close an
things, an drors on their club till they brakes it, and praps jines a
riot an brakes the winders or the lor, an so gets theirselves into
prizzen, an their families into that ouse of bondage the workus. An here
I could speke no more for cryin, but woke our siks wich cried too,
speshully litel TOMEE, our heldest, as ave a broken chilblane, and air
frakshus, an so we cried hourselves to slepe, an I ope u will print this
letter that peepul may see were a strike falls hardest, and take warnin,
tho it be from ure umbel chareoman.

"JANE GIMLET."

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"GOOD" OF THE GIBBET.

A miserable Creature stole a watch under the gibbet at the late hanging.
ALDERMAN HUMPHERY, on the Bench, said--"You came out to witness the
execution of a fellow-creature, but it does not appear to have done you
_any good_." How odd! Certainly, no good: for the thief, with his hand
upon the watch, only thought of time, the hangman vainly preaching
eternity.

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WHEN!--When a woman listens to you, she is criticising you.

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[Illustration: "PLEASE MARM, YER BONNET'S COMIN' OFF! PITCH US A COPPER
FOR TELLING YER."]

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SCENES AT THE JUDGES' CHAMBERS.

The "grandeur of the law," however obvious it may be when represented by
ermine (at a guinea a yard) and horsehair (at fifteen shillings a pound)
in Westminster Hall, is certainly not very adequately supported at the
Judges' Chambers. These judicial tenements are situated in the vicinity
of Clifford's Inn, and are, every afternoon, the rendezvous of much of
the riff-raff of the attorneys' offices--for any seedy clerk is
considered qualified to "go before the Judge" at Chambers.

Even the Judge himself appears to adapt his costume to his company, for
the scarlet robe is usually superseded by the paletot, and those who see
dignity in the full-bottomed wig look for it in vain in the brown
scratch or the napless gossamer. The whole affair has the aspect of a
crowd just rushed out of Holywell Street, or preparing to make an
excursion to the Minories--an idea to which the abundance of Caucasian
noses lends encouragement.

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AN IMPORTANT NOTE AND QUERY.

According to the return moved for by MR. HUME, we find that, including
Porters, and Gentlemen to Great Seal, Sealer and Deputy Sealer, Chaffwa