The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

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ch they were the originators, and others, having
:red the market at the lucky moment, have risen from

small means, and retired with a comfortable competency.
Nothing can better illustrate this statement than the fact,
that a bankrupt Scotchman, who came to London two
yents back as a jobbing commission-agent, has gone " t'
other side o' the Tweed " with about £30,000, the pro-
ceeds of the little business he transacted in iron, rather

preferring to live in quiet enjoyment than trouble his
mind further with the anxiety of commercial concerns.
The reverse of the picture can be exhibited, and not in a

solitary instance. The late advance of from 120 to 150
per cent. in the value of the article is a range of fluctua-
tion illustrative of the extent of dealing in it.— The City;
or, the Physiology of London Buskess.
ERSKINE IN COURT.—A. witness was put into the box,

who travelled to get orders

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sms go indiscriminately by the name of riders and tra-
vellers, but most affect the latter. " You are, I under-

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having baffled his cross-examination, be suddenly re-
marked, " You were born and bred in Manchester, I per-
ct,erve." The witness admitted that it was so. " I knew
isaid Erskine carelessly, " from the absurd tie of your
neckcloth." The traveller's weak point was touched, for
he fancied that his dress had been perfect; and the coun-
sel gained his object—the man's presence of mind was
gone. When induced to make a personal observation on
a witness, Erskine divested it of asperity by a tone of jest
and good humour. In a cause at Guildhall, brought to
recover the value of a quantity of whalebone, a witness
was called of impenetrable stupidity. There are two de-
scriptions of whalebone, of different value. the long and
the thick. The defence turned on the quality delivered,
and that an inferior article had been charged at the price
of the best. A witness for the defence baffled every at-
tempt at explanation by his dulness. He confounded thick
whalebone with long in such a manner that Erskine was
forced to give it up. " Why, man, you don't seem to
know the difference between what is thick and what is
long. Now, I'll tell you the difference. You are a thick-
headed fellow, and you are not a long-headed one !" In
a cause at Guildhall, Mingay spoke of one Bolt, a wharfin-
ger on the Thames, who loved litigation, and whose name
regularly appeared as plaintiff or defendant in the cause-
paper of the sittings after term, in very harsh terms, for
his dishonest and litigious spirit. " Gentleman," replied
Erskine, " the counsel has taken unwarrantably liberties
with my client's good name. He is so remarkably of au
Opposite character, that he goes by the name of Bolt-
upright. This was all invention.—Toransend's Lives of
Twelve Eminent Judges.
Mr. Carter's Mammoth Horse is now exhibiting in
this town. It is a most surprisingly fine animal, and well

worth being seen.
A grand stand and balcony have been erected imme-
diately adjoining the judges' lodgings, St. Anne-street,
for the accommodation of parties who may wish to see
the procession formed to do honour to Prince Albert.—
See advt.