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excavator shall restore them to the light." The Lord Chancellor, who was present at the meet ing, said that there was nothing more interesting in the literary history of mankind than such discoveries as those alluded to in the address, which he considered a perfect mine of wealth. — London Law Times.

Legislature during the sessions ot 1850, 1851, and 1852. In 1853 he was a member of Gov ernor Morrill's Executive Council, and in 1857 he again represented Gardiner in the Legisla ture. In 1858 he was elected county attorney, and served two terms. Jan. 5, 1844, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court, and since then he has been three times reappointed, the last time in 1884.

detent SDeatfjg. Hon. James V. Campbell, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan, died in Detroit, March 26. He was born Feb. 25, 1823, at Buffalo, N. Y., and was a little over sixty-seven years of age at the time of his death. He ac companied his parents to Detroit in 1826, where he resided up to the time of his death. His early education was received in the public schools of Detroit. He afterwards attended St. Paul's College at Flushing, L. I., where he was gradu ated in 1841. The college was then under the patronage of the Protestant Kpiscopal Church, but it has long since passed out of existence. Upon his return to Detroit, Judge Campbell studied law in the office of Douglas & Walker, was admitted to practice in October, 1844, and was immediately taken into partnership with his preceptors. Upon the creation of the Michi gan Supreme Court in 1857, Mr. Campbell was among the justices chosen at the first election. He ascended the bench on Jan. 1, 1858, where he remained continuously from that time until his death. In our June number we shall publish a short sketch of Mr. Campbell, written by Hon. Henry B. Brown. Hon. Charles Danforth, Justice of the Maine Supreme Court, died at Gardiner, March 30. Judge Danforth was born in Norridgewock, Me., August 1, 18 15. He was admitted to the bar in the summer term of 1838 in Norridge wock, and began practice at Gorham, Me., in September of that year. In 1841 he removed to Gardiner, and opened an office in company with Noah Woods. This association continued until 1854, when Mr. Woods retired. Mr. Dan forth served as member of the Superintending School Committee of Gardiner, Selectman, mem ber of the Common Council, and member of the

GEORGE W. WALES. George Worcester Wales, of Burlington, Vt., died January 16 last. He was born in that city July 10, 1855, and was the only surviving son of Torrey E. Wales, now serving his twentyeighth year as Judge of the Probate Court in the District of Chittenden. He graduated with honor at the University of Vermont in 1876. He pursued the study of the law in the office of Wales & Taft, spending the winters of 1876-1880 in Washington, as clerk of the Senate committee on public buildings. In September, 1880, he entered the Harvard Law School intending to pursue the full course; but the retirement from practice of Mr. Taft, who was elected Judge of the Supreme Court, left his father alone, and young Wales returned home and continued his studies in the office of his father until his ad