for admission into their society.' The Report is signed by Frederick Pollock, Henry J. Stephen, Thomas Starkie, Joshua Evans, William Wightman.

Promotions in the English Courts. The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (Sir Thomas Denman,) has been created Baron Denman, of Doverdale, in the county of Derby.

Sir John Bayley, Bart. (late one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer,) has been appointed a member of the Privy Council. Frederick Pollock, Esq. has been appointed Attorney General for the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Messrs. Starkie, Cresswell, Alexander and Raincock were called to the inner bar at the late assizes for the county palatine of Lancaster. Legal Examiner, Ap. 2d, 1834.

Changes on the Bench. On Tuesday, the 29th April, all difficulties having been overcome, the following changes were made in the superior courts of common law; Mr. Justice James Parke left the Court of King's Bench, and took his seat in the Exchequer, and Mr. Justice Alderson took his seat on the same bench; Mr. Baron Vaughan occupied Mr. Justice Alderson's seat in the Court of Common Pleas, and Mr. Baron Williams left the Court of Exchequer and became a justice of the King's Bench. It was originally intended that these changes should have been carried into effect on Monday last, but Mr. Justice Vaughan is said to have refused to quit his court until he was made a privy counsellor; we believe he has now taken Lord Brougham's word that he shall be made a Right Honorable. Leg. Exam. Ap. 30, 1834.

The retirement of Mr. Baron Bayley has incidentally led to the retirement of Sir William Horne from the Attorney-generalship,' the appointment of Sir John Campbell in his place, and the appointment of Mr. Pepys to succeed him as Solicitor General. Law Mag. for May.

There is much speculation in the English magazines and newspapers as to the cause of these changes. most of which would have but little interest for American readers.

Baron Bolland. Baron Bolland, of the Exchequer, is a dis tinguished member of the Roxburghe Club- a society of antiquarians and bibliographers and presided at one of their late meetings. The Morning Chronicle speaks of him as that true Bibliomaniack, the excellent Baron Bolland.'

Codification. A step has recently been made towards a code. of laws in Great Britain, in the appointment of commissioners to consider the state of our criminal law. By the commission nominating them, the commissioners (Mr. Starkie, Mr. Bellenden Ker, Mr. Wightman, Mr. Amos, and Mr. Austin,) are directed 'to digest into one statute all the statutes and enactments touching crimes, and the trial and punishment thereof; and also to digest into one other statute all the provisions of the common or unwritten law touching the same; and to inquire and report how far it may be expedient to consolidate the other branches of the existing statute law or any of them.' Leg. Observer, Nov. 9, 1833.

Lord Chancellor Brougham. Late numbers of Blackwood's Magazine and of Frazer's Magazine contain harsh and bitter attacks upon the judicial conduct and character of the Lord Chancellor. His incompetency, in point of attainments in equity, is represented as glaring. His predecessor, Lord Lyndhurst, is contrasted with him, and held up as immeasurably his superior. We notice these articles that our readers may be informed, in a few words, of the opinion which prevails, with a respectable portion of the people of England, of the judicial merits of the Lord Chancellor. It should be borne in mind that these Magazines are both of them ultra tory. An article, animadverting severely upon the conduct of Lord Brougham in debate in the House of Lords, may be found in the New Monthly of June—a periodical of the most liberal character in politics.

New Hampshire Laws. The following amusing Advertisement is prefixed to the New Hampshire Laws published by authority in 1830:

"This edition comprehends all the general and public statutes now in force, excepting an act passed the 3d day of January, 1829, entitled "An act establishing a board of road commissioners for laying out and repairing highways," which is omitted under the expectation that it will be repealed at the ensuing session of the legislature.'

William's and Mary's College, (Virginia.) Honorable Beverly Tucker has been appointed Professor of Law in this Institution. This is the professorship formerly occupied by Judge Tucker, the commentator upon Blackstone. We should be glad if some of our friends in Virginia would furnish us with a sketch of the history and present condition of this professorship.

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.

Joseph S. Cabot, to be Commisioner under the law to carry into effect the Convention between the United States and his majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, concluded on the 14th October, 1832, in place of Peter V. Daniel, resigned.

