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was in 1868, and the Senators from New Hampshire were then Cragin and Patterson." As we are largely dependent upon newspaper reports for the facts in our obituary notices, errors are almost unavoidable; and the Editor trusts that corrections will be made in all cases where mis takes occur. We begin in this number a series of articles on " The English Bench and Bar of To-day," which cannot fail to prove of great interest to our readers. They are written by an eminent English barrister, and give a candid estimate of the char acter and ability of some of the leaders of the English Bar.

LEGAL ANTIQUITIES. Our April number will contain a sketch of the Supreme Court of Missouri, written by L. C. Krauthoff, Esq., of Kansas City. The illustra tions will include portraits of William Scott, Wil liam B. Napton, John F. Ryland, Hamilton R. Gamble, David W agner, Philemon Bliss, Thomas A. Sherwood, Elijah H. Norton, Robert D. Ray, John W. Henry, Warwick Hough, Theodore Brace, Francis M. Black, and possibly one or two others. The article is ably written, and cannot fail to in terest the profession at large as well as the mem bers of the Missouri Bar.

A Boston correspondent kindly corrects an error in the obituary notice of Judge Clarke, pub lished in our February number : — .• I see that in your notice of Judge Clarke you say that during the impeachment proceedings of Andrew Johnson, Senator Clarke voted against the impeachment, and that in 1866 he failed to be re elected to the Senate. As a matter of fact, he was not a Senator at the time of the impeachment, but was on the Federal Bench. The impeachment trial

In the reign of Henry VIII., assaults becoming very frequent among the fiery nobility of the court, and the law for their punishment, whereby the right hand of the culprit was forfeited, having fallen into desuetude, an act of Parliament was made establishing a court for the speedy trial of all such offenders; and it may not be uninterest ing to copy one or two of the quaint clauses of that act : — "That the Serjeant or chief surgeon for the time being, or his deputy, shall be ready at the time and place of execution to sear the stump when the hand is so smitten off. "And the Serjeant of the pantry shall be also then and there ready to give bread to the party that shall have his hand so smitten off. "And the serjeant of the cellar shall also be then and there ready with a pot of red wine to give the same party drink after his hand is so smitten off and the stump seared. "And the master cook shall be also then and there ready, and shall bring with him a dressing-knife, and shall deliver the said knife at the place of execution to the serjeant of the larder, who shall be also then