LAW AND LAWYERS. 



at Osborne House, to exhibit the 

 properties of his gun-cotton to 

 Prince Albert, when Schonbein 

 offered to explode a portion on the 



hand of Colonel B ; who would, 



however, have nothing to do with 

 the novel power. Prince Albert 

 himself submitted to the test, and 

 off went the cotton, without smoke, 

 stain, or burning of the skin. Thus 

 encouraged, the colonel took his 

 turn ; but whether the material 

 was changed or not for the coarser 

 preparation, it gave him such a 



! singeing that he leaped up with a. 

 cry of pain. A hearty laugh was 

 all the commiseration he received. 

 After this, Professor Schonbein 

 loaded a fowling-piece with cotton 

 in the place of powder, and the 

 prince tired both ball and shot from 

 it with the usual effect. Dissolved 

 in ether, gun-cotton forms the collo- 

 dion now extensively employed in 

 photography. Collodion is also 

 used by surgeons, as affording a 

 ready and efficacious plaster for 

 cuts and flesh wounds. 



LAW AND LAWYERS, 



LUBRICATING BUSINESS. 



One day, when some one objected 

 to the practice of having dinners 

 for parish or public purposes, " Sir," 

 said Lord Stowell, " I approve of 

 the dining system : it puts people 

 in a good humour, and makes them 

 agree when they otherwise might 

 not : a dinner lubricates business." 



RELIGION AND LAW. 



When Sir E. Coke was made 

 Solicitor -General, Whitgift, the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, sent 

 him a Greek Testament, with a 

 message, that " he had studied the 

 common law long enough, and that 

 he ought hereafter to study the law 

 of God." 



LORD STOWELL. 



Sir William Scott (Lord Stowell) 

 was the enemy of every change ; 

 and careless, and even distrustful 

 of all: improvement. As he could 

 imagine nothing better than the 

 existing state of any given thing, 

 he could see only peril and hazard 

 in the search for anything new ; 

 and with him it was quite enough 

 to characterize a measure as "a 

 mere novelty," to deter him at once 

 from entertaining it a phrase of 

 which Mr. Speaker Abbott, with 



some humoxir, once took advantage 

 to say, when asked by his friend 

 what that mass of papers might be, 

 pointing to the huge bundle of the 

 Acts of a single session " Mere 

 novelties, Sir William mere no- 

 velties !" (Lord Brougham.) 



Sir William Scott, however, pos- 

 sessed much pungent wit. A cele- 

 brated physician having said, some- 

 what more flippantly than beseemed 

 the gravity of his cloth, " Oh, you 

 know, Sir William, after forty a 

 man is always either a fool or a 

 physician !" " Mayn't he be both, 

 Doctor?" was the arch rejoinder, 

 with a most arch leer and an in- 

 sinuating voice, half drawled out. 



LORD ELDON. 



We quote the following from 

 Mr. Horace Twiss' Life of Lord- 

 Chancellor Eldon : 



" I have seen it remarked," says 

 Lord Eldon, in his Anecdote Book, 

 "that something which in early 

 youth captivates attention, influ- 

 ences future life in all stages. When 

 I left school, in 176G, to go to Ox- 

 ford, I came up from Newcastle to 

 London in a coach, then denomi- 

 nated, on account of its quick tra- 

 velling, as travelling was then 

 estimated, a fly ; being, as well as 



I remember, nevertheless, three or 

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