Is systematic!
Mem. from Accrington.—Liberal party in a fix here. Naturally anxious to keep a Leese-hold on the constituency, it looks a little awkward to pose as the labourer's friend, and at the same time to keep (Hermon) Hodge out of Parliament!
Mem. by a Horse-buyer who has been "Had."—"Novice" does not always mean no vice.
MUSIC AND LAW.
During a recent trial, Mr. Edward Solomon, the plaintiff testified that his work was worth to him about thirty-nine pounds per diem. "Why," exclaimed Mr. Justice Lawrance, "if you write a good many (what?) it is better than——" Whereupon interposed Mr. Paul Taylor, Counsel for the plaintiff, "Better than the Bar, my lord." (Laughter.) Why, of course, Mr. Paul Taylor! Was there no one in Court with knowledge of the simplest arithmetic sufficient to inform you that to work at several bars must be worth much more than to work at one Bar? Hasn't Sir Arthur Sullivan, by composing the lightest possible operas in the world, achieved that best of all "possible probable" tunes, a for-tune, that even a judge, whether of music or at law, might envy? Why, certainly. And the Gillivan-Sulbert Savoyards could, if they liked, tell Judge Lawrance that "thirty-nine pounds per diem" is not an over-estimate of the share apportioned to each of the three leading scions of the House of the Savoy, composer, librettist, and manager, during the run of one of their real successes, such, for example, as was The Mikado. 'Tis a pity Composer Solomon did not call Composer Sullivan to testify to what might be the pecuniary value of a successful composition. We wish the deserving Taylor better luck with the next suit he takes in hand.