gage, devise, bankruptcy, &c. And in the last chapter some general properties of annexations to the freehold are treated of, more particularly as affecting the rights and liabilities of persons in regard to poor's-rates, parochial settlements, &c.

"The second part of the work contains the remedies of parties in respect of fixtures, together with the rights of creditors, and the criminal law as it affects property attached to the freehold."

We do not attach any great weight to the utility of this work, because it is but a fragment of the law of landlord and tenant, and scarcely deserving of a distinct set of treatises. However, this edition is a great improvement on the last, and contains all the law on the subject, very plainly set forth, and fully noted with cases.

Analytical Digest of all the reported Cases determined by the High Court of Admiralty of England, the Lords Commissioners of Appeal in Prize Causes, and on Questions of Maritime and International Law, by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. By William Tarn Pritchard, one of the Proctors of the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts in Doctors' Commons. London. W. Benning and Co. Fleet Street. 1847.

THIS is a very able compilation, and one which will prove of great use to the profession. The preface gives a succinct account and history of the Admiralty judicature. The object of the present work, to which we must confine ourselves, is thus stated in the preface.

"Recurring to the present work, the author would observe with reference to the manner of its execution, that his main object has been to exhibit and elucidate the law and practice of the Court of Admiralty and of the courts of appeal therefrom, as embodied in their recorded decisions. As auxiliary to this object, and with a view to present this branch of the law to the reader in its entirety, the author has, in accordance with the suggestions of the learned gentleman before referred to, embraced in his scheme the cases in pari materiá in the common law, equity, and ecclesiastical courts, and the statutes applicable to all the cases reported; in doing which he is aware that, in many parts of the work, he is open to the charge of having to some extent exceeded the limits to which such analogies should be confined; for which he has to solicit the indulgence of his readers, reminding them, however, that as redundancy is a fault more venial than omission, he has, in all instances which he doubted, considered it expedient to admit rather than to reject."

The author has also wisely striven to extract the dicta of the judges, and to present the principles which are embodied in their decisions, together with the facts on which they have proceeded. Authorities and text books are likewise cited. These authorities are not however given in extenso, but are rationally and ably condensed. Lord Tenterden on Shipping, Smith's Compendium of Mercantile Law, Parke on Marine Insurance, Gresley's Law of Evidence, by Calvert, and the "Short Notes" in the LAW MAGAZINE, are the chief authorities cited.

Ebents of the Quarter.

SIR ERSKINE PERRY has been appointed to the high office of Chief Justice of Bombay, very little, we believe, to the satisfaction of the Presidency. Some little surprise has been manifested here at the appointment of Mr. W. Yardley, one of the juniors on the North Wales circuit, to the office of Puisne Judge of Bombay! There are circumstances which rendered it very necessary that an experienced lawyer should have occupied this post. Mr. (now Sir William) Yardley is a gentleman of great amiability and respectable attainments, but we understand that members of the bar of more experience and standing have been entirely passed over! This is not the only judicial appointment recently made which has tended to shake confidence in the wisdom and impartiality which ought to determine the dispensation of similar offices. One of the newspapers states that Sir William Yardley was a County Court judge. He never held any other appointment than that of Revising Barrister, and was called in 1837.

The New County Court judges are to be paid by salaries, instead of fees, from the 1st of October last. This is penny wise and pound foolish. A large glut of business, and a surfeit of fees, followed the opening of the courts, which the government imagines it can pocket, putting the judges, according to the power of the act, on their fixed salaries. The probability is, that when the glut is exhausted, and the extremely defective judgments often given in these courts are appreciated, the fees will fall considerably below the amount of the salaries which the government is so anxious to make permanent. The business of insolvency has also been transferred to these courts.

We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon. Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Knight, who expired at his residence on Hampstead Heath, on September 26th. He was born in 1773. His father, Mr. Samuel Bosanquet, who resided in Essex, was descended from a family of French extraction. Sir J. B. Bosanquet was called to the bar in the year 1800. In 1814 he was made Serjeant-at-Law, and in 1827 King's Serjeant. In 1830 he was created Judge of the Court of Common Pleas by the Duke of Wellington, then Premier. In that office he conducted himself with universal satisfaction to the public and the profession, and evinced great impartiality and ability in his decisions. In 1842, in consequence of ill-health, he resigned his

office, in which he was succeeded by Mr. Justice Cresswell. Sir J. B. Bosanquet was a Privy Councillor. During the years 1835 and 1836 he filled the post of Commissioner for executing the office of Lord Chancellor. By his demise another pension reverts to the crown.

We are sincerely happy to learn, that an incident related by the Law Times, as having occurred at a metropolitan county court, has been succeeded by urbanity of conduct, which relieves us from the necessity of further remark on the subject.

It is rumoured, among other changes, that the government intends transferring the jurisdiction of the Quarter Sessions to the judges of the County Courts. We can contradict this report. The judges of the County Courts are in many instances wholly incompetent to the office, and no such arrangement is contemplated. Wherever a competent judge exists it is of course in the power of the magistrates of the county to elect him their chairman, on his qualifying.

