when properly studied, is a science founded on experiment. The latter is improved and established by carefully and wisely attending to the phenomena of the material world; the former by attending, in the same manner, to those of man and society. Hence, in both, the most regular and undeviating principles will be found, on accurrate investigation, to guide and control the more diversified and disjointed appearances."

Biddle Law Library,

MARGARET CENTER KLINGELSMITH.

University of Pennsylvania.

Wilson Works, Vol. 2, pp. 43-44. First edition, 1804.

EDITORIAL.

In London recently a number of women were sentenced by Mr. Justice Phillimore, after having been found guilty by the jury of conspiring together with other persons to inflict damage to property and to incite others to do likewise. The learned Justice in summing up, said that this was one of the saddest trials of which he had ever had experience during his period of nearly 16 years on the Bench. A number of women and some men-of whom some were before the jury-people of education and refinement, in the enjoyment of all the advantages of civilization, were accused of committing and of inciting other women to commit crime against property against property it was true, but against property in cases where great misery might be brought on the victims, and where the result might be to cause physical injury.

A few days previously, another woman was injured and later died as a result of an attempt to interfere with the Derby, and the papers daily contain paragraphs of arrests, imprisonments, hunger fights, and forcible feeding, also serious illnesses of women resulting from treatment they have received on account of what they believe is a fight for justice.

Whatever one's opinion may be in this 20th century, it appears strange that the franchise which is given to anything called a man should be denied "to women,' as the learned Judge states, "of education and refinement." Naturally most men are prejudiced against women taking part in politics. But the grave question is, "The opposition to women receiving the vote merely on account of the prejudice which has been for the growth of centuries, against seeing women in any position other than in their own homes, a position which is undoubtedly the highest a woman can occupy, if her home is a happy one.

It is well known that women are antagonistic to the liquor interests and if given the vote would very speedily relegate those who batten on the misery and degradation of the British people to the position they properly should occupy.

In any event it is as great a shock to one's prejudice in seeing women mishandled and treated like criminals as it would be were they to change this sphere from home to the political arena.

The question that presents itself to one's mind is, "Is it fear of giving the women the vote or the fear of what they might do should they obtain it?"

CANADA'S CREDIT ABROAD.

For several years past there has been a period of great expansion from one end of Canada to the other, and money appeared plentiful for almost any project that had the appearance of being legitimate. So easy was money to procure that in many cases bona fide expansion degenerated into reckless "wild-catting." Farms were sub-divided for miles surrounding growing towns and cities, the sub-divisions being sold as town lots, although in many cases there was not the remotest possibility of the town reaching many of the sections sold, for years to come. This was bad enough when the advertising and selling was confined to Canada alone, but in the scramble to get rich, many projects were presented to the investing public in Great Britain and on the continent, in which the names of prominent Canadian financiers and a number of Government officials were connected. People in England were induced to invest in some cases, their all, only unfortunately to find out that the purchases were of as little value as the swamp land of the Southern States.

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These methods of "unloading unsavoury schemes have unfortunately become too frequent, with the result that Canada's credit has been materially damaged, and people look askance at what may be a first-class proposition.

Surely some method can be devised to protect unwary people from being taken in by the worst of promoters, land sharks.

PERSONAL.

According to the new Act passed at the last session of the Dominion Parliament, whereby County Judges must retire on reaching the age of 75 years, or may retire on completing 30 years on the Bench, Judge Morgan, Toronto's well-known Judge, will have to retire. He will receive a pension for life equivalent to his present salary, which is about $3,000 a year.

Second year students at the Ontario Law School have established a new record that it will be difficult to equal, much less excel, for many years to come. Out of one hundred and two men entered for the second year examinations, only two were plucked, eighteen passed with honours, and seven of these won money prizes. The results were announced at Osgoode Hall recently by the secretary of the Law Society. A Toronto man, H. S. Hamilton, heads the list and wins $100. D. W. Lang, of Haileybury, is second, and gets $60. The next five, E. R. Thompson, E. H. Cleaver, P. W. Beatty, L. Mainlay, and I. Fineberg, secured $40 each. The other honour men were: V. E. Gray, S. J. Birnbaum, G. D. McLean, E. Bristol, E. M. Reeve, S. G. Metcalfe, S. Rogers, A. W. Langmuir, W. P. MacKay, F. T. Hetherington, G. W. Walrond.

