the
request was met on all sides with the most civil compliance. Thus ended
the battle of Chobham of the 21st of June, in which several fell on both
sides; but of all who fell every one happily jumped up again. A few lost
their balance, but as these kept no banker's account the loss did not
signify. We annex a spirited drawing of

[Illustration: THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM--TAKEN ON THE SPOT BY A RISING YOUNG
ARTIST.]

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A City Ballad.

At the Metropolitan Free Hospital Dinner, the LORD MAYOR in the Chair,
we find it reported that MISS M. WELLS obtained great applause by the
spirit and feeling with which she sang the ballad of "_Annie Laurie_."
Is the Reporter sure that it was ANNIE? Is he quite certain it wasn't
PETER?

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MEASURE WITH A MISNOMER.

There is one objection to the Bill for the Recovery of Personal Liberty
in Certain Cases. That is, its title. False imprisonment, in certain
cases, is remediable by _Habeas Corpus_. What inspection of nunneries is
chiefly needed for, is the recovery of personal liberty in uncertain
cases.

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[Illustration: A BIT OF THE CAMP.

_Mr. Muggins._ "WHAT! FOURTEEN ON YE SLEEP UNDER THAT GIG UMBERELLER OF
A THING? GET ALONG WITH YER!"]

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CHARACTER IN A BLUE BAG.

Two attorneys quarrel about a matter of business; one of them accuses
the other of trickery; the latter retorts on the former by calling him a
liar and a scoundrel: and the first attorney brings an action for
slander against the second. Whereon, according to the report of the
case:--

"The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, said it was not actionable
to say of a man personally, 'you are a liar,' or 'you are a
scoundrel;' nor was it actionable to combine the epithets, and say,
'you are a lying scoundrel;' but, if said of an attorney in his
professional character, those words would be actionable."

What the law--speaking by the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE--means to say, is, that
abuse, in order to be actionable, must be injurious; that to call an
attorney a lying and scoundrelly man does him no injury; whereas,
calling him a lying and scoundrelly attorney tends to injure him in his
profession. The law, therefore, presumes, that you may esteem a man to
be a true and honest attorney, whilst in every other capacity you
consider him a false and mean