And we said, unless Spain is compelled to atone,
All a humbug is Old England's glory!
THE LAWYERS ABROAD.
Our latest advices inform of us of an extensive inundation of the Rhine. It is impossible to get into a steamer without having "with you Mr. Sergeant Somebody," or finding a Judge "sitting in error" by taking possession of the camp-stool we have for an instant quitted. Every town in Switzerland has its proportion of British Lawyers. Peru the other day could boast of two justices besides its own; and many a legal luminary has been exploring the summits of the Jura, as an agreeable change from his habitual contemplation of the summun jus. Equity draftsmen instead of drawing conveyances have been glad to get conveyances to draw them; and the common lawyer has forgotten every other motion but locomotion, which, at this season of the year, is almost a motion of course. The diligences nearly all over the Continent are so unusually loaded, that there is scarcely a vacant corner to be found in any one of them, but we cannot be surprised that when so many lawyers are travelling by them they should be rather heavily charged.
THE CLOTH AND THE PLUSH.
In Swift's time a Chaplain was a mere clerical domestic; and some Curates appear to be little better now. Did ever any one hear of an ordained valet?—somebody wants to hear of such a servant, however, to judge herefrom:—
Curacy, with Title for Holy Orders, in the Diocese of Canterbury. Remuneration—board and lodging, and £20 per annum. For further particulars apply to Mr. Clerc Smith, Secretary to the Church of England Club, 36, Southampton Street, Strand.
The above is taken from the Times. What is the Curate expected to undertake for £20 a year and his victuals? The cure of Soles—in the sense of scraping them, perhaps—with the additional duty of polishing upper leathers. To answer the bell that rings for prayers, peradventure—and also that which rings for hot water. We should like to know whether the employer of such a Curate returns him in his Assessed Tax Paper, with a farther entry on his account under the head of Hair Powder.