Correspondence. relinquished, there is no assignable minimum of learn- cise language, all that is material of circumstance, deci ing with which they may not be content. The text-sion, and dictum, in those which remain. Having done books themselves are rapidly deteriorating, from several that, we may give to our digest the same authority causes besides the general decline of science in the class which the reports now possess, and forbid the citation which is to produce them. First, the increasing ten- of the reports prior to the digest; and we may provide dency of the judges to decide on particular precedents, for the annual revision of the digest. Such a work rather than on a wide induction from many precedents, would reduce the existing thousand volumes of prece is destroying the scientific character of the law, and dents to twenty, and would tend, more than any other thus renders the task of an institutional writer more measure, to facilitate and improve the practice and and more repulsive; secondly, the mere labour of col- administration of the law*" lating and criticising the decisions is almost beyond the powers of humanity; and, thirdly, the inducement to encounter that labour is daily diminishing. Confidence in the stability of the law has vanished. The annual alteration and refashioning of large branches of the law is now considered to be a part of the constitution; and, besides the consequent discouragement to study, we have this further result, that a text-book, however learnedly and carefully prepared, has no pecuniary value in the publishing market. No law book can bring an adequate return for its expenses and the risk of the adventure in fewer than six or seven years; and, as things are now ordered, no publisher can hope that any book he publishes will not be rendered obsolete in the ensuing session by some remorseless amending statute. So much of the evil as is attributable to the state of the statute law would be considerably diminished by a code of the statutes; for it is certain, that if the statute law were once reduced to order, and provision made that all subsequent legislation should take the form of substitution, and not of patching, a great element of stability would be secured. We have little hope of any such result from the labours of the present Statute-law Commission. With the exception of one equity judge, whose time is of course too much occupied to enable him to be a working member of the commission, we do not see one name on the list* which promises any scientific result. But the great evil lies in the reporting system; and, especially now that the fusion of law with equity has commenced in earnest, there is no hope that any lawyer will be able to master his business until two things have been done-first, the purification and abridgment of the existing reports by authority, resulting in either a chronological series or a digest of subsisting authorities in a concise form; and, secondly, the establishment of an authorised staff of reporters for the future. If such a reform were effected on a sound basis, THE JURIST would gladly retire, and seek some new form of existence. In the words of a late contributor, "We cannot generalise our common law, because its essence is, that it teaches by example; but we may put those examples in a more convenient form. We may revise our reports, and digest them, as we propose to digest our statutes; we may expunge precedents which have been overruled or become obsolete; and we may express, in con * The commission consists of the Lord Chancellor, Lords Lyndhurst, Brougham, Wrottesley, and Campbell, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Napier, Sir W. P. Wood, V. C., the law officers for the three kingdoms, and Mr. Bellenden Ker. CONSOLIDATION OF THE STAMP LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE JURIST." SIR,-The accumulation of patched and contradictory enactments consequent upon repeated alterations in the stamp duties renders consolidation absolutely necessary. I need not remind you that there are at the present time no less than five acts to which constant reference is required. The duty payable on an appointment must be sought for in the act of 1815; on a mortgage, in the act of 1850; on an apprenticeship indenture, in an act of 1853; on articles of clerkship, in another act of the same year; and, finally, upon conveyances, upon chief rent, and on certain descriptions of leases, in the act of the present year. And though the duties ordinarily payable are comprised in the five acts above mentioned, the directions and regulations to be observed, and the penalties by which those directions and regulations are enforced, are scattered, here a little and there a little, through a multitude of statutes, which, but for the 856, 857, and 858 of Tilsley, (this is a fact), I should formidable list of them, occupying pages 853, 854, 855, have felt no hesitation in pronouncing to be innumera. ble. Indeed, it may fearlessly be affirmed, that of these statutory regulations as such, save as regards a few of every-day application, legal practitioners are