Hitchings, Richard Neville, 31, Bloomsbury-street, Bedfordsquare; and Wrington- J. James, Wrington Hole, Charles Marshall, 9, Powis-place, Great Ormond-street; and Cowley, near Uxbridge-C. H. Rhodes, Chancery-lane Hough, William Henry, 20, Argyle-square, King's-cross; Amersham-H. Hough, Oakham; F. Charsley, Amersham Hughes, Charles Leadbitter, Newark-upon-Trent-P. R. Falkner, Newark-upon-Trent Irvine, A. Lodwick, jun., Smiggrren lodge, New PeckhamJ. Atkins, White-hart-court Jenning, Thomas Amas, 25, Gloucester-gardens, Paddington; and Stockton-upon-Tees-J. R. Wilson, Stockton-upon-Tees Joslen, Arthur, 12, Soley-terrace, Lloyd-square; and Maidstone-K. King, Maidstone Julius, Edric Adolphus, 22, St. Paul's-road, Camden-townJ. Marsden, Wakefield King, Robert, 10, Frederick's-place, Mile-end-road-L. Hicks, Gray's-inn-square Kinneir, Henry, 27, Mornington-road; Albion-terrace; and Exeter-E. Every, Exeter: W. Kingdon, King's-armsyard Legge, Alfred, Gateshead G. W. Cram, Newcastle-uponTyne Lever, Charles Baldwin, 12, Tavistock-square; and King'sroad-C. Lever, Frederick's-place Lewis, Charles Carne, jun. 6, Ely-place, Holborn; and Brentwood-C. C. Lewis, sen. Brentwood Lloyd, Henry, 13, Durnford-terrace, Kentish-town; and Winchester-F. Bowker, Winchester Lush, Frederick Matthew, 13, Durnford-terrace, Kentishtown; and Winchester-J. H. Todd, Winchester Lynch, George Sanderson, 41, George-street, Portmansquare; and Clifton, near Bristol-H. A. Palmer, Bristol; Macdonald, Alexander Cleiland, 5, Great Ormond-street; Southampton-row; and Exeter-F. Sanders, Exeter Mant, George French, 8, Everett-street, Brunswick-square; and Storrington-A. Mant, Storrington; G. Waugh, Great James-street Marchant, John, jun. 57, Coleman-street; and HertfordJ. L. Foster, Hertford Marshall, Henry, jun. 7, Baker-street, Portman-square; and Godalming-H. Marshall, Godalming Marshall, Richard, 8, Carlton-villas, Holloway-A. W. Irwin, Martin, Charles, 10, Soley-terrace, Pentonville; and Stroud Mossop, Charles, 8, Wilmington-square-C. Hanslip, Hattongarden; J. Stuart, Gray's-inn; R. Mossop, Long Sutton Mounsey, John Charles, Carlisle-G. G. Mounsey, Carlisle Newman, William, 16, Cecil-street, Strand; New Bridgestreet; and Yeovil-E. Newman, Yeovil; W. E. Oliver, New Bridge-street Newsham, Henry, jun., Manchester-T. P. Cunliffe, Manchester Osborne, Alfred, 4, Manchester-terrace, Liverpool-road; Goswell-road; and Ashborne-J. Brittlebank, Ashborne; G. G. Brittlebank, Ashborne Parker, Thomas, 37, Baker-street, Portman-square; and Parrott, Thomas, 37, Burton-crescent; Bedford-row; and Paull, Henry, 12, Lincoln's-inn-fields-F. A. Trenchard, Pemberton, Loftus Leigh, Chester-square, Pimlico; and Whitehall-place-E. L. Pemberton, Whitehall-place Perkins, Frederick, 15, Regent-square; and York-R. Perkins, York Perrin, Jonathan, 22, Stanhope-street, Hampstead-road; ple Cloud Arlington-street; and Temple-cloud-W. R. Mogg, TemPerry, George, 14, Everett-street, Soley-terrace; and Stour bridge-R. Price, Stourbridge Pigott, William, Ely, Cambridge J. P. Lawrence, Cambridge; F. Barlow, Cambridge Plaskitt, Joseph, 29, Walton-street, Brompton; and LouthC. Ingolby, jun. Louth Player, Joseph Norton, 9, Turrett-grove, Larkhall-lane-C. bridge-H. Corser, Stourbridge Potter, Henry, Guildford-T. A. Curtis, Guildford Powell, Wm. Henry, King's Norton-J. Powell, Birmingham Prichard, Charles J. Collins, 15, Eccleston-street South, Pimlico; and Bristol-J. F. Russell, Bristol Randall, John Henry, Binfield, near Bracknell-G. A. Crawley, Whitehall-place Remington, George, 18, Montague-street, Russell-square; and Ulverstone-H. Remington, Ulverstone Richards, George Charles, 41, Downham-road, Islington; Droitwich-J. Holyoake, Droitwich Richardson, John, 5, Robert-terrace, Chelsea; and GirtonE. Foster, Cambridge Robinson, Edward, 2, Burton-crescent: Milton-street; and Clifton-D. Russell, York Taylor, George Whitfield, 4, Croom's-hill, Greenwich; Wharton-street; and Bolton-le-Moors-W. George, Bradford Thompson, James, jun., Essex-place, George-road, Dalston; and Hunslet, near Leeds-H. Nelson, Leeds; A. Turner, Aldermanbury MERCANTILE LAW COMMISSION. THE following is the first Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the operation of the Mercantile Laws: TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN HER HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. Your Majesty having been pleased to issue a commission directing your Majesty's commissioners to inquire and ascertain how far the mercantile laws in the different parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland may be advantageously assimilated, and also whether any and what alterations and amendments should be made in the law of partnership, as regards the question of the limited or unlimited responsibility of partners, your Majesty's com Tibbits, John Markham, 6, Foley-terrace, Pentonville; and Tombs, Henry Coggan, Droitwich-S. Tombs, jun., Droitwich Tucker, Edward, Bath-W. C. Gill, Bath Tuke, Henry George, 27, Upper Southwick-street. Hyde-park Walker, George, 1, Southampton-street, Fitzroy-square- Wooldbridge, Charles, 3. Vernon-place, Bloomsbury-square; Wyatt, Joseph, 10, Charles-street, Trevor-square, Knights- Added to the List pursuant to Judge's Orders. Fox, Thomas, 2 Sidmouth-street, Gray's-inn-road; and Dover Haines, William Tertius, 14, Manchester-buildings, West- Jackson, Henry, 5, Victoria-terrace, Stockwell; and Ald- Lee, Frederick, 11, Millman-street, Wells-street, Gray's-inn- Lomer, Walter Abraham, 59, Doughty-street, Bedford-row; Oliver, George James, 13, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside-H. Webster, John, Whitehaven-J. Musgrave, Whitehaven MERCANTILE LAWYER. Summary. In the case of White and another v. Crisp and others, 23 L. T. Rep. 300, the duty of the owner of a wrecked vessel to remove an obstruction to navigation caused by the wreck was considered and settled by the Court of Exch. In that case the defendants had purchased of its owner a foundered vessel, lying under water in a certain navigable part of the Bristol channel. The plaintiff's vessel struck on the sunken wreck and was injured, and for the damage resulting an action was brought. The Court, following the judgment of Maule, J. in Brown v. Mallet, held that the duty of a person using a navigable river with a vessel is to use reasonable skill and care to prevent mischief to others, and that the liability is the same whether the vessel is under or above water. The liability may be transferred with the transfer of possession and control to another person; yet on the abandonment of such possession, control, and management, the liability may cease. The Court, which had taken time to consider its judgment, further held that where the wreck of a vessel is due to unavoidable accident, no duty is cast upon the owner to take any precautions or to remove impediments to the navigation. The law may, after this decision, be regarded as well settled on this question. It is, if we remember rightly, the duty of the Trinity House, in all estuaries and along the coast, to give warning to vessels to avoid sunken wreck by indicating the spot with a green buoy. A brief outline of the Act repealing the Usury Laws is given under the title Real Property Lawyer. confided to them; and, having completed their inquiries and deliberations as to the expediency of making alterations in the law of partnership, so far as relates to the