have expired set the same down for hearing in the nonwitness list and the application so set down shall be heard and disposed of in due course. f.) Where the Court allows a Specification to be amended the Applicant shall forthwith lodge with the Comptroller an office copy of the order allowing such amendment, and the Comptroller shall advertise the same once at least in the Illustrated Official Journal (Patents). He shall also CROWN OFFICE RULES, 1906. THE CRIMINAL APPEAL ACT, 1907, SEC. 20 (3). The following paragraphs shall be added to Rule 17 of the Crown Office Rules, 1906, and shall be read with those Rules. RULE 17. if required so to do by the Court or by the Comptroller from convictions on highway indictments, shall be set down and Appeals under The Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, Section 20 (3), leave at the Patent Office a new Specification and Drawings as amended, the same being prepared as far as may be in accordance with the rules of the Patent Office for the time being in force. 4. These Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme urt (Patents and Designs), 1908, and shall be read with the les of the Supreme Court, 1883. entered at the Crown Office. On the setting down of an Appeal under the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, Section 20 (3), if the indictment has not already been removed into the King's Bench Division for the purpose of trial, a Writ of Certiorari shall be issued to the appellant as a matter of course to remove the indictment and all things touching the same into the King's Bench Division for the purpose of appeal to the Court of Appeal without any order or recognizances. GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE BAR. ELECTION RESULT. W. H. Leycester, Esq., has been appointed an additional Junior Treasury Counsel at the C. C. C. Raymond Asquith, Esq., has been appointed Treasury Counsel at the North London Sessions. The following Candidates have been declared duly elected as Allan Lawrie, Esq., has been appointed Treasury Counsel at tæ Members of the General Council of the Bar : Middlesex Sessions. Leonard William Kershaw, Esq., has been appointed Assist Registrar of the Court of Criminal Appeal. P. O. Lawrence, K.C. Hon. E. C. Macnaghten, K.C. Mr. W. English Harrison, K.C. John Scott Fox, K.C. Lord Robert Cecil, K.C., M.P. Mr. N. Micklem, K.C., M.P. PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED Henry Potter and Ernest Crundwell (Potter & Crundwell), S tors, Farnham and Guildford, Surrey, by mutual consent as fr December 31, 1904. E. Crundwell and Frederick Charles Fotter wi henceforth carry on the practice at Farnham and Guildford, unde the style of Potter & Crundwell. Charles Henry Sargant, Esq., has been appointed Junior Counsel to the Treasury on the Chancery side, in the place of George P. C. Lawrence, Esq., deceased. James Austen-Cartmell, Esq., has been appointed Junior Equity Counsel to the Inland Revenue, Junior Counsel to the Board of Trade in Chancery matters, Counsel to the Board of Education in Charity proceedings, and Junior Counsel to H.M.'s Office of Woods and Forests, in the place of F. Vaughan Hawkins, Esq., deceased. Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson, Esq., has been appointed Counsel to H.M.'s Office of Works. Sir Charles Willie Mathews has been appointed Director of Public Prosecutions, in succession to Lord Desart. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. WHITSUN VACATION, 1908. NOTICE. There will be no sitting in Court during the Whitsun Vacation, During the Whitsun Vacation, all applications "which may requir to be immediately or promptly heard" are to be made to the Honourable Mr. Justice PICKFORD. Mr. Justice PICKFORD will act as Vacation Judge from Saturday, June 6th, to Monday, June 15th, both days inclusive. His Lordship will sit in King's Bench Judges' Chambers Thursday, June 11th. On other days within the above period, applications in urgent matters may be made to his Lordship by post or, if necessary, personally. counsel should be sent addressed to the Judge by book-post or parcel. In the case of applications to the Judge by post the brief of prepaid, accompanied by office copies of the affidavits in support of the application, and also by a minute, on a separate sheet of paper. signed by counsel, of the order he may consider the applica entitled to, and also an envelope capable of receiving the paper addressed as follows:-"Chancery Official Letter: To the Registra in Vacation, Chancery Registrars' Chambers, Royal Courts of Justice London, W.C." Richard David Muir, Esq., has been appointed Senior Treasury the writ, and a certificate of writ issued, must also be sent. Counsel at the C. C. C. Archibald Henry Bodkin, Esq., has been appointed one of the two Senior Treasury Counsel at the C. C. C. The papers sent to the Judge will be returned to the Registrar. The address of the Vacation Judge can be obtained on application at the Chancery Registrars' Chambers, Room 136, Royal Courts Travers Humphreys, Esq., has been appointed a Junior Treasury Justice. R. F. Graham-Campbell, Esq., has been appointed a Junior Treasury CHANCERY REGISTRARS' OFFICE, ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE. June, 1908. MERCHANT SHIPPING RULES, 1908. RULES OF COURT FOR APPEALS UNDER THE 1. Every Appeal shall be to a Divisional Court of the Probate, ivorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court aud shall be onducted in accordance with the conditions and regulations llowing (namely) :— (a) The appellant shall, within the time hereinafter mentioned erve on such of the other parties to the proceedings as he may onsider to be directly affected by the appeal, notice in writing of is intention to appeal, and shall also, within two days after etting down the appeal, give to the said parties notice of the eneral grounds of the appeal. (b) Notice