The Com. Are the members of the other Indian Services, Civil and Military, treated in like manner?

Anglo-In. No, they are paid their pensions in gold.

The Com. Well, considering the class of men who now enter your Service I do not see why you should be put at so great a disadvantage.  Have you any other grievances?

Anglo-In. Well, thirty years is a long time to have to serve in a climate as trying as the tropics, especially when we are not allowed to count furlough as service.

The Com. I think so, too.  Then I may sum up your grievances thus.  You are educated men, and therefore deserve fair treatment.  You would consider fair treatment, payment of pensions in gold, and the lessening of the years of service necessary to earn the right of retirement?

Anglo-In. Exactly, Sir; and I cannot thank you sufficiently for putting our case so plainly.

The Com. Not at all.  Should you receive no redress within a reasonable time, you may mention the matter to me again.

    [The Witness with a grateful bow then withdrew.

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THE SHADOW OF A CASE!

(TO THE EDITOR OF PUNCH.)

DEAR SIR,—­As the leading forensic journal of this great country (your contemporary Weekly Notes runs you pretty close occasionally in some of its reports), I address you.  It was my painful duty a few days ago (I had to “take a note” for a colleague, an occupation more honourable than lucrative), to be present at a cause that was heard before the President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice and a Special Jury.  The trial created considerable interest, not only amongst the general public, but amongst that branch of our honourable Profession represented by the Junior Bar, no doubt, because certain points of law, not easily recognisable—­I frankly confess, I myself, am unable to recount them—­were no doubt in question, and had to be decided by competent authority.  The Counsel directly engaged were some of the brightest ornaments of Silk and Stuff.  Amongst the rest were my eloquent and learned friend, Sir CHARLES RUSSELL, my erudite and learned friend Mr. INDERWICK (whose Side-lights upon the Stuarts, is a marvel of antiquarian research), and my mirth-compelling and learned friend Mr. FRANK LOCKWOOD, whose law is only equalled (if, indeed, it is equalled) by his comic draughtmanship.  As the details of the trial have been fully reported, there is no necessity to go into particulars.  However, there was a feature in the case that the passing notice of an article in one or more of the leading journals is scarcely sufficient to meet.