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THE LAW MAGAZINE ; or, QUARTERLY
REVIEW OF JURISPRUDENCE.
No. I. New Series, No. LXV. Old Series.
CONTENTS :
I. Presumptive Evidence.
11. O'Connell v. Reginarn.
111. The Law of Debtor and Creditor.
IV. The Growth of Crime.
V. Grecning's Chitty on Pleading.
VI. The Transfer of Property Act.
VII. Parochial Settlements.
VIII. The Bar.
Notes of Leading Cases.—Digest of Cases.—Events of the Quarter.—
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supposed to be the Brazilian schooner Aventura, with
four hundred slaves on board ; of the destruction of the
Brazilian slave-brigantine Piedade, completely equipped
for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Albatross ;
and of the capture of the Spanish slave-brigantine
Andaz, completely equipped for the slave trade, on
the 25th September last, by her Majesty's steam-sloop
Ptometheus; of the capture of the Spanish slave schooner
Concepcion, on the 23d September last, by her Majesty's
steam sloop Growler ; of the detention, on the 30th
August last, of a brigantine, name unknown, completely
fitted for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Star ;
of the detention of a Brazilian felucca, called II Grande
Poder do Dios, bound to Bahia, with forty slaves on
board, by her Majesty's sloop Wasp ; of the capture of
a schooner, fully equipped for the slave trade, supposed
to be the Virginia or Alerto, but without papers of any
kind, by her Majesty's steam-ship Penelope, which ship
had also driven on shore and destroyed a smaller
schooner, of about forty tons, equipped for the slave
trade, and probably Brazilian.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have pro-
moted Mr. John Francis Tottenham, mate of the Hya-
cinth, to the rank of Lieutenant.
LORI) CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, DEC. 27.
The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household
has appointed the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West to be
one of the Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters in Or-
dinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Heneage
Legge, deceased.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick
Sedley, Esq., to be Inspector of Police for the island of
Malta.

week ending Dec. (44, 1844, is 30s. 81c1. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

MANSION-ROUSE.

A man, named Benjamin Lambourn, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged by the Directors of
the Commercial and General Life Insurance Office
with having forged a bill of exchange for the pay-
ment of 150/., with intent to defraud the Company.
Mr. Humphreys, fer the prosecution, stated that in
-March, 1843, the prisoner applied at the Commercial
and General Life Insurance Company for cash fur a
bill of 3001., and obtained it, upon the understanding
that the bill should be reduced by quarterly payments,
and that upon each reduction a new bill should be
given. Reductions had taken place, the quarterly
payments having been made until the amount of the
debt was 1.501., when, upon failure of payment of the
regular instalment, it was discovered that the last
bill was a forgery as to the acceptor and some of the
indorsers.

Mr. Frederick Lawrence, Secretary to the Com-
mercial and General Life Insurance Company, stated
that in the month of March, 1843, the Company re-
ceived from the prisoner a bill of exchange of 3001.,
drawn by Richard Lambourn, and accepted by Thos.
Ratley, of NsW. 7, Ivy-terrace, Horton, and indorsed
"Benjamin. Balls,. Richard Lambourn, Samuel Long,
Joseph Donovan, and Benjamin Lambourn" (tile
prisoner). That bill was renewed for the smaller
amounts as the instalments were paid, upon several
occasions, each bill bearing the same names as drawer,
acceptor, and indorsers. On or about the 7th of
September inst. the prisoner brought the present
bill for 1501., as a renewal of the preceding bill. It
purported to be drawn by Richard Lambourn, and
accepted by Thomas Ratley, payable to the drawer's
order three months' after date, and purporting to be
accepted and indorsed as the former bills had been.
That bill came to maturity on the 10th of Deeember
inst., and was dishonoured and noted. The full
amount of the bill was due to the Company, Henry
George Ward, the Member for Sheffield, and others.
The LORD MAYOR—Have all the bills the Com-
pany received from the prisoner bore the same in-
dorsements? Witness—Yes, the same names.
Here the prisoner, upon being asked whether he
wished to ask the witness any questions, replied in
the negative, but he wished for a remand.
The LORD MArox said he should be ruled by the
nature of the evidence whether or not to grant an-
other remand.

Thomas Batley, of No. 7, Ivy-terrace, Hoxton,
head waiter to Messrs. King and I3rymer, of Corn-
hill, stated that he had accepted bills for the prisoner,
but it was a long time ago. He had not, to the best
of his belief, accepted a bill so lately for the prisoner
as two years ago. The acceptance to the bill pro-
duced was not in his handwriting, ner had his name
been written by his authority.
The prisoner—About the middle of the year 1843
were you not confined by illness to your bed ? Wit-
ness—l was.

