Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-09-30

muse k-puilt, copper~bottomed, ron-fastened
pI Of, and not by any means fast-sailing
0lpPers' are ald up IN ordinary. The Flying
Dutchman, with crew of shosty clients im6lor
ing all whom they may encounter to pursue their
papers, has drllted, for the time being. Heaven
knows where. The Courts are all shut IN: the
public offices lie IN hot sleep: Westminster
Hall itself is shady solicude where nightipuaIes
might sing, and tenderer class of sutors than is
usually found there, walk
ne Tempe, Chancery Lane, Sergeants Inn,
ana Lincoln Ina even unto the fields, are like
tidal barbors at low water; where stranded nro
ceedlngs, offices at anchor, idle clerks ounoinp on
lop-slded stools thatew not recover their perpen-
aicular until The current of Term sets in lie high
messages and parcels are tc he e1es1-.s--D az.
Lodge by the bushel. A crop of grass would
grow in the chinks of the stone pavement outside
Lincon's Inn Hall, but that the tcket-porters,
who have nothing TO do beyond sitting in the
shade there, with their white aprons over their
heads to keep the flies off grub it up and eat it
thoughtfully.
There is only one Judge in town. Even he
only comes twice a-week to sit in chambers. II
the country folks of those assize towns on his cir
cult could only see him now No full. bottomed
wig, red petlicoats, no fur, no Javelin-men, no
while wands. Merely close shaved gentleman
IN white trousers and white hat with sea-
bronze on the judicial counlenance and a strip of
nose, who calls in at the shell-fish shop as he
comes along, and drinks iced ginger-beer.
The bar of England is scattered over the
face of the earth. How England can get on,
through four long summer months without its bar
which is its acknowledged refuge in adversely,
and Its only legitimate triumph in prosperiy-is
beside the question:; assuredly that shield and
buckler of Britannia are not in present wear The
learned gentlemen who is always sotremendouslv
nd nj fha
ted on the feelings of his client BY the opposite
party, that he never seems likely 10 recover it, is
doing infinitely beter than might be expected, in
| Switzerland The learned gentleman who does
the whitening business, and who blights all oppo-
nentsswith his gloomy sarcasm, is as merry as a
| grig at French watering-place. The learned
| gentleman who weeps by the pint on the small
| est provocation, has not shed tear these six
| weeks. The very learned gentleman who has
cooled the natural heat of his gingery complex
ion in pools and fountains OF law, until he has be-
come great in knotty arguments for Term-lime,
when he poses the drowsy Bench with legal
'chaff, nexplcable to the uninitated and to most
ofthe initiated too, is roaming, with character
lstc delight in ardity and dust, about Constan-
tinope. Other dispersed fragments of the
same great Palladium are 10 be found on the ca
mails Of Venice at The second cataract of the Nile
In the baths Of Germany, and sprnkled on the
sand all over the English coast. Scarce one is to
be encountered in the deserted region Of Chan
uonlt across AHA AZ ABE bar
1 ing sutton who Is Enabled TO leave off haunting
the scenes Of his anxiety, they frighen one an
other, and retreat into opposite shades
1t is the hottest long vacation known for many
years. All the young clerks are madIy in love,
and according to their various degrees, pine for
bliss with the beloved object, at Margate RaDls-
| gate, or Gravesend. All the middle aged clerks
4 fti bo;r c,,c I,rr II IL.
dogs who stray into the Inns Of Court, and pant
about staircases and other dry places, seeking
/ water, give short howls of aggravation. All the
/ blind mems dogs in the street draw their masters
against pumps, or trip them over buckets. A shop
| with sun-bnd, and watered pavement and
bowl Of gold and silver fish in the window, is a
sanctuary. Temple Bar gets so hot, that it is, 10
The adjacent Strand and Fleet Street, what
heater is in an urn, and keeps them smmering
/ all night. teg aa&q ses
4 There are Offices about the Inns of Court in
whicha man might be cool, ifany GOODNESS were.
worth purchasing at such price in dulness; but
the little throughfares Immediately outside those
retirements seem to b aze.H In Mr. Krook' court,
it is so hot that the people turnther houses inside
out, and sit in chairs upon the pavement-Mr
Krook included, who there pursues his studies,
with his cat (who never is too ho.) by his side
The Sos Arms has discontinued the harmonic
meetings for the season, and Little Swills is en-
gagged at the Pastoral Gardens down the river
where he comes out in quite an innocent manner,
and sings comic ditlies Of juvenile complexion,
calculated Gas the bill says) not to wound the
feeling of the most fastidous mind.
Over all the legal neighborhood, there hangs,
like some great veil Of rust, or gigantic cobweb,
the ideness and pensveness the long vacation
Mr. Snagsby, law-stationer Of Cooks Court, Cur
stor Street, is sensible or the Influence; not only
| ;nda IS thofic 4.
man. but also in his business as law-stationer
aforesaid. He has more leisure for musing in
in Staple Inn and in the Rolls Yard, during the
long vacation, than at other seasons, and he says
to the two prentices, what thing it is in such
hot weather 10 think that you live in an island
with the rolling and bowling right round
you.
Custer is busy in the little drawing. room. on
this present afternoon in the long vacation when
Mr. and Mrs Snagsby have it in contemplation to
received company. The expected guests are rather
select than numerous, being Mr. andM Chadband
and no more. From Mr. Chadband's being much
given to describe himself, both verbally and in
writing, as vessel, he is occasionally mistaken
by strangers for gentleman connected with navi-
CATION; but he is, as he expresses it. sin his min
. istry, Mr. Chadband is attached to no particular
denomination; and is considered by his persecu-
tors to have nothing 80 very remarkable to say on
the greatest Of subjects 10 render bis volunteer
ing, on his own account, at all incumbent on his
conscience; but, he has bis followers, and Mrs.
Snagsby is Of the number. Mrs Snagsby has but
recently taken a passage upward by the vessel,
! Chadhand and her attention was attracted TO tina,
: Bark A l !, when she was something flushed by
! the hot weather.
MY little woman says Mr. Snagsby to the
sparrows Stable Inn, sllkes 10 have her religion
rather sharp, you see! ea \.
81 So, Custer, much impressed by regarding her.
. self for the time as the handmade of Chadbapd
,s whom she knows 10 be endowed with the gift d
holding forth for four hours at stretch, prepare
the little drawing room for tea. All the furnitar
q is shakea end busted, the portraits Of MI and Nj
= Snagsby are touched up with wet cloth, thehe,
tea-service is set lorth and there excellent pro
vision made of dainty new bread, crasty twist.
cool fresh hnslsr, thu slices of ham, 3anf2e ~