WHEN the Lord Chancellor Thurlow was supposed to be on no very friendly terms with the Minister (Mr. Pitt), a friend asked the latter how Thurlow drew with them. "I don't know," said the Premier, "how he _draws_, but he has not refused _his oats_ yet." DLXIII.--EPIGRAM. (On Lord ----'s delivering his speeches in a sitting position, owing to excessive gout.) IN asserting that Z. is with villany rife, I very much doubt if the Whigs misreport him; Since _two_ members _attached to his person through life_, Have, on recent occasions, _refused to support him_. DLXIV.--A HAPPY MAN. LORD M---- had a very exalted opinion of his own cleverness, and once made the following pointed remark: "When I happen to say a foolish thing, I always burst out a laughing!"--"I envy you your happiness, my lord, then," said Charles Townshend, "for you must certainly live the _merriest_ life of any man in Europe." DLXV.--VULGAR ARGUMENTS. AT a club, of which Jerrold was a member, a fierce Jacobite, and a friend, as fierce, of the cause of William the Third, were arguing noisily, and disturbing less excitable conversationalists. At length the Jacobite, a brawny Scot, brought his fist down heavily upon the table, and roared at his adversary:-- "I tell you what it is, sir, I spit upon your King William!" The friend of the Prince of Orange was not to be out-mastered by mere lungs. He rose, and roared back to the Jacobite:-- "And I, sir, spit upon your James the Second!" Jerrold, who had been listening to the uproar in silence, hereupon rung the bell, and shouted:-- "Waiter, _spittoons for two_!" DLXVI.--A CLEAR CASE. MR. JUSTICE MAULE would occasionally tax the powers of country juries. _Ex. gr._ "Gentlemen," said the judge, "the learned counsel is perfectly right in his law, there is _some_ evidence upon that point; but he's a lawyer, and you're not, and you don't know what he means by _some_ evidence, so I'll tell you. Suppose there was an action on a bill of exchange, and six people swore they saw the defendant accept it, and six others swore they heard him say he should have to pay it, and six others knew him intimately, and swore to his handwriting; and suppose on the other side they called a poor old man who had been at school with the defendant forty years before and had not seen him since, and he said he rather thought the acceptance was not his writing, why there'd be _some_ evidence that it was not, and that's what Mr. ---- means in this case." Need we add that the jury retired to consider their verdict? DLXVII.--THE LATIN FOR COLD. A SCHOOLMASTER asked one of his scholars in the winter time, what was the Latin for cold. "O sir," answered the lad, "I forget at this moment, although I have it at my _fingers' ends_." DLXVIII.--PIECE DE RESISTANCE.