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In a few days will be ready, in 1 vol. 12mo., a complete Edition of this Act, with Practical Notes and Forms, and an Index. By TOULMIN SMITH, of Lincoln's-inn, Esq., Barrister at Law, Author of "The Parish: its Obligations and Powers; its Officers and their Duties." London: Henry Sweet, V. & R. Stevens & G. S. Norton, and W. Maxwell. HH GAZETTES.-FRIDAY, Aug. 24. BANKRUPTS. HENRY KNIGHT FURNELL and ALBERT KAHL, JOHN SMITH, Sheerness, dealer and chapman, Sept. 3 at DEX BEAN, Halifax, dealer and chapman, Sept. 11 and RICHARD BIRTWISTLE, Bury, Lancashire, innkeeper, MEETINGS. Thos. Wade, Newlay, near Leeds, stone merchant, Nov. 6 at 12, Leeds, pr. d.-S. Sucksmith, Crompton, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer, Sept. 5 at 12, Manchester, ch. ass.-E. Castendieck, Mincing-lane, ship agent, Sept. 3 at 11, London, aud. ac.-Wm. Perfect Lockwood, Wakefield, chemist, Sept. 5 at 2, London, aud. ac.; Sept. 14 at half past 1, div.-H. Adams, Uxbridge, corn dealer, Sept. 5 at 2, London, aud. ac.; Sept. 14 at 1, div.-Mark Boyd, New Bank-buildings, sharebroker, Sept. 5 at half-past 1, London, aud. ac.-Jas. Pickford, Hazlegrove, Cheshire, plumber, Sept. 5 at 12, Manchester, aud. ac.-Richard J. S. Robins, Tavistock, attorney, Sept. 13 at 1, Exeter, aud. ac.; Sept. 20 at 1, div.-Josiah Harris, Hepwell Mills, Quethiock, Cornwall, miller, Sept. 13 at 1, Exeter, aud. ac.-Thos. Hake, Exeter, furrier, Sept. 13 at 1, Exeter, aud. ac.-Thos. Hitt, Exeter, currier, Sept. 13 at 1, Exeter, aud. ac.-George Richards, Aller, near Langport, Somersetshire, innkeeper, Sept. 20 at 1, Exeter, aud. ac.-John Mansfield, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, shipbuilder, Sept. 13 at 1, Exeter, aud. ac.; Sept. 20 at 1, div.-Thomas Stone Besley, Tiverton, Devonshire, grocer, Sept. 13 at 1, Exeter, aud. ac.; Sept. 20 at 1, div.-George Norman Bult, Tiverton, Devonshire, druggist, Sept. 13 at 1, Exeter, aud. ac.; Sept. 20 at 1, div.-Edwin Adolphus Lock, Curry Rivell, To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting. Thomas Loaring Coombe, Lambeth-walk, baker, Sept. 17 at 12, London.-Thomas Boslock, Manchester, packer, Sept. 17 at 12, Manchester.Thomas Wade, Newlay, near Leeds, stone merchant, Nov. 6 at 12, Leeds. To be granted, unless an appeal be duly entered. John Marke, Duke-street, Manchester-square, butcher.Charles Blanks, East Hanningfield, Essex, blacksmith.— Joseph Douglas, Sumner-terrace, Brompton, apothecary.— Christopher Rowles Bell, Hounslow, coal merchant.—Jokn Walker Brown, Sloane-street, Middlesex, upholsterer.Richard Lear Mugford, Torquay, Devonshire, tailor.Thomas Sephton, Prescott, Lancashire, licensed victualler.— Thomas Lake, Wakefield, grocer.-William Powell, York, linendraper. PARTNERSHIP Dissolved. shire, attornies and solicitors, (under the firm of Nicholetts & Edwin Nicholetts and Arthur Burridge, Bridport, DorsetBurridge). TUESDAY, Aug. 28. BANKRUPTS. GEORGE SIXTO BAYLEY, Crown-court, Philpot-lane, commission agent, Sept. 5 at 11, and Oct. 8 at 12, London: Off. Ass. Nicholson; Sol. Reed, 11, Ironmonger-lane.-Pet. f. July 24. JOSEPH MILLER, Piccadilly, fishmonger, Sept. 5 at 1, and Oct. 12 at half-past 1, London: Off. Ass. Whitmore; Sol. Reed, 11, Ironmonger-lane.-Pet. f. July 31. JOHN WISE, Heath villa, Bournemouth, Hampshire, dealer and chapman, Sept. 4 and Oct. 12 at 1, London: Off. Ass. Whitmore; Sol. Chapple, 19, Great Carter-lane, Doctors' Commons. Pet. f. Aug. 15. EDWARD FIRMIN ELLIS, Hendon, Middlesex, and Royal Exchange-buildings, London, stockbroker, Sept. 12 at 12, and Oct. 12 at half-past 1, London: Off, Ass. Whitmore; Sol. Murray, 11, London-street, Fenchurch-street. — Pet. f. THOMAS EDWARD SHALES, Brighton, dealer and chapAug. 10. man, Sept. 11 and Oct. 2 at 2. London: Off. Ass. Lee; Sols. Ashurst & Co., 6, Old Jewry, Cheapside.-Pet. f. SAMUEL JENNINGS the younger, Goswell-street, carver Aug. 18. and gilder, Sept. 11 at half-past 2, and Oct. 16 at 12, London: Off. Ass. Lee; Sol. Leigh, 16, George-street, ManROBERT WALL, Piccadilly, saddler, Sept. 11 at 12, and sion-house.