, that it is a-GOG for reform.

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[Illustration: GENUINE SENTIMENT.

"A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS."

"DEAREST, I'M _DISGUSTED_ WITH MY BONNET!"]

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HUMAN COPYING MACHINES.

Everybody says the law has gone to ruin, and if this is the case, we can
only say that the law has gone where it has brought so many--or in other
words, that the lawyers have followed their clients. The "profession"
must certainly be at a low ebb when it is reduced to the degradation of
issuing such advertisements as the following, which has been sent up to
us by several Correspondents, who have cut it out from a Birmingham
newspaper.

WANTED, immediately, in a Country Solicitor's Office, a WRITING
CLERK. He must understand Abstracting, Engrossing, and Accounts.
Salary about 13_s._ a week. Unexceptionable references must be
given.--Apply to ----, Solicitor, Birmingham.

We have been told that "necessity has no law;" but it would seem that
the law is reduced to the last stage of necessity, or it would never
offer such beggarly terms as those specified above to the very meanest
of its myrmidons. "Thirteen shillings a week" is about one-third of the
pay of a journeyman carpenter, and less than a third of what may be
earned by many of those who are out "on strike" for higher wages. The
poor wretch who is offered thirteen shillings a week must, it seems,
understand "abstracting;" but we should fear that he might try his
abilities in endeavouring to "abstract" something from the cash-box of
his principal. It is evident that the lawyers, having been curtailed of
their power to fleece the public, are determined to take it out of their
unfortunate clerks, and if blood can be got out of a stone, an attorney
is just the man to perform the operation.

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A MUFF DROPPED, by a young Lady, on Wednesday last, in the Regent's
Park, between the Botanical and Zoological Gardens. It is rather rich in
appearance, but extremely heavy; has very long hair, and nothing
whatever inside. Any one, falling in with the above, is perfectly
welcome to the acquisition, as the Muff became such a dead weight,
continually hanging about, and wanting to be carried everywhere, that
the Young Lady, not being able to bear it any longer, was really
compelled to drop it. The Muff may be known at any time by its having
red hair, and answering to the