Daoling vs. Budget Publishing Company.

among the thorn-bushes. The duty was commutable at 20s. per annum. The cost and value of sundry articles of manufacture, agricultural produce, and do mestic animals are shown by the terms at which the fines were assessed. We have mentioned a few instances already. Some tenants of the Earl of Warwick, who were bound to mow his hay and reap his corn, were allowed, after hay harvest, to take the Earl's "best mutton" — that is, sheep — "but one, or xivd. in money; and after cornharvest, his "best cheese" but one, orv'id. in money, together with the vat in which the cheese was made, full of salt. Our list is getting over-long, and yet might be curiously extended. We will finish it, however, by describing one of the most valid tenures or titles which the landed proprietors of those early days could produce for their es tates. King Edward I., we are told, having caused inquisition to be made by his justices

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of certain of his great subjects concerning the warrant on which they held their lands, John Earl Warren and Surrey showed them an old sword, saying: " Behold my warrant! My ancestors, coming into the land with William the Bastard, did obtain their land with the sword; and I am resolved with the sword to defend them against whom soever shall attempt to dispossess me. For the king did not himself conquer the land and subdue it; but our progenitors were sharers and assistants therein." And "good sharers," adds our author, " were they, for it appears that the first Earl Warren was, at the time of the survey, possessed of two hundred lordships in several counties in England, whereof Coningsburgh in York shire was one, which had twenty-eight towns and hamlets within its soke." Happily, no such accumulation of estated property is now to be found, even in the " Dukery." — Chambers' Journal.

DOOLING vs. BUDGET PUBLISHING COMPANY. 144 Mass. 258. By Austin A. Martin. {The publication of an article statin* that a dinner furnished by a caterer on a public occasion to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston was " wretched" and was served " in such a way that even hungry barbarians might justly object" and that "the cigars were simply vile, and the wines not much better" is not actionable, without proof of special damage.] C"* OD bless us, worthy counsellors! J God bless us, gentles all! A woful dining once there did In Boston town befall.

A specious bill of fare, good sooth! But when they did essay To actually taste the food, It filled them with dismay.

To tramp the streets with fife and drum, The Ancients took their way; Long did their gallant stomachs rue The feasting of that day.

And false as Judas was the " wine" From tinselled flasks did flow; No sunny grapes of fair Provence Their juice did there bestow.

For, after grisly war's alarms In many a muddy street, To brace their martial bodies up, Round festal board they meet.

And when the grewsome feast was done, The " Pure Havanas " came : Ah then, God wot! the warriors brave Their bile did straight inflame.