The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

THE BENCH AND THE BAR.

SPRING ASSIZES.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Baron
Rolfe come the northern circuit ; Mr. Justice Coltman
takes North Wales, and Mr. Justice Wightman South
Wales.

The members of the bar, who attend the Kirkdale ses-
sions, have subscribed to present the Rev. Jonathan
Brooks with his portrait, which will be hung up in a pro-
minent position in the court.
In an action tried in the Court of Exchequer, on Mon-
day, Messrs. Coglan, sharebrokers, of Liverpool, being
the plaintiffs, and Mr. Bryant, one of their clients, de-
fendant, a verdict was given for the plaintiffs for £378 10s.

LAW REFORMS.—The Lord Chancellor will shortly
introduce two measures into the House of LOrdi—to
separate the two systems of bankruptcy and insolvency,
and to abolish arrest in execution. Imprisonment will
only be allowed in cases of fraud.
CHUBB v. SolomoN.—ln the Vice-Chancellor's Court,
foenn
dMonday, Mr,ng p Beileetchell stated
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he had exposed for sale as Messrs. Chubb's were not their
manufacture, had consented that the injunction obtained
against him should be made absolute.
In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, an action
was tried, which had been brought by Mr. Lee, the well
known pantomime writer, against Mr. Mercer H. Simpson,
the lessee of the Liverpool Theatre Royal, for piracy, in
performing at his theatre the celebrated pantomime know"
as the Princess Battledore; or the Harlequin Shuttle-
cock. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for
23 nhts' penalties—£46.
"FUTURE PROPERTY" IN INSOLVENCY.—In the Lon-,
don Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Thursday, an applica-
tion was made in the matter of Samuel Davies, who was
discharged fourteen years ago, and was now entitled to
£lso.in right of his wife. The question was, in what
manner the money was to be distributed. His creditors
under his insolvency claimed a part, and he showed that
he was in indigent circumstances, with a large family,
having several under ten years of age. The court; re-
garding the equity in the case, ordered the creditors un-
der the insolvency of 1832 to be paid £5O out of the £l5O,
and the costs of the present application out of the estate,
It is said that about twenty of the appointments to tho
judgeships under the Small Debts Act have been alreadi
definitively made. Of Queen's Counsel, Messrs. Chilton,
Starkie, Koe, and Anderdon (the two latter gentlemes
members of the Chancery bar), are mentioned as havia
received appointments. On the Northern Circuit, Messrs'
Walker, Wharton, andclngham and on the Midland'
Messrs. Wildman and Hildyard, will, it is said, fill sow
of the judgeships. Mr. Gale, of the Midland Circuits
goes to Hampshire ; Mr. Espinasse to East Kent ; and
Messrs. Tyrrell, Smith, and Palmer (three provinei,
counsel, and at present filling judicial offices under lorlyd
acts), to East Devon, Bath, and Bristol respectively. AP
or most of these appointments are of a political character%
although as lawyers many of the gentlemen named sustal"
a respectable, and in one or two cases, a high reputation'
NOTICE OF DISHONOUR—TIME OF POSTING.—WOOCI'
cock Y. Holdsworth, 8 Law Times 215, is important Al
being another decision that the question to be determine:
where a notice is transmitted by post, is, whether it NO'
put into the post within the proper time, and, cones'
quently, if delay occur, that it is not to tend to the injto,
of the sender. The point turns upon the question whe;
ther the post-office is to be treated as the agent of the
sender. Public policy requires that it should not be 4e;
treated. In Stocken v. Collin, 7M. and W. 515, accord
ingly, the Court of Exchequer held that the jury wereA.
bound to accredit the post-mark, but might give OP'',
verdict on the evidence of a witness that he posted it o_ 0.;
particular day, notwithstanding the post-Mark. In thT,
cases Alderson B. observed the question is, has the pa
been guilty of lathes ? It has often occtirred•to us
the system of using envelopes will materially diminish $::,
facility of proving letters, and may produce serious iuco'
venience.--Late Times.

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