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  2. OUR SUPERABUNDANT REVENUES.

    THE Government publication of financial returns for the quarter ended March 31, 1849, while it furnishes ground of exultation, gives also occasion for serious remark. ...

    Article : 561 words
  3. THE COURT JESTER. STRANGE MODE OF ARRIVING AT A VERDICT.

    I was in a case some little time ago in which, one of the parties, from an honourable anxiety to save his client the cost of a special jury, acquiesced in a common jury; who, to his consternation, gave a verdict for four hundred pounds ...

    Article : 171 words
  4. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

    A Wesleyan Chapel, recently built at Kapunda, was opened for Divine worship on Sunday the 15th inst. Sermons were preached in the morning and afternoon by the Rev. D. J. Draper, and in the evening by the ...

    Article : 1,315 words
  5. LAW AND POLICE COURTS. POLICE COURT.

    Edward Trevannion, miner, pleaded guilty to the charge of drunkenness. He stated that he had abstained from strong drink for several years; but, during this visiit to Adelaide from the Kanmantoo mines, the old habit had ...

    Article : 2,868 words
  6. NEW MODE OF OBTAINING A VERDICT.

    The Waterford Chronicle says:—We heard, not long since, that some fine fellows named Mulcahy, who felt that they were too often summoned, being likely to be detained for the night by the deliberations of some of their brother jurors, ...

    Article : 82 words
  7. SCENE IN COURT.

    At our assizes, lately (says the Durham Advertiser), a stalwart Irishman, of the name of Edward Coyle, pleaded guilty before Mr Justice Cresswell, to a charge of housebreaking, and requested his lordship to favour him with ...

    Article : 189 words
  8. DEMERARA RAILWAY.

    LATE advices received in England from British Guiana, gave an interesting account of the first trip performed, on the 29th September last, by the locomotive and carriages of the ...

    Article : 1,116 words
  9. GIVING THINGS RIGHT NAMES.

    A woman had a man arraigned for coming into her house, and putting her in fear of some outrage. "Besides," said she, "he called me out of my name." "But that's a civil action, Madam," said the counsel for the defendant. "No! ...

    Article : 70 words
  10. THE "JOHN MITCHELL," FROM ENGLAND.

    THIS passenger-ship (last from Plymouth, January 5th), Douglas, master, arrived on Sunday, after a favourable passage, with cargo, and 108 passengers, under the care of David Thomas, Esq., ...

    Article : 185 words
  11. WITTY REPROOF.

    Dr. De la Cour, of Cork, having one day to reprove a counsel rather unlearned in the law, told him he was a counsellor of necessity. "Necessity!" exclaimed Briefless, "what do you mean by that?" "Why," replied the Doctor, ...

    Article : 51 words
  12. A SMART REPROOF FOR A JURY.

    During the Durham assizes a charge was preferred against a prisoner for having assaulted a policeman at Winlaton, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of a common assault. Mr Justice ...

    Article : 83 words
  13. LEGAL WIT.

    Henry Erskine, the famous Scotch barrister, was once pleading before a funny Scotch judge, with whom he was on the most intimate terms: and happening to have for his client a female defendant in an action, of the name of Tickle, ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. LATEST FROM TASMANIA.

    BY the brig Dorset, which arrived on Monday, we have nothing later than April 6. His Excellency Sir Charles Fitz Roy arrived at the Government House, Hobart Town, about ...

    Article : 397 words
  15. SHARP PRACTICE.

    A client of mine had his declaration on a bill of exchange demurred to, because instead of the words "In the year of our Lord 1834," he had written "A.D. 1834" I attended the late Mr Justice Littledale, at chambers, to endeavour to ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. PAUL BEDFORD IN COURT.

    At the Durham assizes, three men, who acted as their own counsel, were arraigned as the perpetrators of a robbery at Newcastle, and one of them in endeavouring to shake the testimony of a female witness by blackening her character, ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. MR AND MRS CAUDLE.

    In December last, at an inquest held in the Grand Hotel, Covent Garden, before Mr Bedford, the behaviour of one of the jurors named "Caudle" gave rise to the following dialogue between the Coroner and the juryman in ...

    Article : 232 words
  18. CEYLON.

    RECENT proclamations give anything but assurance as to the continuance of internal peace within this portion of the British dominions. The island and its recent chief rulers are severally thus treated of, in the ...

    Article : 647 words
  19. LEGAL WHISKERS.

    As o'er tbeir wine and walnuts sat, Talking of this, and then of that, Two wights, well learned in the law—That is, well skill'd to find a flaw— ...

    Article : 97 words
  20. TOM-FOOLSRY IN THE JUDICIAL SEAT.

    After a witness on a capital trial had given his evidence, his Lordship said to him, "Sir, I have one more question to ask you, and remember you are upon your oath. You say you are from Brechin?" ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. MINING INTELLIGENCE. SPAR OF DERBYSHIRE.

    The curious spar of the Derbyshire mines has long been used in ornamental and fanciful masonry, as well as for the manufacture of vases, &c. For choice specimens of good size, prices varying from £14 per ton up to £60 per ton ...

    Article : 98 words
  22. AN INDIAN VERDICT.

    John Taison, an Indian native of Connecticut, being found dead on a winter morning, not far from a tavern where he had drunk freely of spirituous liquors the evening before, the Indians immediately assembled a jury of their ...

    Article : 145 words
  23. SILVER-ORE MINES OF COPIADO.

    A new district of silver-ore mines has lately been discovered in the province of Copiado, on the north coast of Chili, which was expected to yield enormous wealth to the discoverer. The silver, it is said, appears in an abundant ...

    Article : 65 words
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