The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-06-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FACKTUE OF THE BENCH AND THE BAR.—One day that Dunning (whose exterior graces were by no means cornmensur,te with his personal vanity), had been crossexamining a young woman at considerable length upon the age of a person with whom she professed herself well acquainted, he asked her, " How old now do you take me to be ?" and was considerably dumbfounded by her promptly replying, to the universal laughter of a crowded court, " From your appearance sixty, from your question sixteen ?"—Sir William Grant was notorious for the reserve and taciturnity under the disguise of which he possessed the richest stores of hoarded legel knowledge. Men of great learning and research bad one day in his company been wrangling for a long time upon the construction of a particular act of parliament, and, unable to agree among themselves, referred the matter to Sir William Grant, who had not yet said a word, but upon being appealed to, soma arily terminated the discussion by the following cute remark : " The statute in question has been repealed."— Of a late celebrated chief-justice it is related, that of the physicians who surrounded his death-bed, he with dry humour took leave in these terms, " Gentlemen, you are discharged," the words with which from the bench a judge is accustomed to dismiss a jury.—The late Justice whose profound attaintnents were only equalled by the urbanity and gentleness of his nature, had by his guileness simplicity of dispo,.ition endeared him to all his professional brethren, amongst whom, until his elevation to the bench, he had been designated by a friendly and familiar nickname. At a banquet given in celebration of his attaining the judicial dignity, upon returning thanks to the h;e health. the new Judge expressed a modest hope that "in court at least, they would thenceforth no longer call him Joey.—Upon another occasion, sitting in banco, Judge interrupted the interminably long speech of a Q C. upon a very dry subject, with the following sly inuendo : " It you think you will put me to sleep like my three learned brethren beside me you are mistaken."—A former clerk of Justice had committed suicide in his master's chambers. A successor to that office had applied for a short leave of absence in ordei to get married, and received permission to do so in these terms:—" You may take a wife—you will bang yourself, I have no doubt you will—but if you do so, do not hang yourself in my chambers."—Wht n disencumbered of the toils and trappings of office, Judge— loves to pursue the country recreations with the independence of a private gentleman. Being one day nut partridge shooting, and seeking shelter from a passing shower in the tap room of a little country inn, he was recognised by an attorney, and accosted by his title of "my lord." " lam not my lord here, you," was the brief reply.—The eminent —, who as all the world knows was the son of the earl of S—, was walking in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields with a witty chief commissioner; " I must step into Green's Hotel and get a sandwich," he observed "It ghti right," rejoined his companion, " one good turn deserves another." —A barrister was speaking to Sir with much complacency of a lately-purchased estate, and in his newlyawakened taste for agricultural pursuits, dilated at some length upon his farm and pigs. " Stick to the fee farm and guinea pigs." in terrupted the other."—Dolman's Mag.