The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-06 00:00:00

RETIRED

JUDGES,

The two most "notoriouTcases on this list -are these - - -
of Mr. Moneypenny and Sir Archibald Ciaipheil.
We know not on what pretext the former retiftd; but
our Contemporary, the- Scotsman, aptly keulatimr-I1
" It was certainly not, mental deed? ;:fer `hatlS • r
eight years after he foiind hiinself unfit for thè lalrtirs
of the bench, he wrotea,pamphletin-fairourrofthurpk,
Extension, which manifests all the , -dexterity, :
acumen of a lawyer?' •
Sir Archibald Campbell was attacked with trona.
venient disorder.. in ,his eyes-Some.tWentr*ears de,
and Sir R. Peel, .who Ives -at that,"p,ipii4 R.. 0 ,7; 503 .83"
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cretary, allowed'hith to retire -on peasiea
per annum. Notwithstanding this": unhappy
firmity, which incapacitated him from poring over •
dull law papers, Sir Archibald is understood
a capital shot, and no one, ' to. look,pori
for a moment imagine that his pension hack '0154:
granted on the sore of blindness. Whatever - may,
have been the pretext, we have heard the permission-
to Sir Archibald Campbell to retire, defended asi-a
truly economical act on thepart pf the Torygairettri;—,
ment of 1824—0 n the ground that, however serious m.
matter it might be to pay the ex judge's pension,. it,
has, after all, cost the country less than the expense
of reversing his decisions would have amounted to. - -
As an illustration of the sort of person Or; Arehi-1'
bald Campbell is, we may relate an anecdote "11#dil
well-knovtil in Glasgow. A public dinner- ,of-i4o • •
friends of the Fine Arts took place a few .inantbo sge,
in this city, and to Sir Archibald was assigned
task of proposing the memory of Sir -Diva
Wilkie. Those who haveheard the BarMset -of
Succouth speak are well aware that at no .time is his
eloquence of the most enlivening ,description,:bnt, on
this particular evening, lie was even more `than
usually prosy. The audience endured the intllcAtioo
for a considerable time, with a patience which: .did
them the utmost credit, but, at length, as it began to
appear probable that the . Speech' would endure:ti,ll
midnight, a shuffling of feet and other marks of lm..
patience commenced. On, however; went • Sir
Archibald, regardless of every reasonable hint of
this description ; but, by and by, the storm increased
to such a height that he was obliged to Come to a..
premature conclusion. On resuming his seat, Sir
Archibald, with the most unruffled self-complacency
beaming on his countenance' turned to a gentle-
man sitting near him, and said, " Well, I halo
no idea that Wilkie was so unpopular r
never occurred to the poor man that -another name„
not that of Wilkie, was at fault. After this, how-•
ever much we may blame -the Tories for placing'
Sir Archibald Campbell on the bench, we can
scarcely, think them far wrong in getting" rid of him.
as speedily as possible.
It is, nevertheless, alsgiaceftil to find such a vast
sum of the public money recklessly spent on super-
annuated allowances ; and we thank IW. Wallace for
bringing the subject under the notice of the country..
Glasgow Argus.

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A GENUINE SCENE WITH ABER-

NETHY.

About a year and a half before the death of Mr. Aber-
nethy, a big fellow, clerk in a brewer's establishment,
went to consult that eminent man, when the following
conversation took place between them:— '
The patient, who had a very crazy frame, but a sound
understanding, said, upon entering the parlour, add see-
ing a little old-looking man, with the knees of his
breeches loose, "I want to speak to Dr. Abernethy."
" Doctor! lam no doctor. What brings you here?'
" I came for advice, to be sure. You don't think I
came to ask you how you do ?"
" Hah!" (muttered Mr. Abernethy, evidently pleased
with meeting ,a congenial customer.) "so; I hope not.
But there's no use in your coming to me for advice. You
won't take it."

" Yes, I will." -
" be d— if you do."
" I'll be d— if I don't."
" What trade are you? A butcher, or a publican, or
a costermonger?"
" Not a bit of it. You're all wrong., I'm a brewer's
clerk."
" What they call a broad cooper." _
" No. lam a collecting clerk."
"Worse and worse.!. Nothing can satisfy fellows of
your kind. You drink beer till you burst., Show me
your tongue."
The patient immediately obeyed the command- by
lolling a large yellow furry tongue ever his chin."
" Bad," said Mr. Abernethy, "very bad. You Were
drunk last night?"
" No, I wasn't."
" So much the worse, for the state of your tongue
must then proceed from—habitual_drinking. You are
always drunk, and you don't know it. You drink what
you fellows call heavy wet ??,
" No, I don't ; I drink ale because I wish to serve my
employers."
"To serve your employers! Then you pay.for= what
you drink?"
" No, I don't; I happen to be in one of the first 'Louses

