If there is any one speculation peculiarly calculated to pay on the principle of large sales at low prices, it is manifestly an Electric Telegraph.
In preference, therefore, to any Austrian or Spanish loan, in which enterprising parties may be disposed to risk their capital, Mr. Punch invites them to join him with their two or three millions in his proposed New Electric Telegraph Company; unless the present Companies, awakened by the fear of competition with Punch & Co., should reduce their prices immediately.
JUSTICE FOR LONDON.
One of the features in the Lord Mayor's Show of the other day was a figure of "Justice, in a Car drawn by Six Horses." Singularly enough, the six horses showed a disposition to pull different ways, and the leaders on each side were as obstinate in trying to upset Justice as a couple of Old Bailey barristers. It was rather a bold measure to introduce Justice officially into any part of the proceedings on Lord Mayor's Day, for if the goddess were present among the Corporation in reality rather than in effigy, the probability is, that there would be no procession on Lord Mayor's Day, in consequence of there being no Lord Mayor, as a natural result of there being no Aldermen from whom to select the potentate.
It might have been remarked the other day, that the civic idea of Justice differs from all the ordinary notions of the character, for the Justice of the Corporation of London as seen in the procession, instead of being blindfold, wore a bandage over the forehead in such a way as not to interfere with her sight, or prevent her from having both her eyes open to her own interest. Her scales were rather gigantic, but she did not carry them in her hand, and they seemed to be emblematical of nothing but the balance she keeps hung up, as it were, without being accounted for. Poor Justice seemed to be frightfully shaken by the treatment she experienced in the City; and, after the fatigues of the day were at an end, was heard to say that she had not a leg to stand upon. If a representation of Justice for the City had really been needed for the Lord Mayor's Show, how much better it would have been to have mounted the Corporation Commissioners on the Car, and have displayed them to the world as the real emblems of that Justice which the City is likely to experience, when the present disclosures of civic corruption have produced their legitimate consequence.
Severe Test of Table-Moving.
Of all Tables we should think the Tables of figures in Bradshaw's Guide would be the most difficult to move—for we only know from our own painful experience that, whenever we wish to find out a particular spot, we never can get the Tables to move in the direction we want to go to!