of such instruments; and, in accordance with the spirit of the Court of Probate Act, 1857 (sect. 29), to perpetuate in the Court of Probate, so far as circumstances will admit, the late practice in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, of making each common form bond contain the entire principle of the grant to which it leads." There is only one word we would add to the above, and that relates to the form and cost of Mr. Chadwick's volume. He had, we presume, to choose between publishing a book "regardless of expense," or preparing one with a view to strict economy in the printing and general arrangement. He has elected the former-and the volume certainly presents, in consequence, advantages for the hurried man of business, as well as, we may perhaps add, the inexperienced clerk. They cannot well go wrong in using Mr. Chadwick's forms; but, at the same time, this convenience is obtained at the expense of frequent repetition and a great waste of paper. For ourselves, we must say that, personally and editorially, we infinitely prefer a work of this sort when prepared in the shape Mr. Chadwick has adopted. We had rather pay twelve shillings as the price of trouble economized for years, than save seven and sixpence of that sum, and be incommoded more or less by dodging about the leaves every time we opened it. Yet Mr. Chadwick and his advisers should recollect that there are evils connected with costly books of practice. One of which is, that if really good, the idea is noted, cheap imitations immediately are made, and the public not unfrequently are found to prefer mere cheapness.

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Events of the Quarter.

PARLIAMENTARY.

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THE Parliamentary events of the last Quarter are not insignificant, but they have not assumed, as such, a sufficiently completed form to justify any comment. Experience has taught us that it is not safe to prophesy with relation to Bills in an early stage of development, have, however, elsewhere considered the Bankruptcy, &c. Bill. It is enough to say that, in the royal speech, consolidation of the criminal law, transfer of land, and a uniform system of rating, formed a part of the legislative programme.

STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL.

THE Parliamentary Remembrancer, conducted by Mr. Toulmin Smith, has, as our readers know, the merit of keeping its eye vigilantly on the contemporaneous proceedings of the legislature, and of drawing attention to great and little facts, which are often improperly passed over by the press and members of the two Houses. Under the title of the "Statute Law Revision Bill," Mr. Smith,' in recording that it has been read a second time and referred to a select committee, says, "When the bill was before the Lords, it was urged in these pages that it ought to undergo revision by a select committee. Lord Campbell then rejected the suggestion, but the Attorney-General is wiser. The importance of the suggestion will be seen from the fact, that one Act has been struck out of the schedule while the bill has been going through the Lords, and another has been added. The Act struck out is no less than an Act touching high treason, which stood in the original bill under cover of the delusive words, 'superseded semble.'"

1 No. 97, April 20, 1861.

LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY.

A VERY excellent paper was read at a general meeting of this Society on February 11th, by Mr. J. Pitt Taylor, "On the Expediency of passing an Act to permit Defendants in Criminal Courts, and their Wives or Husbands, to testify on oath." Mr. Taylor's arguments are conclusive to our mind, and we would fain hope they will have the effect of persuading law reformers, hitherto sceptical on the question under discussion, of the advantage of effecting this most important amendment in the law of evidence,

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'APPOINTMENTS, &c.

E. H. Woolrych, Esq., has been appointed a magistrate at the Thames Police Court, in the room of Mr. Yardley, who has been translated to the Marylebone Police Court, in the room of the late Mr. Secker.

Mr. John Locke, Q.C., M. P., has been appointed to the Recordership of Brighton, in the room of Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., resigned; and Mr. J. B. Maule, of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed to the Recordership of Leeds, in the room of the late Mr. T. F. Ellis.

Mr. Norton, one of the Masters of the Queen's Bench, has been appointed to be Queen's Coroner and Attorney, in the room of the late Mr. Corner, deceased; and Mr. J. G. Malcolm, of the Home Circuit, has succeeded Mr. Norton as Master.

John Forster, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and Secretary to the Lunacy Commissioners, has been promoted to be a Commissioner in Lunacy, in the room of Mr. Procter, resigned; and Mr. C. Spring Rice has been appointed to the Secretaryship vacated by Mr. Forster.

The following gentlemen have been appointed Queen's Counsel :Mr. William Dugmore, Mr. W. A. Collins, Mr. A. Cleasby, Mr. H. W. Cole, Mr. John Fraser Macqueen, Mr. Thomas Chambers, Mr. E. Plumer Price, Mr. Josiah W. Smith, Mr. Richard Baggallay, Mr. Henry Mills, Hon. Adolphus F. O. Liddell, Mr. W. Baliol Brett, Mr. John Burgess Karslake, Mr. W. Digby Seymour, Mr. John Duke Coleridge, Hon. George Denman, and Mr. George Mellish. A patent of precedence has been conferred on Mr. Serjeant Hayes.

Mr. Thomas Wheeler, of the Northern Circuit, has been called to the degree of Serjeant-at-Law.

CALLS TO THE BAR.

Hilary Term, 1861,

LINCOLN'S INN.-Deane Parker Pennethorne (certificate of honour, first class); Percy Simpson; Arthur Giles Puller; Joseph Wm. Dunning; George Worthington; Charles Robert Fletcher Lutwidge; Paul· Panton; Edmond Robert Wodehouse; Charles Collett; Horace Davey; John Liddon; Arthur Dixon; Charles Synge Christopher Bowen; George Randall Johnson; Bernard Cracroft; William Halfhide Allen; Frederick James Quick; Robert Smith; Angelo John Lewis; Charles Stewart; Mark William Hunter; Henry Augustus Clavering; and William John Belt, Esqrs.

