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COURT OP CHANCERY..
(Before the Lord Chancellor and Lords justices.)
TWO APPBAIS-JUDGMENT-VEXNINC. V. LLOYD.

Then are appeals from an order of Vice-Chancellor Sir
William Page Wood,directingthe appellant to pay into court
£5,375 due on a life insurance policy in the hands of the
Scottish Widows' Fund Assurance Company on the life of
a gentleman deceased. An action •,vas raised in the Court
of Session in Scotland for payment of this policy, and ar-
restments used in the hands of the company, jurisdictions
funclundi masa, which is nrt concluded. Afterwards a
bill was filed in Chancery for the same purpose.
The appellant pleaded—.lst, that he could not pay the
money into this court, ir4 respect that the money was ar-
rested in the hands of the company in Scotland on a de-
pending action before the Court of Session, and the docu-
ments to prove his debt were produced in that action and
could not be delivered up. Their lordships were unani-
mously of opinion that, considering the Court of Session
had co-ordinate jurisdiction with the Court of Chancery in
England, still that Court must be treated In the
same manner as courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction
in England,— such as the Court of Exchequer for example—
that where an action is begun and not concluded this Court
has a right to make such orders as are necessary on the sub-
ject matter of the suit before it.

Their lordships affirmed the order of the Vice •Chancellor
and dismissed both appeals with costs.

ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
JUDGMENT.-GORDON V. WOODFOILD.

It will be remembered that some weeks since the defen-
dant was released from prison, where he was confined for
breach of an injunction of this Court, restraining him from
cutting down or felling timber on the estate of Derwent-
water ; an estate of great beauty, and valuable for its
timber. In 1854 he became entitled thereto as tenant for
life, without impeachment of waste ; but in that year he
had, sold the right to cut timber to persons entitled to an
interest in remainder, and afterwards executed a trust deed
in favour of trustees.

His Honour the Master of the Rolls? on considering the
contracts entered into by the parties, was of opinion that the
defendants were not entitled to cut down the timber on the
estate in the manner proposed ; that the timber not only
included the timber mentioned on the estate, but also sap-
lings or growing timber known as such in that part of the
country, and declared the injunction perpetual, with costs
to the plaintiff, and ordered an account to be taken.

His Honour recommended an amicable settlement between
the parties.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)

SINGULAR LOAN SOCIETY CASE-RATCLIFFE V. REEVE.
This was an action to recover £3 10s. balance of a pro-
missory note for £5, defendant having been security.
The note was produced and the borrower was entered as
one Glindon. •

Defendant denied that he was security for Glindon. Ho
had agreed to be bound for one Newman. He attended one
night at the house in which the society was held and find-
ing Newman had not arrived defendant signed the note
produced in blank. Some person had filled in the name of
Glindon without defendant's knowledge or consent. The
plaintiff did not know Glindon. 30s. had been been paid off
the note.
Defendant—Not by me.

His Honour—Newman might have been a rich man, and
Glindon a pauper in the workhouse. Defendant could not
be bound for Glindon, and must have a verdict with costs.
MEDICAL CASE.-WELCH (EXECUTOR FOR LANODALE) V.

LITERATURE.

`;even Years, and Other Tales. By Julia Kavanagh,
author of "Nathalie," " The Two Sicilies,"

Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett.

1 .
These volumes cannot fail to prove attractive to
readers, on account of their variety and the skill
which is displayed in their construction. " Seven
Years" is the title of the first tale. It is not so
lively as the others, but there is more feeling in it.
Fanny, the little heroine, is a charming young girl,
and there is something really touching in her
cheerful endeavours to promote the happiness of
those by whom she is surrounded, while she is
called upon to sacrifice herself' for their good. The
characters of Madame la Roche and her two old
servants are well done. These three women had
grown old together after a sort of vegetable exis-
tence. Charlotte and Marie are very well sketched
in their different ways, and Fanny was certainly a
martyr between them. In many of the other stories
there is much to entertain. " The Cheap Excursion"
is one of the best comic sketches, and it is ludicrous
in the extreme to follow the silly old couple in their
devious conrse, fruitlessly endeavouring to make the
day an economical one. Their last exploit was to climb
up behind a fiacre, fancying they would get home ;
but when they got down after nightfall, they were
landed in Versailles instead of Paris. The adven-
tures of the Jasmin family are also enter-
taining, and the miseries of their splendid
apartments were almost as severe as the
annoyances experienced through the restric-
tions of poverty. The crowning; mishap was
that they had to get into their bed-room through
an upper window in their drawing-room door,
which was a performance more distinguished for
agility than conducive to comfort. " The Troubles
of a Quiet Man" reveal how much confusion may
occur in consequence of acceding too readily to
everybody's request. The simpl individual here
mentioned was very much to be pitied for the end-
less mischances that supervened on his most harm-
less pleasures. "An Excellent Opportunity" is a very
striking instance of the way in which some of the
cleverest sharpshooters sometimes overreach them-
selves. The man for whom the hero had purchased
an annuity, thinking he could not live a month,
recovered his health, and threatened to outlive
himself. "Young France" demonstrates the foolish
extremes to which young men often carry their
fantastic ideas of reforming society, when reform
ought, in the first place, to be done at home.
Although these volumes will not bear comparison
with the more elaborate productions of this autho-
ress, they will be found very deserving of atten-
tion, and the circumstance of all the tales being
French is in itself an agreeable variety. They
give a good insight into the manners and customs
of our continental neighbours, and the various
sketches of human nature in the different scenes
and strange events here chronicled are most ably
depicted. Altogether, the work will most probably
meet with the approval of its readers.

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