limited or unlimited liability of partners, deem it right at once to lay before your Majesty the conclusion at which they have arrived. With a view to obtaining well-considered opinions on the subject, your Majesty's commissioners framed a series of questions which they thought calculated to elicit information, and caused them to be widely circulated both at home and abroad; and those questions and the answers received are printed in an appendix to this report. Your Majesty's commissioners have been much embarrassed by the great contrariety of opinion entertained by those who have favoured them with answers to their questions. Gentlemen of great experience and talent have arrived at conclusions diametrically opposite; and in supporting those conclusions have displayed reasoning power of the highest order. It is difficult to say on which side the weight of authority in this country preponderates. The opinions received from foreign countries preporderate in favour of limited liability; but many of the foreign correspondents, while bearing testimony to the beneficial operation of the law as to partnerships with limited liability in their countries, suggest that it may nevertheless well be, that the circumstances of the trading interests in the United Kingdom may give it a very different operation here. Your Majesty's commissioners have carefully perused and considered these various opinions; two of their body, Lord Curriehill and Mr. Slater, have put into writing their thoughts on the subject, for the assistance of their fellow-commissioners, who have thought it right to make these communications public by printing them in the appendix. In considering this subject, the question which appeared to your Majesty's commissioners of paramount importance was, whether the proposed alteration of the law would operate beneficially on the general trading interests of the country; and they have arrived at the conclusion that it would not. They have not been able to discover any evidence of the want of a sufficient amount of capital for the require ments of trade; and the annually increasing wealth of the country, and the difficulty of finding profitable investments for it, seem to them sufficient guarantees that an adequate amount will always be devoted to any mercantile enterprise that holds out a reasonable prospect of gain, without any forced action upon capital to determine it in that direction; while any such forced action would have a great tendency to induce men to embark in speculative adventures to all extent that would be dangerous to the interests of the general commerce of the country. Moreover, your Majesty's commissioners find no reason to suppose that the reputation of British merchants, either s home or abroad, would be raised by the establishment of firms trading with limited liability, but the con trary; for many of the opinions in favour of such system are coupled with a recommendation of more stringent regulations than those now existing for the prevention of fraud. But if such partnerships would increase the danger of frand, they can hardly be otherwise than prejudicial to our mercantile repa tation. Your Majesty's commissioners have also considered the subject with regard to the benefit which it may be calculated to confer on individuals, by enabling them to obtain capital and establish themselves in business by the aid of partners incurring a limited liability only. It cannot be doubted that instances occur where men of probity and talent would derive benefit from such a system; but your Majesty's com missioners are of opinion that such benefit has been greatly overrated. that the benefit to be acquired by the managing of Further, it appears to your Majesty's commissioners limited partners will be at the expense of a more than countervailing amount of injury to traders bearing the burden of unlimited liability, who will have to enter into competition with those who enjoy the pro tection to be given by the proposed law. But, while your Majesty's commissioners are of opinion that it is not expedient to alter the law and allow all persons at their own election to trade with limited liability, they are aware that many useful enterprises, calculated to produce benefit to the public and profit to those who engage in them, are of such magnitude that no private partnership can be expected to provide the funds necessary to carry them into effect, or to have the means of superintending and managing them, of which docks, railways, and extensive shipping companies may be taken as examples. And there are others of a more limited character, from which benefit to the humbler classes of society may be expected to accrue, such as baths and washhouses, lodging-houses, and reading-rooms, to the establishment of which by large capitalists there is little inducement. These two classes of undertakings it may therefore be desirable to encourage, by limiting the liability of those who embark in them. But, with regard to both, your Majesty's commissioners think they should be subjected to some previous inquiry as to the means of carrying them into effect, and the prospect of benefit to the promoters and the public. With regard to those undertakings, the execution of which involves an interference with the rights of property, the sanction of Parliament always has been and still ought to be required. With regard to others, the privilege of having a limited liability may be granted by charter; and for the purpose of regulating the granting of charters, your Majesty's commissioners recommend that a board be established to decide upon all applications for them; and this board should require, in all cases, compliance with certain fixed regulations. Much observation has been made upon the expense of obtaining charters or private Acts of Parliament. Where a charter is applied for calculated to affect injuriously the interests of others, it seems contrary to natural justice to refuse them an opportunity of stating and proving the validity of their objections; but regulations should be made to keep the expenses of such inquiry as low as possible. Your Majesty's commissioners feel that it is beyond their province to offer any suggestion respecting the expense of obtaining private Acts of Parliament. If a charter is asked for the establishment of baths and washhouses, or other things of that nature, opposition is hardly to be anticipated; and the board would have little to do beyond seeing that their fixed rules have been complied with; and the expenses ought to be very small. The attention of your Majesty's commissioners has been directed to another subject which appears to them within the spirit, if not within the letter of their commission, viz., the expediency of a further relaxation of the usury laws, and of enabling capitalists to lend money to traders at a rate of interest, and agents and servants to receive remuneration for their services by money payments, varying with the profits of the business, without being exposed to the hazard of being rendered liable as partners to the creditors of the concern. In Ex parte Hamper, 17 Ves. 403 (a case relating to the remuneration of an agent or servant), Lord Eldon appears to have considered that such contracts might exist without constituting a partnership, provided, of course, that they are made in good faith, and are not partnerships in disguise; and in Pott v. Eyton, 3 C.B. Rep. 