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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1841.

case of sudden and urgent necessity deem it right that
temporary relief to any pauper in articles of necessity
should be given out of the workhouse, such Church-
warden or Overseer shall, if po:sible, cause ti:e same
to be given to the relieving officer for such parish or
place ; but if such Church,varden or Overseer shall g;ve
such relief himself he shall forthwith report the same in
writing to such relieving officer.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE

PRIVY COUCIL.

THE LATE JAMES WOOD'S WILL-HITCHINS AND
OTHERS V. GOODLAKE AND OTHERS.

The argument in this appeal was appointed to come
on yesterday, at tea o'clock, and accordingly the Coun-
sel and parties assembled at that hour in great force.
The Attorney-General, Mr. Pemberton, Dr. Addams,
and Mr. C. Austen, appeared for the appellants (Sir
Matthew Wood, and the two other surviving executors);
the Solicitor-General, Sir W. Follett, Dr. Burnaby, and
Dr. Jenner, for the adherents (the Corporation of Glou-
cester, Mr. Helps, and the other legatees under the
codicil) ; Sir F. Pollock, Mr. Sergeant Bompas, and
Dr. Curteis, for the respondent, Mr. Hitching ; and Mr.
Cresswell, Dr. Phillimore, and Dr. Haggard for the
other respondent, Mrs. Goodlake.
The members of the Judicial Committee present were
Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Ju:ticc
Erskine, and Dr. Lushington.
The Attorney-General was about to begin his argu-
ment in support of the appeal, when
Sir F. PeeLecK said he felt it to be his duty on
the part of Mr. Hitchins, one of the respondents, to
object to the case being heard before the Court as at
present constituted. One of their Lordships had been
engaged as Counsel for some of the parties in the
cause in the Court below, and although neither his
client nor himself could for a moment suppose that any
partiality or undue bias would influence the mind of
that Learned Judge, yet he must say, for his own part,
that he would not submit the points upon which he re-
lied, with that boldness which his client's interests re-
quired, to a Judge whose mind might be stored with in-
formation which he had obtained privately, out of the
case, affording an answer perhaps to observations
which he might think it his duty to make upon the
evidence. _ _ _

After some discussion, in which several of the Coun-
sel joined,
Dr. LUSHINGTON said that he had consented tAith
great reluctance to hear this case, but his own scruples
had been overruled by their Lordships, and he was re-
quested to sit as the only means of making a Court for
the purpose. He found that the same thing had been
done by Sir Anthony Hart, who had sat there upon
cases is which he bad been counsel, and he had himself
done the same thing in other appeals from Doctors'
Commons, and no such objection was ever thought or.
Now that it had been made, however, and urged in st ch
a way, he would request to be allowed to withdraw.
Lord BROUGHAM said their Lordships would endea-
vour to make a Court to hear this case on islotiday
next, and, d they could do so, due notice would be given
to the parties ; in the meantime the argument must be
adjourned sine die.

INSOLVENT DEBTOR'd COURT.

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IN TILL HATI'LL OF JOAN TAYLOR STANWAY, AN AL-

LEGED LUNATIC

Tide case came before the Court on Monday by
special appointment, in the shape of a commission, cn
the alleged question of insanity'. The prisoner, a
young man, who was in attendance, accompanied by
numerous friemth, had been an iroarnoncer •in Oxford-
street, and had been confined in the Fleet prison for
debt since June last. In lth-ptearib:?.r the warden (Mr.
B:own) called in (under the 192 d section of. the Act
relating to insolvent debtors) Mr. Harmer, the late
Alderman, who heard evidence, and on his own view
gave a certlh.iate that the prisoner was insane and
incapable of taking the benclit of the Act r. 3
ordiil.-,ry person. Mr. Cooper, a surgeon, had given
a similar certificate, and Stanway was dracribed as a
source of darig•r and annoyance to the " establish-
ment," as it was tcrm2d. Mr. Brown, on there
documents, filed a petition, .as required by the
statute, and a day was appointed for the hearing,
alien the d'scharge, if not resisted, would have been
proncuneeil, and an assignee could have been ap-
piiiated. In ease of iasn.c prisemers no schedules are
requir,d, but the property of the parties vested in the
Court. Tire prisoner, it was stated, had read an ad-
vertisement that he was branded us a lunatic, and his
relations came to the Court to dismiss the petition filed
by the warden, which application v.-us opposed en the
ground that the certificate of insanity given by the Al-
derman Was conclusi‘e.
The COURT, however, held that they would hear
viva toce evidence whether the man was now insane.

