No. XXVIII.] APPENDIX. 347 



Secondly. Where the plaintiff has not the means to incur the liability, 

 let the lawyer and barrister who propagate these false charges be liable 

 for the damage. 



Thirdly. Where plaintiff, lawyer, and barrister are paupers together, 

 and seek to extort money, let the defendant have the power of requiring 

 security for costs and damages before the charges are either published, 

 advertised, or come before a public court. 



The application of Courts of Law and Equity for the purposes of 

 extortion and intimidation has a highly demoralizing effect upon society. 

 The respectable community shrink with horror from the scene of a Law or 

 Chancery Court. Stop extortion and intimidation in the name of law and 

 equity, by making lawyers and barristers responsible when getting the 

 wages of extortion and intimidation, and the Law Courts of this country 

 will again command the affection of all friends of order. 



July 1st, 1863. 



Postscript. The cases given in this pamphlet, although so like the 

 truth that many readers may think they know the particulars to which 

 they refer, are nevertheless, as a matter of course, pure creations of the 

 imagination, and have no relation to any person, place, or real circum- 

 stance. If any reader should think the cap fits, and should apply any of 

 the fanciful creations to himself or friends, the thought comes from a 

 guilty conscience ; let him wear the cap, and be thankful he has not got 

 that measure of justice to which he is so rightly entitled. 



No. XXYIII. 

 THE PUPPET PARLIAMENT OF EARL RUSSELL, K.G. 



(A Political Skit. ANON.) 



EARL RUSSELL has postponed his doctrine of Final Reform to a more 

 convenient season. His partisans could not bear to change their Reform 

 Club into an auction mart for the sale of constituencies, and so the building 

 stands as a nest for illiberal demagogues, for the denunciators of all 

 governing authority, and for partisans of every form of spurious religion, 

 or of no religion at all. 



Earl Russell's bill is not final ; it is not even the penultimate. It is 

 to be followed by a series of little bills, which are designed to make 

 Members of Parliament the abject tools of the populace, and destroy their 

 personal individuality, so that at last they may be the mechanical puppets 

 of the people. 



When Earl Russell perfects his Parliament, flesh and blood will not be 

 required, humanity must be dispensed with, or an independent mind might 

 show its transcendent power, and for one moment resist the crying desire 

 of an illiterate mob. 