32, Tindal, C. J. expressed an opinion that it made no difference whether the money was received by way of interest, or money lent, or wages, or salary as agent, or commission on sales. But it appears to your Majesty's commissioners that, in practice, they would be attended with so many difficulties, and with so many results which the contracting parties would probably consider very objectionable, that your Majesty's commissioners do not expect they will ever be extensively made. In the report of the Committee of the House of Commons on the law of partnership, dated 8th July 1851, it was recommended "That power be given to lend money for periods not less than twelve months, at a rate of interest varying with the rate of profits in the business in which such money may be employed, the claim for payment of such loans being postponed to that of all other creditors; that, in such case, the lender should not be liable beyond the sum advanced; and that proper and adequate regulations be laid down to prevent fraud." As to the expediency of adopting that suggestion, your Majesty's commissioners, who concur in the residue of this report, are not agreed in opinion. With regard to the usury laws, your Majesty's commissioners are of opinion that it would be expedient to repeal them altogether, as far as they affect personal securities, but offer no opinion with reference to real securities. In concluding their brief report, your Majesty's commissioners feel that, although the details of our mercantile laws may require correction, yet, while there is on every side such abundant evidence of satisfactory progress and national prosperity, it would be unwise to interfere with principles which, in their judgment, have proved beneficial to the general industry of the country. We humbly offer to your Majesty's consideration T. B. CUSACK SMITH. (L.S.) ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. (Before Dr. R. J. PHILLIMORE.) WESTERTON v. Davidson. Held, also, that the Commissary has jurisdiction to in- the court, and its competency to entertain the objections which had been offered to the admissibility of the churchwardens. Both parties had appeared and joined issue before the court, and no mandamus had been applied for. A careful review of all the cases on the subject, and of the principle of law involved in them, led him to doubt whether, if it had been applied for, it would have been granted; for, as he had had occasion to observe in a former case of a like nature in the Court of the Archdeaconry of London, the case of Story v. Colk, 6 Notes of Cases, whatever language some of the earlier cases at common law might speak, there was the high authority of Lord Stowell, in Anthony v. Seager, 1 Hag. Cons. Rep. 10, in favour of the jurisdiction of the court in these matters. Lord Stowell said:-"Though it is the duty of the ordinary not to take slight objections, he is bound, I conceive, to take care that an election, in his opinion void in itself, should have no legal effect; and this is a duty which he owes to the parish and to the general law of the country." The authority of that case was fully recognised by eminent judges at common law. In the case of Campbell v. Maund, 5 Ad. & Ell. 865, and in that of Rex v. Williams, 8 B. & C. 681, it was laid down by the Court of Q.B. that the Commissary might inquire whether the party This was an application by Mr. Charles Westerton had been duly elected, otherwise he might be bound to be admitted one of the churchwardens of the dis- to admit any person who presented himself for adtrict chapelry of St. Paul's, Wilton-place; and was mission, even if he knew the fact to be that such peropposed by Mr. Thomas Davidson." An act on son was never elected. He found, moreover, that the petition was entered into by Mr. Davidson, in which records of the court proved that Sir John Nicholl and he alleged that a meeting of the resident house- others of his predecessors in that officialty had heard holders was held on the 18th of April last for the pur- and decided cases of that description. The second pose of electing churchwardens, over which the Hon. question was as to the facts which were proved by the and Rev. R. Liddell presided. Mr. Horne having evidence and the pleadings. It appeared that a been nominated and appointed by Mr. Liddell, Mr. meeting of the resident householders of the district Westerton and Mr. Davidson were proposed by cer- was duly convened by a notice duly published on tain resident householders. A show of hands was the 8th of April this year; that on the 18th taken to determine which of the two latter gentlemen of the same month a meeting was held, in pursuance should be the second churchwarden; but the chairman of such notice; that the incumbent appointed Mr. being unable, owing to the crowded state of the room, Horne as his churchwarden for the ensuing year; to decide in whose favour there was a majority, a poll that afterwards two resident householders proposed was demanded, and it was agreed that it should be Mr. Westerton for re-election, he having been the taken immediately, but no hour was fixed for closing churchwarden chosen by the parishioners for the past it. The chairman entered the votes, and it was said year; that two other resident householders proposed that, through inadvertence and mistake, he recorded Mr. Davidson for re-election, he having been the the votes of several persons who were not at such churchwarden appointed by the incumbent for the time resident householders, and were not, therefore, past year; that a show of hands was taken, and, as it duly qualified to vote. The poll was closed at seven was alleged by Mr. Davidson, the incumbent, who o'clock, p.m., when there were several properly- was in the chair, was unable, owing to the crowd in qualified voters present who were desirous of voting, the room, to determine in whose favour the majority and demanded permission so to do, but which was of hands was held up; but, as was asserted by Mr. refused by the chairman, who dissolved the meeting. Westerton, that majority was largely in his favour. Mr. Davidson concluded his act on petition by pray- That was, however, really a matter of no consequence; ing that the election might be declared null and void, for a poll was demanded, and of course granted, beand a new election appointed. Mr. Westerton, in cause it could not have been legally refused. The reply to the act, alleged that the objections contained polling was immediately proceeded with. It was furin it were vexatious and irrelevant, and all of them ther alleged by Mr. Davidson, and it was not denied utterly without foundation in law; that the chairman by Mr. Westerton, that an agreement was made bedid not himself declare the result of the show of tween the incumbent and Mr. Westerton, during the hands, but the vestry, without protest from him, course of the poll, that the same should be closed at decided that it was largely in favour of Mr. Wester- seven o'clock on that evening. Now, he was clearly ton; that no poll could be demanded until the show of opinion that no agreement between the incumbent of hands was declared, and consequently the poll that and Mr. Westerton, even if confirmed by the majority followed was illegal. Mr. Westerton, therefore, of the electors present, could have legally so narrowed prayed to be at once admitted to the office of church- the period of voting as to exclude any