Mr. Brown brought ferward no evidence of insanity.
Accordingly a number of I is fellow-prisoners were
examined, whose testimony showed that Stanway acted
rationally cnoubh except when excited by drink, at
which time ly.; conducted himself in a manner so vio-
lent as to rcs;‘rnide
The prisonei's brother gave evidence, as o
.as William Gowan], who had managed the business
of the prisoner and his father in Oxford-street for
twenty-nine years.

The prisoner was examined, and gave his evidence
in a very clear and sensible manner.
The COURT dismissed the petition presented by Mr.
Brown, and the prisoner was telen back to the Flemt
Prison, where it is understood he will remain until he
receives his share under his fathcr's will, ;vhca he can
rm.; all his creditors.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
miiNSIO.Y-HOU SE.

TIIE ADMINISTRATION OF TILE POOR-LAW IN THE
CITY.—Mr. Pewtress, the Deputy Of Bridge Ward,
whose Report upon the Administration of the Peer-
laws in the City appeared en Tuesday in the news-
papers, wrote the following letter to the Lord Mayor:—
January Ist, 1841.
TO the 111411 t tionourable the Lord Mayor.

MY LORD—I have just read an article in the
Pluming Herald in reply to a report I have written on
that part of the New Poor-law which relates to the
destitute poor. if the writer had fully understood the •
law, he would never have written the following sen-
tence, on which the whole of his reasoning is based :
" The relief which the poor have a right to ask for,
but which the Guardians if they please may refuse
under the existing Poor-law, is what Mr. Pewtress
called prompt, effectual, and permanent relief to desti-
tate persons."
N ,w the destitute poor have not only a right to ask
for relief by the provisions of this law, but something
nore—they can demand relief. The writer continues
and asserts, " but which the Guardians, if they please,
msy refuse, under the existing poor-law." This state-
ment is incorrect. The Guardians cannot legally red
fuse relief, and if they or any other officers acting under
them should refuse to administer relief they directly in-
cur penalties, far the first offence 51., for the second
offence 101., and for the third offence•2o/. • Here is
ample security for the protection of these destitute
persons, if the administrators of the law would see that
it was fairly and properly enforced.
The writer further states that " we took notice yes-
terday-of the exceptional provisions which enables, but
does not require a Magistrate to give relief when re-
fused by an overseer, in case of urgent distress, to a
person settled in the parish." The power of the Magis-
trate to order relief to destitute persons is transferred
to the officers appointed under the. New Pocr-law Act,
with the excepted cases which the writer has stated;
and while the law has relieved the Magistrate from the
painful duty of investigating cases of distress, and trans-
ferred it to another body, whose entire attention is to
be devoted to this object, it has at the same time armsd
the Magistrate with pore: equal to meet the case, seen
effectually to remedy every refusal of relief to a desti-
tute person. And no relieving officer, overseer, or
master of the workhouse would commit a second offence,
if his first refusal of relief were promptly visited by the
infliction of the penalty which the laws enjoins.
If you consult the police reports in the Times and
other daily journals, from the year 1888 to the present
time, and examine the various cases which have been
brought before the Magistrates, where persons in a
state of destitution complained that relief had been re-
fund by an officer of the poor, you will find scarcely an
instance, except in the mayoralty of and person of Al-
derman Wilson, in which a Magistrate ever threatehed
to enforce the penalty of the law against such offenders.
I hope your Lordship will cause the summary and
exposition of the law so ably drawn up by the City So-
licitor to be presented to the public, which will, I have
no doubt, remove all difficulties on the subject. I take
the liberty to address your Lordship on this vital sub-
ject, because I believe that my answer to the objections
I have quoted will be likely, through the medium of the
to reach the whole of the daily press,
ti.tn';conductors of which, although holding diff:rent
opinions on the operation of the Poor-laws, manifest a
dek p intetest is the condition of those for whose pro-
tection they were framed.
I remain, my Lord, yours very respectfully,
THOMAS Ph:WI TRESS.
We give the opinion to which Mr. Pewtress refers
elsewhere.
Matilda Straljbrd, a woman of great strength of
be
and, also with having, upon
teas
n i
with havint,,brbeeeagt
clint
abemfoarne, the Lord Mayor, charged
being tune • ached some policemen; and.
broken nto custody, thrashed
several panes o! it
'file prisor • I • fought several
.cr, weo. -,vas said to have
men at dderent times, swenered up to the bar, as if
,;! she feared no man, and dispi:y
'The complainant ;
" • that without receivir, the
slightest provccation, the vira-- Mind
ed an awful e!enched fist.
eo attacked hirin•
Your eye cki fellow,' said she ; and, in an instant gave
l~him a etroightforivard pelt just between the eyes. She
J
then tore his coat and shirt, and when the• policemen
were calied to his assistance, she turned upon them,
end fasten( d upon them like a tiger.
co :iceman said that the woman had been lie-
,:

