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do a in 1 I I I I THE TIMES, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907. 5 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE GATWICK MEETING, WEDNESDAY. The nge, with allowances; the L.EATHERHEAD SELLING STREPLECHASE of 100 to sors. Two miles. J.

winner C. Allen Jeffery's CLANDON LAD, by Mr. Morion 11st. 121b. (J.

Connor) R. Gore's ch' ORPINGTON, aged, 12st. 31b. (P. Main L.

S. Denny's br aged, list. 715. Captain Lawton) 3 Also Mr. Edward E.

Woodland's Borderer Morning Dew, aged, Gwilt's (W. 71b. (J. Payne) aped, 1jst. (Race Larons), started at 1.) (Winner trained by Betting.

to 4 2 ngst. Clandon Orpington, Lad, 10 9 to to 4 1 Perdiens, Morning 5 Dew. to 1 easily by eight lengths; a hend divided second Sonderer 11., 11 to Won third. Borderer bought IT. did in not for 15 complete guineas.

the course. Time, and The winner was (min. 26 4-5sec. The weight HORLEY for with allowances; the winner to be sold SELLING HURDLE RACE of 100 ROTS. age, 50 soys.

Two miles. for Mr. V. P. Miss's 11st.

ST. Sib. (R. CYPRIAN, Morgan) by Persimmonyrs, Contain 1. S.

Denny's TURBULENT, aged, 11st. 9lb. Mr. (F. T.

Sherwood's -Black "and Star, aged, 12st. (L Burrell) Sherwrood) 0 (Race started at 1 29.) (Winner trained by H. Escott.) Retting: 61 to 5 on St. Cyprian, 9 to 4 agst Turbulent, 5 to 1 Black and Star. Wen by two lengths.

Black and Star missed the last Handle. The winner was sold for 85 guineas. Time, main. 21sec. The REIGATE HURDLE RACE (handicap) of 50 sovs.

Two miles. Mr. W. M. G.

Singer's HEATREE, by St. SerfHear, hear, yrs, 1st. 1115. (C. Kelly) 1 Mr.

George Barclay's ch Liza Joirxsos, aged, List. 1016. (C. Brady) 2 Mr. T.

C. Munder's ch EASTERN GLORY, 4 Fri, list. Ilb. (G. F.

Butchers) 3 Also ran W. H. Pawson's Glory, Ann, 1s. (R. Mr.

Spencer Golian's Ethel Macarthy, 4lb. (P. Cowley) Mr. L. B.

Little Prince, 5 yrs, list. Sib. (J. Hunt) Mr. H.

G. Johnson's Glaisome, 4 yrs, 10st. 11lb. (F. Fitton) Mr.

A. Kite's Malcolm Orme, aged, 10st. 12lb. (D. Faulkner) Mr.

J. W. Rouse's Summertield, 5 yrs, Mist. 5lb. (J.

Gannon). (Race started at 2.) (Winner trained by Davies.) Retting. --11 to 10 agst Eastern Glory, 4 to 1 Heatree, 1 to 1 Little Prince, 10 to 1 any other (offered). Won in a canter by four lengths: three parts of a length separated second and third. Little Prince was Fourth.

Ethel Macarthy fifth, Gladsome sixth, and Summerfeld last. Time, 4min. 14 2-5soc. CRAWLEY HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE of 80 Three miles, Mr. R.

Gore's SEXTON, by Red Prince IT.Corinds. aged, 11st. 111h. (P. Cowley) Mr.

T. F. Smith's ch HIALIGATE, aged, 10st. 7ib, (G. Fitton) 2 Mr.

W. Bird's br LITTLE TOM, aged, 10st. 61b, (car. 10st. 71b.) (J.

Connor) 3 Also -Mr. T. Si Alert aged, 12t. Tib. (F.

Freemantle) Mr. G. C. Nugent's The Farmer, aged, 10st. TIb.

(J. Harland). (Race started at 2 30.) (Winner trained by Owner.) Betting. -Erens Alert 5 to 1 each Hall gate, Sexton. and Little Tom, 10 to 1 The Farmer (offered).

by a length and a half; five lengths divided second and third. Alert III. was fourth. Time 6min. 56 3-5sec.

The TIMBERHAM SELLING HURDLE RACE of 70 sows. weight for age; if entered to be sold for 100 sovs. carry Fib. extra. Two miles.

Mr, W. Winan's be MASTER SPRATT, by' Gallinnle -Deinty, 4 yrs, 10st. 7lb. (E. Freemantle) 1 Mr.

T. P. Smith's MORGAN GLASS, 6 yES, 11st. 21b. (G.

Fitton) 2 Mr. H. Escott's APPLE, 497s, 10st. 215. (G.

F. Butchers) 3 Also ran -Mr. H. Bonns's Ward Rose, 5 yrs, 11st. 31b.

F. Reed) Mr. G. G. White's Lady Brays, 5 yrs, list.

$lb. (R. More an); Mr. A. Jeapes's Itacoatiare, 4 3rs, 10st.

