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FROM PROBATE, Divorce, and ADMIRALTY DIVISION (ADMIRALTY).

For Hearing-With Nautical Assessors.

1888.

Ship Vindomora (damage); Lamb and others v. Owners of the Vindomora and freight Ship Garonne (damage); Owners of Lucinda v. Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited.

Ship Stelling (damage); Owners of ship Burlington and others v. Owners of ship Stelling and others

Ship Nantes (damage); Owners of cargo of ship Theodore Ruge v. The Cunard Steamship Company Limited

Ship Calliope (damage); Owners of Steamship Calliope v. The Tredegar Iron and Coal Company Limited

Ship Earl Wemyss (damage); Owners of the Ardencaple v. Owners of the Farl Wemyss Ship Empress of India (damage); Goodyear and others v. Owners of Empress of India.

FROM ORDERS MADE ON INTERLOCUTORY MOTIONS IN THE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.

Interlocutory List.
1889.

S. C. Leicester v. J. Wood

The Consett Waterworks Company v. Ritson Reg. v. Land Commissioners for England

(appeal of Lords of Leigham Manor from order of Denman and Hawkins, JJ.) Same v. Same

Smith (suing, &c.) v. Finchley Local Board Harwood v. Colchester Brewing Company Limited

Cran and Co. v. Riley

Beresford-Hope (pet.); Lady Sandhurst (resp.).

FROM THE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION, SITTING IN BANKRUPTCY. Elborough Bros.; En parte the debtors Re

INSURANCE.

Closure Act 1887; Re Brocklebank; En parte creditors

Re G. W. P. Moor; En parte Cotton.

Summary of Appeals.

From the Chancery Division, final, 52.; interlocutory, 1; total, 53. From County Palatine Court, final, 7; total, 7. From the Queen's Bench Division, final, 55; interlocutory, 7; total 62. From the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division (Admiralty), with Assessors, final, 7; total, 7. From the Queen's Bench Division sitting in Bankruptcy, final, 3; total, 3.—Totals: final, 124; interlocutory, 8; total, 132.

CHANCERY DIVISION.

CAUSES FOR TRIAL OR HEARING. (Set down to Thursday, April 18th, inclusive.) Motions, petitions, and short causes will be taken on the usual days, as stated in the Easter Sittings Paper.

Actions with and without witnesses will be taken by Mr. Justice Kay on the usual cause days in the order as they stand in the cause book.

Mr. Justice Chitty will take witness actions on the following days, viz:-May 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, and 23. His Lordship will sit in Chambers every Monday during the sittings, and take further considerations on Saturday instead of Monday.

Mr. Justice North will take witness actions on the following days, viz :-May 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, and 30.

Mr. Justice Stirling will take witness actions on days to be appointed by his Lordship after the commencement of the sittings. His Lordship will sit in Chambers every Mon. day during the sittings.

Mr. Justice Kekewich will take witness actions every day, in the order as they stand in the cause book. See note on Sittings

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Paper as to Liverpool and Manchester District Registry Business.

Adjourned summonses will be taken as follows:-Mr. Justice Kay, on Fridays and Saturdays; Mr. Justice Chitty, with nonwitness actions, except procedure summonses, which (if any) are taken every Saturday; Mr. Justice North, on Fridays and Saturdays; Mr. Justice Stirling, also on Fridays and Saturdays.

N.B. The above note as to adjourned summonses is subject to alteration as their Lordships may direct.

(Before Mr. Justice Kay.)

Causes for Trial, with Witnesses and without
Witnesses.

Re Curshaw; Curshaw v. Gallimore
Lloyd v. Freme

Whitby v. Mitchell

Case v. Case

Re Irwin; Irwin v. Cutoliffe
Searle v. Cooke
Lockwood v. Folkard
Berrey v. Berrey

Pickford v. Pickford

Goddard v. Price, Hickman, and Co.
Re Palmer; Palmer v. Hardwick
Re Thompson; Kenyon v. Twisden
Dixon v. Mayor &c., of Borough of
Wakefield

Abdy v. Ingram
Hole v. Pople

Greenwood v. Barnard

Tuck v. Southern Counties, &c., Bank Lim. Lawrence v. D'Humy

Shoobert v. Smith

Kelcey v. Finis

Robinson v. Cartland Rose v. Hale

Kerr v. McEmery

West v. Eliott

McIntosh v. Local Board of Romford Re Trickett; Stephens v. Turner Smith v. Warne