wholly ignorant, and are only saved from the consequences of disobedience by a cautious adherence to the traditional course of practice in which the spirit of the statutory rules is preserved. But to return to the acts with which I set out. As i regards the stamping of newly-prepared instruments, experience may enable the practitioner, in any ordinary case, to turn up readily the proper act, and the precise but if an instrument out of the common course should part of it where he may learn the duty he must pay; come before him, or if a question of exemption from duty should occur, even the tried and experienced lawyer soon finds that he is wandering in a labyrinth without a clue. Still more unfortunate is the prac titioner who is called to investigate a title. He may be master of the law current in his own day; but for the purpose in hand this may avail him nothing. Every deed must stand or fall by the laws in force when, it first saw the light; and to qualify the conveyancer for his task, he must be as familiar with the laws of that particular era of stamp legislation to which the most recent phase of the law. It may happen, there instrument under consideration belongs, as with the fore, that in perusing an abstract, going back but a very few years, the conveyancer may have occasion to] display an acquaintance with four or five distinct codes. This state of things is really too bad. It is surely enough for Government to levy contributions upon our ' pockets, without taxing so unmercifully our time and tempers. I repeat, that consolidation has become abso lutely necessary. It is a debt due to the country, and *17 Jur., part 2, p. 460. an effort is all that is wanting to discharge it. One short section formed on the model of that which repeals the usury laws would suffice to sweep away Mr. Tilsley's long list of statutes, and "all existing laws relating to stamp duties." Another section, equally short, might render reference to the past unnecessary, by declaring that instruments bearing any stamp should be deemed to be duly stamped. The rubbish of 200 years being thus cleared away, it would not, one would think, be difficult, by the help of past experience, to re-construct the law in a shape at once compact and intelligible-a result of which I should be the more hopeful if the draftsmen would condescend to submit their work to public criticism a few weeks before asking for it the sanction of Parliament. Without this precaution, we could look for nothing better than a repetition of the egregious blunders which have marked every recent effort at stamp legislation. It would be ridiculous, however, to expect Government to take the initiative. A little wholesome pressure must be applied from without. Let the Law Societies then-particularly let the Incorporated Law Societytake the matter up. Let them give the Chancellor of the Exchequer no rest till he accede to, what even a Chancellor of the Exchequer must admit to be, a reasonable request. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF STUDENTS. At the public examination of the Students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's Inn Hall, on the 30th and 31st October, and 1st November, 1854, the Council of Legal Education awarded to Alexander Edward Miller, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn, a studentship of 50 guineas per annum, to continue for a period of three years. William Smart, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn, a certificate of honour of the first class. Charles Andrew Prescott, Esq., student of Lincoln's Inn, M. Maxwell Philip, Esq., student of the Middle Temple, and Robert Scott, Esq., student of the Middle Temple, certificates that they have satisfactorily passed a public examination. 6. Power to appoint substitute in illness or unavoidable absence of commissioner or registrar. 7. Power to appoint substitute in reasonable absence of country commissioner or registrar. 8. Substitute to have like authority, &c. 9. Appointments of messengers and ushers. 10. Sect. 76 of stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 122, and sect. 49 of stat. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 96, repealed, and salaries of officers to commence from appointment. 11. Remuneration of official assignees. 12. Fees may be altered by order of Lord Chancellor. 13. Per-centage paid to chief registrar's account may be abolished or varied by order. 14. Power to fix maximum payable for fees. 15. Power to make General Orders. 16. Where declarations of insolvency to be filed. 17. Filing in country district court effectual. 18. Copies to be sent to chief registrar. 19. Copy certified by country registrar to be evidence. 22. Proof of assets to the amount of 150l. to be sufficient. 23. Messenger to follow instructions of official assignee. 24. Extension of time for disputing adjudication. 25. Excepted articles to be allowed to a bankrupt. 26. An inventory and valuation of the remainder of the bankrupt's household furniture, &c. to be made, which shall not be sold without the order of a commissioner. 