7lb. (H. Jeapos). (Race started at 2 59.) (Winner trained by Buckland.) to 10 on Apple, 5 to 2 each agst Ward Rose and Master Spratt, 10 to 1 any other (offered). Won by three lengths; length and a half divided second and third.

Ward Rose was the only other to compiete the course. The winner was bought in for 125 guineas. Time 4min. 14-ec. The PURLEY STEEPLECHASE (handicap) of 70 sovs.

Two miles. Mr. R. Gore's br or rig ZAMPIERI, by ZamielPanache, yrs, 11st. 10lb.

(P: Cowley) 1 Mr. J. C. Allen-Jeffrey's ch AMETHYST, aged, 11st. 10lb.

(J. Mr. E. W. Robinson's LAMESKIN, 6 yES, 10st.

12lb. (G. Clancy) 3 Also ran -Mr. T. Noian's Lady Malta, aged, 11st.

10lb. (G. F. Butchers) Mr. A.

Gorman's Chinese Labour, aged, 10st. 11b. (F. Freemantle). (Race started at 3 30.) (Winner trained by Owner.) 6 1 Betting.

Chinese --6 to Labour, 5 agst 10 1 Amethyst, any other to Zampiori, 16 to (offered). Won easily br three lengths four lengths divided second and third. Chinese Labour was fourth. Time, Amin. 19sec.

The Beginners' Steeplechase having failed to All, the acing at Gatwick to-day will end at 3 p.m. KENNEL CLUB FIELD TRIAL DERBY. The entry for the Kennel CImb field trial Derby! for painter or setter puppies of 1905 closed midnight on Monday, and resterday. Mr. E.

W. Jagnet was able to the list of entries. The trials are again to he held Mr. Pretymen's Orwell estate, near Ipswich, on April 17 and the following days, and although the entry for the Derby, the chief event on the card, is not quite large as last year, the fact that 72 puppies hare been proves that. the interest in the competition is Fill great.

Other spring trials are those of the English Setter Cub, which to be run on the Elstow and Haynes-park estates in Bedfordshire the week after the Kennel Club Dieting, and the National Field Trial Association on Sir Walter Corbet's estate, Acton Reynold. Shropshire, on and the following days. No date has yet been txed for the decision of the brace stake of the InterGun Dog League, although in all probability the meeting will agsin be in Suffolk the day before the Club trials. AMATEUR ATHLETICS IN AMERICA! The appeal of A. F.

Dudley, who was so successful in this country and the United States in sprint events in 1300-1-2-3. in the suit which he brought against the Amsteur Athletic Union of America to restore his times to the record books has failed. On his last return to America "the Georgetown University sprinter was hr the A.A.U. for infringing the amateur and the records which he set up, when running were deleted from the record books. In which Dafter brought to compel tho A.A.U.

to times it was held that he had no right of ind this decision has now been confirmed by the Appellate Division. Sullivan, president of the A.A.U., who was the above-mentioned suit, has issued a the governors and delegates of the the organization of municipal athletic the of pure sport in schoolboy This, the president thinks, will be much more legislation in the checking of sham Mr. Sullivan also condemns the training can vory easily be abused and is sometimes at the expense of amateuristo. FOOTBALL. RUGBY UNION RULES.

ENGLAND V. PRANCE. The second vacancy in the England three-quarter line match at Richmond has been filled D. lambert (Harlequins) 'accepting the invitation to play. J.

G. G. Birkett, on the left wing, H. G. and I.

B. Latchelor playing on the right. PROPOSED VISIT OF NEW SOUTH WALES TEAM. The following official announcement has been made de Union This by Ragby Union committee have mended that a team should not come next season. hope to be able to encourage a visit in the seasonintend to confer with the other unions on be ASSOCIATION RULES.

ASSOCIATION RULES. THE LEAGUE CHAMPIONEITIP. Two matches were played yesterday in the League Cram with. the following results -Bolton bent Preston North End, at Bolton, by three Manchester City beat Middlesbrough, at by three goals to one. LE UNITED V.

THE CORINTHIANS. finished their tour at Newcastle yesterUnited beat them by three goals to Corinthians forwards were much below their Th, and what chance the Corinthians might have of winning. the match was lost in the fast half coach weak shooting, and they should have scored on at least. Newcastle United were presshe for the greater port of the game, they found T. S.

again in his best form. His judgment would was and for him Newcastle United have had op a large Rowlandson had saved two Very hard shots Maciarence opened the scoring from close tage, Directly afterwards Morgan-Owen should have spolized, but he was. late with his shot, and lost the C. Vassall and E. G.

D. Wright made some Bind runs, but Newcastle Caited for the most pert did pressing, and Maciarence added a second goal before After the interval Newcastle United again did the -attacking, but it was 80100 time before they could fore, At last they put on third goal rather luckily, the ball hitting Orr on the foot and rebounding into the was net. After this Vassall as played inside, and the experiment nearly successfal, he just failed at goal after a good run half the length of the field. The last ten minutes provided dall football, Newcattle United taking matters easily, W. U.