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THE annual meeting of the shareholders London and of this prosperous Fire office was held at Fire Office. Liverpool on the 25th ultimo, and the record for the past year, which was presented, is in all particulars one of an extremely gratifying nature. When we find an office materially extending its business in different directions, with the result of a heavy increase in premium income, and at the same time keeping its losses at a percentage much below its average for several preceding years, and in addition to all this not incurring any perceptible increase in the average ratio of expenses of management and extension, the shareholders are to be congratulated that their interests are in the hands of so careful and capable an executive. The fire premiums for the year 1888, less re-insurances, amounted to

£100 0 0

The prosperous outcome of the business for the past year has enabled the directors to declare a dividend of 16 per cent. to the shareholders, which is an increase of 4 per cent. over that paid for 1887. Besides this, the reserves have been materially strengthened, and now exceed £500,000, and the subscribed capital is £1,852,000, of which amount £185,200 is paid up. The London and Lancashire have ever shown a careful hand at the helm of management, and we have no doubt that the present large increase in amount at risk has not been assumed without exercise of due care and caution nor without a substantial addition to the funds, and we may look forward, no doubt, to a continuance of this excellent showing, unaccompanied by any reverses or increase in ratio of losses.

Canadian Pacifics.

CAPEL COURT.

WHEN a couple of months ago we recommended Canadian Pacifics as being a really sound investment for an early rise, there were not wanting those who scolded us and ridiculed the grounds on which we based our argument. These shares were then selling at 51-51; they have steadily risen until they are not firm at 57, nor do we think they have anything like touched their best price. We expect to see them touch 60 at least before the year is much older. There is little doubt that this line, as a means of either investment or speculation, has been depressed by undue and unjustifiable panic; those who have been most prominent in running them down are at the present moment the largest holders. The ruse they have played upon the public has led certain weak holders to sell, and the market, being for a time glutted with people anxious to clear out, has dropped to a ridiculous figure. We have endeavoured, not only on the present occasion, but also in many previous articles, to combat this panic selling, and if we have saved any of our readers from such ruthless selling we shall feel we have not written in vain. Anyone who has carefully studied the position of this grand system of railways, must have been struck with the enormous progress made by the company. We may take as an illustration of this the difference in the figures for the first three months of this year as compared with those of last, which stand as follows :

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thus showing that nearly three times the amount of business was done in 1889 as compared with 1888. These figures are really startling viewed by the light of recent operations and the price at which shares in the Canadian Pacific Railway stood at last year. The position of this line is essentially a progressive one, and there can be no gainsaying the extraordinary progress the company is making. In answer to several correspondents, we do not think that they have by any means touched their highest price; on the contrary, we think they can safely be held for 60 or more.

THE intricacies of company promotion Smart Promotion, are difficult of solution at any time, but the professional promoter is sorely exercised now-a-days lest his well-planned precautions on the side of safety should lead him into the net laid by oppositionists who are ever ready to make capital out of other folks' ideas. That this is the case is shown by the comical, yet peculiar, position that the British Water-Gas Syndicate forced itself in last week. It was known for some time past that two sub-concessions of the syndicate, with the titles of the Scottish Water-Gas Company and the Lancashire Water-Gas Company respectively, were to make their appearance, the one on Saturday of last week, and the other at a time to be appointed afterwards. The prospectuses were ready, advertisements drawn out, and all the legal prelimi naries had been studiously regarded, when, much to the consternation of the syndicate, they discovered that two companies bearing exactly the same titles, having the same nominal capitals, and being in every respect an infringement upon the ideas of Mr. Cottam and his co-workers, had been registered at Somerset House just in time to prevent the British Water Gas Syndicate from carrying out its intentions. The shrewd manipulators of Lombard Street were not, however, to be thus tricked and out-manoeuvred. They immediately set to work, had the articles of association altered, fresh prospectuses issued, and the Scottish Water-Gas Company made its appearance the following day as if

nothing had ever happened-only the title was altered to "North British." Bravo, Cottam !

THE stagnation which has affected this The Mining market for the past three weeks still continues, nor does there appear much chance of matters improving.

Market.

