CUTTING IT RATHER SHORT.

The unexpected adjournment of the Court of Queen's Bench, by Lord Denman,

on last Thursday, has filled the bar with consternation.--"What is to

become of our clients?" said Fitzroy Kelly.--"And of our fees?" added the

Solicitor General.--"I feel deeply for my clients," sighed Serjeant

Bompas.--"We all compassionate them, brother," observed Wilde.--In short,

one and all declare it was a most arbitrary and unprecedented curtailment

of their little _term_--and, to say the least of it,

[Illustration: A MOST DISTRESSING BLOW.]

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