crime, there is a general disposition, more or less, to escape, if possible, the performance of a duty which subjects the person who fulfils it to an inevitable, and, to him, often a serious pecuniary penalty.

"As a striking illustration of these facts, it may be stated that in the case of the police, who receive their ordinary pay when in attendance at sessions and assizes, the further allowance is so inadequate to meet the additional expenditure which they unavoidably incur when living away from their own homes, that it is a great hardship upon them to be required to undertake the discharge of any duty involving attendance at sessions or assizes; and they naturally feel most reluctant to do so, unless when imperatively required, or unless they are held harmless against loss from some other source.

"In the very serious duty of proving previous convictions, generally performed by governors and other superior officers of gaols, and which often can be satisfactorily performed by no one else, the allowance is so inadequate to the needful expenditure incurred, that governors of gaols cannot ordinarily discharge this duty without serious pecuniary loss in every instance; and governors of gaols cannot now ordinarily be relied upon to discharge it at all, unless served with a subpoena, which involves expense to the public, but does not save the governor from pecuniary loss. It may be further stated that, in the case of pawnbrokers, whose assistance is constantly needed in the tracing of stolen property, the grievances of the present system are very serious, and are the subject of strong complaint.

"The grand jury, while giving all due credit to the promoters of reformatories and schools, whose efforts the grand jury earnestly desire should not be counteracted by other causes, believe that the results of the circumstances to which they have adverted may be distinctly traced in this county as a material cause of the lighter calendars at assizes and quarter-sessions, and the reduced number of inmates of our gaols, and as leading to the existence of a larger amount of criminal population at large and unchecked, engaged in the perpetration of crimes themselves, and in the corruption of others. A natural consequence appears to be the extension in this county, and probably elsewhere, of crimes of the more serious class to which your Lordship adverted in your charge.

"And the grand jury finally declare their belief that, unless the scale to which they have adverted-introduced, it may be observed, by the sole authority of the Secretary of State, without any sanction of parliament -be abandoned, and a more equitable system introduced, all efforts for the diminution of crime and for the amelioration of society will be rendered comparatively unavailing by a misplaced economy, and that the amount of serious crime shown in the calendar for the present assizes, which your Lordship and the grand jury alike lament, is likely to continue, and probably to increase.

"ALGERNON EGERTON, Foreman."

Baron Martin stated in reply that he had no power in the matter, but would forward the memorial to the Secretary of State for the Home Department; and he recommended that a subject, on which so decided an opinion had been expressed by gentlemen whose position so well

enabled them to form a sound judgment, should be brought by them. under the consideration of parliament.

The Times reporter appended to his report of these proceedings some excellent remarks, with which we entirely concur. He says:

"We need scarcely add, that this strong expression of opinion of the magistrates and grand jury of South Lancashire is entirely in accordance with the observations we made on this subject a year or two ago, founded on the experience of the working of this system of false economy throughout the whole of the counties of the north of England forming the Northern Circuit. Indeed, if the expenses of the machinery of cutting down and taxing the prosecutions be taken into account, it is very questionable whether any thing is saved to the public, even on the score of economy. But when the results of the parsimony, carried to the extreme that it now is, are to be traced in blank calendars, because the criminal population is left at large until they commit crimes of so deep a dye that unwilling policemen and witnesses are compelled to give evidence against them at last, such a systen defeats its own object, and, instead of being economical, is the worst kind of extravagance. For the last four or five years the bar and others acquainted with the working of these attempts at a false economy have pointed them out in vain, until at last the system is beginning to bear the fruit that was predicted of it. If continued much longer, that which has been deemed one of the blots on the character of the Irish people-that they screen offenders from justice, however black their crimes-will be, with almost equal truth, a blot on the character of the English people, though produced by a different cause. Men will not willingly subject themselves to loss as well as inconvenience by becoming witnesses; and when once it is the belief of the people generally that this is what will certainly happen to them if they become witnesses, it is not difficult to predict that, although a crime may have been committed within the knowledge or sight of a score of people, no person will know any thing about it. Under the old system there may have been occasional extravagance, and possibly, in consequence, a too eager police; but of the two systems the one now in fashion leads to far greater evils, and disgusts every_body who has to do with the administration of the criminal law."-The Times, Aug. 16, 1860.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

J. Whigham, Esq., of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed to the Judgeship of the County Court, Circuit No. 37, in the room of the late Mr. Koe, Q.C.

Upon the decease of Mr. Hammill, Mr. Mansfield of the Worshipstreet Police Court was translated to the Marylebone Court; and Mr. Alexander A. Knox, who was called in 1847, and does not appear by the Law List to have practised in any Criminal Court, or to have been attached to any branch of the law, either Common, Equity, or Conveyancing, was appointed magistrate of the Worship-street Court.

Upon the death of Mr. Jardine, the Bow-street Police Magistrate, and Recorder of Bath, the following translations, promotions, and appointments, were made :-Mr. Corrie was translated from the Clerkenwell to the Bow-street Court; Mr. Barker was translated from the Worship-street to the Clerkenwell Court; Mr. J. Leigh was promoted from the Stipendiary Magistracy at Wolverhampton to that at the Worship-street Court; Mr. W. Partridge of the Oxford Circuit was appointed to be Stipendiary Magistrate at Wolverhampton; and Mr. T. W. Saunders of the Western Circuit, and Recorder of Dartmouth, was appointed to the Recordership of Bath.