Romulus M. Saunders, to be Commissioner under the law to carry into effect the Convention between the United States and his majesty the King of the French, concluded on the 4th July, 1831, in the place of Thomas H. Williams, resigned.

John W. Overton, to be Clerk of the Commission under the law to carry into effect the Convention aforesaid between the United States and his majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, in the place of George Breathitt, deceased.

James Collinsworth, to be Attorney of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. Reappointed.

John Patterson, to be Marshal of the United States for the District of Ohio. Reappointed

Alexander Hunter, to be Marshal for the District of Columbia, in the place of Henry Ashton, deceased.

Garrett D. Wall, to be Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Reappointed.

Thomas B. Munroe, to be Judge for the District of Kentucky, in the place of John Boyle, deceased.

Thomas J. Lacey, to be Judge of the Territory of Arkansas, in the place of Alexander M. Clayton, resigned.

Lewis Panders, Jr. to be Attorney for the District of Kentucky, in the place of Thomas B. Munroe, appointed Judge for said District.

William M. Price, to be Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in the place of James A. Hamilton, whose commission had expired.

James W, Exum, to be Marshal for the District of West Florida. Reappointed.

James D. Westcott, to be Attorney for the Middle District of the Territory of Florida, in the place of George K. Walker, appointed Secretary for said Territory.

Albert Smith, to be Marshal for the District of Maine. Reappointed.

John M. Davis, to be Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Reappointed.

James S. Mayfield, to be Commissioner for the final adjustment of Private Land Claims in Missouri, in the place of Lewis F. resigned.

Samuel Stettinius, to be Justice of the Peace for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia.

B. F. Butler, to be Attorney General of the United States, in the place of Roger B. Taney.

QUARTERLY LIST OF LAW PUBLICATIONS.

[We have translated the German titles in the following list; and have accompanied the English and Añ.erican titles, — with the view of giving the reader some idea of these works - with slight notices, in some cases, of our own, and in other instances, taken from the English periodicals,-chiefly from the London Law Magazine.]

CONTINENTAL.

Ortolan, Resumé de l'Histoire de la Legislation Romaine, etc. 8vo.

7s. 6d.

Degony, Examen sur le Droit Administratif. 8vo. 3s.

Hullman, Staats-Verfassung der Iraelten. Leips. 5s.

[Political Constitution of the Israelites.]

Stieglitz, Das Recht des Hochstifts Meissen. 8vo. Leips. 2s.

[The Immunities of the Misnia Cathedrals.]

Mittermaier und Zacharie, Kritische Zeitschift fur Rechts-Wissenschaft and Gesetzengebung. 6ter Bd. 8vo. Heidelb. 13s 6d. [Critical Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation.]

Acten-Stucke uber die aristokratischen Umtriebe der neusten Zeit

unter den Polen. 8vo. Leipz. 5s.

[Official Documents upon the aristocritical revolutionary movements of recent times among the Poles.]

Krohn, Blatter uber Politik und Koustitutionelles Leben. 8vo. 1 stes. Heft Altenburg. 2s. 6d.

[Sheets upon Politics and Constitutional Government.]

Kranse, Ueber das National und Staats-Vermogen. 8vo. Ilmenan.

3s. 6d.

[Upon the National and State Resources.]

Die Reform der deuteschen Universittaten. 8vo. Haustawz. 2s. [Reform of the German Universities.]

Dirksen, System de Juristichen Lexicographie. 8vo. Leipz. 2s. 6d. [System of Juridical Lexicography.]

Furstenthal, Preussiches Gesetz-Handbuch. 2te Auflage. 8vo. Nusse. 6s.

[Prussian Law Manual. 2d edit.]

Achert, Promemoria fur den deutschen Minister-Kongress in Wien.

4to. 7s. 6d.

[Memorial for the German Congress of Ministers in Vienna.] Muller, Archiv fur die neueste Gesetzenbung aller deutschen StaaHeft. 8vo. Offenb. 7s. 6d.

ten. 5ter Bd. 1 stes.

[Archives of the modern legislation in all the German States.]