The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-27 00:00:00

enormous profit!

their coals,—they are getting more for

their coke. Allow
them to have an advance of the smallest decimal coinage
that ever was thought of in fool's brain, and the gas con-

snmers are done—brown ! Stand out, never mind threats
of cutting off your —, they won't doit. They know better.

The battle of the registrations has commenced in the
city of London, which, in every improvement pertaining
to the body politic, should lead the way, and it does so
pretty well. Battle of the registrations ! Fiddle-de-dee.
Mere chalk and water now to what it was when these
really salutary courts were first instituted—perhaps the
only good that sprang out of the Reform Bill. There was
so much laxity—everybody, anybody voting—that, with
all the humbug of the " great reform measure," one is
really reconciled to its boasted advantages by the insti-
tution of these useful and well-worked courts, though they
are now nearly useless, save as turning into some twenty
briefless barristers—but well-behaved lawyers—£2oo for
the few weeks they don the wig, and sit on the bench.
How can it be otherwise ? Every point of law—residen-
tiary—was disposed of during the first and second sittings

of the revisingrbarristers. gothing worthy of remark Or
record now can by possibility occur. Vexatious points
arise, certainly ; for example, that of taking objections,
Whig or Conservative—for, let the truth be spoken, the
latter are as much to blame in this regard as the former.
This year hundreds of objections have been taken, and
hundreds withdrawn, before Mr. M`CuaisrxE, the re-
vising barrister for the city of London alone. One worthy
cit. has been objected to ten times in two years.
MCHRISTIE is not a man to be trifled with ; he makes the
futile objectors pay the piper, and this is the best remedy
he could apply. . A sketch of -T. Y. Brennlsrf2,
Esq., revising barrister for the city of London,
is worth the space I shall devote to it. He pre-
sents a grand example of culture. He is a long-headed
Scot, frae Glasgow, I believe ; came to London some years
ago, without a " peck o'maut " even ;. he was a good short-
hand writer—first-rate indeed; reported medical and sur-
gical lectures, when they were worth reporting—which
they are not now,--for the Lancet. Glorious productions
those reports. CICERO, the great father of stenography,
could have done nothing like them ;—they sorely vexed
Cubebs, Sarsaparilla, and Squills, the lecturers at the
hospitals. The thing had never been done before ; and then,
their very words, never mind however much compound—
Greek, or dog Latin,—all the same. The reports of those
lectures did more for Tom WARLEY's Lancet than would
have the outlay of ten thousand pounds, which Tom never
had. A clinical lecture is the same to-day, yesterday, and
for ever; unless, indeed, some quaint man arise, like AnEn-
wErny, or learned like LAWRENCE, then lectures would be
worth giving again and again. The lectures reported by
31`CnnisriE were stopped as far as he was concerned.
The same thing over and over, ToM WAXLEY, M.P., for
Finsbury, coroner, and editor of the Lancet, was too
knowing a shot to stand that. Anon, therefore, we find
111`CiatisTxu, touched by the Lancet's power, with a big
brass plate on his hall-door, marked `Surgeon,"—soon
after M.D.,—shortly after we find him a kangaroo (short-
hand man) in the court of chancery, hand and glove with
those still splendid examples of humanity,—LysnnunsT
and BRoUGRAM ;—soon after, we' find him a kangaroo
again in the House of Lords for—the Times Dining
this varied period, M'CunisTlE was quietly eating his way
to the bar,—was called, and THOMAS Lord DENMAN,
made him Revising Barrister for the city of London.
One man in his time plays many parts ; WCHEISTIE is
by no means an old man, and he has gone through all the
grades I have stated. As a revising barrister, I have
no hesitation in saying that he sees through a sham ob-
jection very soon ; and avails himself, without " com-
punctious visiting," of the salutary power the act gives
to him, by making the objectors pay when they do not
prove. Such is a brief sketch of the revising barrister
for London. On the bench he shakes his head, and looks
like a—Lord Chancellor ! _

I now and then, when ruralising, look= for a minute or I
two at a newspaper—if I can find one of yesterday, or the
day before—in the garden of a thoroughly rural tavern
within six or eight miles of Lnnun, as all the aristocracy
pronounce the name of the metropolis, taking- the cue
from the dear departed Duke ; superadded to the afore-
said tavern garden, must be a rustic chair, and table to
match, with a small bottle of well brewed, and better
kept Scottish ale, a planter's cheeroot, burning sun to
brown your face and make absent friends believe, when
they meet you, that you have been on the heather killing
grouse and eating it. With these agremens and the paper
one may have a little passatimpo, as the Italians say,
without anybody knowing much about it. In one of these
gamesome moods, the servitor put in my hand a good
paper enough, and young enough; but oh, the gobe-
moucherie, which I hate in a newspaper ; give me politics
as hot as fire ; raving radical if you like, but no gobe-
nzoucherie, "an' ye love me, Hal." Well, in the paper
handed to me I read that the people at the mint were
working like Pyracmon, Brontes, Steropes of the Cyclo-
pean race, over the glowing fire, turning out the new
decimal coinage, which I had branded as false—spurious
—no go—in a recent communication. " You varlet scribe,"
I said to myself, " you have not read the Liverpool
Standard, or you would not thus have lied." There is no
truth in the paragraph going the round of thegobemouches.
Our money will remain as it is. I find the Times news-
paper has had instructions to deny the accuracy of the
statement about the issue of the decimal coinage,—thus I
am doubly armed; but I did not require even the Times

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