Timmis played for the Corinthians for the first time on tour. The Casuals best Bishop Anckland, at Bishop Auckland, yesterday, by Ave goals to one. THE SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) With their match at Cardiff on New Year's Day the South African football players brought their highly successful tour in the British Isles to a close. They have, of course, wonderful record, and the exact statistics are in themselves interesting.

They played in all 28 matches: Of these they won 25, they lost two, and they drew one. Against their opponents they a sored 553 points, and those various opponents against them scored in all 79 points. In regard to actual point scoring, their record, therefore, is not so good as that which stands to the credit of the New Zealanders and their defeat by Cardiff was more severe than the one defeat of the New Zealanders, When the programme of their to tour was first announced great disappointment was expressed and justly expressed -at the omission from it of matches with leading English clubs. Club games and not county games are the essence of first-class football in all four kingdoms of the British Isles and the timidity of the committee of the Rugby Union in declining to decide which were the best clubs in their jurisdiction rightly subjected them to adverse criticism. That disappointment is now in measure allayed.

No club side in any of the four kingdoms are on general and approved form the equals of this that no international side are really their equals, in spite famous colonial team. One night. go so far as to say of the fact that Scotland beat then and England drew with them. It is interesting to consider the causes of their long series of brilliant victories. At one timo there was a tendency on the part of English critics to lay rather undue stress on the deetness of foot for which all of them were notable to a certain, and some of them to a remarkable, extent.

Later it was realized that resource was the real explanation; resource in attack which was very unusual, and resource in defence which was practically unprecedented. To use a cricket expression, they were careful to play themselves in. Bofore their arrival in England they only knew generally each other's capacities; and in their opening matches they watched the development of their own game as carefully as that of their opponents. They began by besting. the East Midlands and the Midlands very easily indeed; but, in spite of that fact, the critics were inclined to underrate their actual skill and ability and to attribute their success to the physical advantages of paco and But, even in the opening matches, to the careful observer who had learnt the game as a player and not as a spectator there was evidence of what was afterwards so clearly revealed.

A little simple practice on easy lines was necessary to them all, and they assured themselves of being able to walk before attempting to run. By degrees, however, the ingenuity of their backs was impressed upon those who watched them play, and more especially upon those who played against them. Yet were there further surprises in store for all. The tour was about three weeks old before it was discovered that they had anything but an invincible pack of forwards, and it was their visit to the south-west of England which caused this rather unsuspected weakness to appear. In quick succession the Middlesex forwards and the Glamorganshire forwards asserted their superiority, and during the latter half of October the South African front rank was in adversity.

But there was a compensating surprise. The power in attack of the colonial backs had been by this time established the magnificence of their defence was still to be revealed. Fine attacking backs are seldom given the credit for being able to act soundly and resolutely in defenco. And it must be admitted that football history is full of evidence which supports the view that strong attacking players are not strong defensive players. It has been left to the South African backs to set a valuable precedent.

In match after match they proved the fallacy of a maxim the truth of which had rather easily been taken for granted in the British Isles. It was not, they pointed out very practically, the extraordinary exception to a very general rule for the side whose forwards were beaten to win the match. Even after the experience of four months the exact nature of the play of the South African forwards is not very generally appreciated. In two important branches of forward play they are not perfect. They do not heel with exceptional smartness in the tight scrummages they are not notable for exceptionally brilliant in loose rushes.

But the reason of their coinparative weakness- -for it is only comparative weakness after all--in both cases is creditable to them. They are anxious not to offend either against the written or the unwritten law. Careful not to raise the foot in the scrummage before the ball is put into it, they often lose control of it in consequence, and the heeling is therefore done by their opponents. Tho mention of the term footwork in the loose raises a rather more serious consideration. Itwill be sufficient for present purposes to say that, hard muscular players they are, they have observed with surprise at times the rather reckless footwork which British referees are apt to permit to continue unchecked.

The South Africans do not subscribe to the doctrine which implies that the man who throws himself on the ball when it is on the ground in order to check a rush must necessarily expect to ba kicked. But they themselves adopt this method of defenco- without complaining of the result. In other respects their forwards can challenge comparison with any other forwards. Justice has already been done to their backs. For a combination of good qualities these men are the best players who have ever been seen.

The end of the tour has naturally been the occasion for one question to be universally asked. Would the South Africans beat the New Zealanders? It is not a question which can be answered in a monosyllable and obviously the record of the New Zealanders is quoted in all the replies which the putting of the question produces. The New Zealanders played 32 matches in the British Isles. Of these they won 31, and, in their solitary defeat by Wales, victory depended upon the decision of the referee given in very difficult circumstances. The New Zealanders scored 830 points, and only 39 were scored against them.

Also, their fixture list was a rather more notable one than that of the South Africans. Statistics, therefore, rather suggest the superiority of the New Zealanders. But statistics in this case are not aS safo as a guide as they often are. The correct answer to the question, Would the South Africans beat the New Zealanders is, That all depends on how the referce controlling the match interpreted the rules of Rugby Union football." It was at times dificult enough before the New Zealanders came here to decide exactly when one or more players were off side. The New Zealanders made it increasingly difficult to do so and they also raised the rather unforeseen question of obstruction in a lamentably practical way.

