_Q._ What is your opinion about Chancery?
_A._ That, thanks to work being given to Solicitors in preference to
Barristers, litigation is more expensive in that branch of the science
than in any other.
_Q._ How comes it that this should be so?
_A._ A Barrister is forced to do his best for his client, but a
Solicitor is not. As a rule the Solicitor deputes to his Chief Clerk
if he has one, or somebody in the office if he has not, the duties of
conducting a suit through Chambers.
_Q._ What is the practical result of this arrangement?
_A._ That a suit when it once gets into Chambers takes a precious long
time in coming out.
_Q._ But making allowance for these little drawbacks, what is your
opinion of the Law in England?
_A._ That emphatically it consists of the best forensic regulations in
the universe.
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A NEW CLAUSE IN THE HOME-RULE BILL.--Instead of a Parliament in
Dublin, let the Governing Body be called "A Diet," as it is in
Bohemia. There would be a First House, to be called the "High Diet,"
and a Second House, to be called "Short Commons, or Low Diet." There
would be no "Parliamentary Rules," but everything would be ordered
according to a "Dietary." Perhaps Dr. ROBSON ROOSE might be induced
to take a leading part in suggesting some of these arrangements.
The "Orders of the Day" would be "Prescriptions," the Bills
"Dinner-Bills," or "_Menus_." A Chairman, not a Speaker, would
preside, and the subordinates--such as Clerks, Sergeant-at-Arms,
and Assistants--would be Stewards, Head Waiters, and other Waiters.
Prayers would be said by "The Ordinary."
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ODDS in favour of Australian Cricketing Team--"GIFFEN" and taken.
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