quently charged with having assaulted men, women,_
and children. . When she was tipsy, she did not care
how many were opposed to her.
The LORD DelAYOR—Why, Matilda, this is a very
bad account that I have of you.
Prisoner—lt is indeed, my Lord.
The Lotto I\lAvolt—What can you say for your-
sel? Prisoner—l'm blest if I remember anything
about it.
The LORD MAYOR—What! You were so much
intoxicated that you forget what happened ? Prisoner
—Jist so, please your Lordship. Wasn't I precious
happy ; but it was all the fault of the New-year.
The LORD MAYOR—Well—you shall begin the
New-year at the treadmill.

Inspector Woodruff said that wherever the prisoner
appeared she excited terror, and that her knack of
breAking windows from long experience was such, that
some publicans thought it safer to let her have drink
for nothing than by refusal to hazard the tap-room
windows.

The prisoner, who laughed at the recital of her
qualifications, was then committed to prison.
THE• ANTI-BRIDGE TOLL ASSOCIATION.— Mr.
Cope, jun., the Secretary to the Anti-Bridge Toll As-
sociation, waited upon the Lord Mayor, on Wednesday,
for the purpose of informing his Lordship that the offi-
cers of the Association had done all in their power to
find Mr. " John Jackson," who had addressed a letter
to his Lordship, insinuating that the gentleman who was
collecting subscriptions were not authorised, but their
efforts had proved ineffectual. A person of that name
had been formerly employed by the Association, but his
services had been dispensed with. At all events the
writer of the letter could not be found, and a letter di-
rected to the address mentioned in John Jackson's corn-
munication to the Lord Mayor, had been returned to
the Association, with the information that no such per-
son was there.
The LORD MAvort regretted that any one should
write to him complaining of conduct for which there was
no foundation.
Mr. Cope added that the lady who had signed the
petitions and given the subscription, had been waited
upon on the subject, and that she declared that she had
most cheerfully subscribed, and that there were no
grounds fur the insinuations. contained in the letter to his
Lordship signed " John Jackson."

AGRICULTURAL

REPORT FOR

DECEMBER.

