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ho ought, as an advocata doaling with the ovidence, to do all in bie power to effect the liberation of his client,"

Carrying the question further; Judge Rowlands points out that since the coming of the Criminaj Evidence Act, which enableg prisoners to give evidence in ther own behalf, "it is questionabl whether counsel is entitled to aid and abot perjury by puttin into the box a witness who, to bio knowledge, is about to commis perjury.

This is one of the few serious passages in a big book literally packed with mirthful anecdotes.

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He is ready to tell storios against himself, us. witness the passage in which the late Lord Justice Mathew, referring to Judge Rowlande' address, bum- med up as follows: "Gentlemon, all that you have heard from the learned counsel has nothing to do with the case. Consider your verdict."

" CONSIDERATË BURGLAR; This case reminded the author of an elaborato jake by the late Lord Bowen.

"A man was charged with burglary, and it was proved that he had entered the house by "broaking in," and was discover- ad on the roof, with his boots hung round his neck. His defence was that he had seen the door open, and had entered the house and had gone on to the roof with out any felonious intent.

Bowen, in his charge, said that if the jury thought that the man's presonco on the roof was due to bis love of fresh air, and that ther iceality of his boots showed that' he had removed them in order not to inconvenience the sleeping! occupante, they would acquit him.

They did."

Of David Roos, the Welsh tin- [plate worker, who was hanged! for the murder of his foreman, Judge Rowlands tells us

"The jury convicted Keer, and then a most painful thing hap poned. Mr. Justice Stephen sen- tenced Rese to death, and he was. takon to tho calle. There bo shook hands with the warders and said good-bye, and thanked them for their kindness to bim during, the time he had boon in prison. awaiting trial.

The fact was that ho did no| understand English, and he thought he had been acquitted" Rees died maintaining to the end that ho was not a party to the murdor.

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TO-DAY'S FASHION.

Very practical, this Jursoy. purports to be, and buttons its long tabbed collar and smart turned-back cuffs with little round metal buttons. The dropped yoke with fullnese inset is a comfort- able festtiro. Skirt has a pleat on each side front and' hangs upon an elastic band. Bull yellow wool jorsay, makes the frock.

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How Aristocracy is Made.

Estate agents seem to suggest that the intermediato period se often associated with the years following some great upheaval in our history is coming to an end," They are announcing that many now men are now buying estates with the avowed intention of founding a family," and so-WO bavo begun once moro tho gradual building up of a new "landed gentry," A London Writer has had something to sav, in the last year or two, on the nbjoot of the passing of the ol territorial familles; the rise of a sot of families has an interest of ils own. We have had the procOSS repoatod af various epocha in our history. Cobbelt's "Rural Ridos" are full of sardonic reforonges to the now ec unty families which came into being after the Napole- onic wars. He has a delightful account of a "Gothic arch" on one of those estates "nailed toge- ther in such a way as to make the thing appear from a distanco, like the remnant of a ruin !'* He supposes that tho owner

somo honest person from the Change," and that those Gothic archos are to denote the antiquity of his origin. Not a bad plan and indeed it is one that I once took the liberty to rocommand to those Fundlords who retire to be court squires,'

This is pretty fooling, and there is more of it in." Sybil," but the old families" dispossessed by those new mon had been, in many cases, objects of similar mockery seventy, or eighty years earlier, when they were the detested Nabobs who bought up the estates of other "good old families-dating, perhaps, from the Whig Revolution or the Civil War. Scorn of the new men was loudly expressed after the Wars; of the Roses. Doubtless the 'old Saxon squires looked down on the Nornian invaders, and thel families of genuinely long des-| cent have novor. been so numer- ous as some people imagine. A century, hence the new men of | whom people make fun to-day will be lamonted as the "fine old stock", driven from the land by the new rich of the twenty-first century.

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