of appeal shall be served within three months from he date on which the order or decision is pronounced, (e) The Court of Appeal may, whether the time for giving any otice has expired or not, extend such time and may order service y post or substituted service. (d) The Court of Appeal may order that an appeal by one or Sore persons aggrieved shall operate as an appeal by and bind the rights of all other persons similarly affected by the same decision. (e) The appellant shall before the appeal is heard give such security, if any, by deposit of money or otherwise, for the costs to be occasioned by the appeal, as the Court of Appeal may direct. (f) The appellant shall, before the expiration of the time within which notice of appeal may be given, leave with the officer for the time being appointed for that purpose by the Court of Appeal a copy of the notice of Appeal, and the officer shall thereupon set down the appeal by entering it in the proper list. (9) The Court of Appeal may, if it thinks it necessary, be assisted by not less than two assessors to be selected, in the discretion of that Court, having regard to the nature of each case, from either or both of the following classes :— 1. Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, 2. Persons approved from time to time by the Secretary of State as assessors for the purpose of formal investigations into shipping casualties under Sections 466 and 467 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. (h) The Court of Appeal may, if it thinks fit, order any other person, other than the parties served with the notice of appeal, to be added as a party or parties to the proceedings for the purposes of the appeal, on such terms with respect to costs and otherwise as the Court of Appeal may think fit. Any party to the proceedings may object to the appearance on the appeal of any other party to the proceedings as unnecessary. (i) The evidence taken before the Naval Court from whose order or decision the appeal is brought shall be proved before the Court of Appeal by the report of the Naval Court to the Board of Trade under Section 484 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, or by such other materials as the Court of Appeal thinks expedient; and a copy of such report and of the notice of the general grounds of the appeal shall be left with the officer for the time being appointed for that purpose by the Court of Appeal before the appeal comes on for hearing. For the purpose of this Rule, copies of the report shall be supplied to the appellant, on request, by the Board of Trade, on payment of the usual charge for Bopying. occurred since the date of the order or discussion from which the appeal is brought. (k) The Court of Appeal shall have power to make such order as to the whole or any part of the costs of and occasioned by the appeal as the Court may think just. (1) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Rule every appeal shall be conducted under and in accordance with the general rules and regulations applicable to ordinary proceedings before the Court of Appeal, but there shall not be anything in the nature of pleadings other than the notice of the general grounds of the appeal, except by special permission of the Court of Appeal. (m) On the conclusion of an appeal the Court of Appeal shall send to the Board of Trade a report of the case in such form as the Court of Appeal may think fit. (Signed) June 3rd, 1908. Loreburn, C. H. H. Cozens-Hardy, M.R. Roland L. Vaughan Williams, L.J. R. J. Parker, J. MAIL SHIPS RULES, 1908. MAIL SHIPS ACTS, 1891 AND 1902. RULES OF COURT MADE BY THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT PURSUANT TO THE MAIL SHIPS ACTS, 1891 AND 1902, TOGETHER WITH THE SCALE OF FEES FIXED WITH THE CONCURRENCE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S TREASURY. The following Rules under the Mail Ships Acts, 1891 and 1902 (in these Rules referred to as the Acts), may be cited as the Mail Ships Rules, 1908. General, 1. [Assignment of business to Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division.]-All matters within the jurisdiction of the High Court under the provisions of the Acts shall be assigned to the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division, and all jurisdiction in relation thereto may be exercised by a Judge at chambers. 2. [Form of applications.]-Every application to the Court under the Acts shall be intituled in the matter of the Acts, and of the Order in Council applying the Acts as regards the postal service in respect of which the application is made, and shall be signed by or on behalf of the owner of the ships or ship in respect of which the application is made (in these Rules referred to as the owner), or by a secretary or assistant secretary of the Board of Trade, as the case may be, and shall be filed in the Admiralty Registry. 3. [Hearing of application.]—On the filing of any application under the Acts, the Court shall appoint a day for the hearing thereof, having regard to the notice (if any) required to be given in respect of that application; and after the hearing the Court may make such order thereon as the Court may think just. notice is required by the Acts or these Rules to be given, such 4. [Notices.]-Where in any proceeding relating to security notice shall be a notice of three clear days, except where these Rules otherwise provide, but the Court or a Judge may in any case permit such shorter notice as the justice of the case may require. Mode of Fixing Security. (j) The Court of Appeal shall have full power to receive further evidence on questions of fact, such evidence to be either by oral examination in Court, by affidavit, or by deposition taken before an examiner or commissioner. Evidence may also be given with 5. [Contents of application to Fix security.]