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7 Pump Court 1 (1888)

handle is hein.journals/pumpct7 and id is 1 raw text is: jA3iim (F1rt Vot. VII. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1888. No. 79. PUMP COURT. ije &ttmpIe Ptuwapap ant i bfcbt. Cases A fresh supply of Cases and Indexes for Vol. IV. now ready, price 2s. 6d. The attention of the numerous applicants whom we have been unable to supply is invited to this announcement. CURRENTE CALAMO. De Lege; de Omnibus Rebus ot Qulbusdam Allis. THE present sittings of the Law Courts promise to pro. duce one cause cW/bre for the entertainment of the public. It will not be Sir James Hannen's division this time which will have the cream of sensationalism. The Queen's Bench will be the scene of the trial. Mr. Hugh O'Donnell's action is entered for hearing, and from its position among the special jury causes, probably a fortnight hence one of Her Majesty's judges ought to be presiding over an investiga- tion as to the accuracy of the Timcs articles concerning Parnellism and Crime. The talk among the Bar is as to who will be the judge. In days gone by, all such litigation was monopolised by Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, but the present head of the Common L.aw Division rather shrinks from such tasks, and the duty of trying the case will probably rest between Baron Huddleston and Justices Manisty and Hawkins. It is said that Mr. Parnell has promised to attend on the plaintiff's behalf, even without a subpoena. IT is now said that the new Chancery judgeship, which Her Majesty is to be asked by address from Parliament to create, will probably be offered to Mr. Seward Brice, Q.C. The other most eligible candidates for the new appointment are Mr. Compton Lawrance, the member for the Stamford division of Lincolnshire, and Mr. Ince, Q.C. Mr. Romer, Q.C., was mentioned, but he has no desire to relinquish his extensive practice. THE Queen has approved of the appointment by the Home Secretary of Mr. William Harry Nash, of the Oxford circuit, to the recordership of Abingdon, vacant by the recent appointment of Mr. Bros as a metropolitan police magistrate. Mr. Nash was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1873. THE heated correspondence which has been appearing in the Sheffield papers, re the Fox assault case, has resulted in a crowded town's meeting, convened and pre- sided over by the Mayor, at which resolutions were passed and ordered to be forwarded to the Lord Chancellor and borough members, protesting against the inadequacy of sentences recently passed by the recorder, Mr. Lockwood, Q.C., upon the two betting men named Oxley and Lambert, who were convicted of unlawful wounding. They com- mitted a savage and unprovoked assault upon a tradesman who was passing a public-house door. The recorder sentenced one of them to two months', and the other to one month's imprisonment. THE discovery which was made in No. 4 Court of the Queen's Bench, where Baron Huddleston and a special jury were trying a libel action, that a beam partially sup- porting the ceiling had given way, is thus amusingly de- scribed by the Manchester Guardian: The law's delay is proverbial, but lawyers are not always tardy. For instance, there was no delay whatever, in Baron Huddleston's court yesterday, when the Superintendent of the Royal Courts of Justice informed his lordship that a beam in the roof had given way and might come down at any moment. The court was cleared in the shortest time on record, and the Superintendent and his men were left to enter a stet processus with regard to the beam. Sit: E. WA:TKIN has explained his position with regard to Irish self-government in a letter to a contemporary. He points out that the only pledge he gave to his consti- tuents at the general election was to assist in preserving the Union by adopting the just principle of equality of treat- ment. The Government, he observes, appear to ignore the existence of a great loyal minority-it may be a timid majority-and to condemn all Ireland because of the action of a portion only of the people of the sister isle. In placing his notice on the paper, 'hat no measure of local govern- ment will be just, complete, or satisfactory, which does not provide for county and provincial local government in Ire- land, of such scope and on such principles as may best serve the true interests of the people of Ireland as an integral por- tion of the United Kingdom, he did not intend to impede the second reading of the Local Government Bill. His proposal, he considers, is really a rider to the motion for the second reading. At present no alternative is presented between strict repression and complete repeal, and he wishes to see established a half-way house of conciliation, which might be accepted as a beginning of better things, by very many, if not by all. In conclusion, he expresses the opinion that it is the duty of the Government to show their proposals for Ireland before the end of the session. MR. CoMMISSIONER KERR will have his little joke, and may be relied upon never to lose an opportunity of tickling the ears of the groundlings. In the City of London Court on Thursday, the Commissioner heard an application to have a case tried in the absence of one of the principal wit- nesses. The defendant stated that the captain of a ship was away, and he was kept waiting for nothing.. He did not owe the money, and did not know what he was sum-

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