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From all this, if there is any force in logic, we must conclude, that hanging, in this country, is only applied honoris causâ, as an ovation, in consideration of the great and magnanimous daring of the Alexanders and Caesars on a small scale, to whom the law adjudges the "palmam qui meruit ferat."

And men said, "Bene meruit" or, rather, "He followed in the footsteps of his father." Not until St. Barnabas' Day in 1894 was his place filled by the consecration of the Rev. Cecil Wilson, who took up the work of the Melanesian Mission with great earnestness. Meanwhile, the veteran Bishop Hadfield had laid down both the bishopric of Wellington and the primacy in 1893.

May every succeeding Nelson regard, and be able to look up to, that motto which was conferred on the hero of the Nile, Palmam qui meruit, ferat! On Sir James's arrival at Gibraltar he received the following letters from Sir Horatio Nelson, approving of his proceedings: Vanguard, Naples, 29th Sept. 1798.

Darwin's admirers find no difficulty in appreciating the importance of a personal element as far as he is concerned; let them not wonder, then, if others, while anxious to give him the laurels to which he is entitled, are somewhat indignant at the attempt to crown him with leaves that have been filched from the brows of the great dead who went before him. Palmam qui meruit ferat.

The more cumbrous, even if more perfect or polished, machinery of the Established Church has notoriously failed for a long time to affect such raw material; and if it is beginning to succeed it is really by "taking a leaf out of the book" of such pastors as the one whose Tea-and-Experience Meeting I had attended. "Palmam qui meruit ferat."

If I can help it, he shall not be on the inquest of my quantum meruit. Poor rich man! he can hardly know anything of public industry in its exertions, or can estimate its compensations when its work is done.

"Palmam qui meruit ferat," responded Willoughby, instantly recovering his temper. "Smoker Nelson dem your skins, come up once more!" Dixon's bullocks were exceptionally docile, for that uncultivated animal was one of the most humane and skilful drivers in Riverina; therefore, about twenty-five minutes sufficed to place his team in readiness for a start.

"You're surely not fretting about having lost the head place." "Oh, no. `Palmam qui meruit ferat. As Robertson said the other day in his odd, fantastic way of expressing his thoughts `In the amber of duty you must not always expect to find the curious grub success." "Depend upon it, you'd be higher if you worked less, my dear fellow. Let me persuade you don't work for examination any more."

She was still the heroine of the day, and <ipalmam qui non meruit the motto which the unconscious satirists bestowed on her. She did not mean it to be so quite the contrary but wrong comes about from good intentions to the full as often as from evil ones.

Nor will any part of the hardships of this clause be alleviated by the expedient suggested by an honourable member, who spoke, some time ago, of granting, or allowing, to a sailor, whose contract shall be void, what our courts of law should adjudge him to deserve, a quantum meruit: for, according to the general interpretation of our statutes, it will be determined that he has forfeited his whole claim by illegal contract.