—Every application special leave of the Court of Appeal as to matters which have to the Court to fix the nature and amount of the security which the owner ought to place under the control of the Court for the 12. [List of ships entitled to exemption.]—As soon as may be after purpose of the Acts shall be divided into paragraphs, describing security is given in accordance with an order of the Court, e (i.) The postal service in respect of which the owner is sub-owner shall lodge in the Admiralty Registry a list of the h sidised and the names of the ports or places between actually engaged in the postal service, in respect of which the security has been given, mentioning the tonnage and port 4 which the service is performed, and at which the ships registry of each ship, and shall also from time to time, as of touch in the ordinary course of the service. any ships are added or substituted for the purposes of that pel service, lodge in the Admiralty Registry a corrected list as said. A copy of every such list shall be transmitted to the bas of Trade for publication. (ii.) The Government, whether British, colonial, or foreign, (iii.) The nationality of the ships engaged in the service. (v.) The amount for which the owner proposes to give his 6. [Certificate and affidavits.]-Together with the application shall be filed the certificate of a Secretary of State that the owner is subsidised for the execution of the postal service described in the application, and also such evidence on affidavit or otherwise as may be necessary in support of the statements made in the application. 7. [Notice to Board of Trade of application to fix security.]-Ten clear days before the day appointed for the hearing of an application to fix the nature and amount of security, the owner shall serve upon the Board of Trade a notice of the application, accompanying the same with copies of the application and of the affidavits and documents filed therewith. 8. [Security consisting of cash or Government securities.]-Where an order fixing the nature and amount of security directs that the security shall consist partly of cash or Government securities, such cash or securities shall be paid and brought into Court, and subject to the Acts and these Rules shall be lodged and dealt with in all respects according to the provisions of the Rules for the time being in force relating to funds in Court. 9. [Disposal of income or dividends accruing on security.]—Where the security given consists of cash or Government securities the Court may make orders for the disposal of any income or dividends accruing thereon, but any such order may be cancelled or varied if it appears to the Court, having regard to pending claims or other circumstances, that such income or dividends ought to be applied to the enhancement of the security. 10. [Investment of cash security.]-Where the security given consists partly of cash, the Court may, on the application of the owner, and in accordance with the Rules for the time being in force relating to funds in Court, direct such cash or any part thereof to be invested, and, if necessary, accumulated. Procedure Carrying Out Exemption. 13. [Arrest of exempted mail ship.] If notwithstanding exemption any exempted mail ship is arrested in the Une Kingdom, the Board of Trade on being informed by the owner such arrest and of the arresting authority, and on being satini that the ship is an exempted mail ship, shall forthwith se.. special notice to the arresting authority informing him that the ship is an exempted mail ship, and as such entitled to release. Applications to Make Security Sufficient, or to Vary and Withdraa 14. [Application by Board of Trade to make security sufficient. Every application to the Court by the Board of Trade to requi that any security shall be made sufficient, shall recite or descri the previous orders of the Court (if any) relating to the security and shall also state the nature and amouut of the security for th time being under the control of the Court, and the names an tonnage of the ships to which the security for the time bein applies, and the causes, whether pending claims, variation of the conditions of the service or otherwise, whereby it appears t the Board of Trade that the security has become insufficient, an such application shall be accompanied by such evidence (if any on affidavit or otherwise as may be necessary in support of any statements made therein which are not within the cognisance of the Board of Trade. 15. [Application to vary or withdraw security.]-An application by an owner to vary or withdraw any security shall recite or describe the previous orders of the Court relating to the security. and the nature and amount of the security for the time being, and in case of an application to vary shall state the grounds up which, and the mode in which, the owner desires the security to be varied. Every application to vary shall be accompanied by such evidence on affidavit or otherwise as may be necessary in support of the application. 16. [Order for withdrawal.]-An order of the Court for the withdrawal of security shall, in the first instance, be provisional but the Court may, subject to these Rules, make the order absolute on the application of the owner. 17. [Notice to arresting authorities of provisional order of with. drawal.]-When a provisional order has been made for the with drawal of security, the Admiralty Registrar shall give noti thereof to the Board of Trade, and thereupon the Board of Tra shall publish notices to all arresting authorities, in like manne after the day named in the notice (such day not being earlie as herein before provided, reciting such order and notifying that than a reasonable time after the publication of the notice), th Court may, on the application of the owner, make the orde absolute, unless it appears to the Court that any pending claim Cesser of Exemption. 11. [Notice of exemption.]