qualified elector warden. from a fair and reasonable opportunity of recording When the case was called on Mr. Westerton did not his vote. That seemed to him to be the law clearly appear, either personally or by counsel, but Dr. Deane appeared for Mr. Davidson, and said, it appeared that three persons had voted who were not qualified; but the ground on which he relied for setting aside the election was, that the poll had been closed at seven o'clock, when there were several resident householders present who demanded a right to vote, but were not allowed to do so. Mr. Westerton rested his case upon the fact that he had been duly elected by a show of hands. The chairman had no right to close the poll when there was any one ready to vote. That was the doctrine laid down in the case of Rex v. The Rector, Churchwardens, and Parishioners of St. Mary, Lambeth. In the case of Baker v. Wood, 1 Curteis, 507, Sir Herbert Jenner Fust had decided that a chairman was not bound to declare on which side a show of hands was. Lord Stowell had come to the same conclusion in Anthony v. Seager, 1 Hag. Cons. Rep. 10. He (Dr. Deane) prayed the court therefore to declare the election void, and to condemn Mr. Westerton in the costs of the proceedings. Dr. R. J. PHILLIMORE, in giving judgment, said:This was a proceeding relating to the election of the churchwardens of the district chapelry of St. Paul's, Wilton-place. It appeared that at the visitation of the official of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex, Mr. James Thomas Horne and Mr. Charles Westerton appeared and presented themselves as churchwardens duly elected for the present year, and prayed to be admitted accordingly; but, as a caveat on behalf of a parishioner had been entered against their admission, the court assigned the party entering the caveat to set forth his reasons for objecting to the admission of the churchwardens in a statement called an "act on petition." That statement had been replied to by Mr. Westerton, who had appeared in person before the court, but who did not appear or offer any opposition to-day. Three questions arose upon the state of facts disclosed in the written statements of the two parties. The first was a question as to the jurisdiction of laid down both by temporal and ecclesiastical courts, in did not make the observations of Lord Denman the less applicable. It was unnecessary to travel into the question of the scrutiny alleged to have taken place; it had been abandoned by the consent of all parties. He certainly would not, in any view he could take of the case, set aside the election of Mr. Westerton on the ground of the scrutiny. It appeared to be admitted that the chairman pronounced Mr. Westerton duly elected, and he thereupon dissolved, and did not adjourn the assembly. The whole question of law, which was the third point, resolved itself into this: whether it was proved in evidence-it being averred and not denied, and being distinctly sworn to-that the agreement between the chairman and Mr. Westerton operated to the exclusion of duly-qualified voters; and whether the election, having regard to the doctrines to which he had referred, was valid or not. For that reason he thought it unnecessary to notice any of the other averments. It was clear to him that it was not competent to the incumbent, with or without the consent of Mr. Westerton, to deprive the electors of their right to vote at the poll; and he must therefore direct the parish to proceed to another election as soon as might be after regular notice, which was the course pursued by Lord Stowell in the case of Anthony v. Seager. He had been pressed by the learned counsel for Mr. Davidson to condemn Mr. Westerton in the costs of this proceeding; and a similar application was made to Lord Stowell in Anthony v. Seager. Lord Stowell refused it; and he (Dr. Phillimore) certainly would not accompany his sentence by any such order; because he thought it clear that this misfortune-for such he must consider this kind of parochial disputes-was in a great measure owing to the incumbent's misapprehension of his duty as a chairman. He had no authority to enter into any agreement with Mr. Westerton whereby the electors were to be deprived of their right to record their votes. He ought not to have excluded them; and his conduct in doing so had led to the suit. The attention of the Students is requested to the following Rules of the Inns of Court : "As an inducement to students to propose themselves for examination, studentships shall be founded of fifty guineas per annum each, to continue for a period of three years, and one such studentship shall be conferred on the most distinguished student at each public examination; and further, the examiners shall select and certify the names of three other students who shall have passed the next best examinations; and the inns of court to which such students belong may, if desired, dispense with any terms, not exceeding two, that may remain to be kept by such students previously to their being called to the Bar. 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The Practice of Conveyancing, with reference to the framing of Purchase Deeds, Mortgages and Settle ments. The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law proposes to examine in the following Books and Subjects:1. The Roman Law of Persons; of Real, Verbal, and Consensual Contracts. The modern Commentaries employed may be the Institutiones or Commentarii Juris Romani Privati of Warnkönig. 2. Grotius on the Natural Obligations arising from Ownership, Promises, Contracts, and Oaths. Jure Belli et Pacis, lib. ii., cap. 10, 11, 12, 13. De (Whewell's edition, Vol. II., pp. 18, et seq.) 3. Dig., lib. 1., tit. 16, 17. De Verborum Significatione. De Regulis Juris. 4. Kent's Commentaries.-Law of Nations, Lec tures 3, 4, and 6. The subjects of these Lectures must be considered in connection with the modi cations introduced into the general International Law by the practice of the present war. (Hazlitt and Roche's Manual of Maritime Warfare, Appendix.) 5. Story's Conflict of Laws, chap. 17. Candidates for distinction will be examined in all the foregoing books and subjects. Candidates for a certificate will be examined in (5) in (2) so far as regards chapters 11 and 12, and in (1) so far as the subjects there indicated are discussed in Sandars's edition of the Institutes of Justinian, and in Cumin's edition of Lagrange's Manual. The Reader on Common Law proposes to examine in the following books and subjects:1. The ordinary steps in an Action at Law, particularly the practice connected with the writ of summons-the appearance-the joinder of parties, and of causes of action. (Com L. Proc. Act, 1852, s. 1-41 inclusive.) 