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"The friends thon hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel." MENU.

Saulerne Cresta Blanca

OYSTERS Eastern, Half Shell

"Wery fine power o' suction, Sammy; You 'd ha* made a uncommon fine oyster.**

Ex farte Welter: Pickwick, 472. SOUP Mock Turtle à la caveat emplor HORS u'CEuVREs Cornets Farcie à la Statute of Frauds "I smell it; upon my life it will do well."

FISH Trout à la Chambord "Here *s a fish hangs in the net like a poor man's right ш the law; 'twill hardly come out." See Bait он the demise ofRat.

ENTRÉES Chicken Sautr, Marengo Pâtés Toulouse, es delictu Filet of Beef, with Truffles à la Judgment

Bordeaux

"The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me-" /// Richard, '-4.

VEGETABLES Stuffed Artichokes, Buttons String Beans à la Fictitious Name "With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls than in our priestlike fasts."

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In re Coriolanusi 5. BREAD Vienna Rolls à la John Dough "1 can rlrink no more than n sponge."

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ROAST Canvas-back Duck Salad Celery

Currant Jelly

"Cut this flesh from off his breast; the law allows it and the Court decrees it."

Skyloci v. Antonio: i Shak. 602.

DESSERT Ice Cream, Neapolitane Gâteaux de Soirée (real name unknown) Cakes à la Estate of Deceased Person Fresh 1'ruits Almonds, et al. Cheese CAKE NOIR. Liqueurs "What doth Kravity out of his bed nt muluight?" 4 Hatnlet, 2. "Wilkins," said Mrs. Micawber, " has what my pa terms a judicial head '' ADJOURNMENT.

We print the foregoing because it seems to have been expected of us; but it would have been more becoming to send us one of the original bills of fare, which, we are in formed, " were printed on parchment in the highest style of the art, with hand-painted picture of л court scene for the frontispiece," instead of a newspaper. By the way, what is the sense of " hand-painted "? We did see an armless

artist painting with a brush held in his toes, at the Plantin Museum in Antwerp; but the thing is so extremely un usual that no one would for a moment have su-pected that the scene in question was painted with any member but the hand. We hereby give notice that we shall cele brate no more of these banquets after the event unless we are invited. No more of this empty exhibition of by gone victuals for us! We are no Sancho Panza to be put off with a passing whiff of dainties on the pretence that our stomach is delicate. We prefer the Pauline prescrip tion of "a little wine now and then."

LEGAL TRIFLERS. — Our estimable, even if at times rather peppery, contemporary, the "Indian Jurist, regrets that Sir Frederick Pollock should have published a volume of "trifles, consisting of law cases in verse, some other poems, and transla tions and versions in Greek, Latin, French, and Ger man, and undertakes to crush the learned baronet with the remark that although Horace commends the practice of desipping in loco, yet the baronet does not desip in the right loco. This smacks rather too much of pedantry. Sir Frederick, we believe, has never indulged in pleasantry in any of the grave and weighty treatises with which he has obliged our learned profession, and it seems to us that he has be come entertaining in precisely the right place. If the '•Jurist" means to insinuate that it is wrong fora lawyer to write verses, let him peruse Mr. Chaney's •'Judicial Anthology in the last " Bag," and tell us whether it was wrong for John Scott to write those famous three stanzas on his beloved " Bessie, or whether Sir Matthew Hale or Bacon or Denman or Thurlow or York is blamable for having made his grave legal quill occasionally write in metre. Per haps the "Jurist" would frown on Chief-Justice Bleckley's verses entitled " Rest," written on his resignation from the bench, and constituting one of the most exquisite lyrics in our language. He is a wit and a wise man; but if we could have but one, we would prefer his poem to any of his opinions. The truth is that law and lawyers are essentially dry enough to warrant the profession in consenting to an occasional irrigation of pleasantry and scholar ship, such as Sir Frederick bestows upon us, and such as the •' Green Bag " by precept and practice has always recommended. Bу the way. if the learned Brahmin thinks that Sir Frederick's Greek and Latin verses are " trifles." let him turn us out a few speci mens just to rest himself. Let us free our minds from cant. It is not best always to be as solemn as we can. Does our good brother deem that the saints never smile in heaven? If they do not. we cannot say that we are in any hurry to get there. Although life is hard and solemn, Gravity is not its goal; Better bend the spinal column, l„av aside the stoic stole.