lawyers of our own. Of these it will be sufficient to name Mr. Ritson, Mr. Walker, Mr. Holliday, and Mr. Hoare, a gentleman well known on the northern circuit, one of the benchers of Lincoln's Inn, and late recorder of Durham. Mr. Bradley died on the 28th December, 1788, and his remains were consigned to the tomb in the churchyard of Greatham, his native village. His incessant application to the study of his profession, while young, and his extensive business, and social qualities at a later period, never left him the disposition or the leisure to form a matrimonial union; and, thus, if he was deprived of some of the purest and most exquisite enjoyments of life, he escaped also the keen anxiety and bitter anguish which too often follow in the train of strong attachments. 'He left no heir to perpetuate his name and virtues, or inherit his ample fortune, and he had no near relatives, or none whom he valued. He had himself emerged from the obscurity of his original condition, through the means of a self-acquired education, and the force of early habits of religion; and he thought that he could not better show the sense he entertained of these benefits, than by dedicating the bulk of his property to the dissemination of moral and religious instruction. With this view, therefore, after bequeathing a few legacies, he gave the bulk of his property to trustees, in trust to "be from time to time forever applied in the purchasing of such books as, by a proper distribution of them under the following direction, may have a tendency to promote the interests of virtue and religion, and the happiness of mankind; the same to be distributed either in Great Britain, or any other part of his Majesty's dominions." 'To the surprise of every body, and of course, of none more than his relations, who were afterwards discovered with the utmost difficulty, Lord Thurlow set his will aside for uncertainty; a circumstance curious, as affording a singular illustration of a man's incapacity to transact his own business; for though Bradley had been engaged for more than half a century in the settlement and arrangement of the most complicated concerns, and in preparing instruments to carry into effect the most multifarious and conflicting purposes, he was yet unable to prepare for himself a will, having for its aim so simple an object as that he contemplated. His next of kin, who were distant relations, and had little or no intercourse with Mr. Bradley during his life, became thus possessed of his large property, and, with a zeal which can hardly be called gratitude, had the reversal of his will inscribed on the same monument which previously recorded his death, and the intended disposition of his property.' Judges in Ordinary for Kent, and Durham and Northumberland.Mr. Brougham's Bill. Mr. Brougham's bill for the establishment of two new courts, one for Kent, the other for Durham and Northumberland, was introduced during the last session of parliament, and will be acted upon at the next session. The judges of these courts are proposed to be called judges in ordinary, with jurisdiction in causes of action in the nature of debt to £100, and in costs to £50, but not in actions where the title to real estate, or any franchise or right to toll, is in controversy. Questions may be carried from these courts to those of Westminster Hall by a bill of exceptions, as cases are carried to the Supreme Court in Massachusetts, by exceptions to the decisions of the Common Pleas. One provision of this bill is worthy of particular attention, and we recommend it to the consideration of our legislators. We refer to the provision that the parties may, by consent, refer their case to the decision of the judge, without the intervention of the jury, but the judge may still, if he chooses, take the verdict of a jury upon any particular fact, or upon all the facts. Answer in Chancery-New Doctrine. The London Law Magazine states a case, Stanbury v. Gordon, which recently came before the vice chancellor, in which the bill charges that the defendant, Gordon, had employed the plaintiff to procure his, the defendant's return to parliament from the borough of Tregony, and that Gordon had advanced several sums to the plaintiff, as agent in this business, for which the plaintiff had made mortgages, and the prayer is for a redemption and discovery. Gordon denies the agency, and objects to answering, on the ground that a disclosure would subject him to a criminal prosecution. The vice chancellor decided that he should answer, and said that the defendant cannot protect himself from answering, even where he may criminate himself by the discovery. See contra Redesdale's Tr. 249; 19 Ves. 225; 1 Mer. 391; 1 Swanst. 192, 305. Butler's Life of D'Aguesseau. It will be recollected, perhaps, by the readers of Butler's Reminiscences, that he consulted Sir Samuel Romilly on some occasion, as to the manner of amusing himself in the country during the vacation, and Sir Samuel recommended to him to occupy himself upon a life af the celebrated Chancellor of France, D'Aguesseau. Mr. Butler, it seems, followed the suggestion, and the result is, a recently published Life of that eminent jurist. Deaths. FREDERIC SMITH, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died of apoplexy at Reading, in that state, on Monday, 4th of October, 1830. ABRAHAM NOTT, President of Court of Appeals of South Carolina, died last spring. He had been upon the bench in different courts for twenty years; and was appointed President of the Court of Appeals in 1824, on the reorganization of the courts. ISAAC PARKER, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, died at Boston, the place of his residence, of apoplexy, on the 25th of July last, at the age of 63 years. Judge Parker took seat on the bench in 1805, and succeeded Judge Sewall as Chief Justice in 1814. In our next number, we shall publish CHIEF JUSTICE SHAW'S address to the Berkshire bar, giving the character and a biographical notice of CHIEF JUSTICE PARKER. Appointment. Hon. LEMUEL SHAW, of Boston, was appointed CHIEF JUSTICE of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in August last, in the place of Chief Justice Parker, deceased. QUARTERLY LIST OF LAW PUBLICATIONS. AMERICAN. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. By Octavius Pickering. Vol. 8. Boston. Hilliard, Gray, & Co. 8vo. 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