At the clese of the 3ear we have, to call the atten•
tion of cur readers to circumstances, retrospective and
prospective, of no little importance ; but before we do
this—yet still influentially connected with it—we must
refer to meteorological phenomena, and this we .are
enabled to do by some communications just received;
very extensively. In recent notices we have had oc-
casieo to mention the extreme equability of temperature
which prevailed from August to. November. In the
last number of the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture
p. 437, there is the following remark ;—" It is allowed
that the month of October is the period for the turnip
increasing largely in the bulls. Not:, it may have been
observed that the temperature, throughout all October
was very moderate, seldom rising above 55 deg. in the
warmest part of the day, though never falling below
40 deg. in the night. This monotoncua or torpid state
of temperature is unfavourable to vegetation. Plants
may survive, but cannot increase in it. Still there is a
great hulk of excellent foot for stock on the land, and, so
far as the, season has as yet gene, it, consumption has
been attended with pleasaet weathOr, and this is a mat-
ter of no mean consideration in the feeding of stock,
pertieularly of sheep, on turuips."
Thus tee perceive that at and round Edinburgh the
weather was nearly the satire as that which was reported
to exist around Ltoolon ; but this is not all ; we have
to cite a more singular coincidence. • A letter from the
same oily, per • date Dec. 23 instant, informs us that
shies: the 15th of the month there Itad been severe frost
occasionally. "On the morning of that day the ther-
mometer stood at 24 degrees Fahrenheit, and at eleven
o'clock, forenoon, at 29 degt coo. O. the 16th we had
o tittle snow, which soon disappeared, with a subsequent
thaw ; but at present. the frost is " black," as we say
here, when there is no snow en the ground"-24 deg.
thea, that is, in gardener's language 8 deg. of frost was
ale; lowest degree t xperienced at Edinburgh ! Vs'ith us
tire first fortright of December ranged between 33 and
44 deg., the two first days only being warmer. On the
14th the lowest was 26 dee..—on the 16th snow just
covering the ground, with 24 deg., but on the 18th
moaning we found the mercury at 19, or 13 deg. of frost.
Ever • since toe frost has continued, but oith no severity;
though we read of much .now in Kent, and of extreme
cold in Surrey. Toe inference we draw is this, that
latitude has little to do with temperatura, and that in
tile centre, nay, in the south of France, extreme rigour
may occur, while Scotland shall enjoy a comparatively
temperate scaton.
The columns of that great collector of evidence, the
llark Lane Express, assures us that a more propitious
" seed-time," one of greater promise for the future, has
seldom occurred ; and to the truth of this announce-
ment, which is based on general information, we add
the testimony derived front actual observation. 'Fire
winter wheats are, however, better than the spring
sown ; oven in Edinburgh the former has weighed as
much as 6611). per bushel. Barley was a float crop
everywhere, and, at the lowest weights, is heavy. Po-
tatoes hate been partial ; in some parts a bulky crop
has been obtained, but where the tubers have been
planted during dry weather the result has been light ;
but, its a whole, the harvest and consequent prospects
are much superior to those of 1839, Prices may yet
recede, but 60s. to 635. per quarter for wheat is not
dear, and, as butchers' meat is high, it will naturalise as
do the high prices of tea and sugar, " drive the working
people to bay more wheat bread, oatmeal, and corn
rice than they did last year." " Labourers are in full
work, earning 9s. and 10s. per week."
As to the crops in the ground we can say nothing ;
the land is locked up and repose is general. We could
wish that the snow had been a little deeper if frost is
to continue ; but unless the latter is to assume a char-
acter of more rigour nothing need be apprehended.
The old year departs with a prospect of peace and
plenty ; what its successor may present belongs to the
future, but we say; as We have always said, " Let us
hope and trust with confidence." •

"AWAKE ! ARISE! OR BE FOR

EVER FALLEN."

The tocsin is fairly sounded through the length and
breadth of the United Kingdom,—the watchword,
"Down with the Corn-laws." Every association establish-
ed with the avowed object of agitating for repeal is at this
moment calling together its members—organising its
movements—increasing its numbers—collecting sub-
scriptions—dividing itself into sub-committees, each
having charge o! a separeu_' district, for the purpose of
procuring petitions—influencing Members of Parliament
_soliciting the aid of the ministers of the Gospel—and
all other means which can be devised for attacking with
redoubled vigour this monstrous and unholy monopoly.

Associations! wain do the advocates of dear bread
compel you to put forth your strength ; again are you re-
quired to labour to procure justice from the Legislature.
The puerile arguments of the landlords are now
found to be nothing more than selfish pretences in order
to keep up rents, end everywhere have our lecturers
met with sympathy and co-operation.
Let each association exert itself to the utmost ; let
every borough or district, in which one has not been
formed, establish one forthwith. Three gentlemen,
remember, are sufficient as a commencement, and by
sending their names to the Council they will be duly
enrolled among the good men and true, now bound to-
gether in one great league for the overthrow of the
bread tax. Once formed, they will Snd numbers rally
round them ; the foundations of our national prosperity
are undermined, the currency deranged, trade embar-
rassed, the revenue, in spite of the late additions to our
taxation, decreasing, the people worse fed, worse clad,
worse housed, and all under the operation of this vile law.
Arouse, then, associations! For the sake of our
children, our country, for the sake of humanity, of
justice, and of religion, let us make another glorious
effort. A million and a half of names were last year
attached to petitions for the repeal of the bread tax,
let us this year double the number.
On such a question every man is responsible for his
actions. Apathy in this case is sinful ; for any man,
whatever may be his party politics, who has a convic-
tion of the wickedness of the bread tax, and does not
endeavour to abolish it, is not an honest man.
Every association then in its own sphere of useful-
ness will act at once and with vigour, and every mem-
ber of each association will, we are convinced, to the
utmost of his ability, help forward the cause. Let there
be a glorious rivalry among us which shall do the most,
for it is a moral impossibility in such a cause and with
such an organization that we should fail of success.—
Anti-Corn•latu Circular. •

