e brayed them,
Yet we've let the rascals in this way go on,
Treating those very Britons who made them.

But half of our shameful job was done,
When the waves roared the hour of retiring,
And we knew we the distance should have to run,
To divert a rabble admiring.

Sharply and quickly we laid him down,
'Mid the jeers of the monks, young and hoary,
And we said, unless Spain is compelled to atone,
All a humbug is Old England's glory!

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THE LAWYERS ABROAD.

Our latest advices inform of us of an extensive inundation of the Rhine.
It is impossible to get into a steamer without having "with you MR.
SERGEANT SOMEBODY," or finding a Judge "sitting in error" by taking
possession of the camp-stool we have for an instant quitted. Every town
in Switzerland has its proportion of British Lawyers. Peru the other day
could boast of two justices besides its own; and many a legal luminary
has been exploring the summits of the Jura, as an agreeable change from
his habitual contemplation of the _summun jus_. Equity draftsmen instead
of drawing conveyances have been glad to get conveyances to draw them;
and the common lawyer has forgotten every other motion but locomotion,
which, at this season of the year, is almost a motion of course. The
diligences nearly all over the Continent are so unusually loaded, that
there is scarcely a vacant corner to be found in any one of them, but we
cannot be surprised that when so many lawyers are travelling by them
they should be rather heavily charged.

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THE CLOTH AND THE PLUSH.

In SWIFT'S time a Chaplain was a mere clerical domestic; and some
Curates appear to be little better now. Did ever any one hear of an
ordained valet?--somebody wants to hear of such a servant, however, to
judge herefrom:--

Curacy, with Title for Holy Orders, in the Diocese of Canterbury.
Remuneration--board and lodging, and L20 per annum. For further
particulars apply to MR. CLERC SMITH, Secretary to the Church of
England Club, 36, Southampton Street, Strand.

The above is taken from the _Times_. What is the Curate expected to
undertake for L20 a year and his victuals? The cure of Soles--in the
sense of scraping them, perhaps--with the additional duty of polishing
upper leathers. To answer the bell that rings for prayers,
peradventure--and also that which rings for hot water. We should lik