The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-08-23

ANECDOTES On ENGtlsuJubGa.
The july number of Fmsef's Mar
az.ne has us following to6gs
Lord Maasield tie prime, Uf coart
esy, was "a lbc hsbiloi reaanenee
pgp.r aui answering letters Il court
Lord Eld9n dI IS toa asa Lon
Ab.aeer would do Il ostenauoa.l,
end uiieusvcly 20 mark he aautamp
iol tho advocate. Lord Glare. va,
had ilie-.urs tud with Curraa. be
ginning vira duel, once btoush.
Newioaud.unl dog into a court, anl
gave Die exclusive attention Whils
Curran WAS speaking. The couuse,
paused Proceed. Mr.. Carran
pray proceed, said Tie Lord Chan.
ctliof, booking up, with his hand or
tiH bead Ut III, canine companion. u
w5 @ lmy lord, wien our lord.
a4lp haNc concluded your consula.
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Anecdotes abound " Chief Justice
Wiits g.iautry, noi 10 Say w4liaa-
c}, wu.ea ag cannot venture 10 repfo.
duce3 aud Boswell repor con, -.
saiJu With johnson, il l.33,waieh aa-
pears 10 have been suggested by some
Judicial irr gularity, On the same
evening, he would not allow thai The
private life OF judge in England, was
required no be so strictly decorous as
! supposed. why, then, sir, said |
according TO your account, an Eng
lish Judge must live like gentlemen. :
johnson Yes, sir, il he can.
When Lord Nothington (Heuley)
was master Of the Rolls, he requested
leave Of the king 10 discontinue tie
evening sitting OF his court and on be-
ing called on for Il reason, replied !:
Because, please your Majesty, | am
always drunk after dinner" With.
in the memory OF the senior members
Of the profession, the Court ofthe Ex-
chequer was stated 10 be composed Of
oae judge, who was a gentleman and
no lawyer; second, who was law.
yer and no gentleman; third, who
was neither; and a fourth, who was
both. This description, in which
strict accuracy may have been sacra-
ilced TO antithesls, recalls Charles
Lambs jocular ramark on his four
friends OF the Lake school that one
would tell a lie, but would not pick a
pocket another would pick pocket,
but would not tell lie; a third
would do neither and a fourth would
do both-selecting, Of course, the pro-
iessed moralist for the climax.
The gentleman judge, not a law
yen, was Earoll Grallam aud sou q
curious stofiss are told oi his inform
poIheness on the bench.
In his day it was usual to suspend
ID criminal cases I'LL The
conclusion Of the assizcz, and deliver
al the sentences IN a lump. Aaname
bad been accldently omitted IN the list
1f capital puuishments,of which he was
reminded on coming to the end Of the |
isl. "Oh, yes, see, John Thompson
John Thompson, be- your pardon
you are also to be hanged BY the neck !
Ill you are dead, and may the Lord |
laYe mercy on your miserable soul, /
90 !"
johnson records that, at the trial Of
savage for murder, Page concluded an
nAammatory address 10 the jury III
his fashion "Gentlemen Of tie jury, I
'ou are to consider that Mr. Savage I
) very great man, amuch greater
nan than you or /, gentlemen Of the
ury that he wears very fine clothes,
much finer clothes than your or !, gem
Icmen Of the jury than be has abund-
nee Of money IN bis pocket, much
nore money than you or |, gentlemen
i the jury but gentlemen Of the
ury, il is not very hard case, gen
lemen Of the jury, that Mr.. Savage
hould therefore kill you or me, gem
lemen Of Tie jury n