The practice of the wing forward with its attendant had been already condemned in New Zealand. That it was nevertheless exploited with success in England cannot be doubted. Hard, indeed, is it. to say how much the New Zealanders owed to this peculiar institution, or how often the man playing in the position in ought to have been penalized for obstruction. The New Zealanders were splendid football players, regardless of the particular formation which they chose to adopt.

But in one important particular they were never really seriously tested, or, rather, they were never seriously tested in it until, stale and tired at the end of their tour, they went into Wales. There they played five matches. They were beaten once, and four times they had to fight hard for a narrow victory. The exact value of their defence it is difficult to gauge. Side after side who played against them concentrated on making the margin of victory of the New Zealanders as small as possible.

Never was there a real whole hearted attempt made to risk everything in order to attack these fine players and force them for once to be the defenders. So the New Zealanders were allowed. to play their own game and their game, par excellence, was attack. The Briton learns slowly, but by the time that the South Africans reached England he had mastered his lesson. Before the new Colonials had been a month in the country they were called on to ward off strong counter-attacks deliberately instituted.

It is a matter of history how well they emerged from the ordeal. A match between the Sonth Africans and the New Zealanders, were such a match possible, would indeed be a great event. Forward no doubt the advantage would lie wita the New Zealanders in any conditions; but behind the scrummage the grent resource and. variety of the South African players would probably compensate for their alight inferiority in the pack. But victory or defeat would depend on the point of view of the referce.

11 he could see nothing amiss with those New Zenland methods of play with which all persons interested in football are now acquainted, then, indeed, the South Africans might be beaten. But were otherwise. as, indeed, one imagines it well could be. the South Africans might prove their right to be considered the best exponents of Rugby Union football who have yet been seen. And few jealous of the honour of a great game would regret their victory.

In the one 'real essential they have still an unbroken record. Their habit of offending but seldom--and then by accident--against the letter of the law is the result of a determination to uphold the spirit of the law. Their code of ethics leaves nothing to be desired. They are the most generous of opponents, and even in moments which might fairly be considered moments of temptation there is never a tendency on their part to lower the moral standard, of play for which they are so justly famous. The comparison which is proverbially odious cannot always without affectation be avoided.

would be idle to pretend, that the New Zealanders, great as was the admiration which their extraordinary skill excited, engendered in England the same feeling of respect which the South Africans hare engendered. The latest visitors have successfully appcaled to the best feelings of the sportsmanlike community. They have dono more than that. They have proved without preaching that the greatest possible skill is consistent with the fairest possible play, and it is to be hoped that the lesson taught will be very. practically learned.

In certain parts of England and Wales foul and unfair play is not repressed as sternly as it ought to be, and applauding crowds still rate slimness as smartness. Even if official action is not taken to improve matters, it is to be hoped that the example of the South Africans may have already done something to mise the tone of public opinion where it needed raising. They leave behind them only feelings of gratitude and admiration. They have played the game. CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, JAN. 2. The cricket match between South Australia and Victoria was brought to a conclusion to the result being a victory for South Australia by runs. Scores -South Australia, 290 and 398 Victoria, 199 and 170. Wright (South Australia) took five wickets for 42 runs.

-Reuter. BADMINTON. THE MIDDLESEX CHAMPIONSHIPS. At the Badminton-ball, Faling, yesterday, the third annual Middlesex county championship meeting was brought to a conclusion. The programme consisted of the Doubles Championships, and each event produced some close and interesting play.

The final of the Ladies' Doubles was won by Miss M. Lucas and Miss M. E. Brown (Shaldon), who defeated Miss D. K.

Douglass (Haling) and Miss Larminie (Crystal Palace). There was practically nothing to chooso between the sides in the Erst set, which fell to Miss Lucas and Miss Brown by 17--16. In the second set, the Shaldon players soon established a lead, and won by 15-6. In the Gentlemen's Doubles, the hoiders, Mr. II.

N. Marrett (Crystal Palace) and Mr. G. A. Thomas (Southsea) were defeated by Mr.

C. J. T. Barnes and Mr. S.

M. Massey (Ealing). As Mr. Marrett had only just concluded a hard game in the Mixed Doubles, the holders were at some disadvantage. Mr.

Barnes and Mr. Massey, however, played a brilliant game, and their victory by two sets to love (15 -8, 15-10) was a fair indication of the merits of the sides. With Miss Hogarth (Cheltentiam) as partner in the Mixed Doubles, Mr. Marrett defeated Mrs. Smith (Crystal Palace) and Mr.

N. Wood (Bolton). Although they lost the second set, Miss Hogurth and Mr. Marrett, who the holders, generally had the upper hand, and won fairly easily by two sets to one (15--1, 10-18, 15 6). The results were Mixed Doubles.

-First Round. -Miss Hogarth (Cheltenham) and Mr. H. Marrett (Crystal Palace) beat Miss M. E.

Brown (Shaldon) and Mr. A. V. Cowley (Ealing) (15-2, 15 -1) Miss Murray (Cheltenham) and Mr. G.