—On the completion of the security | exist for the purposes of which the security is required. in accordance with the order of the Court, the Admiralty Registrar shall forthwith give information thereof to the Board of Trade, and thereupon the Board of Trade shall publish a notice, intituled in the matter of the Acts and of the Order in Council whereby the Acts are applied as regards the postal service in respect of which the security has been given, and of the Order in Council (if any) whereby the Acts are applied to any British possession, and reciting so much of the order of the Court as relates to the maximum number and tonnage of the ships to which the security is to apply, and requiring all arresting authorities to take notice that from and after the date therein mentioned (being the day on which the security was completed in accordance with the order of the Court), all the ships of the owner actually engaged in the said postal service are to be deemed exempted mail ships within the meaning of the Acts. 18. [Notice of cesser of exemption.]-Where on the application the Board of Trade an order is made that any security shall made sufficient within a time fixed, and default is made there or where an order for the withdrawal of any security is ma: absolute, the Admiralty Registrar shall forthwith notify th Board of Trade of such default or order absolute, as the case La be, and the Board of Trade shall thereupon publish a notio the effect that the mail ships in respect of which such default made or such order is made absolute, have since the date of th default or order absolute, as the case may be, ceased to exempted mail ships. 19. [Proof of exemption and cesser.]—Without prejudice to a her mode of proof a notice published by the Board of Trade ntaining the names of the exempted mail ships of any owner, or til such notice is published a like notice declaring that all ships the owner engaged in the postal service to which any security plies are exempted mail ships, shall be evidence of the exempn of any mail ship named in such notice or proved to have been the date of an arrest actually engaged in the said postal vice, but such evidence may be rebutted by any subsequently blished notice by the Board of Trade containing a corrected t of the exempted mail ships of that owner, or declaring that e ships of that owner have ceased to be exempted mail ships, by proof that the number and tonnage of the ships for the ne being engaged in the postal service in respect of which the curity was given exceeds the number and tonnage of the ships which the security applies. Procedure in case of actions against Exempted Mail Ships. 20. Writ of summons as in actions in rem.]—An action may be mmenced in the High Court against the owners of an exempted ail ship in the like cases, in the same manner, and subject to he same rules as in an Admiralty action in rem. 21. [Notice of orders to Paymaster-General.]-Every order of the ourt directing any security consisting of cash or Government rities to be applied shall be forthwith notified by the Airalty Registrar to the Paymaster-General. Priority of application orders.]-In making orders for the pication of the security, the Court may, so far as circumtan es permit, give the like directions as to priorities as the urt could give in the case of proceeds of property under the ontrol of the Court. Publication of Notices by Board of Trade. 1. I am [or the said C.D. and others, or, &c., are] subsidised for the execution of a postal service within the meaning of the Convention mentioned in the said Order in Council, being a Convention to which the said Acts apply, that is to say, for the carrying of mails between, &c. [or, as the case may be, stating shortly the nature of the postal service and the names of the ports and places, &c.]. 2. The subsidy in respect of the said service is received from the Government of the United Kingdom [or the foreign state to which the Convention applies.] 3. The ships engaged in the said service are British [or, &c.] ships. 4. The following are the particulars of the ships engaged in the service : Form of Application by Board of Trade. Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division. In the matter of the Mail Ships Acts, 1891 and 1902, and 23. Mode of publication of notices by Board of Trade.]-Where In the High Court of Justice, 24. Forms.]-The Forms in the Schedule, with such variations the Acts. I, E.F., an assistant secretary of the Board of Trade, do hereby on behalf of the said Board, apply to this honourable Court, pursuant to the said Acts, for an order requiring that the security given by (name of owner) shall be made sufficient, and say as follows: In the matter of the Mail Ships Acts, 1891 and 1902, and In in the matter of the Order in Council, 190. LA.B., being the owner [or, on behalf of C.D. and others, or of Company, the owners] of certain ships, do reby apply to this honourable Court to fix the security to be ren by me under the provisions of the said Acts, as follows: 1. By an order made, &c., this Court fixed the security to be given by the said owner, namely (state nature and amount). [1A. State any previous orders of the Court requiring security to be made sufficient.] 2. The security now under the control of the Court consists of, &c. 3. The names and tonnage of the ships to which the said security for the time being applies are, &c. 4. The said security now under the control of the Court appears to the Board of Trade to be insufficient for the following reasons, viz., &c. 5. I append to this application the following affidavits, viz., &c. Filed this day of 190 No. 3. Assistant Secretary to the Form of Application to Vary or Withdraw Security. the High Court of Justice, Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division. In the matter of the Mail Ships Acts, 1891 and 1902, and I, A. B. [or, &c.], being the owner of certain ships in respect of |