c. In
framing that abominable oath, I don't believe that Sir Robert Peel cared
one fig's-end whether the soul of a Catholic went up, after death, to the
King of Brightness or descended to the King of Brimstone. His only aim
seems to have been to secure to the Church by law established the full
possession of the loaves and fishes."--_Essays_, 1st series, p. 19.

[10] A long-protracted lawsuit between this artist and Prince Giustiniani
has since attracted much public notice. On cleaning a painting apparently
of little value, which he had purchased at a sale of the refuse of the
prince's gallery, Signor Vallati detected traces of a superior production
beneath that painted over it, on removing which, the long-lost duplicate
of Correggio's Reading Magdalen was brought to light. A claim was now set
up by Prince Giustiniani for the restitution of the picture, or payment of
its full value:--but the cause, after being carried from one tribunal to
another, was at last decided in favour of the right of Vallati to his
prize.

[11] A close analogy, according to this system, existed between pigs and
humming-birds--each representing the _gliriform_ type in their respective
circles, and resembling each other in their small eyes and suctorial
propensities!--See SWAINSON'S _Classification of Birds in_ LARDNER'S
_Cabinet Cyclopaedia_, i. 43.

[12]

"Mopso Nisa datur. Quid non speremus amantes?
Jungentur jam gryphes equis."

VIRGIL, _Eclog._ viii. 26.

[13] _A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies_, &c. &c. By
SAMUEL WARREN, Esq., F.R.S., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law.

[14] P. 71.

[15] The following extract from a memoir of Lord Wynford, written
evidently by a lawyer, manifests, in rather an amusing manner, the _esprit
de corps_ of the profession, and shows how the excitement of the contest
between the advocates effaces the dull interest of what are called the
merits of the case. Note how combative, how military, is the style:--"He
(Lord Wynford) was a dangerous, because he was a most watchful and
enterprising adversary. You could not any more sleep in his neighbourhood
than could the Duke while Massena was near, though he might, in the
neighbourhood of others, enjoy some repose. But if you never could be sure
of his not making some venturous move himself, and were thus kept on the
watch, so also you could not venture upon moves in the hope of his eyes
being closed. It