The prisoner—That's all the questions I wish to
ask you.
Samuel Long, of No, 93, High-street, Marylebone,
licensed victualler, stated that about March, 1843, he
indorsed a bill for 3001., at the request of the pri-
soner, at his own house. The prisoner subsequently
requested him to renew the bill, but he refused to do
so until he should see the old bill. He accordingly
went to the Company's offices, where he saw the old
bill, erased his name, and accepted a bill for, he had
no doubt, 2731., for the prisoner. Witness never in-
dorsed any other bill for the prisoner. The indorse-
ment, " Samuel Long," upon the bill ;produced, was
not his handwriting, neither had he authorised any
one to write it.

Joseph Donovan, fishmonger, of 292, Oxford-
street, stated that at the prisoner's request he in-
dorsed in the beginning of the year, 1843, a bill for
3001. He afterwards went in company with Mr.
Long to the Company's offices, and saw the old bill,
from which he erased his name, and he indorsed a
bill for 2751. Subsequently he cut his name out of
the bill for 2751., and he had never indorsed a bill
since that period for the prisoner. The signature,
" Joseph Donovan," to the bill produced, was not his,
nor had it been sanctioned by him.
Mr. Humphreys said that no doubt the signature
of the drawer was genuine.
The LORD MAYOR—The case is complete. I can
see no ground for granting a remand of the prisoner.
The prisoner—Mr. Balls, whose name is on the
back of the bill, my Lord, is not in the Court.
The LORD MAYOR—It is not necessary ; here are
two of the indorsers, who swear that their names have
been forged. Besides, I am not trying the case. I
commit upon the evidence I have just heard.
The prisoner—l was told that if I would make up
a certain amount of money, the Company would
exonerate me from a prosecution.
The Secretary to the Company most positively
denied that any proposition of the kind had been
made upon the part of the Company, or that he had
made any such intimation to the prisoner.
The LORD MAYOR (to the prisoner)—You mean
that you were given to understand by somebody,
that if you did as you sa3r, you would not be prose-
cuted ? The prisoner—Yes, my Lord.
Mr. Goodman (the Chief Clerk)—Do you
wish to sign the statement you have just made ?
The prisoner—No; I don't see any occasion for that.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
The Lord Mayor received from A. B. 2/. ; and
from T. Moore, Esq., 1/. ls., for the poor-box.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From Friday Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and stb of Vic-
toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
21st day of December, 1844.
ISSUE DZPARTMENT.
X.
Notes issued ... 28,151,730

GoTernment debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin aid
bullion
Silver bullion

£28,151,730
li. MA
Dated the 26th day of Dei

X 28,151,730
,SHALL, Chief Cashier.
!mber, 1844.

BANKING D
X.

:PART3IIi2iT.

Proprietors' capi-
tal 14,553,000
Rest 3,110,513
Public deposits
(including Ex-
chequer,Savings
banks, Comanis-
sioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
dividend ac-

Government seen-
rities (includ-
ingllead Weight
Annuity) 13,540,619
Other securities 10,763,777
Notes
Gold and silver
coin

counts) 7,075,258
Other deposits
Seven day and
other bills 967,934

534,055,4431
Di. MA.
Dated the 26th day of Del

£34,055,443
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
!ember, 1844.

STATE OF TRADE.

Very few vessels have yet been able to work their
way to port, and the imports of the week are conse-
quently very unimportant.
The amount of shipping now due, and, indeed,
known to be in the immediate vicinity, is probably
greater than at any former period, and the new year
will consequently be entered upon with larger sup-
plies of produce of all sorts ; meanwhile the sufferings
from severe weather of the crews on board ships,
many of which will also have run short of provisions,
must be very intense.
There has been a large business in cottoa this week,
and prices of all sorts, but more especially the lower
kinds, have improved a shade, whilst the market has
been benefited to a greater extent by the different
feelings prevalent in busy times to such as are mani-
fested when selling, not buying, is the cry. Prices
are low—lower than they were ever known ; but
what is to raise them ? There is a large crop in
prospect, and a large import (probably 150,000
bales) to arrive in the next ten days of westerly
winds. Take the duty off, and the importer and spe-
culator will, no doubt, be benefited ; but let not the
Manchester anti-corn-law advocates neglect the duty
on food for the support of a repeal of the duty on
cotton. The manufacturing trade is a good one, the
consumption as great as the buildings in existence
will allow, and the profits of the year very, very
large ; but juSt now there is scarcely an article paying
duty, or a trade under the influence of the Excise,
which the parties most interested are not attempting
to relieve by seeking a repeal of duty.
In produce generally there is not much doing, and
it is to be regretted that the Liverpool buyers and
sellers do not act after the example of their London
friends, and reduce their transactions at this (always
a dull) season to the smallest possible extent.
•