27. If the bankrupt shall be entitled to any allowance, his household furniture, &c. to be taken in lieu of money. 28. Construction. Short title. CAP. CXX. An Act to repeal certain Acts and Parts of Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and to continue certain Provisions in the said Acts. [11th August, 1854.] Sect. 1. Short Title of Act. 2. Interpretation of Terms in this Act. 4. Repeal of Acts mentioned in Schedule. 6. Construction of Sects. 4 and 9 of the Pilotage Law 7. Expenses of Life Boats, &c. may be charged on Mercantile Marine Fund. 8. Existing Liabilities on Mercantile Marine Fund continued. 9. Provision as to Wages, &c. received before 1852. 13 & 14 Vict. c. 102, s. 31. 10. Receiver-General to conform to Directions of Board of Trade. 11. Powers of Board of Trade as to Appointment of Whereas by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, the acts relating to merchant shipping are amended and consolidated, and it is expedient to repeal certain acts and parts of acts relating to merchant shipping, and to make temporary provisions with respect to certain of the matters referred to in the said acts: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows: Sect. 1. This act may be cited for all purposes as "The Merchant Shipping Repeal Act, 1854." 2. In the construction and for the purposes of this act the interpretation of terms contained in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, shall be considered as incorporated with and form 2. Lord Chancellor may declare future vacancies not to being part of this act. filled up, except upon special order. 3. Certain provisions of the 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 56, s. 9, repealed, and registrars may be removed upon certificate of the Lords Justices. 4. Power to appoint a person to act as registrar temporarily. 5. Remuneration of a person appointed to act under last preceding section. 3. With the exception of such provisions of this act as are hereinafter expressly stated to be intended to come into operation immediately after the passing thereof, this act shall come into operation at the same time as the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. 4. There shall be hereby repealed The several acts and parts of acts set forth in the first sche dule hereto, to the extent to which such acts or parts of acts are therein expressed to be repealed, and all such provisions of any other acts or of any charters, and all such laws, customs, and rules as are inconsistent with the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854: Provided that such repeal shall not affect same act: (2.) Any security duly given before this act comes into operation: (3.) Any thing duly done before this act comes into ope ration: to all lawful directions given for that purpose by the Board of Trade; and on a vacancy occurring in his office no successor shall be appointed, but thereupon all powers and privileges vested in such Receiver-General shall be transferred to the Board of Trade; and this section shall come into operation immediately after the passing of this act. (1.) Any provisions contained in the act of the 7 Will. 4, 11. Receivers appointed by the said Receiver-General, under c. 79, as to title, application of purchase money, or bor- the 10 Vict. c. 99, shall hold their offices only during the rowing money, and having relation to the power of pur-pleasure of the Board of Trade; and the serjeants of the Ad. chasing lighthouses given to the Trinity House by the miralty of the Cinque Ports, their deputies or other officers, authorised to perform the duties and to exercise the powers within the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports elsewhere performed and exercised by such receivers as aforesaid, shall per. form and exercise the same only during the pleasure and subject to the directions of the Board of Trade; and all such receivers, serjeants, deputies, and other officers as aforesaid shall possess in the several districts within which they have hitherto exercised their duties the same powers, rights, and privileges, and perform the same duties, as are by the said Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, vested in and committed to the receivers therein mentioned, save only that they shall not be entitled to take the command in cases of ships or boats stranded or in distress, unless authorised so to do by the Board of Trade. (4.) Any liability accruing before this act comes into operation: (5.) Any penalty, forfeiture, or other punishment incurred (7.) Any appointment, bye-law, regulation, or license duly 5. The local marine boards, the members of which have been appointed or elected under the Mercantile Marine Act, 1850, shall continue to act until the 4th February, 1857, or until other boards have been constituted in lieu thereof in pursuance of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. 6. The 4th and 9th sections of the Pilotage-law Amendment Act, 1853, shall be construed as if the fifth part of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, were therein referred to, in lieu of the act of the 6 Geo. 4, c. 125. 