Lonilon." . • - ,
" Then if you stay much longer With them they will
be one of the last, Here (pulling some Of his specific
pills out of a drawer) , take one or these every other
night, and diminish your draughtt .of ale fiom gallons
to .half-pints. But you won't remember what 1. jay. to
e
yyru , •
Yes, I will." • ' •-•---
" No, you won't; you have no memory:7.7 •
" Yes, I have as good a Memory as,you; I'll get.off a
hundred lines in Milian's r Paradise Lost' with you
any day." ,
Ay, Pandemonium!- You are always *earning of
the devil and all his angels. Isn't that it
" No, it is'nt it; but Lofton feel a pahititta,on of the
heart and a headache,without baying been a bit lumpy."
"Nonsense! How can a- fellow .who lives. upon ale
have either head or heart? You have stomach and guts
enough?' , • s •
" Really, Sir, I get eery depressed;particalarly when
I can't get in the debts of the house. It's' always cold
morning with me then." . ,
" Well, I advise you to take the pills, 'and take exer-
cise, and have mercy upon your employ* aid yourself.
Good morning." - • ,
As the patient was walking out of the `room, .Mr.
Abernethy said " Stay. Where are youdoing business?"
" Over the water."
"-Well ! Take a cab."
" Why so ? You just sai4 exercise is good for me."
" Yes ; but betweea this lila your -place of business,
there are twenty public-houses, and I am greatly afraid
of the shortness of your money:',
" When shall I call again Z' • •, 1
"Do as I tell you, and I need never. see your Awe
more." ' ' • •
" I'll come if I don't improve, but I trust we sba.o never
meet againat this side of the grave,''' •
"If ever we do, I hope you'll repeat the hundred lines
from Milton. I'll be satisfied with that instead of a fee.
There (ringing the bell and whistling% -that'll do- but
give me another. call."—Sunday

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LONDON MARKETS AND bTKAIK•DoA/S.—(FrOYII
" Martin Chuzzlewit.")--" Many and:many a pleasant stroll
they had in Covent-garden market : smilAng up the perfume
of the fruits and flowers, wondering at the , magnificence of
the pine-apples- and melons; catching glimpses down side
avenues of rows and rows of old women, seated on inverted
baekets shelling peas ; looking unutterable things at the fat
bundles of asparagus with which the dainty shops were forti-
fied as With a breastwork; and; ,at :the herbalists' doors,
gratefully inhaling scents as of 'veal-stuffing yet' uncooked,
dreamily mixed up with capsicum!,--brown paper, seeds ;
even with, hints of lusty snails and fine young . may leeches.
Many and many a pleasant stroll, they had among the
poultry-markets, where ducks and fowls, with necks un-
naturally long, lay.stretched out in pairs, .ready for cook-
ing ; where there were speckled eggs in mossy baskets ;
white . country sausages beyond impeachment by survivin
cat or dog, or horse or donkey ; new cheeses to any wild
extent ; live birds in coops and cages,
.looking much too
big to be natural, in consequence of those receptacles
being much too little ; rabbits, alive and dead, innumerable.
Many a pleasant stroll they had among the cool, refreshing,
silvery fish-stalls, with a kind of moonlight effect about their
stock in trade, excepting always for the ruddy. lobsters.
Many a pleasant stroll among the waggon-loads of fragrant
hay, beneath which dogs and tired wagoners lay fast asleep,
oblivious of. the pieman and. the. public-house. But never
half so good a stroll, as down among the steam-boats on a
bright morning. There they lay, alongside of each, other ;
hard and fast for ever, to all appearance, btit designing to get
out somehow, and quite confident of doing it; and in that
faith shoals of passengers and heaps of higgage were pro-
ceeding hurriedly on board. Little steamboats dashed up
and down the stream incessantly. .Tiers upon tiers of ves-
sels, scores of masts, labyrinths of tackle, idlesaile, splashing
oars, gliding row-boats, lumbering barges.; sunken piles.
with ugly !lodgings for the water-rat within their mud-dis-
coloured nooks ; church steeples, warehouses, house-roofs,
arches, bridges, men and women, children,- casks, cranes,
boxes, horses, coaches, idlers, and hard-labourers ; there
talky were, all jumbled up together; any summer morning,
far beyond Tom's posier of separation. In the midst of all
this turmoil, there was an incessant roar from every packet's
funnel, which quite expressed and carried out the upper-
moit emotion of the scene. They all appeared to be per-
spiring and' bothering themselves, exactly as their pas-
sengers did ; they never left off fretting and chafing, in their
own hoarse manner, once ; but were always panting out,
without any stops, Come along do make haste I'm very
nervous come along oh good gracious we shall never get
there how late you are do make h. to I'm of ,directly come
along Even when they had left off and lad got safely
out into the current, on this smallist provocation 'they began
again ; for the bravest packet of theta all, being stopped by
some entanglement in the river, would' inimediately begin
to fume and pant afresh, 'Oh here's .a stoppage what's the
matter do go on there a hurry it's done oaf purpose did
You ever 'oh myagoedness'.• do go on there I!..and, so, in a
state of mind bordering on distraction, -would be last seen
drifting slowly through the mist. into the summer light be-
yond, that made it red."
"ROYAL BENEVOLENCE,"-4 paragraph which has
just appeared in some of the daily papers under the above
heading,stating that her Majesty has been graciously pleased
to command that. the whole of the iinconsumed wine at the
Royal table at Windsor Castle should be given wider proper
regulations to the sick poor of Windsor and Eton, is totally
.without foundation. The whole of the ttnconsumed wine at the
Royal table, which is-of the most choice description, is regal srlY
tion, and
conveyed back -to -the cellar, then carefully corked up and
kept in readiness for the -renewing consura
tPprobably
again placed on the Itoyal table. Tho nustat.cm
originated' with respect to the refuse e
the table ,after dinner
the ateward's
room, which is left in the decanters sto
ag
to the p es and upper ser-
wine being allQwedc:ities men, and one
and' supper ;.
wants in the proportion
n ner°f' two This refase wine, on the whole
pint to each
ch. was formerly the perquisites of the
now given away to the poor on pro-
- waiters or
obrOpttil,Wgee Osnir,
to the Deputy-Comptroller of
Der application being, madeher
iNesty'e Household.

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