25 JULY 1896, Page 16

" BULLS."

[To THE EDITOR or Tea " sprzurop..")

SIR,—Will you permit an American subscriber to the Spectator (for thirty years) to add to your list of amusing " bulls " one perpetrated on myself when holding Court some twenty years ago ? Brother William Burke was a genial, courteous, and withal bright Irish lawyer, and this is the way he demolished his opponent—the plaintiff's copnsel—and that, too, with the utmost seriousness,—" Your Honour, the argument of my learned friend is lighter than vanity. It is air; it is smoke. From top to bottom it is absolutely nothing. And therefore, your Honour, it falls to the ground by its own weight."—I am, Sir, &c.,