7. The Board of Trade may, out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, direct payment to be made of such expenses for establishing and maintaining on the coasts of the United Kingdom proper life boats, with the necessary crews and equipments, and for affording assistance towards the preservation of life and property in cases of shipwreck and distress at sea, and for the granting rewards for the preservation of life in such cases, as it thinks fit; and this section shall come into operation mmediately after the passing of this act. 8. Nothing in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or in this act contained, shall operate to prevent the exercise of the powers contained in the 12th and 16th sections of the Merchant Shipping-law Amendment Act, 1853, of paying the debts, liabilities, and expenses therein mentioned out of the iMercantile Marine Fund: and whereas it was arranged that a sum, to be ascertained by the calculation of actuaries, should, before the said last-mentioned act came into operation, be paid by the Trinity House out of the cash balances then in their hands, for the purpose of supplying a deficiency in the funds of the Cinque Ports pilots, and of indemnifying the funds of the Trinity House pilots against any loss consequent upon the settlements to be made under the Pilotage-law Amendment Act, 1853 and whereas, when the Merchant Shipping-law Amendment Act, 1853, came into operation, the said calculation was not completed: be it enacted, that such payment may, with the consent of the Board of Trade, be made by the Trinity House in the same manner as payment of the debts, liabilities, and expenses referred to in the said 12th section of the said last-mentioned act; and this section shall come into operation immediately after the passing of this act. 9. All monies arising from any wages and effects of deceased seamen or apprentices to the sea service which were received before the 1st January, 1852, shall be applied in the same manner as if the same had been received under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. 10. The Receiver-General of Droits of Admiralty shall, as to all things to be done by him in virtue of his office, conform 12. There shall be payable to such receivers, serjeants, deputies, and other officers as aforesaid such fees and other remuneration as are by the said Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, made payable to receivers appointed thereunder, and payment thereof shall be made by the same persons and in the same manner, and shall be capable of being enforced by the same means, as payment of the fees or other remuneration payable to the receivers appointed under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, are payable or capable of being enforced, or as near saving also any expenses actually and properly incurred, no thereto as circumstances permit; and save as aforesaid, and such receiver, serjeant, deputy, or other officer as aforesaid shall be entitled to demand or receive from any person any fees or other sums in respect of any services performed by him as receiver; and this section shall come into operation immediately after the passing of this act. 13. All fees or other remuneration received by any such receiver, serjeant, deputy, or other officer as aforesaid, may be applied by him to his own use. 14. The provisions contained in the ninth part of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, shall come into operation at the same time as if the same were herein repeated, and were hereby expressed to be intended to come into operation immediately after the passing of this act; and the following acts, that is to say, the 7 Geo. 2, c. 15, the 26 Geo. 3, c. 86, and the 53 Geo. 3, c. 159, shall be considered as repealed immediately after the passing of this act. Winding-up Act, 1851, the Pilotage-law Amendment Act, 15. All criminal proceedings under the Seamen's Fund 1853, the Merchant Shipping-law Amendment Act, 1853, or this act, shall be carried on in the same manner as similar all rules of law, practice, and evidence which are applicable to proceedings under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854; and such last-mentioned proceedings shall be applicable to criminal proceedings under this act. 16. If a native of any country in Asia, Africa, or of any of the islands in the South Sea or the Pacific Ocean, or of any other country not having any consul in the United Kingdom, is brought to the United Kingdom in any ship, British or foreign, as a seaman, and is left in the United Kingdom, and within six months of his being so left becomes chargeable upon the poor rate, or commits any act by reason of the committal whereof he is liable to be convicted as an idle and disorderly person, or any other act of vagrancy, the master or owner of the said ship, or in case of a foreign ship the person who is consignee of the ship at the time of the seaman being so left as aforesaid, shall incur a penalty not exceeding 301., unless he without the consent of the master, or that due means have been can shew that the person so left as aforesaid quitted the ship to such person, of returning to his native country or to the afforded by such master, owner, or consignee, or one of them, country in which he was shipped; and the Court inflicting such penalty may order the whole or any part of such penalty to be applied towards the relief or sending home of such person. SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS. Acts and Parts of Acts to be repealed. 