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THE BRITISH MAIL.

Echoes from the Law Courts--Music and the Drama--Sporting and Miscellaneous Scraps.

ECHOES FROM THE LAW COURTS

Messrs. Patton & Vickers, ship and insurance brokers of Liverpool, and managers of the Royal Exchange Steam Shipping Company (Monarch Line), have failed, with liabilities amounting to [English Pound]65,000.

The Court of Chancery has delivered an important judgment as to the responsibility of directors in a suit instituted against the directors of the Leeds Estate Building Society. The main allegation against them was that they had allowed dividends to be paid out of capital. The court decided that they were personally liable for the sum of [English Pound]3,300 so paid, and also to refund all remuneration made to them on the strength of the dividends.

Buffalo Bill is to be congratulated upon having "got out of chancery" so soon after getting into it. The case was mentioned in last Sunday's INTER OCEAN, and upon the final hearing before Justice Chitty the legal acumen of that learned judge forced him to the conclusion that the supreme buffalo was neither a smell nor a nuisance, which formed the chief ground of complaint against him. He was therefore declared to leave the court without a stain or blemish upon his reputation for sweetness and purity, and he went away rejoicing, accordingly.

Having succeeded thus far in the garb of defendant, the honorable Buffalo bethought himself to try his luck in that of plaintiff, and accordingly applied to the same friendly-disposed judge to restrain George Sanger, of "Sanger's Ampitheater" fame, from using the words "Buffalo Bill" and "Wild West" in connection with his show. Success was not so complete, however, in this case. which was ordered to stand over until the menagerie proprietor had had an opportunity of being heard.

Jesse Haworth, of High Bank, Lancashire, died without leaving a will. Letters of administration of the personal estate, amounting to [English Pound]593,000, have been granted to two nephews. Any of the next of kin of the deceased would be interested in this estate.

The following wills have been proved: Captain Lonsdale Ponnden, J. P., of the Tower Hamlets, personal estate in the United Kingdom, [English Pound]127,000; Daniel McFarlane, of Delvine, Perthshire, [English Pound]291,000; Thomas Watson, of Rochdale, Lancaster, [English Pound]182,000.