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The "town" has been occupied during the week with two

cases of legal importance. The affairs of the Deposit Bank have come before the Bankruptcy Court, and two of the directors, Lord Keane and Lord George Paget, were sum- moned as witnesses. Lord Keane knew nothing whatever about the matter. He used, he said, to do what Mr. Mor- rison told him, but as for reasons for what was done herknew very little about them. Lord G. Paget knew very little more, though he, too, was chairman. He used to attend pretty regularly, but he was in the hands of Mr. Morrison as much as Lord Keane. Neither received enough from the bank to justify a suspicion of corruption, and the real blame rests with the public, who think that because a man has a title he must be able to count.

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