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of the deceased justices of that tribunal and of a number of the members of the old bar. The busts are of Chief-Justice John Marshall, Presiding Judge F. X. Mar tin, Pierre Soule, Edward Livingston, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. The portraits are of Chief-Justices Eustis, Slidell, and Manning, Associate Justices Bullard, Porter, Simon, Rost, Buchanan,

De Blanc, Spencer, Spofford, Associate Jus tice John A. Campbell of the United States Supreme Court, and Counsellors Alfred Hennen, Christian Roselius, John R. Grimes, Etienne Mazureau, Sargent S. Prentiss, Judah P. Benjamin, Joachim Bermudez, J. L. Tissot. A life-size portrait of Governor Louis Alfred Wiltz also hangs upon the walls of the court, facing the bench.

JUDICIAL LIFE. By Irving Browne. JUDICIAL honors no sane man will grudge; It is an awful bore to be a judge: To sit for hours and strict attention keep When one is dying with desire to sleep, Lulled by the droning of the voice professional, Like priest by penitent's outside confessional; To look as if he never heard these things before, When counsel every day repeat them o'er and o'er; To hear them eat their words from term to term, With memories or consciences infirm, — These blowers of both hot and cold empiric Make patient judges grow a bit satiric; Never to be allowed to laugh at jokes, Though counsel are so funny that one chokes; No use to try to stop the tedious patter Of immaterial and superfluous matter, — Much better wait until the storm is over, Unless one has the courage of a Grover; Beware the fate of him, who sawing logs, His fingers interposes 'twixt the cogs : The saws of lawyers may be out of place, But meddling with them does not help the case.