-Pet. f. Aug. 21. Oct. 16 at 1, London: Off. Ass. Edwards; Sol. Robinson, ELLIS CUTLAN, Newport, Monmouthshire, dealer and 6. Half Moon street, Piccadilly.-Pet. f. Aug. 25. chapman, Sept. 10 and Oct. 8 at 11, Bristol: Off. Ass. EDWARD ROBERTS, late of Hulme, but now of StretMiller; Sol. Nash, Bristol.-Pet. f. Aug. 18. ford, Lancashire, dealer and chapman, Sept. 7 and 28 at 12, Manchester; Off. Ass. Fraser; Sol. Atherton, Manchester. -Pet. f. Aug. 25. [For continuation of Gazette, see p. 353]. THE JURIST. LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1855. 817 VICE-CHANCELLOR STUART'S COURT-(Continued). Briggs v. The Earl of Oxford-Beavan v. The Earl of Oxford.-(Equitable tenant for life-Waste-Remainderman, lien of, on rents of the tenant for life - Subsequent incumbrancers Mortgagor and mortgagee) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. 817 821 By G. J. P. SMITH and W. B. BRETT, Barristers at Law. Gould v. Webb.-(Action on contract-Pleas: breach of stipulation by plaintiff; discharge by foreign law-Newspaper-Correspondent) Robinson v. Rutter.-(Goods sold and delivered― Action by the auctioneer for the price-Plea, payment to vendor) Smith v. Sieveking.-(Charterparty-Bill of ladingAcceptance of goods-Demurrage-Liability of consignee).... ..... 823 824 825 Smart v. Morton.-(Obligation of owner of minerals ........ 830 or which constitute the dramatic power seldom co-exist with the accomplishments of the novelist. Shakespeare borrowed his stories, and Molière did the same did without one:-Fielding and Scott could not write FROM the past course of law-making as to judgment plays*. The moral of all this is, that we must not charges we may learn with how little effective consi- expect any kind of work to be well done except deration the duty of mending the law is undertaken by those who from their youth have been in the and discharged. A man will shape his mercantile spe- habit of doing it, always taking care to distinguish culations, build his house, even order his coat or his between doing and pretending-in other words, between dinner, with the nicest and most painful regard to the work done in private establishments and the shew every remote consequence to himself that can be fore- made in public offices. If we go to a pleader for pleadcast; and he will bestow as much care on his neigh-ings, to a conveyancer for deeds, we must go to a rebour's affairs when he undertakes them professionally, whether for reward or for love. What he then does, either for himself or for another, will bear to be tried even by the event, due allowance being made for his limited faculties and lights. But set a man to contrive and order a new thing for society at large, in which neither he nor his employer have the main or any noticeable direct interest, and his work, when the means of judging it are ready, will appear like the first attempts of childhood. We feel that Bentham missed the root of the matter in referring the inferiority of the work done for the public to the absence of direct personal interest. Without vilifying human nature, we may trace the effect to a more simple and universal cause the difficulty of doing anything new, to which all men testify as much by their proneness to observe custom and precedent in their own affairs, as by their high rating of novelty and invention in others' works. What is most truly new and valuable in a man's own work is least esteemed by him, because done with ease by powers whose slow growth he has not noticed, and whose working is familiar. Thus Petrarch, writing frigid latin verses with labour and difficulty, prized them, while he thought little of the polish and refinement he gave to his native language, the matured fruit of that ever-active fastidiousness which in his youth displayed itself in tight boots and other personal affectations. So it is seen that the habits of thought former for bills. But by this advice we are for the time *The Turcaret of Le Sage and Goldsmith's two plays are exceptions in the comic drama. |