2. The elements of the Laws relating to Contracts not under seal; together with the cases of Lampe v. Brathwait, and Marriot v. Hampton, and the notes thereto. (Smith's Lead. Cas. 3rd ed.) 3. Rights and Remedies ex delicto so far as illastrated by the following leading cases:- Amory v. Delamirie; Ashby v. White; Scott v. Shepherd; and Merryweather v. Nixon-with the notes thereto. (Smith's Lead. Cas. 3rd ed.) 4. The Law relating to Homicide and to simple Larceny. (Arch. Cr. Pl. 12th ed.) Candidates for honours will be examined in all the above-mentioned subjects. Candidates for a certificate will be examined in the 2nd and 4th only of the above subjects. By order of the Council, EDWARD RYAN, Chairman pro ten Council Chamber, Lincoln's-inn, August 2, 1854. The following members have been returned to serve in this Parliament:-Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, Esq. and Francis Mowatt, Esq. for the borough of Cambridge, the last election for the said borough having been declared void. William Digby Seymour, Esq. and William Henry Watson, Esq. for the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, the last election for the said town having been declared void. George Montau Warren Peacocke, Esq. and John Bramley Moore, Esq. for the borough of Maldon, the last election for the said borough having been declared void. Charles Manners Lushington, Esq. and the Right Hon. Sir William Meredith Somerville, Bart. for the city of Canterbury, the last election for the said city having been declared void. Sir Benjamin Hall, of Llanovercourt, in the county of Monmouth, and of Grest Stanhope-street, in the County of Middlesex, Bars. Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds, for the borough of Marylebone. The Queen has been pleased to approve of the fillowing appointments:-Mr. George Bowen as corsal at Liverpool for the republic of Nicaragua. Mt. George A. Brandreth as consul at Plymouth for the United States of America. Mr. Samuel Robert Graves as vice-consul at Liverpool for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint William Garrow Lettsom, Esq. now paid attaché to her Majesty's Legation at Madrid, to be secretary to her Majesty's Legation to the Republic of Mexico. The Lord Chancellor has appointed the following gentlemen to administer oaths in the High Court of Chancery:-Thomas William Gray, Exeter; Claudias Crigan Hawker, Boscastle, Cornwall. The Gazette contains a notice that the following place has been duly registered for the solemnisation of marriages therein:-St. John's Roman Cathe Chapel, St. Mary, Beverley. NEW MAGISTRATES.-The following have been added to the commission of the peace for Middlesex and Westminster:-Mr. Bayley Abel, Turnhamgreen; Mr. William Bird, Bute-house, Hammersmith; Mr. Samuel Richard Block, Green-hill-grove, Barnet: Mr. William Peter Bodkin, Bellevue, Highgate: Hou. George Henry Charles Byng, Wrotham-park; Mr. Alderman Challis, M.P., Finsbury-square: Mr. James Dimsdale, Essenden, Herts; Mr. Robert Dis Alexander Angus Croll, Finsbury-circus; Mr. Charles dale, Connaught-square; Mr. Duncan Dunbar. Lipshouse; Mr. Thomson Fletcher, Limehouse; LieutenantColonel John Glossop, Isleworth; Mr. E Auchmuty Glover, Stafford-house, Maida-bali: Colonel William Lewis Grant, 2E, Albany; Mr. CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LAW TIMES. SIR,-I think you will agree with me that the present state of the law does not afford sufficient facilities for the suppression of Sham Lawyers. There is a person of this description in this small town. He was for very many years a hired writer in the offices of different solicitors, and thereby acquired some knowledge of the profession; he draws and completes deeds and other legal documents, and, in fact, does every kind of professional business, except that which requires the intervention of a court of law or equity. As it is somewhat difficult to prove that he prepares deeds and other documents under seal for money, or in expectation of fee or reward, he has hitherto escaped with impunity, and is inflicting great injury on the Profession in this town. If jurisdiction were given to justices of the peace in petty sessions to punish such offenders, the Profession would, I think, soon cease to be plagued with them; at all events, we are justly entitled to more effectual protection than we at present have, and I trust, Mr. Editor, you will give the subject your consideration, and use your powerful influence for us in this most important matter. I am Sir, yours, &c., Workington, Aug. 17. W. T. [We.quite concur with our correspondent, that some such remedy as he has suggested is urgently called for. The State, which taxes Solicitors as a professiona body, should also protect them.-Ed. L. T.] LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Crown Court, Liverpool, Wednesday, Aug. 16. John Wickey Stable was indicted, under the 12 Geo. 1, c. 32, for forging and uttering an office copy of the certificate of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, that, pursuant to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Act, 1849, and the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company had paid into the Bank of England the sum of 1,222l. 158. 6d.; and also an office copy of receipt of one J. Conder, for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for the payment of the said sum of 12227. 15s. 6d. into the Bank of England, with intent to defraud. The indictment contained other counts, varying the description of the documents in question. stated to have been bought by them of a Mr. Smith. case. The prisoner left Brussels, and travelled about Germany under a false name, but was at length apprehended at Bonn. At the close of the case for the prosecution, it was contended on behalf of the prisoner that the case did not come within the 12 Geo. 1, c. 32, that Act being passed solely for the purpose of protecting the moneys and effects of suitors in the Court of Chancery; and that in the present case there was no suit or cause, the payment of the money by the company being an ex parte payment. It was also contended that the certificate could not be said to be an office copy, nor did it purport to be an office copy, there being an absence of the seal, and the word "signed" was placed opposite the AccountantGeneral's signature, which would not be if it was a copy or an office copy. For the prosecution, it was contended that the case did come within the Act of 12 Geo. 1, as it applied to all cases whatever. His LORDSHIP said that he had no doubt that, upon reading the whole section of the Act relied upon to support the view urged on behalf of the prisoner, it did apply to the present case; and there was no doubt that the forged instrument did purport to be a certificate of the Accountant-General. Wilkins, Serjt. then said that as the point of law had been decided against the prisoner, the facts as proved did not warrant him in addressing the jury. His LORDSHIP having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Wilkins, Serjt. then addressed his Lordship in mitigation of punishment in a feeling speech. His LORDSHIP ordered the prisoner to be brought Temple, Q.C., Hall, and Ovens, conducted the prose-up for sentence to morrow morning. cution; the prisoner was defended by Wilkins, Serjt., James, Q.C., and Tindal Atkinson. The prisoner is an attorney and solicitor, and had formerly been in the employ of the solicitors of the Great Western Railway Company. In 1850 he applied for the office of law clerk to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company; and, after a correspondence between him and the Earl of Yarborough, the chairman of that company, the prisoner was duly appointed to that situation by a resolution of the board of directors on the 30th Nov. in that year. He was to be paid a fixed salary, and allowed all disbursements and moneys out of pocket for travelling, counsels' fees, agents' charges, &c. Among other duties the prisoner had to peruse and approve of titles, and prepare conveyances of land required by the company, and, when the conveyances were ready, to obtain from the finance committee of the company the purchase-money, and hand it to the vendors in exchange for the deeds of conveyance. By the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, when the land of lunatics, infants, married women, or other persons under disability is taken, or where there is a doubt who is entitled to sell, the purchase-money is directed to be paid into the Bank of England to the credit of the Accountant-General on behalf of the person entitled to it. On payment of the money the receipt of a cashier of the Bank is given to the party paying, who takes it to the office of the Accountant-General, who signs a certificate of the payment, which certificate and receipt are filed in the Report-office, whence office copies are issued to the party making the payment. On the 12th Feb. 1852, the prisoner applied to the company for 12227. 