. Punch . to be to cancel the leases grantedby Lord Guilford of the Hospital property, in despite of an Act of Parliament to thecontrary, and who was never the legal master thereof. And who, may be supposed tomean and notwithstanding that he, the antecedent to the relative who being presumedto be the Earl of Guileord. Now, as the Earl op Guileord died the other day, it is noteasy to see how the lessees alluded to will, if their leases are cancelled by Parliament at theprayer of the petition above quoted, be able to sue that departed nobleman. It will be impos-sible for them to bring him to boo
. Punch . to be to cancel the leases grantedby Lord Guilford of the Hospital property, in despite of an Act of Parliament to thecontrary, and who was never the legal master thereof. And who, may be supposed tomean and notwithstanding that he, the antecedent to the relative who being presumedto be the Earl of Guileord. Now, as the Earl op Guileord died the other day, it is noteasy to see how the lessees alluded to will, if their leases are cancelled by Parliament at theprayer of the petition above quoted, be able to sue that departed nobleman. It will be impos-sible for them to bring him to book, unless they bring him to a primer, and, by the inter-vention of a medium and help of a table, get him to rap out his answer to the charge offraud by the alphabet. But even if they should succeed in inducing him to rap out, theywill never manage to compel him to fork out. They will, therefore, have to grin and bearthe loss of property which the petition seeks to have inflicted on them by the Perhaps, however, that document was based ona belief that a ghost could be called to account,and prosecuted beyond the grave. Such an ideamay be thought to bespeak something like themadness of malice. The Earl of Guilfordwas a divine of the old school, and dealt withthe loaves and fishes of St. Cross as such; butthe notion of prosecuting a dead man could only,one would think, be entertained by that Accuserwho indicts defendants at the bar of the Courtabove. In that case, the Accuser of the defunctMaster of St. Cross would also be the Accuserof the Brethren. HTHE WONDERFUL CABINET.—Four times-*- a week, at least, so long as Parliament lasts thisSession, will the Wonderful Cabinet be thrown open atthe Westminster Palace, to the Public, who will have anopportunity of admiring the various articles of virtueand bigotry that it contains. So miscellaneous andcomprehensive are these articles, that it is quite impos-sible to enumerate one huudiedth part of them in thespace of a sho
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