Punch, Or The London Charivari

Sentiment, GORST, to your stern soul, May seem a "Simple Simon;" But if there be a cheaper _rôle_, 'Tis that of twopenny Timon!

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Twin MOTTO.--"_You mustn't speak to the Man at the Wheel_" has become a proverbial expression. It stood alone. Now it has a companion; it comes from the hand of "A Master." It is, "_You must not speak to the Gentlemen of the Jury._" The exceptions which prove this rule are in favour of the Judge, the Counsel, the Clerk, and the Usher.

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THE LOST SERGEANT.

[In a recent case before Mr. Justice CHITTY, a doubt was expressed as to whether there was still such an officer as the Sergeant-at-Arms attending the Courts. His services had not been required since 1879. After some inquiry, however, he was discovered.]

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS, where wert thou? Haply pensioned In some remote and solitary spot; By lips judicial never eve