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institution of Butlerdom is more British than Magna Charta, more emblematical of Britain’s social slavery than trial by jury. And in our search after precedent we adduce with no little satisfaction the authority of Holy Writ. Indeed, it is hard to bring forward a stronger proof of the inspired character of the Old Testament than the subtle, albeit indisputably right, discrimination of that Pharaoh who lifted up the head of his Chief Butler and restored him, the temporarily deposed, unto his Chief Butlership, yet hanged on a high tree that over-rated official, the Chief Baker. For it is difficult to picture the use in