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JUSTICE FOR LONDON.

One of the features in the LORD MAYOR'S Show of the other day was a
figure of "JUSTICE, in a Car drawn by Six Horses." Singularly enough,
the six horses showed a disposition to pull different ways, and the
leaders on each side were as obstinate in trying to upset JUSTICE as a
couple of Old Bailey barristers. It was rather a bold measure to
introduce Justice officially into any part of the proceedings on LORD
MAYOR'S Day, for if the goddess were present among the Corporation in
reality rather than in effigy, the probability is, that there would be
no procession on LORD MAYOR'S Day, in consequence of there being no LORD
MAYOR, as a natural result of there being no Aldermen from whom to
select the potentate.

It might have been remarked the other day, that the civic idea of
Justice differs from all the ordinary notions of the character, for the
JUSTICE of the Corporation of London as seen in the procession, instead
of being blindfold, wore a bandage over the forehead in such a way as
not to interfere with her sight, or prevent her from having both her
eyes open to her own interest. Her scales were rather gigantic, but she
did not carry them in her hand, and they seemed to be emblematical of
nothing but the balance she keeps hung up, as it were, without being
accounted for. Poor JUSTICE seemed to be frightfully shaken by the
treatment she experienced in the City; and, after the fatigues of the
day were at an end, was heard to say that she had not a leg to stand
upon. If a representation of Justice for the City had really been needed
for the LORD MAYOR'S Show, how much better it would have been to have
mounted the Corporation Commissioners on the Car, and have displayed
them to the world as the real emblems of that Justice which the City is
likely to experience, when the present disclosures of civic corruption
have produced their legitimate consequence.

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SEVERE TEST OF TABLE-MOVING.

Of all Tables we should think the Tables of figures in BRADSHAW'S
_Guide_ would be the most difficult to move--for we only know from our
own painful experience that, whenever we wish to find out a particular
spot, we never can get the Tables to move in the direction we want to go
to!

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GIOVENETTI CHE FATT'.--A simple-minded Correspondent asks us the meaning
of an Alderman who has not passed