The others passed in the following order: V. H. Hattin, R. B. Law, W. N. Hancock, W. H. Bennett, J. F. P. Birnie, H. S. Robinson, R. M. Dick, J. S. Beatty, J. R. Rumball, A. Singer, C. H. A. Armstrong, D. G. McIntosh, C. J. F. Collier, C. G. Robertson, J. E. Anderson, E. C. Awrey, J. W. Broudy, B. F. Fisher, J. W. Gauvreau, L. C. Outerbridge, H. D. Anger, W. Lawr, W. M. Mogan, J. G. Holmes, E. P. Dowdall, R. N. McCormick, S. W. Wedd, J. A. Hope, F. Regan, J. F. Coughlin, N. M. Young, H. Morwick, G. H. Tennent, C. R. Widdifield, C. G. Mortimer, H. Obee, D. J. Coffey, C. B. Henderson, B. H. L. Symmes, W. L. L. Gordon, L. S. LeVernois, W. H. Furlong, H. A. L. Conn, J. M. Forgie, C. W. Carruthers, H. H. Donald, W. B. Henderson, Wm. McNally, E. Pepler, W. J. Grace, J. A. Donovan, J. S. Allan, N. S. Caudwell, W. T. Robb, H. A. Beckwith, H. H. Ellis, L. Dale, F. H. M. Irwin, H. J. Stuart, C. L. Carrick, G. W. Morley, L. W. Goetz, E. F. McDonald, R. B. Williams, J. M. Baird, T. M. Mulligan, W. W. Evans, O. Sauve, L. W. Wood, J. A. Devaney, B. P. Fitzpatrick, W. H. Male, C. B. Coyne,

S. C. S. Kerr, J. S. Bell, G. G. Beckett, T. W. E. Allen, W. H. Latimer, C. H. McKimm, S. W. Graham, W. A. Oldsted, R. P. Locke.

The firm of Macintosh and Gilchrist, barristers, has been dissolved by the retirement therefrom of Mr. Gilchrist. Mr. Macintosh, the remaining partner, has assumed as a partner, Alexander Simpson, late of Edinburgh, Scotland. Mr. Simpson is a graduate of Edinburgh University, and prior to coming to Canada, was for nine years in practice as a solicitor in Edinburgh, during which time he was a partner in the firm of Lawson and Simpson. The firm of Macintosh and Simpson will carry on business at 105-106 Cahill Block, Avenue A., Saskatoon.

The benchers of the Law Society of Manitoba met to consider the report made by the examiners on the recent law examinations. The results are as follows:

Call-Atkinson, R. E.; Elliott, A. B.; Gyles, H.; Lindsay, G. C.; Gerrand, E. W.; Cole, R.; Warner, A. H.; Wallar, J. F., and O'Grady, G. F., all with honours; Hawley, A. T.; Andrews, A. H. J.; O'Grady, J. M.; Hoskins, R.; Bell, A. B.; McKenna, D.; Major, W. J.; Morrison, H. C.; Morton, J. K.; Dixon, C. H.; Jackson, C. W.; Scott, C. S.; Radford, J. H.; Graham, G. M.; Winkler, G. E.; Culver, G. W.; Brayfield, H. C. H.; Beaubien, J. T.; Fenwick, F. H.; Dalgleish, C. N., and LeBel, A. U.

Attorney-Lindsay, G. C.; Cole, R.; Major, W. J.; Hawley, A. T.; Elliott, A. B.; Gerrand, E. W.; Gyles, H.; Warner, A. H., and Hoskins, R., all with honours. Mitchell, J. W.; O'Grady, G. F.; McKenna, D.; Scott, C. S.; Atkinson, R. E.; Culver, G. W.; Andrews, A. J. H.; Bell, A. B.; Bray field, H. C. H.; Morton, J. K.; O'Grady, J. M.; Morrison, H. C.; Graham, G. M.; Jackson, C. W.; Winkler, G. E.; Radford, J. H.; Boothe, G. C. M.; Beaubien, J. T.; Reynolds, J. E.; Fenwick, F. H.; Hamilton, F. A. E.; Wallar, J. F. and Dixon, C. H. Special, Fulton, J., and Harrison, R.

Attorney, Part I.:-Lunney, J. W.; Sheringham, C. J.; Finkelstein, C. E., and McVicar, J. A., all with honours; Yule, G. H.; Shearer, J. A.; White, L. A.; Webb, A. J; Chappell, C. W.; Morkin, J. I.; Richardson, R. H.; Thomson, W. B.; Mills, E. R. R.; McCormick, D. A.; Bingham, E. J.; Hastings, V. J.; Rutherford, H. S., and Hetherington, F. M.