... LA W AND 7USTICE A SERTES of appeals against convictions of betting commission agents has been decided by the Court of Queen's Bench. The several appellants had advertised to receive deposits of bets and to pay over the winnings (if any) to their customers. For this purpose, they had established offices which in a strict sense were not used for the purposes of bctting, inasmuch as the ...

... LAW AND 7USTICE THE law report. from day to day tccm with records of proceedings arising out of what is temied the New- cross Accident. It appears that on the occasion of a fvtc organised by the Licensed Victuallers at the Crystal Palace, some mismanagement on the part of the officers of the Brighton Railway Company led to a collision or shock by which divers passengers were more or less ...

... THE past has been an unusually uneventful week-un- cventful, that is to say, in what may be called sensational legislation ; but not deficient in subjects of deep and per- manent interest. The schoolmaster, indeed, has been abroad so long without producing any commensurate effects that we are sometines tempted to ask in what sense the word abroad is to be understood in this concate- nation. ...

... IRELAND.-Thc debate on the second reading of the Irish Land Bill commenced on Monday; but before that time a variety of questions had been put to Government concerning the present disorders of that country by Lord John Manners and others, and finally Mr. Gladstone pro- mised that he would state the intentions of Government as soon as the debate was over. It is difficult to say at this moment ...

... LA TV AND 7USTICE IN our impression of the 5th ult. under the above head- ing, we ventured to suggest an inquiry into the way in which litigation is brought about in cases of railway disaster. We are, therefore, gratified to find that the Brighton Railway Company are preparing a statement on the question of compensation, and that the Railway News believes it will be shown that for every ...

... LA W AND 7USTICE IT is a curious incident of fiction that its events occa- sionally happen to be verified after they have been written from imagination. Critics within recent memory cavilled at an episode in one of Thackeray's novels, in which was circumstantially described the finding of a will, by the breaking down of a coach, containing the antique appur- tenanee of a sword case. Some ...

... YIl] lNA JVAi P A.l ZLIZ OF lV'ENGA L, ,EThI IAK, ANaD ORISSAS1 EVERY now and then we see proceedings before the judicial Committee of Ih[e Privy Council---a court which we are accustomicd to coninect with the great *celc siastical law cases-headed b)y names which are not easily pronounced by we.stern lips, or at all events look strange to western eyes. 'Thus are we reminded of our direct ...

... LA TV AND 7USTICE THE condemned convict Spinas, or Spinasa, who was to have been executed on Monday next, has been reprieved. 1-is crime was that of having done to death a woman who had cvidently shared with him a huge quantity of wine stolen from the cellar of a hotel where the prisoner was employed as night watchman. At early dawn the sleep- ing inmates were awakened by uproar below, and ...

... WHETHER it is the awful sense of responsibility under which the present House of Commons labours, whether it is that after the fights of the four previous years the current business of the House, however serious, seems insipid-whatever be the cause,certain it is that the debates up to the present time have, with one or two exceptions, been characterised by a dulness and languor which we ...

... LAW AND 7USTICE THERE are usually elements of fun in a trial for breach of promise of marriage. It almost seems as if the courts looked upon such causes as a pleasing relief from ordi- nary dry questions of law and fact. And people who break promises of marriage, and arc sued thereupon, arc addicted to writing such ridiculous letters, that a hushed attention is commonly followed by shouts of ...

... LA ANV AD 7 USTICE TiE great Wicklow Peerage case has been decided adversely to the claims of Mrs. Howard. It may be remembered that about six years ago the unfortunate husband of this lady (lied i n Dublin. Possibly, had he lived, the legitimacy of Mrs. Howard's child might have been contested, even supposing that the identity as well as the birth of the infant claimant had been con- ...

... LA 1! AND 7USTICE Tilm convict Rutterford, sentenc-d to be hanged, has ?? reprieved. Ilis crimc ?? that, being one nigit out po.ich ing, hle ?? iown a gaime';eepr-, and after 1h:ivin tied, returned to the prostrate man and stuffe. his m outh with muld to stite his cries for help and ItlCICV, nid l)attered in his skull with a gun-barrel. I-ponl proof of this crime, Rutterford was convicted and ...