THE LITIGANTS VADE MECUM.
Q. What is your opinion about Chancery?
A. That, thanks to work being given to Solicitors in preference to Barristers, litigation is more expensive in that branch of the science than in any other.
Q. How comes it that this should be so?
A. A Barrister is forced to do his best for his client, but a Solicitor is not. As a rule the Solicitor deputes to his Chief Clerk if he has one, or somebody in the office if he has not, the duties of conducting a suit through Chambers.
Q. What is the practical result of this arrangement?
A. That a suit when it once gets into Chambers takes a precious long time in coming out.
Q. But making allowance for these little drawbacks, what is your opinion of the Law in England?
A. That emphatically it consists of the best forensic regulations in the universe.
A New Clause in the Home-Rule Bill.—Instead of a Parliament in Dublin, let the Governing Body be called "A Diet," as it is in Bohemia. There would be a First House, to be called the "High Diet," and a Second House, to be called "Short Commons, or Low Diet." There would be no "Parliamentary Rules," but everything would be ordered according to a "Dietary." Perhaps Dr. Robson Roose might be induced to take a leading part in suggesting some of these arrangements. The "Orders of the Day" would be "Prescriptions," the Bills "Dinner-Bills," or "Menus." A Chairman, not a Speaker, would preside, and the subordinates—such as Clerks, Sergeant-at-Arms, and Assistants—would be Stewards, Head Waiters, and other Waiters. Prayers would be said by "The Ordinary."
Odds in favour of Australian Cricketing Team—"Giffen" and taken.