DOI issue:
September 12, 1863
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16872#0125
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[September 12, 1863.
A HARD HIT.
Grandpapa. “ There, Walter, my hoy, there’s Sixpence for you ; hut you must give Emmy half.”
Walter. “ But how can I do that, Grand'pa, dear; you’ve only given me one!”
BUSINESS OE THE ASSIZES.
The following important causes have been heard during the recent
Home Circuit, and have occupied the greater portion of the Bench’s
valuable Time:—
“ Noodle v. Doodle. In this case the Plaintiff complained, that while
walking with the Defendant, he the Defendant had slipped off the
pathway into a ditch, and in so slipping had caught at the arm of said
Plaintiff, and had almost pulled said Plaintiff into the aforesaid ditch.
That thereby said Plaintiff did sustain such fright and mental damage
as to wholly incapacitate him from attending to his usual avoca-
tions and trade, whereby he, said Plaintiff, gets a living; and therefore
said Plaintiff, sued said Defendant, and lays the damages at £200.”
In the getting up of this case too great praise cannot be bestowed
upon Messrs. Nathan, Grubb & Co., the attorneys for the Plaintiff,
as without their indefatigable exertions, the case would never have
been brought under the notice of the jury. On the learned Judge’s
notes, we find substituted for “under ” the word “ beneath ; ” so that
the final sentence may be read, “ beneath the notice of the Jury.”
“Muff v. Ninny. Pour days’ trial. In this interesting case the
Defendant, an old man of eighty had been paying a friendly "visit to the
Plaintiff, an elderly gentleman of ninety years of age, at his residence
in the Downluck Almshouses, and, on quitting said residence, had
omitted to shut the door, thereby admitting a current of air into said
Plaintiff’s sitting apartment, whereby said Plaintiff caught a severe
cold, which cost him the extra washing of three red pockethandkerchiefs,
and t,hereupon said Plaintiff sues said Defendant, and lays the damages
at £100.”
In this case the admirable conduct of the attorneys for the Plaintiff
in collecting evidence and materially increasing the expenses of ordinary
litigation, failed to receive that amount of commendation from the
learned Judge by whom the case was tried, which was most certainly
their due.
The sharp practitioners, who have deserved so well of the Legal '
Profession, for bringing forward cases, and promoting the active
business of the assizes, have in some instances received severe repri-
mands from the Bench. There were about a score of actions similar
to the ones above mentioned, as well on the Home as on the other
Circuits, and whether the Legal Profession gains or loses the public
respect by trading upon such petty grievances as these, is a question
that must be left to the decision of better Judges than ourselves.
ODORIFEROUS EXPRESSIONS.
One of the late meetings of the British Association at Newcastle is
described by the reporter of the Morning Post in a narrative beginning
with the subjoined two sentences, whereof the latter is an example ot^
exquisite alliteration, the ingenuity of Master Holofemes himself
would have been taxed to equal
“ No one has visited Newcastle, or approached it, without carrying away a very
decided impression that it is the most dreary, dismal town in England. A feculent,
ferruginous, and fuliginous atmosphere surrounds and envelopes it.”
Feculent, ferruginous, and fuliginous! What a strength of expres-
sion is given to these three epithets by the initial consonant of each !
How suggestive they are; how nicely they intimate a specific impres-
sion on tine olfactory nerves ! With what forcible elegance they impress
the idea that “canny Newcastle ” is characterised by a peculiar odour !
They have a force exceeding that of adjectives, and equal to the energy
of interjections. Piff! Phew ! Phit! They have all the significance of
those exclamatory whiffs which we propel from our lips when we are
constrained to hold our noses.
Beware the Bull !
We learn from that instructive print, the Lady's Newspaper, that—
“ Gored skirts and petticoats are just now very commoi."
Gored, gracious! are they really? How extremely horrible!
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[September 12, 1863.
A HARD HIT.
Grandpapa. “ There, Walter, my hoy, there’s Sixpence for you ; hut you must give Emmy half.”
Walter. “ But how can I do that, Grand'pa, dear; you’ve only given me one!”
BUSINESS OE THE ASSIZES.
The following important causes have been heard during the recent
Home Circuit, and have occupied the greater portion of the Bench’s
valuable Time:—
“ Noodle v. Doodle. In this case the Plaintiff complained, that while
walking with the Defendant, he the Defendant had slipped off the
pathway into a ditch, and in so slipping had caught at the arm of said
Plaintiff, and had almost pulled said Plaintiff into the aforesaid ditch.
That thereby said Plaintiff did sustain such fright and mental damage
as to wholly incapacitate him from attending to his usual avoca-
tions and trade, whereby he, said Plaintiff, gets a living; and therefore
said Plaintiff, sued said Defendant, and lays the damages at £200.”
In the getting up of this case too great praise cannot be bestowed
upon Messrs. Nathan, Grubb & Co., the attorneys for the Plaintiff,
as without their indefatigable exertions, the case would never have
been brought under the notice of the jury. On the learned Judge’s
notes, we find substituted for “under ” the word “ beneath ; ” so that
the final sentence may be read, “ beneath the notice of the Jury.”
“Muff v. Ninny. Pour days’ trial. In this interesting case the
Defendant, an old man of eighty had been paying a friendly "visit to the
Plaintiff, an elderly gentleman of ninety years of age, at his residence
in the Downluck Almshouses, and, on quitting said residence, had
omitted to shut the door, thereby admitting a current of air into said
Plaintiff’s sitting apartment, whereby said Plaintiff caught a severe
cold, which cost him the extra washing of three red pockethandkerchiefs,
and t,hereupon said Plaintiff sues said Defendant, and lays the damages
at £100.”
In this case the admirable conduct of the attorneys for the Plaintiff
in collecting evidence and materially increasing the expenses of ordinary
litigation, failed to receive that amount of commendation from the
learned Judge by whom the case was tried, which was most certainly
their due.
The sharp practitioners, who have deserved so well of the Legal '
Profession, for bringing forward cases, and promoting the active
business of the assizes, have in some instances received severe repri-
mands from the Bench. There were about a score of actions similar
to the ones above mentioned, as well on the Home as on the other
Circuits, and whether the Legal Profession gains or loses the public
respect by trading upon such petty grievances as these, is a question
that must be left to the decision of better Judges than ourselves.
ODORIFEROUS EXPRESSIONS.
One of the late meetings of the British Association at Newcastle is
described by the reporter of the Morning Post in a narrative beginning
with the subjoined two sentences, whereof the latter is an example ot^
exquisite alliteration, the ingenuity of Master Holofemes himself
would have been taxed to equal
“ No one has visited Newcastle, or approached it, without carrying away a very
decided impression that it is the most dreary, dismal town in England. A feculent,
ferruginous, and fuliginous atmosphere surrounds and envelopes it.”
Feculent, ferruginous, and fuliginous! What a strength of expres-
sion is given to these three epithets by the initial consonant of each !
How suggestive they are; how nicely they intimate a specific impres-
sion on tine olfactory nerves ! With what forcible elegance they impress
the idea that “canny Newcastle ” is characterised by a peculiar odour !
They have a force exceeding that of adjectives, and equal to the energy
of interjections. Piff! Phew ! Phit! They have all the significance of
those exclamatory whiffs which we propel from our lips when we are
constrained to hold our noses.
Beware the Bull !
We learn from that instructive print, the Lady's Newspaper, that—
“ Gored skirts and petticoats are just now very commoi."
Gored, gracious! are they really? How extremely horrible!