A. Thomas (Southses) beat Miss C. Douglass and Mr. G. Saulter (Cheltenham) (15--7, 15-9) Miss D.

K. Douglass and Mr. F. Chesterton (Kaling) beat Miss M. Lucas (Shaldon) and Mr.

E. Young (Haling) (15--12, 15-11). The other players drew byes. Second Round.Miss Radeglia and-Mr. J.

H. Prior (Alexandra Park) beat Miss Cundall (Richmond) and Mr. E. P. Harrison (Faling) (9--15, 15--11, 15-1); Miss Hogarth and Mr.

Marrett beat Miss Murray and Mr. Thomas (15-9, 15-10) Miss D. Boothby and Mr. A. D.

Prebble (Crystal Palace) beat Miss D. K. Douglass and Mr. Chesterton (15--5, 18--13) Mrs. Smith (Crystal Palace) and Mr.

N. Wood (Bolton) beat Miss Bateman and Mr. S. M. Massey (Faling) (17--18, 18-16.

15-9). Semi- Hogarth and Mr. Marrect beat Miss. Radeglia and Mr. Prior (15-3, 15 Mrs.

Smith and Mr. Wood beat Miss Boothby and Mr. Prebblo (17--16, 15-9). Final Round. -Miss Hogarth and Mr.

Marrett beat Mrs. Smith and Mr. Wood (15--1, 16--18, 15-6). Gentlemen's -First C. J.

T. Barnes and Mr. S. M. Massey (Ealing) beat Mr.

A. D. Prebble (Crystal Palace) and Mr. N. Wood (Bolton) (15-2, 15 Mr.

E. P. Harrison and Mr. H. Comyn Faling) beat Mr.

R. G. P. Hunter and Mr. H.

Marryat (Southsea) (15 -10, 13 -7) Mr. H. N. Marrett (Crystal Palace) and Mr. G.

A. Thomas (Southsea) walked over, Mr. F. Chesterton and E. Young (Ealing) scratched Mr.

C. Joyner and Mr. G. Saulter (Cheltenham), a bye. Second Barnes and Mr.

Massey beat Mr. Harrison and Mr. Comyn (18--16, 15-11) Mr. Marrett and Mr. Thomas beat Mr.

Joyner and Mr. Saulter (15-8, 15-9). Final -Mr. Barnes and Mr. Massey beat Mr.

Marrett and Mr. Thomas (15--8, 15--10). Ladies' -First Binyon (Faling) and Miss Murray (Cheltenham) beat Mrs. L. Smith and Miss D.

Boothby (Crystal Palace) (18--13, 11--6) Miss K. Douglass (Ealing) and Miss Larminie (Crystal P'alace) beat Miss Orr and Miss C. Douglass (Faling) (18--15, 15--5) Miss Bateman (Ealing) and Miss logarth (Cheltenham) beat Miss St. John (Ealing) and Mrs. Wheelwright (Richmond) (15 -10, 15--3) Miss M.

Lucas and Miss M. E. Brown (Shaldon) beat Miss Mathew Lannowo (Filing) and Miss Cundail (Richmond) (15-3; Second Round. -Miss Douglass and Miss Larminie, beat Mrs. Binyon and Miss Murray (15--8, 15-11); Miss Lucas and Miss Brown beat Miss Bateman and Miss Hogarth (15--7, 15-10).

Final Lucas and Miss Brown beat Miss Douglass and Miss Larminie (17-16, 15 -6). BERNHAM AND BERROW Yesterday the bogey competition was tied for by Mr. L. Tamworth (handicap 2), Mr. J.

W. Aspinall (8), and Mr. J. C. Rowley (14), each at I hole down.

Fifty players entered for the competition. The best returns for the Holt challenge cup were -Mr. J. C. Rowley, 93 -18 Mr.

L. Tamworth; Mr. J. S. Spencer, 80 Mr.

S.C. Healing, 81 1 80 Mr. B. Dewatteville, and Mr. A.

J. Palmer, 89 8 -81. WORLD'S SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. SYDNEY, N.S.W., JAN. 2.

G. Towns and Durnan have signed articles for a race for the world's sculling. championship on the Nepean River for £500 a-side, to take place on March THE AMERICAN TOURNAMENT. Yesterday Stevenson and Inman continued their hent in 1 the American Tournament at the Inman receiving 2,250 points start in 9,000 up. The closing scores were Inman (receives 2,250) (in play), 5,340 HI.

W. Stevenson (scratch), 3,940. C. HARVERSON v. F.

H. WEISS. This match of 12,000 level for £50 was continued at the Leicester-square-hall yesterday. The closing scores were H. Weiss (in play), C.

Harverson, 7,686. THE MAGISTRACY. TO THE EDITOR. OF THE TIMES. have read the Lord Chancellor's letter with the greatest respect and attention, but am bound to say that it leaves behind it a sense of keen disappointment.