15s. 6d., to pay for land The prisoner pleaded guilty to a second indictment, and altogether there were seven other indictments against him, and the moneys he had fraudulently obtained, amounted to upwards of 70007. The following morning he was brought up and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. jury. The sentence of death passed upon Sarah Featherstone at the last Chester Assizes, for the murder of her child, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. The prisoner was reccmmended to mercy by the NONLIABILITY OF CAB-OWNERS FOR LOST BAGGAGE.-On Saturday, in the Bloomsbury County Court, an action was brought by Marmaduke Charles Salvin, Esq., of Burn-hall, Durham, to recover from the defendant, Mrs. Kartwright, a cab proprietor, 25l., the value of a portmanteau and contents, lost by the alleged negligence of the driver. The plaintiff was conveyed from the Great Northern Railway to Manchester-square, and his luggage, consisting of two portmanteaus and a box, was placed outside, but on arriving at Manchester-square a portmanteau was missing. The driver said it must have been stolen or shaken off. Mr. Lewis, for the detendant, submitted, that he was entitled to a verdict, since no negligence was shown, and the defendant had let the cab out to the driver, and was therefore not responsible for the conduct of the driver. Moreover, it appeared that the complainant had himself gone to the railway-station to see if the luggage was left there, showing that he was not certain that it had been placed on the cab. It was also contended that cab-drivers were not in the position of common carriers. The driver said that only two packages were given to him at the railway by the porter. The learned judge said he did not consider cabmen in the light of common carriers, which would render them liable for such losses, and, as no negligence had been proved, his verdict must be for the defendant, with costs. THE NEW STAMP ACT.-On Monday, the 14th, the new Act to amend the laws relating to the stamp duties (17 & 18 Vict. c. 83) was printed. The new duties are on bills of exchange and promissory notes, and on certain conveyances. The new duties are to commence on and after the 10th October-they are under the care of the Inland Revenue Commissioners. The duties on bills drawn out of the United Kingdom are to be denoted by adhesive stamps. The holder of a bill drawn out of the United Kingdom is to affix an adhesive stamp before negotiating it. There is a provision in this Act declaring that unstamped drafts on bankers are not to be circulated beyond fifteen miles of the place where they are made payable. Adhesive stamps denoting the duty of one penny may be used for receipts or drafts without regard to their special appropriation. The allowance on the new duties is to be 74 per cent., and the sellers are not to charge for the paper on sale of bill or note stamps, where the rate of duty does not exceed 18. On stamps on bills of exchange or promissory notes the duty is 1d. for not exceeding 5l., 2d. for 10l., 3d. for 251., 6d. for 50l., 9d. for 757., 18. for 100l., and 28. for 2001., and so on in proportion. Leases for a period less than a year are to be chargeable with stamp duty on the rent received. An allowance is to be made for stamps rendered useless by this Act if claimed on or before the 5th April next. BIRTHS, MARRIACES, AND DEATHS. BRUCE-NAPIER.-On the 17th inst. at Clapham Church, MILNE ROBERTS.-On the 17th inst. at St. George's, Hano- RUDGE COOPER.-On the 19th inst. at the parish church of DEATHS. COOPER.-On the 22nd inst. at Bengeworth, near Evesham, cester. ELLIS, SAMUEL HELBERT, jun., dealer in stocks, Stock Exchange, Sept. 2, at one, and 30, at twelve, Basinghallstreet. Off. a. Cannan. Sol. Eady, Hatton-garden. Petition, Aug. 15. HAMMOND GEORGE, carpenter, King's-row, Walworth, Aug. 30, at one, Sept. 27, at half-past one, Basinghall-street. Off. as. Stansfeld. Sol. Robinson, Ironmonger-lane. Petition, Aug. 18. KEMPSTER, EBENEZER, GRIFFITHS, MACKENZIE, NEWCOMBE, CORNELIUS PROUT, and GRIFFITHS, FRANCIS THOMAS, shipowners, Gracechurch-street, City, and Liverpool, Aug. 30, at one, Sept. 27, at half-past one. Basinghall-street. Off. as. Graham. Sols. Lawrence and Co., Old Jewrychambers. Petition, Aug. 21. MAIN, THOMAS, engineer, Albert-street. Walworth, Sept. 2 at half-past one, Oct. 9. at twelve, Basinghall-street. Off as. Whitmore. Sol. More, Thornhill-square, Islington Petition, Aug. 9. M'CALLA. JOHN, and FOTHERINGHAM, ALEXANDER, warehousemen, Friday-street, Cheapside, Aug. 30 and Sept. 27, at MILLER, FREDERICK, corn merchant, Newport, Essex, June 13. PILLING, WILLIAM, publican, Shudehill, Lancashire. Aug. 17. Dividends. BANKRUPT ESTATES. Official Assignees are given, to whom apply for the Gubb, S. innkeeper, final, Is. Id. Hirtzel, Exeter.-Gunning, H. J. surgeon, first, 10s. Hirtzel, Exeter. - Harris, T. grocer, 4s. 6d. Hirtzel, Exeter.-Head, J. silversmith, first, 12s. 6d. Hirtzel, Exeter.-Munden, J. sen. flax spinner, first, 48. 54d. Hirtzel, Exeter.-Robinson, J. currier, first, 28. Baker, Newcastle.-Rogers, H. J. surgeon, first, 5s. Hirtzel, Exeter. Rufford, Rufford, and Wragge, bankers, second sep. of P. Rufford, 1s. 3d. Whitmore, Birmingham.-Upward, J. G. draper, final, 64d.; and on new proofs, 10s. Hirtzel, Exeter. INSOLVENT ESTATES. two, Basinghall-street. Off. as. Graham. Sol. Murray, Apply at the Provisional Assignee's Office, Portugal-street, Stockton, July 26. Debts paid by Jackson-Jones, R. L London-street, City. Petition, Aug. 21. PRINCE, GEORGE and JAMES, wine merchants, Regent-street and Carlton-street, Westminster, Aug. 30 and Sept. 27, at half-past two, Basinghall-street. Off. as. Stansfeld. Sol. Chidley, Gresham-street, City. Petition, June 10. SMITH, BENJAMIN, worsted spinner, Kildwick, Yorkshire, Sept. 5, at twelve, Oct. 3, at eleven, Leeds. Off. as. Hope. Sols. Taylor, Bradford, and Blackburn, Leeds. Petition, Aug. 12. SMITH, ALEXANDER, merchant, Liverpool, Sept. 4 and 27, at eleven. Liverpool. Off. as. Cazenove. Sols. Duncan and Co., Liverpool. Petition, Aug. 15. TUGMAN, CHARLES HENRY and JAMES EVANS, provision merchants, Great Tower-street, Sept. 7, at two, Oct. 9, at one, Basinghall-street. Off. as. Whitmore. Sols. Lawrence and Co., Old Jewry-chambers. Petition, Aug. 18. WILSON, HENRY, grocer, Old Swindon, Wiltshire, Sept. 5 and Oct. 3, at eleven, Bristol. Off. as. Acraman. Sols. Haines and Son, Farringdon. Berkshire, and Bevan and Girling, Bristol. Petition, Aug. 18. Gazette, August 