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London, England, 1853-08-03 00:00:00

TILE QUARTERLIES.

The Law lieview. No. XXXVI. Scarcely
an article in the present number of the Law
Review but has some interest about it .of
peculiar attraction. Altogether, indeed, the con-
tents of the current instalment is worthy of a
periodical professing to be a quarterly journal of
British. and Foreign Jurisprudence. Prominent
amongst the contributions are three additional
chapters of the " Treatise on the Contract of
Partnership." Further consideration is given to
the proposed "Reform of theEcclesiasticalCourts."
Besides this, there is a paper on " Private Acts of
Parliament," and another on " Scotland and Her
Grievances," and another on the " Organisation of
the Civil Service," and another on the treatment,
by the State, of "Vagrant and Criminal Children."
We are gratified to observe also, in addition to an
article ou "Codification," and a fifth chapter of
the " History of Jurisprudence"— each particu-
larly deserving examination—the proposed Re-
port of the Special Committee on " Law Reporting."
At the outset of this lucid and comprehensive docu-
ment, forcibleallusionismade to thepractice adopted
at the present period throughout the United States
of America, where the office of State Reporter is
regulated by general law—a practice condemnatory
in the strongest manner of our really lamentable
negligence in this particular. Regretful mention
is made also of the time when, in our own country,
the Crown appointed official Reporters of legal de-
cisions by letters patent—a custom which, it is
lamentable to reflect, has long since fallen into
desuetude. It is enough to remember the fact that
the Law of Property, real and personal, among
ourselves, is for the most part " governed
by precedents," to recognise at once the ad-
visability of having some authorised and
properly organised system of Law Reporting
regulated by the wise supervision of the Le-
gislature—especially when it is borne in mind,
likewise, as here intimated, that the authority of a
judicial decision of the Courts at Westminster-hall,
in practice at least, equals that of an act of Par-
liament. A truth wholly incontrovertible. It was
simply in consequence of his recognising the force
of this circumstance that Jeremy Bentham spoke
of what he called " Judge-made laws" when he al-
luded to judicial precedents. It must be obvious
from all these considerations, therefore, that the
committee, whose report is here under notice, are
in every respect justified in declaring that, "if it
is the duty of the State to make the law of the
land universally known, there can be no reason
why the publication of the law declared from the
Bench should be less formal and less complete than
that of the law declared by the Legislature." Hence
the manifest necessity of a regular and officially
authorised system of law reporting. As the first step
towards the adoption of some such system, we
gladly hail the appearance of this report on the
subject, emanating from the special committee ap-
pointed to inquire into it by the energetic and
untiring Law Amendment Association.

The Law Magazine. No. C.—Foremost both in
position and in interest among the contributions to
the Law Magazine, for the quarter just commenced,
is an elaborate biographical paper on " Lord Chief
Justice Campbell." The biography of a biogra-
pher ! It will be found eminently instructive, and
to all forensic aspirants signally encouraging—
recounting, as it does, the rise of unaided ability
from the desk of a law-reporter to the 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 prospects of its yet further development.
Professional readers will also find matter for peru-
sal and reflection in the paper given at the close of
the number, on the second report of the Common
Law Commissioners.

Brownson's Quarterly Review. No. lII.—It is
encouraging to all who are in any way interested in
reprints of this description, to observe in Brownson's
Quarterly 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
new series yet issued—containing several articles
of particular interest, and one pecnliarly 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 to Philosophical Studies on Christianity.

HEALTH OP LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

( From the Registrar-General's Return. )