South Africans are infirm in the extreme, and instead of rallying from the effects of recent bear movements, they seem to shrink away day by day. What the ultimate result may be does not require much discussing; prices will rally at an early date, and those who have been selling with so much avidity will find themselves cornered in a most unpleasant fashion. The mines now working on the Randt are, generally speaking, extremely rich. The output of gold from these mines is not diminishing, but is, on the contrary, going on increasing day by day. The action taken by certain speculators whose principle it is to run everything down is opposed in every sense of the word to all data which we have to hand. Consequently, the reaction must soon arrive, and many of the shares which are now standing at panic prices will very rapidly recover lost ground. In the miscellaneous market nothing is going so well accepted the verdict of some of the knowing people as Gympie Great Easterns, a mine which, if we had who write on financial matters, was long since played out. The fact, however, that this company continues paying dividends varying from five to twenty per cent. every month or two, shows that money must be obtained somewhere, whilst the reports from the property show that the money is obtained from the actual working of the mine, from which a clear profit has been made every month for some time past. As the next account does not commence until next Monday, there is plenty of time for investments in mining shares to have a chance of improving, and it is not unlikely that during the closing days of the present week many important changes will have to be recorded.

AMERICA has lately been much exercised respecting the validity of township bonds issued in aid of railroads. Relying upon an act of the Legislature, several townships in South Carolina subscribed to the building of lines, issuing bonds in payment. Some cantankerous taxpayers refused to pay the necessary increased rates to meet the interest as it fell due, and went to law about it. The courts decided that it was within the rights of the townships to do what they considered best for the future of the communities over which they presided.

THERE are nothing but American tips this week. The American Market is going up. Yankees are sure to rise. "Buy where you like and pay what you please." But the safest things to dabble in just for the present are undoubtedly Erie Preferences, Denver Preference, and Pennsylvanias. Those people who like the sound of the agreement between the Northern and Union Pacifics will probably support their views, and may get a profit out of them. They are all worth trying.

A LOT of money will be thrown on the market next week by the repayment of old Consols. Where this is all going to is still a matter of mystery. The question is whether it will be temporarily put into English Rails or reserved for the tempting new companies that are flying their banners for it. Water-Gas would be a very good way to divert it into channels which have recently been running rather dry.

GENERAL BOULANGER was to have gone to the Press Club Dinner as a private guest of one of the members, but owing to a paragraph which appeared in the Irish Times and was from the pen of a member of the club who did not wish the General to go, he refrained from putting in an appearance. It is not easy to make any comments upon this, but it must surely be the duty of

journalists to know everyone without regard to party or position.

NEW YORK banks do not shut on Good Friday, and, as a general rule, neither does the Stock Exchange. But this year an exception was made with regard to the latter. Of course very little business is done, although it is on the following day, the Saturday, that the banks

feel the relaxation. As all the mercantile houses shut up, and other places of business take a holiday, it seems somewhat short-sighted policy to keep the banks open.

THE Rigi Railway has long been a matter of wonder to the cockney visitor to Lucerne; but this is now completely put into the shade by the Pilatus Railroad, which runs up to the very summit of the towering black mountain which faces the easy-going Rigi. Last week the first train went up, and by the end of May it is hoped that traffic will regularly commence.

A little time ago a company appeared whose object was to induce the public at large to purchase artificial limbs; now a company appeals to subscribers whose object is to dispose of ear drums. The total capital is £151,000, of which £125,000 "will be required to be called up." We cannot see how it can be necessary to call up £125,000 for the purpose of carrying on the business of making ear drums; but then it is not given to all of us to understand the ways of new companies.

By the time this is in print we shall probably have received definite news as to the strike amongst the men employed by the Salt Union. The Financial News gave them some very good advice one day last week, but which does not seem to have had much effect. The men have taken up an impossible position in demanding that four workers shall be used where only three are now employed. This, of course, would increase the cost of production by over 30 per cent.

THE earnings of the American railroads are showing satisfactory increases month by month. One of the latest statements issued, that of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is of an exceedingly pleasing character to the shareholders. The Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the New York Central, enjoys the reputation of being the best conducted line in the States. And yet, as is often the case, these two rivals have a very bad opinion

of each other.

MR. JAY GOULD has accepted the position of president of the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company without any salary. Perhaps the experience of the shareholders will be something like that of Mark Twain with his courier. It will be remembered that

the latter did not charge anything for his personal expenses, and it was only after a time that his employer was forced to the conclusion that somebody paid for his board and lodging. Somebody will certainly pay Mr. Jay Gould for his attention to this railroad.

