Excerpt from Mr. Punch in Wig and Gown: The Lighter Side of Bench and Bar, With 120 IllustrationsHere and there you come across echoes of famous law suits - of the Tichborne trial, the Parnell Com mission, here and there you have reminders Of Bradlaugh's fight to get into Parliament without taking the oath, of the days when London was agitated by the Fenian scare and valorous house holders were sworn in as special constables, and again when everybody passing into the law courts had to open his bag that the policeman on duty might be assured that he was not carrying a bomb inside it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.