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tice Sargant receives the vacant place in the Chancery Division.

Rt. Hon. Ignatius J. O'Brien, K.C., has been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland to succeed Rt. Hon. Redmond Barry, K.C., who has retired because of ill health. The new Lord Chancellor is a native of Cork, and obtained his education at the Catholic University. A brilliant career at the bar, especially in the Chancery and Bankruptcy courts, led to his advancement in 1911 and 1912 to the posts of Solicitor-General and Attorney-General for Ireland.

Miscellaneous A woman suffrage constitutional amendment was defeated in Michigan in a special election held April 7. Initia tive and referendum and recall, the pensioning of firemen, municipal owner ship, and liquor license local option were all adopted.

Albert R. Savage of Auburn, Me., who succeeds William Penn Whitehouse of Augusta as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, was formerly county attorney, probate judge, and speaker of the Maine House of Rep resentatives, and has been Associate Justice of the court since 1897. Justice Whitehouse retires on half pay on ac count of age. He will rest for a while, and perhaps visit Europe in the course of the year. He is a lover of nature, a good hunter and an enthusiastic fisher man. Sir Robert John Parker, one of the Justices of the Chancery Division of the English High Court, succeeds the late Lord Macnaghten as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, taking the title of Lord Parker of Warrington. Lord Parker's elevation is unprecedented, no other puisne judge having became a Lord of Appeal with out first serving as a Lord Justice. As a Chancery judge he had occasion to deal with many patent cases and he is skilled in that branch of the law, and the Law Journal speaks highly of "his fine judicial spirit, his strong inclina tion to disregard mere technicality, and his urbane air of scholarship." Mr. Jus

Miss Emily Southmayd of New York City has presented Yale with $125,000 to found a chair of equity jurisprudence in the Yale Law school in memory of her brother, the late Charles F. South mayd, who was a law partner of Joseph H. Choate and William M. Evarts. The last case to be decided by the Hague Permanent Court was of no great importance, but illustrative of the orderly method of settling international dis putes. During the Tripolitan war Italian warships seized two French steamers plying between Marseilles and Tunis. They were captured because they had on board an aeroplane and members of the Turkish Red Crescent, whom the Italians thought did not belong to the order, but were surreptitiously taking in the aeroplane to use in the war. The French Government complained of the seizure as a violation of the laws of war regarding neutrals. Italy promptly re leased the ships and asked for the refer ence of the question to the Hague Court, to which the French Government agreed. The court sustained the French contention and decreed that Italy should pay $400 as damages. Obituary Babbitt, Charles Jacob, who practised law in Columbia, S. C, and later in New York City, died in Boston, April 4.