25. CHAPLIN, JOHN, and WIGLEY, ROBERT, Curriers, leather-cutters, and boot and shoe manufacturers, Leicester, Sept. 5 and Oct. 3, at ten, Nottingham. Com. Balguy. Off. as Harris. Sol. Hodgson, Birmingham. Petition, Aug. 24. CLARKE, JOHN, butcher, 20, Belvidere-road, Lambeth, Sept. 6, at half-past two, Oct. 6, at two, Basinghall-street. Com. Fonblanque. Off. as. Stansfeld. Sol. Pearce, Giltspurstreet. Petition, Aug. 23. COLE, JOSEPH WINDLE, merchant, 19, Birchin-lane, City, FLEXMAN, WILLIAM, jun., corn and seed merchant, 32, High- HEYNE, CHARLES, broker, 13, Saint Benet's-place, Gracechurch-street, City, Sept. 6, at half-past two, Oct. 6, at two, Basinghall-street. Com. Fonblanque. Off. as. Graham. Sol. Burrell, White Hart-court, Lombard-street. Petition, Aug. 24. HORTON, SAMUEL, builder, 21, Portman-place, Edgeware-road, MILNER, JOHN, stock and share broker, and commission agent, 6, Devonshire-street, Saint Peter's, Islington, Sept. 4 and Oct. 13, at half-past eleven, Basinghall-street. Com. Fane. Off. as. Cannan. Sols. Lawrence, Plews and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers, Old Jewry. Petition, Aug. 22. NESBITT, JAMES, manufacturer of mantles, children's dresses, robes, and embroidery, 2, Albion-place, Blackfriars-bridge, Surrey, Sept. 4, at half-past eleven, Oct. 13, at one, Basinghall-street. Com. Fane. Off. as. Whitmore. Sol. Jones, Sise-lane, London. Petition, Aug. 15. ROBINSON, JOSEPH, brazier and tinman, Nantwich, Cheshire, Sept. 7 and 29, at eleven, Liverpool. Com. Stevenson. Off. as. Bird. Sol. Reece, Birmingham. Petition, Aug. 8. VINCENT, WILLIAM ALDER, printer, bookseller, and stationer, Wolverhampton, Sept. 6 and Oct. 11, at ten, Birmingham. Com. Balguy. Off. as. Bittleston. Sols. Bolton, Wolverhampton; and Messrs. Wright, Birmingham. Petition, Aug. 19. WALLER, WILLIAM, jun., ironfounder, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Sept. 9 and Oct. 14, at twelve, Leeds. Com. West. Off. as Brewin. Sol. Fernell, Sheffield. Petition, Aug. 7. WATERSON, JOHN PATERSON, builder, 3, Alexander-terrace, Westbourne-park-road, Paddington, Sept. 6, at half-past -one, Oct. 6, at twelve, Basinghall-street. Com. Fonblanque. Off. as. Graham. Sol. Chauntler, Gray's-inn-square. Petition, Aug. 18. Lincoln's-inn-fields, between the hours of eleven and three. Bellamy, O. relieving officer, 7s. 10d-Bonnet, G. I. clerk in Somerset-house, 1s.-Crook, E. labourer, 20s.-Edis, J. butcher, 2s. 54d-Hart, H. A. linen draper, 18.-Havelock, W. gentleman, 28. 11d. (making 118. 24d.)-Keir, J. beer retailer, 28. 44d.-Mayer, J. G. furrier, 7d.-Mayfield, J. tea dealer, 11d-Nicholson, J. out of business, 7s. 5d.-Terry, J. baker, 28.-White, F. J. half-pay officer, Royal Marines, 9d. Adcock, T. H. schoolmaster, 6s. 9d. Apply to W. Priest, accountant, Liverpool.-Hoggard, A. shipowner, 10s. 9fd. Apply to Mr. Cawood, solicitor, Sunderland. Assignments for the Benefit of Creditors. Foster, F. tailor, Louth, Aug. 10. Trusts. E. Sutton, draper, and A. Odling, draper, both of Louth. Sols. Ingoldby and Bell, Louth.-Gray, J. travelling draper, Dudley, July 26. Trusts. W. Mellor, cloth manufacturer, Huddersfield, W. M'Millan, draper, Dudley, and W. Gray, farmer, Ewinstown. Sol. W. Barns, Dudley.-Henshaw, J. cabinet maker, Cardiff, Aug. 2. Trusts. J. Bachelor and W. Richards, timber merchants, Cardiff. Sol. T. M. Dalton, Cardiff. - Phillips, J. corn merchant, Saint Thomas the Apostle, Aug. 3. Trusts. J. H. Mead and H. Hurrell, corn merchants, Plymouth, and R. Dingley, bank agent, Launceston. Sols, Pattison, White, and Dingley, Launceston.-Seaborn, G. innkeeper, Newport, July 20. Trusts. W. Davies, wine and spirit merchant, and J. Hatton, innkeeper, both of Chepstow. Sol. R. J. Cathcart, Newport.-Tolley. G. grocer, Wraysbury, July 22. Trust. G. C. Hetherington, grocer, Eton. Sols. H. Darvill and H. Geary, both of New Windsor. Gazette, August 18. Cheetham, J. H. manufacturer and agent, Manchester, Aug. 15. Trusts. G. Welsh, Manchester, and J. Haslam, Preston, manufacturers. Sols. Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester.-Cosham, W. cabinet maker, Ringmer, Lewis, Aug. 12. Trust. H. E. Berry, maltster, Ringmer. Sols. Auckland and Hillman, Lewes.-Davison, C. grocer, Girtford, Sandy, Aug. 14. Trust. J. Apthorpe, grocer, Bedford, and J. Butterworth, grocer, Shoreditch. Sols. Gissing and Wright, Bedford.-Frith, J. R. brick maker, Bury, Aug. 7. Trusts. R. Hall, iron founder and machine maker, and J. G. T. Child, accountant, both of Bury. Sols. T. A. and J. Grundy, Bury. Lee, J. earthenware manufacturer, Masbrough, Aug. 10. Trusts. J. Aldred, Esq. Rotherham, C. Rawson, land surveyor, Masbrough, and N. Booth, jun. druggist, Rotherham. Sols. Hoyle and Marsh, Rotherham.- Wass, J. bricklayer, Kingston-upon-Hull, Aug. 4. Trusts. J. Young, Ironmonger, and H. Peck, cement manufacturer, both of Hull Sol. H. A. G. Mends, Hull. Insolvents. Petitions to be heard at the County Courts. Crothall, J. boot and shoe maker, Ashford, Aug. 21, at ten, Ashford-Davis, F. needle scourer, King's Coughton. Aug. 25, at eleven, Alcester.-Dwelley, W. jun. architect and surveyor, Plymouth, Sept. 20, at eleven, East Stonehouse.Eastwood, A. A. commercial salesman, Manchester, Sept. 4, at twelve, Manchester.-Green, W. hair seating manufacturer, Sheffield, Sept. 6, at twelve, Sheffield.--Hanstock, W. victualler and journeyman printer, Chesterfield, Sept. 27, at eleven, Chesterfield-Mosley, G. brick maker, Sheffield, Sept. 6, at twelve, Sheffield.-Turner, J. railway clerk, Manchester, Sept. 4, at twelve, Manchester. Guzette, August 18. Field.-Carter, A. and E. edge-tool makers, High Burton Kirkburton, Aug. 4.-Chesshyre, C. J. Andrews, J. and Fisher, W. money scriveners, Cheltenham, July 1.-Churchett, J. and Wright, R. drapers, Hatton-garden, Holborn, Aug. 15Crowther, W. and Watson. J. prussiate of potash manufac turers, Leeds, Aug. 10. Debts paid by Crowther.-Danks, J. and B. and Lowe, W. gas-tube makers and fitters, Wednesbury, June 23. Debts paid by J. Danks and W. LoweDawkins, W. W. and Diamond, T. F. warehousemen, Bowlane, London, Aug. 10.-Dixon, P. and Beedle, E. B. lime and cement manufacturers, Chelsea, Aug. 12. Debts paid by Dixon-Duncan, W. Bower, J. T. Hamper, T. and Brown, J. isinglass and hop merchants, Tooley-street, Southwark, Dec. 31-Furnivall, G. F. and Summers, C. carrying on an asylum for insane patients, Egham, June 30. Debts paid by Furnivall.-Grist, A. and Perry, F. W. smiths and engineers, Little Exeter-street, Chelsea, Aug. 12.-Hocson, T. and As derson, J. power-loom cloth manufacturers, Rishton, Blackburn, July 22. Debts paid by Anderson.-Jackson, T. C. and Garbutt, T. jun. merchants and commission agents, and Major, J. C. manufacturers of printing ink, &c. Boughton, April 30. Debts paid by Major.-Judd, G. and Ridey, J. drapers and grocers, Coningsby, Aug. 11. Dehts paid by Judd.-Lucas, P. Micholls, H. Lucas, S. and L Micholls, H. L and Lucas, P. jun. merchants, London, and spinners, Stockport, as regards P. Lucas, July 18, 1853.-Major, J., J. and G. lace and sewed-muslin merchants, Nottingham, July 27Mallet, H. Pike, M. Hill, T. and Edwards, T. lace manufa turers, Quorndon and Nottingham, March 2.-Mitchell, W. and W. Ö. stationers, Charing-cross, London, April 8, 1852Nicholson, J. and Harkes, G. ironfounders, London, Aug. 11. O'Neill J. and Smythe, E. wine merchants, Crown-court, Old Broad-stre: t, City, June 10.