MANCHESTER, DEC. 31.—ROBBERY OF THE
BANE OF MANCIIESTER.—The persons who were last
week apprehended on suspicion of having eon-milled this
robbery have been discharged, it appearing that the police
hadgot hold of the wrong parties, though one of them was
confidently sworn to by the Posy-office clerk. Through
the instrumentality of Messrs Pannerruans, one of whose
notes had been similarly pucloined, the Teal offender has
been daected • ho was apprehended on Tuesday after-
noon at one of the branch post-offices, whither he had
gone in cmpectation of receiving a banker's order, which
he had appointed to be sent there. Ha is a lad of 17
}cars of age, named John Bourne, and has been, cm-
plo.yed in a hosiery warehouse bel :nging to Messrs. Luxe,
. of Church-street lie was br3ught
before the Magistrates
ycstcrday, and again to-ilay, wh•-:11 he Was fully committed,
the ccse being falearly made out sgairst
Mr. J. S—Balls, one of Oat; best light comedians
of the day, end not an unworthy successor of lilliston, in
masntayrroinfg,t,hiet
Ivpiati great applause at ; where
lts of that inimitable comedian, is now
we arc glad to find that the manager, Mr. Tcrnan, is reap.:
ing a just and liberal reward for his enterprising spirit.
A person who has recently pas.:cd the Simplon
states that, at the-villve of that name, .up to the. 15th inst.,
the thermemetcr had turf f.-d!cfl•there more than 10 degrees
z:ro of Reaumur, or above sore of Fahrenheit.

PERE COUPE-TOUJOURS.

At the junction of the Boulevards St. Martin
and du Temple, in Paris, there lives a confectioner,
whose shop is about the size of one's hand, and yet
the business which the owner drives is so consider-
able, that he will probably enough become the
founder of a family. If ever he sets up an equipage
the most appropriate crest to affix upon the panel
of his carriage would be a muffin. " From morn
till dewy eve" he is engaged in the vending of this
grateful cate, which differs somewhat from those to
which we are accustomed in London, being baked
in an oblong form, and then cut into little squares
Our confectioner cuts up and disposes of many
thousands of these in a single day. He is related
to have been more than once seen for fifteen hours
in succession cutting away at these dainties. Hence
comes his sobriquet "Coupe-toujours," which at
this day is the only name by which the old man is
known amongst the good folk of Paris.
It is doubtful whether there is a single Parisian
unacquainted with this true civic hero, his old es-
tablished gastronomic celebrity, the most popular
of rich men, and the richest perhaps of hommes
populaires. His name, you know it already.
Doubtless he has some genuine and inalienable
patronymic, and has received at the baptismal font
some sainted addition, by which he is known to
his own family and his immediate neighbours, such
as "Jean," " Pierre," or " Barnabe ;" but his
veritable historic name, as sounded by the trumpet
of fame, is that of " Pere coupe-toujours." He is
the emperor of dough, the regenerator of stiffly-
kneaded paste, the Napoleon of hot muffins and
crumpets, and dearly prized by all these sacred titles
to thousands of throbbing hearts and grateful
stomachs. Yet this day is he forced to undergo
the fate of all great men ; and even Coupe-tou-
jours has his enemies—witness Madame Barbillon,
that aged lady who has " pulled him up" before
the Juge du Paix.
Madame Barbillon (to the Judge)—Le voila !
I am forced to bring him before you—the seducer
Of youth, the endoctrincur of boys in petticoats.
I place him in your hands. He is the cause why
my Fifi will never become an avocat.
Judge—Who is this Fifi ?
Madame Barbillon—A little boy of mine, who
was born in '22, the year of the great frost. Figure
to yourself a youth, who was evidently born to end
his days as Chancellor of France, a garcon who
could speak for a whole evening without so much
as spitting. Eh bien ! Pere Coupe-toujours pre-
vents him from succeeding. Muffins will mar his
career.

