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BRIGHTON RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

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(BY ELECTRIC TELEGR APB. ) 2so

TRIAL STAKES.

Snowdon Dunhill
Pharold

1

‘2, I 31.

Four ran.

BIENNIAL STAKES.

Sittingbourne
Catherine Hayes

1 22
n St.
2 St.

Two ran.

ERIGIITON STAKES.

Pantomime

20
1 50
2 25
3 25

Adine..
Poodle

Won easy.

MARINE PLATE.

lieriot

20
1 1 St.

Puritan

Four ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from Lon-
don praying for an alteration of the law of debtor and
erediter.
TAX UPON HORSES AND DOGS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave I,
notice that to-morrow he proposed to make certain alte-
rations in the Assessed Taxes Bill with regard to race St,
horses—horses used for the purpose of husbandry by 20
Parties who were not professional farmers—and to re- 14
Store the tax upon dogs kept by paupers. The pro- 50
prietor of a race horse would be taxed according to the
201
11
largest number of horses that he kept—the number to
10
be fixed by himself—while with regard to horses which St.
farming
used promiscuously by parties who carried on St.
riing operations, without being professional farmers, 20
e tax would be commuted for a guinea a year. These 10
new resolutions would be printed with all the votes. St.
EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATE BILL. 5411
On the motion for the second reading of this bill, 25
Mr. WIGRAM pointed out a variety of legal and 25
technical objections to the bill. He acknowledged that St.
anecessity existed for legislation on this subject ; but at 8/ 2s
thiss period of the session it was perfectly hopeless to St.
think of
perfecting an important measure of this nature. St.
A commission was now sitting on the subject of colle- 50
giate and cathedral churches ; and although he did not
25
object to the principle of the bill, he thought, for the 100
t.
reason he had stated S
, that it would be better to post- 6;
Pone it until a future session. He should therefore 254
move, as an amendment, that the bill be read a second 50
tune this day three months. 20
Sir H. H. INGLIS seconded the amendment, and
explained that the simple object of the bill was to trans- St.
far the property of the oldest landowners in the country 50
to the management of three lay commissioners sitting St.
inLondon. All the capitular bodies in the country 16
viewed the bill as a measure of injustice, and considering 166
that 3
a commission was now sitting upon this very sub- 8
pet, and also considering the late period of the session, 20
he thought it would be better to reject the measure for 20
the Present. 10
Mr. S. HERBERT believed that the existing system St.
was excessively faulty, and exposed the dignitaries of the
Church to unjust imputations. He quite agreed, there- S,t.:
fore, that the subject was one which Parliament ought
St.
to
take up, but he did not think this bill dealt with it in
a
.proper manner. He decidedly disapproved of its prin-
St.
°Tie, but as it was quite impossible that the Legislature 10
could deal with this question, until it was in possession 26j
of the report of the commission now sitting on the sub-
leet, he thought it would be inexpedient to proceed fur- 13
Cher with this bill, even supposing that its machinery 20
Was good. (Hear,hear.) 20
After a feel far.)
Mr VERNON, 50

. words from -r. -.Aoki,
The Marquis of BLANDFORD said, at the present
moment he did not purpose to proceed further than ask
the house to affirm the principle of the bill, by passing
the second reading, and thus declare its opinion that
ecclesiastical property ought to be placed under the
lll4nagenient of laymen. The salaries of the clergy
should be made fixed instead of fluctuating, as was the
ease under the existin system ; and all that he now
called upon the house to do was to affirm this principle.
The fact that a commission was now sitting on the subject
should not be allowed to stand in the way of the second
reading of this bill, because the subject had already been
investigated
by a commission, and the recommendations
of that '
commission were embodied' in this bill. Where,
ttts-i, was the use of delaying further the settlement of
question ?
the ,-.. the existing system was humiliating to
from thehor"' a while this bill would remove them
m oral
of tein from worldl
thesey care attendant upon the management
p
the estatesh, it would at the same time protect
whole, he thought t g humiliating
influences ; and, on the
he house would be quite justified in
passing the second reading.
(LEFT SITTING.)

BE QUARTERLIES.

