Is this squalid group, with debauchery and criminality in evidence in each figure, likely to be morally impressed by the sight of a public hanging? What are they but types of a class that always frequented such scenes? The dreadful woman has carried her child with her; the little creature's attenuated limbs point to the neglect and ill-usage sure to be met with from such parents. To those unacquainted with the "Caudle Lectures" by Douglas Jerrold, which appeared at this time in _Punch_, I recommend the perusal of those inimitable papers. One of their merits is their having given occasion for an admirable drawing by Leech. Lord Brougham was, in the eyes of _Punch_ and many others, a firebrand in the House of Lords. He was irrepressible, contentious, and brilliant on all occasions, quarrelsome in the extreme, and a thorn in the side of whatever Government was in power unless he was a member of it. The Woolsack, more especially the object of his ambition, was made a very uneasy seat to any occupant. Behold him, then, as Mrs. Caudle--an excellent likeness--making night hideous for the unhappy Caudle, whose part is played by the Lord Chancellor--Lyndhurst--while the Caudle pillow is changed into the Woolsack. "THE MRS. CAUDLE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS." "What do you say? _Thank heaven! you are going to enjoy the recess, and you'll be rid of me for some months?_ Never mind. Depend upon it, when you come back, you shall have it again. No, I don't raise the House and set everybody by the ears; but I'm not going to give up every little privilege, though it's seldom I open my lips, goodness knows!"--"Caudle Lectures" (improved). [Illustration: "AN EYE TO BUSINESS."] Whether such a scene as the following ever took place may be doubted; but that it might have happened, and may happen again, there is no doubt. One meets with strange seaside objects, and to bathe at the same time as one's tailor is within the bounds of possibility. Leech evidently thought so, hence this delightful little cut, wherein we see the creditor--evidently a tailor--improving the occasion to remind his fellow-swimmer of his little bill. See the businesslike aspect of the one and the astonishment and alarm of the other, who in the next few vigorous strokes will place himself beyond the reach of his creditor.