There has been a continuance of animation in the
share market, and large profits have no doubt been
reaped this year ; this has had the effect of nearly
doubling the number of brokers to do the work, and
altogether this seems the most lucrative and improving
business of the day. There is no lack of money, and
all fears of a scarcity are long since dissipated.—
Liverpool Mercury.

I Irish echo; and it is more apt to soar into a
counter-harangue than to subside into the modesty
of a reply. But, in this instance, with the excep-
tion of the treaty with Morocco, which is very happily
disposed of by the words " Peace has been as prompt
as victory," the speech appears to contain no allusion
to the great questions of the session—the Education
Bill, the much-desired grant to the Duke de Nemours,
the state of Spain, or any present negotiations, or
future acts of legislative importance. We should be
ungrateful, however, if we did not acknowledge with
the greatest satisfaction the terms in which the King
speaks, not only of the marks of reciprocal friendship
which he has received from the Queen of England,
but of the manifestations in favour of the long dura-
tion of the general peace, which met his Majesty at
every turn in this country. The visits of a Queen of
England to France and of a King of France to
England, at a time when the malignity and intem-
perance of party warfare had fastened upon our in-
ternational relations, are memorable triumphs of the
personal dignity and good feeling of the two Sovereigns
over all petty causes of jealousy and strife ; and they
will not be without their just effect on the approaching
debate. We have often had occasion to point out the
vices of the system of political discussion practised
in the French assemblies, where the debate is alto-
gether artificial, and got up for the occasion, not
growing out of the importance of the subjects or the
pressure of events. The French Opposition have got
so much in the habit of speaking without any prac-
tical question at all before the Chambers, that their
annual parade of patriotic sentiments has lost all the
spirit and the power of a real political demonstration.
Nobody doubts the sincerity of their zeal to turn out
the Government ; but it is unfortunate that they have
not hit upon a single specific measure of improve-
ment, or even of a popular character, to which they
can attach their efforts, and for which they may
claim the efficient support of the interests and opinions
of the country. Such an Opposition as this is has
all along been treated by the Government with far
more respect than it deserved. It has always proved
powerless, often insecure. If it had come into office,
it would have copied M. Guizot, except in those par-
ticulars in which M. Guizot has so demeaned himself
as to copy the Opposition. Every concession he has
made to them, every modification of his own palicy and
genuine intentions which he has attempted to justify
by his inability to do better, has turned out ill. For
acts of this kind were acts which the Opposition itself,
if in power, would not have attempted. Their grand
object appears to have been to mislead him, like a tra-
veller in a fog, by false cries ; and, not infrequently,
he has thought it safer to trust to the good feeling of
his allies than to the good sense of France. But
these deviations from the wonted severity of his course

have always led to inconvenience, even more at home
than abroad ; and we are convinced that if he had
always shown a firmer determination to fulfil his
whole policy, especially towards this country, he
would have stood considerably higher than he does at
present; and he would not have left it to others, his
opponents, to boast that in their hands the alliance
with England would become more secure and more
productive than in his own. As far as the party com-
binations of the Chamber of Deputies are concerned,
the French Cabinet runs no risk. The old questions of
rightof search and the like will be dressed up for the de-
bate ; but, like the painted forts and dragon-banners of
the Chinese, they were always unreal, and they are now
tattered and threadbare. Great questions gain by
successive discussions; false ones expire. The

soundest part of the Liberal party which acts with
M. de Tocqueville and M. Odillon Barrot have
severed themselves from M. niers, and they will be
joined in their campaign by the knight-errantry of
M. de Lamartine, whose ardour to attack the nominal
head of the Opposition exceeds even his desire to
orerturn the head of the Administration. But, as

affecting the great practical questions of the distribu-
tion of power and the government of the country, all
these are outward feints, flourishes, and pretences.
The duration of the Administration turns, in reality,

on a much Smaller point—a point so small, indeed,
that we know not in what corner of the reign