His Lordship admits the evil of which we complain, and himself stigmatizes it as an indignity which threatens the credit of the Bench. Surely nothing should be left undone to remove 50 great a danger to the office of justice of. the peace, an office which, as the Lord Chancellor himself points out, places in men's hands the liberty and reputation of their neighbours. And yet his Lordship proposes to 'content himself with the entirely inadequate steps taken since the end of February in appointing new justices, whose number is so limited as to have practically no effect in redressing the evils complained of by us and admitted by him. True, the Lord Chancellor concurs in our aspiration that the appointment of justices should be put upon an entirely non-political basis.

That aspiration, however, can only be consummated by an understanding between the great political parties, a consummation which at the best can only be achieved in the course of time. Meanwhile the present system must of necessity continue, and, whatever its imperfections, it is the only available means for redressing the evils which the Lord Chancellor himself admits, and which we say cry aloud for remedy, What are the facta During the last Administiation large numbers of new magistrates were created by the Tory Government. Of these an overwhelming number were Tories, and though some Liberals were included, yet it is an open secret that they were included merely as a Liberal leaven to leaven the Tory mass. The result is that at the prosent time there are no less than 13,150 Tory magistrates, as against only 4,600 Liberal ones. Could anything be more unfair to a great political party, and can it be doubted for a moment that there are many capable and highly esteemed men in different walks of life who would have long ago been placed upon the Bench but for the fact that they hold Liberal views? Justice cries aloud for a prompt restitation to these men of their too long withheld political rights.

His Lordship throws dust into his own eyes when he regards the proposition as one of mere reward to the individual for political services. It is neither a question of the individual, nor of political reward. It is simply and solely the political right of the dominant party. in the State. Surely it was this very principle of political right which influenced the Lord Chancellor when appointing Liberals to six out of seven vacancies in the High Court of Justice, the County Courts, and the Railway Commission.

And surely the sure principle will be followed, and very rightly followed, in appointing a new Chairman of the London Sessions, a principle which is justified by immemorial precedent, and governs even the appointment of the law officers of the Crown. Nay, is even tacitly proclaimed and accepted in the fact stated by the Lord Chancellor himself that, with the exception of two or three names, he cannot recall any application from any Conservative member. for the appointment of any person as justice of the peace. The fact, then, cannot be gainsaid that appointments to the magisterial Bench are the right of the dominant political party and so long as that continues to be the case the Liberal party are entitled to press that real and substantial steps shall be taken to redress the scandalous disparity which now prevails. When that has been accomplished and all parties can start on a fair and equal basis under a now system which will remove the matter from the political arena by the common consent of all parties, then, and not till then, will be the time for the Lord Chancellor to put into activo operation those ideal sentiments to which he gives such admirable expression in his letter to Sir John Brunner.

Iam, Sir, yours faithfully, E. B. BARNARD, M.P. for Kidderminster. The Fair Green-house, Sawbridgeworth, Jan.

1 SOLICITORS' ACCOUNTS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE TIMES. have been in considerable practice for over years, and, like Sir John Grey Hill, I have never heard such a practice as that which your correspondent (whose letter appeared in your paper of the 17th inst.) refers apparently as a common habit of solicitors to speculate with their clients' moneys without their authority, and manipulate their own accounts accordingly. Such a practice may exist amongst the rascals of the profession, some of whom have met with their deserts, and others of whom it is hoped may follow suit. Sir John suggests-(1) That all solicitors should keep their clients' moneys in a separate banking account, and earmarked as not to admit of the possibility of setting them off against an overdraft on the solicitors' own account (2) that solicitors whose practice is large enough to justify the expense should have their accounts regularly audited by a professional accountant and (8) that all solicitors should be members of the Law Society.

I wish I could think that Sir John's suggestions would operate either as deterrents to the would-be evildoers, or as safeguards in any way but I cannot see what practical good would result from them, As to No. 1, the separate account of clients' moneys would be left, necessarily, under the control of the solicitor, who, if inclined to deal dishonestly with the moneys, would not be deterred by the fact that they stand to a separate carmarked account. Nor can I see what sort of a check No. 2 (audit by a professional accountant) would afford. Assume an audit every three months, disclosing, say, on the 25th March large sums due from a solicitor to various clients; to whom the fact may or may not be known.

What is to prevent a fraudulently inclined person from appropriating these, or any of these, sums between Lady Day and Midsummer, when the next audit would be held As to suggestion No. 3 -that all solicitors should become members of the Law Society-what guarantee, I ask, would such a fact afford of the individual honesty of member Two, if not three, of the worst offenders who have of late years brought discredit on the profession were members of the Law Society. 'Tis an old saying that you cannot make men honest by Act of Parliament. The profession would gladly be purged of all who are a disgrace to it, and would, I am sure, aid in every possible way in any steps calculated to bring about this result; but any useless harassing of the honest majority will not effect or help it. The impunity with which grave offenders have been allowed to go 46 scot free and to continue to live on their ill-gotten gains is a very grave scandal, and ought to be put an end to by the Law Society in the interests (which it affects to look to) of the profession generally.

They could hardly tender a better service. So. far criticism. I venture to make this suggestion, as one which might with advantage be adopted by solicitors in the interests of their clients, and with advantage to themselves, in cases in which they are in the habit of regularly receiving and paying sums of money on account of their that they should at the end of each month render an account showing. receipts and the application of them (by payments to the client's account of their bankers or otherwise), and on the other sido payments made on account of, or sums due from, clients.

