DEAR Old England! well may one exclaim, on reading in the _Daily News_ a
statement such as this:--
"VALUE OF LAND IN LOMBARD STREET.--A piece of land adjoining the
Lombard Exchange, in Lombard Street, has been sold for L9000, or
about L19 4s. 6d. per foot super."
It used to be affirmed that London streets were paved with gold, and, by
the side of the above, the story hardly seems beyond one's power of
credulity. Land worth nineteen pounds per foot must be wellnigh as good
as gold to its fortunate possessor, and the man who owned an acre of it
would hardly need to emigrate to any other diggings. Assuredly, to any
_Fortunatus_ who owns much land in Lombard Street, London may be looked
on as the true Tom Tiddler's Ground.
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=The New Judge.=
_Mr. Punch_ hears that LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURN (one of our most
accomplished Latin writers) intimated to the CHANCELLOR that the
appointment of the new Judge for the Queen's Bench was a _Sine Quainon_.
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=WANTED--SIMPLICITY.=