of George 111. or George 11. we can find an analo-
gous case. Whilst the political horseriders and
scaramouches are skirmishing round the ring, their
master has his place in the centre. The royal will
is fixed upon a single object, with the tenacity and
with far more than the ingenuity of George 111.
It is a peculiarity of the mind and character of the
King of the French to make great questions ancillary
to small ones. The peace of Europe and the pros-
perity of France are no doubt the honour of his
reign; but one might imagine that the chief object
of that reign was to obtain a paltry grant for the
Duke de Nemours. Whoever can engage to carry
that grant may be Prime Minister of France to-mor-
row. Already, on the question of the choice of a
President for the Chamber of Deputies, the King and
the Journal des Debuts support M. Dupin, whilst the
Ministry adheres, more from private regard than
public gratitude, to M. Sauzet. What can be the
reason ? A very slender one. M. Dupin is said to
have dropped his resistance to the dotation project;
and, if that be true, his assistance will be invaluable
in carrying it through the Chamber. Louis Philippe
may say with Bishop Phillpotts on a recent occasion
—"Paradoxical as it may sound, I rejoice that the
battle is to be fought for these trifles.' The more
contemptible is the object in view, the more absolute
is that power, the more crafty is the skill, which can
accomplish it in the teeth of the whole nation.
At such times as these, with an attempt on
the one hand to exasperate and delude the public
mind against the best foreign ally of France, and a
preconceived resolution on the part of the Crown to
risk so much in order to gain so little, the path of a
French statesman is neither straight nor smooth.
But the more necessary it is for the man who stands
at the head of affairs in that country to defy calumny,
and to crush intrigue by the whole weight of his per-
sonal dignity, and a firm adherence to his political
principles. His antagonists may hope to clamber
into office by promising what he could not do ' • but
they would remain there only by completing what lie
has left undone. For the real interests of our own
country and of our relations with France, it is now
of comparatively small importance who may hold
office there ; for almost all parties seem agreed that
our good will is more desirable than our enmity, and
the politicians who have talked loudest of war in
Opposition, would be equally strenuous partisans of
peace when in power. But a Government brought
in by such means would inspire no confidence at
home or respect abroad. It would owe its hybrid
existence to a popular delusion crossed by a royal
intrigue, and we confidently anticipate that the des-
tinies of France will not be transferred from the hands
of those who have now governed them for more than
four years.
POST.—The political " understanding" between
Great Britain and the Court of Rome, for ecclesiasti-
cal and general purposes, to which we alluded yester-
day, has already become a topic of no small alarm
among the fiercely radical body of the Maynooth
priesthood in Ireland. Hints are already muttered
of throwing off allegiance to the Pope, and to this
extremity we doubt not the Irish priests might come.
They could soon make a Pope of their own. Nay,
the mitred brawler of Tuam is almost ready-made
to their hand, and very much suited, in all respects,
to their taste. The organ of the Romish priests in
the metropolis of the south of Ireland, exclaims, in
alarm 1—" It is more than a rumour that Rome and
England are now forming an alliance, by which the
former is to give into the hands of the latter power
over the Irish Church. On this subject we shall not
dwell. It is startling as painful, and reflects no
honour either on the policy of the Court of Rome, or
on the Government of England. It would be a base
betrayal of a faithful fold on the one hand ; and a
mean, underhand, per fidious, but characteristic scheme
on the other. To be sure, the question—one full of
imminent peril to our beleaguered Church, and our
endangered libettles---would arise, whether the clergy,
and people of Ireland would obey the delegated autho-
rity,the spiritual
ohotohhtieeiddti ees ccpehoorafa,_t,l hr
ipes Cswaae tt.rhi
ooelf, i
this
ah
Protestant
eqrrougteyess
or acknowltdge the right of Rome to make aver
tatiano
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must
laityo;
cVotf;:mrlfirellielon for future discussion, and is only adverted to
now to give the reader some notion of the many meshes
which the hostile Anti-Catholic and Anti-Irish spirit

of our hereditary and still-envenomed oppressor
is preparing to enfold our Church and enslave our
own people." There is nothing new in the doubt ex-
pressed in the above extract, whether the Romish
Church in Ireland would obey the see of Rome, if
that see should withdraw its countenance from the
dominating policy which the Maynooth clergy have
ever aimed at. That threat of separation has been
said to have operated more than once upon the policy
of the Vatican, and unless some new agent be at
work, of which Lord Aberdeen and the Pope know
more than we do, it may very possibly operate again.
Rome would not willingly lose such a province as
Ireland, and how she is to retain it, except by giving
way to the will of her Hibernian subjects, does not
very clearly appear. To yield, for the sake of go-
vernmg, has been her policy for the Last twenty years