It is complained that there are no examinations at the Inns of Court in town, whilst it is forgotten that thousands of applicants for admission are daily plucked at the hotels all over the country. * * * * * PURITANS IN REQUEST.--The metropolis would be much more pleasant if the Commissioners of Sewers had a proper number of disscenters among them. * * * * * [Illustration: DIVISION OF LABOUR. _Sportsman (in Standing Beans)._ "WHERE TO, NOW, JACK?" _Jack._ "WELL! LET'S SEE! I SHOULD JUST GO UP THE BEANS AGAIN, AND ACROSS THE TOP-END, BEAT DOWN THE OTHER SIDE AND ROUND BY THE BOTTOM; WHILE YOU'RE THERE, GET OVER AND TRY OLD HAYCOCK'S STANDING OATS--HE WON'T MIND--I'LL STOP HERE AND MARK!"] * * * * * PRINCE ALBERT, THE CZAR, AND THE TURK. "For Heaven's sake, gentlemen, _don't_ nail the poor man's ears to the pump!" Such was the benevolent exclamation of TYGER ROCHE (an Irish fire-eater of the last century) when he beheld a certain attorney within the walls of Dublin Jail. And the prayer was sufficient; for no sooner was it uttered, than the hapless lawyer was in the clutches of invoked persecutors, and hammer and nails hotly sought for. Our friend the _Spectator_, oddly enough, is, for once, very like TYGER ROCHE. He says-- "It is evident that a serious disturbance in Europe might be very inconvenient to the minor German Powers; and that fact has _perhaps_ suggested _the rough guess_, that a Prince bound up with German interests by family relations, has used his position near the British Sovereign for the purpose of inducing England to assist in hushing up the quarrel, with scanty regard to the justice of the case; _in short, that_ PRINCE ALBERT has induced England to abandon her pledge and her ally!" The _Spectator_ having made "the rough guess," reasons on it in his own logical way, and concludes with these convincing words-- "_We do not believe_ that PRINCE ALBERT has so far forgotten his happy and exalted duty, of which he has shown so just an appreciation, by officious meddling with affairs which are not his." That the _Spectator_, the Esquimaux of the Press--for somehow he always appears to _Punch_ in a suit of sealskin, with a very blue nose, prepared, if necessary, to harpoon the whale that shall supply his midnight oil--that the cold _Spectator_ should suggest such a charge against PRINCE ALBERT merely to express a disbelief is, at least, a very unnecessary trouble. "Don't nail the poor man's ears to the pump!" cries TYGER ROCHE. "Don't believe PRINCE ALBERT an ally of NICHOLAS!" cries the _Spectator_. * * * * * A SERIOUS QUESTION TO COLONEL SIBTHORP.--Is the ghost of Pond Street, Chelsea, the ghost of Protection? * * * * * TAVERN EXPERIENCE.