The country is now without a Poor Law administrative body. The election of Mr. F. Lewis for Herefordshire, and the appointment of Sir Edmund Head, Bart., to the lieutenant-governorship of New Brunswick, leaves Mr. Nichols the sole member of the triumvirate. The new commissioner is not yet named. He will be the sole head of the board, in conjunction with four cabinet ministers.

In all probability no law reforms of moment will be carried next session. A new parliament of the complexion this bears will not prove prolific of much matured fruit at first.

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List of New Publications.

A Treatise on the Law of Legacies. By the late R. S. Donnison Roper, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and by Henry Hopley White, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, of the Middle Temple. The Fourth Edition. In 2 vols., royal 8vo., price 31. 3s.

An Analytical Digest of all the reported Cases determined by the High Court of Admiralty of England, the Lords Commissioners of Appeal in Prize Causes, and (on questions of Maritime and International Law) by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; also of the analogous Cases in the Common Law, Equity, and Ecclesiastical Courts, and of the Statutes applicable to the Cases reported with Notes, from the Text Writers, and other authorities on Maritime Law, and the Scotch, Irish, and American Reports; and an Appendix, containing the principal Statutes, &c. &c. By William Tarn Pritchard, one of the Proctors of the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts in Doctors'-Commons. In royal 8vo., price 17. 10s. boards.

A Practical Treatise on the Act for the Registration, Regulation, and Incorporation of Joint Stock Companies, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 110, (as amended by 10 & 11 Vict. c. 78,) with directions for the Provisional and Complete Registration of Companies; intended as a Guide to Persons concerned in the Formation and Management of Companies towards Compliance with the Provisions of the Registration Act. To which is added, a Precedent of a Deed of Settlement, prepared and settled in conformity with the Provisions of the Act. By George Taylor, Writer to the Signet, Assistant Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. In 8vo., price 14s. boards.

The Ecclesiastical Statutes at Large, extracted from the great body of the Statute Law, and arranged under separate heads. By James Thomas Law, M.A., late Special Commissary of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. In 5 vols., 8vo., price 31. 3s. boards.

An Analytical Digest of selected Practice Cases decided in the Common Law Courts to Trinity Term, 1847, arranged under the several beads of Practice for the facility of reference. By Richard Morris, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. In 8vo., price 16s. cloth.

Plain Instructions to Executors and Administrators, showing their duties and respon sibilities, with abstracts of the Legacy Acts, and a Fictitious Will comprising every description of Legacy, with the Forms filled up for every Bequest. By John H. Brady, late of the Legacy Duty Office, Somerset House. The eleventh edition. Price 8s.

The Parliamentary Privilege of Freedom from Arrest in Civil Actions considered and defined. By T. H. F. Price 1s.

A Law Lexicon or Dictionary of Jurisprudence, explaining all the technical words and phrases employed in the several Departments of English Law, including also the various legal Terms used in Commercial transactions, together with an explanatory as well as literal translation of the Latin maxims contained in the writings of the ancient and modern Commentators. By J. J. S. Wharton, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. In 1 vol. royal 8vo., price 11. 17s. boards.

INDEX TO VOL. XXXVIII.

(VOL. VII. Of the new series.)

Agrarian disturbances in Ireland, Article on, 46.

Anomalous cases and general principles, Article on, 183.

Assignment of reversionary interests, Article on, 234.

Attorney-general v. Halling and others, 15 M. & W. 687, Note of, 267.

Brooks v. Bocket, 16 Law Journ. Q. B. 178, Note of, 120.

Brussels, Penal Congress at, 181.

Chief justice, Jotting Book of, 217.

Clements v. Flight, 16 M. & W. 421, Note of, 26.

Committals, table of, 20.

Connexion between the laws of real property and agrarian disturbances in Ireland, Article on, 46.

Contracts, Liability of partners in, Article on, 74.

Contracts, delivery and acceptance of goods, Article on,

163.

Delivery essential, 164; what delivery is, 164; what acceptance is, 165; statute of frauds, 165; Norman v. Phillips, 14 M. & W. 277, overruled in conflict with Bushel v. Wheeler, 166; Wilkins v. Bromhead, 6 M. & G. 963 ... 167; a constructive receipt suffices, 168; repudiation of contracts, 169.

Correspondence, 135.

County Courts, Article on, 1.

Influx of business in, 1; selection and competency of judges, 3; samples of their decisions, 4; conduct in county courts, 6; separate causes of action, 10; Mr. Palmer and Mr. Moylan, their judgments, 11; judges for "each district," 17; general character of measure, 20. County Courts, Review of Mr. Moseley's book on practice of, 201.

Crimes and punishments, Article on, 21.

Increase of, 21; classes of offences, 22; increase per cent. of, 24; committals, table of, in each county, with increase per cent. compared with population since 1831 ... 21; ages of criminals, 27; sentences, 28; sexes, 29; instruction, 29.

Debts. (See "Contracts, Article on.")