Pere Coupe-toujours—Quelle betise ! Muffins,
indeed, mar the success of a man of mind ! Ask
of M. Thiers, who did me the honour a dozen years
back to eat them at my place with M. Felix Ban-
din. They used to take 15c, worth between them.
Ask M. Thiers if muffins marred his advancement.

Madame Barbillon—'Tis ail malice. Tile per-
sons he mentions ate 'em—they didn't make 'em.
Fdi makes them in eartloads,,, but doesn't cat 'em
—not he. T!,.z.s.t'S the tact, and it's not very fattening.
Judge—lnform Me, Madam, of what it is pre-
cisely you complain.
Madame Bar bilion—Lt him give me back my
son, whom he has thrust into his oven.—(Gene-
ral laughter.) You must know that I sent my son
to Paris to study under his uncle, who has the
honour to be an under-clerk in an .effiee at the Ecole
de Droit. I thought him already more learned titan
a bailiff. I arrived in Paris eight days since, de-
scended from the diligence, and ran de suite to the
Boulevard St. Martin, where my brother has his
domicile. I felt myself monstrous hungry, and, see-
ing a patissier's on my way, I stepped in and asked
for a couple of sous' worth of muffins. " Enlevez le
:hied!" was the answer, and they flung me the
pastry. Grand Dien ! that " enlevez" made me
shudder. I cast my eyes on the being who han-
dled the comestible, and although he wore a cotton
night cap, which was not of the cleanest, I recog-
nised him at once. It was my son I What I want
to-day is that man to restore him to me—that
man qui exploite mon enfant, who has plunged
him up to his armpits in his kneading-trough.
Pere Coupe-toujours—l respect your maternal
sentiments.—(Laughter ) Oui c est vrai ; but I
must be permitted to make one observation. It .was
your own son who solicited permission to enter my
establishment, and be taken as my apprentice. The
coquin loved muffins much better than the seven
codes, and asked permission to make them.

Madame Barbilion—What does that matter to
me ? Why did you listen to his nonsense ?
am determined to make him an avocat, will he, nil
he. A youth with a precious avenir is not to lose
it so easily. Yes, a youth who has an uncle an
under-clerk in an office at the Ecole de Droit—ma
foi, oui

Pere Coupe-toujours—Mais, Madame, he is al-
ready d'une jolie force at the kneading-trough. He
will make you a cake like a sexagenarian-patissier.
I really thought you would have been delighted to
hear of his progress.
Madame Barbillon—Delighted ! Vile patissier !
An enfant destined to wear a robe and a square cap !
Flattered, forsooth, to see him with his shirt sleeves
tucked up, his face all over flour, his throat bare,
and his head wrapped up in a cotton nightcap, as
if he was created and placed in the world for no
other purpose but to make brioches. C'est beau,
par exemple !
Pere Coupe-tonjours— Everybody might have
been .satisfied. If he chose to be a baker from
twelve till five, he might have gone to the Ecole de
Droit in the morning. I never would have pre-
vented that. He might hare crammed himself with
law in the morning and with muffins at night. Believe
me, madam, the latter are more savoury, and, like
many. other folks, I prefer them. Your lawsuit
strips the ribs, your muffins cover them.—
(Laughter.)
Madame Barbillon—Yes, and if it came to be
• known w en.l.4e went to.
Pere Coupe.toujours—He is apprenticed to me,
and I am entitieel.to his services.
Madame Barbillou.—But what will the gentle-
men of the bar Fay to it t .
Judge—There is no dishonour in it, although it
certainly is a little bizarre. Besides, 'Madame, the
existing arrangement, if pursued, will. prevent the
necessity of pronouncing judgment-, and will provide
the boy with the means of support.
The proud mother, after some hesitation, con-
sented to allow the cause to be erased from the list,
with the understanding that her son should be pro-
visionally partitioned into two equal parts—one
half apprentice avocat, the other half apprentice
patissier.
Pere Coupe-toujours—You have acted, Madam,
with a true eye to the interests of your son. For,
voyei-irons, if he turns out a " cake" at the bar, he
can fall back into the kneading-trough. He thus
will never be without a crumb to pick up, or a crust
to eat, and that is more than can be said of all
the gentlemen of the long robe.

'The parties then left die Court, all in an appa-
rent state of high satisfaction. The " dough•ty"
barrister in futuro pulled out a cake from his poc-
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