The Registrar-General's return states that in the
week that ended on Saturday 1,004 deaths were regis-
tered, a result which, though not unfavourable as com-
pared with the usual mortality of the season in London,
again gives indication of that increase which is charac-
teristic of the summer mortality of towns as distin-
guished from that of the country. The deaths returned
in the last three weeks were successively 904, 971, and
1,004.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52
the average number of deaths was 1,068, which, with a
correction for increase of population, gives a mortality
of 1,175. This series of weeks embraces the high mor-
tality from cholera in 1849, and the average is therefore
greater than it would be if derived exclusively from
years less remarkable for epidemic disease.
Taking the fatal diseases in groups, it is seen that the
zymotic class increased from 226 to 270 in the last two
weeks, arising from diarrhoea and measles ; diseases of
the nervous system rose from 94 to 128, while those of
the respiratory organs fell from 102 to 79. The pro-
gress of diarrhoea is shown in the returns of July as fol-
lows :-34, 54, 73, and (last week) 81 ; cholera, from
which no deaths were registered in the first week of the
month, was fatal in 3,6, and 9 cases in the subsequent
weeks. The 9 cases of last week are given in detail :
At 21, Clifton-street, Shoreditch, on 25th July, the
daughter of a gas-inspector, aged 6 months, " diarrhoea
(several days), cholera infantum (48 hours).
At 18, Caledonia-crescent, Islington, on 22d July, a
boy, aged 9 months, " sporadic cholera (48 hours)."
") At 4, Springfield-villas, Kilburn, on 24th July, the
daughter of a gentleman, aged 3 years, died of common
cholera (24 hours).
At the Workhouse, Bishopsgate, on 27th July, a
needlewoman, aged 63 years, " choleraic diarilicea (9
days), choleraic fever (5 days.)."
At the same workhouse, on 28th July, the widow of
an iron-founder, aged 79 years, " choleraic diarrhoea (9
days), fever (3 days).
At 6, Bank's-court, Finsbury., on 20th July, the
daughter of a porter, aged 11 months, "summer cholera
(5 days)."
At 27, Hatton-wall, Saffron-hill, on 26th July, a
broker's man, aged 82 years, "English cholera (15 days),
old age."
In Lambeth (Waterloo, Ist part) at Prince's-mews, on
27th July, the son of a servant, aged 5 months, " cho-
lera infantum (24 hours)."
At 2, Raven-cottages, Hammersmith, on 28th July,
the widow of a surgeon, aged 65 years, " diarrhoea,
cholera Anglica (2 days)."
Last weex the births of 769 boys and 752 girls, in all
1521 children, were registered in London. The aver-
age number in eight corresponding weeks of the years
1845-52 was 1,344.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 30.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l2B
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3B
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 79
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Banes, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 1
Premature Birth and Debility 34
Atrophy 3O
Old Age
Sudden 5
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 4B
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre-
Enumerated. sponding week

. 1,004
Deaths
in the

1851. 4 of 1852. Week
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
-
Males 520
Females.

WRTHS TN - THE WEEK.
Males 769
Females 752

Total 1,521

FOREIGN.
10 4 Antwerp&Rotterdam 1} 1 d
5 3 Belgian &stn. June. / 11.
20 8 Beziers to Graissessac 1
20 all Charleroi & Erquelin• 14 A I
n
20 10 Dijon andßesancon- • 1 p
20 8 Dutch Rhenish ....... 2 —1/ d
20 all East 1ndian............ 4,1
5 3,
20 1 Do, Extension..... 1 1 jt,
5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula If 2ip 6
20 10 Gd. Juliet. of France li --2
203 all Gt.Westernof Canada
Shares ... .... id p
5 3 ,Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c
pref. / id
20 15 Luxembourg 7 i 7
I
10 10 Do. (Railway) 4-- 7
1 Ii
5 2 Do. .. - .... . ..... 1 A
5 3 Do. (Canal) ..... . 1 —l/
a
10 4 Do. 6p. ct. pref..— 1 —4,
20 9 Lyons & Mediterran. ...
.2 p
20 7i Madras .. . _ lihp 9
20 all Namur & Liege (with
interest) ..... . 7/ 7i 7/
50 all Do. (ex interest) . . 1
~
16 all Northern of France 341 —34 i /# # i
Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds
20 all (fmy.B.&Ams•Shs.) 14 —14 i
10 'all NorwegianTrunkPref 8/ 9.}
20 10 Paris and Lyons l6} 16/ 26 i #
10 all Paris and Orleans 45 —46
20 all Paris and Rouen 43 —44
20 all Paris and Strasbourg 361 -36 i 36/ 1 g
20 4 ParisCaen&Cherbrg. 4 -- G
klO 7# Quebec & Richmond # --id
20 all Rouen and Havre l9 —2O
50 2 Royal Swedish
8;
20 all Sambre and Meuse._ 8
20 .2 Sth-Eastru. of France I— i *
.20 6 Southern of France 5 6 p
-20' 2s. Upper India Scrip # i P_..
• • pm
8 all West Flanders 3/ 1 4 i
10 10 Do. 5i per c. Pref ... dis
20 10 Western ef France._ 9 _ 9ip
10 2 West. of Switzerland I id
20 , 9 Ztaland _ , 3 :_-_ 2di

