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The Chicago Union College of Law is in a prosperous condition. It numbers this term one hundred and thirty-six students. An examination of the Catalogue of the Colum bia Law School shows that there are in attendance four hundred and sixty-eight students, of whom two hundred and nine are college graduates. We desire to call our readers' attention to the appeal of the Selden Society published in this number. Of the great importance of the work of this society there can be no doubt; and the hearty indorsement by the leading lawyers of this country, including the Chief Justice of the United States, Mr. Justice Gray, and seven deans of our bestknown law schools, ought to inspire every member of the profession to aid the good work by sending in his subscription to Prof. W. A. Keener.

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late Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He was born April 3. 1815, and was called to the bar in 1838. In 1846 he was appointed a Master of the Court of Exchequer, and was nominated by Mr. Disraeli in 1874 to the office of Queen's Remembrancer, — a very ancient office of State. Judge Charles E. Boyle, who was recently ap pointed by President Cleveland Chief Justice of Washington Territory, died in Seattle, W. T., Sat urday, December 15. He was born in Uniontown, Penn., Feb. 4, 1836, and was educated at Waynesburg College, Pennsylvania. For a few years he edited a newspaper, and then took up the practice of law; but in 1865 and 1866 he entered the State Legislature, and followed up this beginning of a political career by serving as representative from Pennsylvania in the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. Hon. George W. Marvin died at Manchester, N. H., on the 21st of December, at the ripe old age of seventy-nine. He was a native of Fairlee, Vt., but had resided in Manchester since 1836. He served with distinguished ability in the State Legislature in 1840, 1841, 1844, 1849, and 1850, and in the Thirty-first and Thirty-third Congresses. While a member of the latter body he made a speech in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska bill which gave him a national reputation. He was for years a leading advocate at the New Hamp shire Bar, and it is said that during his career he tried a third more cases than any other lawyer who has ever lived in the State.

The venerable Samuel E. Sewall, the Nestor of the Massachusetts Bar, died of pneumonia at his residence in Boston on the 20th of December. For sixty-seven years he was in the active practice of the law, rarely missing a day from his office un til he was prostrated by the disease which proved fatal. Mr. Sewall was born in Boston, Nov. 9, 1799. He graduated from Harvard College in the Class of 181 7, and was the only surviving member of that class; and there is but one older graduate of that college now living. In 1821 he commenced the practice of the law in Boston, in which practice Edwin O. Perrin, clerk of the New York Court he had continued up to the time of his death. Mr. Sewall was a lineal descendant of Chief of Appeals, died suddenly of apoplexy at his home Justice Samuel Sewall, of colonial and witchcraft in New York, December 19. Mr. Perrin was a prominent Democrat, and was nominated by Pres times. He was an ardent abolitionist, and in 1851 he ident Johnson for Chief Judge of the Supreme was one of the counsel for the defence of Alfred Court of Utah; but his nomination was rejected Sims, a fugitive slave. He was also instrumental by the Senate, as was also his nomination for In ternal Revenue Assessor of New York. He was in forming the National Antislavery Association. As a man and as a lawyer, Mr. Sewall was greatly elected clerk of the Court of Appeals in 1868. beloved and respected, and his memory will long Judge William Badgely, who died at Montreal be cherished by all who knew him. Such men only " yield their breath." as James Montgomery on December 24 at the age of eighty-one, had been for years a distinguished member of the judi has it; they never die. ciary. He was raised to the bench in 1855, where Sir William Frederick Pollock, who died he greatly distinguished himself until a few years December 24 in London, was the eldest son of the ago, when he retired.