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THE BRITISH MAIL.

ECHOES FROM THE LAW COURTS.

The "long vacation" commenced on Wednesday last. The High Court of Justice will not sit again until Nov. 2.

One of the best civil lawyers in England has just died, at an advanced age, in the person of Mr. James Flemin, Q.C., chancellor of the Durbam Chancery Court.

The inquirt directed by the government into the now celebrate Cass case has been closed before Sit Charles Warren to Scotland Yard. Sir Charles will submit his report to the home office.

"Buffalo Bill" has been "in chancery." An artist named Garland, whose studio is in close proximity to the Wild West Show, has applied to the Court of Chancery for an injunction to restrain "Buffalo Bill" from carrying on his show in such a manner as to be nuisance to the plaintiff by reason' of noise and smell. The case was still under consideration when the mail left.

Another member of the same troupe has also been an involuntary patron of the London law courts, but he aspired to nothing so luxurious at the High Court to Chancery. He, Jack Ross, by name, was content to make his debut among lawyers at the Thames Police Court, where he was charged with being drunk and wilfull smashing a plate-glass window at the public house where contracted his condition of inebrity. The magistrate treating the matter as an accident, discharged the defendant, who gleefully made his way post-hast to assume his onerous duties of entertaining princes, princessed, dukes, and duchesses at Kensington.

A series of serious charges of obtaining charitable subscriptions from her Majesty's War Department on fraudulent pretences against the Rev. John McAllister, is under investigation before one of the metropolitan magistrats. The accused is held in $1,000 bail.

The will of Mr. Charles Paton Henderson, late of Lancaster GAte, London, and Withington Hall, Manchester, metchant, has just been proved, the personality, independ of extensive real estates, amounting to upward of $404,000.

The late L.R. Bailey, formerly M. P. for the Exchange Division of Liverpool, has, by his will, bequeathed $13,000 to Liverpool charities.