MINES.
1 all Agna Fria — lip 2
103. all Anglo Californian
10 2 Australasian ld par
20 5 Australian 2 3
1 all Australian Cordillera - d
1 all Australian Freehold. d
1 all Ave Maria — d
1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) d p
1 all British Austrin. Gold A d
20 13.5 British Iron 7 9
35 24i Brazilianlmp.(isaued
at pm 34 41
30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 2 3
20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 32 —34
1 A Carson's Creek d 1);
40 Cobre Copper 47 43
5 1 Colonial Gold — Ipi 2
.. 14 Copiapo loi —11 A 11.
St. all Copper Min. of Eng 6O 70
25 all Do. Pref. 7A p. cent 7i
5 all English and Austin
Copper Smeltg. Co 2k 1 d
20 all General l4 —l6
2 all Great Nugget Vein p
3 all Great Polgooth
1 all Lake Bathurst - d
1 all Liberty id— 1
1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold
Quartz Crush. Co
1 all Mariquita d par
10 9 Mexican&S.Americn 6l 71
p 1 all New Granada id
1 all Nouveau Monde 1 /
6 1 Port Philip
1 all Quartz Rock d P
8
50 all Rhymney Iron 22 —24
15 Do. New GA 7i
30 10i Santiago de Cuba 4 5
1 all South Australian kd— par
10 '7 Tin Croft — 8
28i all United Mexican 3l 4k 31
1 all Waller — d
1 all West Granada $
1 all West Mariposa - Idi
2
1 all Yuba 1 /di
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
40 all Australasia Bl 82 811 1 A
40 all British Colonial Bank ...
and Loan Company
50 all British N. American
20 2 Chrtd. Bnjr.of India,
Austral., and China 1 32i
25 5 Chrtd. Buk. of Asia. Ad par 4'
100 25 Colonial
100 20 Commercial of Lond —
20 10 English Scottish and
Australian Chrtd par .p 10 A
20 12A London Chrtd. Bnk
of Australia - - 2/p 17$ $
50 20 London and County ...
50 10 London Joint Stock ...
100 20 Lond.andWestminst —
100 35 National Provincial
of England
20 10 Do. New — •••
50 22i National of Ireland...
25 all Oriental Bank Cor
poration
100 25 Provincial of Ireland ...
10 all Do. New —
5 1 Royal Australn. Bkg
and Gold Imp. Co. Ad— par
25 25 South Australia 44 46
25 all Union of Australia.. 72i —73Axd .73A 2.1 x
21 Do. New 8 8A 8i
50 10 Union of London ... x
40 all Union of Madrid
MISCELLANEOUS
100 35 Australian Agricult. 32 34 32 4
20 10 Australsn.Pcific.Mail
10 7 Australis. Royal Mail
50 381 Brit. American Land 64 67
100 32,1 j Canada
5 5 Crystal Palace 1 $
4 4 Crystal Pal. of France
20 1 Eastern Steam —
1 1 Electric Toleg. of Ir —
15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat —
20 14 General Screw Steam
20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar
1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ...
10 3 Netherlands Land id s 1)
20 7A Nrth.ofEuropeStean i
50 all Peninsular& Oriental'
50 25 Do.
100 60 Royal Mail Steam . .
25 25 South Austral. Land 38 40 38
1 all Snbmar. Telegraph ...
5 2 Univeral Emigration
and Colonization . .
100 28A Van Diemen's Lan 16. 17 16i