That this account should be dealt with on tho footing that all receipts by the solicitor should be paid over in full during, or at the end of, cach month, and that the client should, on receipt of the account, discharge what appears to be due from him. Such an operation saves much book-keeping and works most satisfactorily. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, London, Dec. 28. ANOTHER OLD SOLICITOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. was not one of the requisitionists to the Law Society who are referred to in the article from a correspondent which appeared in your issue of December 17 but, in common with all other members the society, I have to vote on a poll of the society with regard to the requisition shortly, and am giving to the subject all the study and attention of which 1 am capable. In your issue of December 19 there is a letter signed An Old Solicitor." I have no clue to this gentleman's identity, but I judge from his letter that he sepaks from the traditional Law Society point of view, and I should gather that ho is, or has been, a member of the council of the society. If not, he will, of course, correct 1 me. He clearly assumes an attitude of authority and complete knowledge of the subject when he refers to your correspondent as being apparently a country solicitor with imperfect knowledge of the subject on which he writes." In this letter An Old Solicitor described as inaccurate and misleading the statements in the article of your correspondent to which I have referred.

No doubt he does so on some ground; but I confess itappears to me that your correspondent in most of his facts quoted documentary evidence, and where he did not do this, drew inferences and conclusions which the documents seemed to: justify. I am, therefore, puzzled as to what part of your correspondent's article is considered by An Old Solicitor" to be 66 inaccurate and misleading." Will he be good enough to say in your columns in what respect this is so I notice also that An Old Solicitor describes your correspondent as appearing to be in sympathy with the class of solicitors who act as bankers and financiers and to whom the real source of the mischief in the solicitors' profession to which he refers is attributable. On this point will An Old Solicitor please say in what words in your correspondent's article he finds this appearance of sympathy And I venture to press him on this point, because it seems to me that your correspondent wrote as much in condemnation of the system in question as An Old Solicitor himself does, and I am anxious to know on what ground An Old Solicitor writes that your correspondent did not mean that which he said. An Old Solicitor." goes further. He says that the requisitionists desire (there is no appear to in this sentence, it is a plain charge in itself) to encourage and perpetuate the system which both he and your correspondent (as I read him) condemn.

This is plain speaking, and I venture to press 46 An Old Solicitor on this point also. As I read the terms of the requisition and circular which the requisitionists sent out referring it, these gentlemen asked that a committee (to be nominated, not by the council, but at a moeting of the society) should be appointed to consider and report as to what rules and regulations, if any, should be adopted the society as to A. The methods in which a solicitor could keep the accounts of himself and his clients and the audit thereof; B. The keeping and auditing of trust accounts C. The conduct of professional business and D.

The formation of a guarantee fund and as to the mode of enforcing such rules and regulations and as I read the circulaz the requisitionists did not express any opinion whatever on the merits of the questions raised in the requisition they merely asked that a strong independent committee and one representative of the society as a whole should be appointed. An Old Solicitor sys, in plain terms, if his letter means anything at all, that this statement on the part of the requisitionists is not bona fide and that they actually desire something entirely different from that to which requisition would appear to point. Premising that I am sincerely desirous of voting intelligently and with full knowledge of the subject, venture to press An Old Solicitor on this point also, and to ask him on what ground he questions the bona tides of the requisitionists and the circular, I must apologize for asking these questions in your columns but AS 4 An Old Solicitor has chosen that medium with a view, as I apprebend, of publicly discrediting the requisitionists in the eyes of your readers, it- appears to me that he at least cannot complain of my 80 doing, and I think he can bardly refuse an answer to the questions which fairly arise out of his letter. Your obedient servant, RANK AND FILE. SURVEYORS' EVIDENCE AT ARBITRATIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. have to thank you for inserting my letter in your issue of the 27th and also Mr. C. C. Maccae for his reply thereto, and before proceeding to deal with Mr.

Towson's violent attack upon me appearing in today's issue, I should like to make brief reference to the one point upon which Mr. Macrae and myself are at variance. i.e., the employment of counsel and with all respect I must stand to my guns. I think I am right in saying that the material upon which briefs are now compiled is practically in every instance supplied to the instructing solicitors by the surveyors having the conduct of the case, who are therefore quite competent to place the same material before the umpire, and the solicitors on either side could draw their surveyors' attention to any points of law which arise, and they in turn could quote these to the umpire, who could, if he considered it necessary, obtain an independent legal opinion for his own guidance. As Mr.

Macrae states, counsel are costly, and it was on this ground that I think they could reasonably be dispensed with under existing circumstances, however, they are an absolute necessity. And now as to Mr. Tewson. If we are to accept the expression the greater the truth the greater the libel as correct, then suppose he is right in charging me with having libelled the surveying profession; but the libel," it any none was intended), was for the good and not that profession, and an honest (certainly, endeavour to mend matters. I disclaim all intention of being spiteful, nor do I admit that I have been untruthful.

