In the course of the hearing of arguments of counsel
in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on an injunction prayed for by Mrs. NORTON to restrain the present proprietor of the Court Magaz n e from publishing in a separate shape some of her contributions to that periodical, the Vice-Chancellor accounted for same varia- ticms in a statement of Mrs. NORTON, as compared with that of the former proprietor of the Magazine, by observing, that " he firmly be!ieved that a constant exercise of the fancy very much impaired the memory:* And, that he might not be misunderstoul, he subsequently repeated the remark; in an amplified form, in his judgment.
Alas for the poets and novelists! bow their affidavits will fall in the Court of Chancery ! Poor SCOTT, lie (lied just in time to save his credit for fact. As for MOORE, he is not now to be believed on his oath, swear he never so poetically. Mr. EDWARD LYTTON BULWER will no longer be listened to in the Housc COMM911S. And then, to think of the fibs that Miss MerFoun and L. E. L. must be telling over their tea! in this sad state of things, it is consolatory to reflect that we have a Vice-Chancellor who, like the Sovereign, is blessed with a vigorous memory.
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