T. Rep 14 By this case it was also determined that, t covenant of the appoirton with the appointe his heirs a benefit of it passed to the trustees for sale as reversioners, or rather the parties entitled to the unappointed parts of the land under the settlement, and from them to the grantee under the conveyance. The law relating to HUSBAND AND WIFE has produced some decisions which deserve to be here adverted to. From the case of Tidd v. Lister, 23 L. T. Rep. 101, some important principles may be enunciated. It was here held that a married woman whose husband does not maintain her is not entitled, as against the particular assignee of the husband for value, to maintenance out of the income of real and personal estate to which the wife is entitled in equity for life. It was also here held, that a husband and wife cannot effectually dispose of the life-interest of the wife in a fund not settled to her separate use, beyond the duration of the coverture: (see also on this subject M'Cormick v. Garnett, 22 L. T. Rep. 136.) On the subject of articles of separation between husband and wife, and the covenants proper to be introduced in deeds of this descriptition, the case of Wilson v. Wilson, 22 L. T. Rep. 134, may be consulted with advantage. In the case of Ramsden v. Smith, 23 L. T. Rep. 166, a covenant to settle after-acquired property was held not to extend to property bequeathed to the separate use of the wife. Where a husband and wife joined in a mortgage of her separate property, and the husband covenanted for the payment of the money, and the amount was applied to his purposes alone; and where she, being the executrix of her husband, paid the mortgage-money, and the husband's estate proved insufficient to pay the simple contract-debts: it was held that the wife was entitled to stand as a specialty-creditor, and to clear her estate from the mortgage in priority over the simple contract-creditors: (Hudson v. Carmichael, 23 L. T. Rep. 168.) The subject of WILLS presents a vast variety of decisions, more especially as regards their construction. Indeed, the cases here are so numerous and so voluminous, that the most that we can effect is to group them together, and state their general effect. In Schofield v. Cahuac, : 23 L. T. Rep. 3, the question was as to an executor taking beneficially the surplus residue of the estate. In Goodfellow v. Goodfellow, 23 L. T. Rep. 46, the point raised was, whether a dchild enceinte at the date of the will could claim a share under its provisions. Questions as to the remoteness and the vesting of interests of children at their birth were raised in Hobbs v. Parsons, 23 L. T. Rep. 47. The proper interpretation of the word "money," when contained in a will, was settled in Lowe v. Thomas, 23 L. T. Rep. 49. In Reeves v. Baker the words sufficient to constitute a devise of copyholds were determined, and also those sufficient to create a constructive trust. As to what is meant by personal residence in a devise of a mansion-house on condition of residing in it, see Walcot v. Botfield, 23 L. T. Rep. 127. The effect of alterations and interlineations in a will is elucidated by the case of Shea v. Boschetti, 23 L. T. Rep. 137. plication on the real estate of the testator, it was Woodhouse v. Woodhouse, 23 L. T. Rep. 138, is In the following case a testator by his will gave a freehold estate to his wife for life, and, after her death, to be sold within six months, and the proceeds divided among all his children equally, "whereof I choose for my executors A. and B., whereof they shall be paid their reasonable expenses." It was held that the legal estate descended to the heirs, and that the will gave a mere power of sale: (Reg. v. The Inhabitants of Burgate, 23 L. T. Rep. 155.) Two important cases relating to the LAW OF PATENTS deserve to be specially adverted to here. In the first of them a patent was granted, and, it having been infringed, the patentees did not complain until three years after the patent had expired, although they were proved to have been cognisant of the infringement during the whole term of the patent. The patentees filed their bill for an injunction; but the latter was refused, and the bill was dismissed with costs: (Smith v. The London and South-Western Railway Company, 23 L. T. Rep. 10.) In the other of these cases, in an action for the infringement of a patent, it was held that the plaintiff cannot be compelled to give particulars of infringement, showing, in effect, on what grounds and principles he means to argue that the defendant has infringed the patent: (Talbot v. Laroche, 23 L. T. Rep. 145.) When the dates between which the instances of infringement are said to have taken place are given, and the defendant must know the articles made and sold by him within that time which can be said to be infringements of the patent, the plaintiff will not be compelled to give the particular instances of infringement: (Ibid.) THE LEGISLATOR. HOUSE OF COMMONS. On this Bill being brought up with the Lords' THE COPYHOLD COMMISSIONERS. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, &c. Railway Thursday, June 29. West London and Crystal Palace Railway (Bromley 309. Convicts-Return SESSIONAL PRINTED PAPERS. 296. Tallow, &c.-Return (a corrected leaf) As regards the effect of the destruction of a will, in the following case A. B., having made his will, became insane, and, whilst in that state, destroyed it. He recovered his reason, and directed another will to be prepared. Before that was done he destroyed himself. Probate was granted of the unexecuted draft of the destroyed will: (In the goods of D. Downer, 23 L. T. Rep. 11.) Another case of interest on this topic, is that which follows:-Portions of Mr. AGLIONBY asked to what place it was intended a will were cancelled by lines drawn in ink across to remove the office of the Copyhold Commissioners. the sheet, crossing each other diagonally; probate -Sir W. MOLESWORTH said that at the beginning of the will, with all erasures, alterations, inter- of this month he had received a direction from the lineations and obliterations appearing thereon," Treasury to provide offices for the War Minister, as had been granted by the Ecclesiastical Court; two places eligible-Gwydyr-house, at present te- 151. near to Downing-street as possible. There were but 149. but it was held by the L. C., overruling the de- nanted by the poor-law authorities, and Pembroke- 150. cision of the court below, that the legacies con-house, occupied by the Copyhold Commissioners. It ained in that part of the will through which the was judged inexpedient to interfere with the present ines were drawn were cancelled: (Gann v. occupation of Gwydyr-house, and hence the residence held by the Copyhold Commissioners had been selected as the place for the War Minister. The house 153. to which the Copyhold Commissioners were to remove was No. 3, St. James's-square, which would 156. require a sum of about 3,000l. to put it in order. Gregory, 23 L. T. Rep. 136.) USURY LAWS. 147. 152. 157. Oxford University (as amended in Committee, on first and second recommitment, and on consideration of Bill, as amended) Medical Graduates (University of London) (amended) Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes (amended) Linen, &c. Manufactures, I. Insurance on Lives (Abatement of Income-tax) Turnpike Acts Continuance, I. Merchant Shipping (as amended in Come The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the repeal of the usury laws. It was designed to remove the last legislative 159. restriction upon the rate of interest paid for borrowed 154. money, and which operated against only a single class mittee and on recommitment) of loans-those mainly raised upon real property. 160. Vaccination Act Amendment The measure, he submitted, would relieve landowners, 316. Procurators Fiscal, S-Return With respect to the charge of legacies by im-railway companies, and other owners of realty, from 318. Railways (India)-Return |