I observe Mr. Tewson admits the accuracy of what I say as to witnesses who show independence of character not being called; but as he, with his 50 years' experience, has only now and then found himself unable to support some one else's figures, presumably the occasions, as with him, so with others, are rare. Will Mr. Tewson deny that a round-table conference takes 1 place between the witnesses on each side, when figures are discussed and and the weak man defers to the strong, or that he or any surveyor would if acting as umpire adopt the same figures as he would if a witness? If so, then with the enormous discrepancies one sees daily between the claim and the offer there can be no unanimity of opinion amongst surveyors of the real value of any property, and the selectness of an umpire must be fraught with real danger to both parties, and the result a mere matter of chance. Can Mr.

Tewson quote an instance where he has given evidence when he did not know the figures of the other witnesses or they did not know his grant valnations may be independently made, in the sense that they are made at different times but before they finally reach the instructing solicitor they are altered and cooked to meet the views of the leading surveyor. I cordially agree with the general reference to undersherifs, but at the same time fully sympathize with them in having to direct. juries on the evidence which is put before them. As to the Garden City case, I am unconcerned as. to how.

the claim was arrived at, I merely said it averaged £945 an acre, and the umpire's award was equivalent to £201 per acre. Having dealt briefly with such of the points in Mr. Tewson's letter as appear to me to require a reply, I venture to ask him if he really honestly and conscientiously believes that the present system is one which redounds to the credit or advantage of the surveying profession is it a good thing to proclaim to the world at large that such extraordinary discrepancies of opinion exist, on what, after all, ought not to be a very difficult subject, and which the outside public might and probably often do put down to ignorance The surveyors are now a large and important body and it is surely to their advantage to raise themselves above all suspicion of incompetence and adhesion to a system which I think all men will hold docs bring them and their vocation into reproach. January 1. I ain, ANTI-HUMBUG.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. hope you will allow me space for a few lines in support of the statements made in your columns to-day by Mr. Edward Tewson. I have had more than 20 years' experience both as counsel and as umpire in arbitration cases, and I desire to assure your readers that your correspondent 66 AntiHumbug is either writing in absolute ignorance of his subject or is guilty of a false and malicious libel upon a class of professional gentlemen who are second to none in integrity and honour. Does he realize that on almost every occasion on which surveyor gives evidence each word is taken down in shorthand, printed, and often published; that each witness is subjected to cross examination by experienced counsel, who have been carefully instructed and armed with the recorded utterances of the witness in similar cases A surveyor attains eminence not, as AntiHumbug suggests, by the flexibility of his conscience, but by the consistency of his evidence, and by his ability, because of such consistency, to stand cross-examination.

There are often vest and vital differences of opinion between surveyors of equal experience and equal honour as to the value of the subj in dispute; but such differences arise, almost without exception, in consequence of the varying views held by the parties of their legal rights--views upon which the arbitrator or umpire has to give the ultimate decision, and which it is the duty of the surveyor merely to appraise, on the supposition that his client's view is correct. As to the unworthy and utterly false statement that the expert surveyor does undoubtedly fit his instructions," I will only say that I have over and over again at consultations previous to the hearing of a case heard surveyors say, to If my figures are not high enough in the opinion of the claimant you must call someone else 1 cannot go Iam, Sir, your obedient servant, Westminster, Jan. 1. K.C. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

-I and hold in high of its esteem members the surveyor's individually, profession but I generally many cannot allow Mr. Edward Tewson's letter to unchallenged. Mr. Edward Towson is anger: bat the expression of that feeling which is contained in his letter of to day does not, and cannot, so easily dispose of the question raised by Anti-Humbug." The extraordinary divergence of opinion as to values the evidence of surveyors in compensation notorious. It this is not apparent to Mr.

Tewmon certainly is to some members a his own profession. very prominent surveyor once said to me that in many eases the conflict in the evilence was too glaring to admit of its being explained by a mere honest difference of opinion, and that he wished. something could be done to put an end to such a state cd things. Indeed, it is a matter of common knowledge that some surveyors endeavour to justify their figures on the ground that unless the value were put higher than the real value the claimant would not, in all protability, be adequately. compensated.

Under these ci they feel no compunction in swearing to a figure vastly in excess of that which in fact represents thair true view. This, may the surveyors on the other side, snakes it imperative on us to keep our figures as low as passible. Such an excuse is surely dolly untenable, first, because the surveyors are not acting as counsel, but purport to be giving on oath their true and honest view and, secondly, for the reason that, if the surveyors on both sides were content to exprora their real views, there would be no necessity for either side to unduly appreciate or depreciate the value of the property under discussion. Mr. Tewson in the course of his letter, when dealing with a difference of opinion among surveyors retained on the same side, proceeds to say In cases where there is considerable divergence of opinion I have never known materially I wish this were the universe experience.

It is impossible to suggest that this is the case. I also very much doubt whether Mr. Tewson is On firm ground when he appeals to the general opinion of counsel experienced in this class of inquiry. I firmly believe that there are many surveyors who would be glad to see an alteration in the existing sate of things. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, January 1.

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