Mr. James Stephen, the accomplished author of several works on jurisprudence, and editor of late of the works of his father, Serjeant Stephen, has, we are glad to say, been appointed to the Recordership of Poole, in the room of Mr. W. Major Cooke, who has been promoted to the Recordership of Southampton. If appointments as proper as this of Mr. Stephen, had been made on occasion of the recent vacancies on the County Court and Metropolitan Police Benches, we should not have heard such universal expressions of disgust at the exercise of government patronage.

MAURITIUS.-James Lushington Wildman, Esq., has been appointed senior stipendiary magistrate at Port Louis.

NEW BRUNSWICK.-David S. Kerr, George J. Thompson, Charles Duff, and Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Esqrs., have been appointed to be Queen's Counsel in the Province of New Brunswick, North America.

Necrology.

June.

22nd. Fox, John H., Esq. (at Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope), Solicitor, aged 26.

July.

19th. HOLT, George W., Esq., Solicitor, aged 69. 23rd. GREGORY, John S., Esq., Solicitor, aged 72. LAWSON, John M., Esq., Solicitor, aged 36. 28th. BARRET, Edward, Esq., Solicitor, aged 33.

FORSTER, George B., Esq., Solicitor, aged 48.

30th. CARRINGTON, Frederick A., Esq., Barrister, Recorder of Wokingham, aged 58.

August.

14th. WALSH, Michael, Esq., Solicitor.

15th. LAWTON G., Esq., Jun., Proctor.

19th. YEARSLEY, William, Esq., Solicitor, aged 58.

20th. TANCRED, Henry W., Esq., Q.C., Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and late M.P. for Banbury.

23rd. CHILD, Francis, Esq., Solicitor, aged 71.
24th. BASNETT, Edward, Esq., Solicitor, aged 70.
26th. ASHTON, Robert J., Esq., Solicitor, aged 47.
26th. DENTON, Hughes R., Esq., Barrister, aged 48.
BOURKE, George, Esq., Solicitor.

27th. ATWOOD, John, Esq., Solicitor, aged 30.
FRY, Peter W., Esq., Solicitor.

31st.

SINGLETON, William, Esq., Solicitor.

WATSON, The Rev. William Grey, Resident Chaplain to the
Hon. Society of Benchers of Gray's Inn, aged 39.

September.

9th. HARDMAN, Alfred L., Esq., Solicitor, aged 52. 10th. BRIDGE, Thomas G., Esq., Solicitor, aged 39. 13th. FORDATI, James Q., Esq., Barrister, aged 25.

JARDINE, David, Esq., Magistrate of Bow Street Police Court, aged 68.

17th. MONTGOMERY, Alexander, Esq., Solicitor. 18th. COARE, Watson, Esq., Solicitor, aged 34. 19th. ROGERS, Hender, Esq., Solicitor, aged 36.

23rd. WHITELEY, George, Esq., Barrister, aged 43.

26th. STEWART, James, Esq., Barrister, formerly M.P. for Honiton, and Secretary to the Copyhold Commission, aged 55.

28th. HESP, John, Esq., Solicitor, aged 69.

29th. ALLAN, Michael, Esq., Solicitor, aged 39.

October.

7th. CHISHOLME, John, Esq., Solicitor, aged 76. 9th. STOREY, John S., Esq., Solicitor aged 47. 12th. RUSSELL, James, Esq., Solicitor.

List of New Publications.

Allnutt. The Practice of Wills and Administrations. By G. T. Allnutt, Esq., Barrister. Fourth Edition. 12mo, 21s. cloth.

Baylis.-The Rights, Duties, and Relations of Domestic Servants, and their Masters and Mistresses. By T. H. Baylis, Esq., Barrister. Third Edition. 12mo, 1s. cloth.

Carpmael. The Law of Patents for Inventions familiarly explained. By W. Carpmael. Sixth Edition. Royal 12mo, 2s. 6d. cloth.

Colquhoun.-A Summary of the Roman Civil Law, illustrated by Commentaries on and Parallels from the Mosaic, Canon, Mohammedan, English, and Foreign Law, with an Appendix, Map, and General Index. By Patrick Colquhoun, LL.D., Barrister. Vol. IV. 8vo, 7s. 6d. boards. Harding. Handy Book of Ecclesiastical Law. By G. R. Harding, Esq. 12mo, 5s. cloth.

Hunter. The Acts to Amend the Law of Property and to Relieve Trustees (22 & 23 Vict., cap. 35, and 23 & 24 Vict., cap. 38), with Introductions and Practical Notes. By S. J. Hunter, Esq., Barrister. 12mo, 5s. 6d. boards.

Hunter. The Act to further Amend the Law of Property (23 & 24 Vict., cap. 38), with Introductions and Practical Notes, and with further Notes on 22 & 23 Vict., cap. 35. By S. J. Hunter, Esq., Barrister. 12mo, 2s. sewed.

Ibbotson.-The Legal Prompter, or Statute Indicator; being a Compilation for Immediate Reference to Statutes most in use. By H. W. Ibbotson, Esq. 12mo, 5s. cloth.

Jemmett.-The Act to Further Amend the Law of Property (23 & 24 Vict., cap. 38), with Observations. By C. E. Jemmett, Esq., Barrister. 8vo, ls. 6d. sewed.

Macpherson.-The Practice of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council. By W. Macpherson, Esq., Barrister. Royal 12mo, 16s. cloth.

Oke. The Laws of Turnpike Roads: comprising the whole of the General Acts; the Acts as to the Union of Trusts for facilitating Arrangements with their Creditors; the Interference of Railways and other Public Works with Roads (including also the Acts as to South Wales Turnpike Roads), etc., etc., practically arranged with Cases, Notes, Forms, etc. By G. C. Oke. Second Edition. Thick 12mo, 18s. cloth.