THE Trust Companies which are now doing such a lot of good for stale bulls, are comparatively new to this country, although they exist by dozens in America. It is a very good idea, but its manner of enhancing the market value of securities that it takes in hand is contrary to every law of sound finance, and must sooner or later result in confusion and loss. But of course that does not matter to the speculatars who are now profiting by other people's short-sightedness.

IT is well understood to be the intention of the promoters to carry the North-British Water-Gas Syndicate to a substantial premium. It remains to be seen

whether this can be done in face of the wide-spread feeling that the bottom has been completely knocked out of the water-gas craze.

A VERY cautious man in the Stock Exchange, who has also the misfortune to be young, will have nothin to do with South African Randt shares. He will nog

buy them for a rise, and he will not sell them for a fallt He says that when they were going up he left other. people to make money over them, and now that they are going down, he prefers to leave others to lose money over them. This they will no doubt do.

CITY editors were not much in force at the Annual Press Dinner at the Freemason's Tavern on Saturday night. As a matter of fact, there is a certain feeling of hold-offishness between the ordinary journalists and the financial writer. The former looks upon the latter as something of an interloper, and the latter looks upon the former as a shorthand-writer set on horseback. But a good many other well-known people were at the dinner, and enjoyed the speeches and entertainment immensely.

THE tax on champagne is bringing good results. The more duty that is put on, the more of it seems to be drunk. During the past year we find that over two million bottles more were exported from the champagne districts than in the year preceding. We are not told whether these were magnums or merely pints.

It seems nowadays that a newspaper thinks it does not perform its proper function unless it is continually finding out some new grievance, and if no new grievance is to be found, why one must be manufactured. The mot d'ordre of the two daily financial papers is "Attack! Attack," legitimately if we can, but in any case, "Attack!" If there is anything or any person legitimately assailable so much the better, but if not we must go for somebody or something. It reminds one of the old saying directed against old-fashioned hospital nursing, "If the bed does not fit the patient then you must dislocate the patient and make him fit the bed." This evidently is the motif which actuated our contemporary the Financial Times recently in the absurd attack it made on Mr. Yelloly Watson of the Stock Exchange. Our contemporary falls foul of this gentleman on the ground that he got himself advertised by means of a prospectus issued by a gold mining company, in which prospectus this gentleman is mentioned as the stockbroker who is entrusted with the sale of the shares ; and our contemporary contends that this is doing by a side wind what the Stock Exchange avowedly themselves, and is an infringement of the spirit forbids its members doing, namely, advertising of the rule against advertising or touting in any way. Now, if ever there was a case of breaking a patient to fit the bed here is one. know something about the rule against advertising. In no profession or calling is it so stringent as at the Bar. To such an extent is it carried that he is not allowed in any way to designate his professional occupation, either on his visiting card or on his office door or chambers. Yet who but a newspaper manufacturer of complaints would ever dream of blaming a barrister because a publisher for instance advertises a book as being written by Mr. So-and-So, of such an Inn, barrister-at-law; or who would talk of his infringing the spirit of the rule if a company prospectus bearing his name prominently as counsel to the company, is circulated broadcast. To be sure it serves as an advertisement for him, but it is legitimate, and has no relation whatever to touting for business generally, which, as being infra dignitate, is rigidly forbidden. The two cases are exactely on all fours, and we cannot help thinking that the Financial Times has overstrung its bow this time and overshot the mark,

We

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PUMP COURT.

The Temple Newspaper and Review.

No. 135.

in which they practise. It is urged as an argument in favour of the Bill that they are not disqualified to act as Justices of the Peace in boroughs in which they conduct their practice: We cannot think this a sufficient reason, and the Council were not well advised to rake up the matter, as there are many irreverent persons to be found who will endeavour to remove the qualification that at present exists in boroughs. Frankly, we do not think the measure a good one, and the indirect influence which a J.P. obtains in his county will be looked grudgingly upon by other practitioners and their clients, with a result not difficult to foresee.

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WE remind our readers that the dinner to the AttorneyGeneral, to be given by a great number of solicitors, and which we have already referred to in previous issues, will be held on the 29th May, at the Holborn Town Hall; also that the Attorney-General's dinner to Queen's Counsel and others, in celebration of Her Majesty's birthday, will take place on the 25th May, at the Albion Hotel, Aldersgate Street; also that the annual state visit of Her Majesty's

CURRENTE CALAMO Judges to St. Paul's Cathedral is fixed for the afternoon

De Lege; de Omnibus Rebus et Quibusdam Aliis.

