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had been paid his five pounds for repeating the words " then and there 

 written," is bar logic, withAvhich, of course, common understandings have 

 nothing to do. But we see that he has been neither shot nor horse- 

 whipped, and we congratulate the bar on his continuance in this world, 

 and in his wig and gown. 



We come to another instance, to which we invite the attention of all 

 our pictorial knights. 



" If the speculators and promoters of the fine arts are to be tram- 

 melled with enormous exactions, how is it possible that they can 

 flourish, or the utter ruin of the speculator be prevented ? One indivi- 

 dual, eminent certainly in his art, prevailed upon a single establishment 

 to give him six thousand pounds for permission to engrave paintings and 

 drawings, for which the artist had pi'eviously been paid the highest 

 price. This, with other improvident bargains, not quite so flagrant, 

 produced the result which we anticipated as inevitable." 



The speculator in question, broke for the insignificant sum of six 

 hundre'd thousand pounds! His creditors can best tell how many 

 farthings in the half million this dashing firm has since paid. 



" The Duke of Wellington is carrying his system of retrenchment 

 into every part of the State and public offices. He contemplates a con- 

 siderable saving in the stamp revenue, by coHsoIidatmg districts. Berks 

 has lately been added to Oxford ; and the eastern and western dis- 

 tricts of Hants are now consolidated ; and Mr. Graeme, as the senior 

 distributor, has both. This will be a saving of from <i200 to £300 a 

 year, as the poundage j^er cent, to the distributors, lessens as the annual 

 remittances from each increase." 



• We should feel much obliged to some of those mustachioed and military 

 gentlemen who rule the world from the Horse-guards, to give us a fair 

 answer as to the number of pence that those grand retrenchments have 

 produced to the nation, within the last two years of Horse-guards' 

 sovereignty. We deeply doubt whether the blacking of a staff boot has 

 been carried to the national purse. 



It would further gratify us to know whether, with this routing out 

 of clerks, stamp distributors, and the other pauper establishments of 

 the state, there has not been a righteous reserve for that sublime race of 

 functionaries, " whose services cannot be too amply repaid by a grateful 

 and rescued people." How many shillings of his salaries has Mr. Peel's 

 patriotism laid on the altar of his applauding country ? How many 

 appointments does the dictator hold at this hour, and of how many has 

 he abandoned the salaries? How much is the Fu-st Lord of the 

 Treasury minus by the sacrifice of the Field IMarshal's pay and allow- 

 ances, by the grenadier guards, by the rifle brigade, the constableship 

 of the 'Tower, and the governorship of the Cinque Ports and Walmer ? 

 How much of their military pay is sacrificed by the Ilardings, the 

 IVIurrays, and the whole crowd of these men of the epaulette, who are 

 now drawing from two to eight thousand a year, as men of the desk? 

 Let those bloated functionaries disgorge, and then we may listen to their 

 stones of savings from the pittance of miserable clerks, superintendants 

 and subalterns ; but not till then. 



" The death of Mr. Charles Warren, which took place at his house in 

 Bedford Square, on Wednesday afternoon, makes a vacancy in the 

 lucrative and much-sought-for office of chief justice of Chester." 



Warren was a clever barrister, but a rat. C'opley says " that Warren 



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