-Poole, J. and Cornelius, S. M. land agents, timber surveyors, &c. Sherborne, Auz. 5Preston, H. and Foden, J. commission agents, Manchester, Aug. 12. Debts paid by Preston.-Schlesinger, L. and Whi A. merchants, Liverpool, April 15.—Shannon, J. and M'Kenna, O. F. coal merchants, Liverpool, Ang. 11.-Smith, 0. and Woollett, W. H. writers on glass, Commercial-street, Whitechapel, Aug. 7. Debts paid by Smith.-Sterens, S. and Elhet, W. B. drapers, Nottingham, Aug. 14. Debts paid by Stevens. Stevens, J. and Coleman, H. S. chemical manure manufac turers, Devon-lane, Bromley, and Mark-lane, City, Aaz. IL Debts paid by Stevens-Sturt, H. Sharp, J. C. and J. H Sturt, H. jun. and E. hosiers and dealers in flannel, Belper. and Wood-street, London, as regards J. H. Sharp, Dec, 17. Debts paid by remaining partners-Sturt, H. and H. j. Sharp, J. C. and J. H. warehousemen, Wood-street, Londen, as regards Sharp, Dec. 15. Debts paid by remaining partners.-Trousdale, J. Jackson, T. C. and Garbutt, T. jun, raïway contractors, Stockton, as regards Garbutt, Aug. 12 Debts paid by Trowsdale and Jackson.-Wade, S. A. and Lewin, M. mercers and drapers, Measham, and Market Bosworth, June 12.-Westley, W., C. H. and J. C. brass fornders, Dudley, as regards J. C. Westley, Aug. 10,-- Whitworth, J. and Clarkson, J. tea dealers and coffee roasters, Hudders field. Aug. 12. Debts paid by Clarkson.- Woodward, H. and Woodhouse, E. hop and seed merchants, Worcester, Aug. 12 Gazette, August 18. Brown, J. H. F. and Forster, T. woollen drapers, Vigostreet, Regent-street, London, Aug. 16. -Burrows, W. and M Call, R. coach builders, Bury, Aug. 16. Debts pail by Burrows. Cannon, W. T. and Greayer, W. jun. manufac turers of emery and glass-cloth, Beaumont-row, Bancroftplace, Mile-end, and High-street, Bow, Aug. 14-Crabtree, W. Call, J. and Hartley, J. machine makers, all of Bradford, Aug. 11. Debts paid by Crabtree and Hartley-Crossar, J., W and J. cotton spinners, Nottington Higher End as regards Jas. Cronkshaw, Aug. 14. Debts paid by John and W. Cronkshaw. -Dale, H. C. Morgan, W. H. and Chafers, F. Old Broad-street, Aug. 18.-Hague, W. and Parkin, W. janers and builders, Sheffield, Ang. 14. Debts paid by ParkinHaley, J. and J. cloth and yarn manufacturers, Bramley, Leeds, Aug. 5. Debts paid by Joseph Haley.-Hartcup, W. and Barlee, E. H. attorneys and solicitors, Bunzay, day 22. Debts paid by Harteup.-Hawkins, T. and Down, G. dyers, Commerce-place, North Brixton, Aug 1.-Hea!L 1. and Parish, J. drapers, Horncastle. Aug. 14. Debts paid by Heald-Humphreys, T. and Whitaker. E. drapers, Walk Aug. 12. Debts paid by Whitaker.-Imeson, J. and Craven, J. contractors and builders, Manningham, Bradford, Ang il -Inwards, A. Warren, A. and Burton, M. milliners and dress makers, as regards Inwards, June 18 Debts paid by Wamen tar distillers and manufacturers of ammonia, Live poclas and Burton.--Kurtz, C. Keightley, W. T. and Cropper, J. W. respects Keightley, Jan. 1.-Lewin, J. and T. merchant Liverpool, July 24 --Mansfield, A. and G. farmers, Farcham Swain, W. razor grinder, Sheffield, Sept. 6, at twelve, Aug. 12.-Meads, J. and Sumpson, T. ship-store (ealers & Partnerships Dissolved. Gazette, August 11. Blackmore, H. and H. carpet manufacturers, Fuggleston St. Peter, June 3-Briggs, A. and Shuttleworth, W. coal agents and coal dealers, Clitheroe, Aug. 7. Debts paid by Shuttleworth. Calvert, E. and J. E. and Hayes, J. C. dyers, Leeds, as regards Hayes, Aug. 1. Debts paid by E. and J. E. Calvert. Candolfini, S. D. and Pepin, A. hat manufacturers, Stamford-street, Blackfriars, Aug. 1. Debts paid by Pepin. - Davies, W. and Erans, B. linendrapers, &c. Newport, Aug. 9.-De Pass D. and Munks, R. boot and shoe makers, King's Lynn, July 18. Debts paid by Munks-Everall, G. and Fielder, T. cab and fly masters and cowkeepers, Croydon, Aug. 9.-Gorman, M. A. and E. A. stock brokers, Warnfordcourt, Throgmorton-street, July 31. Howes, J. and Dackombe, R. omnibus proprietors, Clapham, Mitcham, and Merton, Aug. 7.-Jones, J. and Perkes, H. music sellers, Worcester, Aug. 7. Debts paid by Jones-Nichols, R. Mawson, M. and Cole, C. L. warehousemen, Manchester, July 1. Debts paid by Nichols-Parker, H. and Twining, E. ale and porter merchants, Pall Mall, Aug. 8. Debts paid by Parker.- Portwine, WEBB. GEORGE, cheesemonger, 234, Shoreditch, Middlesex, WRITING, JOHN JOSEPH, apothecary, Cambridge, Sept. 4, at eleven, Oct. 13, at twelve, Basinghali-street. Com. Fane. Off. as. Whitmore. Sol. Wilkin, Furnival's-inn, Holborn. Petition, Aug. 22. WRIGHT, JAMES. ship-owner, late of King's Lynn, Norfolk, now of Rood-lane, London, Sept. 6 and Oct. 12, at twelve, Basinghall-street. Com. Fonblanque. Off. as. Graham. Sol. Wilkin, Furnival's-inn, Holborn. Petition, Aug. 25. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. HART, JAMES, engineer, Borough-road, Southwark, May 30. July 25.-Richardson, B. Whitworth, H. and Koeffler, L. E. bleachers and dyers, Rochdale, July 7.-Stancliffe, C. and J. tea and coffee dealers, Huddersfield, Aug. 10. Debts paid by J. Stancliffe.-Swan, S. and Sweeting. C. estate agents and accountants, Liverpool, July 29 D bts paid by Sweeting.Swinburne, R. W. and Diron, T. manufacturers of coke and lamp black, Fatfield, Aug. 5.-Walker, W. and Snowball, J. manufacturers of fire bricks and pipes, Stourbridge, Aug. 9. Liverpool, Aug. 16. Debts paid by Sampson-Nermen, di and Blunkell, H. dressing-case manufacturers, Brownlowstreet, Holborn, Aug. 7.-Parkinson, E. and W. grocer and tea dealers, Bradford, July 1. Debts paid by E. Parkinson.-Parrish, H. and Lewis, T. Birchyfield Colliery, and Whiteheath Colliery, Oldbury, and Ireland-green Coller, Westbrom witch, Aug. 17.-Partridge, T. and West, W. Sh mongers and poulterers, Leicester. Aug. 15. Debts paid by Partridge-Pearce, R. and Brewer, C. booksellers and tioners, Liverpool, Aug. 14.-Picard. L. and Paret, L. artifical flower makers, Vineyard-walk, Clerkenwell, Aug. 15-P C. A. and E. G. and Crump, M. ironmongers and gunsm Witney, June 3. Debts paid by E. G. Pike.-Rotton, W. ard G. fishmongers, Birmingham, July 24. Deb's paid tr G. Rotton.-Rotton, W., G. and H. fishmongers Liverøel June 26. Debts paid by H. Rotton.-Saaler, G., R. and W. keel owners and keel builders, Dunstan, Aug 14. Debts paid by R. and W. Sadler.-Simon, L. M. and M. and Cy J. stock and sharebrokers, Warnford-ecurt, Throgmorti street, City, as relates to M. Simon, Aug. 14. Debts paid by L. M. Simon and J. Carey.-Tattersall, G. Sumpen W, and Atkinson, W. cotton manufacturers, Deane Newchurch 422 14. Debts paid by Tattersall-Watson, H. and Sark W sharebrokers, corn merchants, and maltsters. York, Ang 14 Deb's paid by Watson.-Westbrook, W., E. and A. goers, Oxford-street. Aug. 14. Debts paid by W. and F. Westbrook.-- Wright, C., W. and J. T. calico and feat de lers and general warehousemen, Manchester, Ang. 17.-W, CN and J. T. maltsters and malt agents, Manchester, and South Clifton, Aug. 17. Wilson, J. and Binns, G. stuff merchants, Brauford, Aug. 1. BEDDING. Debts paid by Binns. Gazette, August 15. Ager, G. P. and Brown, T. victuallers, Norwood, Aug. 12. Debts paid by Brown. - Brown, R. J. and Sacker, B. timber merchants, Sunderland, March 16. Debts paid by Brown.Bryant, J. and Field, W. drapers, Aug. 14. Debts paid by - ECONOMY, DURABILITY. and COMFORT.-J. and S. STEER'S SPRING and FREW MATTRESSES make the most elastic and sorrest bed. 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