e been in a picture like that of
Wellington pointing out the Field of Waterloo to a young lady.

This knowledge of the world, seen as I saw it, was of the greatest use
in my profession. If you would know the world, you must not confine
yourself to its virtues. There _is_ another side, and it is well to
look at it. I thought on one particular occasion how useful a little
of this knowledge would have been during a certain cross-examination
of Arthur Orton in Chancery by a member of the Chancery Bar. He put
this question and many others of a similar kind,--

"Do you swear, sir, that you were on board the _Bella_?" in a very
severe tone.

"Yes, sir," says the Claimant, "I do."

"Stop," says the advocate; "I'll take that down;" and he did, with a
great deal besides, his cross-examination materially assisting the man
in prolonging his fraudulent claim.

I was engaged in the Brighton card-sharping case, upon which so much
stress was laid by the Claimant as proving his identity with Roger
Tichborne, Roger not having been in the matter at all. I was counsel
for one of the persons, the notorious Johnny Broom, who was indicted
for fraud, and whose trial ought to have come on before Lord Chief
Justice Jervis. He was not a good Judge, so far as the _defendant_ was
concerned, to try such a case, and that being Johnny's opinion, he
absconded from his bail. The Lord Chief Justice had a great knowledge
of card-sharping and of all other rogueries, so that he was an apt man
to deal with delinquents who practised them. Conviction before him
would have been certain in this case. He was, in fact, waiting for
Johnny, as it was a case of great roguery, and intended to deal
severely with him.

You may imagine, then, how angry he was when he heard that his man had
flown. But there was one consolation: the Broom gang consisted of a
number of men who acted on all occasions as confederates when the
frauds were practised. Two of these rogues were also indicted, and
placed on their trial at this assize.

A Mr. Johnson appeared for the prosecution, and in opening the
case for the Crown, in order to show his uncommon fairness, was so
impartial as to state that he could find no ground of complaint in
respect of the _cards_, which, he said, had been most carefully
examined by the Brighton magistrates.

Who these Brighton magistrates were I never heard, but probably they
were gentlemen who knew nothing of sharpers and their ways, and whose
only