—.-
The Law
Magazine. o
contributions to
Position and in interest among the
the Law commenced, Magazine, for the quarter just
N . C.—Foremost both in
is an elaborate biographical paper on " Lord Chteaf-
J ustice Campbell." The biography of a biogr _ ,
Pher ! It will be found eminently instructive, and
O all forensic aspirants signally encouraging—
recounting, as it does, the rise o uaidd ability
from the desk of a law-reporterf ton thee bench of
the venerable Judges at Westminster. The trans-
formation by genius and labour of a stuff gown
into a robe of ermine and scarlet. An admir-
able paper is given later on in the periodical before
US on the progress already made in Law Reform,
and the rospects of its yet further development.
Professional readers will also find matter for peru-
sal and reflection in the paper given at the close of
'fie number, on the second report of the Common
Law Commissioners.

Brownsoies Quarterly Review. No. Ill.—lt is
encouraging to all who are in any way interested in
reprints of this description, to observe in Brownson's
Quarter/y Review, published originally in America
and reproduced in London by special arrangement
with the editor-proprietor—a steady and progres-
sive improvement. Altogether, the number here
Submitted to our consideration is the best of the
--clew series yet issued—containing several articles
of particular interest, and one peculiarly attractive
both in subject and in treatment. The contribu-
tion in question is of a biographical kind, relating
to the ancient " Fathers of the Desert "—memor-
able ascetics and recluses, like Jerome, and Basil,
and Gregory Nazianzen. Valuable materials for
meditation may be found, moreover, in the paper
referring t9ll4lo§olthicatl Studies off, Christianity.

rhc Law Review. No. XXXVI. —Scarcely
all article in the present number of the Law
lieview but has some interest about it of
13et.se_u.liar attraction. Altogether, indeed, the con-
tents of of the current. instalment' is worthy of a 6i
professin to be a quarterly journal of
20
44Lrionish and Foreigng Jurisprudence. Prominent
gst the contributions are three additional St.
chapters of the " Treatise on the Contract of 5
Partnership." Further consideration is given to
-Le sides •
Pro ose_ Reform 0"P f theEcelesiasticalCourts." St.
p
this, there is a paper on Private Acts of
e,arliament," and another on " Scotland and Herf Sstt:
Grievances and another on the " Organisation o
byCivil Service," and another on the treatment, 10.
\-vY the State, of "Vagrant and Criminal Children." 6,
article
are gratified to observe also, in addition to anf 50
ti,"ele on 6, Codification," and a fifth chapter o
" History of Jurisp rudence"— each particu-
'l37" deserving examination—the proposed Re- St.
trt of the Special Committee on " Law Reporting." St.
16
the outset of this lucid and comprehensive docu-
St.
I,'
-Lent, forcible allusion is made to the practice adopted St.
at
nf the presentperiod throughout the United States
America wl re the office of State Reporter is St.
regulatedby general law—a practice condemnatory 50
hestrongest manner of our really lamentable
lilegligence in this particular. Regretful mention 50thinade also of the time when, in our own country,
. e Crown appointed official It eporters of legal de- 12
laisi°llB by letters patent—a custom which, it is
deroontable to reflect, has long since fallen into
thelletude. It is enough to remember the fact that
e 2
Law of Property, real and personal, among 3
turaelves, is for the most part " governed
\ls precedents," to recognise at once the ad-
abilityof having some authorised and
properly organised system of Law Reporting
plated by the wise supervision of the Le-
lat
,ure—especially when it is borne in mind,
Judicial
as here intimated, that the authority of a
eial decision of the Courts at Westminster-hall,
rn
LaPractice at least, equals that of an act of Par-
k:el:Lt. A truth wholly incontrovertible. It was
of ely in consequence of his recognising the force
O.E. is circumstance that Jeremy Bentham spoke
he called " Judge-made laws" when he al-
fo e' to judicial precedents. It must be obvious
la all these considerations, therefore, that the
incouatuittee, whose report is here under notice, are
rs et"rY respect justified in declaring that, "if it
land duty of the State to make the law of the
2510
'universally known, there can be no reason
itYlO
publication of the law declared from the 1.0
that should be less formal and less complete than
the
a the law declared by the Legislature." Hence
authorised
ethmanifest necessity of a regular and officially
'iorised system of law reporting. As the first step
towardsglai the adoion of some such system, we
snacY hail the appearance of this report on the 17
Dept, emanating from the special committee ap-
Peinted to .
untirin inquire into it by the energetic and 25
g Law Amendment Association.