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TEN thousand guineas is the amount of Sir Charles Russell's fees for the conduct of the Parnell case so far; but this will by no means represent the sum total of the learned counsel's remuneration. It is idle to talk, as many of our contemporaries do so glibly, of the termination of the inquiry. The witnesses for the defence are not done with, the speeches and reply respectively of Sir Charles Russell, the parties who appear in person, and the Attorney-General have to be reckoned with. But before these events, this being a Court of Inquiry, the Commissioners will no doubt have to supplement the information placed before them by the parties, by independent investigations of their own, and we have no doubt there will be some rebutting testimony to be adduced on either side. No! the end has not yet come by any means.

WE regret to have to record the death of Mr. Ince, Q.C. There is an excellent sketch of the learned counsel to be found in our collection of "Queer Coves" published some time ago. The learned counsel, after conducting a case in Mr. Justice Kay's court, repaired to his chambers in Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, where he had a late consultation. This was hardly concluded when he called for his clerk to attend him, and shortly after became unconscious. Before he could be removed to his residence death seized him. deceased sat for Hastings on the Liberal side from 1883 to 1885, when he was returned for the Eastern Division of Islington. At the General Election of 1886 he was, however, defeated by Mr. Cowley Lambert, another barrister.

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IN another column will be found some new rules relating to the taxation of costs. Our series of articles, "Is Taxation a Failure?" will find the Lord Chancellor ready to digest them.

By a new General Order in Lunacy all lunacy taxations are to be referred to the Taxing Master, in accordance with the new scheme.

THE Council of the Incorporated Society are petitioners in favour of a Bill-the Solicitors' (Magistracy) Bill-to make solicitors eligible as Justices of the Peace in counties

of Sunday, 23rd June; and that the Judges' dinner at the Mansion House will be given on Wednesday, 26th June.

THE Exchange Telegraph Company is informed that the donor of the £100,000 for the erection of a National Portrait Gallery is a barrister of the Inner Temple, though not in practice. In Hampshire, where he resides, the giver has already distinguished himself by his munificence to public institutions, convalescent homes, and other charitable objects. Among other works to which he has devoted his attention are the improvement of public roads and the widening and strengthening of bridges, works which seem to have formed precedents for his generous gift to the nation, as they are of a character usually undertaken by the community and not by private individuals.

THE Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn, Sir Robert Stuart, and the Benchers entertained at dinner on the 7th inst., it being the grand day in Easter Term, Sir James Hannen, Lord Justice Lindley, the Right Hon. J. B. Balfour, Q.C., M.P., the Right Hon. J. P. B. Robertson (Lord Advocate), Mr. Justice North, General Sir Donald Stewart, G.C.B., Admiral Sir J. Colomb, C.B., Sir George Innes, LieutenantColonel Grant, C.B., Mr. Benjamin Greene Lake (President of the Incorporated Law Society), Archdeacon Baly, Mr. Henry Seymour King, M.P., and Mr. Robert Spankie. The Benchers present on the occasion were Mr. Osborne Morgan, Mr. Justice Denman, Mr. Justice Chitty, Mr. Prideaux, Q.C., Mr. Pember, Q.C., Mr. Hemming, Q.C., Mr. Horton Smith, Q.C., Mr. Gibbs, Q.C., C.B., Mr. Swetenham, Q.C., Sir Edward Clarke, QC. (SolicitorGeneral), Lord Macnaghten, Mr. Forbes, Q.C., Mr. Romer, Q.C.. Mr. Everitt, Q.C., Mr. Cecil Russell, Mr. Justice Stirling, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Douglas Walker, Mr. Kennedy, Q.C., Mr. Bush, Q.C., Mr. Cutler, Q.C., Mr. Latham, Q.C., and the Rev. Dr. Wace, Preacher.

On the 6th inst., at Westminster Police-court, on the conclusion of the day's business, Mr. T. Duerdin Dutton, solicitor, said that, as he believed this was the last occasion on which they were to meet Mr. Partridge at that court, he desired, on behalf of the members of his own profession and of the Bar who practised there, to thank Mr. Partridge heartily for his uniform kindness and courtesy, and to express regret that they would no longer see him upon the bench at Westminster. Mr. Partridge cordially

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