The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-04-15 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

NEW LEGAL WORKS.—Two new Legal publications have just reached us. One is entitled "An Eritome of Practice in the Supreme Court of Judicature in England." and the other "The Statute Law of 1875." Mr. H. Fowlks Lynch, is the Author of both, and Messrs. Stevens and Sons, of London, are the publishers. It may be mentioned that Mr. Lynch is an author well known in the Legal World, and as a teacher of Law Students he occupies one of the highest positions in London. We vciiture to say that his "Epitome of Practice in the Supreme Court of Judicature" is the best that has yet been assued from the press His " Statute Law of 1875" is b.valuable, both to the Profession and the public at large. It is a yearly publication. In conclusion, we can unhesitatingly recommend both the-e works to the attention of all who are interested in the effect of law-making—and who is not?  ---- On Monday, at the Salford Police Court, before Sir J. I. Mantell, a hod-carrier, named John Fay, was charged with having unlawfully wounded Ann Atkinson. The parties to the case both lodged at, 13, Cannon-street, Arlington-street, and on Saturday night the prosecutrix, after retiring for the night with her husband, heard the prisoner, who was downstairs, order the landlady of the house to turn her and het husband out, speaking of them as " Orange dogs." She entreated her husband to leave the house with her, as she was afraid, she said, that they would be murdered. They dressed themselves and, went downstairs to quit the premises ; but when the prisoner saw her he sprang at her. She tried to return up the staircase, but he dragged her down again, and on her husband coming to her assistance he knocked him down. The prisoner then smashed two cups on the prosecutrix's head and face, causing her to bleed profusely. bhe ran into the street, where she fell down insensible; and on police-constable Gilmore coining up immediately afterwards he thought for a short time that she was dead The prisoner was sent for trial at the quarter sessions. The de,ermination of threescore and ten years as the allotted period of human existence is doubtless in a considerable degree owing to that period having been adopted by the Royal Psalmist; but modern science, while it has postponed somewhat the average termination, has also still more largely prolonged the hypothetical duration of life. Flourens, reasoning from the time required for the full physical development of a human being, as compared with that taken by other animals, fixes tihe natural limit at 100 years, and this is also tne period fixed by Pr. Farr as man's natural deathtime, although at present he finds, as the result of ten years' approximately accurate and complete registration, that this limit is scarcely reached by one English child in a hundred thousand. In some districts, of which the t.two of Liverpool is an exceptional example, the proportion is much below this. In this, however, as in many other respects, we are far in advance of our ancestors. The early English poets fix the appearance of the signs of approaching senility much earlier that we are now accustomed to notice them, and Dr. Farr sh iws that while two hundred years ago the mortality of London was about 8 per cent., and one hundred years afterwards 5 per cent., it is now only 2.4 per cent. And there is good reason to believe that it may be still further reduced—very much of the existing mortality depending upon preventible causes, such as impure air and impure water, negligence on railways, on shipboard, in mines, in street police and in many other ways. What is almost of equal importance is the fact that any decrease in the mortality from these causes will be necessarily accompanied by the absence of disease, and an increase to survivors of that good health without which length of days is scarcely a boon. The economical results will be no less important. Disability from sickness is not only a source of pecuniary loss not only to the sufferer but to the entire community ; while the longer old age, that one incurable malady, can be staved off, so much will be gained, for when the season of effective work is over, the individual in ceasing to contribute to the general wealth becomes a pensioner upon it. Thus, according to Dr. Farr, the Norfolk agricultural labourer, worth £5 at his birth and reaching at the age of twenty-five years his maximum value of £246, sinks at eighty to £4l mina,. —lron.