8 Eliz. c. 13-" An Act touching Sea Marks and Mariners." -The whole Act, except sect. 5. 11 Ann.. st. 2, c. 18-"An Act for the preserving all such Ships and Goods thereof which shall happen to be forced on Shore or stranded on the Coasts of this Kingdom, or on any other of her Majesty's Dominions."-So much as is not already repealed. 4 Geo. 1, c. 12-"An Act for enforcing and making perpetual an Act of the twelfth Year of her late Majesty, intituled An Act for the preserving all such Ships and Goods thereof which shall happen to be forced on Shore or stranded upon the Coasts of this Kingdom, or on any other of her Majesty's Dominions;' and for inflicting the Punishment of Death on such as shall wilfully burn or destroy Ships."-So much as is not already repealed. 7 Geo. 2, c. 15-"An Act to settle how far Owners of Ships shall be answerable for the Acts of the Masters or Mariners."-The whole Act. 20 Geo. 2, c. 38-"An Act for the Relief and Support of maimed disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service."-So much as is not already repealed. 26 Geo. 2, c. 19-" An Act for enforcing the Laws against Persons who shall steal or detain shipwrecked Goods, and for the Relief of Persons suffering Losses thereby."-So much as is not already repealed. 26 Geo. 3, c. 86-"An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the seventh Year of his late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to settle how far Owners of Ships shall be answerable for the Acts of the Masters or Mariners;' and for giving a further Relief to the Owners of Ships."-The whole Act. 26 Geo. 3, c. 101-" An Act for erecting certain Lighthouses in the Northern Parts of Great Britain."-The whole Act. 28 Geo. 3, c. 25-"An Act to render more effectual an Act passed in the twenty-sixth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for erecting certain Lighthouses in the Northern Parts of Great Britain.'"-The whole Act. 29 Geo. 3, c. 52-" An Act to give further Powers to the Commissioners for erecting certain Lighthouses in the Northern Parts of Great Britain."-The whole Act. 38 Geo. 3, c. lvii, (local and personal)" An Act for incorporating the Commissioners appointed for erecting certain Lighthouses in the Northern Parts of Great Britain."-The whole Act. 46 Geo. 3, c. 106-"An Act to provide for the better Execution of the several Acts relating to the Revenues, Matters, and Things under the Management of the Commissioners of Customs and Port Duties, and of the Commissioners of Inland Excise and Taxes in Ireland."-Sects. 75 and 76. 46 Geo. 3, c. 132-" An Act for erecting a Lighthouse on the Bell or Cape Rock on the Eastern Coast of Scotland, and for enabling the Commissioners of the Treasury to advance a certain Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain towards that Purpose."-The whole Act. 48 Geo. 3, c. 130- An Act for preventing the various Frauds and Depredations committed on Merchants, Shipowners, and Underwriters, by Boatmen and others, within the Jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports, and also for remedying certain Defects relative to the Adjustment of Salvage under a Statute made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne."-The whole Act. 50 Geo. 3, c. 95-"An Act to enable the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin to erect, repair, and maintain Lighthouses round the Coast of Ireland, and to raise a Fund for defraying the Charge thereof."-The whole Act. 51 Geo. 3, c. 66-" An Act to amend and render more effectual several Acts for promoting the Trade of Dublin, by rendering its Port and Harbour more commodious, and for erecting, repairing, and maintaining Lighthouses round the Coast of Ireland, and to raise a Fund for defraying the Charge thereof."―The whole Act, so far as relates to lighthouses and light dues. Lighthouses and Lights round the Coasts of Ireland, and to raise a Fund for defraying the Charge thereof."-The whole Act. 53 Geo. 3, c. 159-" An Act to limit the Responsibility of Shipowners in certain Cases."-The whole Act. 54 Geo. 3, c. 136-" An Act for enabling the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses to purchase the Island and Light of May, at the Entrance of the Frith of Forth; for enabling the Commissioners of the Treasury to advance a certain Sum of Money towards that Purpose; and for amending several Acts in regard to the Northern Lighthouses."-The whole Act. 55 Geo. 3, c. lxvii, (local and personal)-"An Act for enabling the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses to erect Lighthouses on the Isles of Man and Calf of Man."— The whole Act. 59 Geo. 3, c. 12-" An Act to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor."-Sect. 32. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 76-"An Act to continue and amend certain Acts for preventing the various Frauds and Depredations committed on Merchants, Shipowners, and Underwriters, by Boatmen and others, within the Jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports, and also for remedying certain Defects relative to the Adjustment of Salvage under a Statute made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne."-The whole Act, except Sects. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15, 16, and 18. 4 Geo. 4, c. 88-" An Act for regulating Vessels carrying Passengers between Great Britain and Ireland."-The whole Act. 6 Geo. 4, c. 125-" An Act for the Amendment of the Law respecting Pilots and Pilotage, and also for the better Preservation of Floating Lights, Buoys, and Beacons."-The whole Act. 9 Geo. 4, c. 86-" An Act to amend an Act for the Amendment of the Law respecting Pilots and Pilotage, and also for the better Preservation of Floating Lights, Buoys, and Beacons."-The whole Act. 11 Geo. 4, c. 20-" An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Pay of the Royal Navy."-Sect. 82. 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 52-" An Act to amend an Act of the twentieth Year of his Majesty King George the Second, for the Relief and Support of sick, maimed, and disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service; and for other Purposes."So much as is not already repealed. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 19-" An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Merchant Seamen of the United Kingdom, and for forming and maintaining a Register of all the Men engaged in that Service."- So much as is not already repealed. 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 79-" An Act for vesting Lighthouses, Lights, and Sea Marks on the Coasts of England in the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond; and for making Provisions respecting Lighthouses, Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, and Sea Marks, and the Tolls and Duties payable in respect thereof."-The whole Act. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 66-" An Act for maintaining a Lighthouse at Gibraltar, and respecting Lighthouses not within the United Kingdom."-The whole Act. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 68- -"An Act to enable her Majesty in Council to authorise Ships and Vessels belonging to Countries having Treaties of Reciprocity with the United Kingdom to be piloted, in certain Cases, without having a licensed Pilot on board; and also to regulate the Mode in which Filot Boats shall be painted and distinguished."-The whole Act. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 112-" An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Merchant Seamen, and for keeping a Register of Seamen."-The whole Act. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 86-"An Act for the General Regulation of the Customs."-Sects. 45, 51, 53, and 140. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 87-" An Act for the Prevention of Smuggling."-Sect. 10. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 89-" An Act for the registering of British Vessels."-The whole Act. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 116-" An Act for the Protection of Seamen entering on board Merchant Ships."-The whole Act. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 99-" An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Wreck and Salvage."—The whole Act. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 29-"An Act to amend the Laws in force for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation."— 52 Geo. 3, c. 115-" An Act to make more effectual Provision for enabling the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin to erect, repair, and maintain | The whole Act. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 88-" An Act to amend the Laws relating to Pilotage."-The whole Act. 13 & 14 Vict. c. 93-" An Act for improving the Condition of Masters, Mates, and Seamen, and maintaining Discipline in the Merchant Service."- The whole Act. 13 & 14 Vict. c. 95-"An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs."-Sect. 14. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 35-" An Act to extend the Benefits of certain Provisions of the General Merchant Seamen's Act, relating to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service, to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service by Boards of Guardians of the Poor of Ireland, and to enable such Guardians to place out Boys in the Naval Service."-The whole Act, except sect. 10. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 79-" An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Regulation of Steam Navigation, and to the Boats and Lights to be carried by sea-going Vessels."The whole Act. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 86-" An Act to amend the Mercantile Marine Act, 1850."-The whole Act. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 102—“ An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Merchant Seamen's Fund, and to provide for winding up the said Fund, and for the better Management thereof in the Meantime."-Sects. 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 61. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 129-" An Act further to amend the Law relating to Pilotage."-The whole Act, except sects. 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, and so much of sect. 9 as relates to the recovery of pilotage rates by Cinque Ports pilots licensed before the Act came into operation. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 131-" An Act to amend various Laws relating to Merchant Shipping."-The whole Act, except sects. 12, 13, 24. 28, and 29. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 5—" An Act to admit Foreign Ships to the Coasting Trade."--Sect. 4. WILLIAM TYSON, High-street, Marylebone, Middlesex, butcher, dealer and chapman, Nov. 9 and Dec. 14 at 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Bell; Sol. Tetts, Temple-chambers, Fleet-street.-Petition filed Oct. 28. HENRY THWAITES BAYLEY, Canterbury, Kent, linendraper, Nov. 10 at 1, and Dec. 20 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Nicholson; Sol. Heather, 17, Paternoster-row, London.-Petition dated Oct. 24. WILLIAM ANDREW MEYER, Dartford, Kent, licensed victualler, innkeeper, dealer and chapman, Nov. 13 at 11, F and Dec. 11 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Johnson; Sol. Stopher, 52, Cheapside.- Petition filed Nov. 2. ABRAHAM CORONEL, Great Alie-street, Goodman's- ROBERT GEORGE ROSE, Cowley-terrace, North Brixton, RICHARD CURTIS, Southsea, Portsea, Southampton, corn and wine merchant, Nov. 11 at 11, and Dec. 18 at halfpast 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Cannan; Sol. Low, 65, Chancery-lane.-Petition filed Nov. 2. EDWARD CASTENDIECK, Mincing-lane, London, ship agent and merchant, dealer and chapman, Nov. 11 at 2, and Dec. 18 at half-past 11, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off Ass. Whitmore; Sols. Marten & Co., Mincing-lane.— Petition filed Nov. 2. HENRY JANNINGS, Laurie-terrace, Westminster-road, Surrey, ironmonger, dealer and chapman, Nov. 14 at 2, and Dec. 12 at 12, Court of Bankruptcy, London: Off. Ass. Graham; Sol. Paxon, 8, New Boswell-court, Careystreet.-Petition filed Nov. 2. JOHN THOMAS, Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, and Ledbury, Herefordshire. draper, dealer and chapman, Nov. 13 and Dec. 11 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy. Birmingham Off. Ass. Bittleston; Sols. Motteram & Knight, Birmingham; Jones, 15, Sise-lane, London.-Petition dated Oct. 2. : ROWLAND BOSWORTH, Leicester, oil merchant, dealer and chapman, Nov. 14 and Dec. 12 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Nottingham: Off. Ass. Harris; Sols. Miles & Gregory, Leicester; Hodgson, Birmingham.-Petition dated Oct. 30. JOHN DUMBLE, Sunderland, Durham, commission agent and ship chandler, Nov. 9 and Dec. 14 at 1, District Court of Bankruptcy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Off. Ass. Baker; Sols. Hodgson, Birmingham; Brewis, Newcastle-uponTyne.-Petition filed Oct. 19. SAMUEL BELL, Liverpool, confectioner, dealer and chap. man, Nov. 14 and Dec. 6 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool: Off. Ass. Morgan; Sols. Fletcher & Hull, Liverpool.-Petition filed Oct. 31. MEETINGS. Thomas Wheeldon, Bakewell, Derbyshire, tailor, Nov. 17 Nicholas Kennedy, Manchester, ivory turner, Nov. 16 at 12, at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, ch. ass.— District Court of Bankruptcy, Manchester, aud. ac.; Nov. 21 at 12, div.-William Lloyd Marshall, Almondbury, Yorkshire, common brewer, Nov. 28 at 12, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds, aud. ac. and div.-Lewis Cooke Hertslet. Union-court, Broad-street, London, merchant, Nov. 28 at half-past 1, Court of Bankruptcy, London, div.-Dan. Keith warehousemen, Nov. 28 at 1, Court of Bankruptcy, Londen, and Thomas Shoobridge, Wood-street, Cheapside, London, div. sep. est. of Dan. Keith.-Joseph Whitmore, Leicester, woolstapler, Dec. 5 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy. Nottingham, aud. ac. and div.-Robert Rimmer, Southport and Seaforth, Lancashire, builder, Nov. 27 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Liverpool, div.-John Henry Whitfield and Francis Lyth, York, builders, Nov. 27 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds, div. sep. est. of F. Lyth.-G. Jeera, Sheffield, Yorkshire, brush manufacturer, Nov. 25 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Sheffield, div. CERTIFICATES. To be allowed, unless Cause be shewn to the contrary on or before the Day of Meeting. Joseph Wm. Hall, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, dealer in agri cultural implements, Nov. 28 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol.-T. Wigfall. Sheffield, Yorkshire, table-knife manufacturer, Nov. 25 at 11, District Court of Bankruptcy, Sheffield.-John Chaplin and R. Wigley, Leicester, curnes, Dec. 12 at 10, District Court of Bankruptcy, Nottingham. 3 |