INNER TEMPLE.-John Walter Tyas; Thomas Neilson Underwood; Charles William Mackillop; Henry William Franklyn; William Henry Mellor; Thomas Green; Felix Hargrave Hamel; Henry Brooks; John Barker Thornber; Henry Goldwyer; and John Martineau, Esqrs.

MIDDLE TEMPLE.-Thomas Henchman Buckerfield; Henry Michael Dunphy; Martin Harcourt Griffin; George William Paul; Alfred Richards; and Thomas Henry Goodwin Newton, Esqrs.

GRAY'S INN.-Richard C. Rogers; Timothy O'Brien O'Feely; and Julian Emanuel Salomons, Esqrs.

EXAMINATIONS AT THE INCORPORATED LAW

SOCIETY.

Hilary Term, 1861.

At the examination of candidates for admission on the roll of attorneys and solicitors of the superior courts, the examiners recommended the following gentlemen, under the age of 26, as being entitled to honorary distinction:

Thomas Henry Bartlett, aged 21; Alfred Fox, aged 23; and Thomas Wilson Spencer, aged 21.

The Council of the Incorporated Law Society accordingly awarded the following prizes of books:

To Mr. Bartlett, the prize of the Honourable Society of Clifford's Inn; to Mr. Fox, one of the prizes of the Incorporated Law Society; and to Mr. Spencer, one of the prizes of the Incorporated Law Society.

The examiners also certified that the following candidates, whose names are placed in alphabetical order, passed examinations which entitled them to commendation ::

Robert Blyth, aged 22; Peter Gedge, aged 22; Augustus Henry Reid, aged 23; and Thomas Needham Sheffield, aged 23.

The Council accordingly awarded them certificates of merit.

The examiners further announced to the following candidates that their answers to the questions at the examination were highly satisfactory, and would have entitled them to prizes or certificates of merit, if they had been under the age of 26 :—

Edward White Bewley, aged 29; James Pullen Knott, aged 39; James Pearse, B.A., aged 34; Martin Scale, aged 27; Weston Joseph Sparkes, aged 33; Frederick Stanley, aged 32; William Trythall, aged 41; Thomas Hamilton Urry, aged 44; and Thomas Whittington, aged 30.

IRELAND.-Mr.Deasy, the Attorney-General, having been appointed to the vacant seat on the Exchequer Bench, Mr. O'Hagan, the Solicitor-General, was promoted to the Attorney-Generalship; Mr. Serjeant Lawson was appointed Solicitor-General, and Mr. Serjeant Sullivan was appointed Law-Adviser to the Castle, in the room of Mr. Lawson. INDIA.-Mr. (now Sir) Colley Harman Scotland, of the Oxford Circuit, has been appointed to be Chief Justice of Madras, in the room of the late Sir Henry Davison.

HONG-KONG.—Mr. John Smale, late Reporter to the Court of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, has been appointed Attorney-General of Hong-Kong.

VANCOUVER'S ISLAND.-George Hunter Carey, Esq., has been appointed Attorney-General for this Island.

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Necrology.

January.

16th. O'CONNELL, JOHN, Esq., Solicitor.

17th. CORNER, ARTHUR B., Esq., Her Majesty's Coroner, aged 58. 22nd. DALY, THOMAS, Esq., Solicitor, aged 36.

23rd. BEACHEY, JOHN, Jun., Esq., Solicitor, aged 33. 24th. LEWIS, WILLIAM D., Esq., Q.C., aged 38. EGERTON, HENRY, Esq., Barrister.

28th. OWENS, OWEN, Esq., Solicitor, aged 87. 30th. LYDDON, RICHARD, Esq., Solicitor, aged 62.

February.

3rd. WILTON, HENRY, Esq., Solicitor, aged 71.

9th. STEWART, DUNCAN, Esq., Her Majesty's Attorney-General for the Colony of Bermuda, aged 66.

16th.

GUMMER, STEPHEN H., Esq., Solicitor, aged 41. 18th. HALL, GEORGE, Esq., Solicitor, aged 65.

20th. SECKER, ISAAC O., Esq., one of the Metropolitan Magistrates, aged 63.

21st.

REXWORTHY, JOHN, ESQ., Solicitor, aged 46. 24th. MOCKLER, WILLIAM, Esq., Barrister, aged 48.

March.

1st. HULME, JOHN W., Esq., late Her Majesty's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Hong-kong, aged 57.

3rd. M'CARTHY, CHARLES, Esq., Solicitor.

6th. LLEWELLIN, HENRY, Esq., Solicitor, aged 55.

POWELL, ARTHUR, Esq., Solicitor, aged 52.

24th. CLARKSON, FREDERICK, Esq., Proctor, aged 64.

26th. DUPLEIX, HENRY, Esq., Solicitor.

27th. CHAMBERS, EDWARD W., Esq., Solicitor.

31st.

BARRINGTON, SIR MATTHEW, Bart., Crown Solicitor for the
Munster Circuit, aged 72.

April.

2nd. MARTIN, NATHANIEL, Esq., Solicitor, aged 66. 4th. GRAVES, JOHN S., Esq., Barrister, aged 64. 5th. ELLIS, THOMAS F., Esq., Barrister, aged 65.

7th. CROSS, W. S., Esq., Barrister.

9th. SHERWOOD, THOMAS, Esq., of the Common Pleas Office, aged 74.

11th. NICHOLSON, GEORGE J., Esq., Solicitor, aged 73.

17th. COLLIS, JOSEPH, Esq., late Senior Registrar of the High Court of Chancery.