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invest him with no ordinary dignity. Having given all due attention to the facts, but ceasing to take 

 notes, he luis laid his spectacles aside, and with the volume required of the "Statutes at Large," lying 

 open, with the case most in point at his toes, if not \\ixfingers ends, he is now with all gravity carefully 

 expounding the law of the realm. An officer of the court, standing on the hinder seat, and looking 

 intently onwards, is doubtless " the crier," enforcing " order," whilst another of higher rank, holding a 

 letter in his mouth, calmly waits the conclusion of the judge's address, to deliver it. Marvellous is 

 the expression of countenance in the various parties to the suit, every one of which is worthy of 



LAYING DOWN THE LAW. AFTER A PAINTING BY SIR E. LANDSEER, R.A. (BY PERMISSION OK MR. Jt'LEAN.) 



repeated examination. We shrewdly opine that it is "going hard" with the client of the bull-dog 

 barrister ; that the junior counsel behind is telling the mastiff that a new trial must be moved for, on 

 the ground of the " misdirection of the judge ;" that objections are being made by him to Mr. Sergeant 

 Greyhound's law, who, as he looks slyly at you, wishes you to think another " learned friend " is 

 alluded to; that, from the complacency of his countenance, all is smooth on the spaniel's side ; and 

 that the plaintiff or defendant in the cause, evidently all-ear, though we only catch sight of one eye, 

 as he partly stands behind Lord Poodle's bench, is in great doubt and anxiety as to the issue, and 

 ready, should the need arise, "to cut and run."- 



