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 Stc Transit Gloria Placitorum. strengthened by the addition of a distin guished Scotch lawyer, Lord 'Colonsay. In 1869 Sir James Wilde was also raised to the peerage as Lord Penzance.1 The court now, for the first time, gave satisfaction, particu larly in equity, and the reports of its de cisions, as contained in the last volumes of Clark's House of Lords cases, the English and Irish appeal cases (1865-75), and the Scotch and divorce appeal cases (1865-75) are of great value and importance. They deal less with public and more with private cases, and the discussion of general princi ples is much more satisfactory than any of the prior debates of the House. In the Privy Council during this period 1 Kelly v. Kelly, 39 L. J., P. 9; Parfit v. Lawless, 4 1 do. 58; Coombef. Edwards, 39 L. T. 294; Pearkst/. Moseley, d App. Cas. 714: Capital v. Counties Bank v. Henty, 7 10. 741; Dalton v. Angus, 6 do. 740 : Rhodes v. Forwood, 6 do. 256: Erlanger v. Phosphate Co., 3 do. 1124.

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Kingsdown received valuable assistance from Knight-Bruce, who was learned in foreign systems of jurisprudence, and from Turner, Penzance and Westbury. Peel and Colville had great weight in Indian appeals. By a statute of 34 and 35 Victoria, pro vision was made for the addition of four paid judges, in consequence of which the court was strengthened by the appointment of Peacock, Collier, Montague E. Smith and Byles. Byles' service was unimportant, and Peacock confined his attention mainly to Indian appeals; but Collier and Smith were able and industrious judges. Collier took an important part in formulating1 the opinions of the court, and the work performed by Smith was both considerable in amount and of permanent value. These judges were assisted principally by Cairns and Penzance.

SIC TRANSIT GLORIA PLACITORUM. BY ROBERT WYNESS MILLAR. I SAW a grisly army march by in weird review, No flaring bugles did I hear nor e'en a drum's tattoo. 'T was not a mortal army; — it passed with solemn tread, In the catacombs of Limbo, to the mansions of the dead. The army was of shadows,— of shadows gaunt and gray; A rustling as of parchment went with that sere array. I stopped and gazed and wondered; — what could that army be? But as I looked, a sudden thought revealed the truth to me: The shadows in those legions were shapes of olden time, The entities of pleading in the days of pleading's prime; For now a new assignment would greet my wildcred eyes, And now the shade of oycr in dark and gloomy guise, Again the shade of color, the shade of profert too, Would sweep along in grewsomencss and pass beyond my view. Anon there came the band of writs in close and serried file; They stretched as far as eye could see, — I ween for full a mile; The writ of latitat was there, the writ of ouster keen; The habere facias seizinam and entry, too, were seen; The writ of coram nobis hoar, the trenchant writ of right, And all the brethren of that ilk, deep scarred from moil and fight, And close behind the writs there marched the bristling ranks of pleas Of clivers kinds in stern array — one could not number these. I saw the plea of tender, the plea of son assault, And eke the absque hoc itself, sans blemish and sans fault; E'en too the non-assumpsit and others known to fame, Of many kinds and sundry in aspect and in name. But as I watched these cohorts, the lines all thinner grew, Till presently in murky gloom they vanished quite from view.