he civic motto. Considering
their characteristic principle of managing matters by appealing to the
centre of the human system, the stomach, a better motto for the
Corporation would be "_Medio tutissimus ibis_."

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AN IMAGINARY CONVERSATION.

PUNCH _and_ ALDERMAN CHALLIS.

_Punch._ Well, my EX-LORD MAYOR, is PRINCE ALBERT to have a statue?

_Alderman C._ Ah! that he shall, please the pigs!

_Punch._ You mean to say, if it please the Aldermen.

[CHALLIS _retires chap-fallen_.

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EUROPEAN CONCORD.--We are happy to announce the Definite Concert of the
Four Great Powers. Perhaps it ought rather to be called a Quartet; but
that does not much signify: nobody need care what the coalition is
named, if it results in harmony.

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LEGAL CURIOSITY.

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Mr. Punch has been unjustly accused of being hostile to the Lawyers. He
repudiates the charge; and, in proof of his regard for a class whom he
firmly believes not to be much blacker than they are painted, he
subjoins a specimen of an honest attorney's bill. _Mr. Punch_ offers it
to the profession as a model, and is convinced that if bills of costs
were framed on its principle, he should hear less of strikes in the
higher Courts--that wholesome striking by which an attorney is abated,
and the roll lightened.

_In the County Court_,} JIGGER
_and that of Common_ } _v._
_Honesty_. } SQUASH.

ATTORNEY'S CHARGES.

JANUARY 1.-Attending plaintiff JIGGER, who stated that he
was a Vestryman of Marlebone, and that in the course of a
debate upon Hungarian politics, which naturally arose out
of a paving and lighting question, the defendant SQUASH,
also a Vestryman, had called him a hignorant hupstart,
intimating most unjustifiably, that he, SQUASH, would
sooner request the opinion of a jackass upon the point at
issue than that of the plaintiff. Informing JIGGER that he
had better mind his shop and not mind SQUASH. No charge.

FEBRUARY 10.--JIGGER calling and desiring to restate his
grievances, which had rankled in his mind, taking down an
almanack and pointing out to him that the month, which
contained twenty-eight days only, was much too short for
me to listen to such nonsense, and advising him to go
about his business, and also attend