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 SO0VIEE MIIST.A.ICE ,IEEJE I

 Morning Visitor, awaiting the Lady of the House, whileth away the time with sweet music. To him enters Chawles.
 Choawls :-" cIo! IF YOU PLIZ, M'LADY SES, IS THERE A CANDLE, OR A DUSTER, OR ANYTHING OF THE KIND YOU WOULD WISH BEFORE
YOU HEGIN TO CIHUNE TIE INSTRUMENT ?


 COURT OF COMUS.-No. 1;
 Signor or Padre Mastai Ferretti, commonly called the POPE OF
ROME, was brought before his Honour the PUBLIC by Inspector F (UN),
No. 1, charged with the offence of creating and maintaining a nuisance
in the streets of Rome ; a second count charged him with keeping a
house of call for all sorts of vagabonds and brigands; a third declared
that he was very old and imbecile, and that ho did not know how to
take caro of himself; that his house was never repaired, and would
assuredly fall about his head, to the great damage of the public and to
his own ruin, if he did not at once see to it.
 MR. INSPECTOR, on producing the prisoner, declared that what was
set forward in the counts was quite true. He was ready to produce
any number of witnesses, but he should content himself with three,
MR. JOIN BULL, M. EDMOND ABOUT, and M. Louis BONAPARTE.
 The prisoner, a mild old gentleman, hero tried to speak, but his
voice was too feeble. He contented himself with smiling, and holding
up his two fore-fingers, as if in the act of blessing the crowd.
 His HONOUR said it was notorious that the prisonercould curse as well
as bless. Ho had lately cursed very loudly, and had sworn dreadfully
at his next-door neighbour, MR. EMMANUEL VICTOR. He had also
cursed an old soldier, JOSEPH GARIBALDI, and others.
 A voice hero cried out, "And serve them right, too! They wanted
to turn the old gentleman out of house and home." (Great uproar,
and cries of" Sarve him right!")
 Silence being restored, the Inspector stated that the voice was that
of a priest named NEWMAN, who had been a clergyman, and who had
turned his coat. He wanted to appear as a witness, but he (the
Inspector) thought that a man who was Jack of both sides could not
be believed. lHe would produce his first witness, MR. JOHN BULL.


 On the production of this witness, the countenance of the prisoner
fell, and he was observed to mutter several curses. On the court the
effect was very different, JOHN BULL appearing to be a favourite.
Still, with his usual perversity, the witness appeared very unwilling
to give his testimony, and only by cross-examination could he be got
to speak. The following is shortly the result:-Knew the prisoner,
did not like him; had kicked up a row in part of his estate in Ireland.
His predecessors were all like him. Were a bad lot. Had made a
row in his own house once, a very bad row, and injured his property.
What did he do ? Why, he turned him out. (Sensation.)
 Cross-Examined by the prisoner's counsel:-Was not fond of kick-
ing people out. Had turned out one king, and he deserved it.
Was a steward of his, and an unjust steward. Had kicked out another,
all over to France,-a JAMES STEWARD or STUART. The first was
CHARLES. Kicked the POPE out long before that, when a man named
BLUFF HAL managed matters for him. Had not quarrelled with his
neighbours. Had a round or two with his next-door neighbour,
JOHNNY CRAPAUD. Gave MR. SPAIN a licking. Did strike DENMARK
once in Copenhagen Fields. Was concerned with Louis NAPOLEON
in knocking down the house of NICHOLAS RUSSIA in the Crimea; very
tough job it was, too. Always liked to punch people's heads when
they prove nuisances. Did not consider that he (J. B.) was a
nuisance. Minded his own business. Was a farmer and general
merchant. Considered the POPE a great nuisance, and wouldn't put up
with him much longer.
 Witness was here ordered to stand down, and the counsel for the
defence argued that he was a quarrelsome person, evidently biassed
against the prisoner, an innocent old gentleman. (Prisoner here shed
tears.)
 MR. EMMANUEL VICTOR, a soldier-like looking man, next gave his


6, 1861.




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