NOTES OF THE MONTH. 



like we are to withered Jezebel, tricked out in jewels and costly ap- 

 parel, and mistaking the sneering gaze of the multitude for admira- 

 tion ! 



EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OP JUSTICE. How much has been said 

 and written on the supremacy of British law, the great guardian 

 angel of England, the palladium of liberty, the shield of every free- 

 born Briton before whose frown the mightiest are humbled, and to 

 whose fostering protection the poor and outcast fly for refuge ! Ac- 

 cording to various authorities, if any thing can equal the wisdom and 

 beneficence of the law, it is the purity of its administrators. Hear 

 the following : 



Bow STREET. A poor woman applied to Sir F. Roe for a warrant against a 

 person who had beaten and cruelly ill used her. She was a.sked by the offi- 

 cers " Had she four shillings ?" She said all she had was two, and she had 

 no means of getting more. On this Sir F. Roe said the warrant could not 

 be granted. The poor creature left the office in great trouble. 



So this is the upshot of all our vapouring about beneficence and wis- 

 dom. Unless four shillings be forthcoming, the grossest crimes are 

 to be unredressed, and the greatest delinquents are to escape justice. 

 This is the great guardian angel of England with a vengeance a 

 meretricious wanton, whose smiles are only to be obtained through 

 her caprice or her cupidity. Let us prate no more of " even-handed 

 justice," the great privilege of every free-born Briton., and such like 

 stuff! What, in the name of all that is honest, is the country saddled 

 with the enormous expenses arising from police offices and police offi- 

 cers for, if a miserable individual, who has been beaten and cruelly 

 ill-used can obtain no redress because she possesses only two shillings 

 instead of four ? 



LAWYERS AND LOCUSTS. The situation of the Thellusson property 

 has been brought before the House of Lords,, by Lord Lyndhurst, to 

 alter the provisions of an iniquitous will, made by an infatuated and 

 conceited old man, to exclude his immediate descendants from any 

 benefit in his property, that his posterity might enjoy an immense 

 accumulation of wealth ; the harpies of the law have, however, con- 

 trived effectually to mar the old gentleman's intention by taking the 

 proceeds of the estates entirely to themselves, which for thirty years 

 they have enjoyed very comfortably. Nearly half a million of money 

 of the unfortunate claimants has been sacrificed to this greedy and 

 grasping profession. When are we to have a clearing out of this den 

 of thieves ? We fear it will require another miraculous interference ere 

 the money changers and extortioners can be thrust from the Temple. 

 What were the plagues of Egypt what were her swarms of locusts 

 compared to ours ? Lawyers are more prolific and devouring than 

 ever locusts were. Four times a year are we condemned, for our sins, 

 to enduretheir diabolical increase. Each term brings its fresh swarm, 

 spreading themselves over the land, so long as a morsel of manna re- 

 mains whereon they can feed. As we have no means of extirpating 

 them, our only hope is that in time, when there is nothing left to prey 

 upon, they may devour each other, and like the two cats, with such 



