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  2. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. MERCHANT SEAMEN.

    Sir—Allow me, through your long-established sagacious, and fearless columns, to avail myself of the inestimable benefit of a free press, and to exercise my right as a British subject to express and maintain the opinions of a patriot, a ...

    Article : 662 words
  3. EXTRAORDINARY HURRICANES. A "WHIRLWIND" IN SUSSEX.

    One of the most tremendous hurricanes that ever took place in England occured at Brighton, on the 3d of August last The following particulars are gleaned from the Brigton Express: — ...

    Article : 987 words
  4. THE COURT JESTER. A COMICAL FOREMAN.

    At Radnor Assizes, in the trial of Thomas Watkins, charged with stealing snore harness the property of Edward Bird, Mr Alien replied in the defence by contending that, if this prosecutor was to be believed, he has never lent the ...

    Article : 279 words
  5. COMMISSION AGENTS' ADVERTISEMENTS.

    Sir—As one some time since connected with the house of a foreign merchant, allow me to protest against any sales by auction or otherwise on commission, &c., without due advertisement in the well-read and long-established journals of ...

    Article : 139 words
  6. A JOKE FROM CHANCERY-LANE.

    A fecetions lawyer, who is the delight of the Masters' Office, end the pet of the County Courts, attended at Buwstreet to he sworn in as a special constable He proved himself worthy of the occasion. As the loyal staff oar put ...

    Article : 84 words
  7. GLASS-HOUSE VICTIMISERS.

    Sir—Being well convinced that you can, if you like, with your hebdomadal power, even if unsupported by talented correspondents as hitherto, write down all your assailants—who are not die general public that patronise mind, true ...

    Article : 86 words
  8. A SAMPLE OF UNEXCEPTIONABLE BAIL.

    A week or two since the Police Court of Melbourne afforded a rich sample of the " unceptionable hall," which is not unfrequently both tendered and accepted, in the event of a party committed for trial being admitted to hail, in the ...

    Article : 159 words
  9. A SMART REPROOF FOR A JURY.

    During the Durham Assizes, a charge was preferred agaius' a prisoner for having assaulted a policeman at Winlaton, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of a common assault. ...

    Article : 82 words
  10. AN IRISHMAN'S REPORT OF MR FISHER'S SANITARY MEETING.

    Mr Editor—Ah thin, Mistre Stephens, deresquare pepel in Adelade, sure enuf Nothin wud plase me yeshterday but to go to de grate sanitary metin (divil burn de word, fat dos it mane at al at al). Dere was ould Fisher, vid his ...

    Article : 371 words
  11. AN IRISH BULL.

    " In Cork," said O'Connell, " I remember the c[?]er trying to disperse the crowd by exclaiming— All ye blackguards that isn't lawyers, quit the Court!" ...

    Article : 29 words
  12. IRISH JUDICIAL HUMOUR.

    It is related of old Judge Bill that, while on the circuit lately, he wss one evening sitting in his easy chair, taking his glass in comfort in front of the fire, enjoying his otium sine dignitate, and apparently in a dose; his appearance ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. THE JOLLY YOUNG BARRISTER.

    And did you not bear of a jolly young barrister, At the Old Bailey who used for to ply? He made out his case with such skill and dexterity, Twisting each fact, while he glossed o'er each lie. ...

    Article : 232 words
  14. THE RIVAL RAILWAYS.

    Sir—That a railway from the Port into the heart of our veining City is necessary to expedite and increase our maritime and metrapolitan traffic there can foe no doubt. As this is the iron age, we must have as iron road, and the ...

    Article : 498 words
  15. A JUROR'S PLEA.

    A pretty good joke was perpetrated upon Mr Justice Baud at the present circuit in this country. A ju[?]or, on asking to be discharged from serving, give as a reason that he had listened to the Judge's charge to the Grind Jury, ...

    Article : 100 words
  16. DISASTROUS HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.

    A most disastrous burricane took place in the middle od August, by which Antigua, St. Kitts, and Nevis were devaststed—St Thomas, also, feeling its effects. At Antigua and St. Kitts, there has beeu no such lass of life and ...

    Article : 1,076 words
  17. FURIOUS DRIVING.

    Sir—The velocity principle cries "Go a-head," but it is to be hoped that some respect will be paid to the lives and limbs of her Majesty's subjects, especially as a Compensation-for Accidents Bill has recently been enacted inte a British ...

    Article : 92 words
  18. LAWYER'S BILL OF COSTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 609 words
  19. ANECDOTE OF LORD E[?]KINE.

    Erskine, when somewhat young at the bar, was engaged in the following case:—An old gentleman had a village inn, and a will was produced by which all his property was left to an attorney not ...

    Article : 274 words
  20. ORIGINAL POETRY.

    Philosophers and moralists Say, " Reverence old age," And so, dear Grandmamma, I send My homage in this page. ...

    Article : 401 words
  21. CONSPIRACY.

    Sir—There having, as I understand, been some small conspiracles in this town to crush a long-established journalist for his conscientious and Christian advocacy of the rights of labour, where industry, no less than cemmerce, which ...

    Article : 209 words
  22. O'CONNELL'S TACT IN CROSS-EXAMINATION.

    He was once examining a witness, whose inebriery at the time to which the evidence referred it was essential to his client's cause to prove. He quickly discovered the man's character. He was a fellow who may be described as "half ...

    Article : 389 words
  23. MR STEPHENS'S LECTURE.

    Sir—I observe in one of your contemporaries a letter on Mr Stephens's Lecture on Metropolitan Nuisances, the writer of which epistle evidently forgets how well it is for the world that there arc a few master spirits who have the moral ...

    Article : 139 words
  24. MESMERIC REVELATIONS.

    Sir—In reference to the mesmerie revelations reported in your last, permit me to enquire seriously what were the colours of the good end bad spirits seen as the attendants of man. For aught that we know to the contrary, the ...

    Article : 440 words
  25. BOTH SIDES.

    An advocate at Edinburgh, is said, in a slate of haziness, to have forgotten for which party in a particular cause he had been retained, and, to the unutterable amazement of the Agent who had fee'd him, and the absolute horror of the ...

    Article : 279 words
  26. LEGAL FRIENDSHIP.

    At the county quarter sessions at Exeter, Mr Turner, attorney, who appeared for the prosecution in a case of felony, stated that the only two counsel who attended that Court. Air Bird and Air Jar wood, were retained for the ...

    Article : 214 words
  27. THE EMIGRANT'S DOG.

    The emigrant's dog was on the wharf, Wish his master by his side; Bet they could not take the emigrant's dog The shoreless sea to ride. ...

    Article : 88 words
  28. INGENIOUS DEFENCE OF AN IRISH THEIF.

    At the late Galway assizes, Murtah Conoly was placed at the bar and arraigned, the grand jury having presented him as a vagrant. The prisoner traversed. The evidence adduced agaist him clearly proved that he was a notorious ...

    Article : 570 words
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