... I ~ ~ L * .* ?? COSTS OF LITIGATION.-On Saturday an application was made before Mr. Justice K-ay to stop proceedings which had been going on since 1874, the action being for the recovery of a debt of 49?., and the whole of the estate (8534.) being insufficient to pay the costs without satisfying either party. His Lordship directed that the costs should be very carefully taxed, and declined to ...

... .1W I '10,211 - THE NEW JUDGE.-Mr. Edward Ebenezer Kay, Q.C., a nephew of the late Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttleworth, has been appointed a Judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, in succession to Vice-Chancellot Malins, who lately resigned. THE LAWSON v. LABOUCHERE trial has ended as most people anticipated, in the disagreement and consequent dismissal of the jury without a ...

... A . ?? ~I IIVR) IN COMMEMORATION of the opening of the new Courts of Justice the Queen has been pleased to confer the dignity of an Earldom upon the Lord High Chancellor, and the honour of Knighthood upon the treasurers of the four Inns of Courts-Mr. J. P. de Gex, Q.C., of Lincoln's Ilo, Mr. J. B. Maule, Q. C., of the Inner Temple, Mr. F. Roxburgh, Q.C., of the Middle Temple, and Mr. W. St. ...

... * ?? THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD ha%'ine had under consideration the great and pressing question, as Ritchie terms it, of the dwellings of the labouring classes, has issued circular-letters to local authorities in London and to sanitary authorities throughout the country, detailing and urging them to act on the statutory powers which they already possess for effectimO a ...

... 5.m ~ - I . .. .W L1 - R . A CONTRAD;CTION, evidently official, has been given to the rather startling statement that the Lord Chancellor is the author of, and has been circulating, a draft Bill for a considerabie clecentrilisa- tion of our judicial system. It is the handiwaik of some private members of the House of Commons, who introduced it last Session, without even Lord Selborne's ...

... from the residuum of t-lie pulp and kernels of olives, after the berriei have been submitted to the usual insufficient amount pressure which the oil is extracted in all the oliveproducing countries bordering on tho Mediterranean. The residuum in question retaius from 2 to 4 per cent, of the oil, which for all time preceding the discover] and application the present ingenious method of ...

... op-1> ist'il the expressed opinion the head master, who used to be a s+r. til; adv. for the remove' M: tdi:>! M:;«'M-:h'.n*3 boast, ,7'y suia, j'v r:-«te, was introduced express the determination the boy ato cling to their present site. The application of 'he phrase v. ::i m..uy ways iuiforhni.de, thj Marsnal's resignation J'liinco has red -ro than hef' re. The governing have determired ...

... a serious accident happened to one of the audience, named Elijah Fenton (36), reaiding in York-street. For several nights performer styling himself Herr Holtum, King of the Cannon, has been exhibiting various feats of strength the Princess's Palace. His concluding and most wonderful feat consists in catching in his hands a ball, weighing apparently about 71b., which is fired from cannon. ...

... national pride in tall meß and stulwart soldiers. Their very title represents period in the history of the service when science had not yet minimised the advantages of rare stature aud extraordinary physique. It was at the end of the sixteenth century that the Spaniards introduced the granada into the recognised service of war. The French adopted in 1667, and with the reign of James 11. the ...

... 20. —By Messrs. Sedowiok, Soy, and'.Wf-Ai.i., at Watford. —Watford, Church-roaa—Vine-cottage, freeltold—sold for £325. Four shares of each, paid-up, the Watford Company—sold for £142. Jas. Messrs. Harvey and Davids, at the Mart.— Drury-lane—No. 14, Clare-court, freehold—sold for £950. By Mr. W. H. ■ at the Nos. and 22, Tottenham-place, teixn years—sold for 9, Wybert-stieet, .term 41 years—sold ...

... years ago Carnival was everywhere thought to be dying, but it seems now to have revived little under the influence of that mysterious law of change which sets expiring customs on their legs just at the moment when there appears to be least life them. There were many reasons why the mummeries of Carnival should have gone out of faphion between IS-18 and 1870. In the first place they had been ...

... SUPREME JUDICATUBH. At fit tr Amu, ay Liiroewr'a-nr*. Admiralty for The For hearing : Tie H«iv»t»A Appfais from tins Division—for b«armtj Mi'.ls v. Ball. HIGH COURT JUSTICE, Ay MtiT» of tub the Balls House, Otorpo«ry-t«ag.—Farther eonsideratloßA BeT. 0. Adams v t. Adams)—Ra Stan bridge (Banna* ♦. for tii&l. Re'wSswl —Out *■ Metropolitan it Vtft»-CaAx(fin,LOß Sib M.tbi>s.— ...